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Sunday, August 30, 2009
Getting ready games
I don't remember who coined the term, but it fits. These are the games one engages in whilst getting ready for the main event. Fly fisherman tie flies, bow hunters practice their shot, bird hunters shoot clays. We all have our things. My father is home right now making his own bullets in preparation for elk.
Falconry, of course, had its own games. Some would consider trapping one of those. I do not, I think trapping is an art all unto itself. So, what would an ancient art like falconry need to get ready.
Most of it involves making the supplies necessary to be prepared for the season. I am no artist when it comes to falconry supplies. There are many who are. My equipment is serviceable and that is about all. But I know what works for me.
Tonight I made some Jesses. These are the thin strips of leather that attach to the anklets on the hawk. These are large, as Andrew is hoping to possibly get a large red tail if the peregrine trapping doesn't work out.
I looked through my supplies and found that much of what I have is old. I need to make some more supplies.
Anyway - Here I took some leather and cut it into strips.
I fold over the edge and then punch a hole in it, then I thread the end back through to create a button.
I punch holes in the end so that I can thread a clip through it, and there I have two completed Jesses.
I need to make a few more sets of these along with the anklets, I could try to make a hood, but that seems silly as I don't use them. (Some people out there are gasping at that, but I've never had the need)
I also need to start thinking about what I need if I trap a merlin. Hmmmm So much to do.
Saturday, August 29, 2009
Trapping Peregrines in Georgia
It's not just in North Carolina. Georgia falconers now have the opportunity to trap first year peregrines on their coast.
With the comeback of the northern peregrine falcon along the East Coast comes the limited return of opportunity for hunters to capture the birds for use in falconry.
"We are restoring a prized opportunity that was taken away from falconers several decades ago," said Jim Ozier, a wildlife program manager with the Georgia Department of Natural Resources. "We believe opportunities for traditional, regulated and sustainable wildlife uses should be permitted and safeguarded when possible."
This week the Georgia Board of Natural Resources approved regulatory changes allowing the capture of no more than five migrating juvenile peregrines along the state's coast this fall.
You can read the rest here.
Lapses in judgementor missed opportunities.
I suppose it happens to everybody. Not too long ago a friend of mine was bow hunting. He'd been watching this deer for quite some time and had been poised for the shot, but the perfect shot never presented itself. So instead, he thought that the shot he had was good enough - even though he knew he was too high, and the angle was wrong. He took it anyway.
It was the deer that suffered. The arrow hit it high on the neck and the deer was off. They trailed it for as long as they could, but the blood trail was minimal. Then they lost it.
They found it two months later, during gun season. It was shot with the arrow still hanging out of its neck. Taking the shot was a lapse in jusdgment.
He could have waited for a better opportunity.
When I discovered that Gonzo's anklets were riding high, I didn't think much of it. I thought that they would work themselves down. No harm, no foul. I hindsight, I should have investigated. Had I, then gonzo would have never suffered that leg injury last month from the abrasions.
Missed opportunity. I should have investigated.
I'm sure every one of you can look back and think of a time that, maybe, you should have thought a situation through more thoroughly before you acted. If you had - maybe you would have done something differently.
Working with animals is full of risk. It starts when you pull that first red tail out of the sky and ends only when you release it again. Risk, risk, risk.
The trick is to minimize it as much as possible. Use telemetry. Fly your birds at the right weight. Pay attention to their outward signs. I'll try and do the same.
Thursday, August 27, 2009
A rare occurance
They are cool.
well I got a call the other night from a friend. They were trying to get a juvenile osprey from near my house to the Carolina Raptor Center. It was a young juvenile that was having a hard time feeding itself and had been losing weight. It needed better accommodations, and it needed to start eating - voluntarily - .
I received the bird last night at the house.
I had never been that close to one of these cool birds. His feet were blue! And he smelled -of fish.
I was to meet Andrew at my school and he was going to take the bird to Raleigh.
This one was a small male, about the size of a red tail, but his keel was sharp, and his wings were much longer than a red tail.
I'm glad that this one is going to get better.
Monday, August 24, 2009
Change in the air
But change is happening. The osprey that have been busy flying back and forth from ocean to nest, laden with their catch, have stopped.
Now the osprey take the time to play, and wheel, and circle. The nests are deserted.
Crows are gathering up into groups, no longer spending time in pairs and threes.
The mornings are darker.
School starts tomorrow and my children are giddy with excitement.
We had our first hurricane.
Bill roiled off of our coast over the last couple of days throwing giant surf our way. The air smelled of debris and decompositions, and salt covered everything.
I could hear the crash of the waves from my house when I walked out of the house in the morning, my coffee cupped in one hand.
Mist hung low over everything, shrouding the trees like the mists of a rainforest.
Birds stayed perched, not flying, just watching.
The waves rolled in, relentlessly pounding against the dunes that protect our little island.
The surfers did their best to take advantage of the situation. They were funny in their excitement. But they weren't the easiest waves to catch.
Notice the two parts of the surfboard.
So now we wait, and we watch the weather channel. I'll be watching for cold fronts moving down, pushing the migrating falcons. I have some paperwork to fill out to get our trapping spot.
It'll be soon.
Saturday, August 22, 2009
The names were drawn by lot
Wild trapped Peregrines are considered by many to be the holy grail of falconry birds, and the time has finally come. Falconers are only allowed a few weeks in the fall to trap these birds, and they all must be trapped on the eastern-most coast. Only three birds can be taken in the entire state, so trapping will have no effect on the wild population. There are myriads of regulations in regards to this particular take.
I will get to be there on the front lines.
We have been planning this trapping trip since last fall. We knew we'd be after merlins this fall, but to be able to take peregrines as well is huge. And.. The first name drawn was Andrew's. You have seen his name on this blog before, and he is the guy who hunts with me most weekends and a picture of his last redtail is on the right side near the bottom. We would have been beach trapping together anyway.
Then I got a call just yesterday from the guy on the other side of the state. He wants some help. He's going to come all the way out here to trap. But he want to try using a bow net on the beach. We usually trap with Dho Ghazzas (nets stretched across the dunes with bait birds behind them). So working with a bownet will be a new expereince for me.
We also have some of the same crew from last year tagging along to witness the event. It should be a lot of fun.
We'll keep you posted as things progress.
Test your skills
Getting ready for migration, I was checking out the Hawk Mountain site. There is a cool Hawk ID quiz on there that you should try.
I missed one.
Check it out and see how you do.
Raptor ID quiz - click here.
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Are you busy the second week of September?
Wildlife rehabilitators and experts from across the Northeast will be showcasing a wide variety of these extraordinary birds of prey at the largest raptor celebration in New England. Eagles, falcons, owls, vultures, and hawks will be featured in live flight demonstrations and educational programs for bird enthusiasts of all ages.Join master falconer Laurie Schumacher from Hamilton, New York, for Talons! A Bird of Prey Experience on September 12 and 13 – Gyr Falcons, European Eagle Owls and American Kestrels are just a few of the raptors featured. Breath-taking free flight demonstrations highlight this program focusing on falconry, raptor biology, and conservation.
This unrelated image came from here.
Read the rest here, and if you are in the area, check it out.
Monday, August 17, 2009
You read this?
Though I can't wait for fall, and my hunting season, the short answer to "was my summer great" is yes.
I'm going to post just a few sample pictures.
Off road Hummer tour outside of Moab
Checking out Arches National Park.
Traci takes pictures.
We rode horses out West. The scenery could not have been more appropriate.
And the view from the hotel was spectacular.
Then we took rafts down the Colorado, through Cataract Canyon. We camped along the edge, and jumped from the cliffs.
In some of the biggest rapids of the trip (Big Drop 2), We flipped our raft and had to swim down the lower part of big drop. It was thrilling, amazing, etc, etc.
Before now the kids had never been west of Pennsylvania. The best part of the trip was seeing the kids experiencing things that they had never imagined before. They knew what we were doing, yet they had no concept of what rafting meant, or class 4 rapids, or what a desert looked like.
even the flight out of the canyon was awesome!
I have tried to explain the trip to others, but you can't explain it to anyone who hasn't been there. Go. If you get the chance - GO!
Friday, August 14, 2009
Does use of tools define humans?
Chimps have been observed using sticks to probe for grubs and ants, and crows have been seen fashioning hooks and probes as well.
So, using tools to manipulate other tools could be considered a higher level of thinking. One article states:
...[U]sing tools to make or retrieve other tools has long been considered a hallmark of human intelligence, and has often been interpreted as evidence of advanced cognitive abilities, such as planning and analogical reasoning.They then go on to state:
Experiments by researchers at Oxford University show that New Caledonian crows in captivity spontaneously used up to three tools in the correct sequence to achieve a goal — a feat never before seen in non-human animals without explicit training.
Five out of seven birds tested figured out how to extract different lengths of sticks from tubes so they could ultimately get one long enough to fish out a morsel of food at the bottom of the deepest tube.
In all, the crows needed three sticks of different lengths to achieve their objective of reaching the food — and four of the five successful birds came up with the sequence needed on the first try.
Raven, a close relative to the crow.
The conclusion? Well, they aren't quite sure, except that these birds are smart, scary smart.
"It seems that there might be something about this family of birds that is a little bit more similar to our own problem-solving abilities," acknowledged Wimpenny. "But obviously much more needs to be done in terms of experiments."Maybe we need to take a closer look at what makes us human.
Hat tip to Terrierman for this one, and you can read the rest here.
Thursday, August 13, 2009
White hawks in New York
Something I have never seen.
Danby seems to have its very own white hawk. After numerous sightings over the years by Sherry Clements, Margie VanDeMark, Asher Hockett and others, I thought it would be interesting to find out more about this lovely bird.Pat Leonard from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology tells me they are aware of the bird, and have identified it as red-tailed hawk that is either albino or leucistic, which means there is a reduced presence of all pigmentation. Dr. John E. Parks, professor of animal science at Cornell, wrote to tell me that he believes this hawk is definitely leucistic. He says the hawk is a long-standing resident of the Danby area,and that there are possibly two more in the Ithaca area.
On a purely selfish note, I kinda want to go trap red tails in upstate New York this fall.
Monday, August 10, 2009
Weight watchers
It is pretty simple really. Like most animals, hawks respond well to food, and training a hawk is mostly about weight control. If you are told that the birds are starved, that is simply misinformation and would be counterproductive to the aim of falconry.
Falconry is an active sport. The main goal is to have the bird catch prey. An underweight bird cannot fly at its strongest.
When I was in high school I was a wrestler. We had to occasionally cut weight for a match. there were always those who tried to cut too much weight in too short of a time, and their performance suffered. The aim in wrestling is to be at a weight where the athletes strength is maximized with as little excess body fat as possible. You want a wrestler to be lean and strong, just like most athletes.
Hawks are the same way. You want the bird to be strong and lean. Just like a runner never does as well when he feels fat and lethargic, the hawks are the same. They need to be motivated to get of the perch and move.
Over the summer, the hawks gain weight and grow their new feathers. Yesterday, I noticed that Gonzo's anklet was riding high, and on closer inspection, I realized that it was rubbing his leg funny, requiring a bit of doctoring.
We brought him in the kitchen and sanitized the raw spot. I'm putting on a small dose of Betryl to make sure the raw spot doesn't get infected. It should heal just fine.
While I had him out I weighed him. He's at 760 grams. He will start hunting this season at around 630 grams. In about a week, I'm going to start trimming his weight by dropping a bit of his daily food ration and weighing him regularly. With the temperatures still being hot, he will lose weight very slowly, but that is the right way to drop weight.
Additionally, I need to start bringing the birds together with Gordon, hopefully, they will mesh into a great hunting team. I'll keep you posted.
Saturday, August 8, 2009
Horse groomer injures hawk with slingshot
SARATOGA SPRINGS — A horse groomer has paid a $250 fine for illegally shooting and injuring a red-tailed hawk with a slingshot last month at Saratoga Race Course.
The groomer, Carlos O. Aguilar, 28, of Guatemala, was arrested by the state Department of Environmental Conservation after an investigation of the bird's injury at the track on July 18, the EC said in a news release.
A rock fired from a slingshot hit the bird, breaking one of its wings, the DEC said. The bird was located and captured by a wildlife rehabilitator.
Read the rest here.
Friday, August 7, 2009
Bird fix
Instead, I involve myself in the lives of other birds. I do this by checking out the myriad of web cams posted throughout the world. I often will put the live cams up on the big screen at school for the kids to watch during the school day in the spring. for many, this may be as close to wild interaction that they will get.
There are a few cams that are still operational at this late date as it seems some falcons are still hanging around the nest. Check out the Richmond falcon cam.
Here is another great site that has listings for all kinds of birds all over the world. Again, it's late in the season, but you may want to bookmark for next spring.
Rochester falcon cam.
New York Kestrel cam
Thursday, August 6, 2009
A Casual Drive
Many of the animals may be common in Colorado, but I hadn't seen them myself before. So for many of you they may be common, but for me it was a thrill.
I have never seen a magpie before. They are a member of the crow family and reputed to be just as intelligent and man are they good looking. I am sure that there are those out there who can share horror stories about these birds as apparently, they are fearless.
Here we see a mule deer, a marmot, and a pika. I never thought I would actually see a pika (not my pic).
I tried to get pictures of some of the more exotic (read "ones I don't often see") species, but I couldn't get them all. I was also amazed at how close I could get to almost all of them. I don't have much zoom on my little point and shoot, so any pictures I get are amazing.
This is a ground squirrel, here is a young elk buck, and of course a chipmunk (not my pic), which we don't have on the Outer Banks.
I took the drive with my father, who is an avid gun hunter. His major trip every year is to go to Wyoming to hunt elk, so seeing so many was a huge thrill for him and got his adrenaline pumping. He can't wait for the season to open now.
Impressive, no? I could have hit them with a rock.
And there was more, all in a short, 2 hour drive around the park.
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
What is at the center of the Solar System?
Probing a more universal measure of knowledge, Gallup also asked the following basic science question, which has been used to indicate the level of public knowledge in two European countries in recent years: "As far as you know, does the earth revolve around the sun or does the sun revolve around the earth?" In the new poll, about four out of five Americans (79%) correctly respond that the earth revolves around the sun, while 18% say it is the other way around. These results are comparable to those found in Germany when a similar question was asked there in 1996; in response to that poll, 74% of Germans gave the correct answer, while 16% thought the sun revolved around the earth, and 10% said they didn't know. When the question was asked in Great Britain that same year, 67% answered correctly, 19% answered incorrectly, and 14% didn't know.
This is astounding to me. read the rest of the article here. And a hat tip to Cool Green Science for the link.
The Rocky mountains, like the canyons around Utah, are indescribable. No picture can really convey the grandeur and beauty of either place. My kids have gotten the opportunity to expand their horizons, exponentially. What a great time.
But back to marmots.
Rocky Mountain website says:
The largest and stockiest of local squirrels is the yellow-bellied marmot. They can vary in length between 19 and 26 inches and can be identified by the dark head with a yellowish band across the bridge of the nose. Marmots can be found on the rocky subalpine slopes which are close to sources of grassy or herbaceous vegetation where they excavate networks of burrows to protect them from the freezing temperatures.
I've never seen one. There were lots of wildlife in the Rockies I had never seen and my total raptor count for the two days I was there was:
2 - peregrines
2- red tails
1 - prairie falcon (arguably)
Not a great tally, but it gave me something to look at in the sky, nonetheless.
But when we drove up into the Rocky Mountain National Park, there were marmots everywhere! On the hills, on the road, on the rocks, everywhere!. Now, I hunt for groundhogs occasionally with my dogs, but we always have a bit of a search to find them. Marmots, a close relative to the groundhog, were prolific! And I hate to say it - they were cute.
We came across a mother and her babies cavorting on the side of the road, and they showed no fear of cars or humans (as we got out to photograph). Terrierman might want to take a road trip - though the ground is ridiculously rocky.
I have read that the marmot is a prey item to hawks and eagles. I believe it would be to big for most hawks, though the young would be a good size. The hide would be tough to break into, and I wonder if it would be worth the trouble?


