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|Pristimantis boucephalus
Lehr, Moravec, Cusi & Gvoždík, 2017
DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2017.325
We describe a new minute species of the genus Pristimantis, Pristimantis boucephalus sp. nov., from the Yanachaga-Chemillén National Park, Región Pasco, Peru. The description is based on a freshly collected male specimen found at 2950 m a.s.l. in a cloud forest and four previously unidentified museum specimens consisting of two adult males, one subadult female and a juvenile from the Yanachaga-Chemillén National Park. The new species is mainly characterized by a snout–vent length of 13.4–14.5 mm in adult males (n = 3), and 12.5 mm in the only known subadult female, and is compared morphologically and genetically with other taxonomically and biogeographically relevant species of Pristimantis. The new species is characterized by its small size, disproportionally large head with short snout, absence of a tympanic annulus and membrane, and reddish-copper iris. Phylogenetically it belongs to a speciose clade, an as yet unnamed species group, comprising both montane (Andes, Guiana Shield) and lowland (Amazon) taxa from the northern part of South America. The new species is genetically close to the sympatric P. cruciocularis. Species of Pristimantis occurring in the Cordillera Yanachaga region in the Andes of central Peru are members of six divergent phylogenetic lineages.
Keywords. Andes, DNA barcoding, frogs, molecular phylogeny, new species.
Order Anura Fischer von Waldheim, 1813
Superfamily Brachycephaloidea Günther, 1858
Family Craugastoridae Hedges, Duellman & Heinicke, 2008
Subfamily Ceuthomantinae Heinicke, Duellman, Trueb, Means, MacCulloch & Hedges, 2009
Genus Pristimantis Jiménez de la Espada, 1870
Pristimantis boucephalus sp. nov
Pristimantis sp. 4 – Angulo et al. 2016: 4, figs 76–77.
Suggested English name: Bigheaded Rubber Frog.
Suggested Spanish name: Rana cutín cabezona.
Etymology: The species epithet boucephalus is derived from the Greek prefix "bou-" meaning large, huge, or great, and the Greek noun "cephalo" meaning head. The name refers to the disproportionally large head of the new species.
Fig. 3. Live holotype (MUSM 31102, SVL 14.1 mm) of Pristimantis boucephalus sp. nov. A. Dorsal view. B. Dorsolateral view.
Fig. 7. Type locality of Pristimantis boucephalus sp. nov. in the Yanachaga-Chemillén National Park.
Photos by E. Lehr.
|Fig. 5. Pristimantis boucephalus sp. nov., holotype (MUSM 31102). A. Dorsal view of head. B. Lateral view of head.
Drawings by J. Moravec.
Definition: A new species of Pristimantis, not assigned to any species group, having the following combination of characters: (1) Skin on dorsum smooth with few low scattered tubercles, skin on venter areolate with low scattered tubercles; discoidal and thoracic folds absent; dorsolateral folds absent; (2) tympanic membrane and tympanic annulus absent; (3) snout short, rounded in dorsal and lateral views; (4) upper eyelid with one enlarged conical tubercle at its center and one enlarged conical tubercle at its posterior end; EW slightly shorter than IOD; cranial crests absent; (5) dentigerous processes of vomers absent; (6) males with vocal slits, nuptial pads absent; (7) Finger I shorter than Finger II; discs of digits expanded, rounded; (8) fingers with lateral fringes; (9) small conical ulnar and tarsal tubercles present; (10) heel with a conical tubercle; inner tarsal fold absent; (11) inner metatarsal tubercle ovoid, 2.5 times as large as outer; outer metatarsal tubercle small, rounded; numerous low, supernumerary plantar tubercles; (12) toes with lateral fringes; basal toe webbing present; Toe V longer than Toe III; toe discs slightly smaller than those on fingers; (13) in life, dorsal ground coloration greenish gray with reddishbrown blotches and scattered brown flecks surrounded by black; canthal and supratympanic stripes absent; groin and anterior surfaces of thighs greenish yellow with black blotches; venter gray with pale reddish and greenish brown mottling and scattered dark gray flecks; iris reddish copper with fine black vermiculation and black narrow vertical streak from pupil across lower half of iris; (14) SVL in adult males 13.4–14.5 mm (n = 3), in adult females unknown (12.5 mm in single subadult female).
Edgar Lehr, Jiří Moravec, Juan Carlos Cusi and Václav Gvoždík. 2017. A New Minute Species of Pristimantis (Amphibia: Anura: Craugastoridae) with A Large Head from the Yanachaga-Chemillén National Park in central Peru, with Comments on the Phylogenetic Diversity of Pristimantis Occurring in the Cordillera Yanachaga. European Journal of Taxonomy. 325; 1–22. DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2017.325


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Most of the best producers are based in the villages of Bue and Verdigny. Chavignol, the other village with exceptional vineyards and a large number of quality-minded producers, is actually an appellation unto itself, and the wines are sometimes labeled as Chavignol rather than Sancerre. Broadly speaking, the wines of Chavignol are more powerful and intense while those of Bue and to a lesser extent Verdigny are more elegant and racy, with a subtle minerality. With rare exceptions, even the best Sancerres benefit only slightly from cellaring and are best drunk within three years of the vintage.
