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Last week, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected a Fourth Amendment challenge to the Transportation Security Administration's strip-search machine policies, but it found that the TSA violated the Administrative Procedure Act in rolling them out. Too bad that the court arrived at the Fourth Amendment issues before they were ripe.
The bulk of the decision was devoted to the TSA's law violation in creating strip-search machine policies without doing a notice-and-comment rulemaking. That's the procedure federal agencies are required to carry out when Congress has delegated them legislative authority. Congress did delegate such authority when it told the Department of Homeland Security to develop technologies that detect nonmetallic, chemical, biological, and radiological weapons in 2004's Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act.
"[T]he TSA has advanced no justification for having failed to conduct a notice-and-comment rulemaking," the court wrote, adding that it expects the agency "to act promptly on remand to cure the defect in its promulgation."
The TSA will likely spout "constantly changing threat environment" boilerplate to try and argue that it can avoid notice and comment under the APA's "good cause" exception. An agency can skip notice and comment "when the agency for good cause finds … that notice and public procedure thereon are impracticable, unnecessary, or contrary to the public interest."
But the threat environment is not "constantly changing" at the level of abstraction relevant for the strip-search machine policy—some people are out there who might try to get dangerous articles onto planes—and these machines will be in place for decades, if not permanently, under the TSA policy. They will affect the privacy and security of billions of air passenger journeys. Even if there were need for haste in rolling out the machines, nothing makes it uniquely difficult, or anything other than appropriate, for the TSA to engage in a public process to substantiate its actions.
When the TSA does a rulemaking, it will have to lay out its strip-search machine policies and—crucially—justify them. Notice-and-comment rules are subject to court review, and reversal if they are "arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion, or otherwise not in accordance with law." That is a rather low standard, but it's a higher standard than the agency has ever met before—none at all.
The TSA will have to exhibit how its risk management supports the installation and use of strip-search machines. How did the TSA do its asset characterization (summarizing the things it is protecting)? What are the vulnerabilities it assessed? How did it model threats and hazards (actors or things animated to do harm)? What are the likelihoods and consequences of various attacks? Risk assessment questions like these are all essential inputs into decisions about what to prioritize and how to respond.
Congress dictated detection of various harmful agents, a form of interdiction. (The other responses to risk are acceptance, prevention, and mitigation.) Given the array of choices available to it, how did the TSA select strip-search machines?
Crucially, how well do strip-search machines reach the risks identified in their risk assessment? This is a cost-benefit question. How much do strip-search machines cost to purchase, maintain, and operate? The costs denominated in dollars include money spent on buying the machines, configuring airports, and paying TSA salaries to operate the machines and process passengers. Such costs also include opportunity costs imposed on travelers when the time they spend at airports lengthens to accommodate extended security screening and variable delays. Yet more costs are denominated in lost privacy and dignity to the traveler. These are substantial, though hard to quantify.
Security benefits are also hard to quantify, but the agency should do so if it is to justify its policies as something better than random or intuitive reaction. DHS and TSA officials endlessly talk about risk and risk management, but they cannot honestly say they are doing risk management if they are not thinking these issues all the way through. I've offered a methodology for valuing security benefits, and security experts (as well as students) have analyzed the costs and benefits of homeland security programs. The TSA can do it too.
Watch in the rulemaking for the TSA to obfuscate, particularly in the area of threat, using claims to secrecy. "We can't reveal what we know," goes the argument. "You'll have to accept our generalizations about the threat being 'substantial,' 'ever-changing,' and 'growing.'" It's an appeal to authority that works with much of the American public, but it is not one to which courts—a co-equal branch of the government—should so easily succumb.
If it sees it as necessary, the TSA should publish its methodology for assessing threats, then create a secret annex to the rulemaking record for court review containing the current state of threat under that methodology, and how the threat environment at the present time compares to threat over a relevant part of the recent past. A document that contains anecdotal evidence of threat is not a threat methodology. Only a way of thinking about threat that can be (and is) methodically applied over time is a methodology.
With this information in hand, a court would not only be ready to assess the TSA's rule under the Administrative Procedure Act's "arbitrary and capricious" standard. It would be ready to assess the reasonableness of the TSA's strip-search machines and procedures under the Fourth Amendment.
Without that information, the D.C. Circuit plugged the strip-search machines into the strangely incoherent "administrative search" exception to the Fourth Amendment. In two pages of analysis (out of the opinion's seventeen), the court found that strip-search machines are administrative "because the primary goal is not to determine whether any passenger has committed a crime but rather to protect the public from a terrorist attack."
Come again?
It seems the court could have taken judicial notice that terrorist attacks are carried out through one or more criminal behaviors. People who have weapons or other dangerous articles at airport checkpoints are subject to arrest and prosecution. Crime control and public protection are one in the same, even in counterterrorism.
The "administrative search" exception to the Fourth Amendment seems to rest on the willingness of a court to abstract away the fact that individuals are prevented from proceeding where they would go (seized) while their persons, papers, and effects are rummaged (searched) for the purpose of discovering violations of the criminal laws. Earlier in the opinion, in fact, the court mocked the idea that the TSA might not "engage in 'law enforcement, correctional, or intelligence activity.'" It surely does. This is not "administrative." It's criminal law enforcement.
Perhaps with a full record—a notice-and-comment rulemaking with a docket full of information and analysis—the D.C. Circuit and other courts will have the opportunity to revisit whether the TSA's strip-search machine policies are constitutionally reasonble, or whether they're unexamined reaction. Last week's "loss" on the Fourth Amendment issue sets the stage for sounder thinking on the strip-search machine policy.
All of this would be obviated, of course, if airline security were restored to private hands.


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As part of the agreement, MetLife will be the title sponsor of the All-World Baseball Classic Team. The MetLife All-World Baseball Classic Team will be comprised of the best performers at each position during the tournament. Players selected to the previous two teams have included two-time tournament M.V.P. Daisuke Matsuzaka (Pitcher, Japan - 2006 and 2009), Ken Griffey Jr. (Outfielder, USA - 2006), Adrian Beltre (Third baseman, Dominican Republic - 2006) and Hyun-Soo Kim (DH, Korea - 2009).
MetLife's long experience and expertise in covering premier sporting events from above will allow it to provide dynamic aerial coverage from its blimps -- Snoopy One, Snoopy Two and Snoopy J. The MetLife blimps will be flying above all the games played in Phoenix, Miami, Tokyo and San Francisco. A camera will be in each blimp capturing scenic aerial footage, as well as crucial in-game moments, that will be incorporated into the game broadcasts on MLB Network, ESPN Deportes and the worldwide feed being distributed to more than 200 countries and territories.
To add to the excitement and fan experience at the games, Snoopy, donning a World Baseball Classic jersey, will be making special appearances, interacting with fans and distributing gifts.
"With such a strong presence in the global marketplace, MetLife is well-positioned to illuminate its brand message across the expansive World Baseball Classic platform," said Paul Archey, senior vice president, International Business Operations, Major League Baseball. "MetLife will have a variety of touch points, both inside and outside the tournament venues, fully integrating them into the event program this March."
"It's an honor to welcome MetLife to the World Baseball Classic's roster of global sponsors," said Timothy Slavin, member of the World Baseball Classic Board of Directors. "The World Baseball Classic looks forward to working with MetLife, Snoopy and the entire Peanuts gang to help shine a spotlight on the world's greatest players competing for national pride and global bragging rights. We're confident MetLife's global brand awareness will be enhanced and strengthened by its association with the world's premier international baseball tournament."
"Many of the countries fielding World Baseball Classic teams are also countries where MetLife is a leading insurer," said Richard Hong, vice president of brand, advertising & promotion, MetLife. "With MetLife's strong presence in Japan and Korea where the sport is widely popular, and with market leading positions in countries like Mexico and the U.S., millions of our customers and thousands of our employees are looking forward to watching some of the world's best play baseball this March."
