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Here is the review topic for The Switch Mirror http://www.bzpower.c...p?showtopic=971Gallery for characters in this story on mocpages.http://www.mocpages....lder.php/114865main charactersToa Voxumo: toa of iceToa Ganato: toa of plantlifeToa Gedorna: toa of gravityToa Phuna: toa of lightningToa Yarsata: toa of psionicsTuraga Zakano: turaga of ironVanoka: Turaga zakano's frost walker mountOmawirt Evil Biomechanical alien with a grudge against the Great Beings
Chapter 1: The Revelation
500 years prior to the great cataclysmAll I see is white. Overwhelming white. I lift my head only to realize there's an object covering my face. As I lift my hands to remove the object I see that my hand is covered with some sort of metal with tissue underneath. In fact my whole body is similar to my hand. Then I discover the magnificent yet horrid truth: I'm the thing I always enjoyed and created a bionicle.After that revelation I start trying to remember what events occurred prior to waking up in the snow of mata-nui knows where.As I search my mind, I find that my memory has faded; I can only remember snippets of my human life. I don't even remember my name. Although, I can remember some general things about BIONICLES - the elements, what colors go with what element, what Toa and Matoran are, and that most people wear things called kanohi masks - but I feel lost and strange. Just then, a being emerges from a snow drift.. Just then a being emerged from a snow drift. The being was roughly 4.5 feet tall, was also wearing a mask and his armor was white. I remembered enough to identify the being as a ko-matoran. The ko-matoran walked up to me and said "so I take your not from around here. By the way my name is Nalo. I live in these mountains."
I felt that I should introduce my self "It's nice to meet you Nalo. My name is Voxumo.""That name is very unique.""Also you are right I'm not from this here. Where is here anyway?" I ask the ko-matoran" well we're on the northern continent close to a village of fe-matoran." Answers Nalo" would you be willing to guide me to that village?" I asked" I was planning on heading there anyway to pick up supplies, and it would also be good to have a travel partner so sure why the heck not. But it will take about a full days travel and we will most likely camp during the night. ""That will be perfectly fine I'm in no hurry at all Nalo."We had to head back to his cabin that was about 2 hours away. While there he gathered any supplies he may need including a light stone, heat stone and a small dagger. He suddenly tossed me a short sword. "I noticed that you have no form of weapon on you so I'm giving you this short sword in case we have to defend ourselves.""Thanks Nalo, I'll return it to you when we get to the village.""You don't need to return it I'm giving it to you as a gift."We finally left his cabin an hour later. After several hours he and I started talking while we were traveling. I had so many questions I would have liked to ask him so I started with the easiest questions first such as the landscape and other things like that. He eventually asked me whether I was a Toa of ice. I simply told him that I really don't know because I experienced some memory loss when I arrived here.I didn't know how he would take the truth about my origins.We had to stop and find some form of shelter since it was almost dusk and Nalo did not feel comfortable traveling at night due to a report of a mauka in this area. We found a small cave that was hollowed out on the side of a snow covered hill. Nalo took out the container the heat stone was in and placed it in a small groove in the ground he had carved. I must admit that I was surprised by how warm that little stone kept the place.After Nalo and I had set up our small camp I asked him how long he thought it will take us to get to the village. He replied that maybe another 6 or 8 hours and that the rest of the way would be much warmer than the first part of the trail. After about an hour I was out for the count.I woke up to the chittering of a single kofo-jaga that had started to climb up my leg. I quickly got to my feet and kicked my leg till the little thing let go.I heard laughter coming from Nalo "Well at least you're up now," I glared at him "Hey you weren't waking up and I had been up and ready for two hours. While you were sleeping I went and grabbed some bula berries for our breakfast.""Thanks."Nalo and I sat down in the entrance of the cave and ate the bula berries. We had then gathered our supplies and left for the last part of the trip. We luckily encountered no obstacles at all and were in the village in only four hours.Once we had gotten into the village Nalo showed me some of the high lights of the place including the market. Since I had no money he was nice enough to buy me a small map tablet that included the southern continent, northern continent, Xia and Stelt. Even though the map was not one of the most detailed maps available but it served its purpose and even included the estimated travel from one location to the next via boat."Thanks Nalo for buying me that. I wish I had something to give you in return.""Well there's one thing you can give me,""What's that?""Come and see me again and don't forget me.""That I can do, and thanks again."Just then a Ba-Matoran came running up to Nalo and I and he looked absolutely exhausted.Nalo turned towards the matoran with a concerned look on his face"What is it Vinonata?""Toa Laviki sent me to retrieve you and said that it was urgent." He said with gasping breath.Nalo and I started running towards Laviki's hut and boy am I glad Nalo knew where it was or else I would have gotten lost.I had to ask what was on my mind, "Who's Laviki?""Oh ya you don't know. He is the only toa in this village and is a veteran of many battles. Most of the villagers revere him as the wisest being they know.""Sounds like he is someone of importance.""That he is and he is also a Toa of Gravity."We finally made it to Laviki's hut that was in like the center of the village hidden deep in the market. We were about to knock on the door when it swung open and a black and purple toa stood in the doorway.The Toa then spoke in a soft voice "Thanks Nalo for bringing him here.""Anything for you, Laviki."Nalo then looked at me, "Voxumo this is Laviki, Laviki this is Voxumo.""It's very nice meeting you Laviki."Laviki turned to Nalo and put his arm on Nalo's shoulder and said. "Well Nalo I need to keep Voxumo with me so if you don't mind could you two say your farewells so that Voxumo and I and start his training.""Wait you mean that your going to train me?!""And not any type of training but training to become a Toa."Nalo turned to me and looked at me with a subtle hint of regret "Well I hope that you will come and see me sometime. Luckily I showed you where I live, and I wish you the best of luck and may the Great Spirit watch and guide you on your journey"I took my hand and gave him a fist bump "I will make sure I do and I hope that Mata-Nui guides and watches over you too."With that last word Nalo turned and started walking away and deeper into the maze that is the market and I knew that I would probably never see him again but deep in my mind I knew I would like too.I turned toward Laviki and he welcomed me into his house. When I went into his house he guided me to a table and found a seat for me.I gazed at Laviki with a studying like stare "So Laviki how did you know that I was here?""Well I have a mask of clairvoyance and one day I was sitting in my hut looking out a window when I saw a vision of a being from another dimension and world fall through a hole that had been covered by snow. I then saw the being's body disintegrated and reform into a white biomechanical form and land in a forest covered by ice.""That sounds like me and how I arrived here even the method. Now that I think of it I remember falling through a deep black hole and the next thing I remember is waking up in a snow drift with this body. But that still doesn't explain how you knew it was me.""Well after I had that vision I tried to figure out its meaning but I couldn't. Then about 5 weeks ago I received another while asleep. This time there were words floating all around a white room then one materialized out of nowhere but was written in an ancient dialect that I did not know then more words started appearing faster than I could follow. I suddenly woke up and was at this very table carving the symbols into the table with a piece of sharp rock. I had never had that happen where I performed an action while asleep and having a vision. Not being trained in this language I took a small trip to Metru-Nui and had an old Onu-matoran friend of mine translate it."He took a deep breath and continued. "My friend told me that the whole thing translated out to a type of prophecy/history. He wrote it all down for me" As he said that he handed me a small stone tablet with writing on it.I took the tablet and started to read it and to my surprise I could read the matoran alphabet like I always knew how to. The tablet read as follows.
