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October has always been my favorite month of the year. I love the cooler weather (or the chance for cooler weather anyway, *sigh* Texas…). Fall activities, pumpkins, earth tones, smells of spice, football games and festivals, my birthday, Halloween magic, what's not to like?
A year ago this week my son got kicked out of preschool.
So last year, in an instant, my cherished October was tarnished. My birthday and Halloween were ruined. (In fact I don't even remember my birthday from last year but I remember Halloween day was a well played disaster.)
A year ago my heart was broken into a million pieces and I cried so many tears I might have filled a bath tub. I hid in the bathroom shedding those tears so my son, who now felt even more fragile to me, wouldn't see me upset and think it was his fault. My stress level wasn't even registering, I had at that time, broken the meter. I had no idea what to do. I mean how even does a child get kicked out of PRESCHOOL?
I can still feel the panic in my chest from when I got the phone call and heard the words "You need to find somewhere else for your son". I can still feel the raw agonizing pain of sitting in the office of the director and having the Mama Bear surge of wanting to fight to keep him in the only school he had known for the past three years and at the same time yearning to hate them and wanting to never bring him back to a place who didn't want him.
I can still see in the distance the grey clouds that made up those days last year. I can still feel the buzz of the uncertainty that filled those days, the vibration of tumultuousness that wrapped itself around me like poison smog and clung on for so long seeming to break up for periods of time only to gather strength and gather me full force back into the gale force winds of a cyclone.
I have had a fear of impending doom for pretty much this whole month. I think residuals of haunted memories began to invade, (especially when I had multiple baby-sitter catastrophe's this month) and my freshly healed wounds still aching from the process of healing were broken open again. So I did the only reasonable thing to make my October better and I attended a workshop at my favorite yoga studio to channel my inner Goddess and try to squash any and all residual feelings and I found a most awesome babysitter with tons of experience with children of different abilities, whom my child already adores after just a short time.
I have been trying my hardest to remain positive and have been filling my soul by listening to inspirational podcasts. In one such podcast (I'll be damned I can't remember which because I binge listen) Jen Hatmaker's guest talks about how "life doesn't look pretty for people who are doing it right." Oh good. That must mean I'm doing it right. "First we have pain then rising." How true that is. Without experiencing the devastation we would have never began down the road to learning about Sensory Processing Disorder and start adjusting our lives accordingly and I would never have met or reconnected with some of the amazing people I have.
So this year I'm going to remember my birthday and I already set up a fun evening for Halloween. This year the sweet will over run the bitter and October will remain my most treasured month of the year.


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FLICKS: Look ahead to what's on 2010's box office horizon - Flicks is a bit late coming to the keyboard this week. There was a good chance, ruined by circumstance, this space would be dedicated to how great "Sherlock Holmes" was. Holmes apparently was good enough for second place, but it was no thanks to me. Ah, Fate, you cruel mistress. By John Meo.
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ICY SCULPTING: Rockland sculptors create icy art for New Year's Eve -- For more than 20 years, Rockland's Ice Effects company has created ice sculptures for Boston's First Night. This year, the sculptors are braving sub-zero wind chills to create a tribute to Boston's Frog Pond and a replica of an Egyptian sculpture on display at the Museum of Fine Arts. By Amy Littlefield.
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BOSTON POPS: Boston Pops to ring in the New Year with the eclectic Amanda Palmer -- Her resume may include posing as a statue, but Amanda Palmer is not one for standing still. Palmer, a performer, composer and musician whose best known incarnation is as front woman and keyboardist for the punk cabaret band The Dresden Dolls, joins The Boston Pops tonight for a New Year's Eve. By Margaret Smith.
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STOVALL BROWN: Cruise into the New Year with Stovall Brown -- When rhythm-and-blues bandleader Chris "Stovall" Brown takes the stage for tonight's New Year's Eve cruise on Boston Harbor, he'll be joined by vocalist Madeleine Hall. By Jay N. Miller
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EVENTS ROUNDUP: Mark new year with fireworks, dancing, hikes -- Here's a listing of what's happening locally on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day.
MORE EVENTS: Lots to do on New Year's Eve in MetroWest and beyond -- Amid bleak employment options and shaken consumer confidence, the Crowne Plaza in Natick believes it has the perfect way to close a decade marked by a late nosedive: comedy. By Michael Morton.
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COMMUNITY GARDENS: Ashland community gardens a growing success -- After a successful first season for the Ashland Community Gardens, organizers are hoping to ramp up the program in 2010. By Kendall Hatch.
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CLASS RING FOUND: Class ring returned after 32 years -- Thirty-two years after she lost her high school ring at Nantasket Beach, Patricia Doherty has it back, thanks to a Randolph High grad who now lives in Georgia. By Kaitlin Keane.
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PHOTO GALLERY: Cape Cod in 2009 -- Here's a selection of images from 2009 that showcase the fun and beauty that can be found on Cape Cod.
JULIA SPITZ: America's New Year spirits -- It's hard to believe we didn't invent New Year's Eve. Most everything about the celebration seems so American. Out with the old, in with the new, and in the blink of an eye, or the drop of a ball in Times Square, we can -- no, we will -- reinvent ourselves.
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REV. TESS BAUMBERGER: Putting the pastoral in pastoral care -- Traditionally, the New Year is a time for resolutions. One of the resolutions we share at Unity Church is to offer good pastoral care to our members and friends. After all, this is one of the reasons we come together in church community, to offer and to receive comfort from one another in our times of suffering and need.
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GRANLUND CARTOON: Dick Cheney a new White House party crasher
EDITORIAL: Goodbye to all that -- This hasn't been the worst of all years, but by the 365th day, most years have worn out their welcome. There are plenty of aspects of 2009 we're happy to wave goodbye to. By the MetroWest Daily News.
LLOYD GARVER: Free can be expensive - My old cell phone died recently. We had been so happy together. It was a very simple phone, not like today's "smart phones." All I used it for was to make and receive calls and an occasional text message. It was perfect for me, so I took it with me to the phone store so I could show the salesperson what I wanted. Boy, was I living in a dream world.
