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Wednesday, 11 March 2009
Does anything eat wasps?
In a recent conversation about food chains, a colleague wondered if anything ate wasps. Someone suggested "very stupid birds". Does anyone know any more about this?
Tom Eastwood, London, UK
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The lowly wasp certainly has its place in the food chain. Indeed, the question should possibly be "what doesn't feed, in one way or another, on this lowly and potentially dangerous insect?"
Here are a few that do, the first list being invertebrates: several species of dragonflies (Odonata); robber and hoverflies (Diptera); wasps (Hymenoptera), usually the larger species feeding on smaller species, such as social paper wasps (
Vespula maculata
) eating
V. utahensis
; beetles (Coleoptera); and moths (Lepidoptera).
The following are vertebrates that feed on wasps: numerous species of birds, skunks, bears, badgers, bats, weasels, wolverines, rats, mice and last, but certainly not least, humans and probably some of our closest ancestors.
I have eaten the larvae of several wasp species fried in butter, and found them quiet tasty.
Orvis Tilby, Salem, Oregon, US
February 01, 2008 2:56 PM
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The definitive source on European birds,
Birds of the Western Palearctic
, lists a remarkable 133 species that at least occasionally consume wasps. The list includes some very unexpected species, such as willow warblers, pied flycatchers and Alpine swifts, but two groups of birds are well-known for being avid vespivores. Bee-eaters (Meropidae) routinely devour wasps, destinging them by wiping the insect vigorously against a twig or wire. And honey buzzards raid hives for food. They are especially partial to bee larvae, but in the UK, wasps - again mostly larvae - also form a major part of their diet.
Simon Woolley, Winchester, Hampshire, UK
February 01, 2008 2:57 PM
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This photograph
, taken in my garden, shows a mason wasp having its internal juices removed via the proboscis of a large insect.
Tim Hart, La Gomera, Canary Islands, Spain
February 01, 2008 2:58 PM
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In July 1972 I was snorkelling off the Californian island of Catalina. I returned to the east cliff of the island as sunlight was leaving the shore. In a crevice at the base of the cliff I saw a crab holding a wasp, which was still moving.
My photograph
shows the right pincer holding part of the wasp while the left pincer carries the wasp's abdomen to the crab's mouth.
The crab did not show any sign that it was startled by the taste of its meal.
Garry Tee, Auckland, New Zealand
February 01, 2008 2:59 PM
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Badgers will dig out a wasps' nest and eat the larvae and their food base.
This picture
shows an underground nest demolished in the summer of 2003.
Tony Jeans, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, UK
February 01, 2008 3:00 PM
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I was once idly observing a wasp crawling round the edge of a water lily leaf in my pond when it paused to drink. There was a sudden flurry of activity when a frog leapt from its hiding place and swallowed the wasp.
The frog did not appear to suffer any ill effects, so I captured another wasp, tossed the hapless creature into the pond and waited. The frog was slow on the uptake, but there was another disturbance in the water and this time a goldfish snapped up the wasp. The fish, too, seemed undisturbed.
My curiosity now thoroughly aroused, I wondered whether the fish could be induced to consume further wasps. For the next hour or so I continued to hunt down luckless wasps and throw them into the pond. Some got away, some were eaten by the fish, and a few were swallowed by the frogs.
John Crofts, Nottingham, UK
February 01, 2008 3:01 PM
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Returning home late one night I heard the persistent buzzing of a wasp in the kitchen window. It appeared to be struggling around at the bottom of the window, unable to fly properly. A tiny red spider was attached to the underside of its abdomen. The spider must have been some 20 times smaller than the wasp and was positioned where the wasp was unable to mount a counter-attack.
The next morning revealed an empty, transparent wasp exoskeleton.
John Walter Haworth, Exeter, Devon, UK
February 01, 2008 3:01 PM
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You may be interested in some photos I took in my garden in Melbourne in April 2007. They show conclusively that praying mantises eat at least the heads of European wasps: the photo above shows the predator sucking up the wasp's brain before cleaning itself.
See a photo here
I did not see the mantis eat any of the wasp's body. It left it behind, but I didn't see whether it did so on purpose or dropped it accidentally.
Wendy Kimpton, Malvern, Victoria, Australia
Michael Marshall
January 28, 2009 5:52 PM
In 2008 I saw two wasps eaten on my kitchen windowsill - one by a (very) large female Garden Spider who caught the wasp in her web and very rapidly bound it up into a tight food parcel, and one by a Venus Flytrap!
Interestingly, the spider (obviously a female) also ate a male suitor, much to the delight of my wife and daughter, and the Venus Flytrap is named 'Audrey III' after the carnivorous plant in 'The Little Shop of Horrors' so may also be presumed to be female. What's the betting that the poor wasps were both male?
Bob Shaw
Bob Shaw
February 04, 2009 10:25 PM
I beleive that Chuck Norris has a healthy helping of wasps every morning.
February 19, 2009 3:35 PM
Here in Illinois I have watched and photographed praying mantis eating
wasps, bumblebees and honeybees. I've seen forearm damage that might have been from stings but have never seen a confirmed sting. Mantid capture and immobilization is extremely quick and generally leaves the stinging end hanging off to one side.
February 25, 2009 9:09 AM
I have read that black widow spiders eat wasps.
February 28, 2009 6:59 AM
mitarslyI know of several dogs that seem partial to wasps. In particular, a lurcher we had a few years ago made particular sport of chasing, killing and eating wasps. He seldom got stung.
A Labrador we had also liked the chase, but was often stung before he managed to eat them.
I wonder if they taste good to dogs. Maybe a bit like Chilli?
Lynne Moffat
February 28, 2009 8:03 PM
Has this question not been answered?? i saw it in the book 'does anythign eat wasps?'
Answers include draganflies, robberflies, hoverflies other wasps, beetles moths, birds, skunks, bears, badgers, bats weasels, wolverines, rats, mice 133 types of bird, crabs, frogs, goldfish and spiders.
My cat regularly eat waps and bees to no visual ill-effects, apart from some wild and frantic squealing although once a noticeable lump grew on her chin after 'playing' with a certain wasp.
Phil Ruis
February 28, 2009 9:17 PM
Hornets eat wasps and bees. Their activities are not often seen because they're nocturnal. Around sunset I once heard a lot of buzzing in a hedge, and saw several hornets grabbing bees and making off with them.
Martin Mohr
March 06, 2009 7:59 AM
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Accompanying the
excellent picture
of the praying mantis eating a European wasp in Melbourne (The Last Word, New Scientist, 31 January), the contributor suggested that the mantid has sucked up the wasp's brain and discarded the remainder. In fact, the mantid is eating the last piece of flight muscle from the thorax - the tastiest and most muscle-bound part of the wasp - ideal tucker for a hungry mantis.
The head was probably discarded soon after the wasp was captured, as would the abdomen be once the nutritious contents of the thorax were devoured.
Philip Spradbery, Canberra, Australia
The writer is the author of Wasps, published by Sidgwick & Jackson (1973) - Ed
Michael Marshall
March 11, 2009 4:58 PM
Motorcycle drivers.
March 21, 2009 6:15 AM
One season I left an access door of my solar energy shack open for cooling.
