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Here are the latest odds on the Student Cluster Competition online betting as of 10 a.m. SC11 time (Pacific). Betting will close out on LINPACK late this afternoon, since the teams will be turning in those results at 5:30 on the dot.
Texas is still the crowd favorite on both LINPACK and the overall challenge at 2-1 odds. The line on Texas has stayed the same over the past week, perhaps because word slipped out about their revolutionary deep-fry node cooling technology (mineral oil bath)… or maybe because they shamelessly voted for themselves over and over.
Team Taiwan is holding at 7-1, primarily due to their track record as returning champion and solid finishes in earlier competitions. The team is working as a unit and exudes the same quiet confidence they did last year.
Veteran team Purdue and newcomers NUDT (Team China) and Boston University (Team Chowder) are bunched together at 9-1 and 10-1 odds. Team China has an edge in LINPACK, probably due to assumptions that they'll bring in a heavily accelerated system that's optimized to run the benchmark.
Colorado, Team Russia, and the Costa Rica Rainforest Eagles are seen as longshots right now although all of them are sporting competitive hardware, and two (the Buffaloes and Russian Bears) are returning competitors. Colorado, in fact, has participated in five previous SCCs and has the most experienced team roster.
More updates on the way, including video interviews with the teams and other SCC news.
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As they weigh what to do with Eli Manning's brother, there are no easy answers for the Indianapolis Colts. Come March 8, Peyton Manning is due a $28 million option bonus that will kickstart the final four years of the five-year, $90 million deal he signed last summer. That's a lot of money for a team that will likely draft Manning's replacement with the first overall pick in the upcoming draft. The Colts instead could release Manning, but then he could play somewhere else—and possibly succeed—while they get nothing in return.
Today, Colts owner Jim Irsay told the Indianapolis Star he wants Manning back. But Irsay also qualified that by saying this:
"We can make it work if he wants to be here,'' Irsay said today. "We'd be excited to have him back and finish his career with us.
"I want him to be able to make the choice. We would love to have him back here if he can get healthy and we can look at doing a contract that reflects the uncertainty of the . . . healing process with the regeneration of the nerve.''
"There's no question it can be worked out if he wants to be here,'' said Irsay, who has concerns over Manning's long-term health.
Translation: Does Manning want to play for the Colts with a restructured deal, or does he want that $28 million he likely won't get from the Colts, in which case he would have to play somewhere else. It's up to him now. I'm sure Rob Lowe will be the first to tell us what he decides.
Colts owner Jim Irsay says team 'would love to have' QB Peyton Manning back [Indy Star]

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Adobe Presenter Appiness… Again with another example!
After the two wonderful posts by Pooja and Allen, I thought of creating one more eLearning module explaining the new features of Adobe Captivate 6. The question was, how do I make it interesting? My job became easier with enhanced Adobe Presenter 8. So I've used the features of Microsoft PowerPoint and Adobe Presenter to create this course… go ahead and view it on your iPad! Want to know how I achieved this? Read through the post… step-by-step…
Experience the course in your iPad using Presenter Mobile App: http://my.adobeconnect.com/cp6new2
Step 1: Modify the Master Slides – An important part of this course is the consistent look and feel for the course screens. So, I created a background image using Adobe Photoshop and imported the JPEG into the Master Slide. This allowed me to have the same background image for all the screens. Next, I modified the text placeholders for fill/stroke and font settings.
Step 2: Create the Slides – If you observe the course, there is a slide listing the key new features (Menu), there are slides explaining each feature and then there are question slides. For the Menu slide, I created thumbnails of the features and used the Text Box to add the headers. For the content slides, I created the images using Adobe Photoshop, and used the 'Character' feature of Adobe Presenter 8 to give the human touch to the slide, and added the feature description. By the way, if you have not used the built-in characters yet, please do try them… they are an amazing set of human and animated characters! For the questions slides, I used Multiple-choice and True/False question types. As of now, only these two types of questions are supported in Adobe Presenter Mobile App.
Step 3: Add Audio and Animate – For the Menu Slide, I first added the animations from PowerPoint, and later recorded the audio. The enhanced UI for recording the audio makes it so easy to record and sync animations… Try it out! Same steps were applied for content slides as well. Did you know that we can view the slide notes during recording? So I don't have to worry on missing out on those technical jargons 🙂
Step 4: Enable reporting and Publish – Now that the course is ready, I need to enable the reporting right? Did that through Manage Quiz > Reporting. In this case the distribution channel I'm using is Adobe Connect so enabled the reporting for Adobe Connect. Then, published it to Adobe Connect to view it on my iPad.
Hope you liked this course, please let me know your thoughts through the comments!
I'd love to view it, but the link keeps telling me that I need flash installed, and when I copy the link into the Adobe presenter app, it tells me that the room isn't open. What am I doing wrong? I'm trying to view on an iPad…..
Hi, if you click on this link from your browser, it will try to open the Flash version of the course. Please access this using your iPad app and it should now load properly (there was an error in the URL before).


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Anna Wilson Tops Bill for Musicians Corner
Posted on June 17, 2011 by Dave Paulson
Anna Wilson will headline Musicians Corner at Centennial Park on June 18.
Even with Bonnaroo and the CMA Music Festival behind us, outdoor concert season is still in full swing in Music City. The second annual Musicians Corner concert series continues Saturday, June 18, in Centennial Park (West End and 25th, 862-8424) with Nashville jazz singer and hit country songwriter Anna Wilson.
On her new album, Countrypolitan Duets, Wilson sings classic country hits and standards with a cast of guest stars including Rascal Flatts, Lady Antebellum and Kenny Rogers. Considering that Emmylou Harris made a surprise appearance at last week's Musicians Corner, we wouldn't rule out the possibility of more special guests popping up this week. Rounding out this week's bill are local pop/rock/folk talents Brooke Waggoner, Nathan Angelo, Daniel Bailey, Korby Lenker and Island Fusion.
The show is from 3 to 6 p.m. Admission is free.


