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- read a window from, and write a window to, a file
cc [ flag... ] file... -I /usr/xpg4/include -L /usr/xpg4/lib \ -R /usr/xpg4/lib -lcurses [ library... ] c89 [ flag... ] file... -lcurses [ library... ] #include <curses.h> WINDOW *getwin(FILE *filep);
int putwin(WINDOW *win, FILE *filep);
The getwin() function reads window-related data (written earlier by putwin()) from the stdio stream pointed to by filep. It then creates and initializes a new window using that data.
The putwin() function writes all the data associated with the window pointed to by win to the stdio stream pointed to by filep. The getwin() function can later retrieve this data.
Is a pointer to a stdio stream.
Is a pointer to a window.
On success, the getwin() function returns a pointer to the new window created. Otherwise, it returns a null pointer.
On success, the putwin() function returns OK. Otherwise, it returns ERR.
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Keep up the good work fella, that V3 is going to kick ass in the meantime I'm loving the V2 still.
ps the new Epic banners on KF are pretty sweet too!
Posting feedback on prototype kites just doesn't make sense to me and I'm an Epic dealer. To establish credibility and trust, the only way to compare kites is on production models. Prototypes are not finished products and who knows what small or big changes will be made before the final product.
It also takes away from those trying to sell current Infinity kites (I'm out, so not complaining, but making an observation for other Epic dealers and distributors who have Infinity kites)
You are right on that score. But while there might not exist something that can do all 10's across the board, there is always room for a little improvement, getting a little more of this without giving up as much of that. And also it helps for people to know in what area a particular kite excels at, to use as a basepoint for them to make the decision as to what matches more closely their wish list or riding style. The Cabrinha is available. The Speed 3 is available. Might the perspective buyer want to know what's on the drawing board so they can make up their mind to not buy something that might not fit their needs now over something that is in the finishing stages of prototyping and will be available soon? I would hazard a guess in the affirmative direction, the needs of the many, as they say...I've had a fair amount of time on big kites and there's no magic bullet...
The thread was started about the Infinity V2 (current production model) not the Infinity V3 Prototype.Flight Time wrote: Let's not forget that the whole point of the 58 pages of this thread, started, of course by the owner of the company) was to discuss the aforementioned prototype...
Oldnbroken wrote:The thread was started about the Infinity V2 (current production model) not the Infinity V3 Prototype.
But feel free to give feedback on the V3. The more feedback Dimitri gets, the better chance that V3 will be better than V2. The V3 is not coming that soon, so I think that dealers don't need to worry about current Inventory. At this point, the V2 is a more versatile kite than the V3 from the feedback Dimitri and others have given. The V3 has a ways to go to get the top end where it needs to be to be the successor to the V2 model.
After flying my XB16 after flying the Fly - there is, as you say, a difference in turning feel and speed. It is much easier to go upwind, sooner. I assume the 18 will be more of the same... I've found the XB a little better with the 'heavier' bar pressure setting...Flight Time wrote:On to the Cab XB 18.
Good post.toyletbowl wrote:I've had a fair amount of time on big kites and there's no magic bullet. If you want fast turning big kite, they will most likely be fat (meaning deep and long middle struts),but they will be harder to go upwind due to the lower aspect. If you get too big, they are trucks and just pull downwind. If you want a kite to go upwind better and more raw pull, designers tend to go with skinnier kites, but they tend to turn slower. The Speed 3's are super skinny, but SLOW turning due to the wing tips being so far away from each other. Bring the wind tips closer and make the kite fatter and guess what? Faster turning.
Me tooOldnbroken wrote:What I want to know is how the Infinity demo went with Supa EZ and 14Toeside?


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Washington Post Called This Man the 'Modern Face' of AIDS, Then Realized He's a Bareback Porn Star
Last week, the Washington Post published a story called "In 2012, AIDS is a different beast for gay men in D.C.," which aimed to be illuminating, but probably not as much as it would turn out to be. It was later revealed that one of the article's main sources, the HIV-positive D.J. Steedley, who is described as "the modern face of the HIV/AIDS epidemic" and as needing "a certain level of discipline and caution," was signed as a contract performer to the notorious bareback gay porn company Treasure Island Media. Steedely previously appeared as a performer for the equally notorious, often bareback "military" porn company Active Duty. Oops.
The Sword (NSFW) pointed to the announcement of Steedley's signing with the company (also NSFW), in which he rhapsodizes "'giving good, deep, hard, raw fuckings-I don't stop until the bottom is limping on his way out.' But his deepest sexual fantasy, one he hopes TIM will help him make a reality, is 'to be used in a raw, sling gang-fuck.'"
By the way, this isn't the first time TIM has signed someone who is openly HIV positive.
A few days later, the Post realized its gaffe and added this editor's note to the story:
This story includes interviews in text and video with D.J. Steedley, who was described in the story as "the modern face of the [AIDS] epidemic." Following publication, The Post learned that Steedley signed a contract in June with a production company that specializes in filming and distributing videos that depict unprotected sex. This information was germane to the story and should have been included.
That is a correction to give any of the great ones in Gore Vidal's New York Times obit a run for their money.
With bareback sex being so widespread throughout gay porn, there's actually an argument to be made for Steedley being a modern face of HIV because of his career. It's a shame the piece didn't include this exact point and the ethics of it in the nonetheless humanizing interview that accompanied the story:
[Top image via Treasure Island Media]


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Don't ask Victor Duran Naranjo about the European recovery that investors are betting on.
His eight-employee software company, based in Spain's Canary Islands, still can't get a bank loan even after its revenue rose 10 percent last year.
"In theory banks are more open, but in practice it's not easier to get funding now than in 2009," he said in a Jan. 21 telephone interview.
While sovereign borrowing costs in Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, and Spain fell this month to a euro-area record, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch bond indexes, and the Stoxx Europe 600 Index reached its highest in six years, declining bank lending and record unemployment tell a different story as the region struggles out of its longest recession.
"The mood in financial markets may have improved, but the economic situation in most European countries will not improve this year," UBS AG Chairman and former Bundesbank President Axel Weber told a panel discussion Jan. 22 at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. "After several years of crisis it's quite normal to look on the bright side and get excited about improvements. However, it may be a too one-sided view."
Policy makers in the euro area's 18 nations are looking to move beyond the debt crisis that started in Greece in 2009 and tore through the currency bloc, focusing on shoring up the banking system.
Still, the recovery remains fragile. The region's unemployment rate has held at a record 12.1 percent since April. Inflation is less than half of the European Central Bank's (ECB's) price-stability target. Euro-area government debt will average about 96 percent of gross domestic product this year, according to the European Commission.
Overall, the euro-area economy contracted 0.4 percent last year, according to estimates by the ECB, which forecasts an expansion of 1.1 percent in 2014.
"There's still a long way to go from a European point of view in terms of having a banking structure that will stabilize all economies and create growth and create jobs," Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny told Bloomberg TV in Davos today.
All that has kept a lid on bank lending to companies and households, which is vital for generating growth. It shrank for the 19th straight month in November, according to the ECB. Meantime, Stoxx 600's price-earnings ratio has climbed to its highest since 2009.
"Looking at markets in Europe and at the underlying strength of the economy, valuations are slightly expensive," Wouter Sturkenboom, who helps oversee $237 billion as investment strategist for the Europe, Middle East, and Africa at Russell Investments in London, said in a telephone interview on Jan. 16. "We don't think growth will shoot the lights out. We don't think expectations embedded in equities are fairly representative" of the situation in the euro area.
The struggle of Duran's closely held firm, AvanTIC, shows why. "We have reduced all the costs we could to be self-sufficient," the 40 year-old said. "We are securing more projects, but they are less profitable, so we need to be able to fund ourselves."
'Big Challenges'
Total bank lending in Spain, the euro area's fourth-largest economy, has dropped 21 percent since 2008, according to the Bank of Spain. While November saw the first month-on-month increase since March, up 0.2 percent on October, it nevertheless represents an annual fall of 13 percent.
Spain, which on Jan. 23 exited its 41 billion euro ($56 billion) European bailout program that helped recapitalize it banks, is battling the second-highest unemployment rate in the euro region. Spain's National Statistics Institute said on Jan. 23 that the country's unemployment rate was 26.03 percent in the final three months of the year, the sixth straight quarter it has been above 25 percent.
The Spanish economy still faced "big challenges," European Union Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner Olli Rehn told El Pais on Jan. 23, and needs more than a decade to recover.
