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ForumsQuestionsDisplaying tasks on Google Calendar
Displaying tasks on Google Calendar
Posted: Dec 02, 2008
As I understand it, my options are to add Toodledo as a clanedar (in which case it shows up as a checkbox which I can click to see my tasks) OR add it as an iCal URL.
I have added both and can't see any difference after adding iCal URL. I guess what I was expecting was a listing of qualifying tasks along side or after the Google calendar entries.
I often use the "Agenda" view in Google because it saves paper and gives me a succinct view of what's coming up. In this context, it would be nice to show my task list somewhere. I seldom date my tasks but do use priorities and categories (kind of like your "Status").
So, is there a way I can get my tasks (or at least those that are elegible) to display on my calendar/agenda in one common print? Or are they different beasts which cannot be integrated?
Toodledo Founder
The iCal URL should print your tasks directly on your calendar if they have a due-date and due-time. If it isn't then you may not have imported the iCal link into Google Calendar properly.
Hope that helps
The Mind Doctor
Posted: Dec 03, 2008
I have tried copying and pasting the google ical link, the "other" ical link to google calendar. Everything syncs well. But when I try to add any subsequent task(with due date/time) it does not get updated in google calendar. This is very frustrating, as I want to get SMS reminders from google for Toodledo tasks
Please help!!
Toodledo Founder
That is because Google only syncs once a day and there is no way that we know of to make Google sync faster. You might want to let Google know that this is something that you want.
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If Virginia is exceptionally close, Goode, despite attracting just 2 percent support in a mid-September Washington Post poll in that state, could be an also-ran to remember.
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I run to the following problem which says if you have a smooth curve that is evolving over time (say finite length at the beginning) then
$$\frac{d}{dt}(curve \; length \; at \; time \; t)=-\int_{curve} k\cdot v \; ds,$$
where $k$ is curvature of the curve and $v$ is velocity of point on curve. $ds$ represents integration by parametrization by arclength.
I have tried proving this but I can not get out without re parametrazing curves. Is there some neater way to do this?


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Malacostracan, any member of the more than 29,000 species of the class Malacostraca (subphylum Crustacea, phylum Arthropoda), a widely distributed group of marine, freshwater, and terrestrial invertebrates. Lobsters, crabs, hermit crabs, shrimp, and isopods are all malacostracan crustaceans.
Malacostracans are the most numerous and most successful of the four major classes of Crustacea. Their members constitute more than two-thirds of all living crustacean species. They exhibit the greatest range of size (less than one millimetre, or 0.04 inch, to a limb spread of more than three metres, or 10 feet) and the greatest diversity of body form. Malacostracans are abundant in all permanent waters of the world: in the seas from the tropics to the poles and from the tidal zone to the abyss; in surface and subterranean fresh waters of all continents except Antarctica (where they once existed); and terrestrially on all continental landmasses and all tropical and temperate islands.
The success of malacostracans can be attributed primarily to their increased body size and to the evolution of more functional body regions and more sophisticated food-gathering appendages than possessed by their Paleozoic ancestors (542 million to 251 million years ago). This evolutionary thrust has been marked by the development of ambulatory legs and specializations for benthic life and by the brooding of eggs and suppression of free-living larval development. Especially significant has been a shift of food-gathering limbs from head to thorax and of swimming appendages and respiratory organs from head to thorax and finally to the abdomen. This rearward shift freed the antennae for the development of specialized organelles sensitive to odours, sounds, vibrations, and physical contact and added more appendages (maxillipeds) to the mouthpart field. Such changes have enabled terrestrial malacostracans to utilize efficiently the new food resources that have accompanied the evolution and proliferation of vascular plants from the late Paleozoic to the present.
General features
Size range and diversity of structure
Some decapod crabs have leg spans of more than three metres, and others weigh more than 10 kilograms (22 pounds). Some free-living members of the orders Amphipoda, Isopoda, and Stomatopoda are lobster-sized (25–30 centimetres [0.8 to 1 inch]); most, however, are medium (one to three centimetres) in size. Paleozoic and primitive extant taxa seldom exceed 10 centimetres in body length, and the adult stages of some parasitic and subterranean groups are very small (less than one millimetre).
Malacostracans have a fixed body plan of head, thorax, and abdomen. In the adult the head consists of five segments, the thorax of eight, and the abdomen typically of six (or rarely seven) unfused segments. The head supports paired compound eyes, two pairs of antennae, and three pairs of short, chewing mouthparts, each consisting of two branches. The eyes are usually pigmented and borne on movable stalks, but they are sessile on the sides of the head in isopods, amphipods, and members of some smaller groups. The first antennae (antennules) usually have two branches (three in the subclass Hoplocarida). The outer branch of the second antennae (antennal squame), which is usually flat and bladelike for elevation and swimming balance, has two segments in stomatopods and some mysids and one segment in syncarids and eucarids; it may be small or lost entirely in amphipods, isopods, and other bottom-dwelling or subterranean taxa. The first and second maxillae are short, with variable numbers of inner biting plates (endites) and often with outer lobes (epipodites), but the palps are short or lacking.
From the hindmost (maxillary) segment projects a head shield, or carapace, which in primitive forms is large and covers the thorax, leg bases, and gill chamber. It may be fused to the dorsum of the thorax, as in the euphausiids, decapods, and other members of the superorder Eucarida, but it is variously reduced and fused only to the anterior thoracic segments in mysids or lost altogether in the isopods, amphipods, and syncarids.
The eight pairs of thoracic legs are typically biramous (two-branched). One or more pairs are modified for feeding in some groups. In free-swimming species all legs are similar in shape, and both branches are slender. In bottom-dwelling species, however, the inner branch has become a stiff walking limb, and the slender multisegmented outer branch is variously reduced (in hemicarideans) or lost altogether (in amphipods and isopods). In advanced, especially bottom-dwelling, malacostracans (such as lobsters), one or more legs are pincerlike.
The abdomen bears on each but the last segment a pair of ventral, or ventrolateral, biramous limbs called pereopods, or pleopods, which are primarily used in swimming. In the males of all eucaridans, hoplocarids, isopods, some hemicarids and syncarids, and rarely some amphipods, the anterior one or two pairs may be specially modified for sperm transfer. In males of most mysidaceans, the fourth and fifth pleopods (and the first and second uropods of some amphipods) may be modified as claspers for holding the female during mating. The last abdominal segment (of all but the leptostracans) bears a pair of biramous uropods and a median plate, or telson. The uropods are usually setose and paddle-shaped in swimming taxa and form a broad tail fan with the telson for rapid propulsion. In benthic and subterranean species the uropods are often slender, elongate, and tactile in function. The telson is bilobed in juvenile syncarids, larval eucaridans, some mysids, and most amphipods but platelike in all other malacostracans.
Distribution and abundance
The class Malacostraca contains more than 29,000 living species and represents about half of all known crustacean species. It is the single largest group not only of marine arthropods but also of all fully aquatic arthropod taxa. Within the Malacostraca, Decapoda is the largest order, with more than 10,000 described species, followed by the orders Isopoda (10,000 species) and Amphipoda (6,200 species). The other major orders have fewer than 1,000 species each.
Most malacostracans are marine. Among the decapods, the ancient palinurans, their modern brachyuran (10-legged crab) derivatives, and the dendrobrachiate and stenopodid shrimps dominate in tropical and temperate marine shallows. The decapod caridean shrimps, astacidean lobsters and crayfish, and anomurans (hermits and eight-legged crabs), however, dominate in cold-water and polar regions, in the deep sea, and in continental fresh waters. The amphipods and isopods are also abundant along cold-water marine shores and in the abyss and have widely penetrated fresh waters. They are also widespread in underground waters and terrestrial environments. Stomatopods are largely confined to tropical marine shallows; tanaids and cumaceans are found mainly in the colder deeps; and mysids, though mainly marine, are also abundant in relicts of northern glacial lakes.
Importance to ecology and to humans
Malacostracans are often predators and scavengers. They are important ecologically in ridding the sea bottom and seashores of decaying animal and plant matter and in serving as middle-level converters of organic food energy to animal protein in a form suitable for fish, sea birds, marine mammals, and ultimately humans. The decapods and euphausiids (krill, order Euphausiacea) are the only malacostracan groups that have a major direct economic value to humans.
