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30th Ford F100 Supernationals - Three Decades Off-100s!Written by on October 1, 2008 The F-100 Supernationals Turns 30!
The last 30 years have gone by in a flash for Pat Ford and his family since he held the first F-100 Supernationals show, and in that time, it has grown beyond his wildest dreams. You would know this too if you've had the pleasure of attending or even showing your Ford truck in the event that brings people from literally far and wide. The 2008 show was no different!
Late spring in Knoxville is always a surprise. Rain plagued the area mid- week and into Thursday, but cleared out for a weekend that couldn't have been nicer. It was filled with sunshine and low humidity, which was great for walking around Chilhowee Park to look at more than 1,100 entries. There were plenty of vendors on hand, such as Dennis Carpenter, Fatman Fabrications, No Limit Engineering, Mid Fifty F-100 Parts, and ididit, all of which held mini seminars throughout the weekend to help educate us consumers and many more. And there was a great swap meet filled with all your favorite old Ford parts. It was interesting to see how much stuff there was for '67-72 F-100s this year-must be catching on.
Friday and Saturday also included the F-1 and F-100 parades, as well as parades for the special guest class for the Galaxie and Fairlane Club of America, and also early Broncos and Ford tractors.
During the awards ceremony on Saturday night, Pat Ford and his staff handed out several hundred awards to the lucky winners and picked the raffle winners of a complete bed from Dan Carpenter and chassis courtesy of No Limit! Pat also took a minute to thank everyone who is and has been involved with the show since its inception and informed us that after 30 years he is handing the reins over to his friends at ET Promotions. Pat will join forces with Dennis Carpenter; with Pat's knowledge and last name, it's a natural. We wish Pat, Jan, and their son, Squire, the best!
Pat also announced that he would be back next year and every year to greet everyone in the F-100 SUPERTOUR returning from the West Coast in 2009. Whatever you do, don't miss out on the 31st Anniversary F-100 Supernationals in Knoxville, Tennessee, on May 14-16, 2009, again at Chilhowee Park. For more info, contact ET Promotions at 865-671-3000, email@example.com, or www.f100supernationals.com. See you all there!
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Father and son team Bill and Riley Fanning braved the bad weather from Oklahoma on Wednesday to make it to Knoxville with their '65 and '60 F-100s, and we're sure glad they did!This clean little '48 F-1 belongs to Bill Townsend from Caruthersville, MO, and was one of many early model Ford trucks on display.It seems that silver may be the new black these days as we see more and more high-class builds like Mark Coleman's '53 being squirted in this fine metallic hue. And what color interior looks good with silver? Exactly, red.Only three votes kept Harold Robinson and his build crew from winning Truck of the Year with this nicer-than-nice '56. Some said that maybe the BBC motor hurt it, but we disagree.Fellow Fordification.com member Brad Owen was helping to represent the Bumpside crowd with his '68 shortbed Styleside. Fordification.com is an online message board/forum just for '67-72 Ford trucks. Check 'em out!Johnny Brown might have what some consider a "sleeper," but not in the street racing sense. His '50 F-1 looked quite unassuming sitting there in its flattened single-stage paint, but what most probably didn't realize is the truck is no rat rod. Chopping a top is one thing, but sectioning a vehicle separates the kids from the talented, and Johnny did both amongst other things to get the proportions right. Look for a full feature soon!One piece at a time, just like that old Johnny Cash song, huh? This interesting truck in the swap meet was of Heinz 57 variety and yet strangely worked...in a weird sorta way. What do you think? Maybe everything hasn't been done yet!Of course there were some cool engines on display under all those hoods at the show, like this built Y-block in R.E. Myers' '64 F-100...
Get 'em while they're hot! This was a sight for once-sore eyes as I remembered the eight months it took to find a nice, short Styleside bed for my '68. There was more '67-72 and up to '79 parts than I'd ever seen in one place. Think they're catchin' on?Speaking of not been done yet, I can't recall seeing another '57-60 F-100 built into a crew cab like this one; unfortunately, the owner didn't display his info. Another neat idea nonetheless, and it might have been made using a later-model truck or van chassis.Dan Carpenter had his almost-done '56 big-window at the show to wow all the people who ventured near his booth. We're hoping to have a full feature for you on the silver Effie as soon as it's ready!Only Al Erwin can prevent forest fires in his ex-forest service '55 panel truck. After having many a finished vehicle, Al loves the worry-free cruising the panel has to offer thanks to its 350 Chevy and scratch-resistant "paint."What a pair! These two WWII-era Fords looked great parked next to each other. The '47 on the left belongs to Alvin Brown, is a survivor of the 1960s show scene, and was featured in many magazines from that time. The '41 with the '40 front end seems to be a more recent build and is under the care of Jerry Dillard.Two words: clean and simple. It's good practice to sit back and look at a truck like Doug Elmore's '52 F-1 and realize how little you have to do to an old truck to make it look right, even though there's bound to be plenty done to its chassis.Why do I keep taking pictures of "unfinished" trucks? Maybe because I've yet to "finish" one myself (I better get back to work on the '68!), or maybe they still seem like trucks instead of showpieces, not that there's anything wrong with that either, but this unidentified '57 was too cool with its low rake and straight-spoke Americans.What did I say about silver? DeWayne Pierce and his wife, Gayle, brought their freshly finished '56 to Knoxville for all us magazine types to fight over! David Rongey of Rongey's Restoration in Ocoee, TN, handled most of the work on this stunning Ford, and we wouldn't change a thing, except the name on the pink slip. Look for a full feature soon!
The '56 models seem to be slipping somewhat as king in the world of classic trucks since more people are building and restoring the other F-100s. Brain Pope built a sweet '66 that's covered in a smooth coat of black suede. Out back is a pair of whitewall slicks mounted on steel wheels that bear a set of chrome spider caps-cool.Also on the other side was an impressive display of vintage Ford tractors, most of which have been meticulously restored, like this '57-62 901 Series.On another trip through the swap meet I noticed these sets of rare rear doors for factory crew cab trucks. Take your pick!If you went through the tunnel to the other side of the park, you would've found a few hundred vintage Broncos. This extraordinary vintage SUV was seamlessly built to look as if it came from Ford as you see it. We'd bet owner Paul Houston fields plenty of questions about his one-off '69!The much-anticipated awards ceremony was well attended as usual, where the trophies for several hundred winners were handed out. These four guys were the top dogs in the Truck of the Year running. From left to right are Harold Robinson; Matt Peace, Truck of the Year Winner; Jim Borhuff, and Terry Van Housen.


