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Seeing as "Taken" - which starred Liam Neeson as a semi-retired government agent who is forced to use all of his considerable badassery skills to hunt down slave traders who kidnapped his daughter - was an unexpected hit, it's really not a surprise that people began suggesting a sequel.
Well, now it seems to be happening.
According to Deadline, Neeson has configured his extremely heavy workload to make room for another go-round as the ruthlessly efficient Bryan Mills. This movie would be slated in between his return as Zeus in "Wrath of the Titans" (the sequel to the "Clash of the Titans" remake), the just-completed "The Grey" for "A-Team" director Joe Carnahan, and "Battleship" for director Peter Berg ("The Rundown").
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"Taken" producer Luc Besson ("The Professional") is also slated to come back and shepherd the project.
No word on the plot, which members of the original cast (Maggie Grace, Famke Janssen, Xander Berkeley, Leland Orser) will be back, or even a title ("Taken 2: Took Harder?"), but with Neeson and Besson locked in, things should pick up quickly.


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According to most experts, depression and diabetes have been intricately connected in a vicious cycle. While the prolonged and sustaining nature of diabetes directly makes one vulnerable to the bouts of depression, doctors tend to locate traces of depression in the family history of an individual in order to diagnose the roots of diabetes. It won't be too far-fetched to state that both causes as well as affects the other.
If you have diabetes, either type 1 or type 2, you have an increased risk of developing depression. And if you're depressed, you may have a greater chance of developing type 2 diabetes. The good news is that diabetes and depression can be treated together. And effectively managing one can have a positive effect on the other.
How Diabetes and Depression Correlated?
There are myriad ways in which diabetes affects depression and vice versa.
Firstly, tackling such a long drawn disease and its various pitfalls might cause a lot of anxiety to one and lead to depression. Whereas on the other hand, depression reduces the zeal to live and thus results in poor lifestyle choices which in turn causes weight gain, unhealthy food habits, physical inactivity. As we are well aware, all these have the potential to wreak havoc for any patient of diabetes.
Similarly, diabetes ushers in various other health complications, adversely impacting one's productivity. This may cause depression in a lot of people.
On the flipside, depression impedes one's ability and enthusiasm to work or communicate, this in turn intervenes with one's monitoring of diabetes. Since these two extremely malevolent diseases have such close connections, medical science recommends ways to grapple with both. The rigors of managing diabetes can be stressful and lead to symptoms of depression.
Diabetes can cause complications and health problems that may worsen symptoms of depression.
Depression affects your ability to perform tasks, communicate and think clearly. This can interfere with your ability to successfully manage diabetes.
Treatment: Depression is just like any other illness, it can be treated. Treatment can lift the depression and improve diabetes control.
Looking after your diabetes will help decrease the risk of getting depression. If you already have depression, good diabetes management will help lessen the negative impacts it can have. Depression is no different to any of the other complication of diabetes. It is a genuine illness for which you need to seek help and support from health professionals.
The treatment for depression and diabetes involves a coordinated approach that monitors both diabetes control and the symptoms of depression. It is about finding the treatment that works best for each person. For example, people with diabetes and mild depression may find that regular physical activity improves depressed moods and also helps control blood glucose levels.
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* Commander Edwards summarises this event later in the same chapter as: 08.15 — Four batteries opened fire on marking M.L. (This was M.L.902)The passage of the force from Ostend was assisted by motor launches, which marked the channels, and was uneventful...Motor Launch 902* was the first ship to come under fire at Walcheren. She was acting as navigational mark when a German battery opened fire on her and she was ordered to withdraw. Ten minutes later the battleship Warspite and the monitor Roberts opened fire with their 15" guns. Operation Neptune: Part Three, Chapter III The Epic of Walcheren
No problem Stephen, my intention here is merely to provide another source of information for the benefit of Mark. History requires as many sources as are available to be considered, no one account containing all the facts, as evidenced by the fact that Commander Edwards appears to omit any mention of ML 146 and the casualties she suffered. And of course the primary sources, the commanding officers' action reports for their individual commands, are not always available to us. The one for ML 146 would have provided precise details of what it was doing and what happened, who was killed and who injured amongst the crew, right down to how many rounds and of what particular type of ammunition were expended.Please understand I'm not disputing that MLs were involved on 1st November. That's well documented and Geoffrey Searle's account makes graphic reading. I just don't think that 916 was there on that day or was likely to have been spotting for Roberts. On balance I think that 146 sounds like it may well have been Mark's father's vessel.