Natural history
Reproduction and life cycles
The malacostracan life cycle typically involves an egg stage; a series of free-swimming, plankton-feeding larval stages; a series of immature (subadult) growth stages; and finally a sexually mature (reproductive) adult stage. Hermaphroditic adults are present in a few isopods. In the primitive swarming type of reproduction the male seeks out the female in the open water, usually in synchrony with lunar periodicity, cycles of temperature, or food availability. Mating (copulation) is very brief, often completed in a few seconds and usually following the reproductive molt of the female, when her exoskeleton is still soft. The eggs are fertilized as they are extruded from the oviductal opening on the sternum of the sixth thoracic segment. In many species males do not feed, do not reproduce again, and do not live long after mating. Fertilized eggs may be shed freely in the sea, where they hatch, usually into nauplius larvae. In marine groups that brood the eggs by attaching them to the pleopods, the eggs hatch as late-stage larvae, which are often carnivorous (e.g., zoeae and phyllosoma larvae of decapods, antizoeae and pseudozoeae of stomatopods). These larvae eventually sink or swim to the bottom and pass through one or more stages prior to attaining the juvenile stage. Where embryos develop within a thoracic brood pouch, the larval stages are suppressed. The embryos typically hatch as immature forms of the adult (e.g., Isopoda, juveniles of the orders Mysidacea and Amphipoda), but parental brooding may be continued for a further few molts. In the deep sea and in fresh waters, whether embryos are laid freely (superorder Syncarida) or brooded on pleopods (decapods) or in a thoracic pouch (isopods and amphipods), they hatch as juveniles or immature adult forms.
In the more advanced, especially bottom-dwelling, malacostracans or in those with specialized habits, mating usually takes place on or in the bottom. Males may attend, guard, or carry the female for some time (preamplexus) prior to copulation (amplexus), and mating may be prolonged for several hours; the male usually continues to feed, molt, and mate further (in isopods, creeping decapods, and benthic amphipods). Where the female exoskeleton variously hardens prior to mating, the oviductal opening is often complex, and sperm transfer is assisted by correspondingly modified first and second pleopods of the male ("internal" fertilization of stomatopods, isopods, and the superorder Eucarida). Newly hatched late larvae or juveniles may be initially guarded or carried by the female (in stomatopods and some amphipods and isopods).
Malacostracans are primarily swimmers and secondarily walkers, clingers, and burrowers. Swimming is accomplished primitively by coordinated, synchronous beating of the biramous head appendages in early larval stages and thoracic appendages in later larval stages and the adult stages of leptostracan shrimp, mysids, and syncardids and in krill, decapods, and other eucarid malacostracans. The swimming action characteristic of adult malacostracans is provided by abdominal pleopods. Typically, each of the first five abdominal segments bears, on the ventral (lower) surface, a pair of pedunculate, biramous pleopods. In order to beat in unison, each pair is usually hooked together by spines on the inner margin of the peduncle (retinacula) or the inner ramus ("clothespin spines"). The amphipods are unique in having only three pairs of pleopods, the last two pairs being modified as stiff, thrusting uropods. In primitive forms the pleopod rami are slender and segmented (annulate), as in amphipods and procarididean decapods, all of which are primarily swimmers as adults; however, in all the other malacostracan groups, most of which are crawlers and burrowers, the rami are broad, flaplike, and unsegmented. The pleopods are typically reduced, or even lost, in many burrowers. The swimming crabs use paddlelike fifth thoracic legs for propulsion. Abrupt swimming propulsion is provided by the tail fan. In amphipods the tail fan (consisting of three pairs of uropods and telson) provides a sudden forward thrust. In eucaridans (especially decapods) the tail fan (paired uropods and telson) provides a characteristic "tail-flip" or sudden backward escape reaction.
In most benthic malacostracans the hind five to seven pairs of thoracic legs have become essentially uniramous (single-branched)—the inner branch is thickened and stiffened and adapted for walking or crawling. In amphipods the first four pairs are pointed forward and the last three backward, an adaptation for perching, clinging, climbing in "inchworm" fashion, or jumping.
In burrowing malacostracans, especially decapods and stomatopods, the distal segments of some legs attain a pincerlike form that facilitates both digging and removal of the soft substratum. In many species of burrowing amphipods, the claws are reduced, but the adjacent segments are much broadened, strongly spined, and powerfully muscled. Rapid leg movements, often aided by the fanning action of setose antennae and the hydraulic tunneling motion of powerful pleopods, enable these torpedo-shaped crustaceans to swim through loose sandy substrata, feeding as they go.
Food and feeding
Malacostracans consume virtually every available kind of organic matter, plant or animal, living or dead. The small- to medium-sized animals primarily consume detritus and plankton, and some parasitize other aquatic organisms. The larger-sized malacostracans are mainly carnivores and scavengers, preying on a wide range of small invertebrates and fishes or devouring the carcasses of whales, seals, fishes, and large invertebrates. Burrowing and small groundwater malacostracans are filter feeders, consuming microorganisms and bacteria from the sediments. Terrestrial isopods and amphipods consume forest leaf litter and algae at the tide lines.
Malacostracans capture or obtain their food primarily by using their thoracic legs. In early free-swimming larvae and the adults of some filter-feeding or deposit-feeding amphipods, isopods, and hemicarideans and in large carnivorous palinuran decapods, food may be gathered (occasionally killed) by means of the antennae and other head appendages. In carnivorous, or raptorial, species one or more of the thoracic legs are enlarged, and the tips are pincerlike, allowing the animal to capture, kill, and initially shred its prey. In lobsters and crayfish the first walking leg (fourth thoracic) is fully cheliform (pincerlike), and either the left or right claw is massive, with pavementlike teeth for crushing hard-shelled prey such as snails and clams. In "spearer"-type stomatopods the raptorial claw is toothed and spiny for stabbing soft-bodied prey. "Smashers" have a swollen, hammerlike claw for crushing hard-bodied prey.
Malacostracans (except for leptostracans) typically have one to three pairs of thoracic limbs modified as accessory mouthparts. These maxillipeds (or "jaw legs") pass food to the masticatory, or chewing, mouthparts of the head proper. The thoracic segment of the first pair of maxillipeds is usually fused to the head, forming a cephalon. In stomatopods the first five pairs are called maxillipeds, but only the first pair is functionally so and its body segment is not fused to the head. In amphipods the first two pairs of thoracic legs may also function as food-pushing limbs, but their segments are typically free. In decapods the first two or three pairs serve as maxillipeds, and their segments are fused within the cephalothorax.
The mouthparts generally reflect feeding habits. In flesh eaters and scavengers the mandibular incisors are typically large and the plates and palps of the maxillae and maxillipeds are armed with strong spines and cutting edges, whereas the molar is small or lacking. In those species that consume all organic material and in those that consume only plants, the molar is usually strong, with an inner grinding surface. In filter feeders the plates of the maxillules, the maxillae, or both may be enlarged and equipped with a large number of fine-filtering (plumose) setae. Accessory (baler) plates, for directing feeding currents, are often well developed (e.g., in cumaceans and haustoriid amphipods).
Although malacostracans are typically free-living animals, members of several taxa, especially among the amphipods, decapods, and isopods, have formed symbiotic, commensal, and even fully parasitic relationships with other invertebrates, fishes, marine mammals, and reptiles. Many decapods, especially porcellanid and xanthid crabs, live permanently in cavities among sponges, corals, and bryozoans. Some amphipods live within the respiratory and feeding cavities of sponges, tunicates, and anemones. Lafystiid and some lysianassid amphipods, as well as aegid, cymathoid, and immature gnathiid isopods, are external parasites of fish. Cyamid amphipods occur on whales and some hyalid amphipods in the buccal cavities of marine turtles. Epicaridean isopods are fully parasitic on other crustaceans, especially decapods. The body of the host may be much deformed and the body of the parasitic female very much transformed, quite unlike the small, symmetrically segmented, and otherwise normal male.
Form and function
External features
The chitinous exoskeleton, or cuticle, covering the body and limbs of malacostracans is divided into segments interconnected by strong, flexible membranes, allowing for articulation at the joints. The cuticle is usually soft and thin in small, wormlike, generally subterranean species, in parasitic species, or in the respiratory surfaces of free-living species. In large, heavy, mostly carnivorous species, the cuticle is highly mineralized or impregnated with calcium salts. Such an exoskeleton provides considerable mechanical leverage and protection to the owner.