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How do you turn off your GTD mentality when you need a break? Say you've even scheduled free time to do whatever it is that relaxes you. Perhaps what relaxes you are some of the personal projects you have going on, or playing with your pet, that sort of thing. How do you "turn your brain off" so that you can focus on.. not focusing?
I think this is a really interesting question - because I very much approach it from the other side - as in 'Because I know that I've got all the things I need to do written down in a system that I trust, I generally am quite relaxed'.
What I think might help, might be looking at the question as "How do I avoid the urge to fill every waking moment with productivity, to avoid feeling like I'm on a treadmill all day?" This is also a pretty interesting one. In my mind there are two main motivations for increasing productivity
People of type two are people who don't have to worry about switching off - people of type one start approaching a mentality where every waking moment should be advancing your career/fitness/mind (and when we move into ultraman sleep schedules, is when we start to increase the number of waking moments to be productive in.
As far as I'm concerned - group activity is the cure, take a class, go bowling with friends on, have something on your schedule that blocks off some time disconnected. Big and obvious one is, of course, spending time with the family :)
One technique you can try is just to start doing your relaxing activity, and if you start thinking about work, instead of trying to "not think" it, acknowledge it. Then you can quietly shift your focus easily and the distracting thoughts won't pop back up. (In my experience particularly strong distractions may take several attempts to shift focus, but it does happen.) I use this meditation technique sometimes when I'm trying to sleep but I have too much going on the really relax. It's like a child begging for attention. If you ignore the kid they'll just keep at you, but if you turn and say "ok, I see you, but I'm busy right now so go and play and I'll come and get you when I'm ready", they go and play and you can finish what you were doing.
Another way of thinking about it is if someone tells you "Don't think about a pink elephant"...thinking about not thinking automatically makes you think it. The thing is, having the image of a pink elephant pop into your mind isn't Game Over (or work-related issues, or bills you have to pay, etc). Acknowledge the thought, "Oh, look, a pink elephant", then move your focus elsewhere and you'll find that's the end of the elephant.
This has always been a big problem for me: I get very ansty and feel like I'm wasting time if I'm not always making progress in some way. But I've also found that even if I'm not ticking off items in my todo list, I feel fine as long as I'm doing an activity where I make progress towards some kind of goal.
That's why I tend to choose hobbies where there is some notion of progress. For example, playing a musical instrument is relaxing, but doesn't bother the GTD side of my brain because I'm improving my musical skills.
Conversely, just watching whatever is on TV is something I could almost never do—but if I'm watching a specific show that I'm interested in, I can feel like I'm making progress by getting through all the episodes of the show.
When I socialize, I try to make sure that I'm meeting interesting new people, or at least feel that I'm getting to know people—people who I care about—better.


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After spending my Valentine's Day enjoying the Westminster Dog Show, I was thrilled to see this good news about my favorite furry friends this morning: researchers have found yet another item to add to the list of benefits of owning a pet.
The study, published in the American Journal of Cardiology, found that owning a pet is a great health move for people with chronic diseases. Having Fido by your side is linked with the heart's capability to adapt to situations, such as a faster heartbeat during a stressful time period. Those who did not have a pet had a less adaptable heartbeat, which puts strain on one of the most important organs in the body.
In 2008, a study presented at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference had a similar theme. Researchers found that cat owners were less likely to die of a heart attack or other cardiovascular disease when compared with people who had never owned a cat.
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The ticker isn't the only part of you that may benefit if you become a proud pet owner. A 2011 study found that the emotional benefits of pet ownership are similar to those of human friendship. The psychologists at Miami University and St. Louis University discovered that pet owners demonstrated less lonely tendencies and higher self-esteem. They also enjoyed greater physical fitness levels and exercised more, probably because dogs like to be walked.
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I need to follow several steps to safe our Web Project from DoS attack.
EDIT : We have our own server where we are running several e-Commerce websites. Our server's OS is CentOS.
To avoid downtime during DDoS running single server, you can make sure that your operating system remains stable during DDoS, so when the attack is gone, it continues to work. This can be accomplished the following way:
This is very difficult thing to do and not straight forward, that's why the answer is a bit vague, and hardly you will get anything else.
In essence, you should make sure that flood is not reaching your application level causing server to choke, but instead dropping connections.
See this on Server Fault:
The best way to protect against a DDOS is to have the capacity to service all the requests - but that may mean significant expenditure on hardware and bandwidth. OTOH a bit of tuning goes a long way to improving capacity and performance - which benefits your legitimate user and your business too.
Event based servers can handle large number of connections much more gracefully than pre-fork or thread based servers - you don't say what you're architecture looks like / what software you are using. Hence running nginx / lighttpd / varnish / ATS can give you a lot more capacity.
Using a CDN may help if your content is cacheable.
If the DDOS is soaking up CPU / memory then running a caching reverse-proxy will help if the DDOS targets cacheable content. It's not going to help if the content is not cacheable / targets locking problems / fills up your network bandwidth.
Assuming you want to maintain the service during a DDOS then that means being able to differentiate between legitimate traffic and DOS traffic. Make sure your webserver is already logging user agent and essential cookies.
If you can run some application logic on the front-end device then you have the opportunity to apply some code to capture and differentiate between legitimate and DOS traffic - you can start looking at URLs, cookies, IP address information, user agents etc.
Implies SSL - so there's a significant risk of CPU starvation. I'll probably get flamed for this - but beware of the PFS cipher suites - they are rather expensive (the most recent ones in openSSL are a lot better). There's some good stuff on protecting SSL against DOS here.
Hopefully you're not running Magento / Wordpress!
Ideally you want to be able to block the traffic before it even gets to your server - speak to your hosting provider / upstream network provider to see what they can do to help you.