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Dry Bones Proposes Building Freeze in Occupied Mexico?
The scary party about this proposal from Dry Bones is that the Obama Administration might actually adopt it, as a gesture of apology for past ill treatment of Mexico by the United States.
Actually, Mexico has a much stronger case than the Palestinians for a return of occupied territory. The United States seized Texas, New Mexico and Arizona (as well as much of California) from an independent sovereign Mexico that lawfully obtained those territories when Mexico gained its independence from Spain. The United States obtained those lands in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, imposed on Mexico after a frankly imperialist war of aggression launched by the U.S. with the patent objective of territorial expansion ("Manifest Destiny").
In contrast, there never was an independent, sovereign Palestine. No sovereign Arab state ever lawfully possessed any portion of the land of Israel. After Great Britain conquered Palestine from the Turkish Empire at the end of World War I, the League of Nations awarded Britain a mandate over Palestine (comprising what is now all of the internationally recognized State of Israel, the Kingdom of Jordan, Judea and Samaria [the so-called "West Bank"] and Gaza) for the express purpose of creating a national homeland for the Jewish people. Nothing in the League of Nations mandate suggests that any portion of the mandate territory was to become a Palestinian Arab State.
In a blatant violation of the mandate, Great Britain then carved out some 80% of the territory covered by the Palestinian mandate to create a client state, the Hashemite Kingdom of Transjordan (later called Jordan). When Israel declared its independence in 1948, it was promptly invaded by Transjordan (led by the Arab Legion, commanded by British officers) and Egypt, as well as by Lebanese, Syrian and Iraqi forces. Transjordan occupied Judea, Samaria and the eastern half of Jerusalem, including the Jewish Quarter of the Old City, whose residents it expelled. Transjordan renamed itself Jordan after that conquest and annexation, which no nation of the world, Arab or non-Arab, recognized as legal. The ceasefire left Gaza occupied by Egypt. The 1949 ceasefire lines, and under international law they are nothing more than ceasefire lines, are the so-called 1967 borders to which the world now demands Israel return.
Israel conquered Judea and Samaria and unified Jerusalem as the result of its victory in the June 1967 Six-Day War. (It also conquered Gaza, from which it has since withdrawn.) Unlike the Mexican War, the Six-Day War was a defensive war that Israel did not seek but was compelled to wage when its existence was again threatened by Syrian, Egyptian and Jordanian armies massing on its borders and by the Egyptian blockade against Israeli shipping in the Red Sea. (Those who accuse Israel of attacking first in 1967 blithely ignore that a blockade is considered an act of war, and that Syria and Egypt massed troops on Israel's borders, expressly stating that their goal was the extinction of the Jewish State.) Under the terms of the League of Nations mandate for Palestine, and because Israel conquered those lands in a defensive war against a nation--Jordan--that unlawfully occupied them, Israel's possession of those territories is completely legal, despite continuous claims that Israel's occupancy violates international law. Those territories are in no sense occupied Arab land. Unfortunately, norms of international law are dictated by politics.
So if any nation should declare a building moratorium in its occupied territories, it is the United States. But, Mr. President, please don't take me up on the idea.