That's not a problem Mark, every post on every topic is an opportunity to expand on the available knowledge which, even if it doesn't fully answer the poster's questions, can prove of assistance to another in future.To muddy the waters further (it's completely acceptable for you all to give up on me right now!) my other swears that dad told her that he served on an MTB. However, I am certain I recall that when he was recounting the tale of the sand samples pre-D-Day that he said his boat either did not have torpedoes or they had been stripped
Thanks for the details of your father's service Mark. I have my own father's service record given to him on discharge, and I have the details given me by the Royal Naval disclosure cell, which I applied for, and which are similar in format to yours above, and the only difference between the two, is that the disclosure papers contain slightly more detail, so this should be a reasonably accurate picture of your father's service. Shrapnel is a name I'm familiar with, being an umbrella organisation it seems for a variety of training units, which I presume is what RNTU stands for, but the billeting usually referenced for Coastal Forces personnel is for Hounslow, and the Fraser Nash car company at Isleworth who trained motor & ordnance mechanics. So I haven't come across Newcastle before and don't know what that may have been about. It has to be said, that with the exception of the very brief draft to Hornet, which was the main Coastal Forces base at Gosport, there doesn't seem to be much of a connection to Coastal Forces. Whether he was spare crew in some capacity while billeted at Victory, or had some kind of specialist role that saw him being attached to boats in some way is hard to determine, as there doesn't seem to be any specific training of note or substantive rank involved. The nature of the training unit at Newcastle might provide more of a clue; whether he was some kind of sapper for instance, having being attached to a Naval Party later, who were forward groups that went ahead at times to establish bases etc. His previous occupation as a clerk might possibly have featured in some respect too.OK I've managed to convert some pages to jpg, a scan of one half the service record page (not very legible unfortunately) and the pay and victuals ledge which is legible but doesn't tell me much (I think) about his early service. Is does record the Naval Party he joined in Germany at the end of the war.
Good spot!!Haven't fully digested this yet, but can't help but notice that he appears to have been promoted Acting Able Seaman (If I've read the handwriting correctly) 72 years ago today!
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Happy Clown Cake
Children will find this colorful cake irresistible! It's a snap to put together when you use a cake mix to bake one round cake and a dozen cupcakes. To serve, first pass out the cupcakes, then cut up what's left. —Taste of Home Test Kitchen
Total TimePrep: 1 hour Bake: 30 min. + cooling
Makes16-20 servings
- 1 package yellow cake mix (regular size)
- 1 cup sweetened shredded coconut, divided
- Yellow, blue, green and red food coloring
- 1 can (16 ounces) vanilla frosting, divided
- Assorted candies (red shoestring licorice, mini peanut butter cups and Skittles)
- Miniature semisweet chocolate chips
- Prepare cake batter according to package directions. Fill 12 foil or paper-lined muffin cups two-thirds full. Pour remaining batter into a greased 9-in. round baking pan. Bake cake and cupcakes according to package directions. Cool in pans for 10 minutes before removing to wire racks to cool completely.
- Place 1/2 cup coconut in a plastic bag; sprinkle five to six drops of yellow food coloring into bag. Shake until color is distributed evenly. Repeat with 1/4 cup coconut and blue coloring, then with remaining coconut and green coloring.
- In a small bowl, tint 2 tablespoons frosting red; set aside. Frost round cake and 11 cupcakes with remaining frosting; place round cake on a large platter or covered board (about 22 in. x 15 in.). Form a face and hair using peanut butter cups for eyes and licorice for mouth, eyebrows and hair.
- Remove liner from remaining cupcake and cut off the top. Cut the top in half and press into sides of cake for ears. Frost the bottom portion of cupcake with reserved red frosting and press in place for nose. Decorate three cupcakes with Skittles; arrange on platter in the shape of a bow tie. Add chocolate chip freckles.