Malacostracans, like all arthropods, increase in size by molting. They shed the old cuticle, expand in size, and secrete a new cuticle that subsequently hardens. This process may require several days for completion (in some hard-shelled bottom dwellers). The animals remain in sheltered locations until the new exoskeleton is hardened.
Internal features
The nervous system and sensory organs
The malacostracan central nervous system consists, in primitive forms, of a ventral nerve cord and ganglia within each body segment. The supraesophageal ganglion innervates the eyes, antennules, and antennae, and the subesophageal ganglion innervates the mouthparts of the head region. In amphipods and anomuran decapods the ganglia of abdominal segments are variously fused. In brachyuran decapods the abdominal and thoracic ganglia are fused into a single central thoracic ganglionic centre.
Nearly all surface-dwelling members have pigmented eyes, but these are usually reduced or totally lost in underground and deep-sea species. Crustacean eyes are compound (as in insects) and may be composed of thousands of individual facets, or ommatidia. The compound eyes of most malacostracans and their advanced larval stages are located on a movable stalk. The overall image is formed by combining the images from many individual ommatidia. The compound eye is especially sensitive to movement and has a wide field of vision, often more than 180°. This is an enormous advantage to large, predatory malacostracans.
The eyes of smaller, mainly benthic, nonpredatory malacostracans, such as amphipods, hemicarideans, and isopods, are located on small lobes or flat on the sides of the head. Except in predatory or nocturnal amphipods, the eyes are small and consist of only a few facets. Light that may strike a large patch of facets is concentrated on one ommatidium. Such eyes provide poor visual acuity. Compound eyes can discriminate colour, initiating changes within skin cells to match the colour of the substratum.
Olfactory hairs, or esthetascs, are used to locate food and recognize other crustaceans and their sexual states. Tactile setae occur generally over the external surfaces and appendages, especially of the antennae, food-gathering limbs, and mouthparts. Tactile hairs are present in the statocysts (organelles of balance) located, for example, in the first peduncular segment of the antennules in amphipods and the superorder Eucarida.
Some decapods and amphipods are sensitive to pressure change. Minute pit sensory organs of the general body surface are suspected receptors. Many decapods and amphipods produce sound by striking (percussion) or rasping (stridulating) or by internal mechanisms. Organs of sound reception include, in brachyurans, the chordotonal organs on the hinges of walking legs. Highly specialized sound and vibration receptors include the antennal calceoli of amphipods, the individual microstructure of which consists of receiving elements arranged serially and attached to the antennal segment by a slender stalk. In more-advanced groups the basal elements are expanded into a cuplike receptacle, and the stalk is distally expanded into a bulla, or resonator. In highly advanced predatory amphipods two types of calceoli are found: one type is used to detect mates (found in males only), and the other is used to detect prey (found in both sexes).
Digestion and nutrition
The digestive tract of malacostracans consists of a mouth; an esophagus; a two-chambered foregut; a midgut with outpocketings called digestive glands, or hepatopancreas; and a hindgut, or rectum. The large anterior foregut, or cardiac stomach, occupies much of the posterior aspect of the head and the anterior thoracic body cavity. A constriction separates it from the smaller, more ventral, pyloric stomach that lies in the posterior part of the thorax. Lining the inside of the greatly folded and muscular stomach walls, especially the pyloric portion, are groups or rows of stiff bristles, teeth, and filtering setae known as the gastric mill. The mill is strongly and complexly developed in large decapods, which ingest food quickly and in coarse chunks. The filtering setae are prominent in malacostracans that ingest fine materials or masticate their food thoroughly with the mouthparts. The macerated and partly digested food slowly works its way through the filtering system of the pyloric stomach into the ceca, or pouches, of the hepatopancreas. There enzyme production and the storage and absorption of food takes place. The digestive secretions depend on the species and diet and include cellulase and chitinase. In stomatopods the cardiac stomach is large enough to hold the remains of large prey; it opens directly from the mouth without an intervening esophagus. The midgut, or main intestine, may either extend throughout the abdomen, as in lobsters, or be very short, as in crabs. Fecal material is voided through the anus from the short rectum.
Malacostracans excrete waste fluids mainly through the ducts of the nephridial glands, which are present in the body segments of the second antennae and the maxillae. The ducts open on the basal segments of those head appendages. Antennal nephridial glands are present in the adult stages of eucaridans, mysidaceans, and amphipods and in the larval stages of stomatopods and hemicarideans. The antennal glands of amphipods are enlarged in freshwater forms but are small in terrestrial species. Maxillary nephridial glands are typical of adult stomatopods, syncaridans, hemicaridans, and isopods. Adult leptostracans have both types of glands. Nephrocytes are present at the bases of thoracic legs and elsewhere in the body of mainly primitive groups. Bathynellaceans have a unique uropodal gland. The sternal gills of amphipods are osmoregulators.
Most large malacostracans respire through gills, which develop as vascularized outgrowths of the first segment of the thoracic legs (epipodal gills). The gills of decapods are in a branchial chamber beneath the carapace, and oxygenated water is funneled through them. The lining of the chamber itself may be soft and vascularized for respiration, as in mysids, thermosbaenaceans, hemicarideans, and peneid shrimps. Land crabs have larger and more vascularized branchial chambers than do aquatic crabs. Land crabs also possess specialized chambers for keeping the gills moist.
The epipodal gills in syncarids and euphausiids are unprotected, since a carapace is either lacking or does not cover the leg bases. In amphipods the gills are usually simple sacs or plates, which in the course of evolution have migrated to the inner side of the legs. The gills are fanned and oxygenated by the pleopods in the ventral tunnel formed by the coxal plates. In stomatopods and isopods gill-like outgrowths of the pleopods or invaginated pseudotracheae (in terrestrial isopods) are the main organs of respiration.
Gases diffuse across the respiratory surface. Since the chitinous material of the body wall is relatively impermeable, special mechanisms have evolved to boost oxygen uptake. These include increased surface area (dendritic, foliate, pleated, or "double" gills), rich vascularization of respiratory surfaces, ventilating mechanisms (current-directing exopods and baler plates of the maxillae and maxillipeds), and presence in the blood of special respiratory pigments such as hemocyanin (which contains copper).
Blood vascular system
Malacostracans have a more complex open circulatory system than do other crustaceans. The single-chambered heart is enclosed in a pericardial sinus and is located dorsally, above the gut. It is elongate and tubular with several holes (ostia) for return flow in primitive forms (orders Leptostraca and Stomatopoda and the superorder Syncarida), but it is short and boxlike with one to two ostia and located in the thorax in advanced forms (decapods). The blood, or hemolymph, is pumped to the head through an aorta and to the gills and locomotor appendages through lateral and ventral arteries. Veins are lacking, and the blood returns to the heart via a series of sinuses.
Endocrine system and hormones
The major neuroendocrine control centre of malacostracans is the X-organ–sinus-gland complex, which lies in the eyestalk or in an equivalent part of the head in which the eyes are sessile. This complex regulates maturation, dispersal of pigments in the eye and for body colour change, and some metabolic processes, including molting. The female's ovaries, the male's reproductive glands, the pericardial organs, and the maxillary Y-organs of decapods also produce hormones that function in the molt and reproductive cycles.
Defense and aggression
Malacostracans must compete for food, shelter, space, and mates. Hermit crabs fight over shells to occupy, stomatopods and alpheid shrimps fight over shelters, and terrestrial crabs and tube-building amphipods contest burrows and domiciles. Males of many species grow enlarged and embellished appendages at maturity for use in fighting and winning mates. Fights to determine status range from highly ritualized displays to death struggles. In decapods the most aggressive fighters are aquatic species, which are well armed, meet infrequently, and compete only occasionally over patchy, ephemeral resources, including females. Terrestrial species, which are more prone to injury, more social, and less limited by availability of resources, exhibit more complex, formalized interactions. Male fiddler crabs attract females by waving the enlarged claw and sending sound signals. The signals establish the identity and intent of the sender. Male ghost crabs build sand pyramids to attract females. Numerous shrimps and some amphipods snap the movable finger of the enlarged claw against the hand as part of threat displays and courtship signals. Many stomatopods have a colour-coded, species-specific eyespot on the claws, which is displayed during posturing. More aggressive species have brighter eyespots. Stomatopods that fight with the same or closely related species reduce the force of their blows or engage in ritualized combat. Relatively docile species are more aggressive when facing more bellicose neighbours. An elaborate set of courtship signals is needed by the male stomatopod to prevent the female from attacking him.


