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Neighbors help rewrite Maryland's Amphibian and Reptile Atlas
"Why am I always stuck in the mud?" asked five-year-old Xavier Dailey. Xavier was one of the youngest in the group of rummaging herptile hunters on the annual pilgrimage, this year to Kings Landing Park in Calvert County in search of amphibians and reptiles.
When Xavier wasn't mucking through the creek, he was exploring rotten logs and hunting herps with gusto in a search organized by Andy Brown, Calvert County Department of Natural Resources naturalist. It's a local contribution to the Maryland Amphibian and Reptile Atlas, a map of the territories of our resident herptiles — the ones still here. The survey runs through 2014. Herp hunters will help fill out the Atlas and describe the state of the ecosystem.
|Herptiles, like the American toad and the Eastern box turtle, are "our bio-indicator," says naturalist Andy Brown. He is overseeing Calvert County's count for the Maryland Amphibian and Reptile Atlas.
The moist skin of amphibians makes them sensitive to chemical changes. "They're our bio-indicator," Brown says. "Poor water quality will impact them and impact us.
"You hear what the places used to look like," he continues, repeating a familiar lecture he'd rather not give. "It's very different today. You hate to see the loss of diversity because it means our environmental quality is declining."
For that reason, as you hunt, you put things back the way you find them. "You don't want to destroy habitat," explains dedicated hunter Mary Hollinger, a biologist retired from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Armed with nets on long poles, Xavier's hunting party sought the survivors. Box turtles hide under branches and leaves to look for earthworms. Salamanders and snakes live under logs.
"My net is my best friend," Hollinger says. "I use my dip stick for heavy logs or getting things that are hopping away from me. I also use it to pin a snake down and pick it up by the neck."
|"My net is my best friend," says retired NOAA biologist Mary Holinger, left, as she scoops up herps for the count.
"The time I spend dispelling myths," sighs Brown.
"Copperheads are not deadly," he explains. "But a bite is painful and can cause tissue damage."
Snake conversation animates Hollinger. "On Brownie's Beach they insisted there was a water moccasin," she reports, disdainfully. She says there are no water moccasins above Virginia's Great Dismal Swamp. We have two water snakes: the northern water snake and the northern red-bellied snake.
Nonetheless, Hollinger wears gloves to hunt herps.
Box turtles, which don't give people the creeps, "are the canary in the coal mine," Brown says. "From five years ago, their number is down. They're getting killed on the road. It's a loss of quality where we live."
Many of the hunters are amateurs who'll learn as they go. Others are pros.
Hollinger, who grew up in St. Mary's County and spent summers picking around tidal ponds, is a pro. "Single-handedly, she checked off all of the frog species for more than 20 of Calvert's 39 blocks," Brown says.
For the Atlas survey, Maryland is divided into quadrants of six blocks each. Each block covers 10 square miles.
Hollinger has learned to distinguish frog calls and records their voices to send to Brown along with their locations. She cruises at night, driving slowly and watching shoulders for night-roving herps.
"Police seem bemused by a middle-of-the-night, gray-haired herp hunter," she reports. So she printed a Data Collection sign for the front window of her car.
Her night watches are rewarding. Driving through Prince Frederick, she shouted, That's it! She'd heard a missing frog.
Hollinger's expertise is not limited to frogs.
"We expected that it would be spotty to find a red salamander. Mary's gotten one from Huntingtown," Brown reports.
|Kevin Foley holds a black racer by the tail.
On the hunt for the red salamander, Kevin Foley, a 2008 graduate of Patuxent High School, is beating Hollinger. He found two in the Cove Point Quad.
"He's just crazy about reptiles and amphibians," says Brown, who spoke to an Advanced Placement environmental science class where Foley was a student. "He spends a lot of time in the field chasing his passion. He spent his birthday in the mountains of North Carolina looking for hellbenders," giant salamanders.
Foley's quest to see as many species as he can has earned him bites as well as rewards.
A male black racer snake warming in the sun heard the hunters and ducked under a log. Foley eventually caught it, grabbing and dangling it by the tail.
Then he let the snake escape back under the log.
The Atlas will be the first observation-based catalog of herptiles in Maryland. "The last distributional survey was in 1975, based on museum specimens in jars, hit or miss, not cataloged, not documented," Brown says.
|Kristen, Megan and Ben Springer with Redeye, an Eastern box turtle. The red eye indicates that the turtle is a male.
Until the next organized Calvert County hunt in spring 2013, Brown is encouraging citizens to keep looking and sending him photographs and frog recordings. "The hunting is definitely ongoing," he says, "and we'd love for folks to keep reporting their sightings."
For herp finds and questions in Calvert County, contact Andy Brown: 410-535-5327; [email protected]. In Anne Arundel County, a variety of sanctuaries, parks and natural history organizations sponsor herptile hunts: Dave Walbeck: 410-537-3831; [email protected].
Join the hunt at Jug Bay Wetlands Sanctuary Saturday, May 12, 1-3pm.


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Talk:1169: Expedition
He should have written: ... than in any other game. --Kronf (talk) 06:50, 4 February 2013 (UTC)
- Not really. That would imply Google Maps is a game too. It's just a piece of software he uses as a game.
Someone should write a game for this. It would just use the google maps API. It starts by putting you at a random point and the zoom is disabled. Then you have to navigate to a city. 184.108.40.206 13:07, 4 February 2013 (UTC)
- Great idea! I'd definitely play it. --184.108.40.206 15:50, 4 February 2013 (UTC)
- There used to be a game (don't know if it is still played) called "Table Top Rallying". It involved a Rand McNally map of the USA (and it had the be the right Rand McNally map for the year). Participants would "drive" around the map, collecting clues and answering questions, and the like. 220.127.116.11 09:17, 5 February 2013 (UTC)
- My kids and I invented a similar game using google maps. It was called "Would you live?" and involved getting a sum of pretend money with which to pretend buy things on ebay, after which you would be dropped at a random point on the map. We used random.org to get the random location. You got more money for the next round if you survived, and bonus points for how quickly you could identify where you were on the map, starting from the mostzoomed in point. My son, then ten years old, scored a major coup by finding a giant barge on ebay for $800. Saved him many of the times he was dumped in the north pacific. --Tamara G.
I just tried out what Cueball suggests, and the first city I found was Yakutsk. Knowing well that downstream from Yakutsk there are at least some settlements, I made a quick Google/Wikipedia search for those and found 1710:Yakutsk:. 1560 Aldan River from the east. River tends northwest. 1373:Sangar: coal mines. 1560:Vilyuy River from the west. River tends north. 959:Arctic Circle. 939:Zhigansk,founded in 1632, 865:Agraphena Island. 545:Sikhtyakh. 385:Kyushur:regional center. 222:Lena Delta (Wikipedia; numbers are kilometers from the mouth). Sangar's here [1], Zhigansk's a lot blurrier [2], Siktyakh (Wiki misspelled it and Google Maps shows it in the wrong point – it's, of course, down by the river) is hardly to see [3], and if anyone can point me to the "regional center" Kyushur, I'd be infinitely thankful. (In fact, I could not find Kyushur in any source except this Wikipedia site and a translation of a part of a Lithuanian report about Gulag life. Cyrillic script gave no results at all.) --184.108.40.206 15:50, 4 February 2013 (UTC) Kyusyur's Wikipedia page is here: http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%8E%D1%81%D1%8E%D1%80 .18.104.22.168 16:23, 4 February 2013 (UTC)
- I knew it must have been a typo! In fact, the Google Maps image of Kyusyur is a lot less blurred out than Zhigansk and Siktyakh: [4] --184.108.40.206 10:39, 5 February 2013 (UTC)
Google Maps is Click and Drag on steroids. Alpha (talk) 00:49, 5 February 2013 (UTC)
Should the explanation say what the Google Maps is showing? That ruins the game he's given us! 22.214.171.124 06:15, 5 February 2013 (UTC)
- Umm… it just shows "the mouth of the Lena River" exactly as the comic says in the first sentence! --Mormegil (talk) 16:32, 5 February 2013 (UTC)
No way to really tell, but it reminded me of Elevator. 18.104.22.168 13:26, 8 February 2013 (UTC)


