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Traveling 11 hours in the car is way too long. The mind wanders. The music all begins to sound the same. The pine trees are boring. About the only fun is catching the signs letting the weary traveler know how far they are from "South of the Border." Has anyone actually planned a trip there? Why?
Anyway, back to reality. Traveling back to someplace you used to call "home" can be bittersweet. Memories dance in your head. When we arrive the memories get blurred. New buildings fill the field where we used to play ball. The old buildings got a bit older. It is the same but it isn't.
There is a study that says when we don't see someone for a long time we only remember them at the age we left them. Humans have a hard time adjusting to maturity when it is not right in front of them. So, when we see old friends or family we think of them as the young and brash 21-year-old instead of the 45-year-old dad or mom. They remember us the same way.
Life changes constantly. No clock waits for anyone. Stevie Miller sang the haunting words "time keeps on ticking, ticking, ticking…into the future." He was right.
There seems to be a time we stop moving into the future. Some people literally get totally stuck in the past. Broken dreams, pain and disappointment are some of the elements that glue our feet firmly in place. Once glued we stop growing and life begins to eat our lunch. Instead of God's promised joy and peace we live with anger, depression, loneliness and plenty more emotions from which friends and family begin to withdraw.
The gospel of Jesus Christ is so much more than a way to avoid hell for eternity. It is life. It is life that allows us to move forward. Our past is forgiven. If we truly embrace the gospel we are told to enjoy it to the max by forgiving others. It doesn't say you have to be buddy chum with the other person. It says to forgive them. Move on.
It is a kingdom way of life that allows us to put our future in the hands of God through Jesus Christ. Is there a better place? We hesitate to fully embrace the gospel that gives life (to everything) so we can hold on to control. It is scary to step out of our little circles. Each step, big ones and baby step, awaken us to a Creator and Redeemer that brings value to each and every moment of life. Why? We aren't our own anymore. We are his. We lost our life so we could find it.
Well, got to get a few more miles in before I land at my parent's doorstep. Hold on there is a song coming on my iPhone. Let me turn it up for you. That's Rascal Flatts (don't faint, this rocker enjoys a little country) playing. Can you hear it?
"I've dealt with my ghosts and faced all my demons
Finally content with a past I regret
I've found you find strength in your moments of weakness
For once I'm at peace with myself
I've been burdened with blame and trapped in the past for too long
I'm moving on."
To read more by John Ring, check out his blog at johnring.wordpress.com.


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When is a No. 1 movie really a No One? When it earns $28 million in its first three days but cost nearly $200 million to produce. Those were the bad-news numbers for Jack the Giant Slayer, the megabudgeted fairy tale from X-Men director Bryan Singer. Winning the weekend at North American theaters, according to preliminary studio reports, was little consolation to Singer or his sponsors at Warner Bros. Jack could not even match the $30.2 million rung up in its opening frame last March by another costly fantasy: Disney's notorious flop John Carter. As the marauding giant might growl at Jack's producers: "Fee high, low sum."
Projected as the year's first 3-D tentpole hit, and hoping to lure both the action-film crowd and families looking for story-book thrills, Jack had to settle for the alterkocker demographic: the first-weekend audience, which awarded the film an OK B-plus grade on the CinemaScore survey, was 55% male and 56% over the age of 25. Warner Bros. postponed the movie's release from last summer to allow for cooler visual effects; the studio may also have anticipated a boost from leading man Nicholas Hoult, the star of last month's well-received zombie rom-com Warm Bodies. The hefty investment will need to be recouped from foreign ticket sales; Jack opened solidly in a few Asian markets this weekend. At the domestic box office, it's likely to be creamed next weekend by Disney's Wizard of Oz prequel, Oz the Great and Powerful.
(READ: Mary Pols' review of Jack the Giant Slayer)
Beans, either magical or monetary, were hard to find at the domestic box office. As paltry as Jack's swag was, it still surpassed the total weekend grosses of the next three films: returning champ Identity Thief and two newcomers, 21 and Over and The Last Exorcism Part II. The horror sequel opened at $8 million, 60% below the debut gross of the Aug. 2010 original, and received a defamatory C-minus CinemaScore. 21 and Over, written and directed by bad-comedy specialists Jon Lucas and Scott Moore (they scripted Four Christmases,Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, the first Hangover and The Change-Up), limped to a $9-million opening weekend. Made for a thrifty $13 million, and cadging a "B" CinemaScore, the movie reached its target viewers — 73% under the age of 25 — but not nearly enough of them. Looks like it's 21 Over and Out.
(READ: Mary Pols' review of The Last Exorcism)
How bad was business this weekend? The submarine drama Phantom, starring Ed Harris and David Duchovny, opened in 1,118 theaters and earned only about $460,000, for a per-screen average of $41 — four of five tickets in each venue for the whole weekend. Those are practically Oggieloves numbers. And yet the big picture is even gloomier. The top dozen movies earned less than the winning film the same weekend last year: Dr. Seuss' The Lorax, which ushered in March 2012 with a $70.2 million haul.
(READ: The historic flop of Oogieloves in the BIG Balloon Adventure)
Total box-office revenue was down 37% from the same time last year — the sixth consecutive frame, following year-to-year weekend dips of 12%, 30%, 46%, 17% and 23%. (The 2012 weekends were all up, up, up over 2011.) Except for the blooming of one solid hit, Identity Thief, this winter's landscape is charred and scarred. No 2013 film has enjoyed a first weekend of as much as $35 million; by early March last year, The Lorax, The Vow and Safe House had opened above, or way above, that number. Six 2012 movies had debut weekends above $25 million; this year, just Identity Thief and the underperforming Jack the Giant Slayer. Last year The Lorax, Safe House and The Vow all scampered to $100-million grosses; this time, only Identity Thief has reached the nine-digit mark; Mama is a distant second, at $70.9 million.
(READ: Mary Pols' review of this year's one hit movie, Identity Thief)
New indie movies have also been languishing, as specialty audiences have spent the last months feasting on the high-nutrition value of such upscale Oscar contenders as Silver Linings Playbook (still occupying the top 10 in its 16th week), Zero Dark Thirty, Les Misérables and Lincoln. The one foreign-language nominee for Best Picture, Michael Haneke's Amour, didn't break through to a wide audience. At $5.9 million, it's still about $1.2 million below the final gross of last year's Foreign Language Oscar winner, the Iranian A Separation.
