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SWS: The Shell Script as Web Server
Developer Brett Wynkoop has written the code for a simple web server called Simple/Small/Shell Web Server (SWS) in the form of a shell script.
SWS is ideal to serve static content on the web; however, the open source program lacks a CGI-Interface. The script works with Bourne-compatible shells and requires the standard Unix programs dirname, cat, and date. According to Wynkoop, installation consists of putting the program somewhere, making it executable, creating the document directory, and creating an entry in inetd.conf. He has tested his small server in FreeBSD, Solaris, and Linux.
SWS 1.0 creates index pages for directory listings on the fly and includes a "404 Page" for the "File not found" error message. The server is available for download as a stand-alone script and as a tarball, and includes a man page on the SWS-powered project home page.
The SWS is published with a BSD-license.
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On Categories and A Posteriori Necessity: A Phenomenological Echo
Version of Record online: 5 JAN 2012
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9973.2012.01734.x
© 2012 The Author. Metaphilosophy © 2012 Metaphilosophy LLC and Blackwell Publishing Ltd
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This article argues for two related theses. First, it defends a general thesis: any kind of necessity, including metaphysical necessity, can only be known a priori. Second, however, it also argues that the sort of a priori involved in modal metaphysical knowledge is not related to imagination or any sort of so-called epistemic possibility. Imagination is neither a proof of possibility nor a limit to necessity. Rather, modal metaphysical knowledge is built on intuition of philosophical categories and the structures they form.

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Missouri Mountain Lions: Invasive Species or Wildlife?
Right now legislators in Missouri are discussing whether the large predators should be considered wildlife or as an invasive species. Then there's the fact that the mountain lions were there before settlers, so who really is the invasive species?
It is illegal to kill mountain lions in Missouri, but the senate would like to change that. Since 1994 there have been 28 sightings, and half of those happened in the last year. The animals are considered too dangerous to not make some efforts in controlling the population.
If the bill passes, it would be legal to kill mountain lions in Missouri, as long as the carcass is turned in within 24 hours. From CBSStLouis.com.
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We would not say, ourselves, that we are greatly in favour of the burkini and other such manifestations of Islamic prurience. Yet we would, as with people saying things we might not agree with, insist that the populace should be allowed to dress themselves in any such manner that doesn't actually frighten the animals.
Why not get all Marxist about the libraries?
We've another of these dirges about how the libraries are under such great threat:
Nearly 350 libraries have closed in Britain over the past six years, causing the loss of almost 8,000 jobs, according to new analysis.
In a controversial move that sparked protests by authors including Philip Pullman and Zadie Smith, councils across the country have shut their reading rooms in an effort to make deep savings.
Children's author Alan Gibbons warned the public library service faced the "greatest crisis in its history".
All of which brings out our inner Karl Marx. Who did insist that the forces of production (ie, technology) determined social relations. And if we're to be a little more narrow about this, technology determines, or at least should, how we go about doing certain things. The economic historian Brad Delong has long pointed out that the university teaching style of a lecture is really just a hangover from medieval days. When books were vastly expensive (a scholar might hope to accumulate a library of perhaps a score volumes over a lifetime) then having one person reading that very expensive product to 200 made some sort of sense. When a copy of the book costs less than the hourly wage of the reader perhaps less so.
So it is with libraries. When books were much more expensive than they are today then increasing the Solow Residual (in exactly and entirely the manner that Uber and so on do today, the sharing economy) through reuse and lending made great sense. But technologies change, relative prices change. It may or may not be true that we have reached that tipping point just yet, where the value of the books being lent is less than the cost of running the lending system, but we think we can all see that that is going to happen at some point.
The point is thus not that libraries are closing, nor that we should all fight the power to prevent it. What should actually be the discussion is, well, do we need libraries any more? And if we still do then when won't we?
But of course, as C. Northcote Parkinson pointed out, there's nothing as conservative as a bureaucracy considering its own existence.
Recommended books – the other list
Almost everyone on the libertarian free-market side recommends a similar top ten books, including the classic works of Hayek, Popper, Friedman and the others. They are in my top ten, too. However, I have drawn up a second list, one of books less celebrated, but which sustain, if more obliquely, a similar philosophical outlook.
Ooooh the outrage over Tesco and the other supermarkets
That Tesco's brands a few of its products with the names of fictitious farms is amusing, as is the outrage that this has brought forth from the usual suspects. But then matters take a turn for the worse as we get a question of such driveling stupidity as to potentially make our brains leaks from our ears. Or possibly to ponder whether this has already happened to the questioner. We refer to this from Yvonne Roberts:
How have we allowed a system to emerge that squeezes the whole supply chain in the name of profit and seduces us into ignoring our carbon footprint for that dubious consumer privilege called "choice"?
For this is the point and purpose of having an economy in the first place. Both Adam Smith and Frederic Bastiat tell us that we must always look at economic questions from the point of view of consumption. And we can and do go further than that ourselves: the point of this whole economy thing is to maximise the consumption possibilities of the population. What is to be consumed, how such consumption is to be valued, being the choice of said population. If choice is what said people value then an increase in such choice is an addition to the value they gain from consumption: which is, again we insist, the reason we have this whole structure of markets, exchange, production and all the rest. This is the very purpose of our efforts: to increase consumption opportunities.
Profit is simply a method of keeping score along the way. If you make a profit in your production process then that means that you are adding value. The value of your outputs is greater than the value of your inputs. More accurately, the alternative uses of those inputs would produce less value added for consumers to enjoy. Thus profit is a good thing, losses bad, for losses indicate that you are subtracting, rather than adding, that value which can then be consumed.
If growing a pig in Belgium, slaughtering it in Germany and eating it in England produces more value for the consumers to consume than to grow, slaughter and consume a similar pig in England then so be it: this is the very point of it all, to produce the greatest value of output that may be consumed from the limited resources at our disposal.
Choice, consumers, consumption, these are not things to be disdained from the comfort of an Islington eyrie, they are the entire damn point of having a society or an economy in the first place.
Take the Easter egg. The salt may have come from China; palm oil from south east Asia; whey from New Zealand; sugar from the Caribbean; cocoa from South America, on and on. Britain imports food from more than 180 countries.
Ain't it just fantabulously wondrous?
Yes, this is how school competition works
School competition works in exactly the same manner as other forms of competition that is. It's something that happens at the margin, that margin then dragging up the performance of others:
There is no evidence that academies perform better than council-maintained schools. The white paper highlights impressive improvements in primary schools – 85% of those are still maintained. 82% of maintained schools have been rated good or excellent by Ofsted, while three times as many councils perform above the national average in terms of progress made by students than the largest academy chains. Where a school is failing, there is no question that action must be taken – but converting every school to an academy will not tackle those issues.
