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Obama is orchestrating and staging an anti-gun push in Chicago's South Side. It is his way to build an emotional basis for gun legislation. Several MSNBC commentators are making highly emotional pitches against guns as they cover this event.
Naturally this elicits counter-reactions from those many, many millions who oppose the government on the gun issue and hear the coverage. Among his gun opposition, Obama's push reduces respect for him, his office and all government authority. Clearly, against these millions upon millions of gun owners, he would use raw power to get his way if he could, and not authority gained from their cooperative consent. They recognize, if only implicitly, this substitution of power for authority. Obama would use executive orders if he could. He'd issue bans if he could. He'd twist the gun issue into a public health, safety and welfare, or even terrorist issue, if he could. He would have the agencies of government issue constraining rules. He would use many means to disarm Americans, and they'd all be means of POWER.
A state that relies upon power to govern, not authority bestowed on it from those it governs, is illegitimate. It loses its justification to govern. This is the case today in America on the gun issue and many other issues. The government has again and again legislated against the wills and support of millions and millions and millions of Americans. It has relied on power to enforce its laws.


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Aeromotive Stealth Fuel System - Stealthy Option
Plumbing The Purple Pig With An Aeromotive Stealth Fuel System
OK, so you've looked at the pictures and are wondering why I have what looks like a race car fuel system in my custom. And it's a valid point, as the Aeromotive tank, filter, and fuel log sure look like race parts, and indeed can be found on many race cars. Aeromotive is a major supplier of fuel system components for many drag race teams, as well as OE suppliers for the current Cobra Jet Mustang.
For starters, I needed a complete system, as my stock tank had already been repaired once and no longer had fuel gauge provisions. And, considering how rusty the car was when I bought it, I felt safer replacing the stock fuel lines from front to rear. Seeing as I'd gone a little beyond my original plans with the Smeding 383 stroker motor, I wanted a system that was capable of delivering enough fuel to feed the 400-plus horsepower engine. I also wanted to incorporate a return line should I ever decide to swap out the carburetor for fuel injection. After all, if I'm going to the trouble of fitting a complete fuel system, why not do the job just once, and incorporate the capability to handle whatever may happen in the future? With the Aeromotive system, I'm confident that I'll never run it to its maximum potential of 1,000-plus horsepower capability, but I can also be confident that I won't lean out the motor either, no matter what I do to the engine farther down the road.
However, Aeromotive products are not just for race cars, indeed they offer multiple options for street rods and muscle cars and even a couple of "universal hot rod systems" for late-model EFI or crate engine swaps, with inline pumps, filters, and regulators, as well as Stealth fuel systems. The first type of these uses a fuel pump completely submersed in a baffled fuel tank sump box, which can be welded into almost any existing fuel tank. It is this system our sister magazine STREET RODDER used in their '52 Chevy Road Tour car last year. Aeromotive also offers an aluminum fuel cell in the Stealth series, which again features an in-tank pump. In this case, it's the company's A1000 pump, which is probably their most versatile fuel pump (ideal for 200hp carbureted engines all the way to 1,000hp EFI engines) and claimed to be the most durable of its kind. The Eliminator pump is also available in this cell, though it's bigger and unnecessary for my application, as a smaller pump for lower horsepower applications will be available soon, which will be a non-billet pump more akin to what you'd find in an OEM application.
So what's so good about placing the pump inside the fuel tank? Advantages include cooler temps and dramatically reduced pump noise, ideal fuel pump environment, and a reduction in installation time, not to mention the Stealth cells eliminate the risk of fuel pump cavitation, owing to hard cornering, launching, or braking thanks to innovative baffling. There's a reason the OEMs have been using in-tank pumps for a couple of decades! The Stealth cells are compatible with carburetors or EFI, so long as the correct regulator is selected.
For my application, Aeromotive recommended their 13204 Carbureted Bypass Regulator, designed specifically to be used with the A1000 or Eliminator pump in a carbureted application. It is capable of adjusting the base fuel pressure from 3-15 psi, and features an AN-10 inlet port and -8 return port, with two -6 outlet ports and a 1/8-inch NPT gauge port. Pressure isn't provided by the fuel pump, but rather by the regulator restricting the volume flowing through the pump, thereby driving the pressure up to a set point. With a bypass regulator, once the pump has created enough pressure to open the regulator bypass, the regulator leaks just enough flow to maintain the desired pressure. The regulator requires some flow through the unit while pressure is being adjusted, and the correct method to set pressure is with the pump on and the engine running.
It should also be mentioned that Aeromotive offers a fuel pump speed controller. This is mainly required by EFI systems with an inline pump rather than an in-tank version, which can help prevent cavitation and vaporization caused by low pressure in the pre-pump plumbing, caused when the constantly re-circulating fuel becomes hot after running through the engine bay and back to the tank a few times. Given that 8 gallons of fuel will re-circulate every three minutes, you can see how heat can build up. Activated by a signal from the tachometer, the speed controller will reduce pump speed at lower rpm; ramping up to full speed at 2,500 rpm. However, unless the car will sit idling for hours, the controller is not required with a fuel cell system, which eliminates the pre-pump plumbing and associated low-pressure issues.
If you're a regular reader you'll already have seen the dropped trunk floor I fabricated to house the fuel cell and RideTech compressor and pump for the air suspension. The remainder of the installation involved drilling holes to route the braided fuel lines through the floor, fabricating a mount for the fuel filter on the righthand chassis rail, and mounting the regulator to the firewall. Actually, there was a little more to it than that, as I chose to run rigid stainless for both the feed and return lines rather than run braided hose front to rear. The hardest part of the install was figuring out the plumbing and the fittings needed, and I resorted to drawing the system out on a large sheet of cardboard to make sure I got it right. This may sound lame, but considering the number of fittings required to switch from braided to hard line, and in and out of the various components, it worked out the best way for me.
I was also trying to figure out how to run the Aeromotive fuel log in a "full-flow" manner, but given its physical size and the location of my A/C compressor, it didn't work out, no matter how I tried. I even ordered special Fragola banjo fittings from Summit Racing in the hope they'd clear the compressor, but to no avail. I eventually resigned to run a semi-"dead head" system, whereby the fuel passes through the regulator to the fuel log, which is blanked off at the forward end, the return line to the tank running back from the regulator. By comparison, the "full-flow" system involves the fuel entering the front of the log, with the regulator actually attached to the rear of the log rather than the firewall, and with the return line again running from the regulator. Speaking to the guys at Aeromotive, though the full-flow system is what they usually recommend, I was assured the alternative was perfectly adequate for a street application. Let's face it, it's what we've all seen many, many times before on street cars with more power than my Chevy, and that's without a return line.
Once I got my head around the layout of the system-thanks to my cardboard diagram-and worked out the routing of the hoses and hard lines, the complete system was a breeze to fit and I really liked the simplicity of the pump-in-tank method. Not only does the fuel system look good, I know it'll handle whatever I throw at it in the future, and am excited that the project is one major step closer to completion.

