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Official Lineage OS 14.1 ( Android Nougat 7.1 ) ROM for OnePlus One (bacon) has now arrived via an OFFICIAL build. The OnePlus One is a single SIM (GSM) smartphone that accepts a Micro-SIM. Connectivity options include Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth, NFC, 3G and 4G. OnePlus One smartphone was launched in April 2014. The phone comes with a 5.50-inch touchscreen display with a resolution of 1080 pixels. The OnePlus One is powered by 2.5GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 processor and it comes with 3GB of RAM. The phone packs 64GB of internal storage that cannot be expanded. As far as the cameras are concerned, the OnePlus One packs a 13-megapixel primary camera on the rear and a 5-megapixel front camera. If you want some more Lineage ROMs or wanna taste the Latest OFFICIAL Lineage build then stay tuned the Official Lineage OS 14.1 ROM collection page. As always, this Lineage 14.1 for your device is brought to you by CDO.
Official Lineage OS builds are now rolling out to supported devices. We'll be actively updating the download links. Lineage OS is much more improved and have some unique features of its own. Users preferred CM ROMs over stock OEM ROMs because of the customization features. Also, the official Lineage OS builds is very reliable and can be used as a daily driver.
Installing a custom ROM on a mobile requires the bootloader to be unlocked on this mobile phone, which may VOID your warranty and may delete all your data. Before proceeding further you may consider backup all data on the phone. You are the only person doing changes to your phone and I cannot be held responsible for the mistakes done by you.
- This is new [Official] Lineage os 14.1 [Android 7.1] firmware has to be installed on the OnePlus One (bacon) model only; if tried on other devices, it might get bricked [To check your device model: Go to Settings >> About phone >> model number].
- Make sure the device is rooted before going forward for Lineage ROM installation.
- Make sure to back all the data by installing TWRP in the smartphone.
- Make sure the device has more than 80 percent battery.
- If you face force close, go to Settings >> Setupwizard >> Give permission
Official Lineage OS 14.1 [ Android Nougat 7.1] Download Links :-
ROM Download link of Official Lineage Os 14.1 for OnePlus One (bacon)
Lineage Nougat GApps download link for LineageOS 14.1
Step-by-step installation guide
Step 1: Download OnePlus One (bacon) [Official] Lineage OS 14.1 [Android 7.1 ] Nougat ROM and Google Apps
Step 2: Place the downloaded [Official] Lineage OS 14.1 [Android 7.1 ] Nougat ROM and Google Apps into the phone's storage memory.
Step 3: Turn off the device.
Step 4: Perform Recovery mode sorties by long pressing Volume Down + Power key Simultaneously.
Step 5: Once entering the TWRP Recovery menu, clear phone's memory (full) by selecting 'Wipe' option. Once done, select – 'Swipe to Factory Reset' perform factory reset.
Step 6: Return to TWRP Recocery menu and tap 'Install' and Select Downloaded Lineage.Zip file.
Step 7: Approve the installation by 'Swipe to Confirm Flash'
Step 8: Flashing of the ROM begins and after few minutes, a message 'Successful' appears on the screen, thus completing installation.
Step 9: Return to TWRP Recovery settings and tap 'Install' this time Select Downloaded GApps.Zip file in the phone's memory.
Step 10: Approve the installation by'Swipe to Confirm Flash'
Step 11: After few minutes, a message 'Successful' appears on the screen, thus completing Installation.
Step 12: Now Reboot your Mobile
Note:- If faced with boot loop problem, navigate back to TWRP settings, and select 'Wipe cache/dalvik'. This procedure will help resolve any issue with regard to custom ROM installation. That's it! Your Smart phone should now have Official Lineage OS 14.1 ROM installed ! Go to Settings > About phone to verify.


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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. – With the calendar flipped to 2011 and the annual MLS SuperDraft now just days away, the New England Revolution remains in the market for reinforcements at every outfield position.
The club's goalkeeping situation, however, appears to be settled.
After recently agreeing to a new deal with veteran Matt Reis – a move which will presumably make the 35-year-old New England's starting goalkeeper for an eighth straight season – the Revs solidified their goalkeeping future by elevating third-year shot-stopper Bobby Shuttleworth to the senior roster.
Shuttleworth, 23, originally signed with the Revs midway through the 2009 season and spent his first year-and-a-half as part of the club's developmental roster. After serving as the third-string goalkeeper in his first year, Shuttleworth rose to a backup role in 2010 and acquitted himself well in six regular-season appearances. He earned his first career shutout in a 1-0 win over the Kansas City Wizards on Oct. 16 and closed the campaign with a record of 3-3-0 while maintaining a 1.62 goals against average.
Meanwhile, four young players who were part of the Revolution's roster at the end of the 2010 season will attend the club's upcoming preseason training camp aiming to earn roster spots for 2011.
Midfielders Zak Boggs, Jason Griffiths and Roberto Linck will join goalkeeper Tim Murray at the Revolution's preseason camp in Foxborough without deals in place for the upcoming season. Boggs (second round, 31st overall) and Griffiths (third round, 48th overall) were both selected in the 2010 MLS SuperDraft, while Linck and Murray were midseason additions.
Of the group, Griffiths saw the most action in 2010, making 10 regular-season appearances (four starts) as a central midfielder despite being limited by a series of hamstring injuries.
Boggs – who can play both wide midfield positions – made nine appearances (four starts) and burst onto the scene with a pair of goals in his first career start before a concussion derailed his season in late June.
Linck made two substitute appearances after signing in late July, while Murray did not appear with the first team.
All four players will have the chance to earn new contracts for 2011 while participating in preseason training with the Revs.

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LAS CRUCES – The New Mexico Department of Game and Fish will offer hunting licenses for female or immature male ibex beginning Jan. 9, 2013. The hunt dates will be Feb. 21 through March 31. All hunting will end when the harvest limit of 125 is reached.
Licenses will be available through the department online system and over the counter at department offices beginning Jan. 9. Any person who did not hold an ibex hunting license for the 2012-13 season is eligible to purchase one of these licenses. The cost of the license is $111 for residents and $1,630 for nonresidents.
This hunt is necessary because the ibex population is beyond the carrying capacity of the habitat. The bag limit will be two female or immature male ibex. Any hunter who harvests two ibex and has them verified by a conservation officer or at a Game and Fish Office, will be entered into a drawing for an either-sex ibex rifle hunt during the spring of 2014. All hunters must verify their harvests within five days.
All hunters must have a customer identification number to purchase these licenses. For information, please visit the department website at www.wildlife.state.nm.us or contact Kevin Rodden at the department's Las Cruces office at (575) 532-2100.


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Over the years, numerous cryptographic algorithms have been developed and used in many different protocols and functions. Cryptography is by no means static. Steady advances in computing and in the science of cryptanalysis have made it necessary to continually adopt newer, stronger algorithms, and larger key sizes. Older algorithms are supported in current products to ensure backward compatibility and interoperability. However, some older algorithms and key sizes no longer provide adequate protection from modern threats and should be replaced.
Over the years, some cryptographic algorithms have been deprecated, "broken," attacked, or proven to be insecure. There have been research publications that compromise or affect the perceived security of almost all algorithms by using reduced step attacks or others (known plaintext, bit flip, and more). Additionally, every year advances in computing reduce the cost of information processing and data storage to retain effective security. Because of Moore's law, and a similar empirical law for storage costs, symmetric cryptographic keys must grow by 1 bit every 18 months. For an encryption system to have a useful shelf life and securely interoperate with other devices throughout its life span, the system should provide security for 10 or more years into the future. The use of good cryptography is more important now than ever before because of the very real threat of well-funded and knowledgeable attackers.
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You mention "latest whitepaper" above, but there is only a link to a web page. Does this paper exist in PDF format? Thanks.


