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Pelophylax bedriagae (Camerano, 1882)
Rana esculenta var. bedriagae Camerano, 1882 "1881", C. R. Assoc. Franç. Avanc. Sci., Paris, 10: 688. Syntypes: MZUT, but not reported recently. Type locality: "Damas [= Damascus]", Syria.
Rana (Rana) bedriagae — Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 41, by implication.
Rana levantina Schneider and Sinsch, 1992, Z. Zool. Syst. Evolutionsforsch., 30: 297-315. Type(s): Not designated; holotype subsequently noted as ZFMK 52836 by Schneider, Sinsch, and Nevo, 1992, Zool. Anz., 228: 97-106. Type locality: Not designated; subsequently noted as "Birket Ata, 5 km south of Hadera, Israel" by Schneider, Sinsch, and Nevo, 1992, Zool. Anz., 228: 97-106. Synonymy by Dubois and Ohler, 1996 "1994", Zool. Polon., 39: 179, without discussion (following unpublished dissertation of P. Beerli, 1994), and by Schneider and Sinsch, 1999, Z. Zool. Syst. Evolutionsforsch., 37: 57.
Rana (Pelophylax) bedriagae — Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 332.
Hylarana bedriagae — Chen, Murphy, Lathrop, Ngo, Orlov, Ho, and Somorjai, 2005, Herpetol. J., 15: 237, by implication.
Pelophylax bedriagae — Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297: 369. Che, Pang, Zhao, Wu, Zhao, and Zhang, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 43: 1-13; by implication.
Pelophylax bedriagae bedriagae — Bülbül, Matsui, Kutrup, and Eto, 2011, Zool. Sci., Tokyo, 28: 936.
English Names
Bedriaga's Frog (Rana bedriaga: Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 106).
Hadera Frog (Rana levantina [no longer recognized]: Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 108).
Levant Water Frog (Arnold, 2002, Rept. Amph. Eur., Ed. 2: 97).
Levant Green Frog (Baha El Din, 2006, Guide Rept. Amph. Egypt: 42).
Upper Nile (from approximately the vicinity of Luxor) and the Delta of Egypt through Israel to western Turkey, Greek Thrace, and Cyprus; east through Iraq to western Iran; Belgium, Switzerland, and Malta (introduced);
Most closely related to Pelophylax perezi (as Rana) according to the original publication (but see below). In the Section Pelophylax, subgenus Pelophylax; by implication. Relationships (as Rana levantina) with Pelophylax ridibundus, Pelophylax perezi, and Pelophylax balcanicus discussed by Sinsch and Eblenkamp, 1994, Z. Zool. Syst. Evolutionsforsch., 32: 35-43. Plötner, 1998, J. Zool. Syst. Evol. Res., 36: 191-201, suggested that Pelophylax bedriagae is the sister taxon of Pelophylax ridibundus. See also Schneider, Sinsch, and Nevo, 1992, Zool. Anz., 228: 97-106, for a formal description of Pelophylax levantinus. Pelophylax bedriagae removed from the synonymy of Pelophylax ridibundus (as Rana), by Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 332, for populations in Israel formerly referred to Rana ridibunda; on the basis of call data supplied by Schneider and Sofianidou, 1985, Zool. Anz., 214: 309-319 (who considered the Israel population an unnamed subspecies of Rana ridibunda). This use of Rana levantina accepted by Beerli, Hotz, Tunner, Heppich, and Uzzell, 1994, Not. Nat., Philadelphia, 470: 1-9, for Anatolian water frogs. See Plötner, 1998, J. Zool. Syst. Evol. Res., 36: 191-201, and Plötner and Ohst, 2001, Mitt. Mus. Naturkd. Berlin, Zool., 77: 5-21, for discussion of relationships. See study of Sinsch and Schneider, 1999, J. Zool. Syst. Evol. Res., 37: 67-75, for multivariate comparison of Pelophylax bedriagae and Pelophylax ridibundus. Plötner, Ohst, Böhme, and Schreiber, 2002 "2001", Amphibia-Reptilia, 22: 397-412, provided evidence that nominal Rana bedriagae is composed of several cryptic species (one on Cyprus, two in Syria, and three in Anatolian Turkey [including what is now Pelophylax caralitanus]), interleaved with various cryptic species currently confused with Pelophylax ridibundus: one in Greece, and two in Kazakhstan (one of which may be Pelophylax ridibundus sensu stricto). Disi, Modry, Necas, and Rifai, 2001, Amph. Rept. Hashemite Kingdom Jordan: 102-104, provided an account for the Jordanian population. Arnold, 2002, Rept. Amph. Eur., Ed. 2: 97, provided a brief account, figure, and map. Sinsch, Schneider, Kaya, and Arikan, 2003 "2002", Herpetol. J., 12: 141-153, discussed morphometrics of Turkish frogs and discerned two allopatric morphs, the one restricted to Ulubey, Turkey, is clearly an unnamed species. Schneider, 2001, Bonn. Zool. Beitr., 50: 35-48, delimited the range in southern Turkey. Schneider, 2001, Herpetofauna, Weinstadt, 23: 24-33, provided a detailed account of the species. Hraoui-Bloquet, Sadek, Sindaco, and Venchi, 2002, Zool. Middle East, 27: 36, provided definitive records for Lebanon. Sciberras and Schembri, 2006, Herpetol. Rev., 37: 102, provided as record for Malta which they considered to represent an introducted population. Baha El Din, 2006, Guide Rept. Amph. Egypt: 41-43, provided an account for Egypt. See comment under Pelophylax cerigensis. See brief account for Greece by Valakos, Pafilis, Sotiropoulos, Lymberakis, Maragou, and Foufopoulos, 2008, Amph. Rept. Greece: 98-99. Holsbeek, Mergeay, Hotz, Plötner, Volckaert, and De Meester, 2008, Mol. Ecol., 17: 5023-5035, noted mtDNA introgression of this species in introduced populations of Pelophylax ridibundus in Belgium. Bülbül, Matsui, Kutrup, and Eto, 2011, Zool. Sci., Tokyo, 28: 930-936, reported on mtDNA trees and suggested that pending resolution of the presence or scale of hybridization between Pelophyax bedriagae and Pedlophylax caralitanus that they be considered subspecies, although previous morphological work had considered them distinct species; these authors also noted an unnamed species that is likely the sister taxon of Pelophylax caralitanus + Pelophylax bedriagae in south-central Turkey and likely into adjacent Syria. Dubey, Leuenberger, and Perrin, 2014, Biol. J. Linn. Soc., 112: 442–449, noted an introduced population in Switzerland. MtDNA analysis suggests that the species extends through Iraq to western Iran, according to Pesarakloo, Rastegar-Pouyani, Rastegar-Pouyani, Kami, Najibzadeh, Khosravani, and Oraie, 2017, MtDNA, Part A, 28: 392–398. Speybroeck, Beukema, Bok, and Van Der Voort, 2016, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Brit. Eur.: 192–194, provided a brief account (of Pelophylax cf bedriage) and range map. Pesarakloo, Najibzadeh, Rastegar-Pouyani, and Rastegar-Pouyani, 2018, Biologia, Bratislava, 73: 673–681, reported on bioacoustics and morphometrics of the western Iran population.
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- AdicenzoAsked on April 27, 2016 at 09:41 AM
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ClutterAccording to Einstein, matter in the universe is a constant. Therefore, shouldn't clutter be a constant? It is, after all, a major source of matter.
Matter can of course be commuted into energy according the all great formula E = mc2. Extrapolated, this implies that as my clutter builds up, my energy levels decrease.
In fact, the total energy in the universe should decrease but of course being at the center of the universe I am likely to feel it more than others. That or maybe it's a local phenomenon and each person is creating an energy vacuum in the middle of their orbiting junk.