The 2013 World Baseball Classic, which is the third edition of the tournament, will feature the world's best players representing their countries and territories. Thirty-nine games will be played in seven venues in four nations and territories from March 2-19, 2013. Team Japan is the two-time defending champion of the World Baseball Classic, having won in 2006 and 2009. The World Baseball Classic, which is officially sanctioned by the International Baseball Federation (IBAF), will for the first time in 2013 be recognized as the official national team world championship, with the winner being crowned the 2013 World Baseball Classic champion and the IBAF world champion.
For the first time, four qualifiers were held for the 2013 World Baseball Classic, which expanded the competitive field from 16 to 28 countries. Brazil, Canada, Chinese Taipei and Spain emerged from the qualifiers to earn spots in the March 2013 event. Those four qualifier teams will join the teams of the 12 countries/terrirories -- Australia, China, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Kingdom of the Netherlands, Puerto Rico, United States and Venezuela -- that received automatic invitations based on their performances in the 2009 tournament.
In the United States, MLB Network will be the exclusive English-language broadcast partner for all 39 games while ESPN Deportes will be the Spanish-language partner. The semifinal and final games will take place from March 17-19 at San Francisco's AT&T Park, hosted by the San Francisco Giants. Second-round games will be held in the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo from March 8-12 and at Marlins Park in Miami from March 12-16. First-round games will be held at the Fukuoka Yahoo! Japan Dome in Fukuoka, Japan, from March 2-6; at Intercontinental Stadium from March 2-5 in Taichung, Taiwan; at Hiram Bithorn Stadium in San Juan, Puerto Rico, from March 7-10; and at Chase Field and Salt River Fields at Talking Stick in Phoenix from March 7-10.

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HUTCHINS, Texas (AP) — A researcher says a truck trailer hauling a NASA-funded telescope from Minnesotato East Texas has been found near Dallas and the cargo apparently was undisturbed.
Authorities on Wednesday night discovered the trailer at a car wash near Hutchins. University of Minnesotaresearch associate Asad Aboobaker says the trailer's seal was not broken.
Hutchins police did not immediately return a message Thursday, but previously said the driver said the rig was stolen Monday from a Dallas motel.
The cargo was bound for the Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility near Palestine, about 80 miles southeast of Dallas, but never arrived Monday. The equipment is meant for use in a science project in Antarctica.
Further details on the driver were not immediately available. A message left with Minneapolis-based Copeland Trucking was not immediately returned Thursday.
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|Was Oetzi alone in the world? New DNA analysis of Oetzi, a mummified man from 5300 years ago who was discovered in 1991 in a melting glacier in the Italian Alps, indicates that the mummified man may be alone in the modern world -- with no known living descendants. Researchers have sequenced his entire mitochondrial genome and compared it with other published human mitochondrial DNA sequences to construct Oetzi's phylogenetic family tree. The researchers found no matches -- and, what's more, found that Oetzi seems to be from a unique branch of the human family tree. The work was published this week in the journal Current Biology. In this Halloween-day edition of Science Friday, we'll talk about the mummy's DNA and what it tells us about human evolution.


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First-in-Nation Law Aims to Cut Costs for Employers, Workers; Pharmaceutical Companies Raise Concerns About Safety
AUGUSTA, Maine—The hunt for cheaper prescription drugs long has led consumers to reach beyond U.S. borders, but under a Maine law set to take effect Wednesday, their search now will have the state's blessing.
The law, the first of its kind, sanctions the direct purchase of mail-order drugs from some foreign pharmacies. It has ignited a court battle with the pharmaceutical industry and set the stage for a broader fight over access to less-costly medication....


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Used to be, you couldn't keep me away from this blog for too long, but now I don't seem to even check in to say hi. So hello again, and howya doing, me I'm fine thanks. The excuse I'll offer up is I've recently gone through a major relocation (from London to North Yorkshire) and still haven't really got my feet firmly planted on the ground, nor got my proverbial shit together. But while unpacking some left over boxes recently, the following oddball selection of records slid into my sweaty little hands. And I thought oh, what the hell. So here I am again, PS Reconizing again.
One of these days I'll get my life in order, and this blog will again, as the song goes, cut you into little pieces. You just wait.
1. NICK TOSCHES AND HOMER HENDERSON "Sweet Thighs Of Mother Mary" (7″ 45, Chaldea, 1998) Sure Nick Tosches has an ego the size of a NY city block, but he's also given the world a great run of cutting novels/bios and deep-reaching music texts that stand with some of the best toughass lit to come out of late 20th Century America. Homer, well, he's another kettle of fish entirely: a sort of Emmett Miller of the post-Roky Erickson TX generation, producing songs that lurk in the liquor store parking lots of our collective imaginations, utilizing all appendages (head, hands, feet, liver) to their fullest potential. But damn does Homer's drawl suit the twisted religious visions Nick's lyrics dredge up here, as he conjures up a lo-fi musical accompaniment that is as beautifully crafted as it is unexpectedly weird. Coulda used an entire album of varied stuff like this, this pair's clearly capable – but outside of 3 songs, this meeting of the minds didn't seem to come up with anything else. Ah well – I guess it's back to Nick's books then. When's Nick gonna write that bio of Hubert Selby Jr. we all know he's got in him?
2. BE-BOP DELUXE – Modern Music (Harvest Records, 1976) BE-BOP DELUXE has got to be up there with, like, VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR and the MAN band with Those Brit Bands Most Likely To Be Overlooked By Us Dumbshit Americans. BBD's distinctive mix of overly arranged pomprock slickness, Bowie-derived stylistic elements (skinny suits, ironed hair, thin vocals) and that hot-shit lead gtrist named Bill Nelson, well, wasn't exactly gonna grab yr average KISS fan and wrestle em to the floor. But I'm agreeing with THE MECHANICS Dennis Catron: this record's mix of ROXY MUSIC futurism and TODD RUNGREN ambition ain't at all half-bad. No siree, although it maybe a tad over long in the end. Heck if Peter Hammill had mellowed the fuck out and joined up with COCKNEY REBEL, I couldn't have imagined they'd have put out something as attractive as this. It's not Bill Nelson's frequent solos, but his neat gtr runs, eloquent fills, and multi-part harmonics that stick with you about his playing. And while he ain't Hendrix, the guys that were trying to be Jimi at this late stage (think Frank Marino) aren't the ones you realistically wanna listen to anyway. I'm still tripping on the way the vocals sound sorta like Vitus Mataré in TROTSKY ICEPICK. To be inadvertently put in a TROTSKY ICEPICK state of mind . . . that's a rare talent indeed.
3. VARIOUS ARTISTS – Enigma Variations 2-LP (Enigma Records, 1985) Laugh if you want but for an 80's independent label sampler, this one's hard to beat. It's a double record set, it still goes for pennies in those few used records stores left standing in America, and it's got: gnarly NAKED PREY trampled by a drunken TEX & THE HORSEHEADS carrying a bloody REDD KROSS playing clever GAME THEORY smoking desert GREG SAGE while painting GREEN ON RED. And half the time, these were non-album tracks. Hey somebody, anybody! Get the full Enigma LPs by all these folks back on to CD and pronto. Being that this was Enigma, there's some useless filler in here too, esp. on the synth-heavy final side. But while I usually don't have patience for the garish ineptitude of CATHEDRAL OF TEARS or the collegiate smarm of GET SMART!, when they're followed respectively by Alex Gibson's ominously gorgeous PASSIONNEL and a very young and reckless LEAVING TRAINS . . . well, I can sit still and then some. For a few months there, Enigma was actually pretty good at collecting all the killer SoCal bands not on SST, and this one proves it.