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The Jacksonville Jaguars did a lot of good work rebuilding their secondary during the 2013 NFL Draft, but their work isn't done yet. The team announced Tuesday that they signed veteran cornerback Marcus Trufant.
Trufant played under Jaguars coach Gus Bradley for the last three seasons on the Seattle Seahawks and will replace veteran Antwaun Molden, who was released. Trufant was drafted 11th overall by the Seahawks all the way back in 2003.
"It was great to see (Bradley)," Trufant told the Florida Times-Union. "It was all smiles and high-fives. Just his presence brings a smile to my face."
Trufant will help tutor some of the youngsters in Jacksonville and provide competition at a very thin position. Third-round rookie Dwayne Gratz looks like one starter, with veterans Alan Ball and Kevin Rutland among the other options for playing time.Follow Gregg Rosenthal on Twitter @greggrosenthal.


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Author Notes: I love a salad that I can assemble and dress on a plate. This is a classic salad -- a bit of brine, some slivers of onion, and a little kick of chile -- with a few modern touches like blood oranges and piment d'espelette. Serve as the first course for a dinner party. Follow with roasted fish or grilled lamb. And let the wine flow. —Amanda Hesser
Serves: 4
2 blood oranges
2 clementines or mandarins
About 1/4 small red onion
4 teaspoons red wine vinegar
2 tablespoons best quality olive oil
8 to 10 green olives, pitted and torn into quarters
Piment d'espelette (or other ground chile, like cayenne), to taste
Flaky sea salt, like Maldon
In This Recipe
- Cut the peel and pith from the oranges and clementines, making sure to remove all of the outer membrane without losing too much of the flesh. Cut the oranges and clementines into 1/8-inch slices. Slice the red onion thinly enough that you can see through the slices; use a mandoline if needed. You will need about 8 slices.
- Arrange the citrus in overlapping slices on each of four plates. Disperse the sliced onion on top. Sprinkle with the vinegar, 1 teaspoon per plate. Drizzle the olive oil over each plate, about 1/2 tablespoon per plate. Divide the olives among the plates. Sprinkle with piment d'espelette, a generous pinch per plate. Season each salad with salt. Admire all the colors, then serve!
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April 20, 2012 - New York, NY
New construction starts in March jumped 23% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $482.4 billion, according to McGraw-Hill Construction, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies. The increase came as the result of a sharp gain for electric utility construction, lifted in particular by work at a nuclear power plant facility in Georgia. Meanwhile, public works construction and housing showed modest improvement in March, but nonresidential building lost further momentum. For the first three months of 2012, the amount of total construction starts on an unadjusted basis was reported at $94.2 billion, down 3% from a year ago. For the twelve months ending March 2012 versus the twelve months ending March 2011, total construction starts were basically unchanged.
The latest month's data boosted the Dodge Index to 102 (2000=100), up from a revised 83 for February. The annual average for the Dodge Index during both 2010 and 2011 was 91. The March construction start statistics included $8.5 billion estimated for work on Units 3 and 4 at the Vogtle nuclear power facility near Waynesboro GA. In February, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission approved a combined construction and operating license for Units 3 and 4, enabling construction work to begin on the two nuclear reactors. This follows more than $1.5 billion related to site work for Units 3 and 4 that had been entered into the construction start statistics during 2010 and 2011. If the latest entry for the Vogtle nuclear facility project is excluded, the pace of construction starts in March would be down 3% to $380.4 billion (annual rate), producing a reading of 80 for the Dodge Index. "Aside from the lift coming from electric utilities, the March statistics show that construction activity continues to hover within a set range, with gains for some project types being offset by weakness for other project types," stated Robert A. Murray, vice president of economic affairs for McGraw-Hill Construction.. "On balance, the construction industry can still be viewed as struggling to see renewed expansion take hold in a sustained and broad-based manner."
Nonbuilding construction in March soared 79% to $212.9 billion (annual rate). Electric utility construction advanced 249%, led by the $8.5 billion for work at the Vogtle facility in Georgia. If this project is excluded from the March statistics, then nonbuilding construction would be down 7% and electric utilities would be down 33%. While the pace for electric utilities, minus the Vogtle project, was slower, March featured the start of several noteworthy alternative energy projects. These included five large wind power facilities located in Kansas ($783 million), Montana ($300 million), Illinois ($135 million), Oklahoma ($110 million), and Massachusetts ($90 million). The public works sector in March grew 4%, helped by a 27% rebound for highway construction after an especially weak February. The trend for highway construction remains downward, however, as March contracting came in 12% below this category's average monthly pace during 2011. Water supply construction was another public works category that rebounded after a weak February, rising 59% with the help of a $90 million water treatment plant in Texas. The other public works categories retreated in March, with sewer construction down 1%, bridge construction down 11%, river/harbor development down 15%, and miscellaneous public works (site work, mass transit, pipelines, etc.) down 28%.
Residential building, at $146.7 billion (annual rate), grew 2% in March, maintaining the gradual if hesitant upward trend that's been present since the second half of last year. Multifamily housing in March increased 5%, continuing to regain upward momentum after its pause at the start of 2012. Large projects that contributed to the multifamily rise in March included a $184 million apartment building in Brooklyn NY, a $63 million apartment building in Boston MA, and a $38 million apartment building in Seattle WA. Single family housing in March edged up 1%, regaining some strength after slipping back in the previous two months. Compared to their average monthly pace for all of 2011, multifamily housing in March was up 13% while single family housing was up 16%.
Nonresidential building in March fell 4% to $122.8 billion (annual rate). The institutional building sector dropped 7%, due to weaker activity for a majority of its structure types. Healthcare facilities in March fell 30%, after showing some improvement during the first two months of 2012. There were a few noteworthy healthcare projects that reached groundbreaking in March, including a $140 million hospital expansion in Chattanooga TN and a $100 million hospital tower in Memphis TN, but the number of such projects was down from recent months. Murray noted, "Healthcare construction is being restrained in the near term, affected by the increased amount of hospital mergers that have taken place over the past year and the uncertain fate of healthcare reform legislation currently under review by the Supreme Court." The amusement-related category (convention centers, theaters, and sports arenas) dropped 21% in March, and churches also witnessed a 21% decline. Transportation terminal work in March slipped 9%, while the public buildings category (courthouses and detention facilities) was unchanged. On the plus side, the educational building category in March improved 10%, helped by a $105 million renovation to a science building at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point NY, although March still came in 20% below this category's average monthly pace during 2011. Manufacturing plant construction in March plunged 61%, as contracting in early 2012 has retreated following the improved activity reported last year.
The commercial sector in March was able to rise 10% from the previous month. Office construction in March grew 9%, supported by a $120 million office building expansion in San Francisco CA and a $101 million renovation to a federal office building in Cleveland OH. Warehouse construction in March advanced 19%, aided by the start of several large distribution centers for Amazon.com. Hotel construction in March jumped 91% relative to a subdued February, helped by groundbreaking for a $67 million resort hotel and casino in Bossier City LA and a $53 million hotel in Surfside FL. Moving the opposite direction in March was store construction, falling 18%, although March did include two $40 million shopping mall renovation and expansion projects, located in Nanuet NY and Indianapolis IN.
The 3% shortfall for total construction on an unadjusted basis during the first three months of 2012 was the result of a varied pattern by major sector. Nonresidential building was down 25% from the first three months of 2011, which had been boosted by the start of several unusual large projects, including a $1.1 billion data center in Utah for the National Security Agency, a $900 million semiconductor plant in Oregon, and a $575 million hospital in California. Nonbuilding construction during the first three months of 2012 managed a 2% gain, as a 38% increase for electric utilities outweighed a 16% drop for public works. Residential building during the first three months of 2012 climbed 21%, featuring year-to-date growth for both sides of the housing market – single family housing up 22% and multifamily housing up 17%. By geography, total construction during the first three months of 2012 showed declines in three regions – the South Central, down 23%; the West, down 22%; and the Northeast, down 13%. Year-to-date gains for total construction were reported in the Midwest, up 6%; and the South Atlantic, up 54% (reflecting in large part the boost coming from work at the Vogtle nuclear facility in Georgia).
The "no change" for total construction on a twelve-month moving total basis, meaning the twelve months ending March 2012 versus the twelve months ending March 2011, was due to this pattern by major sector – nonresidential building, down 7%; nonbuilding construction, down 3%; and residential building, up 13%. By geography, the twelve months ending March 2012 showed the following behavior for total construction – the South Central, down 10%; the Northeast, down 7%; the Midwest, down 6%; the West, down 2%; and the South Atlantic, up 27%.
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LOWELL -- Longtime Market Basket customers often call the chain "Demoulas," a testament to the family connection to the company that began in Lowell in 1916.
Ironically, it is the Demoulas family connection that is the crux of an internal dispute which may lead today to the ouster of Market Basket CEO Arthur T. Demoulas.
A cousin, Arthur S. Demoulas, appears to have gained control of the seven-member board of directors after years of family infighting and millions of dollars spent on lawsuits.
Family-business experts have called the Demoulas squabbles over the grocery chain an example of how, especially among successful multigenerational family businesses, fighting can derail a company's progress or hurt its image.
"It's very hard to build a family business and it's very easy to destroy it," said Jeffrey Davis, a co-founder of the Family Business Association and president of consulting group Mage LLC. Success isn't often easy to replicate either.
"Lightning doesn't always strike twice," he said.
The Market Basket regional empire was created from a single store in Lowell's Acre section. It was the brainchild of two brothers, the late George and Telemachus "Mike" Demoulas. But when George died in 1971 of a heart attack, the Demoulas family fractured into two groups revolving around a son of each brother. Arthur T. is Telemachus' son; Arthur S. is George's son.
Each side controls two seats on the board of directors, with three independent directors.
Arthur T. Demoulas, 58, has been the company's CEO since 2008, a period of time during which the company has increased sales by one-third to more than $4 billion annually and grown its workforce by more than 50 percent to 22,000. The chain has 70 stores.
Arthur S. Demoulas, 55, has battled his cousin for control for years. In 2006, Boston magazine rated him as Boston's eighth wealthiest person with $1.6 billion in assets. It now appears that Arthur S. has enough votes between his two seats and two others to remove his cousin from the head of the company.
Arthur S. and others who have sued the company have alleged the CEO withholds information from the board of directors, has spent too much shareholder money on capital costs with inadequate oversight, and improperly makes business deals with companies run by his wife and brothers-in-law. But an independent judge brought in to weigh the claims found nothing improper in Arthur T.'s business dealings.
Board members have not returned messages seeking comment.
When a company battle plays out in public as it has for Market Basket, it makes it difficult for decision-makers to reverse their decisions, said Ted Clark, executive director of the Northeastern University Center for Family Business.
"Now if you don't do it, you waffled," he said of board members who are scheduled to make the potentially major change for the company.
Dissension in any company can be healthy, analysts said, but a fight such as Market Basket's can be costly. The company has to pay legal bills, public relations or communications staff, and have executives take time away from their daily duties to answer questions about the issue, Clark said.
In Market Basket's case, it also creates a distraction for employees who are worried about benefits such as a profit-sharing program and bonuses, and can't help but talk to co-workers during their shifts about what could happen.
"There's nothing positive that comes to the brand from family infighting," Clark said. "It hurts the brand. I can't think of any other way to put a positive light on that."
In business, conflicts are not only inevitable but can be needed for growth and innovation, said Ari Axelrod, a partner at Cambridge-based Banyan Family Business Advisors.
"But without effective mechanisms for conflict resolution, without a culture of constructive competition of ideas, any conflict can turn into a destructive feud," he said.
When he works with business families, Axelrod said, he often talks about the "objective function" of the business. What is most important -- growth, profitability, family control or family relationships? What trade-offs are they willing to make?
"Only after the priorities of the family are well understood can we proceed to designing and offering a recommendation," Axelrod said.
The Demoulas family connection to the Lowell area has benefited neighborhoods and charities, according to vocal supporters.
The chain's success has given employment to thousands of people and created related economic growth, said James Cook, executive director of the Lowell Plan, a nonprofit economic development made up of 80 member businesses. Cook called Arthur T. Demoulas "impossible to replace" because of those reasons and his charitable efforts.
"Because he's such a low-key guy, it's a large presence that not that many people are aware of and won't be aware of until it's too late," Cook said. "And that's too bad."
Follow Grant Welker at Twitter.com/SunGrantWelker.