So, I regularly find myself trying to purge my home and office of the mountains of things that have built up. How do I accumulate so much that becomes so useless? Is this the last stage of a consumer digestion process? I consume, consume, consume and then finding myself bloated go for a dump.
Because I moved house last month I've had something of a detox in that department. Old gadgets, VCDs, books, clothes... I've given away, auctioned away and thrown away a fair amount of crap. Yet I remain feeling bloated.
I've always felt weighed down by my possessions. Still I continue to accumulate. I hate the fat but still eat.
I think I'm unusually possessed by the idea that I need to zenify my life and get rid of all the clutter that's hanging on to me like an anchor. The anchor is pulling me down. I can feel it hooked into my chest. It's heavy... tugging, tugging, tugging... Why does this disturb me so?
The anchor analogy has been screaming from my subconscious for years. I always assumed that it was just an eloquent way to express the cumbrous feeling that this clutter has on me. I figured the anchor was the symbol and the clutter was the problem. It just occurred to me I've got it backwards.
If I could cut anchor, I could sail free. The anchor ties me to a regular life, a regular paycheck... The day in day out dreariness of going to work in a job which, although vaguely interesting just doesn't capture my imagination or put me in the flow.
I spend a part of every day thinking about how I can liquidate, rationalize and rid myself of unnecessary things. It's all just a symbol for the reality of wanting to cut anchor. I don't need to move at the speed of light to turn this matter into energy. Any speed will do as long as I'm actually moving.
Why can't I cut loose?
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Empty Photo Project
A book of an emotional photo series reflecting light on child loss.
Empty Photo Project
A book of an emotional photo series reflecting light on child loss.
As many of you know, I started Empty to share the stories of parents who have experienced child loss in my local community (Tri-Cities, WA). I want to reflect light on the stigma that revolves around the death of children. Through the gracious efforts of talented authors of various online parenting sites, the word has spread about my project. Child loss happens all over our country and affects many families.
I'm now in the process of writing/designing a book on my experience as an artist in losing a child, as well as, sharing my empty story. This book will mostly highlight the original stories told in the Empty Photo Project with stunning images and it will speak more about my process in creating the Empty photo project and the importance of sharing child loss to create connection around the world.
Risks and challenges
Part of my project is to visit the locations that have significance to each participants story.
My goal is to expand out of my local community and to reach parents across the nation. In order for me to do this, I need assistance in funding. Traveling across the country is a taxing process, especially, financially.
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Julian Assange says he's being forced into penning an autobiography to keep his organization from going under.
New York publishing house Alfred A. Knopf confirmed Monday that it had struck a deal with the 39-year-old Australian and WikiLeaks founder to bring out his autobiography, whose publication date has yet to be determined.
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Taken captive
Colossians 2:8
See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the basic principles of this world rather than on Christ.
Have you ever been taken by anything? Most of us living in America have never experienced captivity. We live in a free country, have not experienced martial law, and have laws that keep families and spouses from abusing us. Some from our country have been captured through political or military actions, or even for some type of ransom. When we think of captivity we tend to think of captivity of the body.
God's word speaks of another type of captivity, that of the spirit and mind. It is the captivity that our enemy, Satan, wants to place us under. He tries to deceive, confuse, frustrate, and mislead us. His ways are corrupt, evil, and very sly. He can convince us of things that make no real sense but he shapes them in a way that we do not even recognize the problem.
God wants to set us free from captivity. He wants to tear down the lies of the enemy and reshape all we believe. Captivity isn't just something that can happen to non-believers, although that is the core of what they experience as non-believers. Believers can also be deceived and come under a spiritual stronghold that results in captivity. These strongholds often will come about after a loss, trauma, extended period of stress, or from time being in a corrupt environment.
The part that is most difficult is to recognize that the stronghold exists. I personally have experienced the deception of a stronghold in my life and had no idea it was there until others held me accountable and brought it to my attention. Author Beth Moore introduces a way to break through these strongholds once they are recognized in her book Breaking Free.
- Recognize the captor. Know who has brought you into this captivity.
- Stand in agreement with God. Acknowledge your sinful ways and the deception you have been under and agree with God that you want it to come to an end.
- Tear down the lies. Work to recognize all the untruthful, incorrect, or distorted thoughts, beliefs, and facts you have believed.
- Put up the truth. Fill the gaps with God's truth directly from his word. Don't leave any gaps remaining or the deceit and lies will reenter those places.
- Bow your thoughts to the truth. Believe, speak, and apply truth as a daily part of your life. Have faith that God will change things as you believe more in him and apply his word to your life.


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Tokyo Xtreme Racer Zero (PS2) Review
Hello everybody, Shaun Meyers here to share my thoughts on Tokyo Xtreme Racer Zero by Genki and Crave Entertainment. I didn't receive a copy of this game and instead bought a copy at a local used game store to play it using the PCSX2 emulator. This review is for fun/practice.
Tokyo Xtreme Racer Zero is the third game in the long running Shutokou Battle series of racing games. It was the first in the series to release on a console besides the Dreamcast. The game was originally being developed for the Dreamcast but that version was later cancelled and it was released on PS2 instead. It saw a limited release in the US and I was lucky enough to get a copy of the game when I was younger. The series has a total of 6 games, 4 of which are part of the Shutokou Battle series and the final 2 are part of the Kaido Battle series.
Tokyo Xtreme Racer Zero is a street racing game that takes place on the highways of Tokyo. The campaign has you racing many different racing teams as you fight to become the best racer in Tokyo.
There are 5 game modes to choose from including Quest, Quick Race, Time Attack, Free Run and Versus. Quest mode takes you through the main campaign. Quick Race allows you to jump into a race with any vehicle you want. Time Attack has you racing courses for the fastest time possible. Free Run allows you to wander around aimlessly with no goals and versus mode allows you to compete with another player.
When you begin Quest mode you'll need to buy a starting vehicle in one of 3 categories, A, B, and C rank. A rank has the best cars but they also cost the most, C rank, on the other hand, has the cheapest cars but they aren't the best or the fastest. You can choose to spend all your money on an A or B class car but you won't have money left over to upgrade your vehicle at first. You can also choose to go with the cheapest vehicles in class C and then buy a bunch of upgrades. The problem with C rank cars though is you'll max them out really easily so I usually go for the rank A vehicles. Their upgrades are more expensive but it'll last longer.
After setup you'll be taken to your garage where you can access all of the game's many sections. In the car shop you can purchase new vehicles and in the parts shop you can purchase various upgrades for your vehicle. Upgrades include engines, suspensions, body tuning, aerodynamic improvements and weight reduction to name a few. The setting window allows you to tune your vehicle any way you wish. This includes gear ratios, acceleration, steering, turbo boost and ride height.
The rivals section allows you to view all of the rival drivers that you'll need to defeat. There are close to 400 of them in total and it's no simple task to beat them. Each driver in the game is part of a team and each team member varies in skill and difficulty. When you defeat all of the regular members of team you'll have to face their team leader in battle and if you beat them, you'll get their sticker and you'll sometimes get a new vehicle or new parts to purchase. This also applies to some lower level members of the team as well. The rivals section also has bios on all of the drivers in the game and when you defeat them you'll be able to view their car as well. One group of rivals that will pose the biggest challenge is the 13 Devils racing team. They have some of the fastest vehicles and provide the biggest challenge to beat. It's also never a good idea to let them get ahead of you or you'll lose incredibly easily. I recommend racing them in an area with a lot of turns because they're built for speed and will brake around corners. Facing them on straights isn't recommended. The final rival you'll need to defeat is known as Speed King and he has the most powerful vehicle in the game and acts as the final boss. He also has the highest difficulty out of every rival in the game and defeating him requires some skilled racing and a very fast vehicle.
Once you're ready to race you simply click the start button and you'll be taken to a map of the highways. At first, the map is very small consisting of a single loop but as you beat teams you'll unlock new areas to race in and new rivals to defeat will appear.
