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Michael is the Association liaison to the community at large. He coordinates strategic planning, encourages the leadership to become visionary and manages the Association's business operations. He researches trends for the real estate industry and Association management. He assists, advises and supports the Greensboro Regional REALTORS® Association President, Executive Committee and Board of Directors. In addition, Michael also serves in the following capacities:
He guides the interrelated constituencies for a competitive environment, conducts financial oversight and analysis of revenue streams, and manages the staff and day-to-day operations of the Association. He also serves as the Executive Officer for the North Carolina Certified Commercial Investment Members Chapter (NC-CCIM), North Carolina Chapter of the REALTORS® Land Institute (NCRLI), and the Carolinas Chapter of Society of Industrial and Office REALTORS® (CSIOR).
The Commercial Division Coordinator. She helps coordinate the NC-CCIM, Carolinas RLI, RCA of Greensboro, SIOR Carolinas, SIOR Southeastern Region, and NC-CRS chapters. She is the first stop for information regarding their respective membership, manages the marketing for the chapters, and helps to organize their conferences, meetings, and continuing education needs.
Nick facilitates GRRA's civic and political involvement. As Government Affairs Committee staff liaison, Nick communicates GRRA's message to community leaders and executive staff from the Guilford County Board of Commissioners, the Greensboro City Council, and the Guilford County Board of Education. In addition, Nick writes NAR grants for GRRA and oversees grant-funded, REALTOR®-involved projects from planning to completion.
Barbara advises, assists and supports the Chief Executive Officer in all matters relating to the financial well-being of the Association. She tracks the Association's investments and revenue sources. She maintains the Association's human resource records and performs bookkeeping functions for the GRRA and its affiliate divisions. Barbara is the Administrator for the Institute for Real Estate Management (IREM) Chapter #56. She also serves as staff liaison to the REALTORS® Political Action Committee (RPAC), the Audit and Leadership Development committees, as well as the GRRA's Foundation.
Sharon assists new members in joining the Association and plans and executes the Association's orientation events. She plans and oversees the GRRA's continuing education classes and assists the planning and execution of Association luncheons and special events. She also assists in special projects for the Chief Executive Officer and acts as the staff liaison to the REALTORS® Community Service Committee and the Education Committee.
Serves as the GRRA's first point of contact. She fields telephone calls and directs them to the appropriate staff members and assists the Director of Office and Financial Operations with billing entries and mailings. Also is in charge of the GRRA's library, the REALTOR® Store and assists in various association projects.
Peter, our resident technology expert, assists our membership with support in Multiple Listing Service (MLS) issues. He addresses issues in the Supra system and coordinates the GRRA, GRRA-RCA, NC-CCIM, Carolinas Chapter of SIOR and NCRLI websites. Acting as the staff liaison to the Technology Users Group, Peter ensures the even flow of information and implementation of new technologies. Peter supports the technical infrastructure of the Association, which includes training in software and hardware applications and providing technical support to the GRAA staff.
Brittany serves as the Association's Public Relations & Marketing Manager. She serves as the contact person for the local, state and national media as well as a staff liaison to the Awards and Nominating Committees. Brittany is responsible for all internal and external communications for the Association. This includes e-newsletters, content for the Association's social media outlets and the website as well as marketing and advertising efforts of the Association.
Rekeeda responds to customer inquiries about facility rental. Markets the Oak Branch Events and Conference Center through outside sales calls, prospecting, direct mail, networking and referrals. She ensures successful events that meet both the client needs and company's guidelines and manages events from initial sale through successful completion.
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ST. LOUIS, Mo. (KMOX) – Four financial services startups from across the globe comprise the first class of SixThirty, the new St. Louis-based financial tech start-up accelerator program.
Square co-founder Jim McKelvey is behind SixThirty, and many of the companies which applied say his involvement was what most excited them about the program.
SixThirty gives $100,000 to four financial-service startups each fall and spring, to help them grow and gain their footing in the national marketplace.
"Small companies can have a great idea, a great team, but they can't get their product to the market without access to the rails. Those rails are usually controlled by banks, insurance companies, credit card networks," McKelvey told KMOX at the announcement on Wednesday.
He said a major benefit of the program is that the start-ups involved get access to the large number of financial companies based in St. Louis, including Wells Fargo Advisors, Edward Jones, Stifel, and CitiMortgage.
Financial technology companies in the early stages of funding and development were invited to apply for four slots in the accelerator program, which last 16-week beginning Sunday at the T-REx incubator in downtown St. Louis.
The companies that were selected are:
• Hedgeable, a next generation Vanguard, that provides low-cost, risk-managed investment products in response to the financial crisis. Led by Matthew Kane and Michael Kane, the company is based in New York.
• MiiCard, a Digital Identity Verification service that prove 'you are who you say you are' entirely online. The company touts that the process only takes about five to ten minutes. Led by James Varga and is based in Scotland.
• Upside, Uses innovative financial science and beautiful UI to help affluent young professionals navigate investments. Led by Juney Ham and Tom Kimberly, the company is based in San Francisco.
• XYverify, a mobile authentication company that enables consumers, merchants and financial institutions to reduce costs and prevent fraud. Led by Elliot Klein, the company is based in New York.
Upside cofounder Tom Kimberly said he has leased a block of lofts at a downtown building and is planning to move his entire staff to St. Louis from the Bay Area for the duration of the accelerator program.
"Silicon Valley is very good at solving Silicon Valley problems, but its not great at solving normal people problems," Kimberly said.
Mike Kane, the CEO of Hedgeable in New York City, says in addition to the $100,000 in funding, SixThirty was attractive because of access to the "rails," or the financial companies based here.
"There are just a lot of different kinds of banks out here," he said, "That's really what got us so excited about the program because we sell directly into those companies now. So it eliminate the need for us to be flying back and forth to St. Louis."
SixThirty, by the way, is named after the height and width of the Gateway Arch.

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Anyone who has embedded YouTube videos on their website knows how valuable it can be to find out whether visitors are actually watching those videos. You might want to track whether people are watching until the end or whether they stop short. Here's how to find that out using the YouTube API and some Google Analytics ninja skills.
The original example for this came from Brian Clifton's newly published Advanced Web Metrics with Google Analytics, which we've been reading here at BFM. We realized that there were a few small omissions in the jscript provided on page 250 (in 2012 edition) so we have corrected those below.
Track when a visitor clicks to play a video and whether they watch it until the end. You'll be able to see this in your Google Analytics reports in your Events section:
1. Place your usual Google Analytics tracking code (asynchronous) in your header.
2. Create an empty div element within the body, with an id of "player". This is where your YouTube video will be placed shortly.

3. Make a script tag, and insert the YouTube iframe player API code. Don't close the script tag, there's still more to do.
var tag = document.createElement('script');
tag.src = "http://www.youtube.com/player_api";
var firstScriptTag = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];
firstScriptTag.parentNode.insertBefore(tag, firstScriptTag);
4. Create the iframe and player. Replace the 'zLQFkztsozw' with your video ID tag and customize your video height and width requirements.
var player;
function onYouTubePlayerAPIReady() {
player = new YT.Player('player', {
height: '390',
width: '640',
videoId: 'zLQFkztsozw',
events: {
'onReady': onPlayerReady,
'onStateChange': onPlayerStateChange
function onPlayerReady(event) {
/// event.target.playVideo();
5. Use the onPlayerStateChange method to look for events, such as the video starting or stopping. You can also close the script tag here.
function onPlayerStateChange(event) {
if (event.data ==YT.PlayerState.PLAYING)
{_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Videos', 'Play',
player.getVideoUrl() ]); }
if (event.data ==YT.PlayerState.ENDED)
{_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Videos', 'Watch to End',
player.getVideoUrl() ]); } }
I hope that this helps you get a better insight into how users are interacting with your web video production embedded on your website. If you have any questions, please comment below!