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As a teen, you can get arrested for a lot of things adults could never go to jail for — truancy, running away from home or alcohol possession.
As a teen, you can get arrested for a lot of things adults could never go to jail for — truancy, running away from home or alcohol possession.
However, authorities in the juvenile justice system don't want the kids who are charged with those crimes or any non-violent crimes to end up in jail with another teen who committed an armed robbery, an arson, a rape or another serious offense.
"If you put a low-risk kid with a high-risk kid, and you keep them together, the high-risk kid doesn't turn into the low-risk kid. It's the opposite," said Debra DePrato, director for the Institute of Public Health and Justice at Louisiana State University.
That's why, since 2000, the state has aimed to reduce the number of children it commits into state juvenile correctional centers and why Louisiana was one of five states spotlighted by the Justice Policy Institute for cutting that number in half from 2000 to 2010.
However, that hasn't led to a direct reduction in the number of kids who come through the system in the first place, at least in Terrebonne and Lafourche, according to the heads of the juvenile detention centers here.
"I don't think juvenile detention centers have seen the same reductions," said Bob Licalzi, administrative director at the Lafourche Juvenile Justice Facility. "There may have been a shifting of responsibility from the state to the centers."
The U.S. Office of Juvenile Justice tracks which states have the highest juvenile confinement rates, meaning which states jail the largest percent of their population of children and teens.
From 2001 to 2010, Louisiana went from being third on that list to 19th, lowering its state incarceration rate from 505 kids for every 100,000 to 239 kids for every 100,000, the report says.
Arrests were cut in half during this time, with more than 37,000 kids arrested in 2001 to more than 16,000 arrested in 2010.
However, detention centers in Terrebonne and Lafourche have not seen such a steady decrease.
The number of kids brought to the Terrebonne Parish Juvenile Detention Center fluctuated throughout the decade. In 2000, 670 kids came through the facility. By 2010, 998 kids came through. In 2011, 780 did, and in 2012, 533 did.
In Lafourche, 139 kids came through the facility in 2000. By 2010, 174 kids came through. In 2011, 116 did, and in 2012, 120 did.
According to census data, the population of children ages 5 to 19 in both parishes actually fell slightly over the decade.
Terrebonne Parish's center, like Lafourche's, is constantly struggling to find space for the juveniles coming in, said Jason Hutchinson, warden of the Terrebonne center. The center's 32 beds are always full.
"The wheel doesn't stop turning at Terrebonne at the local level," Hutchinson said.
To cope with such a problem, Hutchinson's center implemented a point system for the children and teens. If they don't get into trouble, if they're not verbally abusive, if they do their school assignments, they get points. If they get 15 out of 17 points each day, that's a day that's taken off their time in the center, as long as it's approved by a judge, Hutchinson said.
"That way, it's not just throwing darts at a board" to make room for the incoming juveniles, he said.
Another helpful change, Hutchinson said, is that students who are sent to the center for school-based offenses no longer need to pay a fine to be bonded out. There are certain stipulations: They cannot test positive for drugs, they cannot have seriously wounded someone and they cannot have hurt an authority figure.
Licalzi's center has 10 beds. Last year, the average juvenile's stay there was 23 days.
"People may say, 'What? Only 23 days?' Well, you can't stack them on top of each other," Licalzi said.
Licalzi said he thinks judges have become more practical about sending kids to the center, instead giving most kids supervised probation and home monitoring sentences while sending those who really need it to the center.
The question of how to reform juveniles is a question that affects whole communities, not just families, said Mary Livers, deputy secretary of the state Office of Juvenile Justice.
"If you can keep that kid from getting deeper into the system, it's cheaper for the taxpayers, and there are no more victims," Livers said.
Kids who grow up in stable families learn concepts like self-esteem and trust, Licalzi said. "If they don't have those building blocks that come from stable families, by the time they hit that boiling stage in the teenage years, a lot of them come out a little different than we'd like. They haven't learned social empathy, social responsibility, and these are all skills that later on in life build successful adults."
In Terrebonne Parish over the past year, the Children and Youth Services and Planning Board has begun to discuss ways to reform its juvenile detention system, Hutchinson said. But members have not yet formed any concrete plans.
Staff Writer Katie Urbaszewski can be reached at 448-7617 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Anyone have any info on the low end ranges of the 14m Trigger vs. the Fat Lady? I know the 14m Trigger has slimmer struts similar to the Fat Lady.
I'm looking for a LW kite but the 17m seems a bit bigger than I'd need (72 kg) but the 14m might not be enough and might not relaunch in 9 knots. The 14m Trigger is much cheaper than the Fat Lady too.


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Wild Turkey Breast Recipe by Rhett Akins
"Deer meat and turkey meat and anything wild is about as good as you can get," Rhett Akins, an avid outdoorsman and hunter, tells Taste of Country when speaking of his wild turkey breast recipe. "The No. 1 main reason this recipe is cool is because you went out and got it yourself. You didn't go to the grocery store and buy it. You spent hours and sometimes days or weeks trying to get the turkey. So it's cool to know that you went out and did it on your own, like back in the old days."
"Plus, I just like how it tastes," Akins adds. "They're eating only what nature provides. They're not being fed by any humans or getting steroids. It's just the real deal."
Wild Turkey Breast Recipe Ingredients:
Turkey breast
2 eggs, beaten
1/2 cup flour
Salt, pepper and Lawry Seasoning Salt to taste
Ziplock bag
1 Vidalia onion, chopped
Wild Turkey Breast Recipe Directions:
1. Cut turkey breast into small strips.
2. Dip turkey in egg.
3. Put flour and spices in plastic Ziplock bag.
4. Add turkey strips.
5. Seal and shake bag to cover turkey with dry ingredients.
6. Heat Crisco in a frying pan to 350 degrees.
7. Fry breast strips until golden brown for about five minutes until they are done.
8. Add onion and stir while frying.
9. Drain grease and serve.
About Rhett Akins:
Akins first made his mark on the country music scene in the early '90s as an up-and-coming artist on the rise. During that time, Akins cranked out several hit singles, including 'That Ain't My Truck,' 'Don't Get Me Started' and 'She Said Yes.' When he and his record label parted ways in 2006, Akins continued to put out music independently, but found his time being absorbed immensely by songwriting.
When the southern-born singer-songwriter wrote 'Kiss My Country Ass' with hit songwriter Dallas Davidson in 2004, he discovered a special chemistry between the two of them. Not only were they both Georgia boys, but they shared similar interests and songwriting topics. They then added fellow Georgian Ben Hayslip — Akins' longtime best friend — into the mix, and today we have the hottest writing team in Nashville, now known as the Peach Pickers.
While working with the Peach Pickers and other songwriters, Akins has been responsible for many of the biggest hits to come out of Nashville in the recent years. He's penned for artists like Blake Shelton ('Honey Bee,' 'All About Tonight'), Rodney Atkins ('Farmer's Daughter,' 'Take a Back Road'), Joe Nichols ('Gimme That Girl,' 'The Shape I'm In'), Craig Morgan ('This Ole Boy'), Luke Bryan ('I Don't Want This Night to End'), Frankie Ballard ('A Buncha Girls'), Brooks and Dunn ('Put a Girl in It'), Justin Moore ('Bait a Hook'), Jack Ingram ('Barefoot and Crazy'), Josh Turner ('All Over Me') and many more. The Peach Pickers were recently crowned the 2011 BMI (Akins and Davidson) and ASCAP (Hayslip) Songwriters of the Year.


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Originally posted at Lesley Ellen Harris' Website, copyrightlaws.com.
The year end is often a time to review finances, clean off desks, and get organized for the new year. Below is a list of actions to get your copyright matters in order.
Permissions and Licenses
1. Check all licenses for electronic content to determine if any expire at the end of 2010. Do you want to renew expiring licenses or allow them to expire? Do you need to take any action to notify the vendor/content owner of your intention to renew or not renew a license?
2. Prepare a database of all content your organization has licensed. Whether it's an image to use on a promotional brochure, or content from a large electronic database, include all content in a single searchable database that allows you to quickly and easily locate that content and determine what rights you have in it.
3. Generally, the duration of copyright expires at the end of each calendar year. Determine if any of the works you want to use will be in the public domain in 2011. Review one list of works entering into the public domain on 1 January 2011.