The game is a linear racing game by nature but you're able to freely drive around the highways as you see fit. To begin a race you must get behind a rival racer and use the R2 button to flash your headlights at them. This prompts the race to begin. There are times when a Wandering racer will decline the offer to race due to your lack of skill but if you defeat racers and find them again in the future, they'll race you.
The objective of each race is to drain your opponent's SP to zero. To do this you must stay in front of them and their SP will drain slowly. The further away you are away from your opponent, the faster the SP drains. Running into traffic or smashing into walls will also knock off chunks of SP based on how fast you were going. If your SP runs out then you will lose the race and you'll need to race them again to try to defeat them. Keep in mind that the game doesn't have any difficulty options so all races require skill to win.
When a race concludes you'll get prize money from your opponent and you'll be given the opportunity to return to the garage or to continue driving around racing other drivers. If you stay out long enough you'll have raced all of the current rivals and you'll need to return to the garage to get new ones to spawn when you next load the map. It's worth noting that your car performance degrades the longer you're driving and it decreases faster if you have the turbo boost setting high. So, that's something to consider as well.
The game is fully compatible with the PCSX2 emulator as well and is what I used to play the game for this review.
Overall, Tokyo Xtreme Racer Zero has been a favorite of mine for a very long time. I wound up playing through the entire game as a teenager and I couldn't tell you how many hours I wound up sinking into it. The game looks great in the emulator and the game's handling and gameplay hold up incredibly well. The game is also incredibly addicting and looking at it you get the impression that it'd get a bit repetitive after a while but it pulls you in with each racer you face and you won't want to put it down. I highly recommend the game, it's a blast.
Thanks for taking the time to read my review folks and I'll be back with my next review soon.
Happy gaming folks! – Shaun Meyers (Kyo Akiara) out!


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Happy Canada Day Calgary!
Our team at Pak-N-Stor Calgary Storage wishes you and your family a fantastic and safe Canada Day 2016. This is a great time of the year to spend time with friends and family, enjoy numerous events around the city and celebrate our great country. We'd like to offer a little history on Canada and highlight some of the fun activities around the city.
History of Canada Day
July 1st is the 149th anniversary of the 1867 British North America Act which saw the formation of Canada as a country by uniting the three colonies Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and the Province of Canada. Alberta didn't become a province of Canada until 1905.
July 1st didn't officially become a statutory holiday until 1879, when it was called Dominion Day, because the country was referred to as a "Dominion" in the British North American Act. The holiday on July 1st was called Dominion Day for more than 100 years,
It wasn't until late 1982 that, Dominion Day was officially renamed as Canada Day, after many years of government debate.
Things to Do in Calgary on Canada Day
We know many of you will be heading out of the city to take advantage of the long weekend, but for those of you staying in Calgary there will no shortage of activities all over the city for the entire family.
Here are some of the key events taking place.
The National Music Centre 10am - 5pm
Studio Bell, the home of The National Music Centre, officially opens on July 1st. There is free admission for a limited number of guests, so arrive early. There are special Canada Day performances for the first 500 visitors who register in advance.
Fort Calgary 9am to 4pm
Celebrate Canada's birthday at the birthplace of Calgary. Fort Calgary has a free pancake breakfast, live music, food trucks, a petting zoo and more. With the wide open spaces and East Village nearby, Fort Calgary is a great place to take the family on Canada Day.
East Village 9am to 4pm
Every year the East Village gets bigger and better. Canada Day 2016 won't disappoint with many craft vendors, activities for children, performances and the classic car show, Show & Shine.
Stephen Avenue Mall 11am - 8pm
If you are heading downtown, take a walk down Stephen Avenue to see a variety of street vendors, buskers and all the open patios. It's a great place to stop for lunch before heading down to Olympic Plaza.
Olympic Plaza 10am - 9pm
There will be main stage and busker performances, craft activities, food trucks and more. Olympic Plaza is only about a 10 minute walk to the East Village, so make this one of your Canada Day stops downtown.
Prince's Island 12pm - 6pm
Prince's Island is a must stop destination on Canada Day. Enjoy the park, river, ducks and geese, along with physical activity games for children, exercise classes for adults. There is also an Aboriginal Showcase and Pow Wow, along with interactive Canadian Military displays.
Fireworks 11pm
The best way to end Canada Day is the massive fireworks display over Centre Street Bridge that begins at 11pm. It is synced to music so be sure to get close along the river to take in the full experience.
Have a Great Summer!
With Canada Day celebrations, the Calgary Stampede and countless festivals and events around Calgary, your family is sure to have a fantastic summer.
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Who is jessica sutta dating
It is former Pussycat Doll singer and Celebrity Island 2017 castaway Melody Thornton.
The song is produced by Smidi, Ron Fair, and Stefanie Ridel.
Sutta continued to put various singles out and stay active throughout 2014-2015 and reached the top of the Hot Dance Charts once again as a featured artist on Dave Aude's cover of "Gonna Get U".
In February 2016 she released what has arguably been her most successful mainstream single yet titled "Forever" The song received radio play nationally and Sutta was the #1 Independent artist for 4 weeks straight on the Top 40 Radio Chart peaking at #56 and #57 on Rhythmic.
Sutta's debut single, "Show Me", reached number one on the Billboard Dance Club Songs Chart in the United States.
Her official debut solo album I Say Yes, was released on March 3, 2017. Her mother is of Irish descent and of Catholic faith and her father is Jewish (of Russian, Romanian and Polish origin).


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CCSNH staff members represented by SEA/SEIU Local 1984 this week ratified a tentative contract agreement with the college system.
The new contract includes many small changes, including a small wage increase but also increases in health care contributions. Members of the bargaining team said contract negotiations were difficult, due to the stark fiscal situation the system finds itself in. Layoffs have affected all campuses, and the threat of more layoffs loomed over these negotiations.
"It's the best contract that we were going to get, given the financial shape our system is in," said Wendy Parent, the chapter president at Lakes Region Community College and a bargaining team member.
Michael Burnham, the president of the staff chapter at Nashua Community College, agreed.
"The potential layoffs is what we were worried about, and our goal was to stand together and protect as many jobs as possible," Burnham said.
Burnham said this contract shows how important it is that chapters keep membership high, as there is strength in numbers. He said the bargaining team was able to push back against some of the more potentially painful proposals from the system.
"It's important to know that we saved a lot in the contract, and the union helped make that happen," Burnham said.
"We try to hammer home as much as possible that strength is in numbers, and we need to continue to build membership so we can continue to stay strong," he said.
The new contract has not been signed yet, but in the meantime you can find the tentative agreement here.


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Israeli Security Services Thwart Major Palestinian Terror Plot
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JNS.org – Israeli security officials revealed on Thursday that they had averted a major terrorist attack and arrested those who plotted to carry it out.
According to a statement released by the Shin Bet, Mahmoud Yusuf Hasin Abu Taha, a resident of Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip, was arrested as he attempted to enter Israeli territory at the Erez Crossing Sept. 21.
"During his interrogation, it was learned that he led a terrorist cell guided by Islamic jihad in the Gaza Strip, and had been planning to carry out a large-scale terrorist attack at a wedding hall in the south and to abduct and murder an IDF soldier for bargaining purposes," the statement said.
Abu Taha said he had recruited three other Palestinian men living in Southern Israel to assist in the attack, and they were also arrested.
"This grave case underscores – again – the efforts of Gaza Strip-based terrorists to carry out murderous attacks in Israel, in addition to their activities in the Strip," Shin Bet stated. "The case also reiterates the manner in which terrorists will exploit humanitarian and economic permits to enter Israel, as well as the risk posed by Palestinians present in Israel illegally."