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text: Hi again, > Thanks alot for the prompt reply. Right at the moment I am asked to > purchased the following for my cluster: > > 1) MPI/Pro by verari systems > 2) PGI CDK Cluster Development Kit by Portland Group > Purchasing 100 processes of MPI/Pro is really very expensive for me. > Similarly, for my 100 processors I have to purchase 256 licences of > PGI CDK because they offer licences in groups of 16/64/256 CPUs. Even > if I purchase 256 licences for just 2 simultaneous counts, it costs me > a lot... is there a direct use of the cluster features of the PGI CDK? According to their websites it's just a combination of the compilers, MPICH and a part of OpenPBS. And OpenMP is also included in standard package of their compilers. Is your main application to use the compilers for software development or to use the compiled programs? So you could just buy one license of the normal compiler, download MPICH at http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/mpi/mpich and choose a queuing system (maybe OpenPBS or better) SGE from SUN at http://gridengine.sunsource.net , it's also free. In contrast to OpenPBS, you can kill the slave processes on the nodes nicely with SGE and it runs really stable. Just test the performance with this combination, and you can add MPI/Pro later, after you tested the performance gain with a demo of it. Because the performance will also depend on the used network. I don't know the prices of MPI/pro, but maybe a second dedicaded network only for MPI communication is also an option and speed up the things (or Myrinet, Infiniband - this depends on the amount of MPI traffic your applications will generate). Best greetings - Reuti


text: A view from the East of the Anglo Boer War memorial. This memorial was erected in 1910 after the war and contains names of British soldiers who died during the war. It was divisive in the sense that it was only commemorating the fallen of eh British Empire and has been neglected for many years by the municipality. The locals used to call it the "Khaki Monument" - Khaki was a word used in Reference to the khaki coloured uniforms of the British soldiers.


