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This beautiful giant red-winged grasshopper (Tropidacris cristata) was in Cockscomb wildlife preserve, though I also saw it in other places in Belize, as well as across the border in Guatemala.
In several places I saw it gathered together in groups and this, together with its bright colors, suggests that it's toxic. If an inexperienced predator does eat one of them then it will quickly learn its lesson and avoid all animals with this color pattern, including the other ones in the immediate vicinity. This is an example of "aposematic" coloration as a defense mechanism, a very common occurrence in nature.
This is a member of the skipper butterfly family (Hesperiidae), photographed in the Cockscomb jaguar reserve.
In temperate regions of the world almost all skippers are dull brown or yellowish-brown, but some of the tropical species like this one are quite spectacular. The undersides of this one's wings are typically brown, but the tops of its wings and body have beautiful iridescent hues, caused by the shapes of the tiny scales covering its surface, rather than by pigmentation.
Dragonflies and damselflies spend the early part of their lives underwater as voracious predators, eating other bugs and even small fish and tadpoles. This was the first time I've ever seen them completing their metamorphosis, and I saw not just one but four in this one night at Rio Blanco national park.
The newly emerged dragonfly which is standing on the moulted shell of the aquatic animal it used to be. It has spread its wings and is waiting for them to dry and harden, so it can start its aerial life when the sun comes up.
Emergence is a dangerous time for dragonflies because there are many things which can go wrong while it is getting its wings ready for flight. If it's windy or it rains then the soft wings can be damaged and the dragonfly will be unable to fly, making it an easy picking at dawn for any bird which finds it.
Most dragonflies develop their color over a period of time, so this dull-looking newly emerged individual might end up bright red or green.
A firefly sits on a leaf in Belize's Cockscomb jaguar reserve.
You can see the pale yellow light-emitting organ at the back of its body, which combines an enzyme called luciferase with pigments called luciferins in the presence of oxygen and ATP to create a flashing yellow light. Unlike human lightbulbs, this is a cold light without any infrared or ultraviolet wavelengths.
There are over 2000 species of firefly scattered around the world, but despite their name they're beetles and not flies. Fireflies are not the only type of beetle which emit light, some net-winged beetle larvae also do this trick, and this species of firefly shares its forest with a bioluminescent click beetle.
This comical looking insect with antennae poking out halfway along its long mouthparts is a type of beetle called a weevil, photographed in the Cockscomb jaguar reserve.
There are more insects in the world than any other type of animal, more beetles in the world than any other type of insect, and more weevils in the world than any other type of beetle. About 40% of the 900000 known insect species are beetles, and there are about 60000 species of weevils, making them more numerous than any other family of animal. By comparison there are only 28000 fish, 10000 birds, 8200 reptiles and 5400 mammals.
A beetle prepares to launch itself into flight in Cockscomb national park in Belize.
Beetles all belong to an order of insects with the name Coleoptera, a Greek word which means "sheathed wings". The front pair of wings has become hard and is no longer used for flying, instead being used as a cover for the rear wings, which generate all the lift for flight. This protects the wings and body, but at a cost. The front wings, or elytra, have to be held out of the way during flight and act as drag, making it harder to fly. The rear wings have to be folded and unfolded for flight, which can be a very complicated and lengthy exercise, sometimes requiring the beetle to use its feet and abdomen to make it happen. This procedure also makes it much harder for the beetle to escape quickly when threatened.
The two ants in this photo differ greatly in size, but they belong to the same species of leafcutter ant.
Leafcutter ant colonies contain five different sizes of ant, starting with the smallest ones called minims, which stay inside the nest and take care of the larvae and the fungus gardens the ants cultivate. The next size up are called minors, they're slightly larger than minims and they ride around on leaves being brought into the nest or walk around the cleared foraging paths, looking for any parasitic wasps or other enemies which might threaten the foragers. The ant on the left of this photo might be a minor, otherwise it's a mediae, the workers who do almost all of the cutting and hauling of leaves from the trees to the nest. The ant on the right is a major, also called a soldier, though they do sometimes help to haul larger items to the nest. Some can reach two thirds of an inch in length, and their large jaws can inflict painful bites, however unlike some other ants they don't have toxic stings.
A mother scorpion carries about 20 of her babies around on her back, with pincers and stingers ready to defend them.
Before I disturbed it, this scorpion was making itself comfortable under a pillow in the bunkroom at the Rio Blanco national park headquarters, where I was spending the night. The building is a great place for wildlife lovers, since it has in-house attractions like this scorpion, as well as several bats.
Here's another critter I spent the night with at park headquarters, but this one isn't as nice a companion as the bats and scorpion! It's one of the most dangerous insects known to man, probably second only to the mosquito.
This is a kissing bug (Triatoma sp.), and it's sitting on an insect net I set up the night before over my bed, against the advice of the park ranger!
Kissing bugs can be found throughout Latin America, and all the way up into the southern states of the USA. They get their name from their habit of biting people on the face as they sleep, sucking up the fluids just like a mosquito.
Unfortunately, just as mosquitos sometimes carry a parasite which causes malaria, so kissing bugs also sometimes carry a parasite which causes Chagas disease. The malaria parasites enter the body as the mosquito is drinking blood, but it isn't transmitted this way with the kissing bug. Instead, after its meal the kissing bug defecates and it's when a person unknowingly rubs this into the wound or into an eye that the parasite enters the body.
Malaria usually isn't fatal, but the parasites which cause Chagas disease very slowly eat into the person's body and destroys vital organs like the heart and the digestive tract. There are treatments available for malaria, but nothing works well with Chagas disease and eventually the victim will die, often not knowing that they're infected.
This common pauraque is one of several species of nightjar which live in Belize, out of a worldwide total of about 80 types. Like many other members of this family, this one has a cryptic brown coloration which camouflages it when it's on the forest floor. Some of the American species are also called nighthawks, and the whole family are sometimes called "goatsuckers" because of a mistaken belief that they suck milk from goats, causing them to go blind!
This particular one was so confident of her camouflage that she was nesting right beside the trail at the entrance to the Rio Blanco National Park, where she's looking after her two chicks!
There were plenty of nightjars around the country, and they're one type of animal which benefits from the human presence. They're unusual amongst birds because they hunt in the evening and, if there's a bright moon, even at night. They sit by the side of a road or clearing, looking upwards until they see a moth or other flying insect silhouetted against the sky, then they dart upwards, catch it and return to their original spot. Like many other insect-eating birds, they have many large whiskers on their face, to direct their prey towards their mouth.
They're easy to find at night, because their eyes strongly reflect light, just like the eyes of a cat. Since they often hunt next to roads it's very common to spot them while you're driving at night. As you drive past they'll often fly away in the same direction you're driving and land next to the road, right where you're going to pass by again! After doing this several times they'll finally figure out it wasn't such a smart idea, and they'll head off in the opposite direction. As well as seeing them, you'll often hear them calling to their mate at regular intervals, since they can't see each other while they're on the ground. The sound they make resulted in some of the common names assigned to species like the "whip poor will" and "Chuck Will's widow".