In a separate recent incident, an Arab-Israeli couple from the town of Sakhnin was arrested at Ben-Gurion Airport upon returning from Iraq, where they had taken their three children and joined ISIS, security officials said, explaining: "In their interrogation, it was learned that before leaving [Israel] they had been exposed to ISIS videos and were deeply influenced."
Last week, security officials announced the arrest and indictment of Muhammad Fauaz Ibrahim Joulani, a 22-year-old resident of Shuafat in east Jerusalem, for planning a suicide bombing on a Jerusalem bus.


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2003 Curtis Av Unit A (pictured) listed by Keller Williams for $779,000 went into escrow in 9 days at what I am guessing was for more than the list price. Front unit 2 on a lot townhomes in move in condition are in very high demand right now.
I'm not guessing on 2225 Mathews Ln Unit C which was listed by Shorewood Realtors for $649,000, received well over half a dozen offers, was in escrow in 8 days and may well have sold for close to $700K. We'll see when it closes. Rear unit 3 on a lot townhouses with backyards are hard to come by and are selling at a premium. A year ago these properties were selling for about $600K or slightly more.
Speaking of front unit 2 on a lot townhouses, the new construction townhouse at 2021 Gates Unit A in North Redondo Beach listed by Amir Amiri (Merit Real Estate) for $959,000 was in escrow after 2 days. Wow. With 4 bedrooms, excellent construction and finish work, and measuring about 2500 sq ft, it is no surprise. Lest I forget, the rear unit townhouse on this lot was in escrow in 1 day.
Speaking of Amir Amiri and Merit Real Estate, the rear unit new construction 4 bedroom 3 on a lot townhouse at 2409 Rockefeller Ln (pictured above) was in escrow in 8 days. It was listed in the MLS for $779,00. Not sure how many offers they got but I had buyers willing to go up to $800K on that one.
As for new construction 3 on a lot North Redondo Beach townhouses at $800K, 2220 Vanderbilt Unit C was listed for $799,000 and as far as I know will sell for over $800K. Listing Broker is Jerry Carew, the owner of 3 Leaf Realty in Manhattan Beach.
So, I could go on a about this for quite a while because of the 60 or so townhouse properties currently in escrow in North Redondo Beach (90278), at least 20 of them went into escrow in 10 days or less:
If you are selling a Redondo Beach townhouse, the current "best practice" is to price your home right at or slightly below the most recent comp or competition. To sell for the most money as quickly as possible, use the exact opposite strategy of what you would do in almost any other situation. Start low. The old "let's test the market" will simply cost you time and money. Anyone in the market to buy a Redondo Beach townhouse is loaded with tons of data and statistics and probably knows all the comps and what properties have sold for thanks to websites such as Zillow, Trulia, and others. And if they don't know, their agents do.
If you are in the market to buy a Redondo Beach townhouse, be prepared to make a quick decision, offer more than the asking price and accept terms that are highly favorable to the seller. But you can be comforted in knowing that if sales continue at the "Fast and Furious" pace we've been on, you will have a nice amount of equity by next year at this time.


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Dead Drop Society
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Short Story by: bill kandiliotis
But someone needs to maintain this free access to information, otherwise, the population remains mired in ignorance and cut out of the wealth cycle.
Mateus Fiel knew of the fierce territorialism between rival scanbob gangs in the area. He chose to ignore it, the score proving too lucrative to pass up. Venturing outside of his home exurb constituted a risk. Many did so to engage in leisure activities, many more did so for business opportunities. Mateus did it for both reasons, so he considered the risk he took this time around as absolutely justified.
Scanbobs walk the crowded streets scanning people's body area networks. They use the target's own magnetic near-field system as a portal into their lives. A good scanbob can reverse social-engineer a person in five minutes. Others work in teams of two. One searches for a potential target from afar using a powerful telescope, immediately diving into their cyber footprint. Their associate on the ground airhacks the target's BAN from close range, establishing a handshake with all available devices. By making a copy of the data packet received by these handshakes, the scanbobbers can combine the social data with the brute force cracking and gain access to any passer-by on a whim, then steal their wallets, establish botnets, create havoc... Mateus looked past the mindject icons floating in front of his eyes and studied his surroundings with renewed vigour.
Not a soul moved nor occupied the Westbury Metrostop. The twilight commuters had yet to invade the platforms. He reached out and adjusted the virtual control icon, reducing the brightness level to the graphical user interface being feed to his brain by the mindjector.
--DDS@fonta65718, 0.3545m/SSW.
He struggled to find the dead drop location, directions supplied by the Dead Drop Society proved vague and inadequate. This is why he braved his weekly venture out into the suburbs.
Dead drops.
These wireless data storage devices were planted randomly around public spaces. Powered by magnetic fields, they only became active when any near-field device got within range. They can remain active indefinitely, embedded within walls, underneath paths, inside statues, park benches, anywhere.
Loaded with every malicious virus and cyber spawn known and unknown to man, these dead drops are cesspools of information, commonly positioned in a surveillance blind spots around the suburbs, away from prying electronic eyes, yet accessible to those who knew where to look.
Scanbobbers use these frequently.
So do terrorists, anarchists, and criminals.
Loitering under the fluorescent lights along the Westbury concourse, scanning for any signs of the elusive near-field networks, Mateus poked about unassumingly, hoping to avoid scrutiny from the mobile judges and scanbob cliques as much as possible.
Why the risk? The Dead Drop run he administered was an eclectic treasure trove of information and content. He lobbied the DDS hard to gain stewardship over this chain of public dead drops and this had proved fruitful ever since.
--DDS@fonta65718, 0.3337m/SW.
This particular dead drop he had yet to visit nor update. The location coordinates were sketchy at best. Trains stations were obvious surveillance zones, so Mateus doubted such a drop would be located in a public space.
But according to the run schedule, it was there.
Dead drops have been around for decades, persistently and perpetually maintained by a dedicated group calling themselves the Dead Drop Society - students and insurgent street artists mostly. Mateus knew millions of these existed and remembered why. Over two decades ago the price for internet access soared, reaching almost $53,000 per terabyte. Many suspected, including his parents, that the government and corporations had colluded to bring about this cyberflation. By limiting investment they overloaded the system, only so they could force average people out of the education loop, to limit and silence subversives, cause public disorder.... justify security laws. With subscription rates plummeting, the privileged elite was left carrying the burden of funding the world's communication infrastructure, hence the cost. An underground group of students, ones who could afford an education, set out to create dead drops in public spaces where individuals could upload a copy of the current internet making it available for others to download information and share.
Users built local networks, and these were linked to each other by Dead Drops, updated daily at the time, sometimes hourly.
A truly free ad-hoc internet.
Mateus exited the train station, guessing that if he were tasked to set up a dead drop in that area, in other words, semi-hide a wireless access data storage device in a public space, where would he place it?
In a surveillance blind spot for starters.
After snooping around like a vagrant, he found an ideal location, an electromagnetically dark underpass between the Metrostop's entrance and a small plaza, shadowed by an ancient leafless jacaranda. Mateus saw no visible evidence of any concealed device. A green flashing icon from his mindjector indicated a weak, directional but definite signal.
Probably under the pavement.
The dead drop drives, once embedded remain dormant, and can remain that way indefinitely until another device with magnetic-field power entered within its short range. Most devices have this facility, so anyone can stand in that spot and look unassuming whilst engaging in a data swap.
Mateus first checked for malicious files. Then he perused the multifarious data on offer. A quick search and Mateus found his treasure. He uploaded the current ICO48EM version of the internet and then walked across to the barren plaza, sat on a bench and with the cool night air against the back of his neck, perused through all the data packets he had pillaged, going through the metadata in sequential order.
He turned the brightness back up, blotting out the physical world, his augmented reality become a purely virtual one.
Dead drops were like abandoned storage lockers. He felt no different to a junk recycler who had found a rare collectable coin, or a hundred-year-old chocolate bar, or a rare sword. Or lost laserdisc.
