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PDS Marketing needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 49 designs submitted by 12 freelance designers.
PriceFinder is a property research website application that provides real estate agents, property professionals and private investors access to the latest property sales and statistics around the country.
We're looking for a fresh, modern – web 2.0, clean and crisp website template as part of our rebranding of our flagship product. Format will be psd (with vector graphics).
Creative license is encouraged over colour variants, layout & graphics however the sites primary colour scheme should tie in with our logo.
1 x Product Homepage Design.
1 x Content page template.
Extra incentives (Add $200) can be earned for delivery into a XHTML template (stylesheets, graphics etc). Potential for ongoing work (image creation, mobile app etc).
PriceFinder - "Australia's most accurate property PriceFinder"
Pricefinder is a cool new property research tool for 4 major vertical markets: Real Estate Agents, Valuers (appraisers), property development companies and private property investors.
We have been established under a different brand (see http://www.pdslive.com.au) for years but are now changing to a new brand (http://www.pricefinder.com.au).
We provide property sales data, charts, price estimates, maps, etc. We need a new landing page + sub content to communicate some of our most compelling features (maps and pricefinding) to many different types of visitors (consumers included).
We'd like an easily / quick landing page to :
• Communicate what we do in pictures and words (animated / moving is good)
• Let visitors quickly and easily signup for a demonstration of our products
• Easily find out more about what we offer (links to sub content pages)
Possible site template (Guidance only)
Homepage Layout (Possible design option only)
Header Content - Sub-menu navigation
• Home
• Products & Pricing - Links to blank content page
• Contact Us - Links to blank content page
Logo – To be located top left hand side.
Login in here icon - This will link to external app
Sign up icon – This will link to a content page containing free trial/sign up now form
Page Content
Product Verticals – All products will link to a content page containing detailed product & pricing information and sign up form.
• Real Estate
• Valuers
• Developers
• Investors
Sign up for demo form - First Name, Last Name, Company, Email, Phone, Type (Real Estate etc)
Flash Promo – This can contain either be embedded into the homepage or be a static image which can link to a Lightbox containing flash imagery.
Ticker – To contain scrolling suburb statistics detailing latest % growth etc.
Latest News– To contain brief news headlines animated with link to content page with detailed news articles. (Latest News/Testimonials can use tabbed content panel if space an issue)
Testimonials – To contain brief testimonial quotes animated with link to content page with detailed testimonials. (Latest News/Testimonials can use tabbed content panel if space an issue)
Free Stuff – To link to content page containing 'free stuff' form. User can gain free access to suburb profiles.
Partner/Feature Item – Interchangeable image containing latest feature or partner (e.g. Now available on iphone) which would link to a content page.
Footer Navigation - Bottom box (tags), terms & conditions, copyright, privacy policy, site map etc.
Page Layout – Content Page (Possible design option only)
Content page template required to mirror homepage in header and footer content only.
Header Content – Sub-menu Navigation
As above
Page Content
Page Graphic – To contain horizontal image with page name and graphic relating to page
Content Column #1 – Can be used for interior page navigation.
Content Column #2 – Main page content goes here and image placeholders go here
Footer Navigation - As above
Homepage Site References
http://www.pdslive.com.au – This site will eventually be replaced with pricefinder.com.au. The homepage and content pages of this site will be refreshed and mirrored on the pricefinder.com.au site.
http://www.pricefinder.com.au – This is a placeholder brochure site only. Can be used for site text and imagery.
Content Page Site References
Pricing – http://www.pdslive.com.au/pdsv3/app…rvice=page
Sign up now – http://www.pdslive.com.au/pdsv3/app…rvice=page
Help page - http://www.pdslive.com.au/pdsv3/app…rvice=page
Site Inspirations
http://www.mailchimp.com Homepage design, good use of imagery, content pages design
http://www.mediafire.com Bottom box tags, Sign up experience
http://www.modxcms.com/ Freshness
http://www.skype.com - Freshness
http://www.commbank.com.au – Homepage design
Icon References (Commercial licenced)
Image References
Feel free to edit screen shots to suit. Additional photos depicting property, real estate, technology, business, innovation may be required.
- Web 2.0
- A modern, fresh, clean, non-busy design with good use of imagery
- Final Output as a psd file
- We're flexible on the colors but the design should be consistent with the color of our current logo in the included
Homepage must fit to 1024 x 768 (no scroll preferred but vertical scroll ok if required)
- Content page must fit to 1024 width (vertical scroll ok)
- Common fonts (unless in imagery)
- Imagery text font – Avant Garde Gothic Std
- High page download (Site is used by users on varying internet speeds)


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BioLogos and its impact on the evangelical scene was one of the top ten stories of 2010 as judged by both Christianity Today and The Gospel Coalition. This is good, I suppose. However, we have barely begun to deal with the issues in a substantive manner. The reason BioLogos made the "big ten" was because of the hype associated with personal interest stories. Bruce Waltke, the 80 year old much-loved biblical scholar chose to resign from his seminary position over the commotion created by a statement he made about evolution. Albert Mohler, among the most important evangelicals in the world, noticed us—then, like a giant annoyed by a buzzing little fly, attempted to squish us, not with a swat, but with a few delicately placed strokes on his keyboard.
BioLogos is not a little fly, however, and it is not going to go away. Dr. Mohler, giant as he is in fundamentalist/evangelical circles, represents a view that takes on the entire scientific enterprise. To this day, I have not been able to identify a single person who holds a science faculty position in any Biology, Geology or Physics Department at any secular research university in the world who would agree with Dr. Mohler's view of creation. Not one, out of what I imagine are tens of thousands, including many who are strongly committed to living the Christian life in the context of fully orthodox Christian theology. If there is any such person, I urge them to contact us at firstname.lastname@example.com. I don't want to overstate my case.
We live in a scientific age and that is not going to change. For hundreds of years now science has been successfully informing us about the natural world. The Church need not take the entire world of science on, and it must not allow itself to be led by those with enormous rhetorical skill and the keenest of intellects, even though they are sincere and love the Lord with all their hearts, souls and minds. These people, gifted as they are, are taking the Church down a dead end road. Scientific knowledge is not deeply flawed and we cannot allow ourselves to be led down this pathway any longer.
So can we in the BioLogos community pat ourselves on the back because evangelical Christianity may finally be starting to think about evolutionary creation? Absolutely not! The issues are enormous and the real task has barely begun.
Why is the task so difficult? What have I learned this past year in my leadership role at BioLogos that I may not have fully appreciated one year ago?
1. The "scientific enterprise" to which the Church seems to pay attention is a formidable force
Scientific issues are normally worked out among people who are highly specialized. All interpretations of data are subject to extensive peer review by experts who have spent thousands of hours reading countless sophisticated journal articles. This is a process thoroughly honed over the centuries and it has been extremely successful in revealing amazingly intricate detail about the tapestry of the natural world.
This "science enterprise" to which the Church is paying attention, however, is different. A tiny group of people work out their ideas in think tanks which have a particular agenda from the beginning. There is tremendous pressure to substantiate a pre-conceived idea. Furthermore, the ideas, pre-conceived as they are, are not further honed among competing labs each with their own highly specialized crew of experts. Rather they are quickly taken to the public sphere. The next thing that happens is that people with almost no background in the subject matter have become the "crew of experts" and they are doing so anonymously on the internet with little accountability. How could the Church have ever bought into a science done in this manner? How could the scientists, sincere people that they are, with very high levels of integrity subscribe to this way of doing things?