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The blast occurred in a steam pipe at the refining part of the Belgian petrochemical complex. The explosion killed at least two people, both of whom worked for a subcontractor.
Total has shut down part of its refinery in Antwerp, Belgium, after
an explosion in a steam pipe, the company said on Tuesday.
The explosion killed two people, both of
whom worked for a subcontractor. The blast occurred around 3
p.m. local time on Tuesday during planned maintenance of a gasoline-producing
"We confirm that there has been an
explosion on a steam pipe in the refining part of the petrochemical complex," Total said
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refinery has been activated," Total said.
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Jeff Zhao
It's the helpful and useful material to learn and to share with the similar process plants.
want to learn and share with our colleagues to prevent the similar from reoccurring!
fatai oyesanya
we want to send you allocation of crude oil and petroleum products approved for export from nnpc
Boris Barrios
How can we help the O&G community to use the concept of LOPA in the maintenance and operations activities? Thinking in layers of protection both preventive and mitigating, help that in case that the process fails and if the explosion or the damage occurs, other and ultimate layers will/should prevent the mechanical damage to affect human lifes. What if with layers of protections. A required thinking to safe lifes.
Mike Tonner
The accident involved the boiler feed water system (operating pressure 70 bar (1015 psi), operating temperature 280 °C (536°F)) of unit 72 (continuous catalytic reforming, CCR).Two contractors were reinjecting sealant on a leak box on the bonnet-to-body flange of a 16 inch motorized valve, when suddenly the studs of the flange failed.The bonnet was launched into the process area, and landed at a 25 m distance.
This does not seems to be explosion since explosion requires the ignition material which can not be in steam pipeline. I think this is the case of high pressure high temperature super heated steam burst from pipeline.For this service generally P 91 (9Cr-1MO-0,3V) is used and which require extreme care during welding and post weld treatment. Many catastrophic failure have been reported in this material world over. 9
Ian Rodger
If steam is used to purge hydrocarbon vessels, hydrocarbon can be drawn back into the steam supply lines as they cool if attention is NOT paid to timing and isolation.
Hirak Dutta
How can there be a blast in a steam pipeline; I fail to comprehend the scenario. There must be much more than what is stated in HC processing.I am concerned about the number of accidents that are taking place. Recently we had pipeline explosion in China resulting in a number of fatalities and loss of property. Few days back there was an accident at Lemont Refinery, Citgo.Once again I urge that root cause of all such failures must be made available for the benefit of society at large. We must learn from all such sad incidents.
peter wigley
This is very sad news. I spent many happy times working at the adjacent Fina Antwerp Olefins plant. This,plant ,designed by ExxonChemical People from Baytown,was the most complex plant ever built,and probably remains so.It was constructed by the Italian contractor IREM.
Harry Gatley
I usually let the CSB (Chemcial Safety Board) take the lead in investigations but Ialso have been an expert witness in cases of fires and explosions - usually representing the Insurance Companies. The issues of corporate cutbacks e.g. BP leading to fatal explosions e.g. the BP Texas City explosion a few years ago must be dealt with in some manner that will alter the culture in the industry. A review of the CSB statistics is revealing. The economics have changed safety for the worse. Despite record upstream profits both in oil and mining developed country disasters have risen. The CEO's of both are being swapped out rapidly these days as safety is becoming the number one issue once again largely due to the accidents driving insurance costs up. I been in this field for 40 years now and have seen a continuing slide toward 19th century attitudes by the management. Reguation has fallen apart as well since the George W Bush era scrapping of regulations. Unfortunately instead of using record upstream profist for safety they are absorbing insurance and litigation costs with it. It is actually cheaper to pay higher premiums and in house attorneys than to improve safety.
Like other alkanes, gasoline burns in a limited range of its vapor phase and, coupled with its volatility, this makes leaks highly dangerous when sources of ignition are present. Gasoline has a lower explosion limit of 1.4% by volume and an upper explosion limit of 7.6%. If the concentration is below 1.4%, the air-gasoline mixture is too lean and does not ignite. If the concentration is above 7.6%, the mixture is too rich and also does not ignite. However, gasoline vapor rapidly mixes and spreads with air, making unconstrained gasoline quickly flammable. Many accidents involve people using gasoline to start bonfires. The gasoline readily vaporizes and mixes with surrounding air (Wikipedia).First of all, may God bless the 2 persons who died & my total compassion with their families! Being Engineer who worked for more than 25 years in Oil & Gas processing industry I would say it is very difficult for me to understand this article because it started by talking about blast occurred in a steam pipe & then it is question of "Explosion" during planned maintenance of gasoline unit.My analysis is as follow:Firstly Total statement about explosion on steam pipe needs to be clarified because the word of explosion of steam pipe is not adequate since explosion means: Fuel + air + ignition. In our case we can only have crack or pipe broken & in that case a leak of huge amount of steam under high pressure & high temperature which can directed to nearest equipment i.e. pipe, compressor, rack, etc. or person which can very harmful. But for Piping Designer it is well-known that in case of High Pressure & High temperature the specification recommends SS material (Stainless Steel) for pipe also a relieve valve is to be provided on pipe. So any defect on material selection is not to be considered. Also any failure on pipe welding cannot give explosion.Secondly let us consider that the stream of steam was directed to gasoline unit, in this case also it is not considered as source of ignitionLastly the planned maintenance works was at 3 p.m. means during day so good conditions of work. In my point of view it is very difficult to consider that blast of steam pipe is the source of ignition which caused the explosion. I would say that hot work during planned maintenance is the reason.This is my analysis: I MAY BE WRONG
Amar Abbas
We should analyze that technology and protection layers have improved a lot over the years but frequency of such type of incidents (steam pipe) is also on rise. Might we be keeping safety behind production, tight schedules, cost cutting due to lower margins, outsourcing etc.
Mohiuddin Sardar
These incidents once again show that even Europe, which is considered the front runner for documentation for safety codes and laws, the basic concerns outside safety e.g. schedule, cost, runtime loss and complacency etc. which are not incorporated in the codes, many times these are the real causes for accidents. It is not a matter of only the loss of two lives. It is the repetition of such incidents which needs serious thought. We always pressurise the contractor to reduce shutdown time, to reduce cost, to make it more economically attractive. But all these at the expense of what? Also seriously speaking, the person who usually pushes for schedule, savings and loss of production has to be made answerable for any fatal incident. This is just a personal view without any malice against anyone.