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text: Kenny Chesney has added a second New England date to his summer No Shoes Nation tour. Chesney will appear at Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, Mass., on Aug. 23, one day prior to his previously-scheduled concert there. Tickets for the new show go on sale Saturday (Dec. 8). Chesney's tour will begin March 16 at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Fla., and conclude at Gillette Stadium on Aug. 24. More tour dates will be announced in the coming months.


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At Hot Chips this past week, AMD unveiled more details of the upcoming 12-core "Magny-Cours" processor that it hopes will help it stay competitive in the server game. Due in 2010 on AMD's 45nm SOI process, Magny-Cours uses the same basic core microarchitecture as the current Shanghai quad-core server processor, so if there's any improvement in per-thread performance it will have to come from better system design.
The basic idea behind Magny-Cours is simple: take two six-core Istanbul processors, downclock them a bit to reduce power, and squeeze them into a multichip module (MCM) so that they can fit into a single socket. By using an MCM, AMD will be able to fit 12 cores into the same thermal and power envelope as Istanbul.
Making this work requires a few tradeoffs, and one of them is the MCM itself. AMD had previously ridiculed Intel's use of an MCM for its first dual-core effort, the Pentium 4-based Smithfield, as not "true" dual-core. They repeated the charge with Intel's first quad-core, which was also an MCM. But with Nehalem cleaning up in per-core absolute performance, AMD is having to hustle to maintain a credible server presence, and part of that hustle is adopting the MCM strategy that it had formerly ridiculed.
For system architecture reasons, AMD's MCM picture is a little more complex than was Intel's, because each Istanbul chip has its own on-die dual-channel DDR3 memory controller, along with four HyperTransport links. Obviously, you can't push each chip's full interconnect bandwidth through a single socket, so AMD had to cut out some links.
The company's MCM 2.0 design has four total HT ports (two per chip) and four DDR3 memory ports (two per chip) on each MCM. For each individual chip, one of the links is x16 and another is x8. The two chips are connected inside the module by a x16 HT link.
Even with four HT links and four memory channels to keep the MCM fed, 12 cores is still a lot to pack into a single socket, and bandwidth starvation is a concern. To help alleviate the bandwidth pressure AMD's Istanbul made a very smart tradeoff in the form of HT Assist, and this tradeoff is carried over to Magny-Cours, where it's even more necessary.
One of the big challenges in multiprocessor system design is keeping the various processors' caches in sync with one another; solutions to this problem all involve some amount of communication among the processors, and this "snoop" traffic eats up valuable bus bandwidth. The solution that AMD has adopted with Istanbul and Magny-Cours involves setting aside 1MB of each chip's 6MB cache to store a directory of the contents of the other chips' caches, so that by consulting this local directory each chip can avoid broadcasting a significant number of traffic-increasing snoop requests to the other chips.
The reason HT Assist works is that die area is relatively cheap compared to bus and socket bandwidth, so any trick that lets you trade some on-die transistors for a boost in real-world bus bandwidth is a win. This is in fact the basic idea behind caches of all kinds, and HT Assist's directory is really just another type of cache. Per-socket bandwidth will become increasingly precious as the number of cores in each socket goes up, and as a result we're going to see multicore floorplans swing back to the way things were at the end of the single-core era, i.e., where a processor die is mostly a large chunk of very fast memory with some compute blocks embedded in it.
After Magny-Cours, AMD intends to keep upping the per-socket core count while maintaining backwards compatibility with Magny-Cours' and Istanbul's socket, power, and thermals.


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As a sponsor for ARTCRANK London 2011, the Lezyne bicycle products company were interested in showcasing their fine track pumps in an innovative way.
The production team for the show wanted to bring what we called "the red carpet effect" to London's second ARTCRANK show. Thus this rope barrier was designed and constructed with specially-sourced pink inner tubes. The branding for ARTCRANK, Look Mum No Hands! and Lezyne were all highlighted in the installation.
The design allowed for the bikes to remain functional during the event—something of which many of the show attendees took full advantage.


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The American Sociological Association's Student Forum was established in 1998 as a means to represent its student members' voices, ideas, and opinions. The Student Forum provides various resources for both graduate and undergraduate sociology students, while also helping students establish networks, and encouraging their professional development. Individuals who join the ASA as student members will automatically become members of the Student Forum and will receive mailings and electronic communication from the Student Forum Advisory Board (SFAB). For more information about the Student Forum, please click here.
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The ASA and Student Forum Advisory Board are pleased to announce that the ASA Council is making funds available to support the Student Forum Travel Awards. ASA anticipates granting approximately 25 travel awards in the amount of $225 each. These awards will be made on a competitive basis and are meant to assist students by defraying the expenses associated with attending the ASA Annual Meeting. All applicants are encouraged to seek additional sources of funding to cover expenses associated with attending the Annual Meeting.
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Applicants must be students pursuing an undergraduate or graduate sociology degree in an academic institution and a current student member of ASA at the time of application. Participation in the Annual Meeting program (e.g., paper sessions, roundtables), purpose for attending (e.g., workshop training, Honors Program participation), student financial need, availability of other forms of support, matching funds, and potential benefit to the student are among the factors taken into account in making awards. A travel award committee of the ASA Student Forum convened especially for this purpose will select awardees.
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After the Epiphany, the Holy Family became refugees. The Gospel of Matthew reports that after the visit of the Magi, an angel appeared to Joseph and warned him to flee to Egypt.
Indeed, Joseph's escape preserved the life of his family when King Herod initiated a vicious massacre of innocent babes in a paranoid attempt to preserve his throne and power.
The UN reports that there are more than 12 million refugees in the world today, 80 per cent of whom are women and children. Canada plans to resettle about 14,500 refugees this year - a tiny portion of those in need. Some 31,000 people remain in the processing queue overseas.
Canada encourages private sponsorship of refugees (5,500 in 2012) and many churches have signed agreements with the federal government to be able to receive and settle refugees. But the government has decided to expose Canada's over 80 sponsorship agreement holders (SAHs), and in many cases their sponsoring churches, to greater financial risk - thus hindering the effectiveness of ministry to refugees.
About 18 Catholic dioceses are SAHs. After December's National Catholic Conference on Resettlement, in Toronto, these diocesan groups are considering joining together to have one powerful voice on refugee issues.
Some have joined other SAHs in expressing disfavour about Citizenship and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney's "monumental change, with little notice and no consultation" to the Interim Federal Health Care Program (IFHP.)
The IFHP was (since 1957) designed for refugee claimants who were not covered by provincial health plans, nor private insurance. Governments recognized that refugee claimants who leave horrific situations can accumulate catastrophic medical costs.
I remember receiving refugees in Saskatchewan who had arrived from the Pinochet dictatorship's torture chambers in Chile. Many of these refugees needed extensive dental work and medical attention, and some needed counseling. Canada provided the care that was needed, and these families went on to successfully integrate into their local economies and communities.
