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So I've been fluctuationg between enthusiasic and productive, and sitting in a heap wanting to cry. It rained all weekend, so I used the opportunity to sit in a heap and not do much, and then had a great trapping day yesterday. today was brutally hot, I saw about 7 or 8 lizards and proceeded to spend all day in the hot hot sun not catching any of them. I got myself a pretty impressive case of sunstroke, and a talking-to from a friend back home becasue apparently I shouldn't have taken aspirin for the headache that came with the package. Seriously, it's like tickbite-fever bad but without the glamour of the fever and the nausea... actually I think I prefer sunstroke!
Anyway, I am one of very few people in this world who has a custom-built lizard treadmill. It's of vital importance for my work, nd was built by a combination of an engineering student friend (who, back in the day, beat up another kid for pulling the tail out of my My Little Pony) and a friend from my class at university. It's had it's issues, as it was designed and built with very little by way of specifications (I gave them a size and a speed required) by two people who have never worked with lizards.
I spend a lot of time ever few weeks fixing up little gaps with duct tape (a lizard can squeeze through a microscopic gap! and adjusting it and so on. This trip it's been working perfectly though, until tonight! I was running a set of lizards when one of them managed to get his tail between the belt and the rod thingie that it wraps around. It happens occasionally, and usually you just stop the treadmill and extricate the lizard. This guy had really got himself stuck though so i had to dismantle part of it, remove lizard and then put it back together.
Then it started acting p. Nothing major, just the belt slipping to one side, or it went too slowly, and I had to play with the tension a bit. Finally, it all looked like it was going to work properly when it ut stopped. There was an aweful noie from the motor and nothing moved.
So I'm going to be spending tomorrow in town trying to hunt down an engineer (fortunately there is a university with an engineering department nearby) to fix it, and if I can't fid anyone here I will have no option but to put it in the car and go home for a day or two to get it fixed by the engineer who made it.
To tell the truth, today was a really unpleasant day, and I would like nothing more than a day or two at home to 'recharge' a bit, but at the same time the weather is good for lizards, and I never know when I'm going to lose time to rain, so going home seems like a waste. At least the masters student is rriving tomorrow so I'll have someone here to feed lizards if I have to go.
So anyone at home: watch this space, you might be running into me in the near future!
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Panic stations!
So I've been fluctuationg between enthusiasic and productive, and sitting in a heap wanting to cry. It rained all weekend, so I used the opportunity to sit in a heap and not do much, and then had a great trapping day yesterday. today was brutally hot, I saw about 7 or 8 lizards and proceeded to spend all day in the hot hot sun not catching any of them. I got myself a pretty impressive case of sunstroke, and a talking-to from a friend back home becasue apparently I shouldn't have taken aspirin for the headache that came with the package. Seriously, it's like tickbite-fever bad but without the glamour of the fever and the nausea... actually I think I prefer sunstroke!
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Thursday, September 25, 2008
Remember that song on the mission impossible soundtrack called "So..."? It's stuck in my head right now. Nothing too exciting to say about it. Except that I am not a Mission Impossible nut, just that I was about 10 at the time and the soundtrack was my first ever CD. I didn't even have a CD player yet, but after my brother and I had run in to the CNA (a newsagent) for the gazillionth time and listened to the theme song on the dodgy "try out your CD first!" headphones, my mother ether let me buy it or bought it for me. I can safely say that I think I knew every note and every word and everything on that CD by the time I was 12 or so, as well as developing a slightly weird addiction to Songs by Skunk Anansie (however you spell that. I was 10!). Weird because I was a pretty quiet kid who's only other CD was by Shampoo. Yes, I'm cringing now!
Anyway, it's been a rough week. I was going to post about how miserable I was yesterday, but I only finished all the work I had to do by about 10pm and I didn't have the energy - considering that it's been so hot I have to get up at about sunrise to get any decent trapping done before it gets to molten-lava level of hot.
I was enjoying the quiet of a KIDS-es free house, when we got hit by a mega heatwave. It's supposedly spring, but I've been here in midsummer and it was never this hot and humid before. I HATE hats with a passion, but it got so hot that I had to wear one, which meant that I was running around with hat-hair and a hat-induced headache. Since as long as I can remember I've hated having things on my head or on my hands. In cold weather I will give in and wear gloves, but I really, really hate hats.
Back on the topic - I caught a single lizard in two whole days of trapping! And I wasn't being lazy either, the lizards were there, and I was working darned hard to get them and they were all evading me. There is a series of huge boulders where a bunch of them live - I've caught a bunch their before by putting a circle of traps around it and in the little spaces in between rocks. this time though I'm not sure what happened, maybe one of the storms, or a tree falling over, but there was sand EVERYwhere and I couldn't trap a bunch of the usual spots. And the lizards ran past giggling occasionally.
