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Baseball great, Babe Ruth starting to trot around the bases after hitting a home run. An inverted stunt biplane, N57323 with "EM Avery" readable on fuselage while flying inverted. A wing walker is strapped under the airplane (on top wing, now underneath). The airplane rolls over into upright position, trailing white smoke to be more easily seen by spectators on the ground. A 1920s jazz band playing in a night club. A couple and then four women, dancing the Charleston. View from car driving along New York street surrounded by nighttime illuminations. A flagpole sitter atop structure behind an RKO Keith's Advertising sign. Closeup of the man on his perch. A room full of women sewing garments in a factory. Formal dressed couples at a city supper club, where an orchestra is playing. Exhausted couples clinging to one another on dance floor during a marathon dance contest. Gangsters firing a machine gun from window of a moving car. Charles A. Lindbergh steps past a policeman, to board his Ryan monoplane, "Spirit of St.Louis,"at Roosevelt field, Long Island, New York, on May 20, 1927. View of takeoff roll. Registration number "NX-211," visible atop the right wing. Manhattan ticker tape parade welcoming Lindbergh back to New York City, following his successful solo transatlantic flight. Charles Lindbergh speaking at a microphone. Traders on floor of the New York Stock Exchange during era of frantic stock market speculation. Money counted out at bank teller window. Labor strife at the gates of a Massey-Harris Company plant, with workers fleeing attacks by men with clubs hired by the company. Boy workers pose for a photograph While narrator mentions Child labor Act declared unconstitutional (1922). A girl worker. Boys employed as coal miners. Workers installing body panels on cars and working on engines in automobile production and assembly lines. Partially completed vehicles driving out of an automobile factory. Babe Ruth rounding third base and coming to home plate after hitting a home run in a baseball game.
Ground and aerial views during construction of the Miller Highway on the west side of Manhattan Island in New York, United States. It was named after Julius Miller, the President of New York's Manhattan Borough from 1922 to 1930. It was also known as the West Side Elevated Highway or the West Side Highway. It was the first elevated highway in the United States. The elevated highway under construction. Men work on the highway. Sections also designated NY Routes 9A and NY 27A. The Miller Highway was shut down in 1973 and largely dismantled in 1989.
Japanese Ambassador to the United States Hiroshi Saito calls on U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull In December 1934 to inform that Japan will denounce the Washington Naval Treaty on 1922 which limited the size of the Japanese fleet. A close up of the ambassador Saito. He exits the State, War, and Navy Building (later the Executive Office Building) and gets in a car. Next segment: A female pilot Helen Richey becomes the first woman to fly mail in the United States. Richey stands in front of an aircraft and shakes hand with an official. Richey in the cockpit and the aircraft takes off. From a December 14, 1959 newsreel recounting events 25 years earlier.
Jazz trumpeter and singer Louis Armstrong in the United States. Armstrong speaking during an interview. He says that he was born in 1900, in "James Alley." (He was actually born in 1901.) A large crowd gathered likely on Canal Street in New Orleans during Mardi Gras. A large float in the parade. Highlights of Louis's life. Louis Armstrong's childhood home, shortly before it was demolished in the mid-1960s. In 1901, Louis Armstrong is born on August 4th, in New Orleans, Louisiana, to Mary (Mayann) and William Armstrong. A photograph of Louis with his mother, Mayann, and sister, Mama Lucy (Beatrice), c. 1922. View of the French Quarter in New Orleans, with characteristic ironwork and porches. A horse carriage and a vehicle moving down a city street. A view of Louis Armstrong's teachers Bunk Johnson, Joe 'King' Oliver and others. Louis Armstrong says that he has played with all the best musicians. Louis Armstrong seated with a trumpet in his hand and other musicians standing beside him.
Japanese Ambassador to the United States Hirosi Saito officially declares that Japan would no longer abide by the terms of the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922. Hirosi Saito steps from his car and enters the Old Executive Office building in Washington DC. Exterior view of Executive office building. He descends the steps of the building and enters his car.
Scenes from a November 12, 1921 protest parade of anti-war women march to support disarmament and promote messages of peace and "No more war". The parade coincided with the start of the Washington Naval Conference, also called the Washington Disarmament Conference. Women march in New York City, under the Washington Square Arch, with a banner that reads "The way to disarm is to disarm." A banner for "Religious Society of Friends" (Quakers). People march holding placards demanding complete military disarmament. A placard reads "Thou shalt not kill" and another reads "War means death famine pestilence." Another sign reads, "Cooperation pays better than competition. Let's try it between nations." A banner reads "Mothers do you teach your sons to save life or to kill?". View changes to parade as it continues on 5th Avenue in Manhattan, New York City. Large banner includes "Immediate, Universal, complete disarmament". Scene changes to Washington DC, several months later, on July 29, 1922. A group of pacifist women in Washington DC in front of their "No more war' banner. Women hang "no more war" signs on a artillery piece that is on display in a public square. Group of women raise their banner for "No more war" in front of the Headquarters of the Council for Limitation of Armaments, located at the National League of Women Voters headquarters building, at 532 17th St., NW, Washington, DC. (The Friends Disarmament Council of the Society of Friends was involved in this group, which was predecessor of the National Council for Prevention of War in the United States.)


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This week at church, our bishop challenged us to come up with a goal for our family for the coming year. He asked us to choose one thing to add to or take away from our lives that would bring us closer together as a family. So we had a family meeting.
First, Dan asked the kids if they knew what a goal was. Magoo said, "Me! Me! It's when you win the game!" Apparently he's been watching a lot of hockey in his spare time.
Wanda just sat there in her swing like an INFANT and offered no insight whatsoever. She's kind of been acting like the family freeloader lately.
Laylee said, "A goal is a plan that you come up with that you can do like if I said I was gonna be nice to Magoo for like seven years or something."
Dan stifled a giggle. So seven years of kindness-in-plenty until Magoo turns 12, and then 7 years of famine ensue? Nice. But she had the definition of "goal" right, something we can plan to do, preferably with a timeline and some specific details mapped out. Then Dan opened the floor for suggestions. Here's what we came up with:
- Eat more cookies together. Magoo was the first to chime in. He came up with this goal, specifying chocolate cookies would be best.
- Make more cookies. Laylee enjoys eating cookies but she felt that a better goal would involve the process of making them, specifically eating the dough and tasting the sugar, along with the aforementioned chowing down on the round sweet treats.
- Dance more. I don't want you to get the impression from this goal that we have been neglecting our parental duty of getting our freak on with our progeny. Quite the contrary. We have dance parties quite frequently Chez Thompson. This goal suggestion only goes to show that more dancing can only serve to strengthen family relationships.
- Play more games together. Magoo suggested games you can play on the TV, specifically Wii games, more specifically 4-player Wii games, more specifically can we stop talking about this and go play Super Mario RIGHT NOW?
- Do service for others at least once a week as a family. Can you spot a Mom suggestion a mile away? Yeah. Well we're gonna do it and we're gonna like it. Got a problem with that? Everybody was pretty much on board with this one when I said that "service" could include making cookies for someone and taking them over to their house. I suppose we could even dance while we're baking or delivering the cookies. The kids decided that service didn't sound too bad.
- Get back to sharing the best and worst parts of each of our days during our dinner conversation each night. This is a tradition we did every night for a couple of years. We've sort of dropped it recently but Dan suggested we pick it up again. It was frequently fun and always enlightening.
- Teach each other more songs. This one came from Laylee who has, to date, written about 4.7 million songs and is always willing to teach them to anyone who's got an hour and about 80 gigs of brain RAM available. We wrote this goal on the list but I'm-a-hopin' it's not one we work on frequently.
- Play the "I Like You" game more. We like to sit around the dinner table and point at each other in succession scream/saying "I liiike YOU!" We start out slow and quiet and quickly build to a total frenzy with fingers flying all around the table and people choking on the words as they yell and giggle, "I like YOU! I like YOU! I like YOU! I liiiiike YOU!" over and over and over again. I don't know how this particular tradition got started but it's definitely a keeper.
So that's what we wrote, and when it was time to vote on the one thing we would choose for our family goal, Dan made an executive decision and declared that we would focus on all 8 goals this year. Now normally I'd say that it's impossible to successfully work on that many things at once. However, each of these goals has at least one rabid sponsor who will work tirelessly to be sure that their agenda is front and center. I have no doubt that Laylee and Magoo will be sure to monitor how often we're making and eating cookies, playing games, dancing, and yelling loving words at each other. I'll try to focus on the other stuff.