This is a boat-billed flycatcher, which belongs to a family of birds called "tyrant flycatchers". It's the largest of all bird families, with about 400 members scattered throughout North and South America. This particular bird is perched on the Maya ruins at Lubaantun, and let me take a lot of photos before it flew away. Ruins like these are often an excellent place to find all sorts of wildlife, from birds to reptiles and insects.
This species looks very similar to the great kiskadee, but the feathers on its back have an olive-green tinge and, although it's not totally obvious in this photo, it also has a larger beak. Although they look so much alike, the boat-billed flycatcher isn't as closely related to the great kiskadee as you might expect, instead it belongs to a genus which only has itself as a member. It's common in most of its range, which stretches all the way from southern Texas to Argentina.
Birds aren't the only large flying animals you're likely to encounter in Belize - there are 70 different species of bat in this tiny country!
These are proboscis bats (Rhynchonycteris naso), also called long-nosed bats or sharp-nosed bats, lined up along the trunk of a tree next to Monkey River. Lines of up to 45 individuals have been seen on a single tree! The stripes on their backs are shared by other species like greater white-lined bats, but proboscis bats have distinctive white markings along their forearms, as well as a short, pointed tail. The way they perch together over water is also very characteristic of this species. Like other insectivorous bats, they use echo-location to hunt bugs, flying low over the water source they live next to.
They're tiny creatures, only a couple of inches long and weighing less than an ounce!
Monkey River gets its name from these guys - Guatemalan black howler monkeys (Alouatta pigra), which make incredibly loud and weird noises to mark their territories. They're the loudest of all primates - apart maybe from human beings! Often two troops will have howling matches at each other, but they usually stay where they are and no physical violence happens.
They're fairly common, so there's a good chance you'll at least hear them while you're in Belize, or if you go over the border to the Maya ruins at Tikal in Guatemala. In Belize they're often referred to as "baboons", but they're not closely related to baboons.
Males can weigh eleven and a half kilograms, making them the largest monkeys in Central America, and one of the largest in the Americas. They have prehensile tails which they wrap around branches in the fairly small area of tropical forests they inhabit. They eat leaves all year round, but at certain times fruit makes up most of their diet.
This Virginia opposum photographed at night in Cockscomb nature reserve wasn't too happy to have me waving a flashlight in its direction and using a flash to photograph it!
Opposums are unusual in several ways - they have prehensile tails like the howler monkey, they have about 50 teeth, the most of any land mammal, and they're the only order of mammals outside of Australia and New Guinea which are marsupials, with a pouch where the babies live until they're too big, at which time they climb onto mama's back. Females have 13 nipples in their pouch, 12 in a circle and one in the center. It's the only marsupial which lives in the United States, and the largest of about 65 different opposum species in the Americas.
If they're threatened, Virginian opposums will growl threateningly, but if that doesn't work then they'll pretend to be dead, which is why feigning death is called "playing possum". This might be an involuntary behavior, putting the animal into a coma-like state for up to 4 hours and causing it to emit several noxious liquids and odors.
There are similar-looking marsupials in Australia called possums, but they're in a different order of mammals, so they're not very closely related and they're one heck of a lot cuter than Virginia opposums, which always remind me of oversized rats! Like rats they'll eat almost anything, so they're also very widespread and successful, occupying many different habitats from Canada down to Costa Rica.
The Cockscomb nature reserve is also a great place to find mushrooms. Apart from the obvious large yellow one in this photo, there are also half a dozen much smaller ones on the log next to it!
When I started one night ramble there were several mushrooms emerging beside the track, but when I came back three hours later they had fully opened into attractive little parasols like this one. Mushrooms are able to do this so quickly because their stem and cap are first created in miniature and then rapidly expanded with water. This also explains why most mushrooms appear after rain.
From toadstools to toads!
This monster is a marine toad, also called the giant neotropical toad - the largest was measured at 38 centimeters and weighed 2.65 kilograms. It was introduced into Australia, Fiji, the Philippines and other sugar-growing areas to control insects, so it also became known as the cane toad. The name "marine toad" is derived from its scientific name Bufo marinus, which was given in the mistaken belief that it could live in the ocean.
This one was at Rio Blanco, but this species has become a major problem in the places it was introduced, because of its voracious appetite, its prolific breeding rate and the poison produced by the large glands on either side of its head. It will eat anything it finds, living or dead, including native wildlife like other frogs and even snakes. It has few enemies in the places it was introduced, so it can proliferate without being held in check. If anything does eat it, including domestic dogs, there's a good chance they'll die because of the toxins in its skin. A female can lay up to 25000 eggs each time she spawns, and even the eggs and tadpoles are toxic enough to kill other animals.
I was disappointed by how few frogs I found in Belize, but I did get a pleasant surprise one night at Rio Blanco when I found this salamander! Unusually, it was in a dry area well above the river; salamanders are amphibians like frogs and toads, so they normally require a damp environment. They do secret mucus through their skin to keep themselves moist, and they can also produce toxins just like poisonous toads and frogs.
There are about 500 different species of salamander, but the only one I'd previously seen was a nice fire salamander I found on a drizzly day in the Czech Republic. They look a lot like lizards, but they have moist skin instead of scales. Their limbs are often of reduced size and don't have claws - all of the salamanders I found in Belize hardly even had toes, though the Czech one did.
But wait, there's more!
Rio Blanco turned out to be an excellent place for finding salamanders. Over two nights I found not just one, but four! This fairly large individual was even further from the river than the previous one. It's still got an awfully long way to go before it can compete with the Chinese giant salamander, which can reach 1.8 meters in length and weigh 65 kilograms - just a little less than I do!
Salamanders are the only vertebrates which are able to regenerate limbs. In addition, like some lizards they can cause their tail to fall off if an enemy threatens; the tail continues to wiggle for some time, allowing the salamander to escape. It will later regenerate the tail.
Even as adults some salamanders have gills, the ones I saw might have had internal lungs, but there did seem to be some indication of gill slits for internal gills. Some species hedge their bets by having both lungs and gills, while others have neither, respiring directly through the skin!
And now to an actual lizard.
This is a Central American whiptailed lizard (Ameiva festiva), which I photographed in Cockscomb jaguar reserve. I was very fortunate to come across it just when it had caught a small cockroach in the leaf litter, and even more lucky that I reached it just before a group of people came down the trail in the opposite direction - I was able to stop them for one or two minutes so I could get some photos before the lizard was scared off.
This species is a carnivore, eating both invertebrates and vertebrates, and being eaten by coatimundis, opposums and motmots. The metallic blue tail on this one indicates that it's probably a juvenile.