A VERY large spider, of a type I'd not noticed before in gardening this area for decades, built quite a web -- about 3 feet on a side, across this opening. It generally hung out near the middle of this web, on the backside, and had what amounted to a picture of a wasp on its belly, facing the outside world. It wasn't quite the same as our normal brown wasps (which I normally encourage, being a gardener, they aren't mean to humans but do pack a sting).
I think this put the wasps into some kind of attack mode. This spider ate so well we named it. Anything we can hear walking deserves a name, we thought. It eventually reached about 3/4" diameter body size, and about 2 inches long -- in just the body, this was one big spider. Its "wingspan" approximated a human hand spread out.
We witnessed it eat about 3-4 wasps per day, and weren't checking all the time (we were supposed to be working). Some it bound up, some it ate right then.
This was quite an exciting learning experience for this group of computer nerds, and we too thought "bubba must be some baad stuff if she can eat wasps all day". We had about 3 annual generations total of this spider type, and now this type seems to be gone from the area. Several neighbors also noticed similar behavior in this new (to us) wasp-eating spider.
As a sometime motorcycle driver, I have also eaten my share. They don't taste good raw and angry.
Doug Coulter
March 22, 2009 9:21 PM
I had a 'bog garden' in a shallow dish. It consisted of several Sarracenia species and cultivars, along with a few Dionea muscipula. As the Piitcher plant trumpets aged and died, I dissected them to learn of my plants feeding habits, and to see what unfortunate creatures lay within. There were a fair number of the usual flies, moths etc. but what REALLY suprised me were the number of yeellow jacket remains that I found within. So, add a plant species to your list of yellow jacket 'preditors'....
March 27, 2009 6:29 PM
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The biggest dissappointments are the shoehorn of the Dark Phoenix arc, Wolverine yet again, and killing off another major villain.
That X-men movie is in my opinion too narrative and not sufficiently packed with actions.
Not very good. has anyone who directs and produces these Marvel films ever even read the comic books ??? all the movies are bad. Apocalypse in the comics is epic but in the movie hes a a whimp. Not good casting or good use of what should be great X-men characters. Bad except for Weapon X
The new X-Men series is building momentum, but the end of this movie drops the ball. We spend a whole movie building an extremely powerful villain only to get an anti-climactic deus-ex-machina that only people familiar with the comics will understand or see coming.
For me, the ending is very disappointing. There was no explosion like the one you would expect from such a battle between all-powerful mutant and the X-Men. I expected an explosion like the one from Star Wars when the Death Star was destroyed.
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Also the destruction was not a group effort, but a single person that ended him.
Anyways, I did not like the movie.
I agree with the other comments posted here outlining how horrible this movie is. The costumes look plastic, the characters are inaccurate and the storyline is brutal. I don't understand why these directors keep insisting on developing a "new" story - their are incredibly popular storylines within the graphic novels that are just begging to be turned into movies. Instead they come up with junk like this.
Doesn't anyone else remember the Marauders' mutant massacre?? Why did the movies skip over what was the best Marvel event of the 80s? Just cut the Avengers out of the story (because they are owned by a different film company) and focus on the mutants! (JMO)
Jenny Lawrence is the only one able to pull off her lines in this thing (with all due respect to Michael Fassbender). If you really want to see the different interpretations of the characters, watch the movie, but don't be afraid to hit the fast-forward button when you need to.
Superhero blockbusters are the lifeblood of Hollywood. A feeling I could not shake while watching X-MEN: APOCALYPSE is that I was watching people sweat for a paycheck. The performances of the stars -- Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, James McAvoy, Oscar Isaac -- are all quite good, but the script is so poor, so threadbare, you can't help but bear witness to the actors toiling in the muck and the mire. There are also too many scenes where the lighting is so low it's almost black in order to skimp on set design, costumes and special effects.
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Osteoarthritis (OA) is associated with past biomechanical injury to cartilage and with aging. However, biomechanical injury and aging do not inevitably lead to OA. This proposal will focus on chondrocyte-centered innate inflammatory mechanisms in OA. We have characterized cartilage catabolism- promoting effects on chondrocytes for inflammation-mediated release of the multifunctional protein transglutaminase 2 (TG2). TG2 is abundant in the OA cartilage extracellular matrix and TG2 transamidation catalytic activity increases in aging cartilage. We observed that TG2 is a biomarker of OA severity, and we validated that global TG2 knockout is protective for instability-induced knee OA in mice. To pinpoint biomechanical injury and stress induced cartilage innate inflammatory responses that provide a foundation upon which OA is then triggered or accelerated, we will examine the linkage of TG2 release and XBP1 (X-box binding protein 1) activation in chondrocyte innate inflammation, proposed by us as a central switching mechanism for OA development and progression. XBP1 activation is specific to activation of ER stress, and successful resolution of ER stress promotes cell recovery and survival from injury. However, XBP1 activation also plays a central role in multiple organ models of innate inflammation, including via Toll-like receptor activation. We observe that biomechanical injury induces activation of ER stress in chondrocytes. Moreover, we detect active XBP1 increased in human knee OA chondrocytes. We also observe that cultured TG2 deficient chondrocytes have decreased XBP1 activation, but that extracellular TG2 induces XBP1 activation. Furthermore, we have generated cartilage-specific XBP1 knockout mice to probe for XBP1 function in chondrocytes. Here, we will test a hypothetical model in which TG2 and XBP1, by transducing and/or amplifying responses to biomechanical injury and oxidative stress, switch on chondrocyte innate inflammatory stress to promote OA development and progression. We specifically aim to: 1. Test the hypothesis that TG2 increases biomechanical injury-induced and oxidative stress-related catabolic and apoptotic responses of cultured chondrocytes mediated by HIF-2alpha activation and TG2 guanine nucleotide binding. 2. Test the hypothesis that TG2 increases injury and oxidative stress-induced catabolic and apoptotic responses of cultured chondrocytes critically mediated by XBP1 activation and decreased AMPK activity. 3. Test the hypothesis, in complementary studies in mice, that both cartilage-specific TG2 and XBP1 deficiency are protective against development and progression of OA. Completion of these studies will shed new light on the pathogenesis of OA related to biomechanical injury and aging, and identify potential new therapeutic targets.
to the VA Mission and Health Care in the USA: OA leads to intractable chronic pain, loss of mobility, decreased social independence, and physical incapacity, and enormous financial costs. Twelve percent of the overall burden of OA arises after joint trauma. Athletic capability is paramount for survival in military basic training and successful service. Individuals with a medical waiver for knee problems are 1.4 times more likely to be hospitalized for any diagnoses, and 8.0 times more likely to be militarily discharged. In the Armed Forces, 30% to 50% of disability cases are due to injury, and the leading conditions are degenerative lower back and knee conditions. A direct relationship exists for OA with prior joint trauma and aging in the VA and other health care systems, and in VISN22, for example, ~40% of veteran patients are 65 years of age or older, and most people over age 65 have OA. We urgently need new therapy targets for OA, since there are currently no disease-modifying drugs.


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Two curious humpback whales got up close and personal with a guided boat tour off Newfoundland's Northern Peninsula, delighting tourists and tour guides alike.
The two whales put on a 45-minute display for the crowd on a Northland Discovery Boat Tour off St. Anthony on Wednesday.