Lending remains weak elsewhere as well. Loans from banks in Portugal, which was forced into a 78 billion-euro bailout in 2011, fell 6.9 percent in November from the year before, its central bank reported on Jan. 22. In France, the euro area's second largest economy, the annual growth rate of loans to firms remained sluggish, at 0.3 percent in November, after a decline of 0.1 percent in October, the Bank of France, said on Jan. 8.
Italian companies are also seeing little benefit from the financial-market gains. In the three months ending in November 2013, bank lending to firms contracted 8.4 percent compared with the same time the previous year, the Bank of Italy said in it January bulletin.
There will be a "gradual improvement" in bank lending "due to the improvement in the economic situation," ECB Executive Board member Benoit Coeure, said in a Bloomberg News interview on Jan. 15. "Also, risk being reduced in stressed economies and ongoing structural reform should have an impact on credit spreads."
The dearth of credit is also curbing investment. Italian firms' spending on capital goods declined by 1.2 percent in the third quarter of 2013 compared with the previous quarter, according to the Bank of Italy. Purchases of machinery and equipment fell 1.1 percent in the third quarter after a 0.2 percent decline in the previous three months.
"The healing has barely started," Ashoka Mody, the former head of the International Monetary Fund's research and European departments, said in Brussels on Jan. 21. "A reversal of some of the optimism is still possible."
For now, optimism is the market rule. According to 57 percent of the investors, analysts, and traders who are Bloomberg subscribers polled last week, Europe's bond markets have ceased deteriorating. That is the first time in two years of being asked that a majority has backed the view that the debt crisis is over.
"Green shoots are clearly visible," Rehn said at a conference in Brussels on Jan. 21. "But fragilities remain."


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Fashion Director's Farewell
I've written many blog entries for SHOWstudio - 782 at last count - but this is without a shadow of a doubt the most difficult, being as it is my final post as Fashion Director of the site. Difficult not only because of the sentiments it needs to express, but also because of the limits of space and the people that deserve to be thanked. Anyway, let's make a stab.
I would like to thank Nick and Charlotte for their faith, perseverance, patience and enthusiasm throughout our five years working together - never mind the inspiration they gave me each and every day. I feel incredibly grateful and privileged to have worked alongside them. The same is true of the SHOWstudio team. I would like to thank whole and warm-heartedly the team I took my first fledgling fashion steps with - Penny Martin, Pauls Hetherington and Bruty, Ross Phillips, Harry Hanrahan and Dorian Moore. There is a new team in place at SHOWstudio now - Carrie Scott, Amy Ireland, Sally Northmore, Marie Schuller, Neal Bryant, Jon Emmony, Niamh White and another Paul (Herron this time). There are also new Mayfair premises rather swankier than the Ironmonger Row basement I started in - but the raw passion of the team behind SHOWstudio remains. It is that passion that really drives SHOWstudio, and has made it such an exhilarating place to work, each and every day. The same is undoubtedly true of SHOWstudio's loyal bands of interns - many of whom have channelled that success into enormous success in the industry, with more than a few here at SHOWstudio (myself included). I am grateful to them for everything, from covering the collections alongside me, to brewing seemingly endless cups of tea, to the hard-put fashion week task of ticket chasing and keeping a frenzied fashion director sane (not necessarily in that order).
A monolithic debt of gratitude is undoubtedly due to each and every one of SHOWstudio's contributors - larger than the SHOWstudio team, but no less dedicated, devoting their time and energies for the love of the art. My tenure here would have meant nothing without their collaboration. A huge thank you to all our contributing journalists and to the teams of catwalking.com and NowFashion.com whose images have helped make our collections coverage world-class.
In five years of working here, it's impossible to pinpoint a highlight - not because there were too few, but simply because there are far too many. A dozen could be pinned down, maybe - from live Fashion DJs radio broadcasts, to 3-D scanning Daphne Guinness in Alexander McQueen's finest, to interviewing the shy and retiring music megastar Lady Gaga (never mind fashion heroes like Lady Amanda Harlech and Suzy Menkes). Then there are the shoots, the night spent riding up and down escalators with Raquel Zimmermann naked except for a mink pom-pom (her, that is, not me), and the thousand or so fashion shows I've had the immense privilege of attending, upending, occasionally admonishing but oh-so-often adoring. I remember that spring 2009 Lanvin show that had me standing on my chair and cheering, with sheer elation. It's a feeling I've had quite often at SHOWstudio - and is my overriding memory of my time with the team, old and new. Thank you all.


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Did you know that libraries are better than Congress, baseball and apple pie? It's true, according to a 2013 Pew Internet study, public libraries received a 94% approval rating by the American public. Further analysis done for an article in The Atlantic compared this rating to apple pie (81%), baseball (67%) and Congress, (12%). Celebrate National Library Week and your Kalamazoo Public Library on Tuesday, April 15th by participating in Library Snapshot Day!
Think libraries are a thing of the past? Guess again…according to the Pew study, not only do American's love libraries, but the majority feel they're adjusting to new technology just fine. In fact, 94% of Americans say that having a public library improves a community and that the local library is a "welcoming, friendly place." Libraries remain a vital necessity to communities, 81% say that public libraries provide many services people would have a hard time finding elsewhere! Count Kalamazoo residents among the majority. They are included in the more than 1 million people who visit Kalamazoo Public Library annually, according to a Downtown Kalamazoo, Inc. study done in 2010.
April 13-19 is National Library Week. Celebrate by getting a behind-the scenes look at your Kalamazoo Public Library during our second annual Library Snapshot Day, Tuesday, April 15! All day long, KPL staff will take candid photos of all the behind-the-scenes activities at all five of our locations. We will also be sharing statistics, like how many people visit in a single day, how many digital downloads from home, how many items checked out, the number of questions answered by library staff and more! You can follow the day's activities on Flickr, Facebook and Twitter and the KPL website homepage.
Join in the fun! Share a photo of you using the library on April 15 on Facebook or Twitter, and use the hashtag #kplsnapshot. Tell everyone how much you love your local library!
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All students who are new to the Hood Graduate School for the Fall 2014 semester are invited to an orientation on Wednesday, August 20, 5:30-7:30 p.m. The informal welcome reception, to be held at Whitaker Campus Center, will provide an opportunity to meet faculty, staff and fellow students.
The agenda includes a campus tour, introduction to the bookstore and Apple computer lab, a welcome from Graduate School Dean Dr. Maria Green Cowles, and dinner with the program directors. Get the complete agenda and then RSVP here .


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Demo 2012: Has "Big Data" Become a Buzzword?
Yesterday afternoon, the Demo 2012 conference had a session on new "big data" products. But there is one big issue: most of these aren't using the quantity or speed of data that most of the products I think of as big data use, suggesting that "big data" has now become a buzzword. Still, many of these products look quite good.
The one real big data product was BellaDati, a platform for business data analytics, creating business dashboard for retail and e-commerce and social media, and most interestingly, combining social and transaction data. It now has new features including geo-tracking, and really seems to have a nice UI for analytics. The company offers both cloud-based and on-premises solutions. I completely believe there will be more analytics for typical business people, as opposed to analytics professionals, and this looks to be a good step in that direction.
Ube is a platform for the connected home, letting you control lights, air conditioning, and media applications directly from your smartphones. It's an interesting gesture-based interface for controlling these devices and includes features such as tracking the usage of each device. For instance, you can see how many hours of TV you are watching. This can pick up the device status of every device in your home that is on the network. It is planned to be a free app available on iPhone next month. Of course, the problem is that most of the devices you would wish to be controllable aren't; the company showed hardware for a smart dimmer, smart electrical outlets, and a smart plug that it will be putting on Kickstarter shortly. The app looks great, but it may be too early, as most of the devices I'd like to know about in my house aren't yet IP-enabled. I like the idea of controlling all the devices in your house, and we're getting close to that, but it's still a hard thing to do.
4sync is another sharing service, but designed to be less expensive and faster than the other systems. It has software for uploaded and synchronized pictures, videos, and music across multiple platforms. You can also upload music and share it among everyone. Of course, there are lots of services that are similar, but the company says it's different because it is 20 times cheaper than Amazon S3 and 30 percent faster than its competitors. It gives everyone 15GB of storage free but seems aimed at people who need a lot more storage. It's still in beta, but the company claims to be the sixth largest and fastest-growing cloud storage system, with 10,000 sign-ups a day. If that's all true, I can see it finding a market. I'm not sure about whether it has all the features of its competitors or whether it can keep up the pricing advantage against the others, but it looks good.
