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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama spoke about his second-term goals for the booming energy sector at a private meeting with some energy executives on Thursday, and will speak more on the issue at an Illinois event next week, the White House said on Friday.
The private meeting came ahead of a trip planned for March 15 to the Argonne National Laboratory outside of Chicago that will focus on energy, White House spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters.
On Thursday, Obama met with top executives from oil and gas producer Anadarko Petroleum Corp, renewable power producer NextEra, power producer Sempra, and shipping giant FedEx Corp, one of the world's biggest fuel consumers.
Obama discussed the role of natural gas and opportunities for renewable energy, and his interest in public-private partnerships to reach energy and climate goals, Earnest said.
More than a dozen people were at the meeting, which also included executives from Southwest Gas, energy data firm Opower, wind turbine parts-maker Winergy, as well as several academics and advisers.
Obama has said addressing climate change is among his priorities for his second term, and often speaks about how the boom in U.S. energy production has helped the country's economy.
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The fact that the Eagles brought Demetrius Bell in for a visit this weekend would seem to be a pretty clear indication that they have decided free agency — and not the draft — is the best way to go as far as addressing their current left tackle crisis.
NFL Network draft analyst Mike Mayock wholeheartedly agrees with that thinking.
Mayock's five top-rated offensive tackles at the moment are USC's Matt Kalil, Iowa's Riley Reiff, Stanford's Jonathan Martin, Ohio State's Mike Adams and Georgia's Cordy Glenn.
The only one of that group that Mayock is convinced can be a Day 1 starter at either left or right tackle is Kalil, and Kalil will be long gone by the time the Eagles are on the clock.
"Kalil is far and away the best tackle prospect in this draft," Mayock said. "He's a gifted foot athlete. He's got long arms (34 1/2 inches). He needs to develop his core strength, which is typical for a lot of these guys. But he's a special athlete. He'll be a plug-and-play left tackle for the Vikings \[who own the third pick\] if they don't trade out."
Mayock isn't sure any of the other four tackles in his top five will be able to start as rookies, at least on the left side. Even though Reiff has been mentioned as a potential top-12 pick by some, Mayock feels he, Martin, Adams and Glenn all would be reaches at 15, which is where the Eagles currently are scheduled to pick in the first round.
"Reiff, Martin and Adams, all three of those guys should be drafted in the 20s, not 15,"' Mayock said. "I would struggle drafting any of them at 15."
Mayock has a second-round grade on the 6-5 3/4, 345-pound Glenn.
On Reif: "To me, he's a little bit overvalued right now. You keep seeing him in the top 10 in a lot of mocks. I don't see that. I feel much more comfortable taking him somewhere in the 20s.
"I think he's a good player who's a right tackle to start with, and ultimately, 2-3 years down the road, could develop into a left tackle. But I don't see him as a guy you could plug in at left tackle Day 1 and say, 'We're good.'"
On Martin: "I think he's more of a right tackle and I think he's a little bit soft. I'm not a big Jonathan Martin fan. I think he goes later in the first round. Twenty to 32. For the Eagles to draft him and plug him in on the left side Day 1 would scare me."
On Adams: "There's a lot of mixed opinion on him. He could play left tackle. Would I want to take him at 15? Probably not. But he's a left tackle. He's long (6-7 ¼, 323, 34-inch arms). He's a pretty good pass protector. He's a pretty good run guy."
The knock on Adams has less to do with talent and more to do with work ethic. Then again, that also has been the knock on Jason Peters at times during his career, and he developed into the best left tackle in the league before his injury.
Said Mayock: "I don't think [Adams'] issues are crazy. It's not like he's been in all sorts of bad trouble. If he was in a good locker room surrounded by veterans who pushed him and he had a coach like [the Eagles'] Howard Mudd, I think he'd be fine."
On Glenn: "You're talking about a kid whose 6-5 3/4, and 345 pounds and his arms are like vines. He's got 35 1/2-inch arms. When you start talking about girth and length, he's huge. Now, some people are getting a little carried away with projections. I'm seeing him all over the place in first-round mock drafts. I don't see that.
"He ran way better than he should have [at the scouting combine] for his size. But I don't see him as a left tackle. He's not a foot athlete. I'm not even sure I see him as a right tackle. But that's where I have him right now. I have him as a solid second-round right tackle. However, if he can't survive at right tackle, I think he's got the size, girth and demeanor to be a potential All-Pro guard."
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MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. 26 (UPI) -- Target saw its fourth quarter earnings fall on account of the major data breach it had before Christmas, cutting its profits by 40 percent.
The data breach, which affected up to 110 million customers, saw the company's earnings drop to $521 million in the fourth quarter, down 46 percent from the same period the year before, when earnings were $961 million. Their earnings per share also dropped from $1.47 the year before to 81 cents this year.
"During the first half of the fourth quarter, our guest-focused holiday merchandising and marketing plans drove better-than-expected sales," Gregg Steinhafel, Target's chief executive, said in a statement. "However, results softened meaningfully following our December announcement of a data breach."
But shareholders had little to cheer, as Target's full-year profits also dropped by 34.3 percent to $1.97 billion. This profit resulted in earnings of $3.07 per share, a sharp decline from the previous year's $4.52 per-share earnings.
Target acknowledged the data breach on Dec. 19, in which personal and payment information for 110 million customers was compromised. The data breach was not the only reason for Target's below-par performance. The lackluster performance from the 124 stores they opened in Canada added to the misery.
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The new Google Patent Search API is now available and lets you search over 7 million patents via code. It is part of the AJAX Search API of content-specific Google search utilities such as video search, local search, news search and others. This API gives you access to patent information like title of the patent, snippet style description, application filing date, patent status, patent number, patent assignees, and thumbnail image URL for the patent (more details at our API profile).
The introduction to the API gives simple instructions in how to employ it in a website. Like the other Google apps of this type, it involves adding some Ajax-y Javascript to a website or blog - first loading the API, having an onLoad initialization step, and then placing the search control in your page. Here's an example for everything Subaru. Note that the generic search returns filings anywhere that term is mentioned, which may just be an example in a use case. The advanced search allows for restricting the term to a particular field in the patent database.
Jonathan Dingman of Google Inside notes that the patent data may not be up-to-date, given a simple search with Google as the search term. We tried an advanced search that restricted it to Google as the patent assignee, and had similar results, as the most recent Google application filing was over a year old. Compare this to the Patent Office's same search using the Patent Office's search utility. Google will undoubtedly continue to improve the product.
The main Google Patent Search page has some fun illustrations: Candy Cane Forming Machine, Device to Cool an Infant's Head, and you can set it up to view thumbnails, which gives a quick glimpse into the cornucopia of human invention. For you Wallace and Gromit fans, here are the results for pants, toaster, and alarm.


