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John Sahr
Adjunct Professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics
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Cornell University, Electrical Engineering 1990 Ph.D.
California Institute of Technology, BSEE 1984
John Sahr was born in Seattle and grew up in Yakima and Selah, Washington. He became a radio amateur in the mid 1970s (WB7NWP) and continued his interest in radio wave propagation, communication, and radar in college. He attended Caltech 1980--1984, was president of his dorm (Fleming House), and was inspired by many marvelous faculty there. In 1984 John began graduate study at UCLA, working on a 380 GHz plasma imaging experiment.
In 1985 he went to Cornell University for the remainder of his graduate studies, operating and building a 50 MHz radar for studies of the high latitude ionosphere. The experimental campaigns were carried out in Sweden and Norway. As a postdoc John helped develop a new data acquisition system for the Jicamarca Radar Observatory, and processed incoherent scatter data from that radar.
In 1991 John joined the Electrical Engineering faculty at the University of Washington, shortly afterwards being appointed Adjunct in Earth and Space Science in the College of the Environment. John also works with faculty and staff of the UW Astronomy Department, sharing some space at the Manastash Ridge Observatory near Ellensburg, WA.
John has served as Graduate Program Coordinator and Associate Chair for the Department of Electrical Engineering.
In 2006 John began a term as Associate Dean of Undergraduate Academic Affairs, overseeing the Office of Educational Assessment, Classroom Support Services, the Teaching Academy, and the Robinson Center for Young Scholars. He serves as the Provost's representative to the Joint Access Oversight Group, a committee which coordinates college transfer policy for Washington State. In July 2014 John became Interim Chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering.
Professor Sahr performs research primarily in VHF radar remote sensing of the Earth's upper atmosphere, but also collaborates in research projects in statistical signal processing, image processing, and wireless communications.
Young Scientist Award, URSI General Assembly, Kyoto, Japan, 1993
National Young Investigator Award, National Science Foundation, 1993--1998
Young Scientist Award, URSI "Electromagnetic Scattering in Gases and Plasmas (ESGAP)" Conference, France 1994
Canadian Corporation for Space Science, Invited Speaker, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Western Ontario, May/June 1996
Young Scientist Award, URSI General Assembly, Lille, France, 1996
Henry Booker Fellowship, 1996. National Academy of Sciences and US National Committee of the International Union of Radio Science
Faculty Achievement Award, UW College of Engineering, 1996
"Best Professor" Award, IEEE Student Branch, UW EE Department, 1996.
Research Interests
Space plasma physics, ionospheric turbulence, radar remote sensing, interferometry, passive radar technology, and inverse problems.
Research Projects
We operate a completely passive 100 MHz radar which detects scatter from commercial FM broadcasts. We've detected scatter from over 1000 km, resolving the range and Doppler spectrum with unprecedented detail. See the Radar Remote Sensing Lab for more information, including live output from the Manastash Ridge Radar.
Radar Remote Sensing Lab: http://rrsl.ee.washington.edu/
Selected Publications
Zhou-C; Fremouw-EJ; Sahr-JD Optimal truncation criterion for application of singular value decomposition to ionospheric tomography Radio-Science.vol.34, no.1; Jan.-Feb. 1999; p.155-66.
Uppala-SV; Sahr-JD Recursive structures and finite impulse response implementations of linear multiuser detectors for an asynchronous CDMA system IEEE-Journal-on-Selected-Areas-in-Communications.vol.16, no.9; Dec. 1998; p.1736-46.
Sahr-JD; Lind-FD Passive radio remote sensing of the atmosphere using transmitters of opportunity Radio-Science-Bulletin.no.284; March 1998; p.4-7.
Sahr-JD; Lind-FD The Manastash Ridge radar: a passive bistatic radar for upper atmospheric radio science Radio-Science.vol.32, no.6; Nov.-Dec. 1997; p.2345-58.
Uppala-SV; Sahr-JD On the design of quadratic filters with application to image processing IEEE-Transactions-on-Image-Processing.vol.6, no.4; April 1997; p.608-14.
Sahr-JD; Fejer-BG Auroral electrojet plasma irregularity theory and experiment: a critical review of present understanding and future directions, Journal-of- Geophysical-Research.vol.101, no.A12; 1 Dec. 1996; p.26893-909.
Sahr-JD; Application of closure phase and self-calibration to radar interferometric imaging of atmospheric and ionospheric irregularities, Journal-of-Atmospheric- and-Terrestrial-Physics. vol. 58, no. 8-9; June-July 1996; p. 959-64.
Recent Conference Papers
Sahr, Lind, Zhou, Gidner: PIERS99, "Passive Bistatic VHF Radar Technique for Atmospheric and Ionospheric Radioscience" Taipei, Taiwan, March 1999.
Uppala-SV; Sahr-JD Performance analysis of the decorrelating detector in the presence of synchronization errors 1997 IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on Communications, Computers and Signal Processing, PACRIM.10 Years Networking the Pacific Rim, 1987-1997 (Cat. No.97CH36060). IEEE, New York, NY, USA; 1997; 2 vol.
Uppala-SV; Sahr-JD Computing probability of errors of linear multiuser detectors in white Gaussian noise and Rayleigh fading channels ICC '98.1998 IEEE International Conference on Communications. Conference Record. Affiliated with SUPERCOMM'98 (Cat. No.98CH36220). IEEE, New York, NY, USA; 1998; 3 vol. xxxvii+1838 pp. p.360-4 vol.1.
Active Grants
NSF ionospheric physics, 1999-2002.
RRF systolic array, 1998-1999.
Recent Graduate Students
Dr. Sathyadev V. Uppala, Electrical Engineering, joint detection of multiuser radio systems, summer 1998
Dr. Frank Lind, Geophysics, radar remote sensing of ionospheric turbulence, August 1999.
Dr. Todd Elson, Electrical Engineering, Submillimeter Tunneling Amplifier, Summer 2000
Dr. Chucai Zhou, Electrical Engineering, signal processing theory and practice for passive bistatic radar, summer 2001
Dr. Hasan Mir, Electrical Engineering, angle of arrival estimation in vector electromagnetic sensor systems, summer 2004
Dr. Melissa Meyer, Electrical Engineering, ionospheric physics and passive radar interferometry, summer 2006
Dr. Andrew Morabito, Electrical Engineering, measurement, estimation, and modelling of noise processes in distributed passive radar, summer 2008
Geophysics Research Letters, Associate Editor
International Union of Radio Science (URSI), Commission G


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By Anne Scott
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At ChildFund, we are always looking for new ways to enhance the experience of sponsorship, for both sponsor and child. For this reason, I have travelled to Katachka, a remote village in the central highland district of Huambo, Angola, to see a promising new approach to sponsorship. (See video here.)
Huambo is one of the districts most affected by the prolonged civil war in Angola, a time when many children witnessed firsthand the killing of close family members, were taken captive by soldiers or were forced to march long hours carrying army supplies. The lucky ones survived by hiding in the bushes or beside river banks. School, play and doing chores around the home, in the company of family members, became distant luxuries.