On June 30, 2012, however, amid the protests of health care providers, Kenney implemented severe cuts to the IFHP. Two classes of resettled refugees now exist - those provided with needed medical care, and those who are not. According to an August letter from eight SAHs, including the Office for Refugees of the Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto, this action has "significantly increased" the liability of sponsors. It could also limit the ability of Church groups, among others, to accept new sponsorships.
Several senior Church leaders have publicly written to the federal government to ask that these cuts be rescinded, including Anglican Primate Fred Hiltz, Lutheran Bishop Michael Pryce, and Presbyterian General Secretary Rev. Rick Fee.
Other churches, such as the Christian Reformed, Quaker and the United churches, as well as the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, have prepared information and asked their members to write their MPs with the demand to reconsider the IFHP cuts.
Groups like Canadian Doctors for Refugee Care have been far more vocal than the churches on this issue. Catholic doctors have spoken out.
The government of Saskatchewan expressed its outrage when a refugee was denied chemotherapy - and then the premier covered the treatment.
Most interestingly, the Hospitality House Refugee Ministry, a Winnipeg-based NGO, along with the Anglican Diocese of Rupert's Land, is suing Ottawa for breach of contract regarding the cuts to the IFHP.
The Catholic Archdiocese of Winnipeg has expressed support for this court case, even as the bishops themselves have made no public plea.
Five refugee ministries (Romero House, Sanctuary Ministries of Toronto, FCJ Refugee Centre, The Mustard Seed and Becoming Neighbours) encouraged their bishops to challenge the minister on cuts to refugee health care. Minister Kenney met with the bishops at their annual plenary in September, ostensibly to discuss visa requirements for foreign priests. Some bishops were able to question the minister, but the results of the off-the-record session are unknown.
On two occasions last month I was asked why the faith communities have not effectively mobilized our memberships to create the necessary change. After all, these cuts touch their financial viability as well as their ministerial priorities.
I wonder if the attitudes and actions of Christian communities towards newcomers would be different today if we stopped to realize that the God we worship is none other than Jesus, the refugee.
(Joe Gunn is the Ottawa-based executive director of Citizens for Public Justice, www.cpj.ca, an ecumenical social advocacy organization.)


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Dartmouth is holding elections for two trustee positions. Voting begins on March 10.
The Dartmouth power structure has selected Morton Kondracke and John Replogle to seek these positions. Kondracke, the well-known journalist, will be unopposed. Replogle will face our friend Joe Asch, who gathered the petitions necessary to run against the establishment's hand-picked candidate.
For me the Asch-Replogle race is a no-brainer, and I hope our readers will see it that way too. Joe Asch would bring a critical eye and a profound knowledge of all things Dartmouth to the Board. Replogle, as far as I can tell, is basically another corporate CEO who would jet in and out of the Upper Valley without adding anything distinctive to the Board. Indeed, as I'll argue below, there is reason to think he will detract from the quality of the Board.
Joe, a successful business consultant and business owner, has lived in Hanover since 2004 and has dedicated himself to learning as much about the College as possible. He has audited 30 undergraduate courses and discussion groups. He organized and subsidized a program that hugely contributed to improving the writing skills of Dartmouth students lucky enough to participate in it (the administration ended the program a few years ago, apparently as a way of getting back at Joe for his criticism of President Wright and his staff).
Joe has also made himself an expert on Dartmouth's financial situation and the related issue of administrative bloat. The former administration steadfastly denied that such bloat exists. However, the actions of our new president, Jim Kim, confirm that Joe has been on to something all along.
Joe is also now the main author of Dartblog. Founded by our friend and Power Line colleague Joe Malchow, Dartblog is an indispensable source of information on nearly all aspects of Dartmouth life. I'm confident that readers who spend 15 minutes on this site will come away convinced that Joe is exactly what the Board of Trustees needs.
Replogle is the CEO of a personal care products company located in North Carolina. Though involved in the activities of his Dartmouth class, he appears to lack any meaningful knowledge about the current state of the College. In short, Replogle seems to be the prototypical establishment choice for the Trustee.
Beyond the problem of his "sameness," Replogle has already shown himself to be a poor choice for Trustee in at least two respects. First, he has fumbled on the all-important issue of parity between the number of alumni-elected and Board-appointed trustees. Initially, Replogle claimed that he needed more time before he could formulate an official opinion on the issue. Coming from a candidate for Trustee this is lame. The fight over parity has been a central issue within the alumni community for several years. Entering the race for Trustee without a clear position on the matter would be like running for U.S. President without a position on health care reform.
When Replogle finally came up with a position, moreover, it was half-baked. He suggested that the Board add one member of each graduating class, to be selected by the outgoing class, to serve for one four-year term. Replogle called this an innovative approach to solving the bitter debate over the decision to end parity, a decision that has alienated many alums from the College because they believe their voice can no longer sufficiently be heard.
A minute's reflection should have been enough to persuade Replogle that his proposal will not solve this problem. It would give added voice to only the very most recent graduates of the College. The rest of us will be shut out to at least the same extent we are now. We will thus remain alienated to the same extent we are now.
Second, Replogle's campaign has an odd "know-nothing" quality to it. Embarrassed, perhaps, by his lack of relevant knowledge about the College as compared to Joe, Replogle has stated:
There is a difference between the role of a Board member and that of an administrator, and if you look into [Asch's] blog posts, what he likes to do is get deep into the details of, for example, how time sheets are managed at the College. I do not intend to tell [College] President [Jim Yong] Kim how he needs to manage time sheets.
This comment is ridiculous. There is no evidence that Joe intends to tell Jim Kim how to manage time sheets. But the fact that Joe understands the inner workings of the college should, other things being equal, make him a better trustee than his more detached and vastly less knowledgeable opponent.
Moreover, Replogle's attempt to dismiss Joe's extensive writing about all aspects of Dartmouth, including academic quality, by distilling it into knowledge about time sheets is intellectually dishonest.
Replogle doesn't just fail to measure up to Joe, he is a poor candidate in his own right. It would be a pity if he were elected.


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Those of us who are of a 'certain age' might recall writing assignments given to us by our teachers just before Thanksgiving break. We were asked to write a list of things we were thankful for that year. Of course, now in our state of separation of church and state run amok political correctness, I very much doubt public school teachers give this assignment to their students. Nevertheless, I think it's appropriate--even necessary--for all of us to take some time to sit and acknowledge those things in our lives we are grateful for. Now admittedly this year it might take more than the usual, uh, creativity, to come up with a respectable 'gratitude list', yet I feel confident we can all dig deep and do it.
I'll go first.
I am thankful for...
- my faith, my family, my friends, and my country
- wonderful weather for traveling
- great books, good books, bad books--ah, heck--just books!
- a job I love
- four days off from the job I love
- leftovers
And now, duty calls. I am cooking the 'feast' and Young Tom needs basting. Previous turkey attempts resulted in:
- an exploding roasting bag
- leaving the oven on 'time bake'
- roasting the turkey upside down (although I have since learned Rachel Ray recommends this so nah, nah, nah, nah, nah)
So what are you grateful for this Thanksgiving, 2008?