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If you haven't been paying attention, LED's for the home are dropping in price like crazy.
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Below is a post I published on calculating a home energy use by region using a tool my utility (Georgia Power) provided (made by Apogee). It's a nice tool to show homeowners if their utility provides something similar. It could help you validate how improvements to the home can help save energy.
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Home Energy Pros,
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At Mapawatt.com, we think that linking educated consumers with home energy pros is a much needed service. Of course there is Angie's list, but that is a paid service and I dont think it's that strong in Home Energy services.
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I like to riding the motorcycle
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and meantime I keep my cellphone in the jacket and I can't see is someone calling me, or did I recived SMS.
Hi!First this is little introduction in my problem:I like to riding the motorcycle and sometimes that rides can take sometimes couple of hours, and meantime I keep my cellphone in the jacket and I can't see is someone calling me, or did I recived SMS.So I've got the idea to use arduino and bluetooth module to on some way simulate the headset, and when someone is calling me to display that data on the small LCD screen.I tried to google it, but I couldn't find some article or something where is someone built the arduino to simulate headset.So does anyone know is this possible to do, and how hard it is?Thanks!
First of all, thank you on suggestions.This thing with android isn't bad, but problem is that I don't have android phone, and also I'm planing do the same thing for my friend.Is it possible to make this without any apps on cellphone, I want to Arduino behave like an ordinary bluetooth headset?Thanks!
I want to simulate, the typical bluetooth headset, like ones what you need to have when you want to drive a car and talk on cellphone.And I only need function to show, me when is phone ringing and when I have recived SMS, and just display on the LCD for phone call:"Someone is calling you", and for SMS:"You got the SMS", I don't need to respond on call with my headset, or read a message or something like that.
Ok, thanks on help.Just one more question, so that I don't need open the new topic.Does anyone have the link on ebay for the small LCD screen, about 3*1 cm, that I can connect to Arduino, I'm planing to use this for the thermometer?
Hi!This is to big to me, I'm need something like this motorcycle have:http://www.motorsloop.com/images/suzuki/2871GSXR750SR05.JPGAnd if it's possible I need the ebay link, because I live in small European country.Thanks!
Hi!It's height is twice bigger than I need, width is OK.I'm planing to wire small lcd and push button to arduino and depending on push button show, current time, or outside ambient temp. or voltage.Can I use for example LCD from this motorcycle that I'm linked in previous post, or from some other, because there is lot's of bikes that have this small lcd's in ther dashboards?


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Jesse- it looks like the xwing in the third set has the yellow while the one in the 2nd set has no yellow.
--Were you able to verify that the droid fighter IS a TH? Entertainment Earth shows it as a TH in the later waves- what do you think?
The hardest part of all this is that my local store (yes, only one local store ) doesn't carry Titanium, so I can't check them out myself.
In that case, is that third Wal-Mart 5 pack (with the X-Wing, Raw Metal Falcon, Y-Wing, Landspeeder, and TIE) currently out?
Oh, here's the pic of my loot....My camera didn't do too good of a job on the "foil" Titanium lable on the GS where it says Limited vs. Series. I'll try and take a better pic of the ship's packaging by itself.
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Kochi, Jan 8 (IANS) All is set for the 19th edition of the three-day India International Seafood Show (IISS) beginning in Chennai Friday, according to the Marine Products Export Development Authority (MPEDA), co-organiser of the event.
IISS has become one of the largest seafood fairs in Asia and is jointly hosted by MPEDA and the Seafood Exporters Association of India, both headquartered here.
The biennial show is a common forum for seafood processors, exporters, importers, aqua culturists, processing machinery manufacturers and allied industries that come under one umbrella.
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The latest installment of our "News of the Weird" files involves law enforcement from two counties, an upset suspect and a deer antler being used as a dangerous weapon.
Yep, that happened. California, of course. Where else?
Reporter Ellen Huet posted the story on SFGate.com recently about 22-year old Timothy Cornett of Tomales, Calif., who got into a tangle with sheriff's deputies from Sonoma and Marin counties. Cornett reportedly was going bonkers in a trailer (of course, right?) and then held the officers at bay with a "sharpened deer antler."
OK, we know the folks in California aren't always the sharpest tools in the box. A "sharpened deer antler?" Really? C'mon.
We have to wonder if it had been sharpened with a Dremel tool, or maybe some sandpaper, or perhaps the guy rubbed it on a concrete slab until it had a honed edge. Perhaps it was with a good ol' whetstone and oil, which naturally would produce an edge and a lustrous sheen.
Cornett fended off the officers for about an hour before being taken into custody.
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The folks over at Crate Entertainment have been working on Grim Dawn for almost two years now, and they're finally on the home stretch. To help get it finished, they've started a Kickstarter for $280,000 - a modest sum compared to some recent projects we've seen on the crowd funding website.
We've had our eyes on Grim Dawn for awhile now, and have been impressed by what we've seen from these guys. Anyone who was a fan of Titan Quest will almost certainly be a fan of Grim Dawn, and maybe even a couple Diablo 3 players will be lured into the fold.
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As construction of a 435-mile cross-country natural gas pipeline moves forward in some Colorado counties, the line's future through Adams County remains uncertain.
County commissioners voted Monday night to deny the proposed route, citing concerns that the pipeline to move natural gas liquids to Texas from Weld County would interfere with development plans, especially around Denver International Airport.
"I have to take into consideration that we have a lot of people that are planned for the future and planned for some development," said Commissioner Chaz Tedesco at the hearing. "And we desperately need this development and this economic growth."
Front Range Pipeline project spokesman Rick Rainey said all options are on the table, including diverting around the county, resubmitting plans and using "legal options."
"We are eager to continue working with the commissioners to see if we can develop a solution that is mutual," Rainey said. "There's also some legal avenues open to us. Obviously, we would prefer to continue to work with the county."
Front Range Pipeline — a partnership of Anadarko Petroleum, Enterprise Products Partners and Denver-based DCP Midstream — already has the go-ahead from Weld, Elbert and El Paso counties.
Arapahoe County's commissioners are scheduled to vote Aug. 13. The staff has recommended approval.
Adams County planner had recommended approval of one of three routes proposed for the main pipeline but recommended denial of a spur from the main line to the Wattenberg Plant at East Smith Road and Powhaton Road
. The spur would have crossed the north-south runway at Front Range Airport.
But then project managers told county staff that the alternative routes that had been offered were not truly viable.
"The applicant asserted that alternative alignments A and B, which had been proposed by the applicant and presented to staff as viable options, were in fact not viable for a variety of reasons," according to documents presented to commissioners Monday night. "The applicant stated the routes they had proposed for alternative alignments A and B are routed directly through residential subdivisions, and in some cases, directly beneath the homes of Adams County residents."
Commissioner Erik Hansen, who voted against denying the application, lamented that the submitted plans were not well developed.
"I don't think that the other alternatives other than the preferred were nearly as fleshed out," Hansen said during the hearing.
Rainey said he could not speak specifically about considerations for future development in drafting the routes.
"Adams County is not only one of the fastest-growing areas in Colorado but in the United States," Adams County planning director Abel Montoya said. "It is only prudent that we protect our county's future growth opportunities."
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Naughty Dog creative director Neil Druckmann once feared that The Last of Us would "review poorly", and was unsure about how well it would be received by consumers.
Thank God it didn't. Besides, reviews had no choice, what else could they have done but rate this epic highly.
Forget the rubbish Polygon interview. They're Xbox fanboys over there, and their review was utter trash - and they knew it.
They have a good reason. They had not enough time (They wanted to add even more stuff, but Sony said said no), changed the game and its story a lot of times and had to make fast decisions. But they made everything right and perfect. The game is the definition of a mastepieces. If they are going for a TLOU 2 (i pray to the videogame god) they will hopefully have enough time to make the game they want. I think Sony has understood that these guys have never failed and wont.
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On May 24th, J. David Hughes and Deborah Rogers gave a briefing to summarize the findings of two new reports dismantling the myth of a "shale revolution". We've heard about it in the media, on both sides of the political aisle: shale gas and oil are the future of US energy. Indeed, natural gas prices dropped thanks to hydraulic fracturing (or fracking) and horizontal drilling, which helped lower the country's carbon emissions by reducing coal consumption. In January, Barack Obama said that: "We have a supply of natural gas that can last America nearly 100 years, and my administration will take every possible action to safely develop this energy." This myth led to a gas drilling frenzy that have benefitted Wall Street investment banks, one that evidence suggests can't be sustained for very long.
Type decline curve for Bakken tight oil wells / Photo courtesy of J. David Hughes / Post Carbon Institute
J. David Hughes, geoscientist and author of "Drill, Baby, Drill: Can Unconventional Fuels Usher in a New Era of Energy Abundance?" explained why shale production is not sustainable. Depending on the area, the quality of shale plays—geographic areas targeted for exploration—can be totally different, which leads to a concentration of wells in "sweet spots." He said quality plays are "relatively rare." 80 percent of shale gas production comes from only five plays with several declining. The biggest issue is the high depletion rate of wells. For instance, wells in the largest tight oil play of the country have an average depletion rate of 69 percent in the first year and 94 percent in 5 years. Companies need to build more and more of them to maintain production levels, and it is often not enough. For instance, in 2008, the benefits of the shale industry in Fort Worth, Texas, were $50 million for 44 wells. In 2012, it was $23 million for 397 wells. According to Hughes, shale gas is over-hyped in terms of long-term supply. Production has grown explosively to reach 40 percent of US natural gas production but this increase stopped in December 2011. The shale gas industry needs to drill 7,200 new wells every year to maintain production, which cost over $42 billion. Of course, the industry started with the best plays. According to Deborah Rogers, financial consultant, founder of the EnergyPolicyForum and author of "Shale and Wall Street: Was the Decline in Natural Gas Prices Orchestrated", US shale gas and oil reserves have been overestimated by a minimum of 100 percent and a maximum of 500 percent.
In her report, Rogers explains that Wall Street is in part responsible for the huge decline in natural gas prices. Investment banks put pressure on companies to produce a lot to keep shares high by meeting financial analysts' production targets. It creates a surplus in gas production leading to prices lower than the cost of production. Investment banks profit from this trend through various transactional fees. For instance, in 2011, shale mergers & acquisitions (M&A) accounted for $46.5 billion, one of the most important profit centers for some investment banks. In August 2011, Neal Anderson of Wood Mackenzie said: "It seems the equity analyst community has played a key role in helping to fuel the shale gas M&A market, acting as chief cheerleaders for shale gas plays."
Gas is not sustainable also because of its low EROEI (energy returned on energy invested), which is basically how much energy it takes to produce energy. For instance, the average EROEI of oil fell from 100:1 in the 1920s to 20:1 today. Natural gas is 10:1, tar sands oil 5:1 and shale gas 3-5:1—and companies know it. In her report, Rogers notes that some can't sell their plays and sometimes have to declare bankruptcy, such as Norse Energy. In the Bakken (North Dakota), the shale industry recently abandoned a plan to build a pipeline to carry shale oil. It is interesting because a pipeline is an expensive investment and must carry a consistent stream of oil or gas to recoup initial capital outlays. Then, as Rogers says, it becomes a "real cash cow." The abandonment of its plans suggests the industry isn't all that confident in the long-term viability of the play.Why haven't environmentalists done the same? We need to create and then communicate ecophilosophies that offer humanity an ethical code to live by. We need to provide an explanation of suffering (theodicy in religious terms). And we must be able to tell a story that offers individuals a clear and unequivocal purpose – one as simple as "it is humanity's role to care for and now heal the Earth of which we are part and on which we so utterly depend."
In her report, Rogers also studied what were the costs and benefits of shale industry in different states. She discovered that companies privatize profits and socialize costs, and it looks like the economic benefits of shale are also over-hyped. For instance, in 2012, the Texas Department of Transportation explained that "repairing roads damaged by drilling activity would 'conservatively' cost $1 billion for farm-to-market roads and another $1 billion for local roads" (the analysis doesn't include interstates and highways). In December 2012, the Associated Press stated that the first operating loss in about five years at a north-central Pennsylvania hospital was due to the influx of gas field workers. Indeed, many subcontractors attracted by the shale drilling boom do not provide health benefits to employees.
Shale must be examined independently and rigorously to define its true value. As Rogers says, "policy at both the state and national level is being implemented based on production projections that are overly optimistic." In addition to the important environmental and health impacts of shale oil and gas, policy makers need to consider the reality of this industry's economics. Betting on shale gas and oil for the future of energy production not only makes no sense in a changing climate, but might not even be a good short-term investment.


