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1. State Department Evacuates Diplomats in Pakistan
The State Department ordered the evacuation of most U.S. diplomats from Lahore, Pakistan on Thursday in response to terror threats. The State Department said several terrorist groups pose a danger to U.S. citizens across Pakistan. Meanwhile, the Yemeni government said it thwarted a terror attack from Al-Qaeda on Wednesday. President Obama will hold his first press conference since April at 3 p.m. today. He may take questions on the terror threats in the Middle East and NSA leaker Edward Snowden.
More from around the web:
• Here's how we should handle the threat from Al-Qaeda affiliates (TIME).
More from PolicyMic:
• How Many Terror Threats Does the U.S. Get Every Day? (Laura Muth)
2. Moroccans Protest Release Of Convicted Pedophile
Muslims marked the end of Ramadan on Thursday, but unrest marred the celebration in many parts of the world. Moroccans continued their protests in response to the release of convicted pedophile Daniel Galván Viña. King Mohammed VI mistakenly pardoned Viña from when prison officials released a list of prisoners who were supposed to be transferred to jails in Spain. King Mohammed revoked Viña's pardon over the weekend, but the protesters have continued.
More from around the web:
• Check out video and tweets from the protests in Morocco (NY Times).
More from PolicyMic:
• The End of Ramadan is Scarred By 6 Major Conflicts Across the Muslim World (Ahmed Medien)
3. Leaked Recording Embarrasses McConnell Campaign
Mitch McConnell's reelection campaign suffered an embarrassing setback on Thursday when a conservative activist released a recording of Campaign Manager Jesse Benton. "Between you an me, I'm sorta holding my nose for two years 'cause what we're doing here is gonna be a big benefit to Rand in '16," Benton says on the tape. The Washington Post's Ezra Klein isn't shocked by the tape: "Campaign staffers are often hired guns. Jesse Benton wouldn't be the first campaign manager to be less than infatuated with his client," he tweeted.
More from around the web:
• Why the "holding my nose" tape is a big problem for Mitch McConnell (WaPo).
More from PolicyMic:
• ICYMI: Mitch McConnell is the Victim Of a Felony (Shoshana Weissmann)
4. Famous Doctor Reverses Stance On Medical Marijuana
CNN's Chief Medical Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta rocked the medical community on Thursday, coming out in support of medical marijuana. Dr. Gupta, who previously opposed medical marijuana, changed his position while researching the drug for a documentary. Gupta says modern research reports on the dangers of marijuana because they are designed to investigate harm. In reality, marijuana leads to dependence in 9 or 10% of adults. "We have been terribly and systematically misled for nearly 70 years in the United States, and I apologize for my own role in that," he says.
More from around the web:
• This map shows the dramatic spread of legal weed in the U.S. (Atlantic Wire).
• Read the incredible story of Charlotte Figi, the child who had 300 seizures a month (CNN).
More from PolicyMic:
• For the Simple Crime of Smoking Marijuana, the Government Ruined This Man's Family Forever (Robert Taylor)
• This is How Much Marijuana Prohibition Costs You, the Taxpayer (Anthony Papastrat)
5. Study Reveals Herding Behavior Of Online Commenters
A study published today in the journal Science provides fascinating insight into the behavior of online commenters. Researchers gave arbitrary up and downvotes to about 6,000 online comments immediately after they were posted. The comments they upvoted ended up with 25% more positive ratings than comments they didn't touch, while downvotes didn't negatively impact a comment's performance. "Hype can work and feed on itself as well," one of the researchers concluded.
More from around the web:
• You can learn a creepy amount of information about a person from their "likes" (LA Times).
More from PolicyMic:
• Meet the Millennial Who Went to Jail Over a Facebook Post (Michael Shammas)
• Go on a field trip with the world's millionaire tech moguls (NY Times).
• Learn how athletes become great (10,000 hours doesn't always cut it) (Outside).
• Find out what twins reveal about the science of faith (PopSci).
• For $300 you can get a 3D-printed model of yourself (Wired).
• How much would the White House cost, if it were for sale? (POLITICO)
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And we are back again with another update! Let's see what's new:
– Save edited and found cheats to microSD
– Choose custom in-game button activator
– Added warning in Reset search
– Fixed memory search freeze
– Fixed language switch bug
– Fixed long cheat description bug
– Fixed 16-bit conditional mask support, useful for 8bit conditionals
– Cheat finder exact search cancel support
– Cheat code type Exxxxxxx support (patch code)
– Cheat nested conditionals support
Now you can save the codes entered in the cheatcode editor back to microSD!
In the cheatcode editor, simply press START to save the current code list to a new cheat code.
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Shyness is a common trait in human life, and it can be mind torturing to a guy who cant rise to find a date or one who keeps getting turned down by beautiful women for lack of confidence. It is also humiliating, especially when one feels timid to try something new lest he or she makes a mistake. Most shy people cannot contribute to discussions for fear that they might end up being ridiculed. Some of the traits a shy person is likely to portray may include being nervous in company of others, self-conscious, easily frightened and generally lacking confidence. The main attributes of shyness are genes, life experiences or different ways of life.
All shy guys know how to notice beautiful women. The struggle is on how to approach them. But there are girls who like shy guys because of being well organized – a natural way to conceal shyness. They're also liked for talking sensibly, because they (if must) participate last in group discussions avoiding jumping into a topic before they get familiar with it. But there are a few things a shy guy can do to polish his confidence and come out of secret admiration.
A smiling face. There is no doubt that a smile can save your face. The best way to increase your confidence in front of a woman is to have a relaxed, joyful and a smiling face.
Body posture. Don't disqualify yourself by the way you carry your posture. The way you move your hands or your legs can make her to judge whether you really know where you are going or whether you know what you want. Bulge your chest and look up.
Engage your thoughts. If you arrive earlier to the first date, make sure to engage yourself with a smart phone or a laptop as if you are booking in some business appointments. At least don't stay idle. This will increase your confidence.
Eye Contact. There you are and here she comes. An opportunity to let her feel your presence should not be squandered. Greet her warmly and maintain a steady eye contact. Just don't face down. The impression you make within the first few minutes of meeting your potential date may just determine the direction of your intended relationship.
Pick a conversation. You have exchanged pleasantries and she looks interested to know a couple of things about you. From general observation, pick a topic and try to develop from there. Remember not to waver in your confidence. Instead of thinking of a turn down think of a turn on. Know that even if you don't impress her, you have at least made the most important strides. And you are on the way to a perfect date.


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The IRS has certain tools at their disposal when they are seeking to collect past due taxes. One of the most common types of collection methods is the Lien, and corresponding Notice of Federal Tax Lien. Typically, a Lien is put into effect when the IRS has been repeatedly unable to collect a debt from a taxpayer or when they have lost communication with the tax payer and have decided to escalate their collection of the past due taxes. More importantly, the IRS has the authority to implement these methods without any prior notice so the taxpayer is often caught off guard.
A Lien essentially gives the U. S. government the right to the taxpayer's property as security for a tax debt, preventing the owner from being able to sell or refinance that asset without authorization or release by the Internal Revenue Service.
