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Bike light manufacturers can put any 'Lumens rating' on their product that they want. There is no governing body out there that states that they have to measure or be truthful about what they claim their light output to be. What many of them do is read the LED spec that they are using, get that LED's max rating and multiply by the number of them that they are using, and voila, magic Lumen number.
The problem is that number is a best case and impossible number. The real output is somewhere below that. The reasons for lower output are:
- Heat dissipation – as the LED gets hot, it gets dimmer to protect itself
- Power source – if the power source is not at the perfect voltage, it gets dimmer
- Reflector light loss – the mirrors on glass on a light will result in some light loss
- LED Binning – all LEDs at birth are sorted for their brightness. So all LEDs of the same model are not equal
That's why Mtbr and RoadBikeReview work so hard to demystify LED output. The ultimate test is using an integrating sphere to measure light output. This piece of equipment costs about $20,000- $100,000 to purchase and requires a trained technician to operate. Mtbr is using the integrating sphere of Light & Motion and Lezyne to measure Lumen output. We are present during all measurements and we will cross-check their work with each other.
Video: Lumen measuring process using an integrating sphere with Chris McCaslin.
As you can see, it is not a simple process and that is why so many light manufacturers do not measure their output. There are very few independent labs around this country too that can do this work.
We realize of course that Light & Motion is a manufacturer and they are testing competitors' lights. But we have evaluated their process and were present during testing. Furthermore, we are double-sourcing by testing at another manufacturer called Lezyne and cross-checking their work. We have already compared four lights that they each measured and the results match up within 1-2%. Finally, this is just a piece of our lights testing and is supplemented by our own Mtbr Lux lab testing and light beam image data.
These Lumen readings were recorded 31 seconds after the light was turned on. This is according to the FL-1 Flashlight Standard that specifies Lumen measurements to be recorded 30 seconds after the light is turned on. The FL-1 Flashlight Standard was created so manufacturers have a standardized method of measuring lights and making claims such as brightness and waterproofing. Some light companies are using the FL-1 standard and are fighting for its use in the bike light industry. Learn more about the FL-1 Flashlight Standard here.
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2014 Claimed vs Measured Lumens Graph
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To complement these lumen measurements, please check our Tunnel Beam Patterns Comparisons and Individual Light Reviews of these lights.
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Lauren Ferranti-Ballem, National Post · Apr. 17, 2010 | Last Updated: Apr. 20, 2010 9:45 AM ET
He's got a close, salt-and-pepper crop a la Clooney, steely eyes and loads of charm. You feel like you already know him, and actually, you kind of do. That's pretty much the idea behind the whole video blogging thing.
Clive McLean is a dashing downtown real estate man who, no wonder, has a background in acting. He's produced a dozen such video blogs since January. Each one averages about a minute and a half, during which he riffs on a range of real estate topics -- spring renos, government lending rules -- while he drives his car. It's as if you're buckled into the passenger seat while he deftly handles both his script, and his steering. "People get a kick out of seeing me driving on camera, but I just think it's a different spin," Mr. McLean says. "It gives me a distraction instead of staring awkwardly into the camera. I know what I'm talking about, so I can improvise."
Mr. McLean is one of many tech-savvy, social media sensitive agents in the city, and he's hitting it on all angles. His video blogs are posted to his Facebook page and Twitter account, they can easily be found on YouTube, and each one links straight back to his web-site. "The videos are like an ad for my site," he says. "People follow me for a few months before we even meet in person." Within seconds, a prospective client can gauge whether they like him or not, allowing him to forgo that ginger meet-for-coffee courtship and get straight down to business.
And business is swift. "Since I've been doing these videos, I've seen a 60% increase in traffic to my site," he says. "I could never knock on this many doors."
For George O'Neill, a bearded broker in the Beach, it's all about connecting online. "It's not oxymoronic-- it works," Mr. O'Neill says. He's been using social media tools for about three years and even gives workshops on the subject. He's produced precisely 199 video blogs -- or "vlogs," as he calls them -with something special planned for his 200th. The vlogs are sometimes shaky, often done on his iPhone, and they cover plumbing in the bathroom to sunny walks on Queen East. Like Mr. McLean's, they are short and snappy with an educational purpose, though perhaps a little less polished. "It shows me as a knowledgeable, trustworthy agent to potential clients, and keeps me fresh in the minds of past ones so they remember to refer me," he says. "I'm definitely getting business from it; it's been very positive."
And while his face is front and centre in the frame, Mr. O'Neill insists his agenda is subtle. "It's not about me or my properties. I'm not broadcasting an ad. It's about sharing relevant information so that people reach out." It's simple: He puts the vlogs out there and people respond -- no loud bus shelter billboards necessary.
Yossi Kaplan, a realtor with a heavy online presence, believes it's important to tailor your message to the medium. "I don't use Facebook and Twitter for non-stop marketing -- it's quite annoying," he says. "How many times can you hear from a guy selling a condo? I'm not trying to sell on Facebook. You'll never see exclamation marks or the words 'best deal.' I'm much more discreet."
Joy Paterson and Erica Smith, known collectively as the Condo Chicks, shoot vlogs that blend business with pleasure for a decidedly MTV feel. They're young and beautiful, their blond hair trailing behind them as they click across King West in heels to show me the site of the upcoming DNA3 condos before rushing to collect Ms. Smith's pooch at doggie daycare. "The real estate business is all about personality and the videos are a great way to show ours," Ms. Paterson says. "We keep our little pocket camera in our purses for whenever the mood strikes."
Since they specialize in the same demographic they are a part of -- cool, connected first-time condo buyers -- the Chicks find this approach suits them best. "We used to do print ads and flyers, but we dropped traditional advertising," she says. "About 80% of our business comes from social media." Their holistic approach, like the others, includes a well-designed website/blog, Facebook and Twitter accounts.
Mr. McLean chose this medium because it speaks to him best: "When I'm online, I watch videos. I throw flyers in the trash." He's learning how to put music to video and has an endless list of video topics. He's also launched a series of neighbourhood spotlights, wherein he conducts casual interviews with local business owners -- a roofer, a cafe owner -- to give some area flavour. There's benefit at both ends of the camera: The coffee peddlar gets free online advertising, and, when he distributes the link to his friends and family, Mr. McLean's name resonates as a broker of choice.
The tools for real estate marketing may be evolving, but the spirit is largely unchanged. "The best realtors understand the importance of connecting," Mr. O'Neill says. "Social media has replaced the hand-written note and the home visit. We can cover a lot more territory quickly and at lower cost. Real estate is the perfect industry for this type of approach."
As they've been posting status updates almost as long as they've been practicing real estate, the Chicks are well acquainted with the power of social media (Ms. Paterson tweeted about this interview two hours before our scheduled call). "We tweet regularly with listings, open houses, special events and whatever's going on in our lives," she says. "We want to constantly be in the face of our family, friends and business associates. They're not bothered by the updates -- we mix business with personal, so they're always coming back to see what we'll say next."