text: On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Josip Loncaric wrote: > A cheap bare case can cost less than $20 -- and can save you a lot of work, > although perhaps not shelf space. For safety, ease of installation, and FCC > EM reasons, cheap metal cases should be considered. Yeah, I think that Jim's observation that you should think carefully about the diminishing returns of building a freeform caseless cluster is very apropos -- you'll save a bit of money on space and cases -- maybe -- at the expense of more hands on work building the cluster and at the risk of having to resolve problems with shielding and so on. For a >>professional<< grade cluster I'd generally not recommend this approach unless you are truly working with a shoestring budget and have a metal shop handy or are building a hobby/learning cluster and want the entire cluster to be "visible" and supercheap. In this latter case, you can probably get by by taking sheets of steel or aluminum, drilling them out using the mounting holes of the motherboard as a template, and mounting the motherboards on them using the standard spacers and screws just LIKE a case. You can then get creative in several ways as to just how you insert the plates into metal shelving or even a metal file cabinet drawer with suitably mounted fans so that each board is cooled, powered, and still reasonably well EM shielded from the others. I doubt that you'll save much money (I'm CERTAIN you won't save money if you bill your own time into the project even at minimum wage and you'll lose big if you "charge" the $50-100/hour your time is probably worth:-). One other thing to watch that I think that Jim brushed up against is your power supply wiring and ground vs neutral. If you have three or four power supplies, each plugged into a different circuit, those circuits can easily have different phases. If you are not careful and do not know what you are doing, there are a variety of ways to create spectacularly dangerous conditions -- ground loops and worse -- where by spectacular I mean that "when you plug it in it will explode in a shower of vaporized and melted metal". Cases and case power supplies are designed to be pretty safe -- plug it in and snap on connectors that really can only work one way. If you go anywhere beyond this, I'd REALLY recommend that you only proceed if you completely understand electricity and electrical wiring and know what a ground loop IS and so on. rgb -- Robert G. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/ Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305 Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 Phone: 1-919-660-2567 Fax: 919-660-2525 email:rgb at phy.duke.edu


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You ever see something in a drink recipe that makes you think, "What da fug's that doing in there?" I was poking through CocktailDB the other day and said just that very thing. A little background, though…
We had some egg whites left over after Jen made homemade pasta. Because the eggs were very fresh, I thought I'd use the whites for cocktails. So I searched CocktailDB for recipes with egg whites. I wanted to try something new, and not your usual gin fizz.
I came across a drink called the Fan Tan. Here's the recipe on CocktailDB*:
Shake in iced cocktail shaker & strain
1 1/2 oz ginger flavored brandy
1/2 oz fresh lemon juice
1/2 egg white
1 dash Tabasco sauce
Serve in a cocktail glass (4.5 oz)
The Tabasco, as you might imagine, caused my "da fug" moment. I googled around a bit and found another recipe on Mixology.com:
1 1/2 oz. Brandy – Ginger
1 dash Juice – Lemon
1 drop Tabasco
1/2 Egg – White
Shake with cracked ice; strain into chilled cocktail glass.
I started thinking about this. The only gingered brandy on the market that I know of is Canton, and its flavor profile already carries a hint of hot spice from the ginger. Used judiciously, the Tabasco should, I thought, complement that. The trick was going to be balancing the drink so that the Tabasco didn't overwhelm it.
photo by Jennifer Hess
I added it sparingly, stirring and tasting after each drop, until I had the balance I wanted. And I have to say, it worked out just as I thought it would. Jen didn't even taste the Tobasco until I told her it was there, and even then, she had to roll the drink around in her mouth a bit before she noticed its subtle influence.
*I'm aware that my blockquote formatting is screwed; this version of WP seems to parse the HTML/CSS differently than the previous release, for some reason.


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What is Distance Learning?
The primary purpose of distance learning at the University of Hawaiʻi's ten campuses is to extend the University's rich array of quality instructional resources to students anywhere in the state who are committed to higher education but are constrained by diverse factors which prevent their participation as regular on-campus students at the University of Hawaiʻi campus offering their program of choice.
Distance learning provides students with access to education through a network of various technologies. Instructor and students interact at a distance without having to be physically present in the same location. Distance learning provides students greater flexibility in achieving their educational goals through audio, video, and computer technologies.


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URBANA -- With high temperatures and dry conditions prevailing during the corn grain-fill period this season, the risk of Aspergillus ear rot is high, said Carl Bradley, University of Illinois plant pathologist.
Aspergillus ear rot, caused by the fungus Aspergillus flavus, is observed as a yellowish-green mold growing on corn kernels. Areas within fields that have insect- and bird-damaged ears are particularly vulnerable to the rot.
Aspergillus flavus produces aflatoxin, a carcinogenic mycotoxin that can be dangerous to animals if it is on the grain they consume. U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) action levels for aflatoxin-contaminated corn grain are listed at http://www.fda.gov/Food/GuidanceComplianceRegulatoryInformation/GuidanceDocuments/ChemicalContaminantsandPesticides/ucm077969.htm#afla.
"If Aspergillus ear rot is observed in a field, it is very important to contact your crop insurance agent before harvesting," Bradley said. "Crop insurance will not cover losses due to aflatoxin after grain is placed in storage." (For more information on this topic, refer to the article by U of I agricultural and consumer economics professor Gary Schnitkey at http://www.farmdocdaily.illinois.edu/2011/08/crop_insurance_implications_of.html.)
Bradley recommends drying corn affected by Aspergillus ear rot to below 15 percent moisture immediately after harvest to prevent further mold development and aflatoxin accumulation. Long-term storage should be at slightly below 13 percent moisture.
Cleaning grain after harvest may reduce the level of aflatoxin in the lot, because broken and cracked kernels tend to have higher levels of aflatoxin. Grain screenings should not be fed to livestock; they are likely to have high concentrations of aflatoxins.
Bradley advises producers to send corn grain and silage samples for aflatoxin testing to the Illinois Department of Agriculture's Centralia Animal Disease Laboratory (http://www.agr.state.il.us/AnimalHW/labs/centralialab.html). (Note that the Centralia laboratory is scheduled to close later this year, and services will move to the Galesburg Animal Disease Laboratory; its website is at http://www.agr.state.il.us/AnimalHW/labs/galesburglab.html.)
For more information about Aspergillus ear rot, aflatoxin, and other corn-ear molds and mycotoxins, the Plant Management Network's Focus on Corn section has an on-line presentation by Charles Woloshuk (Purdue University) at http://bit.ly/RlmtmH.


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A super quick read over for people looking to make their own game engine... it helps clarify the points and aspects so you can move on your ideas.
explain the heart of every game: the game loop! All the code that makes the game interactive and dynamic goes in the game loop, but is separated into different pieces. The game loop itself is a controlled infinite loop that makes your game keep running; its the place where all your little pieces will be updated and drawn on the screen.