Think of a different arena to study the effects of competition. We know very well that the firms who export are those at the productivity boundary: exporting firms are near always significantly more productive than the other domestic firms in that same sector. Now think of the flip side of that statement: imports from Germany into Britain expose British companies to the finest and most productive German forms. This is one of the major channels by which trade improves productivity. Domestic firms must compete against those imports and near by definition those imports are coming from firms with greater than average productivity. Thus the domestic firms have to pull their socks up.....or be replaced by those who do.
Imports are not, of course, a majority of the UK economy: but that exposure to the best does improve matters over the whole economy. Now back to academies and schools: that some small portion of the education system are academies is exactly what, entirely analagous to that effect from trade and imports, is improving the non-academy state sector. To state that non-academies are improving too is not some symptom of a failure of the program, it's evidence of the success of the program: competition works.
At which point, turning all schools into academies. If it works, as it does, if it's working, as it is, then why not? After all, we do all believe in evidence based policy making, don't we? Good, academies, the competition and freedom to experiment that they bring, are improving the school system by their existence. Thus let's do more of it so as to have an ever better education sector.
Unless, of course, we'd prefer to return to the policy based evidence making of yore which insisted that competition was a bad thing....
The NHS is not investment, it is current spending
We'd like to leave aside our well known biases on the subjects of the European Union and the NHS and make a still important point. Brexit itself is going to make no difference at all to domestic policy: what will is the policies adopted once the UK is again free to adopt whichever policies it wishes. And the NHS, sure, we're not wholly in favour of the current form of the organisation and think the same provision can be done better. But leave those both aside and consider this statement:
Norman Lamb, the Liberal Democrat MP and former health minister, backed Hunt's EU stance.
He said: "I don't agree with Jeremy over the current funding of the NHS.
"I've been very clear that I'd like to see the government investing more in the NHS and social care. But we could not even have that debate if we vote to leave the European Union.
Spending upon the NHS is not investment. Yes, parts of such spending are: building a hospital which will still be there in 30 years' time is investment. But by far the vast majority of NHS spending is upon wages and consumables and is thus current spending. We could, of course, just dismiss this as being pedantry, a symptom of "investment" to a politician being public spending upon anything said politician approves of. But sadly the issue goes deeper than this.
It is not just an apocryphal story that the original founders thought that after the backlog of problems had been cured then spending upon the NHS would go down: they really did think that it was investment. Get over the hump of untreated disease and costs would decline even as tax revenues from the newly again healthy would rise. That could indeed have been described as investment: if it had actually happened. It didn't of course, that nascent NHS went from consuming 3 to 4% of GDP to the current 9 to 10% and more (all figures are a bit hazy as exactly what is NHS spending is a bit hazy).
We're not going to get to a proper and rational discussion on what amount should be spent on the health of the nation, nor how that should be raised nor allocated, until we get over that 70 year old delusion that health care spending is an investment. It isn't: it might be just, moral, necessary, better organised in another manner, just perfect the way it is. But it's most definitely current spending and must be recognised as such before we can have a proper discussion about it.
For example, the correct question is, at heart, how much of current production of the economy should be devoted to health care? No, not how much should we borrow to "invest" in it, but what portion of current income should be devoted to it? That's what that essential division into capital and current spending aids us in seeing: and given that that's what we must see before we decide thus we must see it. Further, the insistence upon seeing it as current spending aids us in viewing that "how much" question in its proper light: what other things are we not going to have as a result of having health care?
Or as an economist would put it about everything, there are always opportunity costs. Thus the true price of something is what we give up to get it. There is no cute let out by calling it investment and thus that is the correct lens through which to view health care spending whether it's done through the NHS or not. What won't we get as a result of more NHS and is more NHS worth more or less than what we must give up?
After all, we can only find the right answer if we ask the correct question in the first place.
An interesting little example of political rhetoric
Apparently it is some terrible scandal that local authorities do not build anew those houses that are sold under the right to buy legislation. The answer given to this accusation being that they do, but slowly. What neither side actually says being the important part: local authority housebuilding is simply not a relevant measure of anything interesting at all:
Local authorities in England have replaced one in 10 of the homes sold through right to buy since discounts were increased in 2012.
Government figures show there have been 49,573 sales since the scheme was relaunched, while 4,594 have been started on site or acquired by councils.
About this we are told:
John Healey, shadow secretary of state for housing and planning, said government decisions were "leading to a huge loss of genuinely affordable homes to rent and buy at a time when they've never been needed more".
He said: "Tory ministers have repeatedly promised that every home sold under right to buy will be replaced one for one, but these figures show that they are failing by a huge margin. Only one home is being built for every eight sold."
That would seem to be a slam dunk, wouldn't it? And yet:
The DCLG said: "Under the right to buy one-for-one additions policy, local authorities have three years from the date of the sale of each additional home to provide an additional affordable property. There were 1,326 additional sales between Q1 of 2012-13 and Q3 of 2012-13. There have been 4,594 starts and acquisitions since Q1 of 2012-13, exceeding the target for one-for-one additions."
What is not being said is that all of this is entirely irrelevant, The housebuilding statistics are here. Local authorities started perhaps 1.700 houses last year, out of some 150,000 for the country. They're 1% of the market, no more. No, this does not mean that "affordable housing" is not being built (quite apart from the fact that a house people can afford is affordable). Because we simply do not use local authorities to build such housing these days. That is now done by housing associations. They have taken over that 15% of the market that used to be councils.
Local authorities and their activities in the housing market are simply an irrelevance. We don't use then as we used to, we've changed the structure of the system. Bleating about irrelevances is, well, it's irrelevant.
This shows that Britons are significantly more generous than their government
An ever so slightly puzzling piece over in The Guardian. Telling us that we Britons are hugely well off by any historical or global standard, something which is true, and therefore perhaps we have a moral duty to spread some of our good fortune to those less fortunate. Also quite possibly true. We ourselves suggest buying things made by poor people in poor countries, this being what will make them richer. But we certainly have no problem whatsoever with the idea that you, we or anyone else might wish to simply send money to alleviate poverty or other human suffering.
What puzzles is this though:
If, in your ideal world, rich people and corporations such as Amazon and Google would pay more tax, and you believe it's the government's job to redistribute resources, it is hard to feel enthusiastic when charities pick up the slack created by cuts. Church-run food banks may have been appropriate in 1816 or 1916, but not now.
The collapse of Kids Company showed such concerns to be valid: with her brown envelopes of cash, Camila Batmanghelidjh oversaw a shadow benefits system on a personality-driven model far preferred by rightwing ideologues to the boring old state.
Well, we'd rather take issue with the idea that Kid's Company was a creation of the rightwing. But that's by the by. A centre left captivated by the idea that throwing money at something was more important than checking what was being achieved quite possibly.