(READ: Corliss's wrapup of the 2013 Oscar ceremony)
So this weekend could be seen as the start of the indie movie year. The one pedigree debut — Stoker, the psychological thriller directed by South Korean master Park Chan-wook and starring Mia Wasikowska, Nicole Kidman and Matthew Goode — opened to a promising $158,822 in seven theaters, for a $22,689 per-screen average. Stoker should easily top the $707,000 North American gross of Park's Oldboy (scheduled for an American remake with Josh Brolin and Samuel L. Jackson, as directed by Spike Lee). The movie has already amassed $2.4 million in early release abroad.
(READ: Corliss's review of Stoker)
Elsewhere, indiewise, nothing connected. The much-hyped hunger-in-America doc A Place at the Table, which merited a rave from Jon Stewart when he interviewed the film's directors on The Daily Show, proved unappetizing to audiences: it gleaned a meager $84,000 on 35 screens. Leviathan, an exposé of the North Atlantic fishing industry, managed $10,300 at one theater; and the Oscar-nominated drama War Witch took in a bit less than that, $10,300, at two theaters.
(READ: Mary Pols' review of A Place at the Table)
Mainstream or indie, times are tough. It's as if moviegoers have taken a tip from the U.S. government Sequester and laid themselves off.
Here are the Sunday estimates of this weekend's top-grossing pictures in North American theaters, as reported by Box Office Mojo:
1. Jack the Giant Slayer, $28 million, first weekend
2. Identity Thief, $9.7 million; $107.4 million, fourth week
3. 21 and Over, $9 million, first weekend
4. The Last Exorcism Part II, $8 million, first weekend
5. Snitch, $7.7 million; $24.4 million, second week
6. Safe Haven, $6.3 million; $57.1 million, third week
7. Escape from Planet Earth, $6.3 million $43.2 million, third week
8. Silver Linings Playbook, $5.9 million; $115.5 million, 16th week
9. A Good Day to Die Hard, $4.5 million; $59.6 million, third week
10. Dark Skies, $3.6 million; $13.5 million, second week


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From Ignorance to Knowledge
By reading Jesus' teaching in the Gospel of Thomas contemplatively, as a Lectio Divina, combined with meditation, contemplative prayer, we are led to see Reality as it truly is and to experience that in our essence we are already one with the Divine through the consciousness of Christ that dwells in our hearts. But Jesus is very aware of our difficulty to do so: "The Father's Kingdom is spread out upon the earth, and people do not see it."
Self-Consciousness Versus Self-Knowledge
The importance awarded to insight, resulting in true self-knowledge, is brought out by the essential advice given by spiritual teachers and philosophers throughout history: Man know thyself. We are encouraged not only to get to know the 'ego' and the way it is motivated, which will lead to the possibility of change, but also true 'self'-knowledge, i.e. knowledge of the 'Self', awareness of our total being and of the Divine within.
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If we misunderstand meditation and don't see it as prayer, as a spiritual discipline, but instead see it as a form of relaxation, a way of dealing with the stress of life, of escaping into our imagination and fantasies, we can practice for years without any increase in awareness or resulting transformation.
The Perennial Philosophy
The possibility of integration of the 'Self' with Ultimate Reality is clearly expressed in the 'Perennial Philosophy',* which describes the common ground of all the World's great religions and philosophies. It is important to remember that the commonality this Philosophy stresses is founded in actual practical spiritual experience that takes place outside the time and space of our usual material reality and not in theological or religious dogma.
The Gift of Divine Grace
Spiritual transformation is outside our control. This total change of consciousness cannot be 'achieved' in any way but is a gift of divine grace.
Although the spiritual journey is often presented in a linear fashion, quietening first the body, then the mind, so the spirit can be touched, we are not dealing with progressive stages but simultaneous, overlapping, deepening levels: we spiral through them, being afforded glimpses, as we practise.
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The qualities of a group leader:
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- The wish to share this gift with others.
What are the characteristics of a Christian Meditation group?
The World Community for Christian Meditation has a mission statement:
"To communicate and nurture meditation as passed on through the teaching of John Main in the Christian tradition in the spirit of serving the unity of all."
Meditation groups: communities of faith
It has been said that in each age God raises up prophets and teachers to ensure His work is carried on. John Main is certainly regarded as one of these great spiritual teachers of the 20th century. But he was also in a real sense a prophet.
Communion or union
The early Church fathers had no shadow of a doubt that union with the Divine is possible for all: "God is the life of all free beings. He is the salvation of all, of believers and unbelievers, of the just or the unjust, of the pious or the impious, of those freed from passions or those caught up in them, of monks or those living in the world, of the educated and the illiterate, of the healthy and the sick, of the young and the old." (Gregory of Nyssa)
The importance of preparation
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"Sake-brewing is a very ancient industry in Japan," says Timothy Sullivan, who runs the blog urbansake.com in New York. Sullivan spent time observing sake-production at Japan's Hakkaisan Sake Brewery, where he is now brand ambassador, learning the many steps involved in creating the fermented rice beverage, which contains only two main ingredients: special sake rice—harvested each autumn—and water.
On Thursday, May 16, at the Museum's Adventure in the Global Kitchen program, Sullivan will share behind-the-scenes details, including video and photographs, about how sake, sometimes called the "drink of the gods," is brewed each winter in the Niigata Prefecture of Japan. We spoke with him recently about the history and tastes of sake, and more.
How did you become interested in sake?
In 2005, I was out to dinner at a sushi restaurant in New York when I ordered the most expensive glass of sake on the menu. I was really surprised at how good it tasted! It was my first time getting my hands on a really good, premium sake.
In 2006, I started my blog, urbansake.com, and started profiling different sakes, doing videos. Slowly, I began to teach seminars and do tastings. In 2007, I was asked to be a "sake samurai" by the Japan Sake Brewers' Association, which aims to raise awareness about sake. They flew me to Japan for a ceremony—it was really quite an honor.
What does sake taste like?
One of the great things is that there are so many different types of sake, which is made, basically, from just rice and water. There is dry, crisp, clean sake; fruity sake, that almost tastes like fruit salad, with melon and banana. And some sakes are very floral and aromatic.
Is sake made only in Japan?