Today, the war is over. But the destroyed remains of bullet-riddled buildings in the provincial city of Huambo, and its surrounding villages like Katachka, stand as an important reminder that the people of Angola carry inside them less visible war wounds. They are still healing.
To play a part in that healing process, ChildFund and its local partner organization have carefully designed the sponsorship event that I am attending today. More than 200 sponsored children and youth, with their family and community members, gather under a large tree. They are drawn in by the sounds of a young woman volunteer leading children in song and dance. The youth perform a funny and sad skit about the considerable problems they encounter at school. Despite the humor, its message rings true, as many in the audience nod their heads.
The children then go off to another area to draw pictures and play games, under the guidance of community volunteers. Before the start of a soccer game, the youth meet to discuss plans to form a soccer league in their area. ChildFund has given the orange-and-white uniforms worn by today's teams.
I walk over to an area where volunteers, trained by ChildFund, are helping some sponsored children write letters to their sponsors. The volunteer makes the most of this task by facilitating discussion among the children about important things going on in their lives and their community. The children learn how to process their life experiences, verbally, intellectually and emotionally. The end result is richer letters, through which each sponsor can more deeply understand and appreciate his or her child's experience.
On one level, the event is designed to accomplish important administrative tasks, such as enrolling children to be sponsored or writing letters. The recreational activities are what one might expect at a child and youth event anywhere in the world.
But for those who can vividly place today's activities against the horrific memory of war, their deeper meaning emerges. For a child to draw — and talk about — pictures of their now relatively peaceful surroundings records a renewed sense of security and builds skills, long suppressed, in identifying and expressing feelings.
For youth to engage together in constructive play through sports builds a sense of hope and belonging, alongside leadership skills and experiences of fun and positive challenge. The adults, still sitting under the tree, can spend some time thinking about how they want the future of their children and youth to be, and make plans to realize their vision.
Today, ChildFund provides a venue that makes new things possible for sponsors and children, and for their families and communities.
For more information about our work in Angola, click here.
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Population: 12.2 million
ChildFund beneficiaries: More than 220,000 children and families
Did You Know?: Subsistence agriculture provides the main livelihood for half of Angola's population, but half of the country's food must still be imported.
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Let the mind's eye travel, as a fly might, having just wandered in from the outdoor desert air, up the sweeping, terraced stairwell that leads to the fourth floor of the Forbes building on the University of Arizona campus.
Tucked away in the department of entomology at the end of a long corridor is a crowded collection room, overflowing with an impressive assembly of cabinets, handmade in the 1950s and painted the period's favored shade of avocado green.
If you opened the cabinets you would find countless insect specimens, carefully organized and nestled side-by-side in over-crowded trays, identified to the species-level and diligently labeled for future reference. The wings of many butterflies overlap, for want of space to spread them apart. The beetles' legs are interlaced, and the flies rest nose-to-nose.
Many of them have been here for more than 50 years.
This is the UA Insect Collection, or UAIC, with more than 2 million specimens representing a substantial portion of the Southwest's known insect life.
Wendy Moore, assistant professor of insect systematics in the department of entomology and curator of the UAIC, recently received two grants worth more than $2 million to revitalize the collection, as well as an endowment to support research by visiting scholars.
"The majority of our specimens are from this region," said Moore. "Sometimes faculty members will conduct research in exotic places such as Australia or Africa and bring some specimens back, but most of our specimens are from the Southwest."
The UAIC's substantial collection of Southwestern insect specimens makes it an important research resource among North America's insect collections.
"There is no large centralized insect collection for the Southwestern United States," said Moore, like the collections for the Northeastern U.S., such as those housed at the Smithsonian Institution, Harvard or the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago.
The lack of a large centralized insect collection of Southwest insects "makes the UAIC holdings unique and valuable," said Moore. "Especially since this is an enormously bio-diverse region with a very high insect population."
The NSF Biological Infrastructure grant for $468,000 will support physical renovation of the UAIC. Long bereaved of a secure permanent lodging, the insects have bunked in the avocado cabinets since the collection was begun.
Although there are standard sizes of insect cabinets and drawers that are mass-manufactured for all the insect collections of North America, "ours are unique," said Moore. The uniqueness of the UAIC's cabinets presents a major drawback: The doors don't seal tightly. Improperly shutting doors, benign as that may seem, spell danger for a dried insect collection.
The insects are protected from decay by both their firm exoskeletons and Arizona's famously arid climate, said Moore. But they do have one enemy: "The biggest threat to this collection is other insects called dermestid beetles," said Moore. "Dermestids eat dead dried insects. Once they are able to get inside the cabinets and drawers, they begin to eat the collection."
Protecting the collection
"One of the biggest concerns about keeping an insect collection forever as a research resource is protecting them from these dermestids," said Moore. A feat which, in their present condition, the mal-fitting cabinets fail to achieve.
"We have to use chemicals to keep out the dermestids, a fight that can be both time-consuming and expensive," said Moore. "With the award of this grant we are going to have new cabinets and drawers that are modern and shut tightly, and unit trays of standard size so that the collection can grow without calling a carpenter to make more cabinets or drawers."
"We will be able to make much better use of the space that's allotted to the collection," said Moore. "This preserves the safety of the collection and also makes more efficient use of the space."
"This grant will also allow us to incorporate orphaned collections into the main collection," she added. "We'll have room for about 50 percent additional growth."
Moore is also a co-principle investigator with Neil Cobb, an associate research professor in the department of biological sciences at Northern Arizona University, on a three-year NSF Emerging Frontiers grant for $1.9 million, which will support the digitization of the UAIC and 10 other Southwest insect collections.
Like an encyclopedia of Southwest insects, the digital database will include photographs of species as well as information captured from the data labels on the specimens, including their species names, classification and the precise day and location where they were collected.
"The goal of this NSF award is to capture label data from specimens of ground-dwelling arthropods in our collection and digitize them to create a database that includes the identity of the specimens and all the taxonomic information," said Moore.
The digital database also will include geographic information to generate maps of species distributions. "We will eventually be able to do a search for a species' distribution and will be able to draw data from our collection, and from 10 collaborating institutions in Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Colorado and Utah, all on an interactive website," said Moore.
The department of entomology also received an endowment of $625,000 from the Schlinger Foundation to support collaborations with scientists from other institutions.
Supported by the endowment, visiting researchers will be able to advance their own research interests using the UAIC as a resource, said Moore, "while at the same time, this unique gift will facilitate great advances in our knowledge of Sonoran Desert insect systematics, biogeography and evolutionary history."
Many species that live in the Desert Southwest occur nowhere else in the U.S., she said.
"One of my research programs is documenting the biodiversity and patterns of distribution of the ground-dwelling arthropods in the Madrean sky islands, here in the Sonoran Desert region," said Moore. "The sky islands are mountains with pine and mixed conifer forests at the top, such as you find on top of Mount Lemmon in the Santa Catalina Mountains."
