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Nate Silver may be on to something after all. The New Times blogger currently gives President Barack Obama a 91 percent chance of winning the election today, based on "rigorous analysis ... largely through statistical means."
Peel -- an app that helps viewers discover TV content -- did something too. Over the three presidential debates and one VP tangle, the app maker invited users to cheer or boo the candidates as they lobbed their best lines at each other. It turns out, Peel sees the win going to Obama as well. (See infographic.)
"Based on Peel's user data which warranted 1.5 million interactions during the debates," a Peel spokesperson wrote me yesterday, "users think Mr. Obama will win the election with 285 electoral votes (with three undecided states)."
Those undecided states seemed awfully critical all this time: Ohio, Wisconsin and Colorado. Except Peel's analysis has Obama winning Florida, Virginia, Pennsylvania and Nevada, which would end the race without the three hold-outs. Brave call, especially with RealClearPolitics showing an edge -- statistically negligible, mind you -- to Republican candidate Mitt Romney in Florida. For what it's worth, Silver also has Florida and Virginia going Obama.
Peel did a similar cheer-boo analysis of American Idol last season. Prediction: Phillip Phillips. Nailed it. But presidential races are a bit more complex, if not more nuanced, and the factors outside of debates are key to the outcome. Also, the demographic breakdown seems to indicate some outsized Obama leanings, even though Romney-friendly Texas had the highest participation. Which is to say: We'll see.
Peel's real win is driving 1.5 million interactions. Scott Ellis, Peel's vice president of marketing, told me last month that 1 million would be a solid goal for the company, so the company is clearly pleased. Whether that interaction actually reflects a broader sentiment among TV watchers might be another important outcome.
The real-time poll, available only to Galaxy Tab users, peeled off a thin slice of TV feedback. And there is no scientific controls to ensure the numbers reflect anything worthy as data. (Peel says it did take into account the voting proclivity of each user during the sign-in process.)
But this direct connection to instantaneous sentiment has some real implications. Social TV sentiment could be a powerful indicator for everything from shows to brands -- and perhaps even candidates and causes. In the infographic, Peel shows the moments of deepest engagement for viewers during all the debates, which is notably not around binders of women or bayonets or 47 percent. It's about Obamacare, debt and military spending -- and notably zinger-free.
So whether Peel predicts precisely or not, it might peel back the notion that one-liners determine debates. That insight could be a winner in its own right.
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Hi Roy,
If you have the original dwg files, try exploding the Mechanical Desktop
parts -which will turn them into ACIS solids and then use the regular STLOUT
command ( which will by default create a binary STL file ).
Don't forget to set the FACETRES high ( top value is 10).
Good luck,
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Subject: bad stl files?
Ever have a file that opens, looks beautiful in your viewer, but won't
I have 2 of them! Very similar parts, basically 2 gears connected by a solid
cylinder. When we try to build these parts (3 tries now) the parts are built
in multiple sections. Here are some of the details:
1. Parts were built on a DTM machine. Each time, the other parts in the
came out fine. Just these 2 files had problems. Here are some of the
2. Files were created in Mechanical Desktop - STL files are ASCII - We could
not find an option to make binary.
3. files are quite large 14 meg & 12 meg each.
Any help, suggestions or ideas would be appreciated.
Roy Sheppard, Jr. CPMR
Atlantic Technical Components, Inc.
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Ellen Degeneres is claiming she was sexually assaulted by her mother's new husband when she was a teenager.
The Ellen Show host reportedly shared her story during an appearance on Netflix's My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman.
- Fury erupts over Ellen DeGeneres posing with African children on Instagram
- Ellen DeGeneres reveals the tragic loss that led to her big break
According to Entertainment Tonight, DeGeneres says her mother married a "very bad man" who used his wife's breast cancer diagnosis to prey on her daughter.
"He told me when she was out of town that he'd felt a lump in her breast and needed to feel my breasts because he didn't want to upset her, but he needed to feel mine," Degeneres reportedly told Letterman.
"He convinced me that he needs to feel my breasts, and then he tries to do it again another time, and then another time."
The 61-year-old TV icon also recounted an incident where her stepfather tried to break into her bedroom, forcing her to flee out the window.
"[I knew] it was going to go more to something," she said.
DeGeneres said she hid the abuse for years before telling her mother. She explained that she wanted to go public with her story in the hopes that it might help young women at risk.