To you and yours a safe, happy, and yummy Thanksgiving.
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Even In Death, Egyptian Birds Were Fed
Egyptian birds were fed. Learn more about Egyptian bird being fed even in death in this article.
- Ancient Egyptian animal mummies were stuffed with food by people in Early Egypt.
- Some animals were treated equally to humans in death and perhaps also in life.
- Quality of life for Egyptian animals varied, however, with some killed for sacrifices or food and others spoiled as pets.
Ancient Egyptians placed food in the mouths or stomachs of animal mummies, suggesting that animals were treated equally to humans in death and perhaps also in life.
In this case the mummies were sacred ibis birds In a study, published in the Journal of Archaeological Science, the findings are the first known examples of food placed directly in animal mummies. The primary organs were also removed, as was the practice for humans. It's thought that the ancient Egyptians wished to preserve these organs for continued function in the afterlife.
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"That the birds received treatment for their own continued provision in the afterlife suggests that the afterlife welfare of the birds was important to the priests performing the embalming ritual on them," lead author Andrew Wade told Discovery News.
"Certainly, in this sense, there appears to be some degree of equality between humans and animals in death," added Wade, a University of Western Ontario anthropologist. "If that is the case, then the birds may have been deserving of a greater respect in life."
Wade and his team analyzed a recently excavated mummified sacred ibis. They found numerous snails in his bill. The people who prepared the body inserted the snails.
The researchers also used non-invasive computed tomography to look inside ibis mummies housed at Yale University's Peabody Museum. One of these mummies was found to contain wheat. Wade said that temple-raised birds were likely fed grain, so again the bird was probably sent off into the afterlife with food for its spiritual journey.
Life was a mixed bag for animals in the ancient world, however. Wade said all of the birds from the study had broken necks and were likely deliberately killed, probably as a sacrifice to the god Thoth.
Humans at the time were also sacrificed to appease the gods. In the case of these birds, however, the sacrifices were part of a large-scale operation. Wade explained that "votive ibis mummies are found at Thoth shrines throughout Egypt, and are in their tens of thousands, and even millions, at the cult centers of Abydos, Saqqara, and Tuna el-Gebel."
Overall, life for non-human animals in ancient Egypt was still probably comparable to that for humans. Some literally lived in the lap of luxury, but others may have been viewed more as tools to achieve certain goals.
Co-author Salima Ikram, a professor of Egyptology at the American University in Cairo, explained to Discovery News, "Animals had a very important role to play in Egypt, as totems for divinities, sources of food and thus life, and as a source of raw materials."
But, she added, "Pets were often very spoiled, just as they are today, and received the same care in life and in death as did humans."
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Ikram shared that, in burials, paleontologists have found food placed beside animals. Dates and jujubes have been found next to monkeys, for example, and milk was sometimes placed near cats.
The ibis received unique care, she suggested, because it was associated with Thoth, the god of wisdom and writing.
"The stance of the bird, rooting around, was regarded as a quest...Also, the bill is like a pen," she said.
The sacred ibis went extinct in Egypt sometime in the mid to late 19th century, likely due to urban encroachment and habitat destruction. The bird still exists in sub-Saharan Africa, though, and has been introduced to Europe and the United States. A new Franco-Egyptian venture is underway to reintroduce this species to Egypt, with at least two colonies now established in Luxor and Aswan.


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The First Wives Club
Three women plot revenge on their two-timing husbands in this comedy. Brenda (Bette Midler), Elise (Goldie Hawn), and Annie (Diane Keaton) were close friends in college, but 27 years after graduation they've lost touch with each other, and it's not until a mutual friend of the three commits suicide that they meet at the funeral for the first time in years. It seems that their friend grew despondent after her husband left her for a younger woman, and all three find themselves in similar situations. Elise is an actress who finds herself out of work now that she's seen the shady side of 40, and her husband and producer Bill (Victor Garber) is demanding a divorce (and half of her fortune). Brenda helped her husband Morton (Dan Hedaya) open a profitable chain of discount electronics stores, but now that his commercials have made him a minor celebrity, he's taken up with a much younger (and thinner) woman. Annie has allowed her husband Aaron (Stephen Collins) to use her as a doormat throughout their marriage, and she's at a loss now that he's leaving her. After comparing notes, Brenda, Elise, and Annie decide that it's time to do something about their problems, and they hatch an elaborate blackmail scheme that will win them control of their ex-husband's businesses and allow them to do something positive with the money they helped earn. Heather Locklear and Ivana Trump both make cameo appearances.
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Directed by David Schwimmer; Written by Andy Bellin and Robert Festinger; IMDb / RottenTomatoes / BoxOfficeMojo
"Trust" is a hard movie to watch; it isn't so much enjoyed as experienced.
A 14-year-old girl, Annie, falls into a relationship on a teen website with a boy, Charlie, who's 16, then 20, then 25, then, when they finally meet and end up in a motel room, 35. The police get called in fairly quickly, but it takes much longer for Annie to see him for what he is, a sexual predator of adolescent girls.
Roger Ebert's one-liner in his top 20 films of the year, on which it occupies number 17, is "The bravest thing about David Schwimmer's 'Trust' is that it doesn't try to simplify." That's a fair statement. It doesn't try to simplify Annie, nor her father Will (Clive Owen, brilliantly playing a role that has almost no place to go), nor even Charlie, who is all the more creepy for how normal he appears, and is never demonized even as the audience, like Will, wants to kill him for what he's done to Annie and her entire family.
Nor does "Trust" take a simple path even in its structure. It has a plot point number 1, of sorts, but not a plot point number 2, not least because it doesn't really have a protagonist (nor an antagonist, beyond the demons in Will's mind and, eventually, Annie's).
"Trust" strikes something like false notes only occasionally, as the characters all too often are able to articulate exactly what's going on with them in a preternatural way, but when it happens in the climactic scene, the words fit the characters like gloves and they give the entire film a prefect resonance.
"Trust" is eminently worth enduring. I don't see nearly as many movies as Ebert, but for me, too, it's one of the best of the year.


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Business as usual in Washington.
Last election was the same as previous elections, nothing changes.
The mystery of the 2016 election was its normalcy
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"While we were in the field hospital that the UAE built, we were surprised by – and this is the first that we have announced this – someone from Hamas instigating Israeli forces by launching locally made rockets from the field hospital", he said.
Inevitably, the Israelis hit back. "This shows their [Hamas's] wicked intentions and how they sacrificed us," Mr Al Falahi said. "They always claim that the enemy targets humanitarian envoys but the betrayal came from them."
He said as the team were leaving Gaza "after having raised the white flag, Hamas accused us of being spies, undercover foreign intelligence who were escaping".
"And apparently they had informed extremist militias in Sinai and Sheikh Zuweid [in Egypt] that there was a group making their way there, so prepare for jihad against them.