Let me give one example of the dire consequences of this sort of approach for doing the Church's "science." William Dembski is, of course, one of the three or four most important figures in the Intelligent Design movement. He has laid out several foundational principles of Intelligent Design theory. In 2007, an amazing thing happened. Dr. Joe Felsenstein who is likely one of the top mathematical biologists in the world took the time to look carefully at Dembski's ideas. This was a very big deal because it is hard to get busy scientists to take the time to pay attention to people whose ideas seem to them like the annoying little flies I spoke of earlier. But Felsenstein did this and his article can be found here. Felsenstein, in essence, showed that two of Dembski's most important ideas were wrong at their very core. However, to our knowledge Dembski has never replied and his public still buys into his ideas even though he has, to our knowledge never addressed the issue of their defeat by perhaps the best expert in the world.
In the real world of science the norm is to have ideas critiqued in this manner. If they don't pass muster they are discarded and there is great pressure to move on from antiquated ideas. This alternative world of doing science in small closed groups, then bringing the findings to the public, and then effectively ignoring what the best minds have to say about the work is a most unusual situation. It is very hard to dispel false notions when science is done this way.
My point here is not to expose that this happens in this world of science into which the Church seems to have bought. My point, rather, is to use this to illustrate the huge challenge ahead of us. It is very difficult to defeat scientific myths if those who propagate them to huge audiences of non-experts won't admit that they are wrong. Normal science has checks and balances in place in a world overseen by a community of experts with significant incentives to show when ideas are wrong. This other "scientific enterprise" represents a whole different way of doing science, and it presents a whole different set of challenges in getting rid of antiquated ideas. I can express a concern about this to my heart's content (or discontent I guess), but this is a situation that is unlikely to change quickly. There is far too much at stake—politically, financially and ideologically. It is one of the three enormous challenges we face. But we must face it and there are enough of us that care now, that eventually, I believe, the Church will cease its association with this unusual way of doing science.
2. Finding the correct path when "his banner over us is love" presents unique challenges
At the beginning of this past year, I had not yet fully appreciated the importance of the delicate task of building Christian unity while at the same time holding each other accountable for scientific and theological integrity. Dembski's public silence on the above issue (so far as I know) is a very significant concern to me as a fellow believer. However as a fellow-believer, I have certain constraints. Bill and I, (or Fuz and I, or Hugh and I, for that matter) are, first and foremost, Christian brothers who operate on the basis of love being by far the most important criteria by which we interact with one another. Paul said, "Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up." These are beautiful words and they must be foundational in how I interact with others who think differently. I have sat around a dinner table with all three of the above individuals at various times. Similarly, I have appreciated such times with a number of other leaders of groups who think differently. Although I didn't know him personally, Henry Morris lived within a few blocks of me and I attended his funeral a few years ago. I was deeply moved by the sincere Christ-centered quality of this man's life. How do we hold each of these people accountable, when it seems they are so wrong, but we are called to be people who are known for our love? How do we do hold them accountable when we feel they do much harm and we are sometimes extremely disappointed in their tactics? (I assume the same is true of them as it relates to us, as well.) This is the second enormous challenge then. We are all human. Our ego can easily get sucked into this discussion. Can we stay Christians even when we disagree so sharply about all sorts of things? There is no choice, for if love is ever superseded by the desire for correct knowledge, our work and our lives cease to be Christian. With that, all that we are working towards becomes nothing more than a puff of hot air—here today and gone tomorrow.
3. For some, the theological challenges are enormous
The third enormous challenge relates to the fact that the theological issues associated with evolutionary creation seem so huge to so many evangelicals. Will we ever be able to show the followers of Albert Mohler, John MacArthur and others that Christian theology doesn't stand or fall on how we understand Genesis 1 or the question of whether Adam and Eve were the sole genetic progenitors of the human race? These are extremely critical issues to many and the task of showing in a convincing manner that evangelical theology doesn't depend on the age of the earth, and it doesn't depend upon whether Adam was made directly from dust will likely take decades before it will be convincing to all. The Church did eventually accept heliocentricity, but the theological issues (at least to many individuals), seem so much greater this time. The task will not be easy.
I am convinced, however, that God was at work in our midst in the year of our Lord, 2010. I sensed God's Spirit all the time, and I'll bet members of the other groups did too—even those who, so far as I see it, clearly have it wrong. It is true there are enormous challenges, but perhaps they seem greater than they really are. Perhaps, they almost seem overwhelming at times because we tend to look into the future through our own all-too-human lenses. If God really has created through an evolutionary mechanism and if God chooses to use BioLogos and other groups to help the Church come to grips with this issue, then these three huge challenges will begin to melt away as God's Spirit enables us to look to him and not to ourselves. To the extent that we can do that, and to the extent that we can really forgive each other for our trespasses, then truly the Kingdom will be his Kingdom and not ours. With that our kingdoms will begin to melt away in the very face of the glory of God. May that be so, and may the year, 2011, truly be the year of our Lord.


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These will give you an earful
Ask someone who remembers when transistor radios made their debut, and they will probably tell you how scratchy the sound was when they listened to music with a single little earphone. Fast-forward to 2013 as Phiaton launches Moderna MS 200 earphones. Designed to make sure bass notes aren't obscured while providing superior and nuanced sound, the half-in design of the earphones provides a secure yet comfy fit, even when you're on the move. Plus, the tangle-free cable has a built-in microphone, allowing you to talk while you walk. Sporting a lightweight carbon graphite fiber body, the stylish red and black earphones can be stashed inside a matching red and black case. Equipped with five tuning points and a dual chamber that optimizes airflow, the sweet-sounding earphones cost about $120.
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Once you have plunked down a chunk of hard-earned money on a home entertainment system or a computer, the last thing you want is for a sudden power surge to wreak havoc on your gear. That's where the PowerSquid Home Theater Surge Protector comes in. Designed like a squid, this protector has multiple plugs feeding from its body, making it easy to plug in multiple devices without taking up a lot of shelf space. In the event of a power surge or lightning strike, the surge protector has a fail-safe circuit and alarm that help protect your gear. It costs about $63.
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If you want to give your iPod Touch a bit of personality and some exterior protection as well, a line of deflector cases from Uncommon might do the trick. The cases come in ready-made and customizable versions, and the ready-made versions can be pretty eclectic in their own right: One collection is simply called "Uglydolls" The case, as you might imagine, resembles a popular "Uglydoll." An "Uglydoll" case that fits the iPod Touch 5 costs about $30. Cases also are available for other devices.
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The very name "flash drive" implies that these handy little devices will let you accomplish your goals quickly and efficiently. But doing so isn't always straightforward. That's where PhotoFast's i-FlashDrive HD comes in. Designed to provide two-way storage between computers and Apple devices, as well as between different Apple devices, the drive can handle photos, music, videos, contact info and other data. One nifty feature: You can play back music and video directly from the drive, which comes in handy if your device is running low on memory. The drive also includes Dropbox support and a document viewer for major formats.
Not sure how to make it happen? The drive's app includes a helpful guide. One caveat: The drive currently doesn't work with Apple's 6.1 operating system but the company is working to resolve the issue.
Available later this month, an 8-GB model with a 30-pin connector and a USB connector will cost about $100 while a 64-GB version, which also includes a Lightning connector, will cost $330. Other versions will be available too.
