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Much communication today argues a point. An argument, by definition, involves an attack and a counterattack not only using logic, but also incorporating non-logical feelings, attitudes, beliefs, and values. Much of the non-logical element in our argument taps the reservoir of unconscious understandings, feelings, expectations, and values that we have coded and stored in our unconscious minds in the form of stereotypes, schemas, and typifications. Our internal packets of stored values and beliefs may constitute our own worst enemy as they militate against creative thought and forward-looking change. At the same time, they may provide solace for our inner being and provide a framework for developing persuasive campaigns to further our interests. The book takes us through the persuasive process, particularly as it is used in terrorist persuasive settings and as it has been used in some of the major propaganda battles of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
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English Meaning
- The capacity, as of a weapon, weapons system, military unit, or position, for delivering fire.
- The ability to deliver fire against an enemy in combat.
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Once there was a boy. . . . Who listened to an old man. And, thus, he
began to learn about The Precious Present. "It is a present because
it is a gift," the contented man explained. "And it is precious
because anyone who receives such a present is happy forever."
"Wow!" the little boy exclaimed. "I hope someone give me The Precious
Present. Maybe I'll get it for Christmas." The boy ran off to play.
And the old man smiled. He liked to watch the little boy play. He
saw the smile on the youngster's face and heard him laughing as he
swung from a nearby tree. The boy was happy. And it was a joy to
The old man also liked to watch the boy work. He even rose early on
Saturday mornings to watch the little laborer mow the lawn across the
street. The boy actually whistled while he worked. The little child
was happy no matter what he was doing. It was, indeed, a joy to
When he thought about what the old man had said, the boy thought he
understood. He knew about presents. Like the bicycle he got for his
birthday and the gifts he found under the tree on Christmas morning.
But as the boy thought more about it, he knew. The joy of toys never
lasts forever.
The boy began to feel uneasy. "What then," he wondered, "is The
Precious Present? What could possibly make me happy forever?" He
found it difficult to even imagine the answer. And so he returned to
ask the old man.
The parable of
The Precious
Present is a quiet
one to muse upon
and sit with, and
finally to take
into your heart.
"Is the Present a magical ring? One that I might put on my finger and
make all my wishes come true?"
"No," the old man said. "The precious present has nothing to do with wishing."
As the boy grew older he continued to wonder. He went to the old man.
"Is the Precious Present a flying carpet?" he inquired. "One that I
could get on and go any place that I like?"
"No," the man quietly replied. "When you have the precious present,
you will be perfectly content to be where you are."
The boy was becoming a young man now, and felt a bit foolish for
asking. But he was uncomfortable. He began to see that he was not
achieving what he wanted. "Is the Precious Present," he slowly
ventured, "a sunken treasure? Perhaps rare gold coins buried by
pirates long ago?"
"No, young man," the old man told him. "It is not. The richness is
rare, indeed, but the wealth of the Present comes only from itself."
The young man thought for a moment. Then he became annoyed. "You told
me," the young man said, "that anyone who receives such a present
would be happy forever. I never got such a gift as a child."
"I'm afraid you don't understand," the old man responded. "You
already know what the Precious Present is. You already know where to
find it. And you already know how it can make you happy. You knew it
best when you were a small child. You simply have forgotten."
The young man went away to think. But as time passed, he became
frustrated, and finally angry. He eventually confronted the old man.
"If you want me to be happy," the young man shouted, "why don't you
just tell me what the Precious Present is?"
"And where to find it?" the old man volleyed.
"Yes, exactly," the young man demanded.
"I would like to," the old man began. "But I do not have such power.
No one does. Only you have the power to make yourself happy. Only
you. The Precious Present isn't something that someone gives you.
It's a gift that you give yourself."
The young man was confused, but determined. He resolved to find the
Precious Present himself. And so he packed his bags. He left where he
was. And went elsewhere. To look for the Precious Present.
After many frustrating years, the man grew tired of looking for the
Precious Present. He had read all the latest books. And he had looked
in The Wall Street Journal. He had looked into the mirror. And into
the faces of other people. He had wanted so much to find the Precious
Present. He had gone to extraordinary lengths. He had looked for it at
the tops of mountains and in cold dark caves. He had searched for it
in dense, humid jungles. And underneath the seas. But it was all to no
avail. His stressful search had exhausted him. He even became ill
occasionally. But he did not know why.
The man returned wearily to the old man's side. The old man was happy
to see him. They often laughed out loud together. The young man liked
to be with the old man. He felt happy in his presence. He guessed that
this was because the old man felt happy with himself. It wasn't that
the old man's life was so trouble-free. He didn't appear to have a lot
of money. He seemed to be alone most of the time. In fact, there was
no apparent reason why he was so much happier and healthier than most
people were. But happy he was. And so were those who spent time with
him. "Why does it feel so good to be with him?" the young man
wondered. "Why?" He left wondering.
After many years, the once-young man returned to inquire further. He
was now very unhappy and often ill. He needed to talk with the old
man. But the old man had grown very, very old. And, all too soon, he
spoke no more. The wise voice could no longer be heard.
The man was alone. At first, he was saddened by the loss of his old
friend. And then he became frightened. Very frightened. He was afraid
that he would never learn how to be happy. Until finally he accepted
what had always been true. He was the only one who could find his own
happiness. The unhappy man recalled what the happy old man had told
him so many years ago. But as hard as he tried he could not figure it
out; he tried to understand what he had heard:
. .
The unhappy man was now tired of looking for the Precious Present. He
had grown so tired of trying that he simply stopped trying. And then,
it happened! He didn't know why it happened when it happened. It
just…. Happened! He realized that the Precious Present was just that:
THE PRESENT. Not the past; and not the future, but THE PRECIOUS
In an instant the man was happy. He realized that he was in the
Precious Present. He raised both hands triumphantly into the cool,
fresh air. He was joyous–for one moment. But then, just as quickly as
he had discovered it, he let the joy of the present moment evaporate.