4. SUPPER SESSION "Breed For Speedlove" (from the Rubbing Souls and Scratching Holes 7″ 45, Piece Of Mind, 1991) Raymond Pettibon now sings – well, intones at least – with THE NICHE MAKERS, but back in the early 90's he was content simply to write messed-up lyrics for others (one being art gallery owner Richard Heller) to bring to life. Here, it's a moving bit of hate mail to the Bruce Springsteen School of mid-80's Americana poprock – you know, those industry pawns that always seemed to tuck their white t-shirts into tightbutt, ripped jeans prior to stepping in front of MTV's cameras. If you're wondering, yes I'd reckon this actually beats that BREWS SPRINGSTEIN parody cut tucked away on The Melting Plot comp all them years ago. And when they start in with that refrain of lord speed run fucker, can't drive, I always sing along.


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The U.S. economic future is green. There will be thousands of new job openings for people with specific training in the "Green Jobs" fields. The majority of new jobs are in the fields of science, skilled trades, construction and engineering.
"Green Building" is as an organized effort to design, construct, and maintain buildings and facilities using processes and materials that promote environmental sustainability. Demand for green building construction in California is expects to increase overall by over 25% by 2014. A large portion of the growth in this sector is tied to the increase of regulations and complexity associated with green buildings.
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Thank you to Yale University for recording this fantastic interview between A. Douglas Stone and Ramamurti Shankar.
People may be surprised to hear that Einstein could well be the father of quantum theory in addition to the father of relativity. In part this is because Einstein ultimately rejected quantum theory, but also because there is very little published evidence of his work. However, as he researched his new book Einstein and the Quantum: The Quest of the Valiant Swabian, Stone discovered letters and correspondence with other scientists that demonstrate the extent of Einstein's influence in this area.
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Nelson is the defining link between New Zealand's North and South Islands. As New Zealand's sunniest region, Nelson is the home of the long, Kiwi summer
Nelson is the defining link between New Zealand's North and South Islands. Natural wonder, rest and relaxation, adventure sports, an unparalleled selection food and wine, and a creative spark that is uniquely Kiwi all come together in one region that is not to be missed. Not to mention that as New Zealand's sunniest region, Nelson is the home of the long, hot Kiwi summer.
The best place to secure your stay in beautiful, Nelson is at a Kiwi Holiday Park. Whether you're looking for accommodation in the heart of Nelson, in the tranquil outer sections of the region, or even coming fresh off the ferry, a comfortable stay is assured at a Kiwi Holiday Park.
Tahuna Beach Holiday Park
Tahuna Beach is the perfect example of Nelson's diversity. A short walk in either direction will take you to white sand and ocean breeze, or Nelson's adventure capital, Tahuna Fun Park; the decision is entirely up to you! Whether you're more interested in picturesque water views or thrilling waterslides, Nelson has got it all. If art and culture is more your thing, then a trip into the creative sector of Nelson to browse the many varied studios of local artists will be the perfect way to spend an afternoon. After an exhilarating day of lush landscapes, thrills, spills, and fine Nelson craftsmanship, you can head back to your friendly Kiwi Holiday Park to rest up for the next eclectic day of exploration in sunny Nelson.
Golden Bay Holiday Park
If Nelson is a crowning achievement in New Zealand tourism, then Golden Bay is surely the jewel in that crown. Golden Bay is one of those rare beaches that are ideal for safe swimming and all kinds of water sports, along with boasting fertile surroundings rich with native bush land. Golden Bay is located north west of central Nelson, and is a popular destination for nature-loving travellers to the region. Golden Bay Holiday Park offers a beach front location and private access point for those looking to find their own secluded slice of heaven. There are a number of fully furnished, sea-side cabins and two self contained beach houses to choose from if you are fond of the finer things in life. For the budget conscious traveller there are also tent sites and powered caravan sites, both of which give you access to Wi-Fi facilities.
Waikawa Bay Holiday Park & Picton Campervan Park
Both of these holiday parks are located a short walk from the inter-island ferry, which many tourists choose to take when travelling to and from Nelson. Here you'll find large, inviting cabins, powered campervan sites, and our trademark Kiwi Holiday Park welcome. You'll be perfectly set up to explore the surrounding region, including the magnificent Queen Charlotte Sounds, before continuing your journey further on into the Nelson region.


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Join our Strategy & Operations (S&O) team this summer to enhance your education and accelerate your career. As a Summer Associate, you ll work side by side with innovative and strategic thought leaders and stay ahead of the rapidly evolving world of business. You ll get the training to be confident and prepared to help tackle some of our clients most complex business issues. When you become a member of our team not only will you experience our supportive work culture, but you ll also receive first-hand insights into the day-to-day challenges and opportunities faced by our consultants.
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As a Summer Associate, you ll work with diverse global clients across a wide range of industries.You will have a variety of client-facing responsibilities such as analyzing issues, interviewing staff, formulating and making recommendations, and helping clients implement proposed solutions. During your time with us, you ll sharpen your consulting and networking skills by taking part in social outings, office-wide team meetings, and community service events.
Strategy and Operations Summer Associates will have the opportunity to work with a Deloitte team on activities such as the following:
Architect enterprise, customer and operating model strategies
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During this exciting and challenging learning experience, you ll gain first-hand insights into technical skills, critical professional behaviors, standards, and mindsets to help you expand on your previous experience, knowledge and skills. You ll work with a wide variety of talented strategic leaders and learn how to develop, implement, and measure innovative strategies, tackle real-world business issues head-on, and experience what it s like to be a part of our work culture.
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Whether it's continuing education classes, or competitions at food events, evidence of a growing interest in the nearly-lost art of animal butchery is all around us. Leave it to the folks at Schleich, the same forward-thinking German toy designers who brought us the Smurfs, to anticipate a child's curiosity in the burgeoning trend.
And leave it to the crack team of investigative reporters here at stuntfoodways.com to secure the first images of this secret new toy line. Made from the same highly detailed, quality casting that has made the toy line a favorite of deep-pocketed parents the world over, a new line, Primal Cuts, now offers kids a toy with all the classic primal cuts clearly delineated on the hide of a cow, pig and sheep.
The line (rumored to be expanding to lamb, chickens, ducks, turkeys, rabbits, goats and possibly a horse) encourages kids to identify the source of those cuts of meat they eat every day (below right).
An ambitious youngster can even use the clearly marked charts to memorize each cut (left).
We at Stunt Foodways cheer the progressive thinking of the good folks in Schwäbisch Gmünd who are working to make learning about the harvesting and butchery of animal protein fun. High quality cuts of meat have always been enjoyable; now, with the new Primal Cuts line of domesticated animals, meat can also be a game.
Of course, not everybody approves of the new line. British television personality, celebrity pin-up and Peta activist Jodie Marsh has responded to the new Primal Cuts toy line by (apparently) tattooing her naked body with a primal cuts chart. This dedicated act of protest was, in all likelihood, undertaken before elective surgery to greatly increase the size of her breasts
At press time neither Jodie Marsh nor her representative at Intrigue Management could be reached for comment, though Marsh, has been outspoken in support of the rights of food animals including chicken in the past.
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Related articles
- If I Were A Smurf (riggledo.com)
- What are the schleich animals coming out in 2011 (wiki.answers.com)


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Mame-cam dx, a tiny multipurpose digital camera from the Tokyo-based brand Thanko. The tiny camera weighs just 14g.
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Kori is a nice basket made by a pvc hosepipe and a lot of colored cable ties. By the Italian Zpstudio.
This beautiful limited edition bottle from Vichy Catalan 1881 shows how you can combine the best production possibilities of today, with great processes from the past.
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Microscopic Insect Photography by Steve Gschmeissner.
Gorgeous home in the Czech republic which embraces nature with its fanciful shape of a bird with wings extended.
Visp is a funny coathanger made of bent steel tube. Designed by Staffan Holm for Bla Station.