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I got an e-mail from a lady asking me: "I just got into couponing and I heard you know how to coupon like those shows on TV. My question is that I get the newspapers on Sunday, but I don't have coupons for everything I need. How do you get coupons on everything you need?"
Even though it looks good on television, an extreme couponer does not purchase everything with coupons. The truth is that you can't live on toilet paper and mustard alone.
You can't get everything free, either. It's an easy misconception to have, and she is not the only one who has had it.
It's really easy to get a misconception about what an extreme couponer does. Not only is there a TV show about it, now we are seeing extreme couponing on episodes of other shows. On April 9, an episode of the Fox television show Bones had a storyline that involved the murder of an extreme couponer. The episode portrayed a group of extreme couponers as aggressive, rude, unhealthy and generally unpleasant people.
Here Comes Honey Boo Boo star Mama June is also an extreme couponer. If you've watched even two minutes of the show, you're bound to notice the hundreds of rolls of toilet paper in the dining room. Watch a few more, and you will see large stockpiles of bath products, personal care items, laundry detergent, candles, cereals and condiments.
Even though the family might not have the best of diets, Mama June makes a pretty good point regarding couponing. In an online segment on the TLC Web site titled Couponing Tips With Mama June, she said: "There's not a lot of meat product coupons out there nowadays, so if you can find these, like, staple items, then you use that to provide the money that you save to buy meat."
I might not agree with everything she does, but I applaud her efforts to help her family and the good things they do for their community.
I usually do not have coupons on milk, meat and vegetables.
In the summer, I've been known to spend nearly a third of our weekly budget at farmer's markets. I've been known to travel to Wrens or North Augusta to pick strawberries when they are in season and make my own jam. I grew up next to my grandparents' farm, and in the summer, nothing is better than freshly picked acidic garden tomatoes sliced between fresh bread, mayo, salt and pepper.
But like Mama June, I go to drugstores and grocery stores when they have good sales on medicines, hair care or personal care items and add those items to a small stockpile.
When I recently found a sale on Boca Burgers, I bought 10 packages for just 50 cents each to put into my deep freezer. My new pastime is trying to hide the meat substitute in our foods without my "meat and potatoes" family realizing it. Sometimes the substitutions are a success; others, not so much. But still, my family is trying new foods and recipes and keeping a varied diet.
One night we ate baked white BBQ chicken, au gratin potatoes and baked zucchini for dinner. The chicken was bought at Aldi, the mayonnaise and sugar used in the white BBQ sauce recipe were bought with coupons, the au gratin potatoes were bought with coupons and the zucchini was bought at Publix.
Once you understand that you will not always have coupons on everything, the trick is to find coupons on all your staples and household items.
Newspaper inserts are responsible for approximately 85 percent of redeemed coupons in the United States. The other 15 percent comes from magazines, Internet, Facebook, company Web sites, specially marked product packaging, direct mailings and in-store coupon booklets. It is easy to find coupons on your favorite staple products.
For example, if you love Jif peanut butter, call Jif and complain that you are disappointed that you never get Jif coupons in your local coupon inserts. My husband did that last year, and he received coupons from Jif by mail.


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Damascus, Jan 3 (IANS) Syrian government has condemned the blast that rocked the Lebanese capital of Beirut Thursday,
Criticising the blast, Syrian Information Minister Omran al-Zoubi termed the act as "a terrorist act condemned by all standards", Xinhua reported.
The minister pointed out that the war against terrorism is the duty of all countries in the world, and that the perpetrators of terrorism and the regimes supporting them must be held accountable.
At least four people were killed and over 60 injured in a booby trapped car that exploded Thursday afternoon in the Bir El Abd neighbourhood in the suburbs of Beirut.
Observers believe that the violence in Lebanon is a result of the spillover effect of the long-running Syrian crisis.


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Still, in our time, we use expressions that are much better discarded. Two of them are included in the sentence: The stars come out after sunset.
The sun doesn't set. From the Earth it doesn't seem to move much at all. What happens is that our position on the Earth spins away from it every night.
And the stars are always 'out', way out. We can't see them during the day because when we face the sun its glare lights up our thin layer of atmosphere. At night we turn away. The glare fades and we see the stars from our viewing platform in space. Like looking into our big back yard.


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Yum Brands said on Tuesday that an insider, Brian Niccol, would take the helm of Taco Bell, its thriving Mexican fast-food chain.
Mr. Niccol will replace Greg Creed, Taco Bell's current chief executive, next year, when Mr. Creed will become chief executive of Yum.
"He is a dynamic leader who genuinely cares about this brand, its people and the culture of the organization," Mr. Creed said in a statement. "He has a proven track record and the necessary vision to deliver our growth objectives."
Most recently, Mr. Niccol oversaw the introduction of a breakfast menu at Taco Bell that has quickly become known for using real men named Ronald McDonald to promote it, a not-so-subtle jab at McDonald's and its clown spokesman.
The chain is already adding another menu item to its breakfast lineup, a morning version of its Quesarito: a cheesy quesadilla wrapped burrito-style around scrambled eggs to which sausage, bacon or steak can be added. In an interview with Nation's Restaurant News, a trade publication, Mr. Niccol said the Quesarito, tested in Oklahoma City in a version with meat, cheese and rice, was "a killer product."
Mr. Creed's move was announced earlier this month. He will be replacing David C. Novak, whose tenure of more than a decade as Yum's chief executive saw the company grow explosively.
Mr. Creed oversaw the introduction of the Doritos Locos Tacos, in the largest product introduction in the company's history, and inaugurated the Cantina Bell menu of healthier options in partnership with the chef Lorena Garcia.
He inherits the company as KFC, another Yum property, is still working to regain momentum it lost in China, where concerns over bird flu put a dent in sales. The fried chicken chain's United States business also has stumbled, surpassed this year by Chick-fil-A.
The company also is experimenting with new, upscale chicken and Mexican restaurants, as well as the use of technology to improve sales and service.


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Five or six years ago, when I started using my PC to store and play songs in my music library, organization seemed like such a simple thing. Rip a CD or download a track, open my jukebox program and start listening. Nothing to it.
Computer-related activities are rarely that straightforward, as I discovered one day after getting a hankering to listen to Zuma, the ageless album from Neil Young and Crazy Horse. I had dropped the disc into my CD tray, clicked the rip button and, a few minutes later, got a message that all nine songs had successfully been added to my library. Problem was, when I navigated to the artist heading Neil Young and Crazy Horse in my MP3 player, there was no entry for the album, which I regard as one of the best 1970s rock 'n' roll albums ever.
After no shortage of expletive-laced troubleshooting, I finally discovered that my ripping program had labeled the artist Neil Young & Crazy Horse (note the ampersand instead of the "and"). It was a minor enough variation, but in the world of zeros and ones, it made all the difference. The alternative spelling caused Zuma to be balkanized in my fledgling music library, apart from the place where Weld, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere and the other albums by Neil Young and Crazy Horse lived. What was worse, I soon discovered that Young's solo albums were split up under categories including "Young, Neil" and "Neil Young."
Back in the days when music was stored exclusively on vinyl, tape or compact discs, finding the song or album you wanted was a snap because the music was tied to a tangible medium that was clearly marked. My Zuma CD was stamped with the name of the artist and album, and was even adorned with an American Indian drawing depicting a giant bird, pyramid and cactus. But as soon as I ripped the CD, the physical medium, and all its visual cues, disappeared.
Cool Tracks
• Tortoise and Bonnie "Prince" Billy: The Brave and the Bold
The album covers classic tunes from Bruce Springsteen, Elton John, the Minutemen and Devo. It's not officially released until January but tracks leaked online are already causing a stir. "Thunder Road," the Boss' anthemic celebration of youth, sounds dark and ominous in Bonnie "Prince" Billy's cracking falsetto. Slithering, synth-driven minor-chords by Tortoise, indie music's favorite avant-garde ensemble, heighten the tension. Elsewhere on the album the band cranks out Brazilian beats, folk earnestness and absurdist punk. Not since Firewater released last year's Songs We Should Have Written has a band so thoroughly reinterpreted such a wide swath of popular music.
• Broadcast: Tender Buttons
The Birmingham, England, ensemble has been pared down from a quintet to a simple duo, but you'd never know that from all the clamoring noise on their latest album. Tender Buttons echoes the band's trademark sound of static analog synth loops and singer Trish Keenan's ethereal vocals that are at once icy and warm. At times, all the buzzing and beeping sound a little too much like a video game arcade, but the tension between the album's highly disciplined detachment and its haunting dreamscape makes it an intriguing listen.
Dan Goodin offers his music picks every other Monday.
To compensate, programmers invented tags, which are pieces of text and graphics that live in the MP3 file and can be parsed by most jukebox players. Tags that are complete and well-organized make it possible to find the perfect song to fit the mood of your intimate dinner party or Dionysian rager. Anything short of that and your guests will long have departed by the time you've located the tune. Soon enough, my hobby as a music collector morphed into one of a librarian.
Fixing faulty tags requires what's known as a tag editor. One of my favorites is MP3 Tag Studio, a free program with many powerful features. The application allows you to select an unlimited number of MP3 files and manipulate them in any number of ways. You can highlight all Crazy Horse files (no matter the variation) and rewrite the artist tag to your liking (I prefer Neil Young and Crazy Horse, but the point here is to pick a single convention and stick with it). Once you clear your jukebox's music library and rescan the files, there is a single entry for the artist.
The speed and flexibility of MP3 Tag Studio suits most of my tagging requirements, but it's lacking in two areas. For one, it doesn't work on sound files in alternative formats, such as MP4 or FLAC. And for another, MP3 Tag Studio lacks the ability to search the net to help fill in missing tags.
If you're willing to part with $30, Tag&Rename will fill in both of these gaps. It's most useful feature is its ability to search music databases on Amazon.com and other sites to automatically write in missing information. The ripping program I use rarely bothers to tag the year that a CD was issued or embed the album art in the files so it's displayed when playing the song on my iPod or other player. In just seconds, Tag&Rename adds information that would take hours to do manually.
Tagging song files makes it easier to manage a library. Want to see every song that was released in 1986? No problem. Want to sort your collection by song genre? That's easy, too. Tags also make it possible to manage how music files are named on a PC, and where on the hard drive they will be stored. It's simpler to store the 11 files that make up The Replacements' Let it Be in a folder bearing that album's title, rather than storing all 30,000 tracks in a single folder. I also prefer verbose file names that show a lot of information about the track (The Replacements—Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash—10—Johnny's Gonna Die.mp3 is a lot more descriptive than Johnny's Gonna Die.mp3). The renaming features in both programs are essential.
It's amazing how quickly a PC music library can become unwieldy, like a giant squash plant that suddenly takes over an entire garden. Tags go a long way toward taming the chaos.