- Remove liners from three cupcakes if desired and cut in half; sprinkle with green coconut. Press flat sides against top of cake to form brim of hat. Sprinkle four cupcakes with yellow coconut and one with blue coconut; stack in a pyramid on top of brim to form the hat.
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Let them fight!
The second Western attempt at a Godzilla movie, and certainly the best, although after the 1999 debacle that isn't saying much. With the discovery of pupas that breed two radiation-feeding creatures, dubbed MUTOs, the human population faces being wiped off the planet. But with the rise of another creature, Godzilla, the balance is set to be restored. Let them fight!
Arguably there is not enough Godzilla in the movie, teasing around battle scenes, with the full reveal only in the final scenes. But the glimpses are special-effects gold, and the technique, akin to traditional monster movies, builds the anticipation of the final full reveal. The cast, with the exception of Bryan Cranston and Ken Watanabe (who lends the film a strong link with the original franchise), leave something to be desired. Additionally, the pacing is a little off, but Godzilla is entertaining, and the final blow between Godzilla and the MUTOs will leave many a fan boy satisfied.
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Today is a day of mourning. After 4 great years together, my slow cooker kicked the can . . .
Thankfully they still sell the same make and model, so I am heading to the store tomorrow to go purchase it again (because heaven knows that I use my slow cooker 5 times a week and can't go more than a day without one!). 🙂 In the meantime, I wanted to share the last meal that my slow cooker and I prepared together. It was quick, easy, and had just the right amount of kick . . . the perfect way to remember my good ol' crock pot.
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Slow Cooker Asian Glazed Chicken
10 minPrep Time
3 hr, 15 Cook Time
3 hr, 25 Total Time
- 1/2 cup soy sauce
- 1/2 cup balsamic vinegar
- 4 teaspoons sugar
- 3 cloves garlic, crushed
- 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1 tablespoon Sriracha hot sauce* (more of less, depending on how hot you like it)
- 1/2 cup water
- 3-4 boneless skinless chicken breasts (or thighs)
- 2 tablespoons cornstarch
- 1 tablespoon water
- 2 tablespoons green onions, finely chopped
- 1 teaspoon sesame seeds
- Spray slow cooker with non-stick cooking spray. Place chicken in crock pot.
- Combine soy sauce, balsamic vinegar, sugar, garlic, ginger, hot sauce, and 1/2 cup water in a bowl and pour over chicken. Cook on low for 6-8 hours OR high for 3-4 hours.
- Once done cooking, pull chicken out and place on large plate. Mix together cornstarch and 1 tablespoon water in a small bowl and pour into remaining liquid in the slow cooker. Turn heat to high (if it wasn't already) and cook for another 15 minutes (or until sauce thickens a little bit).
- Shred chicken and add back into liquid in slow cooker.
- Serve over rice, topped with green onions and sesame seeds.
*Sriracha hot sauce is available at most grocery stores and Wal-Mart. It is a Thai chili sauce with amazing flavor. It cost me about $3 for a huge bottle of it and it is totally worth it. The flavor it adds is so yummy.
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Well thats just stupid. I'll have to do a side by side test and see what I can see.
I think I read that there is no proper ATRAC codec available for the computer so the re-encoding is Sony's way around that.
which brings us back to........How about analog out into pre,adc,soundcard of choice?You have the original md compression, plus the analog transfer as far as lossy goes Is this better then adding more compression, plus noise via the way being discussed??
....I don't see why it would go from atrac > atrac3+ - just doesn't make sense to me.
This was just covered in another thread. It was also researched on minidisc.org and discovered to not be true. A fellow there xferred his files and checked the file(s) in Adobe Audition and saw no degradation as has been described. Once again, one test is worth a thousand opinions. Use the RH1 to U/L all your legacy MD's with no fear of having them degraded.As for saving them as 24 bit; well, if you care to manipulate them on the PC I understand it is a better way to do it, in 24 bit. It will not improve the sound but will add fewer artifacts during manipulation. You will have to resample and dither back to 16 bit.Cheers
I go Standalone (optical) > JB3...realtime - but at least its a "digital" transfer - (I wouldn't be surpised if there is an A/D step in there...rather than an software based ATRAC>WAV conversion.)