Illustrations by José Parra at Mister Onüff for Laken Bottles.
Australian Artist Petrina Hicks celebrates her latest exhibition Beautiful Creatures - which includes a 6-minute video involving flowers, a tongue and a lot of saliva!
Under the supervision of German curator Tobias Megerle, a dozen Mahim woodcarvers produced their own take on the traditional skateboard, the 'Mumbai skateboard'.
Pino, a fresh and colorful store from Finland, that sells unique, functional and innovative design objects. The concept comes from the name of the shop, which means a 'pile' or 'stack' in Finnish. Great interiors by Bond Creative Agency.
For his series Mirrors, photographer Tom Hussey paired images of elderly subjects with reflections of the 'younger versions' of themselves. The results were used in an award-winning ad campaign for an Alzheimer's drug.
Tian Tang's 'Come and Draw' kids drawing table is made for cultivating the artistic potential of little kids, but bigger kids can enjoy it, too.
Chris Perry's animation short Incident at Tower 37 [previewed in #32633] is now online in its entirety. Released yesterday to correspond with World Water Day, the film is beautifully executed with a chilling message.
VIDEOCute music video for The Jessica Stuart Few's track 'Kid Dream'. Each of the 2700 frames were traced in a different way by over 80 people, and the final result is a chaotic and energetic group impression. Directed by Evan DeRushie.
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Barry McGee's mural at Houston Street and Bowery, New York, 2010
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RISD student Elizabeth Moran creates windswept hoods shaped and molded from plastic.
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Paris's Gaîté Lyrique, a 19th century theater that has been converted to form a gallery for digital art by architect Manuelle Gautrand.
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Oswaldo Maciá uses the sense of smell to re-interpret 'Calumny' a lost painting by fourth century Greek artist Apelles, mentioned in Alberti's On Painting.
The blog of the Urban Traps Project, featuring Hipster Traps and Bridge & Tunnel Traps.
We visited the MADE studio in Berlin, and got a look at their incredible office and insight into how they work.
Food and art. Could there be a better pair? La Pedrera's exhibition hall offers a wide-ranging vision of the intimate relationship between art and food. The Art of Eating (L'Art del Menjar) – From Still Life to Ferran Adrià.
An interview with model turned illustrator Molly Crabapple, who runs the burlesque life-drawing class Dr Sketchy's Anti Art School.
The Architectural League gave its President's Medal to Lella and Massimo Vignelli earlier this month. Former Vignelli employee Michael Bierut designed the evening's program as a small fold-out with five different covers.
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David Choe's Red Moon for Japan, Faith 47's Freedom Charter, JR's Inside Out hits Tunisia and more.
With the e-MO, the french automotive company Matra has taken up the challenge to make the electric scooter democratic!
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Camilla d'Errico releases her newest piece, Black Rabbit Kaleidoscope. The 24x18" limited edition print is signed and numbered, with matching certificates of authenticity.
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A campaign consultant to Undersheriff JACK CAMPBELL's campaign for the Republican nomination for Sangamon County sheriff was charged in 2007 with stealing five pairs of sunglasses from Macy's in Springfield.
KIMBER BECKLER, originally charged with a felony, ended up pleading guilty to misdemeanor theft and was sentenced to two years' probation. She was dismissed from probation early on recommendation of her probation officer, AMELIA TRELLO, who reported she "abided by and performed all the conditions of supervision in an exemplary manner."
Campbell's campaign finance report for the final quarter of 2013 shows $8,000 in payments to Beckler, starting with $2,000 on Oct. 11.
Campbell said he wasn't aware of the past arrest until I asked about it, and he's keeping Beckler on his campaign after hearing her explanation that the incident involved "a sorority hazing ritual."
"I think it was poor judgment, and I think there's a lot of young people that have shown poor judgment, so I don't think it's anything unique to her," Campbell said. "It's not like she's had a lengthy criminal history. … I think everybody is deserving of a second chance."
Campbell said Beckler, who is now 28, was going to college in Missouri and "brought two sorority sisters home with her" and they "dared her to do this."
Beckler did not return telephone messages. I asked Campbell what college she had been attending and what sorority was involved.
"She has no further comment," he said. "I don't even know what college she graduated from. I do know she graduated from college."
"I do wish it wouldn't have happened," Campbell said. "But I also know that she's a very talented young lady and she's very good at what she does." He said she's handling the bulk of the campaign nuts-and-bolts work.
"She's done an awful lot of good," he added, saying she's worked on other campaigns and for the state.
He said he didn't get concerned about Beckler's background before as she was working at the state treasurer's office when he brought her on the campaign.
Beckler started with the office of Treasurer DAN RUTHERFORD in January 2011. She is taking a leave of absence as of Feb. 1 from that $36,000-a-year job in the unclaimed property division, but has been using vacation time to be out of the office, possibly since last week, said CATIE SHEEHAN, spokeswoman for Rutherford.
Sheehan said the initial background check done when Beckler was hired "didn't show this offense," but it was found in a subsequent check. Rutherford's chief of staff, KYLE HAM, and others talked with her, Sheehan said, and they "decided to move forward" and keep her on staff.
"She was young when it happened," Sheehan said.
State campaign finance records show that among other campaign work Beckler has done in the past was for the Illinois Republican Party, the Republican State Senate Campaign Committee, state Sen. Bill Brady's Senate campaign in 2011, state Sen. Kirk Dillard's 2010 campaign for governor and Springfield Ward 9 Ald. Steve Dove's campaign for state Senate in 2012.
Rutherford, Brady and Dillard, of course, are all running for this year's nomination for governor.
Campbell is running for the GOP nomination for sheriff against retired Lt. WES BARR. Democrat JEFF REGAN is running as a write-in candidate in his party's March 18 primary.
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In a conference call with reporters this week, U.S. Rep. RODNEY DAVIS, R-Taylorville, had high praise for the proposed new five-year farm bill, but took a swipe at Democratic Gov. PAT QUINN in the process.
Davis said the bill would cut $23 billion in spending, strengthen crop insurance and end direct payments, which have been based on acreage.
The bill, which passed the House 251-166 on Wednesday, also will cut $8 billion from the food stamp program, which is formally the Supplemental Nutrition Assistant Program, or SNAP. That's more of a cut than some Democrats wanted, and less of one than some Republicans wanted.
Davis said he likes a work or training requirement for certain adults — including able-bodied people with no dependent children who are not enrolled in school or a training program — to get the benefits. But in the bill, he said, it will be a pilot project in only 10 states. A reporter asked Davis if Illinois would be one of the 10.
"I doubt Illinois would apply because it actually would include having to come up with a work requirement," Davis said. "I don't think Pat Quinn's got the 'cahunas' to want to make the application."
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Despite his pronunciation, Davis spokesman ANDREW FLACH confirmed that the congressman was talking about cojones. That happens to be a Spanish word that Dictionary.com notes is sometimes vulgar and means testicles.
DAVE BLANCHETTE, spokesman for Quinn, said later that the office declines to respond directly to inappropriate remarks. He did say the state probably would not apply because the federal program "offers no latitude."
"Some of the proposed programs would not even let someone participate in SNAP if they were not already in an education or work or training activity," Blanchette said.
But, Blanchette added, Illinois SNAP recipients like those discussed by Davis are required to participate in school or approved work or training to continue receiving the benefits.
"If they are not yet engaged in these activities, we work with these individuals and assist them in finding work and training activities," Blanchette said. "If they fail to comply, they do not receive benefits."
Blanchette said that after assistance is approved for an individual, the Department of Human Services calls them in for an appointment and assigns them an activity if they do not already have one. He said that happens "as soon as possible" after initial approval.
Davis was the only lawmaker from Illinois on the farm bill conference committee.
Remembering Schlickman
Condolences to friends and family of former state Rep. GENE SCHLICKMAN, a Republican who served 16 years in the House after being an Arlington Heights trustee.