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Highly-regarded when it first appeared, in 2004, Hawkwind: Sonic Assassins relates the long and twisting history of one of the most iconic British rock bands. From founder and ever present leader Dave Brock's early days busking the streets of London and mixing with the movers and shakers of the embryonic blues rock scene of the 1960s, through his conversion to psychedelic soundscapes and the establishment of a band that would come to define its own spacerock genre, this is the story of Hawkwind as told by the multitude of musicians who have moved through the many line-ups, adding, as Dave Brock himself would say, "their own bits and pieces."
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Algeria Attack Survivor Heads Home to Puerto Rico
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – After hiding under a mattress to avoid the deadly terrorist attack at a natural gas plant in Algeria, a Puerto Rican gas worker has finally returned home.
On Tuesday, a government official said Wilmer Lebron Ayala had safely returned to the island.
Ayala is one of seven U.S. citizens who escaped being killed by Islamic militants during a four-day battle last week. At least 37 hostages and 29 militants were killed, while five foreign workers are still missing, authorities said.
The 46-year-old Puerto Rican native hid from the terrorists for more than three days, said Hiram Vega, spokesman for the city of Sabana Grande, where Lebron's family lives.
A family member, who did not want to be identified for security reasons, said Lebron survived by huddling under a mattress he had thrown on the floor of the dormitory where he was staying.
He remained under the mattress without water or bathroom breaks, enduring an intense heat and eating only a couple of snacks he had earlier brought to the dormitory, the relative said.
The family member said Lebron told him that he owes his life to the plant's security guard.
"(Lebron) said he thanks God first and then the guard, who before being executed activated the terrorism alarm," the relative said.
When the alarm went off, Lebron and his colleagues deactivated the lights, the relative said.
Lebron, who had served in the U.S. military for nine years, pushed a locker against his door and hid under the mattress, Vega said.
"He prepared for the worst," Vega said, adding that Lebron heard the unrelenting sound of machine guns and explosions for several hours. When the attack began, Lebron received a text message from his boss who was not at the site warning him to gather food and water and brace himself for a drawn-out battle.
Lebron told friends and family that he kept hearing the terrorists demand the location of "the Americans."
After a couple of days, the explosions stopped and Lebron heard someone at the door telling him that it was safe to come out, said Vega, who met Tuesday with Lebron.
When he was finally rescued, Lebron was taken to Germany, where the FBI clothed him, fed him and took him to a hospital for an evaluation, the relative said.
Lebron arrived in Puerto Rico on Monday and was greeted by his wife, his mother and other family members, along with a group of government workers from Sabana Grande, said Vega, who also is a friend of Lebron's wife.
The relative, who was among those greeting Lebron at the airport, said the man is physically healthy but that the attack left him shook up.
"I saw him a bit disoriented. His eyes were really big," he said. "Even at the airport he kept looking up, to the sides. I felt he was scared."
Vega said the FBI took Lebron to an undisclosed location and ordered him and his family to not talk to the media for security reasons.
Secretary of State David Bernier said Lebron and his family are trying to recover from last week's ordeal.
"He just wants to rest and let time go by so he can little by little recuperate emotionally," Bernier said.
Lebron was working at the Ain Amenas gas plant in the Sahara Desert, which militants stormed last Wednesday in a battle that involved exploding cars and helicopter attacks.
The Pentagon has said there are strong indications that al-Qaida's North Africa affiliate, AQIM, had "a hand" in the assault.
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The concept of animal personalities has recently become of major interest as researchers began to wonder why animals within a given population show consistent behaviour across situations and contexts, what led to the evolution of such behavioural inflexibility and what mechanisms might underlie the phenomenon. A recent model explains individual differences in a population as the result of trade-off between present and future reproduction. We tested this model on the two wing morphs, i.e. short-winged (brachypterous) and long-winged (macropterous) specimens of the firebug (Pyrrhocoris apterus). Since it has been already demonstrated that the two wing morphs differ in their life-history strategies, this species is an ideal subject to test whether the specimens with different life-history strategies have different personalities as well. The results show that individuals behave consistently over time and across contexts, meaning observed bugs do have personalities. We also have found that in females, the two wing morphs have different personalities supporting the theoretical predictions, i.e. winged ones, which are supposed to have lower future reproductive value, are braver and more exploratory. We found no difference between the morphs in males. Differences in reproductive investment might explain this discrepancy between the sexes.
1. Introduction
Animals of the same sex and size in the same population usually differ in their behaviour and the underlying physiology even under standard conditions [1–3]. Moreover, the same set of animals shows the same kind of differences in different situations (e.g. in level of predator avoidance at different foraging sites) and contexts (e.g. boldness in foraging and social interactions). For instance, in the field cricket Gryllus integer Scudder, 1902 (Orthoptera: Gryllidae), more aggressive males who won more fights had shorter latencies to become active when in a novel environment and shorter latencies to emerge from a safe refuge [4]. Besides being more aggressive, these males are also more active in general, and possibly less cautious towards predation risk [4]. Although individuals could adjust their behaviour depending on situations, nevertheless, consistent differences between individuals usually remain [5]. These are frequently characterized as animal personalities [6], temperament [7], behavioural syndromes [5] or coping styles [8].
The acceptance of the phenomenon that animals have personalities is now widespread, but its evolutionary origin is still a mystery, since a more flexible structure of behaviour should provide a selective advantage [3,9,10]. Recently, Wolf et al. [11] have presented a model that offers an adaptive explanation to animal personalities. The model seeks answers to why different personality types (e.g. bold and shy) coexist, why behaviour is not more flexible for a long time and across situations and why the same traits correlate in different taxa. According to this model, density-dependent selection often leads to dimorphic populations where, because of the trade-offs between present and future reproduction, some of the individuals invest more in their future reproduction than others, resulting in the coexistence of different life-history strategies. As a consequence, the individuals with better future prospects are expected to be risk aversive, while those who have less to lose in the future take greater risks in a situation. As these life-history differences between individuals persists over time and across situations and contexts, one can expect consistent individual differences in behaviour that are correlated across situations and contexts, i.e. the emergence of personalities and behavioural syndromes.
To test the model by Wolf et al. [11], one needs a dimorphic population where individuals with different life-history strategies can be readily recognized and then the personality of the different types assessed. Populations of common firebugs (Pyrrhocoris apterus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Heteroptera: Pyrrhocoridae)) offer a good opportunity for such investigations. This bug is one of the most common species of Pyrrhocoridae in Europe, and has two wing morphs: macropterous (long-winged) and brachypterous (short-winged) ones. These morphs coexist in the same population, and several studies have shown that the macropterous individuals have a better ability to disperse, despite their flightlessness, and they delay reproduction, whereas the brachypterous individuals start to reproduce much earlier [12,13]. Consequently, these two forms seem to follow different life-history strategies: they can be considered as two alternative solutions to the dilemma of dispersing or staying [14,15]. The coexistence of disperser and phylopatric morphs in the same populations is rather common in insect species living in a metapopulation structure [16–18], where local catastrophes eradicating local populations make dispersing to be essential for long-term persistence [19]. In order that the two morphs have different personalities, the model by Wolf et al. [11] requires that the individuals belonging to the different morphs should have different residual reproductive values.
To show this, we consider a metapopulation where the two morphs coexist and where a female can produce both morphs. For simplicity, we assume that the two morphs differ only in their migratory tendency: the brachypters never migrate from a patch while the macropters always do so. From their similarity, it follows that their reproductive values just before egg laying (the number of adult descendants gained in the next generation) are the same, W1, if they are in the same patch, i.e. if the macropters have immigrated into an already occupied patch. On the other hand, when a macropter colonizes an empty patch, it gains W0 adult descendants in the next generation. We assume that W0 > W1 because of density-dependent effects. The probability of reaching an empty patch is given by the proportion of empty patches, p (i.e. the macropters choose patches at random), and the probability of surviving migration, q. Then, the reproductive value of brachypters is WB = W1, while that of the macropters before migration, WM, is as follows: For WM < WB, the following condition must be fulfilled: An acceptable estimate of p can be 0.01, meaning that a patch exists for 100 years on average, which is reasonable for linden trees, the main habitats for common firebugs [13]. As a brachypter female can have around 150 hatched larvae under ideal laboratory conditions [20], a reasonable value for W0/W1 + 1 would be 50. With these values, WM < WB holds for q < 0.67. Given that brachypters are more fecund than macropters in many cases [18], which contradicts our no-difference assumption above, the condition of WM < WB can hold for even larger values of q. Therefore, we may conclude that macropters have lower residual reproductive value than brachypters. Consequently, based on the model by Wolf et al. [11], one would predict that macropterous morhps would be braver and more exploratory than the brachypterous morphs. Furthermore, as several differences were found between males and females in firebugs (e.g. macropterous females have lower sexual activity [13]) and females invest more in reproduction, we expect that different life-history strategies would have a larger effect on females.
In this paper, we first investigate whether firebug individuals behave consistently over time and across contexts, i.e. whether they have personality. Second, we test the following predictions: (i) macropters are braver and more exploratory than brachypters and (ii) these differences are more expressed in females than in males.
2. Material and methods
(a) Experimental animals
The experimental animals were collected in four batches (to obtain enough of the rarer macropterous forms) from wild populations in Debrecen (47.52° N, 21.62° E; 130 m a.s.l.; subcontinental climate), northeast Hungary, in 2008 and 2010. Each bug was accommodated for a maximum of 8 days in the laboratory before the behavioural observations. The bugs were kept and the behavioural tests were performed in an air-conditioned laboratory that provided buffered conditions (mean air temperature: 23.25°C, range 23.0–24.0°C). Food (sunflower and lime tree seeds) and water were provided ad libitum.
One group of 60 brachypterous female bugs was used to test the consistency of behaviour over time. During these investigations, the firebugs were tested (see below) four times over a period of 5 days (the first two tests were separated by a 1 day break from the second two tests because of logistical reasons). These bugs were kept separately in jars between tests. In the other three groups (84 bugs (macropters: 7♀, 35♂; brachypters: 8♀, 34♂), 80 bugs (macropters: 13♀, 27♂; brachypters: 13♀, 27♂) and 100 bugs (macropters: 30♀, 20♂; brachypters: 30♀, 20♂) collected in the spring, summer and autumn, respectively), we tested our predictions.