"In this region, there are endemic flightless insects which are only found on top of an individual mountain," said Moore. "Their closest relatives live on neighboring mountaintops, yet they are isolated from one another by the desert."
"Because mountains offer elevation gradients, they can find just the right spot with the right temperature and humidity to sustain their life," she said.
Their unique morphology, from the shape of their wings to the keenness of their sight and their genetic makeup, represent clues about how they live and what traits they need to survive – clues that are vital for scientists to understand insect evolution in the Desert Southwest and to predict how these species might respond to future climate and environmental change.
Nestled inside UAIC's avocado-colored cabinets, the insects are ambassadors of the past, little biological records of past microclimates where they lived, and the evolutionary history that allowed them to adapt as climates have changed over millennia.
Said Moore: "Understanding past species distributions under different climate regimes will help us predict and prepare for future changes in insect communities in the Desert Southwest."


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Rattus macleari
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Language: English
|Scientific Name:
|Rattus macleari (Thomas, 1887)
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|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Extinct ver 3.1
|Year Published:
|Date Assessed:
|Lamoreux, J., Woinarski, J. & Burbidge, A.A.
|Amori, G.
Listed as Extinct because it has not been recorded since 1904, and extensive searches in the intervening years have failed to locate this species.
|Previously published Red List assessments:
|Range Description:
|Maclear's Rat was endemic to Christmas Island, Australia. Christmas Island is approximately 135 km2 and lies 345 km south of Java, the nearest landmass, in the Indian Ocean.
|Countries occurrence:
Regionally extinct:Christmas Island
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|Maclear's Rat became extinct probably between 1902 and 1904. It was, however, abundant on Christmas Island at the close of the 19th century. Lister visited the island in 1887 and said of Maclear's Rat, it "abounds all over the island" (Lister 1888). Andrews (1900) who was on the island for ten months, 1897-1898, noted that it was "by far the commonest of the mammals found in the island; in every part I visited, it occurred in swarms. During the day nothing is to be seen of it, but soon after sunset numbers may be seen running about in all directions." Andrews continued by stating that "as may be imagined, they are a great nuisance, entering the tents or shelters, running over the sleepers, and upsetting everything in their search for food" (Andrews 1900).
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|Habitat and Ecology:
|This species was largely or entirely nocturnal, and had little fear of people. It was terrestrial, climbed trees, and was present all over the island, which was at the time mostly covered by tropical moist forest. Lister (1888) noted that "they generally keep to the ground, but are able to climb trees." Andrews (1900), who apparently was more impressed by their climbing ability, said they "ascend trees to a great height" in pursuit of fruits and young shoots, and "I have often seen them run up the trailing stems of the lianas, and, in fact, they can climb as well as a squirrel." Little is known of their diet, except that they were fond of fruits and young shoots.
Nothing more is known about the habitat and ecology of this species aside from what is contained in the following lines: "In the daytime these rats live in holes among the roots of trees, in decaying logs, and shallow burrows. They seem to breed all the year round" (Andrews 1900).
|Major Threat(s):
This species was still abundant in 1897-1898 while Andrews was on Christmas Island (Andrews 1900). By the time he returned to the island in 1908, he was confident that it and the other native rat species, Rattus nativitatis, were extinct (Andrews 1909). Andrews (1909) speculated that introduced Black Rats Rattus rattus had brought an epidemic disease to the island that wiped out both native rats. Nearly 100 years later, the mystery was finally solved by Wyatt et al. (2008), who used ancient DNA methods on samples from museum specimens of these rodents collected during the extinction window (AD 1888–1908), and showed that endemic rats collected prior to the introduction of Black Rats were devoid of evidence of a pathogenic trypanosome (carried by fleas hosted on recently-introduced Black Rats).
To Andrews, the disappearance of such an abundant animal in such a short time had to be due to disease because R. rattus was not present over the entire island. It was unreasonable therefore to assume that the native species had been out-competed by R. rattus all over the island (Andrews 1909). Two predators had been introduced to the island by 1908, cat and dog, but these were far too few to rid the island of the rats (Andrews 1900, 1909). Although Christmas Island had an increasing human settlement at Flying Fish Cove, roads now crossed the island, and there was active phosphate mining, there was still a lot of native forest and even collectively these human disturbances were unlikely to have caused significant declines in the populations of Maclear's Rat (Andrews 1909). Andrews (1909) also relates anecdotal information that a medical officer on the island, Dr. McDougal, recalled frequently seeing "individuals of the native species of rats crawling about the paths in the daytime, apparently in a dying condition" in 1902-1904.
Pickering and Norris (1996) report on documents concerning Maclear's Rat that were uncovered at Oxford University, and specimens from the Zoological Collections, University Museum, Oxford University and the University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge. The documents include notes for a lecture by K. R. Hanitsch who visited Christmas Island for five weeks in 1904 and was unable to locate either species of native rat. Dr. Durham, a pathologist, visited the island from November 1901 to March 1902 and reported in expedition reports that he was told that R. rattus had been introduced to the island in 1899 by the S.S. Hindustan. Durham also collected 19 rat specimens. Pickering and Norris (1996) note that some of these specimens were of R. macleari, R. rattus, and some of varying degrees of hybrid between R. macleari and R. rattus. Hybridisation between the two species, with the implication that R. macleari was genetically swamped by R. rattus, was put forward as a contributing factor in the demise of R. macleari (Pickering and Norris 1996). However, hybridisation between the two species is unlikely given the phylogenetic distance between them, and apparently re-examination of specimens confirms that each belongs to one or the other species (Musser and Carleton 2005; Aplin 2008). This is further supported by the molecular studies of Wyatt et al. (2008).
Because Durham collected specimens, some of which were R. macleari, in late 1901 and 1902, R. macleari must have become extinct after 1901.
McDougal was the last person to recall seeing native rats alive, albeit in the act of dying (Andrews 1909). These rats were probably R. macleari because R. nativitatis was the rarer of the two, as evidenced by the fact that Durham was unable to collect any specimens of R. nativitatis in 1901-1902. Andrews (1909) writes that McDougal's recollections are from 5-6 years before, but it is unclear whether he meant 5-6 years prior to his 1909 publication (putting the date at 1903-1904), or if it was 5-6 years prior to 1908 when Andrews was on Christmas Island (putting the date as 1902-1903 as Pickering and Norris (1996) interpret the anecdote). Because Hanitsch was unable to locate the species in 1904, it is likely that the species already had become extinct.
Green (2014) further defined the date of introduction of black rats (and hence trypanosomes) (September 1900) and the extinction of R. macleari (between April 1904 and October 1904).
|Conservation Actions:
|There are no conservation measures pertaining to this species.
|Lamoreux, J., Woinarski, J. & Burbidge, A.A. 2016. Rattus macleari. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T19344A22440729. . Downloaded on 22 September 2018.
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Scattered showers didn't deter revelers Monday as thousands flocked to New Orleans' historic French Quarter and surrounding areas along the Mississippi River for festivities leading up to Mardi Gras.
