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Palletank for Mixing, 50 L, Jacketed PED, No door, 142 kg
Palletank For Mixing is a stainless steel container designed to perfectly fit with the Flexel® Bag for LevMixer® or Flexel® Bag for Magnetic Mixer from 50L to 3000L. It includes a railed port for coupling the mobile Drive Unit and a clamp holder to facilitate powder transfer.
Item no.: FXC122362
Availability: On Request
The range of Palletank for mixing is engineered around safety and ease of use to complement your intuitive handling mixing bag. The front door and the cubical shape provide convenient installation, deploying and folding of the bag during filling and draining. The front access to sensors and tubing facilitates the filling, sampling and draining manipulations.
From 50 L to 1,000 L:
Cubical shape of Palletank for Mixing with windows on lateral sides enable the user to visually inspect the mixing process. The cubical shape facilitates the installation and offers scalability from 50 L to 1,000 L with improved mixing efficiency.
From 1,500 L to 3,000 L:
Large volume Palletank for Mixing is inspired from the well-proven design of Palletank for storage with a geometry to minimize footprint while providing the vortex required for rapid powder dissolution. A stainless steel cross mounted on a pulley system enables to unfold the Flexel® Bag for Magnetic Mixer for an easy filling and optimized draining. Large volume Palletank for Magnetic Mixer are now available in standard range with heat exchange jacket and | or integrated weighing system.
The Palletank for Mixing is also available standard either with a heat exchange jacket and | or with integrated loadcells and weight indicator:
- The Palletank for Mixing Jacketed is built according to ASME or PED directives. The heat exchange jacket and insulation system allows for efficient chilling, heating, cold or warm storage of biopharmaceutical fluids.
- The Palletank for Mixing and Weighing is configured with built-in load cells linked to the weighing indicator for fast and reliable volume measurement. The CAIS1 Combics 1 indicator allows strain gauge weighing and provides an easy-to-read user interface.
Product properties
JacketedJacketed PED
Primary Product TypeContainers
Weight142 kg
Dimensions1,200 × 770 × 1,100 mm
Volume50 L
Technical attributes
Underfloor WeighingYes
Materials of Construction304L Stainless Steel Perlit balls (Insulation)
Surface FinishGlass bead blasted and passivated
DoorsNo door
Other Specifications
Insulated face bottom port for bag lines access
- PED compliant
- Insulated face bottom port for bag lines access
Operating Pressure-1 to 6 bar
Bottom Gates1
Test Pressure9 bar
Area of ApplicationMixing
Process Step
Drug Substance Purification
Drug Product Formulation
Cell Harvest & Downstream Processing Intermediates
Media Preparation
- Buffer Preparation
- Drug Substance Purification
MobilityMounted on stainless cart with four clean room wheels and push handles
Permissible Operating Temperature0 – 50° C


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Hidden in the quiet shade of banana trees and coconut palms, secret root in Mirissa, Sri Lanka, is a friendly and laid back day spa .
At secret root, we use traditional ayurvedic techniques to promote rest and relaxation of the mind, body and soul. Our spa offers a selection of treatments suitable for anyone seeking to experience ayurveda in a natural and peaceful setting and by professional therapists.
At secret root we use only natural and locally supplied herbs and ingredients in all our treatments.
City - Mirissa
Category - Ayurveda Hotels
Distance from Colombo - 2 h 50min (153 km)
Distance from Airport - 3 h (178 km)
Price Guide - rates on request
Paradise Beach Resort-Thalaramba
Located on the beachfront, Paradise Beach Resort offers simple accommodation in Mirissa. With a garden and spa, the property is 2 km from Kamburugamuwa Train Station which takes you to Weligama Bay.
Situated on one of the most picturesque beaches on the south west coast of Sri Lanka, Lantern is founded on the desire to create a beach getaway for travellers who appreciate an authentic and intimate vacation.
The Secret-Mirissa
Take a short footpath inland from Mirissa beach and you will arrive at 'the secret', a discreet bungalow set back in the cool shade of tropical fruit trees.
Pointe Sud - Mirissa
About 40 minutes south of Galle, amid fishing villages and palm fringed beaches that still allow the impression that you have discovered them, sits a rocky outcrop towering above the Indian Ocean. Pointe Sud,...
Mirissa Hills
Mirissa Hills is located a few minutes from beautiful Weligama Bay, commanding extensive views of the Ruhunu landscape – Sri Lanka's "deep south".
Giragala Village - Mirissa
Most stunning view in all of Mirissa Hotels in our opinion. Located right in front of Giragala Rock on the famous beach of Mirissa.
Sunbeam Coral Villa - Mirissa
Located on the Colombo – Matara main road in Mirissa. Just 25mtrs to the Mirissa Beach is simple no frills lodge.
Palace Hotel Mirissa
The Palace Mirissa is a tropical paradise resort in southern Sri Lanka, situated on a cliff 100 feet above sea level and offering a paramount view of the Indian Ocean.
Mandara Resort Hotel
Over looking famous "Read Cliff Mountains" and Mirissa Bay with a breathtaking view of the Indian Ocean Mandara Resort will leave you with all worldly cares behind.
Paradise Beach Club Hotel
A simple and beautiful Hotel by the Mirissa Bay. Mirissa is an unspoiled beach located in the down south of Sri Lanka. Rooms are scattered in the nicely kept Garden overlooking the Beach.
Mirissa Beach Wadiya
Comfortable rooms with air-conditioning and hot water. Let the surf lull you to sleep while friendly, helpful staff provide efficient service with a smile.
Silan Mo Hotel-Mirissa
Silan Mo is a hotel in Mirissa with spacious rooms and balconies overlooking the Indian Ocean.
Club Mirissa
Club Mirissa is situated in Mirissa, Sri Lanka, just a stone throw away from the picturesque Mirissa Beach.
Number ONE Mirissa
Set in a stunning and unique location overlooking the azure Indian Ocean lies Number ONE Mirissa. This new boutique hotel offers 7 spacious suites and one family room, all with terraces and spectacular views...
Handagedara is located in the south, 125km from the capital Colombo. Handagedara is a delightful example of a period house from colonial era of more than hundred years old
Edelweiss Resort-Mirissa
Edelweiss Resort, located in Mirissa Beach, Mirissa, is a popular choice for travelers. The hotel is not too far from the city center: just 2.3 km away, and it normally takes about 125 minutes to reach the...
Sunbeam Beach Resort-Mirissa
Sunbeam Beach Resort is a PERFECT blend of traditional hospitality and modern comfort. Our spacious rooms are available with tastefully furniture n' luxury facilities.
Mirissa Bay Resort
Refurbished in 2013 Mirissa Bay Resort sits on the exact centre of the golden sandy beach strip of the Mirissa Bay.
Imagine Villa Hotel - Mirissa
IMAGINE....a villa- hotel on an exotic bay, a white sand beach and the inspiring billows of the endless ocean. A friendly modern hotel, artfully built in a pleasant colonial style, 9 spacious beachfront and...
Talaramba Reef Villa Vatura - Mirissa
Villa Vatura has a separate TV room beside the living room, and a very shallow section in its swimming pool, which is perfect for toddlers and babies.
Talaramba Reef Villa Sulanga - Mirissa
Villa Sulanga has a bar area in the living room, a TV in the downstairs bedroom, and a deeper swimming pool.
Villa Saldana - Mirissa
Welcome to Villa Saldana and Sri Lanka – The pearl of the Indian Ocean. Sri Lanka is a must-visit destination, with its historical treasures, stunning scenery and amazing wildlife. This gem of an island,...
I and I - Mirissa
WELCOME TO I AND I REST, MIRISSA I and I Rest, Mirissa is a small hotel on the south coast of Sri Lanka,
Stella Beach Villa - Mirissa
Stella Beach Villa a private beach front modern villa in Sri Lanka. This unique luxury boutique villa offers 4 en-suite bedrooms within a spacious sea front setting and a 20 metre pool.
Pearl - Mirissa
Relax with calm and quite environment in Sri Lanka\\\'s emerging tourism destination Mirissa. With the color of the Sri Lankan pearls and traditional Sri Lankan room designs
Adana Beach Resort - Mirissa
With a breathtaking view of the Indian Ocean, this property offers a high level of service and security. Situated right next to the Hotel Silan Mo and the hotel enjoys the most secure part of the city.
Casa Colombo Collection - Mirissa
MIRISSA SRI LANKA Aspire to Luxury at the most Stylish Boutique Hotel in Sri Lanka, Casa Colombo Collection Mirissa.
Riverside Cabanas - Mirissa
Welcome to Sri Lanka.Mirissa is situated 140km south to Colombo on the Colombo-Wellawaya (A2) main road. It has lovely beaches and very famous for small scale tourist destinations.
Sri Sharavi Beach Villas & Spa
Sri Sharavi Beach Villas & Spa offers an outdoor swimming pool and a spa and wellness centre.
Esprit d\'Ici Hotel
Esprit d'Ici is located in Mirissa South. It features dining options and an outdoor swimming pool overlooking the lush tropical foliage beyond.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Bow-neck blouses aren't strictly for women anymore.
Couture clothing designer Saint Laurent presented the feminine style — in silk, leather and sequins — for both genders at its rock 'n' roll-inspired runway show Wednesday in Los Angeles.
The French fashion house turned the historic Hollywood Palladium into a circular catwalk to showcase its fall-winter collection for men and women, a set of sumptuous pieces in velvet, leather and fur with plenty of fringe, sequins and sparkle. The show's A-list front row was just as attention-getting, with such guests as Lady Gaga, Lenny Kravitz, Justin Bieber, Jane Fonda, Sylvester Stallone, Ellen DeGeneres, Lee Daniels, Zac Efron, Demi Moore, Sam Smith and Gary Oldman.
Saint Laurent creative director Hedi Slimane entertained his starry audience with a series of flamboyant, stage-ready looks. Slimane described the collection as a return to "signature style pieces and principles" characterized by an androgynous approach to menswear.
That meant super-skinny pants, sequined motorcycle jackets, fringe-covered coats and a cape reminiscent of a circus ringleader's. The looks were at once whimsical and sophisticated, like a slim-fit tuxedo bedazzled with a galaxy of cosmic designs or a velvet blazer embellished with intricate floral beading and embroidery. Another standout was a velvet bomber jacket splashed with hand-beaded lilies.
Most wearable seemed to be the slim-fit, three-piece suits. A tapestry-printed coat flocked with fringe, a gold mink coat or a shiny, python-printed blazer might be harder to pull off.
The bow-neck blouses were featured over and over for men, as were metallic gold boots. Other themes of the men's collection were military details, including a jacket covered in gold buttons that could have come from Michael Jackson's closet, and classic elements from 1880s West like fringe, caped coats and fedoras.
The women's designs were even more flamboyant, yet somehow more wearable. Texture and shine were the main themes, with wide belts and cinched waists a recurring subplot.
Dresses were long-sleeved and high-necked with swingy skirts, some so embroidered and embellished they looked like filigreed jewelry. One show-stopper was a swirl of glimmering sequins with long sleeves trimmed in oversized puffs of pastel marabou. A floaty green confection had a matching marabou neckline.
There were bow blouses here, too, in a range of fabrics, including some that looked like vinyl. Skirts were cut from fur or covered with sequins and paillettes. There were leather culottes and sequined blazers; jackets in velvet or leather trimmed with beads and fur. Shimmer reigned throughout.
"I love Hedi so much and I think he's done a fantastic job here," Lady Gaga said from her front-row seat. "He's just been a huge inspiration to so many artists all over the world for such a long time and I just always love to come see what he's doing."
Slimane said the Palladium show featured 93 looks worn by 71 models, several of whom are musicians.
While the designer received his friends and celebrity guests backstage, the Palladium floor turned into a festive after-party and concert with a flurry of performers, including front-row guests Beck and Joan Jett.
AP's Marcela Isaza contributed to this report.
Follow AP Entertainment Writer Sandy Cohen at www.twitter.com/APSandy .