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I could not believe it several days ago when I was told the marathon would not be cancelled.
Besides all the points raised in the article, every single hotel room in NYC is booked. Those rooms should be available to the people who are suffering in the dark, especially those with ailing elderly people in their family.
I wish I had been handed one of those petitions. There's a word for what Bloomberg is. It begins with a five-pointed symbol for celebrity and ends with an obscenity.
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And the hair fight ends now too. No longer will I spend my mornings chasing my 6-year old daughter around with a spray bottle filled with water in one hand and detangling spray and brush in the other, swiping at her retreating knotted curls and shouting for her to stop right this minute. If she wants to go to school looking like Gene Wilder, I will be okay with that.
Peace will reign in my house each day. I won't scream for them to get into the car, brush their teeth, get their backpacks. I will smile and say things like, "What a wonderful morning this is! Be the best you can be today kids."
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This year, homework time will not resemble high-level, Middle East Peace Talk style negotiations. There will be no more arguing, debating, wheeling or dealing. I will no longer stand guard over my children to make sure their work is getting done like a deranged drill sergeant. My kids will finally realize that if they just sit down and do their freaking homework, it will get done. If they do so fast, it will get done fast. If they whine and complain and repeatedly drop their pencils, it will take much longer. And if they don't want to do it, they'll just get F's. And I'll be fine with that. Really.
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If you have three months to complete a project, that doesn't mean wait two months and 29 days to work on it. I don't want to find myself at Michael's the night before some massive diorama is due looking for a shoe box, green paper, cotton balls, popsicle sticks and plastic farm animals. Projects will get done in a timely manner, in small bits rather than in one large, sweat-inducing, stressful night of tears and recriminations. Again, if they choose the path of last-minuteness, they will not get help from me and will have to be fine with an F. And I'll be fine with that too. Really. I swear.
4. No OverScheduling.
So I just signed my kids up for soccer, gymnastics and rock climbing. Perhaps I'll take this one up next year.
5. Perfect Parenting.
I will read all school-related emails and paper communications sent home in folders, even if they've been crumpled up and shoved into the furthest backpack pocket. I'll sign what needs to be signed, put important dates into my calendar immediately and remember that Monday is Wear Red Day and Tuesday is Pajama Day and Wednesday is Crazy Hair Day and Friday is Bring In A Handmade Quilt Day. I will do each task happily and will never, ever have to race back to the school holding a left-behind item that starts with the letter B.
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I will have lunch with my kids at school, be a mystery reader once a month, lead science experiments, participate in bake sales and help out shelving library books at school. I will give up my precious and well-deserved free time for this. I will be the mom that inspires whispers of admiration and other moms will say things like, "How does she do it? She's so involved!"
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Akron Aeros Giovanni Soto throws no-hitter
Akron Aeros starter Giovanni Soto, a 21-year-old finesse lefthander whom the Indians acquired from Detroit for Jhonny Peralta, pitched a no-hitter today in a 2-1 victory over the Altoona Curve.
Soto, a top 40 prospect in the system, had been having a middling season up to this point, but perhaps had his breakout performance. Soto had gone 5-6 with an ERA slightly over 4.00 heading into today's contest, and many scouts have been mentioning a potential move to the bullpen.
Soto gave up an unearned run and three walks, while striking out six batters. He made 104 pitches, with 64 strikes and 40 balls. He gave up eleven groundballs, and eight pop outs.
Congratulations go out to Soto from IPI on a job well done. Clearly he wanted that top spot in ATF...
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Officials at the New York Mets baseball team have apologized to comedian Jerry Seinfeld after they allowed pop star Lady Gaga to take over his private box at Citi Field when she complained about the paparazzi at a game on Thursday night.
The "Paparazzi" singer was hoping to watch the game against the visiting San Diego Padres in peace and when she noticed photographers snapping her every move, she demanded a seat change.
Officials moved her to a vacant celebrity box, where Gaga took off a leather jacket to reveal her underwear and then proceeded to flip her middle finger at the snappers down below.
When the shots were published in the New York newspapers on Friday, Mets marketing bosses realized GaGa had been seated in Seinfeld's box and issued an immediate apology for giving up his luxury seats without his authorization.
The comic saw the funny side. His representative says, "The Seinfelds take an optimistic view of Lady Gaga's (hand) gesture as a sign that she wants the Mets to be in first place as badly as they do."
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(Literary Masterpieces, Critical Compilation)
The Hungarian-born John Lukacs has always eschewed the tendency toward narrow specialization practiced by most academic historians. He has written histories of the Cold War, of the age of the bourgeoisie, and of fin-de-siècle Budapest, as well as several works that defy the usual descriptive labels. At the End of an Age is one of these, and it is in some respects an extended footnote to several earlier books, including his Historical Consciousness: Or, The Remembered Past (1968), a work whose central conundrum may be stated simply: What does it mean to write history in an age in which the very conditions of understanding have themselves become historical? At the End of an Age reconsiders a number of answers to this question, among them the claim that historical understanding, governed as it is by the principle of indeterminacy, can be neither purely objective nor purely subjective, but is necessarily relational or participatory.
Lukacs begins with a chapter that seeks to justify the claim that the present is, indeed, the end of an age. The age in question is the modern age, which began some five hundred years ago and which still lingers on. Lukacs is convinced, nonetheless, that however prolonged its expiration, the modern age is passing, soon to be replaced by a new civilizational phase. What this new age may look like, Lukacs is hesitant to say. The current moment is the interregnum, but precisely whom does it affect? The modern age is, first of all, a European phenomenon, and thus a distinct period in the ongoing development of Western civilization. However, European expansionism meant that the typical institutions and cultural assumptions of its modern age were carried throughout the world, and thus the end of the modern age is a global concern.
Lukacs insists that the passing of the modern age is not synonymous with the decline of the West. He makes a convincing case that the modern age is, thus far, the most illustrious age in the history of the West, a complex mosaic of ages, none of which can be said to be more essential to its character than any other. The modern age is, however, primarily a bourgeois age, which was first of all the age of the State (here understood as the sovereign nation-state). Allied at first with the absolute monarchies of western Europe, the bourgeoisie emerged in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries as the ruling class of most of the nation-states of Europe and North America. The modern age was also the age of money and industry. Money, while not the invention of the bourgeoisie, has certainly been a distinctive sign of its mode of power, and it was under the hegemony of the bourgeoisie that, by 1900, money reached the greatest extent of its value and the Industrial Revolution became the engine of an unprecedented prosperity and mobility.
Lukacs offers a brief but illuminating discussion of the bourgeois invention of privacy—a phenomenon he associates with the age of the family, a period in which the idea of "home" was associated with a heightened interior life and a new respect for the privacy of individuals within the matrix of familial ties. Only later, growing out of this initial recognition of an almost sacred zone of privacy, did the panoply of individual rights begin to be recognized and sanctioned by a growing body of law. It must also be noted that the bourgeois family was an urban family—the bourgeoisie represent the first ruling class in Western history to be identified almost exclusively with city life. Thus, the modern age is also the age of the town, and Lukacs notes the irony that the many great metropolitan centers that developed under the auspices of the bourgeoisie had, by the late twentieth century, become the breeding grounds of millions of autonomous, deracinated individuals for whom the bourgeois cult of privacy had become virtually meaningless. Instead, the denizens of the modern city in its decline crave not privacy but recognition, not concealment but exposure.