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This page to to collect miscellaneous notes and pointers to changes coming up in the WTP 3.0 (Ganymede) release. Its purpose it to be a central "jump off" point for those adopters of WTP 2.0, that are moving to WTP 3.0. Most of this information may be already contained in various mailing lists and bugzilla's, but ... we thought it best if there as a central place to get people started.
Adopters: if you run into trouble or notice things that are not covered here, please let us know (email@example.com is a good place). This will not only help us keep this list up to date, but will help us better learn, over time, the discipline of "platform development" and help make sure we learn to provide compatible API's, migration instructions, etc., in the future. [ It isn't always easy, but our intent is to make it as simple and painless as possible for adopters to use WTP as a true platform.
One thing we've learned in the past is that some don't adopt every version ... some early adopters went from 0.7 directly to 1.5, for example. Unfortunately, it's hard for us to present the information in that way, covering perhaps multiple changes, but hopefully as we develop these for each release, they will all flow together to aide adopters.
Note: as these notes develop and grow in number, they may occasionally be re-organized into categories, etc.
Common Components
- The facet wizard page is no longer in the project creation wizards. It is now accessible as a popup (click the modify button next to the configurations drop-down) rather than as a second page in all of the WTP wizards. Please See the following resource for more information. Link
XML/JSP Components
- Version changes for the following plugins:
- The org.eclipse.wst.sse.ui plugin increased its version from 1.0.400 to 1.1.0
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WebServices and WSDL
- Web service pop-up category is moved from org.eclipse.jst.ws.consumption.ui to the org.eclipse.wst.ws.ui plugin. Please see bugzilla 202303 for details. This is done to support the move of the Web Services Explorer plugin from the JST to the WST install package.
- Adopters will need to change the Web services popop menu path.
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- The "Profile Compliance and Validation" preference page has been refactored. WSDL Validation preferences have been moved to a new "Wizard Validation" preference page, and WS-I profile compliance preferences moved to a new "Service Policies" preference page. No migration is required for preferences defined in previous versions of WTP- these preferences are still honored. If you choose to enable project specific preferences, default values are taken from the current workspace values, i.e. project specific default values follow the workspace preference as in previous versions of WTP.
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- Athletics
Tearful Pistorius has bail hearing postponed
Global Paralympic icon Oscar Pistorius shed tears after arriving at court on Friday morning charged with the murder of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, who was found dead at his home on Thursday.
Pistorius attempted to obscure his face with a notepad as he arrived to a significant media gathering, and he was visibly upset when brought before magistrates. The South African was formally charged with one count of murder.
Steenkamp was shot multiple times and Pistorius was held overnight in a police station ahead of Friday's court appearance, where a decision was expected to be taken on whether he should be granted bail.
However, that bail hearing has now been postponed until Tuesday and Wednesday of next week. Pistorius will be held at a local police station until his next appearance.
Brigadier Denise Beukes confirmed on Thursday police will likely oppose any bail application that is made, but the defence will tell the court that Pistorius is not a flight risk.
Blood tests have been taken from Pistorius, and forensic experts will complete their examination of the South African's house, where Ms Steenkamp was shot four times. A 9mm pistol was recovered by police.
Beukes previously expressed surprise at suggestions that Ms Steenkamp was killed after being mistaken for a burglar. "Our forensic investigation is still ongoing, but we are not sure where this report came from," Beukes said. "There were no reports of forced entry."
It was also confirmed that no other suspects are being sought. "The only two people on the premises were the resident and deceased," she said.
Pistorius has established himself as a national hero after becoming the first double-amputee track athlete to compete in the Olympic Games. At London 2012 he reached the 400m semi-finals, before winning gold in the Paralympic 4x100 relay and T44 400m.


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Participating at the Med Show 'Overseas Medical Treaetment & Wellness' Exhibition in Moscow during 01 & 02 March 2014.
FNL CUP 2018, CYPRUS 10 - 23 February 2018 PAPHOS
FNL CUP 2017, CYPRUS 11 - 24 February 2017 LARNAKA
Overseas Medical Treatment & Wellness Exhibition
Special air fares and mobility conditions for patients and companions!
Complimentary weekly activities for guests staying in Hotels within Larnaka Region!
Health & Wellness! Our assistance to your medical trip to Cyprus!
Held in Larnaca, Cyprus between 4 & 6 July 2012
Practice, improve your skills, enjoy and relax in beautiful surroundings.
Celebrate your love for each other with an once in a lifetime experience
10-20 February 2012 Announcing the organisation of the 1st FNL Tournamnet in Cyprus
02 & 03 March 2012 at Hilton Park Hotel, Nicosia, Cyprus
We proudly welcome Football Clubs from Russia and Romania for their training in Cyprus.


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A fantastic new version of the Monte trick with three cards. Every time the spectators will fail to find the black card among the other cards. And a killer ending that will leave the baffled!
Includes instructional DVD and special cards.
Running Time Approximately: 16mins
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Sunday and Wednesday's in November
Join Duncan Harris, owner and winemaker on his certified organic vineyard ramble. Duncan started his organic wine business in 1998 and now owns the only certified organic land in Perth, Western Australia.
Duncan has a way for you to enjoy the beautiful wine, friendly atmosphere and viticultural history at Harris Organic during November.
Book your place to join Duncan Harris on a vineyard ramble. You'll enjoy a leisurely walk around the vineyard and vines, and a tour of the underground cellar to see the wines maturing. Learn about the family history, the story of Memorial Avenue, and the history of grape growing in Western Australia's oldest wine region.
Your ramble will be followed by a wine tasting with the winemaker.
This whole wonderful experience (no children please), and will run each day at 10am. We expect these to book out quickly, so please book now.Due to safety reasons, only adults may attend as this is a working farm. Please bring protective footwear and a wet weather jacket if the weather is inclement.


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The origin of the word "cocktail" is one of those persistent little mysteries that many people would like to solve, but information doesn't come easily. I've looked at this a couple of times, basically putting my spin on previous information. But today, I've come across some additional information that I haven't found referenced elsewhere. The information is from 1788 and doesn't completely solve the mystery, but might be an important piece. It also has nothing to do with horses, Aztecs, roosters, barrel dregs or war widows.
As usual, I wasn't looking for an "origin" story, I was actually doing research for my Tales of the Cocktail session called "Drink's from the 1600s". Four hundred years ago grammar and spelling we different, and some of the words and terms are not easy to interpret. Luckily, there were a plethora of dictionaries written to help people write, and now help me understand.
I was looking for some cock-ale information and searching through these historical dictionaries for related drink terms. The idea being to find drinks that were common during the 1600s. In the 1788 dictionary "A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue" (1788) By Francis Grose—a must have for any bartender—I found the term "cockles" with a very interesting definition.
Cockles – a saying in praise of wine, ale and spirituous liquor
This seems to have been a slang toast, or cheer, during the consumption of strong drink. Now, why would they say "cockles"?
First, we've all heard of the "cockles of our heart". This saying originated from the early understanding of the human heart sometime in the 1600s. The cockles are the ventricles, from Latin "cochleae cordis". It's from "cochlea" meaning snail, which alluded to the shape of the hearts ventricles. The saying means to warm and gratify one's deepest feelings.
Now, anybody that has had a shot of whisky, rum, brandy—or any strong spirit—will immediately understand the warming effect that follows consumption. It doesn't seem to be a stretch that toasting one-another with "the warmest of feelings, which makes one's heart glow with pleasure" would be appropriate among friends with strong drink. If the friends don't warm you up, the booze certainly will.
Additionally, cockle means "to cause to wrinkle, pucker, or ripple". For example: "this paper cockles easily" or better yet "when she did the shot of scorpion infused mezcal, her face cockled like a Corvette hitting a telephone post". Again, the word seems appropriate when used in the context of drinking alcohol. We've all had moments where our face "cockled" when we did those youthful introductory "shots". Hell, Jagermeister still causes frat boy's to cockle their face.
The story of the "egg cup" or "coquetier" may, or may not, have had something to do with this story. The French word for cockles is "coquille", and we can see that there might be some confusion between "coquille" and "coquetier". Personally, the "egg cup" story seems less likely as the origin, instead it may have shaped the word "cocktail" through confusion and mispronunciation.
There are other terms that might have contributed to the word cocktail representing strong mixed drinks. For example:
Cock Ale was described as a provocative drink.
Cock-a-Whoop means elevated, in high spirits, transformed with joy. Drinking seems to have that effect.
Cock and Bull Story means a roundabout story without a head or tail (beginning or end). Ever listen to an intoxicated person tell a story?
This information doesn't actually answer the origin question, we still have a missing link. Now the only thing left to do is find a link between "cockles" and "cocktail" and the origin story may have an answer.