Menetou-Salon, located just southwest of Sancerre, yields firm-edged and very dry wines from limestone-rich soil that tend to be a bit more herbaceous and more solid than Sancerre but often represent good value. (There are also red and rose wines made here from Pinot Noir, as there are in Sancerre, but little is sold into the North American market.) The somewhat warmer Quincy appellation has historically produced rounder, more alcoholic, and less assertively citric wines than Sancerre, but a new generation of growers here is working at making more vibrant, racy wines. The same can be said about Reuilly's white wines from Sauvignon Blanc; this appellation also produces rose and Pinot Noir, most of it consumed in the local market. Farther to the west, the appellation of Touraine, surrounding the city of Tours, is a growing source of competently made and inexpensive Sauvignon (as well as red wines from Gamay, Cot, and Cabernet Franc, and whites from Chenin Blanc.)
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In the absence of grains at Passover, starchy potatoes rise to the occasion as a side dish, amplified with the addition of the ubiquitous prepared horseradish. Observant Jews do not mix milk and meat. In that case, mash the potatoes with chicken fat.
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|cup light sour cream
|Salt and pepper, to taste
|bunch scallions, chopped
1. In a large pot of salted water, bring the potatoes to a boil. Cover and cook for 10 minutes or until tender when pierced with a skewer. Drain the potatoes and return to the pot.
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Frankly, I think there should be a way to save your Tuber Rooms for the long term. I had some really nice setups, but needed the slots to compete in a competition. I have the game installed on an iPod Touch, and when you use iTunes, there is a panel in the Apps tab for files to be transferred in & out. You should be able to do that with Tuber! Or, at the very least, be able to upload them to Dropbox, Google Drive, or the like.
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Waz wrote:Hello! I don't know if you're aware or not but there's an "unofficial" subreddit for the game with ~1'000 members.
There're good posts, suggestion, ideas and bug reports on it. If you want to check it out!
I just posted a thread about this but thought it might be useful to post the same request here. See below:
Hello fellow Bro's,
For those who have gone quite far in the game, you have probably come across the star quest where you have to gain 100 billion total views. Yes, not 1 billion but ONE HUNDRED BILLION TOTAL VIEWS.
I'm level 33, have played the game every day since around the start of October and have 2.81m subscribers and only have 2.66 billion total views. Am I the only one that thinks this quest is a little unrealistic?
At this rate I will get to around 16 billion views each year. That calculates to approx. 6 years of playing time for me to complete this one particular quest
If you are reading this and agree, please leave a comment. If we get enough comments then this thread could get the attention of Outerminds/PewDiePie to see if this particular quest can be made a little more obtainable. Of course there's every chance they'll see this post and think tough $#!+.
Also, if you have managed to surpass this target already, can you comment on how you obtained so many views (without cheating) and what comes after this?
Thanks Bro's!!!
I'd like to be able to see who actually followed me back. A simple check mark next to the name on friend list perhaps?
Red Update
Only just realised that the red room items were available to raise money for charity, but was only on iOS. Being a Samsung owner, I never had the chance to buy these items. Would like to see the game release these red items for the Android platform.
In my mobile the part of the screen where the buy camera appears - that cross section has a problem, the touching won't be detected. So I'm stuck at the first intro unable to proceed because I have to buy the camera first. Usually what I do to fix this is rotating the screen and touching (that changes the location of that item to a touch-detecting area). But Tuber Simulator does not allow screen rotation.
So my suggestion is to add auto rotation feature for tuber simulator
McEagle wrote:I'd like to be able to see who actually followed me back. A simple check mark next to the name on friend list perhaps?
I really wish we were able to see who is following us, a simple checkmark on peoples name should do; Getting peoples to follow you BACK is really difficult when you don't even know who are your followers.
It will give more life to the game, that is for sure.
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Yesterday on ew.com, I read a staff blogger's review of an episode of a TV show I happen to like (I've done this numerous times before, and the result is often the same). The review was decent and respectful, but the reader comments ranged from appreciative of what they'd watched, to scathing cut downs. One even wrote, "Worst. Episode. Ever." At that point, I was pissed off and stopped reading. I'd allowed other people's negativity to get to me, and I didn't need it.
See, the problem with so many of these websites is there's no accountability for comments. People select aliases, write whatever nasty comments come to them in the moment, and take no ownership for their words, ideas (if you could call them that), or energy.
So, here's the best advice I've heard, which, as far as I'm concerned, applies to bloggers and commenters who write any damn thing they want to, sending their negative venom out into the world and thinking they're somehow benefiting the planet.
Steve Jobs, the late CEO and creative genius behind Apple, said it best:
Being clever, insightful, and smart is one thing. Being bitchy, nasty, and insulting is something else altogether. There's a fine line. Don't go over it. No one wants your negative energy in his space.
Practice gratitude.
Focus on doing something creative. Learn just how tough it is.
And in case my advice and Jobs's questions don't hit the mark, remember what I hope your parents taught you:
"If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all."
I'm done.


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ALBANY, Ga. – For the Georgia Southwestern women's cross country team, the Darton Invitational brings out the best in the Hurricanes. The Lady 'Canes would finish in second place at the Darton Invitational on Saturday, which matches their second place finish at the same race one year ago.
The Hurricanes were paced by sophomore Lisa Espino who finished in third overall with a time of 22:10 Her third place finish is the highest ever individual finish by a Hurricane runner during the NCAA Division II era. The Lyons, Georgia native's finish was GSW's first top five finish since teammate Kelsey Baker's fourth place finish in last year's Darton Invitational.