"I'm angry at myself because, you know, I didn't - I was too weak to stand up to - I was 15 or 16," Degeneres said.
"It's a really horrible, horrible story and the only reason I'm actually going to go into detail about it is because I want other girls to not ever let someone do that."
DeGeneres said her mother Betty did not believe her when she was told of the assault. She remained married to the man for another 18 years.
"I always have taken care of her my whole life," DeGeneres is said of her relationship with her mother.
"So I just kept taking care of her. I didn't really let it get to me. Until recently, I kind of went, 'I wish I would have been better taken care of. I wish she would have believed me.' And she's apologetic, but, you know."
Season two of Letterman's Netflix show, which also features interviews with Kanye West and Tiffany Haddish, will be released on Friday May 31.


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The theme of this year's campaign, #STOP ON RED! doesn't suggest that drivers not only stop at stop signs, and red lights but also the red flashing lights on school buses. The law demands it.
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Although motorists may be on the other side of the street from the bus, they must stop unless there is a physical barrier between the two lanes. Children will cross the street after getting off the bus. The same holds true when children are boarding buses. Children are not paying attention to motorists. They are worried about getting to and on the bus in time. It is the motorist's responsibility to stop and yield to bus riders.
There are penalties for the drivers who disregard the law and put children at risk. Drivers who pass a school bus while the lights are flashing and the stop arm extended could receive a $570 fine and 3 points. For motorists who stop and proceed before the bus lights have stopped, the fine is $570 and 3 points. Drivers who fail to stop and cause an accident may face additional charges.
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From the off, there's no mistaking this is a game set in the Trine universe. The gorgeous purples and blues of the title screen immediately recall the previous games, with some stunning art direction all creating a sense of weight and place to the world. Frozenbyte are simply superb at crafting interesting, nicely detailed and interesting environments and characters; that legacy continues here. Across the multiple locations on offer all serve up a real treat, with bright, detailed areas hiding experience chests and hidden quills. Each level is strictly linear though, even if it does look like there may be a few hidden shortcuts.
Trying to go through these just has you run into an invisible wall. It would have been a nice addition, somewhere to hide extra goodies or challenges, but really this only becomes apparent on subsequent playthroughs as unless you play on higher difficulties the enemy patterns are the same, leading you to try to explore the levels more. Levels are short too, most taking no more than about 10 minutes to get through. It keeps the game running at a brisk pace, never allowing you to stick around one area for too long and keeping the world visually interesting. After a few standard levels, you encounter a boss battle. It's here where you gather the titular parchments, picking one of a selection of 3 random extra powers up to a total of (have you guessed yet?) 9.
Boss battles are fun, short bursts of constant combat that are a test of your mastery of all of your available abilities up to that point. Alone, they can prove challenging as moving and keeping a constant attack going can be overwhelming, but in co-op they really come in to their own. Speaking of which, this is a co-op game through and through. Fun to play alone, it really comes into its own when joined with up to 4 people. Aside from powers each character starts with, you can customize them fairly extensively. Magic staves and hats are unlocked through play, each offering up different perks and buffs to complement your playstyle. Co-ordinate with your team and you can create some powerful combos.
Drop an area of effect spell, them combine your frost and spark beams into one to make quick work of most of the cannon fodder. Different enemy types have various resistances which must be overcome too. Some of the bigger types also cast extra shield buffs in an AOE also, resulting in the need to switch up attacks as defenses are broken. Brilliantly, these can be made use of by the players too. All attacks, healing and defensive spells affect anyone in their range, friend or foe. Lay a healing circle down and an enemy can easily sit in it and become practically invincible. AI isn't smart enough to actively search these types of tactics out, thankfully, but in the heat of battle it's easy to cause havoc on both sides.
Trine was well known for its superbly implemented physics puzzles, and Nine Parchments magic combo system is just as much of a winner here. Using the various elements and coming up with your own combos makes the combat fun and engaging, even just fighting the regular grunts. Though you are just following a narrow path, stopping every few feet to deal with another batch of enemies, the freedom to experiment and adapt on the fly keeps the interest high. Players have access to a dodge too, skipping you form one side of the screen to another, on its own cooldown. It's a handy tool for making a quick escape, however going into the options and assigning it to skip you in the direction you are running is a must.
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Nine Parchments is an excellent co-op adventure game with a fantastic combat system, beautiful environments and a wonderful melodic soundtrack. There's a lot to see and unlock, and just trying out different character and spell combos will take multiple playthroughs. This game will surely be a popular choice for group play.