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Climbing Mount Merapi
"Mount Merapi, Gunung Merapi (literally Mountain of Fire) in Indonesian language, is a conical volcano located on the border between Central Java and Yogyakarta, Indonesia. It is the most active volcano in Indonesia and has erupted regularly since 1548."
Mount Merapi is my most enjoyable climb so far. Good weather, awesome view, and great company of climbers. And also not forgetting good food.
Joe carried a watermelon up! This is the most delicious watermelon I have eaten! Very juicy and very sweet!
I know what you are thinking, me being up in the mountains, hungry and tirsty, anything and everything will taste nice. Honestly, I it wasn't the mountains that made it taste nice.. it was really good!
Joe and Topig later made tea, and we all had crackers with it before breaking to made camp. ..Well, Topig and Andhy made camp. The rest of us slept in caves.
While the rest was busy with their thing, Darren was determine to catch the sunset. Clouds all the way, and we were at the wrong side of the mountain.
After saying goodbye to the sun we headed back to the
camp cave site for dinner. Dinner was yummy! Abang Rashid's rendang flew in all the way from KL (imported rendang LOL!) was so delicious! He made it back home and actually checked it in the flight to Jogya. He froze it brought it up to Merapi with dry ice. Tempeh was sliced and cook in the mountain. Delicious as well.
We hit the sac early and tried to catch some sleep before the 4.30am breakfast. Joe made Indonesian style sandwich. Awesome stuff! Hotdog buns were sliced into half and fried in margarine. Stuffed in between the buns was fluffy egg omelet, serunding (the beef floss) and sweet and spicy chili sauce.
We started climbing up to the peak at 5.30am.. early but the sun was already catching up with us. Bob and the rest was far ahead but I slacked because Hi Sunrise! Andhy was the sweeper so we hung out a while to watch the sun.
When darkness dies with the speed of light...
After scrambling up loose rocks of Mount Merapi, we all had our Victory drink at Garuda Peak. YATTA!
After feeding our stomach with junk food and feeding the camera with loads of pictures and videos, we descended to the middle peak. I totally LOVE being there!
To my front, oceans of white cumulus clouds.
To my left, the view of Mount Merapi's peak.
The back, narrow rock and hilly path ways which leads to a "the hills are alive with the Sound of Music" type of view.
And to my right, Mount Merbabu!
Spectacular view of Mount Merbabu just opposite Mount Merapi.
I actually fell in love of the sight if Merbabu when we were in the van on the way to the foot of Mount Merapi. Looking at the view of Mount Merbabu from Merapi took my breath away and instantly made me decide that I will be back to climb it.
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Computer Science ColloquiumIm Rahmen des Informatik-Kolloquiums, das von den Instituten des Fachbereichs Informatik, der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Informatik (ÖGI), der Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Datenverarbeitung (ADV) sowie der Österreichischen Computergesellschaft (OCG) abgehalten wird, spricht
Dr. Stefan Stanczyk
Oxford Brookes University, UKüber das Thema:
ON EQUIVALENCE OF THEORETICAL DATABASE MODELSZeit: Thu 18.6.2009, 16:15, 60 Minuten
Ort: T212
ZusammenfassungThe ultimate objective of this work is to find out to what extent and under what conditions the main database models (functional, relational, nested-relational, object-oriented) are equivalent and, if so, what are the mechanisms of possible transformation between them. The investigation will be done through analysis of the properties of each model by expressing them in a formal way, finding possible co-relations and demonstrating applications. This talk with concentrate on the relational data model for it is completely formalised and has the following attractive properties: * separation of physical & logical aspects * data - process independence * high level of data abstraction * universal & uniform data structure * global behavioural rules * set of higher-level operations * structure optimisation algorithm A simple database application expressed in both functional and relational terms will illustrate the findings so far.
VortragenderDr. Stefan Stanczyk graduated in Engineering (Warsaw) and in Computer Science (London) with a doctorate in Computer Science (Milton Keynes). After several years in computer industry and international consultancy he joined Oxford Brookes University where he served as Deputy Head of the School of Computing & Mathematical Sciences, and later as Asst. Dean for Graduate Studies in Technology (computing, electronics, mathematics, mechanical engineering) until his retirement last year. His academic expertise includes databases, foundations of software engineering and computerisation of didactic processes. He has also taken a keen interest in promoting EU academic exchange programmes and lecturing in European universities, most notably in Linz and Warsaw. He has authored 3 books and over 30 papers. Dr. Stanczyk is a guest professor at JKU during the summer semester 2009 giving a course on Functional Programming for Databases.
Einladender: o. Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Dr.h.c. Hanspeter Mössenböck
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Puddin, I think people are afraid of the possability. On a regular leg, teams often get a chance to really build ups ome distance between other teams.
yeah, but are you sure the confessional is in France? :nods
The Bamas conf is an insider clip afterall
Maybe their are two Yields in leg 11, like a " twist?"
Do you guys have a special thread for spoiler of AR11.??Teams have been spotted yesterday in Miami??? WHat do you guys knows.
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Dreading this day…just one Mo time…
Grace and dignity…
Unfortunately, this day was inevitable. Father Time catches up with everyone, including the greatest closer in the history of Major League Baseball.
Saturday, the great Mariano Rivera confirmed the speculation of the last few days. The 2013 season will be his final one as the champion of the 9th inning at Yankee Stadium.
Mo has been my favorite Yankee since the time he was the "lights-out" set up guy for closer John Wetteland in the 1996 season. Wetteland was effective, but there were always a few anxious moments. Rivera, on the other hand, completely dominated the hitters prior to turning the ball over to Wetteland. There were so many times that I had wished manager Joe Torre would have stayed with Rivera rather than pulling him for Wetteland. While it was Rivera's talent and ability that caught my attention, it was his character…full of grace, dignity, and professionalism…that has made me an enduring fan all these years.
Rivera has taught so many over the years how to forget life's failures and how to enjoy its successes without gloating or antagonizing opponents. He has always respected the game and never once in his career has he placed himself above the game or above others.
Relievers have had their struggles gaining acceptance into the Hall of Fame, but in my mind, Rivera should be a first ballot entry.
It was appropriate that Mo wore the number #42. As the final active player to wear the number after it was retired league-wide, he has upheld the legacy of Jackie Robinson…perhaps better than anyone else could have. Jackie endured far more challenges and difficulties than I'll ever be able to fully comprehend, but he paved the path for others including Mariano Rivera to succeed. Mo embodies the depth of character that Jackie Robinson had and it is tremendous that #42 hanging in Memorial Park will stand for two of the greatest men in baseball's long history.
It has been a privilege to call Mo my favorite player for so many years. As I think back upon my life as a Yankees fan, it was Jim "Catfish" Hunter who first attracted me to the Yankees when he signed as a free agent in 1974, along with my high regard for the legendary Lou Gehrig. Once a Yankees fan, my favorite player quickly changed to the heart and soul of the team…catcher Thurman Munson. I have always loved to see passion in doing what you enjoy, and Thurman was certainly as fiery and passionate as they come. The 1976 World Series still stands out to me. Although the Yankees were swept by the Cincinnati Reds, it wasn't because of Munson, who hit over .500 in the series. If the rest of the team could have matched Munson's intensity that year, they would have defeated the Big Red Machine.
After Thurman's untimely death in 1979 (a day that I will always vividly remember, like so many Yankee fans), Rich "Goose" Gossage became my favorite player. After a few years, he had moved on to the San Diego Padres as a free agent. But by that time, Don Mattingly had become my favorite player. Donnie Baseball was one of the great ones and it's unfortunate that back problems caused the premature end of his production and subsequently career. There's no doubt in my mind that he'd be in the Hall of Fame if he had been able to sustain his production for a few more years. Donnie Baseball will always be a favorite and he's the reason that I consider the Los Angeles Dodgers to be my favorite NL team. When Mattingly retired after the 1995 play-off loss to the Seattle Mariners, I became a Mariano Rivera fan.
As I look to life beyond 2013, I cannot say that any one player stands out as a potential favorite player. But as history has proven to me, the door will open for the next great Yankees superstar to take the stage.
None of this is meant to knock Derek Jeter. He has been a terrific player for so many years and can match Rivera in depth and quality of character stride for stride. He'll be taking his place in Cooperstown one day, but for me, this day is about Mariano Rivera. Enter the Sandman…Exit the Legend.
I look forward to watching Mo for one more season. Regardless of the outcome, he is a champion…


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Bariatric Surgery Patient Stories
UAB Employee Loses 150 Pounds and Gets Her Life Back
In 2008, I topped 300 pounds for the first time. I had been working at UAB for 11 years. In August of 2008, I was promoted to Operations Manager of the Department of Environmental Services with responsibility for the Jefferson Tower block and the Spain Wallace block. I thought that it was my dream job! The more responsibilities I took on the more I started to ignore my health issues. The more I ignored my health, the more I started to gain weight. By 2010, when I went to my 25th high school class reunion, I weighed 348 pounds and was walking with a cane!
Our class took a cruise, and one of the things we did on the cruise was watch the movie The Bucket List with Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson. The movie dealt with making a list of all the things you wanted to accomplish before you died. The only thing on my list was getting my health back in order.
The first order of business when I got back to Birmingham was to start losing weight on my own I joined Weight Watchers and started working out at the gym. My doctor always told me that the exercise would help with the pain that I was feeling from my numerous ailments. I was taking 19 pills a day. I never used the gym membership because I was always in pain. I had to mentally prepare myself to get out of my chair and walk to the restroom. It was then that I first began thinking about having surgery. I talked with my pastor and told him what I was considering. The first thing he did was pray with me. I will never forget that. That Monday, I called and made an appointment at The Kirklin Clinic.
When I went to my appointment, I was so scared. There was another patient with me and we went through the film and the weights and measurements together. Then I got a chance to talk with Dr. Grams. After that appointment, I started to see hope. I was given a list of several items that I had to complete before insurance would even consider the surgery. My bucket list had just become longer.
The hardest thing to come to terms with when I started my journey was that my dream job was hindering my goal of getting my health in order. I went to Mr. Crump and asked to be let out of my job. My priorities had become life threatening, and in March of 2011 he agreed. I continued to work on my list of items that had to be completed prior to surgery. The best part of the list was going to support group meetings, because you find that you are not alone. Although familial support helps, there is no better help than talking with someone who actually understands the walk you are embarking upon.
The first call I got from Karen told me that I had been denied. I was so hurt and disappointed. She told me the reason was because there was one item on the list I had not completed. Because of my journal, not only did I have the date, I had the time and name of the doctor I had visited. When the information was re-submitted, my surgery was approved. Karen called me on Friday, September 16, 2011. She told me Dr. Grams did surgeries on Tuesday. I asked if the 20th of September open, and she said yes. I was so excited!
Surprisingly, I was not afraid. I had prayed and been prayed for, and I was at peace with my decision. The journey was hard, and there were times when I was extremely tired and wondered if my patience would pay off, but I persevered. Surgery went great, but I had to return to the UED 4 days post-surgery. I was bound and determined that I would not be going back through the UED again. I have small veins and my IV had to be started in my groin, which was extremely traumatic.
The first month after surgery I was no longer using a cane. I was only taking 1 pill twice a day and had myself on a regimen of vitamins. I was even breathing better! I was taking walks around my apartment complex and walking stairs without getting exerted.
Now, two years post-op and my highest weight loss total was 150 pounds! The last time I weighed less than 200 pounds I was a senior in high school!
I have picked up some old work habits and have at times ignored my body and pushed myself more than I should have, but when I do I remember back to walking through the corridors of UAB on a cane trying to get my work done, and I say to myself, "You do not want to go back there!"
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Experimental evidence that both parties benefit in a facultative plant-spider mutualism (2004-06)Spiders are known to influence plant fitness, and vice versa. Yet, it has not been appreciated that these facultative relationships can be mutualistic. I examined the interaction between Phryganoporus candidus, a subsocial ...