I get this question a lot. The art of sake-production has been refined in Japan over thousands of years—we know that wet-rice cultivation came to Japan from China about 2,000 years ago, and that about a thousand years ago the brewing methods more or less solidified. But today, sake, that is, alcohol made mainly from fermented rice and water, is made all over the world, in Australia, and in the United States, in Oregon, Austin, Texas, and even Minnesota!
How did you learn about the sake-brewing process?
I spent time working at the Hakkaisan brewery, where I really got a look behind the scenes. The Hakkaisan brewery dates from 1922, and, along with about 90 other breweries, is in the Niigata Prefecture—which is famous for its sake. It's a very snowy, coastal region, on the Sea of Japan, and when the snow melts there is very pure water, which is great for sake production.
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Adeno, the gamer who created a George Romero mod for Dead Island as well as Dead Island: Riptide, is turning his sights to State of Decay. He's developed a new George Romero mod for the PC version of the open-world zombie game.
State of Decay's common zombies are the fast 28 Days Later variety. However, with this mod, you have the option to change their speed. As you can see in the video below, they can be slowed down to a more Romero-like pace.
To make sure these slow-ass zombies are still a threat, the mod increases the overall amount of undead in the game. They're also more sensitive to sound. The new "Deadlight" feature causes them to come running if they hear your flashlight turn on or off. You can keep the zombie population under control by building more outposts; the mod will allow you to build up to 18.
One feature I'm not too thrilled about in the mod is that it lets you turn off vehicle damage for ramming zombies. As any State of Decay player knows, cars are pretty much the trump card in the game. You can wipe out packs of zombies at once by running them over. The wear-and-tear on cars is the only way to balance out their destructive power. Still, the mod merely gives you the option to turn off collision damage so you don't need to use that feature if you want the other aspects of the mod.
Adeno admits there are still some rough edges to the mod. Some zombies are animating incorrectly at a great distance. He says that the mod might not work properly when running alongside other mods or could cause crashes. It's recommended that you start using the Romero mod after you've completed the introductory mission and reached the church. Otherwise, vehicles might disappear from the world altogether.
State of Decay was released on Steam Early Access in September. Developer Undead Labs updated the original Xbox 360 version with better framerates and a higher resolution. They're working to add mouse-and-keyboard support (it's gamepad-only at the moment) and squash a few bugs before they officially release the game later this year.


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Atlassian Sourcetree is a free Git and Mercurial client for Windows.
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What is Tox?
Tox as is a generic virtualenv management and test command line tool you can use for:
- checking your package installs correctly with different Python versions and interpreters
- running your tests in each of the environments, configuring your test tool of choice
- acting as a frontend to Continuous Integration servers, greatly reducing boilerplate and merging CI and shell-based testing.
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The yarn is tightly twisted and often heat set to retain this texture.
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A multilevel loop carpet, where some of the pile is sheared and others are left as loop, creating a sculptured pattern. The multi-level surface is great for hiding footprints and stains.
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A machine-woven carpet that is highly durable and has a luxurious feel. The process allows for intricate design and colours to be used.
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The Berber carpet is named after a handmade, bulky wool carpet that is named after the Berber people of North Africa. The Berber carpet is a modern style of carpet, distinguished by a loop pile construction type. They often contain small flecks of dark colour, on a lighter shade background.
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A woven carpet that is produced in a similar format to the axminster carpet, the difference being that a continuous fibre is woven all the way through. It is made in a variety of patterns and textures but with a limited number of colours per pattern.
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A velvet carpet has a level surface pile of approximately 5mm to 10mm, with a very smooth, luxurious finish. Velvet carpets are also referred to as a "velour" or "plush" carpet.
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- All carpets are subject to a degree of fading, but this is often unnoticeable for many years. For rooms that receive a great amount of sunlight, protect the carpet with curtain and blinds during peak sunlight hours.
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PopUps: Singer Zayn Malik Shows Off New Look with Shirtless Selfie
Singer Zayn Malik is turning heads on Instagram again!
The former One Direction member is often surprising his 28.9 million Instagram followers with new looks - shaved head, bleached blond hair, new tattoos, you name it.
The "Pillow Talk" singer took fans by surprise Monday with his new do. Taking to Instagram, Malik shared a selfie of his multi-colored tattoos and his bright green hair - with eyebrows to match! Malik has had a buzzcut for some time now and went platinum blonde before opting for his latest look.
Though he didn't capture the snap, it earned over 1.8 million likes in just under 24 hours.
Malik is readying his sophomore solo album, the follow up to "Mind of Mine" from 2016. He's so far released two new singles this year, "Let Me" and "Entertainer," the latter song dropped last week.
Check out the music video for "Entertainer" below along with Malik's selfie.
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List Rules Successful artists known for their looks and sex appeal. Only individual people - no bands or groups.
If you've got it, flaunt it, and that's what these rock stars do. And for that they've been rewarded with the honor of sexiest artists of all time. Many of these artists have maintained their sex appeal for decades, take Madonna and Janet Jackson for example. Then there's rock gods like Bruce Springsteen and Sting, who still make hearts race during live shows. Many of whom are steaming up a new generation of music fans, while Britney Spears, Usher, and Justin Timberlake grew up with their fan base, artists like Trey Songz, Katy Perry, and Rihanna won over new music fans. And some of whom made your parents (or grandparents) melt with their steamy videos and performances like Elvis (he invented sex appeal in rock n' rolll) and Tina Turner. While some may no longer be with us, musicians like Aaliyah, 2Pac and Leslie Cheung will always be remembered for their massive sex appeal. Rock, pop, R&B, hip-hop, even country--it's all here. Steamy videos are included.Ranker may collect a commission from links on this page. Prices & inventory are accurate as of publish date.
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Could I Have Chlamydia For Years?
Recently my boyfriend has had swelling in one of his testicles and after getting it looked at the doctor believed that it may be Epididymitis.
Afterward he phoned me and told me I should get a Chlamydia test done since it is the leading cause of Epididymitis and that I probably gave it to him. This shocked me since he and I have been monogamous for over 8 months and I had received a pap-test in that time (although I`m not sure if they look for Chlamydia or not) as well as urine tests. He said most women don`t show symptoms so I could have had it for years and never knew it. However, my question is about what he said next. I had been sick and taking Penicillin to treat Tonsillitis a few weeks beforehand so he said, "It happens a lot where women take antibiotics that destroy good bacteria and then they get Chlamydia." He also went on to say, "Only women are the carriers of Chlamydia and they pass it on to men when they get it."