He who looked into his own reflection saw anothers
And in that reflection stood his soul and a single word
Even though he had never seen that word he knew it as the truth
The truth that was his name
His soul had gotten sucked into a gravity far greater than any other
And in that gravity he found a friend, a teacher and a team
This Voxumo would one day be known by few
But would impact millions of lives
He who received this vision and understands it is destined to teach the frozen one"From what I understand I'm the one who is destined to train you and help you start your destiny.""Well Laviki I may not know why I was chosen for this, but I cannot refuse my destiny and I will be honored to be taught by you.""Well then there is only thing left to do before I start your training and this is probably the most important part."After he said that Laviki grabbed me by the shoulders and transferred some form of energy into me. I stood there frozen for what felt like a lifetime. The energy traveled through my whole body and it felt like millions of insect crawling under my armor even my mask was gaining energy.When I could finally move I looked around for Toa Laviki, although I realized I was lying on a bed made of Bula tree leaves. Suddenly a short being with black and purple armor and a small staff with a gem connected to the top of the staff that swirled as if a black hole was in there.Then the being spoke, "I know this may be a bit of a surprise but you had the form of a toa but not the powers of one. So I sacrificed my toa power to grant you the powers that belong with the form even your kanohi. But in the process I was transformed into a turaga, but even with this form I still can train you on how to use you powers and your kanohi but the training won't be easy and could take 13 years to finish.""I understand and I do not care how long it takes just that I give my all and follow your training.""Good then from this point on you are a Toa of Ice and I will be your trainer, mentor and above all else your friend."
End of Chapter 1
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The 3rd Marquess of Bute
James Pittendrigh MacGillivray (1856-1938)
Unveiled 1930
Bronze on a granite pedestal with bronze inscriptions and heraldry
Friary Gardens, Cardiff
Listed in the city's Public Art Register as "Commemorative" (31) this is one of the most important of the Scottish sculptor MacGillivray's few public monuments. The voluminous robes make the figure look especially impressive.
Photograph and text by Jacqueline Banerjee, 2009.
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On Saturday, February 4, the Story Pirates, a media and arts group that celebrates the words and ideas of young authors through comedy, will bring kids' stories about the Museum to life by acting them out on the stage. Story Pirate Sam Reiff-Pasarew recently answered a few questions about the upcoming production, Story Pirates: My Museum Story.
What will the Story Pirates perform at the Museum?
Sam Reiff-Pasarew: We'll be performing a sketch comedy show based on stories written by kids. We asked kids at the Museum's SpaceFest! and after-school programs to submit stories that take place at the Museum, and our actors are adapting those stories into live theater with costumes, props, music, and puppets. We'll also perform some of our most popular stories written by kids across the country.
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Following a meeting at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory this week, leaders of the international human genome sequencing consortium reaffirmed their commitment to providing free, immediate and unrestricted access to human sequencing data, and defined powerful new ways to coordinate the worldwide effort to sequence the human genome.
Leaders in human genome sequencing from France, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States met on May 19 in Cold Spring Harbor after a tumultuous year of rapidly advancing progress. They reaffirmed the vigorous spirit of international cooperation, underlined the benefit for centers in all countries with significant capacity to participate, and defined new and powerful ways of coordinating the public effort amongst participating centers. The group strongly reconfirmed its commitment to place all sequence data in the public domain immediately and deplored the trend towards treating human genome sequence as a commodity.
The centers documented their substantial combined sequencing capacity, and agreed that the achievement of a working draft of the human genome sequence, covering at least 90 percent of the genome at a depth of roughly five-fold, could be accomplished by the spring of 2000. The centers and funding agencies also reconfirmed their commitment to subsequently utilize this working draft to produce a highly accurate final sequence no later than 2003.
The consortium strongly reaffirmed the policy, originally adopted in 1996, that all human genome sequence should be placed in publicly accessible databases within 24 hours of the time that an assembly of 1000 to 2000 base pairs is obtained. Large-scale genome sequence data is a critically important research tool for the entire scientific community, and the international sequencing consortium believes that the public is best served if such data is immediately and freely available, without patents, licenses, subscription fees or limitations on use.
Significant human sequencing efforts have been underway in several countries since 1995, and the international sequencing community has met yearly since 1996 to coordinate the critically important task of reading the human instruction book. The worldwide public effort has already produced sequence covering 17 percent of the human genome, with 10 percent in completed form and another 7 percent in near-final draft. While much of the public effort in sequencing production is located in the United States and the United Kingdom, significant capacity exists at Genoscope in France, at centers in Jena, Braunschweig, and Berlin in Germany, and at two centers in Tokyo, Japan. The estimated combined capacity of all the centers over the next 12 months is more than enough to produce the recommended working draft on schedule.
Attendees agreed that the project should continue to be based on the sequencing of bacterial artificial chromosomes (BACs) with known map position, as that is a proven strategy. Several powerful tools have recently been developed to assist this effort and a central BAC registry has now been set up by the National Center for Biotechnology Information which will keep track of which BACs are being sequenced in each center, avoiding unnecessary duplication of effort. Each center will have a particular region of interest; no areas of the human genome are left unassigned. All centers agreed that close monitoring of progress will be needed over the coming year through a series of quarterly meetings, and that some readjustments in assignments may have to be made to be certain that the project is accomplished on time.