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WASHINGTON, June 6, 2007 – Anyone who doubts that al Qaeda would use chemical, nuclear or biological weapons need only look at the terror group's attacks in Iraq, Defense officials said.
Al Qaeda and affiliated groups have used chlorine gas in attacks against civilians, Iraqi forces and coalition forces at least 15 times since October, according to U.S. officials in Baghdad.
"Chlorine is used by terrorists with the intent to harm or kill large numbers of civilians," an official said. "The attacks show that the terrorists are adaptable, but it reflects more on their maliciousness than their sophistication."
The first documented chlorine attack was Oct. 21, 2006, in Ramadi, a Multinational Force Iraq spokeswoman said. In that attack, terrorists drove a car bomb with 12 120 mm mortar shells and two 100-pound chlorine tanks. The attack wounded three Iraqi policemen and a civilian.
The first attack that received media attention was at Taji, where terrorists remotely detonated a 5-ton truck packed with 100 pounds of high explosives and two 1-ton chlorine tanks. The attack killed one civilian and wounded 114 others.
Other chlorine attacks occurred in Fallujah, Balad and Ramadi. The most recent attack was June 3 against Forward Operating Base Warhorse, in Diyala province. Again, a suicide car bomber launched the attack, and officials estimate it included two tanks of chlorine and 1,000 pounds of explosive. The cloud from the attack blew over Warhorse and sickened 65 servicemembers, Multinational Force Iraq officials said. All were examined and returned to duty.
Officials in Baghdad cannot tell from their records if anyone has died from chlorine inhalation. A Multinational Force Iraq spokesman said there are anecdotal reports that while the blasts from the attacks have killed, few have died solely from the gas. "We hear that an old man and some babies may have been killed, but we can't pin that down," the spokesman said.
"We have seen attempts made by insurgent forces – al Qaeda in particular – to use debilitating agents like chlorine in their (improvised explosive devices and car bombs) to cause casualties beyond just concussion and blast," Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said.
Whitman said the attacks have been of limited effectiveness, but that does not lessen concerns. "We continue to look at ways to prevent those materials from making their way to those who plant explosive devices," he said.
This is a difficult proposition because many chemicals, like chlorine, have legitimate civilian uses. Chlorine is used to purify water and in other industrial processes.
Without getting into details that could jeopardize operational security, U.S. servicemembers have gear to protect them from such weapons, a Pentagon official said. So the terrorists aim the weapon at civilians in an effort to intimidate populations.
"The car bombs themselves are designed to target innocent civilians," Whitman said. "It reflects the brutality of the enemy we are facing and the total disregard of life to use such an indiscriminate nature."