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Missing Pensacola Twins Found- One Dead- Mother Arrested
Pensacola, FL– Christian Woods 21, of 5606 Scotland Circle, has been arrested in the negligent homicide of one of her 18 month old twin girls, and 2 counts of cruelty to a child for both of her other children. The tot mom of Pensacola took off for the weekend, and allegedly upon finding one of the children deceased, filed a false missing children report with Escambia County Sheriff Office.
Myleaha and Mykayhla Woods, 18 months, were left alone with their brother Jaterius, 2, by their mother for the weekend in the family home. The home had no electricity or running water and the only food located on the floor of the kitchen in the home were 6 cups of jello.
Woods reported 2 of her children missing, and investigators were called to the scene as her story did not add up. She was in custody for 12 hours before she admitted one of the twin girls, Myleaha, was deceased and could be found in the trash can at the residence.
The surviving children, Mykayla and Jaterius Woods, have been admitted to the Hospital for treatment of pneumonia and malnutrition.
Woods myspace title "Lifes short so I live mine to tha fullest is set to private.
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Gina & Brian's Bright, Beachy Kitchen
Gina and her fiancé Brian rent a 2-bedroom beachside apartment in Hermosa Beach, California. Their decorating style is relaxed and open (naturally, since they cite the beach as a big style influencer) with a light, bright, and comfortable-looking kitchen. A mix of vintage finds and IKEA pieces outfit the space, while an orange backsplash adds just the right amount of warmth and whimsy.
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Kanye on SNL: Scowls, Screaming, The Waterboy
This was aggressive.
The weekend of Kanye continues: After debuting "New Slaves" on various walls across the world Friday night, 'Ye hit Saturday Night Live to perform the first half of that song and another called "Black Skinhead." It was an … aggressive appearance. Kanye's mood did not suddenly improve after taping those promos — check his scowl during the show's good-bye — and he paid absolutely no attention to the TV censors. Angry dogs and slogans were projected behind him at a seizure-inducing speed. Then there was the actual music, screamy and complicated ("I'd rather be a prick than a swallower" seems like a line that we'll all be debating in the weeks to come). On the flipside, he name-checked Bobby Boucher, who is Adam Sandler's character from The Waterboy.
Anyway, here's "Black Skinhead":
And here is "New Slaves":
While we're at it, the new album is reportedly called Yeezus. The "I Am a God" rumors were not so far off.