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Briefing: Enabling SafeMotos Motorcycles to Operate at Night in Kinshasa
The conservative estimate of 400,000 motorcycle trips currently operating daily in Kinshasa represent just a tip of the iceberg of total market opportunity. Increased night time trips can be a blue ocean opportunity to bring a strong value proposition to a currently underserved market.
Currently, there are very few available forms of transportation available in Kinshasa after sundown, taxi moto, car taxi or bus. While there are some cultural reasons for this with drivers still anchored to a single daily shift based around daily commutes, focus groups suggest that the far larger problem is fear of personal safety.
The issues can be summarized as one of the three following:
Driver crime to customer: Customers are unready to take a form of transportation at night because of fear that a driver could attack them. This is for all forms of transportation and is based on real attacks.
Customer to driver crime: Drivers are unready to take customers in the evening as violence and robbery against them is strong. A driver is aware that his vehicle is his most precious asset and that others would like to steal it from him. The money he carries on his body also acts as an incentive for robbery.
Third party attacks on customers and drivers: The streets of Kinshasa are tough places and crime is common. Both drivers and customers are aware of their vulnerability to attacks from third parties who are coming to attack them for financial motivation.
If SafeMotos is able to provide a safe form of transportation in the evenings it could be a revolution in the transportation market and a huge market opportunity as a company. Prices could be higher due to lack of alternatives increasing profit margins as a company and revenue to drivers. Trip volume could be extremely high due to the extreme sparsity of existing options and underlying demand of a famously fun loving city where many people without vehicles are excluded from festivities.
The purpose of this document is to identify strategies that could be implemented to enable the company to provide a night time product that would be both perceived to be safe and actually safe.
Safe Route Routing
- Impact: Reduced risk driver and customer
- Summary: Drivers will be routed to customer pickup location and destinations via Google Map style routing system that is optimized for the safest route, rather than the fastest route. If a driver deviates from the safe route, a mild alarm may go off in the app or a trigger at SafeMotos office to reach out to the driver.
- Problem resolution: There are certain high danger areas in Kinshasa that if avoided can reduce risk. These would be areas with known criminal elements, poor lighting, low traffic.
- Implementation: A routing layer in Google Maps where there are certain no go areas blocked.
Cashless Trips
- Impact: Reduced risk driver
- Summary: For trips from X:00pm to X:00am orders can only be placed by customers with a balance on their digital wallets, forcing trips to be cashless. There can be some visual signifier (think 711 in USA) informing that "this driver does not carry any money". There would be an added benefit of this strategy by being a reason for users to top up their digital wallet.
- Problem resolution: A key reason drivers are attached is for financial motivation. If drivers are known to not carry cash and this is communicated in a clear way, then it reduces to risk to drivers being robbed for quick financial gain.
- Implementation: Use of existing digital wallet functionality, with a for force mechanism during night hours.
Deeper Review and Sharing of Information Customer <> Driver
- Impact: Reduced risk driver and customer
- Summary: Crowdsourcing feedback from customers and drivers then sharing it effectively allows customers and drivers to crowd source quality control and risk prevention.
- Problem resolution: A driver or a customer who causes problems once, will likely cause problems again. By using reviews from customers and drivers on their counterpart SafeMotos can take corrective action while also giving future customer and drivers a heads up (eg "this customer is often drunk)
- Implementation: The existing review mechanism for drivers and customers should suffice, though could use a few extra inputs. Communicating potential issues more quickly through business intelligence and also giving more information to drivers on negative customers (eg customer scores) would be easy additional steps to implement.
Customer / Driver Facial Recognition
- Impact: Reduced risk driver and customer
- Summary: Using facial recognition technology before a trip is started by using the drivers phone to verify both the customer and the driver will allow the customer and the driver to trust the identity of each other.
- Problem resolution: A concern for SafeMotos is criminals who borrow or hijack driver or customer accounts to be able to use the driver / customers record.
- Implementation: Installing a facial recognition API into the app and making sure drivers phones make use of front face flashes or other light source.
Verified Pickup / Dropoff Locations
- Impact: Reduced risk driver and customer
- Summary: For trips after a certain time, pick up location / drop off location can be set only to places in 'green zones' and / or to locations that have already been successfully used for pick up and drop off in the past by drivers.