This green iguana (Iguana iguana) next to the lagoon at Crooked Tree probably weighs a couple of hundred times what the whiptail weighs! This species of iguana can reach two meters in length and weigh nine kilograms.
In spite of its size, green iguanas spend most of their time in trees, but they can also swim, which is what this individual decided to do when I approached too closely! If threatened an iguana like this will extend the dewlap under its throat and bob its head up and down in a threat display. If cornered it will use its tail as a whip to keep a predator at bay, and it also uses its tail to swim, letting its legs hang loosely in the water.
They're often kept as pets but they're also eaten as "bush chicken". There's a similar-sized species in Central America called the black iguana or ctenosaur, which is often mistaken for a green iguana. They both belong to the Iguanidae family, but they're not the same species. The black iguana is mostly dark grey or sometimes has a blue wash, whereas green iguanas come in a wide variety of colors, including orange, pink and even green!
The fer-de-lance or terciopelo is the most feared snake in Central America, and with good reason - it's the cause of most serious snakebites in the areas where it lives.
The name fer-de-lance isn't used in the countries where this snake lives, and there's a different snake called fer-de-lance in South America, so terciopelo is probably a more appropriate name. Terciopelo is Spanish for "velvet", literally meaning "third skin". In Belize it's also called the Tommygoff or yellowjaw.
This is the snake I most wanted to see while I was in the country, and I got lucky coming back from dinner at Maya Landing to the park headquarters at the Cockscomb jaguar reserve. This beautiful six footer was stretched across the road, so I grabbed my camera and flash, jumped out of the van and approached it to get some photos. I was able to get five or six before it turned tail and headed back into the jungle. Luckily I didn't follow, because it has a reputation for initially fleeing and then turning around and attacking.
Females of this species can reach two and a half meters in length and weigh six kilograms, making them one of the heaviest of all venomous snakes. The fangs can be an impressive 2.5 centimeters long. The terciopelo is said to be very unpredictable and very willing to defend itself by striking. However, most bites happen when one enters a house and strikes a person, or a person walks too close to one without realizing that it's there. For this reason I was ultra careful whenever I was walking around the forest in Belize, especially at night. Although the great majority of people recover from terciopelo bites, it's very common to have severe necrosis which requires fingers, toes or whole limbs to be amputated.
The Mexican vine snake does a very good job of imitating a branch or vine, at least until it realizes that it's been seen!
This species reaches 5 feet in length and eats frogs, birds and lizards. It's slightly venomous, but not enough to be dangerous to people. In spite of its name, it's found all the way from Arizona down to South America. Most arboreal snakes are green and live in rainforests, but the Mexican vine snake is brown because it lives in drier forests, where its color matches the surroundings better.
I saw two parrot snakes (Leptophis ahaetulla), one on a trail in the Cockscomb jaguar reserve, and this one leaning on a branch floating in a small pond next to Blue Creek.
This species hunts frogs, lizards and birds during the daytime. It looks like this one is due to shed its skin, which is getting pretty tatty.
It was very difficult to approach this one, there was only about a meter of space in front of it and then some coarse bushes I couldn't penetrate. I moved very slowly and eventually got right in front of it. They can do a very impressive threat display, opening their mouths and even flattening their throat a bit like a cobra, but I guess I was so slow that it never got around to doing this. Eventually it rushed off at high speed, just like the one at Cockscomb.
Not all the reptiles in Belize are on the land!
I've done most of my diving in the Indo-Pacific Ocean, where green turtles are the most numerous species, so this was the first time I've ever seen a hawksbill turtle. They look very similar to green turtles, but they have four dark scales between their eyes, instead of just two.
The English name comes from the shape of their beak. The first part of their Latin name Eretmochelys imbricata means "oar turtle" because of their front fins, and the second part of the Latin name means "overlapping", because the large scales at the rear of its shell overlap each other, giving a saw-like appearance to its edge. They can reach 3.5 feet in length and the heaviest one ever caught measured in at 280 pounds.
Hawksbills mostly eat sponges, some of which are highly toxic but cause no harm to this species. Marine turtles are often very resistant to poisons, those like the hawksbill and loggerhead which eat jellyfish are entirely immune to their stings because of their thick shell and skin. The shell also protects them from most of their enemies, though sharks and large estuarine crocodiles will sometimes attack and eat them.
Like other marine turtles, female hawksbill mate offshore from their selected nesting beach and then come onshore at night to lay their eggs. Hawksbills lay about 140 eggs the size of golfballs, which they bury in sand away from the water. About two months later the turtles hatch at night, dig their way to the surface and head towards the brightest source of light, which is usually the moon reflecting off the ocean. However if people are living nearby then the hatchlings often follow their lights and head inland where they die. Those that don't make it to the water by daybreak will usually be eaten by birds or crabs.
This was also the first time I've seen a loggerhead turtle, which gets its name because its head is much bigger in proportion to its body than other turtles. It's the most common turtle nesting in America, which is why it's also the state reptile of South Carolina. There are two sub-species, one of which lives in the Indo-Pacific Ocean, and the other which lives in the Atlantic and Mediterranean.
This is an Atlantic loggerhead, so its full scientific name is Caretta caretta caretta. Since caretta is the Latin form of the French word caret, which means "turtle", the Latin name actually means "turtle, turtle, turtle"!
They eat jellyfish, mollusks and crustaceans like crabs and Caribbean spiny lobsters. When the water gets cold they spend up to 7 hours at a time sleeping underwater, the longest dive of any air-breathing marine animal.
The flamingo tongue (Cyphoma gibbosum) is one of the so-called "false cowrie" snails, which are closely related to true cowries, a family which contains some of the most beautiful of all mollusk shells, making them very popular with collectors. The flamingo tongue is also often collected when it's still alive, which has led to a rapid decline in how many are still living in the wild.
The flamingo tongue's shell is fairly boring - the beautiful patterns and colors you see here are not on the shell! Like many mollusks, the flamingo tongue has a skin-like layer called a mantle which it wraps around the shell when it's active. The mantle of the flamingo tongue has bold orange and black patterns on it, and that's what you see when it's moving around. In this photograph the mantle isn't entirely enveloping the shell, so you can still see the underlying dull orange color which covers the entire shell. The pattern on the mantle continues onto the snail's foot, which you can see poking out on the right-hand side, with black zig-zag lines on an orange background. This bright coloring warns predators that the snail tastes bad, and it's thought that it might even be toxic because of the poisons it consumes with its food. However, Caribbean spiny lobsters and some puffer fishes do eat them.
The flamingo tongue is only about an inch long. It's one of the more common mollusks in the Caribbean Sea, and since it's active during the daytime it's one of the easiest ones to find. It's a carnivore, and this one is in the process of eating a gorgonian coral, stripping the living coral polyps from the hard branches that they've built. This kills individual polyps, but it doesn't kill the entire gorgonian "tree", which usually redevelops the areas which have been lost. Female flamingo tongues lay their eggs on the exposed gorgonian stems.