(b) Behavioural test and walking path analysis
The tests were carried out in a circular arena of 55 cm in diameter with black wall (46 cm high), where four coloured plugs (made of gum, 0.75 cm high, 1.83 cm in diameter) as novel objects were placed on the floor. The floor of the arena was covered with white filter paper. This paper and the plugs touched by bugs were replaced after each run (they were used only once to avoid uncontrolled olfactory cues). The experimental arena was lit by two 18 W fluorescent-type MASSIVE tubes during the tests.
In the first part of the test, we measured fear responses (emerging from a refuge), while in the second part, we performed an open field test (responses to startling stimulus after arrival to a new environment). At the beginning of the test, the experimental animal was put into the arena in a brown semi-transparent vial (length: 9 cm, diameter: 2.56 cm). The bug was kept in the vial covered with paper (to prevent it from leaving) for a minute to get used to the environment. After the minute had passed, the vial was flicked as a startling stimulus (also to ensure that all bugs were at the end of the vial), laid on its side and the paper removed so that the bug could leave the refuge. Then we waited for the bug to leave the vial for a maximum of 10 min. Both the time when the antennae appeared first and the time when the bug actually came out were registered, but later we only used the time of the first appearance of the antennae (referred to as emergence hereafter) because many bugs (115 out of 264) did not emerge at all from the vial. We consider emergence as a measure of boldness.
The bugs leaving within 10 min were put back into the vial, while bugs remaining in the vial were left in it. In both cases, i.e. when (i) the bug left the vial itself and then was put back or (ii) remained in the vial, the vial was then flicked again (to be in the end of the vial) and the bug was kept in it for another minute, which was followed by yet another flick (to detach the bug from the wall of the vial), after which the bug was placed into the arena by shaking it out from the vial preferably into the centre of the arena. The time when the bug started to move after its placement into the arena (walking latency, another measure of boldness) and the time when it reached the wall (wall time, a measure of exploration) were registered and an observation lasted 10 min. We also recorded how many novel objects were visited (number of novel objects, measuring explorativeness).
A Quickcam S5500 webcam was used to record the movement of the bug at 1 s intervals, until it reached the wall for a maximum of 10 min. From the pictures taken, we reconstructed the path of each bug as a list of x-, y-coordinates. These lists were then used to derive the following variables for each bug: (i) the mean and (ii) the variance of step sizes (the distance between two consecutive positions), and (iii) the mean and (iv) variance of turning angles [21–24].
(c) Statistical analyses
To test the consistency of the behaviour over time, we measured the behavioural variables (see above) four times for each individual in a group of 60 brachypterous females. Then we calculated Kendall's W coefficient of concordance for each measured variable. Values of W significantly differing from random expectation mean that the individuals' rankings based on a given behavioural variable are in agreement among the different times of measurement [25], i.e. the individuals behave consistently over time [26]. We used permutation tests to infer levels of significance [25]. As we did not vary the situations over the tests (i.e. the level of risk was the same across all four repetitions), this procedure is unable to detect behaviour plasticity.
We have also investigated whether the behaviour of firebugs is consistent across contexts by calculating Kendall's W involving all measured behavioural variables. This analysis was performed on the combined dataset of the three larger groups of bugs (see above). To account for the possible effects of grouping, we subtracted the appropriate group median from each individual measurement for those variables where a Kruskal–Wallis test indicated significant difference among the groups (we used median because of the highly skewed distribution of many of the variables). To identify possible associations among the behavioural variables, i.e. possible personality axes, we followed the procedure outlined in [25]. In short, we computed a Spearman rank-correlation matrix among the variables and performed an agglomerative clustering ('agnes' function of the R statistical environment with Ward's clustering method) using one minus the absolute value of correlation coefficients as dissimilarity measures. Groups of correlated variables were identified by inspecting the mean overall silhouette values for the given number of groups (M. Maechler, P. Rousseeuw, A. Struyf & M. Hubert 2005, unpublished data; http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/cluster/citation.html). To assess the robustness of this partition of the variables, we calculated consensus partition from 1000 random permutations of the original data frame [27]. A random permutation is obtained by randomly permutating a randomly chosen column of the original data frame. To test for significant associations, we submit each group of variables to a separate test of concordance. To characterize the bugs with these personality 'axes', we calculated a composite rank variable for each group of variables. This composite variable is simply the sum of the individuals' ranks for the variables in the given group [25].
To test the effect of wing morphology and sex on personality traits, we performed general linear model analyses on the composite variables. In these models, the given composite variable was entered as response and the wing morphology (two levels: macropterous and brachypterous) and sex (male, female) were entered as explanatory variables. We also analysed the individual behavioural and path variables. As most of the behavioural variables were highly skewed and often truncated, we dichotomized these variables (using the medians as cut points) and used generalized linear models with binomial error distribution and logit link function (i.e. logistic regressions). Here, the categorized behavioural variable (e.g. 'slow' and 'fast' emergence) was the dependent variable while wing morphology and sex were entered as explanatory variables.
All statistical analyses were carried out in the R interactive statistical environment [28] with irr [29], cluster (M. Maechler, P. Rousseeuw, A. Struyf & M. Hubert 2005, unpublished data), boot [30,31] and vegan [32] packages.
3. Results
(a) Consistency of behaviour over time
We found that firebugs behave consistently over time as all but two W calculated for the behavioural and path variables were significantly different from random expectation (emergence: W = 0.386, p = 0.003; walking latency: W = 0.481, p < 0.001; wall time: W = 0.402, p < 0.001; number of novel objects: W = 0.283, p = 0.236; mean turning angle: W = 0.271, p = 0.322; variance of turning angle: W = 0.394, p = 0.002; mean step size: W = 0.443, p < 0.001; variance of step size: W = 0.495, p < 0.001).
(b) Consistency of behaviour across contexts
Firebugs responded similarly in the different contexts as shown by the significant Kendall's coefficient of concordance (W = 0.198, p < 0.001). This means that the bugs were similarly ranked by all variables.
On the basis of the Spearman correlation matrix and the cluster analysis, our variables can be divided into the following groups (figure 1). The first group consists of emergence and walking latency, so it might be considered as a kind of shy–bold axis of personality. Kendall's W calculated for this group of variables is highly significant (W = 0.625, p = 0.003). The second group identified can be considered as the exploratory axis of bugs' personality since it contains the variables of wall time, variance of turning angle and number of novel objects visited. Kendall's W calculated for this group is also high and significant (W = 0.594, p = 0.003). The third group consists of mean step size and variance of step size (Kendall's W = 0.920, p = 0.003). Finally, mean turning angle appears not to correlate with any of the other variables. The interpretation of these last variables is less clear. The three composite variables and the mean turning angle are not significantly consistent (Kendall's W = 0.254, p = 0.429). The separate analyses of the composite rank variables show that macropterous female bugs are bolder (they have a lower rank) than the rest of the population (sex × wing morph interaction; F1,258 = 4.666, p = 0.032). No significant differences were found between sexes and morphs with respect to the other two composite variables and the mean turning angle.
Analysing each measured variable separately showed a similar picture. Macropterous females emerged sooner from the vial (sex × wing morph interaction, χ21 = 6.32, p = 0.012; figure 2) than the rest of the population, while brachypterous females visited fewer novel objects (sex × wing morph interaction, χ21 = 8.28, p = 0.004; figure 3) than the rest of the population. We found no significant effect of sex and wing morph on the other behavioural and path variables (results are not shown).
4. Discussion
Our results show that there are personality differences between the individuals of the firebug as we found that they behave consistently over time and across context. According to the cluster analysis of the behavioural variables, two axes of firebug personality can be identified: boldness and explorativeness. We also found that personality of the macropterous and brachypterous females differs; macropterous females are bolder and more explorative than the brachypterous ones. This latter result supports the model of Wolf et al. [11], which offers an explanation for the presence of individual differences in a population, namely that individuals choose different strategies to find the balance between present and future reproduction. In the case of firebug, it is known that there are differences in the behaviour of brachypterous and macropterous individuals, e.g. in the higher walking activity [14] and lowered mating propensity of macropterous individuals [13]. Furthermore, reproduction is delayed in the macropterous form [33], which is a common phenomenon in wing-polymorphic insects [34]. All of these indicate a difference in the life-history strategies of the two wing morphs despite the evolutionary loss of the flight capability in macropters [12]. Specifically, the lower sexual activity of macropterous individuals was found only in females and not in males [13]. This is in accord with our results on the bolder and more explorative behaviour of macropterous females compared with brachypterous ones (figures 2 and 3) [12,13]. The finding that individuals of higher dispersal tendency are bolder and more exploratory indicates the importance of these personality traits in dispersal. Similarly, Cote et al. [35] reported personality being a good predictor of dispersal tendency. The sex differences found can be attributed to the differences in investment into reproduction by the two sexes: as females invest more into reproduction, one would expect a stronger trade-off between current and future reproduction, which in turn can result in a larger difference in personality between morphs in females than in males.
Note that we studied specimens from wild populations, thereby our results validate those of Socha and co-workers [12–15] who found morph differences in firebug behaviour in captive populations maintained for many generations under laboratory conditions.
Further exciting research could investigate why it is only females among which behavioural differences can be detected, to what extent human disturbance alters a given population, whether 'city dweller' bugs that have to endure more environmental stress have different personalities compared with the specimens that live in an undisturbed environment (e.g. in a forest or a park) and to what extent the ratio of macropterous and brachypterous morphs is variable and whether it can be related to the environmental effects that influence the population. Such studies would bring us closer to the solution of an important issue of evolution, the coexistence of different morphs in terms of both life history and personality.
We are indebted to K. Bertók, V. Bókony, L. Garamszegi, J. Tökölyi and two anonymous reviewers for their useful comments and suggestions that helped to improve the manuscript. We would like to thank Miklós Bán for providing a lot of technical help. A.T. was supported in part by a Marie Curie Intra European Fellowship within the 7th European Community Framework Programme. Our work was partially supported by the Hungarian Scientific Research Fund (OTKA, no. K75696) and by the TÁMOP 4.2.1./B-09/1/KONV-2010-0007 project. The project is implemented through the New Hungary Development Plan, co-financed by the European Social Fund and the European Regional Development Fund.
- Received June 21, 2010.
- Accepted August 18, 2010.
- This Journal is © 2010 The Royal Society