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(CNN) -- It's easy to guess what Malala Yousafzai would do with roughly $67,000. Spend it to educate children, particularly girls in her native Pakistan, she has said in the past.
But it wasn't about the money when the 16-year-old, who survived a Taliban assassination attempt for her activism, picked up the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought from the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, on Wednesday.
She tried not to make the occasion about herself, after accepting the blue framed plaque and walking up to the microphone in high heels. She had worn them to be seen over the podium, she explained to the audience.
Instead, Malala turned her acceptance speech into a plea on behalf of nearly 60 million children around the world, who can't go to school. Starving children, who live in fear. Children who dodge bullets and bombs. Girls whose families lock them away from the world inside their homes.
"This must shake our conscience," she admonished parliamentarians gathered to celebrate her win. She told them that she hoped those in the West would see beyond their own borders to help them.
She told them that the prize would encourage her to keep standing up against the Pakistan Taliban for the sake of education and would continue her work.
To the crowd, which included 22 former prize winners, the ceremony, which took place on World Children's Day, was very much about Malala. They gave her a standing ovation.
The teen, who still contends with nerve damage caused by a Taliban bullet, has impressed leaders in the parliament's chambers and around the world with her "incredible strength," as Parliament President Martin Schulz put it when first announcing that she had won the award on October 10.
A year and a day before, she had faced down almost certain death to stand up for a girl's right to go to school, when a Pakistan Taliban gunman fired at her nearly point blank as she rode home from school on an improvised bus.
It nearly killed her. Doctors in Pakistan scrambled to save her life -- as her brain swelled -- before flying her to the UK, where a medical team worked on her recovery.
Malala is used to making public speeches on bravery and education. Her first, in September 2008, was titled "How dare the Taliban take away my basic right to an education?" the EU parliament said.
In 2009, the Taliban banned girls from schools in Swat Valley, which she called home. She anonymously blogged for the BBC in opposition to that order and became an open advocate for girls' education.
In 2011, Malala told CNN, "I have the right of education. I have the right to play. I have the right to sing. I have the right to talk."
Malala's father, Ziauddin Yousafzai, sat silently next to her while Schulz, of Germany, heaped praise upon her.
While he listened to the translation from German into English through an earphone, Schulz singled him out.
"Your father, Ziauddin Yousafzai, is a teacher," he said. "He has expressed his views that boys and girls are equal." He encouraged her to blog and give interviews to the media, to protest against the Taliban, Schulz pointed out.
"Malala, I'm sure you are as proud of your father as he is of you," he said.
While applauding her bravery in the face of an assignation attempt, Schulz reminded the audience that Malala has said that this is not what she wants to be remembered for.
She wants to be known as a girl who fought oppression to build education for all.
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Jan. 29, 2007
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - MIT baseball announced the team's preliminary schedule for 2007 and the Engineers' spring calendar features 35 games against 22 opponents from 10 different conferences. Also highlighting the slate are three games against opponents that are ranked in the 2007 Preseason Collegiate Baseball NCAA Division III Poll as well as four games against teams that participated in the 2006 NCAA Tournament.
The Engineers get things going on Thursday, March 22, when they face Wentworth Institute of Technology in the season's home opener at Briggs Field. Two days later, MIT begins its NEWMAC portion of the schedule with a doubleheader against Babson College in Babson Park. Last year, the two conference rivals split their season series with each team stealing a road win against the other.
Following the conference doubleheader against Babson, MIT will travel to Phoenix to take part in the Greater Phoenix Invitational. While in Arizona, the Engineers will play six games in four days at sites located in Mesa and Chandler. MIT opens its annual spring trip with a twinbill against Oberlin on March 26. The next day, MIT will play 2006 NCAA Tournament participant Middlebury, which is coming off a 26-11 campaign and first-ever appearance in the "big dance". Next up for the Engineers in their whirlwind, barnstorming tour is nationally-ranked No. 11 Southern Maine, whom the Engineers defeated in 2006 by a score of 12-10. Last year the Huskies earned an at-large NCAA tournament bid and advanced to the NCAA New England Regional Championship game where it eventually lost to NEWMAC powerhouse Wheaton. MIT concludes its spring trip with a doubleheader against NESCAC-member Colby College.
Upon returning home, MIT will continue to play games at a rapid pace. After enjoying a much needed rest/travel day on the 30th, MIT travels to Elms College on the 31st of March and to Fitchburg State on the 1st of April. Following these two doubleheaders, the Engineers will have completed a stretch where they will have played 13 games in 11 days.
On the 3rd of April, MIT plays an important regional non-conference game against Brandeis. Last year, these two teams locked up in a classic pitching duel with Brandeis eventually coming out on top 3-2 in 10 innings. After playing Coast Guard in a single, nine-inning game on the 5th, MIT hosts nationally-ranked No. 2 Wheaton in a rematch of the 2006 NEWMAC Championship game. MIT will be looking to exact revenge on the Lyons, who defeated the Engineers 7-1 to earn the NEWMAC's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. Following their win against MIT, Wheaton impressively swept through the New England Regional to advance to the Division III World Series in Appleton, Wis. Once there, Wheaton's run did not end as they advanced all the way to the World Series Championship Game, losing to Marietta in the finals. In the 2006 Collegiate Baseball NCAA Division III Final Poll, Wheaton was rewarded with a No. 2 national ranking.
Beginning with the doubleheader against Wheaton, MIT begins an important stretch of conference play against Clark, WPI, Coast Guard, and Springfield. Also mixed in over these two weeks are non-conference tilts against Wesleyan University, Eastern Nazarene, and Saint Michael's. On the 23rd of April, MIT hosts Bates in the Engineers' final game before the NEWMAC Tournament. Assuming a first round win or bye, the Engineers will be looking to earn its first ever trip to the NCAA tournament on the weekend of the 28-29th of April.
The last week of the regular season will see the Engineers play non-conference games against some quality regional opponents. After playing single nine-inning games against Worcester State and UMass-Boston, MIT will travel to Williamstown, Mass., to take on regional power and rival Williams College who received votes in the 2007 ABCA Preseason Poll. Last season, Williams concluded the season with a 28-8 ledger with one of those eight loses coming against the Engineers who won a thriller at Briggs Field in early May by a score of 8-7. The win by MIT snapped what had been an impressive 13-game winning streak by the Ephs. The next day, Suffolk comes to MIT for a nine-inning single game looking to break a two-game losing streak against the Engineers. The regular season comes to a close with a home game against MASCAC opponent Fitchburg State.
For the last two seasons, the conclusion of the regular season has been an exciting time for the Engineers as they have qualified for the ECAC Tournament both years. This season, MIT will look to make its first ever appearance in the NCAA Tournament, which is scheduled to begin on May 16 and will continue through the 20th. The Division III World Series, to be played at Fox Cities Stadium in Appleton, Wis., is slated to begin on the 25th with a champion to be determined on the 29th.


