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It appears as if a potential world-record whitetail will never get its "day in court."
After months of speculation and controversy, efforts to get the Johnny King Buck panel-scored have hit a stone wall. The rack of the King Buck was on hand this past weekend at the Wisconsin Deer & Turkey Expo in Madison. It was not on display. It was brought to the event by individuals who want the deer to be given a fair scoring by a panel of certified Boone and Crockett Club members. I attended the event and watched in disbelief as the rack sat, purposefully ignored, atop a folding table in the back corner of a room full of racks being scored for entry into the Wisconsin Buck and Bear Club.
I also talked with several certified scorers and, to a man, each one said they thought the rack was a typical 12-pointer and should be scored as such. It has been several years since a certified scorer last unofficially measured the rack. It has been estimated this 12-pointer would net anywhere from 215 to 219 B&C inches. If it did, it would shatter the B&C mark for typicals and dethrone the Milo Hanson Buck from the No. 1 spot.
The controversy surrounding this deer centers on its right G-2 and G-3 points. According to B&C, the points share a common base. The club, however, made this ruling without ever having officially scored the rack.
If scored as a typical with deductions, the King Buck would likely net in the 180s.
Last summer, Deer & Deer Hunting broke Duncan Dobie's story on this controversy. The former editor of North American Whitetail, Dobie had been following the story closely since Johnny King of Mt. Horeb, Wis., killed the buck on Nov. 18, 2006. The details surrounding the controversy are complex, but they mostly boil down to an apparent dislike for the way the deer looks and to the fact that King, an average hunter with no desire for the limelight, sold the rack to an antler collector after becoming fed up with the bureaucracy involved in getting his deer a fair shake with antler organizations.
I talked with several official antler scorers while in Madison this weekend. None of them wanted to speak on record, yet all of them told me they thought the deer should be scored as a typical 12-pointer.
"There's really no chance (B&C) will change their mind," one scorer told me. "They've dug in their heels, and don't want to admit they went about this the wrong way. It's frustrating, because, if anything, this deer should be scored by the Wisconsin organization. If it was, it would unseat the Jordan Buck as the state's all-time largest typical ever."
The Jordan Buck was the World Record typical for many years. The Hanson Buck unseated it in 1995.
I also talked with several Wisconsin Buck and Bear Club members, and they said they wished their organization would stand up for what is right … and score the buck. One member told me he was puzzled why this hasn't already happened, because WBBC is in no way affiliated with B&C. When asked why there was then a problem with scoring the King Buck, he shrugged his shoulders and said, "Some of these guys are B&C-certified scorers and others aspire to become B&C scorers some day. They don't want to jeopardize that by not towing the so-called company line."
"I talked with most of the guys, and the vast majority of the Wisconsin Buck and Bear scorers think it is a typical 12-pointer," another scorer said. "Not one of them said they thought it was a nontypical. However, we can't do anything because B&C made their decision on it, and we just have to let it go away. It's not right. It's not fair. And it definitely is making me rethink how I view both organizations. This should be about giving a deer its due. It should not be about placating some guy's ego. Some of these guys are acting like a bunch of little girls. It's almost as if they're saying, "We don't care if it is the biggest buck ever killed. We have to save face and rally around our guys."
Said another scorer, "This all very saddening. If you want my opinion, there are a lot of cowards in this building (where the rack was on hand). Someone needs to man-up and do the right thing."
— What do you think? Should the King Buck be panel-scored, or should it go down as the buck that was almost the new world record? Let us know by entering your thoughts by clicking the REPLY button at the bottom of this page.
More coverage on the King Buck:
VIDEO: Johnny King talks about the day he killed his buck.
ARTICLE: Read the in-depth exclusive about the controversy.
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The key lit=* indicates the presence of lighting.
Most often used on a way tagged with highway=* but sensible on many other ways, too. Can be used as well on advertising devices tagged with advertising=*, and in that case the way it is lit can be provided through proposed key lit:type=*.
Recommended use
- lit=24/7: Both night and day; e.g. in tunnels.
- lit=yes: At night (unknown time schedule or daylight detection)
- lit=automatic: When someone enters the way the lights are turned on.
- lit=no: There are no lights installed
- lit=operating times: Use the schema of opening_hours to document when the light is ON, when the lighting is solely or primarily time dependent. For example lit=Mo-Fr 05:00-07:45 for a way lit for working days' morning rush hour only.
- lit_by_gaslight=yes: For streets lit by gas lighting.
The way the feature is lit can be indicated through the proposed key lit:type=*.
lit=* can be used on nodes, ways, areas or relations.
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Combinations on ways
Combinations on advertisings
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Other objects
- Buildings
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- Bus or tram stops
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- www.mapcontrib.xyz with MapContrib
- http://osmstreetlight.bplaced.net from ubahnverleih (on osm, edits, contrib, heatmap)
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How to tag a tunnel where lamps are installed but they are never turned on because the city wants to save money?
- I recommend to tag that lit=no. (?)
- I recommend to tag that lit=disused. (--Plasmon 09:50, 5 July 2009 (UTC))
- I recommend to tag that lit=disused. --Bahnpirat 14:20, 30 October 2009 (UTC)
- I recommend to tag that lit=disused, because existing poles are means of orientation for blind persons. --Lulu-Ann 13:49, 12 April 2011 (BST)
- I've never encountered poles for illumination in tunnels (they usually hang), but I would say (maybe applied for other objects that might be lit, like footways) that if a pole's primary purpose is lighting then it should be mapped as a node (probably highway=street_lamp with disused=yes. That means the object is still there and presumably available for secondary uses. Note that sighted persons also use objects like lamp posts for orientation - anything can be a landmark. --Hubne (talk) 23:48, 1 December 2015 (UTC)
The ITO Map now appears to recognise lit=disused. (--Zcapw15 (talk) 18:52, 9 December 2013 (UTC))
Should this be used to tag individual light columns? Rationale being that we could then ease the reporting of failed street lights to the respective councils if we collected their positions whilst surveying - after all, there tend to be less street lights than house numbers, which we're encouraged to collect...
- probably not, unless the columns themselves are lit, maybe for being art installations. while housenumbers are fairly static, mapping each burnt-out lightbulb and updating the status when it's replaced is unlikely to be feasible anywhere in the world. --Richlv (talk) 16:30, 7 February 2018 (UTC)

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Dave White's first movie review was of the animated feature Snoopy Come Home. He was seven years old...Read full profile
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Call it good, just not great. Read full review
Critics scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.
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Metascore®Mixed or average reviewsbased on a weighted average of allcritic review scores.
Nothing is right about this ridiculous horror schlockfest.
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Where Craven and his director, Alexandre Aja, may have miscalculated is in making the genetically damaged demons, with their flesh-potato foreheads and minimal verbal skills, into monster action figures who take vengeance on the world that created them. They're not scary because they're victims themselves.
The Hills Have Eyes gets points for gore and general creepiness, and for occasional periods of tension, but it's not scary enough to linger long in the subconscious.
This remake of the 1977 Wes Craven cult classic is brutally horrific. And that's a compliment.
See all The Hills Have Eyes reviews at Metacritic.com
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Grim remake of '70s slasher film. Not for kids.
What Parents Need to Know
Parents need to know that this film is absolutely not for kids. It includes incessant, vicious attacks on a family traveling through the New Mexican desert by a group of mutants. The violence is startling, explicit, and aggressive (dogs are knifed and eviscerated; humans suffer knifing, dismembering, shooting, burning at a stake). Someone bites off a parakeet's head. The monstrous mutants watch their prey through binoculars, which the film renders as spooky "surveillance" imagery. Women appear undressed as monsters try to rape them. Characters smoke, drink beer and margaritas, and refer to "the chronic"/pot. Opening credits sequence features ghastly victims of radiation, in jars and photos.
Messages: Mutants are mad; bumbling humans are dumb; only the enraged, vengeful young father triumphs.
Violence: Bloody, grotesque assaults on traveling family by human mutants; infant in danger (carried off by mutants); dogs yelp off screen and their bloody bodies are discovered by horrified humans; mutants eat human and dog corpses; bird's head bitten off; graphic injuries and body parts (including a bloody head and some deformed heads).Repulsive rape of a young mother, plus repeated sexualized violence.
Sex: Sexualized violence.
Language: Frequent profanity, including repeated use of f-words, s-word, "-of-a-bitch."
Consumerism: Not an issue
Drinking, drugs and smoking: Characters smoke, drink, and show effects of radiation (deformities and cannibalism).