4. Develop the "ultimate" list on what your organization needs from its license agreements. Do you need remote access or the right to share a PDF file? Do you need to make print-outs, or post articles to your intranet? What about using portions of the database for internal education/ seminars? Use the list as a set of goals in your future negotiations for licenses.
5. Consider your 2011 budget for permissions, licenses and copyright training. Consult various people in your organization to gather their needs and preferences. Prepare a draft budget and ensure you have the funds you need to meet your copyright needs in 2011.
Education and Training
6. Brainstorm ideas to get the copyright message to your colleagues. How about a weekly lunchtime discussion group on copyright issues? Include senior management, marketing and information professionals, and lawyers. Aim for a diverse group of speakers from authors to photographers to web designers to librarians. The discussions can help "sensitize" your colleagues about copyright rather than being a lecture style format.
7. Continue your own copyright education. Do you need a refresher course on copyright? Or perhaps a course on international copyright or web 2.0 copyright issues? See what in-person or online courses are being offered.
Management and Compliance
8. Develop a written copyright policy. If you do not already have one, first determine why you need one and how you would use it. If you have one, determine whether it is valuable, how you can improve or update it.
9. Do the same copyright questions arise again and again in your organization? Year end is a good time to compile these questions and prepare short practical answers. Circulating these Qs & As to your colleagues or posting them on an intranet may help your organization better comply with copyright.
Copyright News and Information
10. Review copyright legislation in 2010 as well as court cases. Are there any legislative amendments to your country's Copyright Act that affect you? Any court cases that interpret the copyright law that relate to your uses of copyright materials?
11. Try to better understand fair use/dealing. Is fair use/dealing narrow or broad? What research is covered by fair use? Create your own checklist to determine what may constitute fair use/dealing in your organization.
12. Create a list of favorite sites and books on copyright so that when you have a copyright issue in 2011, you can quickly consult reliable, helpful sources.
13. Investigate how best to follow copyright issues in 2011. Sign up for a RSS feed? Follow someone on Twitter? (Try Copyrightlaws @ Twitter) Participate on a discussion list? There are free and subscription newsletters that may provide timely and relevant news.
Copyright Symbol and Protection
14. Review how you are protecting your own copyright works from documents to images to podcasts and videos. Although voluntary in most countries, using the universal copyright symbol© is a reminder that copyright exists in a work. Including contact information for permissions will direct people when obtaining copyright permissions.
15. Copyright registration is voluntary in most countries but consider registering your works with your country's copyright office. Rather than registering individual works, register a group or collection of works produced during the year to save time and registration fees. Registration is important if you are distributing your works to the public and may need to enforce your rights through legal action.
16. Review your agreements with consultants. Who retains copyright ownership in consulting reports? If your organization does, make sure that this is clearly stated in your agreement and if necessary provide for an assignment of this work to your organization. If the consultant owns his works, take a look at the rights your organization has in any of the consultant's work. If you are a consultant, review what rights you have in your own works.
17. Undergo an intellectual property or IP audit. It's a great way to make sure all the content and computer software you are using is legal, and a great way to find out what IP you own, and how to market and better profit from that IP. This is true for individuals, small and large organizations.
18. Set up a mechanism for monitoring the legal use of your own online content on an international basis. This can be as simple as doing search engine searches, or you could hire a professional who specializes in finding unauthorized uses of content. Piracy is not only the domain of the software and entertainment industries. You may find surprises in how your individual or organization's rights are being exploited, and your works used and perhaps even sold without your permission.
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I'd been having some subtle signs that our baby would come: sleepless nights full of contractions. Visits from my Dad in my dreams, letting me know we'd all be safe, that we were being looked after as we entered this new phase in our lives.
I had an urge to be together as a family on Sunday. Instead of going to yoga (sorry, Jane!), I wanted to be with my family, quietly together. I remembered this feeling from the Sunday before Maia was born, when Brian and I went on a long, winding, hilly walk around our San Francisco.
So, we visited Hayes Valley Farm for a picnic. It rained on our way there, but then as the afternoon went on, the sun shone through the clouds and warmed us. I thought it would be a perfect evening to have a baby, but I didn't think it would happen quite yet.
At the farm, we had tacos from the cob oven, sat on our picnic blanket by the live music and watched the kids dig in the dirt. We had bike-powered smoothies. Maia learned how to use scissors in the craft tent after she went on a scavenger hunt (and Vanessa saved her from learning about nettles the hard way).
Walking the slightly hilly mile home, I was really dragging. How much longer would I be carrying this baby? I was ready to meet her, and I felt tired, tired, tired. Maia fell asleep in the stroller on the way home, so I got in bed, put on a hypnobirthing audio track, and had an incredibly deep 2 hour sleep.
Later, we video chatted with Mimi, ate dinner together, and put Maia down. She's been having trouble going to sleep on her own, so I sat in the rocking chair until she fell asleep. I noticed contractions all evening, but I'd been having on and off contractions for so long at that point, I was hesitant to think this was the real thing.
I went to bed with my hypnobirthing tracks going, and slept until 1 or 2. I woke with contractions, and labored in bed for a couple of hours, balloon breathing into my contractions, still thinking I might drift off to sleep and wake up to another usual day in the morning. Around 4, I noticed I was hungry, and decided to get up and eat something and drink a bunch of water while I still could. At 5, I decided to send an email to ask someone else to bring lunch to Puddle Jumpers on Tuesday since it was our turn. When Brian and Maia woke at 6, Brian said he could hear me moaning through contractions in the kitchen, and he knew it was on. This was about the time my mom was boarding a plane in New York to come to San Francisco, as planned. I decided not to call her about the labor--it was still early and why worry her on her flight? We called Brian's folks at 6:30, and they came and got Maia at about 7am. While we waited, Maia snuggled with Daddy. She wasn't sure about Mommy, and said, "Mommy, stop doing that!"
Steve picked her up, still in her pajamas and I don't think she'd even had breakfast yet. Once Maia was safely in the care of her Noni and Nonu, I got back in bed, put on hypnobirthing, and gave Brian instructions for cleaning the house. I was grateful that he was vacuuming because I could really let go into the contractions and moan through them without anyone hearing! But when he turned the vacuum off, I didn't care who heard me, I just did my thing to get through the contractions. Still, I said to Brian that I thought the contractions were variable and not building, which is what happened during labor with Maia. I thought we were in this for the long haul.
At about 8:30, Brian sent a text to Vanessa to tell her we were in early labor, and could she please bring smoothie supplies. He assured her that it was still early and she didn't need to stay. At 9, we called Maria to let her know we were in early labor. We left a message on her machine, but didn't think it was time to page her yet. We also didn't think it was time to contact Hannah, the apprentice midwife who I was so excited to have attend my birth. (We did eventually text her, and she arrived just in time to help out tremendously in the hours after Lucy was born.)
Before Vanessa arrived, the surges grew so intense that I needed Brian by my side to get through them. I told him to stop vacuuming and cleaning, that I needed him here now. After a while of laboring in bed, Brian by my side, headphones attached to my laptop for my hypnobirthing tracks, I asked Brian how far apart and how long the contractions were. He replied that I had told him not to time contractions during this labor. I yelled at him that I wanted to know now! He said he wasn't sure. I started to get really antsy and needed to get up and move to the living room. He wanted to change the sheets on the bed, but I said no way, I needed him next to me. I labored leaning over the couch, and during these contractions, which were extremely intense, I felt like the baby was moving down. This scared me a lot. I was not ready to have the baby, especially because Vanessa wasn't there yet and we hadn't even talked to Maria! So, I started to push my knees together during the contractions, which is NOT what nature intended and really shifted the contractions to an almost unbearable point. I was uncomfortable, so we went back to the bed. I tried to listen to the hypno audio tracks but that was not working for me. I was beyond being able to focus, things were feeling way out of control, and I needed backup!
I was so incredibly relieved when Vanessa arrived at about 9:30. When she walked in, I said something like "it hurts" or "I'm scared" or "this is hard." I said all of those things during my labor, but I can't remember which I said first. She said, "yeah, it hurts because you're having a baby!" I think that was the moment I realized that this was really happening, and fast! I was fully in labor and going to have this baby soon. She and Brian helped through several contractions. After a few, she asked what else she could do. We hadn't changed the sheets yet, so we decided she would make the bed and Brian and I would move to the living room. After changing the sheets, she asked Brian if we had talked to Maria, and when we told her no, she got right on the phone and called her. Maria heard me laboring in the background and told Vanessa that she would arrive in 10-15 minutes.