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Orioles top prospect Dylan Bundy made his spring debut, throwing a scoreless fifth inning. The 19-year-old right-hander overcame a one-out, four-pitch walk to Dustin Predroia to retire the side.


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The official, John DeLong, the N.S.A. director of compliance, said that the number of mistakes by the agency was extremely low compared with its overall activities. The report showed about 100 errors by analysts in making queries of databases of already-collected communications data; by comparison, he said, the agency performs about 20 million such queries each month.Again, the ratio is a meaningless number. You're not declared innocent of murder because you didn't happen to murder someone every other day of your life. But, perhaps more important in this is the revelation of the 20 million queries every single month. Or, approximately 600,000 queries every day. How about 25,000 queries every hour? Or 417 queries every minute? Seven queries every single second. Holy crap, that's a lot of queries.
Remember, too, that the NSA has insisted that it doesn't datamine its data collection, which is clearly hogwash. That many queries means they're trolling through that database all the time. Remember how the NSA was trying to play down how often it did queries by saying that only 300 phone numbers had been used to "initiate" a query? Yeah, well, once again, it would appear that the NSA was not being fully forthcoming about these sorts of things. Shocking, I know, but I'd imagine they'd claim it was the "least untruthful" answer they could come up with after having a good week or so to answer the question.


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Round 5
Imperials - Scratch
The sakers cross while their escorts try the same.
The ribault prepares response fire...
The starcapes and the steam tank advance, but aren't in range yet.
The catapult is fired, crushing a Bull warrior.
With a combined push the imperial infantry sends it towards the phalanx, the guy on top lancing one phalanx to death with their own banner. The Bulls' axes cut into the catapult, taking 2 SP off of it.
The phalanx is disrupted and knocked into the crossbowmen behind them by the momentum of the catapult.
Crossbowmen open fire on their counterparts, but can't do much.
"Well screw you too horse."
"I deserve a better steed."
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Drakhirri - NPC'd
The Drakhirri push their chariots into the enemy ranks, but the phalanx stands fast.
The heavies, do not. They both fall before the Slayers.
This is the moment the Imperial infantry had been waiting for. They try to gang on Marnix...
... but a heavy pulls him out of the way and takes the damage instead.
The rest of the urban guards try to move in, but the one that reaches the enemy phalanx fumbles his attack and gets cut down in response. Not pictured: the crossbowmen fail to take out some of their counterparts.
Bulls - Warhead
The Avatar draws back his fist...
... and slams it into the catapult, sending it rolling backwards. The Imperials surrounding it are thrown around and disrupted.
The Bull crossbowmen try aiming some expert shots into the barrels of the ribault, but none of them are that accurate.
The disrupted phalanx pick themselves up and cut one fallen swordsman in half.
Marnix smashes a spearman. "Stand fast men!" he shouts, but even he can't keep his men from despairing at the sight of the steam tank bearing down on them (-1 armour for the Bulls until their next round). Few people know, but the only thing that can scare the Bulls is technology.
These phalanx at least don't let it get to them, advancing and slaughtering the chariot riders.
The elites go around, slamming two more Drakhirri, whose numbers are dwindling.
The elite that reaches an adversary on this side is less deadly.
Drakhirri Champion 0/3 HP
Dragon 1: 1/2 HP
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Women?s Basketball Wins at Old Westbury
Feb 1, 2005
Farmingdale State 63
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The Rams picked up another conference win against Old Westbury last night 63-58. Farmingdale State improved to 15-4 overall, 10-1 Skyline, while the Panthers fell to 7-13 overall, 3-8 Skyline. Sharon Billips (Brooklyn, NY/John Jay) led the scoring for the Rams with 29 points and grabbed six rebounds, while Angela Williams (New York, NY/Murry Bergtraum) chipped in 11 points.
Christina Squillante finished with 19 points for Old Westbury. Ashley Embry notched 15 points and 11 boards.
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Dear friends,
If it hadn't been Buddhist it would have been in a way very Catholic. I was at the consecration of the largest Buddhist temple in Europe, held in a curve of the soft hills of southern France, the rituals performed by the Dalai Lama. Madame Sarkozy was there, looking beautiful (and a little nervous they said) at her first public engagement alone. So were the Minister of Foreign Affairs and other local and national politicians. On the other side of the aisle, segregated, as a supposedly secular nation would like, were the religious leaders.
The local Bishop and a Dominican, the Protestant and Jewish representatives and I sat passively together. In front of us, the elevated shrine space dominated by the overwhelming, impassive stillness of the golden Buddha, made in Burma from an original in Bodhgaya. You had only to penetrate its silence to find its compassion. To its side, a large pot holding a fresh growing sprig of the tree under which the Buddha was enlightened two and a half millennia ago. Strikingly life-like statues of past Buddhist masters in lotus posture sat on either side of the Buddha. On the pillars, walls and ceilings were scenes of dharma stories painted in bright primary colours, lively and instructive as were once the walls of medieval churches.
Everything was decorated meticulously but exuberantly in bright reds and yellows. Behind us in the new temple and outside on the grass and in tents and, miles away, in front of a city screen were thousands of students and friends of Rigpa, the international Buddhist network led by Sogyal Rinpoche, author of the best selling 'Tibetan Book of Living and Dying'. When the bright cone-shaped, tasseled yellow hats of the monks appeared I asked the Bishop in a whisper if he had brought his mitre. Incense, busy acolytes bringing water, rice, katags, white silk scarves, conches, bhumpas, dorjes and five-pointed crowns to the Dalai Lama seated on the lower throne to the side of the Buddha. Guttural chanting was interspersed by rasping Tibetan trumpets and bells. The sacred was present with vibrant ease and an informality that did not diminish the reverence. As always the Dalai Lama combined naturalness and seriousness without solemnity. There was no sense of religious politics. Tibetan or Sanskrit did not collide as do Latin and the vernacular for many Catholics today
The time and effort given to making a beautiful liturgy in any tradition express something very similar in often very similar ways. Like the sand mandalas which Buddhist monks take weeks to make and then tip into the river to exemplify impermanence and non-attachment; like great events such as World Youth Day or papal funerals or the daily sung Office, liturgical art is ephemeral. Yet its impressions often stay in the soul to the degree that we were really present and involved, not just an audience.
Before the ceremony I read some Buddhist texts on the consecration of images to get some acquaintance with the mind of the ritual. The first element is the preparation of the individuals taking part, 'self-generation', helping to see oneself as a solitary, unattached spiritual being. Not, that is, just an officiant or a devotee. Second, as in the penitential rite of the Mass, is the purification of inner and outer space of negative forces. Finally, seeing the intrinsic 'emptiness' of the object being consecrated, returning it to formlessness and then welcoming it back into material form. No idol worship here. The underlying meaning of it all – that brings Tibetan and Catholic sacramentality into close relationship – is the spiritual transformation of the people involved.
Does this mean Christian churches simply need to 'restore mystery' to parochial worship, reinstating the colours, perfumes and rituals of older liturgical arts? If only it were so easy.
The secret to the enthusiasm of the post-Christian west for such exotic ceremonies is not in the externals but in what comes after them. After lunch the Dalai Lama returned, to the higher throne , and 'gave a teaching' – a phrase that explains the dynamism and attraction of Buddhism in the West. The next day other Tibetan masters and one Christian monk also sat and spoke, without looking at the clock, about the spiritual path, the scriptures, disciplines and insights that help us all to persevere in the process of inner transformation.