AppEnsure has an application-centric view of monitoring cloud-based applications. It is designed for companies that host complex applications on cloud services, so they can track each part of the application for its performance. For instance, an e-commerce application might have multiple parts, each of which is running on different virtual or physical machines, each dependent upon servers, storage, and networks. The service works with an overall "heat map" that shows how your application is performing, but then lets you click in to get more details to figure out where the bottlenecks are in your application. This is running at a low-level network layer, but is designed to work from an overall perspective instead of looking at the individual pieces. I think the user interface looks quite good. There are a lot of application-monitoring tools on the market, and this is only in an alpha-test version now, but I can imagine it being quite useful.
MailGapp is a way to make mail mobile, digital, and traceable. It lets you track your physical mail. The idea is to reduce the time you spend checking your postal mail boxes by letting you track the content of your mail box on your mobile phone, including scanning some of the mail. I'm not quite sure, but the idea is different.
Candy Lab showed Cachetown, which looks like a cross between augmented reality and game playing. It renders 3D objects that you can see on your mobile device by using the camera to look at specific items in the physical world. This can be integrated with gameplay that drives users to specific locations. The company also has an online tool allowing marketers to put "game pieces" in locations on Google Street View and then when customers use the app at those locations, they can see special offers. I do think location-based games could be neat, but I'm skeptical that people are really ready to use special purpose AR applications in other circumstances.
ElectNext is a recommendation engine designed to help you make an informed political decision. You answer questions on various issues and indicate how important each are to you. It then tells you which politicians are most aligned with your view. It can then give you information about where you align and where you disagree with each politician, on national and local levels. I'm unclear on the business model (if it has one).
Greenqloud is a cloud-hosting service that claims both to cost less than other hosting services and to reduce energy consumption and CO2 emissions by completely running on renewable energy. The company is based in Iceland and uses geothermal and hydroelectric energy. It offers both a compute cloud and a storage cloud, and you can use this for both personal and business files. The company says it offers services for less than its competitors, and certainly sounds good.
TheTaploid is a new social media service designed to highlight the things you'll find most interesting among your friends. It uses a predictive analytic engine tied into your social networks to produce a new interface for social media information that looks quite good and should be surfacing the most important data. It looks really nice, though whether people need another application for viewing this data is an open question.


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WCC offers a number of places where students can get academic advising and counseling, depending upon a student's need or situation.
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Career Transitions provides help with part-time and full-time job placement, as well as Cooperative Education (Co-op) and Academic Service Learning placement. They offer resume help as well as employment-related events, such as a job fair and workshops.
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Students far from home do not need to travel far at WCC for help. International Student Services can help make your transition to the Washtenaw Community College campus as smooth as possible. They offer one-on-one counseling as well as academic and immigration advising for students from around the world. International students with F-1 visas may be admitted if they meet certain requirements. WCC is authorized by federal law to admit non-immigrant students.
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Activities through the Office of Student Development and Activities are designed to give students opportunities to try something new, meet other classmates, and expand their interests--all at an affordable cost. Students are encouraged to participate in these cultural, social, and recreational activities as a means to acquire a well-rounded education at WCC and to have fun!
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Washington County's real estate market, which fell apart in 2006 after an extraordinary run that attracted national attention, is struggling back to health.
Driven by a revived Utah economy and record low interest rates, sales of existing single-family homes have been moving up since they bottomed out in 2008. Foreclosed and short-sale properties have all but dried up, real estate agents say.
New construction, which reached its nadir a year later, is bouncing back, too. Even prices, which lagged behind the recovery of sales, are coming back.
It isn't a stampede yet, but all signs point to better times in Utah's Dixie.
"Oh, absolutely," said Ryan Andersen, an agent at ERA Brokers Consolidated in St. George.
"In Washington County, we have probably only 20 bank-owned properties left. A lot of people are no longer upside down [in their mortgages]. The biggest problem we have in our market today is getting enough properties to sell," he said.
Just seven years ago, Washington County was one of the hottest real estate markets in the U.S. Fueled by a population boom and the easy lending policies of some local banks, more than 4,200 homes were sold in a county with fewer than 45,000 households. When the collapse came, it hit hard. By 2008, with the Great Recession in full bloom, sales had fallen by more than half from their high in 2005, according to Washington County Board of Realtors figures.
Prices shriveled, too. The median price of homes sold in the county fell from $265,000 in 2006 to $159,300 in 2011 a 40 percent decline.
All that pain hasn't been forgotten, real estate agents and builders say. But it is being replaced with a noticeable good cheer that wasn't easy to detect two years ago.
"All indicators for us indicate things are getting better; not in a shooting upwards trend, but things do continue to get better in a very managed, consistent, steady way," said Jair Almarez, who manages Salt Lake City-based Ivory Homes' construction business in St. George. Last year, Ivory Homes sold 31 houses in St. George. This year, the company expects to sell 47 in two subdivisions on the city's south side.
Demand is greatest for homes priced under $300,000; it is close to blistering for houses in the $150,000 to $200,000 range, agents say. A house priced under $200,000 will sell in a week, Andersen said. There is just a 30-day supply of homes for sale priced above $200,000 and below $300,000, he said. In all price categories, the supply is less than six months which is where it was at the market's high point. By contrast, there was a 17-month supply of homes for sale in the fall of 2008, according to the Board of Realtors.
Deby Bauer, a Re/Max Associates agent who works only with buyers, said most of her clients have resorted to building new homes because the inventory of existing houses is skimpy. Anything priced correctly sells in just a matter of days, she said.
Most of her clients are new to the county. Some live in northern Utah. Others are from foreign countries. Recently, Bauer showed houses to a couple from Sydney, Australia. Apparently, they liked what they saw. Bauer said the couple flew home to put their house in Sydney up for sale. They will be back as soon as they find a buyer, she said.
Right now, Bauer has 15 clients who have contracted to buy homes in the St. George area.
"That's definitely up from where [the number] was a year ago for me," she said.
By most accounts, prices for new and existing homes have jumped significantly. In the first half of 2013, the median sale price averaged $195,000 a 20 percent gain over the same period of last year. Many of Bauer's clients are setting their sights on higher-priced homes. Last year, most didn't want to go above $200,000. Today, they are shopping for homes priced at $300,000 and above, she said.
"They feel comfortable with the economy. They are also seeing a quicker return on their investment because of the continued price increases of our properties here," she said.
There was a small dip in sales in 2012, but agents think the 2.7 percent decline in the number of houses sold was an anomaly. Last year was the only year since 2009 that didn't see a rise. And so far this year, sales have rebounded smartly. If the pace holds up, 2013 sales could rival 2006, when more than 3,200 units changed hands.
"I don't see any reason this recovery has to stop, unless and until values get out of reach for the average buyer," said Jeremy Larkin, who owns the Larkin Group real estate firm.
That's not likely to happen because banks have imposed more restrictive lending practices, Larkin said.
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Washington County home sales, prices rebounding
Median sales price
2004 • $165,000
2005 • $228,000
2006 • $265,000
2007 • $249,000
2008 • $220,000
2009 • $190,000
2010 • $169,900
2011 • $159,300
2012 • $169,700
2013 (through June) • $195,000
Homes sold
2004 • 3,951
2005 • 4,234
2006 • 3,243
2007 • 2,696
2008 • 2,063
2009 • 2,573
2010 • 2,853
2011 • 3,149
2012 • 3,065
2013 (through June) • 1,834
Source • Washington County Board of Realtors


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Scandinavian Defense
The Scandinavian Defense is one of the oldest recorded openings in chess. From the very first move, black looks to undermine the center control of white after the common e4 move by white.
Nine times out of ten white will catpure the pawn on d5 and I recommend that you spend the majority of your time learning the scandinavian defense, assuming that white captures the pawn on d5.
Black then has two options. The first option is the main line which is to recapture the pawn on d5 with his queen. Then after white play Nf3, black can decide to bring his queen to a5 or back to d6. It is considered bad play to retreat back to d8 since the queen just came from that square. You shouldn't play the scandinavian if you are looking to merely retreat your pieces when they could stay active.
The other response black has is to play Nf6 and not recapture right away on d5. This is done for two reasons. One black is giving up material to build up a stronger center and get better development from their minor pieces. The second reason is that the main line is for white to give back the material and black will have a better developed plan than they would with their queen exposed.