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Welcome to 'Dega Nation » TalladegaNASCAR-McKinneyM0004
Talladega, AL: Talladega Superspeedway, NASCAR Sprint Cup Races, Truck Races: garage activity – tires; inspections of car before/after qualifying; press conferences for Tony Stewart w/ unveiling 2013 car; Jeff Gordon (dark shirt) and Dale Earnhardt Jr (Mtn. Dew shirt) meet ESPN, sports media at "Hauler" or trucks, crowded spaces. Stacy Cain (sp?) autographs.


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Women?s Tennis National Championships Recap ? Day 1
By Travis Rae, Communications and Sports Information Intern
MOBILE, Ala. – (Scores) (Bracket) The NAIA Women's Tennis National Championship got underway Tuesday afternoon with eight matches taking place at the Mobile Tennis Center in Mobile, Ala. Three of the eight matches were 8-1 winners with the winners moving on to meet the top eight seeds who received a bye into the second round. Second round action kicks-off at 1 p.m. tomorrow.
The closest match of the afternoon came between Indiana Wesleyan and Coastal Georgia. Indiana Wesleyan came away with a hard fought, 5-4, victory. The Wildcats dominated in doubles, winning all three sets. However, Coastal Georgia mounted a comeback in singles. Three of the four wins by Coastal Georgia in singles came in three sets. The 3-0 deficit was too much to overcome for the Mariners and the Wildcats advanced to the second round. Indiana Wesleyan will face top-seed Xavier (La.) in the second round.
Embry-Riddle (Fla.) advanced to the second round after defeating Mobile (Ala.), 9-0, on Tuesday afternoon. Embry-Riddle won all three doubles matchups, 8-1, to collect three points to start the match. The Eagles continued to dominate in singles winning. In a highly contested No. 1 singles matchup Hui-I Huang defeated Agnese Rozite, 6-1, 1-6, 11-9. The Eagles face eighth-seed Westmont (Calif.) tomorrow at 1 p.m. in the second round.
Oklahoma Baptist improved to 14-10 on the season with a 7-2 win over Bethel (Kan.) in the first round of the national championship. After winning two-of-three doubles matches, Oklahoma Baptist never looked back, winning five of the six singles matches. Oklahoma Baptist will face fifth-seed William Carey (Miss.) tomorrow at 1 p.m.
Concordia (Calif.) advanced to the second round by beating the Prairie Wolves of Nebraska Wesleyan, 8-1, on Tuesday. Concordia took all three double matches to jump out to an early 3-0 lead. The Eagles did not look back as they only dropped one singles match, No. 3 singles, en route to an 8-1 victory. Concordia will face fourth-seed SCAD Savannah (Ga.) in the second round.
The first time appearance was not what Davenport (Mich.) was looking for in the national championship as they fell 8-1 to Olivet Nazarene (Ill.). Olivet Nazarene won all three of the doubles matches to jump out to a 3-0 lead. The Tigers continued to dominate in singles as they only lost one singles match, No. 6 singles. Olivet Nazarene moves on to face third-seed Brenau (Ga.) in the second round.
Vanguard (Calif.) defeated Evangel (Mo.), 8-1, in the first round of the national championship Tuesday. Evangel, who was making its first appearance at the national championship, won No. 1 doubles 9-7 for its only point. Vanguard took the last two double matches and all six singles matches. The Lions will face sixth-seed Lindsey Wilson (Ky.) in round two.
Northwood (Fla.) cruised to a 9-0 victory over the Grenaders of IU Southeast in the first round of the national championship. The Seahawks won all three doubles matches and only dropped five sets in singles in the first round. Northwood advances to the second round to face seventh-seed Lewis-Clark State (Idaho) tomorrow at 1 p.m.
In its very first national championship match, SCAD Atlanta (Ga.) defeated Cumberland (Tenn.), 6-3. SCAD Atlanta pulled out two of the doubles matches, winning No. 1 and 3 doubles. Lee-Anne Lingo picked up her seventh win in No. 2 singles helping the Bees to victory. SCAD Savannah will meet up with defending national champion and second-seed Auburn Montgomery (Ala.) in the second round.
All eight teams that received first-round byes will be in action as the women's championships resume at 1 p.m. on Wednesday.
NeuLion, the NAIA's official video-streaming company of 18 select NAIA national championship events, will be broadcasting the championship match on May 18. Streaming of the championship match will be free. For more information and to pre-register, click here.


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IBM ThinkPad X41
The X41 and X41t (tablet) are both SATA-based machines that include a SATA-PATA bridge allowing the use of PATA HDDs, see external links for modifications to use SATA HDDs and SSDs. The laptops utilise a Pentium M processor (either 1.5GHz or 1.6GHz), the Linux-ck packages contain optimised packages for this architecture.
This article contains some useful tweaks to make the most of your machine, the tweaks are mainly powersaving biased. With vanilla Arch, around 3 hours battery life was achieved, following powersaving tweaks were applied more than 5 hours was achieved, this was with second highest screen brightness.
Useful packages
Some useful packages for your IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad X41:
System Packages
- acpi - provides /proc/acpi, interesting things like lid state, temperatures, volume, brightness etc.
- xf86-input-wacom - Driver supporting Wacom tablet screen.
- xf86-video-intel - Xorg driver for the Intel 915GM graphics chip.
- tp_smapi - Adds support for SMAPI functions (battery discharge control, battery information, hdaps acceloremeter support).
- thinkfinger - Driver for fingerprint reader.
The IBM X41 comes with a ipw2915 wireless Centrino (A, B and G) or ipw2200 wireless Centrino (B and G) module, the ipw2200 module provides support for these too devices. netctl has been tested and works flawlessly with the ipw2915
- powertop - Measure power usage.
- cellwriter - (X41t) on-screen tablet keyboard.
- thinkfanAUR - Control the utilisation of the fan.
- gpm - Linux console mouse server.
General Tweaks
Scrolling with trackpoint
The following file can be installed for Xorg to support middle mouse button and trackpoint scrolling.
Section "InputClass" Identifier "Trackpoint Wheel Emulation" MatchProduct "TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint|DualPoint Stick|Synaptics Inc. Composite TouchPad / TrackPoint|ThinkPad USB Keyboard with TrackPoint|USB Trackpoint pointing device" MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*" Option "EmulateWheel" "true" Option "EmulateWheelButton" "2" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "false" Option "XAxisMapping" "6 7" Option "YAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection
Taken from Xorg#Example: Wheel emulation (for a Trackpoint)
Powersaving tweaks
Initially without any powersaving tweaks, the X41 uses quite a lot of power (this can be monitored using powertop, it also provides suggestions for reducing power consumption). Here are some modifications that I found considerable improved the battery life of the X41t.
laptop-mode (kernel)
Laptop mode is included in the kernel, it buffers disk activities to reduce utilisation of your HDD therefore saving a considerable amount of power. The effect with SSDs is less pronounced, but still saves some power.
echo "vm.laptop_mode=5" | sudo tee /etc/sysctl.conf/laptop_mode.conf"
SATA-ALPM (pm-utils)
ALPM - Aggressive Link Power Management allows the SATA host bus adapter to enter a low power state when inactive therefore reducing power consumption.
echo "SATA_ALPM_ENABLE=true" | sudo tee /etc/pm/config.d/sata_alpm sudo chmod +x /etc/pm/config.d/sata_alpm
Powersaving on PCI devices
Powersaving isn't automatically enabled on devices as sometimes it causes issues, this saved me about 3W.
ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="pci", ATTR{power/control}="auto"
i915 RC6 powersaving
The i915 chipset supports a variety of powersaving features, checkout
modinfo i915 \| grep -i power for all options. The
following are a good set to enable.
options i915 i915_enable_rc6=7 i915_enable_fbc=1 lvds_downclock=1
RC6 is a powersaving protocol, 7 enables RC6, deep RC6 and deepest RC6 (refer to
Power Management#Enable RC6 Power Save Options for more information).
i915_enable_fbc=1 enables framebuffer compression reducing the time taken
to update the screen.
lvds_downclock=1 lowers the clockrate of the
Disable NMI watchdog
The NMI watchdog is a debugging feature of the linux kernel that is enabled by default. It is useless for normal operation and significantly increases the number of CPU wakeups/second.
echo "kernel.nmi_watchdog=0" | sudo tee /etc/sysctl.conf/nmi_watchdog.conf
PHC - Processor Hardware Control. intel-phcAUR supports the Mobile Centrino line of processors and hence the X41, this program allows you to undervolt your CPU.
$ yaourt -S intel-phc $ phc-intel setup # To install drivers $ yaourt -S linux-phc-optimize $ sudo linux-phc-optimize # Repeat this each time the laptop crashes until you've got a full set of parameters
Once you have established stable VIDs, adding them to system startup can be accomplished modifying the intel-phc configuration file. If it doesn't exist, create it
You can check that this is enabled on your next reboot by {[ic|sudo intel-phc status}}
Tablet support
The X41t utilises a Wacom digitiser for input,
pacman -S xf86-input-wacom
provides support for it. Once installed the driver should be activated following
the next reboot or
modprobe xf86-input-wacom.
External links
- This report has been listed in the Linux Laptop and Notebook Installation Survey: IBM.
- SATA support modification: [1]
- ThinkWiki X41 page