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It is uncanny how some of the smallest, seemingly innocuous wounds can become the most life-threatening. Those located around synovial structures (joints, tendon sheaths and bursas) often fall into this category. Early recognition of synovial structure involvement followed by aggressive therapy wins the battle in many cases, but not all. The statistics are worse when recognition or therapy is delayed. Having owners who are caring but also knowledgeable about limb anatomy is an important first step. Owners are often the first responder – making the decision on whether to contact their veterinarian. It is an easy decision to make when blood is spurting, flesh is hanging, or bone is visible but not so easy when the wound is a puncture or just an inch or so in length. Perhaps some of the following information will be helpful in highlighting the importance of small but badly placed wounds. Continue reading


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Allen Lessels on College Football: Towson controls WildcatsBy ALLEN LESSELS
New Hampshire Union Leader
October 05. 2013 10:08PM
TERRANCE WEST, Towson's big-time bruiser of a running back, got off to a poor start in Saturday's Colonial Athletic Association showdown with New Hampshire.
He and his Tiger teammates gave the Wildcats absolute fits after that, grabbed control of the game in the second period and rolled to a 44-28 win at Unitas Stadium in Towson.
Towson lived up to its lofty rankings - No. 3 in one poll, No. 2 in the other - and dealt UNH a severe blow while running its record to 6-0.
"Those guys have had a field day against us the last two years," said UNH coach Sean McDonnell before the game.
Make that three years.
UNH dropped its CAA opener, fell to 1-3 on the season and dug itself even deeper into an early-season hole.
The Wildcats have been on a remarkable run of FCS playoff appearances - they have qualified for the postseason tournament for a nation's-best nine straight years - but have now narrowed considerably their margin of error for extending the streak to 10.
They may have to win their next seven games - all CAA contests starting with Homecoming at Cowell Stadium against Rhode Island next Saturday - to get in.
UNH's string of 131 weeks ranked in the Top 25 that dates back to September of 2004 is at risk, too. The Wildcats were ranked No. 19 last week and the new poll will be out Monday afternoon.
All was good at the start on Saturday.
The Wildcats roared out of the gates and owned the first quarter.
Towson took its turn in the second and, capitalizing especially on a brutal UNH finish to the half, grabbed all the momentum and a 27-20 lead at the break.
The Wildcats scored all of their opening half points in their first seven offensive plays, covering just over nine minutes of the game.
UNH quickly turned two West fumbles into touchdowns.
West fumbled on the second play of the game and UNH junior safety Nick Cefalo recovered on the Towson 23. Three plays later, junior Nico Steriti scored on a 9-yard run.
Towson drove the field to a 37-yard field goal with 8:44 to go in the period.Andy Vailas, UNH's junior quarterback out of Bedford, started UNH's next possession with a 21-yard pass to R.J. Harris. Vailas kept on the next play and ran for a 44-yard score. A two-point conversion pass was no good and UNH led 13-7.
Towson had given up two rushing touchdowns in its first five games and UNH had a pair in less than seven minutes.
Four plays later, West fumbled again and Cefalo recovered once more.
Two plays later, UNH wide receiver Jared Allison hit Harold Spears for a 29-yard touchdown on an option pass.
UNH led 20-3 with 6:04 to go.
And that was it for Wildcat highlights.
The Tigers ran off 41 straight points to put the game away.
West scored Towson's first touchdown on a 50-yard run with four minutes gone in the second quarter and then, after a poor Brad Prasky punt, added a 1-yard score midway through the period.
UNH's offense had stalled and then things got worse. The Tigers came up with three straight turnovers stretching into the second half and turned them into 17 points and a commanding lead.
First, Vailas fumbled to end a UNH drive with the Wildcats still up 20-17 and Towson - after getting a break when officials ruled Casey DeAndrade came down out of bounds with an interception - scored on a Peter Athens to Spencer Wilkins 21-yard pass to take the lead with 44 seconds left in the half.
UNH tried to get something going, but Chris Setian fumbled and Towson's D.J. Soven knocked down a 49-yard field goal as time ran out in the half.
The Wildcats received the ball coming out of the half. But Christian Carpenter picked off Vailas on the first play and the Tigers marched back the other way for another score and it was 34-20 and Towson had control of the game.
UNH ended up with 445 total yards of offense and the 28 points against a team that was allowing 271 yards and 14 points a game. Towson had allowed only 70 yards a game rushing and UNH collected 169, 90 of them in the first period.
Towson amassed a team-record 731 yards of well-balanced offense with 379 yards passing and 352 rushing.
West ended up with 28 carries for 238 yards and three touchdowns. In three games against UNH he has rushed for 735 yards and nine TDs.
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Event will coincide with park's Free Park Entrance Days Aug. 13-14
LAWRENCE — In conjunction with Clinton State Park's Free Park Entrance Days Aug. 13-14, park staff will conduct a free O.K. Kids Day on Saturday, Aug. 13. Free daily kids activities will run from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., complete with prize drawings throughout the day.
A fishing derby will be held from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. at Lake Henry, just south of the park office. Fisheries biologists will teach kids how to identify fish, improve casting skills, and bait a hook. Prizes will be given for the biggest fish, smallest fish, and most fish. First-time anglers will be entered into a special First Time Fishermen Award drawing. Fishing poles and bait will be provided.
A hotdog sack lunch will be free to the first 200 people.
For those who stick around and enjoy the park throughout the day, live animals will be on display at Shelter No. 6 in Campground No. 3 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. A snake "show and tell" will be the feature of this display, and everyone will be offered a special viewing of snakes and turtles. Biologists will talk about venomous Kansas snakes, including timber rattlesnake, copperhead, and massasauga rattlesnake, and how to avoid them. Non-venomous snake, turtles, and other critters will also be on display, and everyone who attends will receive a free snake identification booklet while supplies last.
This is a great opportunity for a family camping trip. While Free Park Entrance Days are in effect, overnight camping permits ($8.50) and utility fees ($9 per night) are still required.
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2012-13: Rowed in seven events for the Engineers … member of the varsity 8 crew … CRCA Scholar Athlete … sat in the one for all but one race, rowing from there in the Head of the Charles (10/20), the Knecht Cup (4/13), the Muri Cup (4/27), the Dad Vail (5/10) and the IRA Championships (6/1) … silver medal at the Dad Vail Regatta … rowed in the seven seat at the Beanpot (3/30) … also rowed in the A4 boat in the one seat for the Foot of the Charles (11/10).
2011-12: Rowed in varsity 8 at the Dad Vail Regatta, EAWRC Sprints and IRA national championship, sitting in the three seat … rowed in second varsity 8 at the Muri Cup, sitting in the six seat … rowed in novice 8 at the Dartmouth Invitational, Foot of the Charles and Knecht Cup, sitting in the six and eight seat.
Off The Water at MIT: Majoring in biological engineering … intern at Ashe Consultants, PLLC (mechanical and electrical engineering/consulting firm) … investigated antifungal peptides in termites at the Loudoun Academy of Science … Colleges Against Cancer … Baker Leaders
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NASHVILLE, TN (WIS) - The USC football team opens their season with a 17-13 win over SEC opponent Vanderbilt in Nashville.
Gamecocks (1-0) running back Marcus Lattimore rushed for 110 yards and two touchdowns in the win. Quarterback Connor Shaw ran for 92 yards.
Shaw exited the game with a shoulder bruise. During a run play in the second quarter, Shaw landed on the shoulder and a Vanderbilt (0-1) defender landed on him.
Shaw quickly got up and was visibly in pain as he ran to the sideline. He was taken to the team's locker room where he was diagnosed with the injury to his throwing shoulder.
Gamecock backup quarterback Dylan Thompson started the second half for the Gamecocks. He was sacked twice.
Shaw re-entered the game in the third quarter. With just under 12:00 to go in the fourth quarter, Shaw scampered 12 yards down to the one-yard line, but was taken out in the next play after being hit by two Commodores.
Shaw returned to the game one play later to hand it off to Marcus Lattimore for a one-yard TD run to put the Gamecocks up 16-13 with 11:25 in the game. The extra point made it 17-13 USC.
The Gamecocks did not have an easy start against the Commodores. Marcus Lattimore avenged a fumble early in the game to score first thanks to a run play.
The Gamecocks were driving for most of the beginning of the second quarter and looked to score another touchdown, but it would not come to pass.
Vandy would not go down easily, however, as a 78-yard catch and run from Brison Williams helped put the Commodores back in the game.