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CAUTION: Street food in China may contain more than advertised, and it's deadly
A tourist spent a night with his parents and girlfriend eating what they thought were lamb skewers at a Chinese roadside food stand, but the fun ended when he had to be admitted to a hospital because his back and ankles were covered with bruises each the size of a sheet of paper. The suspected culprit: bromadiolone, more commonly known as rat poison.
When traveling and eating in China on the street and at hole-in-the-wall restaurants, the perils of gutter oil are not the only things one has to consider. The Ministry of Public Health released its findings of rat, fox, and mink meat being marketed as lamb and duck skewers or Mongolian beef jerky in China. Some of these animals are killed using rat poison, which can be transferred to humans when eaten. Doctors believe the tourist ate the rat poison that night when eating "lamb" skewers with his parents and girlfriend.
Watch: A shy, nerdy young woman wakes up in the bed of a prince in Last Cinderella.
So as a safety reminder, either avoid the street food or make sure to bring a trustworthy tour guide with you when you visit China.


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Why You Keep Failing (and the Only Way to Succeed)
We're well into the new year. How are those New Year's resolutions coming along? Have you achieved all your goals?
Yeah, me neither.
More than 80% of New Year's resolution makers are New Year's resolution breakers with a third of people having ditched those wide-eyed promises by February 1st. This failure rate is so reliable that gyms make a killing from it every year.
So what do those 20% have that we don't? They're excellent goal writers. Too many people fail to achieve their goals year-round, not because they don't have the resources or drive but because they just don't know how to break down the process.
Basically, goals that fail are STUPID.
You write STUPID goals. That is to say, you decide to pursue goals that are…
Silly: The goal is silly and unimportant. The slightest obstacle is enough to deter you from following your plan, because there's no strong desire to get to the endpoint.
Timetable-Free: Your goal does not have any kind of urgency to it, so you'll get there whenever you get there. Setbacks don't motivate you to work harder, because there's no deadline to meet.
Unrealistic: Expecting to post a profit in the first twelve months with your new start-up business? Want to lose 40 pounds in a month without cutting off a limb? Unrealistic expectations suck motivation out of a person, because you'll end up associating failing at something impossible with being an overall failure.
Passive: Passive goals include: "Stop smoking," or "Quit staying up late." Those goals require you to stop doing something, to be passive when temptation beckons. And if it were that easy, you'd just stop doing the thing you want to stop doing and break the bad habit. But there's more to it than that.
Ill-Researched: Ill-researched goals have the insidious habit of making you feel like you're doing the right thing, but you may actually be backtracking. You get your information from what you remember from an article you read in college or Jenny McCarthy. You base your plans on sensationalized newspaper headlines that poorly summarize and draw dramatic conclusions from the actual study being reported.
Dependent: That is to say that STUPID goals are dependent on anything other than your own self-control and motivation. While it's impossible to completely isolate your progress from all factors (e.g., personal illness, unexpected unemployment, dingo eating your baby), the more you depend on anyone or anything else for success, the less your actions reflect your ability to meet your goal on your own. This is also a great way to throw the blame on outside factors for your lack of success. Bravo.
You need to write SMART goals. SMART goals are…
Specific: You can't just skip to the end and say you want to "get healthy." That's a result. Goals must be the steps involved in reaching that goal, like losing weight and adding healthy food to your diet. The steps must be guided by specific actions, which can be measured.
Measurable: Even some of the steps on the way to that goal may be vague, such as "drink more water" or "eat healthy." How do you measure that? You need to drink six glasses of water or four servings of fruits and vegetables each day. Make success based on something you can count, even if it's just measuring whether or not you completed a task, rather than a vague concept such as "losing weight." Make your goals something that's an action, not resistance to temptation; research shows that you break bad habits not by just saying "no," but by replacing them with good ones.
Attainable: Take the Goldilocks approach when goal-writing: not to easy and not too difficult. Goals should be realistic (and you'll know what realistic is when you do your research), but they shouldn't be so easy that you're already capable of and regularly do them; that's an attained goal. You want to find something just right, something you can get but just haven't yet; in other words, you're looking for attainable goals.
Relevant: Make sure the steps you're using to reach your goal are relevant to your overall life goals and for the specific goal you've set. Want to lose weight through exercise? Make sure the workout plan you're following isn't designed to build muscle and gain inches in places you'd rather be lean.
Time-Bound: Give yourself a time frame in order to promote the importance of following the plan each day. If you give yourself five years to save $500, the importance of budgeting and living within your means loses its sense of urgency. Events make for good deadlines: losing weight before a friend's wedding or finding a new home before winter comes increase motivation.
You can write SMART goals all day long, and it still won't get anything accomplished unless you get that one last piece to the puzzle…
You have to want it.
My psychic abilities tell me that you immediately said, "But I DO want to lose ten pounds/be more productive/marry Justin Bieber!"
Great. But you don't want it enough.
More specifically, you want other things more than you want to achieve your goal. You want to eat your daily serving of chocolate oranges more than you want to slim down. You prefer surfing Pinterest to cleaning your bathroom. Otherwise, you'd break out the sponge.
You may say you want to save more money, but you want to watch cable MORE. If you wanted to save money more than you wanted to watch cable, you'd cancel your cable subscription. Sure, there may be great shows on. Sure, you can't afford to go on vacations, so you need some kind of entertainment, right?
But you don't want it enough. So you don't reach your goals.
First thing in the morning on January 1st (or the 2nd, depending on your hangover) gives you zero indication of how likely you are to achieve your New Year's resolution. The critical time is when you're deciding to hit your snooze button instead of getting up to exercise in the morning. Every day. For six weeks.
A successful goal is not a plan or decision. Its success or failure is no more or less the result of daily choices.
There can even be a minute to minute choices depending on the bad habit you want to kick or the good habit you want to create. Either way, an action is exponentially more valuable than a thought, a plan, or a wish.
So really, the only way to achieve your goal is that you have to want it enough to do something about it.
Do you?
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Being mindful of time always works for me. I wanted to do a little more reading, but didn't want to hold myself accountable for a Dickensian novel's worth of pages per week, so I told myself, "Five minutes." If only you've five minutes to read every day, just do. No matter what I read, or how much I read, I do manage to learn a little something every day. Putting in the five minutes is an easy way for an accomplishment, if only a small one. Holding myself to a novel a week? I'd have failed looooong ago, there.
Smart post, Jana, and useful tips for darn near anyone, here.
Thanks for the comment, Eric. I love your approach to doing 5 minutes of reading per day. It's got every piece of the SMART goal, especially the most critical one: realistic.
Fantastic article, Jana. This hits uncomfortably close to home, haha. I'm really bad at setting goals in my personal life … mostly because they are silly, timetable-free, unrealistic, passive, ill-researched, and dependent!
And I really struggle with wanting other things more than achieving my goals. I love this: "A successful goal is not a plan or decision. Its success or failure is no more or less the result of daily choices." So true!
This is a really inspiring post — I will keep coming back to this as I write goals and look for motivation. Thank you!
Thanks! I hope the SMART goals outline helps you get back on track; I know that coming to terms myself with the "result of daily choices" bit has gotten my butt out of bed or off the couch to exercise or finish a project on more than one occasion. Identifying my moments of weakness has definitely been a huge piece of that, which comes along with wanting short term gratification over my long-term goal. Glad you enjoyed!
Excellent tips here, Jana! I'm a horrible goal setter (I always make them too easy so that way when I accomplish them I feel awesome and reward myself, haha!) so I'm bookmarking this for future reference. Thanks!
Haha, but at least you're achieving them! That's a step beyond those who don't set them at all. Setting a goal that's too easy isn't necessarily a bad thing… as a beginning step. Building success early on is a great motivator. The key is to make them slightly harder and harder until you reach exactly where you want to be. It will take more time, but if that method is the most successful for you, then embrace it!
Just try not to make those rewards in direct opposition to the goal (e.g., eating a huge piece of cake to reward yourself for working out, splurging on a new purse to reward yourself for saving money).