Dr. David Bentley, The Sanger Centre, Cambridge, UK
Dr. Helmut Bloecker, Gesellshaft fur Biotechnologische, Braunschweig, Germany
Dr. Elbert Branscomb, Joint Genome Institute, Dept. of Energy, Walnut Creek, CA, USA
Mr. Graham Cameron, The European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, UK
Dr. Celia Caulcott, The Wellcome Trust, London, UK
Dr. Francis Collins, National Human Genome Research Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA
Dr. David Cox, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
Dr. Pieter de Jong, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY, USA
Dr. Richard Durbin, The Sanger Centre, Cambridge, UK
Dr. Adam Felsenfeld, National Human Genome Research Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA
Dr. Marvin Frazier, Dept. of Energy, Germantown, MD, USA
Dr. Richard Gibbs, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
Dr. Eric Green, National Human Genome Research Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA
Dr. Mark Guyer, National Human Genome Research Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA
Dr. Trevor Hawkins, Joint Genome Institute, Dept. of Energy, Walnut Creek, CA, USA
Dr. Ursula Hurtenbach, BMBF, Bonn, Germany
Dr. Eric Lander, Whitehead Institute/MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
Dr. Lauren Linton, Whitehead Institute/MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
Dr. Anup Madan, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Dr. Marco Marra, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, USA
Dr. Richard McCombie, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY, USA
Dr. John McPherson, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, USA
Dr. Michael Morgan, The Wellcome Trust, London, UK
Dr. Richard Myers, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
Dr. Maynard Olson, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Dr. Ari Patrinos, Dept. of Energy, Germantown, MD, USA
Dr. Jane Peterson, National Human Genome Research Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA
Dr. Juliane Ramser, Max-Planck-Institut fur Moleculare Genetik, Berlin, Germany
Dr. Bruce Roe, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA
Dr. Jane Rogers, The Sanger Centre, Cambridge, UK
Dr. Andre Rosenthal, Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Jena, Germany
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Mrs. Jilly Steward, The Wellcome Trust, London, UK
Dr. James Watson, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY, USA
Dr. Jean Weissenbach, Genoscope, Evry, France
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text: Howdy, Newbie alert, although I have ready the FAQ, visited a couple of the project sites listed on beowulf.org, and even read a HOWTO or 3 :^). Being a software engineer, I'll just say that I'm way too familiar with RTFM and google searches :^). Basically, I'm looking for the following info: * Is there a beowulf setup out that that is used to gernerate ray-traced graphics? If so, does anyone have a links to sites that in-depth info? * Is there a beowulf setup out there setup specifically for random-number generation, with its main focus on generating "truly random" numbers, if you can say that synchronus, clock-based computers are capable of generating truly random numbers :^). If so, has a cluser of this type been used in encryption and decryption purposes. * Is there a beowulf chess engine out there? If so, has it ever played in the computer chess championship, and how did it perform? * Is anyone working on beowulf clustering based on trusted-host computing? That is, instead of having a local cluster of numerous computers in various racks, a person could say something like, "I trust this host and that host, and if any of them want to use my excess CPU time over the Internet, then they are welcome to use my broadband-connected machine for their purposes. In other words, this would be a setup much like the SETI screen blanker, yet the screen blanker would be removed and out of the loop. Anyone doing this? If not, I'm interested in giving this a shot. (Send e-mail or post here, and I'll give a verbose explanation of the way I see something like this working.) * Is anyone using real-time versions of Unix(TM) in their beowulf setup? If so, did they/you notice a significant increase in processing speed? Personally,and off the top of my head, I'd think the main bottleneck is the MPI and network communications. [This next one will be a bit "out there," but what the hell -- no guts no glory! :^) ] * Is anybody working on a model that encompasses nano-technology? That is, is there anyone out there working on algorithms that would allow nano-bots to communicate and process information in a beowulf-like manner? Anywho, TIA, and feel free to answer any of the questions, even if you can't answer them all. The way I see things, a bit of knowledge gained is better than no knowledge at all.... Best Regards, Randall -- Randall Jouett Amateur Radio: AB5NI I eat spaghetti code out of a bit bucket while sitting at a hash table!


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Gift Shop, Tourists/Travel | Grand Canyon, AZ, USA | Right | September 2, 2013
(It's almost dusk at the gift shop I am running at the southern rim of the Grand Canyon. A tourist couple approaches.)
Woman: "Where is the best spot to watch the Canyon at night?"
Me: "Well, anywhere along the walkway is good, but the sun's going down very soon."
Man: "Yes, we want to be here when they turn on the lights."
Me: "…lights?"
Woman: "Yes, so we can see it at night."
Me: "Umm, the Canyon is over a mile deep at this point, and the northern rim is over a mile across from here. There aren't any lights in it for nighttime."
Man: "Then how do you see it at night?"
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Sales forecasts for Novartis's new heart failure drug are being ramped up by analysts after strikingly good clinical trial results for a medicine doctors expect to transform treatment of the deadly disease.
Shares in the Swiss drugmaker jumped over 3 percent to a record high on Monday as data for LCZ696 released at the weekend beat expectations, showing the medicine slashed deaths and hospitalizations, worked across all groups of patients, and had no serious side effects.
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David Epstein, Novartis' head of pharmaceuticals, said the launch of the drug next year promised to be the company's most exciting ever and profit margins on the medicine would be good.
The results of a keenly-awaited clinical trial on LCZ696 were released at the annual meeting of the European Society of Cardiology on Saturday and published in the New England Journal of Medicine with a glowing editorial.
Investigators working on the study and the company itself believe it has potential to replace drugs that have been central to treating heart failure for a quarter of century, opening up a multi-billion dollar sales opportunity.
"It will be possibly the most exciting launch the company has ever had," Epstein told investors.
At 0510 ET, Novartis shares were up 3.3 percent at 85.1 Swiss francs, after touching a new high of 85.2 francs.
Analyst forecasts for LCZ696 have been climbing in recent months and the consensus for sales in 2019 - four years after its expected launch - stood at $1.9 billion at the end of last week, according to Thomson Reuters Cortellis.
That number now looks out of date, with several analysts in research notes on Monday anticipating peak sales of $5 billion or more.
There could be more upside too. Jefferies analysts, in common with many others, are not currently including in their $5.2 billion sales estimate a second group of heart failure patients beyond those in the current clinical trial.
The study unveiled in Barcelona targeted heart patients with reduced ejection fraction, where the heart muscle does not contract effectively. However, Novartis is also starting a trial in a similar-sized group with preserved ejection fraction, where the ventricles do not relax as they should.
LCZ696 is a vindication of Novartis's strategy of stepping up its research efforts outside oncology, according to Epstein, who is keen to build up a broad portfolio when it comes to reinvesting profits from this drug on future research.
"This data further supports our analyses that show Novartis has the world's best R&D engine globally, even better than Roche," said Liberum analyst Naresh Chouhan.
Developing the drug was a gamble, given the lack of progress in more than a decade in finding new ways to treat heart failure, in which the heart struggles to pump blood adequately round the body.
Novartis is looking to LCZ696 to help revive its fortunes as the blood pressure pill Diovan - a major source of profits in the past - faces generic competition.
Epstein said the profitability of the new drug would be higher than with Diovan, since the cost of marketing LCZ696 will be lower. That reflects the more specialized nature of heart failure, which requires a smaller sales force.