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Hi all. I am going to keep this post short and sweet because it's just been one of those days. I am just swamped with so much to do not only for the holidays but the business and even though it's nice to be busy, I feel like I have had no time with my family or really any time to enjoy the holiday season. And driving home on an icy roads doesn't help. I left my mom' s house today at 4:00 and got home an hour later. She lives 5 minutes away from me! That is how the bad the roads are. Anyway, enough complaining. Because I love ya, here's a super quick video I made the other day. Enjoy!
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Other: Bookring, Cold Lamination Sheets
I will be back on Friday with some more shares. I hope everyone has a fabulous Christmas!
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One of those days...and a video...
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Cute brag book!
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I heard a cool quote yesterday at the Portland NerdDinner while we were planning the CodeCamp. "So you've got a problem, and you've decided to solve it with Regular Expressions. Now you've got two problems." Since the size of the documents we passed through this system were between 10k and 100k the performance of the RegEx, especially when it's compiled and cached was fine. Didn't give it a thought for years. It worked and it worked well. It looked like this: private static Regex regex = new Regex(@"\<[\w-_.: ]*\>\<\!\[CDATA\[\]\]\>\</[\w-_.: ]*\>|\<[\w-_.: ]*\>\</[\w-_.: ]*\>|<[\w-_.: ]*/\>|\<[\w-_.: ]*[/]+\>|\<[\w-_.: ]*[\s]xmlns[:\w]*=""[\w-/_.: ]*""\>\</[\w-_.: ]*\>|<[\w-_.: ]*[\s]xmlns[:\w]*=""[\w-/_.: ]*""[\s]*/\>|\<[\w-_.: ]*[\s]xmlns[:\w]*=""[\w-/_.: ]*""\>\<\!\[CDATA\[\]\]\>\</[\w-_.: ]*\>",RegexOptions.Compiled); Stuff like this has what I call a "High Bus Factor." That means if the developer who wrote it is hit by a bus, you're screwed. It's nice to create a solution that anyone can sit down and start working on and this isn't one of them. Then, lately some folks started pushing larger amounts of data through this system, in excess of 1.5 Megs and this Regular Expression started to 4, 8, 12 seconds to finish on this giant XML strings. We'd hit the other side of the knee of the exponential performance curve that you see with string processing like this. So, Patrick had the idea to use XmlReaders and create an XmlRectifyingReader or XmlPeekingReader. Basically a fake reader, that had a reader internally and would "peek" ahead to see if we should skip empty elements. It's a complicated problem when you consider nesting, CDATA sections, attributes, namespaces, etc. But, because XmlReaders are forward only, you have to hold a lot of state as you move forward, since there's no way to back up. We gave up on this idea, since we want to fix this in a day, but it remains, in our opinion, a cool idea we'd like to try. We wanted to do something like: xs.Deserialize(new XmlRectifyingReader(new StringReader(inputString))). But, the real issue was performance - over elegance. Then we figured we'd do an XmlReader/XmlWriter thing like: using(StringWriter strw = new StringWriter()) { XmlWriter writer = new XmlTextWriter(strw); XmlReader reader = new XmlTextReader(new StringReader(input)); reader.Read(); RectifyXmlInternal(reader, writer); //This is US reader.Close(); writer.Close(); return strw.ToString(); } We still have the unfortunate overhead of the strings, but that's what the previous input and output was, so we need, for now, to maintain the existing interface. So, we read in the XML, atom by atom, storing little bits of state and write out only those tags that we figure aren't empty. We read in a bit, write out a bit, etc. It's recursive, maintaining depth, and it's iterative as we go over siblings. The Attribute class is the best we could come up with to store everything about an attribute as we find them. We tried to grab the attributes as strings, or one big string, but the XmlReader doesn't support that coarse style. private class Attribute { public Attribute(string l, string n, string v, string p) { LocalName = l; Namespace = n; Value = v; Prefix = p; } public string LocalName = string.Empty; public string Namespace = string.Empty; public