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Brand new smaller kits are now ready!
Kit installed in QCWolf's HiC
It now uses a MUCH smaller integrated microcontroller which means easier fitment into the panel. There is also a new power connector and an available 4xAA battery pack.
All kits come with a US-compatible wall power supply. It will work with all countries' 110 to 240 AC voltage and would just require an inexpensive plug adapter for your country if you are outside of North America. I will throw in an EU plug/outlet adapter for free if you ask.
Everything seen above is included: The lighted sequenced segments, red/orange/white 7 LED strip, rotary switch (3 settings: Normal "stasis" pattern, fast "unfreeze" pattern, and off), green screen overlay and bright flashing screen light, and wall power adapter. A 4xAA battery adapter can be included for an additional $5.
Here is a video of the kit installed and in action! An additional power switch is shown in this vid (not included) Thanks lmakeltraln!
HiC lighting kit installed
Kits are $199 including shipping within the US. Add $5 if you also want the battery adapter, and add $15 for shipping outside of the US. PM me for Paypal info.
Here is a screenshot showing how the screen pattern I made is a perfect match (outer edges are wide to allow room for installation, dimensions are perfectly matched when installed)
And here's a screenshot from ESB of Lando checking Han's vitals to show how everything will be placed in the panel.
And some pictures of the kit installed after painting the backing perfboards (slightly different resistor placement shown)
The flash sequences are very accurate to the movies. I spent hours analyzing the movies frame by frame, taking screenshots, and matching each individual segment, 13 segments total across the 4 displays. The kits now have two flash sequences, stasis (regular) sequence that was in my first kits, and now the unfreeze (fast) sequence added, as well as an off selection on the knob!
The video below shows the main panels of the kit in action before installation in the panel. (This kit shows the older microcontroller which has since been replaced with the integrated tiny microcontroller, lighting is the same.)
YouTube - Han in Carbonite Hero Panel Electronics
Video info: Shown is a frame-by-frame match of the flash sequence from ESB (from a 90 frame sequence) when the panel is clearly displayed in the film. The green LED represents the green screen panel. The fast flash sequence (copied from ~70 frames) is from ROTJ when Han is being unfrozen.


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Which product is stopping people in their tracks at the 2013 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week?
The new iPotty, from CTA Digital. Who would have ever guessed?
"Everybody walking by the CTA Digital booth at CES 2013 does a double-take at a colorful plastic object on the ground," writes Amanda Kooser in a story for CNET. "They stop and stare. They take pictures. One woman declares it the best thing she's seen at CES."
This toilet-training device with a special holder for an iPad allows kids to be entertained while learning to use the potty. At only $40, the iPad doesn't come with this potty, but it does include a special splash guard for your iPad as well as a pee guard that's placed at the tip of the pot so your fancy tech gadget doesn't get wet.
Ridiculous? I certainly think so! The American Academy of Pediatrics has made it clear that young kids shouldn't be in front of screens and as a mom, I'd recommend training kids the old-fashioned way: with a good picture book. But this crazy product, which will be available on Amazon next month, does win a few bonus points for cleverness.
Is the iPotty the craziest baby invention ever? Take a look at these other weird and wacky baby products and then decide.


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First cancellation of the season? Paging "The Mob Doctor"
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UPDATE: CBS on Wednesday pulled "Made in Jersey" from its schedule, beating Fox and "The Mob Doctor" to honor. "Mob Doc" is off the next three weeks for baseball and debate broadcasts. Those in the know say it won't return in November.
My prediction for first cancellation of the season: "The Mob Doctor." (She's a doctor! She's indebted to the mob! She a mob doctor!)
The quality of the series was never in doubt, but that doesn't always mean anything in terms of TV longevity. I put "Mob Doctor" on my "worst" list this fall. Now the ratings agree. Fox's "Mob Doctor" this week declined to less than a rating point, a 0.9 rating among adults 18-49, or 3.4 million viewers. Worse, it lost more than half of the "Bones" lead-in audience of 7.2 million (or a 2.0 rating among 18-49-year-olds.)
Consider it a dead show walking. The only question is whether CBS' "Partners" will be pronounced first. This week it lost half the audience it inherited from "How I Met Your Mother." It's a race to the bottom. Nothing against Jordanna Spiro who plays the MobDoc, or Max Mutchnick and David Kohan, who created the sitcom about their partnership.


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GeekSalt necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 143 diseños de 22 diseñadores freelance.
We're a web design company that specialises in building effective websites for restaurants (hence the name).
We reduce our costs by leveraging 3rd-party services (like SquareSpace and 99designs), and by specialising in a single industry (in this case, restaurants).
We're open and friendly, and transparent about our process and pricing.
We need a website that promotes our business, as we are hoping that the majority of our clients will find us either by word of mouth or by searching on Google.
We love 99designs, and we give great feedback to every designer. Please see the previous contest we held for examples of what to expect from us!
We're holding a blind contest - please let us know in the comments if you prefer this, as it will influence whether we continue to do so in future contests.
Restaurateurs in Perth, Western Australia, who are looking to promote their business online. They are not necessarily tech-savvy, and may be male or female, from 20 - 55 years old.
They probably aren't aware of the benefits that good web design can bring to their business, so we need to promote that in an obvious and succinct manner.
We expect our customers to find out about us, and to decide to work with us, by viewing our website. We do not want to employ sales staff to find new customers for us - we want out reputation and quality to be the deciding factor, and we want word-of-mouth recommendations.
Note that we will use 99designs for each of our clients; we look forward to hosting regular website design contests!
We've attached our logo, a blank PSD with the layer structure that we require to make implementation easy, and wireframes of the pages that comprise our website.
Colours should obviously be taken from our logo.
We only require two pages to be designed: the home page and the pricing page. The other pages are optional, and up to you whether you want to include them.
We're using TypeKit for fonts, so please attempt to use a font that matches one available from TypeKit.
The site is hosted on SquareSpace. A coming soon page is available here: http://www.geeksalt.com.au/
It would be nice if you could include site-wide search in the navigation, although this is not shown in our mockups (our mistake).
For inspiration, please reference the following site designs that we like:
* http://www.freshbooks.com/
* http://highrisehq.com/signup
* http://www.campaignmonitor.com/
* http://www.zendesk.com/
* http://www.liquidplanner.com/
Thanks! We look forward to working with you to create an awesome website for our company!


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According to Digitimes, Hewlett-Packard and Dell have "significantly reduced their investments" in the development and production of 10" Pine Trail netbooks. HP might cut the size altogether, Digitimes reports, focusing instead on its 11.6" netbooks. Sales for the 10" machines haven't been strong—Dell's 10" did, however, win our recent review showdown—and with an increasing focus on Smartbooks, as well as, of course, the looming shadow of the 9" Tablet That Shall Not Be Named, 10" netbook sales don't stand to improve any time soon. [Digitimes]
HP and Dell Cut Back On 10" Netbooks


text: Party Invitations to celebrate all of your special events. The Shy Socialites offer a variety of designs to choose from including camping invitations, BBQ invitations, black tie invitations, housewarming invitations, music invitations, and so many more! Don't see what your looking for? Ask us about creating something special just for you. Choose from either PDF or JPEG cards for the ease and affordability of printing at home or leave the printing to us for a professional invitation that will leave a lasting impression.


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Lani Teshima and Donald Friedman alerted us about Daniel Day-Lewis' notebook in "There Will Be Blood":
There are little peeks at what looks like a pocket-sized notebook, but
there is a scene where Day-Lewis's character is in a meeting with some
bigwigs when he slaps his notebook down on the table. It lands, and the
camera stays on the view so that you can very clearly tell the telltale
signs of the pocket Moleskine, with its hardcover black cover and
elastic band!
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Marcello Jori was born in Merano on 12 December 1951. He currently lives and works in Bologna. Having obtained his degree from DAMS (Drama, Art and Music Studies, Bologna), in 1977 Jori embarked on his career as an artist, soon exhibiting in national and foreign galleries and museums. In the mid-seventies, Jori took his first tentative steps in certain conceptual streams, from which he soon moved away and indeed openly went against their colder and most austere aspects, in an attempt to infuse art with a new lease of life. This he did with a series of photographic works, in which he reinterprets a number of classical masterpieces in a modern key. In this way, art is brought back to a human dimension; the artist "gives body" to the paintings, and takes possession of them so as to transform them into something true. Thus, an abstract painting depicting sunset is exposed to the lights and colours of a real sunset ("Tramonto sul mare sul mare a tramonto" - Sunset over the sea over the sea at sunset, 1976). In 1979, Jori painted himself on top of a ladder painting the fall of the angel, in contact with the heavens, which marked a turning point in his artistic career. This painting displays a new expressive energy that featured in his works over the entire following decade. It was during this phase that painting became central to his creative evolution. These were the years of the "Scritture" (Inscriptions), vertical and fluctuating words suspended mid air between the real and the artist's mental idea of space. These words were then caged in multicoloured "Teatrini" (Theatres), extravagant examples of architecture in movement that were the forerunners of the following "Cristalli" (Crystals) and "Gioie" (Jewels) series, enchanted and kaleidoscopic geometric patterns.
Born in Bergamo, Italy, Laura Polinoro graduated in Drama Art and Music Studies in Bologna. Her first job was in the field of contemporary dance as art director and costume and set designer. Later she undertook research at the Domus Academy in Milan. From 1990 to 1998 she was in charge of the Centro Studi Alessi, where she operated as meta-project designer and art director, coordinating workshops both in-house and in association with various universities and design institutes the world over. She was also involved in publishing and communications activities. Items which entered production in that period are identified with the acronym "CSA". Since 2004 products overseen by Ms. Polinoro have been identified with the letters "LPWK"