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DIY vs. Buy: Should I Make My Own Triple Sec?
Fun projects for making cocktail ingredients at home.
Get the Recipe
It's impossible to have a well-stocked bar without orange liqueur. Except we don't actually ever call it orange liqueur. We call it curaçao or triple sec. Online cocktail forums are full of some serious Kirk-vs-Picard level of nerd arguments about the differences between the two liqueurs. If you don't really want to get into it, though, it's safe to assume that a curaçao is generally dark with a brandy base (like Grand Marnier) and triple sec is clear with a neutral spirit base (like Cointreau).
What's Available to Buy
Orange liqueur, in one form or another, is easy to find at any liquor store. Grand Marnier is the only curaçao that I've liked so far, though Pierre Ferrand recently released an intriguing version worth checking out. In the triple sec category, Combier and Patron Citronge are both good but are second choices next to Cointreau. The less-pricey brands tend to taste overly sweet with a harsh bite. They taste, in a word, cheap.
Why DIY?
When mixing drinks, I've found that Grand Marnier tends to go best in cocktails with aged spirits and Cointreau seems best in drinks made with clear spirits. Neither of them is out-of-this-world expensive, but keeping both on hand costs about $60. I've found that I'm a little wary of "wasting" either in untested recipes. I tried keeping the cheap stuff on hand as a back-up, but that just resulted in gross drinks. In the orange liqueur world, there was a top shelf and a bottom shelf. I wanted a middle-shelf liqueur, so I had to make it myself.
DIY orange liqueur saves a little cash, but more importantly, its flavor profile is a good match for a wide variety of spirits and cocktail ingredients. The mix of navel and bitter orange peels along with brandy and vodka gives it a flexible, sweet-but-not-too-sweet flavor that makes for well-balanced cocktails. It isn't as refined as Grand Marnier or Cointreau, but it comes close enough that I'm happy to use it in my Sidecar or Cosmopolitan as well as in more experimental concoctions.
A side-by-side comparison of homemade orange liqueur with a bottom-shelf triple sec is no contest—DIY wins it by a mile. If you're feeling adventurous, mix up a special batch with some extra spices or flavorings. I made a batch with cinnamon and cloves that pairs well with rum and whiskey, and I think vanilla could make for a fun addition, too.
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Use It!
It would be quicker to list cocktails that don't contain orange liqueur than to list the ones that do. This stuff really is essential, and you'll see it in a wide variety of drinks from sours like the Margarita and the Derby to fruity fare like Lusty Red Sangria and Cider Sangria.
Orange liqueur pairs well with Cognac or rye, like in the Morning Glory. You can even keep warm with Orange Pisco Hot Chocolate and Mulled Apple Cider. It's also a great addition to crepes, chocolate mousse, cheesecake, and biscotti. You may find yourself making orange liqueur by the gallon once you see how useful it is.
About the Author: Marcia Simmons is the co-author of DIY Cocktails: A Simple Guide to Creating Your Own Signature Drinks. She also shares cocktail recipes and tips on the DIY Cocktails blog and on Twitter @DIYCocktails.
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Alice and Jasper
Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2008 12:14 am
Here is the place to discuss everything about their relationship together. Keep questions about them as individuals to the Sparkling in the Sun Forum.
A Twilight Saga Fansite
jasperlovesme wrote:I so love this couple! Jasper and Alice, they look so cute together. even the story behind how they met is so interesting! and how inseparable they are, it's just so nice.
I can still picture the scene from eclipse in my head. the part where Jazz was teaching the cullens and the wolves how to fight newborns, and when it was Alice's turn to "assist" Jazz, Alice would always see Jazz's next move and so Alice "caught" Jazz, she said, "haha! gotcha!" and then kisses Jazz. it's so sweet
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i love that scene of Alice and Jasper, too! i kept reading it over and over whenever i read Eclipse.
and also, i love how Jasper is always so protective of Alice. it's not that he doesn't trust her, just like Bella, Jasper sees Alice as this fragile tiny Cullen. and then Alice usually reacted to this by sticking her tongue out and just grimaced at him. and Jasper just smiled at her. it's so adorable! though they don't show much lovey-dovey for each other in front of the others like Emmett/Rosalie and Edward/Bella, you can actually sense how sweet and great their relationship is.


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Rihanna: 'Talk That Talk' Cover Art Released!
Check out the cover art for Rihanna's new record, Talk That Talk!
Fans unlocked the 23-year-old singer's new cover on Facebook on Tuesday (October 11). The album drops November 21!
Earlier in the day, Esquire announced that Ri was named the mag's Sexiest Woman Alive this year!
"At the end of a concert, I don't feel like I've been this sexy thing. Really, I don't even think about it," Ri told the mag. "Unless it's a song that really calls for it, like 'Skin' or 'S&M,' or when I cover 'Darling Nikki.' There's a section that's called 'Sex' in the show, which is the obvious section for sexuality."
Pictured inside is Ri leaving her hotel on Tuesday (October 11) in Glasgow, Scotland.
FYI: Rihanna is wearing Opening Ceremony's pointed collar sleeve dress in camel camouflage on her album cover.


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The TinEye bookmarklet allows you to search for any images appearing on the web page you are viewing, without having to go to TinEye first. Unlike the TinEye extension — which allows you to right-click an image to search for it — the bookmarklet is a little script that is run from your browser's bookmark menu. When you click the bookmarklet, it submits the URL of the web page you are viewing to TinEye, fetches the images, and asks you to choose which image to search (just like when you paste a web page URL to the TinEye search page).
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Just right-click the grey button on the right, and select 'Bookmark This Link' or 'Add to Favorites'. The bookmarklet will be added to your browser's bookmarks menu or toolbar as if it were a regular bookmark.
On some browsers you can actually drag and drop the grey button into your bookmark toolbar so it will appear as below.
How do I install the bookmarklet on a mobile device?
To install the bookmarklet on a mobile device follow these steps:
- Click the bookmarklet link (here). This will reload the current page with the bookmarklet code added to the page url.
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You make the bookmarklet in the same way, but then rather than use the bookmark directly you type its name into the address box over the page you want to search. While doing that you will get various suggestions, and you must keep typing until the bookmarklet itself appears — it has a star beside it. Beware of links to other pages, including ours, with the same or similar names. They have something other than a star.
There may be some versions of Chrome or some devices on which you can just select the 'TinEye Images' bookmark. If it works you will be taken to a page showing images from the one you were just at.