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A federal judge says a former Indiana financier doesn't have to pay to appeal his conviction for swindling investors out of more than $200 million.
U.S. District Judge Jane Magnus-Stinson issued an order Thursday granting Timothy Durham's request to proceed with his case as an indigent.
Durham said last month that he had no money to file an appeal with the 7th U.S. Circuit of Appeals in Chicago because his multimillion-dollar home is in foreclosure and his financial assets are tied up in bankruptcy proceedings of the companies he used to control.
The 50-year-old Durham was sentenced to 50 years in prison in November after a jury convicted him of securities fraud, conspiracy and 10 counts of wire fraud in the collapse of Akron, Ohio-based Fair Finance.


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There is nothing like a big bowl of steaming Pho to take the chill off on a winter's day. Thankfully Wichita is blessed with a bevy a places that you can get a good authentic bowl of this delicious Vietnamese soup.
Our destination this day was Pho Hien, located at Broadway and 17th St. On a side note, this particular stretch of Broadway is a "Murder's Row" of great local places to check out, there is everything from a classic steak joint, to Mexican food trucks, to great Vietnamese and Asian venues.
Pho Hien has a large and open dining room with plenty of seating for busy lunch time crowds. The menu consists of Pho, Pho, and more Pho. For those of you unfamiliar, Pho is a broth based Vietnamese rice noodle soup that features a protein(typically beef of some sort), onion, and garnishes of bean sprouts, basil, lime wedges, jalapeño, hoisin, and hot sauce. There are several different variations of meat offered with the Pho. You can choose between thinly sliced steak, brisket, tendon, tripe, as well as pork balls, and some seafood variations. Feeling a bit bold I ordered my Pho with tendon, tripe, and thinly sliced steak. Looking around I noticed that some of the bowls coming out appeared to be about the size of a 10 gallon aquarium, so I wisely went with a medium/regular bowl. Less than 5 minutes after our order was placed we had good sized bowls of steaming Pho sitting at our table.
Our service was so fast that the thinly sliced steak was still medium rare in the middle as it came to the table. The meat was tender and unlike some Pho places, had its excess fat trimmed off. Due to some nice slow braising the tendon and tripe were both tender and did not require much chewing. The Pho broth had a wonderfully rich and complex flavor. With a little Hoisin and Sriracha it was some of the best I have had in Wichita.
If you are in the mood for some authentic Pho look for further than Pho Hien. Their high quality food is Pho-king delicious (its funny if you know how to pronounce Pho) and at $7 for a medium bowl is a solid value as well. Make sure you bring some cold hard cash though, because none of that plastic stuff is taken here.


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Catfish—fishes of the order Siluriformes—are, to speak generally, freshwater bottom feeders. Though native to all continents, they are crucial to the cultural identity of the Southern United States. Arguably, they are best prepared in a coating of cornmeal and cayenne and served with a compound butter. Noodling—also known as tickling, handfishing, catfisting, and dogging, all of which sound dirty—is the practice of catching them with your bare hands or, to be precise, y'all's bare hands. I haven't yet determined whether the term has any etymological connection to pasta ("I asked for these noodles al dente, you miserable cur!") or to the meandering improvisational riffs sometimes performed by both jazz musicians ("Check out Slim's noodling on this take!") and television critics writing during the wasteland of August ("He was trying to noodle about a new Animal Planet reality show").
Hillbilly Handfishin' (Sundays at 10 p.m. ET) presents a scenario worthy of comparison with Green Acresand with tourist-board promotional videos, not to mention the roughing-it teamwork of The Amazing Race and the mud-splashing obstacle coursework of Wipeout. Here we head to Oklahoma, where there's plenty of heart and plenty of hope. Two locals named Skipper and Trent lead city folk and solid suburbanites on fishing trips and, all in all, offer a redneck safari experience. There is very much wading, plashing, ploshing, and galumphing through water that, legend has it, owes its rich golden-brown color to the dust tracked in by the wagon trains and its sparkle to the tears of the American Indians.
On the first episode, three teams of two plunge into the muddy waters like weekend warriors dipping a toe into a nature documentary. These are Devyn and Tyler (a middle-aged brother-sister team from California), Tony and Dan (burly Chicago cops with pearly pussycat smiles), and Shelly and Staci ("The Boston Girls"). Shelly is a personal trainer and Staci tends bar. "I'm def'nitly a pahty guhl," she says. I think they're friends from karaoke, to which Staci wears zebra-print dresses. The gang goes groping in holes and hiding spots to yank out various species of cat. At times, to fight the glare, they decorate their faces with eye black, sometimes in war-paint patterns, sometimes not. ("No," objects Staci, "I want it to look like a football playah.")
The show's low-key aura of danger owes to the fact that there could be copperheads down there or cottonmouths or who-knows-what-else. Someone, blindly reaching into the depths, might even puncture a hand on the dropped G of the series' title. Also, some of the camera angles catch the group and the environs in a way that evokes strangers-on-holiday horror flicks. The mind flashes on tales of 400-, 500-, 600-pound catfish devouring dogs and men and personal watercraft. In a fanciful mood, you may even start fantasizing about the Chicago cops doing battle against a mutant-catfish evil genius who flaps at "Dueling Banjos" with his fins and plans to murder the group—but not before coating them in cornmeal and cayenne …
At its most interesting moments, Hillbilly Handfishin' presents the possibility that noodling (as in, "The noodling trip forced Devyn to confront her fears") has something to do with thinking. (Noodle as slang for head dates at least to Tristram Shandy: "What can have got into that precious noodle of thine?") With droplets of water dribbling from the hairs on their broad backs, Skipper and Trent reveal successful noodling to be a matter of careful strategy involving practiced stealth and cold seduction. Also, as it happens, successfully leading noodling excursions is a matter of careful strategy. One of the good old boys explains why, on the first day of the trip, they concentrated their efforts on the Boston Girls: "We almost always try to get the girls in on the first fish." This, according to legend, perks up the hunter-gatherer appetite of the males. Sure enough, Tony and Dan amiably express feelings of wounded machismo after they struggle to grabble up some cats, and Staci, in her improper Bostonian way, seizes an opportunity to combine flirting and taunting.
Like a wholesome mud-wrestling match recast as a self-actualization exercise, Hillbilly Handfishin' is mild of manner, pleasant of nature, and gently amusing. The producers, resisting the many nihilistic opportunities that their fish-out-of-water setup offers them, giving bottom-feeding reality TV a new and better name, and theirs is a perfect show to have playing in the background while you fold laundry or grate lemon zest for your compound butter. By the way, you can save that stuff in the freezer and use it on bugs, meaning lobstahs, as in, "They have bugs that look like lobstahs down here!" as Staci swattingly shrieks.