As a result, LCZ696 should become profitable relatively quickly, though Novartis will be investing to ensure a strong launch. Epstein said he did not expect any increase in the overall sales force because staff would be switched from promoting some older drugs.
The drug is on track to be submitted for regulatory approval by the end of the year and Novartis is hoping for a "priority review" in the United States, which would mean a decision is made within eight months.
A big question mark remains the price of the drug, which Epstein is not discussing yet, although he said it would be "reasonable".
Industry analysts believe it could be priced at around $7-8 a day in the all-important U.S. market and less in Europe. With a compelling clinical profile and very little in the pipelines of other companies in terms of competing products, Novartis looks to be in a strong position.
LCZ696 is a two-in-one pill, taken twice a day, combining Diovan's active ingredient valsartan and another class of drug called a neprilysin inhibitor.


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Imagine you are suspending a cube from one vertex and allowing it to hang freely. What shape does the surface of the water make around the cube?
Imagine you have six different colours of paint. You paint a cube
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In the game of Noughts and Crosses there are 8 distinct winning
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That's a night at the ballpark I'll never forget. To recap the 17-inning game between the Fisher Cats and SeaWolves in Manchester, N.H., last night:
Ryan Schimpf contributed to one of the most incredible games in Fisher Cats history with a home run in the ninth, triggering a Thursday-into-Friday marathon at Northeast Delta Dental Stadium. New Hampshire erased a four-run deficit in the ninth inning and a one-run deficit in the 11th inning but lost to Erie, 9-7, in the longest home game in club history. Highlights and historic notes from my game story in the New Hampshire Union Leader:
1. Erie slugger Jordan Lennerton fouled off four straight pitches before doubling off Chorye Spoone in the 17th, driving home Niuman Romero, and ending the 5 hour, 39-minute contest. Spoone (2-2) was the game's 13th pitcher.
2. Schimpf, called up from Single-A Dunedin this week, broke an 0-for-8 stretch with a two-run homer against fireballer Bruce Rondon. The Erie reliever blew the save but registered 100, 101 and 102 mph on radar guns.
3. New Hampshire trailed by four runs when Ryan Goins (4-for-6) stepped to the plate in the bottom of the ninth. Goins' train-track homer against Kelvin De La Cruz launched New Hampshire's four-run rally.
4. Erie pulled ahead in the 11th on Jamie Johnson's sacrifice fly, but once again the Fisher Cats played long ball to force extra frames.
5. This time, Kevin Howard cranked a first-pitch fastball from Ryan Robowski over the right-field wall, tying the game at 7-apiece.
6. In the 16th, the Fisher Cats loaded the bases with no outs. Reliever Michael Morrison entered to strike out Schimpf, Sean Ochinko and Brian Bocock. Morrison (3-3 ) worked two innings, striking out five straight, for the win. More in the Union Leader.


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Three Wabash College seniors were honored Saturday morning at the traditional Deans' Senior Breakfast.
Andy Walsh earned the Frank Hugh Sparks Award for All-Around Student Achievement and Adam Barnes and Ryan Cloyd shared the John Maurice Butler Prize for Scholarship and Character.
Named in honor of the College's eighth president, the Frank Hugh Sparks Award for All-Around Student Achievement is given to a senior who has done the most to promote the true spirit and purpose of Wabash College.
A native of Clinton, Ind., Walsh was a Dean's List student in all eight semesters and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. The psychology major served as president of Psi Chi, the psychology honor society, WAR Council, and AMPED, in addition to memberships in Sons of Wabash and Senior Council. He earned five varsity letters as a student-athlete, including three in basketball and one each in football and track and field.
Given annually since 1923, the John Maurice Butler Prize for Scholarship and Character is voted on by the entire Wabash faculty and is given to a student of high character and great ability.
A native of Bradford, Pa., Barnes was awarded a Fulbright Teaching Assistant Scholarship and will be based in Madrid, Spain, educating high school students. A double major in biology and Spanish with distinction in both, he plans to attend medical school following completion of his Fulbright. Barnes is a Lilly Scholar, was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa, earned the Earnest G. Carscallen Prize in Biology, and was a George Lewes Mackintosh Fellow. A four-year member of the Wabash swim team, Barnes served as captain in each of the last three seasons.
A native of Beech Grove, Ind., Cloyd majored in biochemistry and minored in psychology, classics, and biology. A Dean's List student, he received the Dr. Paul T. Hurt Award for All-Around Freshman Achievement and was a finalist in the Baldwin Oratorical Contest as a sophomore. Cloyd received the Underwood Chemistry Award and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa in his junior year, while also serving as a Junior Marshal during Commencement. He is a member of Kappa Sigma and will be working in Luxembourg following graduation.
The Sparks Award and Butler Prizes are the top student honors for a Wabash graduate.
The Dean's breakfast concluded with remarks from Dean of the College Gary A. Phillips, who is stepping down after eight years in that position. The occasion put both speaker and audience in the same unique role, as he noted, of having "to figure out what I will do with the rest of my life."
Phillips offered a challenge in his final address to the Class of 2014: to think about questions and why the liberal arts, and Wabash, offer a home for living with questions.
"It is the question that most captures my attention," he explained. "It is the interrogation, the inquiry that drives me not simply as a conceptual act but as an ethical response to life and the stuff the world throws at us. It is this capacity to confront ethical challenges that I believe to be dead center at the heart of the Wabash liberal arts mission that seeks to educate Wabash students to move on with their lives as critical, responsible, effective, humane gentlemen and citizens."
Using touchstones like the artwork of Samuel Bak, The Matrix, and the writings of Tolstoy and Rainer Maria Rilke, Phillips concluded with these words, "Your Wabash education leaves you with the question and the love of the question. It leaves you with a choice. What is now possible for you as you move on? In good Wabash style, you students have to decide."