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NEW YORK — John McCain got it wrong Friday when he asserted that his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, had not requested any earmarks, the spending directives lawmakers insert in spending bills that McCain has vowed to eliminate.
Palin, in fact, requested $198 million in federal earmarks in February, including such expenses as $487,000 to fight obesity in Alaska and $4 million to develop recreational trails.
By day's end, the McCain campaign backed down from the claim the GOP presidential candidate made on the ABC television show "The View."
"Sen. McCain was in the throes of a discussion about her record of reforming government, which includes drastic cuts in wasteful spending in the Alaska state budget," said McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds. "If he gave viewers a mistaken impression, it certainly wasn't intentional or without some basis in fact."


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Looking over the posts on the blog and a few e-mails I realized that some comments about the configuration file might be helpful.
The configuration system is in flux and has grown rapidly and organically, particularly over the last nine months. Oracc software can access the configuration file, config.xml, via several interfaces, and some of the programs ignore options that don´t apply to them while others complain about misunderstood or illegal options.
In general, if you see an error message about a configuration option, just check that you haven´t mistyped an option or value name. Otherwise, leave suspicious options in the config.xml because some program or other may be secretly using them.
If you change 00lib/config.xml you need to use at least:
oracc config
To update the installed version. You may need to do:
oracc web
Or even:
oracc rebuild
Before you see the effects of your changes.
After the remaining to-do list items are dealt with, the configuration system will get a complete review. Some things that cannot be configured in config.xml will be added (like the buttons SAAo uses); others will be documented; others will be rationalized as there are a few places where multiple options do very similar things.
I am also hoping (expecting, even) to create a web interface with an easy form for managing config.xml that has the documentation built in to it and drop-downs with the valid option values etc.
So, this pain with config.xml is transient. I am expecting to have the new configuration system in place by the end of September.


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The stunning election of Donald Trump is certainly one of the greatest upsets in modern global politics. The nation has been divided by a bitter and highly controversial election campaign, and his opponents have already made it clear that they are not going to go down without a fight. The United States has woken up this morning to a country fraught with emotion and anger, and protestors are now taking to the streets to violently express their frustration at the election result. RIOTS BREAK OUT FOLLOWING TRUMP VICTORY Reports are coming in across the country about the break out of small but serious rioting incidents. In Oakland, more than a hundred protestors gathered in the early hours of the morning and attempted to block the freeways. Even when the protestors was hit by a car, they refused to abandon their sit in. Instead, the violence escalated with some cars being set on fire and the windows of others were broken. Eventually, the emergency services had to close down the highway to deal with the incident. Further reports have also hit the newswires speaking of civil unrest. A Trump supporters' victory party in San Francisco was spectacularly and chillingly interrupted by groups of protestors wearing masks. In Berkeley, California a mob apparently took the streets chanting 'not my president' in response to the election of Trump. Supporters of the unsuccessful Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton were caught on camera marching through the streets of Portland in Oregon. The footage contains images of protestors shouting 'f*** Donald Trump, president elect' and it has been claimed that one protestor set fire to an American flag. Other protests are said to have broken out in San Diego and San Jose. The civil discontent at Donald Trump's elevation to the role of president has not been confined to the United States. Later today, anti-racism protestors in London plan to stage a demonstration outside the United States Embassy in protest of the president-elect. Hillary Clinton supporters were also filmed marching through Portland in Oregon shouting 'f*** Donald Trump' and setting fire to the US flag. This article ('F**k Trump': Trump win sparks riots across US as crowds burn American flag) is free and open source. You have permission to republish this article under a Creative Commons license with full attribution and a link to the original source on Disclose.tv
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BREAKING: Mass Shooting At Anti-Trump Protest in Seattle
Five people were shot in downtown Seattle Wednesday night.Gunshots were reported shortly before p.m. at Third Avenue between Pike and Pine streets.Two of the five people who were shot have life-threatening injuries, the Seattle Fire Department said around 7:15 p.m.An anti-Trump rally, which started at Westlake Mall, turned into a march and was proceeding down nearby streets at the time of the shootings, according to witnesses.
Seattle Asst. Chief says that a lone suspect was in a crowd near or watching the anti-Trump protests, when an argument of some sort developed. One of the people in the argument stepped away, fired back into the crowd at the person or people with whom he was arguing.
At least some of the wounded are believed to be innocent bystanders waiting for a bus. Only one man is seriously injured. The four other injuries are believed to be to the lower extremities.
Authorities were on the scene within 60 seconds, as police and EMS were staged just down the street due to the protests.
The suspect is still at large.
Check back often and refresh the page. We'll update as more info develops.
Anti-Trump Protesters Fill the Streets Nationwide
November 10, 2016
Photo Credit: New York Magazine / Twitter
In 15 different American cities Wednesday, enraged voters marched, chanted and blocked major highways in response to Donald Trump's surprising election victory. From Los Angeles to New York, Indianapolis to Miami, citizens' signs drew attention to Trump's countless offenses, which would have barred any normal politician from the highest office. Even red-state cities saw protests, including Atlanta, Dallas and Kansas City, Missouri.
Protesters took to the streets condemning the "whitelash" of the majority of caucasian Americans voting for a xenophobic, racist, sexist bully who began his campaign by calling Mexicans "rapists" and proclaiming, "The American dream is dead."
In Trump's home city of New York, protesters were particularly vehement, starting at Union Square and marching to Trump Tower. Thousands of ordinary citizens opposed to Trump's anti-immigrant rhetoric and sexist behavior and statements, among other issues, were joined by not a few celebrities. The actor Mark Ruffalo was spotted, but refrained from including curse words in his chants since he had brought his young daughter along.
Documentary filmmaker Michael Moore attended the rally, and told the Huffington Post that the protests must go on and on. "We had all those big protests before the Iraq war and once the war started, everyone stopped protesting," Moore said. "This time, we keep it up and we don't stop till he's out of there."
According to the Washington Post, "In Oakland, Calif., two police officers were injured and two patrol cars burned as thousands of protesters took to the streets and chanted slogans against Trump, a police spokeswoman said. A few protesters threw objects at police dressed in riot gear, smashed windows and started small fires in the downtown area."
Protesters shut down California's Interstate 101 for a time and called for their state to secede, a movement now known as "Cal-exit." Many of the demonstrators in Los Angeles who showed up were Latino, responding to Trump's racist vitriol against immigrants.
It's worth noting that Hillary Clinton won the popular vote. And while Trump earned a significant portion of the millennial vote of 18- to 29-year-olds (37 percent), Clinton's 55 percent of that demographic would have delivered her a landslide win.
Ironically, after Tuesday night's results rolled in, "Make America Great Again" took on a whole new meaning. These anti-Trump protests in the wake of the election could signify a raucous beginning of a long wave of social action during a Trump administration.


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The Pride of Marysville Neighborhood Improvement Awards recognize neighbors and businesses who take pride in their property in ways that enhance the appearance of the community. The awards are intended to inspire other neighbors to improve their homes and landscapes. Business owners are recognized for the "curb appeal" of their business facade and location.
A well-kept home, neighborhood and business says that residents take pride in their community. With pride comes value, beauty and a great image for our city.
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Award winners are drawn from a pool of nominees selected by the community through an nomination process. A committee consisting of a City Council member, business community representative, Parks and Recreation representative and two citizens selected at large is responsible for selecting the winners across categories. The Mayor names his winning selection from the same pool for those candidates eligible.
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Type: Intermittent individual volunteers
Dates: June to October
Status: Now recruiting
Quick summary: Throughout the park, historic rock walls were built by WPA crews in the 1920s to line roads, trails, and viewpoints. Many of these are now crumbling, as the mortar that held them together is chipped away by roots, moss, and cycles of freezing and thawing. With the help of this summer's Maintenance Volunteer Coordinator, a team of individuals will be trained to stabilize these walls along the Westside Road, to buy time until they can be fully restored by Park Service stone masons.
For more information: Carpenter Mitch Anderson, 360-569-2211 ext. 3347
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Friday, January 28, 2000
Historic Landscape Restoration Team
Type: Intermittent individual volunteers
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A statement from Hackers Uganda:
We have tried to keep all our operations on the low as much as possible but the corruption and impunity shown by our leaders is forcing us to take a stand for our land and ….our future….
We will continue to expose the corrupt elements in the system and also provide proof to society that they will use to hold the corrupt elements in the courts of law.We ask for legal assistance from the Uganda Law Society and hope we can win the fight against corrupt in our land.
UIA….tell the investors to honor the land and the people while carrying out their activities because as you know we live in global village and technology can allows us to reach them…protect the people…protect the land!