The Blue & Gold had three other runners finish in the top 15 with Micah Bucher (11th), Kelsey Baker (14th) and Mollie McGowan (15th) all finishing within two minutes of Espino. GSW's other three runners, Katy York, Leady Cuellar and Lauren Brown, would all finish within twenty seconds of one another and finish in the Top 20.
Host school Darton College had the top two individual finishers with Sha Wright and Jeronda Stringfield. Wright won the race with a time of 21:09, which was 19 seconds faster than her teammate Stringfield.
The Lady 'Canes will look to carry their momentum into their next race, the Jacksonville State University Foothills Invitational, on Saturday, October 8th.
3rd – Lisa Espino – 22:10.00
11th – Micah Bucher – 23:18.00
14th – Kelsey Baker – 23:34.00
15th – Mollie McGowan – 23:45.00
18th – Katy York – 24:40.00
19th – Leady Cuellar – 24:52.00
20th – Lauren Brown – 24:58.00
1st – Darton College – 19 points
2nd – Georgia Southwestern – 53 points
3rd – South Georgia College – 61 points
4th – Wesleyan College – 106 points


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Clark scuttlebut
I think there's some tire-kicking going around the league right now concerning Avs defenseman Brett Clark. In fact, I'm sure of it.
Brett Clark to Montreal for goalie Jaroslav Halak is one deal I've heard being kicked around right now. Like Peter Budaj, Halak is a Slovak. He has also been under the tutelage of Canadiens goalie instructor Roland Melanson, who has been turning out many fine goalies the last few years.
We'll see. I'd say 1 out of every 10 trade rumors actually comes true, so the numbers aren't there that this could actually happen. But like I said, it seems to make sense for both teams.
Although, Peter Budaj was definitely very good tonight – there, are you happy, Boods fanboys? I just gave him a compliment. But one win over the worst road team in the league isn't going to make me start throwing true hosannas Boods' way just yet.
Clark, meanwhile, is in the first year of a two-year contract that pays $3.5 million per. As long as Halak is a Canadien, he's going to be buried behind Carey Price, who might be the best really young goalie in the game.


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Similarly to the 'Decadence Now! Visions of Excess' exhibition
(30 September 2010 – 2 January 2011), the following three Museum objects also employ erotic themes, though in the context of the nineteenth century.
Gentleman's pocket watch with erotic scenes
Geneva, Luigi Duchene et Fils, after 1800
gilded copper, enamel (watch), base metal, chalcedony (key)
inscribed on the inner case and the clockwork: Duchene et Fils
inv. no. 48 031 / purchased 1958
A watch on a chain or a fob was a luxury item for personal use, and provided plenty of room for erotic depictions hidden from everyone but those for whom they were intended. The double case pocket watch was in vogue from the Rococo period to the Empire period. The outside of its outer case conceals a playfully erotic scene executed in a painterly enamel technique. The truly indecent scene with the same figures appears only upon opening the watch, on the inside of the outer case, and also on the case covering the clockwork. In the first quarter of the nineteenth century, the ultimate expression of fascination with the running of a clockwork was the appearance of automaton watches with movable figures called 'jacquemarts', cut from gold sheets and symbolically striking the time. This watch, too, has an unusual secret place with an erotic scene. By pressing the stem of the watch, not only are the jacquemarts set in motion, but a gold cover slides away and a miniature erotic scene appears from an inconspicuous place under the face, whose figures truly move. The outside of the outer case of the Empire watch (made by the family-owned firm of the Duchenes in Geneva) is decorated with an enamel picture of a girl in the embrace both of a soldier and of a priest. The action continues inside the watch. From the open landscape the first scene shifts to an interior with a drawn curtain. The nature of this scene is now completely different. Whereas the first scene was merely risqué, this one is outright obscene. And, though we know the maker of the technical part of the watch from the inscriptions on the clockwork and on the inner case, the artist of these scenes did not sign his work.
(PhDr. Petra Matějovičová)
Goblet with a licentious scene
North Bohemia, c.1815
Engraved colourless glass, inscription: Le Coup de Vent. Ou le désagrément des étoffes légères (A Gust of Wind, or The Inconvenience of Light Fabrics)
inv. no. 94 043 / acquired 1971
The high-quality engraving executed in late Empire style depicts a total of five figures: two sets of lovers (or married couples) and one man, set in a schematically depicted natural exterior. The subject matter of the scene is the moment when a gust of wind has raised the skirt of a woman in the centre of the composition and her breasts are also exposed. Her partner smiles slyly, while a second couple hurries off. The man looking on, perhaps just a passerby, is dumbstruck. The mildly lascivious French inscription acts as an explanation for the less worldly observer.
Goblet with a scene of a woman driving a man
into a birdcage
The Bohemian Lands, after 1800
Cut and engraved colourless glass
inv. no. 76 833 / purchased 1973
The meaning of the cage (and bird) motif has recently been analyzed in detail by Lubomír Konečný. He sees in it three erotic meanings, which became established in the early modern age: 'First of all, the cage is a symbol of love, in which the two lovers are "imprisoned". Second, the cage signifies the vagina and the bird the penis. And third, the bird flying out […] of the cage symbolizes loss of innocence or […] loss of virginity' (Konečný 2002). The engraving on the front side of the cylindrical goblet depicts a man crawling into the birdcage, driven from behind by a woman with a lash in a schematic landscape. From this it follows that the scene can hardly be considered a depiction of marital bliss. Two other explanations are also possible – the woman is demanding marriage or the fulfilment of the duties of a husband or a lover. The rustic, even poor-quality, execution of the whole engraving is quite in keeping with Konečný's other claim – namely, that 'only straightforward metaphors firmly rooted in the vernacular survived into the nineteenth century' (Ibid,
p. 189, n. 19).