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Bucs' Leyva remembers dad fondly
PITTSBURGH -- Bert Leyva was fiercely proud of his son. What parent couldn't be proud of a slightly built onetime infielder who converted a brief stint as Minor League player into a long career as a coach and manager, including of the Philadelphia Phillies?
But Nick Leyva, the Pirates' third-base coach, was even prouder of his father, who was 16 when he was born. Bert did it right; he and Josephine married and went from being students to becoming parents.
PITTSBURGH -- Bert Leyva was fiercely proud of his son. What parent couldn't be proud of a slightly built onetime infielder who converted a brief stint as Minor League player into a long career as a coach and manager, including of the Philadelphia Phillies?
But Nick Leyva, the Pirates' third-base coach, was even prouder of his father, who was 16 when he was born. Bert did it right; he and Josephine married and went from being students to becoming parents.
"He was a hard-working man who eventually became educated," Nick said. "He went back for his degree. As young as he was, we had a relationship almost like brothers at times. He raised me at a young age, and I always appreciated that. We were pretty tight. He was a very street-smart man. And never sick a day in his life."
Then came a day in late April, when a persistent itch wouldn't go away, and Lorraine, Nick's younger sister, suggested maybe their dad should see a doctor. Bert underwent some blood work, and the doctor said, "Looks like you've got something centered around the liver, so we'll do an MRI."
"And they find a five-plus-centimeter tumor, and when they look at it it's completely full of cancer," said Nick, eyes misting. "From there, the cancer went to the bile ducts, then to the pancreas and shut down his kidneys. In three weeks, he was dead."
In early May, Leyva left the Pirates to see his dad in Southern California, to once again hang out for three more days at the longtime home of the former supervisor of roads maintenance for all of San Bernardino County and his wife, retired from 30-plus years with General Electric Co.
"When I was out there, he told me, 'I know I'm sick. I want you to promise me you'll take care of mom.' It was tough to see him," Leyva said. "I cornered the doctor and told him that I needed to know."
"And the doctor said, 'He's not in any pain now, but eventually he's going to be in pain. We can give him medication to relieve the pain, but we can't give him anything to make him better.'"
Leyva recalled that the doctor said one other thing: "If he lives three months, it's going to be an awful long time, and he is going to be miserable by the third month."
"The Good Lord took him before he was in any pain," Leyva said. "He was a tough old guy."
Bert Leyva passed away at 75 on May 16 -- one day after he and Josephine observed their 60th anniversary.
As his mom copes with the loss of her life partner and 24/7 companion, Nick feels blessed that Lorraine and younger brother Albert, a successful baseball coach for a prominent prep program in Southern California, are nearby to help. He took another leave of absence from the Pirates for the funeral, but then had to get back in uniform.
"God bless my sister," Leyva said. "She's a school teacher, so she just got out of school and for 2 1/2 months she'll be able to be with Mom. She's taken ownership of being my dad. Mom's going through some tough times. They've both been retired for a long time, so they've been constantly together. She's lost; she's heartbroken.
"But she's a trooper. She'll rebound."
Baseball is helping Leyva's own rebound. At times of national crises, the game is always credited with helping distract people from the ugly realities around them. It also works for personal pain.
"I still catch myself really having to focus on what I'm trying to do out there," Leyva said. "Thoughts go through my mind and I tend to stray away sometimes, but for the most part I've been able to handle it pretty well, I've been able to separate it.
"It really hits me during the national anthem," added Leyva, citing that one minute of on-field solitude. "I close my eyes and think about him."
It has also hit him constantly the past few days.
"You walk around town," he said, "and every sign you see is about Father's Day sales. But, you know...that's part of dealing with it."
The Leyvas made a habit of joining Nick for one road series every year, in a different city. The pick for this summer was Cincinnati, comfortable because the team hotel is within walking distance of Great American Ball Park.
And when the Pirates arrive in the Queen City on Monday for the start of a series against the Reds, Bert indeed will be there. Not the way son and father had planned, but in a way Nick will always have Bert with him whenever he steps into his coaching box.
"From now on, every time I take the field, for the rest of my life," Leyva said, "I put his initials on the ground right by the third-base bag. Just because I know he's with me."
Tom Singer is a reporter for MLB.com and writes an MLBlog Change for a Nickel. He can also be found on Twitter @Tom_Singer.


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A South Texas woman has been accused of ripping her 6-year-old son's genitals during a rage and trying to repair the wound with glue.
An FBI complaint charges 34-year-old Jennifer Marie Vargas, of San Antonio, with assault within maritime and territorial jurisdiction resulting in serious bodily injury, according to the San Antonio Express-News .
Vargas, who was arrested Wednesday, remains in custody pending a bail hearing Monday in federal court in San Antonio.
The boy's father is in the Army. The incident happened Sept. 27 at the family's home at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston.
Prosecutors say the father returned home from work, found his injured son and took him to the San Antonio Military Medical Center, the Express-News reported. The boy, who's recovering from a 4-inch laceration to his scrotum and bruising, remains with his father.
The Express-News, quoting an affidavit, said Vargas admitted she was angry when she grabbed the boy by the scrotum and pull him as hard as she could, "thereby ripping his 'sack' and causing a laceration."
She told investigators she then tried to repair the laceration with alcohol and superglue, the paper reported.
Officials with Child Protective Services told the paper they had no history with the family.


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Here's how you can create this pretty pastel pink lip on your own thanks to this how-to from makeup artist Lauren Cosenza.1. Condition and line. Condition your lips first to help hydrate any cracked, dry spots. Then line your lips with a clear lip liner — this will keep the lip color you're about to apply from bleeding. Here, Lizzie Power, owner of Awoke Vintage, a clothing story in Brooklyn, applied No More Bleeding Lips along the perimeter of her mouth.
2. Fill in your lips with a pink lip liner. Lizzie used Estée Lauder Lip Pencil in "Pink Writer."
3. Create a chalky-pink lip color. Mix a peachy-pink lip color with a nude one to make an opaque shade. Here, Lizzie combined Obsessive Compulsive Cosmetics Lip Tar in "Femme," a peachy-pink shade, with MAC Cosmetics Cream Color Base in "Nude."
4. Pump up the color. Press a hot pink blush, like NYX Cosmetics Powder Blush in "Matte Hot Pink," over your lips with a flat makeup brush to set the shade and give it a matte finish.
5. Pat on some SPF and make your lips pop by applying concealer around your mouth. Lizzie used a zinc-based SPF, like Sun Bum Sunscreen, to give that opaque pastel finish to her lips, and then cleaned up the areas around her mouth with a concealer, like Clé de Peau Beauté Concealer, to make her lip color pop.
And voilà! A gorgeous pale pink lip color that you can wear anywhere. Oh, and once you recreate this pretty look, don't forget to pin, Instagram, and tweet a picture @Cosmopolitan!
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damn, you beat me to it. i also use a similar rule for my miniguns, except i allow them to move one inch per turn while firing. i had this idea about a year ago, but i never really considered a "Heavy" class other than demolitions. so now we have heavy weapons guy (thanks, TF2), who is allowed to move while firing his heavy weapon (i'd say 2 inches), whereas other classes can't move at all.Rayhawk wrote:You know what I'd do with a minigun like this, is have it dish out a ton of damage, but give it the following drawback: the minifig has to stand still for a full turn while it spins up, and on the next turn it must fire, even if the target has moved out of range or if other friendly minifigs are in the way. The minifig can keep firing for as long as he wants, but can't move again until the gun has spent a full turn spinning back down.
(This was actually part of my plan for Super Heavy Guns, but I decided it was too complicated to put into the Core Rules. I may re-introduce it later as a stat card for Heavy Weapons Minifig.)
So you get a guy who's a machine of total destruction, but he's got molasses response time and he's a sitting duck whenever he's unleashing the hurt.
goddammit, not another stat card...