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Here are my cards using the set:
|Love this color combo: Honey & Outdoor Denim!
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The July Stamp of the Month is available for purchase from July 1-31st only! You can get it for only $5 with any order of $50 or more or at full price at $17.95. ORDER HERE or on your consultant's website! Please feel free to leave a comment and then hop on over to see what Shirley Ross made with this set too! Thanks for hopping! Pin It


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Today my guest is editor Brittiany Koren. I had the pleasure of working with her when she was assigned as my editor for my first two Blackthorne, Inc. novels. In addition to editing for Tekno Books, she collaborated on five anthologies for DAW Books. She also created the White House Gardener series with author, Dorothy St. James, for Berkley Prime Crime. She recently started her own editorial business, Written Dreams.
And a brief update--Brittiany emailed me last night apologizing that her work schedule changed, and she won't be near her computer as often as she'd like today. But she's looking forward to reading and responding to your comments--it'll just be much later in the day than she'd hoped.
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Omega J8006 Nutrition Center Juicer - Black and Chrome description
The Omega J8006 Nutrition Center is a masticating style juicer. Sometimes referred to as a low speed juicer, the Nutrition Center processes at 80rpm, whereas most other juicers process at a speed of 1,650 to 15,000rpm. The low speed protects and maintains healthy enzymes, prevents oxidation and allows juice to be stored up to 72 hours without degradation. The GE Ultem Auger is 8x stronger than most other plastics and the powerful gear reduction is equivalent to a 2HP Motor. The dual stage juice processing system extracts the maximum amount of juice from fruits, vegetables, leafy greens, even wheatgrass! You can also use the nutrition center to turn nuts into nut butters (an all-natural peanut butter), make baby food from natural, fresh ingredients, whip up soy milk, extrude pasta, grind coffee and spices, and mince herbs and garlic. Make delicious and nutritious drinks and snacks that everyone will love. Measuring 7in wide, 15.5in deep and 8.5in tall.
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Omega J8006 Nutrition Center Juicer - Black and Chrome features
- Easy-to-use masticating juicer with powerful motor
- Low speed of 80 RPMs; no foaming, clogging, or heat build-up with 110 volt
- High juice yield; auto pulp-ejection function for continuous juicing
- Dual-stage juicing system; quiet operation; UL- and cUL-approved
- Measures 14-1/2 by 6-1/2 by 15-1/2 inches; 15-year warranty


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Webinars on Demand
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There is a reason and a flow to how Microsoft designed the CRM user interface, and there is a specific user experience planned in the design. In this webinar, we'll examine this design and talk about how to best take advantage of the native features.
For administrators, we'll cover how to think through your customizations so that the information flows and is easy to consume for end-users. Take away best practices and food for thought that will impact how you customize CRM and how you explain it to users during training.


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Ford falls despite beat, AMD eyes fresh high, Scripps takeover talk ramps up
Here's a look at some of the stocks the Yahoo Finance team will be watching for you today.
Ford (F) shares were lower in early trading even though the automaker raised its profit outlook for the year and delivered better-than-expected earnings and revenue for the second quarter. Ford benefitted from a lower tax rate and strong demand for its pick-up trucks. On Tuesday, rival General Motors (GM) reported mixed results.
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) shares are flirting with a new high. Analysts are lining up to raise their price target on the stock after the chip maker surprised Wall Street by swinging to a profit last quarter. Revenue also beat expectations jumping more than 18% from a year ago. AMD also gave an upbeat outlook for the current quarter and the year as it expects demand for its graphics chips to remain strong.
Investors still skeptical about buying shares of Chipotle (CMG). The stock opened higher but then quickly reversed course. The stock had a rough time last week following reports of people getting sick at one of its restaurants in Virginia. The Mexican food chain said on its earnings call Tuesday that a sick employee came to work and caused the norovirus outbreak at that location, easing concerns that the outbreak was a larger, supply chain issue. This as Chipotle delivered a beat on earnings, which more than doubled from a year ago. Revenue also rose on cost cutting, but still slightly missed estimates.
And more rumbling about potential buyers for Scripps Networks (SNI). The stock rose on Wednesday after Reuters reported that Viacom (VIAB) is considering making an all-cash bid of $10.6 billion for the owner of channels such as HGTV and Food Network. This comes after reports last week that Discovery was interested in buying Scripps.


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It's my turn to do Showcase Monday at Scrapbooker's Paradise. Stop by and see how I created this gift box!
I'll even tell you where to find the tutorial to make these darling bows! Hint ... Annette Green. :)
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As much as we (obviously) love 2000 AD, the one place where it constantly needs improvement is bringing in female creators, writers, and artists, and developing stronger female protagonists. A big part of that development, for me, is building a world around that character and her situation, rather than other, earlier, male characters. That's why spinoffs don't quite count with me. As much as I liked Samantha Slade, she was operating in the shadow of her grandfather, your old pal Sam. Rafe and Venus Bluegenes both have Rogue Trooper's DNA. Judges Anderson, Hershey, Karyn, and even Aimee Nixon are all policing the same streets as Joe Dredd.
Judge Nixon almost qualifies for me because she's so radically different from Dredd, and in the Low Life adventure "Hostile Takeover," she has one humdinger of a character turn. We'll come back to that in the next chapter, but it's worth noting that in the beginning of this story by Rob Williams and D'Israeli, she's the centerpiece of one of the period's very best cliffhangers. Racing down the mean streets of Mega-City One with the indefatigable Judge Dirty Frank in tow, she comes across a biker in a suit of samurai armor. And then another. They're riding very strange bikes, beautifully designed by D'Israeli but which appear really impractical, having just one big tire. Then, ahead of them, there's a single man holding a sword. Dirty Frank seems to take the worst of it, but he's just overreacting to a scratch. Judge Nixon... she doesn't come out well.
Davis-Hunt does a simply amazing job laying out the action sequences, but he still has one little artistic hiccup that drives me nuts and, at this point, hasn't seen much improvement from his debut with Stalag 666, and that's his depiction of people running. I can't spell out exactly what's wrong, just that the crowd escaping from the London Underground station in episode two seems frozen in place and wearing lead shoes, which is a very strange problem for somebody who also possesses the talent to make a motorcycle appear as though it's about to leap out of the page to have.
Age of the Wolf - I'm so accustomed to writing about the fictional detective Nero Wolfe that I keep typing "wolf" and adding an e - is a modern-day (well, 2016) thriller that sees England beset by werewolves. There has been a full moon for nine days, and a snowy London has almost immediately become a hunting ground for beasts. Rowan can save the world by fulfilling an ancient prophecy and dying, but she isn't willing to go without a fight.
Rowan doesn't get the opportunity to turn matters around and start kicking werewolf ass until the second book of Age of the Wolf in 2012, but she immediately makes an impact as a character who we want to follow. Her fate is cruel and unfair and we want her to strike back against it. This requires her to run, and episodes 2-5 of the first story are a long and mostly brilliant chase scene. People who were not paying attention to the prophecy aspect, and the very heavy undercurrent of Norse mythology, wolves, and endless winter - fair cop, that would totally include me the first time around - would be blindsided by the strange direction the series takes once things calm down for a moment and it looks like Rowan has found a short refuge. We meet some new characters as Rowan's decision to live looks like it's going to damn the world.
I kind of hate myself for missing the very clear telegraphing that this series is about what happens when Midgard is given up to the wolves, but, to be fair and honest, Worley's only real error in laying out this story was introducing it via what looks to be an incredibly skippable and long monologue being read by a radio broadcaster to the silent halls of a museum. Often in the comic medium, a writer's intention can be subverted by the way that readers absorb comics, and the way that the editors and publishers promote them. This is not, despite all evidence, an action story about a girl on a motorbike fighting werewolves in familiar London, but when, for a solid month, that's what we read, it's a little tough to turn over the coin and tell readers that what they've read is just the scene one hook, not without resentment and confusion. So no, I don't think that Book One of Age of the Wolf went over very well with readers in the end; there was lots of grumbling about the witches and the prophecies and how the heck did this urban thriller transform into ponderous Norse mumbo-jumbo, but it reveals more on each reread. Book Two, which appeared in 2012, was more successful - there is a hell of a blind twist in that one - and I believe that the third and final book is due in September of this year. I'm looking forward to it!
We'll take another short break here to accommodate my being behind on another project and then going out of town. Thrillpowered Thursday will resume on the 20th with more about Defoe and what happens to Nixon and Frank next. See you then! In the meantime, if you enjoy this blog, please tell a friend or something. Share on Facebook or Twitter, or send the link to somebody who should read it. Or everybody who should read it for that matter! Even Google Plus would be a help.