So my question is could I have had Chlamydia for years and never passed it on to anyone until I took antibiotics that allowed it to surface? What exactly do pap-tests look for?
I`m curious mainly because his symptoms for Epididymitis didn`t surface until 12 days after the last time we had sex [as in, we had sex once and then didn`t have sex for 12 days; then his symptoms appeared and we still have not had sex] and I would think that Chlamydia would show up on a pap-test if it`s so common; otherwise what exactly are they swabbing me for?
I look forward to receiving some answers as I couldn`t find them anywhere online after looking for hours.
I am sorry that you are having this problem with your boyfriend. I will try to answer your questions one at a time and then give you info regarding chlamydia from the CDC. I have not heard anything about getting Chlamydia or having Chlamydia infection show up after taking an antibiotic. Men and women can pass it on to their partners. Pap smear: This checks for cervical cancer. It can detect bacterial vaginosis, yeast, trichomonas. Gonorrhea and Chlamydia is tested separately.
The info below comes from Chlamydia – CDC Fact Sheet.How do people get chlamydia?Chlamydia can be transmitted during vaginal, anal, or oral sex. Chlamydia can also be passed from an infected mother to her baby during vaginal childbirth.Any sexually active person can be infected with chlamydia. The greater the number of sex partners, the greater the risk of infection. Because the cervix (opening to the uterus) of teenage girls and young women is not fully matured and is probably more susceptible to infection, they are at particularly high risk for infection if sexually active. Since chlamydia can be transmitted by oral or anal sex, men who have sex with men are also at risk for Chlamydia infection.What are the symptoms of chlamydia?Chlamydia is known as a "silent" disease because the majority of infected people have no symptoms. If symptoms do occur, they usually appear within 1 to 3 weeks after exposure.In women, the bacteria initially infect the cervix and the urethra (urine canal). Women who have symptoms might have an abnormal vaginal discharge or a burning sensation when urinating. If the infection spreads from the cervix to the fallopian tubes, (tubes that carry fertilized eggs from the ovaries to the uterus) some women still have no signs or symptoms; others have lower abdominal pain, low back pain, nausea, fever, pain during intercourse, or bleeding between menstrual periods. A chlamydia infection of the cervix can spread to the rectum.Men with signs or symptoms might have a discharge from their penis or a burning sensation when urinating. Men might also have burning and itching around the opening of the penis. Pain and swelling in the testicles are uncommon.Men or women who have receptive anal intercourse may acquire a chlamydia infection in the rectum, which can cause rectal pain, discharge, or bleeding. Chlamydia can also be found in the throats of women and men having oral sex with an infected partner.How is chlamydia diagnosed?There are laboratory tests to diagnose chlamydia. Some can be performed on urine, other tests require that a specimen be collected from a site such as the penis or cervix.
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The 4th of July is one of the biggest national holidays in the United States. This is the day that the country celebrates its birthday and that means a big party in the Big Apple. Don't expect a piece of cake and some balloons, but rather parades, shows, lavish parties and spectacular fireworks. On perhaps the most important day of the year for Americans, New York offers you a 'star-spangled' programme.
The 4th of July, or Independence Day, celebrates American Independence. On 4 July 1776, Congress approved the Declaration of Independence which was written by Thomas Jefferson (who would later become President). This is the day when the 13 British colonies became independent from Great Britain and the United States was born. In 1776, advisor John Adams wrote a letter to his wife in which he predicted that Independence Day would be celebrated across the country for all eternity with parades, shows, sports events and bonfires. And he was right!
Although most festivities take place at night, there is still plenty to do in the daytime. A great way to follow in the footsteps of the Founding Fathers (the founders of American Independence) is to take a historic walk through Lower Manhattan. On this walk you will learn what role New York City played during the American Revolution. The stroll takes you to the spot where the first American President George Washington was sworn in and the place where the Declaration of Independence was first read to New Yorkers. Or hop on the subway to Coney Island to attend the infamous annual Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest. What started out as a joke among friends who wanted to prove their patriotism has grown into an event that is watched by millions of people and draws thousands to Coney Island. The current record is held by Joey Chestnut from San Jose: he devoured 69 hot dogs (including the buns) in 10 minutes…
And then there is the highlight of the day: it wouldn't be the 4th of July without the traditional fireworks display that has been set off since the bicentennial in 1976. For years the event took place along the Hudson River, but last year it was moved to the Brooklyn Bridge. One of the best spots to view the fireworks is from Brooklyn Bridge Park and the Brooklyn Heights Promenade. Here you can find a front row seat and enjoy a spectacular view of the Manhattan skyline. As it gets very busy, we recommend arriving around 5 o'clock in the afternoon to stake out a spot. The fireworks begin at 9 o'clock at night, but it's easy to kill time with a picnic blanket on the grass and a pizza from Grimaldi's.
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You can also finish the 4th of July 'Manhattan-style'. Throughout the city you will find parties at the most spectacular rooftop bars. Leave the busy streets behind and sip a cocktail as you enjoy the view. The Bentley Hotel on 62nd Street is a guaranteed success, with fabulous views of the fireworks and the skyline. It is quite pricey but you will get to party like a true New Yorker. Another iconic location is the rooftop terrace of the Gansevoort Hotel in the trendy Meatpacking District. The hotel features a wrap-around balcony with a 360-degree view of the city.


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The Umarex Steel Storm
The Umarex Steel Storm will make Swiss cheese out of any pop can. Umarex once again brings us an ultimate bb that can unleash a six round burst or single shot of over 430 FPS. This rugged tactical sub machine gun, although wicked on its own, is ready for tricking out with multiple accessories like laser sighting and swat style flash light. The blow back action gives the best in real play and is hard to compare at this smoking hot deal.
We had to have physical evidence to prove the brawns behind the Steel Storm so we found Ramblin Around TV to prove its power. This off the chart video put it to the test cleaning up a small stack of cans in seconds – leaving nothing behind. Not only does this six round burst lay down the law with rapid fire but the accuracy is like no other. As you will see they had no problem emptying the 300 round internal hopper into clay targets effortlessly. Ramblin Around mentioned they used copper coated steel bb's and from the distance they were standing away from the target, proves the power this baby puts out. Looks like these boys had some fun and our guess is they ended up making several trips to the corner store for more pop cans.
This holiday you better get a larger stocking or trade in your coal for this bad boy. Santa's elves are armed with the Steel Storm defending Mrs. Clause's ginger bread from those zombie rodents.