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Weekly merger, acquisition, deal update: August 24
This week Morrissey Goodale tracked five domestic deals and one international transaction. This brings the total year-to-date deal count in the United States to 120, up 12% over the 107 domestic deals tracked through the same period in 2011. Including the U.S., the total global deal count is now 216, equal to the amount of global deals tracked through the same period last year.
Texas ACEC will host Morrissey Goodale's next "One-Day MBA" business practice seminar on November 14 in Austin, Texas. This one-day blitz of business management training will include topics such as building a branding machine, the market for mergers and acquisitions, drama-less ownership transition, building high-performance teams, and transformational project management and delivery. Click here for more information.
M&A Transactions
In its fourth transaction of the year (and second tracked in two weeks), international architecture and interior design firm Perkins+Will (Chicago, IL) merged with Rocco, Vidal + arquitetos (São Paulo, Brazil), a 50-person award-winning architecture, planning and interior design firm specializing in corporate, residential and interior design work and known for itsbold, contemporary designs that integrate the natural environment with ecologically sensitive design strategies. Moving forward, the practice will be known as RoccoVidal P+W and will become the base of operations for Perkins+Will in South America. Link to details
Nationally recognized scientific and engineering consulting company Integral Consulting (Seattle, WA) acquired the New York City assets and operations of environmental risk management firm ELM Group (New York, NY). Integral Consulting provides science and engineering consulting services in health, environment, technology and sustainability from multiple offices across the U.S. As a result of the acquisition, Integral will now provide its numerous clients a dedicated and local resource in the New York regulatory, property development and redevelopment markets and provide a platform for further expansion into the New York environmental and engineering markets. Link to details
Energy planning and design firm Salas O'Brien (San Jose, CA) acquired architectural, mechanical and electrical engineering, and interior design firm KDW (Seattle, WA). The newly combined business, expected to be called KDW Salas O'Brien, is estimated to have 125 employees, more than 30 of whom are registered engineers, architects and communications distribution engineers. Link to details
Multi-discipline engineering and environmental services firm Maser Consulting (Red Bank, NJ) acquired multi-discipline engineering firm TMG Consulting Engineers (Allentown, PA). Former TMG owner, Tony M. Ganguzza, specializing in municipal and site civil engineering, will remain on as a consultant to the firm. Link to details
Architecture and design firm 5G Studio Collaborative (Dallas, TX) acquired DVA Architecture (Atlanta, GA), a full-service architecture and interior design firm focused on new builds, renovations, and additions for entertainment facilities, hotels, universities, commercial and senior housing projects. Link to details
Leading international energy services company Wood Group (Aberdeen, Scotland) acquired Duval (Houston, TX), a 300-person provider of maintenance, installation and fabrication services in the Eagle Ford shale region of Texas. Moving forward, Duval will operate as Wood Group Duval. Wood Group is a 41,000 person international energy services company that features three businesses providing engineering, production support and maintenance and repair services to the oil and gas and power generation markets worldwide. The acquisition of Duval is meant to provide a platform for Wood Group in the key Eagle Ford shale region and increase its overall exposure to the U.S. onshore unconventional oil and gas markets. Link to details
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According to my Peterson Field Guide to Birds of North America, the Common Goldeneye (Bucephala clangula) is "fairly common" but the Barrow's Goldeneye (Bucephala islandica) is "scarce." They also list the third member of the genus Bucephala, the Bufflehead (Bucephala albeola), as "common."
I find this categorization to be pretty accurate, so whenever I see the Common Goldeneye, I look for any Barrow's Goldeneye that may be hanging with their more common cousin.
Here is a pair of Common Goldeneye, the drake has a glossy green head with a large round white spot before the eye. The female has a dark brown, fairly round head and a gray bill.
The Barrow's Goldeneye drake, on the other hand, has a glossy purple or blueish head and a white facial crescent shaped spot. The female has a steeper forehead and, from late November until May, has a yellow-orange or pinkish-orange bill.
You can see that the Common Goldeneye drake lacks the mostly black scapulars with white spots and the short black bar extending downward at the side of the breast shown on the Barrow's Goldeneye above.
Female Barrow's Goldeneye with breeding experience exhibit high fidelity to previous nest sites and females without previous breeding experience prospect for potential nest cavities in summer prior to a nesting attempt1. This seems to be true of all three of these species of duck.
All three ducks of the Bucephala genus being cavity nesting species, are fighting habitat degradation caused by logging activities that decrease the number of large trees offering nesting sites. Since 60% of the world population of Barrow's Goldeneye breeds and winters in British Columbia1 and this species shows high nest site fidelity, we are lucky that they readily use man-made nest boxes that may be useful in any recovery program.
The loss of habitat and degradation of Canada's Boreal Forest is of special concern for these birds as well. For more information on the threat of the Tar Sands development and proposed pipeline read this post.
Here's one last look at the beautiful Barrow's Goldeneye Drake.
I hope you are able to spot the Barrow's Goldeneye even if they are "scarce," before they become "rare."
References: 1 Birds of North America Online
Great photos! Barrow's far outnumbers Common on my local stomping grounds in British Columbia; like all birds, they're scarce only where they're not common.
@Rick of course they do, you guys up there in BC are hording 60% of the worlds population of Barrow's Goldeneyes according to Birds of North America Online. I'm just glad to see that you share them during the winter 😉
i shot a barrows goldeneye here in northern colorado this past duck season. my taxidermist says its pretty rare to see a barrows goldeneye in colorado. i am having him stuffed.
shot some goldeneyes on farm pond in Iowa a few days ago. however some of the ducks looked like males but their heads were brown and had the round white marks in front and below eye. are these juvenile?
Yes, those are birds that were hatched in 2012.
Just out of curiosity, have you ever eaten a goldeneye? Are they any good?
i shot a pair of barrows goldeneyes yesterday 1/12/2014 in southern indiana. first time ive seen or heard of them.
Wow. Any photos of the male or of the female 's spread wing?
I'm confused. Are those photographs of the birds you shot, or of different individuals? What did you do with the specimens that you can't take a photograph of the female's spread wing?
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Aha — I understand now. Larry answered a question I posed to Jeff, who seems to have vanished.
Larry, I'm sure you know about the various spread-wing websites out there; here's one of the best: http://digitalcollections.pugetsound.edu/cdm/featuredsearches/collection/slaterwing
Too bad we'll never know about those Indiana goldeneye.
I just want to say that not am I only a huge waterfowl hunter, I take pride in duck ID. I've been hunting ducks for a long time and can identify almost any duck flying over head. Even at great distances. I can tell the species by not only there colors and patterns, but shape, size, and the way they fly. I know there are a lot of duck hunters out there just like me, but I also know that there are other duck hunters out there who just kill any duck with wings. Thanks
Very interesting peice, thanks for sharing! Unfortunately in the sport of duck hunting, shooting a cripple is rather common. Even more common with geese. As a ethical hunter I beleive it is my job to do my best at making clean kills, and put forth my best effort in retrieving downed birds. I am a "anti sky buster" for lack of a better term lol. We only shoot at birds that are "Decoying" rather than pass shooting. On a lighter note, here's an old saying my father would always tell me: "save a cripple, shoot a sky buster"…. I also hunt with my dog who helps tremendously at retrieving birds.
Also In that article he talked about hunting pressure and what it has done to the patterns of the birds. I have seen first hand just that exactly. I grew up hunting the eastern part of the state (colorado) with my father, there was always large numbers of waterfowl. In the last few years the hunting pressure has gotten tremendously greater, mainly because of the multiple military bases around, but it's almost as if the birds just keep on moving right through the state and dont stay for long periods of time anymore. Anyways, sorry that ended up being a little lengthy. Thanks again
I live in Buena vista colorado and there is about 25 golden eyes on the river I just don't know if I can shoot them or not can anyone help??
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March 29, 2012
Texas Parks and Wildlife Employees Earn Three Prestigious Awards
AUSTIN — A Texas Parks and Wildlife Department wildlife biologist, the department's Inland Fisheries Division and a game warden have been recognized for outstanding contributions to wildlife conservation in the Lone Star State.
The awards were presented at Thursday's meeting of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission.
TPWD biologist Randy Fugate of Falfurrias, a department employee for 38 years, received this year's National Wild Turkey Federation's Joe Kurz Excellence in Wildlife Management Award.
Named in honor of a former Georgia Department of Natural Resources wildlife chief for the vital role he played in improving wildlife management, this award annually recognizes a wildlife manager for exceptional stewardship of wild turkey populations and habitat.
"Few biologists or technicians can compete with Randy's innate ability to cultivate strong relationships with landowners, researchers, and the community as a whole," said TPWD Executive Director Carter Smith. "His work with the trap and transfer of the Rio Grande wild turkey and research projects has helped them flourish and made South Texas a popular destination for many out-of-state hunters."
The second award came from the Fisheries Administration Section of the American Fisheries Society, which each year recognizes outstanding projects or programs by state fisheries resource agencies supported by the Sport Fish Restoration Program. This year's award in the outstanding Research and Survey project category went to TPWD's Inland Fisheries Division for a project evaluating various barotrauma treatment methods, commonly called "fizzing," on the survival of bass released after they are caught. (Barotrauma is similar to what can endanger divers when they surface from deep water too rapidly.)
As a result of this study, the Bass Anglers Sportsman's Society (BASS) and the BASS Federation Nation adopted the fizzing method as their official standard for dealing with barotrauma in tournaments nationwide. TPWD Inland Fisheries used the study to formalize its official position on fizzing and now promotes the method in department literature, including its Outdoor Annual. TPWD also produced a video showcasing the results of the study. So far, this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEeQrsHcwf8 has been viewed more than 21,000 times. A news release on the study can be viewed at http://tpwd.texas.gov/newsmedia/releases/?req=20110202d&nrtype=all&nrspan=2011&nrsearch
A partnership among anglers, boaters, the fishing and boating industry, state agencies, and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, the Sport Fish Restoration program is supported by taxes on fishing equipment, electric motors, sonar, and motorboat fuel. In 2011, Texas received the maximum allowable apportionment of $18.2 million, which is 5 percent of the approximately $364.7 million available to the states.
The final award to TPWD came from the National Wild Turkey Federation, which since 2000 has annually recognized game wardens from North America for enforcement activities related to wild turkeys. The 2012 "Texas Wildlife Officer of the Year" is Game Warden Matt Thompson.
A January 2000 graduate of the 46th Game Warden Training Academy, Thompson has been assigned to Foard and Hardeman counties since then.
"When he is not presenting public programs and involving himself with area young people, Thompson is apprehending game and fish violators and making our public waterways a safer place to take our families," Smith said. "Warden Thompson patrolled over 21,000 miles last year and documented 67 violations."
In addition, Smith said, Thompson has established valuable relationships with the landowners in his area whose property has wild turkey populations. These landowners assist Thompson in his efforts to protect the resource, and potential violators soon learn to avoid those areas.
"He is often requested to give programs from towns outside his assigned area because of his friendly manner, positive attitude, and high level of professionalism," Smith continued. "During the past year, Warden Thompson involved himself with six different activities to introduce and familiarize young people with outdoor activities, specifically hunting and fishing."
Using their residence as the base camp, Thompson and his wife Christy sponsor a youth deer hunt every year with 60 to 70 kids usually participating.
"The key to Warden Thompson's continued success as a TPWD game warden is that he looks at his profession as a way of life, not a job," Smith said. "He enjoys every aspect of his career and he takes pride in every endeavor."
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With the Nintendo 3DS handheld out in less than 2 months, many gamers will be asking themselves whether to buy or wait for the 2nd generation of the device. And who can blame them? Look at the DS which got multiple design updates and improvements.
But according to Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata, the 3DS will be undergoing no such revisions. The reason? There just isn't any room for manoeuvre inside the device.
In the latest Iwata Asks Q&A the "make it thinner" request from gamers over the years is discussed. Changes in materials used and the miniaturization of components has made that possible in previous generations of hardware. But when it comes to the 3DS, that's not the case. Iwata explains:
The first thing (Nobuo) Nagai-san (Nintendo General Manager, Manufacturing Division), who's in charge at the Uji plant, said to me when he looked over the designs for Nintendo 3DS before mass production began was "This time it's fully packed right from the start."
There is therefore no "short-term" plan to make a more compact version of the 3DS. Iwata adds:
That's why we don't have any short-term plans for creating a more compact version of Nintendo 3DS like we did with Nintendo DS Lite.
So unless some major material breakthrough happens, or several of the components in the 3DS, which are already as compact as can be, somehow get smaller, the 3DS will remain in its launch configuration going forward.
Read more at Iwata Asks, via CVG
Matthew's Opinion
So this isn't just Iwata trying to get us to buy a 3DS now rather than waiting. What he's saying is, every component in the 3DS is as small as it can be at the moment, but at the same time there is no space left inside the device. In other words, if one of those components is miniaturized further it doesn't matter, it would take several components to get smaller before they could even think about making the 3DS more compact.
Even if such compacting happens, and soon, Nintendo won't update the 3DS for at least 12 months in my opinion. So the choice really comes down to: do I want to own a 3DS before the middle of 2012 or not? And even if you wait it may just be new colors you get the option of, not a thinner device.


