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I watched many playthroughs of Last of Us, and am playing it myself. Then I finally tackled season one of the Walking Dead game. Watching poor Clem at the end I said out loud "oh, babygirl." I blame Naughty Dog and the best two girl characters ever.
Hm, about that vaccine…
So, to get the vaccine, apparently sacrificing one girl is worth it to some people. But how would you test the vaccine? You can't test it on people who are infected already, and animals don't appear to be susceptible to the fungus in the game. How would they test a vaccine? On more people! Okay, so you sacrifice Ellie and say, a few hundred more people. Weighing that against the chance to cure all mankind it seems acceptable, right? Unless it's you or your friends/family - then it might not be so easy to accept, especially when you've been surviving in the post-outbreak hell the world has become. Some people might be willing, but if not, it would have to be done by force. How would you choose? How is all this morally superior to the choice that Joel made?
"Naughty Dog requested the game be focus tested on female players as well as male, after the research firm it was working with was planning on running it by male gamers only. Druckmann explained how the studio stepped in after discovering the notion of polling female gamers for their take in the game was not on the table. He said that "another aspect that influences how a game is promoted is focus testing. Players are rounded up and are asked to view materials and answer some quantitative and qualitative questions about it." He added: "My big surprise during this process is that the research group wasn't planning on focus-testing female gamers - it's something we had to specifically request. I hope this is a relic of the past that will soon go away."
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Introducing Celebrating the Imagination - part 1
Welcome to the official blog for Celebrating the Imagination, a series of talks organised by The Interalia Centre and hosted at Rook Lane Arts in Frome.
In this blog we'll be mainly posting about the various events which make up the series, which kicks off on March 14th 2013 and runs through to May 17th (see below for a full schedule). If you prefer your social media by status or tweet we also have a Facebook page and a Twitter account, so follow us there too!
As each event grows near we'll do a profile post here on the blog. If you're interested in buying tickets for any of the events they can be purchased through The Interalia Centre and Bath Box Office (and remember, there's early-bird pricing if you purchase tickets over 4 weeks ahead).
Here are the events in the series:
- March 14: Jackie Morris (children's author/illustrator) - East of the Sun, West of the Moon
- March 15/16: The Gist - A gathering of some our finest award-winning poets, novelists and artists discuss their individual imaginations at work. Includes:
- March 15: Lindsay Clarke (author) - The Shaping Spirit of Imagination
- March 16: Sir Andrew Motion (author and poet) - Poetry and Prose
- March 16: Andrew Miller (novelist) - Between Silence and the Song: truth, imagination and the writing of fiction
- March 16: Maggie Gee (novelist) - title TBC
- March 16: Adam Thorpe (poet, playwright and novellist) - Voluntary
- March 16: Liliane Lijn (artist) - Poem Machines, Light, Motion
- April 17: Sacha Abercorn (Pushkin Trust founder) - Imagination in Education
- April 25: Helen Storey (designer) - Wonderland and Beyond
- April 30: Colin Tudge (biologist and writer) - A Different View of Life: why genes are not selfish and people are nice
- May 2: Gavin Pretor-Pinney (author) - Cloudspotting for Beginners
- May 9: Zoe Fairbairns (author, poet, journalist) - You couldn't make it up – But you can try
- May 17: Satish Kumar (author and ecologist) - Ecology, Imagination and Spirituality

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In late 2011, Idaho removed endangered species protections for wolves, allowing hunters to legally hunt and kill them with a permit. Senate Bill #1305, a piece of legislation proposed this year, would allow them to kill wolves without a permit if those wolves hurt or molested their livestock in the past 36 hours. The bill suggests a variety of methods for killing wolves, including aerial shooting and using live goats, sheep or dogs as bait to lure them. "Molesting" is defined in the bill as "actions of a wolf that are annoying, disturbing or persecuting...or chasing, driving, flushing, worrying, following after or on the trail of, or stalking or lying in wait for, livestock or domestic animals."This legislation allows a great deal of leeway for killing wolves without a permit, and could cause great emotional and physical harm to animals used as live bait. Please sign the petition to urge legislators to reject Bill #1305.
Human tar-sands development in Canada is killing off native caribou. To prevent the caribou population from declining further, the country plans to shoot and poison wolves, their natural predators. The poison used will be strychnine, a bait used to kill vermin since the 1600s. The country plans to kill additional wolves by shooting them from planes. Both control measures are harmful for the environment and cruel to wolves. Poison bait causes convulsions and may poison non-target animals, and aerial shooting is more likely to wound wolves and make them suffer than kill them instantly.The National Wildlife Foundation is suggesting that Canada restore natural Caribou environments as an alternative to targeting wolves. Please sign the petition to convince Canada to end their plans to poison and shoot wolves.
The cactus ferruginous pygmy owl is a tiny owl that nests in tree and cactus cavities throughout the southwestern United States. Despite their small size, the native birds benefit the ecosystem by hunting and catching rats, mice, lizards and other prey up to twice their size.
Today, fewer than 50 cactus ferruginous pygmy owls remain in the U.S. The factors leading to the owl's decline include invasive species, fires and drought. Unfortunately, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service renewed their 2006 decision to keep the owls off the endangered species list, reasoning that larger populations exist in Mexico. According to Defenders of Wildlife President Jamie Rappaport Clark, the same reasoning would have prevented protections for the gray wolf and bald eagle.
Declining protection for this rare, interesting bird sets a precedent for future decisions regarding declining species. Please sign the petition to restore endangered species protections for the cactus ferruginous pygmy owl.


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A great use for leftover tomato paste. Grilled bread topped with this tangy mixture is a great accompaniment to a steaming bowl of soup.
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- 1/2 1-pound loaf Italian, or French bread
- 2 tablespoons chopped flat-leaf parsley
- 1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil
- 1 tablespoon nonfat plain yogurt
- 1 tablespoon tomato paste
- 1 clove garlic, finely chopped
- Salt & freshly ground pepper to taste
- Preheat grill. Cut bread in half lengthwise, then cut each piece in half.
- Combine parsley, oil, yogurt, tomato paste, garlic, salt and pepper in a small bowl.
- Toast the bread on the grill, cut-side down. Spread with the tomato-garlic mixture and serve warm.
Per serving: 170 calories; 4 g fat (0 g sat, 3 g mono); 0 mg cholesterol; 30 g carbohydrates; 8 g protein; 5 g fiber; 334 mg sodium; 13 mg potassium.
Carbohydrate Servings: 1 1/2
Exchanges: 2 starch, 1 fat
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This is my fave salmon recipe, so easy and delicious. The slightly crunchy, very flavorful herbs and lemon zest serve as a brilliant counterpoint to the salmon. I'm not a big chives fan, so I substitute basil, or another herb to go with the dill and parsley. You must use fresh herbs in this recipe. Asparagus makes a great side!
Fresh-Herb Salmon with Jasmine Rice
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- Calcium: 61mg
- Calories: 627
- Calories from fat: 0%
- Carbohydrate: 52g
- Cholesterol: 112mg
- Fat: 26g
- Fiber: 1g
- Iron: 3mg
- Protein: 43mg
- Saturated fat: 5g
- Sodium: 1427mg
- 2 1/2 cups jasmine rice
- 3 teaspoons kosher salt
- 1/3 cup chopped fresh parsley
- 1/3 cup chopped fresh chives
- 1/3 cup chopped fresh dill
- Zest of 1 lemon
- 2 1/2 pounds salmon fillets, skin removed
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1/8 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 1 tablespoon freshly grated ginger
- 2 scallions, white and light green parts only, thinly sliced
- In a large saucepan, combine the rice, 4 cups of water, and 1 1/2 teaspoons of the salt. Cover and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer until all the water is absorbed, about 15 minutes. Remove from heat and let sit, covered, for 10 minutes.
Meanwhile, in a small bowl, combine the parsley, chives, and dill. Reserve 1/3 of the herb mixture in an airtight container in the refrigerator for another use. Combine the rest of the herb mixture with the lemon zest and set aside.