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The main Portage tool that most users will use is
# man emerge # emerge --help
Before we continue describing
# cd /usr/portage; ls --classify app-admin/ dev-ml/ gnome-libs/ net-print/ app-arch/ dev-perl/ gnome-office/ net-wireless/ app-benchmarks/ dev-php/ header.txt net-www/ app-cdr/ dev-python/ incoming/ net-zope/ app-crypt/ dev-ruby/ jython/ packages/ app-dicts/ dev-tcltk/ kde-apps/ profiles/ app-doc/ dev-tex/ kde-base/ releases/ app-editors/ dev-util/ kde-i18n/ scripts/ app-emacs/ distfiles/ kde-libs/ sec-policy/ app-emulation/ eclass/ licenses/ skel.ChangeLog app-games/ experimental/ media-fonts/ skel.ebuild app-gnustep/ files/ media-gfx/ skel.metadata.xml app-i18n/ fresco-base/ media-libs/ snapshots/ app-misc/ games-action/ media-plugins/ sys-apps/ app-office/ games-arcade/ media-radio/ sys-build/ app-pda/ games-board/ media-sound/ sys-cluster/ app-portage/ games-emulation/ media-tv/ sys-devel/ app-sci/ games-engines/ media-video/ sys-fs/ app-shells/ games-fps/ metadata/ sys-kernel/ app-text/ games-kids/ net-analyzer/ sys-kmods/ app-vim/ games-misc/ net-apache/ sys-libs/ app-xemacs/ games-mud/ net-dialup/ unix2tcp/ berlin-base/ games-puzzle/ net-dns/ x11-base/ dev-ada/ games-roguelike/ net-firewall/ x11-libs/ dev-cpp/ games-rpg/ net-fs/ x11-misc/ dev-db/ games-server/ net-ftp/ x11-plugins/ dev-dotnet/ games-simulation/ net-im/ x11-terms/ dev-embedded/ games-sports/ net-irc/ x11-themes/ dev-games/ games-strategy/ net-libs/ x11-wm/ dev-haskell/ games-util/ net-mail/ xfce-base/ dev-java/ glep/ net-misc/ xfce-extra/ dev-lang/ gnome-apps/ net-nds/ dev-libs/ gnome-base/ net-news/ dev-lisp/ gnome-extra/ net-p2p/
As you can see, the Portage tree has several subdirectories. Most of them are
# cd app-office; ls --classify abiword/ gnotime/ kmymoney2/ ooodi/ plan/ timestamp.x dia/ gnucash/ koffice/ oooqs/ qhacc/ dia2code/ gnumeric/ lxbank/ openoffice/ sc/ facturalux/ ical/ lyx/ openoffice-bin/ scribus/ gaby/ kbudget/ mdbtools/ openoffice-ximian/ siag/ gnofin/ khacc/ mrproject/ phprojekt/ texmacs/
Inside a category you will find the packages belonging to that category, with a
seperate directory for each package. Let us take a look at the
# cd openoffice; ls --classify ChangeLog files/ openoffice-1.0.3-r1.ebuild openoffice-1.1.0-r2.ebuild Manifest metadata.xml openoffice-1.1.0-r1.ebuild openoffice-1.1.0.ebuild
Remember that we told you that a Gentoo package is called an ebuild? Well, in the example directory four of such ebuilds are stored. Their naming is almost identical: they only differ in the version name. You are free to view the contents of such a package: they are plain scripts. We will not discuss it right now as it isn't important to know if you plan on just using Gentoo.
The other files are the
Inside the
# cd files; ls --classify 1.0.3/ digest-openoffice-1.0.3-r1 digest-openoffice-1.1.0-r1 1.1.0/ digest-openoffice-1.1.0 digest-openoffice-1.1.0-r2 # cd 1.1.0; ls --classify fixed-gcc.patch ooffice-wrapper-1.3 newstlportfix.patch openoffice-1.1.0-linux-2.6-fix.patch no-mozab.patch openoffice-1.1.0-sparc64-fix.patch nptl.patch
If you go back to the root of the Portage tree (
If you are new to Linux or Gentoo, you might not know what tool you need for
what job. To facilitate searching,
To search through the Portage tree by name, use
# emerge search mozilla Searching... [ Results for search key : mozilla ] [ Applications found : 5 ]
(Some output removed to improve readability)* net-www/mozilla Latest version available: 1.5-r1 Latest version installed: 1.4-r3 Size of downloaded files: 29,153 kB Homepage: http://www.mozilla.org Description: The Mozilla Web Browser * net-www/mozilla-firebird Latest version available: 0.7 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of downloaded files: 37,850 kB Homepage: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firebird/ Description: The Mozilla Firebird Web Browser (...)
If you want to include a search through the descriptions too, use the
# emerge --searchdesc mozilla Searching... [ Results for search key : mozilla ] [ Applications found : 10 ]
(Some output removed to improve readability)* dev-libs/nss-3.8 Latest version available: 3.8 Latest version installed: 3.8 Size of downloaded files: 2,782 kB Homepage: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/ Description: Mozilla's Netscape Security Services Library that implements PKI support
As you can see, the output of
You see something new? Yes,
While browsing through the Portage Tree, you saw that there was a ChangeLog for
each package. You can view this ChangeLog with
# emerge --pretend --changelog gnumeric
Searching through Portage is nice, but if you don't update your Portage Tree regularly, you will be stuck with the packages and versions available on your system. This means that your system will get outdated pretty soon and that you will be missing bugfixes and remedies for possible security problems.
There are several ways to update your Portage Tree. The most popular method is
by using one of our
It is adviseable to first select a fast
# emerge --usepkg mirrorselect
Now run
# mirrorselect -a -s3
To update Portage using rsync, simply run
# emerge sync
If this fails (due to network problems, or a firewall), you can try using
# emerge-webrsync
Gentoo provides ebuilds, the Gentoo packages if you like. But when you want to
install such an ebuild, you can choose between
As you probably have guessed, building packages takes a lot of time (especially
if you have little resources or want to build big packages, such as
Using prebuilt packages improves the installation time (as no more compilation
is needed), but you will lose the advantages of the
As previously stated, prebuilt packages are stored in the
Okay, enough talking, let's cut to the chase. To install a package, you will use
# emerge gnumeric
This will download the sourcecode for you and unpacks, compiles and installs the
package on your system. It will also do the same for all the dependencies. If
you want to see what dependencies will be installed with it, use the
# emerge --pretend gnumeric
If you want to download the sourcecode of the package and its dependencies,
but don't want to build the package, use the
# emerge --fetchonly gnumeric
If you want to see where
# emerge --fetchonly --pretend gnumeric
You can also opt to install a specific version of a package. For instance, if you want to install a gnumeric version older than 1.2 -- for any reason whatsoever :) you would type:
# emerge "<gnumeric-1.2"
Other possibilities are of course ">" (later version) and "=" (the exact version).
When you want to install a prebuilt package, you should use the
# emerge --usepkg gnumeric
If you want to use the binary package, even if the versions don't match, use
# emerge --usepkgonly gnumeric
You can also opt to install a specific version of a package. For instance, if you want to install a gnumeric version older than 1.2 -- for any reason whatsoever :) you would type:
# emerge --usepkg "<gnumeric-1.2"
Other possibilities are of course ">" (later version) and "=" (the exact version).