He slowly lowered his hands, touched his forehead, and frowned. The
man was unhappy–again.
"Why," he asked himself, "didn't I see the obvious long ago? Why have
I missed so many precious moments?" "Why has it taken me so long to
live in the present?" As the man remembered his fruitless travels
around the world in his search for the Precious Present, he knew how
much happiness he had lost.
He had not experienced what each special time and place had to offer.
He had missed a great deal. And he felt sad. The man continued to
berate himself. And then he saw what he was doing. He observed that he
was trapped by his guilt about his past.
When he became aware of his unhappiness and of his being in the past,
he returned to the present moment. And he was happy. But then the man
began to worry about the future. "Will I," he asked, "be able to know
the joy of living in the Precious Present tomorrow?" Then he saw he
was living in the future and laughed–at himself.
He listened to what he now knew. And he heard the wisdom of his own
voice. "It is wise for me to think about the past and to learn from
it, but it is not wise for me to be in the past, for that is how I
lose myself.
"It is also wise for me to think about the future, and to prepare for
my future, but it is not wise for me to be in the future, for that,
too, is how I lose myself. I lose what is precious to me."
It was so simple. And now he saw it. The present nourished him. But
the man knew it was not going to be easy. Learning to be in the
present was a process he was going to have to do over and over, again
and again, until it became a part of him. Now he knew why he had
enjoyed being with the old man.
The old man was totally present when he was with the younger man. The
old man was not thinking about something else or wishing that he was
somewhere else. He was fully present. And it felt good to be with such
a person. The younger man smiled at himself, the way the old man used
to smile. He knew. "I can choose to be happy now, or I can try to be
happy when. . . or if. . . ."
The man chose NOW! And now the man was happy. He felt at peace with
himself. He agreed to savor each moment in his life…. The apparently
good and the apparently bad…. Even if he didn't understand. For the
first time in his life, it didn't matter. He accepted each of his
precious moments on this planet as a gift.
"I know that some people choose to receive the Precious Present when
they are young, others in middle age, and some when they are old.
Some people, sadly, never do. I can choose to receive the Precious
Present whenever I want."
As the man sat thinking, he felt fortunate. He was whom he was where
he was. And now he knew! He would always be whom he was where he was.
He listened again to his thoughts. "The present is what it is. It is
valuable. Even I do not know why. It is already just the way it is
supposed to be. When I see the present, accept the present, and
experience the present, I am well, and I am happy. Pain is simply the
difference between what is and what I want it to be.
"When I feel guilty over my imperfect past, or I am anxious over my
unknown future, I do not live in the present. I experience pain. I
make myself ill. And I am unhappy.
"My past was the present. And my future will be the present. The
present moment is the only reality I ever experience.
"As long as I continue to stay in the present, I am happy forever,
because forever is always the present.
"The present is simply who I am, just the way I am, right now. And it
is precious. I am precious. I am the Precious Present."
It was as though he could hear the old man talking. And then he
smiled. And his smile widened. And he laughed. He felt great joy. He
knew he was listening, not to the old man…. But to himself.
It felt good for him to be with himself–just the way he was. He felt
he knew enough. He felt he had enough. He felt he was enough. Now.
He had finally found the Precious Present. And he was completely happy.
Several decades later, the man had grown into a happy, prosperous, and
healthy old man. One day a little girl came by to talk to him. She
liked to listen to "the old man," as she called him. It was fun to be
with him. There was something special about him. But she didn't know
what it was.
One day, the little girl began to really listen to the old man.
Somehow she sensed something important in his calm voice. He seemed
very happy. The little girl couldn't understand why. "How could
someone so old," she wondered, "be so happy?" She asked and the old
man told her why.
Then all of a sudden, the little girl jumped up and squealed with
delight! As the girl ran off to play, the old man smiled. For he heard
what she had said: "Wow!" she exclaimed. "I hope someday someone
gives me the Precious Present!"
Note: not the perfect present
I'm glad to know you're going to be okay; I'm even gladder that you're wise and mature enough to know you're okay.
[Context, for future Christine and future Sisi: Tonight at 8:48PM Sisi called me, crying because she had been in a fight with Mike because he had blocked her close friends on facebook and because everything was becoming overwhelming for her. It was a good 20 minute call, reminiscent of the time I had called her, crying, after wanting to run away from home.]
I'm here for you when you need me.
I totally don't feel the way I felt when I wrote the Thanksgiving post anymore. So please forgive me if it makes you upset in any way. Although I typed what I felt were true, and like I said to you tonight, they have to get dealt with eventually, in the long-run, I think we'll be fine.
Don't you know you are my very best friend?
Week One: Training at Chientan
This is Brian. The first week at Chientan Youth Activity Center (the place all 350+ of us teen volunteers were jailed in for teaching workshops and training) he was my mini-crush. He wasn't in my group (A2-6) as he's going to be a college sophomore at UCDavis and would be teaching middle schoolers (so he was in C) or at my eating tables, so I never really saw him or talked to him. Later during the fourth week tour, I'd see him holding hands with Delia, this girl from his CA H.S. who's going to college at NTU. Oh well.
If you didn't understand any of that, it's ok. I don't really remember the first week, and I don't need to. The food wasn't great, the workshops were boring (maybe I would have learned something if I paid more attention–been inspired or something–but I was busy writing letters. to YOU. ONE DAY WHEN WE'RE OLD you better still have my letters. I want to see the pretty stamps! I want to see the 5-6 pages I wrote to you!) and I hadn't really made friends yet.