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Live in the present. That's what we strive to do.
This unique timepiece beautifully reminds you that "there's no time like the present."
You only see the present time: what's past is past. The future doesn't exist yet. The time is now.
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Past, Present Future is designed by Daniel Will-Harris, a pioneer in computer graphics and the web.
MoMA called Will-Harris "a computer graphics pioneer," and his work "truly unique."
Daniel Will-Harris is a computer graphics pioneer who literally wrote the book on computer typography, design and publishing in print and on the web.
He invented the EsperFonto system which created a new paradigm in typeface selection. He has designed award-winning books and book covers for major publishers, visual systems for the entertainment industry and identities for restaurants listed among the top 50 in the country.
He has written and edited seven best-selling books, as well as international design publications. He is currently at work writing and designing his second book of short stories, creating a cutting-edge clothing line called 'Under Cover' and a series of of "souvenirs of imaginary places," and acting in independent films.
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Feds should probe alleged LI police misconduct
The U.S. Justice Department has stepped in to determine whether James Burke, a high-ranking Suffolk County police official, violated the civil rights of a suspect the officer is alleged to have punched.
A man arrested on charges of breaking into an unmarked police vehicle assigned to Burke, chief of department, told his family that Burke hit him in a Fourth Precinct squad room.
The incident that sources told Newsday was under federal investigation was said to have occurred in December when Christopher Loeb was arrested on charges of breaking into Burke's vehicle and stealing the officer's gun belt and other items.
It's good that the feds are looking into the Suffolk allegations, but they ought to expand their investigation west, into Nassau County, where a police internal affairs report uncovered by Newsday last week detailed a horrendous and frightening abuse.
The report by the Internal Affairs division found that after a night of drinking, off-duty Officer Anthony DiLeonardo escalated a traffic dispute in Huntington Station and shot cabdriver Thomas Moroughan twice and broke his nose with blows from DiLeonardo's gun butt.
The report concluded that DiLeonardo committed several unlawful acts, including assault, criminal use of a firearm and driving while ability was impaired. DiLeonardo kept his job. No criminal charges have been filed in Suffolk County, where the incident occurred.
Are there other instances where officers are accused of wrongdoing? And have they, like DiLeonardo, never faced criminal charges?
Even more disturbing than the allegations, however, has been the response from both counties.
In Suffolk, County Executive Steve Bellone -- twice -- issued the same blanket statement supporting Burke.
Shouldn't he, instead, have reassured Suffolk residents that the county will cooperate in getting to the bottom of the disturbing allegations?
In Nassau, County Executive Edward Mangano remained silent on the DiLeonardo Internal Affairs report until reporters brought it up during an unrelated news conference.
Even then, Mangano would say only that he expected the police department to investigate and mete out appropriate "discipline."
Where is the outrage? Where is the sense of urgency? Where is the recognition by the counties' top elected officials that the public's trust in both police departments, justly, is shaken?
The Justice Department already had been looking at Suffolk, where an investigation into allegations of discriminatory policing against Hispanics is ongoing.
Nassau's handling of DiLeonardo's case deserves outside scrutiny, too.
The allegations of beating a suspect in Suffolk and the Internal Affairs report on an unjustified shooting and beating of an unarmed man by a Nassau officer are serious.
Residents deserve to know what happened and how Suffolk and Nassau intend to resolve both cases. If the counties can't -- or won't -- dig in, the federal government should.
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Ask Matt: Broadchurch or Gracepoint? Plus: Emmys, Covert Affairs, Suits, More
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- Reviews
- The Artist
- Though you may not know artist Jim Warren by name, you have undoubtedly seen his work, as the whimsically surreal and unique creations he has painted over the years have inspired artists and art lovers from around the world. As one of the most versatile and commercially successful painters living today and considered a "Living Legend of the Art World," Warren is one of the most creative and prolific artists of our time. His fine art and personalized portraitures have been commissioned by a clientele list that includes world-famous celebrities and prominent business leaders, while his collaborations with other artists are widely acclaimed and well received. In particular, Warren has partnered on paintings with marine life artist Wyland, artist Michael Godard, and, most notably, Walt Disney Studios. The Warren/Disney collaboration paintings were released as fine art prints in 2004. He continues to paint Disney characters and his own unique interpretations of Disney characters to this day.
"Disney had been a big inspiration for me and my art since a child while growing up near Disneyland in California," he recalled. "I am honored to be allowed by Disney to paint all their characters, and especially being art directed by their animators who have been working for Walt for 25 years. All of my Disney paintings are published and approved by Disney Fine Art."
His paintings have been seen around the world on billboards, large outdoor murals, set props for TV shows, and galleries across the country carry his works. The artist has also illustrated over two hundred book covers for major New York publishers, including titles from famed authors Arthur C. Clark, Clive Barker and Robin Cook. He has created collectible movie posters for Phantasm, Night of the Living Dead (the remake), Waxwork, and others. His work has also been featured on numerous magazine covers, including Twilight Zone and Heavy Metal Magazine. and magazine covers, numerous album and CD covers, most notably the Grammy award-winning cover for Bob Seger's album, Against The Wind.
"While beginning my career as an artist in high school in the 60s, I was interested in album cover art which at that time was very exiting art form," explained Warren, who is best known for his album and book covers, but has worked in surrealistic fantasy art for over forty years. "I was honored to be able to work for musicians such as Alice Cooper, Prince and Bob Seger. Although I am primarily a fine artist, I loved doing illustrations for record album covers, movie posters, book covers etc. and painted over 200 illustrations, mostly in the 80s. I have since returned to my roots, which is fine art for galleries, but I do occasionally do an illustration for projects that interest me."
Born and raised in Long Beach, California, Warren began drawing at the tender age of two. By age seven Warren knew he wanted to be a painter. A self-taught artist, he began using traditional oil paint and brushes on stretched canvas. However, it would be several more years before a pivotal event shaped the budding artist's career—the day he came across an issue of Life Magazine and discovered surrealist Salvador Dali. Looking at Dali's paintings in the pages of Life, Warren was set free. He knew his own art could be anything he wanted it to be and promptly set out to develop his own unique style. While he found inspiration from some of the great artists of all time—besides Dali, Norman Rockwell, Andy Warhol, Rembrandt, Magritte, Monet, Peter Max and others—Warren prides himself on the famous advice he doles out to aspiring artists - "To hell with the rules...paint what you like."
It has been his ethos from the beginning. Warren's 1976 painting Sexual Explosion was banned from public exhibition during the 1970s. However, in 2011, it was named the "Most Famous Nude Painting in Modern Art" since the nudes of Picasso, Salvador Dalí, and Amedeo Modigliani. Warren's 1991 painting of Earth, Love It or Lose It was featured on posters, magazines, billboards, and T-shirts, becoming an iconic visual representation of the global environmental movement and the 1990 Earth Day poster. The original painting, named Oops, features a young girl standing on an image of the world that was also a balloon. The balloon had opened at the tie and looked to be whisking across the sky.
In 1986, Warren was commissioned to create a painting for another gifted individual, recording artist, Prince. As the story goes, Warren was given very limited information on which to base the painting other than a one-page sheet containing 13 instructions such as, "a fat man hugging a tiger," "two men with hair shorter on one side, playing the tambourine." Instead, he was instructed, "use your imagination," which, of course, he did. Prince loved it.
Warren's portrait painting work includes John Stamos, The Beach Boys, Brooke Shields, Kelsey Grammer, Kristin Chenoweth, Chaka Khan, and Juliette Lewis, among many others. His portrait of Stamos was unveiled at the Fame-Wall NYC in 2009. His portraits of Kristin Chenoweth and Sean Hayes (both in Promises, Promises on Broadway) was unveiled at the Fame-Wall NYC in 2010. Warren's portraits of The Beach Boys' 50th Anniversary was unveiled at the Fame-Wall, Hollywood, California in 2010.
"I consider my portraits to be more personalized paintings rather than portraits in the traditional sense of the word," Warren said. "When I first started using my own children as models for some of my paintings 20 years ago, parents started asking if I could do a painting with their children in it, which I of course said, 'Yes.' The process starts with me taking good photos of the children, adults, families or pets in the pose that was decided beforehand during a client consultation. I then put together a sketch, and when approved, I start the canvas."
Currently, Warren focuses primarily on his fine art paintings. Yet in spite of the endless, ongoing demand for these works, he has managed to find time to create two books of his work. Both contain clear and colorful representations of his art, many of which combine, "the effect of the real mixed with a touch of the unreal, to make you feel as though you're actually seeing something that in reality couldn't possibly be. Although Mother Nature is my favorite art director, I do take artistic license to create environments of my own."
In reflecting on the enormous commercial popularity he has enjoyed for all these years, Warren is equally generous with his appreciation for his fans. Questioned about what aspect of his work gave him the most pleasure, he said, "the letters I get from people around the world who say they have been touched in some way by my paintings. The fact that my art can create an effect like that for some people, and act as a positive influence in their lives, means a great deal to me."
Such is the art, and the heart, of Jim Warren.
Famous Fans Chime In:
"They say a picture is worth a thousand words. In the case of Jim Warren's art, a million words would be insufficient to convey the depth and breadth of (his) genius," said Mike Love, lead singer for The Beach Boys, wrote the foreword for Warren's book, Art of Jim Warren - An American Original, released in 2015. "...And how could mere words describe such sheer talent. But somehow starting with a sketch on paper sometimes aided by a photo or coming from his reservoir of unbounded imagination there culminates on canvas his end product of incredible beauty... His gentle and unassuming manner belies the amazing talent he possesses. Warren's art is like love, flowing from the tip of his brush that he shares with the millions of us who are fortunate enough to be touched and inspired by what he has given and continues to give to the world."
"Many of life's treasures come as a result of another's contribution to one's life. One of those life's treasures comes to our home as a result of the work of our friend, Mr. Jim Warren. It's as if God gifted us," said Pat Morita, actor and star of The Karate Kid.
"Jim is the greatest of the new millennium. His work carries on (in a most beautiful way) the torch for Dali, Norman Rockwell and Maxwell Parrish. I love this man's work," said singer Chaka Khan.
"Thank you Jim, for the childlike feeling of amazement you have brought back to me. You not only 'hold the light', you create it," said Artie Kornfeld, co-creator of Woodstock.
World Wide Art
World Wide Art is known for its wide selection of limited edition prints by renowned artists, including the luminescent works of Jim Warren. Their expert staff also specializes in custom conservation framing. In business since 1996, World Wide Art is located in the San Francisco Bay Area and is a well-known art shop for both serious collectors and casual decorators. The staff at World-Wide-Art.com not only deals art, but are collectors and artists themselves who consider their work a labor of love and lifestyle of art appreciation.


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CGMA Calendar of Events 2019-2020
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Earlier Event: February 20High School Blue Mountain Trip
Later Event: February 27U12 Basketball Tournament
Established in 1995 Country Garden Montessori Academy (CGMA) is a private school offering classes for preschool, elementary, and high school students. Recognizing education as an aid to life we offer an enriched academic program that engages students, fosters collaboration, and develops critical thinking. Together with parents we assist in the preparation of students for life. CGMA is located on almost 5 acres of parkland in Newmarket, Ontario.