Viswanathan Anand vs Joel Lautier
Credit Suisse, Biel SUI 1997
Scandinavian Defense: Main Lines. Mieses Variation
[Result 1-0]
1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Qxd5 3.Nc3 Qa5 4.d4 Nf6 5.Nf3 c6 6.Bc4 Bf5
7.Ne5 e6 8.g4 Bg6 9.h4 Nbd7 10.Nxd7 Nxd7 11.h5 Be4 12.Rh3 Bg2
13.Re3 Nb6 14.Bd3 Nd5 15.f3 Bb4 16.Kf2 Bxc3 17.bxc3 Qxc3
18.Rb1 Qxd4 19.Rxb7 Rd8 20.h6 gxh6 21.Bg6 Ne7 22.Qxd4 Rxd4
23.Rd3 Rd8 24.Rxd8+ Kxd8 25.Bd3 1-0


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No one's giving the Cardinals much of a chance in the NFC West, but defensive end Calais Campbell is convinced they can win the division.
For one big reason.
"I think it's very likely we can win the division, yes," Campbell said, via Mike Freeman of CBSSports.com. "I respect every opponent in our division. Every one. But I think of it this way. We were able to hang in a bunch of our division games without a real quarterback.
"I don't want to disrespect anyone but now we have a real quarterback to go with a good defense. When we play with a lead, we're hard to beat. This is the first time in years that we have an offense that matches our defense."
It's a good thing he didn't want to disrespect Kevin Kolb, John Skelton, Ryan Lindley and Brian Hoyer, otherwise you might think they weren't any good.
And while Carson Palmer might not necessarily be an acquisition on par with Denver landing Peyton Manning last offseason, Campbell thinks he'll make a huge difference.
"I was talking to Carson the other day and he said he's never really played with a good defense before," Campbell said. "I told him it's been a while since I played with a good quarterback."
No disrespect, of course. All Campbell's trying-to-be-polite condition needed was a "some of my best friends are Derek Andersons," and it would have been complete.


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Companion Animal Solutions and the Seattle Animal Shelter are launching a new program on Saturday, September 18th for new dog and puppy owners called DAWG-O (Dog Adoptions With Great Outcomes). The purpose of this program is to help owners avoid or reduce some of the common issues experienced by the new adopters of shelter dogs. While this program was designed for people who have adopted from the Seattle Animal Shelter, we encourage all recent adopters to attend. Everyone is welcome!
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Governor Dennis Daugaard Signs Needs-based Scholarship Bill
PIERRE - South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard has signed into law a measure that sets up a state scholarship that will award money based on students' financial need.
When the Legislature passed the bill last week, Senate Republican Leader Russell Olson of Wentworth said South Dakota until now has been the only state without a scholarship based on financial need.
The new law provides $200,000 to fund the first year of the scholarship program. It also provides $1.5 million to a trust fund, with investment earnings to be used to finance scholarships in later years.
Universities, technical schools and trade schools taking part in the program must provide $3 in scholarship money for every $1 awarded in state money.
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An interesting article in Salon, Your iPhone Kills Jobs, maintains that iPhone, Android, and other smartphone apps kill some jobs and makes other jobs worse. The vast majority of the jobs affected are those populated by the underclass of foreign workers abused by companies like Foxconn, and American workers in the low end jobs largely populated by workers like single moms, undereducated workers, and unemployed people who once had better jobs. These people are trapped because they need the work and yet their jobs are in such demand that individual employees are disposable. Better not rock the boat.
Another thing smartphone technology does is take low-wage workers we often had to see into situations where they work behind the scenes and out of sight.
Once again, technology eliminates some jobs and makes other ones worse.
Is there any way to fix this?
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Just one of the benefits of capitalism.
I disagree. the smart phone is a tool nothing more. Yes you can order food and many things on it. It however is mainly another means of communication. Nothing more. You can do very much the same from a computer.The job market is a result of bad economy and lack of a real education system. wages are a joke have been for years. the concept of minimum wage was based on living wage which we haven't had since somewhere around the late sixty's .
I'm sure the writer of the article would admit that the problem he identifies with smartphones is also generated by computers. Smartphones have simply expanded the problem. You can't deny, however, that it's easier for someone not to give a tip when they don't have to face the person who made or delivered their food face to face, and that these new technologies have moved low wage workers further out of site into a kind of technological backroom or basement.
Sadly, most people are going to scream, yell, and kick to go back to, "how it used to be".
Google alone has killed entire industries. This simple link: http://www.google.com/+/business has made it possible for a single individual to now have complete control over everything that makes a business successful in today's world. The kicker? Most of these services are free. You just can't compete with free. Need to make a phone call inside the states? No problem! Google Voice is free. Need to attach and send a 200mb+ file? Free. Or need a word editing suite? No problem! Google Drive. All free. Need driving directions? Google maps for your phone. Free.
Ten years ago all of this tech would have cost thousands of dollars.
When a huge company says they are unsure about the future for hiring new employee's what they really mean is that we can do more work with less people. It's really as simple as that.
The solution we need is to end the tax havens with companies like google/apple/facebok/walmart/amazon/all of the billion dollar companies use to dodge US taxes. Sure it's so easy to say, "BOYCOTT THAT COMPANY TILL THEY PAY THEIR FAIR SHARE! But until the gov does something about it, it won't matter in my opinion. People are generally... lazy and say, "Fuck it I want that product!"
Right now the gov is trying to cut services that should never be cut.
What people forget is that small businesses don't have an army of zombie lawyers to dodge taxes. So they (small companies) have zero chance of dodging that 35% tax rate every year. It's really hard to compete as a small business when google pays 2.4% in taxes.This lost tax revenue is what really hurts the states. In my opinion, until the tax loop holes are figured out we are rotting out the states and the world.
George Carlin sums it up perfectly. "They don't want people that are smart enough to sit around the kitchen table to figure out how badly being fucked by a system that threw them over board 30 fucking years ago."
I wonder if this huge trend toward more efficiency and more and more things for free, if the "job" of most people in the future is going to be being unemployed? and is all of this making some form of socialism a pending necessity? I don't see how capitalism can support a majority of the workforce if things keep going the way they are.
As it is, one of the reasons the job numbers aren't going up is that many of the jobs lost in the downturn will never come back. Why? Businesses (a) worked hard on efficiency and succeeded in streamlining their processes and (b) they are working the workers they have harder. While paying overtime now and then or even regularly is expensive, it's less expensive than taking on another employee.
Excellent points Matthew and very important to be raised. Unfortunately things will not go back to the way they used to be its just a simple fact of reality.
But I think you can compete with free. When considering to acquire a product, price is not everything. Quality is. I myself use the most expensive computer money can buy, an Apple iMac (it has served me well after 7 years its still running very well). Now I could have purchased a Dell Laptop for much cheaper. But I didn't buy this product for price, I bought it for reliability, durability and functionality. The same goes for the services Google is offering. If other companies expect us to pay for their services, they better do everything and anything they can to make those services a thousand times more reliable, more durable and more functionally than Goolgle's services. Sometimes the free option is not the best option. And if something goes wrong with it, do we have the right to complain? In my opinion I wouldn't say no. And I'm not saying this would be easy, its not; incredibly hard I would argue.
Now I'm sorry that the government is cutting all these services that smaller companies supply. The only thing that can be done about that is to give the government a reason to why it is economically worthwhile for them to be spared.
And yes, its unfair, its harsh and in many case heartbreaking. But the reality here is, we are in a global recession still and tough calls are going to have to be made. Industries will die, jobs will be cut, taxes will go up, wages will decrease etc.
But I do very much agree with your stance of Google pay so little taxes. This is indeed a very serious flaw with the economy; the rich should be paying more tax and not less. This is an issue the government needs to be pressured about.
This piece is from techdirt is talking about file sharing but I feel this can also apply to hardware quality as well.
Not only can you compete with free, you must compete with free or you're going to lose out. If you don't offer a legitimate alternative, people will flock to the illegitimate ones. Yes, some people will always infringe, but over and over again we see how legitimate services pull people away from file sharing and towards paying -- if they provide enough value at a reasonable price.
This is exactly what apple has done on a fantastic level, "If they provide enough value at a reasonable price." I would agree with you about macs. I have grown up with a mac and out of the 25 years or so I have been using them only one had a hardware problem that was easily fixed.
Also I would like to mention a fantastic point from one of the creators of super meat boy when it comes to downloading things for free and sums up exactly what my first quote from techdirt says.
"I think I can safely say that Super Meat Boy has been pirated at least 200,000 times," he wrote. "... As a forward thinking developer who exists in the present, I realize and accept that a pirated copy of a digital game does not equate to money being taken out of my pocket. Team Meat shows no loss in our year end totals due to piracy and neither should any other developer."