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The recent Independent Film Channel screening of MANIAC was the kind of weird unexpected viewing opportunity that is the reason digital cable exists. Released in 1980, MANIAC was arguably the most controversial of the post-HALLOWEEN slasher movies, released unrated in the US, banned in some countries, cut in others. And while critics in general threw an amusing fit of moral outrage over the popularity of the subgenre as a whole (though, in fairness, as critics they were ordered to see an unhealthy fraction of them), it's easier to see why they got upset about this one as opposed to, say, FRIDAY THE 13th PART 3.
Joe Spinell (a character actor who appeared in both the first two GODFATHER and ROCKY movies, and who wrote the story and co-wrote the screenplay with C. A. Rosenberg) plays Frank Zito, a psychopathic serial killer who kills young women (and occasionally men) in the New York area, keeping scalps and occasional bits of clothing and using them to dress mannequins he keeps in his hovel. Between murders he talks to his dead mother and himself, the murderous side continually bullying the guilty child. As a normal man he meets and begins dating Anna (Caroline Munro), a fashion photographer. That doesn't go so well, as one might imagine.
A number of elements combine to make this one of the more uncomfortably sleazy entries in an already not very respectable genre. The story is told almost entirely from Frank's point of view, and Spinnel portrays him in a way that engenders some sympathy. In this way it's reminiscent of PEEPING TOM, especially the romantic subplot, but the killings are more gruesome and even more sexualized, which makes our identification with Frank even more uncomfortable. The gore in this film, orchestrated by makeup guru Tom Savini (who also has a small role as "Disco Boy"), is fairly intense. Finally, there's a level of gritty, grimy realism here that's not present in the average slasher film (the pictures generally being more outlandish, gimmicky affairs.) It was shot almost entirely on location in New York at the height of its "great place to visit for about an hour or so" status, and the media panic as the killer keeps striking almost at random makes me wonder if the writers didn't take a page from the Son of Sam rampage. Particularly striking is a chase that takes place at a subway station in the dead of night, walls decked with graffiti and gates rusted and creaking. All of which combines to make this not a near-supernatural fantasy about an unstoppable killer terrorizing psuedo-teenagers, but an ugly little thriller about a sick man who cuts up women. It's strong stuff in some ways.
Which, unfortunately, is not to say it's good. In the end it fumbles. The climactic scenes are rushed, devolving into a silly chase and some final ludicrousness that, though a hallucination, seems to exist only because someone demanded a "horror movie" ending. The last shot is the kind of cheap, stupid ending that the slasher flick is known for. In some ways it's a relief because it makes the whole film easier to shrug off- it leaves the uncomfortable realm of authentic horror for the familiar and safe conventions. That said, I think more of this film in retrospect than I did immediately after seeing it. It stays with you.
Grade: C
Fortunately, no such inner conflicts are elicited by ZOMBI 3, the rented DVD with which I decided to round out the evening. It's just plain awful- the worst zombie film I've ever seen, and I've seen ZOMBIE LAKE. This is the film that has a flying skull, zombie birds, leaping kung-fu zombies and a helicopter chase and manages to screw up all of these things. It's the kind of film you can't even recommend to fans of the genre, and I AM a fan of the genre. As a kid I was terrified by zombies, as an adult I consider them a selling point. Just as Leslie Nielsen is funny enough that he now appears mostly in films which have no laughs and rely on his presence to make them seem funny, zombies often appear in movies which have no merit other than having zombies in them, because zombies sell. I'd say something about casting pearls before swine, but I'm giving this movie a detailed review, so who am I to talk?
So, okay. A terrorist or saboteur or something (seriously, who knows?) steals a container of "Death One", an unsubtly named biowarfare agent, from a U.S. (possibly) weapons lab. In the pursuit a gunman shoots open the container, which dribbles its toxic contents on the spy, who instead of seeking medical attention checks into a hotel. There he drinks a lot of water, turns into a green zombie and kills a maid. The military place the building under quarantine, shoot everyone (offscreen), bury the bodies in a mass grave (offscreen), and burn the zombie (we sort of see this, I think.) The ashes go up into the air, birds drop from the sky and then reanimate, and attack a group of people in an RV as three off-duty soldiers are trying to flirt with them. One woman gets badly bitten and the soldiers and vacationers take her to- not just a hotel, but the same hotel, now overgrown and decaying. Some woman and her idiot boyfriend also stumble across the birds, he gets bitten, she goes to an old abandoned gas station to try and get water (lots of people need water in this movie), and there she's attacked by zombies. Zombies also start attacking the camper/soldier group, a stash of assault weapons is discovered in the hotel (I am not making any of this up, stop looking at me like that,) and meanwhile, the scientists in the research lab (led by a guy who looks a lot like Niles Crane) try to persuade the military to let them find a cure while the military favors a policy of killing every living thing in the contaminated area. By the way, I'm not spoiling anything by saying that the bulk of those scenes could be cut without having any impact on the story whatsoever. Color commentary is provided by "Blue Heart," a DJ who goes on some weird New-Age vaguely rastaesque tangents before reporting mass murders and cannibalism and the like.
The director's credit on this film officially goes to Lucio Fulci, who made the earlier ZOMBIE (aka ZOMBI 2- DAWN OF THE DEAD was called ZOMBI when released in Italy, with these two films promoted as unofficial sequels, a not uncommon practice in the country.) However, he suffered a heart attack and was hospitalized while making the film, and when recovered refused to go back to a project he had no interest in to begin with. Bruno Mattei and co-writer Claudio Fragasso took over, and Fulci's material comprises some fourty or fifty minutes of the completed film. Which is a way of saying that none of it makes any sense (although SUPERMAN II was filmed in much the same way.) Characters make decisions that are stupid even by the standards of horror movie characters, various "shock" effects are given ludicrous setups, and even the zombies themselves are inconsistently portrayed. In most scenes they're your traditional lurching, groaning monsters. In others they can talk, perform acrobatic feats and wield machetes. One character becomes a zombie within an instant of being bitten, others seem to take hours. Gunshots kill them, but then you've got the aforementioned flying skull.
The film making no sense would be forgivable- Italian horror has never been that strong on plot anyhow. But it doesn't even work on a brainless level. The action sequences are horribly staged, spatially incoherent (as in a scene where zombies swarm over one man while a woman stands mere feet away completely unmolested) and laughably cheap. At some points the soldiers obviously just wave their prop guns back and forth, the zombies falling to the ground on cue with nary a squib in sight. At another point a character throws a grenade not at a group of attacking zombies but the shed just behind them. The zombies themselves leap out of the most random "hiding" places imaginable (at one point getting up from under piles of hay) and leap from high poles and trees where they were presumably waiting for prey to wander by. Finally, all the attacks and chases are horribly drawn out, until you reach the point that you realize that yes, the filmmakers have managed to make zombies boring. The characters are forgettable to the last, of course, and the dialogue- well, dubbed movies usually have bad dialogue so I won't belabor that.
There's a lot of gore, none of it terribly shocking. There are maybe a few interesting visuals, as with a scene in an improbably vast lagoon that almost seems to have flooded the hotel surrounding it. There are bits of story that could have worked if any of them had been developed. And there's the last scene, which, while stupid as Hell and a blatant sequel hook, is a blatant sequel hook for a movie that sounds a lot more interesting than the film which just finished. (Needless to say ZOMBI 4, like the others before it, had nothing to do with any prior installments.) What we have here is an exploitation film that fails to deliver even on an exploitation level. There are zombies, and guns, and explosions, and watching this film will make you reconsider your enthusiasm for all of these things.
Grade: D
(P.S. - In case I ever do a multiple-movie post again, anyone know how to make two images appear side by side as opposed to on top of each other?)


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Thank you for the beauty and contentedness that cushions our lives
Thank you for my husband and life partner, who is so good to me
Thank you for our families that are very important to us
Thank you for the dear people directed into our path to be friends
Thank you for our good health that allows us to be strong and active
Thank you for providing so many opportunities to enjoy your world
Thank you for the leisure we have after long work careers
Thank you for your patience in suffering my weaknesses
Life is good
Just one thing…
Dear Lord, please guide my mother to prepare for her surgery by helping her stop smoking. Expect a battle of wills. Please dispatch an angel to keep her under a wing while they shore up her heart. We would love to have her here with us for a while longer. Thank you.
Holy God, Holy Almighty, Holy Immortal, have mercy upon us.