Weeks 2-3: Teaching at Ba-Li Elementary School
This is where we lived and the Zhuo family that took care of us:
Since our house was a ten minute walk from the school, the lady next to me in pink would walk us to school at 8 every morning. we'd eat breakfast, my favorite being 蛋饼. class would start at 8:45 and i'd teach the lowest level class with eric and kamala (and elly would watch from the back)
the first week we realized the kids knew their ABCs but didn't know phonics. since we only had 2 weeks, we just taught them vocabulary. we made ice cream by rolling the mixture in cans ("ice cream!" "booooowl" "spooooon"). we harvested rice and the media came to film us. we used spongebob a lot. we taught them ninja and they caught on quick. but then by the second week we were dead tired and kept snapping at the kids and not making lesson plans–just going with the flow. it was horrible because we had favorites and made it obvious. my favorite was eric (gray shirt on the zebra) and then jacob (in front of the zebra)
anyway. i was super proud of my kids' performance at the closing ceremony; they sang/danced to jackson 5's ABC and danced sorry sorry
Week 4: Tour
We did cool stuff like zipline/tightrope walk/rockclimb. We did dumb things like hike in the rain for hours. We went to a bunch of museums and slept during the 3D movies in the museums. I snuck out to the night market with some girls. I watched a bunch of movies. I love bargaining. I fell for this nerd: Raymond Liu.
oh. so i got back 10PM NYC time on 8/1. yet i haven't slept yet because i was talking to him since 3AM
When i was much younger, i wrote and illustrated a story about a plain
brown bird. I wish i could find it.
The brown bird found a magic seed and got three wishes.
It wanted to be like a frog
instead of the bubble thing frogs/toads get
he ended up getting a wattle instead of ribbiting,
he lost his singing voice and could only cockadoodledoo.
It wanted to be like a peacock
instead of having pretty tail feathers
he got tail feathers that prevented him from flying again.
Once upon a time, there was a farm. On one of the wide open plains of the farm, bordered by the tall trees of a nearby forest, sat a house of chickens. One bright, sunny, cloudless day, the lawn in from of the house was filled with fluffy brown hens. Happily clamoring away, pecking at the green grass below, not a single hen cared that their wings wouldn't reach the open blue skies. In an instant, everything stopped. With a loud screech, the rooster stepped up onto the platform of an elevated tree stump. Each and every hen rushed with frantic fervor to climb back into the house. Those that couldn't penetrate the chaotic ruffle of feathers by the door squeezed themselves into the haven of shade underneath the house. The rooster stood alone outside on the tree stump, continuing his steady rhythm of screeching alarm. Up above on the tree tops of the nearby forest, there perched a hawk in predatory wait. Surveying the field below, he saw all his prey hen vanish into places he could not touch. All that was left in plain sight was a red-headed rooster, uttering an incessant annoyance – a sight so unappetizing, all the hawk could do was leave his perch and fly away.
This is a true story.


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In Africa, a woman is expected to let off steam in several ways; she could pour out her frustrations at her husband's unfaithfulness by becoming an active member of one religous organization or the other, she could bear more children to assert her usefulness in that home or she could simply act like the old woman who lived in a shoe (remember the nursery rhyme?) the tale goes thus: this old woman had so many children and she couldn't handle them so, she gave them a less than nutritous dinner and as a last resort, she beat them all soundly and sent them to bed.
For the single African woman who is feeling sorry for herself due to her determination to stay on the shelf,she has little or no outlet to express her deepest emotions. So, apart from seeing a shrink (which is highly un-African),she is left with the singular choice of of blogging inspite of any shortcoming she might experience as she explores that space.
I love blogging. I just discovered that i am a 'certified' blogger . In the roll call of world bloggers, my name will be mentioned.This feat has been made possible by the mere fact that i am a member of the world pulse community. I may never have tried it if i was not part of this community but Alas, the story is not all exciting especially when i have to consider my pocket. If i chance upon a genie, i will be sure to ask for a lap-top and twenty four hour intenet connection. It would help me tremendously in my media career and it will help me research more on issues that i would like to express as i intend to inspire women and other vulnerable groups in future through the Arts.
In the meantime, while i wait for my good fortune, i will have to continue going to the cyber cafe because i just cannot stop connecting


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NORTH WEST restaurants could find themselves facing an unpalatable demand for thousands of pounds from the taxman over staff tips.
For the Inland Revenue is targetting restaurants in a bid to reclaim the money in National Insurance Contributions on tip payments to staff, warns PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Tips held and distributed through the "tronc" system, where tips are pooled centrally and distributed to staff, escape NICs, provided IR rules are complied with.
However, PWC has seen an upsurge in IR investigations and claims that restaurants are making errors in their tronc operations, meaning NICs are due.
The taxman's attempts have been bolstered by a ruling in the European Court of Human Rights that tips paid by cheque or credit card are the property of the employer, and can form part of the basic staff wage - and so are subject to tax.
Richard Wynne, PWC's tax expert, said: "Restaurants in the north west who use a "tronc" system to pay tips to staff are highly likely to be on the Revenue's hit list for reclaiming NICs.
"If they find errors, the Revenue can look to recover unpaid taxes going back six years.
"So a business with a turnover of £10m could be looking at an employer/employee NIC liability of £350,000 per year, plus interest and penalties. "However, we think there are plenty of grounds to challlenge the Revenue's claims," he said.
PWC has been engaged by the British Hospitality Association and the Restaurant Association to agree a way forward with the IR over the issue.
BHA chief executive Bob Cotton said: "Most restaurants try very hard to operate tronc systems in line with the Revenue's guidelines.
"Given the economic climate and tight margins in the industry, for many these claims could tip the balance between profitability and bankruptcy."