"So Muslims fighting Muslims, who were giving humanitarian aid to Muslims. As we stopped at a grocery to buy something to eat, they started shooting at us."
He said the same time they found that the militias had planted landmines in their path a few kilometres farther down the path.
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Storyteller, thank you for that confirmation of some of what we're hearing in the news about Qatar. One of the things that made the friend-of-Israel accusation seem dubious was the simultaneous reporting that this information had come from Israel. It would not seem to be in Israel's interest to 'out' Qatar if that relationship was true. So if the email was not a fake after all, do you have any information about who leaked it?
Billobob wrote:Yeah the councils of Manwe have never really been the busiest of forums. Well at least for as long as I've been here. The main action happens in Tom's house and the Bird and the Baby. Though from what I've seen of your posts you've already discovered that. What keeps this forum going are the hold outs of the original community and newcomers like you and I that want to talk with fellow middle earth fans. Though I must say that the first category is far more numerous. As for the actual topic of this thread you got your blue wave alright and we'll just have to wait and see whether they'll change things for the better. Honestly universal healthcare would be nice and if they can reopen the Russia investigation then that could prove vital.
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Just taking the day off after a fun trip to Cleveland
What's up, everyone? Just getting an off day here in
Kansas City, and it's freezing cold and windy! So guess what I decided to
do … ? That's right, I went golfing, and let's just say that was a very,
very, very bad idea. Not planning on doing too much today, other than
warming up and will probably try to get some rest before going out to dinner
with my wife.
Cleveland was actually a lot of fun this weekend and it's
usually not (haha). I'm just kidding — sort of — I like Jacobs Field (or
whatever they are calling it these days) a lot. I look forward to making
better memories there from now on, because I have some bad ones from when
Omar Vizquel's team used to kick our butts in the '90s. I'm glad we went
in there and swung the bats well and for the most part pitched well.
Speaking of Omar, are you kidding me?! He doesn't play at all the
first 2 games and then goes in there against the Justin Masterson kid, who was nasty,
and gets 2 hits in his first 2 at-bats. Not sure exactly how he does it,
but wow, very impressive.
I hope we can continue to play well and keep having fun
because when we hit the ball like that, I look like a genius (haha). It
probably won't be as easy here in Kansas City; this team is going to play some
very good baseball and probably do better than what most people are expecting. Look what they did to the Angels this past weekend. We have to be ready
to play. A lot of people ask me about which stadiums I like, and this one
here in Kansas City is my favorite; just a great stadium.
OK, that's all for today. Wish us luck, and I better see you
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"Survivor" all-star contestant Rupert Boneham may run for governor of Indiana.
Boneham formed an exploratory committee Monday to possibly seek the Libertarian Party's nomination for governor.
He said on his campaign website that the current field of candidates doesn't understand the problems average Hoosiers face. He cited his extensive charity work on behalf of troubled teenagers as his chief qualification.
"He sees a lot of the same status quo politicians and the same platitudes we get every election cycle and he thinks we could be on the wrong track and he wants to make a difference," said Sean Shepard, Boneham's spokesman.
The bushy-bearded Boneham, known for wearing tie-dyed shirts, competed in 2003 on "Survivor: Pearl Island" and has been on multiple "Survivor" follow-ups since then.
He was voted fan favorite in 2004's "Survivor: All-Stars" and donated a portion of the $1 million he won to his charity, Rupert's Kids. His Indianapolis-based charity provides mentoring and job-training to youths.
If he runs, Boneham will join a field dominated by Republican Congressman Mike Pence and former Democratic Indiana House Speaker John Gregg.
Boneham's national fame could pigeonhole him, but people would learn to look past his stardom if he campaigned hard enough, said Chris Spangle, executive director of the Indiana Libertarian Party
"He would be a serious candidate, he would be someone that would really insert a lot of really fresh ideas into the debate," Spangle said. "I think he would make the Republican and Democratic nominees work a little bit harder."
While Pence and Boneham would likely agree on most fiscal issues, Libertarians tend to diverge with Republicans on personal choice issues including whether government should license marriages, Spangle said.
Indiana Republican Party spokesman Pete Seat said it remains to be seen if Boneham could survive a statewide contest.
"We'll have to see if he has what it takes to survive on the island post-primary, but right now we are focused on the 2011 cycle," Seat said.
Indiana Democratic Party Chairman Dan Parker used the possibility of a Boneham run to take a shot at Pence.
"We welcome Rupert to the race if he decides to run. It'll be nice to have someone else on the campaign trail who spends all his time in Indiana, not in Washington, D.C.," he said.
The Libertarian Party will meet in April to pick its candidates for state offices, Spangle said.
Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels can't run for re-election next year because of term limits.


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KLEINBURG, ON, March 5, 2013 – Denon Electronics®, a premier manufacturer of premium home and personal audio products, today announced the launch of its best-in- class E-Series A/V receivers, including the AVR-E400 7.1 Channel Network Home Theater Receiver (UAP: $649), AVR-E300 5.1 Channel Network Home Theater Receiver (UAP: $449), and AVR-E200 5.1 Channel Home Theater Receiver (UAP: $299). All three new A/V receivers deliver on the D+M promise to provide consumers new levels of user friendliness, cutting edge performance benefits and the perfect home entertainment solutions for every budget and lifestyle need. Notably, both the AVR-E400 and AVR-E300 feature Apple's AirPlay, allowing users to stream their iTunes music whether from Mac or PC, as well as music stored on their iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch.* A host of leading audio capabilities provide a powerful and immersive soundscape providing accurate music reproduction in a home stereo system and cinema-like surround sound.
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In creating its E-Series receivers, Denon made the "four E's" its top priority – Easy, Exciting, Entertainment, Experience. Among the key improvements is a new more intuitive easy-to-use Setup Assistant for simple system setup and configuration. Thanks to the vibrant on-screen graphical display, which combines large, clear text and icons, users can easily make all necessary adjustments and settings during setup, optimizing their receiver for any speaker system or source components. The exclusive Denon Setup Assistant walks users through the entire setup process (AVR-E300 & AVR-E400 Only). For total sonic accuracy, the AVR-E400 and AVR-E300 both feature Audyssey MultEQ automatic room acoustic measurement and correction system to provide the best tonal balance to any listening environment, along with Audyssey Dynamic EQ and Audyssey Dynamic Volume for thrilling surround sound even at the reduced volume levels.
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Denon AVR-E400 7.1 Network Home Theater Receiver
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The AVR-E400's sophisticated video processor includes SD-to-HD up-conversion, along with 4K Ultra HD (3840x2160) for the next generation of 4K Ultra HDTVs. A hallmark of Denon's legendary sound quality is the use of identical power amp circuitry for all channels, including an all-discrete power amplifier output stage design. Rated at a maximum of 185 watts for each of the 7 channels, the AVR-E400 provides high power and wide dynamic range with low distortion for a superb surround sound listening experience. All three E Series receivers feature this unique Denon power amp circuitry and design.