He, on the other hand, scavenged for cryptocurrencies, identity stashes, vast media libraries, but in this case, it was the illicit content that grabbed his attention.
[The Flavor of Blood] _S0.E6_(Dogman328).dmf
A story about a self-absorbed, narcissistic girl. A girl obsessed with autoeroticism. A girl fated to die at the hands of a deranged mad 'person' who also produced the forty-eight-minute snuff film, and countless others. Mateus knew a rare, unseen work of snuff when he came across it, and knew its value.
Mateus jumped out of augmented reality, his anxiety and instincts proved correct when he spotted, one, two, three figures moving towards the plaza.
A trio of scanbobs?
Mateus Fiel knew how a group of three operated, but this trio was brazen, overt... and wearing VR recorder goggles. Relying on less subtle, more violent techniques, this crew were not out to steal his data, they were creating their own data. Not wanting to end up a victim of snuff, he stood up and dashed, heart in throat, towards the Metrostop, hoping to lose them on the other side of the tracks, hoping his lucrative forage along this dead drop run had not been cut short.
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Very good.
Nice set up for a futuristic backwards society. It does feel like chapter 1 of a crime novel, where Matt has to find the responsible for the snuff film, maybe.
Dead Drop Society: An Incomplete Concept
Dead Drop Society by Bill Kandiliotis Seems to be an incomplete fragment. The first paragraph is an establishing passage that sets the immediate scene and the second paragraph shows the reader the nature of the crapsack world (sorry, but it's a real literary term -- you can look it up); how it works, who the operative people are, the immediate issues.
The problem is, the story ends rather abruptly, just as some real action starts; as the reader begins to develop interest in the milieu. One gets the impression that this is a single, first chapter; not a complete story. It may be a good start for a novelette, but it leaves the reader hungry for more.
Thanks for the comments. This story started up as a singular concept. About how would communities adapt if the elites try to cut them out of the information loop. Crapsack was what I was going for. I'm familiar with the trope. Glad it played out in the piece. I agree it turned out a bit of a tease. unintended. But if I can work out where i can take this I'll be sure to expand it. A novelette would be suitable. Thanks again.
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$449,900 - Single Family Home
Large master bedroom with generous ensuite. Two additional large kids rooms & full bathroom with bonus room completes the upper floor. Lower level has open concept kitchen/ nook/ great room with half bath. Landscaped, fenced, double attached garage. Close to schools and shopping.New brown vinyl siding and roof January 2015.


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Some time ago, slightlyfoxed made a typically delightful post about contemplating a first edition copy of Dracula and thinking that it was now impossible to read it in the same way as the original owner: even children now know who Dracula is and there's no longer any 'he's a vampire!?!' surprise.
This has stuck with me, particularly when reading The Man Who Saved Britain, which is an attempt to look at the Bond novels and films in the context of when they came out.
There are some problems with it - when I was ghost-writing for someone, the perennial comment would be 'make it flow'... and the writing in this book doesn't. Most chapters are made up of individual chunks on topics barely related to their neighbours. If this were a magazine article, half the book would be printed in side boxes rather than in the main body of the text.
The author's also firmly of the opinion that one should never buy soundtrack albums, with the single exception of On Her Majesty's Secret Service (my copy of that, which is indeed wonderful, is now horribly scratched, so if anyone has a copy...) but this is just as silly a prejudice as some of Ian Fleming's ones and which he finds outrageous. (Anyone who doubts this is invited to listen to Michael Nyman or John Carpenter or Ennio Morricone or...)
Some errors make me wonder how they ever survived into the paperback edition. An Amazon reviewer spotted things like "the third car in the chase from Kent to London (Moonraker) was an Alfa Romeo, not an Aston Martin" - have they ever considered appearing on Mastermind? - but the one that raised my eyebrows the highest was a comment (p258) about Charles Gray appearing in the film adaptation of You Only Live Twice when, as any fule kno, it was Diamonds Are Forever in which he was the best Blofeld. It's right elsewhere in the book, so why so embarrassingly wrong there?
But those aside, there is lots to like. Sticking with You Only Live Twice, the film has Britain invited to a tripartite summit to discuss the disappearance of US and Soviet space capsules from orbit, resulting in Bond being sent off to Japan. In the real 1967, Britain would never even have been considered for an invitation to such a meeting - it's almost as laughable as the way that a 1950s Arthur C Clarke novel about the first moon landings looks now with its three simultaneous coordinated efforts, including one from Britain - and it's this gaping difference between the books (and films) and the real world that is explored well. Was it, in fact, the difference that made the books at least so successful?
Some of the appeal is probably because I'm almost the same age as the author, so I can go 'oh yes' to some of the descriptions of a childhood in the 1970s. L14 has, as far as I know, never read one, but Bond was such a hit for boys when I was his age that when my Scout troop were asked in a quiz what 'OHMS' stood for, only a couple out of forty or so didn't say 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service'.
The author regards Bond as a combination of guilty pleasure and utterly distorting mirror of Britain, and I suspect it will be enjoyable for anyone with a general interest in that period, when Britain changed from a global superpower to a failing island off mainland Europe with a somewhat dodgy past, or Bond. As some of the Amazon reviews show, it's not for obsessives, or indeed for people who think that the Roger Moore films were any good :)
It's been decades since I read the books, but it has tempted me to do so again.
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Ooo, sounds fascinating.
Interesting personal note, I don't care for Bond movies much, but I'd read a book about them. Kind of in the same way that I don't care for baseball, but I have several favorite movies about baseball that I'll watch over and over. I guess what interests me is looking at the thing from the perspective of a phenomenon or a cultural reference: even if it doesn't interest me per se, I am interested in the impact it has.
Interesting personal note, I don't care for Bond movies much, but I'd read a book about them. Kind of in the same way that I don't care for baseball, but I have several favorite movies about baseball that I'll watch over and over. I guess what interests me is looking at the thing from the perspective of a phenomenon or a cultural reference: even if it doesn't interest me per se, I am interested in the impact it has.


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Telecare promises independence for vulnerable adults and lower costs for councils, so why is it still so scarce?
Can I have my 'tech' please? Imagine that technology was distributed based on an assessment of need, rather than marketed directly for sale through retailers. Even when the need is acute, the distributor may withhold the gadget and instead provide an 'equivalent' service in person. So rather than give you a Kindle, they will send someone to your home to read books to you.
Sounds absurd? Consider then, the situation with telecare. This low cost equipment can be installed in the home of someone who is prone to falls, or whose dementia means they leave the cooker on or the bath running. Wireless monitors are triggered when an untoward event occurs, alerting a 24-hour monitoring centre. The centre communicates instantly with the individual through a loudspeaker in the home. If there is no satisfactory response, they contact a neighbour, relative or care worker to have them check that all is well. If needed, the emergency services can be called.
This gives users confidence and security and enables carers to take a break from constant vigilance.
So how do individuals get hold of telecare equipment? It is not marketed directly for sale through retailers but instead, users have to apply to their local council, who distribute the equipment based on an assessment of need. If they qualify for support, the council will design a package of care. Despite the fact that councils are under severe budgetary pressure, most will insist on providing a more costly package of traditional hands-on care.
Telecare is not a panacea and in most cases it will form part of a wider solution. However, the point remains; it promotes independence and costs less than many other forms of social care intervention, yet many councils do not deploy it extensively. This reflects two commonly voiced objections.
The first is that telecare equipment cannot replace hands-on care and the second is that there is no business case for it because telecare does not really reduce total costs of care. Clearly, until we invent robots that can feed an elderly person, then telecare will not replace human care; no-one is claiming it can.