Modern science appeared in the seventeenth century, and is popularly assumed to be the quintessential product of the modern age. However, as Lukacs argues in chapter 2, "The Presence of Historical Thinking," a more important development occurred at roughly the same time: the emergence of historical consciousness. As late as the Renaissance, the past was understood much as the classical Greeks and Romans had understood it: as a reservoir of types or models of virtue and vice, as a source of moral or political instruction, but never as the story of how the present came to be what it is. Only at the beginning of the seventeenth century does a break occur, suggesting a new understanding of the past as historical development. Thus, Francis Bacon, in 1600, was the first to use the term "progress" to mean not progress in space but in time. Throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the popular interest in historical narrative grew enormously, but even the historical understanding of the Enlightenment, Lukacs argues, was deficient by modern standards. It required the Romantic...
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Charlotte's Rose
I will carry that baby to Zion, I shout at them, just see if I don t! Well! I did it! I have left them all quite speechless.In 1856, 12-year-old Charlotte and her widowed father are members of a Welsh handcart company on the Mormon Trail, so poor they cannot afford wagons but must push carts from Iowa City to Utah. When a woman in the company dies giving birth, and her husband is too distraught to care for the baby girl, Charlotte grandly offers to care for the baby, whom she names Rose. But taking care of Rose turns out to be much harder than Charlotte expected. She s stuck; she can t give Rose back. As she struggles along the trail with the infant, she comes to love Rose, and to dream of life with her baby, even though Papa and others remind her that she will have to give Rose back to her father when they part ways at the end of the trail.
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Marchesa's Georgina Chapman on designing for the red carpet
It's almost a given that Marchesa will make a big showing at the Golden Globes Sunday. The label designed by Georgina Chapman and Keren Craig has become a Hollywood go-to for high drama, high romance gowns. Remember the heavily embroidered pearl gray satin column gown Sandra Bullock wore to last year's Oscars, and the fan-pleated fuchsia satin creation that Vera Farmiga stepped out in? How about Kate Hudson's white dress with origami folded bodice from the 2010 Golden Globes? All Marchesa.
Chapman and Craig, who met at Chelsea College of Art and Design in London, launched their business in 2004. Now, they design the high-end Marchesa collection, the more affordable Notte collection, as well as bridal wear and handbags. Based in New York, Craig conceives of the textiles and embroideries, while Chapman (who studied costume design in school) sketches and drapes.
Chapman also happens to be the wife of producer Harvey Weinstein, and three months ago gave birth to their first child, India. In town to tend to last-minute red carpet needs, and support her husband, whose film "The King's Speech" is in the running for several awards at the Globes, Chapman sat down for a quick chat about red-carpet fashion. But first, she pulled out the baby photos. "Poor Harvey. She looks very much like I did as a baby," she said. "I think she might have his temperament though."
All the Rage: How has the award show dressing been going this year?
Chapman: For us it's been flowing quite nicely. There are so many different ways that we work. Sometimes someone will come to us to do a dress, and we'll do sketches and work with them, which I love. Other times I send out a dress and I never know until the last minute. I had a case where someone left in their car in a dress, turned around, came back home and changed her mind. At least it's not going to be raining. Last year, Kate Hudson was wearing one of our dresses with this great fishtail train. She picked the whole thing up in her hand so it wouldn't get wet. I was watching on TV saying, "Put it down, put it down, put it down!" She said afterward that she didn't want to ruin the dress. But I wouldn't have cared if she had!
What makes a great red-carpet dress?
Not every actress wants to be a fashion icon. They are artists in their own right. It's about them getting acknowledged for that. They should go for their personal level of comfort and style. When they feel good about what they're wearing and carry it off, that reads. It's about doing what's right for you.
Do you get your feelings hurt if an actress wants to change something about a dress?
No, because not everything suits everybody. Even for myself, when I'm wearing one of my own dresses from the runway show, I don't have a 17-year-old body so things have to be changed.
Do people still talk about your relationship with Harvey, and how it may have given you greater access to Hollywood than you would have had otherwise?
People don't really talk about that anymore, thank goodness. I'm really grateful that they see me in my own light. I love what I do and people seem to enjoy my product. That's all I care about -- that girls enjoy my dresses, the buyers are happy and the product sells.
Where do you find inspiration?
All different places. Museums, art books, vintage, going on holiday. What really enlightened my creative process was backpacking for a year when I was 18. I went to Vietnam, Nepal, India, and that's where a lot of my creativity and my library of colors come from.
How much more do you think Marchesa can grow? Do you want to design all categories?
I do. We already have Lenox by Marchesa plates, flatwear and glasses, which has been really great to design. Day wear is a possibility, and I would love to do shoes.
How often do you get dressed up for Marchesa-level events?
Quite often, New York is quite a social city. More than I'd like really!
-- Booth Moore
Top photos: Sandra Bullock, left, and Vera Farmiga, center, at the 2010 Academy Awards. Kate Hudson, right, at 67th Annual Golden Globe Awards. All are wearing Marchesa gowns. Credits: Gary Friedman / Los Angeles Times
Bottom photo: Marchesa designer Georgina Chapman in November. Credit: Peter Kramer / Associated Press


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FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — A new report shows that federal prosecutors are taking on more criminal cases from American Indian reservations.
The Associated Press obtained a copy of the U.S. Justice Department report ahead of its scheduled release later Thursday.
It shows that the number of cases filed in federal court have increased 54 percent between fiscal years 2009 and 2012.
The report stems from the 2010 Tribal Law and Order Act, which requires the Justice Department to publicly release such figures.
Justice officials acknowledge their work is far from done. But they say they're committed to combating violent crime on reservations where rates are higher than the national average.
The report also outlines the nearly 6,000 referrals to federal prosecutors over the past two calendar years. About two-thirds led to convictions.


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Talk:DynCorp International mercenaries - Rules for Use of Force in Iraq (2007)
From WikiLeaks
This contract place limits the situations in which deadly force can be used by Dyncore International (DI) employees in Iraq, and describes other policy related to its use.
It permits DI employees to do the following:
- Use deadly force
- Shoot at vehicles.
- Stop, Detain and search Civilians.
A set of procedures is given for the escalation of warnings for each of these activities- however this islittle more than a guideline, insofar as employees are only required to apply this procedure when " its use will not unnecessarily endanger you or others".
There are, however, some firm conditions set out in the document:
- Warning shots are not permitted.
- An employees weapon must be taken possession of as soon as possible after deadly force is used
- An employee who discharged a weapon resulting in death will be placed on administrative leave or reassigned other duties until then investigation is over.
- The on duty supervisor must record all witnesses to the use of deadly force and contact details for them
- An employee who has injured or killed someone will be offered a debriefing by a qualified psychologist.
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Tianguis del Chopo
Mexico City, Mexico
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The Tianguis Cultural del Chopo is a street market specialised in all the paraphernalia of mexican rock culture. Located every saturday near the Buenavista subway station, it is a place where mexican youth has gathered for 27 years. It started as the first Record Fair in a Museum, which was intended to last just a week, but it was so successful that it established as a weekly event. It has moved four times, but since 14 years ago, it has remained in the north edge of Mexico City's downtown.