Just to make things better, I decided that having cereal for dinner wasn't a good thing after about 3 days and so I made some very nice pasta-sauce type stuff with the vegetables I got last time I went into town. I didn't feel like the whole schlep of making pasta, so I thought I'd make myself a baked potato.
The bonus of living here is that we have an awesome microwave with a bunch of AUTO settings. So for a potato, you put a potato in, press POTATO and when it finishes you turn said potato over and press POTATO again. Voila, a perfectly baked potato! So, I got a potato, cut the eyes off and so on, put it in and pressed POTATO. After a minute or two it was done, so I turned the potato over and pressed POTATO. I have done this many many times and never had a problem. I realised a little while later that the potato had been in there for a rather long time. I dismissed the thought and went back to what I was doing. Then I heard a strange noise and I went to investigate.
I am not kidding when I say that the potato in the microwave had full-on burst into flames! The smell was awful, there was black smoke seeping from around the door and the potato was flaming away, rotating slowly inside the microwave that was STILL COOKING IT! I had the presence of mind to hit the off switch and leave it closed in the microwave to stop it getting any more oxygen and rushed around opening doors and windows before removing the charred potato.
Bearing in mind that I'd had a horrible day, been in full sun for several hours and not had much success, I wanted to cry. Instead, I decided to make some pasta and eat my dinner. So I lit the gas-stove and made pasta. The pot has handles that get really hot, so, as usual, I used a cloth to take it off the stove and pour the pasta into a colander. Once I'd done that I looked down and realised that the cloth was on fire - it had obviously dipped into the flame.
For the record, the pasta itself was fine, the dinner was delicious, and i had leftovers to sustain me for two days.
Today was cloudy and cold this morning so I got to sleep in until 7! The sun came out mid-morning so I dashed off to the most dangerous outcrop on the farm and managed to catch 4 lizards! I was really happy - this particular outcrop is really steep and slippery, and can either be fantastic for finding lizards or absolutely abysmal, but it takes so long to get there that if it doesn't go too well you've effectively lost a day. I guess after everything being so difficult, I thought about life a lot and came to a lot of conclusions. I won't share them here just yet, because they're a bit whiny and I have a headache from wearing a stupid hat. Plus it's past dinner-time so I should go and burn some stuff now. But the bottom-line is: I'm feeling better about everything, and I hope I can hang on to my inner-optimist for a while!
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Friday, September 19, 2008
The anti-poaching guys finally left! I was so happy about it! Then, as I was enjoying my newfound slitude, I got a message .
Last year we had the same thing, which was totally disastrous as over 20 kids arrived, got completely trashed and were all over the house, in my equipment, throwing up in the bushes, screaming at me...
This time there are only 6 of them, they've been really polite so far - I know them pretty well from teaching them over the years. Unfortunately they also know me from trips where I'm not doing my own research, so they're a little bit too relaxed... I would like them to be in a state of mild terror, afraid of touching anything of mine... instead they've already set up a sound system the size of a small power plant and are moving between cooking dinner, rolling joints and smoking outside, while the musi thumps through my house...
I'm glad of th company, but I really really wish this didn't make me feel so old...
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Monday, September 15, 2008
Machete-ing is an art form!
So yesterday I went back to one of the new sites, caught 3 lizards pretty easily and went after a fourth - the problem was that the fourth was under a thin flake of rock, halfway up a very sleep slope, so I couldn't do anything from above...
I tried to give up and go across to the other new site, but after I got stuck in my millionth thorn bush I gave up. Let me just add, that I HATE thorn bushes! I understand that the plants don't want to be eaten and so on, but can't they do it in a way that doesn't hurt me? Like tannins, or growing taller or something... my arms and legs and hands are covered in scratches and I don't like it, because I'm always just sunburned enough to make it sting a little bit more than I can ignore...
So I went back and tried to get the last lizard. The problem was that although I could just about reach the area where it was, the whole base of the slope was covered in thorn bushes, trees and dead branches from thorn trees that made a kind of thorny mesh that was completely impenetrable. I managed to get through and break off enough of the dead branches to make it almost accessible, and then climbed up a few feet to set traps. About half an hour later when I hadn't had any luck, I went back and adjusted them. I climbed a few feet higher to be able to work more effectively, ,and then, a few minutes alter, realized that the foothold I was using was not only smooth granite, but smooth granite with lichen and twigs on it. I might have done it myself from disturbing so many trees, but either way, my foot slipped and I tumbled off the rocks and into the thorn mesh...
I scrambled furiously at the rock, but wasn't able to stop myself, and succeeded in scarping down an adjacent rock with a very sharp edge. In the chaos, with me falling, bits of rock falling, traps falling... the lizard finally made an appearance and hid under a rock the as completely covered in thorn bushes. I gave up and gathered my things, to feel something cold on my leg. I looked down and realised that I'd cut my leg open -a long gash along the inside of my calf, from my knee to my ankle, and it was bleeding quite impressively.