Where telecare can be beneficial is in helping people to remain in their own homes with dignity and independence. It ensures that care is available exactly when required, rather than being provided around the clock, sometimes getting in the way of individuals' lives. Equally, there is evidence from some councils that telecare can reduce the level of home care that individuals require and increase independence and self-sufficiency. A reduction of two hours of home care per week for an individual can save £1,600 a year – about double the average annual cost of a telecare service.
So savings and improvements in care need not be mutually exclusive. Supporting people in their own homes also lessens demand for residential care placements, which can cost upwards of £20,000 per year, reducing the personal distress of the need to sell the family home to pay for care.
There is evidence that telecare can help to delay admission to residential care by up to a year, delivering a win-win-win for individuals, their families and local councils. Early adopters of telecare such as councils in Bristol, Gloucestershire and North Yorkshire have deployed telecare services extensively. They are driven by a desire to maintain customers' independence and a policy of not sending care workers into homes more frequently than is necessary.
Essex CC has taken the approach further, by providing telecare to people who do not yet qualify for any statutory service. The aim here is to manage the early effects of physical or mental decline and so delay the need for more expensive care.
The budget problems facing adult social care departments are leading many to re-evaluate the potential of telecare, but to secure the benefits they need to take five important steps.
- Firstly, they need to prove the savings can be delivered locally as Wiltshire Council has recently done in an exercise that shows for every £1 spent on telecare, £3 could be saved.
- Secondly, assessment processes must include a presumption that telecare will be deployed unless there is clear reason why it should not – reversing the current thinking.
- Thirdly, this should be underpinned by agreeing a specific goal of maintaining independence during the assessment process.
- The fourth step is that care professionals should share stories with customers where telecare has increased independence and satisfaction. There are many examples in councils that can be used for this purpose.
- Finally, councils need to collect evidence that telecare is achieving the desired outcomes.
If these measures are put in place, then the true promise of telecare can be delivered for councils, carers and the vulnerable people they support.
Steve Carefull, telecare expert, PA Consulting Group
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Telecare is available through a retailer. Live Well at Home is a domiciliary care provider in Gloucestershire who has understood the absolute need for Telecare to work alongside traditional care to provide a well rounded, flexible service for people at all stages of care. The company sells Telecare equipment through its One Stop Care Shop in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, from a typical Lifeline Alarm and Monitoring Service to all the add on sensory equipment and an innovative Welfare Check automated call service which rings service users up to 4 times a day to ensure that all is well and sends a response to carers or family members should the call not be acknowledged. The automated call service also acts as a reminder service to take medication.
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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. See merlin.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. The American sharp-shinned hawk (Accipiter velox or Accipiter fuscus).
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One of the smaller hawks, about as large as a pigeon, or able to prey on birds as large as pigeons.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. small falcon of Europe and America having dark plumage with black-barred tail; used in falconry
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Nickname for the Merlin. Also called bird hawk, blue bullet, bullet hawk, hen hawk, little corporal, mouse hawk, pigeon falcon, and privateer.


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Spider bites are usually harmless. Many bites attributed to spiders turn out to have been inflicted by other bugs. Skin infections also have been mistaken for spider bites.
Only a few types of spiders have fangs long enough to penetrate human skin and venom strong enough to severely affect a human being. In the United States, these include the black widow spider and the brown recluse spider.
Black widow spider bites can cause severe abdominal pain or cramping. Brown recluse spider bites can cause a sting or sharp pain, like a bee sting. With severe bites, surrounding skin may die within a few hours. Both types of spiders generally live in undisturbed areas, such as attics or sheds. And they don't bite unless threatened.
Typically, a spider bite looks like any other bug bite — a red, inflamed, sometimes itchy or painful bump on your skin — and may even go unnoticed. Harmless spider bites usually don't produce any other symptoms.
Signs and symptoms of a black widow spider bite may include:
The pain associated with a brown recluse spider bite typically increases during the first eight hours after the bite. You may also have fever, chills and body aches. The bite usually heals on its own in about a week. In a minority of cases, the skin at the center of the bite can become dark blue or purple and then evolve into a deep open sore (ulcer) that enlarges as the surrounding skin dies. The ulcer usually stops growing within 10 days after the bite, but full healing can take months.
Seek prompt medical care in the following situations:
Your doctor may recommend a tetanus booster shot if you haven't had one in the last five years.
Severe spider bite symptoms occur as a result of injected spider venom. The severity of symptoms depends on the type of spider, the amount of venom injected and how sensitive your body is to the venom.
Although dangerous spider bites are rare, your risk of being bitten increases if you live in the same areas that the spiders do and you happen to disturb their habitat. Both black widow and brown recluse spiders prefer warm climates and dark, dry places.
Black widow spiders can be found throughout the U.S. but more so in the southwestern states. They prefer to live in:
Brown recluse spiders are found most commonly in the southern Midwest and in limited areas of the South. Recluses are so named because they like to hide away in undisturbed areas. They mostly prefer to live indoors, in places such as:
Outside, they seek out dark, quiet spots, such as under rocks or in tree stumps.
Very rarely, a bite from a black widow or brown recluse spider may be deadly, particularly in children.
Spiders in general, including the black widow and brown recluse, bite only in defense, when being trapped between your skin and another object.
To prevent spider bites:
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Suminarae, the True Lie
Suminarae is a contradictory Goddess that makes sense. She is Goddess of beauty and peace, the lie of the outside belying what is within. Not all that is beautiful on the inside is reflected on the outside, just as inner peace does not quell the unrest of others. That is where the trickery comes in, the subterfuge, the lies.
She espouses the lies that heal, the passing falsehoods that make up idle talk. The perfect false self protect the flawed true self from harm. This is the image of substance, the protection of deceit. This is why She believes in keeping the populace ignorant, as ignorance is blissful peace. The romantic metropolis as opposed to the true city, the beautiful seascape versus the monotonous blue, there is ugliness in the truth, and balm in the lies.
It was Suminarae that found the world of Elqua for the Pantheon, that slaughtered its indigenous pisceans to make room for the Pantheon's immigration. The race that loathed itself, that denied their own worth, beckoned to Her from across the planes. They were practically begging for sweet release, and it is Suminarae that now lies about that horror, that covers it up with the lie of omission.
But the Insidious Doubt has more secrets that define Her. Perhaps the most unexpected lie of Suminarae is that She is not whom Her flock worships. She is, in fact, the shard of Trishna known as Tornesh, the male twin/face of the Binity of Desire. Be it the seduction of lies, the lust for the beauty, or the luck of random chance, Tornesh is now a twisted falsehood of His former half-self, a fully free Goddess at peace with Her lies.
Suminarae, the Omission, the True Lie, the Hidden Truth, Insidious Doubt, She Who Knows, Malvy of the Deceit
Alignment: Chaotic Neutral
Symbol: Pearl clenched in a scorpionfish's mouth.
Domains: Chaos, Healing, Luck, Travel, Trickery.
Preferred Unguis (weapon): Spine
Clerical Unguis of Choice: Spear
Cleric Alignment: Chaotic evil, Chaotic good, chaotic neutral, true neutral.


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- Let's start off with a piece on one of THE GREATEST LIVE shows of the 1960s: The T.A.M.I. show!
- Hardy Amies, author of such books as "The Englishman's Suit" and "ABC of Men's Fashion," is always worth reading and always worth reading about.
- The Jab recently shared this link on the Mod Male Facebook page, dealing with the 1960 film "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning" and its wardrobe.
- Speaking of the Jab, join him as he visits one of the oldest restaurants in Paris, Chez Chartier.
- Paul Weller always seems to skip out on Bay Area shows but shows plenty of love to NYC. Read a great review of his show from the always objective Anorak Thing.
- The A Modernist blog is back and has come out swingin' with a great post on the Kenwood loafer from Allen Edmonds and its jazz styling. Fans of the Ivy... dig it real!
- A review of a new book based on the documentary Listen Whitey! The Sounds of Black Power 1965-1975.