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Taste of History "Dolley & James Madison - Entertaining at Montpelier, Part 2" In this second episode at James and Dolley Madison's estate, Montpelier, Chef Walter learns more about how the Madison's dined and entertained at their beautiful home. In honor of the Madisons, Chef Walter prepares a menu befitting a Presidential state dinner: Virginia Ham and Oysters, Roast Pheasant with Cornmeal Stuffing and Peas a la Francaise. D
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Simply Ming "Blanching with Guests Seth & Angela Raynor" On the premiere episode of Simply Ming, it's all about blanching - the secret to improving color, taste and texture in foods. In the studio Host Ming Tsai cooks on the fly with Nantucket chefs Seth & Angela Raynor. Using the blanching technique and secret ingredients they team up to create two new dishes: Grilled Lobster with Summer Herbed Butter Roasted Potatoes and Fried Pork & Couscous with Peach Sesame Compote. D
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Christina "Italian Light" Think you can't lose weight and enjoy an Italian feast? Sophia Loren famously said she owed her great looks to pasta and olive oil. The natural deliciousness of Italian cuisine can help you achieve the body of your dreams with its great balance of carbs, protein and fat. And with delicious dishes like Penne fra Diavolo, dieting has never been so yummy. D
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Martha Stewart's Cooking School "Roasting" This episode is devoted to roasting, a straightforward and adaptable technique that also works well for meat, fish and chicken. Martha's roast chicken showcases the benefits of this method, with a crisp exterior and moist interior. Because roasting so beautifully concentrates the flavors of the ingredients, it's also well suited to vegetables, and Martha includes a recipe for a delicious roasted root vegetable salad. D
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Dinosaur Train "Laura The Giganotosaurus/Dinosaur Poop!" Laura the Giganotosaurus - Buddy spends time with Laura Giganotosaurus, a large dinosaur who always rides the Dinosaur Train and, like Buddy, is a three-toed theropod! Buddy also discovers that Laura is an avid bird-watcher. Dinosaur Poop! - Buddy and Tiny learn that all creatures poop, even really big dinosaurs. D
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gea needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 53 designs submitted by 20 freelance designers.
A educational not for profit is looking fresh, environmentally and socially just minded logo. Target audience is youth, but must appeal to professionals as well.
Global Education Association - GEA
Our organization's mission is "to educate, engage and empower youth to be active leaders in the pursuit of ecological balance, social justice, and global partnership."
- The design must fit the current website design (www.globaleducationassociation.org)- Think green, global and young.
- minimalist, clean and strong theme, professional but cool, works for both young people and professionals
- Can incorporate Global Education Association, or GEA
- tagline- Explore, Engage, Empower. can be used but not necessary
- Colour scheme with green is preferable but not necessary
- Font that is human
- Inclined towards a tree motif with upstreached arms of a person as trunk...or leaf theme...or global partnership theme.
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- Avoid too many colours.
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carrieinindy wrote:In regards to aspirin usage, I would give 5-10mg/# with a small meal and an H2 blocker (pepcid i.e. 30mg-for his weight- once to twice daily) to protect/prevent gastric irritation. If your vet finds that the hips are bothering him, he/she may recommend a "wash-out" period between changing types of NSAIDs. If that is the case, tramadol is a pain med that can help during this time frame. I think your idea of starting at the low end dosage is great until you can get in to see your vet. HTH!
Malli wrote:Please do make sure to tell the Vet that Truman has taken the Aspirin when you take him in.
You could also try offering him a Heating Pad or hot water bottle(s for the pony!) to see if it helps for some temporary relief.
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I've noticed a startling trend in the dating world: Something I'll call the "faux-girlfriend" phenomenon. That's when a guy treats you like a girlfriend in a lot of ways -- you spend holidays together, you've met his parents, you have your own clothes drawer at his place. In fact, things are so girlfriend-y that it seems the next logical step would be fiancee-y and then wife-y. But something insidious and underhanded is going on. There are men out there (and women too, I imagine) who treat you like a girlfriend -- but not really. That's usually because while he wants the regularity and companionship of a real girlfriend, he doesn't want the responsibility, the downsides, or the idea of cutting off his options.
How do you know if you might be the faux-girlfriend? Here's 6 bigtime clues.
Facebook status. Yes, no matter that you spend six nights out of seven together, and he calls you crying whenever he needs a pep talk, he still has not changed his status from "single" to "In a relationship." I know this sounds cliche, but it's a big one -- if you ask him to do it and he comes up with reasons why he can't. He might say he's a "private" person and doesn't want anyone knowing his personal life. What he really means is that he doesn't want the various cute women he's friended knowing his personal life.
You don't know where he lives. While this seems laughable, it's actually pretty easy to fall into a routine of meeting strictly at one person's place -- especially if that person is closer to where the action is. Maybe he constantly comes up with brilliant excuses as to why you can't see his place, like his roommate is messy or a psycho. The real reason? He wants to be able to safely retreat there if you break up and have you not know how to find him!