The worst part is, besides losing the lizard, i went to the other site today, armed with a machete for the thorny bits, an found that it's actually incredibly unsuitable. It's all big boulders, which are fun to climb, but almost impossible to trap, and the lizards that live on boulders are invariably more intelligent than the ones on flat outcrops.
For the record though, swinging a machete is both incredibly therapeutic and incredibly ineffective! But from the way my arms are feeling, it's also a good workout!
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Sunday, September 14, 2008
An action-packed adventure saga!
I just finished another exciting evening of playing with numbers and scary formulae... and decided that rather than having the world see me as a total and utter loser (I had a breakthrough and got very excited) I would talk about the last few days.
Firstly, I haven't blogged in absolute ages. we had a heatwave - on a cool day (I think it was Wednesday) when I enjoyed myself because I wasn't dying of heat, I measured that it was 28 degrees in the house, 31 in the shade outside and 34 in partial shade. I was too scared to find out what full sun was, as I'd just finished a morning sitting out in the sun and didn't want to know. In Fahrenheit, for you non-metric people (I will save up the rant about Fahrenheit for a day when I have a few cool points (no pun intended) saved up), that's 82 inside (I love old houses for their ability to be cool on a hot day and warm on cold day), 88 in the shade outside and 93 in partial shade).
I know that the weather will only get hotter, and I managed 10 weeks of proper summer (I'm here almost a month earlier this year than last year), but I'm not used to this yet, and I think I got a bit of heatstroke and felt really sick after drinking about 4 litres of water in a few hours - I was desperately thirsty but couldn't drink anymore!
So anyway a few days ago it went cold, and I relished the opportunity to spend a morning in bed (I had a fever and therefore insisted on a morning off) and go into town to get a few groceries. It's almost an hour drive to the nearest shop, and it's quite a pest because when the weather is good I hate having to take an afternoon to go shopping or go to get petrol for the bakkie, so I've learned by experience to use the bad days as much as possible for things like laundry, shopping, writing up results and the all-important sleep.
Quite often though, the rain will last for up to 4 or 5 days, and then you sit and go crazy because you were super-efficient on the first rainy day (or just don't feel like working). Last year my 6-week trip became a 10-week trip because of the weather, although I must admit, I have developed an incredible talent for predicting the weather from looking at the sky in the evenings. One day I will write a list of all the extra things Ive learned on fieldwork and that will be on it.
Back to the point - the day after that (yesterday)it rained, so I couldn't even go for a walk or anything. Fortunately, although it had been cold, it was dry the day before and I'd taken a long walk in the early evening so I was able to sit in the house without going nuts. I predicted that it would be rainy this morning but clear up in the afternoon, and I was wrong - it was partly-cloudy and cool, warming up in the afternoon. I spent the morning driving around exploring new tracks around the conservancy with mt traps and everything ready in case it cleared up. After about an hour I gave up and sat at the house pretending to work, but actually listening to music for an hour or two. Then I realised that the weather was perfect to take a hike to where I thought there might be some nice lizard habitat, which I thought might be near to or connected to a big outcrop just up the road from the house. It was quite a walk to get there, there are a lot of tiny thorn bushes that can scratch through your clothes in quite a painful way. Then, while you try and untangle yourself you invariably walk past a couple of thorn trees. I got away with a few minor scratches today, and no big thorns to the scalp - unlike Tuesday's getting stuck in a thicket saga (ouch!).
It was very exciting, the outcrop I've seen tiny bits of turned out to be quite ice and big, and as I got there the sun came out from behind the clouds and a beautiful lizard ran out and looked at me. I half expected to hear a chorus of "oooooh!" from the clouds at the same time. It was also quite a nice vantage point for a couple of hills that I've never really considered trapping on before, and I could see another outcrop nearby that's not as nice, but definitely is worth trapping at for a day or two!
I decided that I didn't want to go back through the thorn bushes today and I knew that I was relatively close to a huge outcrop that overlooks the house. we call it the Sundowner rock because on most undergrad field-trips we take the KIDSes up there for sun-downers one evening. I didn't realise (possibly because I'm usually on TOP of said sundowner rock)that it's surrounded by a thick tangle of thorn bushes. By the time I realised that an intelligent person would have turned back about 20 minutes before, I was kind of in a get-hurt-either-way situation so I kept going. It was amazing, after the huge thorny hedges (for lack of a better word) I ended up in what felt like coastal forest, with a relatively clear floor and huge vines. A lot of the branches belong to a weird tree that only has leaves for a few weeks a year or something, but the branches are covered in giant thorns. I don't know what it's called but we use a branch to teach the undergrads about thorn structure at the beginning of their plant-identification course. I had never expected to be stuck in a maze of them though!