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Local police force teams with community agencies to gather prescription drugs.
The Kinston Department of Public Safety is out for your drugs.
Old or unused prescription drugs can be dropped off Monday at the Walgreens on Herritage Street. It�s part of a regular program, Operation Medicine Drop, which is a partnership between local law enforcement and Safe Kids North Carolina, Riverkeepers of North Carolina, the State Bureau of Investigation and Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of North Carolina.
�We will be there ready to take drugs in at 10 o� clock, and we will accept drugs until 2 o� clock,� said Jackie Leonard, KDPS community coordinator, Wednesday. �We will have our command bus there in the Walgreens parking lot. We have been very successful. We have a drop box here in the lobby of our police station and we collected 30 pounds last week. So, those drug drop-offs have been very successful.�
At a similar event last fall, Leonard said the effort netted more than 10,000 prescription drug doses. The event Monday is part of observance of National Poison Prevention Week.
Operation Medicine Cabinet � a similar multi-organizational project � notes 20 percent of state teens abused prescription drugs at least once, and of those, 70 percent of the time those pills come from a family member�s medicine cabinet.
�It gets an illicit drug off the street, reduces the chance someone will get their home robbed, and also, it also protects our streams and our fields,� Leonard said. �Drugs should not be flushed down the toilet, thrown in the drain, or put in the trash.�
Wastewater treatment facilities typically aren�t able to remove pharmaceutical elements from the water.
According to Waterkeepers Carolina, �Aquatic species� exposure to pharmaceutical pollution is constant and occurs during crucial developmental life stages. North Carolina�s waters are particularly impacted, shown by a nationwide study that found the highest prevalence of intersex fish � 91 percent � in N.C.�s Yadkin-Pee Dee basin.�
When fish present both male and female aspects, it can cause problems in reproduction and lead to significantly reduced populations.
The drugs also cycle back around. A 2008 investigation by the Associated Press found detectable amounts of pharmaceuticals in the drinking water of 24 major metropolitan areas, affecting an estimated 41 million people.
Leonard said in addition to taking in old or unneeded medications, free day-of-the-week pill boxes are available as supplies last.
If you�re unable to attend the drug drop-off, the drop box in the KDPS lobby is available Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-5 p.m.
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What Would It Take to Pay Back Mom for All She Does?
Bringing Home the Bacon
If you really want to pay back mom for all she's done, get ready to pony up big. A card and some carnations (the official flower of Mother's Day, who knew?) just won't cut it. The cost of replacing mom as nurturer, nurse, cleaner and cook -- according to Insure.com's 2014 Mother's Day salary index -- would run you $62,985 a year, up from $59,862 in 2013. Breaking down the price of having someone else handle her various duties:
- Cooking and cleaning, $12,230
- Child care, $21,736
- Homework help, $7,290
- Chauffeur, $5,672
- Shopping, yard work, party and activity planning, finances, etc., $15,019
- And my personal favorite, finding out what the kids are up to (paid in the equivalent value of a private detective), $1,036.
Salary.com placed a higher value on moms in its 2014 Mother's Day salary survey, concluding that stay-at-home moms were worth $118,905 and working moms worth $70,107 (this does not include any paid salary from their job), with both groups putting more than 56 hours of overtime at home. These numbers are all up from last year's survey.
Cooking It Up in a Pan
Mom helps to pay for other things, too. Thanks to the Department of Agriculture, you can see what it costs to raise a child in the U.S. to 18. As of August 2013, the average cost is $241,080. This does not cover college, and hopefully dear old dad is contributing. In 2012, there were 10.3 million single U.S. mothers with children under 18, and one-third of women who gave birth in 2012 were single moms.
By becoming moms, women give up time to do other things, what economists call an "opportunity cost." Particularly if your mother stayed at home when you were young, there are years or decades of lost wages, lost contributions to her Social Security, and missed chances at career advancement.Forbes used the example of a public school teacher, comparing her financial outcomes if stayed home or continued teaching. Becoming a stay-at-home mom would cost her an aggregate $700,000 in work benefits, and halve her Social Security benefit.
The Census Bureau says 76 percent of moms are working moms, and that the number of stay-at-home mothers has slightly declined since 2008.
Mothers, Priceless
This year is the 100th anniversary of Mother's Day in America. A gesture by Anna Jarvis to remember her dear departed mother has escalated into an annual sales boon for businesses, small to large.
%VIRTUAL-article-sponsoredlinks%Florists like FTD Companies (FTD) and 1-800-Flowers.com (FLWS) rank Mother's Day second only to Christmas, accounting for 25 percent of flowers and plants bought for holidays, surprisingly ahead of Valentine's Day.
On average, Americans spent $168.94 on their moms last year and, according to the National Retail Federation annual Mother's Day Consumer Spending survey, are expected to spend $162.94 this year. Two thirds of us will buy flowers; 81 percent will give her a card; and a third will buy her apparel, with outings, books, housewares and jewelry among other popular gifts. Almost $20 billion will be spent.
What Moms Really Want
Of course, mom doesn't expect you to pay her back for all those years and dollars spent on you. Moms only want for us to be happy, healthy and appreciative: A mention in your Oscar speech like Jared Leto's beautiful tribute to his single mom, a moving quotation a la Abraham Lincoln ("All I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother") or a dedication in your best-selling novel.
If you can't pull those off, I suggest you go to Salary.com's mom salary wizard to print out a pretend check for Mom for the real-world equivalent of all she does for you. Slip it -- along with a gift card -- into the prettiest greeting card you can find, and let Mom know you truly understand what she's worth. It's the least you can do.


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This is the Second Build for This Second-Series Chevy
We know some guys who sell their truck and buy a different one with the frequency of an oil change. And we know some who hang onto their prized pickups for life. But the reality of long-term ownership is that eventually it will be time for some freshening up.
That was the case with this '55 Chevy Apache, owned for the past 26 years by Patrick Jenkins of Hawthorne, California. Patrick's first truck was the '59 he drove as a high school student in the '70s. He's loved mid-'50s Chevy stepsides ever since. In 1985, he started looking around for another one. This second-series '55 Big-Window turned up in the pages of Truck Trader magazine. It was copper orange and in beautiful shape.
Patrick drove the truck for three years. By then the 327 small-block was getting tired, so Patrick contacted his friend Ted Frye, an old engine builder and salt flats racer, who put together a newer, stouter 327, bored 0.030 over, and blueprinted with a forged steel crank and a Corvette six-quart oil pan with a windage tray.
With the engine out of the truck, Patrick decided to add a Plymouth Volare torsion bar suspension, and took the '55 toTerry Berzenye at Specialized Auto Repair in Huntington Beach. The Volare clip included shocks, springs antisway bar, steering, and 11-inch disc brakes. Two-inch drop spindles from Fatman Fabrications add to the truck's raring-to-go rake. That took car of the frontend; at the rear a Currie Ford 9-inch is stuffed with a set of 3.25:1 gears and a Posi, hanging on Total Cost Involved shocks and '55-'59 leaf springs.
A 30-gallon custom gas tank was added in the rear and the stock steering column was replaced with a late-model Chevy tilt version. The rebuilt engine was backed up with a Turbo 400 transmission (replacing the stock three-on-the-tree) and a Currie Ford 9-inch Posi rearend.
Patrick drove the refreshed '55 on sunny Southern California weekends until 1992, when his company transferred him to Portland, Oregon. He continued to drive the truck on far-less-frequent sunny Pac Northwest weekends, until parking it in his barn for a several-year hibernation.
The truck stayed in storage until 2004, when Patrick decided to treat it to a frame-off restoration. His friend Pete Nielsen helped him pull it apart, and the body panels were sent out to be media blasted. From there, it was sent to Creative Metalworks & Engineering in North Plains, Oregon, where Carl Morton performed all the needed metalwork. No major modifications were called for—just cosmetic improvements such as shaved panels, replaced cab corners, a rebuilt tailgate, and some filled firewall holes. Fresh paint was sprayed by Kevin Bischoff at Roger's Auto Body in Vancouver, Washington. The color is Prowler Orange from PPG.
The Ted Frye-built 327 still had low mileage and was running strong. A Carter AFB four-barrel and Edelbrock Performer intake manage induction chores, with Sanderson headers and MagnaFlow mufflers to handle the exhaust. A Billet Specialities air cleaner and valve covers dress up the small-block. Patrick wanted overdrive, so the Turbo 400 transmission was replaced by a Phoenix Transmission Products 700-R4. Patrick's choice for tires and wheels was a combination of 15-inch Vintec Series rims from Billet Specialties (replacing the Center Lines he added in the '80s) and BFGoodrich Radial T/A tires.
The paint and bodywork was still underway when Patrick's job moved him back to Southern California, and before long, the Chevy migrated back too. There was still work to be done, including rewiring. A retired electrician named George Rackstraw referred Patrick to Wayne Rogan at Wayne's Hot Rod Garage in Shingle Springs, California. Impressed with the shop, Patrick decided to have Wayne finish the build on the truck. Wayne's upholstery source Patterson Upholstery in Placerville, California. Shawn Patterson got a hold of saddle-colored leather to skin the Wise Guys bench seat and door panels. The Billet Specialties steering wheel is wrapped in matching leather, and mounted on a polished aluminum ididit tilt column. Speed, fuel, water temperature and oil pressure are monitored by VDO gauges mounted in a custom bezel from Boise Engineering, installed by Jim Helton and Wayne Rogan. Pedals and cables are from Lokar. Cool air comes from a Gen IV air conditioner from Vintage Air. A Custom Autosound 10-disc CD stereo system is mounted in the stock dash, feeding music through JBL speakers.
Now that the second build is finished on Patrick's '55, he should be able to enjoy a bunch of years of driving before tearing it apart again. And that's just what he's doing. He drives the truck every weekend, picking up trophies at area car and truck shows on a regular basis. He says that, with those rear gears and the overdrive transmission, the '55 flies down the highway—and gets decent gas mileage along the way. Look for the '55 in Redondo Beach at Ruby's Diner or with the Caffeine Cruisers at Starbucks on Saturday mornings—or out on the street in the Southern California sunshine. CCT