The last time I was in Belize I was able to get some photos of Atlantic tarpon, but I was free-diving and using film gear, so I was able to get much better shots this time since I was scuba-diving and using a housed digital SLR camera.
They can reach 8 feet in length and weigh 350 pounds. The name Megalops atlanticus means "Atlantic big eyes", and this species is also noted for its very large scales, measuring up to an inch across.
Although they look like regular fish, tarpons are actually related to eels. They can move into fresh water and breathe air in oxygen-poor water, using their swim bladder to extract oxygen from it. Juvenile fish actually die if they don't gulp air, and even as adults they continue this behavior. When they're agitated they also use their swim bladder to make sound, perhaps to communicate with others of their kind. They live a long time, specimens 55 years old have been caught, and a large female can produce 12 million eggs at one time. Their newly hatched young look just like baby eels, which are called elvers.
Tarpon are called The Silver King by fishermen and are greatly prized for their fighting abilities, frequently jumping out of the water as they try to escape. They're not much use for eating because they're very bony so they're mostly released after they're caught. There have been reports of recreational anglers being killed after catching a large tarpon and having it thrash around inside the boat. In spite of their size, adult tarpon are preyed upon by sharks, porpoises and alligators. They gather together in large schools of up to 200 individuals, and smaller groups often congregate in fairly shallow water, appearing in the same spot for years at a time.
The Atlantic trumpetfish (Aulostomus maculatus) is related to cornetfishes and seahorses, the males carrying the eggs in the same way as seahorses. In spite of its English name, the genus name Aulostomus actually means "flute mouth".
They get to about three feet long and like other members of their order they are ambush predators, spending most of their time hang vertically near branching coral or a sea fan, and then sucking up any small fish that gets too close. Their small mouths stretch wide to take in fish which might not be much smaller in diameter than the trumpetfish itself.
They're able to change color rapidly, so they come in a variety of shades and patterns, including bright yellow, as well as blue or purple. They also use this ability to change color during their courtship display.
A pair of sharksuckers (Echeneis naucrates) hang onto a nurse shark. Nurse sharks spend a lot of time during the day sitting on the sea floor, so these sharksuckers have latched onto the shark's back, which means that they're both upside-down.
There are eight different species of remoras and sharksuckers. In spite of the fact that they spend most of their time hitching rides on larger animals, they can actually swim fairly well on their own. This species can get quite large, sometimes over 3 feet in length. By attaching themselves to an animal like a shark the sharksucker saves energy and also benefits by eating scraps from the shark's hunting. This is an example of a commensal relationship, where the sharksucker gains a lot and the host doesn't gain but doesn't lose much, either. One benefit the host does get is that the sharksucker will sometimes eat parasites on its skin. Perhaps because of its proximity to a large predator, sharksuckers have no known enemies.
Remoras and sharksuckers sometimes latch onto boats or even divers. When they do this, they can be easily removed by sliding them forwards. Some cultures have used remoras to catch turtles. A rope is tied around the remora, and when a turtle is spotted the remora is allow to swim towards it. When the remora attaches itself to the turtle, the rope is pulled in and the turtle is either caught by hand or harpooned. Some ancient peoples like the Greeks thought sharksuckers had dangerous magical powers to affect ships; the scientific name reflects this, Echeneis being the Latinized form of a Greek word meaning "restraining a ship". The Latin word "remora" means "delay".
I photographed this spotted eagle ray while diving off Amergris Caye; during that one dive we saw eighteen different spotted eagle ray individuals!
This species can be found in tropical oceans around the world. It has very distinctive markings, a bit like the markings on a whale shark. They use their duck-shaped snout to find mollusks and other food items.
They can grow very large, with a wingspan of 10 feet, a total length including tail of 16 feet and a weight of 500 pounds. They're strong swimmers, gathering in large groups just below the surface of the ocean during mating season, and sometimes jumping right out of the water. Like many species of sharks and rays, the male chases the female when courting and bites her until she stops resisting and allows him to mate.


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The rains over the fall and winter months are what entice many wildflowers out for a spring showing. We were blessed with much welcomed rain in southern California over the past winter, but it is the fall rains that produce our best wildflower shows. The timing of our rains may not cause massive explosions of wildflowers throughout our deserts, but there may be some nice spring displays of both annual wildflowers and perennial shrubs in localized areas across the southwest deserts of southern California where scattered earlier storms did deliver well-timed showers. You may track wildflower conditions throughout the Southwest desert on Desert USA's website.
Five parks in Southern California regularly update wildflower reports on their websites during the viewing season:
- Anza-Borrego Desert State Park
- Joshua Tree National Park
- Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve
- Mojave National Preserve
- Death Valley National Park
A private retreat and wildlife sanctuary to view spectacular Mojave desert blooms is High Desert Eden in historic Pioneertown, California. You can stay in a luxurious southwest-style casita on 22 acres that backs up to protected lands within The Wildlands Conservancy and The Sand to Snow National Monument.

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I'm not as active as I used to be in the picture book space, given some older audience books that I've been working on more recently (Fantasy YA, see www.adriancross.ca), but I've decided to shift gears a little and start a new picture book dummy, something I haven't done in a long time. It's for a PB story that I've been coming back to on and off for a couple of years and finally think I have found the tweak that makes me happy with it. Finally. :) It's about a little gorilla that gets big. Very big! I'm looking forward to it and may post the odd image from the process (either here or at www.croftcreations.ca). Should be fun. :)
The featured image was originally inspired by the story, but I never carved out the time to take if further. Done in watercolor, using various real life photo references blended together.
All the best!
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|Author's name: Hans-Peter Sloot
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|Date written: 9th August 2003
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|When Oracle introduced Locally managed tablespaces, they had to change their definition of the view dba_free_space to report free space in locally managed tablespaces. As a result, some systems have very poor response times when reporting free space. Is there anything you can do.
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Just because Oracle Corp. supplies a view definition, that doesn't mean you have to use it. You might create a new definition of dba_free_space that is much faster than the original one.
On one database used for BAAN a query on dba_free_space lasted 50 minutes, whereas the following new definition returned the same results within 50 seconds.Of course, as versions of Oracle change, you may have to keep updating the definitions of your views to cater for new features.
CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW DBA_FREE_SPACE_NEW ( TABLESPACE_NAME, FILE_ID, BLOCK_ID, BYTES, BLOCKS, RELATIVE_FNO ) AS select /*+use_hash (tsfi, fet2 ) */ tsfi.tablespace_name, tsfi.file_id, fet2.block_id, tsfi.blocksize * fet2.blocks, fet2.blocks, tsfi.relfile# from ( select /*+ use_hash ( ts, fi ) */ ts.name tablespace_name, fi.file# file_id, ts.BLOCKSIZE, fi.relfile#, ts.ts# from sys.ts$ ts, sys.file$ fi where ts.ts# = fi.ts# and ts.online$ in (1,4) ) tsfi, ( select f.block# block_id, f.length blocks, f.file# file_id, f.ts# from sys.fet$ f union all select f.ktfbfebno block_id, f.ktfbfeblks blocks, f.ktfbfefno, ktfbfetsn from sys.x_$ktfbfe f ) fet2 where fet2.file_id = tsfi.relfile# and fet2.ts# = tsfi.ts#;
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In fly-fishing the Arbor Knot is used to secure the backing to the spool. It works with braided backing as well as mono and gelspun.