In 1970 the UN set a target of 0.7% of GDP that economically advanced countries should give in development assistance. Sweden, Norway and others beat the UK to it, but last year this commitment was enshrined in British law. Just 12% of individual British donations go to charities working abroad, but it is striking that the UK's aid budget of around £11bn is close to the total amount donated by individuals each year.
For a person on the median full-time salary of £27,000, 0.7% of their untaxed income equates to £15.75 a month, a couple of pounds more than what the Charities Aid Foundation calls a "typical" gift. On average, then, and if we regard the aid budget as a form of state charity, British people are a bit less generous than their government.
No, that last line is simply not correct. The government takes some £11 billion a year from our pockets and spends it on whatever foreign japes it thinks makes sense. This is not generosity at all: spending other peoples' money on other people does not come under that title. We Britons then dig into our pockets for near another £11 billion a year to send to things that actually have some effect in relieving poverty and other human afflictions.
That is, we are significantly more "generous" than the government, but only if it isn't the government spending the money. Given what the government does spend that money on probably quite rightly so too. Why, we might even suggest cancelling that official budget, returning the cash to the citizenry, and see how much better the little platoons can spend it.
Security with a government backdoor isn't secure
Today's tale of gibbering stupidity from those who would rule us. So, the Transportation Security Administration over in the US has been asking all the people who make locks for travel bags to conform to certain standards. Standards which allow the TSA to have master keys to the luggage being transported by the population of course. There's echoes here of the FBI's fight with Apple, with the more general arguments over the encryption of digital data and so on.
Well, fair enough you might think. At which point the TSA wants to show off how well it does, asks a newspaper to come see how it works. Which then publishes pictures of the master keys. Near immediately these are scanned and run through a 3D printer from those newspaper or magazine images:
THE TSA IS learning a basic lesson of physical security in the age of 3-D printing: If you have sensitive keys—say, a set of master keys that can open locks you've asked millions of Americans to use—don't post pictures of them on the Internet.
A group of lock-picking and security enthusiasts drove that lesson home Wednesday by publishing a set of CAD files to Github that anyone can use to 3-D print a precisely measured set of the TSA's master keys for its "approved" locks—the ones the agency can open with its own keys during airport inspections. Within hours, at least one 3-D printer owner had already downloaded the files, printed one of the master keys, and published a video proving that it opened his TSA-approved luggage lock.
Forget the gibbering stupidity for a moment and consider the underlying tale here. Any system of security, any system of encryption for example, that has a government backdoor is simply not secure. Theresa May might want to take note of this. We might want to take note of it in fact. It might, just possibly, even be true that we'd like there to be a way for our protectors to study the activity of those who would do us harm. But those backdoors will leak and there will then be no security at all.
Leveraging Up on Bank Stress (II): improving the Bank of England's Leverage Stress Test
This posting goes through the Bank of England's leverage ratio stress test using an improved version of the leverage ratio to replace the one used by the Bank: it uses CET1 capital in the numerator instead of the looser and more gameable Tier 1 capital measure used by the Bank. Results show that the UK banking system performs extremely poorly by this stress test when assessed against the fully implemented leverage ratio requirements possible under Basel III, and even worse when assessed against minimum leverage ratio standards coming through in the United States and those recommended by experts.
In the previous posting, I examined the outcomes of stress tests that use the ratio of banks' Tier 1 capital to leverage exposure as their capital adequacy metric. However, the use of Tier 1 capital in the numerator of the leverage ratio is problematic: Tier 1 capital is the sum of Core Equity Tier 1 (CET1) capital plus Additional Tier 1 (AT1) capital, and AT1 includes hybrid capital instruments such as Contingent Convertible (CoCo) instruments which are of unreliable usefulness in a crisis. Including these in our capital measure is undesirable because it might overstate the capital available to support a bank in a crisis and so undermine the principal purpose of any core capital measure.
We therefore need a more prudent capital measure and a natural choice is CET1 without any additional, softer, capital. Roughly speaking, CET1 approximates to Tangible Common Equity (TCE) plus retained earnings, accumulated other income and other disclosed reserves. [1] The 'tangible' in TCE means that it excludes intangible items such as goodwill and Deferred Tax Assets, and the 'common' means that it gives a measure of common share capital (i.e., shareholder capital stripped of more senior capital instruments such as preferred stock and other hybrid items). Of the measures available (and unfortunately, TCE is typically not available) CET1 is the best capital because its component elements are the most fire-resistant and hence most deployable in the heat of a crisis. To quote Tim Bush, CET1 is:
the plain old fashioned accounting shareholder interest. It's what bears the first loss, pays divs, and is what has to be recapitalised. It also excludes goodwill [and any other intangibles and] any expectant income and books all expected losses. [2]
Now define the CET1 leverage ratio as the ratio of CET1 capital to leverage exposure. If we take the outcomes of the Bank's stress test applied to the CET1 leverage ratio and take the pass standard to be the potential maximum required minimum leverage ratio under fully implemented Basel III, then we obtain the outcomes shown in Chart 1:
Chart 1: Stress Test Outcomes Using the CET1 Leverage Ratio with the Potential Maximum Basel III Pass Standard
Notes to Chart 1:
(a) Author's calculations based on information provided by the Bank of England's 'The Financial Policy Committee's review of the leverage ratio" (October 2014) based on the assumption that the pass standard is the potential maximum required minimum leverage ratios under fully-implemented Basel III.
(b) The outcome is expressed in terms of the CET1 leverage ratio post the stress scenario and post any resulting management actions. These data are obtained from Annex 1 of the Bank's stress test report (Bank of England, December 2015).
It is fair to say that if the previous outcomes were disastrous, these are positively dire. The average outcome is 3.1%, the average pass standard is 4.2%, the average shortfall is over a hundred basis points and every single bank fails the test by a comfortable margin. By this test, the entire UK banking system is well and truly below water.
But it gets worse.
One problem is that reported CET1 values can be inflated by at least three different factors. Briefly:
- The reported CET1s are based on IFRS accounting standards, and a key component of CET1 is retained earnings, the reported values of which are likely to be inflated because IFRS allows banks to inflate the underlying asset values. [3]
- The regulatory definition of CET1 endorsed by Basel III involves an awkward 'sin bucket' compromise by which various items of softer capital (such as Deferred Tax Assets and Mortgage Servicing Rights) can be included in reported CET1 provided they account for no more than 15% of total reported CET1. [4]
- The CET1 values reported here are book values and market values will typically be less. Thus, 'true' CET1 values can be considerably lower than those reported in the Bank of England's stress test report.