Heat broiler. Coat the salmon fillets with the oil and season with the black pepper and the remaining salt. Broil 10 to 12 minutes, until just cooked through. Reserve 2 fillets for another use. Fluff the rice with a fork and reserve half (about 4 cups) for another use. Mix the ginger and scallions with the remaining rice. Top each salmon fillet with the fresh-herb mixture and serve with the rice.
Tip: Salmon fillets don't need to be turned to cook through. Broil 10 minutes for each inch of thickness.
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Dawson College was the first English CEGEP and is located in Westmount, just west of downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Dawson College is located near the heart of downtown Montreal in a former nunnery on 4.85 hectares of green space. It is the largest CEGEP in Quebec, with a student population of about 7,500 day students and 2,500 night students enrolled in more than 50 fields of study.
The CEGEP offers two types of programs: pre-university and technical. The pre-university programs, which take two years to complete, cover the subject matters which roughly correspond to the additional year of high school given elsewhere in Canada as well as university-level introductory courses in preparation for a chosen field in university. The technical programs, which take three years to complete, apply to students who wish to pursue a skilled trade. Evening courses are offered through Continuing Education in both credit and non credit division and corporate training is available as well. Dawson recently partnered with the University of Sherbrooke to launch the Confucius Institute in Quebec on its campus.
The college traces its origins to the merger of several institutions which became public in 1967, when the Quebec system of CEGEPs was created. The current Dawson College was the first English-language institution in the Quebec network of CEGEPs when it opened its doors to 1,200 students in the fall of 1969. The College is named for Sir William Dawson, a principal of McGill University from 1855 to 1893.


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Estate Jewelry: Fable Rings, Space Bracelets, and Mystery Wirework
This fantastic ring, circa 1850-1870, is based on Aesop's Fable "The Fox and the Stork," in which a fox invites his friend, a stork, over for dinner. Being a wiseass, the fox serves the stork a shallow bowl of soup, which the stork is unable to eat due to his long beak. Even though he's still hungry, the stork politely offers to return the visit, and invites the fox to dinner at a later date. When the fox arrives, the stork presents him with his meal in a long-necked jar with a narrow mouth. Despite his long snout, there is no way the fox could reach the contents. "I will not apologize for the dinner," said the stork. "One bad turn deserves another." READ MORE
Estate Jewelry: Sapphires, Marble Apples, and Two Fish With Crackers
Oh, no biggie, this is just a 12.27-ct natural fancy pink diamond, certified Type IIa, nearly internally flawless and set in an antique Cartier platinum and 18k rose gold mount with baguette-cut white diamonds. Pssssh; whatever. READ MORE
Estate Jewelry: Bird Heads, Bridal Crowns, and an Eyeball
Some of you may want to sit down for this. This simple gold ring, set with a cabochon-cut blue stone that Sotheby's believes to be odontalite (a 19th-century substitute for turquoise) comes with a note. Dated November 1869, it says: "My dear Caroline. The enclosed Ring once belonged to your Aunt Jane. It was given to me by your Aunt Cassandra as soon as she knew that I was engaged to your Uncle. I bequeath it to you. God bless you!" The note is signed by Eleanor Austen. READ MORE
Estate Jewelry: Egyptomania and the Tiniest Gold Coils of Rope
Dating to the early 1800s, this 18k yellow gold-and-enamel Freemason's ring is loaded with symbolism. The dealer consulted with London's Museum of Freemasonry to decipher the motifs it features, thinking it may have been a mourning piece for a high-ranking member of the order. Central to the design is a garnet cross (possibly referencing the Knights Templar), which divides the face into four sections, each featuring three rose-cut diamond teardrops. Those twelve teardrops may represent the twelve apostles and their tears of mourning for Christ. A diamond-set crescent and sun are also featured, and these traditionally signify the heavenly lights and the universe, as well as the universal nature of freemasonry. READ MORE
Estate Jewelry: Ruby Roses and the Memento Mori
Wow. Okay, here goes: this is a modified cushion-cut 9-carat fancy vivid purplish-pink diamond, set in platinum with single-cut diamond prongs, gallery, and shoulders. The color is natural, and the stone is GIA-certified to be a Type IIa, which (as you'll remember from my past ravings about Golconda diamonds) means it's the most chemically pure and transparent form of diamond. The Type IIa designation is common to famous stones such as the Cullinan I (a.k.a. the Great Star of Africa) and the Koh-i-noor, both of which are part of the British Crown Jewels. READ MORE
Estate Jewelry: Witch Hearts and the Victorian Onyx Mystery
Many people don't realize that sapphire comes in all sorts of colors, not just blue. Sapphire is the gem form of the mineral corundum, and depending on other elements within the stone, it can also be pink, yellow, green — or even red (but if it's red, it's a ruby!). Padparadscha is the rarest, most desirable — and most valuable — form of sapphire around. The demand is due to the beautiful color, which is a delicate mix of orange and pink. READ MORE
Estate Jewelry: A Cuff, a Spear, and a Window Locket
Back in 1867, a Venetian Marquis by the name of Pietro Selvatico established an art school in Padua, Italy. While The Istituto Statale d'Arte Pietro Selvatico was essentially a vocational school, Selvatico — who was himself an architect and art critic — didn't just want the students to learn how to churn out items on a production line, he wanted them to gain an intellectual mastery of their craft as well. The school maintained this well-rounded approach to education, particularly in the second half of the 20th century, through professors such as Mario Pinton, a great champion of the use of gold when it was considered unfashionable, and Francesco Pavan, one of Pinton's former students and a master of geometrical forms. Under Pinton, Pavan, and others, the students at the institute were encouraged to treat jewelry as sculpture, and their unconventional work eventually drew international attention. These goldsmiths and jewelers came to be known collectively as the "The Padua School," and a large exhibit featuring their work recently travelled the world. One of those former students is Marco Rigovacca, who designed this 18k gold "Javelin" earring in 1986. READ MORE
Estate Jewelry: Crab Rings and the Emperor of All Bird Brooches
This brooch is so beautiful I'm tempted to just leave it here, with no explanation, nothing. Just look at it. READ MORE
Estate Jewelry: The Birds and the Beetles
This gorgeous Arts & Crafts pendant is attributed to Sarah Madeleine Martineau (1872-1972), a successful, unmarried jewelry designer working in London in the early 1900s. She was a member of the Sir John Cass Arts and Crafts Society, which was comprised of past and present students of the Sir John Cass Technical Institute in London. It was at the Institute that Martineau learned metalsmithing, and she began to show and sell her work in various galleries and exhibitions, and was eventually featured in Studio magazine. READ MORE
Estate Jewelry: Death's-Head Skulls and Diamond-Wing Dragonflies
Right now there's a great exhibit, "International Art Jewelry 1895-1925," on view at the Forbes Galleries in New York. The exhibit focuses on the emergence of "art" jewelry in the late 19th century — a time of great change, when artists and designers throughout the world were being driven by a desire to create something fresh and new (including this gorgeous morning glory pendant). Their designs often took on individual characteristics specific to their country, and the resulting styles became known by various names: Arts and Crafts, Glasgow Style, Art Nouveau, etc. A common thread runs through them all, however, and this exhibit aims to expose that commonality by gathering examples from all over the world, so that the art jewelry movement can be seen as a whole. The exhibit opened on October 29 and runs through March 17, 2012. (Image: Morning Glory Brooch/Pendant, Marcus & Co., American c. 1900. Plique-à-jour, gold. Siegelson, New York.) Definitely worth a visit. READ MORE


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Photo: Part of Lascaux famed cave drawings in southwest France, shown last summer. (AP Photo/Pierre Andrieu, Pool)
From CBS News:
Scientists Meet To Try And Save Lascaux's Murals In France At Risk Due To Global Warming.
(AP) Geologists, biologists and other scientists convened Thursday in Paris to discuss how to stop the spread of fungus stains – aggravated by global warming – that threaten France's prehistoric Lascaux cave drawings.
Black stains have spread across the cave's prehistoric murals of bulls, felines and other images, and scientists have been hard-pressed to halt the fungal creep.
Marc Gaulthier, who heads the Lascaux Caves International Scientific Committee, said the challenges facing the group are vast and global warming now poses an added problem.
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Lacking the commentaries and home video footage that graced previous The Princess Bride DVD releases, and short any comment from Reiner or Goldman, this pedestrian set hardly excites.