Lovely, awesome, inspiring and RIGHT-ON, Jana! Great article filled with truth. Thank you.
Glad you liked it, Ali – it's my thanks for all the motivation you've provided through your FB statuses. So much of our "failures" start when we screw up in the planning stages, and that seems pretty silly if we're actually capable of the results!
I don't understand. You mean that just simply saying, "I want more money!" won't give me more money? This is madness!
In all seriousness, Jana, this post couldn't have come at a better time. I have a bunch of vague, timetable-free goals that I've abandoned this year. It's time to look them all over again. Excellent read. 🙂
MADNESS INDEED! And yet, every November, I say I want to do NaNoWriMo, refuse to write, and then am shocked that a novel hasn't magically appeared on my computer!
Let me know when "Needs More" is up and running; I'll be your first subscriber! 🙂
Yep, this post reiterated the disappointment I have with myself! Haha! You are absolutely right with all the points you bring up. I think it is just hard for people to stay motivated as we are all creatures of habit and fall victim to our own lack of discipline. I think that modern life and environment are both the two perfect ingredients for failure. I guess you just have to learn how to fight the enemy, yourself, which is the hardest thing to do! Great post!
Haha, you and me both. It was hard to write this because it really struck close to home, and even harder not to add in little "yeah, but" justifications for my own bad behavior. I agree that our instant-gratification culture with all of its awesome technology has unfortunately had the negative side effect of reducing our overall willpower. It's time to Hal Jordan this life and fight back!
Cool post Jana! I set some "goals" at the beginning of the year to eat more fresh fruits and veggies every day. So far so good, and I have also started to include vitamins too! Who knows, maybe exercise is next, haha! You're totally right, when you set goals you have to want it more than anything else. I really want to eat junk food all the time, but I want to be healthier and feel better even more!
Thanks, Jen! I'm so glad the fruits and veggies thing has been a success for you. I definitely think that replacing a bad habit (e.g., snarfing down junk food) with a good one (e.g., snarfing down fruits and veggies) is way easier than just resisting temptation. Happy to hear you're rocking toward your goals! 🙂
I thoroughly enjoyed this post Jana! I set a new year's resolution goal of going to bed by midnight every week night. Haven't done it once. You're completely right in that I just wanted to stay up MORE than go to bed.
HOWEVER, I set a New March's Resolution of losing 15 pounds, and I nailed that one by the end of April because I REALLY wanted it. I don't F around when I really want something. The trick is getting myself to the point where I'm that motivated… not easy.
Thanks, Jeff! I'm glad you made headway in the goal that really mattered to you; it just reinforces the knowledge that you need to want something bad enough to make a change, not just talk about wanting it but be happier with the short term benefits of the bad habits. Congratulations, and good luck getting your bedtime back on track. 🙂
Jana, I've literally done the things you've suggest and or the things I read here. I see myself as a constant failure everyday I wake up, I'm living lifge I didn't plan and work as hard as I can to maintain my sanity. I got up and did something about it and still failed at that, don't understand anymore I guess I was put on this planet to fail. Don't get me wrong I'm optomistic in everything I don't, I'm also a realist so I willing to gave one last try, your thoughts!
Movieman, those attempts you've made toward those larger goals ARE successes. You got a lot farther than a lot of people did by actually taking action toward your goals; even if you didn't meet the ultimate goal, you "got up and did something about it."
The first try didn't work? Make the goal smaller, easier, quicker. Your first goal should be making your step-by-step plan. Nothing can stop you from that. Make your goal something you know you can do – that you've already done – and work on building consistency. That way, you *choose* to fail; you don't have failure thrust upon you like some predestined fate. You'll feel more in control and know your successes are your own.
Hang in there. 🙂
Been trying for 15 years. Set goals, worked hard. It is still possible to fail even when you care about something, even when you give it all you have, when you set measurable goals and attempt to achieve them
Hey thanks this really helped have realised why I can't save cash ….I used to go shopping a lot ed still I thought I cud save


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The Search for Belle Prater
By Ruth White
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $16
Ages 10-14 years
The Search for Belle Prater
By Ruth White
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $16
Ages 10-14 years
In 1954, Coal Station, Va., is small. Gypsy Arbutus Leemaster and her cousin, Woodrow Prater, are in the same 7th-grade homeroom, and even the new girl who joins the class in December, Cassie Caulborne, gets filled in by her classmates on how Woodrow's mother, Belle, just upped and ran away. Nobody's mean about the facts, and everybody's struggling with something, in this little town that seems big compared to life scrabbled out in the hollers nearby. Cassie, who claims to carry second sight in her family, joins Gypsy and Woodrow as they carry the search for Belle to nearby Bluefield, and "blue" weaves significantly all the way through. The bus trips to Bluefield (Cassie's father is the driver) are worth the price of admission all by themselves. The search is as moving as its ending.
The Travels of Benjamin of Tudela
By Uri Shulevitz
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $17
Ages 8-12 years
The subtitle reads "Through Three Continents in the Twelfth Century." Benjamin Tudela was the greatest Jewish traveler of the Middle Ages; working from the original Hebrew and other sources on the period, Uri Shulevitz has created a series of vistas on the actual state of travel in the 12th Century, a selection about "the most amazing places" Benjamin saw and "the most fascinating stories" he heard. The separate stories focus on places or moments of excitement: pirates, Rome, Constantinople, "The Assasins," the Crusaders. It is difficult to image this book without Shulevitz's pictures, which combine the intensity of medieval manuscript illuminations and maps with almost dreamlike geographical vistas.
Oscar's Half Birthday
By Bob Graham
Candlewick, $16.99
Ages 4-7 years
Oscar's a baby, age 6 months, and this story follows a family celebration in an urban park. The narrative is in no hurry, because Oscar and Millie's parents aren't either. Millie is wearing "coat-hanger fairy wings on her back and a dinosaur puppet on her hand." Sometimes the dinosaur squeezes Oscar too tightly, at which point her parents instruct her, " 'A little more fairy and not so much dinosaur.' " It's the detail of everything that seems so right, like the way Oscar, at 6 months, isn't quite perfect at this sitting-up game yet (he tilts). A world seen so clearly and deliberately that we're happy with every minute of it.
The McElderry Book of Aesop's Fables
By Michael Morpugo, illustrated by Emma Chichester Clark
McElderry, $19.95
Ages 9-12 years
Michael Morpugo and Emma Chichester Clark create a strong contender for a household fable collection. Morpugo takes the time to tell the stories, instead of trying to condense them and pretend that younger children would like them. It will take a slightly older reader to exist comfortably in a world where prey are eaten, not saved, and cleverness and wit can win, but only if you take enough time. Sometimes the morals aren't the tag lines you remember from smaller versions, but Morpugo has often enlarged the meaning. Morpugo's thank-you note to Aesop is a treat, wryly reminding us that fables are meant not to induce sleep, but thinking.
So, What's It Like to Be a Cat?
By Karla Kuskin, illustrated by Betsy Lewin
Atheneum, $15.95
Ages 4-8 years
The cat sits, of course, in a director's chair, and the little boy who's interviewing her works hard with a big, thick pencil. You might notice a certain ego-centered conversational style on the feline side. When asked if cats would like to get up with the rest of the family for "some breakfast Bits O'Mouse," the cat comments disdainfully on human concepts of when to eat. "A cat has her habits. A human has his." There'a wonderful concluding sequence about why cats move the way they do, though with a protest that she doesn't care what people think: "But nonetheless I wish them well. They are themselves and that is that."


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If you head over to Big Boi's myspace right now you can check out Big Boi's debut solo album Sir Luscious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty which is streaming in its full glory. This is certainly one of my most anticipated albums to hear in the rap genre, so I'm excited to hear it. It doesn't officially drop until July 6th, so enjoy this early listen while it lasts. I'm about to give it a go.
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Rootwork: Powering grassroots networks from the bottom up
Has the mainstream left gone insane in response to these town halls on health care reform? When you have what you see is an illegitimate process set up to provide the appearance of taking people's views into consideration when in fact the outcome is a foregone conclusion, then of course you try to shut down that process.