I am surprised to see blast in steam pipe. There may some connection with pipe carrying hydrocarbons. Authority has not clarified about occurance.
Jaime Bárcena -México-
Even though the planned maintenance work, fatal accidents around the world unfortunately shall be happening because contractor workers do not strictly know the plant facilities and overall the refinery plant safety procedures, because they work "as task force" under time pressure within an schedule and also the extreme safety measures needed are not taken in account since the contract work scope. For such planned maintenance oil refineries & process plant work must be an own trained supervision squad workers to help the contractor workers to put on line safety plant measures before start any kind of works within the facilities.We shall be saddened around the world to know again of this kind of fatal news, Therefore crude oil refineries should issue insurances for that kind of contracts as a rule regarding economical protection for the families as an ability to cope with them for this kind of tragic loss. Then crude oil refineries and also process companies may be able to determine previously the root cause of such kind of explosions, and take steps to ensure they never occur again
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There is the critical need now to excalate operational safety to the front burner in all the refineries of the world to avert further fatalities and explosion across the HPI. frequent accidents is becoming high concerns in the industrfy. engr jimoh.
Ahmad Kusha
Almost all the disasters and fatal accidents in the industry so far as I can remember during my past 45 years experience have happened during shut down for Turn Around , during start-up after Turn Around or during a major maintenance job while part of the plant was running. Have we learned our lessen? it is worthed to have a special round table for these cases and come up with some solid answer ? We had similar case in Honeywell cracker in Geismar Louisiana several months ago.Thanks for attention
Terry Livingston
I am saddened to hear this news, and wish for the families the ability to be able to cope with this tragic loss. May Total be able to determine the root cause of this explosion, and take steps to ensure it never occurs again.
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A couple weeks ago, the comic strip Zits showed the mom asking her teenaged son why he was looking at his phone while watching television. He explained the second screen was all about sharing the experience of the program with other people. The mom then steps back to reveal the son's girlfriend sitting next to him on the couch and he asks, "When did you get here?"
It's funny because it's true. The second screen has become standard operating procedure in today's modern television programming. Reality shows like Survivor will display a hashtag for certain portions of the episode, so you can easily find others tweeting on the same topic. Sitcoms and dramas often invite you live tweet with one of the stars each week. Heck, we even have a live chat going through WIBW.com during most of our newscasts!
The power of the second screen really flexed its muscle during the Oscars with the selfie seen round the world. When Ellen tweeted a picture surrounded by celebrities and told us to set a record for sharing it, by gosh, we responded. The photo has been retweeted 3.2 million times!
I'm not knocking the second screen. I admit, I enjoy it especially during awards shows and other special events, largely to see what snarky comments people might make or to argue over who was best dressed or gave the greatest speech. During the news chat, I might add an extra tidbit about a story or answer a question on a detail someone might have missed.
But the point of the Zits comic isn't lost. If we are ignoring the people who and world which physically surrounds us, are we truly sharing the experience? Modern technology makes the world so small, allowing interaction in ways that seemed like science fiction when I was a kid. If we aren't careful, though, that same technology might bring a dose of reality to those futuristic visions of a world dominated by robots and short on human contact. We must keep our eyes and ears open to the person at the other end of the couch, make that human connection first, and, perhaps, share your reaction with that person in spoken words before typing it to your followers.


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If you're a Bowling Green taxpayer, you could end up keeping more of your money next year under a new proposal by City Commissioner Brian Strow.
The City Commission will vote tomorrow night on Dr. Strow's proposal to reduce the city's occupational tax from 2% to 1.9% starting July 1.
Dr. Strow says the city will have almost $5 million in surplus funds, and his tax cut would only lower that figure by $1.5 million, leaving more than $3 million extra to spend on improving city services.
"So if all these things they can still spend all this money on, my question is going to be if we've got the money sitting around and we hadn't planned on spending it, why can't we give it back to the people who paid the taxes to start with?" Strow asked.
Sources tell WBKO the proposal is unlikely to pass, because some city commissioners believe the tax cut would take away funding for expanding the city's services to meet the needs of a growing population.
Dr. Strow says he will be back next fiscal year with another tax cut proposal, whether this one passes or not.


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How would you describe someone who doesn't listen well? I don't mean someone who has hearing problems. I mean someone who doesn't finish listening and starts interrupting the conversation.
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Depending on the exact reason for the listener doing this, you might say that he is impulsive, if he is interrupting because it is the first thing that comes into his head, or that he is impatient, because he can't wait to put his ha'pence worth in, or he might be intolerant, if he wants to suppress or pre-empt any possibility of a dissenting (or concurring) opinion.
I would call them bad listener.
Without assigning motivation to the act as @Brian Hooper's options do, I'd suggest boorish, uncouth, or simply rude.


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#2. Irma Grese, the Hyena of Auschwitz
Knowing what you know about the Holocaust, you have to wonder what would qualify as "creepy" in the midst of a concentration camp. Would you even want to know?
Well, we're going to tell you anyway. This is the story of Irma Grese, the Nazi at Auschwitz who got sexually aroused by torture. A lot.
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That's the thing with psychopathic Nazis -- they're easily mistaken for soccer moms.
On the outside, Irma Grese was a teenage Aryan dream -- pretty by Nazi standards, dedicated, beefy. On the inside, Irma Grese was a time bomb waiting for a chance to explode. Picture this ...
... but with a bejeweled whip, pistol and a set of half-starved dogs who would attack on her command. Imagine this woman shooting people on a whim, using her belt to whip prisoners, then kicking them when they were down. And getting off on it the whole time.
Irma Grese loved her job like a white woman loves Oprah. She got off on torturing people, like when she used her whip to slash female prisoners' breasts. Then when the cuts became infected and required surgery -- without anesthesia, we should mention -- she watched the procedure in the operating room, enjoying orgasms so intense they "made saliva run down from the corner of her mouth."
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Let's just pretend there aren't websites dedicated to Irma's fetishes. Also, let's all drink ourselves to sleep tonight.