The reported capital ratio is inflated further by a downward bias in the reported leverage exposure, which is the denominator in the leverage ratio. This downward bias is another long story. In theory, the leverage exposure is meant to take account of off-balance sheet items that would not show up in traditional exposure measures such as total assets. However, the regulatory leverage exposure measure is a highly compromised measure that is the result of a lot of behind the scenes lobbying by banks keen to keep their measured exposures down, not least in order to minimise their resulting capital requirements. Given (a) that off-balance-sheet items considerably exceed on-balance-sheet ones and (b) that accounting netting rules tend to hide a great deal of financial risk, if only because many supposedly hedged positions often fall apart in a crisis, and (c) that we know that banks are riddled with major data quality problems, then we would expect any half-decent exposure measure to be much greater than, say, reported total assets. However, they are not. In fact, when I looked into this matter, I was astonished to discover that the leverage exposures of UK banks are not only of the same order of magnitude as their balance sheet total assets, but are sometimes even lower. For example, the reported 2015Q3 leverage exposure for Lloyds was only 88% of its reported total assets. So once again, we have a downward bias in the leverage ratio numbers and no real way in which we can assess what the extent of that bias might be. However, whatever this bias might be, we can reasonably infer that it must be large.
We should also note that the pass standard assumed in the test reported in Chart 1 is by no means a high one and the Federal Reserve, for one, is already preparing to impose even higher minimum leverage ratios. In April 2014, the Fed finalized a set of 'enhanced' Supplementary Leverage Ratios (SLRs) on the 8 U.S. global systemically important banks (G-SIBs) and their insured depository institutions. These are supplementary requirements in addition to those required under Basel III. As part of this requirement, the U.S. G-SIBs will have to meet a 5% SLR at the holding company level and a 6% SLR at the bank level, and are due to come into effect on January 1, 2018.
Well, to spell out the obvious: if the UK banks perform badly against a pass standard equal to the maximum potential standard under fully implemented Basel III, then they would perform even worse when assessed against the Federal Reserve's higher standards.
There is also the question of what the required minimum leverage ratio should be, i.e., as assessed from first principles. Curiously, this is one of the few subjects in economics and finance where there is a considerable degree of consensus among experts – and their view is that minimum standards should be much higher than they currently are. We are not talking here about a couple of percentage points, but a minimum that is potentially an order of magnitude greater than current minimum capital requirements anywhere in the world. There is of course no magic number but what we want is a minimum requirement that is high enough to remove the overwhelming part of the risk-taking moral hazard that currently infects our banking system. As John Cochrane put it: it should be high enough until it doesn't matter – high enough so that we never, ever again hear the call that banks need to be recapitalized at public expense.
This consensus was reflected in an important letter to the Financial Times in 2010, in which no less than 20 renowned experts – Anat Admati, Franklin Allen, Richard Brealey, Michael Brennan, Arnout Boot, Markus Brunnermeier, John Cochrane, Peter DeMarzo, Eugene Fama, Michael Fishman, Charles Goodhart, Martin Hellwig, Hayne Leland, Stewart Myers, Paul Pfleiderer, Jean-Charles Rochet, Stephen Ross, William Sharpe, Chester Spatt and Anjan Thakor – recommended a minimum ratio of equity to total assets of at least 15%, and some of these wanted minimum requirements that are much higher still. Independently, John Allison, Martin Hutchinson and yours truly have also called for minimum capital to asset ratios of at least 15%, Allan Meltzer recommended a minimum of 20% for the largest banks, Admati and Hellwig recommended a minimum at least of the order of 20-30%, Eugene Fama and Simon Johnson recommended a minimum of the order of 40-50%, and John Cochrane and Thomas Mayer have suggested 100%.
By these minimum standards, the UK banking system is not so much underwater as stuck as the bottom of the ocean.
So what can we conclude from these stress test exercises?
Without a shadow of a doubt, the entire UK banking system is massively undercapitalised even under the relatively mild adverse 'stress' scenario considered by the Bank of England.
End Notes
[1] For a more complete definition of CET1 capital, see Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) "Basel III: A global regulatory framework for more resilient banks and banking systems" (Basel Committee, June 2011), p. 13.
[2] Personal correspondence.
[3] These and other problems with IFRS accounting standards are explained further by Tim Bush, "UK and Irish Banks Capital Losses – Post Mortem," Local Authority Pension Fund Forum, 2011, and Gordon Kerr, "The Law of Opposites: Illusory Profits in the Financial Sector", Adam Smith Institute, 2011.
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Caracaras are present along the Mexican - American Border, from Baja California to Eastern Texas, then south to Panama. There are also isolated populations in Cuba, the Isle of Pines, Louisiana, and in Central Florida
occurs (regularly, as a native taxon) in multiple nations
National Distribution
United States
Origin: Native
Regularity: Regularly occurring
Currently: Present
Confidence: Confident
Type of Residency: Year-round
Global Range: (>2,500,000 square km (greater than 1,000,000 square miles)) RESIDENT: in central and southern Florida, Cuba, and the Isle of Pines, and from northern Baja California, southern Arizona, Sonora, Sinaloa, Zacatecas, Nuevo Leon, central and southern Texas, and southwestern Louisiana, south locally through Central America and throughout most of South America, south to northern and central Peru and northern Brazil. Casual north to central New Mexico and southwestern Mississippi. Records from Washington, Oregon, and California, and north to Wyoming, Ontario, Pennsylvania, New York, and New Jersey are of individuals of "questionable origin" (AOU 1998, 2000).
- Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2014. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: Version 6.9. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
Physical Description
The crested caracara is about the same size as an osprey, but it has shorter wings. It has a length of approximately 53 to 58 centimeters, with a wingspan of approximately 1.2 meters. Caracaras can be identified by thier long yellow legs, and their large, hooked, bluish bill. Caracaras have black crowns and crests, with red facial skin. Thier tails are banded, alternating black and white, with a wide black terminal band. The ends of the primaries and at the base of the neck are also banded. Immature birds appear similar, but their coloring is duller overall. Both sexes of the birds are similarily plumaged.
Other Physical Features: endothermic ; bilateral symmetry
Length: 58 cm
Weight: 953 grams
Diagnostic Description
No other similar bird has all of the following characteristics: black crown, white neck, black belly, whitish tail with black band at end, and a white patch at the end of the dark wings.
Baja California Desert Habitat
This taxon is found in the Baja California Desert ecoregion, located on most of the western side of the Baja Peninsula, containing varied habitats such as mountains, plains and coastal dunes. This desert is one of the largest and best preserved in Mexico, and due to its isolation, contains a high level of species richness and endemism. A series of ophiolytes (formations of gabrum, ultramafic rocks, and volcanic lava) surround the most prominent orographic feature: The San Andres mountain range. Overall, the climate is arid with variable temperature. The isolated nature of the peninsula, and its proximity to the sea, maintains a measure of humidity, and creates a stable diurnal temperature.