Portage knows two special tags to denote a set of software packages:
If you want to update the system packages, use the
# emerge --update system
An identical approach can be used for the world packages:
# emerge --update world
Again, if you want to see what
# emerge --pretend --update world
(Some output removed to improve readability)[ebuild U ] net-misc/wget-1.9-r1 [1.9] [ebuild UD] media-video/dvdauthor-0.5.0 [0.5.3] [ebuild U ] net-analyzer/ethereal-0.9.16 [0.9.14]
Right next to the word "ebuild" you will notice a letter (or combination of letters) which gives you more information about the package:
In certain cases, an update may mean a downgrade (i.e. install an older version
instead of a newer version). If you don't want this to happen, use the
# emerge --update --upgradeonly world
Of course, we are talking here about
If you want to remove software from your system, you can use the
# emerge unmerge gnumeric
If you want to test a removal (but not perform it), you can use
# emerge --pretend unmerge gnumeric
Gentoo places its packages in two possible stadia called
Your system will use
If you want to update your system now, you will notice that
When you want to install a package, you might come across the following message:
Calculating dependencies !!!
all ebuilds that could satisfy<your package> have been masked.
A package can be masked due to two reasons:
If the package is masked because of the first reason, and you
# ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge gnumeric
A package is hardmasked if it is listed in
Another trick to circumvent the "masked package" problem is to install the
package using the full path. This will ignore both the
# emerge /usr/portage/app-office/gnumeric/gnumeric-1.2.0.ebuild
You have a situation when you receive the following error on your screen:
[blocks B ] gnome-base/bonobo-activation (from pkg gnome-base/libbonobo-2.4.0)
In the above example, the package
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As the Two Bulls Fire sent up a massive column of smoke over west Bend on June 7, Morgan Tien and his friends were hanging by the Awbrey Glen Golf Club pool just miles from the flames.
The 14-year-old amateur cinematographer hustled to his nearby home and sent his DJI Phantom — a small quadcopter carrying a GoPro camera — aloft. Launching the unmanned, four-prop helicopter from his back patio, Morgan captured aerial footage of the fire and then posted it to YouTube. It was a departure from the videos already up on his channel, mostly action reels of skateboarding and skiing, and it was a hit.
Viewers checked out the video "to see where the fire was and where it was moving," Morgan said. They asked for more, and he responded, posting a second video the next day, June 8. The Two Bulls Fire burned 6,908 acres, mostly private timberland. The cause of the fire remains under investigation, with the Deschutes County Sheriff's Office calling it likely arson.
Morgan's drone flights prompted a response from the U.S. Forest Service and the U.S. Department of the Interior, which oversees the Bureau of Land Management. The agencies issued an interagency aviation safety alert June 25 to aviation operations around the country.
"Although the aircraft remained outside the (temporary flight restriction area), it serves as a reminder that this emerging hazard is becoming more common due to their reduction in cost and the public's interest in fire and natural disasters," the statement reads.
This month, federal wildfire officials followed up with a warning for drone operators that flying within or near wildfires could threaten the safety of firefighters on the ground and in the air.
Morgan isn't the only person who has flown a drone near a wildfire this year. Fire officials also spotted drones at the Carlton Complex Fire in Washington and the Sand Fire in California, said Mike Ferris, spokesman for the Forest Service in Portland. Last year, there was only one drone seen at a wildfire.
"I can only anticipate that this is going to (continue to) increase," he said.
For a couple of hundred dollars, people can purchase a drone and a high-definition camera. Morgan said he saved money he earned doing chores and yard work, as well as birthday money, to buy the Phantom and GoPro. The setup cost about $800.
Drones may be a problem for firefighters if the drones fly into restricted airspace over and near a wildfire, where air tankers and helicopters could be buzzing around, Ferris said. If firefighters spot a drone close to a fire, they may suspend the aerial delivery of retardant and water from air tankers and helicopters.
Although the drones are small, they could cause big aircraft to crash.
"We just want people to be aware and know the rules and know that it could become a hazard," Ferris said.
There have been no reported collisions between airplanes or helicopters and drones in Central Oregon or the rest of the country, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.
Whereas people using a drone for business purposes need a waiver from the FAA, people using a drone for recreation don't need such approval. They should fly safely and obey the law, according to the agency.
Morgan, the Bend teen, said he has read federal guidelines when it comes to when and where he can fly his Phantom.
He said he hasn't been contacted by federal agencies about his Two Bulls Fire flights and said he'd fly again near another wildfire after making sure he was following rules and not violating any restrictions.
Like Ferris with the Forest Service, Morgan expects to see more people flying drones around events such as wildfires soon.
"We are just entering this realm of drones," he said.
For many people, the term "drone" has a negative connotation, and Morgan said he thinks people tend to overreact to it. To him a drone simply is a radio-controlled helicopter with a camera on board.
"I don't think that all drones should be looked down upon," Morgan said.
For 18 years, Waldemar Frank, president of the Bend Aero Modelers club, has flown radio-controlled model airplanes. Wondering if new rules for drones will also put restrictions on his hobby, Frank is among those closely watching the rise of drones.
"Everything is still up in the air," he said.
The club has a few people with quadcopters, which don't require a runway like a model airplane, Frank said. He said there will likely be stricter FAA regulations for drones, but it's unclear whether they will pertain to people flying radio airplanes in a club.
The Forest Service itself is interested in using drones to collect information about wildfires, such as determining perimeters and checking for spot fires.
The California Army National Guard flew predator drones on the Rim Fire, which burned in and near Yosemite National Park, last year. The drones there flew at more than 18,000 feet, above the temporary flight restriction area.
Ferris said the Forest Service may consider requests from private drone operators for an exception to flight restrictions, as it does for news helicopters, but flights into the temporary flight restriction area would have to be planned and approved.
One of the main concerns about drone flights such as those on the Two Bulls, Carlton Complex and Sand fires is that officials didn't know when and where drones would be flying.
"It all comes down to communications, and in these three incidents (this year), we didn't have any communications with the operators," Ferris said.
Having used drones to monitor potato crops in Eastern Oregon, Bend-based drone consulting company Paradigm has worked closely with researchers and the FAA in planning flights, said David Blair, director of government and public relations for the company.
He said he would meet with firefighting agencies ahead of fire season to develop specific rules and procedures before flying a drone near or over a wildfire.
"These are complicated situations," he said.
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LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — D.J. Beshears was a defensive back last season as a Kansas freshman, but he played multiple roles on offense Saturday night.
Beshears was a running back, wide receiver and kick returner as he scored three touchdowns, including a 96-yard kickoff return, in the first half to propel Kansas to a 42-16 victory over the New Mexico State.
"I guess we've going to have to give him slash, slash," said Kansas quarterback Jordan Webb.
Beshears is glad first-year Kansas coach Turner Gill moved him back to the offensive side.
"I'm very happy," Beshears said. "That's my natural side of the ball. I've always been an offensive guy ever since I was young."
After Seth Smith's 1-yard touchdown plunge for the Aggies (0-3) tied the score at 7-7, Beshears returned the ensuing kickoff, matching the eighth longest return ever for the Jayhawks (2-2).