Schlickman, who lived in Indiana in recent years, died Jan. 23. He was 84.
He had ailments including Parkinson's, the Daily Herald reported. Among issues he championed were prison reform and disability rights, and he was a voracious reader, the newspaper said.
A lawyer, he was first elected to the House in 1964, and when he decided not to run again, he encouraged BOB KUSTRA — who would go on to become Illinois lieutenant governor and is now president of Boise State University in Idaho — to seek the seat.
"Gene Schlickman was a man of great integrity who stood for transparency in government and honesty in its public servants," Kustra said. "He was a role model for anyone running for public office today, and his service to the people of Illinois should be memorialized."
BILL BARNHART, a former Chicago Tribune reporter, worked with Schlickman to co-author biographies of former Gov. OTTO KERNER and former U.S. Supreme Court Justice JOHN PAUL STEPHENS.
Barnhart said Schlickman was an independent Republican who had "an excellent ability to attract adherents."
"He was perpetually upbeat," Barnhart added, and said that Schlickman was also a "steadfast legislature supporter of the Catholic church in Illinois."
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Checklist of Kansas Ants
by Mark DuBois
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Checklist of Kansas Ants
by Mark DuBois
Ants represent one of the more successful groups of terrestrial animals. At any given moment, scientists estimate there are approximately 10 (23) (100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) individual living ants (Wilson, 1971). Ants occur from north of the Arctic Circle to Tierra del Fuego; most species are found in tropical areas with numbers of species decreasing with increasing latitude.
Over 8,000 species of ants have been formally described. Scientists estimate there may be as many as 20,000 species (thus, more species of ants than birds).
All ants belong to the family Formicidae in the insect order Hymenoptera (which includes ants, bees, and wasps). Ants can be separated form other insects by a combination of features. All ants are social; their societies consist of one or more queens and sterile female workers who cooperate in the care of the next generation. Immature ants are nearly immobile and depend upon workers to provide food and protection. In some species, worker ants can be divided into larger (major) and smaller (minor) workers (figure 12). Males die shortly after mating with the queen. Other insects are social (for example, termites, some bees, and some wasps), but ants differ from these groups by having both elbowed antennae (figure B) and a constriction with swelling(s) in the first few abdominal segments (figure 1 and 2).
Ants often modify their local habitat in their favor. As you travel the plains of western Kansas, conical, gravel-covered mounds of one species of harvester ant, Pogonomyrmex occidentalis, are a common sight. Does the density of mounds appear higher near roadways and railroad beds than in areas less disturbed by humans? Perhaps limited rainfall concentrates near these disturbances providing softer soil for queens to establish new colonies. Food, such as plant seeds, may collect near these areas. Maybe the differences in density are an illusion. Perhaps an astute reader will settle this question. There are many such questions awaiting answers regained ants and their biology.
Several species construct mounds in Kansas (Formica subsericea, Formica montana, and Formica planipilis are examples). Mounds were originally a means of disposing of excavated soil. Some ant species now modify mounds to assist in temperature regulation. A mound collects more radiant energy than a flat area of the same size, particularly in early morning and late afternoon. Some mounds are riddled with chambers throughout which the developing young are moved to assure optimum temperatures for their development. Under conditions of extreme heat, cold, or drought, most ants retreat deep into the soil where more moderate temperature and humidity persists.
Readers will note that scientific names are used throughout this publication as most species of ants lack common names. See also "Scientific Names, Common Names" KSN Vol. 37, No. 1, Oct. 1990.
From 1977 through 1981, I attempted to document the distribution of ants in Kansas. Members of the State Biological Survey of Kansas provided valuable assistance. All 105 counties were visited to collect ants. Results of this study were published separately for research entomologists (DuBois, 1985; DuBois and Danoff-Burg, in prep.; DuBois, in prep.). This publication is intended to aid teachers and students who encounter ants in Kansas. Those wishing additional details should consult the above references, or contact me directly.
The following list summarizes those species which have been confirmed within the boundaries of the state of Kansas. Those marked with an asterisk (*) were not personally collected, but valid records exist in various museums. Those marked with an (I) are introduced tropical species.
FAMILY FORMICIDAE (ants)
Subfamily Ponerinae
Ponerine ants are typically arthropod predators. Most colonies in Kansas are small (less than 100 individuals). Only Hypoponera opacior is found statewide. That species and Ponera pennsylvanica are the two species most likely encountered in this subfamily.
1. Amblyopone pallipes (Haldeman) 1844 [figures A and B, centerfold pages 8-9].
2. Hypoponera opacior (Forel) 1893.
3. Hypoponera sp. possibly a new species, see DuBois, 1985.
4. Ponera pennsylvanica Buckley 1866 [figure 7].
5. Proceratium pergandei Emery 1895.
6. Proceratium silaceum Roger 1863.
Figures 1-7 (facing page). Pictorial key to ant subfamilies in Kansas. It is unlikely you will encounter subfamily Ecitoninae. Some small Myrmicinae may be confused with this subfamily as they also have small eyes (for example, Solenopsis). However, these have an antennal "club" formed an enlargement of, at least, the ultimate and penultimate segments. Ecitoniane lack this antennal club. All Figures represent lateral views of ants (unless noted) with sculpture, pilosity, and majority of legs omitted.
Figure 1. Camponotus pennsylvanicus, Butler Co. (336 colonies of Camponotus collected). a = Circlet of microsetae always present in Formicinae.
Figure 2. Pogonomyrmex occidentalis, Hodgeman Co. (288 colonies of Pogonomyrmex collected). b = Sting usually visible in Myrmicinae and Ecitoninae.
Figure 3. Camponotus pennsylvanicus, Butler Co., head, full face view.
Figure 4. Neivamyrmex nigrescens, Marshall Co., (30 colonies of Neivamyrmex collected).
Figures 5 and 6. Forelius pruinosus analis, Hamilton Co. (212 colonies of Forelius collected). Figure 6 head, full face view.
Figure 7. Ponera pennsylvanica, Douglas Co. (69 colonies of Ponera collected). c = Construction always visible in Ponerinae.
Subfamily Ecitoninae
Ecitonine ants are commonly called army ants. They feed exclusively on living prey (usually other ants) encountered during their raids. Colonies can become large, containing thousands of workers. These ants are usually encountered by chance since they shun direct sunlight. Two species Neivamyrmex nigrescens and Neivamyrmex opacithorax are most likely encountered in the subfamily.
7. Neivamyrmex carolinensis (Emery) 1894.
*8. Neivamyrmex fallax Borgmeier 1953.
*9. Neivamyrmex fuscipennis (Wheeler) 1908.
10. Neivamyrmex minor (Cresson) 1872.
11. Neivamyrmex nigrescens (Cresson) 1872 [figure 4].
12. Neivamyrmex opacithorax (Emery) 1894.
Subfamily Myrmicinae
Myrmicinae ants are most commonly encountered in Kansas. They have a diverse variety of habits (the harvester ants discussed previously belong to this subfamily). Crematogaster punctulata and Monomorium minimum are the two most common species on a statewide basis; many others are locally abundant.
13. Aphaenogaster fulva Roger 1863.
14. Aphaenogaster mariae Forel 1886.
15. Aphaenogaster rudis (Emery) 1895.
16. Aphaenogaster tennesseensis (Mayr) 1862 [figure 8, below].
17. Aphaenogaster texana (Emery) 1895.
18. Aphaenogaster treatae pluteicornis Wheeler and Wheeler 1934.
19. Crematogaster ashmeadi Mayr 1886.
20. Crematogaster cerasi (Fitch) 1854.
Figure 8. Aphaenogaster tennesseensis, Douglas Co. (191 colonies of Aphaenogaster collected).
Figure 9. Crematogaster punctulata, Douglas Co. (619 colonies of Crematogaster collected).