Releasing a Lien generally requires coming to some kind of repayment agreement with the IRS; for instance, if a taxpayer decides to file an Offer In Compromise, then the IRS may release the Tax Lien while the taxpayer prepares and submits that Offer In Compromise. However, the IRS will not just release a Tax Lien simply because a tax payer requests that they do. In most cases, expert assistance is required to present the financial condition to the IRS on the taxpayer's behalf and demonstrate that he or she is willing to settle the outstanding tax debt.
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Baucus to Beijing Brings TPA, Trade Troubles
This fall has been a roller-coaster ride for followers of trade. Against a background of great trade ambition, there was the October realization that political dysfunction in Washington could easily impede progress on trade. But the government shutdown passed and long-futile global trade talks even managed to eke out some progress. Then there was the ...
This fall has been a roller-coaster ride for followers of trade. Against a background of great trade ambition, there was the October realization that political dysfunction in Washington could easily impede progress on trade. But the government shutdown passed and long-futile global trade talks even managed to eke out some progress. Then there was the sobering realization that, unlike that WTO deal, the big pending trade agreements with Europe (TTIP) and Asia (TPP) would need congressional approval and the administration had not laid the proper groundwork.
More recently, in a note of great hope for the holidays, word leaked out of Capitol Hill that key players had, in fact, struck a deal on Trade Promotion Authority (TPA). What's more, the administration seemed to be moving beyond the familiar stage of grand pronouncements and endless technical meetings toward an actual strategy for accomplishing its trade goals. If these last developments sound like the steady upward-chug of a roller-coaster, then theme park aficionados will know what comes next — the plunge.
Last night, word leaked that the White House was to nominate retiring Montana Sen. Max Baucus as U.S. ambassador to China. Had the intent been to sabotage trade progress, it would have been hard to think of a more effective approach. Baucus, as chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, is an absolutely critical player on trade. True, he had already announced that he would retire after his term expired this coming year. But there was hope that his time in the Senate would culminate with progress on trade and tax reform. Switching analogies, the ambassadorial appointment is the equivalent of removing a key field commander on the eve of a major fight and installing him in a prestigious Pentagon communications post. It's nice for him, might help with PR operations, but can prove disastrous for the battle itself.
With the caveat that this entire story is based on leaks and rumors, rather than public statements, here are four questions and tentative answers about Baucus's impending departure:
1. Wasn't Baucus's work done? Hadn't a TPA deal been reached?
No. The reported TPA agreement was struck between Chairman Baucus, Senate Finance Ranking Member Orin Hatch (R-UT), and House Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI). The first critical point to note is the person who is missing: Ways and Means Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI), the last of the trade "big four." Had Levin been on board, there would have been true bipartisan, bicameral agreement. But Levin had been criticizing the traditional approach to TPA all summer, calling instead for a more comprehensive competitiveness agenda. Among other features, he wanted enforceable measures against currency manipulation. In his skepticism, he is backed by roughly 150 House Democrats who have argued that the old approach to TPA (most recently passed in 2002) is undesirable. Curiously, at the same time the Obama administration said it badly needed TPA, it tried to side with these same House critics, agreeing that a 2002-style approach was undesirable. There was clearly some intricate persuasion remaining. Note that Baucus's departure would mean that only Republican leaders were left supporting TPA.
Further, there is a looming battle over trade adjustment assistance. This long-standing program, intended to help workers displaced by the effects of trade liberalization, had traditionally been a "price" paid to win bipartisan support for new trade-opening measures, despite Republican qualms about its efficacy (does the program really help the workers?) and its premise (why do we favor trade-displaced workers over other displaced workers?). Feelings against the program hardened among Republicans as it was renewed in 2009 and 2011, even in the absence of new negotiating authority. It now seems likely that the Senate may include an adjustment assistance measure along with TPA while the Republican-controlled House does not. That would tee up important House-Senate negotiations — exactly when one needs experienced, powerful legislators to craft a deal.
2. Could Baucus just get this done before he leaves?
I have not seen any announcement of when Chairman Baucus will resign and others with Hill experience can weigh in on the feasibility of different approaches. It seems implausible, however, that Baucus would be strong-arming colleagues into difficult trade votes at the same time that he was asking them to back his confirmation.
3. If this is so disastrous for its trade agenda, why would the White House do this?
The Washington Post offers three reasons, one of which is even plausible.
The first implausible one is that the administration wanted to remove a credible critic of the Affordable Care Act. At this point, critics of PPACA are so thick on the ground (see all red-state Democratic senators, for example) that the marginal benefit of banishing Baucus would barely register.
The second implausible reason is that Baucus is a China expert. In fact, as recent ambassadors to China go, he looks relatively ill-suited. As a senior senator and chair of a key committee, he has certainly dealt with many issues important to China. But he doesn't speak the language and it has not been a particular focus of his work.
More plausible is the domestic political benefit Democrats will gain. If Baucus served out his term, Montana would be an open Senate seat; Republicans would have a good shot at taking it and thereby coming closer to controlling the Senate. An early departure means that a Democratic governor will get to install someone who will run as an incumbent.
4. Which is more important for U.S. standing in Asia: trade progress or a good ambassador to Beijing?
Even if we stipulate that Baucus's connections and experience will make him an outstanding ambassador, it is hard to see how this is a net positive. As Ian Bremmer recently argued, there is no region of the world more important for U.S. foreign policy than Asia, and there is no U.S. undertaking more important there than the passage of TPP. Ambassadors put the best face they can on existing U.S. policy. There is only so much a great ambassador can do with a faltering policy. While China is not a participant in TPP, the success of that agreement will matter immensely for the strength of alliances across the region.
TPP was supposed to conclude this year. It won't. Congressional passage of TPA in the upcoming election-shortened legislative year was meant to reassure impatient trading partners that the United States is serious. Failure or indefinite deferral would convince them of the opposite.
After a prolonged period of seeing trade policy stymied by domestic political considerations, the optimism and progress of the past few weeks felt distinctly
odd. Should Baucus's departure play out as rumored, it may well mark a plunge back into the fruitless trade approach of the last five years.


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Saudi Arabian Mining Company (Maaden) announces the developments of the use of proceeds from its rights issue shares subscription, which was held during the period 18-11-2014 to 02-12-2014, where the received gross proceeds amounted to SAR 5.6 billion. As at 30/9/2015, the used proceeds were SAR 2.93 billion and the remaining proceeds were SAR 2.67 billion.
The expenses details and projects progress percentages compared with what was declared in the rights issue prospectus are as follows:
1. Offering Expenses:
Offering expenses were SAR 23.9 million as compared to SAR 21 million stated in the rights issue prospectus. The reason for the increase in offering expenses was the increase in advisory fees from those estimated.
2. Maaden Waad Al-Shamal Phosphate Company:
As of 30/09/2015 the Company used SAR 2.39 billion from the proceeds as an equity contribution to Maaden Waad Al Shamal Phosphate Company. The remaining amount of SAR 2.67 billion will be used to finance the Companys equity investment in the project, of which SAR 900 million will be used in the month of October 2015. The total amount to be used from the offering proceeds to fund the Maaden equity investment in Maaden Waad Al Shamal Phosphate Company as per the prospectus will be SAR 5.06 billion.
Construction progress reached the following levels as of 30/9/2015G:
Completed 38% of the Beneficiation Plant compared to 9.2% as at 30/8/2014G, as stated in the prospectus.