I was so relieved that Maria was on her way! The contractions were so intense I felt like my tools were just not enough to me get through, and all I could do was hold on as the surges went through me. One thing I could do was moan, low and deep, as guttural and animalistic as possible. I did horse lips and the sticking-tongue-out fire breath thingy to encourage my whole body to stay loose. But I was moaning so much that my throat began to hurt and I was getting hoarse and I wasn't sure I was doing it right. At one point, I turned to Vanessa and said, "Do I sound ok?" which I'm sure was a very strange and funny question, but I had all the advice swirling in my head--let go like an animal, deep moans, sex moans...and I couldn't make sense of it all in the moment. At some point, Vanessa told me that I looked just like the women in the movie. She was talking about the Ina May documentary that we'd seen together a few months earlier. Really? That was so incredibly reassuring to me. I had been feeling totally out of control and kind of in shock that labor was progressing so quickly. But those women had just looked like they were in labor, so it was really reassuring to know that everything was looking normal.
Maria got here at about 10:30, and I was so relieved. She told me to just do my thing while she set up. I was still pretty scared and confused that it was all happening so fast, and I told everyone so. I was still pressing my knees together during the contractions and Maria said, "It's going to help if you let your knees go wide." I replied with something like, "But then I'll feel like pushing! This is happening too fast! I'm not ready!" It was such a pure truth from me, but looking back it must have seemed pretty funny to everyone else since I was obviously very close to delivering. I was also confused that my water hadn't broken yet. My water broke very early on with Maia, and I couldn't believe that I could be so close to delivering without my water breaking, but Vanessa told me her water didn't break until the very end of her labor.
I moved back into the bedroom, and I was shaking uncontrollably. I felt completely out of control. Maria suggested that I put the hypnobirthing tracks back on. I tried that and all I remember is ripping out the headphones soon after. That wasn't working anymore.
Maria checked me and I was 6 or 7 cm dilated. I figured this meant about 6 more hours of labor-- 2 hours for every cm. That is not how it went with Maia, but for some reason that's what I thought at that moment, and I was relieved to have a time frame. Maria asked if I'd like to get in the tub, but we hadn't set it up yet. So, she asked Vanessa to start getting the tub ready, but I was asking, "Is there time? I don't think there's time!" After a few more contractions in bed, my water broke. Soon after, I felt like pushing. Maria checked me again and I was 10 cm, and she told me I could push. She called Vanessa in (no birth tub after all) and I asked her to take pictures. On the next contraction, I didn't push, I was just sort of writhing and confused. For some reason, I couldn't connect what Maria told me to do with actual pushing. So, Maria got very close to me and said, "Your baby is almost here. On your next surge, all you need to do is take a deep breath and push like you're pooping." Oh, I know how to do that! And sure enough, the greatest feeling in the world, pushing my baby out. One push, she's almost here! Two pushes, she's crowning! Reach down and feel your baby's head! Three pushes, her head is out!~ I don't think I pushed again, maybe I did, I just know that Maria told me to reach down, and I did, and I caught my baby and put her on my chest!
Relief, elation, disbelief...a perfect, healthy baby girl resting in my arms.
Lucy Patricia Cavagnolo was born on May 6, 2013 at 11:12 am on a sunny Monday morning in our bedroom.
My second pregnancy, labor and delivery extended all the things I'd learned the first time around. To let go of my particular brand of fears by letting people into my life and my experiences. To be groovy. To ask for what I need. To tell the truth, like "it hurts, I'm scared", or "this is hard." That I am not in control, but I can practice how to be present with discomfort. That I can't get through the discomfort alone. That choosing love~ of myself, my family, my friends~ is the most difficult, rewarding choice I can make.
Welcome, Lucy, we love you.


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Ask anyone closely involved with Hewlett-Packard if Meg Whitman is doing a good job, and you'll get the same answer: Take a look at the stock.
Since the former eBay CEO took over in September, it's crashed by almost 50 percent, from $23 to $12.
Now ask those same HP observers and insiders if they think that Whitman will be fired. No one close to the company seems to think she's at risk.
Here's why:
1. A lot of employees like her. Some missteps aside, she's winning over HP's workforce. "She connects with employees," one HPer told us. "She's personable. She says all the right things, what they want to hear. They have confidence in her even if they don't have it in the company."
2. Everyone knows that another fired CEO could cripple the company beyond repair. In the past seven years, HP has forced out three CEOs— Carly Fiorina, Mark Hurd, and Léo Apotheker. HP simply can't afford to change its leadership now.
3. She's affordable. Whitman, who made a fortune at eBay, gets an annual salary of $1, plus 100,000 shares of stock. She's eligible for bonuses of up to $6 million. But most of her compensation comes from stock options that only vest if the stock price hits certain targets for 20 consecutive days. She was eligible for options on 800,000 shares on her first anniversary if the stock closed at or above $28.31 for 20 consecutive trading days. It didn't. On her second anniversary, she's eligible for another 800,000 if the stock closes on or above $33.03 for 20 consecutive trading days. We'll see.
4. She's like Switzerland. One of HP's biggest problems is the warring factions within the company: hardware vs. software, PC vs. enterprise, executives brought on via Compaq vs. EDS. As a newcomer and outsider, Whitman is faction-neutral.
5. She's got another year's worth of Teflon. Whitman's first year has been all about doling out the bad news, easily blamed on the mismanagement of her predecessors. Her major failing has been a lack of a clearly articulated strategy for getting HP growing again.
HP has promised that its next CEO will come from within HP. The frontrunner is Bill Veghte, the chief strategy officer. But Whitman needs another year at the helm. If HP is still laden down by debt and internal drama, it will be time for someone else.


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Labor Day marked the end of Robert Warzycha's tenure as the head coach of the Columbus Crew, with Crew technical director Brian Bliss stepping into the job on an interim basis.
For the Houston Dynamo, who take on the Crew in Bliss' debut, the change brings a bevy of new wrinkles.
With Bliss at the helm, new tactics, new personnel and possibly a new fire may lift a Columbus team that's struggled to keep up in the Eastern Conference.
To combat the unknown, the Dynamo are heading into Wednesday night's highly important road game (6:30 p.m. CT; CSN Houston, Mega TV) looking to focus on the only thing they can control: themselves.
"It's weird when that happens," said midfielder Adam Moffat, who played for the Crew under Warzycha and his predecessor, Sigi Schmid, from 2007-10. "You don't know what it's like beforehand. It's kind of a fresh opportunity for the boys. I know Brian. When it is the first time someone's taken control, there's a few question marks.
"We know what we have to do. It'll be interesting but we'll prepare normally."
While Houston won't know what Bliss has in store for them, it helps the Dynamo that they have a healthy knowledge of the Crew's personnel. The two clubs have already matched up twice this season, with Houston notching a win at home and a draw on the road. That familiarity will play in Houston's favor as they prepare for Columbus.
"The personnel hasn't changed, other than the person picking the team," head coach Dominic Kinnear said. "You have to focus on the other team so you can go back and look at the previous lineup there they had against Seattle [last weekend]. By this time you know each other's personnel pretty well."
One player the Dynamo know for sure will not be in the lineup is Federico Higuain. The Argentine is serving the back end of a two-game suspension and will not suit up against Houston.
The absence of Higuain and firing of Warzycha adds intrigue to an already tense and important contest for the Orange, who are looking to jump on a wounded opponent early in a game that could present a playoff-type atmosphere.
"A new coach could come in and say, 'We want to do things completely different,' so you can't just prepare from the past. Really we just worry about what we can control," said defender Bobby Boswell. "You always look at the other team a little bit but you control what you can control. For me, that's how we play and go about our business."
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CBS To Receive Award From Fringe Group At CPAC
CBS News correspondent Sharyl Attkisson is set to receive a journalism award at this year's Conservative Political Action Conference from Accuracy in Media, a right-wing group with a long history of promoting anti-gay views and conspiracy theories. Attkisson -- the first reporter from a mainstream news outlet to receive AIM's annual award -- has produced some notably bad journalism over the past year, particularly on the topics of clean energy and vaccines.