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Do you know what's a problem that I've seen so many tanks have?
Something unexpected will happen in a raid and they'll drop dead. Immediately afterward, someone will always ask the question.
"Are your cooldowns still up?" And of course, the tank replies in the affirmative which means that the death and the subsequent wipe could have been avoided.
Do you know why this happens the way it does? It's primarily because a lot of tanks out there don't LIKE to use their cooldowns.
Yeah I said it. I'll say it twice if it'll get through to you guys. Most tanks, do NOT use their cooldowns properly.
See the thing is, a lot of tanks develop a certain mentality in the course of their lives. They have this packrat mentality when it comes to cooldowns where they always try to save it for a "rainy" day. They always think that even if their health drops down to under 10%, there'll always be a situation right around the corner where they'll NEED their cooldowns and THAT'S what they've been saving it for.
It's important to understand that without using the cooldown that first time, that second situation will never come up. Your cooldowns should be used the instant you first get the feeling that you'll need them. Whenever you see your health drop low, whenever you think your healer might not be paying attention, whenever you think that there's even a chance that you're about to eat dirt, pop that cooldown and revel in the fact that while you may not have needed it, you can be certain that you just prevented a potential death.
The problem's deeper than just a single situation which is something that can be overlooked. The problem that most tanks don't understand is that without constant and systematic usage of these cooldowns, you won't have the proper instinct and muscle memory to hit them the second you do really need them.
If you're one of those tanks that try to save all of your cooldowns for the "real" emergency, do everyone a favor and start using them now. Put those cooldowns on an easy to see, easy to reach keybinding and hit it anytime you think you might be in trouble.
Do this for about a week and then see how much of a difference that all of that practice and muscle memory makes in the course of an actual raid. You'll notice a very real difference in your reaction time and more importantly, in the sheer frequency of your usage.
You'll find yourself using it more in the first moments of a fight where the healers might be caught napping and might not be quite ready to heal you. You'll find yourself finally hitting that cooldown on time during a boss fight instead of fruitlessly smashing the key after you're already dead. Heck, you'll even find yourself using it more often on trash pulls and that's perfectly okay.
Once you get into the habit of using those cooldowns the instant you need them instead of saving them for a rainy day, you will find many situations where the use of the cooldown saved your life where you would have otherwise died and you'll be a better tank for it.


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Alberta currently has the third largest wind generating capacity of Canada's provinces, behind only Ontario and Quebec, with 1.1GW installed. Recent deals include Alstom's first foray into the Canadian market with a turbine supply deal for 414MW of projects in Alberta.
However, in response to a challenge by Alberta energy minister Ken Hughes for the renewable industry to propose policy solutions to help "green the grid", CANWEA has said that two key emissions policies need to be implemented to help the province realise the development of 5GW of "easily accessible wind resources".
The policies, outlined in CANWEA's report WindVision 2025: A Strategy For Alberta, published yesterday, are as follows:
- A clean electricity standard — to impose a maximum greenhouse gas emissions intensity level, measured in tonnes CO2e/MWh, on electricity sold by retailers in the province. The Alberta government would set this technology-neutral standard and retailers would seek contracts with developers of different sources of electricity generation in the market to ensure their supply portfolios met the target.
- An increase in carbon price — a second supplementary measure is an increase in the $15/tonne carbon price imposed on large emitters under Alberta's existing Specified Gas Emitters Regulation (SGER), something the province has already acknowledged it needs to do to encourage the investment choices and technology advances that will allow it to meet its climate change targets.
"Neither of these policy measures alone will totally address the challenges facing wind energy in the province, but they are very complementary," said CANWEA president Robert Hornung.
"A clean electricity standard will incentivise long-term contracts for electricity and help provide the long-term revenue certainty needed to finance new projects. An uplift in the carbon price will increase the value of greenhouse gas offsets produced by wind energy projects, providing an additional revenue stream that will improve project economics."
The report goes on to claim that if projects in Alberta were able to secure long-term contracts, an estimated 3,198MW of new wind capacity could be added to the province's grid by 2025.
However, it remains to be seen what success these proposals will have: while a clean energy standard resembles similarly successful international programmes such as the UK renewables obligation, an increase in the carbon price in Alberta, which holds huge oil sands deposits in its north-east, would seem unlikely.


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PSU students dedicate a day for community service
Friday, April 5, 2013 2:00 AM
Pittsburg, KS
The BIG Event is living up to its name. Sponsored by the Pittsburg State University Student Government Association, the BIG Event is a communitywide service day that will take place on Saturday, April 5.
BIG Event Director Elle Walker said more than 900 students are expected to participate in this year's service day, which will begin with registration from 9-10 a.m. at the Weede PE Building.
After some instructions and prizes, students will fan out across the city to do a wide variety of jobs from raking and yard work to painting and simple home repairs. Walker said that this year the students are partnering with Hearts and Hammers on some of their project sites.
Although PSU students do a wide variety of community service thought the year, Walker said, the BIG Event is a day set aside to give back to the community that supports the university and its students.


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Today's photo was sent by Pocono resident Nancy Tully.
Today's photo was sent by Pocono resident Nancy Tully.
During a winter visit to Dansbury Park in East Stroudsburg, Nancy saw this large, orange-billed goose mixed in with a flock of Canada geese. The bizarre bird is called a Toulouse goose, which is a descendant of the European greylag goose.
The Toulouse adapts well to domestication, and is the breed used most in producing foie gras. They do not need a pond habitat. While some individual geese can become aggressive, many Toulouse geese have placid dispositions and thrive in mixed flocks, preferring to tag along with smaller species.
Have you ever encountered a plant, animal or other notable natural thing, and wondered what it was? Next time, take a photo of it. Outdoors columnist and naturalist Rick Koval will identify one photo per month. Photos — must be 200 dpi and no more than 7 inches wide — will be accepted via email only. Please send to firstname.lastname@example.com. Use the subject line "Have You Seen This?" and include your name and town, and any details you can provide about the photo — where and when it was taken, for example.


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The following is a link to a great article that tells how to do both types of fiber testing (microscope and breakage) for requirement 3g, as well as other testing with clear directions for interpreting findings. I'm a historic costumer and most often use the burn test they describe in detail, but all of the information at this link is valid.
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Valentine's Day Charms & Materials
Another Valentine's Day is nearly upon us! Last year, we had a lot of fun teaching some of our co-workers how to make this Valentine's Day heart charm bracelet (we still see them worn proudly around the office from time to time!). I was sorry that there wouldn't be enough time for another jewelry workshop this year, but I did take the time to collect some of my favorite V-Day-themed beading materials from a few of our go-to suppliers. (Click on any image to get to the retail listing.) Enjoy!
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|Nina Designs
Do you have any plans to make something handmade for your honey this Valentine's Day?


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Seahawks Best Monarchs in Second Half to Drop ODU, 65-68
By ODU Athletics
Jan. 30, 2008
NORFOLK, Va. -- ODU dropped a tough CAA decision Wednesday night as UNCW (14-8/7-3) climbed back from 19 down in the second half for a 68-65 victory. The Monarchs (10-12/5-5) jumped to a 15-point halftime lead, but the Seahawks managed to come back and win on a three-pointer from senior guard T.J. Carter with just over 30 seconds remaining. Carter scored the final seven points for UNCW. The loss snaps an eight-game winning streak against the Seahawks.
ODU had a 15-point halftime lead after impressive shooting from the floor and great defense, but the Seahawks would rally in the second to improve their winning streak to five. The strengths for the Monarchs in the first half were weaknesses in the second, as ODU hit seven three's in the first frame, but shot 0-for-10 from deep in the second. They also forced 11 first half turnovers, but only managed four after the break.
ODU led for most of the first half and extended the lead to 15, nearly 18 at the half. The Monarchs closed the first half on a 9-0 run that was almost 12 when Jonathan Adams' three-point shot circled the entire rim before bouncing away at the buzzer. ODU would get 14 points from Lidonde in the first frame on 5-of-6 shooting, including four 3's. Freshman Ben Finney was a monster on the boards, grabbing seven in the first half.
The defense was putting on a clinic in the first as well, as the team collected five steals and forced 11 turnovers in the frame. The Monarchs had 16 points off turnovers in the first half, as they held the Seahawks to 13 fewer first half attempts. Wilmington shot just under their season pace at 41.7% from the field, but had just 24 first half attempts.
Star senior guard for UNCW, T.J. Carter led the team with 9 points in the first. It would be Jordan that Wilmington would look to down the stretch as well. After the Seahawks used the efforts of senior forward Vladimir Kuljanin to claw their way back from as many as 19 down in the second half, it was Jordan that would seal the victory for UNCW.
Kuljanin knocked down 13 second half points and grabbed seven second half boards. The most important was an offensive rebound with 36 seconds remaining that enabled a kick-out to classmate and leading scorer, Carter, for the game-winning three-pointer, putting UNCW up 66-65.
With over 30 seconds remaining, ODU had time to set up a play in the halfcourt offense, but freshman Darius James left his feet and threw the ball away for just his second turnover on the night. Having to foul, Carter would go to the line and knock down both free throws for the final deficit of 68-65. ODU got two looks from beyond the arc in the final nine seconds, but both were contested by multiple defenders.
Carter would finish with a game-high 25, including 16 second half points. He also had a season-high nine rebounds. Kuljanin had a double-double with 20 points and 12 rebounds.
ODU was led by Lidonde, with 16 points, but the senior guard was held to just two in the second half. Senior point guard Brandon Johnson had five assists and three steals and Finney had seven points and 10 rebounds.
Old Dominion shot just 38.8% from the field on 26-of-67 shooting while UNC Wilmington managed to shoot 45.8% on 27-of-59 shooting. The Monarchs were held to just three field goals in the final 12:08, as UNCW outscored ODU 28-10 in that stretch.
ODU returns to the floor this Saturday, February 2 at 4:00 pm as they host Georgia State in CAA action.
NOTE: The ODU-VCU game on February 16 at the Siegel Center has been selected to be televised on ESPN2 at 8:00 pm.