- Problem resolution: One of the most common ways for drivers to be robbed is for criminal customers to choose pick up or drop off points to be somewhere that an ambush can be implemented from. By only going to past pickup locations chosen by customers that drivers themselves have reviewed as safe, and with the knowledge that the customer is familiar with getting picked up from the spot, both the driver and the customer expose themselves to less risk.
- Implementation: When a driver goes to a 'new' place during daytime hours, he can set instructions that follow on drivers can read and add too (IE, blue gate). The driver will also be asked to determine if this is a 'safe' or 'unsafe' place for evening pick up. The SafeMotos agent network can also be 'verified' places for customers.
Customer Verification of Safe Drop Off
- Impact: Reduced risk customer
- Summary: When a driver is finishing a trip at night, there can be an added step of either an additional facial recognition confirmation or a picture of the customer giving a thumbs up so the system confirms the customer was dropped in a safe manner. There can be an added benefit of this in terms of customers being nudged to share these images over social media.
- Problem resolution: Right now when a driver clicks end trip there is no way of knowing that the customer was dropped off in a safe environment. This way, there is an added protective step to make sure that a safe drop off happens and is captured for traceability.
- Implementation: Having a camera be triggered when clicking finish trip with the image being linked to the trip receipt.
Moto Convoys
- Impact: Reduced risk driver and customer
- Summary: If a trip is ordered late at night, it can be mandatory to order a minimum of two bikes (with drivers working in pairs) for the duration of the trip. For increased safety, a value added service could be the ordering of even more bikes or to hire a bike carrying a police officer. The mandatory nature of this can be an advertising opportunity to 'gift your friend a safe ride home'. Additionally, one of the extra drivers can escort the customer to a safe point like a front door.
- Problem resolution: Criminals are usually opportunistic looking for the softest target, and an isolated driver or driver / passenger looks like an easy target. By having more drivers there is increased safety in numbers for both the drivers and passengers.
- Implementation: Using existing tech for ordering multiple bikes. There would need to be some way for drivers to work in pairs so drivers are paired the entire evening for more efficient logistics.
Redundant GPS / Kill Switch Built into the bike
- Impact: Reduced risk driver
- Summary: Less of a deterrent but more a way of asset reclamation, having 1 or (ideally) 2 GPS transponders with a remote enabled engine kill switch built into the bike will make SafeMotos bikes harder to steal and enable recovery of the bike if stolen.
- Problem resolution: This reduces the incentive for stealing bikes making SafeMotos drivers less of a target.
App Based Panic Buttons (driver and customer side)
- Impact: Reduced risk driver and customer
- Summary: In the SafeMotos app for both drivers and customers there can be a panic button. This button will trigger a call to all SafeMotos drivers in X distance from the call to go to the location the panic button. SafeMotos HQ will also be alerted to monitor the situation and possibly elevate the response. Drivers / customers can be 'rewarded' this option after X number of trips, and if the feature is abused they can be penalized.
- Problem resolution: In Kinshasa most acts of criminality are opportunistic in a low rule of law environment. This panic button would enable drivers and customers to quickly mobilize a helpful response.
- Implementation: This should be technically quite easy to build, as it would be a normal 'order trip' functionality implemented in a different way.
Driver Physical Defense Materials / Training
- Impact: Reduced risk driver and customer
- Summary: Drivers can receive training on conflict resolution like talking down a potential criminal or doing real time risk assessments. Drivers can also be trained and equipped with a defensive material, for example, pepper spray, in order to act in self defense.
- Problem resolution: Often the best way to avoid an at risk situation is to have a defensive viewpoint and be able to read situations. Sometimes, a worst possible situation will happen, in which case it is valuable for a driver to be able to act in self defense of himself and potentially the client.
- Implementation: This would require driver training, understood best practices and analysing the ramifications of any defensive tools drivers are equipped with.
Driver Physical Panic Button / Siren
- Impact: Reduced risk driver
- Summary: An alarm can be installed in the bike which can be paired to the drivers smartphone via bluetooth or via a physical connection (think like on treadmills or jet skis). If a driver is separated from his bike than the siren will go off attracting attention to the stolen bike.
- Problem resolution: Man thieves are after the drivers bike, this can be a system to make SafeMotos bikes more prickly to steal and raise attention to the stolen asset.