CBS's Attkisson To Receive "Accuracy In Media" Award
Accuracy In Media Will Honor CBS Correspondent Sharyl Attkisson At CPAC. Accuracy in Media (AIM), a right-wing organization that criticizes perceived liberal bias in the media, announced this month that it would "honor Dana Loesch and Sharyl Attkisson for their outstanding contributions to journalism" with its Reed Irvine Accuracy in Media award. The award is being presented at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on February 9, 2012. Attkisson is listed on the schedule as a speaker at the award presentation. [Accuracy in Media, 2/1/12 [1]] [CPAC, accessed 2/6/12 [2]]
*UPDATE: CBS Responds. In response to questions about the award, CBS told Politico [3]: "CBS News journalists are regularly honored by a broad spectrum of organizations for their outstanding original reporting." See below for factual problems in Attkisson's reporting that have not been corrected by CBS.
*UPDATE 2: AIM Responds. AIM spokesman Logan Churchwell told the [4] Washington Post [4] that Attkisson agreed to accept the award "in person" and will speak for 8-10 minutes. The Post also reported: "Attkisson, says Churchwell, has worked with AIM founder Reed Irvine in the past." According to TPM [5], Churchwell also said Attkisson "confirmed and reconfirmed" her attendance at the award presentation.
*UPDATE 3 (2/9/12): TPM reports [6] that Churchwell "told TPM that Attkisson was sent on assignment out of town. Churchwell confirmed that CBS' bureau chief will accept the award on her behalf."
AIM Is A Cesspool Of Hate And Conspiracy Theories
AIM Known For Extreme Anti-Gay Views. Led by Cliff Kincaid, former Editor of Accuracy in Media and now Director of AIM's Center for Investigative Journalism, AIM has repeatedly published virulently anti-gay commentary.
- AIM Defended Ugandan Bill Threatening Death Penalty For The "Offense Of Homosexuality." In 2010 AIM aggressively defended legislation in Uganda that "sought to impose the death penalty for a number of reasons, including being a 'serial offender' of the 'offense of homosexuality,'" as the New York Times reported. Kincaid praised the bill, saying "The purpose of the Ugandan bill, quite clearly, is to keep homosexuality in the closet, where it used to be in this country. The country's literal survival may depend on passage of this legislation, after it undergoes hearings and some revisions." [New York Times, 5/13/11 [7]] [Accuracy in Media, 2/1/10 [8]] [Accuracy in Media, 2/3/10 [9]] [Accuracy in Media, 2/5/10 [10]] [Accuracy in Media, 2/11/10 [11]] [Accuracy in Media, 2/18/10 [12]]
- AIM: Repealing DADT "Is A Recipe For National Suicide"; "They Will Demand Sexual Favors To Rise In The Ranks." Kincaid stated in a May 2010 column that repealing Don't Ask, Don't Tell (DADT) would mean "a draft would be required to fill the ranks with soldiers reporting to the male homosexuals already there and in command positions. They will demand sexual favors to rise in the ranks, creating even more problems down the road. It is a recipe for national suicide." Kincaid also fretted about "permitting transgendered male soldiers to openly wear women's military uniforms," and stated that the entry of gay soldiers into the Armed Forces "could mean disease and death for those who come into contact with their blood and bodily fluids on the battlefields of the world." The column was titled, "Corporal Klinger and the Barney Frank Brigade." [Accuracy in Media, 5/25/10 [13]]
- AIM Promoted View That "The Nazi Party Was Entirely Controlled By Militaristic Male Homosexuals." As the Southern Poverty Law Center noted, AIM has promoted the views of Scott Lively, a pastor that runs an anti-gay hate group and claims in his book The Pink Swastika that "the Nazi party was entirely controlled by militaristic male homosexuals." When asked about Nazi persecution of gays and lesbians, Lively said on The Daily Show, "The Nazis did persecute homosexuals to distract public attention away from their homosexuality." In March 2009, AIM published a column by Lively in its "AIM Report" newsletter. Arguing against the repeal of DADT, the column claimed "Hitler's initial power base when he launched the Nazi Party was a private homosexual military force." [Southern Poverty Law Center, Spring 2011 [14]] [Comedy Central, The Daily Show, 7/28/10 [15]] [Accuracy in Media, March 2009 [16]]
- AIM Falsely Accused Obama Official Of Pedophilia. In December 2009 AIM posted a blog by Allie Duzett, an AIM intern, which asserted that then-Obama administration official Kevin Jennings, a gay man, was a "pedophile." AIM later removed the blog post, stating, "We have no evidence to support those specific charges. The blog entry was posted by an intern without permission." In September 2010, AIM apparently hired that intern as a blogger. [Media Matters, 12/11/09 [17]] [Media Matters, 9/24/10 [18]]
- AIM Called For News Organizations To Launch "Quit Gay Sex" Campaign. In response to ABC News' 2005 anti-smoking campaign, AIM called for news organizations to engage in a "Quit Gay Sex" campaign "advising people to quit engaging in the dangerous and addictive homosexual lifestyle" because "Life-threatening sexually transmitted diseases among homosexuals are on the increase." [Media Matters, 12/14/05 [19]]
- AIM Attacked Anti-Bullying Efforts. In 2007 AIM chairman Don Irvine criticized the National School Boards Association for discussing the hostility faced by LGBT students. Irvine wrote that "gay students have become one of the most protected class of students and heterosexuals are the ones facing hostility when they are labeled homophobes should they utter any word that can be remotely interpreted as being hateful." Irvine further suggested that there is pervasive "same-sex bullying (i.e. lesbian gangs assaulting innocent girls)." [Accuracy in Media, 4/15/07 [20]]
- AIM Thinks The Republican Party Is Too Gay-Friendly. In an August 2010 column titled, "Is the GOP Becoming the Gay Old Party?" Kincaid claimed that "homosexuals and their sympathizers occupy important positions of power in the Republican Party," adding: "What many Republicans have decided to ignore is that America's founders regarded homosexuality as a crime against nature and it was prohibited in the states and the military. This view was grounded in America's Judeo-Christian legal traditions." [Accuracy in Media, 8/15/10 [21]]
AIM Promoted Birther Claims. At the 2009 CPAC, AIM's Kincaid questioned whether President Obama was born in the U.S., saying "Back during the 1980's at least we knew -- we knew that our President was born in the United States." Kincaid later released a copy of his own long-form birth certificate in order to call on Obama to do the same. In 2011 AIM Chairman Don Irvine -- the son of the late Reed Irvine, the AIM founder for whom the award is named -- applauded the release of Obama's long-form birth certificate, saying "Accuracy in Media has been a longtime advocate for transparency regarding the President's birth records; today that need has been met." Two days later AIM published a guest column stating that Obama's "long form birth certificate may not be genuine." [Media Matters, 8/5/09 [22]] [Media Matters, 2/26/09 [23]] [Accuracy in Media, 7/24/09 [24]] [Accuracy in Media, 3/1/10 [25]] [Accuracy in Media, 4/27/11 [26]] [Accuracy in Media, 4/29/11 [27]]
AIM Pursued Conspiracy Theories About Vincent Foster's Death. In The New York Times' 2004 obituary of Reed Irvine, the Times wrote: "while AIM occasionally lived up to its name, it also spent much of its time pursuing conspiracy theories." The Times noted that the organization had questioned whether the "death in 1993 of Vincent W. Foster Jr., the deputy White House counsel in the Clinton administration, was really a suicide." Indeed, as recently as 2004 AIM released a "Special Report" alleging that the "American Press participated in the cover-up of Foster's murder." [New York Times, 11/19/04 [28]] [Accuracy in Media, 10/16/04 [29]]
AIM: "There Is No Evidence That Obama Was Baptized." AIM has argued that journalists should question Obama's Christian faith, stating: "[C]alling yourself something is not the same thing as proving it is the case. Obama's Christian claim deserves to be scrutinized ... The facts show that there is no evidence that Obama was baptized in a traditional Christian sense of the term. Indeed, Muslims could join the church in Chicago that Obama attended." [Accuracy in Media, 2/14/11 [30]]
AIM Calls Global Warming A "Fraud." In 2007 Kincaid wrote an article titled "Media Promote Global Warming Fraud" claiming there was a "lack of scientific data to support the man-made global warming assertions." And in 2008, AIM issued a "Special Report" titled, "Will Media Expose Global Warming Con Job?" The report encouraged journalists to "break ranks and pursue their next Pulitzer Prize by exposing the lack of scientific consensus on CO2 as a planet-heating pollutant." [Accuracy in Media, 2/5/07 [31]] [Accuracy in Media, 2/1/08 [32]]