By the time she was tried and hanged for her crimes, Irma was only 22 years old. At the same age most of us were trying to figure out what to do with our bachelor's degrees, Irma Grese rewrote what it means to be horrible.
#1. The Chichi-jima Incident
During World War II, nine American servicemen were shot down over the Japanese-held island of Chichi-jima. One was picked up by the submarine USS Finback, while the other eight were captured by the Japanese. According to eyewitnesses, those eight were executed (some via samurai sword). That's fairly normal war stuff. What supposedly happened after that, is not.
As we have well established by now, war does weird things to a person's brain. It is entirely possible, and even likely, that everyone involved in this was a perfectly normal person before the war. Keep that in mind.
"So how was school today? Anything just ridiculously crazy fucking violent happen?"
So, the story goes that the Japanese Army officers hosted a party for the Japanese Navy officers, and they ran out of meat. So the guy in charge told one of his subordinates to get some kimo from a fresh grave -- kimo meaning "flesh," specifically the liver. The subordinate did what he was told and the liver was fried up alongside the sake and all the other goodies of the night.
Oh, it gets better.
Apparently the Japanese Navy officers at the dinner were so impressed that they started executing and serving up their own American POWs ... just to show off and be fancy. And the crazy thing -- that still wasn't even the worst part.
"Babe, I'm pretty sure most WWII re-enactors skip this part for a reason."
Some of the POWs were executed before their bodies were cannibalized. Some weren't. As in, their limbs were amputated and their flesh was eaten on the spot -- on account of the islands not having enough refrigeration to properly store human meat.
Oh, one more thing. Do you remember that pilot who was spared from becoming an appetizer because he was picked up by a submarine?
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I want to install Skype, but I can't locate it in Software Center or by using Synaptic Package Manager. Can anyone help me?
For 11.10 and above
Starting in Ubuntu 11.10 multi-arch is used for applications that formerly used
Skype is a 32 bit binary and under Ubuntu 11.10 you must install the 32 bit version of Skype for both Ubuntu 11.10 i386 and amd64 versions.
You can get this from the Ubuntu Partner Repository.
To get it from the partner repository first enable it in your software sources, and then get it from the Software Center:
Click the ubuntu button, then search for "Software Sources", click on it, and go to the "Other Software Tab":
When you click close run the software center, and search for Skype.
If skype still does not appear in software-center, then close the application.
In a terminal type:
This will force the package management to be updated, followed by the software-catalog for software-center.
11.10 & above Command Line
To enable the partner repository from the command line, edit
Then update your apt cache and install it:
For Ubuntu 12.04 and above
Command line way:
For 10.10
To install Skype, you need to enable the canonical partner repositories.
Add this repository:
This may already be available but not installed. If so, just tick the box next to the partners repository:
When you close the software sources window it should refresh your packages and Skype should be available to install from the Software Centre.
For 12.04 and above
There appears to be a problem where skype does not show up in Software Center after following the previous instructions for 11.04 etc.
You'll still need to add the partners repository by following one of the other instructions for the GUI, or use the terminal to edit /etc/apt/sources.list so that the line
has not commented (hashed) out.
You then need to update the repository information:
and can then install Skype from command line:
You have to use Canonical partner repository. To enable it, use these commands:
Installing packages manually is not recommended. But I have been installing Skype package manually for a quite some time through the Ubuntu Package manager without any problem. Just make sure you check any warning shown by during the installation.
Go to: http://www.skype.com/intl/en/get-skype/on-your-computer/linux/
Download the 64bit Ubuntu package. Once the download is finished, double click the package to start the installation through the Ubuntu Package manager. It will download any dependency and instal
To enable the partner repository that has Skype: Go to System -> Administration -> Software sources -> Other software, and enable the partner repository (on lucid 10.04, it's http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu lucid)
Click close and let the program fetch updates for the repositories.
Then, using either Ubuntu software centre, synaptic package manager or apt-get, install the skype package.
As I always do:
And then download the multiarch deb package of skype and finally:
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Robert A. Zauzmer is a summa cum laude graduate of UCLA (1982) and Stanford Law School (1985). After a clerkship with Judge Arlin M. Adams of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, he was in private practice until joining the United States Attorney's Office in Philadelphia in March 1990. As an Assistant United States Attorney, he has prosecuted all manner of federal crimes, focusing on corruption and fraud matters. His cases have included:
-- Several savings and loan and bank failure cases in the 1990s;
-- The prosecution of former Congressman Edward M. Mezvinsky for defrauding others of over $10 million;
-- The Philadelphia City Hall corruption case, in which the City Treasurer and numerous business executives were convicted of corrupt conduct in local affairs, a case which led to a significant reform movement in city government; and
-- The prosecution of former State Senator Vincent J. Fumo, a powerful Pennsylvania politician who was convicted of defrauding the State Senate and a charity he founded of millions of dollars, and of obstruction of justice.
In addition, since 1998, Zauzmer has supervised all federal criminal appeals in the district, and appears frequently before the Third Circuit in that capacity. Zauzmer has presented all three en banc arguments in which the office has been involved since 2000.
Zauzmer has twice received the Department of Justice's John Marshall Award, its highest award for litigation activities. He was first recognized in 1992 for his assistance in a prosecution of drug organizations which took over and terrorized a Philadelphia neighborhood. He then received the award in 2008 for his participation on the team of Justice Department attorneys which oversaw the Department's response to amendments to the Sentencing Guidelines for crack cocaine offenses, which required the resentencing of thousands of defendants; in that effort, Zauzmer drafted extensive arguments which were used by federal prosecutors nationally to respond to the myriad legal issues which the amendments created.
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Virlene F. Stahlhut, 91, of Lincoln, died April 28, 2013 at Grace Pointe, under the loving care of all the staff. She was born on Oct. 2, 1921 in rural Fairbury to Cornelius and Sarah (Junker) Johnson. She attended community college in Fairbury then went to work for the U.S. Army Air Force during World War II as a civilian employee. After the war she remained employed with the U.S. Air Force, working at the Lincoln Air Base unitl she married Charles Stahlhut.