AVR-E300: 5 HDMI Video Inputs with 1080p and 3D Pass-through
Denon's new AVR-E300 receiver is rated at a maximum of 175 watts for each of its 5 channels, and is equipped with 5 HDMI inputs including 4 on the rear panel along with 1 on the front panel, which lets users quickly and easily connect your HDMI-equipped camcorder, smartphone or other portable multimedia device. Thanks to the AVR-E300's HDMI Standby Pass-through (featured on all E-Series units), users can enjoy a program from either cable or their satellite tuner without the need to even turn the receiver on, which is ideal for casual viewing of newscasts and other programming. And with their built-in USB ports, both the AVR-E300 and AVR-E400 support digital music playback and charging from an iPod, iPhone, iPad, or USB device.
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Rated at a maximum of 165 watts for each of its 5 channels, the affordable, entry level AVR-E200 A/V Receiver delivers thrilling 5.1 channel surround, featuring the latest Dolby and DTS high definition surround sound decoding that lets users enjoy the ultimate surround sound experience with DVD and Blu-ray movies and concerts. The HDMI 5.1 Receiver also features Denon's easy to use Quick Select function, which provides 4 Quick Select buttons on the front panel and on the remote control that let you instantly choose from the Cable/Satellite, Blu-ray, Game and Aux inputs. For total flexibility, users can customize the audio parameters for each source one with their preferred sound setting. The AVR-E200 is equipped with 4 HDMI inputs, including 3 on the rear panel and 1 on the front panel.
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So what is in JavaSE 7?... well from the OpenJDK website
So lets go through these from the perspective of what most people do with Java, namely the delivery of enterprise quality applications which are primarily delivered on servers, more and more in a virtualised environment. So yes JEE is more for those folks than SE but lots of smart folks deliver Server side apps, or desktop agents, which aren't about delivering a Swing GUI. They might use the eclipse approach if they are doing desktop for instance. The point is that these folks, who are the vast majority of Java's developer base, are folks who choose their frameworks and libraries for their specific problem. So how does this new feature set help us?
- Non-dynamic languages - irrelevant for Java folks, but it makes sense in the VM, might even support some clever language changes in the future but its not for the Java folks so sets say - Negligible improvement
- Strict class file checking - Okay needed and part of the specs - Minor improvement
- Small language enhancements - as it says on the tin, minor but nice stuff - Minor improvement
- Class loader stuff - needed but again its minor - Minor improvement
- Concurrency and Collections stuff - okay I'm biased here but if Doug says we need it, we need it. Actually things like the Hashmap are great additions and with the rise of multi-core this is important stuff - Improvement but not a full "point" release
- Internationalization - Required but again - Minor improvement
- IO improvements - Good stuff and for certain applications great to have, impact wise its the same as Concurrency - Improvement but not a full "point" release
- Cryto - now for me we are into the world of "its a library" so yes its good that we can all use ECC crypto... ummm but how many people actually do? Would a dynamic class loader via URL or a build compliance piece not be better? - Developer decision, bloat risk
- Client - All of this is a waste of time for enterprise developers, great I've got a new 2D render pipeline, that really helps the performance of my server side app and just kicks ass with the extra weight this adds to provisioning a VM. - Desktop
- Web - how miss named is this one? Its actually XML and again this is the sort of thing that would be much better left to developers and deployments. We've seen before that having JAX-WS hard-coded in JavaSE was a dumb idea and this applies generally to the XML pieces. Lets be clear here, people choose their own XML encoders and approaches on a regular basis, having a standard Java library for these things and at the JavaEE level enforcing these as standards makes sense. It does NOT make sense for these to be part of the JavaSE platform as people who don't want to use JavaEE are liable to either not want to do WS or are using a framework that bundles a later version or uses different XML libraries. - Pointless upgrade to bloat
- Management upgrade - I like MBeans, I've written lots of fun stuff with MBeans that made Tivoli users smart but did I care whether it was in JavaSE or not? No I did not. If I'm deploying JMX to manage my Java App I'd like to bundle it in the deployment. It even says that if you were a JRockit user you already had this stuff - Library upgrade
- JSR 294: Language and VM support for modular programming
- JSR 308: Annotations on Java types
- JSR TBD: Project Lambda
- Modularization (Project Jigsaw)
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|Kristin Nicholas, photo courtesy of John Gruen
CEY: What's it like to be back at Classic Elite? I know there are some familiar faces here from your first position with the company.
Kristin Nicholas: Oh, it is so nice to be back working with many familiar people. Although there have been many changes in staff and I must say quite a bit of growth since I last worked at CEY in the early 2000's, I feel so many things are the same. CEY is still a bunch of very hard-working women (and Jim Doyle, my old friend and the "token male") who have passion for the yarn business, for fibers, for yarn, and for color. My beloved old office is now housing the University of Lowell but as a company, CEY still stands for beautiful yarns in beautiful fiber blends and awesome colors with a creative presentation.
You were a big part of building the Classic Elite Yarns brand during your time as creative director. What was your vision for the company?
I joined Classic Elite in 1984 – at the height of a big knitting boom. I was 25 years old and just married. I was hired to take a company that specialized in handweaving yarns and bring it into the handknitting marketplace. CEY didn't have many yarns that were suitable for handknitting. I chose to acquire yarns that would be perfect for handknitters – many of them chunky and quick to knit. I knew that we had to have good patterns and a large, fun color range in each yarn in order to lure in the knitters and develop a following. I also wanted to create a family/lifestyle feeling to the company and did this by featuring kids and adult women and men in our pattern collections photographing the designs in lovely locations so that knitters would want to BE the person in the image. I always made sure there was a mix of very easy designs and more complex and "aspirational" designs.
|A few of Kristin's patterns from the CEY archives, available on Patternfish.com.
How do you see the brand's evolution since then?
I left CEY shortly before the latest crazy (good crazy, not bad crazy) boom in knitting. When I left, knitting was still in the doldrums and everything business-wise was always a struggle. Our daughter Julia was turning two and she had many health complications. Personally, leaving CEY was a big decision but family comes first and I could no longer keep up the creative demands of the job and stay sane. I have watched from the outside in as new yarns and product ranges have been added. I worked so hard to develop the brand and now I see CEY as one of the leaders in the yarn biz. It's nice to see something I started carry on and blossom – sort of like raising a kid!
I like the fact that the company is still owned by a woman who understands the yarn business and the passion that knitters have. It is nice that when CEY changed hands when Pat Chew, the woman who I worked for passed away, that it didn't go to some big corporate giant that ruined all that I worked so hard for. Big corporations often ruin companies they buy. CEY remains independent and woman-owned and able to pick up on trends and run with them on a moment's notice.
Describe Color by Kristin in three words or less.
Luxurious, colorful, classic.
|Color by Kristin and a few designs from Color By Kristin Book One & Book Two
Your personal style is very eclectic, colorful and worldly. How did you cultivate that style?