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Boone and crockett club press releases
The Club's Outreach and Publications divisions strive to keep you informed of the latest news that affects our wildlife and the traditions of hunting. Below is a list of Boone and Crockett Club press releases.
Trail Blazers In Conservation The Boone and Crockett Club's First Century - September 18, 2014
Long Shots: Fad or Trend? - August 11, 2014
The Birth of the Fair Chase and the Teddy Bear - August 11, 2014
|Trail Blazers In Conservation The Boone and Crockett Club's First Century
|September 18, 2014
|By GEORGE B. WARD AND RICHARD E. MCCABE
The story of the Boone and Crockett Club is one of sportsmen dedicated individually and collectively to the art and traditions of the hunt and to the "preservation" of game animals. It is a chronicle of high-caliber hunting, politics, programs, and people. It is the very track of the conservation movement in North America. It is a 127-year history of accomplishment.
The Club had its formal beginning in New York City, on a December evening in 1887. Eleven men, each a sportsman and energetic and influential person, gathered at a dinner party called by one of their number and heard a proposal to form a fellowship chartered to enhance camaraderie through their mutual interest in hunting and wildlife. But the proposal had an even broader objective, to address and work to resolve nationwide problems that jeopardized game animal populations. The dinner guests heartily endorsed the idea, and a brief constitution was drafted.
The Yellowstone Preserve
That the Boone and Crockett Club was more than an excuse for its membership to share brandy, cigars, and hunting tales was evident from the start. At the Club's first formal meetings, the members initiated action to save Yellowstone National Park (the nation's first national park) from poachers, speculators, and other interests that threatened the Park's pristine condition. "Resolved that a committee of 5 be appointed by the chair to promote useful & proper legislation toward the enlargement & better Government of the Yellowstone Natl Park." A single resolution, in a single sentence, but it marked the beginning of the Boone and Crockett Club's conservation crusade.
Among the "committee of 5" was George Bird Grinnell. If Theodore Roosevelt was the heart and soul of the Boone and Crockett Club, Grinnell was its brain and backbone. In correspondence in 1926, Charles Sheldon wrote to a fellow Club member: "The Boone and Crockett Club has been George Bird Grinnell from its founding--all its books, its works, its soundness have been due to his unflagging work and interest and knowledge."
Author, publisher, ethnologist, naturalist, and sportsman, Grinnell was editor of the national magazine Forest and Stream. For a number of years before the advent of the Boone and Crockett Club, Grinnell used the magazine to espouse "conservation" causes. In fact, the modern connotation of conservation is thought by some historical researchers to have originated with Grinnell, in 1884.
Grinnell first visited the West in 1870, accompanying Yale University paleontologist Othniel C. Marsh on a geological expedition. In 1874, Grinnell was a civilian member of General George Armstrong Custer's "survey" expedition into the Black Hills. A year later, he was with Captain William Ludlow's U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' reconnaissance of the Yellowstone region.
In the course of his western travels, Grinnell became acquainted with a number of the notable frontier personalities of the day, including Charley Reynolds, "Buffalo Bill" Cody, and Frank and Luther North. From them, and through his eyewitness and insight, Grinnell gained understanding and deep appreciation for the grandeur and bounty of the western landscape, and he developed an equally profound concern for the protection of those values and vitality in the face of unrestrained national growth and expansion. He wrote in 1890:
"Almost within the life of Forest and Stream [founded in 1873] we have seen the wave of settlement roll from this side of the Missouri on to the West, until it broke against the mountains of the main range and then dividing into streams, creep by canyon, pass and river valley, up onto the arid plateau of the central region. As the crest of this wave advanced it blotted out the buffalo, the antelope, the elk and the deer. While it is, perhaps, not true to say that the days of big-game hunting in the Western country are over, it is a fact that large game now exists only in isolated localities, and that such localities are so surrounded by settlements that the game cannot get away; its migration to wilder regions is no longer possible."
Yellowstone National Park symbolized to Grinnell the collision of civilization and wilderness. The consequence he saw of that instance was not merely a process of taming and incorporation, but an act of ecological violence and compromise of human as well as natural values. Yellowstone became his cause.
In great measure because of George Bird Grinnell's forceful involvement in the Yellowstone Park issue long before the Boone and Crockett Club was formed, the matter helped to marshal enthusiasm for creation of the Club and then to serve as impetus and bond for the organization during its formative years. In fact, it was in the midst of the Yellowstone controversy that the Club's leading forces were first brought together.
On July 2, 1885, Forest and Stream printed a review by Grinnell of Theodore Roosevelt's book Hunting Trips of a Ranchman. It was a generally positive critique and complimented the author's fresh style. However, Grinnell also pointed out some shortcomings in the narrative, which were attributed to the author's somewhat limited experience as a rancher and westerner. Roosevelt, concerned about the apparent condescension of some of Grinnell's words, went to Grinnell's office to face his critic. That meeting prompted a long and fruitful friendship between the two men. With the younger Roosevelt, Grinnell shared his understanding and perspectives on the serious and fragile stature of America's wildlife. In Roosevelt, Grinnell found an aggressive and politically mobile ally for his conservation crusade.
Indeed, Yellowstone National Park was threatened from its very beginning (March 1872) when President Ulysses S. Grant signed the Organic Act that created it as the first national park, ". . . a pleasuring ground for the people." It was "set aside" to protect the area's wondrous features and unique phenomena: spewing geysers, bubbling cauldrons of colored mud, exotic mineral structures, and awesome scenery. Concern for Yellowstone's forests and wildlife came later.
In 1872, Yellowstone Park was distant and remote from the civilizing hubs of the young nation. By the end of 1883, however, the Northern Pacific Railway brought the world to Yellowstone's northern entrance. Many of the first visitors were the merely curious. Others came to exploit. The Park's minerals, timber, and wildlife, particularly big game, were vulnerable to the freebooters. Although the U.S. Secretary of the Interior was authorized to regulate the Park, he was not given practicable means to enforce protective regulations. With the arrival of the railroad and its myriad and diversely motivated passengers in 1883, the Secretary of War was empowered to send U.S. Army troops to enforce the Park regulations. This came about at the urging of General Philip Sheridan (later a Club member), who visited the Park in 1882 and saw that its management was untenable. Sheridan's call for military involvement was strongly and widely supported in a three-page article in the January 1883 issue of Grinnell's Forest and Stream magazine.
Still, it was three years before a contingent of the U.S. First Cavalry, under Captain Moses Harris, arrived to impose order and restraint. As the new Park superintendent, Harris pursued his mandate vigorously, but even so, his authority was too tightly circumscribed and transparent. Profiteering sawyers hacked away at the Park's forests; market hunters easily poached Yellowstone's wintering herds of bison, elk, and pronghorn; souvenir seekers and commercial vendors vandalized the resplendent mineral deposits; sightseers wantonly defaced the Park's geysers and rock formations; and neophyte campers' unattended fires charred vast tracts of the landscape. Yet, in most cases, offenders could only be expelled from the Park. No serious legal steps were available to impose sufficient punishment, even for grievous damage, to serve as a deterrent for unlawful acts. Regulation enforcers could do little more than verbally chastise and temporarily expel the few violators they were able to track down in the expansive Park.
General Sheridan made several other significant contributions to the process of protecting the Park. First, he put forth the idea that the Park should be expanded significantly (by 3,344 square miles), primarily to create an additional preserve for game animals. Secondly (and most important) he interested U.S. Senator George Vest of Missouri (also, later, a Club member) in the Park's cause.
Over the next several years, Vest put forth bills in Congress to expand the Park, give Park rules and regulations the force of law, limit concessionaire privileges and monopolies, and provide for a fully salaried staff (with deputy marshal authority) to manage the Park. Although most of Vest's proposed legislation failed to get full support of or action in the House of Representatives, the Senator was able to prevent commercial enterprises from securing monopolies that, under the guise of Park management, maintenance, or improvement, threatened to deplete the Park's presumably protected resources. Vest did succeed in attaching a rider on the Sundry Civil Appropriations Bill for fiscal year 1884, which permitted the detailing of troops to the Park to prevent unlawful trespassing and other violations.
Among those who lobbied and otherwise sought to override constraints on exploitation of the Park resources and prospects was the Northern Pacific Railroad. For nearly a decade since its spidery line of tracks had been laid across the northern plains to the Park boundary, railroad officials had attempted to gain a right-of-way through the Park, but they were repeatedly denied. In 1892, they sought to achieve their goal deviously. The railroad lobby prompted a bill in Congress to return part of Yellowstone National Park to the public domain. The "Segregation Bill," as it was called, would have withdrawn more than 600 square miles from the Park, including some of its most critical big game habitat. Once that area was withdrawn from Park status, the railway company then could apply, under the Railroad Act of 1862, to acquire the land, or a significant portion of it, at no cost to construct a railway that would be financed by government loans. (From 1852 to 1890, the federal and state governments granted more than 116 million acres to western railroads and advanced them $64 million in bonds.) In 1852, there were 5 miles of rail west of the Mississippi River; by 1890, rail lines wended over more than 72,000 miles in the West.
Boone and Crockett Club members, and Grinnell's Forest and Stream, had long opposed giving railroads a right-of-way through Yellowstone National Park, and Northern Pacific's new strategy was resisted as well. A pamphlet by Grinnell concerning the Park and its crises was distributed to newspapers nationwide in an attempt to inform the American people and stir public protest. Despite the concern and efforts of the Club and its members, the Segregation Bill passed the Senate in February 1893. It failed in the House, however, when Grinnell's Forest and Stream printed a telegram from railroad lobbyist P. J. Barr to Montana democrats that asked them to exert pressure on the Speaker of the House. Grinnell's revelation of the railroaders' pork barrel shenanigans, and a stinging editorial, ended (at least temporarily) the Segregation Bill's chances of passing.