"I just read it out and hit the hole with speed," Beshears said. "It definitely gave us a boost and pumped up a lot of guys."
Webb had been expecting a game like this from Beshears.
"He's electric," Webb said. "He's fast. He wants to get into the end zone every time he touches the ball. We've been working him in, putting a lot of plays in for him."
Beshears rushed for two touchdowns on carries of 10 and 7 yards, putting the Aggies down 21-7 at halftime.
"We knew he's a good player, but he's an exceptional player," New Mexico State coach DeWayne Walker said.
The Jayhawks scored two more touchdowns in the third quarter, including a Jordan Webb 2-yard pass to Tim Biere to cap off a 99-yard 17-play drive. James Sims had touchdowns runs of 11 and 1 yards in the second half.
Webb completed his first six passes for 104 yards, including 35 yards to Jonathan Wilson and 47 yards to Angus Quigley to set up Beshears' first touchdown. Webb finished the night with 17 of 27 passes for 249 yards and one touchdown.
After Kansas quarterbacks had been sacked 12 times in the first three games, Webb and Kale Pick, who came in the fourth quarter, avoided being sacked by the Aggies, who have yet to record a sack this season.
Taveon Rogers returned a Jayhawks' kickoff 51 yards to set up New Mexico State's first touchdown. Rogers finished with a school-record 219 yards on six kickoff returns.
"He was the star of the game, in terms of our football team," Walker said.
Smith, a 1,000-yard rusher last season, then got the final yard of 44-yard drive.
Beshears' long kickoff return became the start of the Jayhawks scoring 28 unanswered points.
Sims, a true freshman, led all rushers with 115 yards on 16 carries.
Smith topped New Mexico rushers with 52 yards on 16 carries, while Marcus Allen had 45 yards on four carries and four catches for 89 yards.
The Aggies scored nine points in the fourth quarter with Allen hauling in a 25-yard touchdown pass from Matt Christian. Tyler Stampler kicked a 20-yard field goal with 9:17 left for the final New Mexico State points
"I had a rough first half," Christian said. "The ball was wet and I might have broken my ring finger. It affected a little bit in the first half, but no excuses. The rain and the wind had a little more to do with than the finger."
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The WaMu Theatre at Madison Square Garden is filling up in advance of the NBA Draft, but Blake Griffin and Ricky Rubio aren't the names being discussed. Everywhere you turn you hear one person whispering to another, "Did you hear about Michael Jackson?"
The news of Jackson's death on Thursday afternoon started blowing up Twitter feeds, instant messengers and e-mail accounts moments after TMZ's initial report. Everyone in the building who thought the biggest news of the night would be the addition of a crop of young bucks to the NBA suddenly found themselves talking about something else entirely. Every time a phone rings, it isn't word of a potential deal or a change in philosophy from one of the teams. It's that same question, over and over again.
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He plays any ranks. The higher ranks are just scared of him cause they know he's a feudal beast
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Vivek is a Senior Advisor to the President and CEO of IFAW on Strategic Partnerships & Philanthropy and founder, Executive Director and CEO of the Wildlife Trust of India. A wildlife conservationist, environmental commentator, author and photographer with a passion for elephants, he has been involved in founding five environmental & conservation organizations in India.
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Since establishing the first wildlife rehabilitation centres in India, Vivek has led efforts to use rehabilitated animals to restock parks where poaching has decimated wildlife. As part of this ongoing effort, Vivek was instrumental in the development of Greater Manas, tripling the land area in this World Heritage site, which includes a tiger reserve and elephant corridor, rebuilding an area heavily impacted by civil unrest and poaching.
Vivek serves on a number of governmental and non-governmental boards and committees, most recently as a member of the Elephant Task Force of the Ministry of Environment and Forests that suggested a complete revamp of India's elephant conservation strategy.
In an Honorary capacity, Menon is a member of the Species Survival Commission of the IUCN, on the International Jury of the Future for Nature Awards, an advisor of the Marjan centre of Kings College, London and a Faculty of the Kerulos Centre, Oregon.
Advisor, Marjan Center, Kings College, UK
Honorary Member, Species Survival Commission, IUCN
Honorary Member, International Jury of the Future for Nature Awards
Honorary Faculty Member, Kerulos Center, Oregon, USA
Member, Elephant Task Force, Ministry of Environment and Forests, India
Winner, Rufford for International Conservation for work on saving the Asian elephant
Bachelor of Science (BSc, Hons) Zoology, Delhi University
PG Diploma, Ecology and Environment, Delhi
Books/Book Chapters
- Menon. V. (2003) A Field Guide to Indian Mammals, Penguin India, New Delhi
- Menon. V. & M. Sakamoto (2002) (Eds.) Heaven and Earth and I: Ethics of Nature Conservation in Asia, Penguin India, New Delhi
- Menon. V. (2002) Tusker: The Story of the Asian Elephant, Penguin India, New Delhi.
- Menon. V. (1999) On the Brink: Travels through Wild India, Penguin India, New Delhi
- Menon. V. & A. Kumar (1998) Wildlife Crime, An Enforcement Guide, Wildlife Protection Society of India and Natraj Publishers, Dehradun
- Lavigne.D, Cox.R.K, Menon.V and Wamithi.M (2006) Reinventing Wildlife Conservation for the 21st Century in Gaining Ground, In Pursuit of Ecological Sustainability, IFAW (Guelph) and University of Limerick, Ireland
- Menon.V and Lavigne.D (2006) Attitudes, Values and Objecitves: Real basis of Wildife Conservation in Gaining Ground, In Pursuit of Ecological Sustainability, IFAW (Guelph) and University of Limerick, Ireland
- Kumar.A and Menon.V (2006) Ivory Tower Sustainability: An examination of the ivory trade in Gaining Ground, In Pursuit of Ecological Sustainability, IFAW (Guelph) and University of Limerick, Ireland
- Menon. V (1996), Impact of Trade on Himalayan Bio-diversity In Changing Perspectives of Bio-diversity Status in the Himalayas, British Council Division, New Delhi.
- Malik.I & Menon. V (1992), A Management Plan for the Rhesus Population of India In Primates of the World Ed. Fa, J.E.