21. Crematogaster clara Mayr 1870.
22. Crematogaster laeviuscula Mayr 1870.
23. Crematogaster lineolata (Say) 1836.
24. Crematogaster minutissima missouriensis Emery 1895.
25. Crematogaster punctulata Emery 1895 [figure 9, above].
26. Harpagoxenus americanus (Emery) 1895.
27. Leptothorax ambiguus Emery 1895.
28. Leptothorax curvispinosus Mayr 1866 [figure 10, below].
29. Leptothorax pergandei Emery 1895.
30. Leptothorax schaumi Roger 1863.
31. Leptothorax tricarinatus Emery 1895.
32. Monomorium minimum (Buckley) 1866 [figure 11, page 10].
*I 33. Monomorium pharaonis (Linnaeus) 1758.
34. Myrmecina americana Emery 1895.
35. Myrmica AmericanaWeber 1939.
36. Myrmica punctiventris Roger 1863.
Figure 10. Leptothorax curvispinosus, Douglas Co. (153 colonies of Leptothorax collected).
Figures A and B. Amblyopone pallipes, Douglas Co. (7 colonies of Amblyopone collected). Terms frequently encountered in ant literature.
C = Coxa (remainder of legs omitted; ants have same leg segments as other insects).
E = Compound eye (worker ants lack ocelli).
F = Funiculus (all antennal segments except scape).
G = Gena (cheek).
M = Mandible.
N = Pronotum.
O = Occiput (area near top of head, more properly called occipital vertex).
P = Petiole (if followed by a similar segment, subsequent segment is called postpetiole).
Pr = Propodeum (the first segment of the abdomen, but appears to be part of the "thorax" called alitrunk in ants).
Ps = Propodeal spiracle.
S = Sternite (the abdomen is called gaster in ants, see propodeum above).
Sc = Scape (first segment of antenna, always elongated in ants).
St = Sting (found only in Ponerinae, Ecitoninae, and Myrmicinae).
T = Tergite (upper plate vs lower plate or sternite).
Figure 11. Monomorium minimum, Douglas Co. (265 colonies of Monomorium collected).
37. Pheidole bicarinata Mayr 1870 [figure 12, below].
38. Pheidole dentata Mayr 1886.
39. Pheidole desertorum Wheeler 1906.
40. Pheidole pilifera coloradensis Emery 1895.
41. Pheidole pilifera pilifera (Roger) 1863.
42. Pheidole senex Gregg 1952.
43. Pheidole sitarches campestris Wheeler 1908.
Figure 12. Pheidole bicarinata, Douglas Co. (219 colonies of Pheidole collected). Note differences between major and minor workers which usually occur in the same nest.
Figure 13. Solenopsis molesta, Douglas Co. (126 colonies of Solenopsis collected).
*44. Pogonomyrmex apache Wheeler 1902.
45. Pogonomyrmex barbatus (F. Smith) 1858.
46. Pogonomyrmex comanche Wheeler 1902.
47. Pogonomyrmex maricopa Wheeler 1914.
48. Pogonomyrmex occidentalis (Cresson) 1865 [figure 2].
49. Pogonomyrmex rugosus Emery 1895.
50. Smithistruma dietrichi (M. Smith) 1931.
51. Smithistruma laevinasis (M. Smith) 1931.
52. Smithistruma ohioensis (Kennedy and Schramm) 1933.
53. Smithistruma pilinasis (Forel) 1901.
54. Smithistruma pulchella (Emery) 1895.
55. Smithistruma reflexa (Wesson and Wesson) 1939.
56. Solenopsis molesta (Say) 1836 [figure 13, above].
57. Solenopsis texana Emery 1895.
58. Solenopsis xyloni McCook 1879.
*59. Stenamma brevicorne (Mayr) 1886.
60. Trachymyrmex septentrionalis (McCook) 1880.
Figure 14. Dorymyrmex flavus, Hamilton Co. (145 colonies of Dorymyrmex collected).
Figure 15. Tapinoma sessile, Ellis Co. (148 colonies of Tapinoma collected).
Subfamily Dolichoderinae
Dolichoderinae ants are frequently encountered in Kansas. Most species are scavengers. Colonies are usually moderate in size (several hundred to several thousand individuals). These ants are often locally abundant and may be the only species encountered in the harsher environments in the state. Dorymyrmex insana and Forelius pruinosus are the two species most commonly encountered in Kansas.
61. Dolichoderus mariae Forel 1885.
62. Dorymyrmex flavus McCook 1879 [figure 14, page 11].
63. Dorymyrmex insanus (Buckley) 1866.
64. Forelius Maccooki (Forel) 1886.
65. Forelius pruinosus analis (Andre) 1893 [figures 5 and 6].
I 66. Tapinoma melanocephalum (Fabricius) 1793.
67. Tapinoma sessile (Say) 1836 [figure 15, above].
Subfamily Formicinae
Formicinae ants are abundant in Kansas, second only to myrmicine ants. Many species feed on the sweet excretions of other insects (such as aphids and scale insects). Colonies can contain several thousand individuals. Members of the genus Formica often build conspicuous mounds. Species within the genera Camponotus and Formica are the most common fomicine ants in Kansas.
68. Acanthomyops claviger (Roger) 1862.
69. Acanthomyops interjectus (Mayr) 1866.
*70. Acanthomyops latipes (Walsh) 1862.
71. Brachymyrmex depilis Emery 1893.
Figure 16. Formica pallidefulva, Johnson Co. (371 colonies of Formica collected).
72. Camponotus americanus Mayr 1862.
73. Camponotus caryae (Fitch) 1855.
74. Camponotus castaneus (Latreille) 1802.
75. Camponotus decipiens Emery 1893.
76. Camponotus discolor (Buckley) 1866.
77. Camponotus ferrugineus (Fabricius) 1798.
78. Camponotus impressus (Roger) 1863.
79. Camponotus nearcticus Emery 1893.
80. Camponotus pennsylvanicus (DeGeer) 1773 [figures 1 and 3].
81. Camponotus sayi Emery 1894.
82. Camponotus vicinus Mayr 1870.
83. Formica bradleyi Wheeler 1913.
84. Formica canadensis Santschi 1913.
85. Formica emeryi Wheeler 1913.
*86. Formica exsectoides Forel 1886.
87. Formica montana Emery 1893.
89. Formica neogagates Emery 1893.
90. Formica neorufibarbis Emery 1893.
91. Formica nitidiventrisEmery 1893.
92. Formica pallidefulva Latreille 1802 [figure 16].
93. Formica perpilosa Wheeler 1902.
94. Formica planipilis Creighton 1940.
95. Formica schaufussi dolosa Wheeler 1912.
96. Formica subintegra Emery 1893.
97. Formica subsericea Say 1836.
98. Lasius alienus (Foerster) 1850 [figure 17].
99. Lasius flavus (Fabricius) 1781.
100. Lasius neoniger Emery 1893.
Figure 17. Lasius alienus, Johnson Co. (289 colonies of Lasius collected).
101. Lasius speculiventris Emery 1893.
102. Lasius umbratus (Nylander) 1846.
103. Myrmeceocystus mimicus Wheeler 1908.
104. Myrmeceocystus navajo Wheeler 1908.
105. Myrmeceocystus romainei Cole 1936.
106. Paratrechina parvula (Wheeler) 1905.
107. Paratrechina parvula (Mayr) 1870.
108. Paratrechina terricola (Buckley) 1866.
109. Paratrechina vividula (Nylander) 1846.
110. Polyergus breviceps Emery 1893.
111. Prenolepis imparis (Say) 1836 [figure 18].
Figure 18. Prenolepis imparis, Douglas Co. (113 colonies of Prenolepis collected).