Completed 61.3% of the Sulphuric Acid Plant compared to 25.7% as at 30/8/2014G, as stated in the prospectus.
Completed 62.4% of the Phosphoric Acid Plant compared to 12.6% as at 30/8/2014G, as stated in the prospectus.
Completed 74.7% of the Ammonia Plant compared to 14.6% as at 30/8/2014G, as stated in the prospectus.
Completed 42.8% of the Diammonium Phosphate (DAP) Plant compared to 8.0% as at 30/8/2014G, as stated in the prospectus.
3. Maaden Bauxite and Alumina company:
As stated in the prospectus, the Company used SAR 509 million of the proceeds from the offering as at 31/03/2015, to repay amounts then outstanding under its redrawable murabaha finance facility which had been temporarily used to fund costs incurred by Maaden Bauxite and Alumina Company and SAR 7 million to fund the balance of its equity contribution to the project.
Construction is fully completed for Maaden Bauxite and Alumina Company project, as announced previously and the project is currently in the rump-up stage as of 30/09/2015G compared to 94.69% completion as of 29/08/2014G as mentioned in the prospectus.
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Hello! I am doing some downsizing this year I have an AMAZING collection of NG magazines that start in April 1999 and end roughly in September 2015. From what I am reading the resale value is very minimal to nothing is that correct?
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The short answer is: true!
But you never know until you try, there is always someone looking for you are selling/giving away - you just have to be lucky enough to find them at the right price.
The long answer is: it's all in the timing as this long winded link may show...
Melvin - Thanks I had seen that article and that was what had lead me to the realization that I was not going to be able to sell what I think are absolute treasures :). Thanks for your time!
do you have nat geo history April-may 2015 by the chance?
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Yota Devices is now developing a new phone with two displays: an LCD on one side and an electronic paper display (EPD) on the other. The EPD is users' personal space for notifications, social media, reading news as it happens or simply displaying customer`s favorite pictures. The two sides are linked together to open a new world of user experience. The phone will be available in the world market in Q4 2013.
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Since 2009, UNEP has been implementing a project to enhance water efficiency and water quality management through the refinement of water footprinting and water neutrality methodologies, their testing and applications in developing country industries and in water stressed areas. The specific objectives of the project include the following:
Referring to the type of water use and where, when, and how the water is used, the water footprint concept measures the total water appropriation of goods and services by integrating water consumption over the complete production and supply chain (direct and indirect water use). The concept has been introduced to have a demand and consumer oriented indicator. The concept has the potential to be applied for any product or activity, as well as for any well-defined group of consumers or products, organization, or a given geographical region. Water neutrality refers to the reduction and offsetting of the negative externalities resulting from the water footprint of a unit of analysis, such as a product, service, individual consumer, business or other organization.
While there have been significant efforts by UNEP in the terrain of water management, there has not been a concerted effort engaging public authorities, businesses and the finance community to promote and test innovative approaches and management tools. This project seeks to fill these gaps and seize the opportunity to collaborate with different actors in the public as well as the private sector government authorities at different levels, industry and financial services, as well as networks and NGOs - to advance water efficiency and water quality with considerations on global supply chains and life cycle. The ongoing work to develop an ISO standard for water footprinting by 2011 also underscores the need to refine the methods and tools that address developing country concerns and sustainability priorities, and to build capacity on the concept and its applications.
This project has been developed as an umbrella initiative that builds on complementary strengths from three branches within the UNEP Division of Technology, Industry and Economics (UNEP DTIE), namely IETC, the Sustainable Consumption and Production Branch, and the UNEP Financial Initiative under the Economics and Trade Branch of DTIE. The project targets the following sectors:
Globally, the project is expected to help address water shortage and contamination, considering transboundary implications where relevant, and mitigate a broad range of risks from the competing use of freshwater resources between industries and geographic locations.
IETC focuses on the public sector engagement and application of the water footprint and neutrality concepts within a geographical area in water-stressed regions, under the following two components:
IETC has partnered with the Water Footprint Network to assess the current state of methodologies and tools development to be applied within a geographical area, and to analyze examples of past and current geographical level applications. IETC is also engaged in discussions with WFN and other partners to determine suitable locations for pilot applications, to commence by 2011. The results of this ongoing work will be discussed at a consultative meeting to be held in Osaka, Japan in May 2010, in partnership with the Global Environment Centre Foundation (GEC). In addition, IETC is providing guidance and inputs on a research initiative by GEC on the state of water footprinting in Japan and at the global level, which has been supported by the Ministry of Environment of Japan.


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"Trust and obey; For there's no other way; To be happy in Jesus; But to trust and obey."
Sunday, May 3, 2015
Tomorrow Is the Big Day!
Tomorrow is the beginning of our 2015-2016 school year.
I'm so excited!
And nervous.
What will this year hold? New babies? Changing life circumstances? New direction? Same ol', same ol'? Every year I wonder, and every year we just have to wait to see what the Lord has in store for our family. Every year He has proved faithful, and I know that whatever this year holds, God has us in His hand and is working for our good.
I'm excited about this year. Unlike last year, when I was starting the year with a good case of burnout and day-and-night morning sickness, this year I'm feeling great and ready to get going. I'm excited that I've found some direction for our studies (in some areas!), and I'm looking forward to getting started.
In fact, I'm feeling a bit like an eager-beaver who is just asking to overdo it. Again. Hopefully having been down the burnout road before will protect me from that.
Maybe, anyway. I tend to repeat mistakes several times before I actually learn the lesson.
Tonight we had our "Back to (Home) School Party" - hamburgers, French fries, fruit salad, and cake.
Tomorrow will be our special donuts-for-breakfast day, and I'll decorate and put out our new curriculum. We won't actually do any school work tomorrow, so hopefully it will be a pretty smooth first day back. Real work will start on Tuesday. (I'm planning to add a subject a day to get up to full running speed.)
Here's to 2015-2016 and whatever it holds.
Happy Back-to-(Home)-School!
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The Neater Feeder Pet Feeder is the world's first Mess-Proof Pet Feeder! The Neater Feeder is designed for dogs, cats, puppies and kittens of all sizes to enjoy a mess-free meal time. Mess-free meals make pet owners happy because floors and walls remain free from stains, pet food and water spillage. Pets also enjoy the ergonomically designed Neater Feeder raised pet bowl, because it allows them to feast at the proper height, helping to improve posture, aide in digestion and help prevents joint and neck strain.
Most raised pet feeders are not mess-proof because they don't have the patented two filter system that the Neater Feeder features. The top layer collects food spillage that can either be re-used or discarded. Water spills cause by sloppy drinking or humans bumping the food bowls, drains to the bottom reservoir where it can later be discarded or re-used. No food or water will end up on your floor, helping to prevent floor damage and trips and falls.
In addition to sloppy drinking habits such a gulping, the next common cause of pet water spills is human error. People frequently bump their pet's food and water dishes on the floor, causing the contents to spill on the floor or splash on the walls. This can cause water damage and stains from wet pet food. It can also be a slip and fall hazard. These problems are eliminated when you use the Neater Feeder Pet Feeder. The Neater Feeder is virtually spill-proof. The contoured walls of the top reservoir of the Neater Feeder prevent excess food and water from hitting the floor. Excess food is contained in the top reservoir, while pet water seeps to the lower reservoir. Whether your pet is messy eater, or the owner is clumsy, the Neater Feeder will defend against all pet food and water spills.