People who pirate videogames may or may not buy those games if they couldn't pirate them, but there is no actual way to calculate that lost revenue, Refenes argued. "It is impossible to know with certainty the intentions of people. With the SimCity fiasco and several companies trying to find new ways to combat piracy and stating piracy has negatively affected their bottom line I wonder if they've taken the time to accurately try to determine what their losses are due to piracy."
Refenes affirmed that retail stores such as Kmart are able to calculate their losses precisely because their stock consists of physical items that can counted and valuated. But "in the digital world, you don't have a set inventory. Your game is infinitely replicable at a negligible or zero cost. [... ] Digital inventory has no value. Your company isn't worth an infinite amount because you have infinite copies of your game. As such, calculating worth and loss based on infinite inventory is impossible."
"You cannot, with any accuracy, state that because your game was pirated 300 times you lost 300 sales. You cannot prove even one lost sale because there is no evidence to state that any one person who pirated your game would have bought your game if piracy did not exist."
Refenes then questioned the logicality of using expensive DRM solutions to reduce the intangible losses caused by piracy. "You spend $X on research for your new DRM method that will prevent people from stealing your game. That $X is a line item in accounting that can be quantified. Can you then say "This $X we put into research for our DRM gained us back $Y in sales"? There is no way to calculate this because it is not possible to quantify the intentions of a person. Also, there's no way of accurately determining which customers would have stolen the game had there not been DRM."
In addition to the R&D costs required to develop new and more effective DRM solutions, those solutions usually lead to direct and quantifiable losses due to refunds and loss of customers. "I'd take any amount of pirates over one return due to disappointment any day," affirmed Refense.
I want to write more but I have to go for the day. Good discussions so far.
If other companies expect us to pay for their services, they better do everything and anything they can to make those services a thousand times more reliable, more durable and more functionally than Goolgle's services.
I'm fairly sure that if a company does something so much better than Google that people will pay for it Google will snatch it up and it will be free. Isn't that what's been happening. I could site Google's antispam filter, which is as close to magic as anything in the real world can be. I'm pretty sure they bought it from someone who otherwise would have been selling it.
As for taxes, while it seems unfair that a company like Carnival Cruise Lines pays just .06% and GE pays none, but I wonder if taxation actually works at all anyway. Who ends up paying a well-run company's taxes in the end? Isn't it their customers? And yet, what is the alternative? A government has to have money to operate.
Which tax havens would you like to see closed, and how would you do it?
Any tax havens that lie outside of the country, because that's literally money walking out the door. In house tax loopholes like donating to charity could be acceptable, provided that a cap be placed on how low tax rates can be sunk, and making sure that companies and rich people are not in anyway involved in the administration of the charities they donate to. It doesn't count if you're basically donating to yourself.
Yes people need to adapt to the modern age and the current climate. If there is no demand for the job you are currently in or have been let go due to lack of need of your services in a particular are. Go back to education and get yourself qualified in something else.
I worked in retail for 8 years (I'm still there), but there is no hope for me to progress in this industry in my current company. The budget isn't there and the demand isn't there, there are too many people looking for these types of jobs. I'm still a part-time sales person but I've gone back to collage to study web-design.
Computers is where all the money is at people, face this reality or you will be left behind.
If a person is already holding 2 jobs to support their child and a babysitter, it would seem she's in a corner she can't get out of.
I'd be interested in your reply to Morgan Matthew's post, which is just above yours.


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Options available for reducing impact on wildlife during hay harvest (April 27, 2012)
Hackberry Flat Day offers southwest Oklahoma family fun (April 18, 2012)
Searching for the scissortail (April 13, 2012)
Controlled Hunts application online now (April 11, 2012)
Oklahoma Lesser Prairie Chicken Conservation Action Plan draft available for public review and presentation (April 10, 2012)
Last chance for teens to apply for Wildlife Department Youth Camp (April 10, 2012)
Northwest Oklahoma wildlife habitat to benefit from Quail Forever donation (April 6, 2012)
Hummingbirds coming to a feeder near you (April 5, 2012)
March produces second black bass state record (April 5, 2012)
Options available for reducing impact on wildlife during hay harvest (April 27, 2012)
A long and mild spring is producing healthy, early hay crops for landowners this year, and biologists with the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation are encouraging them to walk out their fields or use a flusher bar on farming equipment before cutting hay to help flush nesting or bedded down wildlife from the area.
"This has been a great season for vegetative growth, which is what wildlife needs after last year's horrible drought," said Mike Sams, private lands senior biologist for the Wildlife Department. "And it's what farmers needed as well. But every year we have farmers call in to report having hit a fawn during the hay cutting process. So this year, we're reminding farmers early to take a few precautions."
Sams works with landowners across the state who are interested in improving wildlife habitat on their property. Some of them are farmers, and Sams says something as simple as walking out their fields before going back over them with heavy equipment could encourage any wildlife in the area to leave.
"Nobody wants to accidentally kill or injure an animal during the farming process, and these simple steps can help avoid it," Sams said.
In Oklahoma, most hens are nesting this time of year, and most fawns are born in May and June. Log on to wildlifedepartment.com for more information about wildlife conservation in Oklahoma. See the Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service's fact sheet at http://pods.dasnr.okstate.edu/docushare/dsweb/Get/Document-2696/NREM-5006web.pdf for more information about reducing the mortality of grassland wildlife during hay and wheat harvesting. To reach Mike Sams, call (405) 590-2584.
Walking out fields before cutting hay is one way to help avoid injuring wildlife such as nesting birds or bedded down deer fawns.
Hackberry Flat Day offers southwest Oklahoma family fun (April 18, 2012)
The Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation and Friends of Hackberry Flat are offering a fun-filled day for the entire family on Saturday, April 21st from 9 am to 3 pm at the Hackberry Flat Center located near Frederick in southwest Oklahoma.
Activities on the Hackberry Flat area include a morning birding tour for intermediate and advanced birdwatchers from 8:30 a.m. until noon. Birding tours for beginners and families are offered four times on Saturday: 9:30 a.m., 11 a.m., 12:30 p.m., and 2 p.m. New this year, the first 25 families to sign up for and take the tour will receive one bird field guide/family. To make reservations for a bird tour, send an e-mail to email@example.com specifying which of the four time slots are preferred as well as the number of people in the group. Visitors may also sign up for a tour when upon arrival at Hackberry Flat Center, but each tour is limited to 20 people. A waiting list will be maintained.
Families also can try archery and shotgun shooting for both skilled and beginning shooters, crayfish hunting, and close-up observation of the sport fish of Oklahoma in the Wildlife Department's large aquarium.
Activities continue inside the Center with viewing wetland wildlife in the wetland classroom presented by Quartz Mountain Nature Park and the OK Wildlife and Prairie Heritage Alliance, as well as an interactive exhibit about bats in Oklahoma by Alabaster Caverns State Park.
Participants of the Hackberry Flat Day activities are exempt from possessing a hunting or fishing license or conservation passport normally required when entering most wildlife management areas.
All activities will begin at the Hackberry Flat Center, a facility that provides wetland classroom experiences for school groups, programs on wildlife and wildlife-related activities as well as meeting facilities for resource-oriented programs, workshops and meetings. More information as well as directions to Hackberry Flat can be found at http://www.wildlifedepartment.com/education/hackberry_flat.htm.
For more information about other attractions in and around Frederick, call the Frederick Chamber of Commerce at (580) 335-2126. For more information about the Hackberry Flat Center, call Melynda Hickman, Wildlife Diversity biologist for the Wildlife Department, at (405) 990-4977.
Searching for the scissortail (April 13, 2012)
Now is the time to start searching for the scissor-tailed flycatcher on its way north from the tropics to spend the summer in Oklahoma. Oklahoma is one of only seven United States in which the bird nests.
"Scissortails are neo-tropical migrants, which breed in North America in the summer and winter in Central and South America or the Caribbean islands," said Rachel Bradley, wildlife diversity information specialist for the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation. "People will begin seeing them in Oklahoma any day now and they'll inhabit the state until late October."
The birds are easily identified by their long, scissor-like tail that is seen outstretched during flight. Scissortails can often be seen perching on fences and telephone wires along open prairie roadsides watching for food.
According to Bradley, the scissortail's diet consists largely of insects.
Landowners may make their land more attractive to scissor-tailed flycatchers and certain other bird species by planting and maintaining scattered shade and shrubs to add perching and nesting sites.