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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — LG Electronics Inc. is forecasting lower earnings from its mobile business this quarter and risks from swings in Latin American currencies after posting an unexpected loss in the final three months of 2013.
The latest results from LG Electronics, the world's second-largest TV maker and a major device supplier, underline how it is being squeezed between Japanese competitors and its bigger South Korean rival Samsung Electronics Co.
LG is battling Japanese manufacturers such as Sony and Panasonic that are expanding market share in televisions, helped by the weak yen. The company is struggling to make money from the smartphone market where Samsung and Apple Inc. have grabbed the lion share of the profits.
LG Electronics suffered a loss in the final quarter of 2013 because of the stronger South Korean currency while higher marketing costs and falling smartphone prices continued to batter its mobile business.
The South Korean tech company said Monday its net loss for October-December was 63.4 billion won ($58.5 million). That's far smaller than a 478.2 billion won loss a year earlier. But analysts polled by FactSet expected net income of 147.8 billion won. Sales for the fourth-quarter inched up 1 percent from a year earlier to 14.9 trillion won.
The maker of G flex smartphone said the quarterly loss, the first in four quarters, was mainly due to foreign exchange movements. The company blamed the strong local currency against the U.S. dollar and the Japanese yen as well as fluctuations in currency rates that usually mean higher costs. LG manufactures most of its home appliance products in South Korea and ships overseas.
Chief Financial Officer Jung Do-hyun said unstable currency movements in Latin America and other emerging markets would remain a big risk. About 20 percent of LG's mobile phone sales came from Brazil and other South American countries last year. Argentina's peso lost 16 percent over two days last week.
Among LG's consumer electronics businesses, mobile was the only division that lost money during the fourth quarter.
Profit at LG's flagship TV business surged to 174.3 billion won from a mere 800 million won a year earlier. That was thanks to improved sales of LCD TVs in developed countries and efficient marketing spending to promote high-tier televisions, LG said.
But LG's mobile communications business lost 43.4 billion won, staying in red for a second quarter, despite higher sales from increased smartphone shipments. Shipments of its flagship G2 and other smartphones reached 13 million units in the quarter, a record high for the company.
LG attributed the mobile division's loss to increased spending on marketing and declining smartphone prices, an issue that nags other mobile phone vendors as growth in smartphone sales slows in developed countries.
The company said its mobile phone sales will improve when new products are released later this year. But analysts questioned if LG's upcoming devices can compete with the successor to Apple's iPhone 5S.
Jung said the company will likely report lower operating income for the first three months of this year as sales of TVs and mobile phones drop during a typically slow season for the consumer electronics.
For 2014, LG forecast a 7 percent gain in annual revenue and about a 20 percent increase in capital spending. The company said it budgeted 3 trillion won for capital expenditure for this year. The company's guidance for 2013 capital spending was 2.5 trillion won.