Some years ago Cardinal Martini of Genova filled his cathedral week after week with his leisurely, careful lectio on the gospels. Sitting on his cathedra he was not giving a sermon but the true doctrina of the faith, part of a living transmission, breaking the Word that is alive and active when deeply shared. I imagine he had understood why Jesus was 'moved with compassion' when he looked at the multitudes and saw that 'they were like sheep without a shepherd'.
Much love,
Laurence Freeman OSB


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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – The Santa Barbara community will have plenty of opportunities to interact with the UCSB men's and women's soccer programs this fall as the teams have a bevy of community outreach programs in place.
The game day programs include postgame autograph sessions with Gaucho players, the opportunity to serve as a ball boy/girl at home matches, youth games played on Meredith Field during halftime and the always-popular Soccer Town Playground.
UCSB will also be partnering with AYSO and Santa Barbara Soccer Club for a trio of special events. The first will be AYSO Skills Day, which is being held for the second year at Girsh Park on Aug. 27. The event gives local AYSO players the chance to learn skills from Gaucho players and get their autographs.
AYSO will partner with UCSB again on Sept. 25 when it holds its annual banner night during the Sacramento State match. Youth wearing their AYSO team jerseys will gain free admission to the game.
On Sept. 9, SBSC will host its annual BBQ and silent auction at Harder Stadium prior to the men's soccer match against West Virginia.
UCSB also extends special ticket offers to local elementary, middle school and junior high PTA's. There will also be special Junior High/High School Soccer Team Nights offered.
The cornerstone of the UCSB soccer outreach programs is the Gaucho Guest Coaching Program. As part of the Gauchos Give community outreach initiative, UCSB soccer players fill in as guest coaches for local soccer teams.
For more information on all of these programs and directions on how to sign up, click here.
The UCSB men's soccer season kicks off on Aug. 20 when the Gauchos host cross-town foe Westmont in an exhibition match at Meredith Field at Harder Stadium. The game is one of 12 exciting home pairings scheduled for UCSB this fall.
To ensure you don't miss a minute of the 2011 soccer season, purchase your season tickets now by calling (805) 893-UCSB, visiting the Ticket Office in the Intercollegiate Athletics Building on campus or by clicking here.
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CHICAGO -- The National Football League last night reached a tentativeaccord with the city of Cleveland that will bring a renamed Browns franchiseto Baltimore this year and a replacement team to Cleveland by 1999.
The agreement, if approved today by NFL owners, will fill a void left inBaltimore by the departure of the Colts 12 years ago and preserve for theleague a market that has been as supportive as any in the country.
With the agreement, all sides in the conflict declared victory.
"We believe the agreement achieves what we set out to get three monthsago: our team, our name and our colors," said Cleveland Mayor Michael White.
Twenty-three of the NFL's 30 franchises must vote to approve theagreement, but passage appeared likely with the endorsement of the city ofCleveland and NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue.
"I don't think it will have any trouble passing with the recommendation ofthe stadium and the finance committees," said Robert Tisch, co-owner of theNew York Giants.
The agreement also must be translated into a final, written contract,which must be approved by NFL owners at their meetings next month and by theCleveland City Council.
Mr. Tagliabue made no public comments last night, but issued a statementsaying, "This is a historic agreement."
Browns owner Art Modell said: "I am happy for the people of Cleveland. Iam happy for the people of Baltimore, and I am happy most of all for theModell family.
"It has been a long siege and I am happy it is almost over."
On Nov. 6, Mr. Modell announced his intention to move the Browns, citingthe inadequacy of Cleveland Stadium and frustration with negotiations toreplace the facility, which was built in 1931.
The announcement set off a firestorm of criticism nationwide of Mr. Modelland the NFL, which has seen five clubs announce their intentions to move inthe past year.
"Baltimore is incredibly empathetic for what Cleveland went through. Weunfortunately didn't get that a dozen years ago," said Maryland StadiumAuthority chairman John Moag, who spent the past two days here helping tohammer out the agreement.
"Football is a tough game to get back into town and I said from thebeginning that there would be bumps in the road, but I don't think thattempers this," Mr. Moag said.
John W. Frece, a spokesman for Parris N. Glendening, said the Marylandgovernor "is encouraged by today's action by NFL owners in Chicago. He isoptimistic that the owners will return an NFL franchise to Baltimore, where itbelongs."
Mr. Moag, meanwhile, said the Maryland Stadium Authority will drop its $36million antitrust suit against the league once the agreement is final.
Likewise, the deal calls for Cleveland to drop its lawsuit against theBrowns, a case that was scheduled for trial Monday. The city sought to forcethe Browns to play the final three seasons of their lease at ClevelandStadium.
Instead, Cleveland will build a 72,000-seat stadium at the site of thecurrent facility. The city estimates this will cost between $220 million and$230 million, and will be paid for by league financing and a $175 millionpackage of tax increases and borrowing already approved by Cleveland.
Cleveland also agreed not to lure a team itself, leaving its footballdestiny in the NFL's hands.
In return, the city will get to keep the Browns' name, colors and recordsfor use by another team that the league promises to bring to the city, throughexpansion or relocation, by 1999.
The agreement specifies that if an existing team is moved to Cleveland,the club cannot be breaking its lease and must meet the NFL's eight-pointrelocation criteria, which measure community support and financial viability.
Also, the new club must sign a 30-year lease. Fred Nance, lead attorneyfor Cleveland in the negotiations, said, "While we could have, I have nodoubt, kept this team here for the next three years, we instead get a team forthe next 30 years."
Mr. Modell will reimburse the city for up to $2.25 million in legal andother expenses as well as $9.3 million in damages over four BTC years. Thatmoney likely will come from the sale of permanent seat licenses (PSLs) atBaltimore's new stadium.
Mr. Modell also must pay the NFL a relocation fee of $29 million -- $20million upfront and $9 million to be paid over 15 years, sources said. Mr.Modell also agreed to forgo any share of an expansion fee if Cleveland isgiven a new team.
The most controversial element of the deal to some owners is a line ofcredit the NFL will provide Cleveland, which will be paid back with interestby the team that eventually plays there. The agreement specifies that theleague will lend $28 million to $48 million for the stadium, depending uponcosts.
The league has been reluctant to fund stadiums. "It is a new concept. Ithink it may work. It has to work," said Mr. Tisch.
San Diego Chargers owner Alex Spanos said, "I believe in revenue sharing.If that's what we have to do to help a city or help a team, I believe we haveto be there when they need that help."
Less enthusiastic was Buffalo Bills owner Ralph Wilson, an ardent opponentof the Browns' move: "I'm not in favor of the NFL financing stadiums aroundthe country. It would be a very big precedent."
The deal, finally struck at 8 EST last night, capped a long day that beganwith NFL officials trying to persuade Mr. Modell to sell or turn over his teamto Clevelanders and accept an expansion team in Baltimore in two years.
Mr. Modell and Mr. Moag forcefully rejected that idea, sending thebargainers back to the table, and, eventually, to agreement.
"I think they hoped Maryland would give a little more, but our agreementis our agreement. The state of Maryland has stepped up to the plate," Mr. Moagsaid.
Mr. Modell's team -- to be renamed through a fan contest -- will play thisseason and next at Memorial Stadium while a $200 million stadium is builtadjacent to Oriole Park. The team will move into the stadium in 1998.
There are efforts in the General Assembly to revoke funding for thestadium, but Mr. Moag said he is confident they will not succeed.