I grew up around handmade textiles – my grandmother was from Germany and she was an amazing needleworker – crochet, quilting, and embroidery (no knitting!). My mom fostered my interest in making things and always kept me stocked with good fabrics for my sewing projects and embroidery kits and threads. When I went to university I majored in Textiles and Clothing and I discovered ethnic textiles at small import shops (you could probably call them hippie stores). I was so drawn to the handmade stitches and colors in those kinds of products and identified with the makers in foreign lands.
|photo courtesy of Rikki Snyder, rikkisnyder.com / houzz.com
Over the years, I have remained interested in handmade fabrics and things from around the world. I collect them and study them through books. I like to have handmade textiles around me whether I made them or someone from a foreign land made them. They just make me happy and although I don't have the time nor the finances to travel the world, I feel like the colorful textiles I collect help me see the world in that way.
|photos courtesy of Rikki Snyder, rikkisnyder.com / houzz.com
Your last yarn, Julia, was your baby (in name AND in fiber), and now you have Color by Kristin. Describe the process of developing your own yarn.
It is about the fiber. Without good fiber, a yarn won't be good. Color by Kristin is spun of three different animal fibers and each serves a purpose:
- The 50% wool gives CBK stability, sturdiness, and bounce back resilience.
- The 25% alpaca gives CBK its softness and lovely drape.
- The 25% mohair gives CBK its shine and awesome deep and lustrous color.
It is a 3 ply yarn so it starts with a single yarn that is softly twisted. Three singles are twisted together to create the worsted weight yarn. CBK isn't overly spun so it has great drape. It is a gorgeous yarn that is a little confusing to knitters. It looks plain and basic in the skein but then you knit with it and it flies off the needles smoothly and sturdily. It looks great in textured stitches like cables and is gorgeous for Fair Isle (two color knitting). A lot of my work is decorated with embroidery and it is so nice and smooth that it just glides through the knitted fabric. It also felts gorgeously and I love a good felting yarn.
How have you seen the knitting world change since you started, in terms of the demographic and the aesthetic?
When I began in the yarn biz it was always about the sweater – picking out the design and then making it. Now I feel like it is more about the process for many knitters, the joy of making something just for the creativity of using your own hands. I'm not sure I'm correct about this but I think that is why small projects like socks and hats and mittens have become so popular. As far as the aesthetic goes, it is all over the map now and things that wouldn't have been commercially viable years ago now are. I'm just finishing up a book on knit and crochet sunflowers. I never could have sold that idea 25 years ago!
How about yarn shops?
I think yarn shops serve a great purpose in the communities that support them. Owning a yarn shop is a lot of work and most of the owners don't make that much money. That is still the same as it was back in the 80's. But the fellowship that develops among the customers and shop owners is still the same. They depend on each other and I am thankful that so many yarn shops keep on going and supporting the creative arts, especially in these challenging times.
|Class at Kristin's farm, photo courtesy of Kristin Nicholas
Fiber blends?
When I began, cashmere wasn't available commonly as a handknitting yarn. Now it is. Otherwise yarn spinning is pretty much the same as it was back then. Once in a while a new fiber will come out that everyone thinks will be revolutionary (like milk, soy, tencel) but then production problems happen and the "new" thing isn't as great as it was touted to be and everyone goes back to the classics of wool, alpaca, mohair, cotton, and angora.
When did you start blogging? How has it changed your business?
I started my blog "Getting Stitched on the Farm" back in March of 2006. I was living out here in western Massachusetts far from my friends and family. I began the blog to share my family's somewhat peculiar life on a working sheep farm.
How do you decide what colors to put together in your designs?
I knit and swatch everything before I write a pattern. It happens in the swatch and if it is wrong, I change it and re-knit. I have to see it physically to know it is correct. I intuitively have a feeling but I always like to be sure by swatching!
|photo courtesy of Kristin Nicholas
What advice would you give a knitter (like me) who's afraid of colorwork?
Just do it! Get over your fear and give it a go. It isn't hard and there will be initial stumbling points but what's wrong with that. Try to loosen up and breathe. Carry your floats looser than you think you should.
If there is a typical day at Leyden Glen, what does it look like?
Coffee first. Julia heads to school and Mark heads out to check on the sheep that are grazing in about five different locations right now. I feed the chickens and sometimes get a walk in with the dogs.
|photo courtesy of Kristin Nicholas
Then it is a matter of looking at the to-do list and working through the most urgent issues first. Deadlines drive me – whether it is a farmers market and pricing our lamb or a book or pattern deadline. And always the blog a few times a week. I look forward to blogging and writing about what I am interested in and working on at the moment. It isn't very exciting – just like any job – attending to responsibilities and making things happen hopefully. I always cook dinner and the three of eat together every night. I read every night before bed and not e-books, paper books because I don't have an e-reader. I like to turn pages.
|photo courtesy of Kristin Nicholas
For more information, visit Kristin's Website and Getting Stitched on the Farm, where Kristin actively blogs about her day-to-day life on Leyden Glen Farm. Information about Leyden Glen Farm can be found at LeydenGlenLamb.com.
Kristin's yarn, Color by Kristin is featured in two new collections of designs, Book One and Book Two, both published by Classic Elite Yarns and available at Local Yarn Shops. To browse Kristin's patterns from the CEY archive, click here to visit Patternfish.com.


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Sunday, April 29, 2012
Caroline Briggs: Double Identity
Posted by Jay at 6:21 PM
Martin Schoeller's Twin Portraits was an interesting look at the world of identical twins. Through his unique photography style, viewers could see the small physical differences that distinguish monozygotic twins from each other. But what about their similarities? And what about the differences that go beyond the physical? Caroline Briggs seems to have found the answer in her series, Double Identity.
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Martin Schoeller: Twin Talk
Posted by Jay at 5:02 PM
Nope, you're not seeing double; they're actually twins... in which case you actually are seeing double... or are you really? Twin talk has been a mind-boggling topic for discussion to scientists, so it's not surprising to find that portrait photography would be utilized to aid in this endeavor. Portrait photographer Martin Schoeller turns his lens towards the odd couples here as he takes twin portraits for National Geographic.
Saturday, April 21, 2012
Audrey Corregan: Obviously, Maybe, Definitely Birds
Posted by Jay at 4:00 PM
Photographs of wild and dangerous animals right in front of your face can be a scary. But what about the somewhat opposite situation? Here, the animals turn their backs to you, as if they don't want you to see them. These intriguing photographs by Audrey Corregan seem to show or hide something so obviously obvious, yet not exactly so obvious.
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Jonathan Griffiths: Up Close and Personal Wildlife Photography
Posted by Jay at 3:47 PM
It's been some time seen this blog has seen some animal photography, so this post should be a welcome break. The creatures here however are far from the cute and cuddly kind. This is up close and personal wildlife photography as captured by Jonathan Griffiths.