The taxman is chasing those waiters' tips
NORTH WEST restaurants could find themselves facing an unpalatable demand for thousands of pounds from the taxman over staff tips.


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Tips for Taking Care of Your Diamond Engagement Ring
Most women love diamonds and enjoy the way they shine when mounted in a ring, bracelet, necklace or brooch. Diamonds can be a symbol of love, beauty, and even wealth and social status. Still, in order to enjoy them for a long time, they need to be cared for properly.
Our Infatuation with Diamonds
We picture diamonds as white or clear, with a brilliant sparkle, but that isn't always the case. Diamonds can appear in different colors, which can include white or transparent, but may also be pink, red, yellow, blue, orange, green, or even brown or black. These colors are the result of impurities that occurred while the stone was being formed in the earth, but the results can be quite beautiful.
Caring for Your Diamond Jewelry
Even though diamonds are so enduring, diamond jewelry still needs to be cared for carefully. The most important thing you should do is simply to clean your jewelry regularly. Even the most brilliant diamond can lose its sparkle if smudges, grease, or dirt are allowed to collect on the surface. This task is sometimes easier said than done, however, as the settings in which diamonds are found are often intricate and minutely detailed. Therefore, grime and dirt can get trapped within the small areas of the setting.
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Smith_family0609 - posted on 01/24/2014 ( 3 moms have responded )
Hello moms...So I have a sort of long, drawn out story about my son. My son is 11 months old and since 2 months of age, has not eaten enough to gain well on his own. To this day, he does not eat more than 2-4 ozs at a time, 3-4 times a day. He was breastfred until 8 months then went to formula since my breast milk was having to be supplemented with high calorie formula as it was. Right now, he is taking 3 oz of formula with 1 oz of heavy whipping cream (boosting bottles to 40 cals for oz) and adding 1 tablespoon of heavy whipping cream to babyfood, when we can get him to eat any. We see a nutritionist weekly and feeding therapist and are now waiting (after starting the referral process 4 months ago) to see a G.I. doctor. We have tried everything under the son to get him to gain...he goes through spurts where he will eat well for a week or two, gaining 1/2 oz a day, then suddenly he stops for a few weeks and loses weight. Right now, he is 17.2 lbs. born 7.2 lbs. We have fortified formulas, tried giving him cheeses, chicken nuggets, all the fatty foods we could give him and again, he goes through periods of loving it all then hating everything. He has been tested for reflux, had ultrasounds and blood work done, and he is normal aside from never wanting to eat. It has been a total and utter nightmare... He gained weight so well and so fast right after he was born, then developed severe eczema which caused his skin to peel off. His doc perscribed a HIGH dosage of singulair which is when all the feeding issues started. Stupid me, we did what the doc said and kept him on it for 4 months before another doc said "what the hell are you doing giving that to him!?" We stopped and began seeing a new doc. He seemed to start eating once he was off the medication, but has never increased the amount of food he could intake and he NEVER shows signs or ques of being hungry. Its such a struggle to get him to eat that I'm in tears daily. He is now very ill with RSV that my daughter brought home from preschool and has since completely stopped eating...he is so skinny that he can not afford to lose weight and we are back to the discussion of a feeding tube :( I held out hope all the time that he would be well and eating like a normal baby by his first birthday, but nothing has changed...He is super tall (in the 65% for height and >.0.50% for weight). I just don't know what to do...we have seen 4 different docs and no one has any ideas. The nutritionist and feeding therapist both agree he needs to be seen by the G.I. but we are having issues getting in thanks to this crappy new insurance mess. He is mentally advanced, walking, running, talking, climbing and super active but can focus for long periods of time on puzzles and games. For 11 months old, he acts more like a 2 year old. But I'm at the ends of my rope with getting him to eat...if I don't push every 2-3 hours to get food in him, he loses weight FAST. He needs close to 1000 calories a day to gain well and gets around 700 when he is well. Thank you to all who have read through my drawn out story about my son. I'm so lost and when 4 docs have already said they don't know whats wrong or even where to send him, as a mom, that is absolutely frightening.


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Indeed! But it's even better -- the state's Constitution (a) preempts any law "abridging the right of the citizen to keep and bear arms for security and defense", (b)prohibits a county or municipality from regulating "in any way" even a single incident of the right to keep and bear arms [with case-law extending to sales there's a good chance it would be the same w/ manufacture], and (c) has GREAT FOOD.
And such a deal could help reverse the ugly direction that our legislature has taken the last few weeks, vis a vis anti-gun bills.
Gr, I've posted on the NM forum how that is likely treason and should be cause for arresting the legislature (well those members).
Thanks Shark... Yeah, I read the thing in the NM forum. I know you are correct legally... I hope that it works out that way in the real world.
So far it is touch and go here with our Mayor and Police Chief in that respect..
They like to make decrees, then when they lose in court, just ignore the court orders.


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U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) today commented on the Obama administration's release of the Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) on the Keystone XL Pipeline, which can be found on the State Department's website.
"Today's report from the State Department report has once again determined that the Keystone XL pipeline -- which would mean thousands of jobs for Americans -- would not cause a significant increase in greenhouse gas emissions," Murkowski said. "It's now been more than five years since TransCanada first applied for a permit -- it's time for the president to stop stalling and approve this shovel-ready project."
The Obama administration has 90 days from the release of the State Department's review to find that building the pipeline is in the national interest.
"The president has called for this to be a year of action," Murkowski said. "What better way to start the year than by approving a project that will create thousands of jobs and assist one of our closest allies in the world? All the president has to do is find the Keystone XL pipeline in the national interest -- just as he did with the Alberta Clipper pipeline in 2009. It's truly not that difficult. After five years of delay, the decision should already be made."
Murkowski is Alaska's senior senator and the ranking Republican on the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.