Part of me was really sad that I never came here as a little kid, there were all kinds of awesome places that I would have loved to play in when I was little! I remember spending hours under the hedge in our driveway... using the petals from the flowers as currency, yellow was highest if I remember correctly. But, I digress, back to the adventures: so I managed to climb over and under and around the thorns without too much damage to myself. A lot of the branches were dead or rotting and I managed to clear a bit of a path. Then I finally reached the base of the sundowner rock (rock sounds small, it's probably nearly a square kilometer, and made up of a bunch of little outcrops connected by a ridge of grass along the very top). and realised that I was facing a 50-100 metre sheer granite wall. I realised that I hadn't been thinking too clearly - this is the East-facing side that I've never trapped on because it's too steep for me to climb down without someone else there to call the ambulance if something goes wrong (drama-queen? me? NEVER!. Fortunately it was dry, even after all the rain - climbing on wet granite is to beg for a Darwin Award - and I clambered up a big boulder to where I could see a deep fissure running up the length of the slope - looked like the best spot to hold on! On top of the boulder was a smaller, but still considerably large and stable looking rock, so I climbed up, to feel it rocking gently underneath me. I froze and climbed back onto the bigger rock very carefully and then tried a few other routes up. Nothing felt safe enough for me to try. I'm not a stranger to falling, and I usually don't mind pushing my limits somewhat, but the idea of falling that far down onto a tangle of the massive thorns... not so much.
I looked around and decided that my best option was to get off the rock and walk along the base of the cliff (for lack of a better word) to where I could see there was a bit more of an incline and a few handholds and things. there was a big tree at the base of the rock, so I leaned my foot against it so I could shuffle down and jump off. Well, to cut a long story short, the tree was hollow and rotten and fell over. I got the fright of my life and did some spider-man-style backpedalling and then jumped off the side of the rock.
After all of that the climb was pretty uneventful, the incline was slopey enough for me to climb and my shoes were fantastic. I got new shoes a little while ago because my old field-shoes were all but worn out. I had to try a different brand and I haven't liked them too much so far, but today they definitely did the job!
to jump topic completely (it will make sense shortly) one of my favourite memories is of a school trip when I was 15 or 16. The staff at my school stated calling me the "happy camper" because that was the week where I came out of my shell and actually poke to people and participated. I had always been super-shy but for some reason that trip I wasn't and I think it was very much the turning point for me where I stopped being quiet and well-behaved and became... me. Anyway the trip was a week of kayaking, raft-building, archery, obstacle courses, hiking and... rock climbing and abseiling. I was near-phobic of heights, to the point where I could hardly stand on a chair without getting shaky, and that week i started my long journey of getting over it. I think if I could show my 15-year-old self the places I climb now, I would never have believed it! I managed to climb the 20 metre rock face, which was a huge step for me! Of course, most people did it in five to ten minutes, and I took almost an hour, stopping only to swear loudly at a sometimes friend of mine (I think I was the most-quoted person on the trip as nobody had ever heard me swear before either). i felt quite bad about it later as she had been trying to shout encouragement, while I had been trying to focus, but she claimed to be proud to be the person who finally got me to yell obscenities. For the record I didn't manage the abseiling, going into hysterics and climbing back up after a few metres, but I can still remember the cheering when I made it to the top!
Anyway, the guy who was running the climbing section became a good friend of mine on the trip. he was a huge Afrikaans guy with dreds, called Isaak and we used to chat about life in general most evening. He was the type who would go crazy staying in one place for more than a few months and had backpacked around Botswana a month or two before, and I asked so many questions about his travels that it amazes me that he didn't smack me on the head and tell me to shut up.
so, to the point of the story, while I was climbing today I kept hearing his voice in my head saying "the trick to rock climbing is to stay as close to the rock as possible. Don't lean back, lean forward. Plan your route up and then hug the rock. Stay as close to the rock as you can." It was kind of weird. I haven't thought about that trip for ages! For the record, a friend of mine went to work at the camp a few years later and the staff there remembered our group. Might have to do with an unfortunate injury I inflicted on the boss during a game of pool volleyball/rugby (word of advice: if I have the ball do NOT grab on to my foot from behind. I will kick. Hard). Isaak has, of course, moved on by now and nobody hs a clue about where he is.
So after all that I sat at the top and admired the view of the farm. The rain has cleared the dust haze and I could see forever! Plus it gave me a chance to recover from the adrenaline-shakes. And I walked across the outcrop and down the path to the main road. The other day when I missed the path and got stuck in some thorn bushes I smelled something odd and thought I'd stepped in some baboon dung. The smell was worse today, and pretty unmistakable. An animal has died, near the path. How on earth people do jobs with decomposing bodies, I have no idea, I ended up running back to the house to escape the stench. Which was fun - not the stench, the run. Last year I went running nearly every day but I haven't yet on this trip.