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Beaumont/Port Arthur
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department graduated the 61st Texas game warden and state park police officer cadet class Aug. 1 at the Texas State Capitol. The class included 34 game wardens and seven state park police officers.
Following their seven month preparation at the TPWD Game Warden Training Center in Hamilton County, the newly-commissioned state peace officers were recognized during a special ceremony that included a keynote speaker, oath of office and commissioning by senior-level department staff and TPWD Executive Director Carter Smith.
The fungus known to cause White-nose syndrome (WNS), a disease that has decimated hibernating bat populations in the United States and Canada, has been discovered for the first time in Texas.
One thing is certain about boating – its unpredictable adventure on just about every trip out.
A Texas game warden got a call about a missing boat that was last seen on Lake Somerville. The boat's occupants were already two hours late getting home. The wind was blowing over 30 miles an hour that day, and the waves were over 4 feet. The boaters got lucky. They were found. The high waves had caused the boat to take on water and sink, forcing the occupants to swim to shore. One of them was taken to the hospital for hypothermia, but they were otherwise OK.
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department is considering new regulations that will affect hunting and fishing here in East and Southeast Texas counties. One of those regs is aimed at creating additional deer hunting opportunities in East Texas.
A boating accident on the Angelina River that took two lives over the Memorial Day weekend was one of many boating-related fatalities over a three-day span.
"Texas game wardens investigated seven drowning deaths and another four boating-related fatalities over what proved to be one of the state's deadliest Memorial Day weekends," says Mike Cox with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.
Memorial Day weekend is upon us, and this is typically a time when thousands of folks across Texas take to the lakes, rivers and bays in boats, jet skis, kayaks and canoes. It's also a weekend when game wardens will be out in numbers checking to make sure that you've got enough life jackets on board and that the person running the boat is not drinking and driving.
A Texas man has pleaded guilty to nine charges of possession of oversized reds, one charge of no saltwater fishing license, and one charge of exceeding the possession limit for red drum, according to Mike Cox with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.
The National Marine Fisheries Service is once again tampering with red snapper regulations for recreational anglers, and it's not sitting very well with both fishermen and the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. This month, the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council, part of the NMFS, voted to recommend an emergency rule that could shorten the recreational red snapper fishing season in federal waters off the Texas coast to as little as 11 days from the planned 27 day season.
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For the sake of context, at least, it's worth noting how Josipovici leads up to Kleist. First, a few sentences about belief and storytelling are important:
...what we are witnessing in the transformation of the tales is a phenomenon that has analogues in other times and places. ... We see it in the Jewish tradition in the transformation of biblical narratives into Midrash. God calls Abraham. Why? The Bible does not say. But Jewish tradition finds it hard to live with the apparently arbitrary ("How odd of God to choose the Jews"), and so elaborates a series of stories about Abraham's childhood, about his belief in the one God, his hatred of idol-worship, and his consequent persecution by the idolatrous King Nimrod. That, then, is why God called Abraham and told him to leave his house and go where He, God, would tell him. We are at the point of transition, in all these cases, between two different attitudes to the world and to storytelling.Which leads to a discussion of Walter Benjamin's essay "The Storyteller", and then Kierkegaard:
Benjamin is not simply looking at differences between stories and novels, he grasps that to make sense of both sets of phenomena you need to have some understanding of what it is that drives storytelling on the one hand and novel writing on the other. More light is shed on this in a remarkable entry by Kierkegaard in his journal for 1837 (he was twenty-three). It is worth quoting in full:Then comes the key paragraph:
There are two recommended ways of telling children stories, but there are also a multitude of false paths in between.
The first is the way unconsciously adopted by the nanny, and whoever can be included in that category. Here a whole fantasy world dawns for the child, and the nannies are themselves deeply convinced that the stories are true . . . which, however fantastic the content, can't help bestowing a beneficial calm on the child. Only when the child gets a hint of the fact that the person doesn't believe her own stories are there ill-effects -- not from the content but because of the narrator's insincerity -- from the lack of confidence and suspicion that gradually envelops the child.
The second way is possible only for someone who with full transparency reproduces the life of childhood, knows what it demands, what is good for it, and from his higher standpoint offers the children a spiritual sustenance that is good for them -- who knows how to be a child, whereas the nannies themselves are basically children.
This suggests that what happened to the Grimm Tales in the course of fifty years of "revision" was that they were transformed from tales told by speakers who were deeply convinced that they were true (whatever meaning one assigns to the term) into tales told by writers (Wilhelm Grimm, in effect) who did not believe in them and therefore added scene-setting, morality and psychology to make them both attractive and meaningful. It also gives us a hint as to why a novelist like Dickens had (and still has) the effect he had on his readers: he was one who knew "how to be a child". However, it was perhaps Kleist alone among the writers of the century who really grasped what was at issue here. His great novella, Michael Kohlhaas, takes many of the elements that go to make up the Grimm Tales and stands them on their head, bidding an anguished farewell as it does so both to community values and to the power of wishful thinking. But Kleist had no successors, and, by and large, nineteenth-century novelists and storytellers took the path of Midrash and romance, still the staple diet of readers of twentieth-century fiction, with neither writers nor readers quite believing what they are doing, but under a strange compulsion to pretend that they do.Waggish responds:
What is the nature of this pantomime compact between writers and readers which Josipovici only mentions briefly? Modern day American fiction has evolved into a sort of psychological shorthand, in which physically descriptive details and moody variations on images have come to point to a shortlist of mutually agreed upon emotions. By definition, none of them are particularly original. A look through Raymond Carver will isolate the basic vocabulary of jealousy, love, sex, family, etc., etc., but the vocabulary has been with us back through Updike and Cheever all the way to the malaise of Sinclair Lewis, the schemata of John Dos Passos, the tough guy tactics of Hemingway, and the decadence of Fitzgerald. (I don't especially care for any of these authors.) There is an aspect of the fairy tale and the fable to tales that share this vocabulary, because they tell us what we already know--or rather, reiterate what we've already heard. The pretense lies in perpetuating the myth that these stock emotions have an emotional veracity transcending their unoriginal artifice.In an elegant response to/building from both Josipovici and Waggish, Spurious writes, among other things:
For many years, all of my 20s, I wanted to write and devoted as much time to writing as I did to my studies. Reading back now, I see I wanted to seize on the bareness of telling -- to write a writing which spoke without details, which burnt away the dross and left the raw experience. Reading Kafka again, and Handke, taught me my mistake: telling asks for details; it demands them. Only by details -- Klamm's eyeglasses, the faces of the peasants, the beer in pools on the floor of the public house -- might telling occur. This was a life-changing lesson: literature's gift, which can also be the gift of film (Tarkovsky, Bresson ...) and of music (Will Oldham, Bill Callahan), is given by way of details. Only thus might the event, the hotel garden, be told.What to do with all this, other than meditate on it for days and weeks and years, lifetimes?
Perhaps something about details. In the introduction to the edition of Kleist's stories that I have, translators David Luke and Nigel Reeves tear into Michael Kohlhaas (which can be acquired on its own from Melville House):
Unfortunately, however, Kleist was not content to finish Michael Kohlhaas on those lines, but introduced a bizarre and fantastic sub-plot which seriously damages the artistic structure of an already long and complex narrative. ...What has so upset Luke and Reeves about Michael Kohlhaas is not the inclusion of fantastic elements (they praise such elements in others of Kleist's stories) or the melding of fantasy and "the real" to create "the uncanny" (again, this is praised in other stories). Instead, it's the weight of details, and the inability to reconcile those details with the apparent fantasy -- the inability to suspend disbelief. Luke and Reeves come up with logical reasons why they find the addition of the Gypsy woman story to the historically-based first two-thirds of the story credible, essentially saying, "There are too many coincidences, and it's not psychologically plausible."
Michael Kohlhaas has the dramatic urgency of the best of Kleist's other stories, but none of their economy of means. Its ever increasing and ever more confusing complications suggest that the narrator wishes to lose both himself and the reader in an impenetrable world, in a maze of detail and coincidence. The mystifying affair of the old woman was to have been, perhaps, the culmination of this process, raising it to a supernatural level. ...
In Michael Kohlhaas the "real" and the "fantastic" are not compellingly fused but clumsily mixed. ... a further explanation may be that Kleist wanted to appeal to the popular taste, at this peak period of German Romanticism, for folkloristic, fairytale-like material. ... But Kleist was "romantic" and irrationalistic in too profound a sense to have needed to make such concessions to literary convention.
...the weighty realism of Michael Kohlhaas is stylistically and structurally marred by an ill-considered excursion into the region of the fantastic and the uncanny...
"Telling asks for details," as Spurious said. Luke and Reeves think "the narrator wishes to lose both himself and the reader in an impenetrable world, in a maze of detail and coincidence". Josipovici says, "Michael Kohlhaas, takes many of the elements that go to make up the Grimm Tales and stands them on their head, bidding an anguished farewell as it does so both to community values and to the power of wishful thinking." Perhaps Luke and Reeves were blinded by an addiction to shorthand, because Waggish is onto something when he says, "Modern day American fiction has evolved into a sort of psychological shorthand, in which physically descriptive details and moody variations on images have come to point to a shortlist of mutually agreed upon emotions."
Reading Michael Kohlhaas can be a profoundly odd experience if your main diet is mainstream 20th century U.S. fiction, either "popular" or "literary", because it seems to be a sea of details, a flow of events in which the characters are mostly built from externalities and therefore made distant to the reader, unapproachable -- the sort of people who wouldn't find much help in the Self Help aisle at the bookstore. And then, kerplop, it becomes a fairy tale. Various sorts of readers are likely to make different meanings from this turn, but it is significant. Josipovici's "scene-setting, morality and psychology" are not entirely absent from Michael Kohlhaas, but they are also not the story's reason for being -- they exist as the minimum necessary for there to be any basic sense to the narrative.
Is there some element that is the story's reason for being? I'm not sure, and I think I'd need to have a better knowledge of Kleist and his milieu to venture much of a guess. But I doubt it can be distilled to one element, because Michael Kohlhaas is too complex, too all-encompassing to be reduced to one single pearl of critical cleverness. It seems to exist almost in between Kierkegaard's two types of stories, as if it were a tale requiring neither and both belief and unbelief, because both leads to habits that produce dogmas and shorthands, and so belief and unbelief must be used against each other. The details are essential for the creation of belief and for its destruction. This is different from Josipovici's description of the modern contract of "neither writers nor readers quite believing what they are doing, but under a strange compulsion to pretend that they do" because the terms are muddier, with no clear delineation of where the believing should begin or end, or even if it's important at all. It's almost as if Kleist says to the reader, "Believe if you want, or don't if you want -- it doesn't really matter, because that's not why we're here." The text becomes a kind of indifferent god, an object that requires neither worship nor doubt, and is impervious to both.


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Another week in the wild, wild West. There are two important events we need to cover. Let's start with the Fed. I think we've gone through a new portal with the Fed announcing a target for tightening that would be 6.5% on the unemployment rate and 2.5% on the inflation front. Thankfully, these are loose targets because we can get down to 6.5%, not improve the economy very much but end up with more people giving up on the workforce. Tightening at that point wouldn't be very productive. I've heard a lot of people talk about how much the low rates are hurting the economy and how much this is the Fed's fault. Really now, what are they supposed to do? You have a President and Congress that get absolutely nothing accomplished going on almost two years with fiscal policy. Being a student of the 1930s, Bernanke can't just sit there and do nothing. Is he supposed to RAISE RATES? Understand that his hands are tied. I'm sure he realizes that all of the Fed actions are probably things he'd rather not do but he's gettinging no help from the adults on Capitol Hill.
That being said, our new portal is psychological. I don't think the stock market will like it; I think it represents a late-stage bull market because I can recall other late-stage bulls where tightening or the threat of tightening has caused some incredibly bearish days. The market is a perverse mechanism and now we'll start to watch for good news on the economic front being greeted by bearish activity. If that really does start to manifest it will be a sign we are getting close to the end of this four-year bull. Remember, the 32 bottom spawned a five-year bull market and since the first bottom was November 2008 we are now working on year five.
The stock market hit some important resistance on Thursday and pulled back. Ultimately that could be bullish as it represents potential fourth wave activity in this bull as we've seen a potential fourth wave of complex flat action pay off with new highs in Europe. We could be following their lead right now. But a lower Dollar and lower SPX on Friday is a little confusing. Then Gold didn't take off to the upside either. So do we have inflationary or deflationary activity here? That's hard to say.
This chart of the SPY has the exact same descending resistance line as the SPX. Look at the weekly FTSE just below it. You can argue it completed a larger degree triangle after the election and now has made a new high that has violated our October major time window. What that means is our 5/10 yr window will not come close to recreating the sequel to the 2008. You doomsayers, you might need a new line of work as it's just not going to happen. That's not to say we rule out a garden variety bear phase that shakes the trees and knocks the coconuts all over the place. That can happen but these predictions of doomsday are just not in the charts. The FTSE progression starts in 2011 and is more progressed than our pattern, which is only coming off recent highs a couple months ago. But if we continue on this path, first we need to see this high hold a while and then see the larger trading range develop. All I'm saying is Europe might be the model we are following.
Also, have you seen the SSE? Gann came through so far as they had another marvelous week of short covering taking even more bears out of the market. Our view remains neutral to slightly bullish for the favorable holiday period. It's always January I've been concerned about.