The predominant vegetation associations are composed of xeric scrub, which have been subdivided in diverse categories according to dominant species and the ecological conditions in which they occur. Thick-stemmed trees and shrubs, growing on rocky volcanic soils, cover the highest parts of the mountain ranges. Dominant plant species are Ambrosia camphorata, Common Stork's-bill (Erodium cicutarium), and Astragalus prorifer. The Boojumtree (Fouquieria columnaris) can be also found at elevations up to 1200m. Many species of cacti are present. Dominant species within the Baja California Desert vary with elevation. Epiphytes such as Small Ballmoss (Tillandsia recurvata) and Cudbear (Rocella tinctoria) grow in low elevation, humid areas, and account for a majority of the perennial vegetation. Areas previously submerged under the sea (in the Miocene era) are now covered by highly saline and alkaline-tolerant species, such as Ambrosia magdalenae, El Vizcaino Agave (Agave vizcainoensis), Datilillo (Yucca valida), Pitaya Agria (Stenocereus gummosus), and Porter's Muhly (Muhlenbergia porteri). Dune vegetation includes Creosote Bush (Larrea tridentata), Barclay's Saltbush (Atriplex barclayana), Rush Milkweed (Asclepias subulata) and Nicolletia trifida.
There are a number of reptilian taxa found in the Baja California Desert including the endemic Baja California Brush Lizard (Urosaurus lahtelai). The Baja California Legless Lizard (Anniella geronimensis EN) is also endemic to the ecoregion, and is restricted to a narrow strip around 87 kilometres (km) long, ranging from about six km north of Colonia Guerrero, southerly to a point south of Punta Baja at the northern edge of Bahia El Rosario. This legless lizard extends to at most four km inland in the Arroyo Socorro, but otherwise found only in the coastal zone; A. geronimensis also occurs on Isla San Gerónimo. Also found here is the San Lucan Leaf-toed Gecko (Phyllodactylus unctus NT), a species not endemic to the ecoregion, but restricted to the southern Baja Peninsula and the Gulf of California islands of Partida Sur, Gallo, Espiritu Santo, Ballena, Gallina and Cerralvo.
There are only a few amphibians found in the ecoregion. Anuran taxa occurring here include: California Chorus Frog (Pseudacris cadaverina); Pacific Chorus Frog (Pseudacris regilla); and Canyon Treefrog (Hyla arenicolor). Also found here is the Plateau Toad (Anaxyrus compactilis), an endemic to the lower central Mexican Plateau and Baja California Desert; another toad occurring in the ecoregion is the Western Toad (Anaxyrus boreas NT). The Channel Islands Slender Salamander (Batrachoseps pacificus) was earlier thought to occur in this ecoregion, but genetic data shows that this taxon is strictly endemic to the Channel Islands of California.
Endemic mammals include San Quintín Kangaroo Rat (Dipodomys gravipes CR), and Baja California Rock Squirrel (Spermophilus atricapillus EN). Other mammals that are classified as special status are the Lesser Long-nosed Bat (Leptonycteris yerbabuenae VU). Some shallow coastal saltwater lagoons protruding into the Baja California Desert along the Pacific Ocean provide key breeding habitat for the Grey Whale (Eschrichtius robustus CR). One of the largest such breeding waters is the remote San Ignacio Lagoon, extending many kilometres inland and rarely exceeding fifteen metres in depth.
Important sites for avian conservation include the Ojo de Liebre lagoon, along the Pacific coast, which is home to millions of overwintering ducks and geese. Bird species in the Baja California Desert include such notable raptor taxa as Golden Eagle (Aquila chrysaetos), Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus), Southern Crested Caracara (Caracara plancus), Osprey (Pandion haliaeutus), and Burrowing Owl (Athene cunicularia).
The crested caracaras are birds of open countryside. Their typical habitats are either comprised of dry prairie with some wetter areas or agricultural environments. Caracaras spread themselves thinly over a wide area, with each pair maintaining a large territory.
Terrestrial Biomes: savanna or grassland
Habitat and Ecology
- Terrestrial
- Freshwater
Habitat and Ecology
- Terrestrial
- Freshwater
Comments: Open country, including pastureland, cultivated areas, and semidesert, in both arid and moist habitats but more commonly in the former (AOU 1983); also coastal lowlands and beaches in some areas. Often occurs on the ground in company of vultures (National Geographic Society 1983).
Florida: associated with open country; dry prairie with scattered cabbage palms (SABAL PALMETTO), wetter prairies, and to some extent also improved pastures and sometimes even rather wooded areas having associated limited areas of open grassland (Johnsgard 1990); center of range is the Kissimmee Prairie, an area of shallow ponds and sloughs with scattered hummocks of live oaks and cabbage palms (see Johnsgard 1990).
Nests in trees, usually in site concealed among branches or palm fronds (often in cabbage palm in Florida, oak or YUCCA in Texas), or in cacti; 2.5-15+ m above ground. In treeless areas may nest on rock ledge or under overhanging rocks, or on ground in secluded site such as marsh island. In Texas, typically nests in brush or woodlands on prairies or hill slopes (Oberholser 1974). Nests often are reused from year to year (Johnsgard 1990).
Non-Migrant: Yes. At least some populations of this species do not make significant seasonal migrations. Juvenile dispersal is not considered a migration.
Locally Migrant: No. No populations of this species make local extended movements (generally less than 200 km) at particular times of the year (e.g., to breeding or wintering grounds, to hibernation sites).
Locally Migrant: No. No populations of this species make annual migrations of over 200 km.
Trophic Strategy
The caracara is an opportunistic feeder, its diet consists of both carrion and living prey. The living prey is usually small turtles, turtle eggs, fish, insects, frogs, lizard, snakes, small birds, and some small mammals. Sometimes, when trying to capture a larger animal, pairs will unite their forces. Caracaras have also been observed eating with vultures.
Comments: Feeds opportunistically on carrion (and associated insect larvae), various live vertebrates, insects, and worms (Bent 1938, Evans 1982). Commonly utilizes road kills. May "rob" food from vultures. See Palmer (1988) for accounts of predation on eggs of birds and turtles. Pairs may hunt together.
Population Biology
Number of Occurrences
Note: For many non-migratory species, occurrences are roughly equivalent to populations.
Estimated Number of Occurrences: 81 to >300
Global Abundance
10,000 to >1,000,000 individuals
Comments: Total population size is very large but unknown. Using 1986 Christmas Bird Count data, Johnsgard (1990) estimated the U.S. population at 2280 birds, with nearly all of these in Texas.