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Why does this count? It's a review of the DVD, not the movie.
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No kidding right? Hey RT, how about you don't post non movie reviews?
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This isnt the movie! Take this down!
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Um who gives a crap about the DVD?
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Herman Cain is black AND Republican. He is the worst nightmare of the left-leaning mass media telecommunicators in this country. Rather than try to attack the man's squeaky-clean record and stellar professional reputation, the detractors wish to stoop to the gutter tactic of painting a black man as a sexual predator. This is the same broad brushstroke used to lynch countless black men in this country, both figuratively and literally. Next, they'll want to hang him in the public square for whistling at a white woman.
Meanwhile, our "first black president" sits silent and says nothing. Whatever happened to black people sticking together? He's probably there putting gasoline on the flames.
What about Jesse Jackson's dalliances?
Why hasn't the media jumped on him? He's a DEMOCRAT, that's why. He's not buckin' the massuh.
And like father, like son. Why did we never hear about this?
Here's a white Democrat to throw into the mix -- John "How's My Hair" Edwards
And who can forget Gary Hart? This ruined his Democratic presidential bid:
If Herman Cain did indeed victimize these women, he should be held accountable. But if he did not, these women ought to be ashamed for allowing themselves to be used to discredit him. Anita Hill created a decade of women who said they were being "sexually harassed," not to mention had every high school jock having to explain his dirty jokes to some mediator:
Was that the desired effect? Anita Hill painted herself to be nothing but a heartless witch, and her credibility/respectability are still in question to this day. She truly set women back.
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Trenches were designed as being in a zig-zag shape so that if a shell landed in the trench it would not blast along it entire length. It was also easier to defend if the enemy got into the trench. However it also made things confusing, and the soldiers felt disorientated and got lost.
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Elafiti Islands Cruise from Dubrovnik
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Lovely boat trip visiting the three Islands. We enjoyed the Fish lunch on the boat. Would do this trip again.
A very pleasant day trip around the islands on a reproduction "galleon" with a good seafood lunch provided on board. There was plenty of time to explore one of the islands and even cross to the other side for a swim at a sandy beach (rare in Croatia). We recommend taking the small golf buggy "taxis" across the island to save time and effort. At 20 kuna per person it gives you a lot more free time. A fun, relaxing day (provided you have good weather!).
Great day trip!!! 3 beautful islands.. and we met some amazing people who were also on the trip too!
tkae something warm as it can get quite chilly - but i would defo recomend this tour!!! :)
Awesome definitely worth it
Well worth the money for this trip to visit 3 very pretty islands. Could have done with another 1/2 hour on Kolocep and Sipan but lovely relaxing time in Lopud. No choice for lunch-only fish but actually quite tasty. 3 man band very entertaining! Shame the sails weren't up all the time but they briefly put one of them up. Would go again. Highly recommend.
A very enjoyable day out with plenty of time at each island to look around and relax. Very well organised and catered. Something for everyone and the live music was brilliant.
Really worth while to do this tour. My kids had a great time on the 3rd island where we spent 3 hours. Alot to do and swimming and jetski was great.
Great tour! Lots to see and nice day around the islands! Def recommend!
Great value for money, beautiful scenery, nice relaxing day and very informative. Loved it
Excellent. An enjoyable day all round!
This tour is amazing book it book it book it. we are going back to Dubrovnik next may and we are going to book this cruise again.
A fantastic day out with plenty of entertainment
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Great way to spend the day and also get to see the islands! The guides where very organised and informative. :)
FANTASTIC!! The boat is beautiful, my tip is to go and sit up with the captain, best view from the boat by far! Guides were very helpful and informative. Lunch was delicious, I would however take your own snacks as it's hungry work exploring. Islands are beautiful and very much worth the trip to see them! On the 3rd island I recommend going to the beach over the hill, walkable but all up hill so very tiring, you can get a ride in a golf cart for a good deal, would definitely recommend this trip!
Great excursion for the price . Lunch and live music is all included on the ship . Can't get better than this . Awesome !


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These underwater "crop circles" were showing up off the coast of Japan. No one could figure out what what making them - turns out that a Japanese species of puffer fish creates its own Sand Castle - pretty remarkable.
These underwater "crop circles" were showing up off the coast of Japan. No one could figure out what what making them - turns out that a Japanese species of puffer fish creates its own Sand Castle - pretty remarkable.
ConceptMosaic Panel
©Laura Quick
In 2003 my friend Gail and I decided to open an online mosaic shop and I started creating artwork, this was one panel for a mural. I came across it while I was looking for a photo of my Mom earlier and was thinking about Gail.
We never opened the business, the day before the launch her son was in a motorcycle accident in Mexico. He spent a couple of weeks in a coma, then 6 months in recovery and another 6 months in a halfway house for further recovery. Eventually, he recovered enough to return to high school and to go on to earn his AA in college. Gail and I grew apart over time, but I learned so much about life from her, about not panicking, and about love, and devotion and not giving up. She is an amazing woman.
San Diego, California
©Laura Quick
The common carp was aquacultured as a food fish at least as far back as the fifth century in China, and in the Roman Empire during the spread of Christianity in Europe. Common carp were bred for color in Japan in the 1820s, initially in the town of Ojiya in the Niigata prefecture on the northeastern coast of Honshu island. By the 20th century, a number of color patterns had been established, most notably the red-and-white Kohaku. The outside world was not aware of the development of color variations in koi until 1914, when the Niigata koi were exhibited in the annual exposition in Tokyo. At that point, interest in koi exploded throughout Japan. The hobby of keeping koi eventually spread worldwide. More
Love this fish - the color and pattern are amazing, plus the lines by its eye are recall the tattoos of New Zealand natives and give it the name of Maori Wrasse. The enormous bulbous head it grows when it's older gives it its alternate name of "Napolean" Wrasse.
MAORI WRASSE, Napoleon wrasse, or Napoleonfish;
Cheilinus undulatus
by Luc Viatour
This fish is chock full of win - the patterning is gorgeous (even better in the shot on the other posts link) males grow to SIX FEET in length and 300 pounds.
The humphead wrasse is a wrasse that is mainly found in coral reefs in the Indo-Pacific region. It is also known as the Māori wrasse, Napoleon wrasse, Napoleonfish; or "So Mei" 蘇眉 (Cantonese) and "Mameng" (Filipino).
The humphead wrasse is the largest living member of the family Labridae, with males reaching 6 feet (2 m) in length, while females rarely exceed about 3 feet (1 m). It has thick, fleshy lips and a hump that forms on its head above the eyes, becoming more prominent as the fish ages. Males range from a bright electric blue to green, a purplish blue, or a relatively dull blue/green. Juveniles and females are red-orange above, and red-orange to white below. Some males grow very large, with one unconfirmed report of a Humphead Wrasse that was 7.75 feet (2.29 m) long and weighed 420 lbs (190.5 kg).
Individuals become sexually mature at 5 to 7 years and females are known to live for around 30 years whereas males live a slightly shorter 25 years. Humphead wrasse are protogynous hermaphrodites, with some members of the population becoming male at approximately 9 years old. The factors that control the timing of sex change are not yet known. Adults move to the down-current end of the reef and form local spawning aggregations they concentrate to spawn at certain times of the year.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humphead_wrasse
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Maori Wrasse, another great shot
Nature exhibits such grace
likely Atherinomorus capricornensis
©Jason Isley / SCUBAzooImages.com
This fabulous shot was taken in Wakatobi, Wangiwangi, Sulawesi Tenggara, Indonesia
Some marine silversides aggregate into enormous schools—numbering in the thousands—which cruise just below the surface, continually feeding on plankton. For instance, Atherinomorus capricornensis has been observed forming schools more than 328 ft (100 m) long and 65.6 ft (20 m) wide. At night silversides are attracted to bright lights and are caught easily by fishermen for use as bait. Some of the most interesting types of behavior found in atheriniforms, however, relate to reproduction.
In both male and femalesilversides , the anal and genital openings are shifted and are located under the throat. Males have an elaborate, asymmetric copulatory structure under the head, called a priapium, for which no parallel exists among other fishes.