"I think this is good news, basically," said state Sen. Barbara A. Hoffman, chairwoman of the Senate Budget and Taxation Committee and a keysupporter of the stadium plan. "Now all of the lawsuits are off and Mr. Modellcan move."
Ms. Hoffman said, though, that it was unclear whether Mr. Modell wouldhave lower-than-expected relocation costs.
"If his costs are less, then we may have better grounds to use some of thePSL money for construction," Ms. Hoffman said.
Many legislators want to tap into the money generated by the sale of PSLsto help build the stadium and lower the state's costs.
Deal's key points
* Cleveland will get a new NFL team by 1999, either by expansion or the moveof an existing franchise that meets league criteria for relocation.
* The Browns immediately will move to Baltimore and leave behind their nameand colors.
* The NFL will lend $28 million to $48 million to Cleveland to help build astadium. The loan will be repaid by the owners of the new Cleveland team.* Cleveland will stay all litigation, pending today's vote by NFL owners.
* Browns owner Art Modell will reimburse Cleveland for up about $12 million inlegal expenses and damages. He also will pay the NFL a relocation fee of $29million.
-Sun staff writers Ken Rosenthal, Mike Preston, Vito Stellino and Thomas W. Waldron contributed to this article.


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When Will the Next iPhone Arrive?
Apple plans to begin production of a new iPhone, according to sources. Jessica Lessin reports on digits. Photo: Getty Images.
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Most diseases that pets suffer from are suffered in silence. Because of their inability to tell you what the problem is they many times go undetected. Skin disease is different however. Millions of pets suffer from persistent irritation that result many times in self-mutilation. Incessant scratching can render the skin a troublesome condition. Owners are much more aware of existing problems with this condition and seek veterinary help. Antiparasitic, antibacterial,and anti-allergenic preparations are usually recommended. Owners that have grown resigned to the skin complaints of their pets are delighted to find that a change in diet to a more natural diet, seems to to work miracles. The skin provides evidence of the general health of the animal. If diet affects the immune system then skin health will also be impaired. Bacterial toxins can also damage the skin and set up allergic responses. Even fleas will prefer to infect unhealthy animals.
That is why we see very little flea infestations with pets on the raw meat diets. Skin disease conditions are without a doubt one of the most often asked questions that I am asked about each week. Building up the immune system and switching to a natural raw diet is the key to resolving the majority of these problems. Always best to heal from within.
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In 2006, Tourism Australia launched a controversial advertising campaign that was briefly banned from television in the UK for its use of the word "bloody". Photograph: Tourism Australia
Our round up of the best (or worst) tourism slogans from around the world had a fantastic response from readers. We had so many suggestions for ones we'd missed we decided it was only right to share some of your own picks. Some of you got creative – special mention to ToffeeDan1 for "Greece is the word" – but here's a quick round up of some more old and new travel slogans that actually did make it into print.
Be Berlin
Australia – Where the bloody hell are you?
Vienna – Now or never
British Columbia – The best place on earth! (Previously Super Natural British Columbia)
Hi! Seoul – Soul of Asia
The Gambia – Smiling Coast of Africa
Louisiana – Come as you are, leave Different
Romania – Explore the Carpathian Garden
West Chiltington – A village with a past and a future
Suffolk – The Curious County
Torquay – The English Riviera
Glasgow's miles better
Leeds. Live it. Love it.
It's Never Dull in Hull
Hong Kong Will Take Your Breath Away
Brunei – Kingdom of Unexpected Treasures


text: Pork Production Weathers Drought Challenges January 6, 2013 10:27 PM Tweet TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Sara Brown Farm Journal Livestock and Production Editor Email After news of a strong export sale, the Quarterly Hog and Pigs Report from USDA shows pork producers were not quick to react to the production cost challenges of 2012. While market hog inventory was down 2% from last quarter at 60.5 million head, breeding inventory remained slightly higher, at 5.82 million head. Producers are using more risk management tools, explains Steve Meyer, Paragon Economics. "Many current producers have started actively managing risk and managing margins on a forward contract basis. A good portion of them came out of 2008 and 2009 in relatively good shape, even though the industry as a whole was hurt very badly. Producers came into this fall with a staying power that many of us did not expect," Meyer says. Producers have also not made much change to sow herd numbers, due partly to larger facilities and long range planning. "These numbers show us there is a little bit of expansion in the breeding herd and we've seen that come up in the levels of sow slaughter and gilt retention in the last few months," he adds. "These producers are hog producers, and they plan to stay that way. Everything is on the line—with hopes for strong exports and timely rain for the 2013 corn crop," he concludes. Sigh of Relief—October Pork Exports Higher An unexpected Christmas present came early for hog producers, as October's pork export numbers were released mid-December, with a good bump in export traffic. In the latest monthly export results (October), the combined total of U.S. pork muscle cut and pork variety meat exports was record-large in both volume (218,312 metric tons) and value ($607.3 million). "The blessing of our international marketing efforts, together with MEF and the Pork Checkoff, could not have come at a better time," says Chris Novak, CEO with the National Pork Board, during an interview with the U.S. Meat Export Federation. "We are getting what we need from the international marketplace at a critical time. With the drought, our producers have faced this year—high feed prices, again—we are seeing international markets respond to the value of our current pork supplies. At the endof the day, the quality—the leanness—of U.S. pork keeps our international customers coming back." Back to news


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Limbaugh said Virginia Tech shooter "had to be a liberal"
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On the April 19 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, host Rush Limbaugh declared that the perpetrator of the April 16 Virginia Tech shootings "had to be a liberal," adding: "You start railing against the rich, and all this other -- this guy's a liberal. He was turned into a liberal somewhere along the line. So it's a liberal that committed this act." Limbaugh then complained, in a possible reference to Media Matters for America, that "Now the drive-bys will read on a website that I'm attacking liberalism by comparing this guy to them. That's exactly what they do every day, ladies and gentlemen. I'm just pointing out a fact. I am making no extrapolation." Limbaugh regularly describes mainstream media sources as "the drive-by media."
From the April 19 broadcast of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show:
LIMBAUGH: If this Virginia Tech shooter had an ideology, what do you think it was? This guy had to be a liberal. You start railing against the rich and all this other -- this guy's a liberal. He was turned into a liberal somewhere along the line. So it's a liberal that committed this act. Now, the drive-bys will read on a website that I'm attacking liberalism by comparing this guy to them. That's exactly what they do every day, ladies and gentlemen. I'm just pointing out a fact. I am making no extrapolation; I'm just pointing it out. They try -- whenever -- I can tell you from the history of this program, starting way back in the early '90s, when there was any kind of an incident, crime or what-have-you that attracted national attention, in the early days of this program, the drive-by media went out and they tried to connect the perpetrator to this program. They did everything they could. In fact, it went so far as Bill Clinton blaming me for influencing Timothy McVeigh to blow up the bureau building [sic: Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City]. These are the people sponsoring lies and distortion for the purposes of dividing this country and creating hatred. These are the people that invented this kind of tactic, if you will.