The Commodores were able to drive down the field in the middle of the second quarter and get a chip shot field goal to tie it up, 10 - 10. They kicked another field goal from 44 yards out in the third quarter to take the 13-10 lead.
The Gamecocks are ranked 9th in the nation following a 2011 season that saw a school record 11 wins.
USC has won nine straight games against SEC opponents. They have also won 13 straight season openers.
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Night At The Museum Tour
See the real exhibits behind the characters featured in the Night at the Museum movies on this self-guided tour.
For free guided tours during your visit, check tour listings.
For turn-by-turn navigation during your visit, as well as behind-the-scenes stories about exhibits, quizzes, and more, download the Museum's free Explorer app.
Rapa Nui (Easter Island) is famous for its rows of moai, towering figures of deified ancestors that were carved in quarries, then moved to a platform on the water's edge.
Floor: 3rd Floor | Exhibit Hall: Margaret Mead Hall of Pacific Peoples
Part of the South American monkey radiation, capuchin monkeys live in forest areas from northeastern Mexico to northern Argentina. Capuchins and their relatives have long tails used for grasping.
Floor: 3rd Floor | Exhibit Hall: Hall of Primates
This diorama is set in the mid-1800s, when the prairies teemed with tens of millions of bison. A few decades later fewer than a thousand remained.
Floor: 1st Floor | Exhibit Hall: Bernard Family Hall of North American Mammals
The 4-foot-long jaw, the 6-inch-long teeth, the massive thigh bones—almost everything about Tyrannosaurus rex indicates the enormous power of one of the largest theropod dinosaurs that ever existed.
Floor: 4th Floor | Exhibit Hall: Hall of Saurischian Dinosaurs
Considered the most social of cats, lions live in prides that consist of one or more males, several females, and cubs. While a male lion consumes an average of 5,500 pounds of meat a year—mostly wildebeest, zebra, and antelopes—females do most of the actual hunting.
Floor: 2nd Floor | Exhibit Hall: Akeley Hall of African Mammals
The Dzanga-Sangha Rain Forest is home to some of the highest concentrations of forest elephants and lowland gorillas in Africa along with many other mammals, birds, plant species, and thousands of insects and microorganisms.
Floor: 1st Floor | Exhibit Hall: Hall of Biodiversity
Moose are the largest deer in the world. The biggest moose of all live in Alaska, where males can top 1,700 pounds (770 kilograms) and grow antlers 6.8 feet (2.1 meters) wide.
Floor: 1st Floor | Exhibit Hall: Bernard Family Hall of North American Mammals
The African elephant is the largest living land mammal. Both male and female African elephants have ivory tusks.
Floor: 2nd Floor | Exhibit Hall: Akeley Hall of African Mammals
Rhinoceros means "horn-nosed." For millions of years, black rhinos have used their magnificent horns for protection against lions and other predators, as weapons in territorial disputes with other rhinos, and as tools to dig for mineral salt.
Floor: 2nd Floor | Exhibit Hall: Akeley Hall of African Mammals
The Museum's great standing skeleton is Mammuthus, the mammoth. Found in Indiana, this mammoth lived about 11,000 years ago. Mammoths were larger than their relatives the woolly mammoths but lacked their long, coarse hair.
Floor: 4th Floor | Exhibit Hall: Paul and Irma Milstein Hall of Advanced Mammals
As the world's largest bird (ostriches can stand up to 8 feet tall and weigh 340 pounds), the ostrich is also one of the most adaptable. The ostrich lives in a variety of environments in southwest Africa and has developed a complex social structure while having shed the ability to fly.
Floor: 2nd Floor | Exhibit Hall: Akeley Hall of African Mammals
A favorite among Museum visitors, the Water Hole diorama teems with wildlife in search of water in the Guaso Nyiro River Valley in Kenya. Spot the giraffes, Grévy's zebra, Beisa oryx, Grant's gazelle, the olive baboon, and herds of elephants.
Floor: 2nd Floor | Exhibit Hall: Akeley Hall of African Mammals
Cullman Hall of the Universe
The Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Hall of the Universe, located on the lower level of the Rose Center for Earth and Space, presents the discoveries of modern astrophysics. Divided into four zones, the hall covers the formation, evolution, and properties of stars, planets, galaxies, and the universe.
Food Court
This is the food court.
Hall of Meteorites
The Arthur Ross Hall of Meteorites explores essential questions about the origins of our solar system some 4.6 billion years ago by examining meteorites, rocky fragments from space that reveal clues about the formation and evolution of the Sun and planets.
Hall of Planet Earth
The David S. and Ruth L. Gottesman Hall of Planet Earth, the first part of the Rose Center to open in June 1999, displays an amazing collection of geological specimens, chosen specifically to show how our planet works.
Hall of Ocean Life
The Milstein Hall of Ocean Life highlights the drama of the undersea world and its diverse and complex web of life in a fully immersive marine environment. The hall is home to one of the Museum's most celebrated displays—a 94-foot-long, 21,000-pound model of a blue whale suspended from the ceiling.
Hall of Human Origins
The Anne and Bernard Spitzer Hall of Human Origins pairs fossils with DNA research to present the remarkable history of human evolution. The hall covers millions of years of human history, from early ancestors who lived more than six million years ago to modern Homo sapiens, who evolved 200,000 to 150,000 years ago.
Grand Gallery
The Museum has completed a major renovation of the historic 77th Street lobby that restores the grandeur of its original 1904 design and celebrates the preservation and revitalization of a century-old Museum icon—the 63-foot-long Great Canoe.
Hall of Minerals
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Hall of Minerals presents hundreds of striking mineral-bearing specimens collected from around the world, including a giant topaz crystal from Brazil, a 4.5-ton block of azurite-malachite ore from Arizona, and a nephrite jade slab from Poland.
Hall of New York State Environment
The Felix M. Warburg Hall of New York State Environment focuses on the village of Pine Plains and Stissing Mountain in New York's Dutchess County, an area that includes mountains, natural lakes, forests, rock formations, and both wild and cultivated land.
Northwest Coast Hall
The Northwest Coast Hall highlights the traditional cultures of the native peoples of North America's shores from Washington State to southern Alaska, including the Kwakiutl (known today as Kwakwaka'wakw), Haida, Tlingit, and others.
Hall of North American Forests
The Hall of North American Forests explores the ecology and variety of the forests of North America—from a northern spruce and fir forest of Ontario to a giant cactus forest in Arizona—in addition to highlighting the forest food web and presenting techniques for protecting forests.
Hall of North American Mammals
The Hall of North American Mammals features 28 dramatic examples of the large and medium-sized mammals of the North American continent in carefully re-created habitats.
Hall of Small Mammals
The Hall of Small Mammals, which is an offshoot of the larger Hall of North American Mammals, depicts a variety of animals in small dioramas of their natural habitats, from the Canadian tundra to the brush country of southern Texas.
Heilbrunn Cosmic Pathway
The Harriet and Robert Heilbrunn Cosmic Pathway is a 360-foot-long path in the Rose Center for Earth and Space that spirals from the exit of the Hayden Big Bang Theater to the base of the Hayden Sphere, laying out the 13-billion-year history of the universe.
Discovery Room
The Discovery Room offers families, and especially children ages 5–12, an interactive gateway to the wonders of the Museum and a hands-on, behind-the-scenes look at its science.
Bernard Family Hall of North American Mammals
Each diorama shows an actual place on the continent, at one moment in time, with the plants and animals you'd see there.
Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Hall
The Exhibition Department is renovating, reinterpreting, and updating the first-floor Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Hall exhibitions for reopening in Fall 2012.
Hall of Biodiversity
The Hall of Biodiversity presents a vivid portrait of the beauty and abundance of life on Earth, highlighting both biodiversity and the factors that threaten it. Ecological biodiversity is illustrated by a 2,500-square-foot walk-through diorama that remakes part of the Dzanga-Sangha rain forest, one of Earth's most diverse ecosystems.
Hall of Gems
The Morgan Memorial Hall of Gems exhibits an array of precious and ornamental stones—uncut, polished, and even a few set in elaborate pieces of jewelry—as well as organic materials such as coral and amber that are prized as gems.
Hayden Big Bang Theater
The lower half of the Hayden Sphere is home to the Hayden Big Bang Theater, where visitors can look down into a concave screen to view the Big Bang presentation, a dynamic flight through the virtual universe based on an accurate cosmic atlas mapped using millions of astronomical observations.