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Alleppey has a wonderful past. Though the present town owes its existence to the sagacious Diwan Raja Kesavadas in the second half of 18th century, district of Alappuzha figures in classical Literature.The best thing about Alappuzha and Kerala in general is the weather. Due to its proximity to the ocean it is more temperate than central India. The temperature rarely goes above 35 degrees Celsius and never below 20 degrees. The best time to visit is from September to March. Monsoon is always heavy.Now a days monsoon tourism is also popular from June to August.
Malayalam is the main language spoken here. You can also easily manage with English and Hindi
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Cochin International Airport[22] is the nearest airport. Expect to pay about Rs.450 for a taxi to get from Cochin airport to Cochin, then Bus or train to Alleppey. Alternatively come to airports at Thiruvananthapuram (Trivandrum), Kozhikode (Calicut), Chennai, Bangalore and catch a train to Alappuzha.
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You can also reach Alappuzha from other cities like Kochi (Cochin), Thiruvananthapuram, Kozhikode, Chennai, Bengalooru (Bangalore), Coimbatore, Mumbai (Bombay), New Delhi, Mangalore, and Kolkata by train.(Hyderabad) Sabari Express
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There are bus services operating from cities like Cochin (1:30 hours, Rs 58), Thiruvananthapuram, Kozhikode, Chennai, Bangalore (overnight luxury Rs 650), Mysore, Coimbatore (overnight Rs.220) to Alappuzha.
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Alappuzha district is well-connected by NH 66, which is part of the North-South East-West corridor. It goes via Alappuzha, Ambalapuzha and Cherthala towns. Alappuzha is well connected to other cities Kochi, Kottayam, Kollam, Thiruvananthapuram Kozhikode, Chennai, Bangalore, Coimbatore by road.
Tourist taxis are the most convenient way to travel around attractions, especially while travelling in a group. Most airports and railway stations have tourist taxi services that would take you anywhere you would want to go.
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See more info about houseboats at: https://wikitravel.org/en/Kumarakom#Do
If you are not interested in a longer ride in a House boat, there are smaller boats available for rides lasting 3 to 4 hours. They take groups tours and you might have to wait until they fill up. Some of the boats have double decks and the top deck provides good views. You can also rent by the hour "Shikara" which are smaller boats. These offer a comfortable seating and an open view of the surroundings.
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The 26-year-old actress was joined by her former 90210 co-stars Michael Steger (with his wife Brandee), Matt Lanter (with his wife Angela Stacy), and Jessica Stroup.
AnnaLynne's boyfriend Dominic Purcell and good pal Alexa PenaVega also attended to show their support. To find out more about the cause, visit iChooseCampaign.com!
"I'd say the greatest challenge was the 1130pm phone call after a whole day of shooting telling me that I lost my location…for 7AM the next morning. I had scouted a beautiful spot up in Malibu and my DP Edd Lukas and I were all set and so happy only to find out we needed to scramble, think of something else and cancel everyone's call times after they were all asleep," AnnaLynne shared exclusively to JustJared.com about the toughest challenge shooting the short film, which she also produced, directed, and wrote.
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There is a quote from former Cameroon star Roger Milla which says a lot about football's ability to unite a nation: "Football is what makes small countries big." It is through the magic of the beautiful game that a single player can catapult his homeland into the global arena.
Because they were born in 'small countries,' some great players never had the opportunity to play international football on the world's greatest stages. Others made light of their country's minnow status to help carry their national side into major tournaments. From George Best to George Weah, FIFA.com sets off on a world tour of small countries with big names.
The Best in Northern Ireland, and EuropeNorthern Irishman George Best more than lived up to his name, becoming one of the game's true legends, although this was more down to his performances in the red of Manchester United than the green of Northern Ireland. Nicknamed the fifth Beatle, Best was named European Footballer of the Year in 1968 and scored 115 goals in 290 games for the Red Devils, as well as displaying dozens of flashes of pure genius throughout his career. With Northern Ireland, he managed just 37 caps and nine goals.
I have a great respect for the competition and even more for all those players who have played in it. It is no easy thing to qualify for the World Cup.
Still considered the best player to ever emerge from the British Isles, Best will forever be remembered in his native Belfast, where his funeral drew over 300,000 mourners. Belfast City Airport was renamed in his honour, a series of bank notes was issued bearing his image and a local saying was coined: "Maradona good; Pele better; George Best."
Another Northern Irishman, Danny Blanchflower, had more success with Tottenham Hotspur than his national side but at least had the distinction of playing in the 1958 FIFA World Cup. Yet it was with Spurs that he made his name, his greatest achievement no doubt being the 1961 league and cup double, a feat that had not been realised in England since 1897.
A tale of three Reds
Although Wales is a nation much more famous for its achievements in rugby than football, it has nonetheless produced some fantastic footballing talent. Ian Rush is a legend among Liverpool fans, while Mark Hughes and Ryan Giggs are equally revered among Manchester United supporters. None were able to guide Wales to a major tournament, though.
Rush's 28 strikes for Wales and 346 for Liverpool are goalscoring records which still stand today. The lethal striker owed some of his stats at club level to the fact that he played alongside Scot Kenny Dalglish, another extremely gifted player who did not have the international success his talent deserved. "For me, Kenny was a fantastic player. I loved the way he played. We complimented each other; me with my finishing and Kenny with his ability to play me in," Rush recalled after his retirement.
Giggs, in an interview with FIFA.com, explained how he felt about his lack of honours at international level: "The World Cup is special. Your first memory of football as a boy is the World Cup, but I can't complain at all. I've had a good career - and I wouldn't swap it for anyone else's."
Evergreen Litti, philosophical Eidur
Finn Jari Litmanen is another star player who was unable to inspire his country to international success. With a record number 30 goals in a record number 124 appearances, the 38-year-old *Litti *is still a mainstay of the Finland national team and remains a firm fans' favourite, far ahead of Teemu Tainio and Sami Hyypia. Asked about him last year, Fulham coach Roy Hodgson said, "He's a world-class player who still has a lot to offer at a very high level."
For me, Kenny was a fantastic player. I loved the way he played. We complimented each other; me with my finishing and Kenny with his ability to play me in.
Icelander Eidur Gudjohnsen has been faced with the same dilemma of playing in a struggling international team while producing stellar performances for club sides like Chelsea and Barcelona. His country's record goalscorer with 23 goals in 58 games up to now, the Barça man is realistic about his international prospects: "I will probably never get to play in a World Cup or European Championship, which will always mean that other players will seem more attractive as they've been in the spotlight at those huge tournaments."
Conejo, Erico, El Magico...
Across the Atlantic, the dominance of Brazil and Argentina means it can be difficult for players from other countries to make an impact, but some have nonethless broken the mould. From Costa Rica to El Salvador to Paraguay, unheralded names have left an indelible mark both on the history of football and that of their respective countries.
Gabelo Conejo was one of the main architects of Costa Rica's surprise success at the 1990 FIFA World Cup. "Nobody expected anything of us and we had no experience at that level. We had to face Brazil, Scotland and Sweden, who were all much more highly regarded than ourselves," he recently told FIFA.com. Similarly, Dwight Yorke led his Trinidad and Tobago side to the group stages of the 2006 FIFA World Cup. In recognition for his services to football in his country, the Dwight Yorke Stadium was erected in Bacolet for the FIFA U-17 World Cup Trinidad and Tobago 2001.