Despite the weather, Monday's parades proceeded as planned. Those included the Krewe of Orpheus, led by entertainer Harry Connick Jr., and the Krewe of Proteus, the Carnival season's second-oldest krewe dating to 1882 and named after an early Greek sea god.
Despite the rain and cloudy skies, the riverfront throbbed with music as revelers awaited the arrival of the King of Zulu, who toasts the King of Rex. As brass bands played on stages set up along the river, masked and costumed revelers caught beads tossed from French Quarter balconies.
"It's crazy, all these people with no inhibitions," said Robin Danford, of Arlington, Texas, as she walked down Bourbon Street, where many partied and tossed beads and drank.
The National Weather Service has forecast rain for much of Fat Tuesday, when as many as 1 million people traditionally revel in the streets of New Orleans. But so far officials have not canceled any scheduled parades.
The Roman Catholic period of Lent begins on Wednesday and Mardi Gras is the annual festival that leads to that solemn season.
Meanwhile, a shooting Saturday night that wounded four people on Bourbon Street in the French Quarter didn't appear to deter visitors.
Lisa Preston, of Charlotte, N.C., said she was determined to enjoy her first Mardi Gras season in New Orleans.
"I'm having a blast," she said, sporting a purple hat, her neck draped with numerous strands of beads. "After the shooting, I'm keeping my eyes open, but Mardi Gras has really been a lot of fun."
Monday's festivities also included New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu saluting the parade kings of Zulu and Rex.


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Q: a list of caches in the area of Selkirk and Breezy Point? with thanx, Backlot
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You need a boat for Sugar Island.
You can scroll the map. There are lots in Bird's Hill Provincial Park just off the map to the south.


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Well, enough of the depressing posts for the time being. Time to change the subject.
As some of you may know and many others don't, I was laid off from my previous job back in June of 2010. I was out of work for the longest span I have ever experienced and it was tough. Our savings took a royal beating and it is going to take a while to recover. We skipped birthdays and Christmas for the most part.
Yeah I know I said no more depressing posts for now and I meant it. Oddly enough I wouldn't trade that time off for the world. I have gotten to know my daughter so much better than I ever had time for before. We've bonded over that time at home and it has been wonderful. Sure things were rough and even a little scary now and then but that was minor compared to getting to see my baby girl learning and growing and transforming like my wife has had the privilege to experience since her birth.
Being a stay at home parent is hard. I knew that before and this time has only confirmed it. But it has its own rewards. Its own compensation. But still… I'm glad I'm now back to work.
I started a new job a few weeks ago before the end of the year. That was supposed to be the start of a happy 2011 but you know how that has turned out so far. But this new job is good. I like what I'm doing and the compensation is good. Plus its for a non-profit who is making a difference every day for people who need it. What else could I ask for? Well how about working from home? Yeah, I got that too. It's freaking sweet.


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It's tough being a knife junkie with so many of the best hunting knives available for deer hunting and meat processing equipment, not to mention kitchen knives, folders and others.
By Alan Clemons, Southern Managing Editor
The possibilities are limitless: blade length and design, of course, but also handle length, material, add-ons such as a cap with a lanyard or grooves for fingers. It's one of the great things about the whole custom (and even mass-production) market. You can get what you believe is the best hunting knife, best skinning knife, best kitchen knife or best "whatever" knife for your purposes.
Actually, you can get more than one! Sitting on my work desk are 16 knives. One is a rusted metal "Kamp King" three-blade folder my wife's late grandfather used decades ago. Another is a good-sized two-blade folder with a whitetail deer design in the handle that my father gave me when I was a teenager. My brother gave me a nice trapper's knife as a wedding gift when I was one of his groomsmen. Two are custom blades with leather sheaths designed by Clarence Smitherman of Alabama, and I have two antler-and-stone knapped blades by knapper and former Alabama game warden Troy Beatty.
The knapped stone-bone flint knives — and they're knives, trust me — are just as significant to me as the others. They're all cool. They all also are tools, to be used if I desire and to do things that man has used knives for since the days when cavemen figured out a sharp edge of a rock had multiple purposes.
One of our D&DH sister publications, Blade magazine, focuses on knives and the blog below by Editor Steve Shackleford is about the Alaskan Skinner from Timberline. It's a super knife that you'll be impressed with when you're hunting big bucks or need a good knife for other duties.
Here's Shackleford's report, and be sure to visit Blade:
A hunting knife is great—and when you use a hunting knife designed by an Alaskan hunting guide who also happens to be a knifemaker, that's even better.
The Alaskan Skinner from Timberline is a hunting knife designed by knifemaker Russ Kommer, who also is a long-time Alaskan hunting guide. Kommer spent most of his youth in the Minnesota north woods hunting, trapping and fishing. Idaho is where he got his start as a big-game guide in the Selway-Bitterroot Mountains. He took his passion for hunting to Alaska in 1984—which is where he also discovered his love of knives, particularly the hunting knife design, after dressing big game. He learned to design the most functional and comfortable hunting knife he could and started making versions of them in 1997.
Kommer's custom knives include the hunting knife/skinner, camp knives, folders, "unique" fillet knives, fighters, boot knives, bowies, hatchets and tactical knives. In addition to Timberline, Kommer also has designed knives for CRKT, including the Signature line of hunting knife, and the Escalade and Extreme Mountain hunting knife models for Browning
The Alaskan Skinner features what is called an upswept blade with a hollow grind—great for high-performance field dressing, skinning and other chores associated with big game. Besides that, it will also help you prepare your meals in camp and do the other cutting chores that need doing outdoors.
The blade steel is a 440 stainless that fights corrosion and is relatively easy to sharpen compared to steels such as CPM S30V and others. The handle is a soft Zytel rubber with a palm swell to fill your hand, and finger grooves and a bird's beak pommel to lock your hand in for any number of cutting tasks, from light slicing to heavy-duty cutting. Overall length: 9.625 inches. A black ballistic nylon sheath with belt loop is both handsome, durable and secure. Weight (including the sheath): 13.5 ounces.
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French bank stocks helped lead a sector-wide surge on Monday after regulators softened and delayed new liquidity rules, easing pressure on lenders to conform and potentially giving some a big profit boost.
Europe's banking index <.SX7P> was up 1.6 percent at 172.4 points by 1000 GMT, after racing to 173.7, its highest in 17 months. French lenders BNP Paribas and Credit Agricole rose more than 2 percent and there were similar gains in Italy's Unicredit , Britain's Barclays and Germany's Deutsche Bank .
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Global regulators on Sunday gave banks four more years and greater flexibility to improve their funding positions, due to fears that a draconian earlier draft would have choked economic recovery.
The pullback from the original liquidity coverage ratio (LCR) draft went further than many analysts had expected.
Most banks should have no problem meeting the easier standards when they are phased in from 2015 and will have time to build up to full implementation in 2019, which could have been a challenge for some major French and German banks and others in the euro zone, analysts said.