A suspensory component of the priapium is made up of modified anterior pleural ribs and pelvic bones. Emerging from the posterior end of the priapium and arching forward almost the entire length of the head are the ctenactinia—elongate, curved bones used for clasping the female during mating.
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Garra Rufa - the pedicure fish
Spinner Shark breaks the surface through a school of fish
RIBBON SWEETLIPS or Grunts - ©marika_treffert
Sweetlips are usually found either singly or in groups hovering over the reef during the day. They are nocturnal predators feeding on fish and benthic crustaceans.
In some areas sweetlips are known as "Grunts" because they "grunt", the grunting sound is produced by their flat teeth plates rubbing together and this is amplified by their air bladders. Sweetlips can be distinguished from other species by their very large rubbery lips
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Current laws allow fracking anytime, anywhere in Colorado. Last year there were 495 spills from fracking around the state. The people of Colorado deserve a solution that protects our health and well-being.August 5th Statement
We should require oil and gas companies to move fracking further away from our homes, schools, and hospitals to protect us from spills and toxic air emissions.


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Apiffany Smith left the polls after casting her ballot Tuesday afternoon at Somerville Road Elementary School with a good feeling.
"For me, the key issues are jobs and education, and I believe I made the right decision by voting a straight Democratic ticket," said the 25-year-old who has three children — ages 5, 6 and 8 — in school. "And I voted because I wanted them to know early that it's important to vote."
Showing up at the polls on a chilly day appeared to warm the hearts of most adults who exercised their patriotic duties. But Smith wasn't the only voter setting an example for the youngsters.
Carl Cole, who lost in a runoff to Don Kyle in the recent Decatur mayor's race, came to Fort Decatur Recreation Center with his son Wynn, 2. The youngster, who gained notice in Cole's political advertisements, sat with his dad at a table and observed him marking the ballot.
Smith voted the party line, noting President Barack Obama "did a good job the first term, and I want to see him again for the second term."
But Cole said he split the ticket "on about an even number of the ones I actually voted on because some were unopposed. I didn't write anybody in."
On the 11 amendments, he said he voted no more than he voted yes.
"That's because we need to overhaul our constitution completely," he said.
As for the president, Cole turned to his son and asked, "Wynn, who did we vote for? Was it Gov. (Mitt) Romney or President Obama?"
The questions brought a blank stare and Cole interjected: "He says he isn't going to say."
Jim Dunlap, 83, who came to Fort Decatur with his wife, Aline, 82, said he did not vote a straight ticket.
"I voted for the judges on the Democratic side," he said. "I've been in Morgan County all of my life, and they've done a good job. I also voted for several Republicans in other races."
In his presidential pick, Jim Dunlap said he voted for the Republican, Romney.
"I know what Obama has done, and I wanted to see if Romney can do any better," he said. "But we're all going to have the same president. Whoever it is, I will back him."
Alicia Mullican, 38, voting at Fort Decatur, said she was excited by the turnout.
"I was the 548th voter here, and that surprised me," she said. "The poll workers said it was only the second time they had gone to a second (registration) book."
Mullican would not comment on the selections she made.
"I wanted to get out and support my candidates," she said.
At the Morgan County Courthouse, which was headed toward a solid turnout, Dr. Gil Crane, 86, a retired druggist, and his wife, Anne, 79, said they were looking for a change in the country's leadership because of the economy.
Both said they voted independently and not along party lines.
"We vote for the person," he said. Anne Crane noted, "What I think is wrong, I think the country has lost its value of what is truly important in life: religion and family. And because of the economics, I feel sorry for our grandchildren who are going to have to pay back the debt."
At First Bible Church, David Prause, 23, said he voted a straight Republican ticket because he fears socialized medicine under President Obama. But Rosie Robinson Pickett, 70, said she voted a straight Democratic ticket because she approves of the job the president has done.
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Afraid of Monsters by Xela
Most people know about BOC (Boards of Canada) in the organic electronic music scene and Oval in the glitch scene so no need to promote them, but Xela however is less well known. The track above is from the 2003 album, For Frosty Mornings and Summer Nights.
Info & stream the album: http://typerecords.com/releases/for-frosty-mornings-and-summer-nights


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Preliminary Report: LongRanger Gulf crash fatal
Bell 206L-1 LongRanger, Venice, La., Dec. 29, 2007–One of the passengers of the Air Logistics LongRanger was killed and the pilot and the two other passengers injured when the helicopter crashed after a loss of control in the Gulf of Mexico. The helicopter was on approach to an offshore platform, and the pilot reported encountering a "sloping cloud deck." As he slowed to between 20 and 25 knots in a left turn to final approach, he encountered a tailwind. When the helicopter appeared to be settling, he reduced the bank angle. The helicopter started vibrating and shaking. The pilot added forward cyclic and increased power. The vibration and shaking became worse and the pilot recognized a settling-with-power event. He was too low to recover.
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Lynsey de Paul
|Lynsey de Paul
Lynsey de Paul in 1974
|Background information
|Birth name
|Lynsey Monckton Rubin
11 June 1950
Cricklewood, London, England
|Singer-songwriter, actress
|Vocals, piano
|Years active
Lynsey de Paul (born 11 June 1950)[1] is an English singer-songwriter. Allmusic journalist Craig Harris stated that "one of the first successful female singer-songwriters in England, de Paul has had an illustrious career".[2]
Early life[edit]
Born Lynsey Monckton Rubin in Cricklewood, London to Meta and Herbert Rubin, a property developer. She grew up in a Jewish family in Cricklewood, North London,[3] and attended South Hampstead High School followed by Hornsey College of Art, now part of Middlesex University.
While attending Hornsey College of Art, and wanting to leave home,[4] she started to design album sleeves for artists which required her to listen to the tracks. From income earned from album sleeve design, she got her first flat, where she turned to songwriting.[citation needed] Three of her earliest songs were co-written with Don Gould and recorded by Jack Wild: "Takin' It Easy" and "Bring It On Back to Me" from the album Everything's Coming Up Roses, which was released by Wild in 1971.[5] Another song co-penned by her, this time with Edward Adamberry, called "E.O.I.O.", was recorded by Wild as a track on his 1972 album A Beautiful World, and also released as a single by The Beads.[6]
After these initial successes, de Paul was contracted to ATV-Kirshner music publishing, located above the Peter Robinson's store on Oxford Street, where she joined a group of professional songwriters that included Barry Blue and Ron Roker, resulting in revenues from songs recorded by other artists from 1971. Her breakthrough came early in 1972 as the co-writer (with Ron Roker) of The Fortunes' top 10 UK hit "Storm in a Teacup".[7] She was credited as 'L. Rubin' on the record. Around this time, she also had chart success in the Netherlands as the writer of "On the Ride", a Top 30 hit by the Continental Uptight Band.
A few months later de Paul gained notice as the performer of her own hit song "Sugar Me", which reached the Top 10 of the UK Singles Chart,[8] as well as the top of the singles charts in the Netherlands, Spain and Belgium. "Sugar Me" was covered in the US by Nancy Sinatra and Claudine Longet, and more recent cover versions are still being released (see below). Noted[by whom?] for her keyboard skills, ability to write catchy songs and sultry looks, de Paul went on to be a regular chart and TV fixture over the next five years. Her follow up single to "Sugar Me" was "Getting a Drag" (UK No. 18).[8] After the failure of her third single "All Night", which was written with Roker, to reach the chart, de Paul returned to the UK Top 20 with "Won't Somebody Dance With Me",[8] and which was also a hit in Ireland and the Netherlands. The ballad earned her an Ivor Novello Award, making her the first woman to be thus awarded.[2] The BBC Radio 1 disc jockey Ed Stewart spoke the words "May I Have The Pleasure of This Dance" near the end of the record (he often played the record on his Junior Choice programme on Saturday mornings) although Tony Blackburn and Dave Lee Travis spoke these words when she appeared on BBC Television's Top of the Pops. De Paul recorded the female lyric to Mott The Hoople's album track version of "Roll Away the Stone", but she was replaced by female trio Thunderthighs on the hit single version of the song.[9] In 1973, when Mick Ralphs left Mott the Hoople, his replacement Luther Grosvenor was contractually obliged to change his name – de Paul suggested Ariel Bender.[10] After appointing Don Arden, her new manager at the end of 1973, de Paul released "Ooh I Do", which hit the charts in the UK,[8] Netherlands and Japan. The song's co-writer, Barry Blue, also recorded a version of the song as an album track.