There are several ways in which the market is attractive for nationals and tourists alike. This is a place in Mexico which portrays mexican subculture at its most. It has been the stonghold of punks, goths, metal fans, skaters, rastas, hippies and rockers. The crowds are attracted as it represents a place where young people can escape from social margination. Throughout the years, the Chopo has brought to its scene much more than music: it has created a stage for live music, has a space for art exhibitions and has encouraged literary events.
This market provides an immense variety of goods related to rock culture: records of almost any type or year, books, crafts, tapes, posters, clothes and accessories, music instruments, tattoos and piercings.
Most people visit the market to exchange CD's or buy them at second-hand price, something which has allowed mexicans to have access to culture at a price they can afford. It is good to get there before midday and leave before 2.30pm. That's when it becomes too crowded. Avoid getting there before six, as by the time many are drunk and there can be occassional fights.
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Scientists are using hormone testing to discern which among our captive black rhinos are the most amorous. This isn't voyeurism, though, but could help us as we help the species recover from near extinction.
In the wild, black rhinos are mainly found in what are known as grassland-forest transition zones but have habitats that range from the desert conditions of south-western Africa to the forests of Kenya. Despite some recent successes, black rhinos remain critically endangered, mainly due to the fact that they are mercilessly hunted for their famed double horns which are sold on the black market either as trophies or, in some areas, as items that can be used in folklore medicines.
Thanks to recent conservation efforts though, there are about 4,838 black rhinos in the wild (if we take into account all the subspecies). While that number might sound comfortable, it still makes the black rhinos vulnerable — and in particular to various genetic diseases that, with so few breeding pairs, can quickly leave them vulnerable to disease.
As such, conservationists have been trying to breed black rhinos from captive animals. This is problematic because black rhinos don't breed particularly well in captivity. Now, though, scientists might have found a way to help with that problem.
Researchers from Chester Zoo in the UK, working alongside teams from the University of Manchester and the University of Liverpool, embarked on a six-year study encompassing 90 percent of Europe's captive black rhino populations (which adds up to close to 10,000 individuals) so that the researchers could look at the mating patterns of the captive rhinos, as well as what their hormone profiles and other characteristics were like. What the researchers found, which is published this month in the journal General and Comparative Endocrinology, is illuminating.
Rhinos who mated regularly in captivity were more likely to display consistent hormone cycles. That's not all that surprising, but what is interesting is that rhinos who had never bred before, whether in the wild or in captivity, were far more likely to have inconsistent hormone cycles. Furthermore, when the researchers looked at the behavioral traits of the rhinos, they also found that those with inconsistent hormone cycles were less likely to show that they were receptive to mating even when their bodies were biologically primed for it.
Lead researcher Dr. Katie Edwards explains why knowing the hormone profiles of captive rhinos can be useful:
"As well as non-breeding females not cycling as reliably, behavioral observations showed us these females don't necessarily show when they are ready to mate, which can make managing breeding difficult. Hormone analysis helps address this problem by allowing us to predict when a female will be sexually receptive to a male, even if she doesn't make it obvious."
Further analysis showed some other important characteristics. For instance, breeding females tended to be lighter than those who, because of their irregular hormone cycles, didn't breed. This suggests a dietary component that, perhaps if modified, could increase the chances of the female rhinos being receptive.
Dr Susanne Shultz, of the Faculty of Life Sciences at The University of Manchester, oversaw the project. She believes that the research demonstrates how even small, seemingly insignificant details can add up to decreasing or increasing the chances of breeding successfully: "This research highlights how rhinos can behave in a different manner despite being kept in similar conditions. We think this demonstrates that it is important to recognize individual differences and adjust management plans accordingly to maximize the health and reproduction across all individuals in the population."
Far from just being academic, this knowledge has a practical use. Chester Zoo has already applied this kind of research to its mating policy and has successfully bred three calves in the past three years. While we'll need more data to know that this kind of hormone analysis is both cost and time effective, it does seem at least from a conservation standpoint that the research has real worth–and there's no reason to think it need be confined to rhinos.
Other species that are incredibly difficult to breed in captivity, like the panda, may also benefit from this kind of non-invasive hormone profiling, and ultimately this technique could be good news for many of our endangered mammal species whom we may be able to bring back from the brink by encouraging genetic diversity through more carefully guided breeding programs.
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One of my wife's friends asked me to make a replica of this table. I have posted it on a couple of other forums to get some feedback as to how to tackle the legs. The piece will be painted so I do not have to worry about matching grain for staining. So far I plan on making the legs and stretchers out of two pieces, with the joint somewhere near the top of the leg. Any suggestions or ideas beyond that or including what type of joinery you would recommend would be greatly appreciated.


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Shell Unlikely to Sell Woodside This Year as Price Undervalued
Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA) is unlikely to proceed with the planned disposal of its holding in Australia's Woodside Petroleum Ltd. (WPL) this year as it refuses to sell too low.
Shell "eventually would sell the stake, it's no longer strategic," Chief Financial Officer Simon Henry told reporters today at the annual general meeting in The Hague. "We're not going to sell below value." He declined to comment on a price.
Woodside, Australia's second-largest oil producer, in 2013 halted plans to build a liquefied natural gas plant estimated to cost $45 billion for its Browse LNG project. The company said in April it was studying cheaper options and may delay the next stage of the A$15 billion ($14.7 billion) Pluto LNG project.
"The market understandably until now has not really given value for Browse," Henry said. "If there is progress there, then maybe that creates opportunities. If the market recognizes the value of Browse, it would value the shares more fairly."
Shell, Woodside's largest holder with a 23 percent holding, said last year the stake didn't fit with its long-term plans.
Shell sold 10 percent at A$42.23 a share in November 2010. The stock closed down 1.6 percent at A$37.66 in Australia today, paring the gains in the shares this year to 11 percent.
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Charlie's Lonely Sunday
- Artist: Dafni
- Format: CD
- Release Date: 8/28/2007
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Drawing inspiration from classic jazz vocalists (Billie Holiday, Nina Simone, Ella Fitzgerald), modern-day chanteuses (Eleni Mandell, Norah Jones, Madeleine Peyroux), and denizens of the Los Angeles alt-country scene (Randy Weeks, Mike Stinson, Tony Gilkyson), with Charlie's Lonely Sunday, her third album and first to be released on the Boronda Records label, Dafni presents a collection of 13 songs spanning a range of genres from the rockabilly hoedown of the opener "Dimes" to tracks featuring Latin ("Let's Pretend", "Lonely Sunday"), country ("This One Dance", "Never Tell You Why"), Americana ("Broken Letter", "Carried Away"), and jazz-tinged ("Complicated", "Honey Honey") grooves. Dafni's band had grown so comfortable playing together during a year of regular performances that they recorded the basic tracks for all of these songs live-vocals included-in a single day at producer Charlie McGovern's Big Ol' Studio in North Hollywood (two of the songs were later rerecorded on another day-again live), providing the album with a consistency that captures the vibe of the band's shows. In addition to 11 of Dafni's original compositions, Charlie's Lonely Sunday contains a Cajun-style cover of labelmate Tracy Huffman's "Bottom of a Well" and a country romp-the saucy "Down and Dirty"-co-written with L.A. songstress Sarah Stanley.