In Ecuador, Alberto Spencer is considered the country's best-ever player. At club level, he won numerous honours with Penarol of Uruguay, including three Copa Libertadores (1960, 1961, 1966) and two Intercontinental Cups (1961, 1966) but internationally, despite having played for both Ecuador and Uruguay, he was unable to match these heights.
Paraguay's Arsenio Erico and El Salvador's Jorge El Mágico Gonzalez were other players who had to go abroad to make the most of their talent. Revered in Argentina and Spain respectively, they could have been global stars had their national teams been able to make a bigger impression on the world stage.
No regrets for Weah
Moving on to Africa, former AC Milan star George Weah is without doubt the best African example of a big name from a small country. Spotted by AS Monaco at the age of 22, Mister George left his native Liberia to light up every European league in which he was to play. Arsene Wenger, then coach of Monaco, later said of him: "Weah was a revelation. He was like the chocolate egg that a kid finds in his garden on Easter Sunday. I have never seen another player explode onto the world stage like he did."
I will probably never get to play in a World Cup or European Championship, which will always mean that other players will seem more attractive as they've been in the spotlight at those huge tournaments.
Winner of the African Footballer of the Year in 1989, 1994 and 1995, Weah made his mark all over Europe. On the international scene, the 1995 FIFA World Player of the Year and Ballon d'Or was Liberia's one and only star. Despite his 22 goals in 60 games for the Lone Stars, FIFA World Cup qualification eluded Weah – a regret, but one he takes philosophically as he told FIFA.com: "That's just the way it is. There is no point in having regrets or feeling sad about it. I have a great respect for the competition and even more for all those players who have played in it. It is no easy thing to qualify for the World Cup."
Zambian Kalusha Bwalya, Sierra Leonean Mohamed Kallon and Zimbabwean Bruce Grobbelaar are other big names for whom FIFA World Cup qualification was one step too far. Grobbelaar, however, can at least draw some consolation from his record of being the first African player to lift the European Cup, after his triumph with Liverpool in 1984.
Last but by no means least in a long list are Liechtenstein's Mario Frick, Saudi Arabia's Sami Al Jaber, Korea's Cha Bum-Kun and New Zealand's Steve Sumner, all footballing legends in their home countries.
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After a really successful day at Caerwent on Sunday, I can now share some of the edited snippets I took during the tour….
The first clip is Don Waring, talking about the Nitro-glycerine hill at Caerwent….Don is a retired pharmacist and know loads about the history of the site:
Next is Jonathan Berry, talking about Sea slug, the first-generation surface-to-air missile, developed by the Royal Navy:
Lastly, Medwyn Parry talks about the American Magazine buildings:
It was a really great day! Thanks to all that came!
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A Palestinian, identified as Sadeq Ziad Gharbiyeh, 16, was shot and killed after allegedly attempting to stab an Israeli border guard at a checkpoint near Abu Dis Tuesday afternoon.
Later in the day, a Palestinian was shot by Israeli border police after he allegedly entered the Israeli settlement of Teqoa, near Bethlehem, and threatened people with a knife.
Earlier on Tuesday, two Palestinians were shot and injured by Israeli forces following two separate stabbing attacks in East Jerusalem.
IDF Spokesperson Peter Lerner tweeted that the first incident was carried out by two people on the Jerusalem light rail, and that a security guard was stabbed. He later added that the attack was "carried out by minors," one of whom was shot and the other detained.
Ma'an News Agency reported that the minor who was shot was 12 years old. The incident took place near the Israeli settlement of Pisgat Zeef.
Lerner stated that the second incident took place at Damascus Gate, and that the attack was "foiled." The alleged attacker was a 37 year old Palestinian.
Haaretz reported that a man approached two security guards near the gate with a knife in his hand, and was shot by one of the guards.
Initial reports stated that a Palestinian had been shot and killed at Damascus Gate, but it later emerged that he was in hospital in a critical condition.
A 50 year old Palestinian was also lightly wounded by the shots fired by the security guard.
Jerusalem witnessed a spate of stabbing attacks throughout the month of October, but Tuesday's attacks are the first to have taken place in the city since the beginning of November.
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LITCHFIELD >> The Town Hall Building Committee approved having John Martin Associates Architects give an analysis for a 20-year outlook in maintenance improvements to the current town hall building and Bantam Annex for a fee of $5,500, at their regular meeting on Wednesday. This is a recent expanded charge for the commission which was originally given the charge to only look into building a new town hall.
Public Works Director Jack Healy told committee members that both buildings would need new roofs, that there are issues with air conditioning at town hall, that there is a need for new windows, water leakage in the probate court at the Bantam Annex. There are ADA compliance issues at Town Hall as well.
"This has been pushed and pushed," said Healy.
The Board of Finance at a meeting Monday approved $7,000 from the capital non-recurring fund to finance the expanded charge.
The language within the Town Hall Building Committee's mission now reads "The committee shall be responsible for preparing a conceptual design and obtaining construction cost estimates. The architect shall review the plan with the municipal officers and employees prior to public hearings. The committee shall prepare cost estimates necessary for code compliance, maintenance and renovation for the current town hall and annex buildings as anticipated for 20 years." "It shall prepare annual operational cost estimates for the conceptual new town hall and for the current town hall and annex buildings."
The lastest plan envisions a 15,500-square-foot building that would sit in the back lot of the current town hall on West Street (Route 202), with an estimated cost of approximately $5 million.
Committee member and Selectman Jeffrey Zullo made it clear that he voted against the expansion when the Board of Selectmen voted.
He previously stated the town should look at all buildings including schools in town before going to the public with a new town hall building proposal.
"We're not looking at this completely," said Zullo.
Committee member Ann Combs said she thought it would be dangerous ground to look at the schools as a possibility for a new town hall building.
The future use of a town hall was discussed among committee members at length in an age when committee members said people are doing everything remotely.
They also discussed bringing the current town hall up to code. Members discussed issues of being digitally behind in the town hall and the future of the town and the economy.
"The grain of Litchfield and decline of families with young children has been happening for a long time," said committee member Lynne Brickley.
Healy said its time for this committee to finish the job and bring a proposal to the voters.


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agora, Agora: The United States Constitution and International Law, civil war, Dred Scott v. Sandford, George Soros, Harold Hongju Koh, Media Matters, National Rifle Associatiion, post-conflict, Reid v. Covert, U.N. Programme of Action, U.N. Small Arms Treaty
Amazing KeysToLiberty is not the only website that has caught on to the passage of the Small Arms Treaty, a little late, but onboard is The Independent Sentinel. They appear to have the same conviction on an Executive Order, but quote an article from the National Rifle Association; a fox in the chicken house, as NRA is a United Nations NGO.
Media Matters (George Soros publication) is constantly attacking the NRA, for all the wrong reasons, see here, here and here. Do a search on google for Media Matters and the NRA. Never much about other pro-gun groups, almost like they are helping to advertise for the NRA. (Do a search Media Matters and GOA) Media Matters is helping to set the battle in the courts to "NRA (U.N. NGO member) vs. treaty". This is a well planned attack on the 'right to keep and bear arms' by the globalists.
KeysToLiberty is not the only website concerned with the American Rifle Association and its NGO status.