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I'm sure, like other people, the term "Net Carbs" is familiar, but slightly confusing. I mean I see that the companies with subtract the fiber from the total carbohydrate number, and come up with a lower number, which allows them to advertise their product as low carb. I needed to know where the logic came from though! So here it is.
Carbohydrates are made up of sugar, fiber, and starches (you don't usually
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affect your blood sugar levels, because sugars and starches get converted to
glucose. Fiber does not get converted to glucose. It hangs out in your
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I am too tired to blog. I have spent the last hour staring at my computer screen trying to back up pictures on my external hard drive just so that I could have enough space to import today's pictures (yes, I only have like 1.4 gigs of hard drive space availavle). I have got to get this picture storage business under control.
I am also tired because I have been chasing this little girl all over the place today.I think I have about 45 pictures of the last two days that I want to post, but it is definitely not happening tonight. Tonight's the first night in nearly a week that I am going to crawl in to bed before 1am.
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On the 12th August the sun decided to shine again and after a morning visit to the Nairn plant nursery for lunch and a visit to collect a few honeysuckle leaves with Lasiobotrys lonicera fungus for Kew (see July blog), we dashed back for me to make a late afternoon visit to the Osmia uncinata bee monitoring site. The bee's breeding hole only receives full sun from around 1.30pm each day, and, requiring 17-180C temperatures to emerge and fly, I was hopeful that 4pm would be a good time to see activity. Three visits had been made to watch the bee between the 1st and 12th, comprising three hours, five hours and forty minutes, but with the poor weather mentioned in the last blog, there was a lot of watching and waiting with little activity. The visit on the 3rd was the most successful of these
|Osmia uncinata bee at its breeding hole
visits and with temperature in the twenties, the bee was fairly active, but even on this day the data log lists, sun, sun/cloud and light rain and during the watch the bee was out, collecting pollen for just 47 minutes, 23 of which were for just one flight. The five hour stint on the 7th was the most frustrating with the temperature just hovering around the 180C mark but with lots of cloud and short splashes of sun. In these five hours the bee was out for 59 minutes, 58 of these were in just one flight, a long time away and I was beginning to think I had lost the bee. The sun on the 10th was very cruel, full sun and warm until I got to the site and then cloudy with light rain which had me packing up after just 40 minutes. With our holiday departure date of 15th fast approaching I was running out of time to have a single session where the bees 'normal' flight pattern could be recorded. Lots of data now showed the temperature required for the bee to fly to collect pollen (180C) but how regular these flights would be and their duration under ideal, sunny conditions was completely lacking. The dash back from Nairn proved very rewarding, and, with full sun and 20-220C, I could see on arrival that
|Osmia bee flying in with chewed up plant material
the bee was at the hole and ready to fly. However, the behaviour during the first 30 minutes was quite odd with lots of flights of just one to two minutes hardly time to even land on a flower let alone collect anything. Perhaps it was doing something else? The next flight though did seem more like what I would have expected and the bee was away for 37 minutes flying back and going straight into the hole, so little chance to see pollen or anything else. For all the visits I did have my camera on a low tripod a safe distance from the nest hole and with a long cable allowing me to take photos whilst sitting at reasonable distance away. Photographing the bee coming back from very short flights was quite challenging as with little warning it was suddenly at the hole and disappearing straight inside. The camera was firing at six frames per second and was just about able to see the bee before it disappeared. The photographs at the return of the 37 minute flight though were quite revealing and it was obvious that the bee was carrying something green, which was chewed up plant material, indicating that it was sealing off the nest containing the larval cells. You can see this material in the last blog sealing off the first breeding hole. As I prepared for more flights the cloud started to appear and, with the time at 5.30pm, there was probably only about an hour of potential flight time remaining before the sun disappeared behind the surrounding trees, casting the pine stump into shade. With the sun/cloud the temperature was once again hovering around the 18 degrees mark and
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over the next hour the bee was able to make just three more flights of just 1-2 minutes, probably not long enough to collect more chewed plant material. Thwarted, once again, and after just over two hours of watching it was time to pack up and go home. The following day dawned bright and sunny with a gentle southerly breeze and with the sun due to hit the breeding hole just after noon I made my way back to the site with high hopes of a decent days recording. The data log says arrived 1pm, the temperature was 220C and there was full sun and with no activity at the hole I assumed the bee was out working. 2pm, still no bee. 3pm, still no bee, and this time I really was fearing the worst and when nothing had happened after two and a half hours I knew this was the end of the monitoring
|Perhaps the same end as the Osmia bee?
project. With full sun and a nice, calm, warm day, lots of other insects and animals would be reacting by being more active, so whether the bee had been caught by a bird, a dragonfly or even in one of the many spider webs that appeared all over the place, we will never know. All we can hope is that inside the second hole, as in the first, there are sealed cells with a few larvae waiting for a warm day in June 2016 to emerge and set about going through the whole reproductive process once again. All told, 8 recording visits had been made over two and a half weeks, totaling just less than 24 hours of watching and in that time the bee had had a total flight time of just 217 minutes. Whilst the sitting, watching and recording only allowed me to record part of this process, it does bring home to you just how much the weather can play a part in success or failure for many insects that work so hard to
|The wee Rhopalum clavipes wasp at its breeding hole
reproduce their next set of offspring. As I left for the last time a tiny wasp provisioning its own ex-beetle hole quite close to the Osmia hole was still very active and obviously not as temperature dependant as the bee. I did wonder if the wasp was actually digging its way into the first, sealed Osmia nest hole, but with help from Murdo I now know that this wee wasp goes by the name of Rhopalum clavipes, and isn't a predator the Osmia larvae will need to worry about. However, there are many other predators out there and it will be interesting to see if anything emerges from either hole next year.