- A review of the showroom from the DNA Lounge, run by a guy seriously setting a new Mod standard, Claudio de Rossi.
- One of my favorite smooth soul pieces: 'So I Can Love You' by The Emotions. Now excuse me while I pour a glass of wine and groove into the evening...
Thursday, May 24, 2012
Weekly Blog Roundup: 5/24/12
A short and early list this week because I'll be out the next few days. Enjoy some good readin' today!
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Hollow Man
By ralst
Seven looked up from her data padd and sighed. "Yes, Commander, how may I help you?"
Chakotay stood, rigid and proud, his chest puffed out to its fullest extent and a smile etched into his handsome face. "I would like to take you to dinner this evening," he paused a moment to give his words an added sense of drama, "in public."
"I see." Seven thought about pointing out that the only reason she'd continued to see him romantically was that no-one else knew, thus saving her from their ridicule or, worse still, pity, but she knew the concept would be beyond him. "Unfortunately I am washing my hair this evening."
His chest deflated. "How about tomorrow night?"
"I already have plans."
His smile splintered. "Can't you change them?"
"No." Seven made a mental note to plan some kind of event for the following night. "If that is all, Commander, I have work to do."
He did not move.
Seven waved the data padd in his face. "Commander?" There was no response. "Commander, can you hear me?" Nothing.
Seven discarded the data padd and hit her comm. badge. "Seven to engineering."
"What is it Seven?" Came B'Elanna's tired voice.
"I am sorry to disturb you, Lieutenant, but I believe I may have broken Commander Chakotay."
"Not again," B'Elanna mumbled. "Why are you calling me? I'm an engineer not a doctor, talk to the EMH."
Seven flicked her finger against Chakotay's nose and listened as a hollow ring floated through the air. "The EMH is busy tutoring Mr Paris for his upcoming medical assistant's examination. I would hate to disturb them."
"Fine." B'Elanna knew how much passing the test meant to Tom and she didn't want to hamper his chances just because she was loathed to deal with one of Chakotay's meltdowns. "I'll be right there."
Seven's lips turned up in a smile, and she flicked the end of Chakotay's nose for the sheer pleasure of it.
"What was that noise?" B'Elanna asked as she rounded the corner.
"A vacuum, I believe, although the hypothesis has yet to be proved."
B'Elanna peered at Chakotay before switching her gaze to the blonde. "You know the captain doesn't like it when people play games with him when he's in this state. She says it sets a bad example to the alien entities." She flicked the end of his nose. "Hollow as a chocolate Santa."
"Can you fix him?"
"Permanently, no, but given time I should be able to get him walking and talking," B'Elanna smirked, "not at the same time, of course, but then you can't have everything."
B'Elanna took out her isometric spanner and pointed it towards the man's neck. "So, Seven, what set him off this time?"
Seven's eyes, which until that point had been glued to the sight of the other woman's body and the way B'Elanna's pregnancy had made her even more beautiful, dropped to the floor. "We were having a conversation."
"He asked me to dinner and I said no," Seven whispered.
B'Elanna snorted. "What the hell made him think you'd go out with him?"
"I..." Seven contemplated ejecting herself out the nearest airlock. "I have been seeing him, romantically, for the last two weeks."
"What?" B'Elanna dropped the spanner and whirled around to glare at the blonde. "How could you!"
Shame ate away at Seven's heart. "I needed dating experience," she mumbled, "and all the better candidates were already taken."
B'Elanna could think of only four people within Seven's immediate circle of friends who were married; Tuvok, Sam Wildman, Tom and herself. "Married as in 'my spouse is on the other side of the universe but I'm loyal to them anyways' or 'I mistakenly married my best friend and we're just waiting for Janeway to finish the paperwork so we can get back to being platonic mates and co-parents.'" She sucked in a lung-full of air and prayed that her face hadn't turned blue.
"You plan on terminating your marriage to Tom?"
"Oh." Seven was lost for words, she had thought her chances with the other woman were less than zero, but if what B'Elanna was saying were true... "Will you have dinner with me this evening?"
B'Elanna looked back at Chakotay, then to Seven, before once again concentrating on the commander. "That depends." She turned to look directly at Seven. "Did you sleep with him?"
"Did you kiss him?"
"I...I'm sorry."
B'Elanna felt as if she'd been punched in the gut. "Tongues?"
"No!" Seven's face turned green. "I would never..."
"Sorry," B'Elanna cut in, before the other woman could hyperventilate, "I didn't mean to suggest..."
"Your apology is not accepted." Seven looked stern. "For all I know you could still be thinking that I'd allow that...that man to put his...his tongue..." Seven couldn't finish the sentence.
"I'm sorry, Seven, I promise you..."
"Promises are cheap, Lieutenant, actions on the other hand?" Seven smiled, her raised ocular implant conveying a host of meanings.
"Actions?" B'Elanna's smile matched Seven's. "I think I can manage that." Slipping off her jacket, B'Elanna draped the fabric over Chakotay's head, impeding his view of the coming event.
Stepping closer, B'Elanna took Seven in her arms, their kiss lasting for hours until the body beneath B'Elanna's jacket began to twitch. "My place?" B'Elanna asked.
"Your place," Seven agreed.
As the two women made their exit Chakotay began to stir. His first thought upon encountering total darkness was that he was still asleep. His second was that Seven's rejection had been nothing more than a nightmare, and his plans to make her his wife were still very much intact. Two hours later, when a passing crewman released him from the jacket, he headed for cargo bay two and what he hoped would be a romantic dinner.
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According to one city councilman, the city of Hesperia is spending money it doesn't have propping up other local entities.
Calling them "an investment we can't afford any more," Paul Bosacki said that city officials need to look at cutting expenses, in the form of funds paid to the Hesperia Chamber of Commerce, agreements with the Hesperia Recreation and Park District and money spent to help pay for crossing guards at Hesperia Unified School District sites.
Bosacki made the remarks at Tuesday night's meeting of the Hesperia City Council.
"The chamber is $60,000 a year, $5,000 a month," Bosacki said Wednesday. "And I think the crossing guards are about $50,000 a year."
"In no way does the Hesperia Chamber of Commerce receive from the city of Hesperia any subsidy, gift or donation for the chamber to run the organization or pay an administrator," said Matthew Hawkins, the chairman of the board of the Hesperia Chamber of Commerce, on Thursday. "Hesperia's Chamber of Commerce is a financially self-sustaining organization. All our expenses are paid through our over 350-plus proud membership that pays dues, our fundraising efforts and our sponsorship programs we offer at our events throughout the year."
Instead, the chamber has a contract for services provided to the city, Hawkins said. According to a city spokesperson, the services include maintaining a website to serve as a source of business information for the local community, running the Friday morning coffees and an annual business expo.
The city's payments to the HUSD help defray the cost of having school district personnel work extra hours before and after school as crossing guards, according to school board president Chris Bentley.
"The city ordinances control where crosswalks are," said Bentley. The city has turned down HUSD requests for additional crosswalks in the middle of blocks, citing concerns that drivers would not expect sidewalks away from corners, leading to a possibly deadly clash of expectations between motorists and pedestrian children. "I understand where Paul's coming from. He's worried about their budget, but the city is also responsible for kids' safety when they're released" from school.
The chamber and school district weren't alone in being singled out by Bosacki.
"The park district partnered with the city of Hesperia to build the civic center park. They've never paid the city anything for their couple million-dollar obligation," Bosacki said. "Hesperia Lake [Park]? City-owned property, we lease it to them for a buck. They make whatever they make on it. ... The list goes on and on as an example of the park district never coming through on their obligations."
"We are meeting our obligation," said park district general manager Cal Camara. "We always meet our written obligations with them."
Currently the city and park district have only a verbal agreement regarding Civic Plaza Park, Camara said, until lawyers hammer out a more formal, written agreement.