Another article that was sent in by a reader concerns the Real Danger of the UN's Arms Trade Treaty is in the Interpretation. The article makes mention of Harold Hongju Koh. Nice photo of an employee of the United Nations and the U.S. State Department under Hillary Clinton. A legal advisor appointed on June 26, 2009 and still present. Koh also served under President Clinton and Reagan. Koh is almost a permanent bureaucrat around the White House, shifting from Department of Justice to Department of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor. Ever wonder why unemployment is so high? Koh holds down 3 very high paying jobs, faculty at the United Nations, Dean at Yale Law School and at the Department of State as Legal Adviser.
Back to the 'Real Danger' , and yes Koh turned the Declaration of Independence on its head in this article authored by Koh. He quotes a lot of early Supreme Court cases on admiralty law – piracy. None of those cases deal with firearms rights and most of the cases were at a time when a vast majority of the world still had firearms. Koh is trying to sponsor international law over our Constitution. Unfortunately, the Supreme Court is restricted from making law, it merely interprets the Constitution as it was originally written, or has in the past.
To show how one-sided Koh's argument is, here is a case from 1957:
"It would be manifestly contrary to the objectives of those who created the Constitution, let alone alien to our Constitutional history and tradition to construe Article VI (the Supremacy Clause) as permitting the United States to exercise power under an international agreement, without observing Constitutional prohibitions. In effect such construction would permit amendment of that document in a manner not sanctioned by Article V." and again the same case:
"The prohibitions of the Constitution were designed to apply to all branches of the National Government, and they cannot be nullified by the Executive, or by the Executive and the Senate combined."
These are quotes from — Reid v. Covert, (1957), 354 U.S. 1
It has been a long time since the Supreme Court issued the decision on Reid v. Covert, on a Treaty must comply with the Constitution. All cases can be overturned, See Dred Scott v. Sandford, 1856, upholding slavery. Guess who would represent the case now before the Supreme Court? Why Harold Hongju Koh of course, or at least as an Amicus curiae (friend of the court).
Koh would already have a Supreme Court Justice on his side. Ruth Bader Ginsberg who attacked our Constitutional government in Egypt. "I would not look to the U.S. Constitution, if I were drafting a constitution in the year 2012."
Would you revolt if firearms would suddenly become illegal to own?
There is something you should know about in the U.N. Programme of Action. 'Post conflict' is brought up in the document several times. Is it possible they want you to revolt, causing a new civil war in hopes of losing your 'right to keep and bear arms' for ever? If that is the case; and it appears likely, then Americans are forced to win at all costs to prevent the government, through the U.N. from permanently disarming the American people.
It has always been the globalists wet-dream to disarm world entirely, particularly America; as we are the last bastian of freedom left. Their New World Order will be totalitarian to the extreme. Life under such a global government would be unbearable for the average American.
Think hard, and plan well, and quit spending your hard earned money for donations to NRA so they can lose the coming battle. Use that same hard earned money to prepare for the coming battle for freedom. Remember the globalists are directing this court battle, setting things in motion. They know the NRA will compromise, yet again.


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Court of Appeals Minutes for September 5th
September 10, 2008
The Court of Appeals recently posted its minutes for September 5th, here. One published case dealing with torts and insurance.
The case of Rudolph v. Shelter Insurance Companies, the Court of Appeals dealt with the issue of a misrepresentation in a fire policy and whether summary judgment was proper for Shelter. Rudolph applied for fire insurance policy with Shelter Insurance Company. After his house burned to the ground it was revealed that he was convicted of a felony (manufacturing methamphetamine). The application asked if anyone applying for insurance had been convicted of a felony. Rudolph's application denied any such convictions. After Shelter found out about the misrepresentation they rescinded the policy, claiming it was material to the risk and had it known it would not have issued the policy. The trial court granted summary judgment.
Rudolph claimed that he did not fill out the answers to the application, was not asked the question by the agent, and was not aware that the answer was false. He alleged that he only signed the application in a perfunctory manner. The court of appeals believed that an issue of fact existed whether Rudolph should be held responsible for a misrepresentation on an application when there was an issue as to whether he actually made the misrepresentation or whether the agent ever asked him the question. The court of appeals noted that Kentucky law differentiates between those cases when the applicant in a fire policy fills out the application and signs it, and those when the agent fills out the information and the application is signed only as a formality. It reversed the summary judgment.


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Plato was a classical Greek philosopher, a student of Socrates, who lived during the 4th and 5th century BC.
Parmen and the other natives of Sahndara called themselves Platonians and their new planet Platonius because they claimed to follow Plato's philosophy, but Spock noted that Plato wanted truth, beauty, and, above all, justice, which the Platonians did not seem to care too much about. (TOS: "Plato's Stepchildren")
In sharing philosophical teachings with the Drayans, Kathryn Janeway pointed out Plato, who she described as one of mankind's greatest philosophers, who wrote "that what we see around us are only poor shadows of ideal objects which exist on a higher plane." The Drayans held similar beliefs, as shared by Alcia, since they "believe that physical matter is only an illusion. The body is not the true self, only a representation." She further revealed that their connection to a "'higher plane' is more important than [their] attachment to this brief existence, however real it may seem." (VOY: "Innocence")
Neoplatonism was an offshoot of Plato's work. (TNG: "Emergence")
Vulcan philosophers were known to study the works of Plato, as evidenced in the work A Cave Beyond Logic: Vulcan Perspectives on Platonic Thought. (VOY: "In the Flesh")
Background information
According to the Star Trek Encyclopedia (4th ed., vol. 2, p. 171), the birth and death years of Plato were circa 428 BCE and circa 348 BCE, respectively.
In Diane Duane's novel Dark Mirror Plato's mirror universe counterpart is mentioned as writing that the perfect government is one that metes out fear in proper proportion to the people. In the mirror universe such a work would likely be titled "Kingdom and Empire" rather than "The Republic" as in the real universe.
External links
- Plato at Wikipedia
- Philosophy at Wikipedia


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T.I.'s list of top "50 Greatest Rappers Of All Time" does not include Nicki Minaj.
Last month, the Atlanta rapper dropped his list of greatest MCs and while it didn't make waves immediately, his recent discussion of it on his podcast —specifically the list's lack of female representation — sure did.
After T.I. and a group of his associates discussed the fact that the list was missing several referred female rappers, the conversation turned into a comparison of Lil' Kim and Nicki Minaj.
"It's between Lil' Kim and Nicki," T.I. said of who's deserving of a spot on the list. "I don't think we can have both because they are a direct reflection of one another." Someone then added that Lil' Kim paved the way for Nicki.
"I can agree," T.I. responded, before adding, "[Nicki] is one of the biggest-selling artists of all time and I salute that [...] Impact, impact, impact."
The group then took a vote to see which rapper should take "the slot under Bun B." Surprisingly, everyone in the room raised their hands in agreement that it should be Lil' Kim, so, T.I. gave her the #28 spot.
Back in August, Tip dropped his list and explained that he created it based on artists' impact. "When it comes to the case of TOP 50 rap artists, here's our list," read the caption of the list, which was shared to T.I.'s Trap Music Museum Instagram. "Based on the Rapper's overall impact and influence to Rap culture. We aren't JUST talking about best lyricist, most record sales, most streams, largest fan base or longevity, but we are talking about OVERALL IMPACT on this thing of ours."