And then I sat and fought with formulae and numbers and finally finished a section of what I've been working on for the last 6 weeks. So all in all it's been a good day! And now that I've finished my evening cup of Rooibos and evening biscuit I'm going to head off to bed so I can get up early and machete an easier path to the new sites before I have to start trapping.
Either way, I think I've more than made up for the recent lack of posting by the length of this! I didn't realise how long it was getting...
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Sunday, September 07, 2008
I am such a nerd
I've been batlting with a particular dataset for about a month now, and I just got it to work. And I did a happy-dance around my living area. I think the anti-poaching guys think I'm nuts...
For the record, I'm really not making massive strides, but little steps make me happy...
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Wednesday, September 03, 2008
A random day
I'm writing this while itching with sunburn - yes, it warmed up today, no, it's still windy as anthing and the lizards aren't cooperating.
I should have known that it wasn't going to be a normal day, when i slept through my alarm this morning, and then woke up and dashed off to the field site, to find baboons and giraffe all over it! I've got to know the giraffes relatively well, there are usually 3 of them and they stay in a pretty small area. It's so dry at the moment that I'm seeing a lot more of the big mammals than usual, I think they're battling to find food. There was a fourth girafe today, which was quite exiting! I used to get stuck behind a single giraffe on the road all the time, I wonder if that's him, if he's made a few friends... I hope so.
I should have gone to a different site straight away, the lizards are very wary when it's cool, and something like giraffe trampling around means that they might not coe out of hiding for at least several hours, but it was still windy, and this site is one of the more sheltered ones, so I stayed. Bad move.
Firstly, my back and arms got fried today! I'm usuall realy good about sunscreen, but with the wind blowing it didn't feel too hot, so I forgot about it.
Secondly I decided to bite the bullet and trap one of my least favourite sites on the outcrop. It's very sheltered and away from the worst of the giraffe-baboon invasion and I can usually bank on getting quite a few lizards there. Basically it's a long, smooth slope at about 45 degrees, kind of convex, with big boulders at one end, a long crevice at another, and a long convex rock in-between. the rock has been named "the bitch" because it's about 5 metres long, and every single lizard in that area runs under it at some stage during the day. this means that it's incredibly important to set traps under it properly, and incredibly difficult to do so. Generally it involved a lot of me setting three or four and then falling to the bottom, swearing as I do it!
Unfortunately it's been a while since the last burn (and with this dry wind it will be a while until the next one) so the bottom of the outcrop is surrounded by thorn bushes, shrubs, fallen branches from the windstorms and a lot of dead leaves - all in all not the sliding and thumping own on my feet onto earth that I'm used to. So I went aong the bottom, wading through the leaves, and traping the long crevices as I went. When I got to the bottom of the big rock, I started laying traps along the edge, and then climbed a bit up and set some more. this was all carrying a large, purple bucket full of traps! When I couldn't reach anymore I mnaged to somehow get the bucket wedged at the top of the rock, only raining a few raps down onto my head, and started to climb. I was only a few metres off the ground when I realised that I was completely and utterly stuck. I couldn't turn around to slide down because I had switched feet on the one and only foothold in my direct vicinity and there was no way of switching back. the nearest hndholds were out of reach, and the closest little nubs of rock weren't enough (with my female-typical upperbody strength) to pull myself up. My other foot was splayed across the rock face onto an almost-foothold, but more to stop the cramps in my other foot than for any actual purpose. I've climbed a lot of rocks here, and I understand that almost foothold + almost handhold = a bad idea.
I couldn't go back down, I couldn't jump down without risking a pretty bad injury, and I ouldn't go up at all. My left leg, which had been supporting me for about 20 minutes on a pretty sharp piece of rock was cramping and I didn't know what to do. I used to be really afraid of heights, and it was like I was 8 years old on the high-dive board all over again. I coulnd't move, I was terrified, I started shaking.
Then something weird happened. I leaned across and put my right foot back onto the slightly rough patch of rock that might almost be a foothold and then I watched as my arms seemed to move by themselves, onto the almost-handholds and pulled me up. I could feel my arm muscles straining and my leg pushing as my left foot finally left the uncomfortable spot and my knee came to rest of a slightly rough seam of rock. I came to my senses enough to pull muself up to the top of the big rock (it's a thin, long rock, so its kind of a sharp top, but stable enough for the moment) and I sat down and pulled myself together before setting the rest of the traps.
The weird thing was that a while later I was at the bottom again, checking and fixing up traps, and I found myself wating to climb the rock again. I thought that I ahd done it, so it was possible, so why not? Then the logical part of m brain told me to shut up, and I went bak up the easy way.