Because you know some people are going to be making that argument now.
"Hey, we don't need affirmative action, there's a black man in the White House!"
Right. Just like when FDR was elected, they stopped bothering to try to cure polio.
On Saturday, Republican vice-presidential candidate Gov. Sarah Palin came to Philadelphia. ACT-UP/Philly, among many other groups, called for an organized protest. I showed up and took some pictures. I even made a video of the protest of which I'm quite proud. In wanting to represent the breadth of the protest, however, I took some pictures of people wearing shirts that attacked Sarah Palin using language demeaning to women.
UfPJ and allied groups, which seemed early on to have strong connections to the global justice movement, seems to have been transformed — in the hopes of attracting more "mainstream" participants — into not an anti-war organization, but an anti-Iraq War organization; not a pro-peace movement, but a pro-better-war-policy movement. Few connections are made to "the soul of America," as King would describe it, and much attention is focused on those things that are at best cogs in the system — individual policies on the war, planning or lack thereof for the war, and particular Republicans in Congress and the White House. Yet these problems go considerably beyond Bush and Republicans.
Last Friday, more than 850 students from 46 states around the country came to Washington for the Power to Protect: D.C. to Darfur conference, sponsored by the Genocide Intervention Network and Students Taking Action Now: Darfur.
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With the Third Division champions losing £1 million per month and riven by divisions at boardroom level, the SFA is anxious to determine whether discredited former owner Craig Whyte and Charles Green, the front man for the consortium which replaced the venture capitalist, were in cahoots last summer.
Green, who has stood down as chief executive at Ibrox, has already claimed that he only strung Whyte along in order to gain control of his shareholding and that he "shafted" the latter.
Newspaper reports of the relationship between the two men prompted the SFA to write to Rangers demanding information about the exact nature of their partnership.
Meanwhile, Murray hired law firm Pinsent Mason to conduct an enquiry over the behaviour of Green and his associate, Imran Ahmad, who has also subsequently left his position as commercial director.
Asked whether Rangers face losing their membership of the SFA, which they need in order to play games, Regan stopped short of ruling in the ultimate sanction.
"It would be wrong to speculate as there is so much detail that has to be gathered and clarified," he said. "It would be scaremongering to suggest that.
"We have asked a number of specific questions relating to what went on in the period leading up to liquidation and the period surrounding the transfer of membership.
"There are some very specific questions we have asked that require some very specific answers. If we don't get those answers, we reserve the right to further investigation.
"The nature of the questions we have asked relate to the links between Green, Ahmad and Whyte, the details surrounding money that was lodged in Ahmad's mother's bank account and various conversations that allegedly took place.
"We should get some specific answers on those. We have seen the scope of the Pinsent Mason report, it is very detailed and thorough. We expect to see quite a lot of detail when it comes back in the near future.
"We will be managing Rangers as we manage all our clubs. Obviously, the uncertainty and kind of turmoil that is going on at the club is a cause of concern for most people, particularly the fans.
"You have got to feel for the fans, given what they have had to endure for the last 18 months or so. They thought they had a new dawn with Messrs Green and Ahmad coming in and it has turned sour on them again. You have to feel sorry for them.
"We're all just hoping the board can get it sorted out and get them back on an even keel again."
Regan confirmed that the SFA's lawyers are continuing to pursue Whyte for the unpaid £200,000 they imposed on him last year.
"It's time consuming and time that could be better spent trying to build a stronger game in Scotland," he said. "Every time you take a step forward, sometimes you feel you take two back.
"I can't believe after 12 months we are still talking about Rangers, the machinations in the boardroom and what may or may not have been the case. I'd thought for the fans' sake that it would be a bright new dawn.
"To be fair to the club, I think men like Ally McCoist and Walter Smith also thought we would have moved on.
"Then you also have situations like the ones at Hearts and Dunfermline which send out the wrong message for the game. But while that is going on we have to be focused and positive.
"News like this Scottish Cup sponsorship [bookmakers William Hill on Monday extended its patronage to 2016] is great."
However, one suspects that Regan's stewardship will not be straightforward until such time as the battle for control at Ibrox has been won.
"The Rangers situation is the one example that has dragged on for over a year and it still needs to be resolved," he said. "Most issues you can deal with and move on from.
"It's been really tough. It does take a lot out of you because you're not taking about problems you can make a simple decision on.
"We've had hours of meetings, we've had reports and investigations and legal challenges. You've got to be really sharp and able to absorb hugely complex issues.
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PENSIONER Jenny Methven died under a "rain of awful blows" from a family friend, a jury were told yesterday.
Prosecutor Alex Prentice QC pinned the blame for the 80-year-old's murder on her son's pal William Kean.
Jenny was found by her son in the blood-spattered kitchen of their cottage in February.
Kean is standing trial for her murder at the High Court in Glasgow.
In his closing statment, Mr Prentice said: "Mr Kean, for whatever reason, is the person who rained these awful blows on Jenny Methven and having completed that ghastly crime, he left her to die and went about his business as if nothing had happened.
"This was a savage, brutal murder and we may never know what the motive was."
Kean, of Blairgowrie, Perthshire, denies murdering Jenny in nearby Forteviot.
Mr Prentice told the jury of nine women and six men that there were only two questions to consider.
He said: "Was murder committed, was Jenny Methven murdered? I suggest the answer to that would be unanimously yes.
"Mrs Methven was beaten round the head with a blunt instrument. The back of her skull is fractured and pieces of bone entered her brain and she died.
"The second question is who did murder her and I will be inviting you to convict Mr Kean."
The court has heard that Jenny's body was found by her son David, 58, when he returned home around 5.10pm.
Mr Prentice said it was a circumstantial case but added: "People who commit crimes tend not to want to get caught and tend to commit them where only two people are present – the murderer and the victim."
The prosecutor said that Kean's DNA was found on Jenny's wrist and a fingerprint in blood was found on the wall phone beside her body.
Kean's mobile phone put him in the vicinity of her cottage that morning and his car was caught on CCTV heading in that direction.
Jenny was on the phone to a friend when she ended the call, saying: "There's a vehicle reversing up my driveway."
Mr Prentice told the jury: "I say to you, you should conclude that the car reversing was Mr Kean's."
During the trial, jurors heard there was more than £100,000 in cash hidden in the cottage.
Mr Prentice said Kean's suggestion that Jenny had been killed by Glasgow gangsters and her son knew who had done it but wouldn't tell the police was "utter fantasy".
He told the jury this was "not some kind of gangland hit".
He added: "Crime gangs resort to violence but they don't target 80-year-old women."
Brian Connachie QC, defending, told jurors: "The Crown are looking to show you the fingerprint, the DNA and the blood. That's the golden ticket, the crime solved."
Mr Connachie said that if Kean had killed Jenny, there would have been blood on his clothes, face and car.
He went on: "There is no evidence of any blood on him or in the car. He meets people an hour later in Broughty Ferry and he's not covered in blood."
Mr Connachie said Kean's claim during the trial that he found Jenny's body but walked away without calling police was "immoral and horrific, but it doesn't make him a murderer".
The trial, before Lord Glennie, continues.


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A Personality Profile of the Black Athlete in College Football.
Nation, Jack R.; LeUnes, Arnold
Psychology: A Quarterly Journal of Human Behavior, v20 n3-4 p1-3 1983
Compared Black and White college football players (N=55) who completed a battery of psychological tests. Results showed Black seniors were more authoritarian than White seniors and more external and chance-oriented. Black athletes attributed less significance to the mental aspects of athletic competition than Whites. (JAC)
Descriptors: Athletes, Black Students, Football, Higher Education, Personality Traits, Racial Differences, White Students
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The Kingston restaurant offers more than 70 sandwiches that are completely customizable to match individuals' tastes, said owner Brian Franklin.
"It's more of a suggestion," he said of the menu.