string Value = string.Empty; public string Prefix = string.Empty; } internal static void RectifyXmlInternal(XmlReader reader, XmlWriter writer) { int depth = reader.Depth; while (true && !reader.EOF) { switch ( reader.NodeType ) { case XmlNodeType.Text: writer.WriteString( reader.Value ); break; case XmlNodeType.Whitespace: case XmlNodeType.SignificantWhitespace: writer.WriteWhitespace(reader.Value); break; case XmlNodeType.EntityReference: writer.WriteEntityRef(reader.Name); break; case XmlNodeType.XmlDeclaration: case XmlNodeType.ProcessingInstruction: writer.WriteProcessingInstruction( reader.Name, reader.Value ); break; case XmlNodeType.DocumentType: writer.WriteDocType( reader.Name, reader.GetAttribute( "PUBLIC" ), reader.GetAttribute( "SYSTEM" ), reader.Value ); break; case XmlNodeType.Comment: writer.WriteComment( reader.Value ); break; case XmlNodeType.EndElement: if(depth > reader.Depth) return; break; } if(reader.IsEmptyElement || reader.EOF) return; else if(reader.IsStartElement()) { string name = reader.Name; string localName = reader.LocalName; string prefix = reader.Prefix; string uri = reader.NamespaceURI; ArrayList attributes = null; if(reader.HasAttributes) { attributes = new ArrayList(); while(reader.MoveToNextAttribute() ) attributes.Add(new Attribute(reader.LocalName,reader.NamespaceURI,reader.Value,reader.Prefix)); } bool CData = false; reader.Read(); if(reader.NodeType == XmlNodeType.CDATA) { CData = true; } if(reader.NodeType == XmlNodeType.CDATA && reader.Value.Length == 0) { reader.Read(); } if(reader.NodeType == XmlNodeType.EndElement && reader.Name.Equals(name)) { reader.Read(); if (reader.Depth < depth) return; else continue; } writer.WriteStartElement( prefix, localName, uri); if (attributes != null) { foreach(Attribute a in attributes) writer.WriteAttributeString(a.Prefix,a.LocalName,a.Namespace,a.Value); } if(reader.IsStartElement()) { if(reader.Depth > depth) RectifyXmlInternal(reader, writer); else continue; } else { if (CData) writer.WriteCData(reader.Value); else writer.WriteString(reader.Value); reader.Read(); } writer.WriteFullEndElement(); reader.Read(); } } } The resulting "rectified" or empty-element stripped XML is byte for byte identical to the XML created by the original Regular Expression, so we succeeded in keeping compatiblity. The performance on small strings of XML less than 100 bytes is about 2x slower, because of the all overhead. However, as the size of the XML approaches middle part of the bell curve that repsents the typical size (10k of 100k) this technique overtakes RegularExpressions in a big way. Initial tests are between 7x and 10x faster in our typical scenario. When the XML gets to 1.5 megs this technique can process it in sub-second times. So, the Regular Expression behaves in an O(c^n) way, and this technique (scary as it is) behaves more O(n log(n)). This lesson taught me that manipulating XML as if it were a string is often easy and quick to develop, but manipulating the infoset with really lightweight APIs like the XmlReader will almost always make life easier. I'd be interested in hearing Oleg or Kzu's opinions on how to make this more elegant and performant, and if it's even worth the hassle. 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is it possible to compare different OpenCL implementations, i.e. from NVidia, AMD and Apple? Are there any known differences in terms of performance?
If, for example, Apple has its own OpenCL compiler for GPUs, shouldn't the compilers from NVidia and AMD perform better on their respective devices?
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The Byways of Big Bear California
The Classic and the Unexpected
Big Bear, California, can't lay claim to having the most scenic trails in existence. That honor is beset by the likes of the San Juan Mountains in Colorado. Big Bear can't say its trails are the toughest around, either. That honor is owned by routes such as the Hammer trails in nearby Johnson Valley.
All the same, there's still plenty of natural beauty to take in, and there are many, many miles of trails waiting to be explored. One of Big Bear's most significant features is simply its proximity to SoCal urban sprawl. Big Bear is an escape, a valuable swath of natural open space — and just a two-hour drive from the congested freeways of Los Angeles.