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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - Sophomore swimmer Tim Freeman has been selected as UCSBgauchos.com Athlete of the Week after record-breaking performances at last week's Big West Conference Championships in Long Beach, Calif.
Freeman posted the first of his two records in the 100 breaststroke on Friday evening. He captured the event title in a time of 53.90, which broke a 20-year old meet record. His time also broke the UCSB and conference record of 54:01 that was set by another Gaucho, Mark Anderson, in 1995.
The following evening, Freeman took second in the 200 breaststroke and his time of 1:56.86 set a new Gaucho standard. The previous school record was 1:58.31 and was set by Glenn Peoples in 1992.
The sophomore also helped lead the UCSB 200 medley (1:28.47) and 400 medley relays (3:14.74) to Big West titles. Both relay times, as well as both of his individual breaststroke event marks, are NCAA B-cuts.
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Smartphones have usurped a slew of devices that people used to carry, but few are as prominent as the camera. Snapping photos has become one of the primary things people do with their smartphones, and it's gotten to the point that the quality and capabilities of the cameras have become big selling points.
For example, Samsung made a big deal out of the 13-megapixel camera and accompanying software for the Galaxy S4 during its launch, and has even gone so far as to make a pair of devices that are essentially cameras with smartphones bolted to them. (I recently reviewed one of them, the Samsung Galaxy Camera.)
Now, Nokia has gone a step further. It has put a 41-megapixel camera into its latest flagship Lumia device, which runs Windows Phone 8. The Lumia 1020 goes on sale today exclusively at AT&T for $299 with a two-year contract. (It's $660 without a contract.)
In terms of design and features, this is a slight upgrade to the Lumia 920. It's got a slightly slimmer polycarbonate body that – while still wide and tall in the hand – is lighter, with a less bulky feel. It's thicker than the 924 and 928 models, though. The 1020 comes in three colors: black, white and the yellow model I had as a review unit.
The camera's Carl Zeiss lens and flash are housed in a raised disk on the back of the phone, which gives it a slight incline when you lay it face up. If you're watching video or reading, this is handy. If you're trying to type or navigate, it's annoyingly unsteady.
The Lumia 1020 has a 1.5-GHz, dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 processor, 2 gigabytes of memory and 32 GB of onboard storage. You also get 7 GB of free cloud-based storage via Microsoft's SkyDrive. There's no memory-card slot, and at the moment there's no 64-GB model.
The 4.7-inch AMOLED display runs at 1,280-by-768-pixel resolution. Its Gorilla Glass 3 screen is nicely embedded into the case, giving the front a sleek, organic look. All the hardware controls are on the right side – volume rocker, power/sleep switch and camera button.
The front camera is 1.2 megapixels with a wide-angle lens, making it great for use with Skype. It can capture 720p HD video. (The rear camera does 1080p HD video.)
I'm not going to go into great detail about Windows Phone here, other than to say that the 1020 has more than enough power to make using Microsoft's mobile OS a pleasure. It's very fast – you wait for nothing. One interesting note: The SkyDrive app isn't part of the default software load, which surprised me. I had to download it in order to make full use of the storage service.
Of course, the camera is the star of this phone, and to hammer home that point, the Lumia 1020 comes with three different camera apps. There's the standard Windows Phone app; the Nokia Pro Cam, which mimics the controls found on a DSLR camera; and the Nokia Smart Cam, which uses multiple images to achieve special effects in photos.
The Pro Cam app is the one Nokia chooses to pin to the 1020's home screen. It allows you to control typical camera settings like ISO, white balance, auto-focus and more. Drag the camera icon on the viewfinder screen toward its center and you'll see a series of rings that let you adjust the settings.
Although the Lumia 1020 has a 41-megapixel camera, the physics of digital photography limit images to "only" 34 or 38 MP. In the camera's settings, you can choose to have images captured in pairs of 34 MP and 5 MP, or just 5 MP. In most cases, the 5 MP image is the one you'll want to share digitally if you choose the option of two photos. But even then, Nokia uses the camera's muscle to generate what it calls superpixels, in which individually pixels are determined by oversampling the pixels surrounding it.
The result is impressive. Here's a photo taken at Lake Conroe north of Houston using the Lumia 1020 and default settings with the Pro Cam.
And here's the same shot, taken with an iPhone 5.
The clarity of the 1020's camera is excellent. When you zoom in to the people on the pier, you can read the "No Diving or Jumping" and "No Nadar" signs on the railing. You can almost read the lettering on the back of T-shirts.
The colors are excellent on the Pro Cam app with most natural light shots. However, you will want to play around with the manual settings on the Pro Cam app to get decent colors indoors. The defaults aren't kind to either incandescent or fluorescent lighting. This fine lunch at Vernon's Kuntry Katfish looked a lot more appetizing in real life. Some work with the white balance would have fixed the problem.
Note that this is not the first time this camera has made an appearance in a Nokia phone. Earlier this year, the company released the PureView 808, which uses the Symbian operating system.
As you'd expect, the Lumia 1020 comes with its share of apps from both Nokia and AT&T. For example, there are several of Nokia's Here navigation apps, including separate ones for driving and mass transit, on top of AT&T Navigator and the built-in maps from Microsoft. Fortunately, unlike included apps on Android and iOS devices, you can actually uninstall these if you want a cleaner setup.
If you're interested in big-screen smartphone that uses Microsoft's Windows Phone OS, and if you're willing to pay a premium to get it, this is the phone to consider – particularly if photography is important to you. This is the best camera on any smartphone at the moment, and it's going to give photo-happy owners of iPhones and Android devices some serious Windows Phone envy.