Early in the month saw Janet setting up her stall for the Abernethy Highland Games and hoping for a busy Saturday. As usual Laura came over to help and amid the pipes and bands, highland dancing and 'heavy' events like tossing the caber, they were kept quite busy for the day. These games continue to be a major gathering for local pipe bands and with seven different ones attending this
|Janet's craft stall
year's event the sound and spectacle of all the bands marching and playing as they march around the games field is something quite amazing. As I got back from a bit of sedge hunting at Loch Pityoulish the last of the RSPB 10 mile road race runners were passing the house with just half a mile to go to the finish. With Laura over for the weekend, Ruth, Lewis and the boys came over for lunch on Sunday with Finlay and Archie making some amazingly decorated cakes to finish off the meal. The
following day I tried to walk the last of the BTO/Butterfly Conservation butterfly transects but with deteriorating weather I bailed out, returning to re-walk a few days later. Despite full sun there were few butterflies, Scotch argus being the most numerous. A funny wee fungus found growing by the
|Finlay's amazing cake
roadside turned out to be elfin saddle (Helvella lacunose) a species that has popped up in a few places this year. The butterfly transect is quite close to a nice flushed hillside so after completing the survey I headed for the bog. I had been informed that this site was quite good for plants and might have good sedge populations, so worth a visit. The white heads of cotton grass were everywhere and the ground varied from damp bog to soggy bog with plants like marsh arrow-grass, round-leaved sundew and bogbean. The sedges like star sedge (Carex echinata), carnation sedge (Carex panicea)
|Elfin Saddle fungus
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and flea sedge (Carex pulicaris) were quite common with the first two also displaying the smut fungus (Anthracoidea spp). However, it was tawny sedge (Carex hostiana) that I was looking for, flushed with my success of finding it with the smut a couple of weeks earlier, could this be the second UK site for the smut? Hopefully no one was watching me from afar as I wandered back and forth, finding the sedge in small quantities, and getting a feel for the sort of places to check. A lot of bending over is needed for this sort of pass-time and as I searched a funny wee insect caught my eye and the more I looked, the more insects I could see. What I had found was a young family of shield-bugs, no adult to be seen, but in the group of insects was one, slightly bigger than the others. These nymphs, as the young bugs are called, go through a series of growth phases known as instars and not
|Spiked shield-bug nymphs (Picromerus bidens)
sure why, but my group contained one final instar nymph (the biggest) and about 6-8 mid-instar nymphs and my photos would need to be checked against the species described on the British Bugs website to arrive at a name. The adult these bugs are predatory and feed on caterpillars and other insects. This species overwinters as eggs which hatch to grow into adults in July/August, so my timing would indicate the ones I had found were spiked shield-bug nymphs heading quickly towards adult-hood, with one possibly developing a little quicker than the others. My notebook tells me that shortly after this find I came upon a small population of tawny sedges and amongst the fruits I could see just one, black fungal ball of Anthracoidea hostianae, we had the second UK site. Trying to determine whether a fungus like this is really rare or just missed or not looked for takes a bit of time
|Anthracoidea hostianae the 2nd UK find
and having a link to the local BSBI recorder and the BSBI website allowed a few locations for the sedge to be searched for. It was following up one of these locations, close to Dulnain Bridge, that led to the 'searching for one species often leads to another' outcome. Local Recorder Andy had found several patches of tawny sedge at the Dulnain site so that was the next site to visit. I soon found the first small group of plants, then another and another as I wandered the site, along with a few flowering spikes of fragrant orchid. As with other boggy sites there were other sedges to see and at one checking stop there were some particularly tall examples of flea sedge, a plant whose fruits hang, individually, and slightly angled away from the top part of the stem, a bit like a sparsely branched
|Anthracoidea pulicaris fungus on flea sedge
Christmas tree. And there was 'that other species' the fruits of one flea sedge has the distinctive black fungal balls growing from them. Searching the wider area a few more were also found. Again, I was totally unaware of whether this was a sedge that had been recorded regularly with the fungus or not so it wasn't until I got home and checked to find that it (Anthracoidea pulicaris) had only been recorded twice before, so the specimens were sent off to Kew to be confirmed and to be added to the Anthracoidea collection.
There was one last job to do before we headed off on holiday and that was to count the number of flowering field gentians in the field at the end of our road, an important annual undertaking (along with the check of the number of waxcap fungi) for a field that has already survived one planning application to cover it with houses. Canes and tapes were used to provide rough transect lines and the walks back and forth produced a total of 1036 flowering spikes, up from just 250 in 2014. Not bad.
|Field gentians
Fields like this are getting rarer and rarer as more and more are ploughed and fertilised to grow things to 'feed the world'. As far as is known this field has only been grazed by sheep or horses over the decades maintaining the ideal conditions for both gentians and waxcaps.