"The announced changes represent a more significant relaxation of the contentious new liquidity rule than had been anticipated," said Michael Symonds, credit analyst for financials at Daiwa Capital Markets Europe.
"The more pragmatic approach from regulators is warranted ... the easing recognizes that the torrent of new regulation originating from the first phase of the financial crisis has somewhat weighed on economic recovery, in particular in Europe," he said.
Banks like Societe Generale , Credit Agricole and Commerzbank had faced having to build up far bigger holdings of low-risk and low-yielding government bonds, so the relaxation in rules should cut the increase in interest rates they faced.
Stronger banks should benefit too, as they can reduce the surplus liquidity they hold, allowing them to cut interest costs by shifting from cash or governments bonds into assets that pay higher interest.
Barclays, for example, had a liquidity pool of 160 billion pounds at the end of September, giving it an LCR of just below 100 percent under Basel III rules. Under the relaxed rules, 30 billion pounds of that could be considered surplus liquidity and could release about 300 million pounds in annual interest costs, analysts at Espirito Santo estimated.
Banks had complained they could not meet the January 2015 deadline to full comply with the new rule on minimum holdings of easily sellable assets and at the same time supply credit to businesses and consumers.
As well as delaying implementation, the Basel Committee widened the range of assets banks can put in the buffer to include shares and retail mortgage-backed securities (RMBS), as well as lower-rated company bonds.
(Reporting by Steve Slater, Simon Jessop and Francesca Landini; Editing by David Holmes)


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Following Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan these days is like watching a chameleon. You never know which color he'll turn next. But through all the shifts,a strategic goal emerges: He wants to Putinize Turkey.
The increasingly slavish Turkish press is full of adoring portraits of Erdogan: He managed to get Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu down on his knees, apologizing for "operational mistakes" by his navy that led to deaths of nine Turkish activists in the June 2010 Mavi Marmara incident.
(In America, the press similarly credits President Obama for supposedly pressuring the Israeli hard-liner to finally apologize to Turkey.)
In truth, if anyone needed bending in the three-year Israel-Turkey drama, it was Erdogan.
Yes, he now proudly tells his Turkish media acolytes that he'd rejected past Israeli offers for rapprochement because they didn't explicitly contain the word "apology." But Israeli sources tell me Bibi's envoys to Ankara have offered, as early as two years ago, a similar apology to the one he eventually delivered to Erdogan on the telephone last Friday.
Ankara rejected these previous apologies, I'm told, because Erdogan and his aides insisted that Bibi deliver them publicly, on television.
So why did Erdogan finally agree to an apology in a private phone call (which, as he said yesterday, he secretly recorded)?
Two weeks ago, Secretary of State John Kerry landed in Istanbul facing ugly headlines: Erdogan had just smeared Israel's founding movement, Zionism, as a "crime against humanity."
Kerry, who came to embrace Ankara as our top regional partner, was shocked. He leaned hard on Erdogan to issue a (mealy-mouthed) retraction in a Danish newspaper — and then got him to finally agree to accept Bibi's apology.
Last Friday, in the final moments of Obama's Jerusalem visit, we finally learned that Israel and Turkey are BFFs again.
But are they?
Since Obama's departure, Erdogan has started to renege on terms that, according to Jerusalem and Washington, at least, he'd initially agreed to.
No, he can't drop a civil lawsuit in Turkish courts against Israeli military officials, as it was first understood he would. And renewal of full diplomatic ties will have to wait until every Israeli restriction in Gaza is removed.
Yesterday, we learned that negotiations over compensation for the nine families of the killed Mavi Marmara activists hit a major snag: Israel is offering $100,000 for each family, while Turkey demands $1 million.
Meanwhile, much to the disappointment of Washington, Erdogan insists on an April visit to Hamas-controlled Gaza, which is bound to considerably weaken the US-favored Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.
What's going on? Why does Erdogan promise Obama that he'll bury the hatchet one day, while on the next he goes against Washington's wishes and disses a contrite Bibi?
Look at Turkish politics: For 10 years Erdogan, a political wizard, maneuvered the country close to where he wants it to be. But in a year and a half from now, his premiership, which is term-limited, will end.
Unless, that is, he manages to change the rules by significantly strengthening Turkey's presidency, which is currently a mostly ceremonial position with no executive powers.
And then, of course, the prime minister would become president. Presto: Erdogan would have a new title, but the same powers he has now — thus bypassing laws meant to prevent one person from ruling for life.
It's the Russian model of democracy: Tsar Vladimir Putin has long seen his titles (president, prime minister) as interchangeable — as long as they keep him in power.
But to do likewise, Erdogan must push through a set of new laws for which he needs to get most of the country behind him. So he needs to joggle a bit.
That means doing a 180 on a decades-old Turkish policy of ruthlessly fighting Kurdish separatists: Ankara now envisions Turkish-affiliated federations of Kurdish autonomies in Iraq, Iran and Syria. Whether that's realistic is irrelevant; what matters for Erdogan is that it could help get Kurdish parties in parliament to back his presidential ambitions
And while virulent anti-Israel rhetoric is popular with Erdogan's political base, Turkey's business class and the military favor strong Israeli ties. Guess what: Even with all the rhetorical daggers in the three years since the Mavi Marmara incident, military ties and commercial trade between the two countries, despite a drop in tourism, are actually on therise.
Erdogan must maneuver between Western-favoring urbanites who are the backbone of Turkey's economic success and the rural Islamists that keep him in power and that he favors ideologically. Expect a lot more zig-zagging.
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A Luxury Item for Small Kitchens: A Stainless Steel Wall-Mounted Dish Rack
If you like the no-fuss functionality of restaurant equipment, you'll probably love this stainless steel wall-mounted dish rack from French design company Tsé & Tsé. It's advertised as a dish drainer (all the shelves have holes in them) to be hung over the sink, but I honestly think it'd work better as a dishware cabinet in a small kitchen, don't you? You could even get a couple and hang them side by side for a wall of open cabinetry.
However, the biggest obstacle to doing that is price. I say these are luxury items because the large rack retails for a whopping $600 (!) while the smaller one sells for $315. But still, love the design.
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• Large Stainless Steel Dish Rack from Tse & Tse, $595 from Horne
• Small Stainless Steel Dish Rack from Tse & Tse, $313 from Pure Déco
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Question from Pamela on 10-29-2012:
We have teenager that likes to argue everything from "women's rights" to homosexuality & abortion to authenticity of the Bible to Catholic teachings. We have tried to live, teach, and explain these things consistently from the time he was able to talk. I suppose he is trying to figure out what he believes. We are trying to re-direct him to appropriate resources like the Bible, Catholic catechism, and expert apologists, but he seems drawn to the cafeteria Catholics and non-Catholics for answers. He is bright but a little on the lazy side when it comes to studying and looking at the errors in his views. So how do we evangelize a teen like this? We pray for him and take on the debates, but any other ideas?
|Answer by Richard Geraghty on 11-09-2012:
Dear Pamela, Keep praying and doing what your doing.It takes time, as you well know. Dr. Geraghty
Keep praying and doing what your doing.It takes time, as you well know.