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The sport of MMA got a little less entertaining this weekend after affable UFC light heavyweight Forrest Griffin surprised the community by announcing he'd decided to hang his gloves up for good. The 33-year old hadn't fought in a little over a year, citing continued injury issues as one of the primary reasons behind the move.
"The biggest thing I've learned is that when Dana White says retire, you should retire. Two of my last three fights, I've pulled out due to injury," said Griffin at the UFC post-event press conference. "If you think about it, how many fights can you pull out of before you become an unsecure product?"
As far as what's next for Griffin, he explained his interest in sticking around the sport even if he won't necessarily be competing.
"The UFC does a lot of charity stuff locally and for the troops. I've always said that I'm going to volunteer, but I've always had to train for [a] fight, so I [said I would] do it later. Well, now is later," offered Griffin on his immediate future.
White also confirmed Griffin and Stephan Bonnar would be inducted into the UFC Hall of Fame in July during the Fan Expo attached to UFC 162. As fans undoubtedly remember, Bonnar and Griffin faced off at the original Ultimate Fighter Finale in a tremendous tilt credited for helping launch the UFC's rise to the organization's current status as the global entity.
Griffin walks away from the Octagon with a 19-7 career mark in the ring including a brief stint as divisional king. Among the notable victories notched on his record are those over Quinton Jackson, Mauricio Rua, and Tito Ortiz.


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I don't understand the first thing about his process, but the end result will make your eyes brats (because it's spoiling them). About his paper-cut work, he says:
"I find the materialization of a flat piece of paper into a 3D form as an almost magic process—or maybe one could call it obvious magic, because the process is obvious and the figures still stick to their origin, without the possibility of escaping. In that sense there is also an aspect of something tragic in most of the cuts."
There is a lot worth looking at on his site.
Again, credit geekologie for the discovery.
Monday, March 24, 2008
Peter Callesen :: Paper View
I don't understand the first thing about his process, but the end result will make your eyes brats (because it's spoiling them). About his paper-cut work, he says:
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Saturday, March 08, 2008
Scott Hansen: The 1971 progression
I'm not sure if I have posted him yet. I do know that Breck and I had fun scoping out his photo blog (be sure and check it out, I a linked it at the bottom.) He's an extremely well rounded artist. His illustrations, design work, layout/compositions, and photography are all staggering. He also makes some impressive music, which you can hear while on his site. (Controls are in the bottom left if you want to change tracks.) I'm not sure if I can credit him for his unique and memorable flash portfolio site, but non-the less it deserves mentioning its extremely well done, especially in the aspects of programming and dynamically loading information.
This cats from San Francisco, so maybe Spencer or Breck can go to one of his art/music shows sometime and get the real scoop.
Scott Hansen Portfolio
Scott Hansen Blog
Tycho his music
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Saturday, March 01, 2008
Digital Drawing and Physics
That last drawing/music post reminded me of this.
I found this concept fascinating.
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By Barbara Rogoff
If you read my review of Rogoff's The Cultural Nature of Human Development, you have the gist of this earlier one. The Cultural Nature of Human Development summarized Apprenticeship in Thinking and related research in a popular version. This book is the original, which means that it's less polished but more obviously an academic argument, with appropriate cites and a bit more involved with debates on cognitive development.
Here, Rogoff defines her subject matter:
For the purposes of this book, cognition and thinking are defined broadly as problem solving. I assume that thinking is functional, active, and grounded in goal-directed action. Problem solving involves interpersonal and practical goals, addressed deliberately (not necessarily consciously or rationally). It is purposeful, involving flexible improvisation toward goals as diverse as planning a meal, writing an essay, convincing or entertaining others, exploring the properties of an idea or unfamiliar terrain of objects, or remembering or inferring the location of one's keys. (pp.8-9)But, Rogoff adds, "Problem solving is not 'cold' cognition, but inherently involves emotion, social relations, and social structure" (p.10). Indeed, as in The Cultural Nature of Human Development, Rogoff emphasizes problem solving within the sociohistorical milieu in which people develop and participate. To get there, she relies on work grounded in Vygotsky and Piaget. Reasonably, she reminds us that
my work, like that of anyone else, involves the appropriation of concepts that I have found useful in the works of others. The use that I make of their ideas undoubtedly involves some transformation from the ideas they offered. This is in the nature of dialogue. The transformation is liable to be greater the more distinct the backgrounds of the speaker and listener, or the author and the reader. The refraction of Vygotsky's ideas, like those of Piaget, through a foreign lens - through differences in time and place, language and intellectual climate - contributes to the listener's making something new of the speaker's words, for better or worse. My purpose in this book is not to explain Vygotsky or Piaget or others, but to build from what I make of them. (p.14)This is a nice move, since it lets us get past the issue of fidelity to a theory and pushes us toward Rogoff's observations and inferences. Again, you get the gist of these from my review of The Cultural Nature of Human Development, so I won't repeat them here except to say that you'll quickly see why this book is a classic. If you're a casual reader, I'd read The Cultural Nature of Human Development first; if you're publishing in this area, read Apprenticeship in Thinking.


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How To Build A Peltier Cooling Device
This is a short seven minut explanation on how you can build your own Peltier colling system. This should give you a great idea on how these system keep the materials in your cabinet cool. It shgould also give you some example of the limitations of these sysytems and some best practices.
Troubles associated with peltier air conditioning
Maintain in mind that if the air conditioning of the peltier component neglects (e.g. follower failing or pump failing in situation of watercooling), the outcomes might be much more disasterous that if a typical air conditioning system falls short. Also if your CPU has a thermal defense that will certainly create it to close down if the temperature level obtains expensive, the peltier aspect might still eliminate it by continuouslying warm it up long after it has actually closed itself down.
As stated over, high power use as well as high power dissipation are the most significant troubles associated with peltier air conditioning. In the days of first-generation Pentium CPUs, readymade peltier/heatsink combos were extensively readily available, which might be set up as well as made use of similar to a normal heatsink.
For today's CPUs having a power dissipation of over 100W, developing a Peltier CPU cooler utilizing merely a peltier aspect and also a heatsink is fairly an obstacle, as well as prefabricated peltier colders are pricey as well as limited. For modern-day CPUs, it is much better to incorporate peltier components with watercooling.
An additional issue pertaining to peltier air conditioning is condensation. Given that it is feasible to cool down elements here ambient temperature level utilizing peltier components, condensation could happen, which is something you'll absolutely wish to prevent – water and also electronic devices do not blend well. The precise temperature level at which condensation takes place depends upon ambient temperature level and also on air moisture; we will certainly check out this in even more information partially 3 of the Peltier Guide.
Temperature Controlled Cabinets
These cooling and temperature management systems are used in a variety of systems to maintain a constant temperature. These systems are used by the Film and Broadcast industry and well as emergency medical. Emergency medical cabinet systems need to have compartments for medicine and other medical supplies that needs to be kept at a constant temperature.


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text: I work occasionally up in Corona and noticed a Rosati's is opening on the southwest corner of California and Ontario in the strip mall where the FedEx-Kinko's is located. I'm from Chicago and although Rosati's is not my first choice for pizza (I'm a Lou Mal Gal) ....I'm still pretty happy they're opening. I like their thin better than the pan...but I'll take both at this point. I talked very briefly with the owners and they are native Chicagoans. I specifically asked about the sausage and he said that it would be coming from Chicago...yay! They open on Tuesday the 12th.


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We can probably all agree that caves are really cool. I remember properly learning of the existence of caves in Coach Dixon's Earth Science class in 8th grade; although, I was always aware of their existence. We watched a National Geographic video in class (a pretty typical occurrence) that presented not only the scientific information but also the historical information on caves in America.
Long after I passed Coach Dixon's class with flying colors, I went caving in Cumberland Caverns with some friends. We ate pot brownies and made shadow puppets on the stone walls after crawling through the cave's hidden tunnels and rooms. For one minute as I lay on my back looking up at the rocks above me, I was seized with the terror that the rocks might come crashing down upon us at any slight movement of the earth we rested upon (paranoia, a pesky side effect of brownies). My brain jumped in quickly and reminded me that, "no, these thoughts are useless," and I let the terror float off into the cavernous darkness. I slept on the floor of the cave that night, dreaming of pink clouds and snoring like a rhinoceros...or an adorable pug.
A few years later, I stumbled upon a cave in the woods in Dahlonega, Georgia (over by the old distillery, you know the one if you live there). I want to know how many terrifying stories one needs to hear about the dangers of going into a cave alone to remove the inherent desire to do just that when one finds a cave in real life. This cave wasn't exactly uncharted or anything, but I did not have the right shoes for the kind of wading an exploration would have required. I still thought about it for a moment.
|Floyd Collins
While living in Dahlonega and teaching at the university, I tried to convince my theatre students to do the musical version of Floyd Collins' story because it would be an easy set and gorgeous music. It wasn't exactly a known show, however, and putting together a straight play seemed a lot easier and less horrifying than trying to throw together a musically complicated show with myself as the only paid member of the ensemble. Plus, there's a lot of really weird yodeling pieces in that musical.
|The tragic outcome
When I walked into the darkness of depression, I knew I shouldn't have, but I wanted to see where it would lead...at least a very small part of me did, like that flicker of intense curiosity that I always feel at the mouth of a cave. Floyd Collins worked alone. I worked alone, but for far too long. Floyd Collins was trying to find a new entrance to the cave, and I too have been searching for another path...through my life (ooooooooh sparkles of dreamy realization).
I walked through the mountain of my life, surrounded by the demons of my own darkness and searched the images of my past for clues as to which tunnel to climb through to find the way out all while the terror that the earth above me could come crashing down and bury me alive continued to grow to the point at which I could barely stand on my own.
Then, with a lantern, my mother and my father came after me, found me, and began the task of helping me find a way out. They always do that because that's what parents do. They showed me the light at the end.
The nation watched the story of Floyd Collins, as best they could at the time, and an army of locals dug furiously to try to get him out. So too did my chosen family, my friends, notice my drowning and reach out to remind me that I'm not alone, that I'm never alone.
Thus, for 2016, I'm going to focus on that light, and I'm not going to look back without a rope around my waste and someone to talk me and walk me through the darkness. It's not because I'm not afraid any more. I'm terrified. But I don't want to be afraid any more.
I'll never forget crawling through a tunnel in the cave back in Tennessee with my head lamp scraping the rocky floor, and coming to a small opening large enough for one person to stand up at a time. I cast my light along the shimmering walls around me. Rock formations, dripping from the ceiling of the opening shone like diamonds.
I want to see further. I want to see what's in the light, and I want to share it.