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Attorney-General Nicola Roxon says the federal opposition has questions to answer over its involvement in the sexual harassment case against former speaker Peter Slipper.
Federal Court judge Steven Rares on Wednesday dismissed the claims brought by Mr Slipper's staffer James Hunter Ashby, labelling it a "political attack".
"The Federal Court has made it completely clear that Mr Ashby and other members of the Liberal party were working actively to undermine and politically damage Mr Slipper and also to damage the government," Ms Roxon told reporters in Melbourne.
Ms Roxon said it was a "very embarrassing moment" for the Liberals.
She said opposition Leader Tony Abbott should explain why the civil action was taken and whether it was appropriate the Liberal candidate for Mr Slipper's seat, Mal Brough, who was mentioned in the court judgment, should still contest the 2013 election.
Shadow attorney-general George Brandis also needed to explain his comments in parliament in October that there was "no way in the world" a court would summarily dismiss the case.
Ms Roxon declined to rule out an inquiry into the matter.
Asked whether Mr Slipper should be restored to the speaker's role, Ms Roxon said: "I don't think there is any intention for that to be changed."
Ms Roxon said she stood by the government's decision to settle its case with Mr Ashby.
She said the government's payment of the settlement did not amount to an admission of wrongdoing.
She said the government was expected to look for ways to bring matters to an early conclusion.
"It's entirely consistent and appropriate to take legal advice on the risks, to look at the costs involved to taxpayers, to settle matters where it is possible and appropriate to do so," she said.
"We were a defendant in this matter.
"We were being sued as an employer. We have to respond to allegations that are made.
"We, as a defendant in this matter had to assess the chances, the risks, the costs to taxpayers.
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Schizophrenia is a serious brain disorder that distorts the way a person thinks, acts, expresses emotions, perceives reality, and relates to others. People with schizophrenia -- the most chronic and disabling of the major mental illnesses -- often have problems functioning in society, at work, at school, and in relationships. Schizophrenia can leave its sufferer frightened and withdrawn. It is a life-long disease that cannot be cured but can be controlled with proper treatment.
Contrary to popular belief, schizophrenia is not a split or multiple personality. Schizophrenia is a psychosis, a type of mental illness in which a person cannot tell what is real from what is imagined. At times, people with psychotic disorders lose touch with reality. The world may seem like a jumble of confusing thoughts, images, and sounds. The behavior of people with schizophrenia may be very strange and even shocking. A sudden change in personality and behavior, which occurs when schizophrenia sufferers lose touch with reality, is called a psychotic episode.


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Any follow up on this topic? Any test results? Saw Peter Scoones a few weeks ago , he highly recommends removing the IR filter.
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According to Church tradition, every Sunday is a "little Easter," with the Mass a joyful celebration of our Lord's victory over death. From biblical times, it has been known as "the Lord's Day" (see Revelation 1:10) because Christ rose from the grave on a Sunday morning; its name in languages such as Spanish ("Domingo") still reflect that designation. Above all, Sunday is a day for worship and communion with God.
Scripture and prayer. For that reason, Sunday Mass is obligatory for Catholics, and many Catholic families have developed customs that help them give due honor to this Holy Sacrifice and prepare them to draw greater spiritual benefits from it. In some homes, for example, the custom on Saturday evening is to read together the Scripture lessons for the next morning. Then a simple discussion may follow. Other families have chosen to forgo conversation on the way to Mass and to fill the time instead with prayers of preparation.
Mass intentions. An especially worthy custom is to have Masses offered regularly for various family intentions. Perhaps family members might take turns choosing the intention.
Thanksgiving. Parents also do well to encourage in their children the custom of making a proper Thanksgiving after Holy Communion. They might pray the Anima Christi or another prayer typically found in the back of hymnals. If the parents set the example, such prayer can become a natural habit of devotion with countless benefits.
In ancient times God commanded the Jewish people to observe a weekly Sabbath, or day of rest (see Exodus 20:8), and the Church has obeyed that commandment as well. Catholics are expected to refrain from all unnecessary physical labor on Sundays (for the Jews, it was Saturdays). Sadly, Sunday is typically viewed even by many Catholics as a time for catching up on chores that weren't taken care of in the previous week. Meanwhile, many people have jobs that require them to work through the weekend.
Of course, we don't want to be like the religious people Jesus reprimanded for making the Sabbath into a legalistic burden full of petty regulations (see Matthew 12:1-14). Nor do we want to insist as some Christians in earlier generations did that recreation should be outlawed on the Sabbath; having fun can certainly be restful and refreshing. Nevertheless, we've come to see that the principle of a regular Sabbath rest remains integral to God's plan for his creation (see Genesis 2:2-3). If the Lord Himself rested after his labors, shouldn't we do the same?
Sabbath preparations. Sometimes, of course, we have to labor to enter into rest. By that we mean that we may have to prepare ahead for the day — in fact, Friday was known to the ancient Jews as the "Day of Preparation" for that very reason. In our home, we do all we can to take care of necessary business on Saturday so that Sunday remains free for relaxation.
Once Sunday comes, we like to postpone every possible chore till another day. The rule in our house is that no one cleans rooms, makes beds, or performs other household duties on Sunday. We eat leftovers using paper goods so there is no food to prepare and no dishes to wash.
The Sabbath meal. Some families we know like to begin their Sabbath at sunset on the evening before the day, as was the ancient Jewish custom. They light a candle as they sit down to the Saturday evening meal, and the candle remains lit until sunset on Sunday. They have other customs as well for this Sabbath dinner: a table grace sung only on that weekly occasion, a Sabbath blessing spoken by the parents to the children, and even a menu item prepared exclusively for the Sabbath, such as a particular kind of bread.
However you choose to make the Sabbath a weekly tradition in your home, you'll find that the pause refreshes and strengthens you for your labors throughout the rest of the week.
Because the Lord was crucified on a Friday, the Church has traditionally designated this day of the week as a time for personal sacrifice in order to be united more fully to Jesus in His passion. Though the rule of abstaining from meat on Fridays was relaxed for American Catholics some years ago, many people fail to realize that the Church still recommends the observance of abstinence on Fridays and expects some kind of personal penance to be made on that day if the abstinence is not observed.
Our family happily abstains from meat on Fridays because we've found that this traditional Catholic discipline draws us closer to Christ, even if in only a small way. This little sacrifice we offer up, and others as well, in reparation for our sins and those of others. We normally attend Mass every weekday, but we make a special effort not to miss on Fridays, and the crowd in the little chapel where we attend suggests that many other families make this same effort.
The Fathers of the Church sometimes pictured the loss of grace through sin as a shipwreck. In our struggle to keep from drowning in our separation from God, they said, we can take hold of Baptism, the first "plank" God offers us to save us. When we sin again and are in danger of sinking once more, God sends a "second plank," the sacrament of Penance, to keep us afloat.
What a vivid image of the grace that comes to us in the confessional! Even though Catholics are required to receive Penance only once a year, our family has discovered that we need the powerful benefits of this sacrament much more often. And when we all line up in the confessional line together, we're reminded that all of us, without exception, are in God's debt: husband and wife, parents and children, young and old.
Family forgiveness. Whether your family chooses to go to Confession weekly, monthly, or at some other interval, it's critical to spend a few quiet moments beforehand in the same kind of examination of conscience we've suggested for bedtime (see "Bedtime Traditions"). The Portuguese have an additional tradition of family preparation for Penance that confirms the parents' role as God's representatives in the home and helps children form a stronger resolution to resist sin. Before going to Confession, each child goes first to a parent and asks forgiveness for offenses committed in the home. Then the parent makes the sign of the cross on the child's forehead and says, "We forgive you, and God will forgive you, too. Make a good Confession, and God bless you!" If parents are aware of offenses against their children, they would do well at this time to seek forgiveness as well.
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We had been considering solar for a while and a local co-op brought prices down to what I consider a reasonable payback range so we finally pulled the trigger on a grid-connected PV array for our roof. Our house has electric everything and based on last years usage and the installers estimates (confirmed by PV watts within 5%) the array should offset roughly 50% of our annual power requirements.
I am in the process of deciding between 2 net-metering billing options offered by Dominion Virginia Power. One is a flat rate 11c/kWh with a base charge of $7/month, the other is a TOU plan with time of day and seasonal changes and a base rate of $12 per month. The base rate is paid regardless of whether or not we produce more than we use that month.
We were previously on a "whole house" EV TOU plan and that came out to be basically a wash, I think we paid an average of 10.7c per kWh instead of the standard 11c/kWh. The 5c/kWh we paid to charge the leaf overnight was offset by the 16c/kWh we paid to run the AC and oven in the afternoon and evening.
I have downloaded our usage data from last year and used PV watts to estimate our annual hourly production. A simple subtraction in excel shows our estimated net use but the demand TOU rate schedule from Dominion is so convoluted with riders and demand charges that I can't predict what our exact rate will be for a given window. But given the fact that over 50% of our electricity use is the leaf and the water heater, both of which are on a timer, I think it could probably work for us.
Anyone have experience with a TOU plan in Virginia with net metering, a PV array, and an EV? Did it benefit you? Was it pretty much a wash? Did you come out ahead?