He doesn't introduce you as his girlfriend. Whenever you're out with your man and run into someone he knows, he hems and haws, and finally mumbles, "Oh .... err ... and this is Amy." Yeah, no "this is my girlfriend, Amy." Or, "this is my girlfriend." Sometimes he may even rub salt in the wound by saying, "This is my friend, Amy."
His friends don't have a clue about you. He's perfectly willing to hang out with your group of friends, but when it comes to meeting his, he always has excuses. Maybe he even goes so far as to say that he prefers just being with you and your friends. Or maybe you've met his guy friends, but somehow the female ones remain ever-elusive. If he's got friends he sees -- even if it is just the occasional after-work drink -- he's not bringing you along, there's a reason. He's either embarrassed by you, or doesn't want to cut off the potential of meeting other women through his friends or turning one of his female friends into something more.
He never spends money on you. I'm not saying a guy has to pay your rent, buy you Louis Vuitton, and shell out for every single meal and event. But a guy who thinks of you as his girlfriend won't make you pay for your own slice of pizza. If you go to a club, he'll pick up your entrance fee. If you find yourself paying for HIM, he definitely doesn't think you're his girlfriend -- more like his free ride.
He never talks about the future. By the time you've been with a guy for awhile -- sometimes even just a few months -- he'll start mouthing future plans without even quite realizing it, saying something like, "Yeah, when we move in together it would be great to get an apartment with a gym," or even "Our kids are going to be so cute." If you never hear anything about you in his future, it's because he doesn't see you in it.


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Oct. 14, 2004
MIT finished at .500 for first time since 2001 and made its second appearance in the ECAC Division III New England Lacrosse Championship Tournament.
Junior midfielder Isaac Taylor and graduate-student defenseman Scott Mahar were Second-Team Pilgrim Lacrosse League All- Conference selections.
The Engineers placed a Pilgrim Lacrosse League-high 16 players on the All-Academic team. Earning honors were seniors Geoff Ebeling, Michael Harvey, David Shearer, juniors Tom Hennessey, Scott Lawrence, Robert Malies, Kyle McKenney, Christopher Ng, Carter Powers, Isaac Taylor, and sophomores David Levenson, J.B. Persons, Scott Purchase, and Stefano Young.
Tech ranked fourth in the League in scoring offense, notching an average of 11.67 goals per game. The squad placed fifth in scoring defense, allowing 10.00 goals per game. Individually, freshman Tyler posted 2.17 goals per game to rank fifth. Junior Tom Hennessey took fifth place as well in assists per game, dishing out an average of 1.58. Junior goaltender Christopher Ng finished tied for second in winning percentage (.714) and third in goals against average (8.48) and save percentage (.586).


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Dems facing sticker shock for Obamacare
City officials looking at additional costs of up to $700,000
As politicians, the Democratic members of the Wilmington, Del., City Council were early and enthusiastic supporters of Obamacare.
As employers, they are suffering from sticker shock after learning Obamacare for one employee could cost as much as $17,500 per year. They say they do not want to pay it.
The Affordable Care Act requires employers with more than 50 employees to provide health insurance for anyone who works more than 30 hours a week. Some city employees who work more than 30 hours a week are considered part-time and do not receive benefits such as health insurance.
Now that city leaders have read the Obamacare bill and know what is in it, that could change.
"We could potentially add 40 to 50 employees to the city's health care plan," said Samuel D. Pratcher, head of the city's human resources department. "At a cost of $300,000 to $700,000 a year."
That ranges from $7,500 to $17,500 per employee per year.
That is not an option for this city of 70,000, officials said.
"Coverage for families is more expensive," explained Councilman Kevin Kelly.
Democrats have dominated Wilmington city politics for at least 50 years. The mayor is a Democrat, as are 12 of the 13 members of the city council. The 13th used to be Democrat, but switched, in part, to fulfill a city charter regulation that at least one member of the city council be from a different political party.
Wilmington is a predominantly black city with a high crime rate that supported Obama in the 2008 and 2012 elections by wide margins.
But no one thought about the cost of Obamacare – other than to pooh-pooh any notion that Obamacare could cause any economic dislocation.
Not until now: City leaders want to avoid the extra expense of Obamacare for city employees – many of whom work as school crossing guards and for the city's park system in the summer – reducing their hours and changing their status to part-time.
"I'm concerned about families getting cut in pay," said council member Hanifa Shabazz, an Obama delegate to the national convention. "Can we raise their hourly rate so they will not feel the economic impact? That won't be as detrimental to our employees. They are willing to work, but the law is making us do this."
If the city has to reduce the hours of crossing guards, "what do we say to that family if something tragic happens?" said city councilman Mike Brown.
"What I am hearing is a lot of confusion is because we don't have a sense of the number of employees involved," said councilman Bud Friel.
Loretta Walsh, a supporter of Obama who said during the election that Republicans who oppose Obama are racist, was unhappy the human resources department did not notify the unions some of their members were going to be losing hours – and money.
"The unions are not our adversaries," Walsh said. "We are all in this mess together."
The staffer from human resources could not answer many of the council questions. But she did know one thing for sure:
"We have to conform to the federal mandate," she said. "This new ordinance is designed to put us in a position where we don't have to pay benefits. It is going to be far more costly for us to pick up those health care benefits. We have to make sure we don't put ourselves in that position."
The same council members who just weeks before had excoriated private business owners for not paying a living wage were silent.
The news that Obamacare could add $700,000 to the city budget comes one year after the mayor declared city's revenues were so low and city expenses so high he questioned the city's ability to survive in five years.