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Tuesday, 3 May 2005
Local shops for Local people.
Until then, I'll just have to be content with my own suburban Royston Vasey, and more particularly, with the disturbing local shops around the corner, each one containing The Precious Things Of The Shop, which I don't particularly covet, but I think they might think that I do.
Each local shop is terrifying in its own, very special way.
The fruit shop is OK, more or less, except for the albino hermaphrodite delivery person, and the awful trick all the other people who work there have of smiling so intensely their eyes get squashed shut.
The butchers specialise in 1950s style meat and heartiness, and in calling female customers "love", or "darl", and in evil "jolly" laughs, and in putting a great deal more meat on the scales that what you ask for. Someday, Butcher Barry will call me "girlie" one time too many and his jolly ruddy butcher face will wind up planted in the diet mince :)
The couple in the milk bar are called George and Mildred.
The vulgar illiterate scumbags operating an illegal secondhand-furniture-on-commission business have undergone a change of heart recently and opened up a hairdressers staffed by the ugliest ex-convict haircutters ever seen in the northern suburbs.
The fish and chip shop people are excellent in many ways. But it's all wasted if they can't learn the first and most important rule of running a fish and chip shop: do NOT under any circumstances give any sign of remembering the customer's names, phone number, usual order, preferences regarding salt or no salt etc, this only makes the customer feel like the fact they patronise the fish and chip shop two or more times a week has been fully observed, noted and judged accordingly. Not good.
I liked the lady in the wool shop, however I think she may have recently sold up and fled the country :(
It all pales, though, in comparison with the real live Tubbs and Edward running the newsagents with a post office in the back. How can I even begin to enumerate their crimes? Let's see, now. I spend around $40 a week on postage, and you'd think they would want my business, since I fill in forms and stuff at home to make actual post office time as quick as possible. But no. They do not want me to trade with them. Why? Because I am so fussy and picky and generally fucked-up and annoying that I actually want a receipt with an ABN number on it, and of course, that is the hardest thing in the world to give out. It's not that they actually refuse, they just do this incredible eyeball-rolling and huge-sigh-heaving routine. So whenever possible I go to the post office forty minutes walk further from home.
It is not a good idea to go to the local immediately after lunch, because instead of using a little sponge in a dish to wet the stamps like all other backward-but-reasonably-civilised post offices, they PUT THE ENTIRE STAMP IN THE MOUTH THEN SLOP IT ONTO THE PARCEL leaving a lovely slobbery wet stain spreading out from the stamp edges. An international parcel can have $17 worth of stamps on it. I would not mention this to my ebay customers. It's not just the stamps, either - one day one of them was filling out a registered mail form and she drooled on it. Just like that! A big, wet, sticky drool. On my copy.
Explain this to me, please. During an extremely rare cleaning-out-cupboards session, I threw into the wheelie bin a cardboard box containing about fifty very crappy pens Dorian brought home from a work function - the kind with a company name written on the side - the kind that snap if you press on the paper. I repeat: they went into the wheelie bin, along with lots of other clutter. A few weeks later, I'm filling in a form at the Local P.Off using a pen from the mug on the counter, and I see it's CRAMMED FULL of the pens I THREW OUT??!! How to understand this? How?? There's only one explanation, and that is that one or the other of them went through our garbage and stole from it. (These people SELL STATIONERY.)
Apart from Tubbs and Edward there is also a large, foul-smelling, deaf old man who is like a male version of the hearing-aid-wearingguest in Fawlty Towers, except much more stupider. This guy really hates me. You know when people try to make a joke, but only succeed in pouring out aggression? He sees me coming down past the magazines, and yells out "GO AWAY", sniggering like it's the funniest thing, ever. Or he will say to another person in the queue, "Watch out for THIS one! SHE'S got something dangerous in that parcel! SHE'S a terrorist!" No, I'm not making this up. Last week a magazine caught my eye - who wouldn't be curious about something called Australian Football Quarterly? - so I paused & picked one up for a flip through. Dickhead there saw me looking. "Ar, YOU don't want to read THAT!" he shouted down the room. He was right: I dropped it & walked out.
Now tell me about your local shops...
9 comments:
- katy said...
what could I possible contribute to that??
except that you didn't mention the sub-standard "bakery" with mouldy shades that they pull down when closed (which seems to be any time you'd actually want anything badly enough to visit them - like saturday afternoon, or sunday morning). and the bread which is like some magical fusion of sandpaper and air.
i went in the other day and the blonde woman who works there observed that I must live very close because she sees me walk past quite often (this is on my way to the bus to uni). Note "walk past". We only visit for breakfast rolls for our 'egg and not-bacon' indulgences...
and the LYS! i don't think much of this new woman. but it seems that caroline who used to run/own the shop is now doing knitting and crochet lessons through there??
- 11:01 am, May 04, 2005
re wheelie bins: legally, if it is in the bin on the street, anyone can take it.
re butchers intimacy: they have been like that always, calling you love and dear and making sex cracks about hubbie's dinner. I think it must be from working with all that flesh and blood. I started a novel on it once.
- 11:25 am, May 04, 2005
a shop story: in 1963 I lived in a tiny town with a general store and for the school dance, stockings were required (pantyhose weren't invented yet), so Julie Sherwin and I went in to get Kolotex Rum and Coke colour size 10's and the guy said " you can have them for nothing if you let me put them on". we fled.
- 11:30 am, May 04, 2005
- Susoz said...
I love my local post office shop. (It took me about a decade to realise it wasn't a full post office - our postman is based elsewhere, miles away.) It is the pinnacle of friendly diversity. There is the camp middle aged gay man called Dennis. (Wears a name tag, that's how I know.) The Vietnamese man who told me he had no birth certificate as he came here as a boat toddler. (That was when I was getting my son a passport.) The middle aged Indian woman in a sari. The young pregnant Chinese woman. A young, large Polynesian girl. A couple more nondescript but friendly 'ordinary people'. They've all been there for years and I get the impression it's a very happy workplace.
- 12:29 pm, May 04, 2005
- Lucy Tartan said...
I eat their bread, and you are right about the air/sandpaper. Did she say it "reproachfully", Katy? I think she's a bit reproachful, in general. Who wouldn't be.
I have observed wool shop goings-on through the window but not actually made a recce inside. Would like to know if it has changed hands....
Do you think Butchers get a butcher-behaviour instruction booklet from Meat HQ or something? cos these guys do actually say things to customers about meat for the man. It's really very terrible.
I forgot to mention their great contribution to community festivities last Christmas: they stuck a piece of paper in the window that said 'we thank all out customers and wish you a happy christmas 1999' but they'd crossed out 1999 and wrote 2004 instead. Magic.
- 8:11 pm, May 04, 2005
- Mel said...
Here are some of my local shops:
* the same kind of newsagent/post office, staffed by an Asian lady who kindly lets me use her calculator to work out my bills and patiently endures my requests to pay with a mixture of cash and eftpos.
* A takeaway shop that calls itself a "fish and eatery".
* An Asian grocery that sells wonderful exotic lollies and cheap, dodgy fruit & veg.
* A chemist. I have never been in.
* An IGA "Friendly Grocer", which is where I usually go for all my grocery and alcohol needs.
* Some kind of office, which I think is vacant.
* A Vietnamese-style bakery, which makes very nice steak and bacon pies.
- 12:04 am, May 05, 2005
- katy said...
mel's mention of the potentially vacant office reminds me of that creepy, blankly anonymous yet shaded shopfront at our local, laura.
you know the one with the sky blue venetians? What the hell *is* that thing? We've been living here for a year now and Luke only noticed it a fortnight ago. He got all sci-fi on me and insisted that it had never existed till then...
And there's also the hovel-like doctor's office next to the shiny doctor's office. Have you ever been in? I have never felt less confident in a medical professional - his office was seriously like a rat's nest and he'd never even heard of Echinacea. Yes, i know!
- 8:37 am, May 05, 2005
- Lucy Tartan said...
you're braver than me. I've never ventured in there. Something about the blank brick wall - the tiny, prisonlike windows - it has terrible feng shui even from the footpath.
The creepy blank blue shopfront: When we moved in that space was occupied by a hairdresser more terrifying even than the one next to the craft paper shop on the way to the train station. After that it was empty for ages, then it was sort of cleaned up & the blinds installed, so I think somebody rented it for office space. Last weekend Dorian saw a Vietnamese family moving in there, he said they had office stuff and a big map of Vietnam.
- 9:44 am, May 05, 2005
- momo said...
Oh my, classic tales, ditto Brownie's stocking experience! Your local Aus Post agents scare the absolute shit out of me, Laura. You mention Deliverance in another post. I read all you wrote and thought of banjo music. Please stop going there.
I've always liked butchers and their chipperness for some incredibly odd reason. I've never had an *overly* leary butcher, so maybe that's why.
In terms of my 'locals', there's a cafe we frequent and the very sweet waiter who works there can speak English, but is too shy to use it, so instead he calls upon the chef to come out of the kitchen (even though we do try to converse in Japanese). One day we left a shopping bag there by accident and merrily trotted home. As we sauntered toward our apartment, the waiter raced up to us, thrust the bag we'd forgotten to Tim, and, puffing away, managed to get out: "I. Like. Your. Fashion!" before bowing and running back to his coffee-making duties, waving as he slipped around the corner.
I don't know if it was the fashion in the bag or just a general statement.
- 6:07 pm, May 05, 2005