The sizable subs measure about 16 inches, and may be purchased as a whole or a half. Most weigh about two pounds, Franklin said.
"It's about the value. I think we give more than people expect," he said.
The cheesesteaks and Italian subs are probably the most popular, Franklin said. Those seeking lighter fare tend to enjoy the grilled chicken wraps, he added.
The "fat" subs are a newer addition, inspired by the "fat sandwiches" served by food truck vendors at Rutgers University in New Jersey.
After noticing Wilkes University students frequenting the restaurant, Franklin decided he had an audience for the ingredient-packed subs.
Chicken fingers, fries and mozzarella sticks smothered in wing sauce and topped with provolone cheese make up the "Fat Dagwood." The "Fat Parmesan" substitutes marinara sauce for wing sauce. Franklin observed that students usually order a side or two as well as a two-liter of soda to complete their meal.
"I guess they work up that appetite," Franklin said. "We were selling so many of them we added them to the menu."
Franklin owns the eatery with his wife, Janine. It's been open for about eight years, after the couple found the Market Street building.
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I've been looking everywhere for a new denim skirt, but could ever find one. So, I thought, why not just make one out of some jeans? I had a pair of jeans that were too long and too big, but didn't want to get rid them. After some reasearch, something I'm good at doing when I want to make something, I found this great tut. This tut I pretty much followed step-by-step, and the only changes I made were cutting it a little shorter, although it's still has quite a bit of length, and making my hem an inch and a half. I love how the skirt turned out, and may have to make another one with lighter denim!
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old boss of bmw m power division at the top of this .
should be good
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Couldn't resist . 28k in the U.K. So 45k here for an I 30 no thanks
colin, richard, bertie, frank, gone but not forgotten.
Peter marks account Reopened in Style!!!
Looks like a luv child of a focus and golf
As joe says 40k plus ere is prices for it
Would need to be a good bit cheaper than golf r I would have thought
The new fast Yaris is priced at 42k ..
Looks like a good drive but price is bananas
Maybe I am wrong but I can't see these being as popular as golf r or fords etc that's some honk of money but why not do what we all do here buy a Subaru and tlc it and plenty of change left for petrol just a matter of interest what's tax like???
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it's also bananas that anyone can justify 50k on a golf or focus but sheep will be sheep and follow what they are told is the best . personaly i like the look of it and for thee sake of been different id have one .
brand snobbery is a funny thing , if I told someone that I had a 35k Skoda on the drive way 15 or 20 years ago I'd have been karted off to the nut house.
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I think the only people laughing are Hyundai they have a massive chunk of the market.. huge in the states myself I think they are pushing really hard and it's showing in there range also kia are making some great stuff ....I'd Deffo drive that ....
My missus has diesel i30 and its pleasure to drive also returning great mpg. I think they massively upped their design. The only thing l have against them is that the cops using them at the moment
New car money is insane, 40k for a hot hatch thats worth 30 the second the tyres hit the road. I dont get the buying new cars thing, is it a reg plate snobbery thing? would you not rather let someone else take the hit on the depreciation and grab a 15 or 16 car for substantially less than sticker?
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im biased against Hyundai cause my wife had a santa fe and it was the worst car ever in terms of stuff going wrong, flywheel, engine, allignment, electrics. consensus is that they're much improved now..
tommy 555 (29-09-2017)
Think most modern diesel suffer with flywheel
The new Santa Fe is a lovely place to be I'd love one but as Dave says madness buying new .....but if you can afford it well and good ....I'm going to have to change her car soon don't know what to do
That thing Is cool. Pity it's just not affordable here like most hot hatches due to the rigging of the car market by the government.
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Ireland is crazy when it comes to new car pricing out looking at new metal with sister recently M2 we looked at 87k
Unreal car but crazy stuff.
My opnion on the Hyundai i30N is fair play to them for getting stuck in and producing something that's right up there with the best look forward to the group tests to see what's what but being compared in dynamic terms to Renault Sport cars is high praise
Have drove few of there ix35 the interior quality and ride comfort (crashy & harsh) not up there with best.
Feels like it won't last like a Golf.
Badge snobbery a funny thing as Tommy mentioned the Skoda comparison this N range if cars can prob lift Hyundai sane way Vrs did for skoda
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ix35 is an old generation car at this stage . having driven it's replacement the Tuscan the overall quality is well up there. and with the wife having had the weird little veloster thing , i genuinely struggle to find a quality difference between Hyundai and any vw car in similar price range . I'd be willing to bet we will see a few n cars on our roads if tax is competitive and it'll be cheaper an a golf r or an rs focus when both cars carry similar specs .
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A performance car with (I assume) Hyundai's 5 year unlimited warrant - if nothing else they deserve credit for trying. Could have tried harder with the styling but other than that I agree with Tommy...I think it will sell better than expected.


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Most of the time I hand-quilt baby quilts.
This time I waited too long to get started, and I really didn't think about how much quilting there would be. By the time I finished quilting them my fingers were really, really sore. I will spare you that picture!
My sweet friend, Penny, made these beautiful embroidered labels for me.
I had trimmed the corners off the Flying Geese blocks.....
.....so I ended up with enough Half-Square Triangles to make a couple more baby quilts. These are just the blocks from the peach quilt. I also have the turquoise blocks to use.
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We got to see Grace being a badass, and the curiously intense Oedipal bond between Constantine and Grace got plenty of air time as well. As these were the elements of the pilot that first grabbed me, I'm happy.
- The Mob Doctor Recap: 'Legacy' (Season 1, Episode 5)
Posted on 06 Nov 2012 in Movies & TV, Television
And The Mob Doctor's back! For now, at least. Judging by the previews, next week's episode triggers the big showdown between Constantine and Moretti. So tonight's episode is one of those calm-before-the-storm episodes in which not much happens.
- Vegas Recap: 'Solid Citizens' (Season 1, Episode 5)
Posted on 31 Oct 2012 in Movies & TV, Television
So, I suspect the question "What happened in the fifth episode of Vegas?" is not uppermost in many people's minds this week. On the other hand, the show does provide a getaway to someplace where it's warm, dry, sunny, and fifty years in the past.
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Savino's got surprises for everyone. His expansion plans have been nixed by Angelo back in Chicago, but he's not letting that stop him. He wants to buy out a fading casino with large lot, the Tumbleweed, and he wants to pay for it with a loan. From a bank.
- Vegas Recap: 'All That Glitters' (Season 1, Episode 3)
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Three weeks in, I'll admit that Vegas is growing on me, even though tonight it displayed one of the common weaknesses of period dramas – portraying the smart and/or sympathetic characters as seeing things just as we enlightened folk of the future do.
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Posted on 09 Oct 2012 in Movies & TV, Television
We end with Moretti planning his triumphant return to Chicago, but we'll have to wait to see it – next week it's major league baseball, and the next new episode doesn't air until November 5. I was surprisingly disappointed to hear that – for all its flaws, the show's convinced me it's got a story to tell.
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In its second week, Cowboys vs. Gangsters!, aka Vegas, seems to be finding its feet.
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As in previous weeks, the "mob" part continues to be more compelling than the "doctor" part. But this week, the two are intertwined with a certain elegance in a solid episode with a big reveal at the end.
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Posted on 25 Sep 2012 in Movies & TV, Television
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But, the painting tells us, to impose order is also to fictionalize, to distort. It's a good lesson to keep in mind in a season when we are being presented with carefully packaged versions of history, complete with carefully articulated morals.
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As befits a former poet, Hughes's writing is economical yet stylish, atmospheric without being fussy. And as with almost any vintage detective novel, there are many pleasures to be had in the details of an earlier America.
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Physicians nationwide have made it known that they feel inflated bureaucratic demands are forcing them to spend more time doing paperwork than doctoring. In response, the American Medical Association (AMA) launched the "Heal the Claims Process™" campaign.
November was "Heal the Claims Process™" month, but it's always a good time to give your claims process a checkup.