Wildlife enthusiasts who are not landowners can still benefit scissortails and other wildlife by supporting the Department's Wildlife Diversity Program, which is committed to species not hunted or fished. They can aid the Wildlife Diversity Program by purchasing a Wildlife Conservation license plate, a Wildlife Department publication or by donating directly to the Wildlife Diversity fund. For more information about the Wildlife Diversity Program, log on to wildlifedepartment.com.
Controlled Hunts application online now (April 11, 2012)
The Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation's popular controlled hunts program is open to online applicants now.
The controlled hunts program offers once-in-a-lifetime elk and antelope hunts, highly sought-after buck hunts, and a range of other quality deer and turkey hunting opportunities through randomized drawings that only cost sportsmen $5 to enter. Opportunities offered through the program include hunts on Department or other government-owned or managed lands where unrestricted hunting would pose safety concerns or where overharvest might occur.
The online application process takes just a few minutes and must be completed through the Wildlife Department's website at wildlifedepartment.com. Applicants have until May 15 to submit their applications.
"You just can't beat $5 for a chance at an Oklahoma big game or gobbler hunt in the unique areas offered through this program," said Melinda Sturgess-Streich, assistant director of administration and finance for the Wildlife Department. "Whether you want to hunt a bull elk in the Wichita Mountains, an antelope in the Panhandle or a trophy buck at locations across the state like the McAlester Army Ammunition Plant, the controlled hunts program is one of the best things going in Oklahoma hunting."
All applicants, including lifetime license holders, must pay the $5 application fee to enter the controlled hunts drawings. The fee is paid only once per person per year regardless of the number of categories entered.
Applications are offered online through a secure process that only accepts applications once they have been filed correctly, and a print-out confirmation page is available for sportsmen to document their submitted application.
Log on to http://www.wildlifedepartment.com/controlledhunts.htm for complete application instructions, including tips on enhancing chances of being selected as well as a full listing of available hunts for elk, deer, antelope and turkey.
Oklahoma Lesser Prairie Chicken Conservation Action Plan draft available for public review and presentation (April 10, 2012)
The public is invited to provide comments on a draft conservation plan for the Lesser Prairie Chicken in Oklahoma. The first draft of the Oklahoma Lesser Prairie Chicken Conservation Action Plan (OLEPCCP) is now available for public review and is posted on the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation's website at (www.wildlifedepartment.com/wildlifemgmt/lepc/action_plan.htm). Comments on the draft plan will be accepted until May 4, and the public is encouraged to attend an evening public meeting April 25 in Beaver or April 26 in Woodward.
The draft OLEPCCP identifies management strategies to increase the lesser prairie chicken (LEPC) population in Oklahoma through habitat improvements. The plan emphasizes tools and incentives to encourage landowners and others to partner with agencies in conservation efforts while also achieving their land use needs. The Oklahoma House of Representatives adopted a concurrent resolution in April 2011 directing ODWC to coordinate development of the LEPC conservation plan to "protect, enhance, and restore [LEPC] habitat while also addressing other factors leading to their decline." The plan is intended to benefit the people, economy, and wildlife resources of Oklahoma by providing a framework for effective LEPC management and habitat improvement that will facilitate population increases.
The LEPC is a North American grouse species that historically occupied sand sagebrush, shinnery oak, and mixed grass vegetation types of the southern Great Plains. LEPC and the habitat upon which they depend have diminished across their historical range by about 90%. In 1995 the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) determined that the LEPC was warranted for listing under the federal Endangered Species Act. Unless populations sufficiently increase, the species may be listed in the future, resulting in potential federal regulation of some activities and developments within its range.
Public meetings to present the draft OLEPCCP and to hear public comments will be held Wednesday, April 25, 6:30 p.m. - 9 p.m. at the Beaver County Fairgrounds Pavilion Building, Douglas Ave. in Beaver, and Thursday, April 26, 6:30 p.m. - 9 p.m. at the City of Woodward Pioneer Room, 1219 8th St. in Woodward. Written public comments should be sent to email@example.com 114 S. Franklin St., Ste. 203, Juneau, AK 99801 by Friday, May 4.
The OLEPCCP is being prepared by a consulting team led by the Ecosystem Management Research Institute (www.emri.org), assisted by Jan Caulfield Consulting. For more information, contact Dr. Jonathan Haufler, Ecosystem Management Research Institute (406) 677-0247.
Last chance for teens to apply for Wildlife Department Youth Camp (April 10, 2012)
April 13 is the application deadline for teenagers hoping to attend the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation's annual Wildlife Youth Camp slated for June 24-29 at Oklahoma University Biological Station at Lake Texoma.
According to Jay Harvey, game warden stationed in Choctaw and Bryan counties and coordinator for the camp, the camp is geared toward youth interested in the outdoors and careers in wildlife management.
"We urge anybody between the ages of 14 and 16 that's interested in hunting or fishing or a career with the Department to apply," Harvey said.
The free camp increases awareness of conserving and managing Oklahoma's wildlife resources through courses on wildlife-related career opportunities, rifle and shotgun training, archery, wildlife identification, wildlife law enforcement, fishing, fisheries management, ropes, swimming and turkey and waterfowl hunting, management and law enforcement.
"Anyone interested in coming should note that the camp is being held in June this year instead of July like the last three years," Harvey said.
To attend youth camp, applicants must be Oklahoma residents and must turn 14 prior to June 24, 2012, and be no older than 16. To attend, prospective campers must fill out an application form and write a 75-word essay describing why they want to attend the camp, why they should be selected and what they expect to learn. Additionally, they must provide a letter of recommendation by someone other than a family member and a photograph from a recent outdoor-related event or activity. Application forms are available online at http://www.wildlifedepartment.com/education/youthcamp.htm. The page also includes additional information about the camp and photographs from previous years.
The camp will be open to a maximum of 35 youth, and applications will be accepted through April 13, 2012.
Northwest Oklahoma wildlife habitat to benefit from Quail Forever donation (April 6, 2012)
At its April meeting, the Oklahoma Wildlife Conservation Commission accepted a donation from the 89er Chapter of Quail Forever to benefit quail habitat in northwest Oklahoma.
The donation includes specialized equipment for conducting prescribed burns to be used on the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation's Beaver River Wildlife Management Area in northwest Oklahoma.
For years, wildlife professionals have promoted the benefits of prescribed fire to wildlife habitat, particularly as it pertains quail. The equipment donation will help improve habitat through prescribed burns that eliminate brushy overgrowth and promote new growth of beneficial native vegetation.
According to Alan Peoples, chief of wildlife for the Wildlife Department, newly acquired portions of Beaver River WMA stand to benefit from prescribed burning because of heavy overgrowth.
"As a matter of fact, its so thick you can't find the fence in a lot of that pasture," Peoples said.
Though prescribed fire is an important tool for wildlife management, Peoples said the risk of burning away too much vegetation is one of the challenges of prescribed burning in northwest Oklahoma. When excessive burning is combined with the lack of rain and high winds common to the region, the area's sandy soils can shift too easily and inhibit further vegetative growth.
Peoples said the Wildlife Department's personnel have the experience to conduct prescribed burns on the WMA effectively and safely and in a way that will benefit wildlife.
Additionally, the portions that will be burned in rotations over the course of four years are uniquely situated with borders formed by highways to the north and east, the Beaver River to the south and additional WMA property to the west.
Current research on Beaver River and Packsaddle WMAs in partnership with Oklahoma State University is focused on causes of quail decline, and the Department is currently using radio technology to track the movements and mortality of 69 quail on Beaver River WMA and 44 quail on Packsaddle WMA. According to Peoples, 11 of the quail being tracked on Beaver River WMA are scaled quail, also known as blue quail. The units worn by the quail aid in tracking the birds and notify researchers when a bird stops moving for an extended time period.
The research taking place on the WMAs will also use weather stations to track localized weather events and their effects on radio-tracked quail and will focus on the effects of grazing and burning techniques. Researchers hope to learn more about the causes of quail mortality and population declines as well as help identify beneficial management techniques.
In other business, the Commission voted to increase the Wildlife Department's fiscal year 2012 budget in the amount of $73,750 for the construction of a personnel residence on the newly acquired Cross Timbers WMA; $34,200 for windmills, solar wells, fence materials and building roof materials on the Beaver River WMA; $14,405 for the removal of eastern red cedars, treatment of salt cedars, burning and planting of cottonwood trees on Packsaddle WMA; and $1,000,000 for the fourth and final acquisition of property comprising the new Cross Timbers WMA.