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SMF - Just Installed!
What bothers me about Mary is that he never really explained what was the point of the regeneration experiment. And if it was a failed one, why is she still alive? Am I missing something?
Clearly...Mary is an attempt to breach stage 2: Pain.... but maytag learned it's not really injury you need to overcome. Just like melter is clearly and attempt to breach stage 1: fear....
Yes I have thought about that, but I'm not convinced. You could easily realize that all the stuff happening in phase 2 is not real, the same way Maytag realized it on her first try. Also, I am sure Mary does in fact feel pain, we have seen her reacting to pain many chapters ago. Also, Mary is invincible as long as she eats human flesh.. if phase 2 were real she would probably be just as useless as any other human. Plus why all the effort to make someone immortal when all you have to do is just step back and realize that it is not real, as Maytag put it?
Negative thought #1: What if I pass out on the subway?Cognitive distortion: Predicting the worstMore realistic thought: Ive never passed out before, so its unlikely that I will on the subway.Negative thought #2: If I pass out, it will be terrible!Cognitive distortion: Blowing things out of proportionMore realistic thought: If I faint, Ill come to in a few moments. Thats not so terrible.Negative thought #3: People will think Im crazy.Cognitive distortion: Jumping to conclusionsMore realistic thought: People are more likely to be concerned if Im okay.
Yeah. I too beleive ...someone in this world .. or perhaps someones {plural}.. know the source of magic and are using it to their advantage and control over societies from behind the scenes. But if that is the case... just WHAT is the Dark Cell and what is its location that is significant to the answer of what the Qualia are? WHY is the Dark Cell important? Why does Lehm believe that penetrating it will yield answers upon the purpose and origin of the Qualia? Perhaps I have missed this explanation that has already been made known but I cannot remember anywhere telling us WHY the Dark Cell is important to the mystery of the Qualia-Nanite magic?Those ALL being supplemental questions to the one I'm getting at~ IF there are people or organizations in this world aware of the Qualia and using that knowledge to their advantage... if the Dark Cell is important to understanding the Qualia.. shouldn't THEY know about the Dark Cell as well? If not.. why don't they know about it? If the Dark Cell is important... why have THEY not secured it from investigation by the curious.. who might gain knowledge or access to the Qualia and thus potentially Threaten their monopoly on manipulating such knowlegde to their advantage?... basically a SHIT-TON of Questions about the ENTIRE PREMISE... that has NOT been even hinted at answers for? tl;dr version - WTF?!?And yes I do believe Maytag has figured out how to pass Stage 3... she is now fishing for information and trying to discover, if what Lehm is saying is true, is it in the world's best interests for her to even do this? "Just because you can do a thing.. does not mean you should!" Money is not really May's motivator anymore.. SHE IS thinking seriously about this and is not sure the answer reveled~ is necessarily in everyone's {or her} best interests! I don't think she feels people not knowing the truth about magic is necessarily a bad thing. Not knowing has not hurt people thus far and magic IS useful. Magic is not broke.. so why bother trying to figure out how or why it works and potentially risk screwing things up for EVERYONE somehow?Plus, she HAS NO idea what breaching the third phase will do to her.. and she can see someone went through a Hella lot of effort to keep anyone from breaching this mystery... her life could VERY WELL be in danger.. and she CERTAINLY wants to see Bernadette again! No secret~ no matter HOW profound it might potentially prove to be, is worth loosing her love for Bern or risking May's chance at living a life with Bernadette in it!
No, Maytag, nooo! I hope you're not thinking what I think youre thinking.
If you couldn't see and hear anymore, wouldn't Dark Cell just make you hallucinate? It is magic, after all. Or, if it doesn't work that way, maybe you would just get stuck inside, confused? I don't know how being blind/deaf would be any different than having a person without feelings in phase 3.
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The Po- Boy Festival is only 5 years old, but it was an instant hit from the get go. How could it not be when it involves one of the best food items in New Orlean's culinary culture. We all have fond memories of roast beef gravy dripping down your face and those whole loaf po-boys from the Bakery on Franklin Ave in Gentilly, 15min from our New Orleans bed and breakfast. Can you picture that… a 3 foot sandwich for the whole family!
This sandwich has been a staple of local cuisine forever and can be stuffed with anything from roast beef to french fries and brown gravy all tucked inside a fresh loaf of french bread. What makes this festival so much fun is the creativity. Today you'll find pork cheeks po-boys, vegetarian po-boys and even one from the Vietnamese community. There are no rules, and there are forty vendors to choose from. A word of advice… go hungry!
And as always at our festivals there'll be lots of good music. On 3 stages you'll find the likes of Re-Birth, Papa Grows Funk, George Porter, Walter Wolfman Washington and many more. In between eating and listening to music check out the local crafts for sale.


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Pleaseeeeee bring in turner! Would be a great move to pair with Rex.
For the expected GM and OC positions. Don't know what to think of Clinkscales, didn't want to lose him last off season, but don't think he is ready for a GM.
I would be fine with Turner and very angry about Cameron.
Also, I know Cimini gets a lot of grief on here, so don't know how serious to take it.
Pleaseeeeee bring in turner! Would be a great move to pair with Rex.
Cam Cameron would be a ****ing disaster... Which means we'll hire him.
Cameron is a f****** nightmare. I'd hate that signing so much. Turner is my ideal guy so I'd much rather have him, as for the GM I'd much rather take someone off of the staff of a team with a solid FO like the packers or the ravens, but wouldn't necessarily mind Clinckscales.
Wow. Woody has no clue. Recycling Clinkscales? Cam Cameron???? Holy crap what a bunch of loser choices. Choose the head of player personnel from Seattle or someone from the GB or Pittsburgh organizations. Once again it looks like half measures from Woody.
I mean if you hire back Clinkscales isnt that just the same group of people we have already had in Tannenbaum Clinkscales and Bradway. Just shuffling their titles is a moronic way to go.
I mentioned clinkscales the other day because if Woody wants to go with someone he knows, it's either him or Scott Cohen.
I don't really know what to think about him - he seems to be highly regarded around the league, but beyond that, all I know is that he ran our draft for a whole number of years. I'm not even sure what his actual role is in Oakland.
For the GM, I think the jets need to go outside of the organization. Most of the scouts/personnel guys have been with the team for quite some time and maybe a new set of eyes is what the team needs.
The more I read about David Caldwell, the Falcons' director of player personnel, the more I like him. He was the head of college scouting for the Falcons for 4 years and before that he spent 10 seasons with the Colts. Two successful places with excellent people to learn from.
What has Clinkscales done to deserve being hired as the final decision maker? He's served in an assistant role here for all the worst decisions. I'm sure he had a voice in the Ghoulston decision. That alone should get him crossed off the list. I wouldn't call that an "outside the box decision". In fact that is about as "in the box" as we can get.
Norv is a no brainer, so I can't give Woody any credit for that. Norv would make sticking with Sanchez bearable.
Cam Cameron? Again, what has he done to deserve the position?
Not my favorite choice, but Clinkscales wouldn't be a horrible move.
As bad as Cam Cameron would be, he would actually be a substantial upgrade over Sparano. Norv would be my top choice.
Step away from ledge.
It's likely that Cimini heard these names as possible interveiwies. It is unlikely that they are Woody's favorites. I think Tannenbaum has trained Woody the art of "due dilligence" and these guys are just possible candidates.
Yes to Turner. No to everyone else.
With the outside possibility of Turner (I'm pretty sure it's been all but pointed to that Norv wants no part of the Jets) that would be a disaster scenario
Cimini also mentioned George kokinis as GM possibility. He has some Baltimore ties and did a crappy job as Cleveland GM
As far as who wanted who drafted where, I think Woody knows that. When we are asked to develop a new proposal each teams proposal gets kept. I am sure woody has a copy of the scouting reports and the input from each of his guys.
Who knows, Clinksdales might have been screaming for Mayo over Gholtson, and Mathews and McCoy over Sanchez. Woody goes back and looks and sees who wanted who.
Clinkscales would make sense if Ryan is kept. We're not getting a big name, established GM without firing Ryan. Sorry.
Turner is loved by many, but outside of Dallas with the Big Three, what has he done?
Cam Cameron? Well if it's him or Turner, I'll pick up Turner myself.
I'm interested in seeing if Ken Whisenhunt gets the ax in Arizona.
Also, nothing against Clinkscales, but the if he is the new GM, then we really haven't done anything.
Since Woody took over the team, Bradway, Tannenbaum, and Clinkscales have pretty much been the big figures in the front office. So for 3 out of the last fours years, these three, along with Rex and Sanchez are pretty much responsible for everything that is right and wrong with this franchise. And if this is correct, barring an unlikely trade of Sanchez, all the key figures are still here employed but in some weird cross training exercise.
OK so taking it a step further, this is telling the fan base and the league, that the only reason that this team sucks is Sporano because he is the only one that won't be here next year- and looks like we may even downgrade that position with Cam.
Wow. Only the Jets.
Clinkscales? Clinkscales!!??
Good Lord, I pray this isn't true. We don't need another lower level GM. Woody, putz, spend the money and bring in a heavy weight who can lead this organization, not another first timer.


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WASHINGTON, April 17 (UPI) -- New home construction starts in the United States fell 5.8 percent February to March, the Commerce Department said Tuesday.
Housing starts dropped to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 654,000, compared with a revised figure for February of 694,000.
The rate of single-family housing starts in the month was 462,000, which was 0.2 percent below the revised annual rate for February of 463,000.
For multiple-unit housing starts -- projects with five or more living units -- the annual rate in March came to 178,000.
Permits issued for privately owned housing units rose 4.5 percent month to month to an annual rate of 747,000. A year earlier in March, the annual rate for permits issued stood at 574,000. The new rate is a 30.1 percent climb over the rate 12 months prior.
Permits issued are an indicator of what direction construction starts might take one or two months down the road.
Completed housing projects in March were estimated at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 600,000, which is 4.2 percent above the revised figure for February of 576,000 units and 0.5 percent above March 2011 when 597,000 housing completions were posted.


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When it comes to self-help these days, there's a zillion of those highs to choose from. You do the book club, create your signature product or land a career your great-grandchildren will be proud of, and even hire the happiest experts to walk you through it all.
But then real life comes in for a reprise (with a cosmic 2×4) and it's a long, hard go to get back to that feeling you had before the breakup, the fledgling business (or the successful one that's burning you out), the lost dream of how it was supposed to all happen.
If this is your story or even a close cousin to it, I want you to know: I'm glad you're here! There's nothing wrong with you, and I'm going to tell you why.
I don't believe transformation should be packaged and sold in bulk like ramen noodles at Costco.
Every human being's growth experience is deeply unique and entirely sacred. (When you're going into the jungle, you need more than a template or a list of questions to get to the other side.)
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We lie in undress,
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