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Inventor Of The Wind-Up Radio Complains About 'Google Generation'
from the wait,-you-used-to-have-to-wind-up-radios? dept
Look how lonely all these people are together!
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Those examples aside, I have to admit this is a new one for me. Apparently there once were radios that you had to wind up to use and Trevor Baylis, the guy that invented them, says Google is making younger generations brain dead.
"Children have got to be taught hands-on, and not to become mobile phone or computer dependent. They are dependent on Google searches. A lot of kids will become fairly brain-dead if they become so dependent on the internet, because they will not be able to do things in the old-fashioned way."Let's see if I can break down the pure wrongness of this kind of thinking with a couple of fun little analogies.
- Children have to be taught how to tend to their horses and not become dependent on automobiles or public transportation, otherwise they may not be able to ride horses any longer.
- Children have to be taught how to use an abacus and not become dependent on calculators, otherwise they not be able to use abacuses in their adult daily lives.
- Children have to be taught how to unhook a chastity belt, otherwise they may not be able to have sex once they are married and somehow chasisty belts come back into circulation because....yeah, because.
Get the point? Once the old way is no longer the way, we don't have to teach it any longer. I use Google searches every day, both for work (part numbers for technology parts) and for personal use (explicit search terms for naughty human parts). That's where that stuff exists, on the internet. In fact, learning how to properly use a search engine to get the most out of its results is probably one of the most worthwhile things you can teach a child today. There is nothing wrong with learning the old way of doing things, specifically if that old way builds a foundation for understanding the new way, but blaming Google for making children brain dead is just silly.