The third Neater Feeder proof is "ant-proof." The Neater Feeder's patented design is virtually ant and pest proof. This is an important feature, especially for pets who reside in the south where household insects are a problem. Ants and bugs carry bacteria that can enter your pet's food and water if the ants are drinking or eating it. The raised design allows for food and water to stay clear of bugs. Also, like other raised pet feeders, the Neater Feeder's design prevents bacteria from growing beneath food bowls. Since water and food cannot collect around the edges and bottom of the pet bowls, bacteria does not have a warm, wet place to grow, helping to keep your pet healthy.


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In which I set up a collaboration between a biologist, a farmer and a chimeric chicken
I get a lot of emails. Most can be casually filed away, but among the spam and fluff from PR agencies, there are occasionally some absolute gems. And so it was that on August 21st, one Paul Sanders saw fit to send me four photos of a chicken.
Several months back, I wrote a piece about chickens that caught Paul's eye. In a new paper, Mike Clinton's group at the University of Edinburgh had found that these everyday birds have an amazing secret – every single cell in their bodies is either male or female. Each one has its own sexual identity, which is very different from the way that sex is determined in mammals.
You'll have to read the original post for a full explanation of how this works, but the important bit is that Clinton's discovery came about through studying three very unusual chickens called gynandromorphs. Each bird looks like it has been sown together from two different chickens down the midline; one half is clearly a cockerel and the other is clearly a hen. And that's exactly what Paul Sanders found in his coop.
Sanders grew up on a farm in rural Missouri. Aside from a stint in a law firm, a spell at university, and a tour in Vietnam, he has always kept chickens (no colonel jokes, please). He contacted me after reading my piece on chimeric chickens, and wanted to know if his bird fit the bill. He sent photos (above) and a video (below), where you can clearly see the different plumage and features on the right and left sides. The poor creature's head feathers are missing in the photos because he/she was "nearly scalped" by some other chickens and needed stitches. [Update – the bird in the video is not Sanders' bird; it's a video he found from someone in New Zealand. Perhaps another collaboration! – Ed]
Sanders asked whether the bird "should be donated to a university," saying that "it would be a shame for him/her not to be shared." I concurred. Clinton had contacted me after my original post and knowing that he was friendly and approachable, I suggested that Sanders contact him.
Two nights ago, Sanders got back to me. Within days, Mike Clinton had replied to his email and the two men have enjoyed a productive exchange, which they were kind enough to share with me. It's a wonderful series of messages that reveals a scientific collaboration in the making. It charts a conversation between two specialists – one in develomental biology and one in developing poultry – both trading knowledge, testing ideas, and speaking in simple language that the other less knowledgeable partner can understand (Clinton chuckled about this when I spoke to him).
Clinton says that his first thought when he got Sanders's email was, "Hey another lucky break, you jammy beggar!" Many people had got in touch with him about the topic, "from schoolkids to retired scientists," and he even had a chat to a guy who had a collection of gynandromorph butterflies. But this was the first message he had recevied from someone who actually had an example of a chicken chimera. Clinton said that the bird is "almost certainly a gynandromorph." He wrote to Sanders:
"We can be absolutely certain that your bird is not the result of any unusual treatment that the egg received… This condition occurs in a variety of different birds – chickens, zebra finches, cardinals and parrots have been reported (there are some very striking pictures on the internet). I suspect that it happens in all birds and possibly other species – but is only noticed in instances where the males and females are distinctly different (and in species where the body midline is established early in embryonic development).
From a scientific point of view, the outstanding question to be resolved regarding gynandromorphs is "how do these birds arise"? There are currently two main theories; a) an unusual fertilisation event involving two different sperm, or b) the fusion of two separate embryos in a double-yolked egg. We strongly believe that gynandromorphs result from an unusual fertilisation event and that the two-embryo theory is extremely unlikely. Your observations on the size of the egg would suggest that it was unlikely to be double-yolked? If, in the future, material was available from the bird and the (prospective) parents, we may be able to resolve this issue using modern genotyping techniques."
As it happens, that was something that Paul was very much up for:
"It is very exciting that this bird might help you to resolve the issue of how they occur. I still have the prospective parents and I could provide you with whatever genetic material you would need. In answer to your questions about the egg that it hatched from: it was not much larger than what is called a "fart" or "wind" egg in poultry keeper's terms. These tiny eggs generally have no yolk at all (though there are rare exceptions) as they result from some tissue within the oviduct that tricks the hen into thinking there is a yolk, and a shell forms around it. This was probably not the case here but it definitely had a single, not a double yolk. I had candled it a number of times and noted nothing unusual about it. Please feel free to ask any further question that might help you with your research. I am six hours behind you and I do not usually get to check my e-mail until after I feed my animals which is around noon time."
A collaboration! But how to proceed? Clinton responded:
Thank you very much for your enthusiastic message – it's gratifying to find others that share an interest in these unusual animals. We think that there are four possible mechanisms that could generate these birds:
- A genetic defect early in oocyte (egg) development followed by fertilisation by one sperm.
- A genetic defect late in oocyte development followed by fertilisation by two sperm.
- The fusion of two normal embryos.
- The fusion of a normal oocyte and three sperm (from one or more males).
There may well be others that are beyond the limits of my knowledge and imagination. Some of my colleagues here at Roslin are very interested in the details of avian genomes, and I think that if we apply their techniques we will be able to, at least partially, resolve this issue. They use an approach called genotyping – which essentially monitors genetic markers that vary between individuals. This is the sort of thing that you hear about on TV when celebrities have to undergo 'paternity testing' to prove (or not) that they are the father of the child involved. There are genotyping markers available for the chicken sex-chromosomes and if we applied them to material from these birds we should be able to show which mechanism is correct (and, of course, determine which of the male birds is the 'father'). The only thing we would not be able to do is distinguish between mechanisms 2 and 3.
I guess that if we are both interested in doing this, the big question is "how"? These procedures are normally carried out on material extracted from blood samples and if it is possible to get blood samples, I think that we should start there. I think that the only practical way to achieve this would be to get a "vet" to collect blood samples (in anticoagulant) and ship the samples to us by 'Fed-Ex'. Of course, this would mean that you would not only have to be willing to permit blood samples to be taken – you would also have to go to the bother of organising it! I appreciate that this would be a tremendous nuisance for you and I would understand if your interest did not extend this far.
Uninterested? Not at all. Paul was in it to win it:
This is indeed very exciting. I took the time today to photo the mother and prospective fathers of the gynandromorph bird so that you can get an idea of all the birds that would be involved and have their photos "on record" if you wish. Please feel free to use them in any way you wish. It should not be too much trouble for me to coordinate the collecting of blood samples, which I am sure would need to be shipped immediately and overnight… I will be sending you updated photos of the gynandromorph bird soon. I am already seeing some changes to it that reflects male and female sides. Particularly the widening of the skull on the male side and heavy pin feather growth around the right side of the neck.
And now, data! What scientist could resist?