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I just finished reading the Wool Omnibus, and I'm floating. WOOL is everything a great Science Fiction should be – amazing, visceral, delightful story filled with powerful characters caught up in an epic search for meaning!
The birth of a great science fiction author is a very special event, and WOOL puts its author up there with the greatest Science Fiction writers – those who write (and wrote) books about real characters, searching for meaning, searching for their own truth, fighting and losing and winning and – above all – grabbing readers by the throat and carrying them on an amazing journey.
Wool goes up on my electronic bookshelf, along with a few select read-them-again-and-again-over-the-years Science Fiction novels, right between Alexai Panshin's RITE OF PASSAGE and Robert Hienlien's STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND.
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Nine thousand miles is a long haul to buy a cotton picker. Tack on another 9,000 miles to get home and you have the makings of an epic journey or a geographical accident. Throw in a couple of Australians kicking up Delta dirt in Mississippi, and the story takes on a surreal quality — a cotton odyssey.
But behind the odd circumstances are two Australian farmers with a granite grasp of farming and a blunt recognition of the problems facing agriculture. Despite breaking ground on the other side of the globe, they share a worldview strikingly similar to American farmers.
It was rain that put producer Ian Hayllor, Dalby, Queensland, and his son Jimmy on the road to the United States in search of a cotton picker. Starting in December of 2010, Queensland (Australia's second largest state and more than twice the size of Texas) was hit with its worst floods in 130 years. The scope of damage was massive, with three-quarters of the state declared a disaster zone. "We got more rain in the last two years than we'd got in the previous 10. We thought we had a flood-free farm. It was a shock. We said, 'It's not coming in the house; it's not.' But it started coming in, almost through the floorboards — a foot deep. When the water went down, we washed the silt out of the house. The flood then came back. We cleaned up again and got on with it," remembers Ian.
With the Hayllor's farmland under water and prospects grim for crop production, their focus was on surviving the season. The Australian growing season is generally the polar opposite from its American counterpart. Despite the floods hitting in December and January, fields were still full of maturing crops.
"You could drive a boat across the farm from one end to the other," says Jimmy.
The flood's time frame coincided with Australia's John Deere purchase window on new pickers. With his farm swamped and facing far greater concerns than a new picker, Ian let the Deere deadline roll by, despite having wanted to buy a round baler. When the water receded, irrigation ditches needed rebuilding; fields were full of silt; and furrows had to be put in. Without hesitation, Ian describes it as "the busiest time of our lives."
After he got the operation back in order, his farm was blessed with a good run of weather and Ian found himself preparing for harvest with fair expectations of a limited crop. He knew his yields would be poor: "Some of the crops just looked dead, but they came back. We actually only lost 300 total acres to dead crops. But the season was so wet that all our acreage, dryland or not, just didn't yield well."
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With the next planting season looming, Ian made his move for a new cotton picker. He could have waited until 2012 and purchased one in Australia, but the stress of the season had taken a toll.
"If it had been a perfect season, we probably wouldn't be over here in the U.S. It would have been clockwork like always and we wouldn't have worried," admits Jimmy.
Instead, Ian seized the moment and purchased a picker directly from the U.S. An import agent located a used Deere round baler at Parker Tractor in Tunica, Miss., and Ian bought it while the Australian dollar was trading at an unreal rate against the U.S. dollar ($1.10 as compared with the normal rate of about 75 cents). Even with a $70,000 shipping charge, Ian was quite satisfied with his find.
Australian cotton is already moving toward round balers. "There are a lot of round balers going to Australia, and if we left it for another year, our second-hand equipment would get less and less valuable as we see more and more round balers. We've been able to sell our existing machines for quite a reasonable price, to help pay for the new one. We're selling two 9976 pickers — four-row and six-row, and then buying the one round baler, which we hope will do the job," says Ian.
Before buying the round baler, he'd been running three module builders and three boll buggies, with the requisite workers to run them. "We're looking at cutting back on labor and making the farm more efficient. The boys are getting fed up with working 24 hours a day, for some reason. I'm trying to make life easier for everyone, and the baler picker is a one-man operation; so we go from having eight to 10 staff, back to two or three. That's the attraction."
Custom-harvesters were never an option for the Hayllors. "We've got 12 months of hard work in that crop, and we're not going to risk it on a contractor that may not turn up," says Ian.
"There are custom-harvesters, but we want to pick our own. Why let someone else have all the fun?" adds Jimmy.
Like an apostle of self-sufficiency, Ian clearly wants his machine in his shed, on his land, ready to pick his cotton. Back in the 1980s, he ran a major custom-harvesting operation, but wisely sold out just before harvesting outfits popped up everywhere. "We sold all our pickers to buy land. Land is a better asset than machinery — and we slowly built up our business."
Mineral rights
It would be difficult to find a more articulate spokesman for agriculture than Ian Hayllor. He speaks with calm confidence and seems at equal ease discussing clogged irrigation pumps and tractors — or genetic science and the fine print of agricultural legislation. It's no exaggeration to describe Ian as having a finger on the pulse of Australian agriculture. He serves on a host of Australian ag committees and boards: Surat Basin Engagement Group, NFF CSG Task Force, Arrow Surat Community Reference Group, Origin Technical Information Group, Healthy Head Waters Programme and is chair of the Environmental and Property Protection Assoc Inc (EPPA). But despite the lengthy resume — he'd rather talk boots-on-the-ground farming.
Throw Ian a question about farming — and expect a thorough answer. When asked about what challenges Australian farmers face, Ian pulls no punches: He doesn't trust the mineral companies, has no patience with the environmental 'greens', and believes the government is a broken machine. It's plain talk — and he backs it up with a litany of examples.
Australia is in the midst of a historic mining explosion and the repercussions have slammed against the agriculture industry. Coal mines and natural gas wells are sucking cash out of the Queensland ground. They're also draining the Australian labor pool, paying up to $200,000 per year to anyone willing to drive a truck underground for a 12-hour shift or run a drill a mile underground. Ian said he had just lost a 21-year-old farmhand who bolted for a $120,000 start-up wage at the mines.
Such is life on the playing fields of Western capitalism. However, there is far more to the picture: the playing fields in Australia are by no means level. They are tilted toward the 'company' at a 90-degree angle. In Australia, anything that is underground belongs to the government and not the farmer. Period. Full-stop.