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Today's Birthdays: May 01
May 01
Arthur Wellesley
1769–1852, British soldier and statesman.
Military Achievements
Wellesley entered the army in 1787 and, aided by his brother Richard (later Marquess Wellesley), rose rapidly in rank. He held a command in Flanders (1794–95) and in 1796 went with his regiment to India. After his brother's appointment (1797) as governor-general of India, he received command of a division in the invasion of Mysore and became (1799) governor of Seringapatam. In 1800 he defeated the robber chieftain, Dhundia Wagh, and in 1802 he was made major general. In 1803 he moved against the Marathas, breaking their force of about 40,000 with an army of about 10,000 in a surprise attack. A valuable civil and military adviser to his brother, he returned with him to England in 1805 and was knighted. His election (1806) to Parliament and appointment (1807) as Irish secretary did not prevent him from leading (1807) an expedition against the Danes.
In 1808 he led an expedition to assist Portugal in its revolt against the French. He defeated the French at Roliça and Vimeiro, but was superseded in command. In 1809 he returned to the Iberian Peninsula, where he ultimately assumed command of the British, Portuguese, and Spanish forces in the Peninsular War. Taking advantage of the irregular terrain, Portuguese and Spanish nationalism, and Napoleon's preoccupation with other campaigns and projects, he drove the French beyond the Pyrenees by 1813, though his campaigns were rendered difficult by poor support from the British government. Late in 1813 he invaded S France, and he was at Toulouse when news of Napoleon's abdication (April, 1814) arrived.
Returning to England, he received many honors and was created duke of Wellington. He served for a short time as ambassador to Paris, then succeeded Viscount Castlereagh at the peace conference in Vienna; but when Napoleon returned from Elba, he took command of the allied armies. There followed his most famous victory, that in the Waterloo campaign, won in conjunction with the Prussian general, Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher. Wellington, again lavishly honored, took charge of the army of occupation in France, exerting his influence to restrain harsh treatment of the defeated French.
Political Career
Wellington, "the iron duke," with the soldier's taste for discipline and order and the aristocrat's distrust of democratic institutions, lent his great prestige to the Tory policy of repression at home and took a cabinet post as master general of the ordnance (1819). He represented England at the Congress of Verona (1822), where he opposed intervention in the Spanish revolt, and at the conference at St. Petersburg (1826) that concerned itself with the revolt in Greece, but he was not in sympathy with the liberal foreign policy of George Canning and resigned (1827) when Canning became prime minister.
In 1828 Wellington himself reluctantly became prime minister. He bowed to public clamor and allowed the repeal of the Test Act and Corporation Act and the passage of the Catholic Emancipation bill (reforms he had previously opposed), but he lost the support of much of the Tory party as a consequence. When he declared against parliamentary reform, the ministry fell (1830), and his unpopularity subjected him to an assault by a mob. He refused to form a government in 1834, but served under Sir Robert Peel as foreign secretary (1834–35) and again (1841–46) as minister without portfolio. On the repeal of the corn laws he supported Peel, while not wholly approving his policy. In 1842 he was made commander in chief for life. He is buried in St. Paul's Cathedral.
See his dispatches and other papers (pub. in 3 series, 1834–39, 1858–72, 1867–80); biographies by J. W. Fortescue (1925, 3d ed. 1960), Philip Guedalla (1931), Sir Charles Petrie (1956), Elizabeth Longford (2 vol., 1969–72), and Sir Arthur Bryant (1971); study by Godfrey Davies (1954) Neville Thompson (1986).
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- Joseph Addisonwriter (1672)
- Mary Harris Joneslabor agitator (1830)
- Calamity Janefrontier character (1852)
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Remember the delicious 10-Grain milk bread that I shared with you last week? And remember how I told you that I made a yummy sandwich with that same bread and was gonna share it with you soon? Welp, here it is!
This is a riff on a sandwich I love eating from this particular restaurant. A bunch of grilled veggies, a slather of smoky hummus and tangy, creamy feta. You really should not skimp on grilling the veggies here because it really adds a distinct smoky flavor, but if you really do not want to grill, you could always roast them in the oven. On top of my hearty 10-grain bread, it makes for a wonderful lunch.
Grilled Vegetable Sandwiches
Yields: 4 sandwiches, 4 servings
8 slices of 10-grain milk bread, or any whole wheat bread
4 tbsn. roasted garlic hummus, or more to your taste
4 tbsn. crumbled French feta, or more to your taste
2 red peppers, roasted
2 medium zucchini, sliced
1 box mushrooms, sliced
1 large eggplant, sliced
salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
To roast the eggplant, grill the peppers until their outer skin is charred and completely black. Place into a heatproof bowl and cover completely; allow them to steam for 4 - 5 minutes, then remove the charred skin (it should pinch off easily). Grill the zucchini and eggplant slices until cooked through and slightly charred (I grilled them dry, but if you prefer, you can use some olive oil on the veggies). In a medium saucepan, dry saute the mushrooms over high heat until browned and cooked through. Place all of the vegetables into a large bowl and season to taste with salt and freshly ground black pepper. Toast the bread slices, then spread a tbsn. of hummus on four slices of bread. Top with the crumbled feta, some roasted red pepper, grilled zucchini, mushroom and grilled eggplant. Finish it off with the other slice of bread and enjoy!


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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid swore he wouldn't use it. Senate Republicans have demonized it. Most Americans have never heard of it. But a little-known legislative procedure called "reconciliation" is making a fierce comeback as congressional Democrats' best hope to end the Senate's stalemate over health care reform.
Reconciliation is a fast-track legislative process — specifically designed to reduce deficits — that cannot be blocked or filibustered. Congress created the procedure in 1974, amid concerns that legislation cutting popular social programs like Medicare and Medicaid would never get the 60 votes necessary to break a filibuster.
Early last year, Democrats dusted off their rulebooks and began examining the intricacies of passing the health care bill using reconciliation, which would require only a simple 51-vote majority. Almost all of them reached the same conclusion: using an obscure budgetary procedural to pass a massive overhaul of one-sixth of the nation's economy would be politically perilous and alarmingly unpredictable.
Democratic leaders publicly dismissed pulling the reconciliation trigger last year, after it became clear that they would be able hold the 60 members of his caucus together to pass the overhaul package. Questioned by knots of reporters when he walked the Senate hallways, Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad threw cold water on the idea every time.
Top aides to Reid circulated memos that outlined scores of potential problems with the process. "I'm not using reconciliation," Reid declared flatly at a November news conference.
Revisiting reconciliation
But the political landscape has changed dramatically, making the procedure once called a "non-starter" by one Democratic senator into a very real possibility. Both chambers have each narrowly passed their own health care bills, and campaign season is now in full swing. Most importantly, when Republican Scott Brown thundered to an astonishing victory in a special election to replace the late Sen. Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts, Democrats lost their ability to break filibusters on the Senate floor.
One thing that hasn't changed in the Senate is fierce GOP opposition to the Democratic health care bills. In fact, it's only solidified with Brown's arrival on Capitol Hill, forcing Democrats to find a way to sidestep a solid block of 41 Republican "no" votes.