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RETAIL NUMBERS: Late surge bolsters holiday shopping in Mass. -- Last-minute shoppers helped Massachusetts retailers enjoy a better-than-expected holiday season. By Steve Adams.
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SLOT MACHINES: House speaker's bill would allow slots at Raynham Park, other state tracks -- Hopes for slot machines at Raynham Park and other Massachusetts racetracks should get a shot in the arm next year when House Speaker Robert DeLeo introduces his own gaming expansion bill. By Erik Potter.
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TEACHER'S LETTER: Brockton teacher's letter about shooting creates discussion -- A letter written by a Brockton High School teacher in the wake of a shooting outside the school stirred a firestorm of responses this week. Doug Van Gorder of Quincy, a math teacher at Brockton High School for 12 years, wrote the letter, which has been called "confusing" and "off the wall" and is being discussed on national blogs. By Elaine Allegrini.
COLLEGE FOOTBALL NATION: Football may never see the likes of Tebow, McCoy again -- Tonight, Tim Tebow says goodbye. On Thursday, Colt McCoy does the same. Great players graduate every year, put college football in the past and move on to the next stage of their lives. Tebow and McCoy are not merely great players, however. They're historically significant, quarterbacks against whom future generations will be measured. By Eric Avidon.
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And I Am Not Lying! At Under St Marks, June 5th & UCB East, June 6th
We got two amazing shows this week! And Jeff is getting married so if you are like "Where is Jeff?!"
- Well he is off getting hitched and we wish him well!
In the meantime the show must go on…or shows as it is. We got two of em!
Two separate line ups!
Two different days!
Two different times!
And I Am Not Lying – Deluxe Version
Under St Marks Theatre
94 St. Marks Place, New York, New York
9pm – Wed. June 5th
$10 – for tickets go to http://smarttix.com
Two hours of the mightiest variety show in New York City. This is the epic power ballad of Burlesque, Storytelling, Stand-Up and Sideshow held every month at Under Saint Marks.
This month's line up features:
Story telling by Brad Lawrence, Cyndi Freeman and Kevin Allison
Burlesque by Cherry Pitz and Bunny Buxomm
Comedy by Matt Koff
And you are not seeing double!
And I Am Not Lying – The Quick Jab To The Solar Plexus
UCB East 153 East 3rd Street
11pm -Thur. June 6th
$5 – for tickets go to http://east.ucbtheatre.com/shows/view/3447
The fast jab, one-hour Ramones set of the powerhouse variety show, featuring storytelling, burlesque, comedy, and sideshow that you recently saw listed in the New York Times. Live at UCBeast
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Munchkins are creepy.
They dress in absurdly colored gear (where everyone of equal rank and function looks the same), move in herds, wear their ridiculous guild membership like thugs, celebrate boss kills with silly dances, and their faith in the Yellow Brick Road as the One True Path to enlightenment borders on bizarre.
Oh, and their singing is like fingernails on a chalkboard. Urgle.
But what of this "Yellow Brick Road" thing?
*Brick road photograph from CGTextures.com, yellow "paint" added by Tesh
It leads to a Wizard of some sort, right? The guy with all the answers? Big floating, disembodied head with the power to grant wishes? Except, oh, wait. There's this curtain involved. And some dude with machines pulling off an elaborate authority scam.
And whaddayaknow… in the end, he says that the Scarecrow's brain, the Lion's courage and Tin Man's heart were there from the start, developed through the journey they shared with a girl who only wanted to get home to the people she loved.
Maybe, just maybe… it's the people and the journey after all.
Dorothy found her friends when she ventured from the path. Her friends developed their own worth when they went even further off the path to save Dorothy. The Yellow Brick Road ultimately took them somewhere they didn't even need to go.
Maybe playing a game is more than just being passively entertained. It certainly seems to me that the whole point of playing a game instead of watching a movie is to be an active participant, making decisions and solving problems. (Note: devs and players both have to take part in this.)
Maybe that road not taken really is the best road. It makes all the difference when we choose to be agents of our own destiny instead of just following the well-trodden path.


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In 1936 the writer James Agee and photographer Walker Evans were commissioned by Fortune magazine to produce an article on the lives of poor sharecroppers in the American South. The ethos of Roosevelt's New Deal produced a whole series of collaborations between writers, photographers, artists, composers, choreographers and ethnologists, encouraged and funded to portray the lives of everyday American life in all its regions and cultures. The article eventually led to a book which was published in 1941, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, now regarded as one of the great books of the 20th century. In his introduction, Agee wrote quite specifically on the relationship between the words and the images: 'The photographs are not illustrative. They, and the text, are coequal, mutually independent, fully collaborative.'
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An Ex-Regulator's Take on Comcast-NBCU
The Federal Communications Commission has approved Comcast's acquisition of NBC Universal.
Historically speaking, the nation's largest cable operator acquiring a leading broadcast network is a little like the New York Yankees deciding to buy the New York Mets. On many issues in Washington, not to mention a variety of business negotiations, these are longtime enemies -- fighting, often bitterly, over retransmission of broadcast shows on cable channels and so forth.
FCC Forum Set On Comcast-NBCU Merger
FCC, Broadband Providers Hold More Talks
Network-Neutrality Battle Won, but More Fighting Looms
But the rise of the Internet and the massive upheaval in the media industry has changed everything. Strange bedfellows is the name of the game. The type of company you used to be matters a lot less than the type of company you want to become.
Today, a computer company such as Apple, a Web company such as Google, a cable company such as Comcast, telephone/wireless companies such as Verizon and AT&T, and newcomers such as Netflix (which really doesn't fit into any category) all want to become the same thing--the folks that you turn to when you want to watch something, any place, any time, on any screen (ranging from your iPhone to your 52-inch plasma TV). (For more, read this.)
And the FCC's endorsement of the idea that the government has a role in encouraging this competition is probably the most important aspect of its decision today.
First, some background: How mergers at the FCC will play out is notoriously hard to predict, but the ultimate result is not. The historical truth is that, in virtually every instance, the commission will approve any major proposed transaction. The only time in recent memory that the commission declined to do so was the proposed merger of the two leading satellite-TV providers (Echostar and DirecTV) -- and that marriage was running into problems with other agencies long before the FCC put the final nail in the coffin.