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Volume 38, Issue 1, April 2010
In this issueSource: Missionalia : Southern African Journal of Mission Studies 38, pp 3 –4 (2010)More Less
Willem Saayman offers us a necessary study of the terms missionary and missional. Celia Kourie reflects on the teaching of Spirituality at the University of South Africa. Dave Dagie offers a fascinating study of the interface between Missiology and Musicology. We journey to Europe where Kenneth Ross has teamed up with James Wilkie to explore the Scottish experience of serving in mission from 1950 to 2000. We move on to Brazil where David Bledsoe introduces us to the Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus (Universal Church of the Kingdom of God). The issues of economic justice in a globalised, largely unjust world must receive our full attention. HIV and AIDS continue to ravage Africa and the world so we will continue to put the spot light on the role of communities of faith in dealing with this crisis. Moving on in the spirit understanding and learning I have included a comprehensive exploration of Buddhist prison outreach in the United States by Paul McIvor. In the Creative Space we are favoured with a thought provoking reflection on the challenges facing the ecumenical church in South Africa today by Tinyiko Maluleke.
In memorySource: Missionalia : Southern African Journal of Mission Studies 38 (2010)More Less
South Africa has lost legends this year. Firstly, Professor Steve De Gruchy editor of the Journal of Theology in Southern Africa and head of the School of Religion and Theology at the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal died tragically in a river tubing accident in February. It still seems impossible to be writing a memorial for the lively Steve De Gruchy.
The Bible in and for Mission : A case study of the Council for World Mission, Missionalia, 37(2) 2009 : pp. 210-228
Observations on the spirituality of Martin Luther King Jr, Desmond Mpiulio Tutu and Barack Hussein Obama, Missionalia, 37(3) 2009 : pp. 125-137 : errataAuthors: Sarojini Nadar and Gerrie LubbeSource: Missionalia : Southern African Journal of Mission Studies 38 (2010)More Less
The Bible in and for Mission : A case study of the Council for World Mission, Missionalia, 37(2) 2009 : pp. 210-228
Observations on the spirituality of Martin Luther King Jr, Desmond Mpiulio Tutu and Barack Hussein Obama, Missionalia, 37(3) 2009 : pp. 125-137
Missionary or missional? A study in terminologyAuthor Willem SaaymanSource: Missionalia : Southern African Journal of Mission Studies 38, pp 5 –16 (2010)More Less
The author attempts to get clarity on the two related terms, missionary and missional, as the former is being replaced more and more in academic writing by the latter term. He finds that there is no clear etymological difference in the terms, as both derive from the root word mission. Writers using the term missional clearly state that they understand mission mainly as missio Dei, which is a well-established term. The difference implied therefore must lie in contextual factors, as missional is used specifically to describe the missio Dei in the North Atlantic. It had its origins in work done by the Gospel and Our Culture Network, and was inspired by the writings of Newbigin and Bosch. The author identifies certain problem areas with the term missional which will have to be considered if the term is used to describe mission in Africa.
Teaching spirituality at Unisa : 2000-2010 : some reflectionsAuthor Celia KourieSource: Missionalia : Southern African Journal of Mission Studies 38, pp 17 –31 (2010)More Less
Professor Klippies Kritzinger, as Dean of the erstwhile faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, was willing to take a risk and allow a new, rather esoteric discipline to come into being in the new millennium. Christian Spirituality was thus born at Unisa in 2000, not without certain reservations from some faculty members. As a tribute to Klippies, some salient issues with respect to teaching Spirituality are discussed in this article, in particular the area of Interspirituality. It has also become clear that Missiology and Spirituality are not just sister disciplines in the department, but need each other as partners in order to effect individual and societal transformation.
Xhosa Zionist church music : a liturgical expression beyond the dreams of the early missionariesAuthor D.J. DargieSource: Missionalia : Southern African Journal of Mission Studies 38, pp 32 –53 (2010)More Less
The early Christian missionaries in Southern Africa did not realise what they would bring about by insisting on European style music in the mission churches. The desire for worship suited to their own culture, including worship music, was one of the main reasons for so many African Christians establishing or joining African Initiated Churches (AICs). An additional result was the creation, by the AICs, of wonderful new church songs most suitable for use in liturgy. This is the first of two articles that examine such music in certain Xhosa Zionist churches.
Edinburgh 1910 and Scottish experience of serving in mission 1950 to 2000Authors: Kenneth R. Ross and James L. WilkieSource: Missionalia : Southern African Journal of Mission Studies 38, pp 54 –68 (2010)More Less
A day conference Roots and fruits : Retrieving Scotland's missionary story, held in April 2009, took Edinburgh 1910 as its starting point and sought to examine the lived experience of people who were influenced by the movement that emerged from the World Missionary Conference. This article considers the papers presented at the conference, reflecting upon the legacy of Edinburgh 1910 in the implementation of mission policy. Thereafter, the response of individual people to obeying and developing God's call to be a missionary is considered, as well as mission amidst social and political change. Next, it seeks to determine whether there was a distinctively Scottish dimension to missionary involvement. Finally, it discusses seeking to serve God's mission today.
Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus : a survey of selected areasAuthor D.A. BledsoeSource: Missionalia : Southern African Journal of Mission Studies 38, pp 69 –98 (2010)More Less
The Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus (IURD) is the most well-known manifestation of the Brazilian Neo-Pentecostal Movement and possibly the largest contemporary missionary export from a Third World country. This article describes aspects of the IURD, which include its principal leader, controversies, ecclesiastical structure, primary message, principal ministry, and growth. Through this description, mission researchers and the global church could better comprehend this denomination's complexity, teachings, strategies and practices and thereby seek to determine its impact on evangelical mission. Furthermore, pastors and parishioners could better understand and effectively serve all members within the IURD and similar churches.
Economic globalisation, ecumenical theologies and ethics of justice in the twenty-first centuryAuthor Puleng LenkaBulaSource: Missionalia : Southern African Journal of Mission Studies 38, pp 99 –120 (2010)More Less
This article examines the implications of economic globalisation for the church and society, and its relevance for ecumenical theologies and ethics of justice. It employs a multidisciplinary and multi-dialogical approach to theological ethics, in order to determine the manner in which this social phenomenon impacts on society, creation, and relations amongst people and creation. It also explores the way in which the processes of globalisation shape and/or influence theologies and ethics of justice. The article thus firstly provides definitional and descriptive theoretical frames that are employed by a variety of social sciences, theologies and ethics to describe globalisation. Secondly, the article engages in socio-political and ethical analyses of the globalisation. This is followed by analyses of ecumenical engagement with globalisation. Although globalisation is primarily perceived as a socio-political and economic phenomenon, the article argues that it impacts on theological- anthropology and ecological notions of theologies and thus, has to be viewed as an aspect that theologies and ethics ought to engage in seeking alternatives for the fullness of life for all people and creation. The article is written from the perspective of African feminist theological ethics.
A local church's holistic response to HIV/AIDSAuthor Rose MboyaSource: Missionalia : Southern African Journal of Mission Studies 38, pp 121 –141 (2010)More Less
This paper is an attempt to contribute to demonstrating ways in which a local church can respond to HIV/AIDS in a holistic way. The main argument in this paper is that in order for churches to respond holistically, engaging in re-structuring society's viewpoint so that men and women can relate in a healthy manner, as opposed to the manner in which they relate today, is a necessity. Also, that it is crucially important for churches to address all aspects that affect life and to reconsider the meaning of terms such as marriage and love in the context of HIV/AIDS.
Buddhism behind bars : prison outreach in the United StatesAuthor Paul McIvorSource: Missionalia : Southern African Journal of Mission Studies 38, pp 142 –166 (2010)More Less
Buddhist prison outreach is a relatively recent development in the United States and elsewhere, and has yet to be chronicled satisfactorily. This article traces the history of Buddhist prison outreach in the United States from its earliest indications in the 1960s to the present day. The mechanics of Buddhist prison outreach are also examined. The intent is to provide an adequate understanding of this form of outreach and a basis for further research in this area.
The bird in our hands : challenges facing the ecumenical church in South Africa today : creative spaceAuthor T.S. MalulekeSource: Missionalia : Southern African Journal of Mission Studies 38, pp 167 –166 (2010)More Less
Every culture has a version of the story of a group of noisy, naughty and stuck-up youngsters who hatch up a trick with which to confront the village sage. In most versions the sage is wrinkled, old, female and black. Other versions add that she was also as blind as a bat. Yet other versions present the sage in the form of a tall, hunch-back, half-blind, toothless and walking-stick dependent old man. Invariably, the toffee-nosed youngsters are a bunch of urban boys.