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Lowell Historical Society shares the story of a Civil War flag discovered in the Lowell Memorial Auditorium.
Learn about the "fascinating things" we learn from reading very old polls on Slate.
Elizabeth LaPointe of Genealogy Canada posts about four new French-Canadian podcasts.
Great new series has begun thanks to Amy Johnson Crow of No Story Too Small. Must read! 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks. Bloggers sharing family stories.
Have you heard the news?! Julie Goucher, of Anglers Rest, has begun Worldwide Genealogy ~ A Genealogical Collaboration. Bloggers from around the globe, coming together to share family and local history. Yours truly will be making made her debut on the blog this week.
Nancy of My Ancestors and Me shares the tale of a family history email list saving the day!
Leland & Patty Meitzler of GenealogyBlog search for prisoners held at Andersonville and Fort McHenry.
Cindy Freed of Genealogy Circle writes Digital or Bust. Is that the question?
Kathleen Brandt of a3Genealogy shares Burying, Disinterment, Reinterment of African Americans Remains.
Learn 7 Tips For Mapping Out your Ancestors on Pinterest from Cody Nelson of Meet you in Ohio.
Cheri Hudson Passey of Carolina Girl Genealogy tells us about Treasure Chest Thursday: Pop's WWII New Testament.
Interesting Civil War history from Mysteries and Conundrums with "If these signatures could talk": Banks' Ford Arborglyphs (tree carvings).
Lynn Palermo of The Armchair Genealogist has great advice with How to Make Writing a Habit.
Mary Perkinson Nelson of Celebrating Family Stories shares Flip-Pal tips.
Sue McPeak of CollectIn Texas Gal has begun a 1940's scrapbook restoration project.
Diane Gould Hall of Michigan Family Trails writes about books. Why we still need them? Which ones are in your library?
Jen Baldwin of Ancestral Breezes has decided to be S.M.A.R.T.ER in 2014.
Over on Finding Eliza we read about Frank and Juda Cleage - From Slavery to Freedom.
Read about Black Heroines of the Civil War by Maggie MacLean on Civil War Women.
FamilySearch tells us about BillionGraves.
Two Nerdy History Girls post Casual Friday: Victorian London Street Life.
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Excellent article by Robin Foster - Ten tips for more success with newspaper research.
Having a fun catching up on podcasts on Extreme Genes Family History Radio.
Sign of the times? New York State Library making difficult decision "what to save, what to shred".
(United Kingdom) First World War conscription appeals go online.
FamilySearch has launched a new indexing website.
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Kitchen Color Gallery: Blue Like Berries
From dusty, barely-there grey-blue to eye-popping turquoise, blue is one of the most popular and versatile colors in the kitchen. The right shades can serve old-school country kitchens stenciled in blue geese and vintage flags, then turn around and show off the most sleek and modern kitchen. Here are fifteen examples of blue kitchens from across our network, in all styles and shades of this favorite color. They are all so different, but the blue is lovely in all of them.
And tell us: do you have a blue kitchen? What's your favorite color blue to use in the kitchen?
• 1 Jessica's Blue and Silver Flair - An award-winner in our Smallest Coolest Kitchen contest.
• 2 Lovely tile and blue cupboards in Gaastra's Mini Residence from Small Cool 2008.
• 3 Bright blue backsplash in Laura's Smallest Coolest - House tour at Apartment Therapy.
• 4 Navy blue kitchen at Apartment Therapy.
• 5 A very blue kitchen in Melanie and Kevin's "Racer Pink" in Fall Colors 2008.
• 6 A lovely pale blue color in
• 11 Powerful blue mixed with red and white at Stephanie and Bob's Primary Colors - Click through for full kitchen spotlight.
• 12 Bluish gray tiles at Heather's Sleek and Modern - Another Smallest Coolest Kitchen finalist.
• 13 Dramatic: Ben's Mid-Century Mecca
• 14 A warm, vintage blue: Chad and Ed's Warm Neutrals
• 15 The cheeriest kitchen we've seen: Kevin and Greg's Sugar Shack - Full house tour at Apartment Therapy.
Have you seen any really fabulous blue kitchens lately? Any examples to share?


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White supremacy, racism, McCarthyism and hate groups are terms reserved for American society's underbelly. Marauders in white sheets and wearing pointed, hooded hats are labeled with such terms, not people who claim to love trees, spotted owls and little white seals.
Yet it is the Sierra Club, or at least a group of rogue members, who are eliciting such terms in newspapers from one end of America to the other. Three people tied to anti-immigration groups are attempting to join others of similar leanings now on the national Sierra Club board to form an alliance to force the Sierra Club to take an anti-immigration position to "protect" the environment.
Immigration is a complex issue in America today. It defies simple solutions. However, within the debate is the undeniable truth that America is a land of immigrants. Our ancestors came from somewhere else to a new land we call the United States of America.
Ellis Island in New York and Alcatraz Island in San Francisco are reminders from one shining sea to another shining sea that America has forever accepted people escaping tyranny, oppression and poverty for a new life in free America.
How will America continue to feed, clothe, house, educate and provide medical care for them all? America finds a way because most Americans realize how ludicrous it is to say, "Now that I am in, lock the gate."
However, locking the gate is exactly what the rouge group of Sierra Club members would do under the guise of protecting the environment.
To use a scientific term, BULL!
It is a blatant attempt by a group of white supremacists to take over an organization with an $83 million budget, using that money to spew racism and McCarthyism.
It is creating a backlash. Other liberal groups are denouncing the anti-immigration faction. The more rational leadership of the Sierra Club is defending itself against members being quoted saying Hmongs in America are "drug-addicted polygamists." According to the Fresno Bee and the New York Times, the quote was from a Northern California club member Brenda Walker in a column carried on an anti-immigration reform Web site.
Former Colorado Gov. Richard Lamm is one of those rogue members trying to get on the national Sierra Club board. He is the same person who has talked about the "duty" of the elderly to die. He labeled a 1998 protest in San Diego as being instigated by "second generation Hispanics, the children of immigrants."
Lamm and his band are "children of immigrants" who are racists hiding in a so-called environmental group — an organization with a Spanish name founded by a Scottish immigrant, John Muir.
What is happening in the Sierra Club is the continuing evolution of one-time environmental protection groups into left wing extremists who are anti human, anti trade, anti free enterprise, anti democratic and anti civilization, according to Dr. Patrick Moore, a founding member of Greenpeace who spoke recently at the California Cotton Growers Association annual meeting.
Americans respect the environment. They will never respect a so-called environmental advocacy group that smacks of neo-Nazism.
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Photography Courtesy Buffy Goodman of Buffy Goodman Photography, (buffygoodman.com).
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Yellen Speaks
U.S. unemployment declined to 7.8 percent in September from 8.1 percent the month before, the Labor Department reported Oct. 5. Existing-home sales and retail sales were both stronger in August than analysts projected, industry and government reports showed last month.