(Yes, then-Chairman Reed Hundt also famously ended rumors of an AT&T and Southwestern Bell merger in 1997 by preemptively declaring it "unthinkable." But those companies simply had to wait until 2005, when a different FCC chairman let it go through.)
The real action at the FCC involves what "conditions" the agency will put on a merger. These are supposed to be narrowly tailored to address specific harms raised by the merger at issue. But, regardless of who is in charge at the agency, it's all relative.
Often, the conditions applied to a particular merger have more to do with what the chairman and commissioners at the time want to achieve on an industrywide basis. It's just easier to get these things done when you have the extraordinary leverage of controlling the timing of a multibillion-dollar transaction that the parties are desperate to consummate.
Conditions reached as a bitter compromise in one merger often become the floor for the those imposed on the very next merger. Network neutrality began as a set of four unenforceable conditions endorsed by the FCC as part of a grand compromise that involved a split commission (two Republicans, two Democrats) deregulating broadband. In the next major merger (SBC-AT&T and Verizon-MCI), the conditions were made mandatory (as they applied to those parties). And in the next major merger (AT&T-BellSouth), a fifth condition was added. The history here is incredibly complex and certainly there were many factors. But it's basically correct to say that all these steps played an important, incremental role in the 3-2 decision last December to implement industrywide net-neutrality rules. (Full disclosure: Until last summer, I was a staffer at the FCC -- for Commissioner Michael Copps and Chairman Julius Genachowski -- and played a role in many of the foregoing decisions, although not the Comcast-NBCU merger.)
The FCC's list of conditions in this merger are pretty straightforward and expected -- for the most part. Rules about Comcast-NBCU not refusing to sell programming to other cable and satellite programmers. Not refusing to carry other programmers' content. Not getting rid of local news, public interest, and children's programming. And so forth.
But the really interesting ones are about the development of online video programming, including by companies (such as Netflix, Apple, and Google) that don't own their own distribution networks.
These "over the top" video providers are, in essence, trying to build businesses to defeat such companies as Comcast, Verizon, and AT&T by delivering bits to consumers over Comcast, AT&T, and Verizon's own broadband networks. A fraught business, to say the least.
The FCC's rules, as described in the press release announcing the merger, appear to be aimed at ensuring that "over the top" providers have fair access to programming (which the NBCU part of Comcast-NBCU will provide), as well as to consumers (which the Comcast part of Comcast-NBCU will provide).
This is, by far, the strongest statement yet from the commission about the importance of over the top video competition. But the business and regulatory stakes in this fight are only going to increase over time. Indeed, the two Republican commissioners (Robert McDowell and Meredith Attwell Baker) issued separate statements saying they have concerns over whether the FCC should be writing rules to encourage over the top video. So this is likely to be the first skirmish in what will surely be a long and bloody war.
In the weeks ahead, the lawyers will be able to parse the specific provisions to see where the loopholes are and how it will all play out in practice. The details surely matter. But years from now, the specifics of what was decided in this merger may mean a lot less than the fact that the FCC is now deeply involved in the multifront war to decide who will win online video.


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Protestant Churches in Brazil Experience Mixed Growth, Decline; Huge Increase for Pentecostals
A number of mainline traditional protestant churches in Brazil are declining in congregation numbers, according to a new research report out. However, at the same time the newly released analysis indicates that pentecostal churches are experiencing much of the huge growth explosion being reported among the evangelical community in the Latin American nation.
According to the analysis many denominations from the so-called "traditional churches" group experienced a decline over the 10 year period from 2000 through 2010. The Congregational Church showed a decline in membership of 26.37 percent; the Lutheran Church 6.10 percent; Presbyterian Church 5.9 percent and the Methodist Church 0.01 percent.
However, there was not a blanket decline among the "traditional church" group, and the Baptist Church revealed significant growth of 17.74 percent. The Adventist Church in Brazil, which was also included in the "traditional church" category, also experienced a 29.03 percent surge in membership over the 10 year period.
Overall the "traditional church" group, when considered as a whole" experienced a growth of 10.76 percent.
But that growth seems small when contrasted with the growth experienced by "pentecostal churches" group. This group including the Assemblies of God, Universal Church of the Kingdom of God, Maranatha Churches, Foursquare Church Gospel, among others, experienced a massive growth of 44.01 percent.
Within the "pentecostal church" grouping the Assemblies of God felt the largest growth; increasing in membership by 46.8 percent. The Foursquare Church Gospel and the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God each increased by 37.12 percent and 28.37 percent respectively.
Evangelical leaders in the country have expressed their concerns that some neo-pentecostal churches, which experienced large growth, are known for holding a liberal viewpoint and some controversial theological doctrines, when compared to traditional conservative churches in Brazil.
BEPEC director, Danilo Fernandes, has said he believes there is a possibility that the decline among some traditional churches will be reversed in the future, indicating that the recent decrease is just a temporary issue.
Fernandes has claimed that there is a new generation of people interested in developing their theological knowledge in the traditional churches, and has pointed to the numbers turning out at various Christian events in the country as evidence of this.
He also has claimed that numerous recent scandals involving mainline Pentecostal denominations could lead to a downward trend being witnessed in the future for pentecostal churches.
The report was compiled by the Bureau of Christian Research and Statistics (BEPEC), which analyzed data from the most recent census results in Brazil recently published by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), which cover the period from 2000 to 2010.
According to the 2010 census results from IBGE, the evangelical population of Brazil increased by 16 million people over the period from 2000 to 2010, to 42.3 million.


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The End of Philosophy
Today, many psychologists, cognitive scientists and even philosophers embrace a different view of morality. In this view, moral thinking is more like aesthetics. As we look around the world, we are constantly evaluating what we see. Seeing and evaluating are not two separate processes. They are linked and basically simultaneous.