The fastest route to final passage would actually be for the House to approve the health bill that passed the Senate in a dramatic Christmas Eve vote last year. Such a move would literally put legislation on the president's desk in a single day, but House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she doesn't have the votes to pass the Senate bill "as is." In other words, there will need to be some additional "fixes" — or revisions to the Senate bill that could win over wavering House Democrats.
That's where reconciliation comes in. The Senate could pass these fixes with only 51 votes and avoid a filibuster.
In simple terms, Senate Democrats could revise their bill by passing a package of provisions that addressed Medicare, Medicaid, taxes, government subsidies, and revenues collected by the government, which would likely survive the rigorous rules of reconciliation.
Conrad said that approach would work.
"The only possible role that I can see for reconciliation would to be make modest changes in the major package," he said Sunday on CBS' "Face the Nation."
"The role for reconciliation would be very limited. It would be on sidecar issues, designed to improve what passed the Senate and what would have to pass the House for health care reform to move forward," he said.
GOP flipping the "Byrd"
While a smaller reconciliation bill would appear to increase Democrats' chances of success, Republicans still have weapons to wage war against the process. Every line in the bill must adhere to strict rules to ensure a budgetary impact or risk being eliminated by the non-partisan Senate parliamentarian.
(Alan Frumin, the current parliamentarian, is viewed by Republicans and Democrats alike as an impartial umpire. He was promoted to the top spot by then-Republican Majority Leader Trent Lott.)
Expected to lead the charge for the GOP is Sen. Judd Gregg of New Hampshire, the top Republican on the Budget Committee. "Reconciliation is a very technical exercise," Gregg said last week. "You'd have to go through each section, each sentence, each paragraph and take a look and see whether the policy exceeded the budgetary impact."
At Gregg's disposal are 18 different "points of order" to challenge sections of the bill and force a ruling from the parliamentarian. If the parliamentarian sustains or agrees with Gregg, that section would be removed from the bill. There is no limit to how many objections can be raised, leaving the potential, according to Democrats, for Republicans to force dozens of votes.
The most well-known point of order is referred to as the "Byrd Rule." Named after its creator, West Virginia Democrat Sen. Robert Byrd, the rule generally allows sections of the bill to be eliminated if they do not have a direct impact on deficit reduction.
For example, Gregg says, a proposal introduced by President Barack Obama last week giving the government authority to regulate insurance premiums might be struck down by the parliamentarian. The measure, Gregg says, could have "very serious Byrd issues."
The Byrd Rule is so popular that it has its own lexicon. If someone thinks he or she can strike a section of the bill, that section is considered "Byrdable." Once it is struck from the bill, it's called a "Byrd dropping." A bill that has been riddled by the Byrd Rule has gone through a "Byrd bath."
Democrats could vote to overrule the parliamentarian's decision, but in several cases it would take 60 votes — which Democrats no longer have — to be successful. The vice president, whose constitutional duties include serving as the president of the Senate, also has the authority to overrule the parliamentarian's verdicts. But aides say that there is virtually no chance that Joe Biden, himself a senator for 36 years, would risk such high-profile meddling in Senate business.
Is it fair?
Republicans argue that reconciliation is a partisan tactic that would limit their ability to offer amendments and limit debate to 20 hours in what's considered "the world's most deliberative body." They also say it's inappropriate to use a fast-track budget process to craft health care policy.
But Democrats are quick to point out that the process has been used by both parties — more than 20 times since 1980 — on things like tax cuts, student loan programs, children's health insurance, and welfare reform.
"They should stop crying about reconciliation as if it's never been done before," Reid said last week. "It's done almost every Congress, and they're the ones that used it more than anyone else."
Msnbc.com's Carrie Dann contributed to this report.


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On "The Bitter River"
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The most prolonged and deeply moving of Hughes's lynch poems is "The Bitter River," a dirge for two black youths lynched in Mississippi in 1942. Hughes conceives of the lynch terror as a bitter, poisonous river flowing through the South, a river at which black people have been forced to drink too long. Its water galls the taste, poisons the blood, and drowns black hopes. The "snake-like hiss of its stream" strangles black dreams. The bitter river reflects no stars, only the steel bars behind which are confined numberless innocents--the Scottsboro Boys, sharecroppers, and labor leaders. The bitter river makes nonsense of liberal rhetoric:
"Work, education, patience
Will bring a better day."
The swirl of the bitter river
Carries your "patience" away.
Patience is useless, the hope in work and education a slim and distant one. The poem ends in bitter complaint, weariness and gloom:
I'm tired of the bitter river!
Tired of the bars!
From Langston Hughes: An Introduction to the Poetry. Copyright © 1976 by the Columbia University Press.
Jim Beatty
Langston Hughess "The Bitter River" is a complex analysis of how racial and class oppression operate in an articulated fashion, which suggests that the "two" facets of identity cannot be as easily separated as current critical treatments of them too often do. The poem offers not only an astute account of dominant oppression in the US, it teaches lessons that contemporary critical theory would do well to heed.
First, there seems to be a subtle, dual thrust to the recurrent reference to the speakers "dream." Hughes goes beyond the dream of equal treatment and civil rights ominously referred to in "Harlem" (i.e. the explosive nature of "a dream deferred") to give the "dream" specific, divergent content in "The Bitter River." The first mention of the "dream", strangled by the lynchers noose in line 16, is followed by a description of it as education and vocational training. This seems to be the dream of accommodation and "separate but equal" famously endorsed by Booker T. Washington among others. Hughes undercuts to validity of this dream by placing the same ideals in the white platitudes offered in lines 38-47. In line with Du Bois critique of Washington, then, Hughes dismisses this dream as a fantasy. Yet he intensifies his obliteration of the "dream" of vocational training as a means to better fit in the place relegated to African Americans in a racist system by showing that even a phantasmatic dream of racial progress is violently denied.
In the next reference to the speakers dream in line 61, however, the context signals a shift in content. This "dream" is not even serious enough for the racists to killthey merely mock it. This "dream" is mentioned right after the speaker affirms that the lynched Charlie Lang and Ernest Green are his "comrades," and the horrific insult of their murder is heaped upon the exploitation of the speakers "labor." This "dream," then, at least evokes a communist struggle for class solidarity in the capitalist-racist system. Rather than Washingtons "dream" of the proper training for menial/wage-slave jobs fully endorsed yet murdered by the racist dominant class, this new dream is of salvation not through occupational subservience but rather through labor equality. It is interesting that the dubious dream offered by the white speakers must be killed but the more valid dream of labor solidarity and equality is merely "spit" upon. This seems to suggest that the latter, more valid dream is less of a threat to the capitalist-racist elite than even Washingtons subservient fantasy.
Hughes intensifies this connection between the violent suppression of black aspiration and the aloof contempt for a class-conscious racial struggle in lines 74-75: "Tired now of the bitter river, / Tired now of the pat on the back." The parallel structure here equates the rage about the lynchings the speaker imbibes from the Southern river with an equal rage concerning the paternalistic dismissal of a class-based revolutionary consciousness. While the literal lynching of African Americans is obviously a more immediately pressing problem, Hughes suggests that the symbolic lynching of class-based African-American struggles for equality may be just as damaging to the race in the end. The lyncher can be clearly identified and materially resisted. The wage-enslaving capitalist, who can enact on a large scale what the lyncher can only do one Black man at a time, however, is a much more elusive target for resistance.