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This would be funny
if it weren't so serious:
Scientists have refused to participate in state Board of Education hearings this past week on how the theory of evolution should be treated in public school. . . .
But the boycott has frustrated board members who viewed their hearings as an educational forum.
"I am profoundly disappointed that they've chosen to present their case in the shadows," board member Connie Morris said. "I would have enjoyed hearing what they have to say in a professional, ethical manner."
Evolution is the most important concept in biology and one of the most important in science in general; it is not something that needs to be debated by the Kansas School Board, anymore than gravity or DNA being the genetic material.


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David McDonald
PhD (Political Studies), University of Toronto
On leave January 1, 2017 to June 30, 2017
Curriculum Vitae (PDF 319KB)
email: firstname.lastname@example.com
phone: 613-533-6000, ext 36962
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Global Development Studies
Mac-Corry Hall A407
Research Interests:
My research revolves around debates over public versus private service delivery (with a focus on water, electricity and health care), but encompass a broad spectrum of related questions on urbanization, environmental justice and uneven development. Much of this research has been conducted through the Municipal Services Project (www.municipalservicesproject.org), which I founded and have been co-director of since 2000. The focus of this project is 'alternatives to privatization', with research partners in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe. We work with academics, social movements, labour unions and community groups in an effort to deepen our grassroots engagement and create research products that are relevant and useful to the communities and organizations most affected by these debates.
Theoretically, I am interested in competing conceptions of 'public' and how they have changed and been transformed under neoliberalism. As a (marxian) political economist my focus in on the financial, institutional and ideological structures that tie everyday service delivery to the larger currents of (re)production, but I am also interested in socio-cultural concepts of space and place that make up the connectivities of public engagement. My research has had a largely urban focus, including the growing networks of 'world cities'.
Finally, I spent a number of years working on international migration with the Southern African Migration Project (www.queensu.ca/samp). I am no longer directly involved in this work but remain interested in questions of migration and xenophobia.
Supervisory Interests
I supervise graduate students in all three of the departments I am affiliated with (Global Development Studies, Geography, Environmental Studies). I encourage applications from students focused on topics related to my research interests, and in particular on debates around public/private service provision in the global South.
Other Appointments
Cross Appointed with the Department of Geography and the School of Environmental Studies
DEVS 100: Canada and the 'Third World'
DEVS 492: Cities and Urbanization in the South (not offered in 2016/2017)
DEVS 492: Privatization and Its Discontents (not offered in 2016/2017)
DEVS 801: Development Theory in Contemporary and Historical Perspective
Selected Publications (see curriculum vitae for complete list)
Single-Authored Books
DA McDonald (2008). World City Syndrome: Neoliberalism and Inequality in Cape Town. Routledge: New York, 355 pp (see details)
Edited books
DA McDonald (ed), (2016) Making Public in a Privatized World: The Struggle for Essential Services, Zed Books: London, 241 pp (see details)
DA McDonald (ed) (2014) Rethinking Corporatization and Public Services in the Global South. Zed Books: London, 240 pp (see details)
M Pigeon, DA McDonald, S Kishimoto and O Hoedeman (eds), (2012) Remunicipalization: Putting Water Back Into Public Hands, Transnational Institute, Amsterdam, 116pp (see details).
DA McDonald and G Ruiters (eds). (2012). Alternatives to Privatization: Public Options for Essential Services in the Global South, Routledge (New York), HSRC Press (Cape Town), Leftword Books (Delhi), 540pp. (see details)
DA McDonald (ed). (2009). Electric Capitalism: Recolonizing Africa on the Power Grid, HSRC Press: Cape Town, Earthscan: London, 504pp. (see details)
DA McDonald and G Ruiters (eds). (2005). The Age of Commodity: Water Privatization in Southern Africa. Earthscan Press: London, 304 pp. (see details)
DA McDonald and J Pape (eds). (2002). Cost Recovery and the Crisis of Service Delivery in South Africa. Zed Press: London and HSRC Publishers: Pretoria, 2002, 207 pp. (see details)
DA McDonald (ed) Environmental Justice in South Africa. (2002). Ohio University Press: Athens and University of Cape Town Press, 341 pp. (see details)
J Crush and DA McDonald (eds). (2002). Transnationalism and New African Immigration to South Africa. Canadian Association of African Studies: Toronto, 184 pp. (see details)
DA McDonald and J Crush (eds). (2002). Destinations Unknown: Perspectives on the Brain Drain in Southern Africa. Africa Institute, Pretoria, 401 pp. (see details)
DA McDonald and EN Sahle (eds). (2002). The Legacies of Julius Nyerere: Influences on Development Discourse and Practice in Africa. Africa World Press, Trenton, New Jersey. 145 pp.
DA McDonald (ed). (2000). On Borders: Perspectives on International Migration in Southern Africa, St Martins Press, New York, 303pp. (see details)
Selected Articles
DA McDonald (2016, in press). "To Corporatize or Not to Corporatize (And if so How)?", Utilities Policy
DA McDonald, (2016) "The Wonderful Worlds of Making Public", in DA McDonald (ed). Making Public in a Privatizing World: The Struggle for Essential Services, Zed Books, London, pp 1-22
DA McDonald, (2016) "Building a Pro-Public Movement", in DA McDonald (ed). Making Public in a Privatizing World: The Struggle for Essential Services, Zed Books, London, pp 251-263
DA McDonald. (2015). "You are Public…Now What? New Ways of Measuring Success", in in Kishimoto, S., Lobina E, and Petitjean, O. (eds). 2015. Our Public Experience: The Global Experience with Remunicipalisation, Transnational Institute: Amsterdam, pp 86-94
DA McDonald (2015), "Till Death Do Us Part: Reuniting Water and Health in the Struggle for Pro-Public Services", in A Sengupta (ed), Global Health Watch IV, Zed Books, London
DA McDonald (forthcoming), "Icon(oclastic): John S Saul Reflects on Some of the Lessons of Liberation Struggles", in C Bassett and M Clarke (eds), Legacies of Liberation (Fernwood Press: Blackwood and HSRC Press: Cape Town).