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text: The instructions were simple, too simple. Everyone meet at 247 Stuyvesant Avenue at 3pm in BedStuy and be prepared to cook. We were invited to observe as well as participate. It was the first ever Cooklyn Improv, an improvisational food event that brought together amateur chefs consisting of designers, entrepreneurs, bloggers, and food lovers. The result was a seven and a half hour dining experience that began with a room full of strangers and ended with a seven course meal. Maggie Shi takes us through this culinary experiment.


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Hi guys! Today I wanted to introduce you to a brilliant initiative by Headline Publishing Group. Headline is launching a brand new website called Bookbridgr today, which allows book bloggers to request upcoming titles and exclusive author content directly from the publisher. I've been lucky enough to be one of the ten beta testers who got to have a play around and get their profile started before the official launch, and now I want to share my experience with you. I'll guide you through some of the website's most important features and show you, in a nutshell, how it work exactly, so that you can join us if you like what you see.
One of the site's most essential features is being able to browse the publisher's upcoming titles, as well as the ones that have been published recently. It lets you search for a specific title, as well as browse books based on their genre, which I absolutely love. Selecting a specific genre narrows the list down and is perfect if you don't really know what you'd like to read.
The list also tells you the book's publication date (very handy when you're trying to plan ahead and are looking for blog content for the next few months), it's format, genre and price.
Clicking on 'more info' takes you to the given book's page where you'll find more detailed information and where you can read the full synopsis as well.
As you can see below, the books' pages look quite similar to what we have on NetGalley, including detailed information about the book and the book description. What's different, though, is that not only can you request a copy of the book (either an e-book or a physical copy, depending on your preference) but you can also request exclusive content directly from the publicist who works with this title.
Exclusive content includes hosting a giveaway, posting an extract from the book, and other content related to the book (if you have any particular ideas for a blog post, you can write them in a box, which will then be sent to the publicity team for consideration). You can also request an interview from the author, or let the publisher know if you've already written about the book.
Another thing I love on Bookbridgr is the fact that you can join a blog tour in literally two minutes. No back and forth emails with the publicist and waiting for each other's reply for days. Once you select which blog tour you'd like to sign up for, you'll see all the information you need: the dates, all the available author content you can request, and of course the synopsis.
Clicking on 'begin application' will take you to a separate page where you can enter your preferred blog tour stop date and author content, as well as add a message to the publicity team if you have any questions or suggestions.
You'll see an example in the photo here. (click to on the photo to enlarge)
Similarly to what we saw on NetGalley, Bookbridgr also lets you submit – or as they refer to it on the website, 'bridg' – any reviews, blog tour posts, competitions, author Q&A's or other articles you have previously written. According to the website, "one of the main functions of Bookbridgr is to give you, the blogger, the ability to share your book coverage with publishers, so that they can share it with the authors. Publishers are also interested in taking quotes from bloggers to use in subsequent printings of books, and ebooks too. Each time you submit a piece of coverage to bookbridgr, your Star Rating goes up – this is a great way to show publishers quite how prolific you are, and what kinds of content works the best on your blog. Submitting content is a great way to share your coverage with publisher and author alike, and some publishers may include your praise for their books on future editions in print and ebook."
I've been experimenting with the website for about a week now and I have to say, I really like it. I love how easy it is to request review copies or any other features related to a certain book without having to chase down the person responsible for that particular title. It makes this process so much easier and time-efficient and is a great way to discover new titles as well.
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- Clark Manufacturing Company13.Nov 2015
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Workplace Safety
Suggestions for improvement
- Your PCs, software, telephone systems, databases, etc. are all at least 10 years out of date. The computers are down WAY too much for a profitable company to excuse, and the I.T. people have no incentive to fix anything quickly. It was embarassing. The big development to get a company website arrived at least 10 years later than it should, and then it still didn't work well.


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The Syria Files,
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The Syria Files
Thursday 5 July 2012, WikiLeaks began publishing the Syria Files – more than two million emails from Syrian political figures, ministries and associated companies, dating from August 2006 to March 2012. This extraordinary data set derives from 680 Syria-related entities or domain names, including those of the Ministries of Presidential Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Finance, Information, Transport and Culture. At this time Syria is undergoing a violent internal conflict that has killed between 6,000 and 15,000 people in the last 18 months. The Syria Files shine a light on the inner workings of the Syrian government and economy, but they also reveal how the West and Western companies say one thing and do another.
Kama Sutra Sex Techniiques - The Pair of Tongs
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children away as she did, because of june, unruffled by
any breeze and down at the act as thou hast said, since
thou art my preceptor!' men, dhananjaya, who was ever the
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senator on an excellent seat that was made of gold, beautiful
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I have a few guilty pleasures. Among them are P!nk's Glitter album, those heinous little oatmeal cream pies and, after many a night on the town, those yummy fried shoestring potatoes from our pal, Ronald McDonald.
"McDonald's fries, Aaron?" you may ask, aghast.
"What ever could this have to do with wine?"
Well, thank you for asking.
I'm a firm believer in non-obvious pairings, and where I hail from on the East Coast, there's a Ronald McDonald House that's done something really unique for the past seven years.
Each year at EverBank field, where those err…dedicated Jacksonville Jaguars play…the "Red Shoe Crew" (RMHC's young professionals group) hosts an accessible shindig that called "Fries With That Wine." The event raises money to support families who stay at Ronald McDonald House while their children receive specialized medical care at an outstanding regional hospital.
Lucky for me, it's exactly what it sounds like. In a swanky terrace suite, wine is paired with dollar menu delicacies where the up-and-comers from around the city can enjoy crunchy, salty, fries and a remarkable sampling of adult beverages, including wine.
Like all good things with wine, the event brings people together to socialize, relax and, in this case, support an excellent cause.
Do a daring pairing at your next fundraiser, gala or house party. At the very least, you'll give guests something to talk about and remember. Might I suggest oaky chardonnay and oatmeal cream pies?


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What does noscapine mean?
Definitions for noscapine
Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word noscapine.
A benzylisoquinoline alkaloid obtained from plants of the Papaveraceae family, primarily used for its antitussive effects.
Noscapine is a benzylisoquinoline alkaloid from plants of the Papaveraceae family, without significant painkilling properties. This agent is primarily used for its antitussive effects.
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A naturally occurring opium alkaloid that is a centrally acting antitussive agent.
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Fight to stop cat poison killers
NewsUK Cat NewsMonday 12 March 2012
UK Cats poison
AN 'EVIL' cat killer has poisoned three pets belonging to the same family with anti-freeze.
Mum-of-two Alison Hickling has set up an online campaign to protect other pets.
She and her two sons were left heartbroken after Gizmo, GreyOne and Jess all suffered painful deaths after drinking a poisonous liquid.
Her website, www.antifreezekills.co.uk is calling for chemicals to be added to anti-freeze to make it repulsive to pets.
Miss Hicking, of Addison Avenue, Normanton, said: "The vet said all three had been poisoned by anti-freeze.
"It has a sweet taste and it's really appealing to cats and other pets including dogs.