Yellen said in Tokyo that if the Fed succeeded in rallying the U.S. economy then the whole world would win. While acknowledging different monetary policies affect capital flows and currency values, she said the Fed is not the main factor and governments have tools of their own to protect their economies.
The dollar will strengthen as U.S. growth outpaces its developed-nation counterparts, say nine of the 10 forecasters with the lowest margins of error in the six quarters ended Sept. 28 as measured by Bloomberg.
The Fed, which purchased $2.3 trillion of Treasury and mortgage-related debt from 2008 to 2011 in two rounds of purchases known as quantitative easing, announced in September a third effort in which it is buying $40 billion of mortgage debt a month until the economic recovery is well established. It also began its Operation Twist program to replace shorter-term debt in its portfolio with longer-term securities and put downward pressure on long-term borrowing costs.
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Thirty-year yields are poised to rise further, according to DZ Bank AG, citing the moving average convergence/divergence pattern, or MACD, which tracks the difference between a shorter- and a longer-term moving average, generating buy and sell signals when they cross. The lines cut across each other today.
"This indicates that the bias will be toward higher yields in coming days and possibly weeks," said Andy Cossor, the Hong Kong-based market strategist at DZ Bank, Germany's fourth- largest lender. "The yield lows for the long bond for this year have been seen."
The so-called MACD line is calculated by subtracting the 26-day exponential moving average from the 12-day exponential moving average. The second indicator, called the signal line, is a nine-day exponential moving average of the MACD.
In technical analysis, investors and analysts study charts of trading patterns to forecast changes in a security, commodity, currency or index.
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Pacers tie up Bulls in Central with 111-101 win
- Article by: MICHAEL MAROT
- Associated Press
- February 5, 2013 - 2:19 AM
INDIANAPOLIS - The Indiana Pacers aren't going to let a little scheduling quirk slow them down.
So they started the NBA's only three game-in-three day stretch in resounding fashion.
David West scored 29 points, Paul George finished with 21 points, 11 rebounds and five assists and George Hill added 22 points, leading the Pacers past Chicago 111-101 and into a share of the Central Division lead Monday. They have now won three straight and 14 in a row at home with Atlanta coming to town Tuesday night and a trip to Philadelphia set for Wednesday night.
"It's just something where you have to make sure you're prepared," West said. "We'll get our rest tomorrow. We'll figure out, in terms of execution, how we need to approach a team in Atlanta that we struggled against. We just have to be ready to play this game."
There was no doubt they were ready for the Bulls.
Despite the defense, which is second-best in the league in points allowed and No. 1 in defensive field goal percentage, Indiana found another way to beat the Bulls -- with offense.
The Pacers made their first six field goals, shot 66.7 percent from the field in the first half, finished at 52.7 percent and produced their highest-point total in a non-overtime game all season. If they keep scoring this way, after topping the 100-point mark for the fourth time in five games, and continue to confound opponents, they will be tough to beat.
Actually, they already are.
Over the past month, the Pacers (29-19) have gone 4-0 against the Eastern Conference's other three top teams -- beating Miami twice, New York once and now taking down Chicago, the league's best road team.
If the Pacers beat the Hawks, they will have their longest home winning streak since taking 25 in a row in 1999-2000.
Indiana's recent surge has it tied for the division lead with Chicago (29-19) and behind only Miami (30-14) and New York (31-15) in the Eastern Conference playoff chase.
"This is a big win for us, definitely playing against a division team," George Hill said. "We played a great game and really battled."
The Bulls didn't look like themselves, though.
Starting guards Derrick Rose (left knee) and Kirk Hinrich (right elbow) and starting center Joakim Noah (right foot) all sat out again with injuries, and they had another scare late in the first quarter when Marco Belinelli crashed to the floor clutching his right ankle. He returned later and finished with a season-high 24 points. Nate Robinson finished with 19 points, nine assists and five rebounds, and Carlos Boozer had 10 points and five rebounds as he returned from a right hamstring injury.
All of those players, other than Belinelli and Robinson, missed Saturday's 93-76 victory at Atlanta.
"I feel like we're short-handed right now, but we're competing hard and that's all you can ask for and I feel like our best basketball is yet to come," Noah said. "We've just got to keep fighting and I think we'll be all right."
Those expecting a defensive slugfest were in for a surprise.
Indiana started the game fast, making its first six shots to take a 13-2 lead, and finished the first half nearly as fast, using a 12-6 run to break a 48-48 tie to make it 60-54 at the half. The Pacers shot 66.7 percent from the field in the half.
Chicago had seven players reach double figures and continually challenged Indiana, but never had control and couldn't even forge a tie over the final 27 1/2 minutes.
Robinson opened the second half with a 3-pointer and a 20-foot jumper to close the deficit to 60-59, but a few minutes later, Indiana seized control with two quick scoring flurries.
The first came when George hit a 3-foot jumper, Lance Stephenson then completed a three-point play and Hill added a four-point play to make it 73-63 with 7:35 left in the third. Chicago answered with four straight points, and Indiana came right back with six straight to take a 79-67 lead.
"We started the game in a big hole and we had to get out of that hole," Bulls coach Tom Thibodeau said. "Now you're scrambling and trying to give yourself a chance. I thought we were in position with five minutes to go."
Chicago rallied again in the fourth, using an 8-0 run to close to 90-84, and it got as close as four three times.
Indiana finally sealed it with a 3 from George and two free throws from West with 1:05 to play.
"I'm proud of the way we're growing on the offensive end," Pacers coach Frank Vogel said. "Still a few too many turnovers, but we've made a commitment to the extra pass. When the ball is moving, we're too many weapons to be as poorly efficient as we have been."
NOTES: It was Indiana's first regular-season home win over Chicago since March 18, 2011. ... The Bulls are 6-20 all-time at Bankers Life Fieldhouse. ... Bulls guard Marquis Teague finished with two points in his first pro appearance in his hometown. ... The Bulls lost for only the third time in nine games.
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The great majority of cabbage aphids are peace-loving. To aphids, ladybugs are infidels. And what's the greatest way to stop an infidel? A suicide bomb of course! In order to stave off their ladybug enemies, cabbage aphids strike back with internally produced, mustard oil bombs. The mustard oil–emitted in a single, deadly burst–either disables or…


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We are getting closer to the last stop of myDetour5X5, a journey started in 2009 in Italy: 5 cities, Milan, Florence, Parma, Rome, Naples, 5 notebooks selected by the Jury in each city among those donated by the local creative community, to be showcased in the next stop. 5x5= 25. All 25 selected notebooks now travel to the final destination, Dakar.
You can have a preview of all notebooks on our online permanent gallery.
It will be a mobile exhibition, crusing through the streets of Dakar on a car rapide, a urban mini-bus very common in the Senegalese capital city. The 25 decorated notebooks will be placed on the car rapide together with an interactive system that allows the public to digitally flick through them, using the open source Arduino technology. This is a side event of the 9th Dak'Art, the Biennale of African Contemporary Art, a unique spot in the contemporary art world, viewed with increasing interest by curators and art collectors worldwide.