As Steven Quartz of the California Institute of Technology said during a recent discussion of ethics sponsored by the John Templeton Foundation, "Our brain is computing value at every fraction of a second. Everything that we look at, we form an implicit preference. Some of those make it into our awareness; some of them remain at the level of our unconscious, but … what our brain is for, what our brain has evolved for, is to find what is of value in our environment."
Think of what happens when you put a new food into your mouth. You don't have to decide if it's disgusting. You just know. You don't have to decide if a landscape is beautiful. You just know.
Moral judgments are like that. They are rapid intuitive decisions and involve the emotion-processing parts of the brain. Most of us make snap moral judgments about what feels fair or not, or what feels good or not. We start doing this when we are babies, before we have language. And even as adults, we often can't explain to ourselves why something feels wrong.
In other words, reasoning comes later and is often guided by the emotions that preceded it. Or as Jonathan Haidt of the University of Virginia memorably wrote, "The emotions are, in fact, in charge of the temple of morality, and … moral reasoning is really just a servant masquerading as a high priest."
The question then becomes: What shapes moral emotions in the first place? The answer has long been evolution, but in recent years there's an increasing appreciation that evolution isn't just about competition. It's also about cooperation within groups. Like bees, humans have long lived or died based on their ability to divide labor, help each other and stand together in the face of common threats. Many of our moral emotions and intuitions reflect that history. We don't just care about our individual rights, or even the rights of other individuals. We also care about loyalty, respect, traditions, religions. We are all the descendents of successful cooperators.
The first nice thing about this evolutionary approach to morality is that it emphasizes the social nature of moral intuition. People are not discrete units coolly formulating moral arguments. They link themselves together into communities and networks of mutual influence.
The second nice thing is that it entails a warmer view of human nature. Evolution is always about competition, but for humans, as Darwin speculated, competition among groups has turned us into pretty cooperative, empathetic and altruistic creatures — at least within our families, groups and sometimes nations.
The third nice thing is that it explains the haphazard way most of us lead our lives without destroying dignity and choice. Moral intuitions have primacy, Haidt argues, but they are not dictators. There are times, often the most important moments in our lives, when in fact we do use reason to override moral intuitions, and often those reasons — along with new intuitions — come from our friends.
The rise and now dominance of this emotional approach to morality is an epochal change. It challenges all sorts of traditions. It challenges the bookish way philosophy is conceived by most people. It challenges the Talmudic tradition, with its hyper-rational scrutiny of texts. It challenges the new atheists, who see themselves involved in a war of reason against faith and who have an unwarranted faith in the power of pure reason and in the purity of their own reasoning.
Finally, it should also challenge the very scientists who study morality. They're good at explaining how people make judgments about harm and fairness, but they still struggle to explain the feelings of awe, transcendence, patriotism, joy and self-sacrifice, which are not ancillary to most people's moral experiences, but central. The evolutionary approach also leads many scientists to neglect the concept of individual responsibility and makes it hard for them to appreciate that most people struggle toward goodness, not as a means, but as an end in itself.


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Portland, Oregon: Cash Magnet
There are two ways to make a city grow. First, pop out babies faster than people die. Easy enough, right? Well, for the past two decades Oregon's baby-makin' has hovered right around the so-called "replacement rate"—about 1.98 children per mother. The other way? Throw open the doors and hope people come in. As a frontier town, Portland has always been better at the latter.
Now people—lots of people—are flocking to Portland. Between 2000 and 2010, the city's population swelled by 10.3 percent to 583,776, while the entire metro region grew by more than 15 percent. That's close to the historic norm, says Uma Krishnan, a demographer for the City of Portland. "But the last two years have been really phenomenal," she notes, saying that the city proper has added 20,000 people, a whopping 3.5 percent.
And that's just the head count. There's another way to track humans: follow their money. The Internal Revenue Service collects a trove of data on Americans—among other things, documenting their movements around the country. The IRS info on Portland's new arrivals depicts an important historic change. In effect, two Portlands are emerging: one drawing diverse, wealthy transplants from across the nation and world; the other, stubbornly Northwest to its core. (Caveat: the numbers only represent people who actually pay taxes.)
Once, Portland lost wealth to the Southwest as retirees (and incomes fattened by investments and pensions) decamped to warmer climes. Whether it's our real estate, our fine food, or just the historic heat levels parching traditionally sunny states, that pattern has reversed itself in dramatic fashion. Portland now gains $61 million annually in income moving from California, and $6 million from Arizona and New Mexico.
"People move here even during times of higher-than-usual unemployment rates," says Risa Proehl, an analyst at Portland State University's Population Research Center. They also tend to move from much larger, arguably more economically dynamic cities: LA, San Francisco, New York (NYC exiles' economic footprint here has tripled since 2003—bada bing!), Chicago, and Phoenix. (The IRS numbers don't provide details on where international transplants—who are playing a large role in driving the city's overall population gain—come here from.) This influx rolled right over the Great Recession, sometimes-dismal employment stats be damned.
These trends suggest a place slowly turning into a pan-American urban hybrid. But then there's the other Portland lurking in the IRS data: that age-old destination for UO graduates, Boise refugees, and bored Molallans drawn to the "Big City." A large chunk of our incoming income—about 50 percent—gravitates here from within Oregon. Eugene, Bend, Salem, and Medford play an increasingly significant role in populating Portland. And in another monumental shift, neighboring Clackamas and Washington Counties are the largest contributors, indicating migration from the burbs to the warm, nougatty city center.
So is Portland becoming a kind of global suburb—a haven for mobile people, their pockets afire with home equity and earnings from bigger, richer places? Or is our fate still bound to our traditional role as Oregon's economic and cultural engine, the place that ships out the grain, ships in the Subarus, and, for all its flaws, is less boring than Boring?
The answer is probably...both. The creative-class battle cry of "lifestyle über alles!" and the politician mantra of "jobs, jobs, jobs," are entwined harmonies in our Pied Piper's tune. "There are a lot of places that have strong labor demand but are unappealing," says UC Berkeley's Enrico Moretti, author of The New Geography of Jobs. "There are more jobs than people in North Dakota. Then there are great places to live with no jobs, like Santa Barbara."