"We're trying to get the manufacturers to put something in it, a bittering agent, to deter them from drinking it."
GreyOne and Jess died on February 24 and followed by Gizmo three days later.
Miss Hickling's sons, Luke, nine, and Andrew, six, are still devastated after losing three of their seven cats.
She said: "Luke is really disturbed that somebody could do something so evil."
Sean Wensley, PDSA Senior Vet, urged owners to take their pets straight to the vets if they suspected they had drunk anti-freeze.
He said: "Symptoms of poisoning can include poor co-ordination, increased thirst, convulsions and vomiting."
As well as the website, there is also a Twitter account and a Facebook page.
And she has also urged people to put their names to a government e-petition set up by other cat lovers.
For more information log on to www.antifreezekills.co.uk
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I think shooting raw don't really add time to my processing.
I usually just batch develop all my raw files with my favourite raw processor. That additional step just takes like 1min of my time for hundreds of raw files.
The bulk of the time taken is in photoshop digitally editing the picture. That time is not dependent on whether it was shot in raw or not.
I did some shooting with the GX1 last night with the 25mmf1.4 around the Esplanade area. Very little noise at 1600, flash not as yellow as GF1/GH1 but under strong street lamp, still very strong yellow cast. Most of the pics are very good.
Also shot at Chinatown this morning. Colours very clean.
Got a chance to play around with the GX1 today. Here's a pic of the 45 1.8 on the GX1 for those who want to know what the pairing looks like.
In the end i decided to stick to my EP3 and not buy the GX1 to play
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Let me recite my experience of using my EP-3 verses my friends experience on GX1
Both of us have just came back from Harbin 2 days back. I bought an EP-3 just for this trip based on advice in this forum. My friend bought a GX1. He was an upgrader from Gf1.
The weather in Harbin was freezing cold...as long as -30 degree. At such cold weather, it was impoosible to remove my gloves to use the touch screen. EP3's screen being capacitive will not respond to a gloved hand. The GX-1 had no such problem since it's screen is resistive.
Autofocusing for both camera was fast under good light. Unfortuantely, I find that the EP-3 had was very much slower in focusing under dimly lited condition and many times I had misfocused shots as well. The GX1 fared significantly better, almost spot on and still pretty fast under such conditions. Sad to say, I missed several shots....e.g when I was trying to shoot a monkey up on Chang-Bai Shan. I missed the shot as the EP-3 focused too slowly. My friend got the shot with his Gx1.
We were comparing our shots yesterday, and to no suprise, the GX-1 high ISO shots had significantly less noise as compared to EP-3. Under wintry conditions less light conditions in Harbin, my high ISO slides were quit grainy comapred to my friends.
Though the Jpegs from the EP3 had punchier colours, I found to my suprise that the Gx-1 JPEGS were very good as well. My friend told me that he had said sharpness to +1 and some resoultion feature to be on as well. Occassionly he will set to vivid colour as well. To say honestly, I could hardly detect the differences between the 2 Jpegs........
Not here to cause a flame war....but even though I am a EP-3 user, I must say the GX1 is a damn good camera.....
In fact, I am now thinking of selling my EP3 and upgrade to a GX1 or the rumoured GH3
my ONLY problem with the ep3 is that its quite bad when taking pics in low light/night.
Used to own an GF1 and that had better output.
im with shength on using camera in the cold/snow and in dimly lited condition.
I know people shoot in jpeg but i really cannot imagine using the EP3 for diving as jpeg not an option (white balance) and the problem with the iso. (used GF1 for diving before and I could still take very decent pics without strobe)
>I shoot in raw.
decisions decisions.
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"In a Pub in England, ruining bar napkins with lyrics and memories. Dreams are never weak like we are, drunk or sober." - 05/26/10
I don't agree with all of the choices Lady Gaga has made, but I love the idea of and quotes about following your dreams, and this quote's vulnerability resonated with me. I replied to Lady Gaga: "That tweet itself is worthy of incorporation into one of your songs."
These is another favorite:
"I have dreamt a lifetime to get on this flight to New York. I don't care if its summer. Leather, high heels, and a bad attitude. Here I come." - 06/5/10
Again, like Gaga's music, these quotes capture a longing to be accepted and make a difference in the world, something idealists like me dream about. Maybe I'm stretching her messages a bit, but that's why they resonate with me. I like to think that someone as confident with who she is and what she thinks as Lady Gaga could have the same anxieties as a quiet, nerdy girl like myself. I hope my writing allows my best self to come through...I'm working on it!
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Who has it out for Photobucket's investors?
The investors at Insight Venture Partners, already wealthy, got richer yet when they invested personally in Photobucket, a photo-sharing site now owned by News Corp. Insight's cofounders Jeff Horing and Jerry Murdock made $5 million apiece. Their limited-partner investors, including Yale's endowment and California's state retirement fund, did not get a chance to invest in the deal. Controversial? Yes — to someone who I suspect bore a grudge against Insight, and peddled this story to every outlet he could find, including Valleywag.Insight is a private equity firm that makes some late-stage venture-capital investments; Its average deal size is $35 million. Insight's partners invested $3 million in Photobucket in 2005, when it had 3 employees and no revenues; they collectively made an estimated $60 million when News Corp. bought the company last year. A few weeks ago, someone pointed me to the Wikipedia page for Photobucket. An anonymous editor had added a paragraph to the entry accusing Photobucket's venture-capital backers of forming a "shell company" and "cherrypicking" the Photobucket investment to keep it out of the hands of Insight's own investors. This much is true: Insight's partners formed a Delaware corporation called IVP/PB Investment LLC. The vehicle's name appears in Photobucket's Reg. D, a publicly available form filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. If Insight's partners were trying to hide the deal, they could have done a much better job of it. The name alone suggests that IVP's partners had no concerns about people finding out about their investment. Venture capitalists, in the classic way that the rich get richer, get pitched business deals all the time, of all sorts — real estate, small businesses, and, yes, startups. Sometimes they invest in companies on which their partners decide to pass, or of which its limited partners disapprove. Tim Draper of Draper Fisher Jurvetson is famous for doing this. Photobucket was far too small, and far too young, for Insight to invest in, the VCs I've talked to agree. And why would they actively seek to piss off the college endowments and retirement funds on which they rely to raise future pools of cash? There are questions about this deal — but they have more to do with how much time Horing, Murdock, and other Insight partners spent on Photobucket. Horing told the Wall Street Journal that his firm collectively spent 15 hours on Photobucket — including pitching the startup, unsuccessfully, to Benchmark Capital and Kleiner Perkins for follow-on investment rounds. 15 hours work for $60 million? I'm in the wrong business. But that hardly seems like enough to concern Insight's backers. The deal has raised someone's ire, though. TechCrunch, PaidContent, the Journal, and, yes, Valleywag, were among the tipster's targets. Yes, I should have written this one up sooner — but I was fascinated by the question of who wanted to get Insight, and why. I'm still at a loss. Insight has a low profile in the industry; as a late-stage investor, based in New York, it rarely dabbles in Silicon Valley's splashy younger startups. (Its sexiest investment is SkinnyCorp, the Chicago-based parent company of Threadless, a website which sells T-shirts.) So: A spurned entrepreneur? A rival venture capitalist who lost a deal to Insight? It's useful to keep in mind that venture capitalists can make a lot of money on side deals — deals they heard about in the course of doing their day jobs. 'Twas ever thus. The person who thinks he ratted out Insight, though? He'd like you to believe that some venture capitalists are so venal and so foolish as to torpedo their entire careers over a tiny deal that happened to turn out well. Insight's opponent, whoever he is, underestimated the firm's intelligence — and some reporters' intelligence, too. (Illustration by the Wall Street Journal)


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Dinner Tonight: Roasted Shallot and Dijon Vinaigrette Recipe
Your source for quick recipe every single week day.