The exterior of the car rapide is decorated by Senegalese artist Henri Sagna. The car rapide installation is designed by Zetalab.
The whole myDetour5x5 project is narrated in a new Moleskine collectable set, soon to be sold online through moleskine.it and in laFeltrinelli bookshops in Italy. 1 euro for each copy sold will be donated to the Kër-Thiossane association in Dakar, promoting art, digital culture and access to information in Africa.
Kër-Thiossane partners with lettera27, a non-profit foundation born in July 2006 supporting education and access to knowledge in Africa. All myDetour notebboks are donated to lettera27 by its authors.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks drifted lower Thursday, but the Standard & Poor's 500 still logged its best January since 1997.
The Standard and Poor's 500 fell 4 points to 1,498, gaining 5.1 percent for the month. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 50 points to 13,860. It's up 5.8 percent this month.
The Nasdaq composite fell a fraction to 3,142. It's up 4.1 percent this month.
Stocks got a small lift early Thursday from a report on business activity in the Chicago area before drifting lower. The Chicago Business Barometer for January came in at 55.6, a higher reading than analysts had forecast. Readings above 50 indicate that economic activity is expanding.
Advancing stocks on the New York Stock Exchange outpaced declining ones. Volume of 3.9 billion shares was above average.


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Opinion: Faith
Close to Benedict at the Basilica
9:30 pm. I'm beat and a more than a bit sunburned after a day spent in hot pursuit of the popemobile through Washington D.C. This afternoon I was on the campus of Catholic University, where Pope Benedict arrived at around 5:30 to attend Vespers and address the US Catholic bishops in the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.… READ MORE >
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How the Media is Missing the Pope's Radical Critique of American Religion
I sometimes think that Catholic theology operates on a super high frequency that just doesn't register on some people's hearing. That's the conclusion I came to when I read veteran NY Times Vatican-beat reporter Alessandra Stanley's summing up of the papal visit so far. Comparing it to Prince Charles' second wedding to Camilla Parker… READ MORE >
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DOVER — Once inside their Dover home, you might guess, correctly, from their collections of paintings and photos the DeColfmackers love the sea, the Seacoast and all things family. Their cushiony white sofas have miraculously survived visits from their five grandchildren and warmly welcomed guests to stay a while. Smiles are easy and often as Bob and Tricia DeColfmacker reminisced about their Wentworth-Douglass Hospital (WDH) connections and why they donated $25,000 to name a conference room in the hospital's new Garrison Wing.
"Well, it's a lot of things," Bob said. "This hospital is near and dear to our hearts. Tricia began her nursing career at the Hospital and I've served on the Board (of Trustees) for many years and continue as an emeritus trustee now."
As their conversation continued, Bob and Tricia spoke fondly of their work at and for the Hospital, their love of travel and the amazing students at The Landing School in Arundel, Maine, where Bob currently serves as President and chief enthusiast for its marine-centric curriculum. The DeColfmackers also praised the Garrison City's achievements over the years and the Hospital's support of a growing community and families in need.
"We've seen this community and the Hospital grow and thrive over time." Bob explained. "We were very pleased to see the focus on education in the Conference Center and the well-designed physical space for patients in the new Garrison Wing. This Hospital is one of the most important aspects of our lives, our health, our children's and our grandchildren's lives. It's the center of our community, a key economic driver in our economy and it provides quality jobs for so many people."
In her early nursing career, Tricia worked at Wentworth-Douglass Hospital on Dunaway 2 and Pediatrics then spent five years in Emergency before beginning her 30-year career as a visiting nurse. During Bob's 15-year presidency at McIntosh College he also served on WDH's board of trustees and was Chairman from 1992 to 2004 and was Chairman for two years. Prior to moving on in his career, Bob's vision and guidance were instrumental in the development of the Wentworth-Douglass Hospital & Health Foundation in 2004. The DeColfmackers were one of the lead donors and since that time the Foundation has raised over $8 million to support programs and services to benefit patients living throughout the Seacoast of New Hampshire and Southern Maine.


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Have you ever wondered how some Facebook pages show specific content or offers only to fans? If so, look no further.
(Important Update: Facebook no longer supports FBML. Please refer to the articles on Facebook iFrame.) One of the most popular FBML tags is fb:visible-to-connection. A favorite of marketers, this FBML tag allows a Facebook page to show different content to fans and non-fans. When a non-fan clicks the Like button – viola! – the non-fan content disappears and the fans-only content replaces it. As a method of motivating a visitor to become a fan of your page, this can be very effective.
This FBML tag is often—and erroneously—referred to as a "hack"; however, it was created by Facebook to do exactly what it does: "to display the content inside the tag on a user's or a Facebook page's profile only if the viewer is a friend of that user or is a fan of that Facebook page."


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Ivy Leaf Geraniums are botanically known as Pelargonium peltatum. They will grow happily in well drained soil in full sun or a little shade and have minimum water requirements They will trail or climb with a little assistance and will meander up through other shrubs with out smothering or strangling them. Available in many shades of pink, red, white and apricot tones. They will flower repeatedly through the warmer months from spring and summer.
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Simone Walsh is an Irish artists based in Wexford, Ireland. Having graduated from the School of Art & Design in Mountjoy Square, Dublin, Simone enjoyed a successful career in illustration and graphic design in both Ireland and New Zealand where she lived during the 1990s. The quality of light in the southern hemisphere provided Simone with inspiration to pursue her professional career in painting. She has developed her own individual style and technique that truly captures the vibrancy and transparency of colour. Using acrylic paint and glazes, her work has an unique three dimensional quality and her use of relief gold paint adds detail, depth and texture to her work. Due to the mix of mediums, Simone's original paintings can be enjoyed in bright light without fading.
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Breast Pump Order: Medela is planning to ship the requested breast pumps on September 19, 2012. Please remember that the following procedure must be followed in order to verify receipt of shipment for payment and to send the required WIC tags.
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Small Cool Kitchens 2013: Announcing Our 10 Semi-Finalists!
The votes are in! You've voted on your favorite Small Cool Kitchens entries, and the top five in each of the Rent/Own categories have been tallied. Here are all ten of our semi-finalists — lovely and chic! Take a look...
- Kristin & Brian's Wonderful White Kitchen
- Sarah's Neutral Salvaged Wood Kitchen
- James' Tech-Friendly Oak Kitchen
- Lauren's Clean and Simple Kitchen
- Stacy's Light & Bright View of the Garden
- Jill's Bright and Cozy Little Kitchen
- Jillian's Architectural Details
- Alli's Plants-and-Pictures Kitchen
- Jennifer's Full-Service NYC Kitchen
- Katie's Little Workhorse of a Kitchen
Congratulations to all the semi-finalists! We're shipping these entries off to our three judges (we'll introduce them to you this week). Next week they'll give us their top four entries, and then you'll vote on the grand prize winner!