As we grow, the two groups uprooting themselves (and their W-2s) to Portland will need each other. The well-heeled Californians and New Yorkers bring fresh connections (and better tips). The Oregon natives keep our mossy roots strong—and as long as that is true, we can revel in our new cosmopolitan bloom.


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4720, 4712 VCO and Reverb Modules
In this area, you can find links to audio compositions and experiments by PAiA users. If you'd like to submit an audio file, send it (or a URL for it) to the following e-mail address: firstname.lastname@example.com
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4720, 4712 VCO and Reverb Modules
...4 wave forms on a VCO dry and wet. ...starts off with a 4 note chord... Square waves with PWM ... four wave forms dry and with a static tone. Blacet Binary Zone...sequence. ... getting wetter and wetter!
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Amazon will add a neat new feature to its Kindle e-book program later this year, designed to let you loan Kindle e-books to your friends, either via Kindle devices or the Kindle app for the iPhone, iPad, Android, etc.
Sounds great! We've been hoping for this for a long time, because this is how people share paper books.
But there will be some big limitations.
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First, "Each book can be lent once for a loan period of 14-days and the lender cannot read the book during the loan period," Amazon explains.
And perhaps more importantly, publishers will also be able to turn lending off for their books. Let's hope they don't screw this up. [Via Fraser Speirs.]


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Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon rated
Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon is looking to be a downloadable follow-up to Far Cry 3, as evidenced by a new rating.
We really liked Far Cry 3. And apparently, so did nearly 5 million of you. With the open world shooter being positioned as one of Ubisoft's "major pillars," the company is quickly working on a follow-up.
The unannounced Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon has been discovered on the Brazilian ratings site, and is set to arrive on PC, PS3, and Xbox 360 like the original game. In addition, possible XBLA artwork has been discovered.
Given those two clues, it appears Blood Dragon will be a standalone downloadable game. But what will it be about? Joystiq recently chatted with Far Cry 3 lead writer Jeffrey Yohalem, who admitted that he's working on something now that will be "surprising." In addition, he said that it's a "strike while the iron's hot" sort of endeavor.
Shacknews has contacted Ubisoft for more information. Given the publisher's knack for leaks lately, it seems very likely Blood Dragon is real.
Andrew Yoon posted a new article, Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon rated.
Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon is looking to be a downloadable follow-up to Far Cry 3, as evidenced by a new rating.


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Win32/Gapz has a new technique for code injection and a new VBR infection method. The dropper has many tricks for bypassing detection by security software.
The Win32/Gapz malware family was mentioned publicly for the first time in the middle of November 2012, by the Russian antivirus company Doctor Web (Trojan.Gapz.1 infecting Windows in a new manner). But I didn't find the technical details about this threat in that report and so prepared a deeper analysis. Win32/Gapz uses many exploitation techniques for implementing local privilege escalation (LPE) and infecting the VBR (Volume Boot Record) and MBR (Master Boot Record) in the earliest samples seen. The first interesting finding is that the VBR infection method is really new and not something we've seen before in other bootkit families. And the second interesting characteristic is the method used for injecting the malicious payload into user-mode system processes.
The VBR infector changes only four bytes in bootstrap code in order to get control so as to deliver the malicious shellcode payload. Another interesting detail is that Win32/Gapz doesn't have a malicious driver and all the bootkit functionality is loaded with the operating system boot process as shellcode sequences. More details about the bootkit part of the malware have been prepared by my colleague Eugene Rodionov (Win32/Gapz: New Bootkit Technique). In this blog post I focus on describing some interesting tricks used by the Gapz dropper. At the time of publication we have information about three different versions of the dropper. The characteristics of each of these dropper versions are presented in the following table:
The first known version of the dropper was compiled at the end of April, but this version names many internal debug strings and it's possible that this version was not developed for mass distribution. It seems likely that Win32/Gapz started mass distribution at the end of summer or beginning of September. The latest versions of the dropper use three approaches to escalating privilege:
- CVE-2011-3402 (TrueType Font Parsing Vulnerability)
- CVE-2010-4398 (Driver Improper Interaction with Windows Kernel Vulnerability)
- COM Elevation (UAC whitelist)
The mechanism for escalating privilege using a COM Elevation technique trick on 64-bit systems has already been already described in my blog post about purple haze TDL4 modification (TDL4 reloaded: Purple Haze all in my brain).
But none of these exploitation techniques are new and patches have already been made available. The most interesting part of the dropper is its new technique for code injection into the user-mode address space.
What versions of MS Windows can be infected?
During the infection process the dropper checks the version of the operating system in use, using the following code:
Win32/Gapz is capable of infecting the following versions of Microsoft Windows operating systems:
• x86: Windows XP SP2 and higher (except Windows Vista and Vista SP1)
• x64: Windows Vista SP2 and higher
The current version of theWin32/Gapz dropper is able to infect WinXP and Win7 including x64 versions, but on Win8 the bootkit part does not work reliably after infection and the kernel-mode code is not executed after the system has booted.
Gapz dropper
The malware is installed on to the system by means of quite an elaborate dropper. Besides installing malware the dropper is also able to bypass HIPS and elevate its privileges. What makes it interesting is the detail of its implementation. If we look at what the dropper exports we will see the following picture:
There are three exported routines to which we should pay attention: start, icmnf and isyspf. Here is a brief description of each of them:
- start – the dropper's entry point injects the dropper into explorer.exe address space
- icmnf – responsible for elevating privileges
- isyspf – performs infection of the victim's host machine.
The following diagram depicts the sequence of their execution and the activities that they perform:
Gapz code injection technique
Win32/Gapz uses a non-standard technique for code injection in all known dropper versions. This approach allows it to inject code into explorer.exe address space, bypassing security software. This technique works on all current versions of Microsoft Windows operating system. Its essence is to inject a shellcode into the Explorer process that loads and executes the malicious image. Here is the number of steps required to achieve this outcome:
- Open one of the shared sections from BaseNamedObjects mapped into explorer.exe address space, and write shellcode into this section
- After the first step shellcode is already written to explorer.exe address space and the next step is for the dropper to search for the window "Shell_TrayWnd"
- The dropper calls the WinAPI function GetWindowLong() so as to get the address of the routine related to the "Shell_TrayWnd" window handler
- At the next step the dropper calls WinAPI function SetWindowLong() to modify "Shell_TrayWnd" window-related data
- It calls SendNotifyMessage() to trigger shellcode execution in explorer.exe address space.