A second Ivor Novello Award followed a year later for "No Honestly", which was also the theme tune to a hit ITV comedy of the same name, and provided her with another UK Top 10 hit.[8] The B-side to this single was de Paul's version of "Central Park Arrest", the song she had written for Thunderthighs which provided them with a top 30 UK hit single a few months earlier. The TV series No Honestly was followed by Yes Honestly, and although Georgie Fame wrote and performed the theme tune to the first series of Yes Honestly, an instrumental version of de Paul's "No Honestly" was chosen as the theme for the second series. De Paul continued to release a number of singles through the 1970s and early 1980s, including the UK hit "My Man and Me", which she performed an acoustic version of on The Old Grey Whistle Test.
A prolific songwriter, de Paul also continued to write songs for a wide range of recording artists. In a five-year period (1972–77), she wrote a total of fourteen UK Singles Chart hits,[2] most notably "Dancin' (on a Saturday Night)" which was a hit for co-writer Barry Blue, as well as Flash Cadillac and bond. De Paul's songs have reached the charts in many territories, including the US, Japan, Germany, the Netherlands, France, Switzerland, Belgium, Austria, Sweden, Norway, Canada and Australia. She has also performed producing and arranging duties on many of these recordings. In 1976, she was the recipient of the 'Woman of the Year Award For Music' from the Variety Club of Great Britain.[11] Management problems with Don Arden however, made this a difficult time for de Paul and her third album for Jet Records Before You Go Tonight was shelved as the two parted ways.[12]
"Rock Bottom", which she wrote with Mike Moran, was the UK entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1977. As she later explained, as well as being an honour, this was a way to circumvent the legal wrangles that were preventing her from signing to a new record label. Although it came second in the Eurovision Song Contest, it went on to become a Top 20 hit in many European countries including France, Germany, Austria and Switzerland, where it reached the top of their singles chart. De Paul and Moran went on to write a number of songs, such as "Let Your Body Go Downtown" (1977), a No. 38 UK hit for the Martyn Ford Orchestra;[13] and the follow-up "Going to a Disco", as well as "Without You", and "Now and Then", which appeared on the albums Tigers and Fireflies and Just a Little Time, respectively. De Paul also wrote and performed the theme music for the 1977 revival by London Weekend Television of the sitcom, The Rag Trade;[7] the same year she composed "Hi Summer", the title of another ITV variety show, performed by Carl Wayne. Later TV credits included the theme to the BBC's Hearts of Gold and "Olympian Way". In addition to songs composed by her serving as the themes of nine prime time UK television series, de Paul's songs have been featured in such films as The Big Sleep, Anita and Me, Side by Side, American Swing and Aces Go Places.[2]
After a three-year period in California in the late 1970s and early 1980s with her partner at the time, actor James Coburn, de Paul returned to England. During this period, she co-wrote with Terry Britten "A Little TLC", which was covered by Sam Hui and awarded an RTHK top 10 gold award in Hong Kong in 1986. Other versions of this song were recorded by Menudo, sung by their lead singer Ricky Martin, and also featured in the US children's television programme, Kidd Video. Whilst writing songs for Shirley Bassey, Heatwave and The Real Thing, de Paul also branched out into record production, acting in musicals and plays, interviewing and TV presentation, drawing cartoons and also self-defence.
De Paul has orchestrated, played, and produced two classical records of compositions by Handel and Bach for Deutsche Grammophon and released "Air on a Heart String" backed with "Arrival of the Queen" with panflautist Horea Crishan.[11] De Paul has also composed and performed songs for children. This included work for the Channel Tunnel Group, which involved writing and producing an album of children's songs with an accompanying song colouring book for Eurotunnel's mascot, entitled Marcus The Mole, as well as film music for the children's film Gabrielle and the Doodleman, where she had a starring role as an actress.[2] De Paul has also composed jingles for radio stations including Capital Radio. In 1983, she appeared at the Conservative Party conference, where she sang a song she had composed especially for the occasion: "Vote Tory, Tory, Tory/For election glory". In 1985, she was awarded the Rear of the Year title for which she thanked the organisers "from the heart of my bottom". She was also a judge on the television talent show New Faces and has hosted television shows such as Club Vegetarian, Shopper's Heaven, Eat Drink & Be Healthy, Women of Substance, The Vinyl Frontier and 15 episodes of Living Room Legends, which featured home videos.[2]
She returned to the public spotlight in a different role in 1992 when she released a self-defence video for women called Taking Control. Lord Mackenzie, former president of the Police Association, endorsed it by saying: "It is a very positive contribution to crime prevention and the protection of women and I will be recommending it". She also presented a documentary about women's self-defence, called Eve Fights Back, which won a Royal Television Society award.[2][3] In 2006, an updated DVD of her self-defence training programme Taking Control was released and featured on television (The Wright Stuff) and in the media. The programme showed the importance of self-defence for women, and she has approached schools and universities to include the DVD in the curriculum.
Her contribution to the music industry was recognised in 2005 when de Paul received a Gold Badge Award. This was followed by her becoming a director on the board of the Performing Rights Society (PRS) on 30 June 2006 where she has proved to be an active member. The PRS was renamed PRS for Music and in 2009 de Paul was re-elected for a second three-year term.[14]
In 2007, de Paul played Sheila Larsen in the first episode of Kingdom, the Stephen Fry drama series. On 10 April 2008, de Paul participated in a celebrity version of the Channel 4 show Come Dine With Me along with Tamara Beckwith, MC Harvey and Jonathan Ansell. De Paul, who is a vegetarian, came in last place. She was also featured on a celebrity version of Cash in the Attic in March 2009 where she became a temporary auctioneer.[7]
She wrote the foreword for the book Medium Rare by Billy Roberts, Liam Scott (Apex Publishing, ISBN 978-1-906358-49-5) published in April 2009. The book is about the spiritual medium Liam Scott. She has also written travel articles for the Daily Mail on Mauritius (February 2008) and Australia's east coast (April 2009).