As a very busy homemaker she also maintained the bookwork for Stahlhut Rexall Drug in Crete. She was also an active volunteer within the community of Crete, participating in V.F.W., American Legion and election polls.
She is survived by son Mark Stahlhut of Omaha; son and daughter-in-law Michael and Alma Stahlhut of San Bernadino, Calif.; daughter and son-in-law Janet and Richard Henning of Crete; daughter and son-in-law Cheryl and Gary Davis of Lincoln; numerous grandchildren and great grandchildren; nephews Mark, Dennis and Douglas Johnson; and niece Mary Johnson of Fairbury.
In lieu of flowers, memorials are suggested to the Wounded Warriors Project in honor of her lifelong love of her late husband Charles, also known as Chuck, Tank, Buddy and Chuckie Baby to all the girls.
Celebration of Life will be at 12:30 p.m. Friday, May 3, at Lincoln Memorial Funeral Home, 6800 S. 14th St.
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I keep getting the following question in interviews; and judging from the reactions I've gotten, I'm not giving the best answer. "What methodology do you use for developing user interfaces?" Which seems like a rather broad question.
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The city marshal is responsible for supervising the marshal's office.
The marshal's office serves all city warrants and writs.
"Marshal Tindle knows our system and the statutes she is charged with enforcing. She will definitely be an asset to the city in this new position," Judge Gibson said.
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$3.99 each with $2.99 shipping so it is more expensive for 1 but each additional is only a dollar more. So they are cheaper if you are buying 2 or more.
From the pictures it looks like it is either white or chrome but the descritption does not specify.
It also looks like it is rather long. This may be a problem for low faucets.
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Likely cheaper on eBay. No, I'm not going to link it for ya.
If seen these advertised various places before and was going to get one to try out but all the reviews say they only last a couple of days or so before they stop working.
It would be cool though.
I'd like one of those faucets that have the sensors in so when you put your hand under it the water comes on automatically.
I bought one of these last weekend at my neighborhood Dollar Tree for $1.25+tax. It was fun and worked as advertised. It was easy to install, and I didn't need either of the adapters.
However, my faucet drips occasionally, and those drips were just enough water to keep the light on all the time until the batteries died the next day.
These are very awesome... for the 2-3 days that they work.


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I just got this lens and have been experimenting with it. I would welcome any tips regarding settings for outdoor 360 panos with it. Panomundo's site has some tips but I believe they are based on the F4 Sigma.
Here is what is posted on his site ....
"...................... people I've talked with tell me that f4.0 to f5.5 is the best range for their lenses, but in some tests I've done with my Sigma 8mm, f8-f10 gives the sharpest results," ........" Setting the Focus
On the Sigma 8mm, the focus ring shows 3ft. and Infinity with no sub-markings between them, so I usually set my focus right in between there......."
I'm having rather mixed results, but I am new to this
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I am creating a Script and I need to know what package manager each Popular Unix Distribution Uses (especially those distros that are commonly-used for Servers)...
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Debian uses apt-get
Fedora uses yum
I am creating a Script and I need to know what package manager each Popular Unix Distribution Uses (especially those distros that are commonly-used for Servers)...
I mean:
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I'll comment about the specific *BSD tools:
Warning: the *BSD systems use the same name convention for the tools (pkg_add, pkg_info, etc) but all are completely different.
You would probably be better off creating a .deb package for Debian based distros (including Ubuntu), and .rpm package for Red-Hat based distros (including Fedora), and making the .tar file available for everybody else. Don't concern yourself with which package manager each distro uses. For instance, although I run a Debian-derived distro, I personally use the
The website distrowatch compares the package manager tools and their options of all famous linux distributions.
Its different for different unix-systems. But the common thing in all those is the tar.gz file . It is the source code of your program. Then you can make either .deb files for Debian systems or .rpm file for Red Hat Systems. The .deb and .rpm are both binary files while tar.gz is mostly ASCII file but it can also contain binaries. You can convert .rpm file to .deb file in debian systems by this command:
To install :
To convert to .deb from .rpm :
Replace the "packagename.rpm" with your original name of the file.
Then a .deb file will be created and to install that use :
Replace the "filename.deb" with your original name of the file.
If you want that users can install your application by apt-get or yum then you will have to upload your app to the repository of your distribution. Only then the user will be able to use apt-get or yum to install the application directly.


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George Wright
Estate of George Wright
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- Born:
- January 28, 1847
- Bats:
- Right
- Throws:
- Right
- Height:
- 5' 9"
- Weight:
- 150 lbs
- Major League Debut:
- 5-05-1871 with BS1
- Hall of Fame:
- 1937
George Wright was baseball's first franchise player. His older brother Harry was asked to form the first pro team, the 1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings, and the first player Harry recruited was George, a shortstop. The Wrights transferred operations to Boston when the National Association was formed, and won four of five pennants. George was the team's sparkplug, Harry the manager. They joined the National League in its first season, 1876, and won pennants in 1877 and 1878, with George leading the league in at-bats. George managed Providence to a pennant in 1879, with Harry's Boston club finishing second.
George gave up baseball almost entirely to establish a sporting-goods business. Since Albert Spalding and A.J. Reach already had strong footholds in baseball, Wright looked to other sports for development. He was helped in this goal when his son, Beals, became an early tennis star. When the Hall of Fame opened in 1939, Wright was one of its first inductees.
Amateur era
At some times during the war, both Wright brothers played for the venerable Gothams, the second eldest baseball team after the Knickerbockers. According to Ivor-Campbell (1996), George moved from the Gotham juniors to the senior team when he was fifteen. At seventeen in 1864 he was the regular catcher.
Baseball's recovery from the American Civil War was far advanced in greater New York City (always untouched by the military conflict), as the leading clubs played more than twenty NABBP matches, the Gothams eleven. George played eight and led the team both in runs, scoring 2.4 times per game, and "hands lost", put out only 2.4 times per game, average being three per player in a 9-inning game. In seven matches infielder Harry was fourth in scoring at 2.0 and second behind George in hands lost at 2.6 (Wright 2000: 91).