Selected Journal Articles and Scientific Reports
- Rangarajan.M, Desai.A, Sukumar.R, Easa.PS, Menon.V, Vincent.S, Ganguly.S, Talkdar.BK, Singh.B, Mudappa.D, Chowdhary,S, Prasad AN (2010) Gajah: Securing the Future for Elephants in India, The Report of the Elephant Task Force, Monistry of Environment and Forests, India
- Menon, V, Easa PS and Johnsingh AJT (2010) Securing the Chilla Motichur Corridor to protect the elephants of Rajaji National Park, Occasional Report No 10, Wildlife Trust of India, New Delhi
- Kaul.R, Tiwari.S.K, Dutta.R and Menon.V (Eds) (2010) Canopies and Corridors, Conserving the forest of Garo Hills with elephant and gibbon as flagships, Conservation Reference Series No 8, Wildlife Trust of India, New Delhi
- Chaudhury.R.G, Joshi.D, Mookerjee, A, Talwar.V and Menon.V (2008) Turning the Tide, The Campaign to save Vhali, the whale shark (Rhincodon typus) in Gujarat, Conservation Action Series 20050904, Wildlife Trust of India, New Delhi
- Menon.V, Kaul.R, Dutta.R, Ashraf.N.V.K and Sarkar.P (Eds) (2008) Bringing Back Manas, Conserving the forest and wildlife of the Bodoland Territorial Council, Conservation Reference Series No 7, Wildlife Trust of India, New Delhi
- Varma.S, Sarkar.P and Menon.V (2008) Pakke Pachyderms,Ecology and Conservation of Asian Elephants in Kameng Elephant Reserve, Arunachal Pradesh, Conservation Reference Series No 6, Wildlife Trust of India, New Delhi
- Sarma.U.K, Easa.P.S and Menon.V (2008) Deadly tracks, A Scientific approach to understanding and mitigating elephant mortality due to train hits in Assam, Occasional report No.24 Wildlife Trust of India, New Delhi
- Gureja.N, Menon.V, Sarkar.P and Kyarong, S.S (2007) Ganesha to Bin Laden, Human-Elephant Conflict in Sonitpur District of Assam, Occasional Report No.6, Wildlife Trust of India, New Delhi
- Singh.A.K, Kumar.A, Mookerjee.A and Menon.V (2007) Jumbo Express, A Scientific Approach to Understanding and Mitigating Elephant Mortality due to Train Accidents in Rajaji National Park, Occasional report No.3, Wildlife Trust of India, New Delhi
- Kaul.R and Menon.V (Eds) (2005) The Ground Beneath the Waves, Post-Tsunami Impact Assessment of Wildlife and their habitats in India, Conservation Action Series 20050904, Wildlife Trust of India, New Delhi
- Menon.V, Tiwari.S.K, Easa.P.S and Sukumar.R (Eds) (2005) Right of Passage, Elephant Corridors of India, Conservation Reference Series No 3, Wildlife Trust of India, New Delhi
- Menon.V, Ashraf.N.V.K, Panda.P and Mainkar.K( Eds) (2005) Back to the Wild, Studies in Wildlife Rehabilitation, Conservation Reference Series No 2, Wildlife Trust of India, New Delhi
- Menon.V, Sukumar.R and Kumar.A (1997), A God in Distress: Threats of Poaching and the Ivory Trade to the Asian Elephant in India, Asian Elephant Conservation Centre and Wildlife Protection Society of India
- Menon. V (1996), Under Siege: Poaching and protection of the Greater One-horned Rhinoceros in India, Species in Danger Series, WWF-UK/TRAFFIC-International
- Menon. V et al (1994), Wildlife Trade : Handbook for Enforcement Staff, TRAFFIC-India.WWF-India
- Malik. I & Menon. V (Eds), (1993), Identification Manual for Indian Wildlife Species and Derivatives in Trade, TRAFFIC-India for Ministry of Environment & Forests, Government of India.
- Raman.L, Lal. S & Menon. V (Eds) (1992), White Gold, The Ivory Trade, A Briefing Document, TRAFFIC-India.
- Van Gruisen. J & Sinclair. T (1992) Menon. V & Raman. L (Eds.), Fur Trade in Kathmandu, Implications for India. TRAFFIC-India, WWF-India.
Children's Books
- Menon. V. & R. Singh (1992), Birds & Animals Quiz Book, Pustak Mahal, New Delhi.
- Menon. V. (2007), Lions, Ladybird Books, Penguin
- Menon. V. (2007), Life in the Forest, Ladybird Books, Penguin
(Complete list of publications available on request)
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Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Spectacular 30s Spectator Sportswear
18 comments:
- Carys said...
This dress is just absolutely beautiful!! And I love your hat too! This outfit is amazing!!
From Carys of La Ville Inconnue
- June 23, 2010 at 8:33 AM
- Em said...
Love, love, love the hat--it looks fantastic with the outfit.
- June 23, 2010 at 11:21 AM
You. look. fierce. Honest to God, you are swoon-worthy. :)
Interesting about "leisure" clothes. How sophisticated were they, so that even if you weren't an athlete, you were still watchable, lol. How we take leisure for granted today, no?
Anyway, LOVE everything about this post!
- June 23, 2010 at 11:48 AM
- AbleGrable said...
HA! That hat, that girl, I'm in love!!
- June 23, 2010 at 3:14 PM
- garofit said...
Great informative little post, and that hat is stunning on you!
- June 23, 2010 at 3:51 PM
- Bree said...
beautiful! your outfit, hair, makeup is perfection. please enter my blog giveaway
- June 23, 2010 at 4:26 PM
- Pixie Drive-In said...
You look so beautiful and stylish! I remember reading something similar about sportwear in the '20s and '30s in a book, and I love how they made sports and leisure seem so...chic.
- June 23, 2010 at 5:19 PM
- Stefanie Valentine said...
Isn't it amazing how much sportswear has changed? I like sports but I would probably be more interested if they wore clothes as lovely as the outfit you're wearing!
- June 23, 2010 at 5:22 PM
A favorite subject! Sigh - I might even attend sports events if the spectators looked like that.
- June 23, 2010 at 7:05 PM
- Lauren said...
Spectator heels, love them!!!!
- June 23, 2010 at 9:51 PM
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- June 24, 2010 at 6:55 AM
- BaronessVonVintage said...
It IS amazing how much the clothing worn by athletes and their fans has changed, I totally agree! Let's just say I wouldn't be wearing this to a baseball or football game anytime soon, not only because I don't watch baseball or football, but because the thought of nacho cheese splashing me is a mortal fear!
- June 24, 2010 at 7:36 AM
- Retro Chick said...
I love that hat! I really must buy more hats.
- June 24, 2010 at 8:03 AM
- lauren said...
FANTASTIC! I love this outfit on you, brilliant!
- June 24, 2010 at 9:50 AM
- My Republic of Fashion said...
Love this outfit!SarahD:)
- June 24, 2010 at 2:31 PM
- *Katia* said...
fantastic outfit as always!
- June 25, 2010 at 5:18 AM
- BaronessVonVintage said...
Hey, thanks! I have WAY too much fun playing rainy day dress up!
- June 25, 2010 at 6:53 AM