Here is the list of the section in BaseNamedObjects for which the malware looks for during step 1:
Once the section is opened malware writes the shellcode at the end of it as shown below:
After SendNotifyMessage() is executed "Shell_TrayWnd" receives and transfers control to the address pointed to by the value previously set by SetWindowLong(). The address points to the KiUserApcDispatcher() routine:
This eventually results in transferring control to the shellcode mapped into explorer process address space, as presented in the following figure:
The shellcode creates the thread in explorer.exe process context and restores the original value previously changed by SetWindowLong() WinAPI function. The newly created thread runs the next part of the dropper for escalating privilege. After the dropper obtains sufficient privileges it attempts to infect the system.
Why this threat named Gapz?
Good question, and on this occasion it's not a random choice of name. The GAPZ string is used as a tag for allocating the memory region in the shellcode as well in the kernel-mode. Its code looks like this:
Interesting feature of Win32/Gapz.C dropper
The oldest known version of the dropper (Win32/Gapz.C) used a special log file stored in the %TEMP% directory and wrote extended debugging information. The log file after a successful infection looks like this:
Win32/Gapz is a really interesting threat, containing a new technique for code injection never seen before in other malware families, and a new VBR infection method. The dropper has many tricks for bypassing detection by popular security software. Shellcode techniques used in Gapz make this dropper difficult to research. According to ESET's LiveGrid telemetry, not many detections of this threat have been seen, but in the coming year this platform for stealth infection may become more popular. In my opinion Win32/Gapz one of the most interesting complex threats of 2012.
Special thanks to my colleague Anton Cherepanov.
Aleksandr Matrosov, Security Intelligence Team Lead
SHA1 hashes for the Win32/Gapz dropper samples mentioned are shown in the following table:
Detection name
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Sometimes, a team comes around to realizing it can't have a bunch of choir boys if it wants to win football games. The Broncos filled one of their greatest needs Thursday by selecting highly skilled but troubled Ohio State cornerback Bradley Roby with the No. 31 pick in the first round of the NFL draft.
In terms of talent, some NFL scouts believe Roby was among the best cornerbacks in this draft. He has good size (5-foot-11, 194 pounds) and is fast (4.34 seconds in the 40-yard dash).
Although Broncos general manager John Elway said Chris Harris would remain the starting right corner opposite Aqib Talib, the plan is for Roby to come in on nickel situations. Roby would then play the boundary, or outside corner while Harris would move in to the nickel, or field back.
Elway did admit the reason why Roby lasted until the end of the first round was because of character concerns. Roby was involved in a bar fight that led to a suspension from Ohio State's season opener last year. Roby also was cited three weeks ago for operating a vehicle under the influence.
"There's no question if he didn't have the couple issues that he's had there's no way he would have been there for us at 31," Elway said. "They're hopefully for him learning experiences. He's 21 years old, and young guys are going to make mistakes. I'm thrilled with the locker room that we have. We've got a bunch of professionals in there, and I'm sure he's going to learn from a lot from the guys that are in there. Coupled with his physical talent, we think we've got a gem."
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The Broncos were concerned about Roby's past. Late last week, though, they talked to Ohio State coach Urban Meyer, who strongly testified on Roby's behalf. Broncos defensive coordinator Jack Del Rio also had relationships with the Buckeyes' coaching staff and after those discussions with the folks in Columbus, Ohio, Denver felt better about Roby.
"I want to start by saying I'm not a bad guy," Roby said. "The bar fight, in actuality, it was not a bar fight. No punches were thrown. It was a situation where the bouncers were the aggressors against me and I retaliated. I made a bad decision. I chose to push the guy."
As for the driving under influence charge, Roby published a copy of his citation that said his blood-alcohol content was 0.008, well below the legal limit.
"I was asleep in my car that was parked," Roby said. "The NFL is about perception. Just because I had run-ins with the law, people want to question my character, but you can ask anybody really close to me, I'm not that way at all. I think people have a misconception about me because of decisions I've made in my past. I'm not a bad guy. These guys are not getting a guy you have to worry about off the field. I won't have any incidents like that. These past two incidents have really taught me about being aware out in public."
The Broncos also had cornerback Kyle Fuller and middle linebacker C.J. Mosley high on their draft board. Fuller went to the Chicago Bears at No. 14. The Broncos also tried to swap with Pittsburgh at No. 15, Dallas at No. 16 and Baltimore at No. 17 but couldn't a deal done.
When the Ravens took Mosley, the Broncos turned their attention to Roby, provided he lasted to No. 31, or trading back into the second round.
When Roby was there, the Broncos had their man.
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"I did not have any indication," Roby said. "I didn't come for a visit or anything. It was actually a surprise, but I'm actually glad. I think this is going to be a great place for me."
Roby will get a four-year contract worth about $6.8 million, with about $4 million getting paid out this year.
The Broncos might be able to address their middle linebacker need in the second or third rounds Friday.
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About CB Bradley Roby
Height: 5-foot-11
Weight: 194 pounds
College: Ohio State
What Elway said: Broncos general manager John Elway said Roby was the top-rated player available when the Broncos selected him with the 31st pick. He's a physical, tough cornerback who dropped because of some off-field concerns. Considered the most athletic corner in the draft by many scouts.
Troy E. Renck, The Denver Post


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ROME March 25, 2012— -- Lawyers for Amanda Knox told Italy's Supreme Court that prosecutors who argued today that she should be retried for the murder of her roommate "started with an error and ... continues to insist in the errors."
Knox's lawyer got the last word as a team of lawyers for the prosecution and the family of the slain roommate, Meredith Kercher, told the country's top court that an appeals ruling that freed Knox from prison in 2011 had made a mistake. They want her to face a new trial and be sent back to prison.