Hall of Mexico and Central America
The Hall of Mexico and Central America features the diverse art, architecture, and traditions of Mesoamerican pre-Columbian cultures through artifacts that span from 1200 BC to the early 1500s.
Hall of Birds of the World
The Hall of Birds of the World showcases distinct environments around the world and the birds unique to those locations. Each of the hall's 12 dioramas depicts a major biome—a region with a particular community of living things, such as a desert or tropical rainforest—along with representative species.
Hall of South American Peoples
The Hall of South American Peoples features the art, tools, technologies, and traditions of the continent's pre-Columbian cultures—the ancient Inca, Moche, Chavin, and Chancay—in addition to exhibits about the traditional cultures of modern Amazonia.
Hall of African Peoples
The Hall of African Peoples explores Africa's cultural heritage from ancient Egypt to more modern times. The hall highlights lifestyles and customs—many of them disappearing—of peoples living in four environments: grasslands, deserts, forests, and river regions.
Hall of Asian Peoples
The Gardner D. Stout Hall of Asian Peoples—the Museum's largest cultural hall—showcases some of the finest collections in Asian ethnology in the Western Hemisphere. Some 3,000 artifacts, which represent about 5 percent of the Museum's considerable holdings, are displayed in the hall.
Hall of African Mammals
The Akeley Hall of African Mammals showcases large mammals of Africa. At the center is a freestanding group of eight elephants, poised as if to charge, surrounded by 28 habitat dioramas.
Theodore Roosevelt Rotunda
The Theodore Roosevelt Rotunda is New York's official memorial to the 26th President of the United States. In addition to leading expeditions for the Museum, Roosevelt championed environmental conservation.
Hall of Oceanic Birds
This hall's dioramas represent the bird life of the far-flung islands of the Pacific. These islands are geologically diverse, ranging from low coral to high mountains. One of the dioramas represents the bird population of the Guano Islands, named after the birds excretion, or guano, that coats the islands rocks.
Scales of the Universe
Displayed along the 400-foot-long walkway that hugs the glass curtain wall on the second level of the Rose Center for Earth and Space, the Scales of the Universe vividly illustrates the vast range of sizes in the universe, from subatomic particles and objects on the human scale to the largest objects in the observable cosmos.
Cosmic Pathway
The Harriet and Robert Heilbrunn Cosmic Pathway is a 360-foot-long path in the Rose Center for Earth and Space that spirals from the exit of the Hayden Big Bang Theater to the base of the Hayden Sphere, laying out the 13-billion-year history of the universe.
Hayden Planetarium
At the heart of the Rose Center for Earth and Space is an 87-foot-diameter sphere that appears to float inside a glass cube. Its upper half constitutes the Hayden Planetarium, which opened in 2000 along with the Rose Center for Earth and Space. It remains an enduring beacon of astrophysical education, as was its predecessor, which opened in 1935.
Hall of Asian Mammals
Between 1922 and 1928, Museum Trustee Arthur S. Vernay and British Colonel John C. Faunthorpe conducted six expeditions to collect animal specimens in India, Burma (now Myanmar), and Siam (now Thailand). The specimens were then donated to the Museum and formed the foundation for the Hall of Asian Mammals, which opened in 1930.
Hall of Pacific Peoples
Anthropologist and longtime Museum curator Margaret Mead provided the foundation for the hall that bears her name through her groundbreaking expeditions to Samoa, New Guinea, and Bali.
Hall of Eastern Woodlands Indians
The Hall of Eastern Woodlands Indians focuses on the traditional cultures of the Native American peoples living in the Eastern Woodlands of North America, including the Iroquois, Mohegan, Ojibwa, and Cree, through the early 20th century.
Hall of Primates
The Hall of Primates explores the mammalian order that includes apes, monkeys, and humans. Primates range in size from the pygmy marmoset to the gorilla, and include species that feed on insects, fruit, leaves, and sap.
Hall of North American Birds
The Leonard C. Sanford Hall of North American Birds features more than 20 dioramas that depict bird species in habitats ranging from the Florida Everglades to Alaskan riverbeds, with forest, prairie, marsh, and desert among the ecosystems represented.
Hall of New York State Mammals
The Hall of New York State Mammals introduces visitors to the diversity of local wildlife. Arranged in cased displays of discrete specimens, the hall presents a range of more than 50 land mammals—from shrews to bats, beavers to bobcats—and invites comparisons of their distinctive external features, such as fur, claws, ears, body shape, and size.
Hall of New York City Birds
The Hall of New York City Birds showcases the rich diversity of birds in the greater New York area. The region attracts more than 400 species of birds because of its varied habitats—which include ponds and lakes, marshes and seashore, open meadows and wooded sections—and due to its location along major bird migratory routes.
Hall of African Mammals
The Akeley Hall of African Mammals showcases large mammals of Africa. At the center is a freestanding group of eight elephants, poised as if to charge, surrounded by 28 habitat dioramas.
Hall of Reptiles and Amphibians
The Hall of Reptiles and Amphibians explores the anatomy, defense, locomotion, distribution, reproduction, and feeding habits of reptiles and amphibians.
Hall of Plains Indians
The Hall of Plains Indians focuses on the life of 19th-century Hidatsa, Dakota (Sioux), Cheyenne, Arapaho, Crow, and other Native American peoples of the North American Plains.
Hayden Planetarium
At the heart of the Rose Center for Earth and Space is an 87-foot-diameter sphere that appears to float inside a glass cube. Its upper half constitutes the Hayden Planetarium, which opened in 2000 along with the Rose Center for Earth and Space.
Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Orientation Center
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Orientation Center introduces visitors to the key concepts presented in the Museum's fourth floor fossil halls.
Hall of Vertebrate Origins
The Hall of Vertebrate Origins traces the evolution of vertebrates, or animals with backbones, back more than 500 million years.
Saurischian Dinosaurs
One of two halls in the David H. Koch Dinosaur Wing, the Hall of Saurischian Dinosaurs features fossils from one of two major groups of dinosaurs. Saurischians are characterized by grasping hands, in which the thumb is offset from the other fingers. This hall features the imposing mounts of Tyrannosaurus rex and Apatosaurus.
Milstein Hall of Advanced Mammals
The Paul and Irma Milstein Hall of Advanced Mammals is one of two halls in the Lila Acheson Wallace Wing of Mammals and Their Extinct Relatives, which together tell of the great diversification and sudden extinctions of this group of animals.
Hall of Ornithischian Dinosaurs
One of two halls in the David H. Koch Dinosaur Wing, the Hall of Ornithischian Dinosaurs features fossils from one of two major groups of dinosaurs.
Hall of Primitive Mammals
The Hall of Primitive Mammals, one of two halls in the Lila Acheson Wallace Wing of Mammals and Their Extinct Relatives, traces the lower branches of the evolutionary tree of mammals, including monotremes, marsupials, sloths, and armadillos.


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CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian authorities stopped the executive director of Human Rights Watch and another U.S. staffer from entering the country Monday ahead of the release of a critical report by the group on mass killings by security forces last summer, the group and security officials said.
This is the first time Egyptian authorities have stopped staffers from the New-York based group from entering the country.
Executive Director Kenneth Roth and Middle East and North Africa Director Sarah Leah Whitson were to brief diplomats and journalists on the findings of their investigation into the bloody events in July and August last year following the ouster of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi.
The report, which was to be launched Tuesday, documents the deaths of hundreds killed in six different incidents, including in one security raid on a sit-in of Morsi supporters at Cairo's Rabaah el-Adawiyah Square described by Human Rights Watch as the worst massacre in Egypt's modern history.
In a statement Monday, Human Rights Watch said Egypt's police and army "methodically opened fire with live ammunition," killing at least 1,150 protesters during the dispersals of the sit-in and five other demonstrations. No one has been held accountable for the crackdown and no formal investigation has been made public.
An airport official said the two were turned back on instructions from a security agency, without elaborating. The two had spent nearly 12 hours in Cairo International Airport, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to reporters.
"It appears the Egyptian government has no appetite to face up to the reality of these abuses, let alone hold those responsible to account," Roth said in a statement.
Tweeting from the airport, Roth said the Rabaah "massacre was too ruthless for Egypt's head-in-sand approach to work. Barring HRW won't make the world forget."
Human Rights Watch said it had shared its findings with the government but received no reply. The group said it still plans to release its findings Tuesday, although a scheduled conference in Cairo is unlikely to take place. One of the report's main researchers, Omar Shakir, a U.S. citizen, also left the country Monday.