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The Red Ball Truck Stop on old Hwy 36 West was one busy place growing up in the 50's and 60's. Some of our readers may recall that behind the Red Ball was a big pond with an island in the middle. It was built to be a "pay to fish" place originally. By the time I was old enough to ride my bike there, it was just a fishing hole open to everyone for free.
The only problem was the fish in the pond were mostly Buffalo, a close kin and brother to the Carp. They would not bite on earth worms or dough bait; we had to snag them with a big treble hook---at least that was what we thought at the time. Being snake infested, we would hardly ever swim in his pond. From time to time, the Grand River would flood the bottoms and would "restock" the pond and bring in more variety. Then we were able to catch some fish that would bite on bait. Buffalo fish or not, It was a kid's paradise.
I remember my buddies and I built a raft to get to the island. Since it was the first time we had ever built one they always sank until we finally got it right. The gallon jugs we used were not enough to make it float, so we had to find bigger and more effective flotation devices. What we could find for free, we used. Our makeshift raft could only carry one of us at a time, so we found a piece of rope and rigged it up like a ferry.
Later on, the owner (Donaldson's manufacturing) started dumping sheet metal scrapes into it so as to fill it in. These jagged scraps were usually in the shape of half-moons and circles, perfect flying saucers for boys. We would have wars with them, a very dangerous game then and now. We would hide behind the dump piles and throw them at each other. Yes, we cut ourselves sometimes but that didn't stop us from playing every day.
Let's get back to the ever present Buffalo fish; we figured out how to "catch" them in quantity. We searched for small glass jars with lids, Remember those tube-like Alka-Seltzer bottles? Well they were the best size for our new fishing method. Back then, I had access to carbide, it was used in miner's lights and old style welding equipment. Trager's Welding shop (next door to us on Leeper Street) had a carbide style welder.
We would fill the bottles half full of water, quickly drop in four or five small pieces of carbide and throw it into the water near where the fish were piping. With carbide you had to be fast because it works just like dynamite, only without a fuse! Some of our homemade grenades would explode inflight and we would hit the ground fast because of the flying glass. If we threw it at just the right time, it would explode under the water with a loud "whump" and the water would shoot up and the fish would float to the top. We even had people buy some from us as carried a wagon full of buffalo fish home. That kind of fishing is illegal now. It probably was back then as well. If our parents knew what kind of stuff we did as kids, they would have killed us. What they didn't know didn't hurt them, or our butts.
Finally, I will tell you this one fact right now. It was not us who burnt the little building down on the island.
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|2011-02-09, 12:57
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With Mami, they showed how a Magical Girl can die on the job.
But with Sayaka, they can show more suffering (death is, regretably, too "easy" for the poor victim) of being a Magical Girl. Such as her losing everything she holds dear one by one, or she starts obsessing oover beating Kyoko instead of protecting the city.
|2011-02-09, 13:45
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Not only that, but from a writer's perspective, somebody has to carry the magical girl action scenes of this anime going forward. Consider that each and every episode of this anime has had such action scenes in it:
Episode 1: Mami fights familiar/witch, wins
Episode 2: Mami fights witch, wins
Episode 3: Mami fights witch, loses and gets killed; Homura fights same witch, wins
Episode 4: Sayaka saves Madoka from a familiar/witch
Episode 5: Kyoko fights with Sayaka; Homura makes cliffhanger-esque appearance, saving Sayaka.
So, who carries the magical girl action scenes for the rest of this anime? It's a pretty safe bet that Homura vs. Kyoko will be a significant part of Episode 6, but I doubt that Homura can carry all of the magical girl action scenes of this show going forward.
Kyoko is currently in an antagonistic role, so she can't really carry them either.
Mami is dead.
Madoka isn't a magical girl yet (and I doubt that she'll become one soon; this anime is clearly dragging that out as long as it can).
So that means that Sayaka is still invaluable, even just for action scene purposes.
|2011-02-09, 14:45
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Have you played some games from Urobuchi Gen yet? Or have some other experiences with his works? One quality of his which I found in pretty much every of his projects so far, and which I find particularly appealing about him, is that he takes alot of effort to build his storylines in a very logical way. That doesn't mean that they're not surprising and full of twists, but usually when this happens, you can look back and realize "ah, I missed that clue".
In a nutshell, I find it scary how he manages to present the mind of a character that is 100% deranged in a way that his actions seem reasonable. Maybe coming from a weird set of "morals", but presented in a way that makes their decisions understandable.
So, he's no troll or court jester. He's putting the genre "Mahou Shoujo" through his dark grinder, but in his own way. I'd be extremely surprised if he'd pull a 180 just for the sake of doing something unexpected. It's just not how he operates.
|2011-02-10, 22:34
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It could even be that the staff put together an epic troll in deceiving us about who the actual star of the show is, and it turns out it's not Madoka despite the series' title. Now that would be truly epic trolling
I mean, what has Madoka actually done so far? Nothing much, really. There's been some idle talk about this and that, but nothing happened so far.
Sayaka however has already seen real action! Despite being an inexperienced newbie, she hold her own pretty well against a seasoned magical girl like Kyouko.
With some experience and knowing how to use her powers to the fullest, she could mop the floor with Kyouko.
If they had wanted to finish off Sayaka, they would've done so quickly and unceremoniously as they did with Mami, without pointing out how good she can fight already as an inexperienced newbie against a seasoned foe.
|2011-02-11, 02:36
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First Mami, and now Kyoko. Both have now warned that wishes for other's benefits go horribly wrong.
If Sayaka dies, it won't be until we see how her wish can go horribly wrong. I think it's fairly clear that is the role she serves in this story. Not to break down characters into simple plot devices, but if one was to, Mami served as the lesson that one can be defeated by witches. Sayaka will be, at the very least, a lesson in making bad wishes. Possibly more, if the eventual outcome of a wish gone "horribly wrong" pushes her to despair. After all, we also still don't know what happens when a soul gem fades completely. I'm sure someone will have to serve as an example for that as well.
That said, let me reiterate that I hate seeing characters as simply plot devices, so let me end this by also saying that while I don't much like Sayaka, she gets points in my book for resisting Kyuube's constant manipulation in regards to pulling Madoka into forming a contract. A refreshingly clear-head character point that stands all at odds with her otherwise impulsive behavior.
|2011-02-11, 03:03
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LOL, Kyoko actual echoed part of my point in the stupidity of Sayaka. If she did not depend on the crutch of using wishes, she could have been with Kamijo being his personal cheerleader cum nurse cum helper, helping him get to grips with his non-fatal condition.
Now she has condemned herself and possibly dragged Madoka down with her. Well done Sayaka on your level of idiocy
|2011-02-11, 10:05
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|2011-02-11, 10:07
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And Kamijou didn't seem like the happiest camper pre-Sayaka magical girl. I don't think it would be too far off that he would have committed suicde if he had fallen farther into his misery. Sayaka tried her hardest when she was a normal person but she knew that there was only so much she could do and needed a miracle.
I think you're over simplifying Sayaka here.
|2011-02-11, 10:15
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So yes , Sayaka chose the coward's way out , in some ways - but to be fair to her , she was under enormous emotional duress when she made the contract- and that seems to be the time when Kyubey prefers to strike.
Speaking of which , I relooked at the scene where Sayaka contracted with Kyubey. If you look very closely , her eyes go empty at one point of the contracting process , much like what happened when Madoka threw her Soul gem away.
On that note, I think there would be quite alot of death fics exploring what would have happened to Madoka had Sayaka's soul gem been run over , and Sayaka killed for real coming up quite soon . It seems to be one the most "Fanficable" events in the anime so far.
Also, someone should do a fan art of Sayaka wielding a Runeblade. Considering what she is essentially now , I think it would be quite appropriate.
|2011-02-11, 19:02
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Sayaka got on my nerves this episode when she said Homura waited for Mami to die so she could fight the witch and collect the grief seed.Someone needs to remind Sayaka that Mami tied up Homura so she couldn't move,then she saved their lives.
In fact she's saved Sayaka's life 3 times now,hopefully Sayaka will start showing some gratitude next episode.
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|2011-02-11, 19:23
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1. I could be misremembering, but I don't think Sayaka was present when Homura was tied up by Mami. So it makes sense for Sayaka to think "Why did Homura only conveniently show up after Mami was already killed?" In fact, now that I think about it, that outrage that Sayaka made towards Homura near the end of Episode 3 finally makes sense to me...
2. Homura also threatened to fight Sayaka to the death in Episode 6, let's not forget. If you believe Reckoner and his ideas (and he could be right here, unfortunately), Homura intended to kill Sayaka in Episode 6. Why exactly should Sayaka show gratitude to a person trying to kill her?
|2011-02-11, 19:31
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|2011-02-11, 19:34
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It was a direct threat? But Homura's actual intent was not to kill Sayaka. Otherwise that pretty much contradicts the fact that she saved her soul. Out of two reasons:
1) Sayaka would've died
2) The Soul Gem gets tainted and it might become a biiiig problem
I'm pretty confident to say that #1 was the primary reason why she went after the Soul Gem, with #2 actively in mind.
|2011-02-11, 19:38
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Heck, throughout the entire episode Homura tried to get Kyoko off Sayaka's back. She saved her ass in the beginning, she negotiated a backoff from Kyoko, on the bridge she clearly claimed Sayaka to end the fight in a nonlethal way like before... and when Madoka tossed Sayaka's soul gem, Homura's always-controlled mask finally slipped: She was SHOCKED, and without thinking immediately blinked after the gem. Reaching it took her alot of real effort, her face was contorted in strain. So if she meant Sayaka any harm, why would she do all that and then return the soul gem to her?
She's been saving Sayaka's butt so many times already I'm beginning to lose track.
|2011-02-11, 19:39
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Maybe I'm missunderstanding things but:
-At the start of the episode she just knocked her unconcious for her own good,she never had the intent to kill
-In the conversayion with Kyoko 'If possible i'd like to settle things peacefully.Stay out of it,I'll deal with her."
-At the end she said she'd fight Kyoko,not Sayaka.
And really she had a golden opportunity to kill Sayaka and come off as innocent:she had her soul gem in her hands,she could have crushed it right there on the truck and killed her,then come back and tell them "sorry,tried to take back the soul gem but it ended up getting crushed",but she didn't.
|2011-02-11, 19:44
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The issues are that Homura initially told Madoka to give up on Sayaka. And the things which would have Sayaka seeing Homura in a better light, are things that people need to tell her. Madoka didn't tell Sayaka about Homura being tied up. And we'll see if Madoka tells her that Homura brought back her gem.
So, in a way, I don't blame Sayaka. She's not working off complete intel. I blame Madoka more (who I'm beginning to really dislike more than any other whiny MG).
|2011-02-11, 19:52
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During the DDR scene...
Kyoko: So what about that Sayaka? She's going to butt in again if we don't do anything about her.
Homura: I want this done as quietly as possible. Don't do anything. I'll handle it myself.
(that came across to me like two mafia members talking about how best to 'whack' someone )
Later on, during the Kyoko/Sayaka confrontation where they were about to fight... strongly implied that it would be a fight to the death, too...
Homura: We discussed this. You're not supposed to do anything.
Kyoko: Your plan's too slow! Besides, we're all ready to fight!
Homura: Then I'll fight her. Stay put this time.
Now I'd like to think that Homura was just BSing Kyoko in both of these instances, and had no intention of killing Sayaka. But Reckoner suggested otherwise on the Episode 6 thread in a debate with me. I can try to find his specific posts if anybody wants to see them.
Honestly, I hope that Reckoner is wrong in his arguments here, but his case was compelling enough for me to consider it.
|2011-02-11, 20:00
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|2011-02-11, 20:06
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Madoka would have felt guilt either way if Sayaka died. Of course it is worse if Madoka herself did it, but it wouldn't have changed the fact that she would most likely step up anyway. And that's not something that Homura wants, hence why I still strongly believe that Homura's intent was not to kill Sayaka. Madoka's mother's advice would have been stretched into a farer horizon where Syaka's death ultimately became the "mistake" and her actions would eventually lead to a greater outcome;... probably not.
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"Modern Family" star Ariel Winter's mom is suing actor Matthew Borlenghi for defamation after he allegedly branded her an "abusive monster."
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Winter, who plays Alex Dunphy on the Emmy Award-winning show, was placed in the care of her older sister Shanelle Gray after accusing her mum of subjecting her to emotional and physical abuse.
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This is the third time the Assembly has passed a similar moratorium bill. The other two were killed by the State Senate and never reached the governor for final approval.
The Senate is politically divided and has not shown signs of backing a moratorium.
In his State of the State, Governor Andrew Cuomo stressed the need for more research before fracking should be permitted in New York. The state has been conducting its own environmental review, but there is timetable for its completion.
Following the passing of the moratorium by the Assembly, Cuomo said he was comfortable with his own agency's review process and awaits the findings.
New York Petroleum Council Executive Director Karen Moreau criticized Albany legilsators for blocking fracking with little reason.
"We have waited four years and seven months for 'science' to determine the outcome of this debate," she said. "For the Assembly to step in to further delay the process, even though a year ago the Department of Health determined that hydraulic fracturing could be done safely, speaks volumes about Albany."
She went on to say that it is inevitably the governor's decision.
"Once again, Albany politicians are putting politics before science, and the special interests before the people," she said. "The people of New York deserve better, to say the least."