Five days after the Oklahoma City bombing, in an April 24, 1995, speech in Minneapolis, Clinton criticized "loud and angry voices in America today whose sole goal seems to be to try to keep some people as paranoid as possible and the rest of us all torn up and upset with each other. They spread hate. They leave the impression that, by their very words, that violence is acceptable." Clinton followed up on that comment the next day in a speech in Ames, Iowa, stating: "We must stand up and speak against reckless speech that can push fragile people over the edge beyond the bounds of civilized conduct and take this country into a dark place. I say that no matter where it comes from, people are encouraging violence and lawlessness and hatred. If people are encouraging conduct that will undermine the fabric of this country, it should be spoken against whether it comes from the left or the right, whether it comes on radio, television or in the movies, whether it comes in the schoolyard, or, yes, even on the college campus."
An April 26, 1995, Washington Post article reported that Clinton's comments in Iowa "were aimed at blunting criticism from Republicans and others that he had unfairly blamed conservative talk radio Monday when he denounced 'the loud and angry voices in America today' and lamented 'the things that are regularly said over the airwaves.' Rush Limbaugh and other conservative radio hosts interpreted those comments as aimed at them, although Clinton hadn't singled out individuals in his Minneapolis speech or even mentioned talk radio in his speech."
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Cather's Life and Loves
"Call Me William: The Lives and Loves of Willa Cather" will be presented at the Montauk Library on Sunday at 3:30 p.m.
Prudence Wright Holmes is both writer and performer of this one-woman play about Cather, who was a Pulitzer Prize-winning author. Her books include "My Antonia" and "Death Comes for the Archbishop."
Ms. Holmes was a member of the original cast of "Godspell," which she helped create. She was on Broadway with Meryl Streep in "Happy End" and in the film "Kingpin" with Woody Harrelson. She has written several plays and was recently in the Broadway musical "The Light in the Piazza."
Mozart at the Met
Guild Hall will screen the Met: Live in HD's presentation of Mozart's "La Clemenza di Tito" on Saturday at 1 p.m. Elina Garanca will sing the role of Sesto in the drama set in ancient Rome. Giuseppe Filianoti is Tito and Barbara Frittoli is Vitellia. Harry Bicket conducts. Tickets are $22, $20 for members, and $15 for students.
Live for WPPB
Corky Laing, the drummer from the band Mountain, will perform solo and with his band, Corky Laing and the Memory Thieves, at Guild Hall as a special guest tomorrow night at a benefit for WPPB 88.3 FM from 7 to 10 p.m. Cynthia Daniels, a local Grammy Award-winning recording engineer, will be joined by other radio and local personalities to bring her monthly live performance recording to the theater.
Performers will also include the Kerry Kearney Band, Black and Sparrow, Miles to Dayton, the Black Petals, the K-O-S Band (Keeping Original Sound), the Ross Brazilian Jazz Band, the Jet Set Renegades, Darcey, Glenn Feit, Michael Pour, Dick Johansson, Alfredo Merat, and Adam Baranello with the A and G Dance Company.
The concert, sponsored by Crossroads Music, where it is usually held, will be aired by Monk Music Radio at a later date. Tickets are $20, $18 for Guild Hall members, and $10 for students. They are available at Crossroads Music or online at guildhall.org.
Jazz in Montauk
Music for Montauk will present a free jazz concert on Saturday with Freddie Bryant and the Melting Pot Jazz Sextet on Saturday at 7 p.m. at the Montauk School.
Mr. Bryant, a guitarist, will bring an assortment of musicians to play a program of United States, American, Brazilian, and Latin songs. The Melting Pot Jazz Sextet includes vocals, flute, saxophone, acoustic bass, percussion, and guitar.
Songs will include familiar and exotic standards and holiday tunes from around the world.


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Module Lwt_log
module Lwt_log: sig..end
Logging facility
This module provides functions to deal with logging. It support:
- logging to the syslog daemon
- logging to a channel (stderr, stdout, ...)
- logging to a file
- logging to multiple destination at the same time
Types ¶
type level =
|Debugging message. They can be automatically removed byt hte syntax extension.
|Informational message. Suitable to be displayed when the program is in verbose mode.
|Same as Info, but is displayed by default.
|Something strange happend
|An error message, which should not means the end of the program.
|A fatal error happened, in most cases the program will end after a fatal error.
Type of log levels. A level determines the importance of a
type logger
Type of a logger. A logger is responsible for dispatching messages
and storing them somewhere.
Lwt provides loggers sending log messages to a file, syslog,
... but you can also create you own logger.
type section
Each logging message has a section. Sections can be used to
structure your logs. For example you can choose different
loggers according to the section.
Each section carries a level, and messages with a lower log
level than than the section level will be dropped.
Section levels are initialised using the LWT_LOG environment
variable, which must contains one or more rules of the form
pattern -> level separated by ";". Where pattern is a string
that may contain *.
For example, if LWT_LOG contains:
access -> warning; foo[*] -> error
then the level of the section "access" is Warning and the
level of any section matching "foo[*]" is Error.
If LWT_LOG is not defined then the rule "* -> notice" is
used instead.
Logging functions ¶
log ?section ?logger ~level message logs a message.
section defaults to Lwt_log.Section.main. If logger is not
specified, then the default one is used instead (see
If exn is provided, then its string representation
(= Printexc.to_string exn) will be append to the message, and if
possible the backtrace will also be logged.
val log_f :
?exn:exn ->
?section:section ->
?logger:logger ->
level:level ->
('a, unit, string, unit Lwt.t) Pervasives.format4 -> 'a
log_f is the same as log except that it takes a format
The following functions are the same as Lwt_log.log except that their name determines which level is used.
For example info msg is the same as log ~level:Info msg.
val debug_f :
?exn:exn ->
?section:section ->
?logger:logger ->
('a, unit, string, unit Lwt.t) Pervasives.format4 -> 'a
val info_f :
?exn:exn ->
?section:section ->
?logger:logger ->
('a, unit, string, unit Lwt.t) Pervasives.format4 -> 'a
val notice_f :
?exn:exn ->
?section:section ->
?logger:logger ->
('a, unit, string, unit Lwt.t) Pervasives.format4 -> 'a
val warning_f :
?exn:exn ->
?section:section ->
?logger:logger ->
('a, unit, string, unit Lwt.t) Pervasives.format4 -> 'a
val error_f :
?exn:exn ->
?section:section ->
?logger:logger ->
('a, unit, string, unit Lwt.t) Pervasives.format4 -> 'a
val fatal_f :
?exn:exn ->
?section:section ->
?logger:logger ->
('a, unit, string, unit Lwt.t) Pervasives.format4 -> 'a
Log templates ¶
type template = string
A template is for generating log messages.
It is a string which may contains variables of the form
$(var), where var is one of:
- date which will be replaced with the current date
- milliseconds which will be replaced by the fractionnal part of the current unix time
- name which will be replaced by the program name
- pid which will be replaced by the pid of the program
- message which will be replaced by the message emited
- level which will be replaced by a string representation of the level
- section which will be replaced by the name of the message's section
For example:* "$(name): $(message)"
- "$(date) $(name)[$(pid)]: $(message)"
- "$(date).$(milliseconds) $(name)[$(pid)]: $(message)"
val render :
buffer:Buffer.t ->
template:template ->
section:section -> level:level -> message:string -> unit
render ~buffer ~template ~section ~level ~message instantiate
all variables of template, and store the result in
Loggers ¶
exception Logger_closed
Exception raised when trying to use a closed logger
val make :
output:(section -> level -> string list -> unit Lwt.t) ->
close:(unit -> unit Lwt.t) -> logger
make ~output ~close creates a new logger.
output : is used to write logs. It is a function which receive a section, a level and a list lines that must be logged together.
close : is used to close the logger
Close the given logger
val default : logger Pervasives.ref
The default logger. It is used as default when no one is
specified. Initially, it sends messages to the standard output
for error messages.
broadcast loggers is a logger which send messages to all the
given loggers.