Shakir said the group had sent Egypt's Interior Ministry, Foreign Ministry, chief prosecutor and its ambassadors to Washington and the U.N. its findings during and after the investigation to give it time to share its versions of the events. But lacking a response, the group had to piece together the government's account from public and media statements, he said.
The government said at the time that the sit-ins — in place for over 40 days — were a threat to public order and that "terrorists" and armed gunmen were among the protesters. It blamed Morsi supporters of waging a violent campaign to destabilize the country, a charge denied by his Muslim Brotherhood group. Mediation efforts failed to convince Morsi supporters to call off the sit-ins, and a bloody crackdown on protesters in other parts of the city preceded the dispersal on Aug. 14.
The final toll was 624 dead, according to the semi-official National Council for Human Rights. Morsi supporters say they documented names of 2,500 dead, though the highest tallies by independent rights groups stay close to 1,000. At least eight policemen were killed during the dispersals.
The sit-ins' breakup set off violence in other parts of Egypt, when protesters and armed men attacked police stations, government offices and churches.
Interior Ministry spokesman Hani Abdel-Latif said he had no immediate response to the barring of the Human Rights Watch executives or the report. However, he said Egypt's National Council for Human Rights had conducted its own investigation into the dispersals.
"The Egyptian judiciary will have its say, and its decisions will be the ones to be implemented," Abdel-Latif said.
The Council had blamed Morsi supporters for shooting at police, escalating violence that ultimately led to the death of civilians, but it also held the security forces responsible for using excessive firepower and for failing to protect a safe corridor through which it intended to evacuate the protesters.
On Monday, the National Council for Human Rights renewed its call for an independent investigation into the events.
Human Rights Watch shut its offices in Cairo earlier this year because its request for registration that had been pending since 2007 was still unanswered. Shakir said that in light of "a shrinking space for civil society and a brutal crackdown against those who don't toe the government line," the group withdrew its permit application and closed its offices, fearing for its staff.
But Shakir said the group wanted to launch the report in Cairo to be part of the discussion regarding the bloody events of last year.
"It is unfortunate that the government, after putting out its own version of the events two days ago, decided to not allow an alternative narrative from being presented in Egypt," he said.


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International Rugby
Farrell shortlisted for IRB Player of the Year
ESPN Staff
November 28, 2012
England's Owen Farrell is one of four players shortlisted for the IRB's top award © Getty Images
England fly-half Owen Farrell has picked up a surprise nomination for the International Rugby Board's Player of the Year award.
Farrell, England's back-up fly-half who is set to make a rare start against New Zealand on Saturday with first-choice playmaker Toby Flood injured, has been shortlisted alongside All Blacks duo Richie McCaw and Dan Carter as well as France's Frederic Michalak.
The selection of 21-year-old Farrell will shock many with the likes of Argentina captain Juan Martin Fernandez Lobbe, Wales flanker Dan Lydiate, the Player of the Championship in this year's Six Nations, All Blacks No.8 Kieran Read, South Africa winger Bryan Habana and Australia flanker David Pocock among those to miss out despite outstanding seasons.
McCaw is the only player to receive the individual accolade more than once, having won it in 2006, 2009 and 2010, although Carter could join him as a multiple winner, having been named Player of the Year back in 2005.
IRB chairman Bernard Lapasset said: "It has been a compelling year of international Rugby with the introduction of the expanded Tours and Tests calendar, Argentina's successful inauguration into The Rugby Championship and the race for rankings points to secure a favourable RWC 2015 Pool draw.
"As ever, the competition has been fierce and the panel had a tough time deliberating the shortlist from a number of stand-out candidates. All four players on the shortlist thoroughly deserve their place after standout performances during the year and consistency in the tough environment that is Test Rugby."
The IRB Player of the Year nominees were selected by the IRB Awards independent panel of judges, which is chaired by Australia's RWC'99 winning captain John Eales and also includes Will Greenwood, Gavin Hastings, Raphaël Ibanez, Francois Pienaar, Agustín Pichot, Scott Quinnell, Tana Umaga and Paul Wallace.
"This has been one of the closest years to date. In fact the result could be influenced significantly by this weekend's matches, making it a highly contested prize," said panel chairman Eales.
The winner of the prestigious Award will be announced at the Rugby World Cup 2015 Pool Allocation Draw in London on December 3, along with the IRB Coach of the Year and IRB Team of the Year Awards.
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Citigroup pumping up paychecks
Bailed out financial giant says it will raise employees' base salaries, but will cut other payments to keep total compensation constant.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Bailed out financial giant Citigroup said Wednesday it is going to the raise base salaries of its employees, although it is not planning to increase their total compensation.
"Retaining and attracting the best talent is very important to the success of Citi and all its stakeholders," said Citigroup, in a statement.
The company insisted that total compensation, however, will remain constant -- indicating that year-end bonuses and other special payments will be cut when pay is raised.
"Any salary adjustments are not intended to increase total annual compensation, rather to adjust the balance between fixed and variable compensation," Citigroup (C, Fortune 500) said.
Citigroup has received $45 billion in funds from the government's Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP. The compensation restrictions that come along with the assistance mean that much of the bank's top talent has been leaving.
The Obama administration has made a point of cracking down on excessive compensation.
When the bailed out insurance giant American International Group (AIG, Fortune 500) paid out $165 million in annual bonuses to its employees, the public was outraged and legislators called for the executives to return the bonus cash.
Among the administration's actions to moderate compensation is the naming of a "pay czar," Washington attorney Kenneth Feinberg, who is responsible for approving major expenses for banks, automakers and insurers that took TARP funds.
In the financial industry, compensation is a combination of base salary, stock and option portfolios, and year-end bonuses, which were controversially high in the years leading up to the recent financial crisis.
Citigroup's stock has plummeted in recent months, leaving stock and option packages shriveling.
The Treasury Department has said bonuses paid to senior executives and other highly paid employees at TARP-aided banks can not exceed one-third of their total compensation package.
At banks that have been granted large amounts of bailout funds, the pay czar can review compensation for the top 100 salaried employees. Feinberg will have the authority to deem salaries excessive or inappropriate.
Firms receiving government funds also have to put in place a luxury expenditure policy that requires top executives to get board approval for the purchase of big-ticket items.
Companies fear that if they must abide by such government compensation limitations, they could lose executives.
In addition to Citigroup, Bank of America (BAC, Fortune 500) still holds $45 billion in funds in the TARP program. But 10 large financial firms, including JPMorgan Chase (JPM, Fortune 500) and Goldman Sachs (GS, Fortune 500), have been permitted to pay back TARP funds, freeing them of them of any restrictions to operate under compensation guidelines.
-- CNN's Karina Frayter contributed to this story.


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Select health care ETFs are outperforming the broader market today, though that is not saying much given that the S&P 500 is down almost 1.9 percent as of this writing. Two examples of the sector's post-Election Day outperformance include the Health Care Select Sector SPDR (NYSE:XLV) and the Market Vectors Pharmaceuticals ETF (NYSE:PPH), which are off 1.6 percent and one percent, respectively.
The relative sturdiness of PPH, XLV and rival ETFs is no surprise following President Obama's easy reelection victory Tuesday night. Leading up to the election, it was widely expected health care ETFs would be beneficiaries of a second Obama term as traders speculated Republican rival Mitt Romney might try to undo Obamacare if elected.
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XLV, which is heavy on blue-chip pharmaceuticals names such as Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ), Pfizer (NYSE:PFE) and Merck (NYSE:PFE), was highlighted by analysts as one ETF investors should embrace should Obama win.
However, while XLV, PPH and comparable might eventually keep their bull runs going in the wake of Obama's easy Tuesday night victory, one sub-sector of the health care space looks vulnerable. That being medical device manufacturers.
In March, Benzinga reported that medical device makers and the corresponding ETFs could be traders' cross-hairs if Obamacare was implemented to its fullest extent. As a study by the Battelle Technology Partnership Practice highlighted, Obamacare contains a job-killing, GDP-sapping tax on medical device makers.
Battelle, which appears to be non-partisan, said the medical device featured in Obamacare could lead to the loss of tens of thousands of jobs and billions of dollars of lost GDP for the U.S.
On a related note, it appears at least some traders realize medical device names need to be avoided, at least in the near-term. The iShares Dow Jones U.S. Medical Devices Index Fund (NYSE:IHI) is off almost 2.1 percent today. The rival SPDR Health Care Equipment ETF (NYSE:XHE), which is more of an equal product, is lower by the same amount.