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GAINESVILLE, Fla.—Crime Prevention Security Systems has acquired Scott Alarm, expanding its territory into Northeast Florida.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. and ATLANTA—Universal Security Monitoring, which became the central station arm of Crime Prevention Security Systems when CPSS acquired the monitoring center in 1996, is growing its monitoring footprint, ramping up its AES IntelliNet radio network. It's a move central station manager Jim Carr says positions his company well for the future.
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From Finches to Ostriches: The Anatomy of a Museum Collection
From Finches to Ostriches: The Anatomy of a Museum Collection
By David Willard
Collection Manager, Birds
The other day, Peter Lowther from the Field Museum's computer services department stopped by my office and handed me a frozen House Finch his 11-year-old daughter, Gloria, found dead in the snow by their house in Homewood, Ill. Although our computer records showed we already have more than 500 House Finches in the bird collection, I didn't hesitate to accept another. After all, this was our first House Finch collected on Jan. 20, 1999. It is one of only four from Illinois, one of six from east of the Mississippi River and our only eastern specimen collected in winter.
It is also just one of the 425,000 specimens in our bird collection and one of 20 million specimens gathered from around the world that are housed in the Field Museum — in all, one of the largest and most important natural history and cultural collections in the world. When visitors enter the Museum, they encounter an extraordinary array of cultural artifacts, plants and animals. Most visitors don't realize the specimens on exhibit represent only a fraction of those we have under lock and key in storage areas throughout the building. Why do we have so many specimens and why do we need more? Gloria's House Finch can provide part of the answer.
Sixty years ago, a small number of House Finches from the Los Angeles area were released on Long Island, N.Y. For the next 30 years, the population grew slowly, until it suddenly exploded and began spreading up and down the East Coast and to the west. First recorded in Illinois in 1980, the House Finch is now one of the most conspicuous birds in suburban and urban areas of the Midwest. Gloria's House Finch is a representative from the western frontier of the population's expansion. By comparing this specimen to those collected from the East Coast 50 years ago and to those from the source population on the West Coast, we can begin to understand how animals change over time, or how they evolve.
Evolution is the central theme of many of the Museum's exhibits and most of its research programs. The study of this process prompts Museum scientists to fan out over the globe to document the diversity of life on Earth. Like the research conducted in other areas of the Museum, the research of the bird division falls into two main categories —exploring remote areas and studying the specimens collected during these expeditions. The latter helps us better understand the patterns and processes of evolution and the conservation needs of the areas we study.
The specimens used in museum studies come to us from a variety of sources. Universities often donate their collections when they no longer have the staff to study and care for them. Birds that die in zoos, birds hit by cars and the more than 2,000 birds that crash into glass windows each year in Chicago all augment the Museum's bird collections.
However, the specimens we obtain from these sources represent only a small percentage of the bird species in the world. Searching for the rest of them often takes us to pristine outposts where there is little available information about the region's natural history. In the past 10 years, staff and students from the bird division have worked in Madagascar, Uganda, South Africa, Gabon, the Philippines, Mexico, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil and Australia. We have described previously unknown features of the birds in these areas by watching them through binoculars. We also have recorded their songs and collected some of them for our own studies and for studies by future generations.
While we occasionally have the luxury of modern technology, such as airplanes for reconnaissance, our collection strategies aren't much different from those of earlier generations. We still camp for weeks on end, and we still have to work our way up trailless mountains in order to study the birds at the top. Like those that came before us, we still carry our supplies on our backs and we still pay our dues in tropical diseases like malaria, leishmaniasis and dengue fever. But for all of us who grew up loving wild places, the thrill of discovery on these expeditions is unparalleled.
On an expedition to the Andes of Peru, we found the Peruvian Piedtail, a hummingbird thought to be extremely rare — everything known about it was written on labels attached to a few old museum specimens. It turned out to be a common bird, but only in a very narrow elevation band, above and below which it was absent. Its presumed rarity simply reflected a lack of exploration in the appropriate places. In the heart of a swamp in the Impenetrable Forest of Uganda, we found several birds that no other scientist had ever documented in this region, despite more than a century of intense exploration. Again, no one had ventured into the waist-high water of the swamp to see what was there.
We also have had the extraordinary luck of finding some species that are new to science. While an entomologist may go into the field expecting to find new insects (because there are so many insects and so few entomologists), it is much rarer for an ornithologist to find something new. Back in the 1980s, a group of ornithologists and mammalogists from the Museum mounted an expedition to Rondônia in southwestern Brazil. We set up fine-meshed, almost invisible mist nets to capture birds that are difficult to observe in the forest understory. While removing and measuring familiar bird after familiar bird from the nets one morning, I came upon one that was totally unfamiliar. It was a chunky, thrush-sized bird, cinnamon colored with a black throat patch. Its most surprising feature was its bill, which had a pronounced upward curve and was flat on either side like a knife blade. Nothing like it had ever been described and the only bird that even closely resembled it lives 1,300 miles away in the northern Andes of Colombia. We later named the new species the Rondonia Bushbird.
Expeditions to northern Peru in the 1970s produced an astounding four new species from a single mountain range: the Bar-winged Wood-Wren; the Royal Sunangel; Peterson's Screech-Owl; and the Cinnamon-breasted Tody-Tyrant. Similar explorations in southern Peru during the 1980s led to the discovery of the Manu Antbird and the Cinnamon-faced Tyrannulet.
These expeditions have produced collections that contribute to our basic knowledge of bird biology and diversity and provide information upon which conservation biologists base many of their decisions. They also follow a tradition that dates to the Museum's inception. In the 1890s, D.G. Elliot, the division's first curator, made one of the first ornithological expeditions to Somalia. His successor, Charles Cory, was a pioneer in Egyptian ornithology who also hired collectors to bring back some of the first bird specimens from the West Indies. Ever since, Museum researchers have studied these collections and added to them through their own expeditions.
The early explorers were concerned with two primary features of bird biology — what kinds of birds existed and where they lived. The typical label accompanying their specimens contains the name of the place where they found the bird and a date. On their return to the Museum, they lined up their specimens next to those already in the collection; if a new specimen from the Peruvian Andes differed even slightly from something similar in the Colombian Andes, they identified it as a new species or subspecies and gave it a new name.
For much of the Museum's history, scientists were committed to describing diversity, which remains an important feature of contemporary ornithological work. As interests broadened, however, researchers noted additional information, to the point where a specimen label today also includes the bird's weight, breeding condition, stomach contents, a description of its habitat and the colors of its eyes, bills and legs. With refined techniques for generating and analyzing molecular data, we also save tissue from specimens for genetic studies.
Added to the basic work of describing diversity is an ever-increasing attempt to explain it. The research of Shannon Hackett, head of the bird division, is an example of this next order of questions we are asking today. One of Hackett's projects concerns manakins, a family of birds with brightly colored red, yellow and blue feathers highlighted against ebony blacks and glistening greens. But some of these birds are drab brown. Many manakins have elaborate courtship displays, with males gathering on traditional dancing grounds called leks to show off their finery to females that make a choice of mate based on some manakin perception of a male's charm. But some manakins have no fancy courtship displays. It is easy to sit back with trays of manakin specimens spread out on counters and speculate that the colorful species evolved from drab ones, or that complicated courtship displays must have evolved from simple ones. While this speculation helps formulate a series of questions, the answers require independent tests.
Using specimens collected on her expeditions, along with additional ones provided by other museums, Hackett looks at manakin DNA as her independent test. When she is finished with her analyses, she will produce a phylogeny of the manakins — a branching tree showing the relationships of all of the varieties. On this tree, she can superimpose the plumage characteristics and courtship intricacies in order to understand the evolution of the patterns that prompted so much initial speculation. Her results can help us understand where and from what ancestors manakins originated, how they spread throughout their current geographic range and what factors led to their separation into the more than 50 species recognized today.
When we know the answers to these questions for a group like manakins, we can compare them with other South American bird families to see whether the results can be generalized, or whether they are unique to manakins. When we understand avian diversity in South America, we can compare the patterns there with those in Africa and Asia, continents with very different geological histories. Gradually, as scientists compare ornithological studies to studies of other zoological groups and of botany and paleontology, we start to understand how life on this planet evolved.
Just as Hackett needed to borrow specimens from other museums to make her studies complete, the Museum's bird division lends several thousand specimens every year to scientists working on projects at other institutions. Almost every ornithological journal contains at least one article in each issue where the authors relied on our collections for their conclusions.
At the moment, scientists from the Museum of Natural History and Science in Cincinnati are using Field Museum specimens from the Philippines to describe a new sunbird species and researchers at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris are studying bird tissue from our Madagascar collection to determine whether they have discovered a new family of birds. In addition, ornithologists at the Smithsonian Institution are developing a field guide to the birds of India and Pakistan based in part on our collections. And soon, we will be sending feathers from rare heron specimens to Louisiana State University and scrapings from the foot pads of Asian eagle specimens to Austria, where scientists have learned to extract DNA from old specimens.
Researchers also come to the Museum to do their work. Recent visitors include a professor from the University of Wisconsin who is studying relationships among hummingbirds, and a graduate student from Yale who is comparing our skeletons of seriemas (large, ground-walking birds from the pampas of South America) with some fossilized birds she recently discovered. An archaeologist from Michigan State is using our collection to identify fragments of bird bones she unearthed at an excavation site in Israel. This month, a Colombian conservation biologist will use the collections to establish baseline information on bird distributions for use in land-management programs back home. These activities are just a sampling of those in one division of five in the zoology department, which in turn is only one of four scientific departments at the Museum (zoology, geology, botany and anthropology).
While we make and maintain collections of birds for scientific study, scientists are not the only ones who use them. Working next to these scientists is a wood carver from Indiana who is sketching, painting and taking notes on the dimensions of a Painted Bunting to try to make his finished sculpture as accurate as possible. Each semester, students from the Art Institute visit the Museum to study research specimens of birds they drew at the zoo. This allows them to add details to their drawings that would be impossible to capture without a close-up view of their subject. In addition, bird watchers come here to hone their identification skills, to check that the Baird's Sparrow they thought they saw was not just an odd Savannah Sparrow, or to learn the differences between Greater and Lesser Scaups. Even law enforcement gets into the act. If a traveler brings home a souvenir with a feather on it or a company imports merchandise with feathers, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service brings the items to the Museum to determine whether the feathers came from protected species. Currently, the Palatine police are relying on our collections for help in interpreting evidence in an unsolved murder case.
The Big Picture
So, the House Finch that Gloria had the foresight to pick up and give to her father can serve a variety of purposes. An artist who is struck by the beauty of a House Finch at a bird feeder can come here and paint from the specimen. A birder who is unsure of the differences between House and Purple Finches can solve that problem by comparing specimens of the two species. And a scientist wanting to understand the evolutionary history of the House Finch can study Gloria's bird in the context of the 530 other House Finch specimens housed at The Field Museum — specimens that span the past 100 years and that were collected throughout North America. Each additional specimen we add to our collections allows us to fine-tune our questions and to understand the biological world in greater detail. Gloria's House Finch joins nearly half a million other bird specimens from across the world, representing most of its bird species. If we maintain these collections well and build upon them, they will continue to serve their current functions, as well as to help our descendants answer questions we haven't even thought to ask.
This article was originally published in the March/April 1999, In The Field.