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K.C. Jones, born and raised in Las Animas, scored his biggest win of the week at the 10-day, $6 million Wrangler National Finals Rodeo on Dec. 13 in front of 17,479 fans.
LAS VEGAS - K.C. Jones, born and raised in Las Animas, scored his biggest win of the week at the 10-day, $6 million Wrangler National Finals Rodeo on Dec. 13 night in front of 17,479 fans.
The 41-year-old veteran, competing for the sixth time at rodeo's Super Bowl, wrestled his steer in 3.4 seconds – the fastest time recorded all week – to tie for the win in the eighth round and earn $16,343. It was Jones' first go-round win at the NFR since 2006.
"They'd won two earlier rounds on that steer," said Jones, who now lives in Decatur, Texas. "He was the best steer, and it was up to me to prove it. My little mare worked good and we got it done."
Only the top 15 contestants in each of seven events qualify for the annual NFR, which kicked off in UNLV's Thomas and Mack Center on Dec. 6 and wraped up Dec. 15 when world champions are crowned. Jones entered the NFR in 10th place in the world championship standings, and had dropped to the bottom of the pack after finishing out of the money in the first seven rounds. Currently ranking 13th in the world championship standings, Jones trails leader Luke Branquinho by nearly $70,000. However, two rounds remain in which he can earn up to $37,000.
Colorado's other steer wrestling contestant, Wade Sumpter of Fowler, has earned $40,784 this week and trails the leader by less than $20,000, with an outside shot at a world title.


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Sciurus carolinensis
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Language: English
|Scientific Name:
|Sciurus carolinensis Gmelin, 1788
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|Least Concern ver 3.1
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|Cassola, F.
|Amori, G.
|Koprowski, J., Linzey, A. & Hammerson, G.A.
Listed as Least Concern because of its wide distribution, large population, occurrence in a number of protected areas, and lack of major threats; it is tolerant to habitat disturbance and its population is increasing.
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|Range Description:
|This species is found in the eastern United States and adjacent southern Canada; southern Quebec to Manitoba, south to eastern Texas and Florida. Its range has been extended through introductions into Quebec, Ontario, New Brunswick, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, British Columbia, Nova Scotia, California, Oregon, Washington, and Montana (Teaford 1986, Koprowski 1994). It is also introduced in the British Isles, Italy, South Africa, and Australia (extirpated by 1973), but these introduced ranges are not included in the map here (Koprowski 1994).
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Native:Canada; United States
Introduced:Italy; South Africa; United Kingdom
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|This species is widespread and abundant.There are reported densities of 21/ha in urban parks. Population and range are increasing (J Koprowski pers. comm.).
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|It is found in large blocks of hardwood or mixed forests, as well as in urban and suburban areas. Prefers mature deciduous and mixed forests with abundant supplies of mast (e.g., acorns, hickory nuts). A diversity of nut trees is needed to support high densities. It also uses city parks and floodplains. Seldom far from permanent open water. In southern Alabama, narrow bands of hardwoods along ephemeral streams were an important component of the habitat in even-aged pine and mixed pine-hardwood stands. It rests in tree cavity or leaf nest; leaf nests apparently are made primarily by dispersing juveniles 18-19 weeks old. It nests in tree cavities or in leaf nests, usually 25 feet or more above the ground. Most winter-spring litters are born in tree cavities, most spring-summer litters in leaf nests (Teaford 1986). Cavities suitable for nesting are dry, 15-25 cm in diameter, 40-50 cm deep, with an entrance hole about eight cm in diameter (Teaford 1986). Females may move young from tree cavity nest to leaf nest, possibly to escape fleas.
In Illinois, most breeding occurs in December-February and May-June; slightly later in more northern latitudes (Koprowski 1994). One or two litters per year. First litter is produced mostly in February-March, sometimes as early as January in some areas; second litter, July or August. Gestation lasts 44 days. Litter size most often is 2-3. Young are tended by female. Weaning is completed at about 10-12 weeks (in spring and/or late summer-early autumn). Most breed as yearlings, sometimes sooner (as early as five months) or later. Reproductive output, including the percentage of adults that produce young and the number of litters per year, is positively correlated with mast abundance. Maximum reproductive longevity is about a decade.
Home range averages 0.5-10 ha, with older males tending to have the largest ranges (Teaford 1986); usually home range is less than five hectares (Koprowski 1994). Not territorial, home range overlap is extensive; social system is characterized by a linear dominance hierarchy. Disperses up to a few kilometres from natal area upon approaching sexual maturity. Large-scale one-way emigrations have been observed, generally coinciding with high population density and mast crop failure.
It is pray of many predators, but predation does not appear to limit populations (Teaford 1986). Mean annual mortality reported for adults is 42-57% (Koprowski 1994). Diet consists of seeds, fruits, nuts, fungi, occasional insects and small vertebrates (e.g., bird eggs). Scatterhoarder; buries nuts and acorn in autumn for later consumption (winter-spring). It is active during the day, particularly in the morning and late afternoon, though unimodal activity may occur in winter. May be inactive for a day or two during extremely cold, snowy weather.
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Beipaiosaurus was among the strangest of dinosaurs. It looked like a fusion of body parts taken from several other species and united in the unlikeliest of proportions. It had a stocky body, long arms adorned with massive claws, a long neck topped by an incongruously small head, and a beaked mouth. Bizarre as this cocktail…


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Singing the Chorale's Praises
I'm convinced choral music and Christmas go together. Maybe it's the caroling connection. I've actually never seen carolers here in Burque, but it was very popular in the part of England where I once dwelt. If you don't yet share this conviction, experiment at Santa Fe Desert Chorale's traditional concert of holiday offerings. While they have a full schedule of performances up en El Norte, they'll only be in Burque for one recital of Carols and Lullabies at Immanuel Presbyterian Church (114 Carlisle SE) tomorrow, starting at 4pm. The premiere vocal ensemble in these parts, the Chorale has a reputation for producing seamlessly beautiful renditions of sacred and secular choral works. Besides holiday favorites like "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen," this concert includes deeper cuts by Rachmaninoff and, perhaps most significantly, will contribute to the latest concert hall programming trend by featuring a work by an American composer: Morten Lauridsen's weighty yet popular "O Magnum Mysterium." I would venture a guess the event is worth the price of admission—which ranges from 15 to 40 bones—for Lauridsen's piece alone; his work is an intense, sublime sonic experience, and this postmodern meditation on Gregorian chant serves as a potent symbol of the holidays ahead. Immanuel Presbyterian Church • Sun Dec 22 • 4pm • $15-$40 • View on Alibi calendar