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Non-slip Loop Knot
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Oh those lazy Sundays in Paris. Is there anything better than drinking your morning coffee in a small cafe wearing a very casual outfit? I love it when you can take it easy and just relax. This time we went to a place called Café Hugo at Place des Vosges and enjoyed our little break there before heading to the Bastille market.
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The Sims 4 World Patch Installer allows you to install mods that edit the outdoor lighting in The Sims 4 .world file.
- Sims 4 Version Required:
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Enhanced Lighting
The program comes with my Enhanced Lighting patch, which is probably what most people are downloading it for.
To install Enhanced Lighting or another lighting mod:
- No more blue tint [or orange tint, in Oasis Springs]! You can see the outside of buildings in all its glory, without the tint detracting from the feel of it.
- The sky has been updated based on the early Create a Sim export screenshots from Gamescom 2013.
- The brightness has been modified to stay near the "Afternoon" brightness for longer, so the world will look its best for longer before getting dark.
Notes and Warnings
- Open up TS4WorldPatchInstaller and click the "Apply Patch" button.
- Navigate to the "Patches" folder (in the program folder) and select "Enhanced Lighting", which comes with the program.
- Wait for the notification that the installation is complete.
- To uninstall, right click on The Sims 4 in Origin and click "Repair Game" which will revert all world files back to the defaults.
- The world files may revert after installing a patch for The Sims 4. If that happens, simply run the program again.
- The world files will need to be uncompressed in order to accept changes. Therefore, installing this will increase the amount of disk space the files use.
- I didn't include Windenburg's shorter days in this version, so days in Windenburg will now be the same as in other worlds. I don't know when or even if I'll make a version that has shorter days in Windenburg, since they seem unneccesary.
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What does a radiologist do?
Your Radiologist
Your radiologist is a medical doctor who specializes in diagnosing and treating disease and injury through the use of medical imaging techniques such as x-rays, computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), nuclear medicine, positron emission tomography (PET), fusion imaging, and ultrasound. Because some of these imaging techniques involve the use of radiation, adequate training in and understanding of radiation safety and protection is important.
Your radiologist has graduated from an accredited medical school, passed a licensing examination, and completed a residency of at least four years of unique postgraduate medical education in, among other topics:
- Radiation safety/protection
- Radiation effects on the human body
- Appropriate performance and interpretation of quality radiologic and medical imaging examinations
The majority of radiologists also complete a fellowship — one to two additional years of specialized training in a particular subspecialty of radiology, such as breast imaging, cardiovascular radiology or nuclear medicine.
Your Radiologist Plays a Key Role in Your Healthcare By:
- Acting as an expert consultant to your referring physician (the doctor who sent you to the radiology department or clinic for testing) by aiding him or her in choosing the proper examination, interpreting the resulting medical images, and using test results to direct your care.
- Treating diseases by means of radiation (radiation oncology) or minimally invasive, image-guided therapeutic intervention (interventional radiology).
- Correlating medical image findings with other examinations and tests.
- Recommending further appropriate examinations or treatments when necessary and conferring with referring physicians.
- Directing radiologic technologists (personnel who operate the equipment) in the proper performance of quality exams.
Your Radiologist Has the Right Training, Knowledge, and Experience
When your referring doctors tell you they have reviewed your studies, what they usually mean is that they have reviewed the radiology report or gone over the study with your radiologist.
Radiologists are at the forefront of imaging technology, spearheading the development and implementation of modalities such as CT, MRI, PET, and fusion imaging as well as minimally invasive procedures such as endovascular treatment of aneurysms and tumors, percutaneous biopsies, and pinpoint radiation therapy.
Radiologists are usually board certified by the American Board of Radiology (for a medical doctor) or the American Osteopathic Board of Radiology (for an osteopathic doctor), an indication of a high level of training and demonstrated excellence in the field.
What You Should Know About Quality and Safety in Medical Imaging
Radiologic procedures such as CT, MRI, and PET are medically prescribed and should only be performed by appropriately trained and certified physicians under medically necessary circumstances.
Radiologists are medical doctors who have received at least four years of unique, specific, post-medical school training in radiation safety, the optimal performance of radiological procedures, and interpretation of medical images. Other medical specialties mandate far less imaging education, ranging from a few days to a maximum of 10 months. Use of medical imaging procedures by unqualified providers may needlessly expose you to radiation or radiation levels that could be unduly hazardous. It may also result in misdiagnosis or problems that are not diagnosed at all.
ACR Accreditation
Insist that any facility providing your medical imaging care be accredited by the American College of Radiology (ACR). ACR accreditation ensures that the physicians supervising and interpreting your medical imaging meet stringent education and training standards. ACR accreditation also signifies that the imaging equipment is surveyed regularly by qualified medical physicists to ensure that it is functioning properly, and that the technologists administering the tests are certified. To locate a medical imaging or radiation oncology provider in your community, you can search the ACR-accredited facilities database.
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Rodrigo Santoro, one of Brazil's most talented and famous actors, can be seen as Raul Castro, in Steve Soderbergh's new film, Che. Up next, he can also be seen in Lion's Den by Pablo Trapero, which competed against Che at the Cannes Film Festival last year. In 2009, Rodrigo will star in Fox Searchlights' The Post Grad Survival Guide along side Michael Keaton and Carol Burnett. Next year you will also see Rodrigo in I Love You Phillip Morris with Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor as Jim Carrey's first love.
In 2008, Santoro was featured in writer/director David Mamet's film Redbelt, the story of Mike Terry, a Jiu-jitsu master who has avoided the prize fighting circuit, instead choosing to pursue a life by operating a self-defense studio in Los Angeles. Santoro is already known for his performance in Warner Bros. 300, based on the Frank Miller's graphic novel, which broke box office records throughout the world. Rodrigo starred as Xerxes, the Persian King who sent his massive army to conquer Greece in 480 B.C. He was nominated for an MTV Movie Award for Best Villain. Rodrigo has also gained attention for his role of Paulo in ABC's hit series Lost.
In 2008, Rodrigo was honored to receive the Ischia award for International Contribution at the 2008 Ischia Global Film Festival in Italy. In 2007, at the Cancun International Film Festival Rodrigo received a Best Actor award for his portrayal of an obsessive photographer in the Brazilian film "Nao por acaso" (Not By Chance).