General Ecology
Maintains large territory, usually with mate. In Florida, home range width for breeding adults varied from 4.6-9.8 kilometers, average 6 kilometers (Morrison 1996). Most activity occurred within 2-3 kilometers of nest (Morrison 1996). May aggregate (especially at carrion) in groups of up to about 10 in nonbreeding season. Prebreeders occasionally form aggregations (Palmer 1988). Density was estimated at 4.8 birds per 40 ha in eastern Mexico (see Johnsgard 1990).
Life History and Behavior
Perception Channels: visual ; tactile ; acoustic ; chemical
Life Expectancy
Range lifespan
Status: wild: 25.8 (high) years.
Average lifespan
Status: wild: 211 months.
Lifespan, longevity, and ageing
Bonds between adult caracaras are strong, persisting until one of the mates dies. Together, the pair of caracaras will maintain a large territory. The nesting site is usually in a cabbage palm tree, and the nest is a bulky structure made with slender vines and sticks. The breeding season for caracaras is from January to March, and the usual clutch being two or three eggs. Incubation is about 32 days, and the young do not leave the nest until they are at least eight weekes old. The family of caracaras can be observed together for at least three months after the young fledge. There is usually only one brood, but two are not unusual.
Key Reproductive Features: iteroparous ; gonochoric/gonochoristic/dioecious (sexes separate); sexual ; oviparous
Egg dates: late December-early April (mainly late January-February) in Florida (but nestling several weeks old has been observed in late December), late January-early June (peak March-April) in Texas, March-August in Mexico, mostly dry season in Colombia. Clutch size usually is 2-3. Incubation lasts about 30-32 days, by both sexes but probably mostly by female. Young are tended by both parents, leave nest at about 8 weeks; Johnsgard (1990) questioned that the nestling period is this long. Family stays together about 2-3 months after fledging. Usually one brood each season.
Molecular Biology and Genetics
Molecular Biology
Barcode data: Caracara plancus
The following is a representative barcode sequence, the centroid of all available sequences for this species.
There are 4 barcode sequences available from BOLD and GenBank.
Below is a sequence of the barcode region Cytochrome oxidase subunit 1 (COI or COX1) from a member of the species.
See the BOLD taxonomy browser for more complete information about this specimen and other sequences.
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Statistics of barcoding coverage: Caracara plancus
Public Records: 4
Specimens with Barcodes: 4
Species With Barcodes: 1
Conservation Status
Due to the drastic decrease in habitat, the caracara population has plummeted. The development of citrus groves, tree plantations, improved pastures, and other commercial and agricultural uses are destroying the caracara's natural habitat. Also, the increase amount of traffic in the caracara's natural habitat has resulted in many birds being hit by automobiles. Another significant factor into the decline of the caracara population is the fact that they have a low reproductive rate and face a small gene pool.
Many caracaras live on private lands in Florida, a few wandering to the east into Cape Canaveral and Merritt Island. Some pairs are being monitored on Federal Land, the Air Force's Avon Park bombing range in Polk and Highlands County.
US Federal List: endangered
CITES: no special status
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: no special status
IUCN Red List Assessment
Red List Category
Red List Criteria
Year Assessed
IUCN Red List Assessment
Red List Category
Red List Criteria
Year Assessed
National NatureServe Conservation Status
United States
Rounded National Status Rank: N4 - Apparently Secure
NatureServe Conservation Status
Rounded Global Status Rank: G5 - Secure
Reasons: Common in many areas of the very extensive range (southern U.S. to South America); population trend varies regionally; probably increasing with deforestation in some areas, declining with agricultural and other development elsewhere.
Population Trend
Comments: In the U.S., declines have been associated with conversion of habitat to agriculture, residential development, and illegal shooting and trapping; increase in roads and traffic has resulted in increased mortality as the birds feed on road kills. Range has expanded in tropical America concurrent with deforestation; invasion of woody species with overgrazing tends to degrade habitat and result in declines (Ellis et al. 1988). In Texas, Dickinson (1995, Wilson Bull. 107:761-762) observed two instances of red imported fire ant predation on caracara hatchlings.
Management Requirements: Ellis et al. (1988) recommended using supplemental feeding and modifying habitats to encourage recolonization of previously occupied areas and movement into new areas.
Florida: see recovery plan (1989).


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PLAINFIELD Staff members at Goddard College are to vote today on whether to join a union.
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Thats in contrast to 1998, when Goddard allowed its faculty to join a union without forcing a vote.
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Inugami Gyoubu
Inugami Gyoubu (隠神刑部) or Gyoubu-danuki (刑部狸) is a bake-danuki told about in legends passed down in Matsuyama, Iyo Province (now Ehime Prefecture). He is known due to appearing in the "Tale of the Eight Hundred and Eight Tanuki Matsuyama Disturbance" (松山騒動八百八狸物語, Matsuyama Soudou Happyakuya-tanuki Monogatari), which is considered one of the three big tales about tanuki along with the Shojoji no Tanuki-bayashi and Bunbuku Chagama.[1]
The "Tale of the Eight Hundred and Eight Tanuki Matsuyama Disturbance," was based on the historical record "Iyo Nagusa" (伊予名草) that told of the O-Ie Sōdō, which occurred during the Great Gyōhō Famine in 1805 or Bunka 2, and in the Edo period, and according to the kōshaku storyteller Nanryuu Tanabe, it was a ghost story that added elements of tanuki and yokai to it, and became known through kōdan. For this reason, there are several variations depending on the which particular kōdan storyteller told it,[2][3] but the story mainly went as follows.
In Shikoku, there are many folk tales and legends about tanuki, but the tanuki of Matsuyama in particular has a history of them that goes back to the beginning of history in the ages of Emperor Tenji, and as a result of tanuki giving birth to tanuki, there were 808 of them. Its leader was Inugami Gyoubu. Inugami Gyoubu lived in an old cave in Kumayama, and was the bake-danuki that continued to protect the Matsuyama Castle, and from his household of 808 tanuki, was also called "Eight Hundred and Eight Tanuki (八百八狸, Happyakuya-tanuki)."[4] He was said to have the greatest divine power in Shikoku.[5]
His name "Gyoubu" was a titled awarded from the preceding lords of the Matsuyama Castle, and he received faith from the vassals of the castle, and had a deep connection to the local people.[6] In the era of Matsuyama Oki no Kami (松山隠岐守), the O-Ie Sōdō occurred, and Inugami Gyoubu was used by the rebel side, and he gave commands to his follower tanuki to cause strange occurrences to support the insurrection.