And so, on the 15th we headed for the Macbrayne's ferry from Uig on Skye for a week's holiday in the Uists joining lots of tourists on the car park with the best view of Eilean Donan Castle along the way. Having stopped we were obliged to take the now annual photo of the castle which has always got a different kind of lighting dependant on sun, clouds and misty mountains. On arrive at Uig we
went into the booking office to collect tickets and boarding passes and as we got back to the car I hear the familiar voice of my namesake from a van in the next parking lane – Stuart Taylor (RSPB Balranald) was on the same ferry – again! We got to the cottage with enough time to have a short evening walk before watching the sun set over Kirkibost Island. The weeks stay saw us battle a little with windy days sometimes accompanied with rain and with one good sunny day. However, the mix of sun, cloud, dark clouds and rain made for some amazing views out over the sea and apart from one day we managed to get out and about without getting wet. One of the plants I had planned to look for was white beak-sedge (Rhynchospora alba) a plant found occasionally on previous visits growing in
|White beak-sedge
Rhynchospora alba
boggy ground, mainly to update old records but also with the chance of finding something growing on it. Quite a bit was located mainly on our way to and from days out with the biggest find located by me in torrential rain while Janet monitored my progress from the car. At Lochboisedale we found the new £10 million harbour complex just about complete but did wonder how it was going to help create that many jobs for the area with one business processing seaweed having already decided not to re-locate to the site. Mid-way through our stay I spotted a sea eagle flying past the cottage and out towards Kirkibost Island, but the whole thing happened too quickly to capture anything on camera – but nice to see. We spent that day on Berneray walking up through the island to the Youth Hostel
noting that a few more thatched black houses had been restored. Seals were hauled out on their usual rocks and another site was found for a wee sawfly gall (Eupontania collactanea) on the leaves of creeping willow. With the wind blowing a hooley most boats were tied up in the tiny harbour. After stopping to stock up with goods at the Co-op in Solas we made our way home via the 'Committee Road' crossing the moor where huge amounts of peat is still cut for household fires. As we were heading back off the moor towards the main road at Claddach Janet shouted "looks like a sea eagle" as a large bird headed towards us flying in from the sea close to Kirkibost Island. The same bird as that morning? As I was getting the camera with 400mm lense out and sorted Janet shouted "there's another one" which was just as well because the first one was now well inland and just about out of range. With the camera firing away this bird kept flying towards us eventually flying right over our
heads and almost too close for the camera to cope with. Brilliant. All too quickly the holiday was over and as we made our way back to the ferry (not until 4pm!) we stopped off for lunch in the dunes at Hòrnais allowing me one last go at re-locating a couple of small populations of curved sedge (Carex maritima) found there just once previously in 2006. I failed miserably to find anything by the Allt Gulabaidh apart from a population of mare's tail in a very odd dune pool so headed to the site where I expected to be even harder pushed to find anything. This is a small plant, 1-2 inches tall, and growing where there is usually a small amount of dampness right on the edge of the dunes. At another site where the sedge had been found earlier in the week, I notice a small white flower, knotted pearlwort (Sagina nodosa), was also growing. As I searched I spotted the same white flower
|Curved sedge (Carex maritima)
growing on a tiny piece of consolidated soil 'stuck' on top of a rock outcrop and slowly the tiny sedge also came into my view. The original count was of about 50 plants but my initial reaction was that there were many less than that, but then I saw a few more and eventually counted about 110 plants none of which were more than about an inch high. Time to head for the ferry, happy. We arrived at the pier a couple of hours before the ferry was due and with about 4 cars already in the first parking lane debated about joining the queue or parking elsewhere for a while and then join the queue. Nearly every time we catch this ferry we end up on what is called the mezzanine deck, the first cars on drive onto this 'deck' which is then raised to allow more vehicles to park below it. First
|Hornais dunes - our last day on North Uist
on – last off! I noticed that two of the cars were land rover types and these are too big for the raised deck so we decided to join the queue. Sure enough we were waved through towards the bow of the ferry along with an artic lorry. Getting off at Uig means you join a long line of vehicles slowly making its way through Skye, then Kyle of Lochalsh and usually all the way to Drumnacrochit and along Loch Ness-side. As we got back in our vehicles to disembark, the lorry was first off (very bad news) followed by five cars, followed by us! This had never happened to us before and when we saw the lorry pull into the harbour car park we could see we were set for a reasonably quick drive through Skye and beyond. One by one the cars in front pull off at various junctions and as we headed towards Invermoriston there was just one of the original cars in front of us and when this car turned off towards Fort William we thought the job was a good one and we would sail steadily towards Inverness, particularly as it was approaching 10pm. Wrong. In Drumnadrochit we caught up with a few cars behind a transit van towing a caravan and we all then caught up with a large fair-ground wagon leading us at a steady 20-30 mph all the way along the side of Loch Ness and into Inverness, completely ignoring all the signs (with lay-byes) saying use lay-byes to allow overtaking! We got home at 11pm and sorted the stuff we would need for the next day's craft fair in Aviemore!