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Tuesday, September 02, 2008
I don't have much to say except that today wasn't particularly fun. It was cold, and the lizards were barel active. I have a game-plan for tomorrow though, so I'm not feeling too bad. I had turned off the geyser for one of the bathrooms (there are two outside bathrooms with shower-stalls and toilet cubicles and stuff, as well as the two indoor ones) yesterday and I discovered when I came back from the ield, complete with oil and dust covering and oil in hair, that I'd actualy turned both of them off. I figured that i was tough enough for a cold shower - I've been on enough cmping trips and so on to know wht they're like. In summer here, when it gets super-hot I take them by choice! Plus when my girlie side makes me wash conditioner out of my hair with cold water (akes our hair shiier and doesn't fade your colour as much) I've had enough cold showers to be pretty ok with the concept.
Wat I didn't thin about was that it wasn't a very warm day, and I'd been in the sun all day watching out for lizards, so I was nie and warm. I also didn't think about the fact that we have a borehole, so the temperature of the cold water fluctuates pretty wildly depending on the weather (it's pumped into an above-ground reservoir).
The excruciating nature of the shower cannot be descibed. All I know is that it was the fastest shower I have ever taken, and I was almost blue afterwards, when I came inside and put on 3 layers of clothing and shivered for the rest of the day.
I took a nap a bit later, although I didn't sleep well, it got really cold. Anyone who has ever been camping with me will tell you that I don't sleep when it's cold. I drift around the campsite clutching a cup of tea, until I hit exhaustion and sleep the next afternoon, which leads to me sitting up all of the next night with my cup of tea...
I had some really bizarre dreams too! I can't reember them, but I woke up freaked out and disoriented. I turned on my laptop to liten to music while I made dinner to find that the first song that came up was "dream a little dream of me." Weird.
I find lately that I have weird dreams after I watch weird TV shows. Prison Break, anything random and scifi-ish, the new wizard of oz miniseries... and redaing Hrry Potter books - which is why I still haven't read the last book.
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Events Open To All
12 step meetings daily at 4 PM. E07, Denys the Decadent's Camp. All welcome. AA, NA, OASA, etc. Open meeting.
Annual Mountain Confederation Piper's Competition! Tuesday Aug. 17, start time 8:30pm and goes until we run out of entertainment. Bring your Cup, (your ID if you want to drink) and a piper if you have one. Other entertainers are welcome.
Fund Raiser/Silent Auction: Sugar Loaf Helmet to be auctioned at Mandrake Armory - #92 Street of Gold. Auction ends at Midnight Madness.
The Society Exchecquer is camped at House Redhair in E24 Monday thru Friday.
Breast cancer survivors! My chemo starts August 23. Any pep talks, words of wisdom, prayers welcome. See Anya of Clan Kyle, Kurdson Way.
Slavic Interest Group Monday 8/16, 6:30pm AS4. Celebrate all things Slavic with us and share info.
There will be a Midrealm Chroniclers meeting Monday August 16 at 7:30pm in Camp Erevnite Asteron.
Come one, come all to the Mountain Confederation's Animal Piper's Competition, Tuesday night at 8:30pm. Winner receives a tasty prize, so bring your pipes.
Society Chronicler's office hours: Mon, Weds, Thurs, Fri 10-11:30 am Pennsic Independent Office
Bhakail Baronial Court - Tuesday evening at 8:00pm at Brewers & Fletcher Rds. Those with business in court please see Lord Eirikr Thorrison at House Full Circle located at block N-18 between Battle and Currie Rds.
To all brewers of the East: The East Kingdom Brewers Guild will be holding a reception in East Kingdom Royal, from 8pm-10pm on August 16th, Monday night. Please spread the word. Baroness Mistress Suzanne Neuber de Londres EKBG, Guild Mistress
Kendrick of the Haunted Bookshop will be doing a booksewing demo and discuss the history of bookbinding at the Haunted Bookshop inBooksellerÕs Row Daily at 11:00AM and 3:00PM
Soothsayers of the Knowne Worlde! Welcome to the East Kingdom Soothsayers' Guild meeting at Auntie ArwenÕs Spices (Merchant Space #184 8:30PM Monday Aug 16.
Lochac royal court in Lochac encampment at Westgate Tuesday 6:30pm.
Duke Paul of Bellatrix's class location 8/17 at 9:00AM on the white list on battkefield.
Bardic Circle - Barony of Dragonshiphaven Area 808 Tuesday Aug. 17th, half past dark. All are welcome. ID to drink. Come sing or just listen.
Japanese Stagecraft - A participatory introduction to medieval dramatic and comic theatre. History, staging, and acting. Casting for Yama bikoza. E03 2:00.
Desire booty? Desire Deals? We have the answer! Visit the MDA auction booth, near the store. Silent auction is Mon-Thurs - 8:30 to 5:00. Loud auction Friday at noon in the barn!
Play the Anglo-Saxon lyre. Explore playing styles for the lyre based on archaeological evidence. In Budgardr W09, behind Enchanted Ground. 11:00-Noon.