Where to Find Ants:Ants are easiest to collect during warmer months when they are active and their movements are more easily observed. Since ant nests are found in diverse terrestrial locations, it is wise to visit as many habitats as possible. Many nests are found in soil, particularly under rocks or near plants. Some species prefer to live in preformed plant cavities (such as hollow stems, or last year's walnuts or acorns). Often, nests are found in leaf litter (particularly where it collects in sheltered places). Other ants are only found in rotten logs.
Collecting Equipment:An aspirator or forceps (available from various biological supply houses) is needed to collect ants. I prefer the blow-type aspirator to avoid inhaling spores and dust along with noxious defensive chemicals of some ants. I do not recommend collecting ants with bare hands. Smaller specimens are easily crushed and some larger specimens can bite or deliver a painful sting. Each nest of anapest collected should be placed in a separate vial containing alcohol (either ethanol or isopropanol). I require 15 to 20 vials on short excursions. A garden trowel or small spade is helpful for excavating nests. After collecting, always replace the disturbed material. A field notebook should be used to record specific locality (including distance and direction from nearest city), date of collection, and collector. Information should also be written in indelible ink (or pencil) and placed in each vial. Other useful information includes habitat description, nest description, air and soil temperature, and current weather conditions.
Since many nests in a given area may look similar, several should be examined to determine if multiple species are present. Several "parasitic" ant species (such as Harpagoxenus americanus or Polyergus breviceps) may be present in a few nests. The odds of encountering such species by opening one nest are quite small.
I recommend pinning a small sample (3 to 6 individuals) from each vial and retaining the rest in alcohol (immature stages should never be pinned). Always use paper points and glue the ants to the edge. Insect pins and points can be obtained from biological supply houses. Refer to "Making an Insect Collection" KSN Vol. 35, No. 1, Oct. 1988 (page 4). I usually include a unique cross reference number between each vial and corresponding samples.
Based upon my study of the ants of Kansas, I determined the species most frequently encountered. These are listed along with the number of collections (nests) for each species. Over 3,700 nests were sampled.
Crematogaster punctulata (317)
Monomorium minimum (265)
Forelius pruinosus (206)
Lasius neoniger (185)
Over 50,000 ants were collected during the course of this study. Of that total, the following were the species with the highest number of individuals collected.
Monomorium minimum (8,250)
Crematogaster punctulata (265)
Forelius pruinosus analis (3,057)
Pogonomyrmex occidentalis (2,607)
Based on the above numbers, I believe the first three species are the most common and most abundant ant species across the state of Kansas.
For More Information
DuBois, M.B. 1985. Distribution of ants in Kansas: Subfamilies Ponerinae, Ecitoninae, and Myrmicinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Sociobiol 11(2): 153-187.
DuBois, MB (in prep.). Biodiversity of ants in Kansas.
DuBois, MB and J. Danoff-Burg (in prep.). Distribution of ants in Kansas: Subfamilies Dolichoderinae and Formicinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae).
DuBois, MB and W.E. LaBerge. 1988. Annotated list of ants in Illinois (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). In J.C. Trager, ed., Advances in Myrmecology, pp. 133-156. E.J. Brill, New York, New York.
Gregg, R.E. 1963. The ants of Colorado. Univ. Colorado Press, Boulder. 792 pp.
Holldobler, B. and E.O. Wilson. 1990. The ants. Belknap Press of Harvard Univ. Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts. xii + 732 pp.
Ross, H.H., G. L. Rotramel, and W.E. LaBerge. 1971. A synopsis of common and economic Illinois ants, with keys to the genera (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Illinois Nat. Hist. Surv. Biol. Notes 71: 1-22.
Shattuck, S.O. 1992. Generic revision of the ant subfamily Dolichoderinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Sociobiol. 21(1) 1-181.
Wheeler, G.C. and J. Wheeler. 1963. The ants of North Dakota. Univ. North Dakota Press, Grand Forks. 326 pp.
Wheeler, W.M. 1910. Ants: Their structure, development and behavior. Columbia Univ. Press, New York. xxv + 663 pp.
Wilson, E.O. 1971. The insect societies. Belknap Press of Harvard Univ. Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts. x + 548 pp.
Wilson, E.o. 1992. The diversity of life. Belknap Press of Harvard Univ. Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 424 pp.
Young, J. and D. Howell. 1964. Ants of Oklahoma. Oklahoma State Univ. Exp. Sta.
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Matt Slingerland can cut it. And he can chop, saw, and do most anything else you can think of when it comes to hacking into tree stumps, blocks, and other large hunks of wood.
Matt comes by his talent honestly. His father, Mike, is a 24-time world titlist in various logging, or timbersports, disciplines. Not only that, Matt's mom, Barbara, has also competed at the highest levels of the sport and still takes on the occasional challenge with her husband in so-called Jack-and-Jill competitions. Matt's twin brother and younger sister also compete.
Notable, too, all in the family have been remarkably injury-free despite years of muscling mighty saws, axes, and chain saws at high speeds. Credit a self-pronounced fanaticism for safety as well as chain-link socks and shinguards.
Now Matt, the slight younger Slingerland, who stands 6-foot-1 and weighs 160 pounds, may soon wield the biggest ax on campus despite having just wrapped up his junior year of high school. Later this month, he'll battle for the college championship in a nationally televised competition. "I'm expecting to be the smallest person there," Matt says, smiling. "And the youngest."
He'll be giving up as much as 90 pounds to competitors. Matt, 17, enrolled in a class and joined the woodsmen's team of a nearby community college in an attempt to qualify for one of six spots in the Collegiate Series Championship on June 28-29 in Columbus, Ga. He did, clinching a spot in the national championship in April.
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Matt is part of a sawdust-savvy movement making its way across the nation. They haven't quite made bowl games and March Madness brackets passé, but so-called woodsmen's teams are gaining popularity on college campuses in every region. The buzz saw leading the way is TV. Organizers of the STIHL Timbersports professional tour, created and backed by the chain saw company in 1985, hoped to generate new interest in the sport several years ago. Although ESPN has covered the competitions for more than two decades, backers wanted to ensure a steady infusion of new talent. Their solution: A collegiate series, aimed at developing up-and-comers for the big tour.
Collegiate lumberjacks aren't on scholarship or part of the NCAA. Instead, they represent club teams, with many of the participants majoring in forestry and related subjects. When the college circuit began in 2004, 28 schools competed; this year, 52 colleges participated in five regional championships. The five winners, plus a wild-card entry, make up the six-man championship field, including Matt.
"It's got the perfect storm of skills and interests," says Don Quigley, professor of forest technology at Granite State University in New Hampshire and founder of a company that produces timbersports competitions. "You've got forestry and land conservation and all of these things that college kids are really interested in. Plus, it's a different kind of athletic outlet."
On a recent, muggy Sunday afternoon, Matt heads into his backyard for another workout. He begins with an event not included in the collegiate championships: the ax toss. It serves as a warm-up and entails just what you might think: throwing an ax at a bull's-eye target on a stump 20 feet away.
From there, it's on to his three events: standing on a stump and hacking it into oblivion from two sides with an ax, making a precision cut on a tree with speed and dexterity using a chain saw, and, finally, arm-pumping a massive bucksaw through a 19-inch-diameter tree slab.
Mr. Slingerland coaches with a practiced but affectionate eye. He offers quiet pointers and reminders. Just as a golfer or baseball player would do, Matt works on everything from technique to speed. He chips away at a stump, aiming to perfect his mechanics with a 26-swing session: 13 cuts on the front, 13 on the back, with a goal of finishing in 26 seconds. Matt often does 10 of these sets a day.
"He's a joy to coach," his dad says. "I wanted him to be self-motivated and he is."
The Slingerlands have made friends with regional mills and loggers in a never-ending quest to secure free or cheap wood chunks suitable for the hours of daily practice required to hone the quick, precise cuts.