The Commission heard a presentation from Melinda Sturgess-Streich, assistant director of administration and finance for the Wildlife Department, on the agency's plans to host the 2013 annual conference of the Southeastern Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies (SEAFWA). The organization is made up of fish and wildlife agencies across the southeast United Stated responsible for the management and protection of fish and wildlife resources in 15 states, Puerto Rico and the United States Virgin Islands. Members of the association meet annually to discuss and collaborate on the latest research, management techniques and state of fish and wildlife affairs in the region.
Additionally, the Commission approved several recommended policy changes to the Department's employee handbook.
The Wildlife Conservation Commission is the eight-member governing board of the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation. The Wildlife Commission establishes state hunting and fishing regulations, sets policy for the Wildlife Department and indirectly oversees all state fish and wildlife conservation activities. Commission members are appointed by the governor and confirmed by the Senate.
The next scheduled Commission meeting is set for 9 a.m. May 7, at the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation headquarters (auditorium), located at the southwest corner of 18th and North Lincoln, Oklahoma City.
March produces second black bass state record (April 5, 2012)
Just days after Poteau angler Benny Williams, Jr. landed a new state record largemouth bass from Cedar Lake in southeast Oklahoma, an angler in the opposite southern corner of the state has reeled in a new state record smallmouth bass.
Ryan Wasser of Pocasset was fishing March 31 at Lake Lawtonka in preparation for an upcoming local tournament when he hooked a fish that he knew was special.
"The fish came to the top where I could see it, and I knew that I had a potential record type smallmouth on," he said.
And a record smallmouth it was. At 8 lbs. 7 oz., the fish outweighs the previous record smallmouth by four ounces.
Wasser caught the bass on a ¼ oz. shakyhead lure from Flatlands Custom Tackle rigged with a finesse worm and 10-lb. test line. He was using a Shimano reel on an Abu Garcia rod. The fish measured 23 1/8 inches in length and 18 inches in girth.
"I was fishing in less than five feet of water when the bass bit," Wasser said.
He said the drag on his reel was too loose at first and that he had to slowly adjust it to gain on the fish.
Wasser was fishing with his mother and his six-year-old son when the fish hit.
"He was just as amazed as I was," Wasser said of his son's reaction to the fish. "He hasn't seen many smallmouth, and none of us have seen one even close to that big."
And most Oklahoma smallmouth anglers won't.
"Definitely more than a dream-come-true experience that none of us will ever forget," Waser said.
The fish's weight was certified by Ryan Ryswyk, southwest region fisheries biologist for the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation. According to Ryswyk, the bass caught by Wasser and the state record largemouth caught March 23 are just two examples of why now is a great time to be fishing in Oklahoma.
"This is a great time of year to be out on the water. The fish are biting and the weather has been beautiful," said Ryswyk. "Two new bass records have been set in the past few weeks, but don't forget about the crappie and saugeye action that is heating up as well. You can catch fish even without a boat. Bank fishing, float tubing, or wading shallow water are other good options for people who don't own a boat. With many reservoirs, ponds, rivers, and creeks within our state, Oklahomans shouldn't be too far from a fishing spot in any part of the state."
According to Gene Gilliland, assistant chief of fisheries for the Wildlife Department, Lake Lawtonka was one of the first lakes in the state to be stocked with "Tennessee strain" smallmouth bass, which grow larger and are seemingly more adaptable to large lake environments than the state's native strain of smallmouth bass that inhabit the many Ozark and Ouachita streams and rivers of eastern Oklahoma.
"An 8-lb. smallmouth is huge anywhere in the country," Gilliland said.
In addition to Lawtonka, Oklahoma is home to several outstanding smallmouth fisheries including Eufaula, Texoma, Skiatook and Broken Bow lakes.
In manmade lakes, smallmouth seek clear, clean water usually with a rocky substrate. Weedy areas along the shoreline, flats off channels and shelves are all good areas to find smallmouth. In streams, smallmouth anglers should look for riffles, pools and the shallows above rapids. Food sources include crayfish, small fish, insects, worms, frogs and tadpoles.
Currently all but one of the Oklahoma state record black bass in the books - which include smallmouth, largemouth, spotted and hybrid black bass - have been caught during the month of March.
The three main species are similar, but can be easily identified. The most objective way to tell them species apart is by the relationship of the eye and the mouth hinge. On a smallmouth bass, the mouth hinge vertically lines up in front of the back edge of the eye, whereas on a largemouth bass the mouth hinge vertically lines up behind the back edge of the eye. The mouth hinge on a spotted bass lines up vertically with the back edge of the eye. Coloration is also a good indicator of species but can be unreliable because water clarity can vary from lake to lake.
Anglers who believe they may have hooked a record fish must weigh the fish on an Oklahoma State Department of Agriculture certified scale, and a Wildlife Department employee must verify the weight. For a complete list of record fish and the procedures for certifying a state record, consult the current "Oklahoma Fishing Guide" or log on to wildlifedepartment.com.
Hummingbirds coming to a feeder near you (April 5, 2012)
If you haven't already, now is the time to hang those hummingbird feeders. Hummingbirds are one of the most sought after birds in Oklahoma during the spring and summer months. Hummers are seen beginning in early April, and you can help the Wildlife Department's Wildlife Diversity Program monitor populations this year by participating in the 2012 Hummingbird Survey.
Hummingbirds are one of the most enjoyable birds to watch because they fly backwards and upside down while their wings pump 70 times per second. The most common species seen is the ruby-throated hummingbird, but eastern Oklahomans may also spot the black-chinned hummingbird.
"It's fairly simple to attract hummers to your backyard," said Rachel Bradley, wildlife diversity specialist for the Wildlife Department. "Hummingbirds take to sugar water mixtures (one part sugar to four parts water) in a hummingbird feeder and bright, tubular plants such as trumpet creeper vines and petunias."
Hummingbirds are also attracted bee balm, salvia, trumpet creeper vines, lobelia, phlox, four-o-clocks and penstemons. Hummingbirds feed by sight rather than smell and often visit plants with vibrant colors and tubular shapes.
"As long as your hummingbird feeder has red on it, it is not necessary to use red food coloring in the sugar water mixture," said Mark Howery, wildlife diversity biologist for the Wildlife Department. "Be sure to clean the feeders about every five days in cool weather and every two or three days in warm weather to ensure they don't become contaminated with yeast and bacteria."
Hummingbird feeders should be placed outside in early April. Visit wildlifedepartment.com's Wildlife and Land Management Citizen Scientist page to download the Wildlife Department's Hummingbird Survey complete with instructions.
This citizen scientist survey is a project of the Wildlife Department's Wildlife Diversity Program. The Wildlife Diversity Program is committed to species that are not hunted or fished. For more information, visit wildlifedepartment.com.


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If you shopped at a Mapco convenience store recently, your financial information may be at risk.
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The Brentwood-based chain says customers who made credit card or debit card purchases at certain locations during three different time periods are at risk. Company officials say customers may be vulnerable if they used cards at those stores from March 19-25, April 14-15 and April 20-21.
The locations involved Mapco Express, Mapco Mart, East Coast, Discount Food Mart, Fast Food and Fuel, Delta Express and Favorite Markets. The stores are located in Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, Arkansas, northern and central Alabama, northern Georgia and northern Mississippi.
Company officials say it's not clear whether any card information has been stolen.
"We regret any inconvenience this criminal act by hackers may have caused and are enhancing our information security efforts to combat future information security threats," Tony Miller, the chain's operations vice president, said in a statement. ". We have disabled the malware that was used in this incident while establishing additional safeguards designed to prevent his from happening in the future."
The hackers targeted systems that transmit card information and potentially stole financial data that could be used to make fraudulent purchases.
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April 17, 2010
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Game Two Box Score
RIVERSIDE, Calif. - UC Santa Barbara's (9-30, 0-8) struggles continued on Saturday as the Gauchos dropped both games in a Big West Conference doubleheader at UC Riverside (21-10, 6-2) at the Highlanders' Amy S. Harrison Field. With the two wins, UCR wins its first conference series against UCSB and stretched the Gauchos' current losing streak to 13 games.
In the first contest, Riverside jumped out to an early 3-0 lead. In the bottom of the first, Marissa Alvidrez hit a double to left field sending home Kameryn Hebenton for the first run and Brittany Kenney's base hit to center during the next at-bat sent Taylor Thomas home. The Highlanders added a third run in the third inning off lf a single by Alexis Pickett.
The Gauchos were able to get on the scoreboard at the top of the fifth. With two outs, Brooke Putich singled to left field and advanced on a Highlander error. A timely double down the right field line by Jessica Beristianos pushed Putich across home plate and cut UCR's lead to two runs.