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I was glad to find this post today. Sherry Payne is a self-ascribed homebirth enthusiast, and I think it's wonderful that she brings this enthusiasm to her blog, her other writing, and to her profession. She is a labor & delivery nurse!!! Her article is entitled "Consumer First, Patient Second." Here is an excerpt:
"Receivers of health care must adopt a more pro-active consumer role in their own healthcare delivery. Nowhere is this more obvious in healthcare than in obstetrics where as a labor and delivery nurse, I have seen care providers of all types routinely bully, control, and dominate their patients. Your care provider should be a competent guide through the process. He or she is not your daddy."
This is certainly my goal as an ICAN leader and as a woman who now "knows better" than to let another person take charge of her body – to empower women and their families to take on a more involved role and equal position in their health care. I don't think there's a harder "place" to do this than obstetrics, unfortunately. However, if one woman in my community learns something from me in this regard, I will be thankful.


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Comparison of Nocturnal Hemodialysis (NHD) and Short Daily Hemodialysis (DHD) With the NxStage® System One™
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00667511
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : April 28, 2008
Results First Posted : January 14, 2015
Last Update Posted : January 14, 2015
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|Condition or disease
|Kidney Failure, Chronic End-Stage Renal Disease
|Device: NxStage System One
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End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) continues to be a devastating clinical condition. The number of patients in 2004 affected by ESRD in the United States rose to 472,000. More than 104,000 new patients began therapy for ESRD in 2004 (1.5% greater than in 2003), while the prevalent dialysis population reached nearly 336,000 (3.4% higher). Total Medicare costs for ESRD in 2004 rose to $20.1 billion while non-Medicare costs rose to $12.4 Billion(1).
Treatment options for ESRD patients are currently limited to either transplantation or dialysis. As daily hemodialysis (DHD) continues to gain widespread acceptance in the dialysis community, there is also renewed interest in nocturnal hemodialysis (NHD) therapy.
NHD has the potential to provide certain advantages over both DHD and conventional thrice-weekly in-center HD. NHD typically consists of 6 - 10 hour treatments while the patient sleeps, providing more gentle fluid removal, more time for equilibration, improved hemodynamic stability and superior clearance of larger solutes(2).
The proposed study plans to explore whether or not NHD is equivalent to DHD on a per treatment basis, using the NxStage System One in the home setting.
- United States Renal Data System 2006 Annual Data Report: Atlas of End-Stage Renal Disease in the United States, NIH, NIDDK, Bethesda, MD, 2006
- Lacson E, Diaz-Buxo J: Daily and Nocturnal Hemodialysis: How do they stack up? American Journal Kidney Disease, Vol 38(2) Aug 2001: 225-239.
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|Comparison of Nocturnal Hemodialysis (NHD) and Short Daily Hemodialysis (DHD) With the NxStage® System One™
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Active Comparator: Home Short Daily Hemodialysis
Intervention: Patients perform short daily hemodialysis (2 to 4 hour treatments) in the home setting using the NxStage System One.
Device: NxStage System One
Comparison of Nocturnal (NHD) and Short Daily Hemodialysis (DHD) with the NxStage System One
Experimental: Home Nocturnal Hemodialysis
Intervention: Patients perform nocturnal hemodialysis (6 to 10 hour treatments) in the home setting using the NxStage System One.
Device: NxStage System One
Comparison of Nocturnal (NHD) and Short Daily Hemodialysis (DHD) with the NxStage System One
- Primary Efficacy: Compare the Ability to Deliver the Clinically Prescribed Amount of Therapy in the Nocturnal Hemodialysis and Short Daily Hemodialysis Phases. [ Time Frame: Study Week 20 ]The primary efficacy endpoint for the study was the ability to deliver the clinically prescribed amount of therapy, defined by attainment of a delivered volume that was at least 90% of the prescribed volume (10% difference in success rate is the upper boundary of the 95% confidence interval).
- Primary Safety: Compare the Composite Intradialytic and Interdialytic Adverse Event Profile in the Nocturnal Hemodialysis and Short Daily Hemodialysis Phases. [ Time Frame: Study Week 20 ]The primary safety endpoint for the study was the composite intradialytic and interdialytic adverse event (AE) profile.
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Inclusion Criteria:
- Patients must have a stable prescription in the short daily home environment using the NxStage System One prior to enrollment.
Exclusion Criteria:
Patients are not eligible if:
- they are currently enrolled in another drug or device study which could impact the successful completion of this study
- they are currently on NHD, or less than 3 months since discontinuing NHD
- if they were previously enrolled in this study.
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00667511
|United States, California
|Satellite Healthcare/Wellbound
|San Jose, California, United States, 95128
|United States, Illinois
|Circle Medical Management
|Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60607
|United States, Indiana
|Indiana University Dialysis Center
|Indianapolis, Indiana, United States, 46202
|United States, Kansas
|Kansas Nephrology Research Institute, LLC
|Wichita, Kansas, United States, 67214
|United States, Missouri
|Barnes Jewish Dialysis Center
|St. Louis, Missouri, United States, 63110
|United States, Nebraska
|Dialysis Center of Lincoln
|Lincoln, Nebraska, United States, 68512
|United States, New York
|Rubin Dialysis
|Saratoga Springs, New York, United States, 12866
|United States, Texas
|DaVita Grapevine at Home
|Grapevine, Texas, United States, 76051
|United States, Wisconsin
|DaVita Bluemound Home Dialysis
|Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, United States, 53226
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|April 28, 2008 Key Record Dates
|Results First Posted:
|January 14, 2015
|Last Update Posted:
|January 14, 2015
|Last Verified:
|January 2015
Keywords provided by NxStage Medical:
End Stage Renal Disease
Daily Hemodialysis
Nocturnal Hemodialysis
Kidney Failure
Kidney Disease
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Kidney Diseases
Kidney Failure, Chronic
Renal Insufficiency
Urologic Diseases
Renal Insufficiency, Chronic