Last summer, two Big Bear opportunities presented themselves. One adventure plied classic Big Bear trails: high altitude, pine trees, and a smattering of rocks. The other was unexpected: a traverse from the desert up into a dense Joshua tree forest, and then down to the dusty movie sets of Pioneertown. Each was worth the time and gasoline required, and worth making plans to re-visit in the future.
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So a while ago I purchased a book titled "Eat this, Not That" by David Zinczenko. If you haven't heard of this book, you must be living under a rock!
Many of you may not be fast food junkies like myself, but I do love to indulge in making a run for the border at Taco Bell, and having it my way at Burger King quite often. I'm also loving it at McDonalds, and feeding the beast at Del Taco frequently. Alas, I have a love for the grease, the cheese, and all those calories. I used to think that just getting a chicken sandwich was a better option, or not getting fries at certain places, but this book has honestly helped so much in deciding what to order. Eating at fast food is obviously not the healthiest choice, but by reading this book it helps you realized that maybe ordering the chicken sandwich over the cheeseburger isn't always the best idea.
It also has many other 'events' that you may encounter and do not know what to eat like Christmas, Thanksgiving, or Easter. Also it has a Supermarket section, comparing things you would buy in the grocery store that claim to be 'nutritional' or 'healthy'.
One of my favorite parts of the book is the "Weapons of Mass Destruction" that are included at specific restaurants. They are the worst choice you could possibly make at a given restaurant, and include the calorie count and grams from fat next to a picture of a small bomb.
I keep this book in my car and whenever I am out and about, having to eat on the go, I can flip through it and find a healthier solution, instead of packing on the calories. I would have never guessed wraps were so bad for you. There is also an application like the book available for the iPhone called Restaurant Nutrition. It's user friendly, free, and is also helpful. If you don't have the book, I would recommend you getting it. It's available on http://www.amazon.com/
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Friday 25 January
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This small, short-legged deer is the largest endemic species of the west Visayan islands of the Philippines (2), and is easily distinguished from other Philippine deer by the distinctive pattern of buff-coloured spots scattered across its dark brown back and sides (2) (3). The underparts are a creamy colour with white fur on the chin and lower lip, contrasting sharply with the otherwise deep brown face and neck (3). The head is a slightly lighter shade of brown than the body, and the eyes are surrounded by a ring of paler fur (2). As is typical of most cervids, only males bear antlers, which are bumpy and relatively short and stout at around 20 centimetres in length (2). Males can also be distinguished from females by their much larger overall size (3).
The Visayan spotted deer is thought to be mainly nocturnal, emerging at dusk to begin feeding on a variety of different types of grasses, leaves and buds within the forest (2). These deer are social animals, usually found in small groups of three to five (7), but their mating system is poorly understood (3). In other members of the genus, mating is usually polygynous, with males competing for access to females through sparring and vocalisations (3). The breeding season of Visayan spotted deer is reported from November to December, although possibly beginning earlier, during which males produce a distinctive roar-like call (4). Young are born in May and June, after a gestation period of around 240 days (3). Offspring are weaned at six months and reach maturity from 12 months of age, at which point males begin to grow antlers (2).
Endemic to the Visayan islands of the central Philippines, formerly reported on Cebu, Guimaras, Leyte, Masbate, Negros, Panay, and Samar, but now thought to remain only on the islands of Panay and Negros (1) (4).
The Visayan spotted deer inhabits primary rainforest and secondary growth, from sea level up to at least 1,500 metres above sea level (5) (6).
Classified as Endangered (EN) on the IUCN Red List (1).
The Visayan spotted deer is one of the rarest and most narrowly distributed mammals in the world, with only a few hundred wild animals thought to remain (3). Indeed, a survey in 1991 found that the species had already become extinct in over 95 percent of its former range, largely as a result of intensive hunting and extensive deforestation (4), with land having been cleared for agriculture and logging operations at a frightening pace (5). Hunting also poses a significant threat to this Endangered deer (5).