Note: closing a broadcast logger does not close its
dispatch f is a logger which dispatch logging instructions to
different logger according to their level and/or section.
Here is an example:
let access_logger = Lwt_log.file "access.log" and error_logger = Lwt_log.file "error.log" in Lwt_log.dispatch (fun section level -> match Lwt_log.Section.name section, level with | "access", _ -> access_logger | _, Lwt_log.Error -> error_logger)
Predefined loggers ¶
val null : logger
Logger which drops everything
type syslog_facility =
[ `Auth
| `Authpriv
| `Console
| `Cron
| `Daemon
| `Kernel
| `Local0
| `Local1
| `Local2
| `Local3
| `Local4
| `Local5
| `Local6
| `Local7
| `Mail
| `News
| `Security
| `Syslog
| `User ]
Syslog facility. Look at the SYSLOG(3) man page for a description
of syslog facilities
val syslog :
?template:template ->
?paths:string list ->
facility:syslog_facility -> unit -> logger
syslog ?template ?paths ~facility () creates an logger
which send message to the system logger.
template : defaults to "$(date) $(name)[$(pid)]: $(section): $(message)"
paths : is a list of path to try for the syslogd socket. It default to ["/dev/log"; "/var/run/log"].
val file :
?template:template ->
?mode:[ `Append | `Truncate ] ->
?perm:Unix.file_perm -> file_name:string -> unit -> logger Lwt.t
desf_file ?template ?mode ?perm ~file_name () creates an
logger which will write messages to file_name.
- if mode = `Truncate then the file is truncated and previous contents will be lost.
- if mode = `Append, new messages will be appended at the end of the file
template : defaults to "$(date): $(section): $(message)"
mode : defaults to `Append
val channel :
?template:template ->
close_mode:[ `Close | `Keep ] ->
channel:Lwt_io.output_channel -> unit -> logger
channel ?template ~close_mode ~channel () creates a logger
from a channel.
If close_mode = `Close then channel is closed when the
logger is closed, otherwise it is left open.
template : defaults to "$(name): $(section): $(message)"


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The lethal photos came out today -- showing Selena and the Biebs in St. Lucia ... kissing -- and scores of teen girls across the planet are bloodthirsty with envy ... taking to Twitter to express their rage writing:
-- roses are red, violets are blue, @selenagomez if you'll break @justinbieber's heart I'm gonna kill you :3
-- @selenagomez I'll kill you I swear on GOD!!!!
-- @selenagomez If you are the Girlfriend of Justin I will Kill you I HATE YOU :@ !!!
-- @selenagomez whore cancer whore..like i'mm kill myself cuz i saw you and Justin kissing well thankyou Selena thankyou now i'm killing myself
-- @selenagomez stay away from Justin pedophile, retard wait i'm gonna kill ya in the night underneath your smelly bed
Calls to Selena's reps have not been returned.
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Christina Aguilera & Jessica Alba: Jay-Z Concert!
Celebrities came out in full-force to support Jay-Z at his concert held at the Staples Center on Friday night (March 26) in Los Angeles.
Trey Songz was the opening act for the night. When Jay-Z performed "On to the Next One," Swizz Beatz came out as a surprise guest.
Here's who attended: Christina Aguilera (with husband Jordan Bratman), Jessica Alba (with husband Cash Warren), Ashlee Simpson (with husband Pete Wentz), Tobey Maguire (with wife Jennifer Meyer), Ryan Phillippe, Paris Hilton, Nicky Hilton (with boyfriend David Katzenberg), Taye Diggs, David Arquette, Ice Cube, Craig Robinson and Tia and Tamara Mowry.
15+ pictures inside of all the celebs at Jay-Z concert…


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OAKLAND OUTDOORS: Chickadees still eat out of visitors' hands at Kensington Metropark
At first glance, Kensington Metropark in Milford may seem devoid of wildlife activity during the blustery days of November, but that assumption is about as wrong as wrong can be.
After all, Ruby-throated hummingbirds -- amazing winged creatures that shimmered like jewels in sunlight -- winged south weeks ago to Cuba and Central America. Groundhogs are snoring the cold season away in hibernation. Massasauga rattlers are in their state of near suspended animation submerged in moist crayfish borrows. Straggler sandhill cranes are about to lift off from meadows and flap away with final primordial trumpeting salute. And the sultry and so very sweet song of treefrogs will not add musical magic to the 4,481 acres of Kensington Metropark until sunlight of spring warms the earth.
But wildlife still remains abundant and active throughout this popular flagship Metropark administered by the Huron-Clinton Metropolitan Authority and many species are seen by observant visitors along the Deer Run Loop, Fox Trail, Pine Loop, Aspen Trail, Tamarack Trail, Wildwing Trail and the perfectly named Chickadee Loop Trail on the north side of the Kensington Nature Center. And there is no better time than now to hike about and view many species. Early morning or late afternoon visitors have excellent chances to see deer, hawks and wild turkey and some more cryptic hikers are lucky enough to spot a fox or even a coyote.
Hikers of any of these small trails will seldom walk alone because they are being watched and sometimes followed by a little bird.
November accelerated the behavior of black-capped chickadees, a magnificent little bird that does not migrate and is loved by naturalists, children and bird-feeder enthusiasts. And some chickadees stalk humans that exhibit a certain behavior characteristic: Stop. Hold hand out. Stay still.
For those who put their hands out with a few sunflower seeds in their palm, within minutes, sometimes seconds, a chickadee will land and loiter for perhaps a second or two before flying off with a single seed in its beak. This is not a freak occurrence because chickadees are curious by nature, aware of their surroundings, intelligent and quickly adapt to opportunity. However, the chickadees of Kensington have learned that humans on the trails often mean easily available food. Park officials know this too and now allow the hand feeding of chickadees. Sometimes a patient hiker will be delighted when a tufted titmouse or other small bird catches on to the routine and lands on the hand.
Few will dispute the attractiveness of this tiny bird with a black cap and bib and its distinct whitish underside with buffy sides. Even ornithologists at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology refer to this bubbly songster as "cute."
I have been a fan of chickadees for as long as I can remember. Perhaps it was my biologist father that first introduced me to them in rural Connecticut when I was a bare-footed 6-year-old exploring the woods. But it was my wildland fire crew friend Amanda Nimke from Ann Arbor who introduced me to the pleasure of hand-feeding the chickadees of Kensington this past summer.
Nimke emphasized, "There are few moments more magical than feeling the tiny toes of a chickadee alighting on a hand holding seeds and picking through them until he selects one of suitable quality."
I joined her at Kensington and cannot agree more.
She added, "I think it can only be improved on by watching a child experience this for the first time, with eyes full of wonder -- a simple yet profoundly memorable and beautiful connection with Mother Nature."
Now that November is here and tree leaves are down, the hand-feeding chickadees experience takes on a new dimension. After the chickadee snatches a seed, it is easy and fun to watch it flap to a nearby branch to crack and eat the meaty morsel.
But don't limit a Kensington nature trail experience to feeding chickadees. With the blood-thirsty mosquitos of sultry summer days gone, the ample benches and quite spots along the trail are perfect and peaceful places to sit and watch the wonders of the natural world as autumn wanders towards winter. The crisp air is rich with the scent of the forest, and the forest floor is laced with acorns and dry crackling leaves -- sometimes a snowflake or two.