It's not the first time Democrats have expressed alarm at what their president did.
WND reported when talk radio icon Rush Limbaugh said, "All of a sudden it's 18 senators and some of these doctors and hospitals and medical groups who all of a sudden now, after it's passed, and after John Roberts contorted himself like a pretzel to find this stupid law constitution, now they want out of it."
Limbaugh was talking about efforts by more than a dozen Democratic senators who all voted for Obamacare, but now are lobbying against its "job-killing tax" regarding medical devices.
It was former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, of course, who told Americans that Congress would have to pass the Obamacare bill so that everyone could find out what was in it.
Now the Democrats are starting to find out.
"Gutless wonders, every d— one of them. Where were they knowing full well where this was going? Where were they before this thing passed. … Where was their courage to stand up and oppose it? They knew full well this day was coming. These people did not have to pass the bill to find out what was in it. Everybody knew what was it it," Limbaugh said.
"They're worthless now. But, now, here's the thing. I don't know whether they're gonna be able to succeed. There's 18 senators who want to defund this. Because all politics is local in this case, and now it's gonna hurt their constituents, and now that might mean it's gonna hurt their reelection, and it's gonna hurt their state economies."
According to a report in the Daily Caller, the Democrats' urgent concern now is a medical device tax of 2.3 percent.
The members of Congress sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid saying they wanted to delay the start of the tax, because, "The medical technology industry directly employs over 400,000 people in the United States and is responsible for a total of two million high-skilled manufacturing jobs … With this year quickly drawing to a close, the medical device industry has received little guidance about how to comply with the tax – causing significant uncertainty and confusion…"
The report noted that while the members of Congress may believe there's a lot of confusion, the industry is taking direct action. It reported Zimmer Holdings, which makes hip replacement implants, laid off 450 workers expecting a $60 million tax bill in 2013. And Stryker Corp., a similar company, laid off 5 percent of its employees for the same reason.
"The provision has proved to be problematic for Democratic senators from states with large numbers of medical device companies. Indiana Sen.-Elect Joe Donnelly and Michigan Sen. Debbie Stabenow signed the letter alongside the next Massachusetts Senate delegation, Elizabeth Warren and John Kerry, whose state is home to more than 400 medical device companies," the report said.
"So the question is, 'Well, if you rip the funding mechanism out of the law, and then you take this independent payment advisory panel and your rip them out of the law…?' That's cost containment, ostensibly. That's the bunch that determines what we're gonna spend and what we're not gonna spend. So that's cost containment. You take those two things out, how can you implement the law at all?" Limbaugh asked.
"That's where this is headed. Now, don't misunderstand. I don't expect this not to be implemented. … I'm just telling you, there are 16 senators and a bunch of these people (all of them just couldn't wait to vote for this thing) who now want to be exempted from it, folks.
"They're not going to the mat to keep you exempted. They want their own constituents and themselves exempted. That's what 'having their cake and eating it, too,' means."
"They voted for it and they got credit. Now they want to not be penalized by it," he said.
Townhall reported that among the Obamacare critics now are those who were the biggest supporters two years ago.
"Senators like Al Franken, D-Minn.; Dick Durbin, D-Ill.; Charles Schumer, D-N.Y.; Patty Murray, D-Wash.; John Kerry, D-Mass.; Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y.; Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich.; Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn.; and others – all of whom voted in favor of the law – are aiming to delay or outright repeal parts of Obamacare," the report said.


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Speaker: Darren Herbold
Midlands PASS Chapter - August 7, 2008 Meeting
The Midlands PASS chapter will hold our normally scheduled meeting on Thursday, August 7, 2008, to host Darren Herbold of Pragmatic Works Consulting and contributing author of the forthcoming Professional Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Integration Services from Wrox (Darren is on the far right). Darren will be giving a presentation on SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services. The meeting will once again be held at Training Concepts off of Berryhill Road. We will begin our meet and greet time at 6:15 PM as usual and start the presentation between 6:30 and 6:45 PM.
Please feel free to forward this to anyone who you think would be interested in attending. If you plan on attending, please RSVP by sending an email to kbriankelley {at} acm {dot} org as soon as possible so we can ensure we have enough space and food. If you have time to help with setup, please email me and we'll plug you in!
Darren's Bio:
Darren Herbold, MCDBA, MCSE is a principal consultant at Pragmatic Works Consulting who is passionate about delivering business value to his clients. He has expertise in Business Intelligence, Database Administration, and .Net Software Development. Darren has developed a robust .Net application development framework and a code-generation tool that saves clients an average of 30-40% off of development and maintenance time. Darren has also created BI and software solutions for clients such as Microsoft, Post Properties, and University of South Florida.


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PRETORIA (Reuters) - South African judge Thokozile Masipa said on Friday she would deliver her verdict in the murder trial of Paralympic and Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius on September 11.
Double-amputee Pistorius, 27, once a national icon for reaching the pinnacle of sport, is accused of murdering Reeva Steenkamp, a law graduate and model, at his home in Pretoria on Valentine's Day last year.
Pistorius says he shot Steenkamp in a tragic accident, mistaking her for an intruder.
Reporting by Joe Brock; Editing by Ed Cropley


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It all started with Pandora back in 2000, but now the Internet is swamped with music downloading services, streaming sites, and Internet radio. Yes, you probably have a music library at home and on-the-go with your smartphone or iPod, but Internet radio is one of the best ways to change things up and discover new artists. We've rounded up the best free Internet radio services and highlighted what makes each of them unique. Willing to drop a little coin on your online music? Check out the best paid music services compared.