In 2011, de Paul had her own programme on Sky, entitled Lynsey's Love Songs. According to a news item on her website, she chose the songs she liked and researched the songwriters and people who made the records. In February 2012, Vintage TV broadcast three episodes where de Paul interviewed the songwriters Gilbert O'Sullivan, Mike Batt and Howard Jones. Aled Jones interviewed Lynsey on his Good Morning Sunday programme on BBC Radio Two on 29 April 2012. He asked her about her life, career and religious beliefs as well as what inspires her.[7] Lynsey attended the 2012 Ivor Novello Awards held at the Grosvenor House Hotel, London, on 17 May 2012.[15] She was on the UK jury for the Eurovision Song Contest 2012.[7] Some of her songs, including previously unreleased material, are available as MP3s via her own shop, which is linked to her official website.[11]
On 15 September 2012, de Paul, together with Noddy Holder, co-hosted the Marc Bolan 35th anniversary concert, a special charity event for the PRS for Music Members Benevolent Fund held at the O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire featuring Marc Almond, Boy George, Tony Visconti, Steve Harley, Alvin Stardust, Linda Lewis, Sandie Shaw, Glen Matlock, Mike Lindup, Andy Ellison and the Marc Bolan tribute band, Danielz and T.Rextasy.[16] Two double CD anthologies of de Paul's songs from the 1970s including previously unreleased tracks, entitled Sugar and Beyond and Into My Music, were released in March 2013 on the Cherry Red/RPM record label.[17]
Personal life[edit]
Although never married, at various times de Paul has been romantically linked with Ringo Starr, Roy Wood, James Coburn, Sean Connery, Bill Kenwright, Bernie Taupin, Chas Chandler and Dudley Moore.[3] Known for her sharp sense of humour, de Paul was labelled "Looney de Small" by Spike Milligan.[2] She is a patron of the Spike Milligan Statue Memorial Fund.[11]
Chart singles[edit]
|Chart positions
|"Sugar Me"
|"Getting A Drag"
|"All Night"
|"Won't Somebody Dance With Me"
|"Ooh I Do"
|"No Honestly"
|"My Man And Me"
|"Rock Bottom" (with Mike Moran)
Other singles[edit]
- "Rhythm and Blue Jean Baby" / "Into My Music"
- "Happy Christmas to You From Me" / "Stick to You" (with Barry Blue)
- "Hug and Squeeze Me" / "You Made Me Write This Song"
- "Love Bomb" / "Rainbow"
- "If I Don't Get You The Next One Will" / "Season to Season"
- "You Give me Those Feelings" / "Beautiful"
- "Hollywood Romance" / "Losin' The Blues for You"
- "Tigers and Fireflies" / "Losin' The Blues for You"
- "Strange Changes" / "Strange Changes (version)"
- "Air on a Heartstring" / "Arrival of the Queen" (with Horea Crishan)
- "There's No Place Like London" / "There's No Place Like London" (Karaoke version) (credited as Lynsey & Friends)
B sides[edit]
- "Storm in a Teacup" ("Sugar Me")
- "Brandy" ("Getting a Drag")
- "Blind Leading the Blind" ("All Night")
- "So Good to You" ("Won't Somebody Dance with Me")
- "Nothing Really Lasts Forever" ("Ooh I Do")
- "Central Park Arrest" ("No Honestly")
- "Dancing on a Saturday Night" ("My Man and Me")
- "Shouldn't Say That" (with Mike Moran) ("Rock Bottom")
- Surprise
- The World of Lynsey de Paul (aka Lynsey Sings)
- Taste Me... Don't Waste Me
- Love Bomb
- Before You Go Tonight
- No Honestly
- Tigers and Fireflies
- Just a Little Time (aka Sugar Me)
- The Best of Lynsey de Paul
- Greatest Hits
- Best of the 70s – Lynsey de Paul
- Sugar and Beyond[18]
- Into My Music[19]
See also[edit]
- ^ Compton Miller, ed. (1997). Who's Really Who. Harden's Books. ISBN 978-0953143603.
- ^ a b c d e f g h "Biography by Craig Harris". Allmusic.com. Retrieved 19 July 2009.
- ^ a b c Middlehurst, Lester (9 April 2007). "Pop star Lynsey de Paul reveals the truth about her love-life". Daily Mail. Retrieved 24 April 2007.
- ^ "Story of "sugar Me"". YouTube. Retrieved 6 March 2011.
- ^ "Lynsey de Paul". IMDb.com. Retrieved 18 June 2013.
- ^ "Lynsey Rubin Discography at Discogs". Discogs.com. 11 June 1950. Retrieved 18 June 2013.
- ^ a b c d e "Lynsey de Paul". IMDb.com. Retrieved July 2009.
- ^ a b c d e f Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 145. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
- ^ Dave Thompson. "Roll Away the Stone – Mott the Hoople | Listen, Appearances, Song Review". AllMusic. Retrieved 28 January 2014.
- ^ Roberts, David (1998). Guinness Rockopedia (1st ed.). London: Guinness Publishing Ltd. p. 282. ISBN 0-85112-072-5.
- ^ a b c d "Home". Lynseydepaul.com. 15 September 2012. Retrieved 24 November 2012.
- ^ "Lynsey de Paul Exclusive FemaleFirst Interview". Femalefirst.co.uk. Retrieved 24 November 2012.
- ^ Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 208. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
- ^ "PRS for Music: Lynsey de Paul". Prsformusic.com. Retrieved 24 November 2012.
- ^ "Pictures: The Ivor Novello Awards 2012 | Don Black and Lynsey de Paul at the 2012 Ivor Novello awards held at the Grosvenor House Hotel, London". Pictures.metro.co.uk. 17 May 2012. Retrieved 24 November 2012.[dead link]
- ^ "Marc Bolan Anniversary Concert". Mygoldmusic.co.uk. Retrieved 18 June 2013.
- ^ "Cherry Red Records – lynsey de paul". Cherryred.co.uk. 7 February 2013. Retrieved 18 June 2013.
- ^ "Cherry Red Records – LYNSEY DE PAUL, Sugar And Beyond, ANTHOLOGY 1972–1974, 2CD, RPM, 70s pop". Cherryred.co.uk. Retrieved 18 June 2013.
- ^ "Cherry Red Records – Into My Music Anthology 1975–79, 2CD, RPM, 70s pop". Cherryred.co.uk. Retrieved 18 June 2013.
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|Awards and achievements
|Preceded by
Brotherhood of Man
with "Save Your Kisses for Me"
|UK in the Eurovision Song Contest
(with Mike Moran)
|Succeeded by
with "The Bad Old Days"


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Climate changes for wolverine listing
What good can the Endangered Species Act do in a warming world?
Updated 8/6/14
In the dead of winter, female wolverines dig elaborate, multi-chambered dens to raise their young, choosing sites where snowpack lasts well into the spring. But snowpack in the Northern Rockies is almost certain to decline as the climate warms, jeopardizing their chances for successful reproduction. There are fewer than 300 wolverines in the Lower 48, and models show that they could lose 31 percent of their habitat by 2045 and 63 percent by 2085. And so, in February 2013, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed adding the "mountain devils" to the endangered species list.
The science behind the proposal has not changed, but the agency's position on it has. Mountain-Prairie Regional Director Noreen Walsh advocated against a speculative listing in a memo released by environmentalists in July, citing uncertainty as to exactly why wolverines need a persistent snowpack to reproduce and how its loss would harm the animals. Though scientists recommended listing wolverines as threatened, agency leader Dan Ashe defended her position – a strong indication of which way the final decision, due in early August, will go.
Wolverines would have been the first species in the Lower 48 thrust onto the endangered species list by climate change. A listing would have helped validate the use of climate models to develop strategies to protect animals against future threats. And it would have been unusual because, unlike most of the species the act safeguards, wolverines, though rare, are not thought to be declining.
Idaho, Montana and Wyoming – the states that anchor the animal's range in the Lower 48 – dreaded the prospect of a listing and the public-land restrictions it could bring, while environmentalists cheered it on. In practical terms, though, would formal protections really help wolverines? Can a law that was designed to rescue species from discrete, localized threats also protect them from the more diffuse hazards of a warming world?


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The CLEL Bell Picture Book Awards are a new, annual recognition of five high-quality picture books that provide excellent support of early literacy skills for young children.
One picture book will be selected annually in each of five categories: read, write, sing, talk, and play. To be eligible for the 2015 CLEL Bell Awards, a suggested book must be a picture book published in the United States between November 16, 2013 and November 15, 2014, and meet the following criteria:
- Theme or content related to one of the five early literacy practices: read, write, sing, talk, or play
- Distinction or uniqueness in presentation of relevant theme or content
- Supports and/or models parent and caregiver engagement with their children through early literacy practices
- Ability to appeal to parents or caregivers and their young children (ages birth-5) of diverse family situations
- Excellence in writing, illustration, and design
- Excellent book production (quality paper, binding, cover, etc)
Fiction and nonfiction are eligible.
There are no restrictions as to nationality or residency of the author, illustrator, or publisher.
Books previously published internationally are eligible as long as their first US publication date is November 16, 2013 through November 15, 2014.
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This certificate program is a course of study designed to meet the needs of those wishing to pursue a career in customs and/or immigration. Students are advised that Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) normally requires the completion of a postsecondary diploma or degree for most positions. The certificate will focus on the enforcement aspects of customs and immigration. It is currently offered on a part-time basis, in a flexible format, to suit busy schedules.
Information on the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA)
A federal law enforcement agency that is responsible for border enforcement, immigration enforcement and customs services. The agency was created on December 12, 2003. The CBSA oversees approximately 1,200 service locations across Canada, and 39 in other countries. It employs over 12,000 public servants, and offers around-the-clock service at 119 land-border crossings and thirteen international airports.
Career Opportunities at the CBSA
Because the CBSA has such a diverse mandate, it offers many different career paths. CBSA officers may pursue career opportunities in specialty areas such as the following:
- client services � trade
- compliance verification � trade
- detector dog services
- intelligence
- international operations
- investigations
- management
- program services.