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It has become kind of a weekly thing now for me to take my camera and explore a new location around me. There is so much to see and do within a few hours drive from my home, this week: Zion Canyon National Park.
Zion National Park has become one of my favorite locations. I have been going there since I was about 8 years old, it never gets boring, and it seems to just get more beautiful with every visit.
Zion is just 2 hours from Las Vegas, NV, and even the drive up offers lots of gorgeous sights. Just outside the park at the entrance is Springdale, UT, which has gas, lodging, LOTS of good food, and some cools shops and galleries, including the Fatali fine art photography gallery (If you haven't seen Fatali's work, google it!)
"Zion" loosely carries the meaning of the promised land, or Jerusalem. The 229 square mile desert playground was named a National Park in 1919. It has so many areas of interest and places you must see, it would take me days to write about them all, so I will focus on my most recent hike that has the best view of the canyon, "Observation Point".
Observation Point is 8 miles round trip, on the side of a cliff, and has an elevation gain of 2148 FT, so it is not for people afraid of heights, but it is most definitely worth the view at the top!
Zion has hikes for all ages and abilities, from multi day strenuous climbs through water and over boulders, to short walks on paved trails.
Things to know: A one week pass for a single vehicle is $25, and for a motorcycle it is $12, but that money goes to keeping the park nice, so it is well worth it. Also, some of the more strenuous hikes require a permit and special equipment, so contact the visitor center in advance.
April through October is the busy season because of the warm weather, but it is worth visiting all year long. Room rates are fairly cheap and for part of the year a free shuttle is available to take you in and out of the park to avoiding parking congestion. Enjoy!
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AFK from WoW - Eclipse 2012 Day 3 - The Daintree
I was totally blown away and excited! You can only see these in north Qld and they're pretty common but not to someone who lives down south. Here are a few more birds I managed to snap over the day:
Took a few pictures at Cape Tribulation of the beach (Osprey and Orange footed scrub hen) and then we made our way slowly back.
We had to take a car ferry back and forth across the Daintree river to get there - that's where I snapped a female Sunbird as well as the woodswallows above.
And saw nests of more metallic starlings, but here are pics of a mangrove honeyeater nest and a sunbird nest.
|One of the other river boats checking out the Daintree river
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I grew up in South Los Angeles at a time and in a neighborhood where, even for a child, having a gun pointed at you happened.
For me, the first time was when I was 12 years old. I'd gone around the corner to visit a friend and a pretty new girl who had recently moved in next door to him. We were roughhousing, and somehow the girl fell and hit her head. She stood and accused me of deliberating hurting her; then she left. Before I could decide what to do, she had returned with a gun, which she pointed at me.
"You hurt me," she said, tears running down her cheeks. "And I'm going to shoot you for it!"
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Though I was rooted to that spot with fear, I surprised myself by saying very calmly that I was sorry if I'd hurt her, and that I hadn't meant to. I told her I'd leave, and she'd never see me again, so she shouldn't waste the bullet. I slowly backed away, feeling that I'd talked myself out of being shot. I knew I'd been lucky, and I hoped I would never be in that situation again.


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Polycarbonate Films Market Production and Revenue 2018 to 2025
"Global Polycarbonate Films Market Professional Survey Report 2018" presents an in-depth assessment of the Polycarbonate Films including enabling technologies, key trends, market drivers, challenges, standardization, regulatory landscape, deployment models, operator case studies, opportunities, future roadmap, value chain, ecosystem player profiles and strategies. The report also presents forecasts for Polycarbonate Films investments from 2018 till 2025.
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What WSJ Canada Is Reading Friday
By Karen Johnson
These are some of the stories we are perusing early Friday.
The National Security Agency's monitoring of Americans includes customer records from the three major phone networks as well as emails and Web searches, and the agency also has cataloged credit-card transactions.
Detroit's enormous petroleum coke pile, a byproduct of Canadian oil sands, is making its way back to Canada.
A new theory is emerging: Canada didn't avoid a housing bust. It's just late to the party.
Canadian foreign-service officials walked out of some of the country's busiest embassies as they stepped up a monthslong protest aimed at getting higher wages.
Canada's Succession to the Throne Act is being challenged, in what some say could provoke a debate leading to a sweeping result – the abolition of the monarchy in Canada.
Criminal charges were filed against Canadian affiliates of Nestlé, Mars and others alleging a conspiracy to fix chocolate prices in Canada.