To be sure, these are not the most popular ETFs on the market. IHI and XHE combine for less than $294 million in assets under management. The former's average daily volume is less than 41,000 shares per day. XHE's average daily turnover is barely above 3,300 shares.
Still, these ETFs are home to some of the most familiar names in the medical device sub-sector. For example, Medtronic (NYSE:MDT), Intuitive Surgical (NASDAQ:ISRG) and St. Jude Medical (NYSE:STJ) combine for over 23 percent of IHI's weight. Medtronic is down almost three percent today while St. Jude is approaching a four percent loss.
Practically speaking, dangers loom for IHI and XHE. Arguably, many investors are not aware of the "stealth" medical device in Obamacare. President Obama would not have been wise to run around touting the tax and he did not. Investors might also be apt to be an ETF such as IHI as a success under the first Obama term. After all, in three-year period ending on Election Day, the ETF had surged almost 41 percent, including paid dividends.
It is that performance that might explain why the medical device tax got so little mainstream media coverage in the days leading up to the election. The Wall Street Journal and USA Today did prominently mention the issue, but it was not exactly on display in other major mainstream media outlets.
Fortunately for investors, the IHI and XHE gave some clues that departure time was drawing near. In the month leading up to Election Day, XHE plunged 6.3 percent, more than double IHI's loss. The ETF's are giving more clues today. If IHI drops another one percent, it will dip below its 200-day moving average and that is a bearish sign.
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Bowser Beer Officially Honored As First Beer for Dogs [VIDEO]
In addition to this London pub which recently began accepting the patronage of canines, imbibing dogs now have another reason to raise a glass (or bowl). Bowser Beer has officially been recognized by the World Records Academy as the first beer for dogs. Cheers, Fido!
The beverage first hit the market in 2007 and contains no hops, no carbonation and no alcohol. It's also available in flavors dogs love like Beefy Brown Ale and Cock-a-Doodle Brew. So, forget the rawhide treat and consider cracking open a cold one for your deserving pooch instead.
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The F4H-1 joined VF-121 at NAS Miramar. That squadron provided the first crews for the fleet squadrons to come. VF-114 and VF-74 were the first Phantom fleet squadrons on the Pacific and Atlantic coasts, respectively, in 1961.
With its two powerful General Electric J-79 engines, the F4H-1, later redesignated the F-4B, was the first mass-produced model. It could haul a tremendous load into the air, thus gaining an important secondary function: fighter-bomber. Originally intended as a fleet defense weapon, when war came in the 1960s, the Phantom flew into battle with bombs and rockets, as well as its air-to-air weaponry. Indeed, the two other U. S. services to fly the F-4, the Air Force and Marine Corps, used it primarily as an air-to-ground weapon.
Although the Air Force was forced to accept the F-4 in 1962, the service soon realized what a great airplane it was and clamored for more, using the aircraft for everything from air superiority to earth mover, forward air controller, electronic intelligence platform, and a few things in between.
The Navy and the Marine Corps used only two basic models of the Phantom, the F-4B, of which 649 were produced, and the F-4J, with 522 manufactured. Thus, of the more than 5,200 Phantoms manufactured before the production line closed in 1978, the Navy, surprisingly, used only 1,171—approximately 22%. Other Navy Phantoms included the baker's dozen F-4Gs and the F-4N, both derived from the F-4B, and the F-4S, developed from the F-4J, using existing airframes.
The Navy kept the Phantom as its primary fleet defense fighter and escort. The first and last U. S. victories over North Vietnamese MiGs in the Vietnam War were scored by Navy Phantoms from the same carrier that saw them off for the last time, the Midway. VF-21 scored in 1965, and VF-161 in 1973.
Vietnam. That maddening, confusing conflict was the first major test for the F-4, and it was a ringing success. VF-102's F-4Bs stood ready on the deck of the USS Enterprise (CVAN-65) during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, but the Phantom did not fight until 1964 when the Gulf of Tonkin Incident propelled the United States into its third Asian war in 25 years. The F-4 flew and fought throughout the long nine years in Southeast Asia. Thousands of missions testified to the Phantom's dependability and performance in the region's stupefying heat and humidity. The plane's rock-steady approach, speed, and power endeared it to everyone, from its crews to the men on the ground under enemy fire watching a flight of F-4s lay a string of Snakeyes on enemy positions.
All five U. S. aces in Vietnam wore Phantoms. The Navy's Lieutenant Randall Cunningham and Lieutenant (junior grade) William Driscoll, of VF-96 in the USS Constellation (CV-64), made their five kills in three missions strung out from January to May 1972. The Air Force's three aces, Captain Steve Ritchie, a pilot, and backseaters Captains Charles DeBellevue and Jeffrey Feinstein, also scored during the hectic days of the 1972 offensive. Of the 57 kills scored by Navy aircraft, Phantoms gained 36 plus several "probables."
When the fighting stopped in 1973, F-4s patrolled the South China Sea until North Vietnam finally swallowed the South in April 1975. Phantoms protected the evacuation forces, as well as flying cover for the rescue of the merchant seamen the Cambodians took hostage during the Mayaguez incident in May.
In between all this, the two premier U. S. military flight demonstration teams, the Navy's Blue Angels and the Air Force's Thunderbirds, made history when they both flew the Phantom—the first and only time the two organizations operated the same aircraft (although the Blues flew the F-4J and the T-Birds, modified F-4Es). The Blue Angels flew their Phantoms from 1969 to 1973, until fuel costs necessitated a change to the simpler, single-engine A-4. But for those of us who witnessed the historic simultaneous appearances of the Angels and Thunderbirds during the beautiful Memorial Day weekend of Transpo '72 near Washington, D.C., the memory will remain of sparkling blue-and-gold and immaculate white, trimmed-in-red Phantoms blasting down the runways of Dulles International Airport.
Throughout the late 1970s, even as the Grumman F-14 was rapidly taking its pride of place, the Phantom continued to serve. In April 1980, Marine F-4Ns stood on the deck of the USS Coral Sea (CV-43), ready to protect the small band of helicopters engaged in the aborted attempt to rescue U. S. hostages in Iran. It could have come to that—U. S. Phantoms engaging Iranian F-4s and maybe a few F-14s. It would have been an interesting test. In August 1981, while the headlines focused on the two
F-14s that shot down two Libyan Su-22s over the Gulf of Sidra, Phantoms of VF-74 and VF-103 in the USS Saratoga (CY-60), also on station, might well have scored, too, For several days prior to the F-14/Su-22 engagement, the F-4s turned hard against MiG-23s, and there were times when the U. S, crews were none too sure about the intentions of their Libyan opponents.
With the introduction of the F/A-18, the Phantom's days were numbered. It was nearly gone from the big decks. Only the shore-based air development squadrons, and until recently, the two YF squadrons in the Midway ,flewthe Phantom on active service. The Marines continue to fly the F-4: YMFAs 212, 232, and 235 in Hawaii are assigned to Marine Aircraft Group 24, and the lone reconnaissance squadron, YMFP-3, sends its RF-4B detachments around the world. The Marine Air Reserve musters three YMFAs, 112, 134, and 321. The Corps expects to fly its Phantoms into the early 1990s, with 212 beginning F/A-18 transition in October 1988 and 134 in mid-1989,
There were four Naval Air Reserve squadrons flying Phantoms until VF-301 and VF-302 transitioned to the F-14 in 1984. The Dallas reserves, VF-201 and VF-202, finally traded their F-4Ss for F-14s after the final FA carrier qualification in October 1986. Lieutenant Commander George Kraus, executive officer of VF-202, and Lieutenant Commander Dave Mansfield, squadron operations officer, made the final trap on the USS America (CV -66).
The departure of the FA from the Navy is a time for nostalgic memories. More F-4s came off Free World production lines than any other post-World War II fighter, except for the North American F-86 Sabrejet (5,400) and the Chance Vought F4U Corsair, whose production ended in 1953 with more than 12,000 planes. The F-4 served a decade longer than the propeller- driven Corsair and enjoyed as stellar a record in peace and war.
For the generations of naval aviators to follow, theirs is a loss for never having flown the F-4. To those who did fly and fight the Phantom, here's to you and your aircraft.
Commander Mersky is a Naval Reserve intelligence officer and a civilian writer and an assistant editor for Approach, the naval aviation safety review. He has written or coauthored four books on U. S. naval and Marine aviation.