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Giving Schengen databank muscle to secure borders
The European Parliament's Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs approved reports on three pieces of legislation calling for greater access and use of the Schengen Information System to track down criminals, terrorists and migrants who are denied asylum. EPP Group MEPs Carlos Coelho and Jeroen Lenaers authored the reports that require Member States to use the system to alert the 30 participating countries. The legislation would also allow protective child custody and would grant Europol access to the databank.
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Cotygodniowe zestawienie informacji na temat ważnych wydarzeń w Parlamencie Europejskim, między innymi rozmowy z ich głównymi bohaterami.
Soviet crushing of 1968 Prague Spring echoes today's events
Marking the 50th anniversary of the Prague Spring, EPP Group MEPs held a conference discussing Russian interference in Europe then and now. Jaromír Štětina was fired as a journalist and now battles against Russian-backed fake news which is stirring populism in Europe. Slovak MEP Ivan...
Ensuring that consumers have the same quality of product across the EU
Last year, it emerged that there were differences in the quality of food and non-food products being sold in different EU countries between, for example, Bulgaria and Germany. The European Parliament's Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee has approved a Report looking at...
Driving up cybersecurity standards in an increasingly digital world
An increasingly digital world with new technology applications in vehicles and homes requires higher levels of cybersecurity. Based on European Commission proposals, the European Parliament is looking to drive up standards of cybersecurity across the European Union, for example in products...
Inauguration of the Jože Pučnik Room in the European Parliament
At the end of June, a room in the European Parliament (ASP 5E3) was named after a father of Slovenian democracy, Jože Pučnik. The inauguration was organised on the initiative of Milan Zver, Head of the Slovenian Delegation of the EPP Group, amongst others and took place in the presence of Antonio...
Crop protection that's good for consumers and farmers
A special European Parliament committee heard from regulators, farmers and experts to determine what reforms are needed to tackle how pesticides are approved in the EU. The panel's EPP Group co-Rapporteur Norbert Lins is calling for the EU-wide harmonisation of the approval rules. Angé...
EPP Group leading the drive for action against cancer
It is estimated that almost one in three Europeans will develop cancer in their lifetime. The EPP Group has published a policy paper setting out 12 areas - including research, prevention, screening, early detection and palliative care - where it is calling for progress in the fight against...
Empowering Europeans' petition drives
In a bid to help citizens petition the EU for legislation, a European Parliament committee has approved a plan to overhaul the European Citizens' Initiative. The author - EPP Group MEP György Schöpflin of Hungary - says he hopes the reform will lead to offices in each EU Member...
MEPs in Legal Affairs Committee back new copyright legislation
In a vote in the European Parliament's Legal Affairs Committee, MEPs have backed new EU copyright rules that are better adapted to the digital world. The Parliament's Rapporteur on this legislation, Axel Voss, explained two key aspects of his proposals: 1) that digital platforms...
Back Belarus civil groups facing deadly oppression
At the European Parliament, EPP Group MEPs hosted pro-democracy NGOs like Charter 97 from Belarus. Recent secret executions there have added urgency to supporting civil society facing President Alexander Lukashenko's iron-fisted rule. MEPs included Sandra Kalniete, Bogdan Zdrojewski and Ram...
Celebrating 30 years of the Sakharov Prize
The EU's Sakharov Prize for freedom of thought is awarded every year to an individual or organisation from anywhere in the world for outstanding achievements in upholding human rights and fundamental freedoms. This year, the European Parliament is celebrating its 30th anniversary by...
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- Students must be matriculated and registered for at least six credits/hours in each term. Students who drop below six credits must stop working immediately and report new enrollment status to the Financial Aid Office.
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- Students graduating after the Fall Semester must stop working by 12/31/14.
- All off-campus, FWS wages will be subject to FICA withholding.
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Interdisciplinary Degrees (M.A., M.S. or Ph.D.) Students who are interested in creating their own Master's or Doctoral degree program by combining course work in more than one discipline have the ability and responsibility to design their program, organize a committee of faculty members to serve as advisors and make sure that it conforms to rigorous academic standards.
The proposed program must differ significantly from, and may not substitute for, an existing UAF graduate degree program. The student may select no more that one half of his/her program credits from a single existing graduate degree program.
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The Western Regional Graduate Program makes high-quality, distinctive graduate programs available to students of the West at a reasonable cost. As part of the Student Exchange Program of the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, WRGP helps place students in a wide range of graduate programs, all designed around the educational, social, and economic needs of the West.
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text: Marketo releases social marketing application Published on March 22, 2013. San Mateo, Calif.—Marketo Inc. has launched a new social marketing application integrated with its marketing automation solution. The new capabilities include polls, video sharing, content sharing, sweepstakes and referrals, as well as a drag-and-drop user interface for embedding social applications into demand-generation programs, Marketo said. Marketo Social Marketing also tracks customer activity to maintain dialogues across social, on- and offline channels, and provides analytics that identify key influencers and tie social marketing campaigns to such metrics as revenue and customer lifetime value, the company said. Most Popular In this article: BtoB


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J.K. Rowling Included Among Most Powerful in the Publishing Industry
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Harry Potter author J. K. Rowling has been named among the top influences in the publishing industry, according to the Guardian's just released Book Power 100 List. Ms Rowling ranked second in the list of 100 people who have been named by the newspaper as "the most influential people of the moment." Amazon Co-Founder/CEO Jeff Bezos came in first place, while other notable people on the list include author James Patterson, Apple CEO Tim Cook, author Ian McEwan, Bloomsbury chief Nigel Newton, author Stephen Fry, and many others.
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Welcome to the Virus Encyclopedia of Panda Security.
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Dialer.HCB is a dialer type malware. Dialers usually try to establish phone connections with high rate numbers, significantly increasing the phone bill of the affected user.
Dialer.HCB affects computers that use a modem to connect to the Internet, as the virus modifies the Dial-up network access settings. It changes the telephone number provided by the ISP (Internet Service Provider), which is a local-rate number, to a high-rate number.
It reduces the security level of the computer:
it changes the security settings of Internet Explorer, decreasing its security level.
Dialer.HCB accesses several websites to download files, which it then runs. These can be any type of file, although they are normally malware.
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GREENVILLE, Ill. -- The men's basketball team narrowly lost 80-76 to Missouri Baptist University Saturday night. The Panthers were led by Alex Mumphard who scored a team-high 21 points. Mumphard also dished out five assists.
The game was tight the entire way and saw multiple lead changes throughout.
Sophomore Todd Albertson posted a double-double for the Panthers with 11 points and 11 rebounds. MarQuel Jones also had an impressive night, recording 14 points, 3 assists, and a block.
Garrison Plummer was the lead man for Missouri Baptist with 22 points and 10 rebounds.
With the loss, Greenville drops to 6-3 on the season. They return to action on Wednesday, Jan. 2, at Dominican in River Forest, Ill.


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The forum search engine requires a three letter word. So, I can't search terms like optimize xp or anything like that any suggestions or can you take away the minimum?
When death sleeps it dreams of you...
You can search for "optimizing xp" (with the quotes), or optimizing *xp (don't if that'll count as a 3-letter word)
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