Regardless of what is below a farmer's soil, the mineral rights belong to the suits-and-ties in government. The mineral rights are sold by the government to mining companies, and the landowners get 'interference compensation' at a rate of $5,000 to $10,000 per well each year. If a natural gas well (maybe in the middle of cotton field) generates $1 million annually and is projected to have a 15-year run — then the register rings at $15 million for the company/government and the landowner gets $75,000-$150,000 (minus 15 years of lost crop production).
"The government sells the companies the lease, giving them the legal right to come on your property. You can't stop them … you can never stop them. The government is basically selling eminent domain to the gas company," describes Ian.
The farming implications are immeasurable: "They'll only take about 2 to 3 percent of our land, but if they put a road the wrong way across a field, it's going to have a tremendous impact — drainage and machinery operation. They're gas people and they don't understand farming. Our government is broke. They cannot manage the finances of Australia, and so they rely on the energy sector — gas, coal, iron ore. Agriculture is not respected by government."
Another of Ian's concerns (paralleling U.S. farmers) is a shortage of water. Australian farmers are grinding it out with 'greens' and government over water restrictions and cuts in allocations.
Water wars, cotton yields
"The water issue is a big debate at present. We just had two of the wettest years on record, but they're talking about taking back 60 percent of allocations. It's massive, the biggest irrigation area in Australia and the green environmentalists want to take away 60 percent of our water," Ian says.
He believes the water constraints have only just begun.
"I think you're going to face cutback after cutback for the next fifty years. The greens, they'd like to shut down agriculture if they could. I'm not sure what we'd eat, but they don't quite understand the real world. They buy their food in shops, so they don't really need agriculture."
For all his frustration with regulations and restrictions, Ian's sheer enthusiasm for agriculture is undaunted. Born in England, (about as geographically removed from a cotton field as one could get) Ian took a vacation to Australia in 1980 — and never left, becoming a poster-child for self-sufficiency: "I went to Australia and loved the blue skies and open spaces. I was 23 years old. While in Australia, I was lucky enough to meet an English farmer who was looking to buy an Australian farm. We knew each other for a week — and bought a farm together. I stayed and he went back to England. I don't have a cotton background — no cotton grown in England. I started off and built up the business over the last 30 years."
When Ian talks cotton, his sentences are punctuated with expectation and he says 2012 could be a tremendous year for Australia. Ian grows Sicot 71 BRF and it's been an incredibly good yielder. He estimates that his cotton fields have seen a 2.5 percent yield increase annually for the past 30 years — with half the increase attributed to improved variety and the other half from improved management. Over the last 20 years, Ian's bales-per-acre average has been in the 3.5-3.75 range. "When I first started growing cotton, 3 bales was a very good crop. Now if you don't hit 5 bales, you cry."
Overall, Australian cotton yield numbers are outstanding. "This year they're saying the very best crops brought 7 bales to the acre. That is hard to believe. You could walk on it and not fall through. But we've seen 5.5-bale cotton on our farm, and there are farms that average 6-bale cotton. We were jealous, because with the flood we only averaged 3 bales, our worst average in 20 years."
Admittedly, Ian's farm role is a balancing act — with his time divided between regulatory issues and government battles, while Jimmy is hands-on at the farm. With wife Deb, Jimmy and another son Dan, Ian farms approximately 9,000 acres. This coming season, he hopes to plant 3,500 acres of cotton (half of it irrigated); 2,500 acres of wheat; and the rest of the acreage in corn and sorghum. Beyond government red tape, water problems, and environmental legislation, day-to-day farm operation is what Ian thrives on.
Kangaroos and cockatoos
He'll soon have a John Deere round baler stirring up kangaroos and cockatoos as it runs the rows of his Queensland farm. It seems odd, but kangaroos can be a serious crop pest. "They are not a real problem in cotton, but they sure are in wheat. If you've got an irrigated crop and everything else is dry, they all come to the crop and eat it. There are people who are professional kangaroo shooters — that's what they do for a living. But some farmers, because there are so many of them, have to just go and shoot them."
On Ian Hayllor's farm, the wildlife is different and the geography is flipped, but his feel for the land is no different from any American farmer. "I love seeing things grow. There is nothing more rewarding — on the cropping side — than having a really good crop. Everybody is happy when you're harvesting a good crop. You can work with family; it's a family concern. The kids grow up, and they were farming as soon as they could walk. They used to love helping to irrigate — playing in the mud and water. It's that family atmosphere."
Australia's 2012 cotton harvest will begin in April; Ian and his Mississippi Delta picker will be waiting. "We've been looking forward to ending this last cotton crop — it was difficult and disappointing. But we're starting the new one already. It's the next challenge and there's something new around the corner," says Ian.
"You drive around and see a good crop, then you can't stop smiling." In that regard, maybe 9,000 miles isn't that far after all.


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Legendary fast bowler Wasim Akram today stepped down from the post of mentor and bowling coach of IPL champions Kolkata Knight Riders citing personal reasons.
Akram has been an integral part of the team for the past three seasons and also been a part of the core team along with chief coach Trevor Bayliss and captain Gautam Gambhir that helped in devising the strategy for the champion side.
According to team management, Akram has expressed his desire to spend more time with his family as his two sons Taimur and Akbar are barely in their teens.
Akram has been leaving out of suitcase for a number of years now due to his increased media commitments as well as the hectic travelling and camps related to Indian Premier League.
KKR CEO Venky Mysore in a media release issued by the franchise stated: "Wasim Akram will be badly missed. He is a legend and a great motivator to have around the team. However, we fully appreciate the reason why he will be unavailable. We hope to work with him in future."
Meanwhile, Indian team's fielding coach Trevor Penney, who has earlier worked with the now defunct Deccan Chargers will be joining KKR as their fielding coach.
In another minor development, Joy Bhattacharjya, the team director for the previous five seasons will now be seen in the role of an advisor (content development and management).
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June 20--The president and CEO of a veterans resource organization in Bowling Green says he intends to transform Owensboro's iconic Gabe's Tower into a multi-use veterans living facility.
Ron Georgette briefed the Owensboro City Commission Tuesday night during a public comment period regarding his plans. Georgette, who said he is a U.S. Army veteran, is the leader and founder of Operation Stand Down Kentucky, which works on behalf of some local veterans as their fiduciary for U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs benefits. Georgette said the organization is turning its focus toward affordable housing and transportation for veterans, which is bringing his work to Owensboro.