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Cropping a photo entails leaving out unwanted parts of the picture but what if you wanted to add a little bit to it, say your head seems a little too close to the edge of a picture? Adva-Soft may have the solution with its AntiCrop app now available for iOS devices.
What it does is extend the background and as long as its homogenous like the sky, grass, sand, water etc, the app will work as intended. Once you select a photo, the app has an algorithm that automatically clones the adjacent background. You then have an option on how much you want to add for that final touch before showing off you photos.
Using the app is fairly simple, just import a photograph and then drag the frame located around the photo and drag it to either side or up and down and then let AntiCrop do its work. It may not be applicable to some photos, but a nifty add-on nonetheless.
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PDE Seminar
Tuesday, April 14, 2009 - 3:05pm
1.5 hours (actually 80 minutes)
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I will talk about the highlights of a collaborative and multidisciplinary program investigating qualitative features of steady water waves with vorticity in two dimensions. Computational and analytical results together with data from the oceanographic community have resulted in strong evidence that key qualitative features such as amplitude, depth, streamline shape and pressure profile can be fundamentally affected by the presence of vorticity. Systematic studies of constant vorticity and shear vorticity functions will be presented.


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1/6/2012 - Short order: A new Asheville food truck, a healthy eating challenge and more
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Here's some of what's happening on the Asheville food scene:
Junction brunch: Asheville residents love a good brunch, and the Junction restaurant in the River Arts District is the latest eatery to offer such. Brunch is served 10:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. There will be top-notch cocktails, including bloody Marys and a twist on a mimosa, for example. The food menu was still being finalized at press time. Check out thejunctionasheville.com for more.
Winter hours reminder: Just a quick reminder for lovers of White Duck Taco and 12 Bones Smokehouse, two popular eateries in the River Arts District. The taco shop reopens Jan. 23, while the barbecue joint will re-open Jan. 18.
Greenlife's health eating challenge: Greenlife Grocery is hosting several events to help people get started on healthy eating in the new year. The first is a series of meetings aimed at helping people follow the eating habits based on "The Engine 2 Diet" by Rip Esselstyn. Participation is free, with weekly meetings 6:30-7:30 p.m. Tuesdays from Jan. 17 to Feb. 21. The meetings will be held in the store and community center building on Merrimon Avenue. Register at the customer service desk or by emailing Adam Budd at firstname.lastname@example.com.
For tips on how to stock your pantry to make healthy and affordable meals at home, visit the store noon-1 p.m. every Wednesday from Jan. 18 to Feb. 8. Register at the customer service desk.
And the store will host healthy eating demos to teach cooking techniques and showcase new recipes. Visit the store 4-6 p.m. starting Jan. 18.
New food truck: El Kimchi is a new food truck preparing to hit the streets of Asheville. The truck will serve Mexican street food with a Korean-flavored twist. Think of quesadillas stuffed with kimchi and tacos filled with Korean-style barbecue. Follow its progress on El Kimchi's page on Facebook, as well as on Twitter @El_Kimchi
Food truck lot: Speaking of food trucks, the downtown parking lot that will serve as a food truck court should be up and running in the next couple of weeks. Food truck owners of the Lowdown, Pink Taco and Gypsy Queen trucks have been cleaning the Coxe Avenue lot and preparing it to serve the trucks. Stay tuned.