- Implementation: Installing a simple rip cord style panic button should be simple


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LAFC 3, Club Leon 0 | 2020 Concacaf Champions League Match Recap
LAFC pulled off a Concacaf Champions League comeback for the ages, using a 3-0 win over Club Leon at Banc of California Stadium to overturn the aggregate goal count and book a spot in the quarterfinal round.
The Black & Gold entered the second leg trailing, 2-0, after playing in Mexico last week, and needed a near-perfect performance to keep the club's first CCL adventure alive. They got exactly that, with a Carlos Vela brace and chipped game-winner from Diego Rossi giving LAFC the 3-2 aggregate win. Cruz Azul, another Liga MX opponent, now awaits in the next round.
An up-tempo first half saw Vela earn LAFC the breakthrough in the 27th minute, when he bundled home a Diego Palacios cross at the near post for the 1-0 lead. The effort came two minutes after Vela's apparent opener in the 25th minute was rescinded for an offside call in the attacking move's buildup.
Shortly after LAFC forward Adrien Perez entered as a substitute for Brian Rodriguez, LAFC found another gear. Vela drew them level, 2-2 on aggregate, in the 77th minute with another near-post finish, this time capitalizing on a low, driven cross from Tristan Blackmon.
With the possibility of a penalty-kick shootout looming, Rossi pulled off a ridiculous chip of Leon goalkeeper Rodolfo Cota for the 3-0 lead in the 79th minute. It dinked in off the crossbar, prompting mass celebrations at the Banc.
The game was incredibly physical, with the teams combining for nine cards. Leon midfielder Luis Montes was even shown a red card in the 94th minute for foul and abusive language, after his team was held to zero shots on target.
Three Things
- THE BIG PICTURE: LAFC encountered the toughest draw of all five MLS entrants into the 2020 Concacaf Champions League, and then they found themselves in a 2-0 hole after the first leg. In years past, MLS teams may not have had enough in the tank to surpass a Liga MX foe in those circumstances. But the defending Supporters' Shield champs dug deep to pull off a memorable result, with Diego Rossi's chipped effort already a legendary moment.
See you in the quarterfinals, @CruzAzulCD. #LAFC | #BarrioAngelino pic.twitter.com/6omx1Z0X5y— LAFC (@LAFC) February 28, 2020
- MOMENT OF THE MATCH: Was it a cross or was it a shot? Diego Rossi likely doesn't care, because his lofted effort sent LAFC through to the CCL quarterfinals either way. The Uruguayan winger spent most of the game playing centrally, then provided a magical moment when he moved wide left.
- MAN OF THE MATCH: Carlos Vela bagging a brace at home is almost expected, given the pace at which he operated in 2019. But to score twice in this fashion in a game of such magnitude? Coming up in big-time moments like this affirms why Vela is the reigning MLS MVP.
Next Up
- LAFC: Sunday, March 1 vs. Inter Miami CF (5:30 pm ET | ESPN, ESPN Deportes, TSN5, MLS LIVE on DAZN in Canada)
- Leon: Sunday, March 1 at Chivas Guadalajara (6 pm ET)


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- Two studies evaluated the effects on peatland vegetation of cutting and removing problematic large trees/shrubs. Both studies were in fens. N.B. Cutting trees/shrubs in historically disturbed peatlands is considered as a separate action.
- Plant community composition (2 studies): Two studies (one replicated, controlled, before-and-after) in fens in the USA and Sweden reported that the plant community composition changed following tree/shrub removal, becoming less like unmanaged fens or more like undegraded, open fen.
- Characteristic plants (1 study): One study in a fen in Sweden found that species richness and cover of fen-characteristic plants increased following tree/shrub removal.
- Vegetation cover (2 studies): One study in a fen in Sweden found that moss and vascular plant cover increased following tree/shrub removal. One replicated, controlled, before-and-after study in fens in the USA found that shrub removal (along with other interventions) could not prevent increases in shrub cover over time.
- Overall plant richness/diversity (2 studies): One study in a fen in Sweden found that moss and vascular plant species richness increased following tree/shrub removal. However, one replicated, controlled, before-and-after study in fens in the USA found that shrub removal (along with other interventions) prevented increases in total plant species richness.
This section considers cutting and the removal of above-ground parts of mature shrubs and trees: plants that are too large to mow. Roots are left in place. Cuttings may be removed from the site (which means the nutrients they contain are also removed), or left in place to rot down.
Caution: Tree/shrub removal may be desirable on a subset of peatlands e.g. open bogs, fens and fen meadows. Tree thinning may be desirable on some naturally forested peatlands - but tree removal is more typically a threat here.