However, in the ghost story Inōmono no Roku, the feudal warrior Budayuu (稲生武太夫) punished Inugami Gyoubu with a divine rod that he received from Usa Hachiman Daibosatsu, and as a result, Inugami Gyoubu and the 808 of his household was sealed in Kumayama.[7][8] The cave remains even today in Kutaninagumi (久谷中組), Matsuyama city, and is known as Yamaguchi Reishin (山口霊神).[4][5]
As stated previously, the "Tale of the Eight Hundred and Eight Tanuki Matsuyama Disturbance" has several variations, and because Inugami Gyoubu, who was supposed to have been the protector of the castle, supported the O-Ie Sōdō, there are various tales about the particulars of how Inugami Gyoubu was defeated by Budayuu.
- As a result of the attempt by young samurai Kotou Kogenda Shoushin (後藤小源太正信) who was on the rebel side, to slay Inugami Gyoubu who he believed was getting in the way, they made a non-aggression pact that "as long as Inugami Gyoubu lends a hand to Kogenda's crises from then on, Kogenda will not kill Inugami Gyoubu," so when the rebels started to make their moves, Inugami Gyoubu had no choice but to causes strange disturbances in order to fulfill the pact.[7] When Budayuu appeared below the castle, Inugami Gyoubu became fearful of Budayuu's divine rod, because when although he wanted to avoid confronting Budayuu as an enemy and transformed him, Budayuu became angry that he was transformed in this way, and made an enemy of the rebels.[7][8]
- Inugami Gyoubu, who didn't think pleasantly of the castle lord at that time who was neglecting the traditions, became close to Kogenda and formed an alliance with him, and began to act to crush the castle's lord.[6] Budayuu, who was given a request to defeat the rebellion, entered Matsuyama and headed towards Inugami Gyoubu to make nogotiations, found out that he was working for the rebel side, and defeated him.[6]
- The rebel side deceived Inugami Gyoubu and treated him as an ally, but it was actually a trap, and when Inugami Gyoubu started his secret maneuvers, and since it was told to the castle lord that all the bad occurrences in the castle Inugami Gyoubu's deeds, he was made out to be a bad guy, and Budayuu, who was called ot help, defeated him.[2]
- Budayuu did not use a divine rod, but rather a wooden mallet that he received from the head yokai, Sanmoto Gorouzaemon.[9]
Just the opposite of Inugami Gyoubu being defeated by Budayuu, there are also stories where Inugami Gyoubu stood with the righteous side, but since he was not able to make a dent to the forces of the rebel side, he called Budayuu for help.[6] There are also other variations, including stories where Budayuu does not play a part.[10]
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- ^ a b 村上 2011, pp. 141–144
- ^ "松山騒動八百八狸物語". 伊予たぬき学会 いよ狸サロン. Archived from the original on December 16, 2008. Retrieved 2013-01-06. External link in
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- ^ a b "四国の狸話". 四国電力広報誌『ライト&ライフ』. 四国電力. March 2002. Archived from the original on February 21, 2008. Retrieved 2011-09-02. External link in
- ^ a b c d 阿部 1968, pp. 127–132
- ^ a b c 山田編 1964, pp. 64–67
- ^ a b 山田書院編 1973, pp. 103–104
- ^ 村上健司. "日本「狸・狢」伝説一覧 四国". 妖怪新天地. 妖怪愛好会隠れ里(村上健司主催). Archived from the original on December 22, 2006. Retrieved 2011-09-02. External link in
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- ^ 村上健司編著 (2005). 日本妖怪大事典. Kwai books. 角川書店. p. 38. ISBN 978-4-04-883926-6.
- 阿部主計 (2004) [1968]. 妖怪学入門 (新装版 ed.). 雄山閣. ISBN 978-4-639-01866-7.
- 村上健司 (2008). "狐狸・動物 妖怪伝説分布地図". In 講談社コミッククリエイト編. DISCOVER妖怪 日本妖怪大百科. KODANSHA Official File Magazine 7. 講談社. ISBN 978-4-06-370037-4.
- 山田米吉編 (1964). 傳説と奇談 第5集. 山田書院.
- 山田書院編 (1973). 日本伝説拾遺会監修, ed. 日本の伝説 13. 山田書院.


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Distribution of the cladoceran Podon polyphemoides in the Chesapeake Bay
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The distribution of the cladoceran Podon polyphemoides (Leuckart) in the Chesapeake Bay (USA) estuarine system was determined by a quantitative pump sampling method, and the patterns of abundance were correlated with temperature and salinity distributions. The species was seasonally recurrent, with distinct population maxima in the central portion of the bay. Population densities in excess of 60,000 podonids/m3 have been recorded. The podonids first appeared in the spring in the shallow tributaries, when water temperatures near the bottom reached 6°C. The vernal populations disappeared when summer temperatures exceeded 27°C, but reappeared in the fall as the water cooled. The species was euryhaline and eurythermal in its distribution, but the greatest concentrations were attained within relatively narrow zones of temperatures between 11o and 26°C, and salinities between 8 and 18‰. The production of males, sexual females and sexual eggs occurred both in the spring and the fall between the thermal limits of 11o and 17°C.
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There's a line from a book that's stuck with me for some time. Invisible Cities, written by Italo Calvino, is a novel about Marco Polo's conversations with Kublai Khan. Polo goes around Khan's empire to bring back stories of the cities he's conquered, lush, detailed and symbolic of the decay that Khan's territory has actually become.
The line is at the top of page 29 in the book I've had for at least eight years. It's stayed at my desk since I started working at The St. Augustine Record, a tool to humble myself whenever I think I've gotten this writing gig down pat.
So now that Ryan Braun has admitted to using performance-enhancing drugs, we can move past that ugly piece of history, right?
As baseball fans, we have to decide why PEDs upset us: the lying or the stats? If all we care about is numbers, then yes, an apology and acknowledgment that his years under the use of drugs were fraudulent should be enough for us all to move on. But lying about who you are and how you're reaching such heights athletically is what bothers me. Don't expect me to believe Braun is sincere this time around.
My profession embarrasses me at times.
Those members of the media belittling Ichiro's massive achievement, tallying his 4,000th hit, have no clue what they're talking about. Just because a third of his hits came in a Japanese league doesn't mean reaching the 4K plateau is any less impressive.
Alex Rodriguez is unlikable, but Ryan Dempster throwing at A-Rod lowers him to a thug.
Dempster is not some vigilante. He crusades for a cause so backward it doesn't merit a denunciation, but here it goes.
Ponte Vedra linebacker Dillon Bates has always had a path in mind. His father may have already walked it, but Bates is fine with it.
The brightest lights, the biggest stages. Upholding a legacy is just one more challenge to him.
"Ever since I was little I was a Tennessee fan, and going to my dad's practices and training camps with the Cowboys made me want to follow in his footsteps," Bates said. "I always had that in the back of my head. I want to try to be that next level generation."
In July, Bates announced that he would attend the University of Tennesse.
Can you feel bad for someone who's a liar, a cheat, and a snitch? Alex Rodriguez is testing my capacity for humanity.