Knox, who remained home in Seattle during today's hearing, was released from an Italy's Capanne prison in 2011 after the appeals court threw out her conviction and scolded the prosecution's handling of evidence and the case. Also released at the time was her ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito who had been convicted along with her.
The court said it would deliver its ruling Tuesday morning.
Knox, 25, was "anxious" about today's hearing.
The court could reject the prosecution's appeal and end her six year ordeal. But if the Supreme Court rules that Knox should not have been exonerated, a new trial would be ordered. Knox would not be required to return to Italy for the proceedings.
If that lower court trial convicted her again, the verdict would again be appealed, a process that would take years. Only if the Supreme Court upholds the guilty verdict could extradition proceedings begin to return Knox to Italy, although experts do not believe such an effort would be successful.
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"'This trial started with an error and the prosecution continues to insist in the errors even in an attempt to convince the Supreme Court that the recourse should be accepted," Knox's lawyer Carlo Dalla Vedova argued.
Dalla Vedova reminded the court that today's hearing should only consider whether Italian legal code was applied directly, noting it was not a re-trial of evidence and witnesses.
After the hearing, Dalla Vedova told ABC News, "The prosecutor spoke about the merits of the case as opposed to the procedural faults."
Knox lawyers also asked that her slander conviction be overturned. She was convicted of slander for falsely accusing her former boss, Patrick Lumumba, as Kercher's killer.
Knox claims that she told police she had a "vision" of Lumumba during a marathon interrogation by police who insisted she had plans to meet Lumumba that night because they found a message on her cellphone telling Lumumba in Italian, "See you later."
During her 2009 trial testimony, Knox said that during her grilling she was hit in the head, threatened and confused.
Dalla Vedova reminded the Supreme Court they had previously ruled Knox's "confession" inadmissible because Knox was never informed she was suspect.
Knox spent nearly four years in prison and three of those years were considered to have satisfied her penalty for slander. If her conviction is overturned, she could seek compensation for false imprisonment. The maximum she could win is 520,000 euro, or nearly $750,000.
Sollecito's lawyer, Giulia Bongiorno, also came to Knox's defense today.
Bongiorno reminded the court that Knox was not allowed a lawyer during her interrogations, but was allowed a translator, or what she referred to as a "medium" who would "induce [Knox] to remember things." Knox testified in 2009 that the translator encouraged her "to try to remember."
Bongiorno added in court today, "There was a lot that was strange that night -- dreams, visions. But she said the strangest was instead of calling a defense lawyer, 'they called a medium.'
The day's hearing began with prosecutors arguing that the appeals court judges who set Knox free had "lost their direction." They argued that "some elements were not taken into account," insinuating that the appeal decision to acquit was wrong because not all evidence was considered.
Prosecutors argued that the independent review of key DNA during the appeal – which blasted the prosecution's case and proved a turning point for Knox -- "was used like a final word" and covered up all other evidence.
Each party was permitted 20 minutes to speak, but the prosecutor went on for an hour. After 35 minutes, the judge chided him and asked him to "hurry up."
The prosecutor's arguments were supported by a lawyer representing the Kercher family and a lawyer for Patrick Lumumba, Knox's former boss who has sued her for defamation. They all argued that Knox and Sollecito were wrongfully set free and should be tried again for murder.
Prosecutors and Kercher's family want to see Knox and Sollecito back in prison.
"We feel that Amanda and Raffaele are guilty and were in the room with Rudy Guede," Francesco Maresca, lawyer for the Kercher family, said as he entered the Corte di Cassazione, Italy's supreme court, in Rome today.
Guede, an Ivory Coast drifter, has also been convicted in the 2007 murder and is serving a 16 year prison term.
Knox, a student at the University of Washington, was attentive to today's hearing. Luciano Ghirga, a member of Knox's legal team, said he heard from his client on Sunday.
"She is anxious. She is following the process very closely," Ghirga said.
When asked if she would return to Italy, Ghirga said only, "She can come back anytime she wishes."
The Amanda Knox case captivated audiences in Italy, Britain and the U.S. She spent four years in a prison outside Perugia and was sentenced to 26 years following her initial conviction. But in 2011 and appeals court threw out the conviction and harshly criticized the prosecution's handling of evidence.
Knox was Kercher's roommate in Perugia when Kercher's throat was slashed and she was sexually assaulted. Prosecutors claimed that Knox, Sollecito and Guede killed her in a sex game gone bad. They claimed to have found Sollecito's DNA on Kercher's bra clasp cut off the bra and a speck of DNA from Kercher and Knox on a knife in Sollecito's kitchen.
An independent panel of forensics experts concluded that the bra clasp had been left on Kercher's bedroom floor for nearly a month after the murder, had been mishandled and likely contaminated. The speck on the knife was so minute it could not be retested and could have come from another substance.
If the supreme court rules today that Knox should not have been exonerated, a new trial would be ordered in a lower court. Knox would not be required to return to Italy for the proceedings.
If that lower court trial convicted her again, the verdict would again be appealed to the Supreme Court. Only if the Supreme Court upholds the lower court's guilty verdict could extradition proceedings begin to return Knox to Italy, although experts do not believe such an effort would be successful.
Since her 2011 release from prison, Knox has resumed her life in Seattle, taking classes and spending time with her family and boyfriend, James Terrano.
Her memoir,"Waiting to Be Heard," published by HarperCollins, will be released April 30. She reportedly received an advance of $4 million for the book.
Knox's first interview since she was freed will air during a primetime special on Tuesday, April 30 at 10 p.m., ET on the ABC Television Network.


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IONIA, Mich. (AP) _ Authorities say a nationwide alert has been issued for a convicted murderer serving life behind bars for four 1993 slayings who escaped from prison.
Michigan Department of Corrections Director Dan Heyns told reporters Monday morning at Ionia Correctional Facility in mid-Michigan that investigators believe 40-year-old Michael David Elliot isn't in the state.
Authorities say he apparently abducted a woman at an Ionia gas station who fled his grips when he stopped for gas in Indiana.
Heyns says Elliot was dressed in a white kitchen uniform, which might have helped him evade security. Heyns says Elliot wasn't a kitchen worker, however. The department says he was noticed missing about 9:30 p.m. Sunday.