Moments later, Matt fires up a high-powered chain saw and begins a new round of cuts. After making his first incision, Matt tells his father that an army of fire ants is lingering near his cutting station. His dad grins. "Go fast, then!"
Matt polices himself, eager to put in the tedious practice sessions essential for competitive success, Mike says. New neighbors usually pay at least one curiosity visit, with the same question, says Barbara Slingerland. "Why do you do this?"
Matt hopes to turn timbersports into a fulltime living by the time he's done with college. He's humble, but confident. Was he surprised to wind up in the hunt for the national championship his first time out? Not really. "I trained for it for quite a while," Matt says. "So I was hoping on it, planning on it."
Matt, who lives a short distance from the formerly rural textile village that spawned NASCAR legend Dale Earnhardt, remains a bit of a novelty in his sparsely populated hometown. Some friends and classmates are intrigued by the unusualness of the sport, asking to come over for backyard demonstrations. Others are baffled. "A lot of them don't have a clue and they say, 'Oh, you just chop down trees,' " Matt says.
Other genre stereotypes persist: that Matt should be wearing red-plaid flannel at all times, that he should eat pancakes at every meal. To be fair, few classmates expect him to have a blue ox named Babe, though the notion of Matt on a package of Brawny paper towels might satisfy.
Matt, who also plays high school basketball and baseball, often trains several hours a day, from weight lifting to sawing and chopping logs. During baseball season, he believes his constant ax-swinging feeds his bat speed at the plate.
And while football stars still get their share of cheerleaders, so, too, does the fledgling timbersports star. Matt's girlfriend is, yes, captain of the high school cheerleader squad. Alas, no bands, cheerleaders, or pep squads adorn the woods where college lumberjacks compete – yet.
If you're wondering where academic life fits into all this, worry not. Matt's on the honor roll.
• • •
Lumberjacking in the Slingerland family is similar to what football is to the Mannings. Matt's grandfather became a champion in the sport after a town celebration in 1972 led the elder Slingerland into an impromptu wood-chopping competition. He trained for a few weeks and wound up defeating a pro in his first attempt.
From then on, he was hooked – and would go on to make handcrafted lumberjack equipment while molding his son, Mike, into a championship-caliber performer.
Raised in upstate New York, Mike Slingerland met Barbara in college. During graduate school, while living in Brooklyn, their tiny rental included a small area where Mike practiced chopping and cutting. The neighbors were baffled.
The Slingerlands moved to North Carolina in 1990 for work. He's a pediatric rehab therapist and she's a speech therapist. As his story illustrates, most professionals competing in timbersports must also work full-time day jobs to support their habits. Winning enough to defray expenses for travel and equipment means success for many in the sport.
Matt professes a desire to follow in his father's flannel-free footsteps. "You didn't say you wanted to do what I've done," Mike Slingerland says, grinning at his prodigy. "You said you wanted to do it better."
Matt offers full agreement – with a grin and a nod.


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It happened about five or six weeks after I first became intrigued about what I could find online on my ancestors. Until that point, I just barely knew the names of my grandparents; I knew nothing else about my ancestors except for a couple of comments and stories I had heard from my parents.
There was no death of a close relative to jar/inspire/scare me into considering family research. As a matter of fact, both of my parents and all but one of my aunts and uncles had already passed away. Not even that sad fact could force me to realize how important it was to learn about my family's history. Though I do love the "detective experience" rush, it was the shock of the close personal connection I felt that cemented the deal. The "find" was a burst of fireworks, but the relationship was no less intense for being long-lasting. If you think that this sounds like falling in love, it was a little bit like that.
It wasn't just putting cousin bait out there that prompted me to start blogging about genealogy; it was that I just had to share this incredible experience with others who understood, really understood, what it feels like to find a previously unknown ancestor. And when Lynn Palermo issued the challenge ("The Moment You Knew") at The Armchair Genealogist to identify the moment when I knew that I had to research my family history, I had to respond (despite the fact that I have written about this before in "The Happy Dance: Getting Hooked on Genealogy").
The odd thing was, the experience was more intense for some ancestors than others. Other genea-bloggers have written about this phenomenon. In my experience, it was not necessarily that I identified more with some ancestors than with others. It was that I felt a particular claim to an ancestor because I had "found" that ancestor - found in the sense that none of the relatives I knew while I was growing up knew this ancestor, and any distant cousins who did know of this ancestor's existence did not know of his or her connection to my family. If I did find a known ancestor but learned new information, then I felt that much closer. And I feel close to my "dead-end branch" ancestors as well, because I intend to find their families.
From the brief flush of discovery to the more sustained feeling of connection, the experience continues to be the lure that will keep me looking for ancestors until my fingers are too arthritic to type, my eyes are to clouded to make out those old documents, and my mind is too mushy to put the genealogical evidence together.
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You have put into words what I've felt so many times. The shock of the close personal connection and the deep abiding respect and appreciation for my ancestors and their lives has been amazing.ReplyDelete
I so know what you mean by the experience being more intense for some than others. A photo will really send me to the ends of the earth for their life story.
Great post and I'm with you...let's keep looking til the mush-mind sets in...I hope to have a decendent to take over by then...how about you?
Greta, your post made me stop and think. I never consider my self a genealogist, but I know that feeling of which your wrote. For me, it is when I gather enough enformation that I begin toe "flesh out" the bare bones of my research --- that's when that ancestor, or even an ancestors's friend become real to me --- like a newly found friend. Thanks for putting words to the feeling.ReplyDelete
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CTG - I am working on my older daughter; she is somewhat interested already but busy with college studies. However, after she finishes college and graduate school, I'm going to try to lure her into researching with me.ReplyDelete
Joan - I wish that I had your gift for bringing people alive on the page, because I think that would be a way I could do justice to the ancestors that I become attached to.
dee - So glad to know someone else feels the same way and with the same intensity!
What every one else has already said, ditto the feeling here. Great post. My kids are young but I am hoping I can get my oldest to get into family history. He seems open to it.ReplyDelete


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County commissioners approved a $23.3 million budget for 2015 Monday, increasing budget authority while holding the line on taxes as a result of increased property valuations.
Proposed departmental budgets were scrutinized at several prior meetings, but commissioner Randy Dallke wanted answers to some questions before the vote was cast.
Dallke wanted to clarify county funding for Families and Communities Together (FACT) that was removed from the health department budget by director Diedre Serene.
"She did not budget for us to donate to that," Dallke said. "I know we can dig it up out of other places."
"There's plenty of room for that in the health fund," certified public accountant Scot Loyd said.
"Yeah, but that's not the way the health director sees it," Dallke said.
"There's plenty of cash in there," Loyd said.
Commissioner Dan Holub explained Serene's intent to free the $6,000 allocation to FACT for other department priorities, as well as her desire that for 2015 the allocation come from the general fund.
"If you have the levy set, that you can't change, but total expenditures are all you're looking at. If those departments within there had certain things that need to be moved within that, you can do that," Loyd said.
Dallke then raised a concern about pay raises for department heads.
"Some department heads budgeted a raise for themselves," Dallke said.
"If we go ahead and approve the budget, I don't want my department heads to think they've got an automatic raise."
"That's a discussion we haven't had yet," Holub said.
Loyd said passing the budget only provided room for raises if commissioners decided to grant them at a later date.
Holub and Dallke voted to approve the budget. Commission chair Roger Fleming was absent.
The budget sets the maximum legal limit for county expenditures, but in recent years actual expenditures haven't reached the limit. The 2013 budget approved a ceiling of $18.2 million for net expenditures, but actual net expenses were $11.4 million.
The 2014 budget for Marion County Park and Lake was changed from $245,513 to $319,108 to reflect the purchase of a tractor and current figures not available when the original budget was passed.
County Clerk Tina Spencer also told commissioners that interviews with four candidates for the emergency medical services director position are scheduled for early September.