Public awareness of the Park depredations and Northern Pacific's encroachment scheme was enhanced, and public opinion was galvanized, by a sequence of events beginning the next year. In October of 1893, Park superintendent George S. Anderson noted that bison were concentrated in the Park's Pelican Creek area. He cautioned his skilled civilian scout, Felix Burgess, that the herd might attract the attention of poachers and that Burgess should carefully patrol the area.
The following March, while scouting on skis in deep snow in that area, Burgess and a trooper discovered the heads of six freshly killed bison. Moving on, the two men heard shots. From the top of a slope covered with lodgepole pines, they caught sight of someone bending over a fallen bison. Burgess recognized the man as Ed Howell, a notorious poacher, busily removing the bison's head and hide. Howell's rifle was propped against another nearby carcass. Armed only with a .38 caliber service revolver, Burgess was separated from Howell by a 400-yard wide snowfield. Howell was well-known for his criminal activity and propensity for violence. He was also much better armed than Burgess, but Burgess seized the opportunity to capture the poacher literally red-handed. Skiing down the slope as quickly and quietly as possible, he actually was able to "get the drop" on an astounded Howell.
The telling of this dramatic incident in Forest and Stream was a national sensation that focused public attention and outcry on the serious plight of Yellowstone's wildlife. Grinnell had sent a reporter, Emerson Hough, to Yellowstone for the winter. And as luck would have it, Hough and famed western photographer F. Jay Haynes were able to record, in word and photo images, this vivid scene and others that dramatically documented the jeopardy of the Park's wintering herds of big game.
Forest and Stream made clear in its coverage of the story that the government had been grossly negligent in not providing any legal or administrative means to punish criminal activity within the Park. Superintendent Anderson could confiscate the heads and hides, burn Howell's camp and supplies, and take away his weapons. But, in Anderson's own words, "There is no law governing this park except the military regulations. There is no punishment that can be inflicted on this low-down fellow."
Grinnell's editorial volleys that accompanied and followed Hough's expose urged form and substance to the public outrage. "We suggest that every leader who is interested in the Park or in natural history, or in things pertaining to America, should write to his Senator or Representative, asking them to take a personal interest in the protection of the Park."
Conservation historian James B. Trefethen detailed what then occurred. "The national press picked up the cry, and the [public] response was overwhelming. Petitions and individual letters by the hundreds poured into Congress--from sportsmen and nature lovers, from people who had visited the park, and from people who hoped to visit it. The American people for the first time [author's emphasis] had begun to realize that they owned a national park, and they were determined to keep it."
A week after Hough's article was printed in Forest and Stream, U.S. Congressman John F. Lacey of Iowa (a Boone and Crockett Club member) introduced legislation much like the bills Senator Vest had repeatedly brought to the Senate. With the firestorm of publicity generated by coverage of the Howell case, Lacey's "Act to Protect the Birds and Animals in Yellowstone National Park" moved swiftly through legislative channels and was signed into law by President Grover Cleveland on May 7, 1894. The persistent vigilance of the Boone and Crockett Club and, in particular, charter member George Bird Grinnell, had paid off handsomely.
The Yellowstone Park Protection Act (the "Lacey Act of 1894") finally gave Park administrators some real power and authority. The law saw to it that a representative of the United States Circuit Court was established in the Park itself, with U.S. marshals on hand to arrest those who violated park regulations. No birds, fish, or mammals could be taken from the Park. Penalties for killing game, or removing timber or mineral deposits, included substantial fines and jail sentences of up to two years. The best symbol of changes brought about by the Lacey Act was a jail built in the Park, to incarcerate those who violated regulations.
Interestingly, Ed Howell was not prosecuted for his poaching, because his violation clearly was ex post facto. Nevertheless, the incident served notice that subsequent criminality in the Park would not be taken lightly.
The long-range significance of the Lacey Act of 1894, which certainly owed its promulgation to Boone and Crockett Club members, was that it firmly established the legal precedent, policy, and overall administrative structure that would govern Yellowstone and all subsequent U.S. national parks. As Trefethen noted, the Act was the benchmark for laws and policies the National Park Service has used to administer national parks and preserves since that agency's inception in 1916.
But for the unflagging devotion of Boone and Crockett Club members such as Sheridan, Vest, Grinnell, Lacey, and others, there would be no Yellowstone Park as we know it today. Of the Yellowstone Park Protection Act, Grinnell wrote in 1910, "It may fairly be said that since then [1894] that great reservation has never been exposed to any special dangers.
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|Long Shots: Fad or Trend?
|August 11, 2014
|By Wayne van Zwoll
Distances that test rifles exceed those that test marksmanship-and leave killing to chance.
In 1066 the bow and arrow helped the Normans trounce the English. For centuries thereafter the longbow defended that realm and extended its boundaries. Royal edicts required men to become archers. Fines were levied on citizens who failed to hone their skills-at distance! The bow made the spear, pike and sword less relevant. An army bled by arrows beyond pike's reach lost both its strength and its will. In 1542 an English act dictated that no man 24 years or older might shoot at any mark "less than 11 score distance." That's 200 meters! In battle, bodkins rained in steep arcs onto the backs of cavalry horses and the light shoulder armor of footmen. Powered by 100-pound bows, the steel drove through chain-mail and plate. The longbow was truly a long-range weapon!
Early firearms didn't match the longbow's reliability or reach, and their rate of fire was glacial. Not until five centuries after the English loosed half a million shafts at Crecy did accurate caplock rifles come to market in North America. Breechloaders by Sharps and Browning (Winchester), with Remington Rolling Blocks, replaced the Hawken on the plains and stretched competition to 1,000 yards. Smokeless powder, jacketed bullets and optical sights later increased precision at distance.
Hunters and soldiers alike have benefited. At this writing, the longest rifle shot made against an enemy is held by an Australian sniper. He made the killing hit in Afghanistan in 2012. A GPS unit gauged the range at 2,815 meters, or 3,079 yards. The shooter is "unknown" because he and a fellow sniper fired at the Taliban commander simultaneously. One bullet struck.
Having fired at targets a mile off, I'm awed by this shot. At 1,760 yards, you can barely afford a minute-of-angle error on a target 18 inches wide. Make that half a minute at 3,000 yards. A puff of breeze so light it won't shiver an aspen leaf can push your shot wide. The range must be known almost exactly, too, as the arc of a descending bullet is so steep a mile away that an error of a few yards will cause a miss.
While soldiers and target shooters try for center hits, a near miss ordinarily earns partial credit. A shot that sends an enemy into cover or injures him, like a bullet that hits the 9-ring, has some redeeming value. But the sport hunter draws a penalty for a shot that strikes an animal but misses the vitals. He must follow to finish the beast, which may suffer pain and a slow death. Delayed recovery often results in meat spoilage. Crippling hits undermine the biological defense of sport hunting. Lost game begs an apology as collateral damage. Hunting practices that hike the probability or rate of crippling run counter to any view of sportsmanship. All else equal, close shots kill more surely. Odds for poor hits increase with yardage.
A gaggle of gremlins hides far downrange. An animal stricken by your first shot has more escape options at distance, because it can more quickly put itself beyond killing range and because you'll have a harder time sifting it from cover for a fast follow-up shot. You'll burn more time reaching and finding the place where the animal took the hit. And distance affects your bullet, draining its speed and energy. Low impact velocity means less violent, less complete bullet upset. The closer that bullet gets to the commonly accepted floor for reliable expansion (1,600 to 1,800 fps), the less damage it will cause.
Powerful rifles and optics tempt hunters to shoot far. Years ago, guiding an elk hunter, I spied a fine bull out yonder. We hurried in a long arc that put us in aspens 350 yards up-ridge from the herd. As the animals were milling, with the bull in and out of cover, I stopped to let them settle. Odds for a close approach were excellent. Alas, while I set up my spotting scope, the blast of my client's .300 Weatherby split the silence. He had fired offhand. At that distance, he was as likely to center that bullet in the lungs as I am to throw a 100-mph fastball. Scant blood and a dragging hoof told us the trail would be long. We lost the blood. For three days we searched, and found nothing. That shot may not have been too long for the rifle or the load, but it was too long for the shooter.
When rifles, loads and optics get labeled "long-range," some hunters expect kills there regardless of conditions or their own level of marksmanship. An F-22 fighter plane has a ceiling and aerial combat capabilities built into its engine, electronics and profile. But only a fool would fire it up without training. A Stradivarius won't get you into the New York Philharmonic if you've never used a violin. Skills matter.
So do conditions. I once declined a shot at a very fine whitetail buck as it ghosted through a cut in a stand of timber. My .280 Improved could easily have made the 250-yard shot, and I was slinged up in a steady sit. But the deer wouldn't stop walking. So the shot was too long.
Another time, after hours tracking a mule deer across alpine basins, I spied the giant buck just 70 yards away. But a gale had come up, driving snow ahead of it. As the deer was looking at me, I couldn't move to sit. Offhand, I swayed like a palm in a typhoon. So the shot was too long.
In Namibia, hard on the trail of eland bulls, two of us came upon the animals in usual fashion, one bright brown eye boring through a screen of thorn at 90 yards. I made out a shoulder. "That bullet will get through," urged my pal. But deflection was a real threat. So the shot was too long.
My rule of thumb: If under prevailing conditions I can center the vitals nine times in ten tries, the animal is close enough. Otherwise, it isn't.
While "long" is by all logic relative, novice hunters chronically rate shot difficulty with distance. To this crowd, a 500-yard kill is a signal achievement, while close pokes rate no respect. This is a simple-minded view. Prone, with good gear and still air, I'll whack melon-size steel all day at 600 yards. Hitting with haste offhand after a climb, when the target is a wedge of rib in tight timber--now that's hard!
Predictably, the urge to make long shots easier follows the definition of a long shot as difficult. A shooter who can regularly bring off what's a rare accomplishment for others feeds his ego. So the race for more sophisticated rifles, ammo and optics is hardly a surprise. Ironically, it can prove a liability afield. In Weatherby's Mark V rifle line, the .30-378 Accumark is a top seller. This fire-breathing round hurls 180-grain ballistic tips at 3,420 fps. They reach 500 yards clocking 2,470. That's faster than 180-grain .300 Savage bullets leave the muzzle! But the .30-378 is thunderous and hits you with flinch-inducing recoil. Ammo costs more than a ticket to the Super Bowl. Few hunters who carry this leggy magnum afield are truly skilled with it. Sure, the Accumark ranks among the F-22s of rifles. Affix a scope whose elevation dial matches the .30-378's arc, and hits are possible to the edge of the earth. Still, marksmanship matters!