For the 1865 season George was hired by the Philadelphia Cricket Club; that summer he played in five matches for the Olympic Ball Club of that city. The Olympic club was the devoted to games in the base ball genus, established in 1833. At the December annual meeting, the first in peacetime, National Association of Base Ball Players membership tripled, including isolated clubs from as far as Fort Leavenworth, Kansas and Chattanooga, Tennessee. Wright returned to the Gothams for base ball; he was nineteen and nearing his athletic peak. At the same time, Harry Wright moved to Cincinnati for a job at the Union Cricket Club.
Early in the summer of 1866, Wright moved from catcher for Gotham, which played eight NABBP matches that year, to shortstop for Union, which played 28, the leading number. The Unions of Morrisania, now in the New York borough of the Bronx, were another charter member of the first Association, but one that moved toward professionalism in the postwar years, as the Gothams did not. In 1867, he joined the Nationals of Washington, DC, eldest club in that city, whose approach to professionalism was arranging government jobs, mainly with the Treasury. He played second base, shortstop, and pitcher in 29 of the 30 matches fully on record and in those matches led the team both in scoring and hands lost. Next year he returned to the Unions for the association's last officially all-amateur season and moved permanently to the shortstop position.
Meanwhile, brother Harry had acquired baseball duties and had organized for Cincinnati the strongest team in the West, led in 1868 by a handful of players from the East—presumably compensated somehow by club members if not by the club. When the NABBP permitted professionalism for 1869, Harry augmented himself and four incumbents with five new men including brother George, who was highest paid at $1400 for nine months. George remained a cornerstone of Harry's teams for ten seasons.
Cincinnati toured the continent undefeated in 1869, as George batted .633 with 49 home runs in 57 games. It may have been the strongest team in 1870, but the club dropped professional base ball after the second season.
New England
Harry Wright was hired to organize a new team in Boston, where he signed three teammates including George for 1871. He brought along the nickname, too; if the nickname is the tenth man or the player-manager counts double, Harry thereby composed half the team that just missed winning the first National Association pennant. George suffered a broken leg and missed half the season; one more win at the right time would have been decisive in Boston's favor.
With some personnel changes, the Boston Red Stockings won the other four NA pennants, dominating so severely in 1875 that they helped provoke a new league. The team trailed badly in the first National League season, after the defection of its Big Four western players to Chicago, but rebounded to win again both 1877-78. George Wright had played an even decade for Harry's teams, beginning with the First Nine and closing with six league championships in seven. (Another 1869 hire, Andy Leonard, was present for all but the 1871 second-place finish.)
The Providence Grays, new in the NL for 1878, hired George to lead the team in 1879. He did as well as possible, wresting the championship for himself from older brother Harry; for Providence and Rhode Island from older and regionally dominant Boston and Massachusetts.
But Wright & Ditson Sporting Goods was growing, so George returned to Boston for business reasons. He remains the only man to win the pennant in his lone season as manager. Meanwhile the National League introduced the reserve list system, and Providence listed George, so he was not free to sign with Boston. (Until the 1879-80 off-season, every professional baseball player was a "free agent" for every season.) During the next two seasons he played only a few games.. When Boston changed managers for 1882, Harry signed to lead Providence and inherited the right to sign his brother. George agreed to play another season full-time, retiring after the 1882 season with a .302 batting average in the major leagues from 1871.
In 1882 George Wright took up cricket seriously again with the Longwood Cricket Club of Boston where he dominated local cricket sides with Chalmers, the Longwood tennis pro, holding up the other bowling end. In 1891 George Wright captained the Longwood Cricket Club against Lord Hawke's visiting English side. Wright's side surprised the visiting English first-class players with accurate bowling which kept the tourist in check. In 1892 George Wright donated cricket gear to British Guianese (Guyana) cricket players thereby starting a century old tradition of West Indian cricket in New England.Citation:David Sentance Cricket in America-research in progress for a second edition.
Baseball legacy
Wright holds the NA career record for the most triples (41), and he led the NA in triples with 15 in 1874.
George was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1937 and inducted by the Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame in 2005. Elder brother Harry is another member of both Halls. Unfortunately, the official National "Hall of Fame Biography" of George credits him with "piloting" six championship teams in Boston, which was Harry's achievement, beside managing his one Providence champion (NBHOFM a).Younger brother Sam Wright also played baseball professionally, with brief appearances in the major leagues.
George Wright served on the 1906-1907 Mills Commission that identified Cooperstown, New York as the birthplace of baseball. President Mills and secretary Sullivan probably did the work, with the others lending gravity and celebrity.
Wright lived long enough to be consulted regarding the baseball centennial celebrations of 1939, including the establishment of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown. Soon after his own election, he died in Boston of a stroke, aged 90. He is buried in Holyhood Cemetery, in Brookline, Massachusetts.
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I would like to know your experiences with using any new techniques you know of, and if you have felt refreshed after being woken up?
I strongly believe that 'alarm clocks' are bad, scaring yourself awake can't be a good thing?
I only know of two alternatives to the alarm clock.
Sleep Cycle
This is an app for the iPhone, it records your sleep movements and wakes you up in a 30 minute time period before your set wake up time. It tries to workout when you are in your lightest sleep phase. It also wakes you up with calming music instead of a loud alarm.
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I would like to get some answers on how I can stream music from Spotify on my iPad to my home-cinema receiver.
Exactly what hardware do I need to invest in?
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Basically, play your track on Spotify, go full screen which reveals the sharing options, and from there you can pick your Airport Express which should be cabled to whatever AUX-in inputs your amp/receiver has.
The following pic' shows me doing something similar to an AppleTV (I don't own an airport express but the process is is essentially the same thing).
In fact for audio there isn't much difference between the an Apple TV and an Airport Express, and the choice of Apple TV or Airport Express is whether you want TV functions or Network functions as extra functionality over and above the audio. The only difference for audio is that the Apple TV has an optical out port (& HDMI), and the Airport Express has a 3.5mm Analogue/Optical output,
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I just finished fermenting a brew and I forgot to remove the blow off tube which is a tube sitting in a 500 ml bottle of water. So when I started sucking beer out of my fermenter, I sucked all the water from the bottle. I decided to carbonate one of the 2 kegs at 2'C and store the other keg at 16'C. My question is: will these beers be contaminated?