Riverside responded with an unearned run in the bottom of the same inning as Kenney scored off a sacrifice fly by Hebenton.
UCSB tacked on its second run of the game in the sixth when Keilani Jennings hit a solo homer over the left field fence.
Leading 4-2 in the bottom of the sixth, the Highlanders tacked on three more runs. A wild pitch with the bases loaded allowed Hebenton to score her second run of the game before an RBI single to left field by Alvidrez drove Ariel Shore home. The final run scored was by Thomas following a Gaucho error bringing the final score to 7-2.
Lindsey Correa (3-11) was credited with the loss after pitching the first 2.1 innings of the game. She allowed three earned runs on three hits while walking two and striking out three. MeLinda Matsumoto pitched 3.2 innings of relief and allowed four runs - three earned - on six hits while walking a pair.
At the plate, Beristianos led the way going 2-for-3 with an RBI. Jamie Adishian also tallied two hits for the Gauchos.
The Gauchos outhit Riverside in the second game, 8-4, but left seven runners stranded during the nightcap.
Game two remained scoreless through three innings until the Gauchos broke through at the top of the fourth. Allison Taylor led off with a base hit to right center and Katie McWhirter followed with bunt single to put a pair of runners on with not outs. Jennings grounded out to first base on the next play, pushing both runners into scoring position. A single by Adishian during the next play sent pinch runner Tiffany Corder home and gave UCSB a 1-0 lead.
At the bottom of the fifth, the Highlanders mounted their comeback, loading the bases with just one out. Thomas singled to center field driving home two runs and putting the Highlanders ahead, 2-1. On the following play, Alvidrez doubled to center sending home two more UCR runners.
UCSB battled back in the final inning as Lainey DePompa and Jackie Sweet posted consecutive one-out singles. The Highlanders were able to shutdown the rally though, earning the final two outs on a pair of fielder's choices to preserve the 4-1 win.
Krista Cobb (2-9) took the loss after allowing four runs on four hits. She walked four and struck out two. Offensively, Putich and McWhirter each were 2-for-3 during the contest.
The Gauchos will look to complete the three-game set with the Highlanders on a high-note Sunday as they take on UC Riverside at noon at Amy S. Harrison Field.


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Atmospheric Sciences & Global Change
Research Highlights
July 2007
Shallow Clouds Make the Case for Remote Sensing Instrumentation
Results: Findings from a recent study on cloud formation by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory researcher Sally McFarlane and collaborator Wojciech Grabowski show that thin, low-lying cumulus clouds are significantly diluted by mixing with surrounding dry air. The study also shows that mean cloud droplet size varied significantly relative to a droplet's height and position within the cloud. This level of detail is important for accurately representing cloud properties such as the cloud height, thickness, and depth, in climate models. The study also illustrates the utility of using remote sensing data to validate models of cloud microphysical processes—such as water condensation, evaporation, and conversion of cloud water to rain—which typically are used in studies concerning these shallow cumulus clouds. The team's recent findings are summarized in Geophysical Research Letters, a publication of the American Geophysical Union.
Why It Matters: Properties of shallow clouds, such as those examined by this study, play an important role in the Earth's energy balance. The effects of aerosols on clouds, particularly the influence of aerosols on cloud droplet size and distribution, are major sources of uncertainty in climate models. Modeling these effects requires assumptions about how clouds and their properties might be impacted by the mixing of dry and cloudy air. To constrain models, observations of the relationship between mixing and cloud droplet size are needed.
Traditionally, observations of air mixing and cloud droplet size come from in situ aircraft probes, which collect data at very high horizontal resolution. However, it is very expensive to sample numerous clouds with an aircraft, and measuring vertical profiles, especially in shallow clouds, is difficult. The use of remote sensing data allows analysis of significantly more cloud cases than would be possible, or practical, with aircraft data.
In this figure, the lines indicate theoretical calculations of cloud droplet size for clouds with various droplet concentrations in which no mixing occurs. The cloud droplet size shows significant variability with height. Enlarged View.
Methods: Data for this study were obtained from remote sensing instruments at Nauru, one of three ARM Climate Research Facility sites in the Tropical Western Pacific region. Using 6 months of data collected from shallow cumulus clouds, the researchers examined the size of individual water droplets that form clouds, in light of the amount of mixing with the dry air in the surrounding area.
What's Next: After analyzing the data collected from this study, the researchers hope to compare these results to datasets from Nauru during periods with significantly different conditions, such as El Niño and La Niña years, or from other ARM Climate Research Facility sites. Comparison of these data sets will contribute to the representation of optical properties, such as height of cloud and size/distribution of cloud droplets, in climate models. The science team also hopes to use data from this study to confirm existing models of cloud microphysical processes.
Acknowledgments: The research team included Sally McFarlane, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and Wojciech Grabowski, National Center for Atmospheric Research.
This work was supported by the Office of Biological and Environmental Research of the U.S. Department of Energy under contract DE-AC06-76RL01830 as part of the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program (McFarlane) and by NOAA grant NA05OAR4310107 (Grabowski).
Reference: McFarlane, S. A., and W. W. Grabowski (2007). Optical properties of shallow tropical cumuli derived from ARM ground-based remote sensing, Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L06808, doi:10.1029/2006GL028767.


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San Diego Chargers linebacker Manti Te'o returned to practice last week for the first time since suffering a foot injury in the team's preseason opener against the Seattle Seahawks on Aug. 8.
Te'o was held out and didn't play against the Tennessee Titans last week, but the Chargers should see their second-round draft pick get on the field this week.
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Braised Hanukkah Brisket
My mother, Enid, always used the most marbled cut of brisket she could find to make this recipe so she'd get the most flavor. When she added carrots to the pan, she threw in some potatoes, too. —Ellen Ruzinsky, Yorktown Heights, NY
Total TimePrep: 25 min. Cook: 2-3/4 hours
Makes12 servings (4 cups vegetables)
- 2 tablespoons canola oil
- 1 fresh beef brisket (4 to 5 pounds)
- 3 celery ribs, cut into 1-inch pieces
- 3 large carrots, cut into 1/4-inch slices
- 2 large onions, sliced
- 1 pound medium fresh mushrooms
- 3/4 cup cold water
- 3/4 cup tomato sauce
- 3 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
- 1 tablespoon prepared horseradish
- In a Dutch oven, heat oil over medium heat. Brown brisket on both sides. Remove from pan.
- Add celery, carrots and onions to same pan; cook and stir 4-6 minutes or until crisp-tender. Stir in remaining ingredients.
- Return brisket to pan, fat side up. Bring mixture to a boil. Reduce heat; simmer, covered, 2-1/2 to 3 hours or until meat is tender. Remove beef and vegetables; keep warm. Skim fat from pan juices. If desired, thicken juices.
- Cut brisket diagonally across the grain into thin slices. Serve with vegetables and pan juices.
Editor's NoteThis is a fresh beef brisket, not corned beef.
Nutrition Facts4 ounces cooked meat with 1/3 cup vegetables and 1/2 cup juices: 247 calories, 9g fat (3g saturated fat), 64mg cholesterol, 189mg sodium, 8g carbohydrate (3g sugars, 2g fiber), 33g protein. Diabetic Exchanges: 4 lean meat, 1 vegetable, 1/2 fat.
Originally published as Braised Hanukkah Brisket in Taste of Home November 2013
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Nov 3, 2013
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Michael Tomasky: The GOP Is Clueless on Foreign Policy
Republicans have long taken foreign policy seriously, but Tuesday night the party showed it no longer knows what it believes on the topic, says Michael Tomasky. Plus, Howard Kurtz and more columnists weigh in.
Newt Gingrich did well, yes, but the winner of this debate was...Barack Obama. There were loads of shots at him, notably from Rick Perry and sometimes from Michele Bachmann, with a couple from Jon Hunstman, who has to distance himself from Obama for obvious reasons. But I counted roughly zero really serious criticisms of Obama that might resonate beyond the choir bench.
Even Bachmann proved a voice of moderation. How's that for a sentence we never thought we'd see? But her response on Pakistan was entirely reasonable, and really not different at all from the current administration's policy. On the question of whether the United States should stand with or even help Israel if it were to bomb Iran to eliminate its nuclear capability, we saw the obligatory denunciations of the administration for weakness, etc., but when it came time to get specific, very few of the candidates really committed to a belligerent right-wing posture. Gingrich even basically said between the lines that he really thinks bombing Iran is a bad idea. And speaking of Gingrich, there was his soft line on immigration, which really might cost him.
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