Rodrigo was part of the star-studded ensemble cast of Universal's romantic comedy Love Actually, starring alongside Hugh Grant, Emma Thompson, Colin Firth and Liam Neeson. In the role of Karl, he starred opposite Laura Linney as co-workers grappling with the dicey protocol of an office romance. Prior to this film, Rodrigo made his American debut in the highly sought after role of Randy Emmers in Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, directed by McG, starring Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore and Lucy Liu.
Rodrigo has also been seen for the past two years starring as the "mystery man" opposite Nicole Kidman in the Baz Luhrmann directed commercial for Chanel.
In 2004 Rodrigo's starred in the Brazilian film, Carandiru, directed by Hector Babenco, which broke all Brazilian box office records for Brazil's entry in the Foreign Film category for the Academy Awards. Carandiru premiered at the Cannes Film Festival where Rodrigo received the Chopard Award for Male Revelation of the year. For his role in Carandiru he was also nominated for the Cinema Brazil Grand Prize of Best Actor and won for Best Supporting Actor at the Cartagena Film Festival. The movie was distributed in the US by Sony Pictures Classics and was a groundbreaking portrayal of the largest penitentiary in Latin America, the Sao Paulo House of Detention, and the lives of the people in it. Dr. Dráuzio Varella based the movie on the best-selling book "Carandiru Station."
Rodrigo has won a total of eight Best Actor awards, including the first ever award for Best Actor from the Brazilian Academy of Arts and Film, for his portrayal of a young man forced into a mental institution by his parents in Brainstorm, the critically acclaimed film by director Lais Bodansky.
For Rodrigo's role in Bicho de Sete Cabecas (2001) he won five of his eight Best Actor awards including, Best Actor for the Brazilia Festival of Brazilian Cinema, Best Actor for the Cartagena Film Festival, Best Actor for Cinema Brazil Grand Prize, Best Actor for Recife Cinema Festival, and Best Actor for the Sao Paulo Association of Art Critics Awards.
He has also been celebrated for his performance in the Miramax film Behind the Sun directed by Walter Salles (Central Station), in which he played Tonio, the middle son of a Brazilian family caught in the middle of an age-old family feud in 1910. He is forced by tradition and honor to kill a member of the neighboring family, positioning him next in line to be killed. The heart of the movie finds Tonio and his little brother discovering a world outside their family and home. Behind the Sun was nominated for a Golden Globe in 2002 for Best Foreign Language Film.
Previous to that Rodrigo appeared opposite Helen Mirren, Olivier Martinez and Anne Bancroft in The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone, directed by Robert Allan Ackerman, for Showtime. Based on the novella by Tennessee Williams, The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone was nominated for five Emmy Awards in 2003.
Rodrigo Santoro dubs Tulio Monteiro, character from the movie Rio (2011) and also voices the character in the sequence, Rio 2 which premieres in 2014. He does the voice acting of the character in versions English and Portuguese Brazilian.
- "Linda and Tulio are still working hard to protect birds in Brazil. And they make a terrific couple because Tulio is a great thinker and Linda is a great 'do-er.'"
- "I would love to have Tulio singing. Because we actually came up with what we call 'Bird-ish.' It's his language, when he believes he's communicating with the birds. So it would be very nice to see him come up with a [musical] number where he sings in 'bird-ish.'" [1]


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Jamie Dimon is no longer on Atlanta's wanted list.
On Tuesday, CBS Atlanta reported the JP Morgan goldenboy had a warrant out for his arrest, related to an illegal dump at a property in the Georgia capital.
The New York Post, as is its wont, dug deeper into the story on Thursday:
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Do you realize the apocalyptic rhetoric behind investing in electric/hybrid cars can be applied to these same vehicles??: "Our country is addicted to electricity, and relying solely on this resource is not a safe and secure practice. With over 75 million Americans tying up the power grids to charge their vehicles, we all are in a perpetual state of brownouts and/or rolling blackouts. We are also more vulnerable to terrorist attacks if the powergrids are taken out to isolate Americans. In spite of this threat, Americans continue to invest more money into charging their vehicles rather than being able to help stimulate the economy with purchases of other products and services".
No matter what the source of energy is for our vehicles, we will be also held hostage to it because we want the luxury of speed. Not only that, these energy sources (even nuclear) are available only in a finite form. If they were not vulnerable, then the principle that allegedly makes them infinite should be also applied to our homes, roads, and other infrastructures in the United States.
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Stuck on what to get that special someone for Valentines this year? Enter Samsung to lend a helping hand as this pink version of the massively popular Galaxy S II is due to be launched on Feb.13. Make no mistake, this is a regular Galaxy S II, just they painted it pink.
While having been announced in South Korea back in November, all went quiet regarding global availability. Phones 4 U have announced that they will be offering the device from Feb.13 on a two- year contract starting from a very reasonable £21.50 a month.
Not looking for a contract to go with that shiny new pink phone, then online retailer Very are set to offer the device SIM free for a whopping £499.99. Whichever way you look at it, that's Galaxy Nexus pricing. While listed as in stock, they are in fact awaiting their supply which they claim to be within 7 days. Get them while they're hot ladies--and guys if pinks your thing.
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Province of Batanes
The Province of Batanes tour explores the picturesque rugged beauty of the islands of Basco and Sabtang showcasing how nature and men have adopted with each other for over the years sans the trimmings of modern life. The original buildings made of limestone and thatch cogon roofs make Batanes Province a class of its own maintaining its rough and rugged beauty and virtually safe from the harsh elements of nature. The relative distance of Batanes from the rest of the country and the limited open season it offers to travelers makes travel to Batanes all the more promising, exciting and definitely, a bucket-list entry. Daily flights are available from Manila through Philippine Airlines while WCC Sky Pasada flies from Tuguegarao City three times a week.
Day 1
Arrival reception; whole day exploration of Basco town: St. Dominic's Cathedral; Chawa Viewdeck; Racuh-a-Payaman – the communal pasture land; Radar Tukon and the Old Loran Station – the last weather station in the north of the country; Pacita Abad Museum; St. Carmel Church and walking tour of the town proper including commercial area and St. Dominic Restaurant for organic beef delicacies.
Day 2
Sabtang Island Trip: Proceed to Barrio Savidug, drop by Sitio Tiñan for its rockscapes and seascapes; Chavayan, known for its preserved stonehouses ; Sitio Morong – enjoy Morong Beach with its picture perfect Ahaw (Arc) and explore Nakabuang Cave; Nakanmuan for the fishing village and bring home dried fish or one-day old Dibang (flying fish); enjoy local cuisine at the Homestay; overnight.
Day 3
Early trip back to Batan Island; Ivana Church and climb the crenelated belltower fortress for a good view of the sea and town; souvenir shopping at the Honesty shop; motor to the Hose of Dakay; Mahatao Church and leave your message at the Open Books Archive; romp and roll at the Valugan Boulder beach, Vayang rolling hills and Naidi hills.