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Non-linear growth models for bullfrog tadpoles
Modelos de crescimento não-lineares para girinos de rã-touro
Cleber Fernando Menegasso MansanoI; Marta Verardino De StéfaniII; Marcelo Maia PereiraII; Beatrice Ingrid MacenteIII
IUniversidade Estadual Paulista/UNESP - Centro de Aquicultura - Via Professor Paulo Donato Castellane - s/n - 14884-900 - Jaboticabal - SP - Brasil - firstname.lastname@example.com
IIUniversidade Estadual Paulista/UNESP - Centro de Aquicultura - Jaboticabal - SP - Brasil
IIIUniversidade Estadual Paulista/UNESP - Departamento de Reprodução e Obstetrícia - Jaboticabal - SP - Brasil
Describing animal growth rate using non-linear models allows a detailed evaluation of growth behavior. Four non-linear models were used to fit weight gain and total length data of bullfrog (Lithobates catesbeianus) tadpoles, as follows: Gompertz, Y = A exp (-exp (-b (t-T))); Von Bertalanffy, Y = A (1 - K exp (-B t))3; Logistic, Y = A (1+ K exp (-B t))-1 and Brody, Y=A (1 - K exp (-B t)). We used 3,240 tadpoles, with average initial weight 0.044 g and average total length 12.79 mm, stage 25 Gosner. The measurements were conducted every ten days on 10% of the animals in every tank. The criteria used to select the model that best described the growth curve were: Residual Mean Square (RMS); determination coefficient (R2); residual graphical analysis; residual mean absolute deviation (MAD). Brody mathematical model was not a good fit for weight gain and total length, while Von Bertalanffy model underestimated tadpole initial weight, thus showing the difficulty of mathematical models to describe biological data at this growth stage. However, the Gompertz and Logistic models were considered to be an adequate fitting to describe growth rate and total length of bullfrog tadpoles in captivity.
Index terms: Frog farm, growth curve, Lithobates catesbeianus.
Descrever o crescimento animal em modelos não lineares permite uma avaliação criteriosa desse comportamento, além de revelar informações importantes da resposta a um determinado tratamento. Neste estudo objetivou-se avaliar o ajuste do crescimento em peso e comprimento total de girinos de rã-touro (Lithobates catesbeianus) em quatro modelos não lineares: Gompertz, Y = A exp (-exp (-b (t-T))); Von Bertalanffy, Y = A (1 - K exp (-B t))3; Logístico, Y = A (1+ K exp (-B t))-1 e Brody, Y=A (1 - K exp (-B t)). Foram utilizados 3.240 girinos, com peso médio inicial de 0,044g e comprimento total médio de 12,79 mm, no estágio 25 de Gosner. Os critérios utilizados para selecionar o modelo que melhor descreveu a curva de crescimento foram: o quadrado médio do resíduo (QMR); o coeficiente de determinação (R2); análise gráfica dos resíduos; desvio médio absoluto dos resíduos (DMA). Os dados apresentados para peso e comprimento total não se ajustaram ao modelo de Brody, assim como o modelo de Von Bertalanffy subestimou os pesos iniciais, mostrando dificuldade de interpretação biológica, indicando que esses modelos não são apropriados para essa espécie na fase aquática. Os modelos de Gompertz e Logístico são adequados para descrever o crescimento e comprimento de girinos de rã-touro em cativeiro.
Termos para indexação: Ranicultura, curva de crescimento, Lithobates catesbeianus.
Frog culture in Brazil has shown, over the years, a great potential to produce good quality animal protein with low fat content. However, this area needs to be further explored by developing tools to assist researchers, technicians and producers to maximize production and minimize expenses in order to make frog breeding a more lucrative and attractive business (DIAS et al., 2010), and sustainable as well (BOSMA; VERDEGEM, 2011) to fulfill the need for a growing food demand with decreasing use of natural resources (SCHNEIDER et al., 2011).
Non-linear models consist of mathematical functions that are capable of describing growth rates during animal life span, making the growth rate more predictable and condensing the information of a data series into a small set of biologically interpretable parameters (SANTOS et al., 2007). The main models used to describe non-linear growth of aquatic animals are: Gompertz, Von Bertalanffy, Logístico and Brody (GOMIERO et al., 2009).
Anuran amphibians have a complex life cycle divided into two phases: aquatic and terrestrial (WILBUR, 1980), and these non-linear models need to fit both phases. In the aquatic phase, the Gompertz, Logistic and Von Bertalanffy models showed excellent fitting for different types of frogs (HOTA, 1994). In addition, the same non-linear models were a good fit for the terrestrial phase, while Gompertz and Logistic were the best fit for bullfrog in captivity (RODRIGUES et al., 2007) and Von Bertalanffy for pepper-frog (Leptodactylus labyrinthicus) (AGOSTINHO et al., 1991).
It is, therefore, necessary to apply mathematical models to better describe growth rates and characteristics, and how they relate to each other. This information is crucial to understand the processes involved in the growth of tadpoles and contributes to more effective use of nutrients to gain biomass.
This study was conducted to determine the best fittings of non-linear models for average growth pattern regarding body weight and total length of bullfrog tadpoles in captivity.
The experiment was conducted at Aquaculture Center, CAUNESP, Jaboticabal, São Paulo, Brazil, from November, 2010 to January, 2011.
We used 3,240 bullfrog tadpoles (Lithobates catesbeianus) with average initial weight and total length of, respectively, 0.044g and 12.79 mm, stage 25 (GOSNER, 1960). These tadpoles originated from the same spawn in the Raniculture Section of the Aquaculture Center, UNESP.
The tadpoles were housed in 18 asbestos tanks with 100 L capacity. These tanks were filled up with 90 L of water, equipped with individual water supply and drainage directly from the bottom. The water was supplied by a well and it was fully renewed (100%) every 24 hours. In order to maintain water quality, the tanks were siphoned every other day to remove feces and uneaten food.
Highest and lowest temperatures of both, room and water, were measured daily using a digital thermometer (maximum and minimum digital thermometer, Incoterm). Dissolved oxygen values (YSI professional oxygen meter), conductivity (handset conductivity meter Model CD-203 - PHTEK) and pH (handset pHmeter model pH-100 - PHTEK) were determined weekly.
The tadpoles were fed a diet containing 26.23% digestible protein (Table 1). Feed was offered freely three times a day, but avoiding surplus, so it was assumed that all the food was consumed (SOLOMON; TARUWA, 2011).
Live weight and total length data were obtained on days 1 (stage 25 of GOSNER, 1960), 13, 23, 33, 42, 55 and 64. The experiment finished when 20% of the tadpoles reached metamorphosis climax (stage 42 of GOSNER, 1960), that is, when they stopped feeding and started using the accumulated reserves (WRIGHT; RICHARDSON; BIGOS, 2011). Subsequently, samples consisting of 10% of the tadpoles from each tank were weighed on a digital scale (0.01g) and measured using digital caliper (0.001mm).
Four non-linear models were used to find the best fit to the average growth rate curves, as follows: Gompertz, Y = A exp (-exp (-b (t-T))); Von Bertalanffy, Y = A (1 - K exp (-B t))3; Logistic, Y = A (1+ K exp (-B t))-1 and Brody, Y=A (1 - K exp (-B t)).
The parameters used in these models are defined as: "Y"= measurement values (g or cm); "t" = experimental days; "A" = body weight or length at maturity; "K"= scale parameter with no biological interpretation for the Von Bertalanffy, Logistic and Brody models; "b" and "B" = growth rate at maturity; "T"= growth rate at maturity for the Gompertz model, where it represents the day of maximum growth. When the parameters were adjusted, we used the NLIN procedure of Statistical Analyses System-SAS (2001), and the parameter estimates were obtained by iterative modified Gauss-Newton method, developed by Hartley (1961), for non-linear models.