Still the ultimate heavyweight among Internet radio services, Pandora beats most others in terms of design, customization, and overall quality of stations. The original customizable radio started with the 'music genome project,' which is essentially a giant analysis of music that aims to pinpoint the elements in songs that you already like in order to pick and choose more songs and artists that you will like. It's all subjective, but we still think that Pandora does the best job of discovering new artists similar to the ones we already love. The free version does include advertising, but the site design is still clean and the ads are short and only occasional.
Users can create personalized stations that pull from several different artists, or choose from genre stations as well. Giving a song a thumbs-up or thumbs-down helps Pandora refine your likes and dislikes, and users can skip songs a limited number of times while listening. There is a 40-hour listening limit per month, but unless you have it on all the time, chances are the free version will serve you well enough. If you really need more listening hours, you can upgrade to unlimited for $36 per year.
Last.fm is as much a social media experiment as it is an Internet radio service. In terms of radio, the site provides a similar service to Pandora, offering artist stations, stations inspired by multiple artists, or stations of music that Last.fm recommends based on what you've already listened to.
Perhaps the most unique part of Last.fm is 'scrobbling,' which is essentially what the service does to keep track of music you listen to on your computer or personal devices. If you have scrobbling turned on, Last.fm will keep a record of everything you listen to via iTunes, your phone, or other devices, and create personal charts of your very own music stats. Your profile shows your top artists and songs of all time, of the past three months, or the past week. Like a social network, you can add friends and even discover new ones based on shared music taste. While it's external to the music listening service, having a record of all the music you ever listen to is a great novelty.
Grooveshark functions as both an Internet radio service and your own Internet music library. The radio is nothing to write home about, but provides your basic genre stations for listening. The real beauty in the Grooveshark service is the ability to add songs and albums to your own personal library. It's sort of like having your own version of iTunes that's only accessible on the internet. What's not to like?
Crafting your perfect library takes more effort than picking a station on Pandora, so Grooveshark is not for the lazy, but if you are pickier or just want to listen to that one artists that's on your mind, you can simply add songs to your library from a huge selection uploaded by other users. Users can also create and save playlists from the library, adding even more to the customizable options. Users can also share playlists through social media and follow friends to see their activity. No mobile apps currently exist but the company says they are working on them.
Slacker is essentially a Pandora-clone with slight variations and a different music library. The site focuses more on genre stations, of which there are many, but also offers customizable stations by artist. Users can love, hate, or skip tracks, and listen on mobile devices like Android and Apple.
Other than that there's not much exciting to say about Slacker. It's definitely a decent service if you just want a comfortable radio station of hits, but Pandora still does a better job of uncovering lesser-known artists and combining stations. A few of the artist stations we tried gave us songs that we wouldn't really consider similar to the artist. While Pandora is better at curating stations to help users discover new artists, Slacker seems to have a larger music library of pop and mainstream hits.


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New Bremen's Messick resigns as head football coach
NEW BREMEN — Rob Messick resigned as head varsity football coach at New Bremen, the school's board of education announced at its meeting on Thursday night.
Gary Jones, New Bremen athletic director, said on Thursday morning that Messick resigned "a couple weeks after the season."
Messick coached the Cardinals for five seasons, compiling a 12-38 record. His Cardinal teams went 8-31 in Midwest Athletic Conference play.
New Bremen finished the season 0-10, 0-8 in the Midwest Athletic Conference this season.
Messick came to New Bremen from Paulding, replacing former head coach Chad Williams in 2007.
New Bremen went 2-8 in Messick's first season in 2007, followed by 3-7 in 2008, 5-5 in 2009, 2-8 in 2010 and 0-10 in 2011.
The search for a new coach won't likely begin until January when Jones and the school will know if and where there will open teaching positions in 2012-2013, Jones said on Thursday.
Updated at 11:28 with Gary Jones' comments — Sports Editor Brian Smith


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Disease & pest control
The rise and fall of the potato has been inextricably linked to the diseases and pests that feast on the tuber.
The repercussions of late blight on the country of Ireland in the 19th century extended across the Atlantic Ocean, forcefully impacting the very development of the United States. Every March 17, you can witness the Irish impact from Boston and New York westward to Chicago and further west to Butte, Montana.
Growers today have a better handle on disease and pest management, but it is a tentative and precarious balance of power that is constantly being challenged by disease and pest resistance.
Over a century ago, growers were using sodium chloride, lime and sulfur to try and control late blight. Their efforts proved to be more futile than practical. In the 1880s, the first effective compound, composed of copper sulfate and lime, was called a Bordeaux mixture.
In the 1930s, copper-based products were used against late blight. By the 1940s, ethylene bisdithiocarbamates (EBDC) were developed. Zineb, metiran, mancozeb and others came onto the market.
Duane Preston recalls that when he began working in the Red River Valley in the 1970s, growers were just beginning to use new chemistries like the chemiks. Aldacarb and Thimet were two popular brands used by growers. These were followed by the pyrethroids.
"They (pyrethroids) came out and worked very good," said Preston, "but they had such short lives. The Colorado potato beetle is the main insect that we have up here (RRV) and they built up resistance so quick that we had to come up with new chemistries."