Depends on what bugs were in the water and whether they can reproduce fast enough to flavour the beer before your drink it.
My advice is to keep the beer as cold as you can to limit microbe growth, and drink it quickly. The beer stored at 16 C is much more at risk because the elevated temperature will accelerate microbe growth. If you can keep both kegs close to freezing, that's optimal.
Maybe, but probably not. Several things are working against contamination post-fermentation.
Was your blowoff tube pumping krausen into the water or just basically operating as an extended airlock? If it was pumping krausen that increases the chances of something growing in the water, but does not necessarily mean it will continue to grow in the keg. If it was just an extended airlock, then the only thing that went into the water was CO2. Even IF something was growing in the water, it would have had to produce off-flavors BEFORE going into your beer since due to the reasons above, it shouldn't continue growing.
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Sure water sitting at room temp for 10 days could grow something, but generally sugar or something else is required for bad stuff to grow since they need something to eat. Bacteria can't just eat water. Given that this was also in a fermentation fridge (enclosed space) for the 10 days, it is even less likely that something landed in there and started to grow so I'd bet that you are perfectly fine with just very slightly diluted beer.
Again, the fact that your beer had alcohol and hops in it at the time the water was added will prevent almost anything else from growing in it. The biggest risk for contamination is pre-fermentation, not post. Like another comment said, yeast doesn't eat bacteria. Yeast only eats sugar. Chilling the beer causes the yeast to go dormant and settle out of the beer at the bottom so yes it stops working, but it wasn't "eating" the bacteria in the first place.
Yeast outcompetes other bad stuff in your beer simply because it reproduces so fast in wort. When you start fermentation, I guarantee there is contaminating bacteria in there no matter how good your sanitization practices are. The yeast just goes to work immediately and outcompetes the bad stuff, producing alcohol as a byproduct which in turn kills the bad stuff. Hopefully this clarifies things.


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Before there was the glamour of South Beach, South Florida was better known for its River of Grass. There is no other place quite like the Everglades on this Earth. Its unique, interdependent ecosystems stretch from the headwaters of the Kissimmee River south through Florida Bay, and east and west to the coastal estuaries.
Scenes of native birds, animals and plants abound, and it's the only place where you have the possibility to see an alligator and a crocodile sunbathe beside one another in the wild.
The Everglades are threatened, however, by a lack of freshwater inflow, degraded water quality, invasive plants and animals, urban and agricultural development, and climate change. And although its beauty and uniqueness cannot be quantified, its shrinking size can be. Over the last 100 years, the Everglades has lost about half of its original size — more than 2 million acres –mostly due to drainage of land for agriculture, and urban and suburban development.
The United States Geological Survey is heavily involved — along with numerous federal, state and local partners – in ongoing efforts to restore the Everglades. More than 30 USGS scientists spend a large part of their time contributing to the science that is supporting projects to protect and restore these irreplaceable wetlands. A few of the efforts include the development of a much needed tool for tracking water depth, the battle against invasive species, and a multi-year water flow restoration research project. All of the efforts are essential to support the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan — the largest ecosystem restoration effort on the planet.
Everglades' restoration was once riddled with uncertainty about water depths and distribution through this complex patchwork of wetlands, so the development of the Everglades Depth Estimation Network has been a game changer for resource managers. The network is an integrated system of water-level gauges, computer models, and applications that generate daily water-level data and derive hydrologic data across the freshwater part of the greater Everglades.
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The EDEN surface-water model uses water-level data from 238 gauges to estimate water level and water depth on a daily basis for the entire freshwater Everglades.
The models developed using the network, along with the data generated by them, help scientists identify and monitor hydrological and ecological response to changes in the water delivery system resulting from Everglades restoration efforts. The data from EDEN are essential to scientists and water managers working in the Everglades because they help them correlate and assess the impacts of the changes.
Invasive species represent a significant threat to global biodiversity and a substantial economic burden. Florida has 56 established, nonnative reptile and amphibian species; that number alone makes the United States the country with the largest number of invasive reptiles and amphibians in the world.
Burmese pythons, giant constricting snakes native to Asia, are now found throughout much of South Florida, including Everglades National Park.
Pythons have increased dramatically in both abundance and geographic range since 2000. They consume a wide variety of native mammals and birds. One study suggests the population of raccoons, opossums, and bobcats have declined significantly in the regions of Everglades National Park where pythons have been established the longest. When pythons reduce mammal populations, other predators that depend on those populations are affected, as is the vegetation that mammals would normally consume. Ultimately, this reduction has the potential to impact the entire ecosystem.
Burmese pythons are very cryptic, so it's hard to find them in the vast wilderness of the Everglades. The USGS leads a multi-pronged scientific program to understand the snake's movements, habitat use, thermal biology, and impacts, as well as to test range-expansion hypotheses. The overall goal for USGS python research in the Everglades is to identify aspects of python biology and ecology that will help detect the snakes and to assist resource managers design scientifically-based control and removal methods.
Pythons in the Everglades easily capture the public's attention, but there are other invaders that also are damaging to the ecosystem. The Argentine black and white tegu is a large lizard that feeds on alligator and crocodile eggs, and invasive nonnative plants such as melaleuca, Brazilian pepper, and old-world climbing fern, can completely displace native species.
Nonnative fish species are also on the rise, bringing concerns that they too may displace native species and alter the food web. In a recent USGS experiment, just one of the species — the African jewelfish — caused native snails and shrimp to disappear. This change, were it to occur outside of the lab, would likely have had an impact on wading birds — such as the roseate spoonbill — that count on these small animals as a food source.
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The importance of the ever-flowing River of Grass is now internationally recognized. Everglades National Park has been designated an International Biosphere Reserve, a World Heritage Site, and a Ramsar Wetland of International Importance. Mile-after-mile of Florida wilderness showcase some of the most unique animal and plant species in the world.
But challenges remain. As development and construction have expanded, encroaching and shrinking the Everglades, they have created a loss in flood buffering capacity, decreased water quality, and loss of habitat for threatened and endangered species.
USGS scientists are working to provide decision makers the information they need to mitigate those impacts, and to help maintain the health, wealth and beauty of the Everglades for future generations.