The criteria used to select the model that best described the growth curve were: Residual Mean Square (RMS); determination coefficient (R2) calculated as the square of the correlation between the observed and the estimated weights, which is equivalent to 1 - (SSR-TSSc) (SOUZA, 1998), wherein SSR is the sum of squares of the residue and TSSc the total sum of squares corrected by the average; residual graphical analysis; residual mean absolute deviation (MAD) (SARMENTO et al., 2006), calculated as: MAD = nΣi=1 [Yi - Yi] /n, where Yi is the observed value,Yi , the estimated values and n, sample size. The lower the MAD value, the better the fit; the curve shape; the number of iterations and biological interpretation of the parameters.
Distribution of studentized residuals, ti* = ti (n - p - 1 / n - p - ti2) 1/2 where ti*= studentized residual, ti= standardized residual, n= number of observations, p= equation estimators, these diagnostic measures were used for detect aberrant points (LEMONTE, 2008).
Lowest and highest water temperatures during the experimental period were 24.2 ± 1.4 and 26.0 ± 1.2° C, respectively. These values are within the optimal range for growing tadpoles (24.5 to 29.1º C) (LIMA; CASALI; AGOSTINHO, 2003; BAMBOZZI et al., 2004; HAYASHI et al., 2004; SEIXAS FILHO et al., 2008). Water temperature directly affects tadpole metabolism due to its ectothermic quality, that is, favorable thermal conditions speed up growth rate and body weight gain (Hoffman et al., 1989).
Average levels of dissolved oxygen in the water (3.07±0.92 mg/L) were within the acceptable limit for growing tadpoles, according to Hailey et al. (2006). Water conductivity in the tanks (38±0.26 µm/cm) was also within the range established by Sipaúba (1994), between 23.0 and 71.0 µS/cm, for aquatic organisms in earthen ponds. Average pH of the water (6.17±0.34) was also close to the value of 6.5 determined by Albinati, Lima and Donzele (2001).
In order to validate the mathematical model, several precautions were taken during the experimental period such as, adequate population density and feed supply and constant water temperature as well, following recommendations by Browne, Pomering and Hamer et al. (2003).
The growth parameter values, body weight and total length, given by the mathematical models are shown in table 2. It can also be seen that the convergence criteria was reached in the Gompertz, Von Bertalanffy and Logistic models. The Brody model did not converge to the data set for weight and length observed in this paper.
The asymptotic or mature weight (A) (Table 2) found for the Logistic model displayed the lowest value, followed by the Gompertz and Von Bertalanffy models. For total length at maturity, parameter A displayed the same behavior. The values of A for the models studied here are biologically interpretable for bullfrog tadpoles.
Similar behavior of A was observed when these same nonlinear models were used to describe the growth rate of Santa Inês sheep (SARMENTO et al., 2006), tilapia (Oreochormis niloticus) (SANTOS et al., 2007) and piracanjuba (Brycon orbignyanus) (GOMIERO et al., 2009).
The body weight (8.17g) observed at the end of 64 experimental day was reached when 20% of the animals displayed metamorphic climax, but the remaining animals continued to grow until metamorphosis was complete. Therefore, the Gompertz model estimated 10.66 g body weight at the end of metamorphosis for these animals, close to the value reported by Castro and Pinto (2000) of 10.73g on the 90th day, when temperature ranged between 24.5 and 27.5º C.
The parameters b of Gompertz and B of Von Bertalanffy and Logistic models (Table 2), represent the growth rate at maturity, where the lowest value of these parameters represents the highest weight and total length at maturity (FREITAS, 2005). The Logistic model yielded the highest value, among the three models, and the lowest body weight and total length at maturity. The opposite was observed for the Von Bertalanffy model that displayed the lowest K value and, consequently, the highest body weight and total length at maturity.
The values of R2 (Table 3) found for all models were excellent, with minor differences for both body weight and total length. However, R2 is not reliable to determine the best fit for nonlinear models (SILVA et al., 2011). The values found for RMS for all models, show no significant differences among them for both body weight and total length (Table 3), which can also be observed from the MAD values (Table 3).
As for the number of iterations, the lower value is the better, since it shows whether the curve parameters adjusted all the data together. Among the models, the Gompertz yielded the lowest number of iterations to adjust weight gain, which shows how easy it was to obtain a good fit between the estimated and observed data (Table 3).
The Von Bertalanffy model yielded negative values and consequently, it underestimated tadpole initial weight (Figure 1). The Logistic model displayed the final value closest to the one observed; however, it overestimated the initial value (Figure 1). The Gompertz model overestimated slightly the final value compared to the Logistic model, but the initial values were better and the overall fitting was also better (Figure 1).
The growth curves for body weight estimated by the models displayed sigmoidal shape (Figure 1). According to Vargas et al. (2005), when the curve displays a higher and longer plateau, animal growth is more efficient. The estimated curves for total length (Figure 1) do not display the characteristic sigmoidal shape of those found for body weight.
As for total length, the Gompertz and Von Bertalanffy models displayed similar characteristics and both were good fit. The Logistic model, despite its particularities regarding residual dispersion, has shown fairly homogeneous characteristics. Therefore, these three models are reliable to predict the total length of tadpoles (Figure 2).
The models used in this study had advantages and disadvantages. The Logistic model had the lowest residual dispersion for body weight, but the discrepancies between 33 and 64 days old were accentuated (Figure 2). According to Guedes et al. (2004), the Logistic model describes adequately laboratory growth rate of live organisms with simple life cycles, but it does not describe adequately complex life cycles.
Residual dispersion (Figure 2) shows similar adjustment for these three models. It alternates along the period the best fit. The residual dispersion of the Von Bertalanffy model was close to the values observed for the Gompertz model (Figure 2); however, it underestimated animal initial weight and overestimated the weight and length total at maturity (Figure 1). The Von Bertalanffy model is used by several authors due their versatile, because describe of growth of many species of animals studied (FREITAS, 2005). However, it has the disadvantage of not describing adequately initial growth (GAMITO, 1998).
The Gompertz model had lower residual scattering for body weight and total length (Figure 2) and displayed good fit for initial weight and total length; however, it overestimated weight and total length at 64 days old. Anuran tadpoles have rapid growth and short life cycle (MONELLO et al., 2006) and the Gompertz model is considered to adequately describe the species growth (GAMITO, 1998). These characteristics allow excellent fitting to nonlinear models, such as Gompertz, Von Bertalanffy and Logistic (HOTA, 1994), mainly for weight as a function of time (days) (SOCKMAN et al., 2008).
The choice of an appropriate growth model is important since it can impact decisively simulation results (WAFA; PIERRE; DANIEL, 2004), what simulated, at work, contribute to help in good management of the tadpoles.
The data presented in this study did not fit adequately the Brody and Von Bertalanffy models, the latter underestimated initial weight, thus showing the difficulty of biological interpretation and the inadequacy of the models to describe this species during the aquatic phase.
Among the four models evaluated, the Gompertz and Logistic models were found to adequately describe the body weight and total length of bullfrog tadpoles raised in captivity.
The authors thank FAPESP funding the study and for the M. S. scholarship.
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Try these delicious maraschino cherry recipes that can be easily prepared in your kitchen.
Maraschino Cherry Pound Cake
1 ½ cups shortening
6 eggs
½ teaspoons baking powder
1 Tablespoon butternut flavored extract
3 cups white sugar
3 ¾ cups all-purpose flour
¾ cup milk
¾ cups of Dell's Maraschino Cherries, chopped
3 ounce cream cheese
¼ cup butter
2 cups sifted confectioners' sugar
½ cup flaked coconut
In a large bowl, cream the shortening and the white sugar together until fluffy. Add eggs one at a time to the creamed mixture, beating well after each addition. Add the flavoring. In another bowl, combine flour and baking powder together. Add these dry ingredients alternating with the milk to the creamed mixture. Stir 3/4 cup chopped cherries into the batter. Pour batter into a greased tube pan, and bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 1 1/2 hours.