It is also impressive that Hughes maintains this connection between physical, violent, and murderous oppression and a more subtle, class-based oppression through starvation 25 years later in "The Backlash Blues." In lines 5-6 the speaker again articulates economic and bodily oppression by mentioning "taxes," "wages," and "Vietnam" in the same breath. This poem too gestures towards a wider solidarity. Here, however, the speaker shows a more confident certainty in the eventual success of this class-based resistance, for he affirms a global solidarity. The "backlash" and the slavers whip symbolically enacted through economic oppression shifts by the end of the poem to a more literal "backlash" against the capitalist-racist elite once the more numerous "non-whites" of the world rise up and wrest control away from the real "minority" in global terms: the white, racist capitalists. Instead the tension between racial and class politics that Shulman seems to read in the various versions of "Justice," both "The Bitter River" and "The Backlash Blues" show Hughess remarkable ability to treat race and class in an articulated manner throughout his career.
Jim Beatty ©2001
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A large majority of independent advisory firms will see their business value stagnate just as they near the point they want to exit the business, says the Alliance for RIAs (aRIA), a confederation of six RIA firms that brands itself an advisor think tank and offers business growth consulting.
In a just released whitepaper, the second in a series of four on creating value in an independent advisory practice, aRIA warns that most advisors fall into the "annuity trap" of treating their business primarily as a source of current income rather than building "real enterprise value."
Building value in a business requires addressing long-term structural issues, but "advisors are usually not emotionally or philosophically willing to address business structure issues proactively," say the aRIA advisors.
The group's members are Brent Brodeski of Savant Capital, John Burns of Exencial Wealth Management, Ron Carson of Carson Wealth Management Group, Jeff Concepcion of Stratos Wealth Partners, Matt Cooper of Beacon Pointe Wealth Advisors and Neal Simon of Highline Wealth Management.
To avoid the long-term structural problems of a neglected business, hazards including fee compression, erosion of margins, recruitment challenges, low market valuation and limited liquidity, aRIA advisors say advisors must build scale and see their firm as surviving its owner's exit from the business.
As evidence that most firms neglect this, the whitepaper cites Cerulli research that shows the top 742 RIA firms–or just 4.5% of SEC-registered advisor firms–control 60% of all RIA assets. The dominance of just a few firms in this space is a growing trend, they say, adding that 334 or more firms have already reached the billion-dollar asset level, more than three times the number of such firms just five years ago.
Those elite firms that have been able to achieve scale, in the opinion of the aRIA whitepaper, are those who have been willing to invest in people and processes.
The aRIA group cites the example of a firm that contacted their Advisor Growth Strategies unit seeking business advice. "The owners of the firm loved managing investment portfolios and had little interest in evolving their client experience and selling," they write.
The whitepaper says the firm's choices are to either accept a low-growth status quo; hire a good rainmaker at a cost of at least $200,000 a year–10% of the firm's revenue; build an alliance with a complimentary firm strong in sales and with a need for a strong investment arm, a strategy they say is hard to execute.
The correct path depends on the "advisor's unique circumstances," but the authors note that "many advisors are hesitant to make material investments as it would have an adverse effect on their cash flow and therefore take-home pay."
Advisors who feel unable to develop their existing firm should look carefully at strategic alliances, roll-up firms (whose deals come with "strings attached") or joint venture partnerships with other firms.
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Baltimore Oriole Danny Valencia also was listed in the documents. He has been cleared by Major League Baseball.
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Biologists seek first photo evidence of species in western Oregon
Some will tell you it's a pygmy variety of bear. To others, it's a superhero with fierce sideburns. On the spectrum of enigmatic beasts, it's only slightly less mysterious than a sasquatch. But the wolverine is a very real animal, and biologists want to know whether the species is living in Oregon's Cascade Mountains.
"Everyone agrees that the wilderness around the Three Sisters, Mount Washington and Mount Jefferson contain wolverine habitat," said Jamie McFadden, biologist and project leader with Oregon Wildlife. "But there's never been any photographic evidence of them from that area."
The wolverine — a 40-pound, tough-as-nails member of the weasel family — is naturally uncommon throughout its range. Between 1921 and 2000, fewer than 10 verified sightings were recorded in Oregon.
McFadden hopes her remote camera-trap survey, an Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife project funded in part by the Oregon Zoo's Future for Wildlife grant program, will yield the first documentation of this rare creature in Oregon's Cascade Range.
"The wolverine has a state status as threatened, and it's a federal candidate under the Endangered Species Act," McFadden said. "We're hoping this study will help inform state and federal wildlife management agencies for decisions about wolverine and forest carnivore conservation efforts."
Nobody knows whether wolverines breed in Oregon, but in 2008, one was camera-trapped in Northern California. DNA from a hair sample it left behind suggested the animal was from Idaho.
Then, in 2011, biologist Audrey Magoun captured Oregon's first wolverine photos during her camera-trap survey in the northeast corner of the state. DNA from one of those animals also suggested an Idaho lineage.
"Are the wolverines using Oregon as a dispersal corridor, or do some actually live here?" McFadden asked. "That's one question that we're trying to answer."
Adult male wolverines lay claim to a home range of about 350 square miles — the equivalent of one person occupying all of San Francisco and Oakland. Young animals in search of their home turf cover even more ground.
"We radio-collared one sub-adult in Montana that roamed an area of about 14,300 square miles," Dr. Magoun said.
That wandering spirit makes wolverines hard to find. To see them, biologists turn to camera surveillance.
"We now have a pretty sophisticated camera-trap system," McFadden said. "We can coax a wolverine into taking a picture of itself while striking a certain pose that reveals its identity and sex — and even, if it's a female, whether it's lactating during the spring months."
A lactating female means kits are nearby, and finding one is the only way scientists can prove that Oregon has home-grown wolverines. But capturing photos of any wolverine — lactating or not — is a challenging affair.
"It involves snowshoeing uphill through miles of dangerous avalanche country while wearing a heavy backpack," Magoun said. "Wolverines don't make it easy. That's probably why they've lasted so long."
First, McFadden and her team members will find a spot with two trees spread about 10 feet apart. They'll run a cable to which they attach the bait — typically a slab of road-killed deer.
"An animal carcass is like a dream come true for scavenging wolverines," McFadden said. "When we see a road-killed deer, we often pick it up. This requires a special permit from ODFW."
Because wolverines are extremely tenacious, the team must drill a hole through a bone in the carcass to use as the attachment point.
That also helps keep other predators, such as black bears, from pulling it down prematurely.
The team then installs a platform just tall enough for a wolverine to climb and access the bait. When it reaches up, it exposes the unique pattern of cream-colored spots on its chin and chest — a sort of wolverine fingerprint.
Aiming at the whole setup is a camera that takes a picture whenever it detects movement.
The system can also reveal a wandering wolverine's hometown. The furry beast must squeeze through a gauntlet of spring-loaded hair-snag clips in order to reach the bait.