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This week's collection includes a visual memorial for the 12th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, hikers on the summit of Mount Fuji in Japan, Afghan police officers graduating from training in Jalalabad and Syrian boys washing up in a Lebanese refugee camp.
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Listed below is a table of the ALA scholarships and eligibility requirements for library support staff currently working in a library. Applicants who have applied for admission to a formal program of library and information studies leading to a master's degree may apply for these scholarships.
Factors considered in making the awards include:
- academic excellence,
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- evidence of commitment to a career in librarianship.
Achievement in these areas may best be demonstrated by statements indicating the nature of library and other experience, by professional references, and by the personal statement (which is part of the online application). PLEASE NOTE: For all scholarships in this category, you only need one (1) personal statement.
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Jennifer Johnson ended the year -- and her career -- on a high note.
Jennifer Johnson ended the year -- and her career -- on a high note.
After 28 years as administrator of the Cultural Arts Center in downtown Columbus, Johnson retired Dec. 28.
Meanwhile, class registration at the CAC has been running at an all-time high, with 767 adults signed up to take studio classes during the current eight-week term, Johnson said.
"I would like to say how many thanks need to be given to our volunteers, our friends and our supporters," she said. "Without them we could never be what we are today."
Johnson, 64, stresses she's not an artist.
"It's been a really great collaboration between the creative faculty and the administrative office, to marry our talents to create such a great program for Columbus," she said.
The CAC, run by the Columbus Recreation and Parks Department, is located at 139 W. Main St. across from Bicentennial Park.
Among the amenities at the center are five major studios, one of the city's largest public galleries, a courtyard and a student-and-faculty gift shop.
"We have literally served thousands and thousands of people since we opened in 1978," Johnson said.
"We have done special events, lectures and art trips, all serving the Columbus community, bringing art to life for our city."
Johnson, who made $84,739 annually, said she's going to miss the creativity and fellowship at the CAC.
"People come here for so many different reasons, and to create art is one big one, but it's also a place where people connect."
She said she's grateful to the city and rec and parks for their longtime support of the facility.
Terri Leist, planning administrator for recreation and parks, returned the compliment.
"Jennifer's artistic vision and leadership skills allowed her to successfully mesh the creative world with the world of government, which isn't always easy," Leist said.
"She has been a tremendous talent for our department and she will be greatly missed, but we wish her the very best in this next adventure of her life."
Johnson said she was in charge of arts programming for the city of Akron before arriving in Columbus. She said her immediate plan is to travel the country for a year.
"And, when I come back home I hope to be an advocate for the Cultural Arts Center and a very supportive volunteer," she said.


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End Grain: 'Frankenbench'
A dream deferred – and that's just fine.
By W. Paul Olsen
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I've dreamed about my Workbench for years. It will be solid maple, top to bottom. It will have traditional face and tail vises, with a sliding deadman between. The top? Two 31⁄2″-thick laminated slabs separated by a set of four individual tool trays – like Robert Lang put on his 21st-century Bench (October 2008, issue #171).
I have considered every detail. Length and height? Check. Finish? Check. Round or square dog holes? Decided. Leg construction? Solid wood, flush with the front edge of the top to facilitate clamping.
Late in January of last year, my wife found me sitting in my unheated shop, staring into the void that my Workbench will one day occupy. "Having fun?" she asked, grinning from ear to ear. She knew I was thinking about my Workbench.
Now, my beautiful wife is not a woodworker, but she does love me. And she knows my poor table saw has been moonlighting as a work surface for a long time. So when she heard me remark that I really should build a workbench, she got an idea. With great secrecy, she visited her favorite online retailer (the same one where she orders most of her books and kids' toys) and typed "workbench" into the search bar.
Behold! The site presented a set of pre-fabricated bench legs, made of structural foam plastic resins. The advertising copy promised a bench in an hour: Just add plywood and 2x4s! So with great excitement she blew the birthday budget and clicked "Buy."
And that's how on my 38th birthday I came to be sitting alone, shivering in my workshop. And that's how she knew I was thinking about my Workbench. She was brimming over with pride – she just knew she had gotten me something great! How could I tell her the truth? My solid maple Workbench could never have plastic legs!
She soon retreated into the house, but her radiant joy lingered. Like fine dust, it began to settle. It landed on my grandfather's old jack plane. That plane is ugly, but it works, and it connects me to him. It lighted on the quilt rack I'm making for Mom to hold hand-stitched quilts my great-grandmother made. It settled upon a scrap from the rocking horse I made for my three children.
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By Joseph Menn
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Several prominent computer security experts have canceled appearances at the largest annual U.S. conference on security technology and are instead switching to a rival gathering, as discord grows over U.S. intelligence practices.
Nine security experts have ditched coveted speaking slots at the annual RSA Conference, to be held next month in San Francisco, in protest over the conference owner's dealings with the National Security Agency.
Instead, they will speak at the new and smaller 'TrustyCon' gathering to be held in the same city during the RSA event, billed as the first 'Trustworthy Technology Conference.' Backers include Def Con, which holds a major hacking conference each year in Las Vegas and the nonprofit Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Reuters reported last month that RSA Security, now a division of data storage maker EMC Corp, incorporated a flawed cryptography formula in a widely-used software tool under a $10-mil federal contract. The NSA-developed formula is now believed to have been breakable by the agency, though people familiar with the RSA arrangement told Reuters that executives had not realized that at the time.
"I don't think it's wrong for companies to work with the government. What's important is being trustworthy and honest with customers," said Alex Stamos. Stamos is involved in the setting up of TrustyCon. "The most charitable reading is that RSA failed to see the danger and didn't warn the customers."
RSA continued to use the NSA formula for years despite cryptography experts calling it suspicious, recommending its removal only when reports based on NSA documents leaked by former U.S. spy agency contractor, Edward Snowden prompted a federal standards body to drop its endorsement of the technology.
RSA said in December that it never knowingly compromised products and that a decade ago the NSA had been seen as a helpful partner in developing security tools.
But Def Con founder, Jeff Moss said RSA "seemed to lack a genuine interest in engaging with its customers" about what it had done and why, as well as what it had learned.
The RSA's executive chairman, Art Coviello, is scheduled to give one of the keynote speeches at the RSA event.
"It is not unusual for small events to happen alongside that aim to leverage the momentum and publicity of the RSA Conference, which is a good sign of a thriving industry event," the conference's organizers said in a statement on Friday, referring to the rival gathering.
"We've always embraced these activities and the open, healthy dialogue that springs from them."
Owned by RSA parent EMC, the RSA Conference depends on outside advisors to select topics. The program committee chair this year is Hugh Thompson, chief security strategist at Blue Coat Systems Inc.
In an interview, Thompson said that while he was disappointed that some speakers had canceled, there would still be a great deal of discussion about Snowden's revelations and the roles played by RSA and its peers.
"There are a lot of questions that have been raised about the security infrastructure and how it works, and I do think it's going to lead to a very healthy debate," Thompson said. "This is a topic that is definitely going to be discussed."
More than 500 speakers will speak at the RSA Conference, which organizers expect to attract more than last year's record 24,000 attendees.
Among those withdrawing from the RSA Conference include Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer at Finland-based security company F-Secure, two researchers from Google Inc, and Jeffrey Carr, a consultant who runs his own conferences on cyber intelligence-gathering and defense.
Some said the RSA deal struck such a nerve because it is the first security company to be identified as having a contractual relationship with the NSA that ultimately weakened security. Others have slammed the conference withdrawals, citing many companies and different countries are guilty of similar, unreported behavior.
Hypponen, Moss, and RSA critics from the Electronic Frontier Foundation and American Civil Liberties Union will be among the TrustyCon presenters, Stamos said. Hypponen's speech will cover malicious software created by governments.
(Reporting by Joseph Menn; Editing by Jonathan Weber, Lisa Shumaker and Sofina Mirza-Reid)


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First - in case anyone was wondering, I am tasked to test the security on our servers/workstations/networks/websites, etc.
Second - my current assignment has me testing @30 servers and I am working on an explanation to a group about their security, or lack thereof, on a select number of Windows servers. One area of weakness, is that I am able to connect, by way of null sessions, to some of their servers. I have a feeling that telling them I can enumerate local administrators, users, shares, permissions, group members, etc., all without using any form of authentication, will just net me puzzled looks. I have taken snapshots of what I was able to enumerate, and will be turning that over to them, but I believe I need a real world explanation about the dangers of allowing null sessions to occur on their servers so that they will take action.