The end of August saw me trying to complete my visits to the plant recording tetrads before some plants became too difficult to recognise as they reached the end of their growing season. A days outing to NH80C lead me through excellent woodland which sadly was a bit overgrazed by sheep and cattle but the day was saved, botanically, by emerging into a nice bit of bog which added a few good records for the day's efforts. Having now got my eye in for tawny sedge I saw several small patches along with the yellow sedge and the hybrids between the two. Photos of the recent finds were also
|Grass of Parnassus and leaf fungus
processed and forwarded to Kew for the Lost and Found Project as well as several envelopes with dried specimens for checking. A visit was also made to one of the Abernethy Forest sites for Grass of Parnassus to see how the fungus found a few weeks earlier near Tomintoul (Puccinia caricina) looked after a month of plant growth and fungus development. When I found the plants I could see why there were few records for the fungus because instead of the obvious yellow patches (see last blog) on the leaves all I could find were leaves full of holes or with dark brown patches where the fungus had been. Job done, the fungus had shed its spores, and the plants just got on with growing
|Fen bedstraw showing characteristic spines and leaf points
and producing the stunning display of flowers found at the site. The boggy area was also home to lots of the uncommon fen bedstraw (Galium uliginosum), a plant with a very spiny stem and spiny leaves with sharply pointed tips. These features make the plant quite distinctive when compared to the commoner marsh bedstraw (Galium palustre). There was so much of the plant I had to keep checking that I had the right species. I then noticed something odd on one of the 'flowers' at the top of the plant stem, the flower didn't look properly formed and once checked under my hand-lens I could see there was something unusual about it and I wondered about whether I was looking at a
|Plant gall Dasineura hygrophila on
Galium uliginosum
plant gall. A couple of samples were removed and once home the British Plant Galls book by Redfern and Shirley informed me that I was probably looking at a gall caused by a wee midge called Dasineura hygrophila but with a cautionary note saying that there was still confusion over the names of the gall causer and that morphological and DNA studies were required. With few dots on the distribution map locally the plant and gall were sent off to the experts to check. Thankfully, at the time of collection, storage and posting, the plant and gall had been kept in a sealed poly bag because when it arrived with the expert a midge was flitting around in the bag allowing the cautionary
|Painted lady
identification to be made. Phew. On the way to see the plants I came across the first of my local painted lady butterfly records, possibly indicating that there had been an arrival of butterflies from
further south. In a similar vein I made another visit to the Chalamain Gap path to re-check the rust fungus found on the leaves of bog blaeberry (Vaccinium uliginosum) back in 2013. This was just two days after the Abernethy outing and there were three contacts with painted lady butterflies as I
|Exobasidium pachysporum on upper leaf of Vaccinium uliginosum
|Exobasidium pachysporum on under leaf of V. uliginosum
|Heather fly Bibio pomonae
walked along the track and an odd, red-legged fly turned out to be Bibio pomonae, which, with purple heather in bloom all over the area, is known appropriately as the heather fly! A bog blaeberry outing on the path to the Northern Corries in the Cairngorms for the same objectives didn't add to the number of painted lady butterfly sightings but did, perhaps, produce one of the strangest sights for late August, a couple of blokes walking down the path towards me, both with skies strapped to the
sides of their rucksacks. "surely you've not been skiing?" I asked. "Sure have" came the reply "there's lots of snow in the Feith Buidhe area". Higher up the path that I could also see small patches of snow still held in the steep gullies above Coire an t-Sneachda but was amazed to hear that there was enough to ski on out towards Ben Macdui. I've no doubt they also wondered what this guy was doing wandering along the path to the high-ground in his Muck Boot wellies!
That's it for another month, enjoy the read
Stewart and Janet
Fungal Records Database of Britain and Ireland (FRDBI)
Wider Countryside Butterfly Survey BTO/BC
British Bugs
Kew Lost and Found Project
http://www.kew.org/discover/blogs/kew-science/rare-british-fungi-genuinely-uncommon-or-simply-ignored and click on Lost and Found or other topics
BSBI – Botanical Society of the British Isles
Highland Biological Recording Group
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|Perseid meteor shower - well, just one, bottom left!
|Evening visitors North Uist Cottage
|Wood wasp (Urocerus gigas) egg-laying in Lodgepole pine log
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Effect of particle shape on grain size, hydraulic, and transport characteristics of calcareous sand
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|Effect of particle shape on grain size, hydraulic, and transport characteristics of calcareous sand
|Smith, David A.
|Cheung, Kwok Fai
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|University of Hawaii at Manoa
|This study examines the grain size, fall velocity, initiation of motion, and sediment transport rates of calcareous sand collected on Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi. These characteristics are unique to calcareous sand owing to the irregular shape of the particles and are distinct from those of siliceous sand, which have been studied extensively with well-documented results. Through a series of laboratory experiments and data analyses, this study provides a comprehensive data set of calcareous sand characteristics and quantifies their dependence on particle shape. Sand samples were selected from the swash zones of Oʻahu beaches. Sieve and settling techniques separate the samples into groups by sieve size and fall velocity, respectively. Individual grain properties such as shape factor, intermediate dimension, fall velocity, and nominal and equivalent diameters for 998 grains within those groups are presented. Evaluation of the grain size data by sieve and settling groups provides empirical relationships between the median sieve size of the sand samples and the corresponding nominal and equivalent diameters. The fall velocity and drag coefficient expressed respectively as functions of nominal diameter and Reynolds number show strong correlation over a wide range of shape factors. Analysis of the data by flow regime shows that particle shape has stronger influence on the settling characteristics when unstable wakes develop behind the grains. These findings are used to interpret the initiation of motion of four natural and five sieved calcareous sand samples in unidirectional flow. Flume experiments provide the sediment transport rate as a function of bed shear stress up to bed-form development. Reference-based criteria are supplemented by visual observations to determine the critical shear stress. The results are compared with published data for rounded and irregular particles in terms of the median sieve size and median nominal and equivalent diameters over Reynolds number. The critical shear stresses of the irregular particles, in comparison with data for rounded particles, are higher in the hydraulically smooth regime and lower in the rough turbulent regime. Finally, the transport of calcareous sand in unidirectional flow and its prediction through existing sediment transport models are examined. Flume experiments provide 70 sets of sediment transport data and the results are compared with direct predictions from five published sediment transport models developed for siliceous particles. Corrections for the grain size and hydraulic characteristics of calcareous sand developed in this study are applied and the results are compared with the direct calculations. The comparisons show that one of the models gives good results before calcareous sand corrections are considered and another responds well when the corrections are applied. This analysis provides guidelines to the application of existing sediment transport models to calcareous beaches and the gathered data lays a foundation for future model development.
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Collecting feedback is smart for business. It allows you to know what's working directly from product users, your consumers. Fixing problems and improving usability—whether of a product or service—gives you a competitive edge in the market.
For products and services in aid and philanthropy, the same logic applies: collect feedback so you can rapidly iterate, improve, and provide value to your constituents ("beneficiaries").
Many people feel that to improve usability you need lots of cases, lots of feedback. Casually, people will say, "Is your 'n' big enough?" By "n" they are trying to refer to what, in the language of statistics, is the number in a trial or sample. Yes, for quantitative studies to get statistically significant numbers you need a minimum number of cases. Otherwise, your finding is seen as just an anecdote.
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