All Previous Award Recipients Were From Right-Wing Media Outlets
Attkisson First Mainstream Reporter To Earn AIM Distinction. Attkisson appears to be the first reporter from a mainstream news network to receive AIM's Reed Irvine Accuracy In Media Award. This year AIM will also honor Dana Loesch, a conservative CNN contributor and the editor of Andrew Breitbart's website Big Journalism. The previous winners are:
- 2011: Tucker Carlson, founder of the Daily Caller, and Newsmax writer Ken Timmerman. [Accuracy in Media, 1/31/11 [33]]
- 2010: Andrew Breitbart and Marc Morano of Climate Depot. [Accuracy in Media, 1/31/11 [33]]
- 2009: M. Stanton Evans, Human Events contributor and author of Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America's Enemies, and Karl Denninger, then-Tea Party activist. [Accuracy in Media, 2/25/09 [34]]
- 2008: Heritage Foundation Fellow Lee Edwards. [Targeted News Service, 6/30/08, via Nexis] [Accuracy in Media, 2009 [35]] [Heritage, accessed 2/6/12 [36]]
- 2006/2007: Fox News contributor and conservative blogger Michelle Malkin and "Patriot Post" Executive Editor and Publisher Mark Alexander. [Patriot Post, 2/17/06 [37]] [Accuracy in Media, 2/23/07 [38]]
- The award was established in 2005 in honor of AIM founder Reed Irvine, who died in 2004. The first recipients were FreeRepublic.com bloggers Harry MacDougald and Paul Boley. [Accuracy in Media, 7/6/06 [39], via AmericanDaily.com] [Accuracy in Media, 11/28/05 [40]]
Attkisson Has Produced Shoddy, Irresponsible Reporting Over The Past Year
Attkisson Botched Green Energy "Investigation." In a recent "investigation" for CBS's This Morning, Attkisson purported to reveal 11 "New Solyndras" -- companies she said "are having trouble" or "have filed for bankruptcy" after receiving federal assistance. But Attkisson was counting companies that didn't even receive federal funds, companies that haven't actually gone bankrupt, and companies that have sold the government-backed projects to other firms, meaning taxpayer funds are not in their hands. Bill O'Reilly and CBSNews.com used Attkisson's misleading report to spread additional false information. In announcing its award recipients, AIM specifically lauded Attkisson for her green energy report. [Media Matters, 1/13/12 [41]] [Media Matters, 1/18/12 [42]] [Media Matters, 1/30/12 [43]] [Accuracy in Media, 2/1/12 [1]]
Science Writer: Attkisson Is "One Of The Least Responsible Mainstream Journalists" Covering Vaccines and Autism. Science writer Seth Mnookin, author of The Panic Virus: The True Story Behind The Vaccine-Autism Controversy, wrote on his website: "For years, CBS News's Sharyl Attkisson has been one of the least responsible mainstream journalists covering vaccines and autism. Again and again, she's parroted anti-vaccine rhetoric long past the point that it's been decisively disproved." Indeed, in three articles on CBSNews.com this year, Attkission has suggested that there is a major "debate" in the scientific community over whether vaccines are connected to autism, despite the lack of evidence for the supposed link. Mnookin told Media Matters that he found it "shocking that her vaccine reporting is featured on a major news" site. [SethMnookin.com, 3/31/11 [44]] [Phone conversation, 2/6/12]
- Children Who Are Not Vaccinated Are At Risk Of Serious Infectious Diseases. Vaccination rates in certain areas of the United States are decreasing, coinciding with a rise in measles cases. As Dr. Steven Weinreb wrote in the New York Times, "For each year between 2001 and 2008, the median number of [measles] cases in the United States was 56. In the first six months of this year [2011] alone, there were more than 150 reported cases -- the most since 1996. A vast majority of those who were sickened had not been vaccinated or had uncertain vaccination histories." [New York Times, 12/27/11 [45]]
Attkisson: A "New Scientific Review" Shows The "Austism-Vaccine Debate" Is Not Over. More than a year after the formal retraction of the main study upon which theories connecting autism to vaccines were based, Attkisson wrote: "For all those who've declared the autism-vaccine debate over - a new scientific review begs to differ. It considers a host of peer-reviewed, published theories that show possible connections between vaccines and autism." Mnookin criticized Attkisson's article, noting that the author of the "new scientific review," Helen Ratajczak, had only "been the primary author of a published study" twice in the past decade, and it was "only the fourth study she's been associated with in any capacity during that time." Dr. David Gorski further broke down the "pseudoscience" cited in Attkisson's article, and concluded by wondering why CBS "tolerate[s] Attkisson's horrible reporting on vaccines and other scientific issues." [CBSNews.com, 3/31/11 [46]] [SethMnookin.com, 3/31/11 [44]] [Media Matters, 9/16/11 [47]] [ScienceBasedMedicine.org, 4/4/11 [48]]
Attkisson Editorialized In Article About Debunked Vaccine-Autism Link. In 2010, a federal court ruled that families with autistic children are not entitled to compensation from the vaccine court because a causal link between vaccines and autism is "scientifically unsupportable." In an article titled "The Search for Safer Vaccines," Attkisson commented that "vaccine-injured children who end up with autism are quietly winning their cases, but only when they focus on the more general argument of seizures or brain damage rather than autism. Some victory." [CNN.com, 3/12/10 [49]] [CBSNews.com, 1/19/11 [50]]
CBS Reportedly Had To Remove A False Paragraph From Attkisson's Report. In January 2011, Attkisson wrote an article titled "Child Flu Vaccine Seizures?" According to an excerpt quoted by Mnookin, Attkisson's article originally ended by stating that a new study "discusses how early life seizures 'may contribute to the enhanced risk of IDD's (Intellectual and Development Disabilities) and ASD's (Autism Spectrum Disorders.)'" But the study did not "say anything about vaccine-related febrile seizures," according to Mnookin, who noted that "when CBS was alerted to the problem," it removed the offending paragraph without noting a correction. The article still states that "non-government medical experts differ on the issue of whether flu shots should be given to children," even though the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Medical Association and the American Lung Association all recommend that children older than 6 months get the flu vaccine. [SethMnookin.com, 1/28/11 [51]] [CBSNews.com, 1/26/11 [52]] [American Academy of Pediatrics, 9/1/11 [53]] [American Medical Association, accessed 2/3/12 [54]] [American Lung Association, accessed 2/3/12 [55]]
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Halloween Party Pages
Techniques: #1 – Using paper pattern for the title; #2 – Baker's twine lollipops
Designer's Tip: Baker's twine makes the cutest lollipops, and they're so easy! The great design of these papers makes this a quick and easy layout to put together.
STEP #1 BACKGROUND – Use the purple spider web paper with the orange strip across the top. Glue a 12"x3" orange text paper at the bottom. Glue the web ribbon across the top of the orange paper as shown, and tape the ends to the back.
STEP #2 PHOTOS – For the right page: Ink the edges of one 6"x4" photo, one 4" square, and one 2 5/8"x4" photo, and mat on orange paper with 1/8" borders. Glue the 6"x4" photo onto a 7 1/2"x6" candy corn paper and tear the edges. Glue to the page 1 1/2" from the right and 2 3/4" from the top. Foam tape the 4" square photo 1/8" from the left and 1 1/2" from the bottom. Foam tape the 2 5/8"x4" photo 1/2" from the right and 3/4" from the bottom.
STEP #3 TECHNIQUE – BAKER'S TWINE LOLLIPOPS: Decide where you want the lollipops. They should be 1" in diameter when finished. I placed one on the left page and two on the right. Swirl a good amount of adhesive (I used glue stick) on your paper where you want the lollipop. Carefully place the end of the twine in the center and use your finger to press the twine into the glue as you go around in a circle. Work quickly before the glue dries. When you reach the desired size, cut the end with scissors, ending at the bottom of the circle where the "stick" will be. Cut a 1/8" strip of orange paper and glue to the bottom as the stick.
STEP #4 JOURNALING – Print your journaling on a 3 1/4"x2" white cardstock and sponge ink on the edges. Mat on orange paper with 1/8" borders and ink the edges. Glue to the right page 1 3/4" from the bottom and centered between the photos.
STEP #5 EMBELLISHMENTS: For the right page: Insert a pumpkin brad at the lower right corner of the journaling. Zot a baker's twine bow at the lower left corner of the journaling.
Journaling Recipe: Describe a party or special event, including the date and who attended.
Supplies: (Find these supplies and more at www.paperwishes.com)