Kelly Murphy is a wisp of a 14-year-old girl. She looks like anybody's daughter, a rising eighth-grader at Sebastian Middle School with soft eyes and a bright smile.
And nothing makes her 5-foot-9-inch frame glow quite like when she talks about roller derby.
The St. Augustine native found the niche sport a year ago, when a family friend gave her a pair of skates. The hits, strategy, camaraderie — everything about it makes her happy. Even talking about her wheels wearing in a certain way on her skates, on the edges where she shouldn't be riding, Murphy smiles.
Just give yourself a chance. It's the only way to make things happen in your life, and it's how St. Augustine native Caleb Sturgis now finds himself with a clear shot at starting in the NFL.
It's not that the Dolphins needed a kicker. Dan Carpenter proved himself to be more than capable before he got released, including hitting a 60-yard field goal a few years back to set the franchise record. No matter why it happened, Sturgis probably engraved his name on a Dolphins locker after hitting that 58-yarder against the Jaguars last Friday.
Put Charlsea Owen anywhere near basketball and she's happy. Be it on the court, as she was throughout high school and college, or in an office tucked away in an athletics department, the game is where she's always found happiness.
The former Menendez and Flagler College star found a new home and a second chance to be a part of the game she loves at the University of North Florida, assuming the position of director of basketball operations for the school's women's basketball team.
Why is testing for HGH only "close" in the NFL? Shouldn't that have already been in place?
If pudgy, rotund Jason Dufner can win a major golf tournament, couldn't we all?
Here's why golf is popular: No matter how many times a man shanks, slices, whiffs or curses as his ball flies miles from where he intended, deep down he believes that he can do it. It's just physics, he lies to himself as he stands over his shot. What could be so hard about hitting a golf ball straight? The answer is, everything. Great men, like Mark Twain, famously held the sport in great disdain.
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Hawaiian Veal
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|Chopped fresh parsley
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|Dill seed
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|1⁄2 Medium, pared, cored and diced
|Sliced mushrooms
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|1 Tablespoon, dissolved in 1 tablespoon water
|Cooked enriched rice
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Brown veal cubes in a preheated nonstick skillet.
Transfer to a medium saucepan.
Add bouillon, parsley, dill seed, salt, and pepper.
Cover and simmer over low heat about 40 minutes or until veal is very tender.
Add water if necessary to keep veal barely covered.
Add pineapple and mushrooms; cover and simmer about 5 minutes or until mushrooms are cooked.
Add cornstarch and cook, stirring constantly, until thickened.
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Calories 1261 Calories from Fat 391
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 44 g67.4%
Saturated Fat 18.2 g90.8%
Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 360 mg120%
Sodium 1973.2 mg82.2%
Total Carbohydrates 120 g39.9%
Dietary Fiber 8.6 g34.2%
Sugars 49.6 g
Protein 95 g190.2%
Vitamin A 31.1% Vitamin C 432%
Calcium 20.7% Iron 18.2%
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Deflategate jokes are still a thing. Just ask Cam Newton.
While the Panthers quarterback was practicing throwing around balls, per usual, he couldn't help but notice one felt a bit under-inflated in his hand. Rather than toss the ball aside, he went the obvious route and poked fun at Tom Brady.
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Really friendly staff. For the price this is a great option walking distance to the beach and all the restaurants.
The check-in and out process was very easy.
Would be nice if they provided maps to nearby locations.
Exactly as expected, small chain hotel. Kids bunk beds worked fine for 3. Glad that the breakfast was optional, we went elsewhere.
Tiny breakfast buffet, but it was optional, and skipping it reduced the hotel cost.
what a lovely Hotel,right in the centre of the walled city,a super pool in a wonderful courtyard,very quiet location,a good but sligtly overpriced breakfast for just a continental one,a tight squeze if you have a bigish car for parking in the underfloor but very secure garage,we simple loved the stop.and would have liked to have been able to stay longer in that area.
We loved the garden and adjacent swimming pool, room was nice and quiet; much care has been given to create a romantic classy atmosphere in the building.
The price of the breakfast is not included in the roomrate and too high in comparision to that.
Facilities and hotel staff availibility
Continental Breakfast quite expensive
The location was very central , very convenient to the railway station , and the frequent tram service . great for a short city break
Breakfast should be included in the price , dining room not very impressive
Montpellier is a very fascinating city and Newhotel du Midi with his amazing location just on Place de la Comedie is the perfect place if you want to discover the city center.
In the bathroom there weren't either windows or air condition.
Convenient for the airport and provided the necessary facilities for an overnight or short stay. We had a single night there and it met our requirements, the staff were friendly and helpful. Dining in the restaurant was reasonably priced and the quality good, breakfast was basic but acceptable.
Near to motorway,very good value with helpfull staff. Excellent for stopover.
The staff attempted to resolve any and all issues
The establishment is not a hotel in the traditional sense. It is more like "student accommodation". If you were to arrive outside the four hours per day of office opening, you cannot gain entry past the security gate. Once entry is gained and you make it to the office you are provided with literature which advises you that it is your responsibility to make yourself aware of the office hours.You are required to check and sign an inventory of the rooms contents, and are held responsible for any discrepancies. In our case we had booked an "apartment" only to find that the bedding consisted of one single bed and a "sofa" which we found, assembled and made up to form two single beds. Insufficient space to comment on things we did not like.
nice and proper building, spacious and clean appartment, good parking
bed was nothing speacial and especially not good for a couple, but could be a very good option for a young family
Great view, spacious room and bathroom,, would definately come again
The friendly hotel staff. The large balcony. Right on the sea front
Decor was a bit dated. Bathroom smelt damp.
Complex really nice, good rooms, especially having a fridge...great idea. Pool excellent, and great menu.
Accessability to Aigues Mortes, especially on foot.
no frigo-bar , not easy to find the way to go to the hotel
Well decorated and clean. Good atmosphere and friendly, helpful staff.
No elevator. But understandable for the time of the building, may be difficult for some people.
Nothing special. Ok for 1 night.
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Simple Definition of monotone
: a way of talking or singing without raising or lowering the sound of your voice
Full Definition of monotone
1 : a succession of syllables, words, or sentences in one unvaried key or pitch
2 : a single unvaried musical tone
3 : a tedious sameness or reiteration
4 : a person unable to produce or to distinguish between musical intervals
Examples of monotone in a sentence
She read the story in a dull monotone.
He sang in a soft, low monotone.
She spoke in a monotone voice.
Origin and Etymology of monotone
Greek monotonos monotonous
First Known Use: 1644
Other Grammar and Linguistics Terms
Definition of monotone
1 : monotonic 2
2 : having a uniform color
First Known Use of monotone
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