To Make the Frosting: Cream together the cream cheese and the butter in a small mixing bowl. Gradually add the confectioners' sugar. Stir in the 1/4 cup cherries and coconut. Frost cake when cool.
2 cups flour
1/3 cup sugar
3/4 cup butter (or marg.), softened
2 eggs, slightly beaten
1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1/3 cup flour
1 1/2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. vanilla
10-oz. jar of Dell's Maraschino Cherries, drained/chopped (reserve juice)
1/2 cup chopped walnuts
2 tbsp. butter (or marg.), softened
2 1/2 cups powdered sugar
3 to 4 tbsp. reserved cherry juice
4 tbsp. flaked coconut
Heat oven to 350 degrees. In large bowl, combine first 3 ingredients; blend until crumbly. Press mixture into ungreased 13x9-inch pan. Bake at 350 for 12 to 15 minutes or until lightly browned. In small bowl, combine all filling ingredients; mix well. Pour over crust. Bake at 350 for 20 to 25 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool. In small bowl, combine all frosting ingredients except coconut; beat until light and fluffy. Spread frosting over cooled bars; sprinkle with coconut. Cut into 36 bars.
Maraschino Cherry Loaf
1 10 ounce jar Dell's Maraschino Cherries
1/2 cup butter, softened
3/4 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla or almond extract
2 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup slivered or chopped almonds (optional)
Drain cherries and reserve juice adding water if needed to make 1/2 cup liquid. Chop cherries coarsely and pat dry. In mixing bowl cream butter and sugar adding eggs one at a time. Beat in vanilla or almond flavor. Combine flour, baking powder and salt and add to creamed mixture alternately with cherry juice. Stir in cherries and almonds if using. Place in greased and floured 9 x 5 inch loaf pan. Bake at 350 degrees F for 50 minutes or tested done in center with toothpick. Cool 10 minutes in pan and remove. Wrap and slice the next day. Bread freezes well.
Maraschino Cherry Cake Pops
1 package (9 ounce) white cake mix – this is a 1 layer, smaller box of cake mix
1 egg white
½ cup maraschino cherry juice
¼ cup finely chopped Dell's Maraschino Cherries, drained well
Chocolate candy melt coating or white chocolate glaze
Prepare cake mix according to package a direction (which includes the egg white), substituting maraschino cherry juice for water. Fold in chopped maraschino cherries. Fill each cooking reservoir with about 1 tablespoon of batter. Bake 4 to 5 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into a cake pop comes out clean. Allow to cool and glaze or coat, as desired.
Makes about 3 dozen cake pops
Tip: Use a chocolate candy melt coating for a taste similar to a chocolate covered cherry.
Cherry Chocolate Layer Cake
1 cup of butter
1 ¼ cups sugar
¾ cup brown sugar
3 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2 cups of flour
1 ½ teaspoons of baking soda
½ teaspoon baking powder
¼ teaspoon salt
1 ½ cups buttermilk
1 package 8 oz. cream cheese
6 tablespoons butter
1 teaspoon almond extract
3 cups confectioners' sugar
1 tablespoon of Dell's Maraschino Cherry juice
2/3 cups of chopped pecans
2/3 cup of Dell's Maraschino Cherry
3 cups confectioners' sugar
½ cup baking cocoa
½ cup butter
1/3 cup half-and-half cream
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
Preheat oven to 350°. In a large bowl, cream butter, sugar and brown sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in vanilla. Combine flour, cocoa, baking soda, baking powder and salt; add to creamed mixture alternately with buttermilk, beating well after each addition.
Transfer to two greased and floured 9-in. round baking pans. Bake 25-30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks to cool completely.
In a large bowl, beat the cream cheese, butter and extract until smooth. Add confectioners' sugar and cherry juice; beat until smooth. Stir in pecans and cherries. In another bowl, combine the frosting ingredients; beat until smooth.
Cut each cake horizontally into two layers. Place one cake layer on a serving plate; spread with 1 cup filling. Repeat layers twice. Top with remaining cake layer. Spread frosting over top and sides of cake. Garnish with chocolate curls and a cherry if desired. Refrigerate until serving. Yield: 12 servings.


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Prof. Dr. Axel Merseburger
Lübeck, Germany
Prof. Dr. Axel S. Merseburger is the Professor and Chairman of the Department of UrologyCampus Lübeck, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Professor Merseburger obtained his medical degree from Hannover Medical School in 2002 after a one year academic research program in Washington D.C. where he finished his M.D. thesis. He completed a residency in surgery and urology at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen, Germany, and was a Research Fellow at the Miller School of Medicine, Miami, USA, in 2006. In 2008, he accepted a position in Hannover and was promoted to Associate Professorship in 2009 and further obtained full Professorship in 2012. Professor Merseburger is board certified in urology and is a member of numerous national and international urological and oncological associations. In addition to serving as a reviewer and member of the editorial board of many prime-source journals, Professor Merseburger is the Associate Editor of the "World Journal of Urology". Furthermore, he is a member of the European Association of Urology (EAU) Renal Cell Cancer Guideline Group and Chairman of the EAU Guideline Group for Lasers and Technologies. Professor Merseburger has won multiple awards, stipends and prizes for his molecular and clinical research and has published more than 200 papers in peer-reviewed journals.


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As the run on ammunition continues, prices for popular rounds like 9mm continue to rise.
On Feb. 10 I was buying a 50 round box of 9mm ammo online for 17 to 18 dollars. By mid-March that same ammo was $34.97. On May 10 it was over $40.
And this is the cheap 9mm ammo–imported from the former Soviet bloc. All the prices go far north of $40 as you get into other ammo brands.
As Breitbart News reported in April, ammo manufacturers are producing 24 hours a day to meet demand. According to those makers, the scarcity of ammo isn't due to any one cause. Rather, private buyers and government orders, combined with the rhetoric of gun control, has brought about "politically-induced panic buying" that creates long lines at the ammo counters of retailers like Wal-Mart–where customers line up to buy a box of one caliber of ammo or another as soon as supply trucks are unloaded.
National Shooting Sports Spokesman Mike Bazinet explained the buying panic best when he said, "People buy ammunition when they see it even if they don't need it." Thus, the ammo shortages many feared months ago have "[become] self-fulfilling over time."


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awesome music
i reccomended it for a collection and my vote of 5 raised the average score by 0.01
awesome music
i reccomended it for a collection and my vote of 5 raised the average score by 0.01
Thanks for the 10 and 5 :)
Nice voting power! =P
Sweet music a bit confusing but overall good I hope to see more from you!
OF course, of course!
Thanks for the 10! =P
id like to ask a few things
i liked the movie, a little confusing at the end for some reason im not sure of, but:
1) was making this flash difficult?
2)what flash maker did u use to make this?
plz respond to this, cuz id like to know
Thanks for the 9 =D Yah, i know. The end was the worst part of the flash, and it was to fast, and didn't quite make sense, except to me, since i made it! So, sorry about that! :P
1) Not entirely.. It was just time consuming since this was the very first real thing that I've made..
2) Flash Professional 8. Yes, i know, terrible video for such an incredible program! :P
Not bad
For a first, it was good. Like the idea. Keep going and you'll be making kick ass stuff soon.
Thanks! :) I'll be sure to come up with some more creative ideas! As soon as i figure out how to properly work sound :P
As others are saying...
Keep at it you can only get better.
Will do! Thanks!


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Information on Total Mobility Scheme and the agencies that provide assessments in the Otago region. There are agencies in Alexandra, Balclutha, Dunedin, Oamaru...
Queenstown based adventures that have been assessed for accessibility by an independent wheelchair user.


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Sorting through one of my boxes of random papers stashed away years ago in one of my needs to clear off my desk surfaces I've come across a 9 page illustration of your song. Would you like a copy of my copy? I'd like to keep my "original". And you may already have this item. If you don't have it, I would be pleased to photocopy and mail, or photograph or scan and send .jpg files via e-mail.
Glad I was able to find a web site for you.
Susan Hopkins,
Urbana, IL