"First we agreed to maintain the park for our portion [of the costs], and then later they wanted us to pay for a part of it," Camara said Wednesday. "Quite frankly, us maintaining that park in perpetuity ... that's worth a lot, as far as a joint use goes."
Bosacki said Hesperia is in a bad position to supplement other local government agencies' revenue.
"All of those other agencies get way more property tax [revenue] than the city of Hesperia. We get .59 percent" of each dollar paid in taxes," he said. "The city of Hesperia can no longer be the sugar daddy and be doling out all this money to other agencies with the current financial issues. It's time that everybody, you know, faces the music on their own terms. We can't keep going in the same way we have been going."
"We're going to have to really start evaluating what the budget priorities are in the city of Hesperia," he said. "We're not addressing what needs to be addressed."
The next regular meeting of the Hesperia City Council will take place on Feb. 1 at 6:30 p.m. at Hesperia City Hall, 9700 Seventh Avenue. Prior to that, on Jan. 25, there will be a joint city council/planning commission workshop at 6 p.m.
Beau Yarbrough can be reached at 760-956-7108 or at firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow us on Facebook at Facebook.com/Hesperia.Star.


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Abu Dhabi :McLaren`s Lewis Hamilton rattled the cage of Formula One`s three title favourites on Friday with the fastest time in practice for the season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.
The Briton, the fourth contender who must win Sunday`s race to have any chance of winning the championship, lapped the floodlit Yas Marina circuit in one minute 40.888 seconds in a session that started in daylight and ended in darkness.
Red Bull`s Sebastian Vettel, the race winner last year, was fastest ahead of Hamilton in the opening session in 1:42.760 but traded places with the 2008 champion in the evening with the second best time of 1:41.145.
The 23-year-old German could become the sport`s youngest world champion on Sunday but will need to finish at least in the top two to do so. He is currently 15 adrift of Ferrari`s Fernando Alonso.
Hamilton is 24 behind Alonso, with 25 points still up for grabs.
"I`m really, really happy," the Briton, who was reprimanded by stewards for cutting across Brazilian rookie Bruno Senna`s HRT to get into the pits, told reporters.
"We`ve been hopeful for some time now to improve this rear wing of ours, it`s not really been working since Suzuka and so we`ve not really been able to use it.
"We know that it`s got a little bit of potential and finally it`s working, so that`s a huge plus for us and the car`s feeling good today," added the Briton, who said he had been feeling slightly rundown and was on medication.
"I`m giving 120 percent," he added. "I think the car is generally quick...it`s still going to be tough, I think the Red Bulls are going to pull out half a second maybe in qualifying but we are closer than we have been, I reckon."
Championship leading Alonso, who will take his third title if he finishes in the top two regardless of who wins the race, was third quickest after lapping with the sixth best time in the afternoon.
Vettel`s team mate Mark Webber, second in the overall standings and eight points behind Alonso, was fourth in both sessions.
Webber, whose team won the constructors` title last weekend, said his car had a planned engine change between the sessions.
"It was the usual suspects up at the front on Friday and Fernando, Seb and I were pretty much on similar times," he said. "The car is close to what we had in Brazil. It`s hard to develop a car which is pretty solid already."
With the track doused by a rare desert rainstorm 90 minutes before the start of the first session, the practice times showed that that all the championship competitors were up to speed and closely matched.
Few cars ventured out on the track in the first half hour of the largely incident-free 90 minute session, with the surface still damp. Times improved significantly in the evening, with the only incident Jaime Alguersuari spinning off.
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Directed by: Joey Romero
Starring: Julia Montgomery, Steven Memel, Ruel Vernal
Starring: Julia Montgomery, Steven Memel, Ruel Vernal
It's Philippine, jungle based action a-go-go in the cheap but not always cheerful Savage Justice. Sarah (Montgomery) is the foxy blonde daughter of some American diplomat who is captured by a group of nasty jungle rebels when they instigate an attack on the American embassy (or something!). With her parents slain and with no chance of escape, Sarah becomes the personal plaything of tough rebel Sanchez (Vernal). However, as well as using her for all sorts of sleazy shenanigans, Sanchez trains her in all forms of combat so she can fight by his side and now be his tough foxy blonde fighting babe. Cut to a year later and Sanchez and Sarah (now a cute couple!) go on the rampage and attack a local village with the purpose of hijacking several supply trucks due into town. In amongst all the shooting and chaos, Sarah is wounded and rescued by American stud dude Rick (Memel), a former soldier trying to live a quiet life but who's wife is killed in the village attack (well he did send her into town to do grocery shopping knowing there was going to be an attack: dick!). Reluctantly joining forces with Sarah, the two of team up to take down Sanchez once and for all but not before a heap load of oddness/plot tangents/general B-movie absurdness can take place.
While it features its fair share of machine gun firing action, explosions and dangerous car flips, Savage Justice is all over the shop in its intentions. Cut and chopped to a lean, mean 80 minutes, coherency isn't always its strongpoint as Sarah's imprisonment by Sanchez lasts all of five minutes and is basically an excuse to tell us that she is now some bad-ass Rambo like battling babe. Cue the let's-get-revenge-on-Sanchez plot (he now moping around his jungle camp pining for his blonde babe!) but not before we take jaunts to a Shaolin Temple (to recruit some monks!); a hideout to find a cache of guns (mysteriously run by a gang of street kids and a midget: who then also joins forces with Sarah!); take in several random fights showcasing Sarah's new found kung fu skills; and then throw in some funky Mad Max like vehicles and, oh, you know, a bit of faux lesbian taunting from one of the evil jungle bandits! Savage Justice certainly gets points for throwing in everything it can think of, even if most of it doesn't stick.
While a lot of the artwork seems to be promising this as a sort of female Rambo type flick, and Montgomery does get to kick ass and fire guns, the big finale sees the leading lady relegated to the sidelines as Memel gets to be all action hero and even gets to fight Sanchez: it should have Montgomery kicking his ass in the final minutes damnit! Still, and thankfully, Savage Justice delivers a truck load of crazy gun blasting action, especially come the final 20 minutes that features all kinds of bullet riddled destruction, those Mad Max like vehicles flying through the air and being destroyed and plenty of explosions: so lots of dangerous looking stunt madness. Montgomery makes for a tough action babe and while Savage Justice has its moments it would have been better (and less weird) with the omission of the Monks, the street urchins and all the other silliness that gets in the way of some good jungle blasting action.


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Hydroxyapatite coated poly(lactic acid) microparticles with copper ion doping prepared via the Pickering emulsion route
This work aimed to integrate the ionic substitution feature of hydroxyapatite nanoparticles (HAps) on poly(lactic acid) (PLA) surfaces. HAp-coated PLA microparticles were prepared through the Pickering emulsion route. HAps with adequate surface charge and aggregate size were prepared in a 0.1-M salt dispersion in order to induce oil-water interfacial adsorption of HAps in a Pickering emulsion. A batch sorption process was conducted to evaluate the potential of HAp-coated PLA microparticles to be loaded with copper ions. The concentration of Cu2+ in the supernatant phase was measured by atomic adsorption spectroscopy and their adsorption capacity was determined. The copper ion (Cu2+) adsorption capacity of the microparticles increased with (a) the quantity of HAps adsorbed (consistently increased with HAp solid content) and (b) higher initial Cu2+ concentration of the doping medium. In conclusion, HAp-coated PLA microparticles with the ion doping feature were successfully prepared through the Pickering emulsion route.
KeywordsPoly(lactic acid) Hydroxyapatite Microparticle Emulsion
We gratefully acknowledged the financial support provided by Research University grant (RUI, 1001/PBAHAN/814199) from Universiti Sains Malaysia.
This study was funded by Universiti Sains Malaysia (grant number RUI, 1001/PBAHAN/814199).
Compliance with ethical standards
Conflict of interest
The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
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