Related actions: cutting and removing trees that have grown as part of forestry operations; cutting to control trees/shrubs as part of a traditional disturbance regime; completely removing problematic plants by digging/pulling.
Supporting evidence from individual studies
A replicated, controlled, before-and-after study in 1986–2000 in two shrub-invaded fens in Ohio, USA (Barry et al. 2008) found that cutting shrubs (along with burning and herbicide application) altered plant community composition and prevented increases in plant species richness, but had no effect on shrub cover. The overall plant community composition changed significantly over time along transects with and without shrub control, but they accumulated different sets of species (data reported as a graphical analysis). Plant species richness was stable in the fen with shrub control (before: 12.8; after 14 years: 12.7 species/m2) but increased in the fen without shrub control (before: 12.5; after 14 years: 14.6 species/m2). Woody plant cover increased similarly in fens with shrub control (before: 46%; after 11 years: 62%) and without shrub control (before: 20%; after: 28%). From 1986, encroaching shrubs were managed using ad hoc cutting, burning and herbicide application. The study does not distinguish between the effects of these interventions. Three of four transects were managed in one fen ('with shrub control'). Only one of four transects were managed in the other fen ('without shrub control'). In summer 1986 (before shrub control began), 1999 and 2000, vegetation cover was estimated in 1 m2 quadrats along the eight transects. Shrub cover was estimated from aerial photographs.
A site comparison study in 1995–2001 in an overgrown rich fen in Sweden (Sundberg 2011) found that following shrub/tree removal, the plant community composition became more like a natural fen, and plant species richness and vegetation cover increased. Between one and six years after shrub removal, the overall plant community composition became more like an open fen (data reported as a graphical analysis). Where shrubs were removed, species richness increased for vascular plants (from 15 to 18 species/m2), mosses (from 7 to 9 species/m2) and fen-characteristic plants (from 8 to 10 species/m2). Cover of these groups also increased (vascular plants: from 18 to 24%; mosses: from 9 to 31%; fen-characteristic plants: from 7 to 15%), as did cover of common cottongrass Eriophorum angustifolium (from 0.3 to 0.6%) and three of eight Carex sedge species. Cover of five other sedge species, purple moor grass Molinia caerulea and common reed Phragmites australis did not change. In 1995, shrubs (mainly juniper Juniperus communis) and trees (conifers) were manually cut and removed from a 30 x 50 m area of overgrown fen. The fen was grazed by 7–12 cows every summer, both before and after shrub removal. Cover of every plant species was estimated in August 1996 and 2001: in nine 1 m2 quadrats across the managed area and three quadrats in another part of the fen that had not become overgrown.
Referenced papers
- Barry M.J., Barbara A.K. & De Szalay F. (2008) Long-term plant community changes in managed fens in Ohio, USA. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, 18, 392-407
- Sundberg S. (2011) Quick target vegetation recovery after restorative shrub removal and mowing in a calcareous fen. Restoration Ecology, 20, 331-338


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Devex: Opinion: The U.S. needs to invest foreign aid dollars in smaller NGOs
John Lyon, president and CEO of World Hope International
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As of the census of 2000, there were 3,926 people, 1,150 households, and 1,013 families residing in the CDP. The population density was 340.2 people per square mile (131.4/km²). There were 1,177 housing units at an average density of 102.0 per square mile (39.4/km²). The racial makeup of the CDP was 97.71% White, 0.15% African American, 0.28% Native American, 0.51% Asian, 0.10% Pacific Islander, 0.64% from other races, and 0.61% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2.06% of the population. There were 1,150 households out of which 46.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 80.2% were married couples living together, 4.7% had a female householder with no husband present, and 11.9% were non-families. 10.3% of all households were made up of individuals and 4.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.41 and the average family size was 3.68.


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AUGUSTA, Maine — The costs of plans being offered on Maine's health insurance marketplace are among the highest in the country, on average, before tax credits for lower-income individuals and out-of-pocket costs are factored in, according to a federal report released Wednesday.
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Up on top, looking east.
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I found some carpenter ants hollowing out a gi-normous log - note they each have a little piece of wood and are tossing it out. (I estimated it was 400-500 years old by doing some counting. Kinda sad to realize some idiots caused a fire that took this tree out.)
Back in the forest, I stopped....