Wolgemut will perform Mon at 9pm in the performance tent.
For Sale
Soothsaying: Cards, runes, palms, dreams interpreted. Cabochons on Bow Street, #19
Cool veiling: cheesecloth, linen, and silk! Booth #25
Supplement your study of 16th century Persian garb with Women's Costume of the Near & Middle East, $29.95 at Poison Pen Press, Booth 63.
BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND! Once more Black Rose welcomes HENNA ARTIST CAT & that serene seer, Morwen Stargazer! Come to BAZAAR 4 for the finest in free hand fine line original design HENNA BODY ART by CAT. Hand or Foot design from $5 starting Tue 17th Morwen will amaze & amuse you with her gift for gazing in palms or cards; come be entertained. Henna & Readings daily Tue-Sat 10 am til close.
FABRIC: $6/yd. Fine lightweight woolens plus linen and blends. Small Churl Books, #63. Going Fast!
Knitters of the Known World, yarns worsted to lace weight at the Magik Badger.
Londonderry linen thread, Medici wool tapestry and more silk floss and thread than can be fit in this ad...Fabric Dragon is in Bazaar #3, space 20.
GLASS MULLERS FROM ENGLAND. Also nibs, vellum, parchment and hand-bound leather books - The Guild of Limners, #24
"Is this your spoon?" Custom wood burning and painting. Cabochons on Bow Street, #19
BABY BIBS - SCA-THE NEXT GENERATION - $4. Claus the Toymaker
How much have you spent on your armor?
How much have you spent on your garb?
How much have you spent on your children?
This has been a public service announcement from Claus of Burzee, Toymaker.
Come visit Evil Abra's. Acres of silver, 2000 + sterling rings, every cross imaginiable. Tons of knotwork pendants, pins, bracelets and barettes. The Gypsy Caravan - open 9 till late. 107 Street of Gold.
Tent - rd army, extendable poles $300. S&M leather.
THE GUILD OF LIMNERS in the little white house on Merchant Row sells ink, quill mens, books, pigments, various colors, madder, woad, all kinds of paint and tools necessary for scribes and artists.
Glass jewels with sew-on-settings. Get the authentic fakes. Cabochons on Bow Street, #19
If we've got it, you don't need it, but you probably want it anyway. Jewelry, masks, fortune telling, portraits...Cabochons on Bow Street, #19
ATTENTION WOAD WARRIORS! Feeling blue? I have the real thing! Genuine woad imported from Scotland. $4. Limited supply, buy early. Guild of Limners, #24
HAND GROUND PERIOD PIGMENTS -- once youÕve tried it, youÕll never use anything less. ItÕs not as complicated as you may think. Free sample and instruction in its preparation with this ad from Mistress Megan at the Guild of Limners, #24 Merchants Row
Portraits painted in great and small. Oil, charcoal and watercolor. Cabochons on Bow Street, #19
Benefit the Chirurgeons -- buy an original Pennsic XXXIII T-Shirt. $10. Available from Claus of Burzee, #24 Merchants Row
BAD GARB I and BAD GARB II - NOW AVAILABLE FROM Claus the Toymaker - How do you know you are not in them unless you read them?
Lost your needle? Sold in pack or single! Booth #25
VELLUM - Opaline vellum (sheepskin) durect from England. Finest quality. $15-30 per sheet. The Guild of Limners #24, across from the barn.
Evil Abra has awesome middle eastern and the price is right! Baubles, Belts, and Bangles. Chokers, beaded belts, and more. New order just in and more coming! The Gypsy Caravan - open 9 till late. 108 Street of Gold.
Green Man masks to wear and display. Herbal salves and teas. Cabochons on Bow Street, #19
For sale: 6 GE 40 Gal propans H2O heaters $200 - Includes adapter for BBQ grill tank and free on site delivery. Plumbing available $150-solid brass, child safe design. Stop by W01 or call 757-515-1064. Ask for Gryphon.
Majesty of Morocco. SCA tour April 5, 2005 from $1250 + air. email@example.com / Rich @ merchant #72
Oh no! Where did Cabochons go? We're on Bow Street. Come visit our new shop in #19.
Four Seasons Tentmasters - We offer the best tents you will ever own. Come see us and let us help you stay warm and dry. Space 81 Gold Road.
COSTUMES BY LOREN All cloaks $45 and under! New specials every day. Located at Ursulas Alcove. Space 137 on Plunder Ln.
Honey extractor stainless steel $165. S&M leather.
Corset stays and linen testers at Dragon's Magic #25
20 x 20 period tent and 7ft tall walls $1200 OBO Sabastian booth 139.
Pirate shirts $20, Broom seick skirts $8. Space 21 HeeterÕs Haven Call 814-720-5314 for directions.