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CBS Orders Drama Pilots From John Cusack and Elementary Producers
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CBS has given pilot orders to dramas from John Cusack and Elementary producers Sarah Timberman and Carl Beverly, TVGuide.com has learned. The untitled drama from Cusack is set in the world of Wall Street power and money. Cusack co-wrote the story wit… Read more


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Light and Dark and the Shabbat
May 23, 2014
Every week, Jody Hirsh, the JCC's Judaic Education Director, provides a Judaic message that is featured at the top of the JCC's weekly email newsletter. Below is the Shabbat message for Friday, May 23, 2014.
Light and Dark and the Shabbat
Light and Dark figure in so totally for the Sabbath. After all, the Jewish day starts at sunset, so Shabbat begins just as the daylight turns to darkness. There's even a prayer about it in the evening prayers on Shabbat (and weekdays, actually):
Blessed are you, Adonai... who with a word mixes the evening... The Creator of Day and Night rolls in the light before the darkness and darkness before the night.
Just as the day is framed by the separation of light and darkness, it's framed as well with lighting the Sabbath candles on Friday nights, and lighting the multi-wick Havdalah candle which praises God for dividing between light and darkness.
Light is one of the most powerful symbols known to humankind. It's featured in the account of creation in the Torah: Light is created in the very first day of creation, yet the sun, the moon, and the stars aren't created until the fourth day! Light is a symbol of civilization and enlightenment. Light, for many of us, is a symbol of wayfinding, of our personal journeys.
For the last year, the artists of the Milwaukee Jewish Artists' Laboratory have been exploring "light" in every possible context. Their exploration and deliberation is the focus of this year's exhibit. We are excited about this great and diverse exhibit.
Click here for more information.
Shabbat Shalom


text: My name is Pauline, I was Pauline scudder before I married, I'm now Pauline Jones. I'm a self tought painter, but I've been painting and drawing for as long as I can remember. right from the age of 5 years old my stick people got top marks in the class:) Due to circumstances, e.g. no money, I never was able to go to art college but I did learn a lot form a home study course that I did, I passed with distinction and felt very proud of myself, it was as good as getting an "ology" for me. A few years ago I was encourged by a very good online friend to take up soft pastel painting, she thought it would suite my realist style, I've never looked back since then. I paint pet portraits, but they've been very thin on the ground due to the recession, but hopefully it willl pick up again soon.Animals are my passion, my dream is to be surrounded by them, but alas that is out of the question, I do have my akita rescue girl named Asia, she is my constant companion and I love her to bits. Apart from dogs my other passion is fancy rats, they are very special little animals and one day I'll paint a picture of my sweet little rat, who sadley passed on some time ago, named Honeysuckle. I don't have a rat right now because my dog would rather eat it instead of make friends with it ;)


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Every year, concept cars create the most buzz at the Detroit Auto Show -- partly because they provide the surprise element the media and public crave when they visit the show and partly because the concept cars are accompanied by the flashiest music, dancing and lights.
Dozens of new models are unveiled at each year's extravaganza -- yet perhaps only a dozen are concepts. Auto executives watch carefully and gauge the response to their singular creations. If a concept car gathers enough buzz, then it may go into production. But if it doesn't, the model may never be seen again.
Click ahead to see some of this year's most innovative concept cars at the Detroit Auto Show.
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Alongside the refresh for the BlackBerry® 10 WebWorks™ SDK, we have also released an update to the Ripple Emulator. Never to be left out, Ripple gets a big update with emulation support for some of the latest BlackBerry 10 WebWorks APIs. Let's get started!
We recently added support for the HTML5 File system API in our web rendering engine and BlackBerry WebWorks. With this release, you can now emulate the file system, both sandboxed and unsandboxed. Ripple will create an area your application can write to, and mimics the file system layout of the device.
A really cool piece of Ripple is the emulation of geolocation. We recently added the live map view that allows you to select a new location on a map, and inject the location into your app code. With this release, we received a great community contribution that really takes geolocation emulation to the next level. Mark Dineen provided a patch that allows you to specify a route to follow by providing a GPX file. Ripple will read the file and inject location update events into your code based on the route provided! Now you can better emulate end-user navigation and movement.
To better reflect the relationship between Cordova and PhoneGap – and due to the fact their core is the same – they are now both under the same entry in the Platforms window, and are represented by version number.
Quite often an application will wish to know when the virtual keyboard is displayed and closed, so that it can react accordingly. You can now fire the relevant keyboard events into your application to test out your logic. In the Events panel when you are emulating the BlackBerry 10 platform, you should now see the blackberry.event.keyboard… events.
HTML5 being inherently cross-platform in nature, there are many applications built using web technologies that are designed to target multiple form factors. Part of designing a cross-platform application is ensuring that your application appears and lays out in a useful way depending on the capabilities of the target platform. CSS media queries are a powerful tool in this regard, and Ripple now emulates media queries based on the target platform you have currently chosen to emulate. Try it out and have some fun with this one.
So, be sure to visit our HTML5 developer site to get all the most recent updates, and particularly the downloads page. Get Ripple, and the latest WebWorks SDK, and start building!


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By Jim Garamone, American Forces Press ServiceJuly 11, 2007
WASHINGTON (American Forces Press Service, July 12, 2007 - A senior police advisor to the Afghan government described a new more heavily armed and heavily armored Afghan police unit during a conference call with online journalists covering the military.
Army Col. Raymond Bouchard spoke to the "bloggers" about Afghanistan's civil order police July 10 via telephone from Camp Phoenix, Afghanistan.
The new units will help counter new, more aggressive Taliban tactics, Col. Bouchard said. "They are a quick, rapid-response group that would help put down a national crisis or insurgent activity," he said.
The units will be more heavily armed and more heavily armored than traditional police units. "A lot of the equipment is going to look similar to what our Marines are currently using in Iraq, if the plan goes through," Col. Bouchard said. "Those are on order, and we're expecting that equipment to arrive by the end of the calendar year."
Officials are looking to supply the Afghans with mine-resistant ambush-protected vehicles that Marines are using in Iraq. The heavily armored wheeled vehicles have a V-shaped bottom to deflect explosions.
The first three civil order battalions have stood up, Col. Bouchard said. However, most of the units' members have completed their basic training just within the last two months, so it will take some time before the units are effective against the Taliban.
Police training overall is moving along, the colonel said. Mentor teams are moving to Afghan districts and working with police officials.
While all this is going on, the Taliban have stepped up attacks against NATO forces, Afghan security forces and Afghan civilians, which Col. Bouchard said was expected. One reason for the increase in attacks is that summer is the traditional Afghan season for war.
The coalition and NATO will monitor the situation to see if terrorist activity falls or continues to rise, Col. Bouchard said.
"If it continues to rise, then it will definitely depart ... from the previous years as we've graphed the activity," he said.
Overall, the coalition is looking to upgrade equipment for Afghan police.
"There's always been that goal to increase the armored protection and the crew-served weapons in the future," he said. "It's just that we don't have enough of those supplies here yet. So I'm not so sure that we're altering our plans based on what we're seeing from the most recent threat; it's just taking longer to implement."


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The Lewiston Choraleers will present "A Christmas Potpourri 2012" on Dec. 1, 2, 8 and 9 at six area churches. The schedule of performances is as follows:
The fun-filled family-friendly concerts feature a variety of holiday music, including traditional, contemporary, international and ethnic selections. The choral group will be directed by Donald D. Shrimpton and accompanied by pianist Lynda Williams and percussionist Patrick Kuciewski.
The concerts are open to the public, with a general admission fee of $5 (children under 12 are free).
The Lewiston Choraleers group has been presenting seasonal concerts at Christmas and Easter and in the spring and summer in the Niagara Falls-Lewiston area since forming in 2007. Highlights include a well-received performance at Disney World in 2011. More information, including a variety of videotaped performances, is available atwww.lewistonchoraleers.com.