Thanks very much for the photographs – very impressive looking birds. It's great that you will permit blood sampling and that you are willing to consider coordinating collection. My next step is to make sure that my budget will cover the costs of what we would like to do… I have spoken to some of my colleagues here and they were very positive and will get back to me with an estimate of what it is likely to cost for us to genotype these birds…
I was very interested to hear about the changes occurring in the gynandromorph – these are such fascinating animals. Actually this is a real opportunity – there are no recorded examples of the changes that occur during the development from a young bird to an adult. If it isn't too much of a hassle for you, it would be great if you could take pictures and notes of the changes and record when they occur.
And so it continues.
I love this. Science can spring from the most serendipitous of circumstances and I'm proud to have played a trivial role as a conduit in this instance. Indeed, this story is laced with serendipity, right from its beginning. "This chimera was against incredible odds," says Sanders. "It all started when I found a tiny egg in the middle of the chicken house that somehow had managed to avoid getting trampled and broken. I picked it up and brought it to the house with the eggs I had gathered to eat, but this one proved to be too small to bother with. I was curious to see what kind of a chick might hatch out of it, so on a whim, I set it in the incubator… With such a small group of chicks that hatched, I was able to spot the odd coloring fairly early. This was the same day I contacted you!"
How did Sanders find me? "My search brought up several related blogs and articles but yours was the only one that was easy to read yet contained enough technical information (and diagrams) to answer my questions," he says. "You also were the easiest to contact." I've written and spoken before about the power of blogs to connect people directly with scientists, and their ability to have a real impact in the non-pixellated world. I think this is a lovely case study of just such a connection, and just such an impact.
Acknowledgments: I am indebted to Paul for sharing his story and providing photos and videos, and to both he and Mike for giving me permission to reprint their private emails.
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Cool story!
Yes, lovely!
This makes me so happy! I work in the ag programs of a university Extension service, and our faculty members are always quick to mention how much they learn from the farmers they work with. It's exciting to see farmers assisting with or inspiring the research happening at the university.
That is really neat!
Paul Sanders also strongly claims this is a hybrid of coturnix quail cock and a chicken hen. Did he mention this to you or Clinton?
This was mentioned to Dr. Clinton. Genotyping will reveal who the prospective parents are. As the bird ages, it appears to be a chicken, but the possibility of it being a hybrid has yet to be ruled out. It may even have more than one father.
Amazing photos and video!
Fascinating and heart warming. I find it interesting too that the other chickens nearly scalped the "odd" one. It reminds me of our dog who tried to kill one of her puppies right after birth. My parents rescued the pup which looked perfect. However, it turned out to be the one with the most developmental problems and genetic issues that made it impossible for them to sell the puppy (they were pedigreed). Somehow the mother dog knew it was "not right"… once her other puppies had gone to new homes, and the problem puppy was big enough to get around on its own, she accepted it and never tried to kill it again.
Paging Vince Cable to explain where in an impact plan there is room for this sort of thing to happen. Not that I'm a stressed academic in the UK or anything
Nice story! Well done
Clinton chuckled about this when I spoke to him
I swear that I first read that sentence as, "Clinton clucked…"
The closing paragraph from Paul on how he found you and the description of your writing reminds me how fortunate we all are to have you in the science blogosphere. You could just simply be satisfied to work in your day job but your commitment to top-notch and accessible science writing for all shows how powerful and beneficial this medium can be.
Well done, all around!
This is fascinating and also touching. I am looking forward to hearing the outcome of the blood work!
Getting scalped by other birds – this means, very literally, that this bird is on the bottom of the pecking order. Looking odd does not seem to go well with other chickens.
Though the feather color/pattern resembles Coturnix quail, I doubt this is a hybrid between the two species – chickens can be speckled in just the same way.
The Roslin bird group is excellent and I hope they put together some funds to get this done – what an awesome opportunity, and all because Ed can write!
But, but, your writing is so…insularized. You need to be more ambitious, be a doer. Then you would really accomplish something, not just this theoretical chit-chat! :-p
[Ha! For other readers, see here for the background – Ed]
I wonder how the level of hormones/signaling molecules secreted by male/female cells in a single body been maintained for 50/50 separated tissue rather then mixed tissue structure.
I've left you an e-mail as well, but would like to know if I could use (part of) the above chicken image in a blog post about this story. (Image would be credited to Paul and linked back here.) Let me know, so I can hit "publish" =)
Great story that's resulting in some very happy scientists (you really can read that in the emails from Dr. Clinton) and a just as happy farmer! I really look forward to see the results of this wonderful collaboration.
My own research interest would be behavioural, I'd wonder whether it behaves more like male or female chicken or no sex related behaviour. Alas I'm not in the field anymore, but I can't help being curious about these topics.
I have been taking note of its behavior. So far, it behaves as a cockerel. Aggressive and challenging its brooder mates. Its comb is also reddening. It is a "bearded" variety of chicken so it will lack wattles for size comparison.
Ah… I'm really envious, you have such a wonderful opportunity to watch such a fascinating animal grow up.
From what I learned from the paper those gynandromophs come in 3 internal sexual variants, I think it might be most likely an internal male. Where you able to look into its cloaka and sex it?
I'm suffering from severe research itch… oh well…
This is really interesting (as well as great to see as a collaboration). I was discussing mosaicism with my class the other day and will use this case to explain it a little further. Hmm.
One of the possible explanations given for this chicken is that two normal embryos fused. Would it be reasonably accurate to say that this kind of mosaicism is the extreme variant of conjoined twins (or vice versa)?
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I should count how many melons Jane appliquéd!
She clearly loved them.
She clearly loved them.
i love them, too! that's the best fun part of dj ... there's really not a lot of applique to dj.ReplyDelete
I know that if I keep reading your accomplishments I will eventually get the DJ bug again. Thanks for sharing your talent with us.ReplyDelete
I ahve often said I think she was not right in the head! LOL That woman had some time on her hands! But she was very creative in her works!!ReplyDelete
I was new to applique for this project & LOVED the melons. =)ReplyDelete
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Well, NaNoWriMo didn't go well for me this year. I struggled through my first 15,000 words or so, upgraded my cell phone to a Droid2, and between the struggle, working 50 hour weeks, and having a new gadget… Well, let's just say this will only be the second time since I started doing NaNo back in 2005 that I haven't won.
Congratulations to everyone who *did* win, though. You have my respect and admiration. Now stop reading and go away, darnit. I hate you.
No, no, I'm just kidding. You can come back. Dry your tears. You know I love you, right? I'll even let you participate in what's coming next, if you'd like to be an overachiever.
One of my goals and reasons for doing NaNo this year was to get myself back into the habit of writing every day. That didn't really work out very well and I think there were a couple of reasons:
- I was extraordinarily busy and stressed out this November, mostly having to do with day job stuff, and that is not a mood conducive to writing creatively.
- Because of the stress, the 1700 words a day required to win NaNo seemed like an insurmountable barrier – so insurmountable that in the latter half of the month, I couldn't even find the will to get started, because I was so far behind. When I wrote at all, I usually managed about 800 words before my brain went sizzle and quit.
I'm sure I'm not the only one in this situation. So for all of you out there, who didn't meet your November goals and are feeling kind of bad about it, I say: Let go of the guilt!
Why don't you instead join me on a new little project I've cooked up? I'm calling it DéJàWriMo.
Here is what I propose:
If you were tired, sick, stressed, unconscious, or just plain lazy during the course of November, why not give your novel another try? DéJàWriMo makes it easy on you!