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Performance studies are considered as non-liberal arts (NLA) courses for music majors because of the course emphasis placed on performance. Performance studies are considered as liberal arts (LA) courses for non-music majors because of the emphasis placed on fine arts in the context of a liberal arts education.
Upon acceptance into the program, performance and performance/music education (four-and-a-half-year) majors take a one-hour private lesson each week for 4 credits per semester. All other music majors take a half-hour private lesson each week for 2 credits. Additionally, each semester, all music majors take the 0.5 credit course 556-19900 Performance Repertoire and Pedagogy. Music minors take a half-hour private lesson each week for 2 credits. Music majors who have an additional requirement of private lessons on a secondary instrument (e.g., -- voice students who take private piano lessons) take a half-hour lesson each week for 1 credit. Music minors and music majors in secondary lessons do not take the 556-19900 Performance Repertoire and Pedagogy class for that instrument.
The following chart shows performance studies (principal) levels and credits to be taken within degree programs of the School of Music.
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Idling bus, trucks in Park City reported to the police
by Jay Hamburger THE PARK RECORD
The Park City Police Department last week received at least three complaints about idling vehicles.
City Hall prohibits idling for more than three minutes unless it is cold or hot outside.
The cases included:
Public police logs did not provide details about the cases. It is not known whether the temperatures at the times of the reports were cold enough that idling for longer than three minutes would have been allowed by the law. The temperature benchmark is 32 degrees Fahrenheit.
Park City leaders in 2010 adopted the prohibition on idling for more than three minutes as part of City Hall's wide-ranging environmental program. Officials want to curb emissions, and the prohibition won support from the environmental community.
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count2infinity wrote:I think anyone with half a brain can look at what is required for AYP and know that eventually it's going to fail. You must improve your test scores every year to make AYP. If you look at the picture with the article, you can see the scores are all hovering around 75% passing for the 3 subjects that have been tested for years and the teachers now know how to teach to that particular test. Ask any teacher out there, you got 3/4 of your students to do well on a test, are you happy? Most would say yes (or at least most from the school I came from). None of those scores are significant drops in test scores.
The science test is a disaster. Students are expected to know biology, chemistry, physics, ecology, earth science, etc. They cram all the science classes into one single test. It's hard enough to teach just one of those subjects and get a kid proficient in it, let alone 7 or 8 subjects. I honestly can't believe the system hasn't move past these tests yet.
count2infinity wrote:I can understand science being treated as secondary subject up until about 5th or 6th grade. At elementary levels there are certainly things that should take preference (reading, writing, math). They should have enough science class to show the kids what is involved in science, but you don't need to make it an everyday sort of subject. After that, I feel as though science is just as important as the other subjects.
With that being said, the test itself is still ridiculously stupid. It covers such a large range of topics that it's impossible to prepare for. It's more or less a crapshoot.
count2infinity wrote:Well the thing that worries me is if too many republicans vote straight ticket, he's got a chance.
columbia wrote:Union Backs 'Bar Exam' For Teachers
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ExPatriatePen wrote:Something about barring the door behind you.
MWB wrote:ExPatriatePen wrote:Something about barring the door behind you.
MWB wrote:I don't know.... You'd have to be pretty dumb to not pass the Praxis. As the article mentions, upping the college requirements would also be a good idea.
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The Paramount Chief of the Vakpo Traditional Area, Togbe Gbogbolulu V, has endorsed the free senior high School vision of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), saying if his traditional area could sponsor some students currently in the senior high school, then the state was capable of undertaking a policy of free SHS education.
He said his stance on education was non-negotiable and that he was prepared to lend the needed support to proactive policies that would enable the people of his area to better themselves through education.
He, however, added that while it was his desire that the NPP would win to implement that policy, he would not countenance the situation where his people would vote for the party only to be deceived on assuming power.
Togbe Gbogbolulu said this when the running mate to Nana Addo-Addo, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, called on him at his palace Wednesday.
The visit by Dr Bawumia to the Volta Region was to apologise to the chiefs and people of Vakpo, Kpando, Nkonya and other areas where the flag bearer of the party could not visit during his recent campaign tour of the region even though the chiefs had been given prior notice of his coming and had prepared to receive him.
This situation came about because of the collapse of the Achimota Melcom building, which forced the NPP flag bearer, Nana Akufo-Addo, to suspend his campaign and rush to Accra to sympathise with the victims.
Earlier, Dr Bawumia had addressed a mini-rally at Juapong, where he introduced the parliamentary candidate for the area, Mr Nicholas Ahiadorme. Dr Bawumia was accompanied by the Second National Vice-chairman of the party, Sheikh T.B. Damba; the Volta Regional Chairman, Mr Kenwuud Nuworsu, and other regional party officials.
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Togbe Gbogbolulu stressed that in the past, it was nearly impossible to witness the spirited and public support shown by the youth and people of the area for the NPP, adding that the days of no support for the NPP in the area could become a thing of the past depending on how well the people of the area would be treated when the NPP won power.
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