Sunday, April 15, 2012
Julian Wolkenstein: Symmetrical Faces, Asymmetrical Beauty
Posted by Jay at 12:03 PM
Is perfection synonymous with beauty? The answer seems so obvious, but when applied to the real world, the question becomes more complex than one would think. Symmetry is oftentimes associated with equality and perfection, but in the photographs of Julian Wolkenstein, symmetrical faces most often equal to asymmetrical beauty.
Thursday, April 12, 2012
Vee Speers: Beauty in the Eye of the Beholder
Posted by Jay at 10:04 AM
From the grim and morbid images of James Nachtwey's war photographs, it's probably a good time to take a break and focus on the beauty and vitality of the world. In this particular case, it seems beauty isn't just in the eye of the beholder, but innate to humans. Or is it? That's what portrait photographer Vee Speers questions in her series "Immortal".
Thursday, April 5, 2012
In The Light of War: The 2011 Military Photographer of the Year
Posted by Jay at 11:55 AM
Ever since the Roger Fenton captured the image, "Valley of the Shadow of Death" depicting the aftermath of the Sevastopol in 1852, photography has been used to document the brutal reality (and sometimes romanticism) of armed conflict. It should be no surprise then that some organizations promote this branch of photography capturing both the light and dark side of war. Depicted here are some of the winners of the 2011 Military Photographer of the Year as recognized by the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense of the USA.
Monday, April 2, 2012
Omax Photographics Ad: How to Sell an Ultra Wide Angle Lens
Posted by Jay at 11:59 AM
Posting on April 1st is sometimes risky if you want to be taken seriously as everyone thinks that every other post is a joke, but this ad by Omax Photographics is no gag; it might look like some sort of parody for one of their lenses, but it is in fact a real advertisement.
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John Travolta and wife Kelly Preston aren't shy when it comes to telling the world about their new baby boy.
The happy parents welcomed their third child, Benjamin, on Nov. 23 and call him their "miracle."
"He's given the house a renewed spirit and purpose," Travolta, 56, told People magazine. Both People and Britain's Hello! magazine have interviews and pictures in their issues out this week.
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Preston's pregnancy was announced 17 months after 16-year-old son Jett died following a seizure during a family vacation. "The Last Song" actress, 48, said that she and her actor husband had been trying for another child for three years, and that news of her pregnancy last May left them "completely blown away."
"They went through such a public tragedy losing Jett at age 16 and then later came the news of Kelly's pregnancy, and it just did so much to buoy their spirits," People Magazine editor Suzanne Zuckerman told ABC News. "Of course they tell people that Jett is always with them and will never leave them."
The couple's 10-year-old daughter, Ella Bleu, was also ecstatic to have a new baby brother. She waited outside the room with actress and close family friend Kirstie Alley while her mother was in labor.
The Travolta Family's Ocala, Fla. home is full of lullabyes, story-time, and hugs from big sis Ella, according to People. The ecstatic parents say the best moment so far was Benjamin's first big smile.
"For us it's been uplifting," Travolta told Hello!. "Especially when he smiles at me and seems contented in my arms."


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Dear Susan, Unlike Michael, I have been using real ear since 1984. I do not think you can adequately fit conventional hearing aids without it. When fitting 2 channel programmable WBDR hearing aids it greatly helps the audiologist to see the effect of different input intensities in each channel after the CT (compression thresold) has been reached. In addition we also assess functional gain with warble tones in the sound field. On every patient we administer one or all of these tests to back up the subjective comments the patient expresses to us about the functioning of the hearing aid. Many times our initial adjustments will be changed based on these tests. So to answer your question: Yes, you should insist on the use of a real ear system. There is a ENT group practice opening up in Kissimee, Fine ENT's (my former students) who insist on quality and you would like working with them and Andrea Livingston. At the moment the main office is in Sebring. Do you have to stay in Miami? Esta un poco frio in Orlando pero son buena gente, todos de Puerto Rico. Charlie


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Yamaha's Helm Master Takes Guesswork, Stress Out of Docking
By Craig Lamb
Seasoned boaters know all too well the nuances of maneuvering a big boat in tight spaces. Running longer distances, handling big waves, and more room and storage for gear and passengers are advantages of a big boat.
What's not so great about boats powered by multiple outboards is when it comes time to return to the dock. Maneuvering the big boat into tight spaces, and into waves and current, takes years of experience. Unless you are a seasoned boat captain that is not an option, at least for the average boater.
Those challenges—and the stress and intimidation that comes with docking a boat at the marina—are no more thanks to Yamaha's Helm Master. What is more, the system and technology can even put more fish on your line.
Helm Master, Yamaha's first fully integrated boat control system, makes you a seasoned helmsman with the touch of a button and twist of a joystick. Simply move the joystick in the direction you want the boat to go. Helm Master does the rest. Forward, reverse, sideways or pivot the boat on its axis.
Click here to see the convenience features of Helm Master.
Helm Master works using Real Time Response. The force exerted by the outboards mirrors the input by the operator on the joystick. A light push or gentle twist of the joystick delivers a slower paced movement with minimal thrust. More joystick movement is translated into greater thrust and direction of motion of the boat.
Click here to see more about Real Time Response and how it controls the boat using Helm Master.
Wind and waves are no match for Helm Master. Select High Mode and the result is more RPM for even more power. There is no need for a bow thruster.
Helm Master makes docking easier and less stressful due to its position at the center axis of the boat. Traditional steering systems place the axis point at the transom. Like the name implies, the axis position is at the helm of the Helm Master system. As a result, you get more precise control and faster response time of the outboards.
Not every boat has the same helm axis. Yamaha engineers worked directly with participating boat builders to tailor the system to the hull on select models. The result is navigation that is precision tuned to each boat and very pilot-centric.
A new, fishing-centric feature is now part of Helm Master, and as a result, you can use it to stay on fishing areas more accurately. You can do that with the touch of a switch, just like docking the boat.
The feature is called Helm Master Set Point, a new suite of control modes that utilize pinpoint GPS technology. The system allows you to pick up a point, a heading, or both. Helm Master's GPS navigation feature and automation keeps the boat in that position. Get to where you are going, stay in position, and go fishing.
Set Point has three unique modes. Using Stay Point the boat holds a position and heading. Stay in position while kite fishing, setting a drift with the wind or current using the Drift Point Mode. Fish Point allows setting a fishing position using low power to prevent spooking a fish.
Click here to learn more about Helm Master compatibility, training and more at YamahaOutboards.com
Original Source: Sportsmans Lifestyle.com


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Cross-posted at the blog of the Abraham Lincoln Institute for the Study of Leadership and Public Policy
Lincoln Memorial University's Abraham Lincoln Library and Museum is one of 2,000 institutions across the country participating in the Blue Star Museums program. Admission for active duty military personnel (including National Guard and Reserve, U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, and NOAA Commissioned Corps) and up to five family members is free until September 2, 2013. Just bring your Geneva Convention common access card or Uniformed Services ID Card (1173 or 1173-1) when you visit.
For more information about the museum, call (423) 869-6235 or visit www.lmunet.edu/museum.