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Motor to Mahatao at the Fishermen's Village at Brgy. Djura to explore the old settlements, swim at the spring-fed pools; souvenir shopping in the afternoon.
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Robin's newest vocal jazz album, Songbird Sessions, is an intimate five-song acoustic jazz music date of standards and gems made famous by her seminal influences such as iconic New Orleans musicians Allen Tousssaint and Irma Thomas.
Robin released her debut EP, titled Me, on July 10, 2013. The female jazz singer's debut album features five soulful-pop songs that blend elements of funky jazz, soul and R&B. They include: Rescue Me; Running; What I Gotta Do feat. Jake Smith; In Your Arms; and Pieces.
Vocal Jazz Music PERFORMANCE HIGHLIGHTS
Songbird Sessions Debuted at #5 on the Billboard Traditional Jazz Charts
New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival
NFL National Anthem Performance (New Orleans Saints)
Tribute to Allen Toussaint
French Quarter Festival
Cognac Bacardi Premiere (Cognac, France)
LA Grammy Showcase
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A federal judge determined Thursday that the association representing Maine cities and towns was within its rights to campaign against five referendum efforts that would have reduced municipal revenues.
Chief U.S. District Judge John A. Woodcock Jr. said in a 56-page ruling that the Maine Municipal Association was exercising "government speech" when it participated in the campaigns in years from 2004 to 2009.
The association was sued by the Maine Heritage Policy Center, a conservative advocacy group that promoted the ballot initiatives, including two so-called Taxpayer Bill of Rights proposals and an effort to change the way cities and towns collect motor vehicle excise taxes.
The Maine Municipal Association, a quasi-governmental agency representing 486 cities and towns, opposed the initiatives. That prompted the Maine Heritage Policy Center to file a lawsuit in 2010 claiming the association had violated the group's First Amendment rights.
The court struck down each complaint.
"The Court holds that the government speech doctrine applies to MMA's advocacy activities," Woodcock ruled. "This is another way of saying that MMA has not violated the Plaintiffs' rights under the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment of the United States Constitution …"
The Maine Heritage Policy Center recently promoted its case against the municipal association, saying the group had engaged in "scandalous activities."
The Maine Wire, the center's news site, has a section dubbed the "MMA files." The recent promotion is timed with Gov. Paul LePage's proposal to suspend municipal aid for a two years, a proposal the municipal association vehemently opposes.
The policy center is closely aligned with LePage; Tarren Bragdon, its former CEO, led the governor's transition team in 2011 and the group later claimed to have authored LePage's first two-year budget proposal.
Christopher G. Lockwood, executive director of the Maine Municipal Association, praised the ruling.
"For the past two years, we have endured as Heritage Policy Center used words like 'scandalous' and 'illegal' in regard to our information and advocacy, legitimate activities that we have been engaged with in Maine since 1936," Lockwood said in a prepared statement. "We are grateful that Judge Woodcock today put all the claims of free speech violations firmly to rest."
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Back to the not-so-attractive future with Michael Gove
So Education Secretary Michael Gove (above) wants universities to play a key role in setting A-Levels. Alongside all his other wear-a-blazer-and-learn-Latin blasts from the past, this is one of the most nonsensical.
It's not necessarily all that bad idea to involve dons in setting A-Levels. They know where their disciplines are going. They have fresh ideas, and do new work. They might ginger things up. They know what they want to see in their prospective students - and A-Levels are to some extent a gateway to higher study.
Not all A-Level students will be applying to university. They certainly won't all go to the 'elite' (and self-appointed) Russell Group universities that Mr Gove wants to be at the forefront of this new process. Their input won't always be the most appropriate.
And it's not as if universities are not busy. With all the research and all the undergraduate teaching they've had to do to 'deepen' and 'widen' their appeal (despite being one of the most successful part of the economy, and running surpluses most of the time), they're frantically over-driven and time-poor places at the moment. Ask most lecturers what they think of this new plan, and they'll say: 'and just when am I supposed to do this? In my sleep?'
Most important of all, we've been here before. Oxford, Cambridge and London used to have lots of input into A-Levels. They don't now, because it was thought important to professionalise the process, involve people who actually know about teaching pupils in schools, and experts in pedagogy who understand how teaching and assessment fit together. Universities do understand this, but not necessarily for younger people at a much more formative stage of their development.
In the end, the idea will get a big raspberry from everyone concerned - yet another untested, untrialled big bang from the same coalition government that gave you the Higher Education funding system and the NHS 'reforms' that are proving so popular and so successful.
Good luck with this one, Secretary of State. You'll need it.
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Jets fans know the pain and anguish of following a team that last won a Super Bowl in 1969. Have a look at the Jets' playoff history.
1968: AFC East and Super Bowl III Champions (11-3)
The standard by which all Jets are judged. Of course, it's been more than 40 years since Joe Namath made the boldest of all sports predictions, then actually backed it up with a 16-7 win over the Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl III.
1969: AFC East champions (10-4)
The defending Super Bowl champion Jets -- wow, what a phrase! -- won their final two games of the season to claim another division title, but lost in the first round of the playoffs to Kansas City, 13-6.
1981: Wild card (10-5-1)
The Jets won their final two games of the season to earn a playoff spot, then lost to the Buffalo Bills in the first round, 31-27.
1982: Wild card (6-3)
It's been more than 30 years and Jets fans are still mad at this one. In the AFC Championship Game, quarterback Richard Todd completed 15 passes to Jets receivers and five passes to Miami Dolphins defenders. Does the name A.J. Duhe ring any unharmonious bells, Jets fans?
1986: Wild card (10-6)
Maybe this is where "Same Old Jets" started? The Jets began the season 10-1, then dropped five straight to squeak into the playoffs as the wild card. They beat the Chiefs, 35-15, in the opening round, then blew a 10-point lead in the fourth quarter and lost to the Cleveland Browns in overtime, 23-20, in the divisional round.
1991: Wild card (8-8)
An overtime win against Miami in the final game -- thank you, Raul Allegre! -- put the Jets in the playoffs. They then lost to the Houston Oilers, 17-10.
1998: AFC East champions (12-4)
The Jets, coached by Bill Parcells, beat the Jacksonville Jaguars, 34-24, in the divisional round, then lost to the Denver Broncos, 23-10, in the AFC Championship.
2001: Wild card (9-7)
The Jets beat the Raiders in the final week of the season to earn a playoff spot, then flew back to Oakland the next week for the wild-card game. Trailing 16-10 heading into the fourth quarter, the Jets allowed 22 points and lost, 38-24.
2002: AFC East champions (9-7)
The Jets, in Herman Edwards' second season as coach, won the AFC East on the final Sunday, then destroyed the Indianapolis Colts in the first round, 41-0. But, once again, the Oakland Raiders ended the Jets' season with a 20-point second half en route to the 30-10 win in the divisional round.