Insects are constantly adapting, said Preston, citing current problems with aphids and the spread of PVY as an example of the resulting problems growers encounter when pests build up a resistance to popular insecticides.
"We don't have a lot of aphidcides left for aphids and that's whey we're getting so much PVY," said Preston. "When we had Pygran and Monitor, some of those were very effective killing aphids and now we don't have that class of family.
"The soil systemic ones we used were Chemik and Thymek. Then we went to the Admires, which is a different family…but we're starting to build resistance to them as well."
Preston said it was during this time that growers began to rotate chemistries to prevent insects and diseases from developing resistance.
"We had different families we could rotate with – like for the pathology part, we had the EDBCs like Maneb and Dithane….and you had the chlorothalanils known as the Bravos of the era, then you had the tin products, they were pretty popular in the '80s and '90s," he said.
Preston cited other advances: more monitoring and scouting of fields; proper application timing; and advance information on the Internet, enabling growers to track insect movement or when conditions are right for disease.
Farther west in southern Idaho in the early 1960s, growers were dealing with early dying complex attributed primarily to verticilium, according to Bob Thornton, professor emeritus at Washington State University. "Spudded out" was the term commonly used to describe the condition.
"Chloropicrin and some of the telon-type materials were just coming on to the scene," said Thornton. "Chloropicrin never caught on. It was effective, but it was a nasty bugger to handle. It is tear gas, so if you got a snort of it, you didn't like it."
With the introduction of the telon chemistries, the areas that had been "spudded out" were reinvigorated. They once again became – and remain – productive potato-growing areas.
Moving west to Caldwell, Idaho, and the Treasure Valley region, one of the first issues Thornton had to confront was nematodes. They weren't as widespread as they are today, so growers could select production sites to avoid the pest until they would impact those fields.
At the time, some fumigants were available. However, growers would often opt to plant on another field instead of treating the infected field.
According to Thornton, early blight was the major foliar disease in the '60s.
"You had some fungicides, you had the tin compounds that had come on board, you had EDBCs that were reasonably effective," said Thornton. "Part of the problem was that we hadn't worked out the effective timing of those applications to best combat the occurrence of early blight at a minimal cost."
Thornton's first experience with late blight occurred around 1992, after he had moved to the Columbia Basin. At that time, it was such a rare occurrence that it was believed it wouldn't happen again. But by the late 1990s, that thinking changed.
"In the late 1990s, it became an issue someplace every year," said Thornton. "We had to get on the train and figure out what to do about it."


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SCHAUMBURG (AP) — Junk hauler Glen Hansen was at the door promptly at 8 a.m. on a recent Sunday. The resident who hired him to clear out her father-in-law's condo looked beyond Hansen and said, "Where is your crew?"
"Crews cost money. It will just be me today," Hansen quickly replied.
Then he surveyed the contents of the home.
"I better get at it. This should take most of the day."
What didn't sell at the resident's recent estate sale, including exercise equipment, sets of dishes and sewing machines, easily weighed several thousand pounds. Hansen proceeded to work the next eight hours, filling his 18-foot custom dump trailer with the unwanted items. By the end of the day, the trailer was filled and the condo was empty.
This is a day in the life of junk remover Hansen.
Art's Junk Removal is named after Hansen's father, Art, who is retired. Hansen has worked for Art's the last six years, constantly dealing with aches and pains of hauling heavy items, as well as tending to minor cuts and scrapes that can become infected from working in dirty areas like flooded basements.
The Mount Prospect business has more than 100 videos on YouTube showing its work with flooded basements.
Even his vehicle takes a beating. He carries a repair kit to fix tires on his van and trailer because at the recycling center, where construction debris is dumped, there are a lot of nails.
"It's a different kind of a job . a wide variety of things we remove, from furniture to construction debris," Hansen said.
He estimates that at minimum he moves 1,000 pounds of junk every day, including huge or odd items like hot tubs or a safe from a boat. Some weeks he may have four jobs that average 4,000 to 5,000 pounds each, most of which he removes himself.
Hansen says he has come up with techniques and better equipment over time that make the job easier. But 4,000 pounds is still a lot of weight no matter how you attack it.
His dump trailer, though, make things easier to get rid of the junk.
"Since I drop off at a recycling center, everything is sorted, so I can just press a button on my dump trailer to empty it and let the recycling center sort it for me," Hansen said. "I feel good knowing this isn't going to a landfill, and I think it makes my customers feel better, too."
Hansen said he often feels sad when he encounters older people who haven't been looked after by relatives, and who need Hansen to clear their homes.
"There are a lot of very interesting things you run across in this business," Hansen said.
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Electronics from the "Bottom Up": An Intel-NCN@Purdue initiative in nanoelectronics education
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In the 1960's, a group of leaders from industry and academia, the Semiconductor Electronics Education Committee (SEEC), recognized that the age of vacuum tubes was ending, and that engineers would have to be educated differently if they were to realize the opportunities that the new field of microelectronics presented. SEEC eventually produced seven undergraduate textbooks and four films and reshaped the teaching of electronics. Today, channel lengths have shrunk by a factor of 100, microelectronics has become nanoelectronics, but we still teach students very much as they were taught 30 years ago. Today, research on mesoscopic physics and molecular electronics has given us a new understanding of nanoscale devices. New methods to treat stochastic effects for problems in reliability, random dopant fluctuations, etc. are being developed. The new knowledge emerging from research is still largely absent from the semiconductor engineering curriculum. Is it time for a new SEEC initiative?