Let's write together over the course of December and January. That allows us 62 days in which to write, and gives us the much more manageable goal of 806 words a day to make 50,000 words by midnight January 31st.
Why DéJàWriMo?
Well, why not? It's a nice play on words that authors ought to appreciate. De Ja because we'll be writing during the months of December and January. So it's 'December and January Writing Months'. And DéJà because you might just get the eerie feeling that you've done this somewhere before… In November perhaps?
So why don't you take this opportunity and try for a gentler, kinder novel writing experience? I think you owe it to yourself.
Sign up in this thread. I'll even promise to look into doing stickers, or at the very least a special web badge, for our winners.
Edited for clarification: I want 50,000 new words from participants between now and January 31st. I don't care whether they're added on to a work in progress (Did you win NaNo but your story isn't done? Didn't win but want to continue anyway?) or whether they're on a brand new plot (Won NaNo and want to be that overachiever I talked about? I'm all for it!). Heck, I don't care whether it's 5 or 10 short stories instead – my goal here is for 50,000 brand, shiny new words. That's all. Do with them what you will.


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Varsity teacher urges media to promote gender issues
Professor Tor Iorapuu of the Department of Theatre Arts, University of Jos, has urged Media practitioners to adopt a language that is non-violent, easy, attractive, socially acceptable and timely when dealing with gender issues in the country.
Iorpanuu stated tis while presenting a paper on 'Establishment of Community Strategy as it Relates to Gender Equality Bills' at a stakeholders' recent meeting for the Establishment of Communication Strategy by UN Women in Gombe State. Iorapuu said the communication strategy must be aimed at educating women and girls to impact ideas that encourage behavioural change in the society.
"First and foremost, media practitioners represent the people," he said. "They are the voice of the people and it is important that before media practitioners are able to write or comment on any issue, it is important they too are well informed about it. Now, here you are about to deal with an issue that is deep-seated, deep-rooted and that has to do with the cultural and religious sensibilities.
"So, in order to engage issues like this, it is important that media people are very careful about it; to make sure tat the language they use is non-violent; it is easy; it is attractive; it is socially acceptable and it is timely. And in all of this, everyone becomes part of the process.
"It is necessary because gender issues are sensitive and have deep-rooted religious, traditional, as well as social and economic implications, and therefore require the use language that is dialogue, shared understanding and respect for the culture and traditions."
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According to Diya, "It also says the communication strategy would dispel doubt, emphasise planning and involvement of stakeholders in raising awareness and visibility of the project. The programme of UN Women is being implementing through an EU funding, known as Promoting Women's Engagement in Peace and Security in three selected Northern Nigerian states of Adamawa, Gombe and Plateau."
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Doncaster is modernising.
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The new National College for High Speed Rail and the rail sector hub located in the South Yorkshire town are just two obvious examples of a conurbation that is, economically, moving in the right direction. Everywhere you look in Doncaster there are signs of life, from new builds, to new companies locating. It's a far cry from the depression of a town 'built on coal', which promptly collapsed when the black gold was no longer wanted.


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List of famous smokers
This is a [parial] list of famous people, for whom smoking is clearly a recognised part of their public image, or who are known for some unusual aspect of smoking.
Pat Nixon - Was a closet cigarette smoker, a fact that came out shortly after her death. Lucille Ball - Her image was used to advertise Philip Morris cigarettes from the 1950s until the 1970s. Drew Barrymore of the famous Barrymore family smokes Marlboro Reds, about 2-3 packs a day. She started smoking cigarettes at age 9 1/2. David Bowie - Several photos--both on stage and publicity shots-- depict Bowie smoking. According to the biography Strange Fascination, he smoked both Gitane and Marlboro cigarettes. Quit in early 2000s after a heart attack. Bette Davis - American film actress who was never without a cigarette. She starred in Now, Voyager (1942), which has the famous scene in which Paul Henreid places two cigarettes in his mouth, lights them, and then passes one to Bette Davis. She died in 1989 after a long battle with breast cancer and having suffered several strokes. Sammy Davis, Jr. - American singer/actor. Often seen smoking on stage and in interviews. Died of throat cancer in May 1990 at age 64.
Walt Disney - His years of chain-smoking led to his death of lung cancer at age 65. George Harrison - Member of The Beatles who was famously seen smoking in the movies A Hard Days Night and Help!. His off-screen chain-smoking habit lead to his death from lung cancer in 2001. Peter Jennings - Journalist and former anchor of ABC World News Tonight. Died of lung cancer in 2005. Kate Moss - Model; smokes four packs of Marlboro Lights per day and has been smoking cigarettes since the age of 12. This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "List of famous smokers". This entry is a fragment of a larger work. Link may die if entry is finally removed or merged.
"The lung of the smoker is a naked virgin thrown as a sacrifice into the godfire."
Everyone knows smoking is not good for your health. So long as you're not blowing it in the faces of children it's your own god damn choice.
Smokers are the most selfish and miserable group of humans on the planet. Look at some of these posts. They don't even enjoy their addiction any more. They're not in control, thanks to the chemicals in the cancer sticks, and that affects their thinking.
They care not for others around them, or their children, who will passively inhale their carcinogenic poison.
It's nothing to do with human rights. To compare a health initiative with the Holocaust (see ..."then its the jews") is repulsive and idiotic. It's the cancer, which smokers cause in others as well as themselves, and heart disease, Stupid!
A policy of attempting to stop smoking is no different to a policy of stopping addicts abusing heroin. I feel dumber having read these smokers posts.
Then stop consuming any and all artwork, music, literature, and products created by smokers...throughout history.
Teehee, good luck health nazis!
According to the University of California at Los Angeles (2003), car exhaust causes both short-term and long-term effects: fatigue, headache and nausea in the short term; chronic lung disease, heart disease, behavioral changes, decreased mental functioning as well as cancer in the long term.
Nothing in life is safe ..so get another target , why not pick on people who sneeze ?
Smoking has been reducing for the last 60 years+ in the western world YET cancers continue to increase unchecked (new cases of Lung cancer increased by over 30% between 2000 and 2008 in USA)
Most lung cancer cases are now in non-smokers
Heart disease is the biggest killer of never smoker males over 50 and never smoker females over 60.
Alzheimer's and other diseases that are prevented or normally delayed by smoking are also increasing rapidly.
The tobacco CONTROL industry is about fanaticism and MONEY - More normal people are coming to realise this - the end anti smoker scam is in sight!
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Happy Valentine's Day!!!
My husband is not a big fun of sweets, so made beef soboro and packed in a bento box with rice.
I got this bento box at Daiso and it was only $1.50! I love Daiso!!!
Hope he likes it<3
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2. Add mirin and cook until cooked
My next bento class is on 2/28 at Tokyo Central in Costa Mesa, but I heard that it's already full..
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Just a quick update in my life. My final project for my textiles studio is a self portrait on cloth. I decided to take all my scraps from all the jeans i've destroyed and sew them into a giant tapestry. :D
this thing is HUGEEEEE. like...beyond MASSIVE!
but it's going to look sweet as hell.
i hope to get pictures up when it's finished!