Long-shooting is instructive. It can leave you with a better sense of bullet arc and drift. It can help you sift bullet types and loads. But you learn only when you can see hits--as on paper or steel. Firing at game beyond sure-kill range seems to me more entertainment than education.
Even for the self-absorbed, there's reason for getting close to kill: It's more satisfying. The skills you tap stalking game have more to say about you as a hunter than does a long launch from a bipod. The risk of each step stacks tension as you stalk. Reward builds with risk. Intimacy comes at whisper range: grass hissing against the animal's leg, a twig breaking under its step, the mirror of its eye showing more than reflected light, muscle twitches warding off flies. You share none of that through glass at distance.
When someone boasts of killing from afar, I'm tempted to console him: "Cheer up; you'll get closer next time." It's a valid view. Shooting long can indeed suggest you lack the initiative or the skills to narrow the gap. Of course, the closer you get, the more often you'll fail. Memorable hunts wouldn't exist if all hunts were easy.
In Wyoming once, I spied a fine pronghorn buck. As he was pestering a doe, I crawled within 150 yards undetected. There my sparse cover ran out. But though I'd made tougher shots with iron sights, I'd set 100 yards as today's limit. Bellying over bare sand took long minutes. I killed the buck at exactly 100 steps. Though a shot at 150 would likely have succeeded, I'd have missed the best part of that adventure!
Fad or trend? Long-range shooting--firing at targets beyond the point-blank range of a practical zero--has profited the firearms industry. It has spawned new products, new competitive games, a growing market. It helps hunters hone marksmanship. It can bring game to bag without ethical transgression. But the long poke reflects your values as a hunter. Killing always with the first shot, you needn't explain away any decision to fire, close or far. Distance is just one element of a shot. If under prevailing conditions you can center the vitals nine times in ten tries, you'll never have to concede that a shot was too long.
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|The Birth of the Fair Chase and the Teddy Bear
|August 11, 2014
Of all of the well-documented hunting exploits of President Theodore Roosevelt, it is ironic that the most famous of his storied adventures was an unsuccessful black bear hunt in the swamps of Sharkey County, Mississippi.
On November 14, 1902, Roosevelt traveled from the White House to Mississippi to settle a border dispute between Mississippi and Louisiana. While there, he went on a hound-hunting trip in the Yazoo Delta. Noted as a hellish place to hunt with dense briars and endless swamps, the hosts for the hunt were concerned for the President�s safety. Much to Roosevelt�s disappointment, they insisted to have him stay in camp until a bear was treed or at bay. Roosevelt�s omission from the actual chase was unsettling to a man who prided himself on living the hardy life � the tougher the hunt, the better.
Once the guides and hounds had exhausted a small bear after a long chase, the other hunters tied a rope around the bear�s front end, dragged him out of the mud hole he was using to escape the dogs, tied him to a tree, and sent for the President. When Roosevelt arrived on the scene, he refused to kill the defenseless bear.
The next day, political cartoonist Clifford Berryman drew a cartoon showing Roosevelt refusing to hurt the helpless bear. The cartoon's caption "Drawing the Line in Mississippi" referred to both the border dispute settlement and the hunting incident.
This cartoon sparked the imagination of the country and of a shopkeeper in Brooklyn, New York, who asked his wife to make two plush stuffed bears for display in his shop's window. The popularity of the novelty critters quickly caught fire. To link the stuffed bear phenomenon with Roosevelt, the shop owner asked the President for permission to call his creation "Teddy's Bear." Roosevelt said yes, and the Teddy Bear was born.
To the benefit of the hunting and conservation of our wildlife resources, as well as our hunting heritage, something else was also born in this Mississippi swamp. By not caving in to the common practice of the time, a president with an inborn passion for the hunt itself defined the rules of ethical engagement. On his own, self-imposed terms, Roosevelt later finished the hunt as a more active participant in the chase, forever defining the concept of �fair chase.�
Having already formed the Boone and Crockett Club in 1887, Roosevelt was now searching for a way to separate legitimate hunting that was wrongfully being associated with commercial market hunting, which had no code of ethical conduct, just killing the most by the easiest and most affective means possible. Roosevelt was also looking for a way to draw more sportsmen of that era into the conservation movement. The concept of true sportsmanship through the tenets of fair chase provided this separation from for market slaughter and united more sportsmen for conservation. This same sportsman�s code would later become the foundation for the game laws we have to this day.
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Texas Dove Season Prospects Bright
Special White-wing Area expands; higher possession limit
AUSTIN –Texas dove hunters should see plenty of opportunity this fall as conditions are shaping up for an above average season, according to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD). Dove season kicks off Sunday, Sept. 1 across most of the state.
Texas dove hunters number upwards of 250,000 and collectively bag between 5-6 million doves during the 70-day season. Thanks to new rules approved by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) this year, hunters can possess up to 45 birds — three times the daily bag limit. Previously, the possession limit was twice the daily bag. Daily bag limits still apply.
The USFWS also approved for this year an expanded Special White-wing Dove Area (SWWDA) in South Texas. The SWWDA will now extend eastward along its current boundary and continue south along Interstate 37 from San Antonio to Corpus Christi, effectively doubling its current size.
"For the last two decades, white-winged dove populations have steadily expanded both their numbers and their geographical extent," said Dave Morrison, Small Game Program Director with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. "We believe, and the Service agrees, an expansion is appropriate to take advantage of additional hunting opportunities."
To take advantage of the earliest possible opening dates for the special area, the season will run Sunday, Sept. 1 through Labor Day, Monday, Sept. 2, and then reopen Saturday, Sept. 7 and Sunday, Sept. 8. The daily bag limit during the combined four-day season is 15 doves in the aggregate to include no more than two mourning doves and two white-tipped doves and hunting during the early season in the SWWDA is permitted only from noon to sunset.
Dove season in the North and Central zones will run concurrent from Sept. 1-Oct. 23 and Dec. 20-Jan. 5. The South Zone dove season is set for Sept. 20-Oct. 27 and Dec. 20-Jan. 20, with the regular season in the SWWDA Sept. 20-Oct. 23 and Dec. 20-Jan. 20.
According to Shaun Oldenburger, TPWD's Dove Program Leader, hunters can expect to see an increase from last year in dove numbers.
"It appears that breeding dove numbers have increased from last year in many regions of the state," he said. "Increased precipitation helped improve dove production and generate ample food supplies. It should be a good season."
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Seattle Mariners
Jack Zduriencik gets multiyear extension from Seattle Mariners
A season that began for Mariners general manager Jack Zduriencik with a need to show progress to keep his job produced a multiyear extension Tuesday after the most casual of negotiations.
The deal came together quickly Tuesday over lunch at a downtown restaurant with club president Kevin Mather and … well, let Mather explain the details.
"It was as simple as that I had lunch scheduled with him," Mather said, "and we were talking about 2015 … It was a short discussion. I said, 'Jack, do you like it here? Are we treating you OK? Are you enjoying your job?'
"He said, 'I love it here, and my family loves it here.' And I said, 'Stay.' He had big smile on his face, and I said, 'I guess that's a yes.' It was that (easy) literally. It wasn't much of a discussion."
A formal announcement came less than two hours later in a release that, in keeping with club policy on such matters, was noticeably skimpy on details. It said merely that Zduriencik had agreed to a multiyear extension.
That means, at minimum, through the 2016 season.
"I'm excited," Zduriencik said. "I'm happy to be here a few more years. I believe in what we're doing. I believe in the people we have in place. It hasn't always been easy.
"I think we put a plan in place, and you do what your gut instincts tell you to do. Where we're at right now, we're in a good spot as an organization. Our fans have been very patient, and I really thank them for that.
"I thank ownership for their vote of confidence."
The move came as the Mariners look to complete a renaissance season by reaching postseason for the first time since 2001. They began Tuesday at 71-59 and holding a half-game lead for the final wild-card spot.
"We're on our way to being what we want to become," Zduriencik said, "and that's a world champion. We have a way to go to get there, but we also have pieces and (more pieces) that are going to help us are coming."
Zduriencik is completing his sixth season as the club's general manager and executive vice president for baseball operations. The club's current position offers a stark contrast to a year ago.
Former manager Eric Wedge made a messy exit that escalated into a soap opera when the Seattle Times published a story in December that characterized the Mariners as a dysfunctional organization under Zduriencik.
The story, which quoted Wedge and other former employees, came out on the eve of the Winter Meetings and caused a stir within the industry. It also coincided with negotiations with free-agent second baseman Robinson Cano.
Zduriencik and the Mariners eventually landed Cano with a mammoth $240 million deal over 10 years. That seemed to reset the franchise after four straight losing years.
It also created an atmosphere in which Lloyd McClendon, the current manager, could jokingly characterize his relationship with Zduriencik by saying: "We're probably as dysfunctional as dysfunctional can get."
Zduriencik acknowledged the ride hasn't always been easy.
"For ownership to be patient … it's been a tough couple of years," he said. "No question. Let's not kid ourselves. But they've been patient, and I appreciate that. I think everyone in this organization appreciates that."
Mather said Zduriencik never asked about his contract.
"He's always looked long term," Mather said. "None of our conversations have been, 'Well, let's talk about this for the next five days or the next two months of the season.'
"He's always talked about '15 and '16 and '17, the drafts."
Zduriencik is still looking ahead after 35 years in major league baseball, including time with the Mets, Dodgers, Pirates and Brewers before he was hired Oct. 22, 2008 by the Mariners.
"If you really look at this objectively," he said, "we put a plan in place. We didn't deviate from it … We're in a good spot right now. We want to be better. We want to continue to grow, and we'll do that.
"But I think ownership has lived up to their commitment to be patient. We've lived up to our commitment of putting a competitive club on the field. It's all come together nicely."