CBSA liaison officers engage around the world with international partners on important border-related issues such as national security and irregular migration.
Source: Canada Border Services Agency website, June 2013
For more information, visit cbsa.gc.ca.
Note: Immigration officers are not part of the CBSA. Immigration officers are members of Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC). CIC is the department of the government of Canada with responsibility for issues dealing with immigration and citizenship. The Canada Border Services Agency manages enforcement and entry control at borders and airports.
For further information, contact firstname.lastname@example.com or call 416.675.6622 ext. 3335.
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Heidi Montag: Plastic Surgery Was Not Smartby Free Britney at . Comments
For whatever reason, there's been a ton of news about former stars of The Hills lately, despite the show being off the air for two years and mostly contrived nonsense.
Anyway, Heidi Montag plastic surgery is today's topic. Amazingly, she regrets it!
"I would never do it again and I would never recommend it for anyone," Heidi tells Access Hollywood, which somehow interviewed her. "It was way over my head."
"I should have researched it more ... I wasn't told the repercussions and what would happen emotionally and physically and how much pain I would be in."
Heidi Montag says it was "traumatic" getting 10 plastic surgery procedures in one day.
Nose job, liposuction, breast and butt augmentation, chin reduction. You name it, she had it done. Not just any boob job either. Those things are like size EE.
Nowadays, she says, "I just focus now on being healthy and alive and strong."
Alive, strong and 26 going on 47. Seriously. Check out Heidi Montag nude and contrast it with the fresh-faced gal pictured above. Oldest 26-year-old ever.
Just watched series 2 episode 7. Heidi is as big a monster as spencer. What a lier she is and to her so called best friend Lauren. Feel sorry for her mom having to see this.
Sorry to read about your case, Ava. I hope you have a better 2013!!... I don't know why anyone would opt for unnecessary surgery. Heidi Montag is a ridiculous case. I think her phony breasts don't match her small, still growing bone structure at all. I'm surprised she didn't have bone replacements throughout, so she could have a bigger frame for her fake boobs, but that would be even MORE ridiculous. I watched an inteview with Barbra Striesand, who took a lot of heat for having off-center features, yet being a huge star. She is so amazing, intelligent, deep, and confident--I didn't know that I could have even more respect for her!!!.. You should listen to her to heal your soul! However, I do know a lot of people who turned to cosmetic surgeries and dyed blonde hair and it does seem to benefit their superficial, external life...I just wouldn't want to be them. I prefer the Barbras of the world! ;-)
I had a medically recommended breast reduction. I was 50 years old, and wanted to remain active for the second half of my life. I was a size 32G - petite frame, but large breasted. I hiked, did yoga, did P90X, but had loose skin from gaining and losing weight as a teenager. The surgeon and I discussed doing what he called 'a little add on' - spot specific liposuction at my upper lateral thigh (the 'saddlebag' area) to balance out my shape a little bit when my breasts were reduced. He did liposuction all over my body while I was unaware under anesthesia, without my consent, and against any good medical judgment. I am disabled now in pain that is indescribable. I don't have a life left and can't leave the house, can't sleep without medication, lost anything I had. It's difficult to get doctors or lawyers to take me seriously because they write it off as 'just cosmetic surgery.' I thought about the surgery for a decade before I moved forward and asked my surgeon to use caution and do the least amount of reduction possible. My motivation was for body comfort, and why shouldn't I have tried to be comfortable in my body when I was active and took care of myself. And why should I have wanted have hips that were totally imbalanced when I had these specific pockets of hip fat that protruded laterally? I wanted to remain active and feel good. The surgeon did way too much. Surgery is traumatic, and the wrong surgery is deadly... or worse, you survive it like me and have to experience this horrifying pain -- and then get blamed for it because people say, 'it's just cosmetic'. I don't think several procedures at one time is right, and doctors who do that are not following the Hippocratic Oath. And surgeons should definitely have to measure body fat before removing any body fat. My surgeon weighed me and assigned me a BMI - body mass index does not differentiate between lean muscle tissue and fat. I spent several consultations talking to him about how muscular I was under my loose skin. Surgeons need to take these surgeries more seriously and the truth about the trauma of these procedures should be known. Additionally, I don't think it's fair to judge another person without knowing their story. I gained that weight as a teen after I was horribly betrayed by someone who molested me. That wasn't my fault. I tried to live my best life with stretched out skin after I lost the weight, but my breast tissue hurt from way it was stretched, and it impacted every aspect of my life. I wonder how my surgeon would have felt if he had his nipples cut off and reattached, (and had his buttocks suctioned out without his consent at the same time). People want to look good and feel good, and the surgeons who are licensed to do these surgeries need to be cautious, honest, and understand the consequences. My surgeon acted like I was a lump of clay he could mold. This should not ever happen to anyone else. I'm stuck in the house in pain not knowing how to get groceries, and when this laptop computer gives out, that's it for my contact with the world. I'm trying to get a lawyer before my statute runs out and I will file a claim with the medical board, but I want to get the word out. It's too late to prevent what happened to me, but not to others.


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70 Moonkin and have loved it since I went balance pre-TBC. Was tempted at one point in the recent past to respec to Resto but have not wanted to simply for the fact that I want to be able to go out and solo farm stuff without getting too much of the pain from the mobs.
But it's interesting that most people when asking me to heal or tank, when I mention that I'm Balance they hem and haw and say "nevermind"...
Maybe people will start to open their eyes those of us that went Balance. I've only done a few dungeon runs but when we were pulling multiple mobs, I always had the 2nd mob and held my own while everyone else was working on the main mob.


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It can be difficult to determine which stats are truly meaningful, i.e. the ones that don't "lie." The ultimate goal of any stat, in addition to explaining a past event, should be to predict the future. When numbers are utilized to make accurate prognostications, we know they're "good" (useful) stats. That's one reason that passing efficiency is far better than, say, rushing attempts when we're determining the quality of a team. Rushing attempts can explain past success, but they can't accurately predict future victories. Meanwhile, passing yards-per-attempt is perhaps the top individual stat for predicting future team success.
With that in mind, you can perhaps gain a better sense of why I argued that
You can start to see why Witten's receptions and yards, although impressive, aren't a proper representation of how he played. That's reflected in the yards Witten gained per route he ran (1.58), which was his lowest mark since 2006. Yards-per-route is a useful stat because it accounts for game situations, limiting the value of being in a pass-heavy offense.
More important, yards-per-route is a good predictor of future success. Actually, when taking route frequency into account, yards-per-route is a better indicator of future receiving yards even than past receiving yards. We saw an example of this in 2008. Relatively-unknown wide receiver
So knowing certain stats are superior to others and that yards-per-route is a pretty strong predictor of future success, I broke down the yards-per-route posted by Witten, Austin and Bryant over the last few seasons. This can be a useful tool because it provides a glimpse of where each player's career might be headed.
Despite the big bulk stats in 2012, Witten's efficiency continued its steady decline. When I posted those numbers on Witten last week, I received some feedback that we shouldn't nitpick over just half a yard. Well, it really depends on the context. If we're talking about yards-per-game, for example, a difference of a half-yard is trivial. In terms of Witten's yards-per-route, however, a half-yard decline represents over 25 percent of his peak. That's a big deal.
Looking at Austin's efficiency, you can see just how incredible his 2009 season really was. Consider that Austin's 2.59 yards-per-route that season was around 25 percent higher than Bryant's figure in 2012. In terms of pure efficiency, Austin's 2009 season is probably one of the best in NFL history. With that in mind, we'd expect a pretty big drop in 2010, but not to the extent that we saw. Austin's gradual decline since 2010 confirms most suspicions that Austin hasn't performed nearly as well even when he's on the field, i.e. injuries aren't all to blame.
Bryant's line is also a good representation of how we typically view his career; his rookie play was about average and he didn't take the jump we all expected in his second season. This year, however, Bryant's yards-per-route soared higher than any year of Witten's and all of Austin's seasons outside of 2009.