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I don't know about you, but one of my fondest field-trip memories from elementary school was going to the zoo. I remember the giraffe's, the polar bears, the flamingos, and I also recall that I wore a yellow outfit that my grandmother made with my hair in two braids and light pink reebok tennis shoes. Isn't it odd some of the things that stay stored in your brain? Especially when it's sometimes impossible to recall what you fed your kids for dinner just 24 hours ago. Anyway, O's class took a trip to the zoo last week and the girls and I followed the big yellow bus in my mini, which also carried a double-stroller and a cooler full of juice boxes and uncrustables. The weather was perfect and I mean perfect. Not too hot, not too cold, but as Goldilocks would say, "just right".
We ended our fabulous day at the zoo with a quick run in the fountain. Well, the kids did anyway, so not so much 'we', but rather 'they'.
Can't wait to go back, y'all.
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Dissolve the Gateway seasoning in the soy sauce. Smear the mustard on the flesh side of the filets. Heat the oil in a saute pan until almost smoking. Place the filets mustard side down, and sear until golden brown. Flip the salmon, reduce heat and cover. Let cook about 3-4 minutes. Remove the lid, increase the heat and pour in the soy mixture. As the salmon finishes, the soy and maple will cook down to leave a nice glaze.
If you prefer a more rare piece of salmon, don't cover the pan while cooking, just let it saute evenly on both sides.


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text: OK, remember this is my first time making an Irish chain. So far I have done 20 chain 13" chain blocks and 20 13" alts. Only aggravating part is making the color squares match seam wise to each other Comments and suggestions are welcome, I want his quilt to look awesome when it's finished.


text: On Tue, 21 Sep 2010 13:54:55 -0700, Ant wrote: > Yes you are right - I've checked on my home machine, and it is indeed > 2.6. Still, no Python 3 unless I upgrade to Fedora 13, and upgrading an > OS in order to get the latest version of one package is a bit much! Or you could install from source, which takes all of three minutes of effort. Well, maybe four. Eight if you've never done it before. Maybe twelve if you're cautious. Here's a link to get you started: http://www.python.org/download/releases/3.1.2/ The only gotchas you're likely to run into are, you need root, or at least sudo (which you would need for an rpm installation as well), and don't forget to run `make altinstall` instead of `make install`. Read the README for details. You might have a policy of never installing anything that doesn't go through the system packaging system, and that's a perfectly good policy. But that's not Python's responsibility. Go nag the Fedora folks. Or ask around, somebody surely has built an rpm for Python 3.1. > I know that this is a distribution issue, and not strictly a Python > one, It's not a Python issue *at all*. > but the issue exists primarily because python is such a > successful language it has become deeply embedded in linux > distributions, and so there is now a lot of work involved in checking > that a python upgrade doesn't break things. Well, maybe so, but that has nothing to do with the availability of one or more non-system Pythons. My sys admin foo is mediocre at best, but I've had no problems at all with installing Pythons 1.5 through 3.2 inclusive on my system, while leaving 2.5 as the system Python. In my experience installing from source on Fedora systems Just Works. -- Steven


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The images in the Sunday New York Times Rotogravure section were stunning; muddy trenches, soup-plate helmeted soldiers standing in ankle-deep water, devastated landscapes dotted with leafless tree trunks – the Western Front brought to the living rooms of peaceful citizens all over the boroughs; a ghastly air view of a poisonous gas cloud rolling toward a line of trenches. Images and articles about the Lafayette Escadrille.
The 16 year-old Frederick twins, especially Ted, wanted to fly with the Lafayette Escadrille – it would be a glorious escapade to join the knights of the sky jousting over the bloody battlefields. A group of college students had the idea first – when the European war erupted in 1914, long before the U.S. came in, these young adventurers found a way to get in the fight – they joined the fabled French Foreign Legion. French diplomats saw a way to inflame American public opinion to their cause – they organized a group of eight wide-eyed young Americans into what they called the American Flying Squadron – The Escadrille Americaine. Within a year there were 32 and they asked to be called The Lafayette Escadrille to honor the memory of the Marquis de Lafayette, the young French General who joined George Washington's struggling revolutionaries in America's war for independence.
Okay, Max, how are you going to get the twins into the air over France?
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Today i have another New Baby card to share with you created by one of my fabulous crafty friends Hannah using the fab versatile 'Every Little Bit' stampset:
Hannah started off with a 'Whisper White' base and layered some 'Tempting Turquoise' 'DSP' on to it. She then punched out three 'Scallop Circles' from 'Bashful Blue' card and glued them onto the 'DSP'. On some 'Whisper White' card she stamped out the teddybear, cat and dog images from the 'Every Little Bit' stampset using 'Basic Black' ink and then coloured in using 'Blender Pens'. She punched these out using the '1" Circle Punch' and then secured them into place using 'Dimensionals' to create a raised effect. Finally she punched out a heart using the 'Heart to Heart' punch and then covered it in Versamark and then 'Silver Embossing Powder' and then finished it off with the heatgun!
I love this card. Fab layout and completely versatile! There are so many images in the 'Every Little Bit' stampset that you could customise this card depending on the recipient. Thankyou Hannah for being so thoughtful and sending this fab card! Another one for Xanders scrapbook!! xxxxx


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A new front-runner has emerged to buy the iconic Chelsea Hotel: David Edelstein, president of New York-based Tristar Capital, which plans to turn it into a swanky condo hotel. Other suitors for the bohemian refuge with an asking price of $100 million have included Andre Balazs and Ian Schrager. Tristar Capital developed the W Hotel South Beach and opened the W Hotel London this week. Sources say Edelstein may turn the West 23rd Street landmark into a mix of hotel rooms and apartments. Legendary former manager Stanley Bard said he wanted to buy the Chelsea, but told us yesterday he recently suffered health problems and "things have changed."
Close on Chelsea
By PageSix.com Staff
March 18, 2011 | 4:00am


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Weather mars major London GAA festival
Last weekend I was meant to travel to London to attend the inaugural ABC Championships. The planning of this unde-rage GAA festival of sport has been on-going for close to four years and it was specifically intended to run the event as close as possible to the commencement of the Olympic Games.
Over 100 teams from all over Britain, plus a number from Ireland, had their travel arrangements booked well in advance. The GAA Council of Britain had expended a lot of effort in organising the event and a gala festival of sport was expected at the Tír Connell Gaels GAA Grounds plus a range of local Westminster Council pitches.
The marquees and tents were in the process of being assembled when word came through that the event had been cancelled, much to the utter disbelief of the organisers. The Westminster Council pitches took an awful battering from the recent heavy rainfall in London and were declared unplayable.
Readers do not need me to spell out the consternation the decision caused and not least the disappointment to the hundreds of young children who were descending on London for their own version of the Olympic Games.
It may not be possible to reschedule the event this year, so those young children will have to wait until 2013 to enjoy the inaugural ABC Championships.


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For anyone that I've ridden or sparred with on the web, we'll be having a beer and wine tasting at my place in Golden. PM if you're interested in showing up.
Mtn bike videos will be rolling on the big screen in the Home Theater.
For those of you who know my number, call.
Lets welcome the new season in with a bang!


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Mainstreaming Biodiversity in Fisheries at CBD
By Brian Thomson
Fisheries and aquaculture are important contributors to food security and livelihoods at household, local, national and global levels. Today's roundtable on fisheries at the CBD Biodiversity Conference (COP13) in Cancun highlighted that fish already provide essential nutrition for 3 billion people and 50 per cent of protein and essential minerals for 400 million people, mainly in poor countries.