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EVOLUTION REVOLUTION Part 3
SPOILER WARNING: The following contains spoilers for "Dark Avengers" #7
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The ranks of the Marvel Universe's mutant populace may have shrunk to approximately 198, but even at that low number, the mutants are still a force to be reckoned with. In the current "Utopia" crossover between "Dark Avengers" and "Uncanny X-Men," a power struggle is underway to determine the fate of the world's mutants. On one side is Norman Osborn, who wants to tighten his control over mutants everywhere so they don't threaten his Dark Reign over the world. On the other side are Cyclops and the X-Men, who want to remain independent of Osborn's sinister machinations. Complicating things is the presence of the mysterious Simon Trask, who wants to take care of the mutant problem by eliminating them all together.
In "Dark Avengers" #7, part three of "Utopia," a new wildcard came into play as Emma Frost and her Osborn sponsored team of Dark X-Men went on their first heroic mission. But whose side is Emma really on? How do the Dark Avengers feel now that Osborn is sponsoring two super teams?
In today's installment of EVOLUTION REVOLUTION, we get the answers to those questions and more, straight from "Utopia" writer Matt Fraction, who returns to walk us through "Dark Avengers" #7. If you're just joining us, feel free to catch up with installments one and two. Don't worry-we'll wait.
CBR: The Beast lying there after experiencing the effects of the Dark Beast's Omega Machine. It's both humorous and horrifying.
MATT FRACTION: It's a grim scene but there's a little bit of gallows humor. And really, what kind of monster would torture Hank McCoy? If you're wondering who the bad guys are here you have it. Fuck Osborn and Dark Beast-torturing Hank McCoy means they're animals! I love Hank. He's been one of the moral centers of this book and the fact that things have gotten this bad, for him especially, should give us all pause. Whatever this machine of Dark Beast's is, it's not good.
In this scene, we see Emma Frost intervene to keep Daken, Wolverine's son, from ending the life of Avalanche, who was part of a pro-mutant riot in San Francisco's Union Square.
Daken and Emma is a pot that will come to boil before too long.
While she may be forced to advance Osborn's agenda as leader of his Dark X-Men, it seems that Emma is really trying to act as honorably as possible.
We very rarely have advanced warnings of crisis and catastrophes. They happen very quickly and demand improvisation and adaptability. There's not a lot of time to sit down and call everybody you know to work up plans and solutions. Ultimately Emma is doing the best she can for her kind in these circumstances.
At the risk of being unpopular back at Graymalkin [the X-Men's headquarters], what was the alternative? If she didn't lead the team what would Osborn have done? How far away are mutants from being put in camps?
So even when things are at their most dire, Emma Frost is still acting as a teacher and protector of mutants?
Always. Even when she was in the Hellfire Club and hanging out with bad people her goal was always the education and protection of mutants. She was never Selene and Sebastian Shaw. She was there to train and protect people. Now, she might have been conniving, mean and a huge bitch, but protecting her people has always been her core value. She doesn't give a fuck about who doesn't like her because she's saving lives and protecting people and she suspects that what she's currently doing is keeping her people out of camps.
What was it like writing this scene with Cyclops and Norman Osborn?
It was fantastic. I had a blast. I think Scott is a great character and I wanted him to have this scene so badly. He comes off as a complete badass and that is Scott Summers right there.
How much trouble has Cyclops started by telling Osborn to surrender? Based on Osborn's reaction, it seems like Scott has gone and made things very personal.
Yeah, he just went ahead and made himself a personal problem rather than a political one. Never the best strategy- or is it? Could Scott be trying to knock Norman off his game by using the old Rope-A-Dope?
In this scene it looks like the Dark Avengers are jealous of Osborn's Dark X-Men.
Almost all of them are a bunch of psychotic, sociopathic, attention starved lunatics. And if you give them a little attention and positive reinforcement they want more! They're petty, small and jealous and they don't share well with others.
Is Ares also jealous of the attention? Or is he just spoiling for a fight?
Ares couldn't give a shit about how many cameras are around. He's a warrior and he's sitting on the sidelines. He's bored and misused. A hammer wants to hit nails; that's just what it does. He's seeing a perfectly ripe opportunity to ply his trade.
Emma Frost has a pretty strong reaction to the revelation that Osborn is working with Dark Beast.
Dark Beast built death camps for mutants. Everybody knows who he is and what he's capable of. So the question is, is Emma surprised by his presence? Or is she surprised that Osborn would reveal his presence?
Is Dark Beast's presence in the Dark X-Men a deal breaker for Emma?
Maybe. It's never said explicitly but Emma realizes that if she's not doing this that mutants are going to camps. That's what's going to happen if Osborn's hand is forced. So Osborn and Dark Beast working together just reinforces everybody's worst beliefs and expectations
The Dark Avengers and Dark X-Men finally come to blows. What's at stake in the clash between these two teams?
Who is Daddy's favorite? The Dark Avengers have been forced to share the stage with the Dark X-Men both metaphorically and literally in the sense that this month even their own comic book is being taken away from them. So they're like, "No goddamn it! We're better and bigger than this! We are stars! How dare they come in and take away our fame, attention, and spotlight!"
Here we finally learn the truth about who Simon Trask is and about his larger agenda.
He's the last of the Human Sentinels and sort of the last of the dangling Ed Brubaker subplots. We saw Trask planting his seeds as early "Uncanny X-Men" #500. He did that by touching people and spreading nanites which turn them into superpowered mutant killing machines. So he's been ambling towards this larger goal for a while now.
Thank you to artist Luke Ross. The scene with Cyclops with a jet pack is fantastic and he really sells Norman Osborn's reactions in those scenes as well. If you look at everybody in the background you'll see the H.AM.M.E.R. guards are snickering and laughing their asses off
Hang on because here we go! Trask goes mission critical. Surprises and twists happen as Cyclops is put to the test. There are three or four very important characters in the issue-they're the last three people you would ever think of. Here's a hint. They're all girls.
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In the past, I have attempted to control everything in my life. I have thought I knew everything and what I didn't know, I would learn on my own.
Then I met someone truly wise about a year ago. He and his wife were trying to declutter their home of some things their two boys had outgrown. There were many toys and clothes that were still in very good shape and would do very well in our foster care ministry, so we asked to have them. He not only agreed, but also helped bring the items to our home in his truck. As he was helping us unload the vehicles of all the items, he said something that changed my thinking tremendously.
"Work smarter, not harder."
These words stamped themselves into my mind and I still remember them, ponder them and implement them into my day to day life. I have used these words to help me think of smarter ways to keep my home clean, my life organized, in keeping my marriage prioritized and parenting focused.
So how can we work smarter and not harder?
1. Find a mentor. Find someone to do life with that has more experience than you do. We are not meant to do life alone. God has given us community, called the Church, to do life together with. "Two people are better off than one, for they can help each other succeed. If one person falls, the other can reach out and help. But someone who falls alone is in real trouble" (Ecclesiastes 4:9-10 NLT). Find someone who will mentor you and show you the ropes. Someone who will lift you up when you fall or need assistance. It is smarter to learn life lessons from an experienced person than to learn everything the hard way.
2. Be proactive. If you want to get ahead in life and not always be stuck running around in circles, be proactive. Plan your day, week, month, and year. Have an idea of where you are headed in life. For example, organizing, cleaning, and decluttering your home regularly is being proactive. It is hard to keep up with every day life as it is, let alone trying to do it all without a plan.
3. Read the Bible. This is the smartest thing you can do each day! God's Word is full of knowledge, power, and authority. If we are investing in our relationship with God through reading His Word, we are seeking mentorship, guidance, and wisdom from the all-knowing King! It's so hard to navigate through life. God's Word lightens a path for you so you know where you should be going.
I could write extensively on each of these points, and there are many more ways we can work smarter, not harder in our lives. The three here that I mention are really life-changing though and I hope they encourage you as they do me!


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17TH Judicial Circuit
Assisted Listening Devices for Courtrooms
Most every courtroom is equipped with an infrared assistive listening system. This system includes stationary infrared (IR) emitter in each location and portable infrared receivers with a choice of stereo lightweight headphones, neck loops or inductors for use with the individual's personal T-coil hearing aid. Portable Assistive Listening Devices available for use in our Juvenile Courts, if needed. Contact the Court Bailiff or Court Administration to check-out a device.
Building Access and Accommodations
The buildings and facilities used by the courts are fully compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act building and signage requirements.
Real-time Court Reporters for Hearing Impaired available upon request
Court Reporters capable of real-time captioning are available by prior arrangement in court cases involving hearing-impaired participants. Through this technology, the court reporter's symbols are fed into the computer which are then translated into the English language and appear on the computer screen to allow the deaf or hearing-impaired person to read the testimony as it is being given in the Court proceeding.
Reserved Parking for Persons with Disabilities
There are numerous reserved parking spaces located on the street or in parking lots near the entrances to our facilities.
Sign Language Interpreters
Whenever a deaf person is party to any legal proceeding, chosen as a juror, or called as a witness, the Court in all instances appoints a qualified, certified interpreter of sign language to interpret the proceedings. In the case of a deaf juror, the interpreter shall be available throughout the actual trial and may accompany and communicate with such juror throughout any period during which the jury is sequestered or engaged in its deliberations.
Telephone Relay Services
Although the court does not have TTY capability, we encourage persons with hearing or speech impairments who wish to communicate with the court to contact the ILLINOIS RELAY CENTER at: 1-800-526-0844, who has staff available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Wheelchair Availability
Wheelchairs are available at the main entrances of the Boone and Winnebago County Courthouses. Security at the entrance can direct patrons to their location. A wheelchair is also available at the Winnebago County Jury Commission Office.
17th Judicial Circuit Court Disability Coordinators:
Links to:
The 17th Judicial Circuit Policy for Access to the Court for People with Special Needs
Request for Accommodation Under the Americans with Disabilities Act - Exhibit B
Americans with Disabilities Act Grievance Form - Exhibit C
The court is open to your suggestions to enhance your access to our facilities and services.


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Accuweigh Brisbane branch, have supplied and installed a high speed checkweigher on the keg weighing line at Castlemaine's Milton brewery. The checkweigher is used for accurately recording the filled volume of beer for excise purposes.
An A&D 4404 high speed checkweigher performs all the weighing calculations from weight data received from the scale base that was custom designed by Accuweigh to suit this particular checkweighing application.
The checkweigher is designed for weighing 30 to 50 kegs per minute with each keg having a high tare weight of approximately 14kg. The checkweigher was mounted in a Rittal enclosure for protection from the wash down processes.
Accuweigh provide after sales service and support on checkweighers and other weighing and food inspection products.


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Join us on Saturday, April 2, for our first ArtShare program! This fun event is for families with youth with autism ages 11 to 18. The Museum will open early for families to explore The Open Road exhibition, and all are invited to participate in hands-on fun and art-making activities. For questions and more information, please contact [email protected] or call 479.418.5724.
Sponsored by Loreen Arbus.
Free, space is limited. Register online.