I need to tie in why the lack of security on those servers will compromise the business. Unfortunately, I do not believe I have the expertise enough to bridge between what I can do technically and provide a business like relationship to the risks, well enough expertise to explain that to a group of users/admins who may or may not understand null sessions. I welcome your input and ideas on this.
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January 2010
This is Page 3 of a four-page article on tea party ideas. Click on the black links below to visit other pages.
Idea # 1: Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party occurred on December 16, 1773. This and a second "tea party" on March 7, 1774 were a prelude to the Revolutionary War. In honor of American Independence Day, you can hold a commemorative "Boston Tea Party" with the kind actually destroyed on that day. It was Britain's oldest tea merchant, Davison, Newman & Co., whose tea chests were destroyed at the 1773 "tea party." The company sells a Boston Harbour Tea (certified kosher), a blend of Ceylon and Darjeeling teas. Serve with that all-American favorite, brownies.
Idea #2: Loose Leaf Tea Party
Commemorate the Boston Tea Party by dumping loose leaf tea "overboard" into a tea pot as you read the story of the Boston Tea Party. Serve colonial cookie favorites: benne cakes (sesame cookies), coconut macaroons, gingersnaps, jumbles, molasses cookies and sugar cookies.
Idea #1: Iced Tea Party
What could be more refreshing this summer than a iced tea with strawberry shortcake scones topped with vanilla ice cream? Offer guests the choice of black or green iced tea, with lemon or lime.
Idea #2: Iced Tea & Sorbet Sundae Bar
Cut up the many luscious fruits in season and create a fruit salad bar. Sorbet is half the calories of ice cream and frozen yogurt.
Idea #1: Teen Tea Party
Take your teenager (or someone else's) out for a tea experience and ask him or her to bring a friend. Share your love of tea and some good conversation.
Idea #2: Book Exchange & Tea Party
Ask everyone to bring a favorite book that they've read and are ready to trade. Each person gives a two-minute presentation about why they loved the book. Names are drawn from a hat and each participant selects his/her new book in the order the names were drawn.
Idea #1: Tea O'ween
Celebrate Halloween for the whole month of October with cinnamon spice tea, pumpkin scones and midnight chocolate double layer cake. Try Constant Comment, the original American spiced tea recipe invented by Ruth Bigelow (available in supermarkets and from BigelowTea.com). Decorate your midnight chocolate cake with candy corn or other favorite Halloween candy; or serve midnight chocolate cupcakes and provide different Halloween candies so guests can decorate their own.
Idea #2: Harvest Tea
Serve fall harvest foods for tea: pumpkin muffins, apple pie, nut tarts, cookies or nutted cream cheese sandwiches on zucchini bread.
Idea #1:
Pumpkin Tea
Start Thanksgiving early with a "Pumpkin Tea" consisting of pumpkin bread, pumpkin cake, pumpkin chocolate chip cookies, pumpkin pie, pumpkin muffins and pumpkin scones. Have a some cranberry scones or muffins for those who don't like pumpkin. Serve your favorite black tea, or try the Pumpkin Spice Tea from BigelowTea.com (KOF-K kosher), Zhena Gypsy Tea (organic, Fair Trade and KSA kosher) or Dragonwater.com (rooibos).
Idea #2: Thankful To A Tea
No matter how busy we are, we all can lend a hand, and we all could use one. In the spirit of Thanksgiving, host a "Wish List Tea." All the participants submit in advance one reasonable request they hope someone else in the group can fulfill. It can be a night of babysitting, a used bicycle, the loan or donation of a black cocktail dress or size 9 red pumps, someone to explain home equity loans, etc.
Idea #1: Tea & A Christmas Tree
'Tis the season to enjoy cinnamon spice tea with your favorite holiday goodies. Invite friends over to enjoy your tree, or decorate with a couple of non-denominational poinsettia plants. 'Tis also the season to call people you haven't been in touch with in a while, and mix new friends with old.
Idea #2: Chari-Tea
Help your favorite local cause. Ask friends to bring something to donate—"like new" clothes that they no longer wear, some canned goods, toys and books for the hospital waiting room—whatever your cause can use (call them and ask).
What does one typically serve with tea, and what can you serve that is healthier than the traditional scones, pastries and sandwiches? Turn to the next page!
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It was a great four-game week for the Bruins, as they accumulated six of a possible eight standings points by virtue of their three wins.
Even in defeat, the Bruins fought hard and just came one goal short against Pittsburgh Saturday.
So picking a Bruin of the Week might be difficult based on the team's success. Here's a look at the candidates:
Seemingly the perfect fit for the Bruins as a fourth-line center, Gregory Campbell provided some unexpected offense this week. Both of his goals were empty-netters, but he posted 2-4-6 totals and a plus-1 rating. He also won 18 of 30 faceoffs (60 percent).
Patrice Bergeron's first NHL hat trick was one of many highlights this week for the veteran center. He posted 4-3-7 totals and a plus-6 rating for the week, while winning 46 of 71 faceoffs (65 percent).
The Bruins have been looking for more offense from their defensemen all season, and this week Dennis Seidenberg delivered. He enjoyed two multi-point games and finished with 1-4-5 totals. He was a plus-2 and blocked 10 shots to add to his team-leading total in that department.
Almost lost in the Bruins' rout of Ottawa was that Tim Thomas set a new career-high with his sixth shutout of the season. He stopped 31 of 31 shots that night and then made some big saves despite allowing five goals on 35 shots against Philadelphia. He also added an assist against the Flyers.
So I ask you my readers:
Who should be the Bruin of the Week?
- Patrice Bergeron (87%, 81 Votes)
- Gregory Campbell (8%, 7 Votes)
- Dennis Seidenberg (3%, 3 Votes)
- Tim Thomas (2%, 2 Votes)
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LEX you are the shit!!!
now can we please get a STICKY!
Sick lex! Thanks for doing this and keeping the fellow TA's in the loop. I hope 2007 is somewhere close to 2006 in talent that comes thru SF. Ill let you know if I hear anything that you don't have here. Hope you can fill in Dave's shoes on this thread, and keep it going till 2008.
I put in a request to Swamper to sticky this thread and unsticky the 2006 parties.
I know Alain Octavo vs Syd Gris are confirmed for February 16th @ Ruby Skye =)
No More Dave?
Darude +
Jan 26 - Kyau vs Albert @ Alibi (1015) *announced*
Jan 27 - Mike Shiver (1015)
What a way to start 2007
Feb 16 - Blank & Jones, Alain Octavo vs Syd Gris (Ruby Skye) *Source: a little birdie*
Blank and Jones @ Ruby Skye!!!
Need Trance? We got UR Source:
jan 26th, DJ ICEY @ The Icebreakers Ball (mighty)
thanks rich ^5
after a crazy nye, i'm truly ready for 2007 and to move past 2006.
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I know Alain Octavo vs Syd Gris are confirmed for February 16th @ Ruby Skye =)
Looking forward to this opener!!! You rocked on Dec 30 bro! We were the guys in the front all night.
Anyone from SF know what happend to Tenaglia/Digweed weekend?? I assumed we would get a threepete in Jan again
Thanks for picking up where Dave left off, lex.
Looking forward to another great EDM year in the Bay Area!
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When word first spread of Hedi Slimane working on a Diesel red campaign, it originally looked like Diesel had pulled off the fashion scoop of the century.
The idea of Diesel, the brand more associated with premiership footballers than fashion icons, working with Hedi Slimane was too weird to be true. Apparently Hedi thought so too, putting out a statement saying that he had "no interest at all in Renzo Rosso's group, let alone Diesel". Ouch. He could have just denied it.


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Fujimori extradited to Peru after Chile high court ruling
[JURIST] Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori [personal website; JURIST news archive] was extradited to Peru Saturday following the Supreme Court of Chile's decision [JURIST report] Friday that Fujimori should be extradited on human rights and corruption charges. Fujimori is accused of approving death squad killings and misusing government funds in Peru.
The Supreme Court's review came after Peru filed an appeal of a lower court's ruling [JURIST reports] denying the government's request for extradition. Fujimori served as president of Peru from 1990 to 2000. He was being held under house arrest [JURIST report] in Chile after being arrested [JURIST report] in December 2005 after flying into Chile from Japan to campaign for the Peruvian presidency, despite having been officially banned from holding public office until 2010 [JURIST report]. He is currently running for a seat in the Japanese parliament [JURIST report]. AP has more.