2004: Wild card (10-6)
After beating the San Diego Chargers in the first round, 20-17, in overtime on a field goal by Doug Brien, he turned around the next week and delivered arguably the most heartbreaking of all the Jets' historic and classic meltdowns. Brien missed two field goals in the final 2:02 as the Jets lost to in overtime, 20-17.
2006: Wild card (10-6)
The 2006 Jets, in head coach Eric Mangini's first year, won their final three games of the season to earn a wild-card spot. They lost to those pesky New England Patriots in the first round, 37-16.
2009: Wild card (9-7)
In an up-and-down season with a rookie head coach (Rex Ryan) and rookie quarterback (Mark Sanchez), the Jets pasted the Cincinnati Bengals, 37-0, in the final game of the season to earn the wild card. After defeating the same Bengals in the AFC Wild Card game, they shocked San Diego in the divisional round thanks to a big game from Shonn Greene and three missed field goals by the Chargers' Nate Kaeding. The dream ride ended in the AFC Championship Game, as Peyton Manning threw for 377 yards and two touchdowns and the Colts beat the Jets, 30-17.
2010: Wild card (11-5)
For the second straight year, the Jets struggled to find consistency in the regular season, but managed to sneak into the playoffs. In a daunting road to the AFC Championship Game, Gang Green managed to first knock off Peyton Manning and the Colts, then Tom Brady and the Patriots, both on the road. However, Rex Ryan's group couldn't stop the Jets' Super Bowl slump, as Ben Roethlisberger ended New York's road trip in Pittsburgh, 24-19.
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Research In Motion Aug. 24 made its latest move in a game of strategy to stay alive in the North American mobile marketplace and to prevent Apple iPhones and Android-running smartphones from capturing more of its market share.
Applications and content provider Cellmania announced that it has been acquired by RIM. Current Cellmania customers include AT&T, Sprint, Verizon, T-Mobile, Virgin Mobile and Orange.
"Cellmania is excited to announce that our company is now part of Research In Motion," the company said on its home page. "Our team has joined RIM's global organization and will continue to bring our expertise in Application Storefront development to the BlackBerry platform."
The announcement added, "The Cellmania team will continue to support our current client base."
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The company essentially helps operators, infrastructure providers and content owners to create mobile ecosystems-offering infrastructure that enables downloading of content onto mobile phones, as well as billing management and other services.
"Cellmania also provides the world's largest repository of mobile content consisting of over 200,000 items across 200-plus handsets from 100-plus countries in 55-plus languages," the site said. "Content owners can provide their wares to Cellmania to distribute across ... distribution channels with a win-win business model."
The area of mobile applications has become a major focus of competition. When Palm, now owned by Hewlett-Packard, was struggling to promote its Pre and Pixi handsets, its limited number of applications was often cited as a hindrance. Today, RIM's App World offers about 9,500 applications, while Apple, which started the trend, offers more than 225,000 and even Google, which came to the game later than RIM, offers more than 65,000 applications in its Android Market.
On Aug. 20, RIM launched BlackBerry App World 2.0, an updated version that enables developers to offer applications at lower prices than they were previously able, and gives users the option of paying with a credit card instead of through PayPal. The new version also features tabbed sections to make searching for apps simpler, allows for the quick scanning of barcodes and makes it easy for users to transfer their applications to a newer BlackBerry handset.
RIM executives have been hinting that big changes were under way. In June, during a first-quarter earnings call with media and analysts, RIM Co-CEO Jim Balsillie enthused: "Once you see the new app world we talked about, and once you see the new platforms, you'll be all very surprised. ... I think you'll just be amazed by how it's a quantum leap over anything that's out there."
On Aug. 3, RIM, with exclusive carrier partner AT&T, introduced the BlackBerry Torch-the first BlackBerry handset to combine a multitouch display with a QWERTY keypad and to run the BlackBerry 6 OS. Also expected to be part of RIM's rejuvenation is a tablet device. Rumored to be titled the BlackPad, the device is expected to run software from QNX, which RIM announced its intention to acquire in April, and to make a debut in November in time for holiday sales.
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This is is reproduction of an antique quilt that I bought at the
Auckland Quiltmakers Show in May.
I am using a range of fabric from my stash and some of the
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I need twenty-five of these blocks.
Some are paler while others have a bit more depth of colour.
Studying the old blocks in the antique quilt has been fun, as
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So they have been fun to make and to wonder why she did this.
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Once in a while a craft book comes along that makes you sit up, sling your cup of tea to one side and declare, "This is the reason I make things!"
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You may already know the insanely talented Stephanie Dosen, I first found Stephanie – or rather Tiny Owl Knits on Ravelry when my (also knitty fanatic) sister shared with me the delights of the Beekeeper's Quilt – believe me, there is nothing humble about the hexipuff! If that's not enough of an introduction, then you must check out Stephanie's videos . If you need just one more reason to list Stephanie in your Hall Of Fame for All Time Greatest Girl Crushes, let me help, she's a singer & songwriter too, you can even buy her CD – trust me, you are going to fall acorn over toadstool for this gal!
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Woodland Knits by Stephanie Dosen, £14.99 (Quadrille) photography by Tiffany Mumford.
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As I had mentioned in my earlier blogs, installation of Notes Browser Plug-in supports both GUI based and Silent Install options. As also mentioned before, there are multiple packages that we support - Standalone Notes Browser Plug-in installation (MIN & MAX), and one with Notes Standard Client.
Both of above installations support "Silent Install"
Go to Command prompt. and change the directory where setup. exe /installer is copied.
Provide below command from command prompt.
The -s -a -s are required for any silent installs now.
e.g. : setup.exe -s -a -s /v"SETMULTIUSER=1 PROGDIR=\\"%s\\" /qn"
The first -s silences the Package For the Web wrapper UI
The -a passes all following command line options to the embedded package
The second -s silences the embedded package's extraction UI
The /v passes the rest of the quoted string to the msiexec engine.
Install NBP at default location :
setup.exe -s -a -s /v"/qn"
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setup -s -a -s /V"PROGDIR=C:\<nondefault Path> /qn"
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My bill paying job has been pretty busy this week so I haven't had a lot of energy to blog in addition to my other writing adventures. I've had one partial requested and then rejected, but I press forward, spirits brightened by the fact that I came home to a dish-free sink and a happy boyfriend with a clean-shaven head. He looks super bald.
Here are some things I've learned/thought of since my last post in no particular order. And a picture I like. The artist is Ben Newman.
- I'm confused by writers who become enraged with agents who reject them. They said no to your query. They didn't call you ugly to your face, which hurts, trust me. I've learned A LOT from a couple agents who have rejected my query and they are actually pretty nice people. I hope to actually meet them some day.
- If you email people, more often than not, they email you back.
- Not everyone should give advice (I knew this before, but it's come up a lot this week)
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- Patience does pay off.
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