"If a viable hair sample is collected, the DNA can be compared against a library to determine whether a wolverine may have come from Idaho or Washington or elsewhere," McFadden said.
McFadden and her project team began deploying camera traps in October and plan to check them every three to six weeks. If any wolverines are photographed, those cameras will be checked more frequently.
"This is a particularly exciting and important project," said Dr. David Shepherdson, deputy conservation manager with the Oregon Zoo. "Managing for carnivores provides wildlife linkages between habitats that can be used by other species."
McFadden also hopes her camera traps will collect critical data on other sensitive species, such as American marten and montane red fox. Even if she finds no wolverines, she will have successfully conducted the first systematic photographic wolverine survey in Oregon's Cascades.
"Nobody thought we'd find them in the Wallowas, but we did," Magoun said. "If Jamie finds wolverines in the Cascades, so close to a large human population, it will be way bigger news."
This project is a partnership of the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, U.S. Forest Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Oregon Wildlife, the Oregon Zoo, The Wolverine Foundation and others.
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I spent a few minutes this week reflecting upon my own past year's accomplishments as I listened to my family's deeds for the year during a very rare family get-together. Actually, they get together all the time. My life on the road means I don't get together with them save for once or twice a year. So I was getting a full download of their year's activities.
While listening to people whine about getting older, watching the world change around them, and how the world is going to hell in a hand basket, I remembered reading that this month, in fact on Christmas Day (December 25), the Internet browser was invented 15 years ago. If it could talk, what would it have to say about its accomplishments over the past 15 years?
Eweek reported on the "Interactive Nature of Browser Colors Past and Future" in their tribute to the 15 year old browser:
Fifteen years after the birth of the Web browser, development of the software is increasingly focused on provoking users to define their own ways of consuming information online.
The more things change, the more they stay the same. Sort of.
When Tim Berners-Lee wrote the first Web client, or browser editor, in 1990, his aim was to build a creative tool that would allow people using the nascent system to organize information and present it to others in a fun, dynamic way.
Fifteen years into the project, he and other experts closely involved with shaping the browser's legacy agree that fostering greater levels of user interaction remains their ultimate goal.
When you ask Berners-Lee what surprises him most about the development of browser technologies, it's not that one company, Microsoft Corp., has been able to take control of an estimated 85 percent of the market for the software today. Rather, the inventor, who currently serves as the director of the W3C (World Wide Web consortium), said his greatest shock is that so many people have embraced the browser despite its overall rigidity.
Thinking about the past 15 years, or even the most recent year, I've heard a lot of bitching and moaning about the inadequacies of web browsers and online tools – and yet this is still a brand new industry. It's a baby in diapers compared to where it will be even 5 years from now. And what it has accomplished in the past 15 years is amazing.
Once, the Internet was limited to government agencies and universities, strictly for facts and figures and communication. Now, it is ablaze with colors, lights, and things that dance in the night, as well as facts, figures, and communication. There is hardly a person on the planet who hasn't heard about the Internet and the power it puts under a user's fingers to access tons of facts, figures, and information, as well as communication around the world in seconds.
Among my aged family members, who once shook their heads in wonder at the amount of time I spend in front of a computer, they are now talking flash drives, usb connections, digital cameras, uploading, downloading, file sharing, online games, email, blogs, bloggers, bluetooth, and WIFI. Ages 50 and above now can't function without their cell phones, email and Internet news.
One family member, 74 years old, talked to me for almost an hour about his favorite political bloggers and columnists, about how he tended to listen to those with a more radical leaning view, but checked out a few ultra conservative bloggers "just to keep an eye on the enemy". If I had told him about my website (a pre-blog blog) even three years ago, he would have shook his head and said, "Young people and their gadgets. Time wasters."
Among all of the accomplishments the browser has achieved over the past 15 years, I'd have to admit that the most important one of all is the way it has brought everyone, of every age, race, language, and nation, together connected to a larger world. A world of information, potential, and possibilities. You can talk Web 2.0 all you want. I think getting a 70+ year old to willingly embrace high technology is one of the best accomplishments in the world. While age is making it harder for him to have the social and active life he once knew, he can still stay in touch with the world and argue politics with the best and worst of them.
For that alone, I thank you, Mr. Berners-Lee and the rest of the contributors to the success of the browser and Internet around the world.
Browsers of the Future
Berners-Lee talks about the popularity of blogs and online editing of wikis changing the way we relate and get news from the Internet, and then says something interesting about the future of the browser.
As part of a tightrope act that people exchanging information online must learn how to balance better, he said, Web browsers and sites will need to become more adaptive in allowing users to manipulate information online, while also getting more secure and trustworthy.
This is indeed a tightrope to walk the line between control and editing of information and security.
Firefox continues to get high ranks as one of the hottest browser to pay attention to in the future, with its versatile interface with tabs, privacy and content controls, and security. Other browsers are racing to catch up with some of their innovations, so we are clearly in a huge browser race, one that will benefit all of us users, hopefully.
The article continues with a prediction that wireless and mobile access to the Internet, along with Feeds, will clearly push the browser and access to the Internet in a new direction. People want pretty, but getting the information to them wherever they are, and just the information not necessarily the pretty, will be critical in the browser wars.
I gave my mother a handheld computer this year for the holidays. It has bluetooth and WIFI. She can now connect to the Internet through the WIFI system I set up for her and her husband a couple years ago and access the Internet via her new handheld computer while sitting by the fire downstairs from her office and computer, or even in the bath soaking. And when WIFI is out of range, she can connect via the bluetooth on her cell phone. Instead of waiting in doctor's offices or long lines at the gas station or grocery store, she can quickly catch up on email or the news via her new mini-computer.
She was thrilled but overwhelmed – for about four minutes. A major fan of the local newspaper, she wanted to know right away how to write a scathing email to the editor of the newspaper about an article she had just read that morning. She didn't even want to wait until she got up to the top floor (2 floors above) to her desk. She wanted to send it NOW.
Yes, the future of the Internet will indeed lie with wireless and mobile access. My mother is just one example of why.
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The Showtime-televised event is slated for the new home of all future Challengers shows: The Pearl at the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas.
Strikeforce CEO Scott Coker confirmed the details prior to tonight's UFC 130 event.
Strikeforce, which the UFC's parent company recently acquired, traditionally bounced around the country with the Challengers series. Strkeforce Challengers 16, which takes place on June 24, still is being hosted by ShoWare Center in Kent, Wash.
After that, though, Las Vegas (the UFC's home city) will host all the future shows in the approximately 1,700-seat Palms venue.
Bowling, a hard-hitting 29-year-old who trains out of Cincinnati, fought Voelker in his 2010 promotional debut. Bowling clearly was winning the fight before an accidental eye poker left him unable to see. With the bout halted, officials went to the judges, who unanimously scored it 29-28 (with the partial third round also being scored) to take the technical decision.
However, 32-year-old veteran fighter Voelker enacted his revenge in an immediate rematch and delivered Bowling his first career loss. The Kansas native scored a second-round TKO for the definitive win in that rematch.
Like the first two meetings, the third takes place on a Strikeforce Challengers card.
Combined, 24 of the duo's 32 wins have come via stoppage (19 via knockout).
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