Heyns says Elliot may have escaped about 6 p.m. or 7 p.m.


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Serena Williams, of the United States, reacts after a shot against Varvara Lepchenko.
NEW YORK (AP) — Bidding for a third consecutive U.S. Open title, Serena Williams moved into the fourth round by beating 52nd-ranked Varvara Lepchenko 6-3, 6-3 Saturday.
The No. 1-ranked and No. 1-seeded Williams has faced American opponents in all three of her matches this week while extending her overall winning streak at Flushing Meadows to 17.
Serena Williams, of the United States, returns a shot against Varvara Lepchenko.
Williams had some trouble dealing with the whipping wind in Arthur Ashe Stadium but eventually took control against Lepchenko, a 2012 Olympic teammate and occasional practice partner.
Williams, a 17-time Grand Slam singles champion, is hoping to avoid her first season since 2006 without reaching at least one major final. She lost in the fourth round at the Australian Open, second round at the French Open, and third round at Wimbledon.


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Roads of Apocalypse (4th ed.) - Set 1: Church of Apocalypse Feb 4, 2016 14:54:10 GMT -9 whiteknight06604, migibb, and 1 more like this
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Cardstock Dane: ForestB, Tell me about it! I had big problems last year, loads of under extrusion, which I couldn't understand - until I realized, that the new filament I had bought needed a lower nozzle temp. Mar 26, 2023 23:52:13 GMT -9 *
ForestB: Cardstock Dane, don't mention those evil devices! Spent two 'fun' hours last night unclogging a heat break tube (the nozzle was a lost cause and replaced). Stupid bowden tube slipped and molten plastic spilled up into the heat break tube and congealed. Mar 22, 2023 12:25:21 GMT -9
ForestB: Hello there, creyates! Doing okayish, still creating though about to shift back into full builder mode to prep for a campaign. Mar 22, 2023 12:20:50 GMT -9
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Punkrabbitt: Thank you, Mr. Vermin (or is that Mr. King?) I have my workaround now Feb 22, 2023 18:15:32 GMT -9
Vermin King: When did they make DropBox so un-managable? Feb 22, 2023 9:03:10 GMT -9
Vermin King: I thought the security certificate was fixed already. I got the same error today. Clicked on Advanced, then Accept the Risk, and it opened Feb 17, 2023 6:07:00 GMT -9
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Vermin King: There evidently was a feasibility study about a decade ago about a water pipeline from the Great Lakes to the Southwest states. I believe that water would have been even more expensive than bottled water Dec 28, 2022 6:33:56 GMT -9
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Use too as a synonym for also or to indicate excessiveness before a verb. Usually, if you can replace too with also in the same sentence, and it still makes sense, then you are using it correctly.
"I am going to the mall, too."
"I had too many tacos for lunch."


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Onykia sp. ARichard E. Young
Wakabayashi et al. (2007) found a paralarval Onykia near Hawaii (28°30'N 155°W at a surface temperature of 23.3°C) that could not be assigned to any know species of the genus from the North Pacific based on molecular analysis of the COI gene. Therefore, we suspect that Onykia sp. A, found commonly in waters around the main Hawaiian Islands but known primarily from paralarvae, is a new species. A nearly mature female taken from the stomach of a sword fish with a small size further supports this possibility.
Brief diagnosis:
An Onykia with ...
- small maximum size (?)
- irregular warts on mantle (?)
CharacteristicsThe following information is from the nearly mature female (272 mm ML, see title photograph) taken, partly digested, from the stomach of a swordfish.
- Arms
- Arm tips very attenuate.
- Arm tips very attenuate.
- Tentacles
- Right club with about 25-26 hooks, left club with about 22 hooks.
- Head
- Beaks: Descriptions can be found here: Lower beak; upper beak.
- Funnel groove with inverse Y-shaped ridge.
- Mantle
- Mantle appears to have been covered with round/irregular warts.
- Fins
- Fins sagittate; extend to posterior tip of tail.
- Fins sagittate; extend to posterior tip of tail.
- Viscera
- Gladius rostrum of 272 mm ML female: 45 mm long, measured from ventral edge of conus.
- Irregular shape in cross-section.
- Nidamental and oviducal glands well developed.
- Measurements:
Mantle length
Head width
Funnel lock, lenght
25 Mantle lock, length
45 Arm I, length
Arm II, length
170 Arm III, length
178 Arm IV, length
188 Tentacle length
400 Club length
68 Fin length*
Fin width
Onykia sp. A is similar to the the warm water O. robsoni/O.carriboea but cannot be clearly separated from them at present.
Life HistoryThe paralarvae of Onykia sp. A (Figs. A-C below) are easily distinguished from other squid paralarvae in Hawaiian waters: They are broad and have a characteristic line of large dorsal mantle chromatophores whose widths generally increase posteriorly. Small paralarvae often are observed in preserved samples with the head mostly withdrawn into the mantle cavity as shown in Fig. A.
Figure. Ventral and dorsal views of paralarvae and an early juvenile of Onykia sp. A - 1.7 mm ML paralarva. B - 2.7 mm ML paralarva. C - 3.4 mm ML paralarva. D - 5.6 mm ML juvenile. A-C show paralarvae with contracted anterior mantle margins which are commonly observed in preserved paralarvae. These growth stages were taken from plankton tows in Hawaiian waters. The scale bar is 1 mm. Drawings by R. Young.
Wakabayashi, T., T. Kubodera, M. Sakai, T. Ichii, and S. Chow. 2007. Molecular evidence for synonymy of the genera Moroteuthis and Onykia and identification of their paralarvae from northern Hawaiian waters. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the UK, 87: 959-965.
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The plum harvest was also light, but they were sweeter than any I remember.
Here is one of them. Please meet "Trouble", he's the king of the roost and loves nothing more than to perch on the highest places. (As seen here, about 7-feet up, on top of his pen.) His other favorite place to roost is on top of the 9-foot high cross members of the bean supports. Or taking a jaunt over to the house to come spy on me as I work in the kitchen. He's quite the character.