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Coolest Day Ever at Chambers Bay (without playing golf)
Pretty much the best day ever on Tuesday. I was lucky enough to be invited by a friend to attend a special "Media Preview Day" for the 2015 US Open Golf Championship at Chambers Bay Golf Course. The event was hosted by the USGA with all the local tournament directors and national media representatives. We started the morning with a continental breakfast and an informational presentation by Danny Sink who is the US Open Tournament Director here at Chambers Bay.
After the presentation we all headed out to the course for a guided tour. We hit six or seven points on the course to learn about changes being made, special viewing locations, and inside information about how tournament preperations are coming along. One of the highlights was seeing the US Open Tournament Trophy being placed throughout the course for photo opportunities. Well, I though that was the highlight until what happened after lunch.
From the tour we headed up for a finishing presentation and a very nice lunch in the tent overlooking the Golf Course and the beautiful Puget Sound and Olympic Mountains. At lunch we were told to hang out for a special surprise on it's way. That surprise turned out to be the real Super Bowl Trophy from the recent Seattle Seahawks victory in Super Bowl 48! Wow! Now we're talking…How cool is this? I was lucky enough to attend the Super Bowl and I've seen pictures of some of my friends holding the trophy but I haven't yet been able to be in it's presence. It's cooler than I thought it would be.
An old buddy of mine from my time working for the team Lane Gammel of the Seahawks Media Department was the "Lombardi Keeper". He was pretty good at his job. We followed the thing all over the course for photo ops w/ the maintenance staff, the USGA guys, and most of the media there. One thing stayed consistent….Nobody touched the trophy. I got a few great shots with both trophies but the one I wanted hadn't happened. I had to have it in my hands! Like I said earlier, I'd seen too many of my friends in position to hold it. I had to make it happen.
So, cut to the finish. The day was coming to and end and we headed up to the Clubhouse. When most people moved along I nicely asked my old friend if I could "hold the trophy". He said I could and showed me where to touch it so my grubby hands didn't mess it up. I grabbed it and perched it up and had another friend take what will no be my favorite picture ever!
It was a great day out at Chambers Bay. I was able to connect with some old friends and make some new ones. I had opportunity to talk about chambersbayhousing.com and what we are doing with private home rentals for the tournament. Special thanks to Chris Johnson for the invite. I'll be your caddy any day. Also, a big thanks to Lane Gammel…Thanks for allowing me the chance to hold that iconic trophy… Wow!
Jon Kitna Does Things Right
In 1997 I started working in ticket sales for the Seattle Seahawks. It was my dream job (at the time) and everything about it was pretty much awesome. One of the coolest coincidences was the Seahawks acquisition of Jon Kitna from Tacoma's Lincoln High School. Jon had starred at baseball and football at Lincoln then went on to a great career at Central Washington University. If not for a chance meeting with Coach Dennis Erickson, whose son was also a student at CWU, that would have been the end of it and Jon would have gone on to a teaching career with some football coaching on the side.
That wasn't the end of it though. Coach "E" saw Jon play and decided he needed a "shot" at the NFL. He had an NFL body and the mind of a mathematician. That combination is rare, so a chance he got. First the practice squad, then the NFL Europe where he ripped it up for the Barcelona Dragons. From there, Jon made the active Seahawks roster and actually started quite a few games while battling Hall of Famer (and Husky Legend) Warren Moon for playing time.
One of my favorite things about working for the Seahawks was the fun interaction I experienced with Jon. I was sales guy and he was a practice squad player turned NFL starter….That didn't matter though. We were both kids from Tacoma walking through NFL halls and absolutely loving it. There were more than a few times when we talked about the old neighborhood and how cool it was to represent our home town together. Jon knew that he could have been making ticket sales calls like the other former college athletes that were in my department. He was living the dream…And I was happy to be witnessing it first hand.
Then came Mike Holmgren and the fit for Jon wasn't right. Jon signed with Cincinnati and went on to play with Detroit and Dallas….15 years in the NFL! While playing pro football Jon never lost sight of his first dream….Teaching math and coaching high school football. Last year, when his career finally came to end, Jon immediately jumped into the "dream" career he always wanted. A month into his "retirement" Jon started teaching and coaching at his alma mater, Lincoln High School.
It really is a story worthy of front page news. He doesn't have to be there. He doesn't need to be there. He's chosen to be there with intent to make a true difference. It's great when pro athletes make appearances at schools and hospitals to lift spirits and sign autographs. What Jon is doing at Lincoln is amazing, inspiring, and absolutely fantastic. It's more than an appearance, it's immersion in the community. To him, it's what seems right.
There have been nice articles written locally but this national one I've linked below really tells the story well. There is a lot more to be written about Jon's journey but the start is something pretty legendary already. Coach Kitna is doing things right. Stay tuned…
New Seahawks, Huskies, and Cougar Football Schedules Are Here!
Here are the schedules for our favorite football teams… Get 'em on your calendar…Football season is HERE!!!
Check Out the Husky Stadium Farewell 360 Fan Picture!
So, this is pretty much the coolest picture ever. You can pan all the way around Husky Stadium just before kickoff of the last game before the remodel.
The GigaPixel FanCam image consists of more than 20 billion pixels, allowing you to zoom in and explore every corner of Husky Stadium. If you were there, be sure to tag yourself in the FanCam to prove it! If not, you can still tag anything
cool you find.
Enjoy the Husky Stadium Farewell Game FanCam, and share it with your friends!
Here's the fan and stadium tribute video that was played on the big screen. It was very well done. I have so many great memories in that Stadium. Excited for the new and will fondly remember the old! Go Dawgs!


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Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Uber Cool Nerd King
I'd've scored higher on SF/comic if they'd included TV and movie questions that went beyond Star Trek/Wars, Dr. Who and Battlestar Galactica. (e.g. Red Dwarf, Firefly, Lexx, etc. I'm a postmodern SF fan.)
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I'm only "kinda nerdy." The test seems awfully biased to computers and Star Trek.ReplyDelete
Cool Nerd King.ReplyDelete
Science/Math: 78%
Technology/Computer: 85%
History/Literature: 94%
I guess you just have to like the above subjects, but not necessarily be any good at them. And in which categories do the light sabre questions carry weight?
Dumb/Dork/Awkward: 28%
Apparently, I'm a cool non-nerd. I think that is irrefutable evidence of a flaw in the test.ReplyDelete
It's fun, but no, it's not that good a test.ReplyDelete
I think we can all agree that there is some pedegree nerdery in here :)ReplyDelete
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Right now, I'm devastated, upset and mad. My wife just told me that the body of an acquaintance who had been kidnapped about a month ago was just found. His name was Peter. He was a really nice guy... friendly, intelligent, honest. He worked hard as a farmer. He was also the father of five children and a husband.
The family paid the ransom about a week ago, and everyone had been praying for his release...Then today, the news came that everyone was dreading...His body had been found...
When will it stop? This culture of violence is destroying the fabric of Honduran society. Now there are five more traumatized children without a loving father and a wife without her partner. It's so senseless, why? The kidnappers got the money they wanted so why kill him?
I'm not the type of person that hates, but I hate the people that did this...I hope their souls burn in hell for eternity...
Readers, I ask that you join with me in praying for Peter's family during this difficult period, and that you also pray for an end to the violence that plagues Honduras.
Mr. Lobo, if by chance you read this, please do me a favor: Quit obsessing with bringing Mel Zelaya back to Honduras, instead obsess yourself with ending the rampant crime that is destroying this beautiful country.
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3 orthopaedic surgeons took 55 days to do a jigsaw and were proud of their achievement.
When asked why they were so proud they said because it said 2-3 years on the box.
At an orthopaedic meeting how can you spot the academic orthopaedic surgeon?
He's the one who can just get his knuckles off the floor!
What's the difference between a carpenter and an orthopaedic surgeon?
A carpenter knows more than one antibiotic!
How do you hide a twenty pound note from an orthopaedic surgeon?
Put it in a text book!
How do you spot the orthopaedic surgeon's car in the car park?
It's the Porsche with a comic on the back shelf!
What's the difference between a rhinoceros and an orthopaedic surgeon?
One's thick-skinned, small-brained and charges a lot for no very good reason....the other's a rhinoceros.
What do you call two orthopaedic surgeons looking at a chest X-ray?
A double blind study.
The definition of shifting dullness - an orthopaedic ward round.
Why do anaesthetists take an instant dislike to orthopaedic surgeons?
Because it saves time
How do you get an Orthopaedic Surgeon to refer you to some one else?
Ask him the time.
Patrick will probably not find these so funny - but I got a laugh.
On a more serious note about our friend, Mark. We visited Mark (a med school buddy of Patrick), his wife Amy and daughter Abby over Labor Day. They told us they had some good news and bad news to share with us. The good news - Amy was expecting their second child. The bad news - Mark was diagnosed with a rare form of Leukemia. These are two of the nicest people we have ever met who DO NOT deserve to go through anything like this (but who does, right?). I am attaching the link to Mark's website for you to read. Their story is touching, funny, sad - basically all the emotions one can feel towards a family going through this. Please take the time to visit the site and help Mark through prayers and well wishes!http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/markgardner


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Canadiens sign Chipchura to three-year dealby Staff Writer / Montréal Canadiens
MONTREAL - Canadiens GM Bob Gainey announced Saturday the signing of forward Kyle Chipchura to a three-year contract. As per club policy, financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Selected by the Canadiens in the first round, 18th overall, in 2004, Chipchura just completed his fourth season with the Prince Albert Raiders of the Western Hockey League. In 59 games, the Vimy, Alberta native collected 21 goals and 34 assists for a team high 55 points, and 81 penalty minutes. Chipchura, the team captain, was the recipient of the Orland Kurtenbach Award, given to the Raiders Most Valuable Player during the season.
During his career with the Raiders, Chipchura, 20, played in 216 games, recording 59 goals and 106 assists for 165 points. He posted a plus-9 rating and totaled 320 penalty minutes. Chipchura played in the 2004 and 2005 playoffs, totaling six goals and 11 assists for 17 points in 20 games.
The 6-foot-3, 208-pound center was named captain of Canada's National Junior Team in January 2006. In six games, Chipchura scored four goals, added one assist and posted a plus/minus rating of plus-5, leading Canada to their second World Junior Hockey title in as many years.
Chipchura, who will report to the Hamilton Bulldogs this week, played in three preseason games with the Canadiens in September 2005, collecting one assist.