But what his relationship with the building's current owner Bob Zimmerman will be still remains unclear. Although Georgette claims he is negotiating with Zimmerman to purchase the building, Zimmerman is refusing to comment on his plans, throwing what city officials are calling a confusing wrench into the ongoing saga.
Georgette said he envisions the blighted 13-story tower on Triplett Street as a self-sustaining, all-in-one resource for veterans that will provide affordable housing, assisted living and hospice care in addition to both reintegration and transitional living opportunities for male and female homeless veterans.
"It's going to be a multi-functional building that will provide many different services for veterans in Owensboro and the surrounding counties," Georgette said. "We're going to do everything that we can to create the best services here in Daviess County and the surrounding counties, because many of these services just aren't available here."
He told the commission that he and his colleagues often refer to Daviess and the surrounding counties as "the black hole of no help for veterans," which drew immediate and sharp criticism from Mayor Tom Watson and another member in the audience Tuesday night.
Specifically, Georgette referenced the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Veteran Affairs Supportive Housing, Supportive Services for Veteran Families and Public Housing programs, which provide qualified rental assistance, permanent housing location and public housing authority preferential treatment services for veterans in several larger counties. According to published HUD resource data, none of the three programs are currently offered in Daviess County.
"When a veteran is facing eviction in Lexington, Louisville, Paducah (or) Bowling Green, they can get immediate assistance as long as they have (the proper documentation)," he said. "Here in Daviess County, the demographics are the same as they are in Bowling Green -- there's about as many veterans, down to within a few hundred -- so it's been frustrating to come here and visit the resource fairs and have homeless veterans or veterans that are struggling reach out, because we've got to relocate them out of this community."
He offered no specific timeline on his project proposal and said he would finance the Gabe's Tower revamp with a combination of state and federal grants, private donations and other nondescript funds. He said Operation Stand Down Kentucky intends to work alongside other veterans resource organizations and government bodies in Owensboro and Daviess County as an active partner.
"We thought, as a courtesy, we would first approach the city, hoping the city would embrace this," he said.
In an earlier interview with the Messenger-Inquirer Tuesday, Georgette said he is negotiating with current Gabe's Tower owner Zimmerman to purchase the building. Zimmerman himself has been public about his intent to repurpose the former hotel into a veterans resource center, but despite Georgette's claims Zimmerman repeatedly declined to comment Tuesday night when asked if he did intend to sell the building.
According to both the Daviess County Property Valuation Administrator and clerk's offices Tuesday, no deed transfer has taken place at the property, 1926 Triplett St.
Zimmerman has filed a federal suit against the city, alleging improper arrest on multiple occasions when he was leasing the property from its former owners. As of Tuesday, the suit had not been dropped. The city commission has declined to hear from Zimmerman on issues surrounding the tower during public comment periods due to that suit.
City Attorney Steve Lynn said he is unclear and confused by the sudden turn of events at the site. He said Georgette has reached out to him via email about his intent and possible purchase of the building, but there has still been no official word about the nature or time of that sale from Zimmerman.
Austin Ramsey, 270-691-7302, firstname.lastname@example.com, Twitter: @austinrramsey
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To the surprise of no one, Facebook on Tuesday announced that, despite an overwhelming majority of votes against changes to its privacy policy and terms of service, the social network would go ahead with its alterations to the site governance documents. Furthermore, Facebook will no longer allow users to vote on proposed changes to these user agreements – at least, not in the same way that it's been doing since 2009.
As Facebook points out, the number of users who voted was less than 1 percent of its active user base of around 1 billion. In fact, the total number came in at only 668,882 votes – a significant jump from years past, but still an abysmal turn out. For the vote to have had any effect, 30 percent – or 300 million users – would have had to cast a ballot, according to Facebook's rules.
Many commentators (including this one) have criticized Facebook for setting an absurdly high threshold for the vote; getting 300 million people to do anything that doesn't involve eating, talking, breathing, or having sex in a single week is next to impossible. And now that the vote is done (for good), critics are taking shots at Facebook users themselves. Hell, even Facebook is blaming it all on us.
"We made substantial efforts to inform our users and encourage them to vote, both through emails and their news feeds," wrote Facebook's Elliot Schrage in Tuesday's post. "Despite these efforts and widespread media coverage, less than one percent of our user community of more than one billion participated."
If you take that criticism seriously, an easy conclusion to make is that we are all just a bunch of apathetic fools who gripe and moan when Facebook wants to change anything, but the can't get off our lazy bums to do anything about it.
But I have another theory: We simply don't have time to read all these policies. And Facebook likely knew that from the very beginning.
Getting involved with these changes required reading Facebook's massive legal documents, parsing out all the proposed changes while also looking to policy experts to help us decipher what exactly Facebook wanted to change, then figuring out our own opinions about them. It's part of my job to read through documents like this, which I do on a weekly basis, and I still had trouble finding the time to get through all the mumbo jumbo Facebook proposed. It's difficult to imagine 3,000 people – let alone 300 million – having the hours in their day to rifle through it all.
So difficult, in fact, that I cannot for a moment believe that Facebook ever thought enough people would take the time to review their policy changes and vote on them. It wasn't just that the company set the threshold for voting too high, but the entire concept of making users review policy changes was flawed from the start: Not once in the three years that Facebook allowed users to vote on changes did user turnout come even remotely close to the numbers need to make a difference. Do any of us really think this was an accident?
Of course, Facebook's fake experiment with democracy is not the real issue here. The actual problem lies with terms of services and privacy policies in general: They are too long, too confusing, and, because of this, almost entirely ignored. If Facebook should change anything, it should not be its voting process or how it collects user feedback; it should be the verbose and abstract nature of the policies themselves.
We deserve to know exactly what data Facebook and every other online service is collecting about us, and exactly how they are using and sharing that information. The current way of doing that – long legal documents – isn't working. We need a new way, one that doesn't require users to set aside entire afternoons just to figure out what the heck is going on.
Solving this problem is no easy task, I know. So if Facebook really wants to make a difference, it should not just get feedback on specific policy changes, but on how to change the long-winded, confusing nature of the policies themselves to better serve us, the users.
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A winner was selected from 82 designs submitted by 19 freelance designers.