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Nice Pic. Dave. Glad you got out even if it was a short ride.
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very nice dave!!!!!!!! sometimes those short rides are the best!
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ONE SENTENCE: To take up the cross in Jesus' name requires an examination of conscience.
Jesus is talking with his chosen band of friends – his small group of disciples – in the gospel lesson today. It is in such quiet, sacred conversations that deep truths are shared.
Some years ago, I was a deputy to the General Convention of the Episcopal Church. The convention is like congress – divided between an upper chamber, the House of Bishops, and a lower chamber, the House of Deputies.
The House of Deputies, of which I was a part, was approaching a momentous vote. The choice was not simple or easy. There was great tension for those wrestling with their consciences.
I was feeling somewhat righteous and flippant. I had told myself, "There is no wrong time to do the right thing." Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!
My Bishop was a man of integrity and insight, and a dear friend – Duncan Gray III. I trusted him explicitly. I shared with him my leanings on the vote, and added these words: "At least that is what my conscience is telling me to do."
He looked me in the eye, and speaking words which showed the depth of his wisdom, said, "Remember, your conscience can be fallen, too."
Your conscience can be fallen, too. All elements of human nature have the potential to be subject to the fallenness of creation – touched by human pride, mistake, or sin.
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Jesus tells Peter and the others – and he tells us – to take up your cross and follow him.But it is not easy. It should not be approached flippantly. It will seldom be our default response. It may demand a price – a heavy one.
I am reminded of that scene from the movie Mashwhen Major Frank Burns and Major Margaret O'Houlihan are drawn toward each other in lusty temptation and give in with the words, "God's will be done!"
That oversimplifies but characterizes the temptation to view our wayas God's way. Following the way of the crossis not automatic. It requires sacrifice and is frequently very difficult.
I have recently read a book, D-Day,by the late historian Stephen Ambrose. The moment-by-moment, pounding-heart tension of the Allied troops landing on Omaha Beach is palpable. Many of those young men knew that they would never see another sunrise, but they gave their last full measure of devotion. That was their way of the cross.
Likewise, is the young seminarian who entered into sainthood on August 20, 1965, Jonathan Myrick Daniels. He stepped into the way of a truck driver-sheriff's deputy's shotgun blast to save the life of a young girl in Hayneville, Alabama.
Those are dramatic examples. However, seldom are our choices so dramatic or clear-cut. So, it is necessary for us to examine our consciences, deeply, to see if we are serving selfor serving the God of our worship.
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I was a young college sophomore at Ole Miss when I first encountered Professor Goberdahn Baghat. I was politically active and thought I had the world figured out. The options we considered in his course, International Relations,were simple and straightforward – at least in my mind.
On our first essay test, he disabused me of those notions. My grade reflected my superficiality of reasoning. The world is much more complex, he seemed to be telling me. You need to give it more thought.
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An aside: Have you ever noticed how often your easy perception of God's will happens to coincide with your wishes?
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Take up your cross and follow me. A commentator on this passage wrote: "Jesus is not talking about the suffering that is simply part of life in a broken world -- everything from annoying neighbors to serious illness to natural disasters. Neither is he telling us to seek out suffering or martyrdom. Jesus himself did not seek it, but he foresaw that it would be the inevitable outcome of his mission."
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What we receive – and what we are called to live – is notcheap grace. Jesus paid a high priceand he calls on us to follow the same path.


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Final score: 4-3 Yankees
Injury updates: Didi Gregorius (elbow) has been in Tampa, trying to come back from his Tommy John surgery last off-season. So when the Yankees came to town, it was only natural for their energetic shortstop to stop in for a visit with his teammates and hang out for the game.
Aaron Hicks (back) has been spending his rehab games with the local minor league Yankees team — Advanced-A Tampa Tarpons. He has three more games scheduled with them before the Yankees will activate him onto the Yankees main roster, which looks to be next week back in the Bronx.
Dellin Betances (shoulder) and James Paxton (knee) both played catch at the Trop before tonight's game. Betances' recovery is slow going, progressively working his way to longer and longer tosses to see how his healing is progressing. Paxton, however, is looking good and will hopefully be back after missing just one or two starts.
And for those asking, there is no set timetable on the returns of Aaron Judge (oblique) and Giancarlo Stanton (shoulder). Stanton has resumed hitting and working out with baseball activities. But Judge is not yet ready for that, sticking solely to rehab exercises.
Get well, guys!
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