The well-marked and easy to navigate nature trails of Kensington total about seven miles. Visitors with small children tend to flock the shortest trails that all interconnect and start at the door of the nature center. Bicycles, pets, horses, running and jogging are not permitted on the nature trails but a baby stroller is just fine.
And remember, with the exception of hand-feeding of the songbirds, the other wildlife may not be fed.
These great little trails of the waning days of autumn meander around what was once an ice age bog and swamplands that sheltered mastodons and through fields and forests.
Two mile long Wildwing Lake Loop circles Wildwing Lake and includes a few hills that provide excellent views of aquatic habitat and migratory waterfowl. Boardwalks and wooden bridges add to the pleasure of all the hikes. The visitor center has child friendly exhibits, heated bathrooms and park interpreters on hand to answer questions.
And be certain to see today's Earth Almanac blog for photos of the chickadees that love to land on hands.
Jonathan Schechter's column on hiking appears on Sundays. Look for his Earth Almanacs blog: www.earthsalmanac.blogspot.com Twitter:OaklandNature Email: email@example.com.
"Chickadee Chow Down," a special guided nature walk, is being offered 1 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 24 at the Kensington Metroparks Nature Center, 2240 W. Buno Road in Milford. Bird seed will be provided to participants for this short guided nature walk along the nature center trails, where chickadees feed from hands. Fee is $3 per person and a Metroparks entry sticker required. For additional information on upcoming chickadee hikes and mandatory preregistration call the Nature Center at 248-227-8917 or the park office 810-227-8910. For more information, visit www.metroparks.com.


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Remix albums come in many shapes and sizes, from marketing post-scripts following a successful release to self-congratulatory retrospectives full of sonic high fives to label mates and friends alike. Whilst Feast/Beast technically falls under the latter category, it escapes the pitfalls of so many of its peers solely because of who the artist is. That is not to say Clark is some unbridled musical Midas who has cascaded golden notes upon us mere mortals for the last 12 years; but rather because the sheer volume of his output guarantees that any effort to compile a 'best of' will always come up trumps. It also helps that he is signed to Warp, and so his labelmates are of a special breed. And most importantly, yes, he's pretty good.
Feast/Beast is divided into two parts, with Feast showcasing his softer, more melodic side and Beast, as the name would suggest, featuring the snarling techno for which he is better known. As a whole it clocks in at over two hours and 29 tracks, which for a collection of remixes is an achievement in itself. Its size is almost intimidating, a record whose very presence makes you feel as though you've bitten off more than you can chew. Any fears of it being the musical equivalent of Ben Hur, however, are dispelled by the first haunting notes of his reworking of The Beige Laser's 'Smoulderville', as all sentience is lost.
With Clark, you are assured that no matter which side of himself he chooses to show, from the down-tempo, almost acoustic remix of DJ Stith's 'Braid of Voices' to the near inaccessible rework of Drvg Cvltvre's aptly named 'Hammersmashed', his songs are always personal, always right inside your head, floating on the border between melancholy and madness. This tendency is only exacerbated, to great effect, by his choice of collaborators, the most notable of which being Nathan Fake, who contributes to both Clark's Feasty and Beasty side.
The first installment of their remix swap is found on Feast, with his reworking of Fake's 'Fentiger'. The original features squelchy techno before breaking down into a heartbreaking melody, but Clark's version dispenses with the rough edges and goes straight for your chest, beginning with a vocal clip that falls completely into the melody amidst layers of analogue wooze and Clark's trademark sharp but fuzzy synths. The second is found on Beast, with Fake's version of 'Growls Garden'. Its contrast to 'Fentiger' perfectly encapsulates the difference between the two sides of the album: whereas the former is heart-wrenching, 'Growls Garden' is pure in your face techno, pounding at your ears from the start, then disintegrating into a shapeless trance before the bassline drags the song back into life. Whilst being relentless, it is also unsettling due to the fact the whole track seems off-beat, with each thud arriving too soon or too late whilst never upsetting the flow.
One of the (several) traits that links both artists is the organic texture to their music. Whilst Clark's output can often be nightmarishly industrial, it is always human, its beauty residing in its imperfection. For his remix of 'Fentiger' he described recording the percussion in a park with two sticks and being asked by someone whether he used Ableton Live. The conversation itself never made it onto the mix, but his reaction perfectly encapsulates his idiosyncracy, where he later wished he had said 'Fuck Ableton Live mate, I've got twigs to snap!'.
Another marked contribution are the two remixes from label-mate Bibio, both on Feast. 'Absence' grows from a repeated piano melody, bearing the trademark sadness without being disconcerting, and transforming into an 8-bit post-rock number. 'Ted' on the other hand is almost Latin folky, again taking Clark's sound and stripping away the confusion, making for a delightful collaboration. Silverman's 'CANTSTANDTHERAIN' is perhaps the most haunting song on the album, with faint dreamy vocals echoing behind a piano riff and thick gritty and moisture-filled textures. The next track, Rone's 'Let's Go' has a Four Tet/Burial production vibe offset by the trip-hoppy vocals.
Beast showcases some of the more surprising reworkings, with Maximo Park's 'Let's Get Clinical' being transformed into an off-key glitch-filled rave unrecognizable from its former self. HEALTH's 'Die Slow' could almost be an upbeat electro-pop song if it weren't for its descent into madness, lead all the way by a hurried beat which seems to get faster and faster without ever changing.
Feast/Beast mirrors Clark's essence – despite featuring artists as varied as Battles and Amon Tobin, HEALTH and Depeche Mode, Maximo Park and Massive Attack; and despite being an indigestible 2 hours long – it makes sense and works when it really shouldn't. It is not only the quality of the tracks on show, and the dynamic collaborations contained within, but the way in which they fit together and grow which makes listening to Feast/Beast so enjoyable and transportative. Describing the project, he explained, 'in some ways these remixes represent the range of music I have released over the last 10 years in my albums, but they are more unhinged—there is more freedom involved when using other people's material. And particularly when friends are involved, it can push you into electric new terrain.'
As you would expect, with so much material it does dip in places, and in others becomes too frantic, but overall sitting through its entirety is never a chore. The fact it works as well as it does is a vindication of a career which has always balanced on the cutting edge, and best of all, a career which promises so much more.
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Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Cleaning Up The Letter F
I've started a
project cleaning up my database
. Whenever I finish a letter of the alphabet, I'll write a blog post to report about what I learned about the surnames that start with that letter.
Only took me a week to get through the letter F. Here's what I found:
I had lost Thomas Farrell and his wife Alice Maud McCormick in Canada. So I looked for the in the United States. And guess what? I found them in Detroit. The immigrated in the 1880s and Thomas died in 1895 so I had to use birth and marriage records for their children to confirm that I had the correct family.
I had previously learned from a distant cousin that Mary Bank had married a man with the surname Felix. But I never learned his first name. I searched the 1900 census for a Mary Felix and found one with the correct age living in Williamsport, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania. I went back again to the St. Boniface church records and found the burial record of Mary Bank Felix. So I was able to track Mary and her husband, Henry, to their deaths.
6 letters down. Only 20 more to go! Should be able to finish the letter G by the end of the week since I have no direct surnames in my family tree that start with G.
Other letter cleanups:
Unknown surnames
Letter A
Letter B
Letter C
Letter D
Letter E
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