I am in need of a fun, contemporary, humorous illustration of a "couch potato" doing exercise for a series of cards I am creating. There will be addition work after the contest is concluded to create the entire series of cards
Couch Potato
This assignment is for a series of playing cards that I am working on. I am looking for to illustration style and design elements to make this card amazing.
Final Printed Card Size is 2-3/4 in. x 4-3/4in. so the design must fit in that space.
On the card there should be
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"The Couch Potato Workout - Straight Leg Lift"
2) Below the title, an illustration of a Potato (yes, you read that correctly, a Potato, think Mr. Potato Head, but different) sitting on a couch watching TV.
- The Potato should have a remote control in one hand
- His legs should be outstretched on the coffee table, one leg held in the air as if he were doing leg lifts
- The illustration should be humorous, contemporary, an colored. I prefer a style with pen strokes around it. Think comic strip illustration, but in color.
- The illustration should take up 2/3 of the vertical space on the card2) Underneath the illustration, the following text should be numbered an legible
- Step 1: Stretch legs out on coffee table. Pull in stomach so back doesn't arch
- Step 2: Lift Left Leg up and down 10 times without bending
- Step 3. Repeat Step 2 for the Right Leg
- Step 4: Work up to 5 sets on each leg
- Smart, funny comic-strip style illustration and clean design.
- I tend to not like colored background on the illustration, instead, colored elements on a white background
- text is very important and needs to be legibleI like illustrations like this
I like the style shown here
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Over the course of December, we've been giving away all sorts of tips and goodies for you to enjoy as part of our Christmas Calendar. Today, we've decided to give differently.
The greatest thing we all have to be grateful for is our health, which gives us the freedom to do what we want and live the life we want. We can now live longer and healthier than ever before. However, cancer is a vicious illness which can affect our loved ones much too easily. My cousin suffered from leukaemia in her teens but came out healthy and strong, and MacStories' Viticci is fighting his own battle, as he shared recently.
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Annual to subshrub
Leaves generally basal and cauline, alternate, generally simple; stipules 0
Inflorescence: generally raceme
Flower bisexual; sepals 4, free; petals (0)4, free, generally white or yellow, often clawed; stamens generally (2,4)6, generally 4 long, 2 short; ovary 1, superior, chambers generally 2, septum membranous, connecting 2 parietal placentas, style 1, stigma simple or 2-lobed
Fruit: generally capsule ("silique") with 2 deciduous valves, sometimes breaking transversely or indehiscent
Seeds 1many per chamber
Genera in family: 300+ genera, 3000+ species: worldwide, especially cool regions; some cultivated for food (especially Brassica, Raphanus ) and ornamental
Recent taxonomic note: Recently treated to include Capparaceae [Rodman et al. 1993 Ann Missouri Bot Gard 80:686699; Rollins 1993 Cruciferae of Continental North America. Stanford Univ Press]
Family description, key to genera by Robert A. Price.
Roy E. Buck, Dean W. Taylor, and Arthur R. KruckebergAnnual to perennial herb, glabrous to bristly, generally ± glaucous
Leaves ± entire to pinnately compound; basal generally rosetted, generally ± petioled; cauline linear to (ob)ovate, often clasping
Inflorescence generally ± open; bracts generally 0
Flower biradial or bilateral; calyx generally ± urn-shaped, sepals erect, generally not green, bases ± pouch-like, generally keeled; petals generally exserted, blade generally narrower than claw, ± channeled, margins ± wavy, generally ± scarious; stamens generally in 3 free pairs; style 0 or short, stigma generally ± entire, blunt
Fruit long, generally strongly compressed parallel to septum
Seeds generally compressed, generally ± winged
Species in genus: ± 40 species: sw US, n Mex
Etymology: (Greek: twisted flower, from wavy-margined petals)
Reference: [Dolan & LaPré 1989 Madroño 36:3340; Kruckeberg & Morrison 1983 Madroño 30:230244]
Caulanthus sometimes including here. Calluses on leaf margins of some mimic pierid butterfly eggs, reducing larval herbivory. Variable, complex; needs study.
S. glandulosus Hook.
JEWELFLOWERAnnual 110 dm, simple to branched throughout, generally ± densely bristly, especially below
Leaves < 13 cm; basal ± oblanceolate, coarsely dentate to ± lobed, narrowed to ± winged petiole; cauline ± linear to (ob)lanceolate, entire to ± lobed
Inflorescence ± straight; pedicels generally < sepals
Flower: calyx bilateral, sepals 49 mm, glabrous or sparsely hairy; petals 615 mm, upper >, generally darker than lower; upper filament pair exserted, fused at least in basal 2/3, recurved, with reduced ± sterile anthers
Fruit spreading to ± erect (less commonly deflexed), 311 cm, straight to ± curved
Chromosomes: 2n=28
Ecology: Dry, open grasslands, chaparral, open conifer/oak woodland, sometimes on serpentine, mostly away from coast
Elevation: 151300 m.
Bioregional distribution: s North Coast Ranges, San Francisco Bay Area, n&c South Coast Ranges
Distribution outside California: sw Oregon?
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The nighttime light of cities could be a new target in the search for extra-terrestrial life. A recent paper by Avi Loeb of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and Edwin Turner of Princeton University suggests that we should be scouring faraway planets for urban metropolises.
It's an idea that relies on a lot of assumptions being true, but the basic premise is that if there are planets with human-like intelligent life, they'll likely have invented their way out of the dark nights caused by revolving around a sun. In other words, cities full of lights shining out, waiting to be seen.
But if there are alien mega-cities – and we can only hope that there are – this approach might offer a way to track them down and identify places in the universe where other intelligent life has evolved. Loeb and Turner suggest that the lights of big cities would be a relatively easy tell. The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics explains:
As the planet orbits, it goes through phases similar to those of the Moon. When it's in a dark phase, more artificial light from the night side would be visible from Earth than reflected light from the day side. So the total flux from a planet with city lighting will vary in a way that is measurably different from a planet that has no artificial lights.
This sort of observation of far-off planets isn't possible yet, but telescopes are improving. The researchers note that through their method, telescopes today would be able to observe a Tokyo-sized city as far away as Pluto. Once the hardware is improved, astronomers and scientists might consider pointing their telescopes to the 1,235 Earth-sized planets NASA's Kepler mission has so far identified.
Loeb concedes that finding an alien city is a long-shot, but that no extra resources would be needed to look. And as our own planet becomes increasingly urbanized, maybe it will be us that gets discovered.
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