This full flavored vinaigrette came from the Cafe Flora Cookbook, a vegetarian restaurant in Seattle that I've never been to. Oh well, I've had a lot of luck these kind of works, because they tend to pack a lot of flavor into meager vegetables that I'd never treated correctly. This time it's the shallot, an ingredient I'd sometimes just added raw to a vinaigrette.
Who knew it just needed a nice roast? It gets creamy and pungent, the perfect balance for the spicy and tart mustard. It is designed to be poured atop a spinach and smoked mushroom salad, the latter item I'd never heard of before. According to the book they are described as an "obvious substitute for bacon." Guess what I substituted? It turns out smoking mushrooms is much harder than walking to my butcher and buying some real smoky bacon. But the choice is yours. The vinaigrette will taste fantastic over just about anything.
- 1 shallot
- 6 cloves garlic
- 1 1/4 cups olive oil
- 2 tablespoons brown sugar
- 3 tablespoons Dijon mustard
- 6 black peppercorns
- 3 tablespoons red wine vinegar
- 1 teaspoon salt
Preheat the oven to 375°F.
Cut the shallot in half, remove the outer skin. Crush and peel the garlic.
Toss the shallot and garlic with 1 tablespoon of the olive oil and then wrap loosely in aluminum foil. Cook for 20 minutes. Unwrap the foil and cook for another 10 minutes, or until nicely browned.
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Approach Resources CEO describes potential of Wolfcamp shale play
Published 12:20 pm, Thursday, October 4, 2012
Fort Worth-based Approach Resources sees big potential in the Permian Basin.
Recently addressing the Midland chapter, Society of Petroleum Evaluation Engineers, Approach President and Chief Executive Officer H. Ross Craft told his audience that of the company's proved reserve base, 99 percent is in the Permian Basin.
Craft visited Midland to discuss the Wolfcamp shale oil play, which he said could be one of the largest shale oil resource plays found onshore in North America.
The company has drilled almost 600 wells in the southern Midland Basin since 2004, focusing on tight gas sands -- the Canyon sands and the Strawn and Ellenburger. Vertical drilling in those formations, he said, combined with a detailed geological and petrophysical study, led to the company's decision to develop the shallower Clearfork and Wolfcamp formations in late 2010. Referring to these zones as the "Wolffork," Craft told his audience the company has launched a drilling program in Crockett County dubbed "Project Pangea" and "Pangea West."
The Wolfcamp shale is an extensive column of normal-pressure rock and is unique in that the pay zone is 1,000 to 1,200 feet thick, whereas a typical shale formation ranges from 150 to 300 feet in thickness. The Bakken has a thickness of 20 to 140 feet, the Barnett Oil 150 to 1,500 feet and the Eagle Ford 150 to 350 feet. Approach classifies the Wolfcamp into four "benches:" A, B, C and D. Effectively developing the Wolfcamp shale may involve up to three lateral wellbores, each targeting a different interval: The Wolfcamp A, B and C.
Said Craft, "In a very short period of time, approximately one and a half years, we've turned the concept of the Wolfcamp oil shale resource play into a highly commercial development program that's attracting significant investment from private oil and gas companies, independent exploration and development companies and the major integrated oil companies. The play is in the beginning stages of development. We're collecting valuable data daily that furthers our understanding of the full resource potential and reach of the play. We're drilling pilot wells targeting the different benches and testing closer spacing. We expect that multi-zone potential and tighter well spacing will increase our recovery of the significant hydrocarbons in place. The Wolfcamp is an exciting play that underscores the importance of the Permian Basin to this country's domestic oil supply.
Approach, he said, has a large, primarily contiguous acreage position of 166,000 gross - 146,000 net - acres with a low cost of about $500 per acre. The acreage has 500-plus million barrels of oil equivalent gross, unrisked resource potential with over 2,900 drilling and recompletion opportunities. The Wolfcamp oil shale play is in early-stage development, transitioning Wolfcamp B to development mode and, as Craft said, testing the Wolfcamp A and C, which shows encouraging initial results, testing tighter well spacing and preparing the field for large-scale development. Currently the company has two horizontal rigs running in the Pangea and Pangea West with improving initial potentials and liquids ratio driving higher returns..
The production curve, Craft explained, typically begins with an initial production rate of approximately 590 barrels of oil equivalent per day (BOEPD), of which approximately 82 percent is crude oil and 95 percent is total liquids. Recent well results range from 634 BOEPD to 1,310 BOEPD, made up of 84 percent to 97 percent liquids. He said the company estimates first-year production will decline between 60 and 70 percent and then the production trend will follow a decline curve similar to a well drilled in the Wolfberry or other unconventional resource plays. Over the 50-year life of the well, he said, the estimate is that 57 percent of total production will be crude oil.
The play, he noted, has drawn broad industry participation, helping de-risk the play. As of July, 41 horizontal rigs were drilling in the Wolfcamp, with the average lateral well length of around 7,100 feet and average peak initial potential rate 807 BOEPD.
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As part of the new concept, Fannie May is introducing "The Café at Fannie May," which will serve exclusive desserts inspired by the many classic candy flavors and Fannie May iconic flavored coffees, including Pixies and Vanilla Buttercream. Ice cream, including milk shakes, cones and sundaes, and chocolate covered strawberries will also be available at the flagship retail store.
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that is really good:D
but the one thing i dident like in half life 2 episode 2 was the trees disapeer if your like 50feet from one, did you increes the draw back distance?
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The game takes place in the Seven Hours War aftermath. Fighting against blood shedding synths and frightening aliens, Adrian Shephard has to struggle his way with his fellow comrades from the Phoenix Command, with the main objective of stopping the construction of a Combine Citadel. In his journey he will find what has happened to the world, six months after the Seven Hour War.
that is really good:D
but the one thing i dident like in half life 2 episode 2 was the trees disapeer if your like 50feet from one, did you increes the draw back distance?
I think it depends what settings you're using.. If you're using low graphics settings then objects will disappear like that.
omg i wish shepard held it with two hands way more realistic
or held two of them at the same moment! Oh man, he is a HECU Marine, not a common scientist, don't forget this :D
ow he does sry:S
Looks very dark will the flashlight have any new additions to it? and will it use that annoying charge feature?
Shepard never had a flashlight.
Night Vision, remember?
He had Night vision googles BEFORE getting put into stasis by the GMAN, For all we know, they're long gone like Gordon's HEV Mk IV
Gordon didn't lose the HEV suit.... "..As for your hazard suit, I think you've earned it..." is what gman said before putting Gordon into stasis
Well, a guns a gun.
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