Looking forward to 2013, we can use the graph to project how each player might continue to evolve. Entering his age 31 season, there's a good chance that Witten's line continues to drop. Since 2008, Witten's yards-per-route has declined by .05, .08, .18, and .05. If the trend continues, Witten's probably looking at around 1.50 yards-per-route in 2012, meaning he's extremely likely to see a big drop in receptions and yards. If Witten runs closer to the 550 routes he saw prior to this past season, he'll fall into the neighborhood of 825 yards, a decrease of over 200 yards.
Projecting Austin's 2013 season is more difficult because he's been all over the map. Assuming he's still in Dallas, Austin will be a big, fast, 29-year-old No. 2 receiver in a potentially-explosive offense. That's still a pretty strong recipe for success, and when you consider Austin's productive past and the fact that Bryant will see more and more double-teams, things look up for Austin in 2013. I'd expect his yards-per-route to jump back up into the 1.70-1.75 range. Of course, we have no idea how productive Austin will be from a receiving yards standpoint because his health is always a concern.
As for Bryant, the league's newest elite play-making receiver, the sky is the limit. With his skill set and a blossoming connection with Tony Romo, Bryant has an extremely high ceiling without too low of a floor, i.e. it seems unlikely he'll regress much. With increased defensive attention on the star wideout, though, I'd expect his yards-per-route to either remain stable or increase just slightly, perhaps somewhere in the 2.00-2.10 range. If the Cowboys are able to run the ball more frequently in 2013, it's very likely that Bryant will be more efficient but have fewer yards.


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In a morning-after-election-day briefing prepared for a victorious Romney, the group was going to recommend dividing the White House into three teams: "'Care & Feeding Offices,' like speechwriting, 'Policy Offices,' like the National Security Council, and 'Packaging & Selling Offices,' like the office of the press secretary," Miller explains. The slide show breaking down the White House in business terms Romney, the former financial executive, could understand gets even more hilarious: "The White House is a lot like a holding firm," one slide says. Three times. They also planned to turn the White House into a corporate-structured monolith instead of the muddled bureaucracy Washington is known for. Per Miller:
Among the recommendations for the Romney administration:
- Corporate-style training seminars were planned for appointees and nominees before the inauguration to teach management skills.
- A plan to restructure White House operations to suit Romney's corporate management style, with clear deliverables.
- Detailed flow charts delineating how information and decisions were disseminated through the administration to achieve "unity."
- Plans to evaluate Cabinet secretaries's performance by "systematically assessing the efforts of their departments in contributing to [Romney's] priorities and objectives, perhaps by a newly created "deputy chief of staff for Cabinet oversight."
And after lunch, there would have been trust falls.
Some think this report is embarrassing, but we don't see why:
Seriously, this is an embarrassment. It's like the Romney administration was going to be one big Learning Annex. swampland.time.com/2013/06/02/mit…— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) June 2, 2013
Romney transition plan or undergrad entrepreneurs club? You decide. My god.swampland.time.com/2013/06/02/mit…— kolbykuwitzky (@kolbykuwitzky) June 2, 2013
But none of it is going to happen now because Romney didn't come through on his end of the bargain. In order to exact these changes, you need to win the election. Instead, Romney went on to become an executive at his son's company and eat cupcakes. He still gets to hold summer mixers with deep-pocketed donors mingling with 2016 presidential hopefuls in some effort to play kingmaker. Despite the fact that, you know, he failed miserably.
Read Miller's entire report, that has the entire presentation -- flow charts and all! -- as prepared for Romney, because it really is a marvellous thing to behold.
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It's unfortunate, but you're very wrong- the Druid so-called 'buff' is entirely BLOWN AWAY by the massive, skull-crushing and in fact entirely hideous nerf to Lifebloom.
To put this in perspective, my Lifebloom on 2.4 PTR as of 12 PM EST today was doing the same healing, per tick, as my Lifebloom on the current live realms.
The difference, unfortunately, is that while I was fully equipped on the PTR, I wasn't carrying a weapon (Light's Justice) or wearing either of my rings (Keeper's Ring of Piety, Violet Signet (revered, healer variant)) on Live.
There's a new PTR just issued, hopefully when the realms come back up I'll be able to report an improvement. Until then, calling this a 'small buff' is both an order of magnitude out, and in the wrong direction.
I'm a shaman and I have been poting in test realms forum saying to reverse it.
I like my trees keeping the tanks up or just dropping a single heal on me and not having to worry. I like when I am resto having that tree helping me keep the tank up so my much longer cast time heals are not coming too late.
Hell, I just like my trees. I hump them whenever I go ghost wolf.
What I don't understand is why they aren't just doing like they did with the water.
Here's the deal, in PVE your class works like this.
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During parent-teacher conferences, students will be released from school at 12:50 p.m. For grades K–8, the early dismissals will last Monday, March 3 through Friday, March 7. For grades 9–12, Wednesday, March 5 is the only early dismissal date.
The Boys & Girls Clubs of Whatcom County is an after-school program for youth across Whatcom County. For a $30 yearly membership fee, Blaine's club offers a variety of activities to youth of all ages, including sports, movies, photography clubs and more.
Usually, Blaine's club opens its doors from 2:30 to 7 p.m. However, during the early dismissals from March 3 to March 7, the club will be open from 12:30 to 5 p.m. Participants may stay until 7 p.m. for an additional fee of $5 per family.
"The idea is to give them a safe place where they can be with caring adults," said Blaine's branch director Joel Todd. "No matter where they are coming from, no matter what is going on at home, they have a safe place to go."
Welcome to the Lighthouse, the official blog of The Northern Light newspaper. The Lighthouse is the place for some breaking news, previews of upcoming articles, smaller news items and some tidbits of local information that might not make it into the print edition of The Northern Light.
The Northern Light reporter Steve Guntli will be the main contributor to The Lighthouse, but other staff from The Northern Light may add items from time to time.
The Lighthouse is a work in progress and may undergo substantial changes as readers react to the content posted here. The Northern Light kindly asks for the patience of its readers as we edge ever so slightly into the world of blogging.
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The world over, we are seeing ever more cases of extreme weather, from the recent floods in the UK to wild fires in Australia. With each incident comes the familiar assurances that - this time - the necessary action will be taken to make sure there is no repeat. The reality is we have no choice, as every country faces the fact that climate change - and its impact on the weather - is no longer a distant prediction, but a daily reality. And for the poorest people on the planet, the need to change is not just a matter of saving money, but saving lives.
Last spring saw one the release of the most perfect fashion collections in recent memory, from Alexander McQueen. Based around bees and women as worker bees, this fantastically visual theme was cross-pollinated with the brand's dark romance. Immaculate construction ensured each elegant look was executed in the most high fashion way.
It's hard to imagine a world without the familiar springtime buzz of bees among the blossom. We need bees to pollinate our food and keep our gardens and countryside blooming. But unless we take decisive action to protect these iconic species now, we face a drab landscape lacking wildflowers and a diet that costs us more, but is less tasty and nutritious.
Our bee population remains in crisis and, in recent months, bees have been in the headlines once again. This is largely in light of a growing body of evidence emerging on the impact that neonicotinoids - a type of systemic insecticide used in agriculture, as well as in the home - has on bee health and wellbeing.
Someone nowhere probably didn't say this, although everyone thinks it was Einstein: "If the bee disappears from the surface of the earth, man would have no more than four years to live". A rogue, probably inaccurate quote. So why bother using it? Because it's likely to be a bit accurate too. In short: bees are dying. And we should be worried.


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DVTel's UK Offices See 'Robust' Growth
Company moves into new digs in High Wycombe to create better training, testing and demonstration facilities
DVTel just keeps getting bigger in the United Kingdom. On Monday, the company announced that it had to take large offices due to strong growth in the company.
The company has moved to offices that are 50 percent bigger according to DVTel spokesperson Bruce Doneff.
Doneff add that, "The new UK offices provide larger training and demonstration facilities, as well as upgraded testing and pre-build areas."
The new address, should you need to update your own directories, is:
7 Lancaster Court
Coronation Road
High Wycombe
The UK office telephone number will stay the same: +44 (0) 870 2400716; the office fax number is +44 (0) 1494 446928.
In early 2005, DVTel saw notable growth, with additional staff in the U.S. as well as the U.K.