The Visayan spotted deer is afforded some degree of protection through its occurrence in Mt. Camlaon National Park, North Negros Forest Reserve, Mount Talinis/Lake Balinsasayao Reserve and the proposed West Panay Mountains National Park (5). Although Visayan spotted deer are legally protected, their distribution in remote, dense, inland forest makes the practicalities of guard patrolling very difficult, and hunting therefore continues (3). In 1990, the Philippine Spotted Deer Conservation Program was set up to initiate a captive breeding programme and a number of other conservation measures, including a public education campaign and an annual series of conservation workshops (4) (5). Visayan spotted deer are currently held in captivity in Mari-it Conservation Centre in Panay, two breeding centres in Negros, and a dozen zoos in Europe (7).
Despite the benefits of having a captive population to buffer against total extinction, the fate of the Visayan spotted deer in the wild remains highly uncertain, and current agricultural practices and hunting pressure must change if it has any chance of survival in its natural environment (3). Unfortunately, the poor state of the Philippine economy and political unrest make this an extremely difficult task, and captive-bred individuals will not be released into the wild until they have a fair chance of survival (3). The conservation of this rare and beautiful deer is therefore highly complex, and requires considerable efforts by the Philippine government to stabilise the economic environment before it has any real hope of recovery.
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Planned Parenthood finalizes $4.3 million lawsuit settlement
Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast Tuesday settled a whistle-blower lawsuit that alleged the Houston nonprofit engaged in fraudulent Medicaid billing for $4.3 million – nearly $3 million more than was announced last week by Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott.
In finalizing the settlement, which includes total state and federal recovery, the agency claimed the allegations that it submitted more than $30 million in fraudulent bills between 2003 and 2009 were "baseless."
"This settlement is not an admission of guilt," Planned Parenthood said in a prepared statement.
The lawsuit was brought by a former medical assistant in agency's Lufkin clinic. The lawsuit alleged "defendant's billing policies routinely instructed clinic staff to enter billing codes for certain services, regardless of whether patients' charts recorded that such service was actually provided."
Last week, the attorney general's office, in announcing a $1.4 million settlement, said its investigation showed the agency charged for "services that were never actually rendered, not medically necessary and were not covered by the Medicaid program."


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Mareeba is an hour's drive west of Cairns and its multicultural heritage has given the region its distinctive flavour. The fertile district has a reputation as a food lovers' paradise which can be discovered by visits to tropical fruit farms, coffee plantations, wineries and the Mareeba Markets held on the second and fifth Saturdays of the month.
Mareeba has a history going back to the gold mining days and has a strong sense of community spirit which sees support for traditional outback sports such as the famous annual Mareeba Rodeo held in July each year and at the Multi-Cultural Festival held annually in August.
An opportunity arises to explore Mareeba's history and heritage at the Mareeba Heritage Museum with expert travel and tourist information given by their Visitor Information Centre, situated in Centenary Park, Mareeba.
Mareeba has perfect conditions for getting airborne with hot air ballooning at sunrise, taking to the air in a microlight or experience a flight in a restored warbird aeroplane from Mareeba Airport.
Nature based experiences can include cooling off in the rock pools after exploring around Emerald Creek Falls where there are public toilets, barbeques and tables, and a walking track leading to an excellent lookout. A popular locals' picnic spot, Davies Creek Falls, also has camping grounds and there is a moderate 850 metre circuit walk which takes you to the head of the falls.
The Mareeba region is acknowledged by birding experts as the richest region for birdlife in Australia. The Mareeba Wetlands is a regionally significant Brolga and Sarus Crane roost, where the best wildlife watching is on the early morning 'Early Birder Tour' or during the 'Reserve Twilight Safari'.
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News & Notes: Game 48 & 49
Friday, May 27, 2011 (Game 1: 5:35 p.m.) – Coca-Cola Field
Radio: WWKB AM 1520, WGR Sportsradio 550 AM, bisons.com
Buffalo Bisons (20-27, 5th(-8.5), North)
G1: RHP D.J. Carrasco (1-2, 4.85)
G2: RHP Chris Schwinden (3-2, 2.36)
Gwinnett Braves (24-21, 2nd(-0.5), South)
G1: RHP Erik Cordier (NR)
G2: RHP Steven Shell (0-0, 3.00)
TODAY'S GAME: Tonight, the Bisons take on the Gwinnet Braves in the first two games of a four-game series from Coca-Cola Field (G1: 5:35 p.m.). The teams will play a pair tonight because of last night's rainout. Buffalo is 13-13 at home this season, having split all four series they've played at Coca-Cola Field.