Fisheries and aquaculture are important contributors to food security and livelihoods at household, local, national and global levels. Today's roundtable on fisheries at the CBD Biodiversity Conference (COP13) in Cancun highlighted that fish already provide essential nutrition for 3 billion people and 50 per cent of protein and essential minerals for 400 million people, mainly in poor countries.
Maria Helena Semedo, Deputy Director General of FAO, addressing the ministerial roundtable, said that biodiversity conservation is strongly linked to food security and poverty reduction.
"Aquatic systems are enormously biodiverse and a key challenge is increasing production while preserving our natural resources and dealing with climate change impacts," said Semedo. "We need an integrated approach to restore productive capacity and ecosystems services of our blue world. Mainstreaming biodiversity means a more participatory approach where biodiversity conservation is seen as an incentive. Sustainable management of fisheries should be our common goal and aspiration."
Fisheries are under high pressure due to human activities including overexploitation, pollution and habitat change. Climate change is compounding these pressures, posing very serious challenges and limiting livelihood opportunities.
For millennia, small-scale fisheries and fish farmers have drawn on their indigenous knowledge and historical observations to manage seasonal and climate variability but today the speed and intensity of environmental change is accelerating, outpacing the ability of human and aquatic systems to adapt.
"Oceans and other water bodies are becoming warmer and may affect nutrient recycling and productivity of fisheries," said Margarita Astralaga, Director of IFAD's Environment and Climate Division. "Localized extinctions may occur if fish cannot migrate to cooler waters, for example, in lake fisheries. Fish migration paths could change, affecting small-scale fishers without suitable vessels to pursue migratory species. Increased spread of disease, reduced oxygen and increased risk of toxic algae blooms and fish kills will impact on aquaculture production."
Sea level rise combined with extreme weather events, like stronger storms, severely threatens coastal communities and ecosystems. Higher water tables and drainage problems may affect brackish-water aquaculture and destruction of fishing and aquaculture assets. There may also be fish escapes, increasing the risk of disease and parasitic infestation of world stock as well as impacting biodiversity.
Some lakes, rivers and water bodies are at risk of drying up. Changes in rainfall patterns and evaporation rates lead to changes in run-off, water levels, water availability and quality, and sedimentation patterns in inland and coastal water bodies, affecting the production of both fresh-water fisheries and aquaculture systems.
"In many cases, it is the poorest communities in the poorest countries that are most vulnerable to these changes," added Astralaga.
Fisheries more than any other modern food production system, depend on the health and natural productivity of the ecosystems on which they are based. Aquaculture, practised on a small-scale in rural areas in developing countries, is also dependent on ecosystem services for feed, seed and adequate supplies of clean water.
"The need to increase resilience to climate change is required for smallholder agriculture as well as for small-scale fisheries and aquaculture," said Astralaga, "IFAD continues to focus on country-led development, community-based natural resources management, gender equality and women's empowerment, access to financial services and markets, environmental sustainability and institutional capacity in the design of its fisheries and aquaculture interventions."
IFAD is integrating climate adaptation and mitigation in its fisheries and aquaculture operations through two multiple-benefit approaches namely; the ecosystem approach and co-management.
Fisheries and aquaculture are of particular concern to IFAD due to their importance to food and nutrition security; their close relationship with the environment and natural resources; their contribution to poverty reduction and employment, often in rural areas of developing countries where alternative economic opportunities are limited, and for gender equity as women dominate the post-harvest aspects of fisheries; and small-scale fishers (including processors) and fish farmers will be among the first to be significantly impacted by climate change.
Case studies – IFAD in action
IFAD supported projects include the Haor Infrastructure and Livelihoods Improvement Programme (HILIP) started in 2013 to support vulnerable communities in the Haor Basin in north eastern Bangladesh, an area faced with extreme climate events including heavy monsoon rains, cyclones, floods, storms and strong winds.
The basin is effectively flooded for six months annually, which seriously interrupt economic activities and their capacity to produce food. The aim of the project is to improve road infrastructure (i.e. bridges, culverts, canals), build local capacity and expand access to natural resources, technology and markets. Other interventions for climate resilience include an early warning system against adverse climate events, a community-based resource management model in priority water bodies ensuring communities have fishing rights, excavation of silted water bodies and establishment of fish sanctuaries and planting swamp trees. The project will also secure employment for poor rural women under infrastructure improvement contracts and it will support women's income-generating activities. Additional financial support has been provided to enhance climate adaptation and resilience through a complementary project, Climate Adaptation and Livelihood Improvement Programme (CALIP).
The Fisheries Resources Management Programme (FRMP) in Eritrea was designed in 2016 and seriously takes environment and climate change vulnerability analysis and risk mitigation measures into account. There is one component addressing coastal ecosystem management through an integrated approach, which includes mangrove planting and management and inter-sectorial development planning. It will establish a fisheries monitoring, surveillance and management system to ensure effective measures such as gear restrictions, closed areas and seasons and adaptation to eventual changes in the migratory movement patterns of the pelagic fish species. Solar technologies will be promoted for fish preservation and processing. Another component will support inland aquaculture through water reservoirs to increase productive use of the scares water resources in the country (only reservoirs with low risk of water depletion will be used). Fish species with high resistance to local climate related stress will be selected.
Finding and applying management approaches that avoid unsustainable fishing practices and that enable stocks to recover are essential elements in a strategy to conserve and sustainably use biodiversity. A number of key strategic actions for accomplishing this, are being explored during COP13.
The overarching principles of sustainable fisheries have been agreed to, and are stipulated in, a number of international instruments at COP13. These represent a comprehensive global framework for fisheries policy and management and support mainstreaming of biodiversity in fisheries and aquaculture. However, there is a need for the strengthening of fisheries management agencies, particularly with regard to governance and assessment so that biodiversity considerations are explicitly part of their work and accountability, as well as constructive interagency collaboration, and meaningful participation of biodiversity experts and relevant stakeholders in the fisheries management process.
Engaging the fishing sector is critical to the successful implementation of sustainable marine conservation and management measures. The governance of marine fisheries and the conservation of marine biodiversity continue to evolve; coherence between them remains critical if each is to achieve its goals.
Approaches for enhancing the integration of biodiversity and sustainability of fisheries include:
· Making greater use of rights-based and innovative fisheries management systems, such as community co-management, that provide fishers and local communities with a greater stake in the long-term health of fish stocks;
· Eliminating, reforming or phasing out those subsidies which are contributing to overfishing;
· Enhancing, in each country, monitoring and enforcement of regulations to prevent illegal, unregulated and unreported fishing by flag-vessels;
· Phasing out fishing practices and gear which cause serious adverse impacts to the seafloor or to non-target species; and
· Developing marine protected area networks and other effective area based conservation measures, including the protection of areas particularly important for fisheries, such as spawning grounds, and vulnerable areas;
Appropriate approaches for addressing biodiversity considerations in fisheries management will be situation-specific and depend greatly on the capacities and information available. The political will and resources to enable fisheries management agencies to fully deliver on a mandate to address fisheries and biodiversity issues is also needed as is enhanced regional cooperation between fisheries and environmental agencies.