VS. THE BRAVES: Tonight's games are the Bisons first contests against the Gwinnett this season. Buffalo won the season series, 5-3, last year and is 7-3 in their last 10 games against the Braves dating back to 2009. Buffalo has a win and three splits over Gwinnett in the two years of the franchise's existence.
HEY MR D.J.: RHP D.J. CARRASCO will be making his sixth start with the Bisons tonight. The veteran has not allowed more than three earned runs in any of his previous five outings. Carrasco is coming off a loss on May 20 in Indianapolis in a game he allowed just three runs in six innings of work. Carrasco has worked six innings in each of his past two outings.
SCHWING AND MISS: RHP CHRIS SCHWINDEN will make his team-high ninth start of the year in game two. The righty brings a 2.36ERA into the matchup -the 5th best mark in the International League. Schwinden also leads the Bisons with three wins and 41 strikeouts. He is 1-1 with a 2.78ERA in his first four starts at Coca-Cola Field this season.
OUR PAL, VAL: OF VALENTINO PASCUCCI has 20RBI in 20 games this month. The slugger is hitting .302 (19-63) with five doubles, three home runs and six runs scored this May. Pascucci leads the Bisons with 24RBI on the season. His .408 on-base percentage is just two plate appearances shy of qualifying as the fourth-best mark in the International League.
BISONS BITS: The Bisons have played two doubleheaders this year, both against the Rochester Red Wings. The Wings won two on April 19 with the Herd sweeping a pair on April 21…The Bisons are the only team in the International League that has yet to allow a passed ball…LHP JUSTIN HAMPSON has retired the first batter he has faced in 14 of his 15 outings this season (93% success rate).
METS UPDATE: The Mets (23-25) lost to the Cubs at Wrigley Field yesterday by a 9-3 score. Former Bisons RHP R.A. DICKEY left the game after 2.2 innings of work with a heel injury. Former Bisons INF DANIEL MURPHY had three hits in the loss. The Mets will host the Phillies tonight at 7:10 p.m. at Citi Field.


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Realm Reality has released his new mixtape In the Grind We Trust on DatPiff.com.
The rapper, who recently signed to Prodigy's Infamous Records as its flagship artist, enlists a handful of guests for the tape including the Mobb Deep member, Blu, Fred The Godson, The Kid Daytona, Roc Marciano, Skyzoo, Termanology and more. Production comes courtesy of Nottz, Dan Freeman, Breakworks, The Olympicks, G ROCKA & MEDI and more.
The Brooklyn, New York native, best known for his roles in films such as Coach Carter and Old School, recently explained how he's always had a love for Hip Hop culture.
"My passion for Hip Hop, I'm from Bushwick, Brooklyn. It's the pulse of my neighborhood," he said. "It was always there, and I'm proud to say that my passion for acting was there as well. I'm blessed to have that career. I understand how difficult it is to make it as an actor and to do music is no different."
Check the tracklist and cover art below, as well as the mixtape stream. Download the tape over at DatPiff.com.
1. Grindmode Infamous feat. Prodigy (Produced by Breakworks)
2. Piraguas (Produced by Breakworks)
3. Not On The Outside (Produced by Dan Freeman)
4. I Just Want To Be There feat. Blu & Fred The Godson (Prod. by Nottz)
5. Forever NYC feat. Boogz Boogetz (Produced by @HeiroWayneMuzik)
6. The Grey (Goonberg) feat. Joell Ortiz (Produced by G ROCKA & MEDI)
7. Street Shit (Produced by @Alistfame)
8. Goodbye Summer (Produced by The Olympicks)
9. Cayman Island Getaway feat. The Kid Daytona (Produced by G ROCKA)
10. Lights Down Low feat. CP (Produced by Brall Beats)
11. Wavy (Produced by Dan Freeman)
12. On That Grind feat. Boogz Boogetz (Produced by Dan Freeman)
13. Immoral Ventilation feat. Roc Marciano, AG Da Coroner & Termanology (Produced by BreakWorks)
14. Can't Fuck With Me ft. Skyzoo (Produced by G ROCKA & MEDI)
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