Roses made of wood $3/ea or $25 a dozen. Space #21
For Sale: Handmade Satyre doll, 27 inches tall, soft plush, well endowed. The perfect gift for that special someone. Adults only. Mathilde - Quatrefoil
Tunics $15.00 Chemises $20 Bloomers $5.00 Treasure Chest Z10 Bazaar #1
Henna body art - Serengeti fence line - by only 2 trees.
Evil Abra does it again. 30% off amber rings, $19.95 amber necklaces. Amber bracelets and earings too. The Gypsy Caravan. Open 9 till late. 107 Street of Gold.
E-150 Ford Ext. Van. Str. 6 on site $950. S&M Leather.
Plunder Lane is between Battle Road and Curry Rd. Turn left after DeRoseÕs Ice. - Ursula
Oskar to Ballista Babes: Cast your Lightning! May the Ravens drink deep.
THANK YOU TENT PIXIE! I am overjoyed, grateful and humbled by your gift of a fine new tent! Only in the SCA - I shall pay your blessing forward. Joyfully, Amazon the Accident Prone
I would like to say thanks to all the parents who stayed and helped me with the kids making a pouch class. It was a success due to all the helpers. Thanks a lot - Michael of Devonshire
Seamstress: The sewing lady is at #183.
Help Wanted
Looking for someone to be a wandering merchant to sell T-shirts for the chirurgeon's fund. See Claus the Toymaker at 24 Merchants Row.
Lost & Found
Lost: Satellite dish - House Stahlgeist has misplaced the dish! The big screen TV is here and the cold fusion power supply is fusing! Beer bounty!
Barony of Brendoken! A revel open house will be on August 17 at Erevnite Asteron, N22, starting at 6:30 PM. Look for the two astronomers on the gate.
HOUSE GRAY FOX. I really wish I could be there! Missing all y'all - Love you! HAVE FUN and raise a glass of mead for me!... The Astrid
Sign of the Black Rose takes great pride in Congratulating our beloved Artist-in-Residence Lady Savant, on her triumphant graduation as a BS w/Honors Cum Laude in Psychology & Philosophy. We invite you to join us in wishing Her the best of luck in Graduate SchoolÑPooBah!
Rneld still Loves AnnaRousse
Ask Auntie Arwen (#184) if she is drinking enough WATER!
Her Heirusellency's Heirusalism of the day: "Otherwise known as the 'love shack.'"
Squirty the Squid returns to his annual hunting grounds. Getting tired of skunks - maybe try Dead Rabbits today with ink and a nice Chianti.
Viscount Sir Leif Gray Fox - good luck in your battles and know that my heart is with you! All my love - Astrid


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European nanotech network expands into new phase
Frankfurt. The international network of regional institutions that support nanotechnology companies will be expanded further after the successful completion of its EU-funded phase. This is the message which the NANORA (Nano Regions Alliance) conveyed with its two-day conference on nanotechnology held during the chemistry trade fair ACHEMA at Frankfurt on the 17th and 18th of June. Read more


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Conservation and Environment in Costa Rica: Monthly Updates
Conservation in Costa Rica - Monthly Update October 2009
October has been another very good month here in the park, although the rains have been falling harder than anyone expected we have been continuing many of our projects and have begun some very interesting phases of established projects.
As I mentioned last month we have begun the manual capture of butterflies in the park. This part of the project is designed to help us capture butterflies that do not feed on the bait that we leave in our static traps. It is also a good way of capturing new species of butterflies and so far we have increased our species list by another 10 species. Normally we have been taking the nets with us when we go on walks around the park or we are doing other activities and you may all be thinking that capturing a butterfly is an easy task as they don't fly that fast but now with a month's practice behind us I can promise you catching butterflies is good exercise!
As with all of our captured species we have been carefully preparing them for display in the park and sending new species to INBIO (The National Institute for Biology) where they are being stored for other researchers to use them.
We will soon begin another phase of this project which like the two we already have running will be continuous, which is photographing and cataloguing all the species we have so we can begin forming our own Butterflies of Barra Honda guide book. This will be useful for us as we walk around the park capturing new species and will give us something we can pass onto volunteers as a memento of their time with us.
Our camera project is also continuing to provide interesting results. As we come towards the end of this year we are beginning to create our end of year reports for all the projects we are running and beginning to think about the year ahead. With the camera project we are hoping to be able to use the results we have to view population density within the park with the key species we have found so far, White tailed Deer, White nosed Coati, Central American Agouti and Coyote.
The results will of course be added to this website when they are ready. We also had the opportunity to meet several of the volunteers from Liberia this month. Due to a teacher's conference in the city of Liberia a lot of the schools were closed for a few days this month but that didn't mean the volunteers were going to take some time off. Instead we got them into the park for 3 days to do some really hard work!
The weather we had could not have been worse during this time, it was in fact the first time all year that it rained for 3 days straight and so far it has been the only time, but even this wasn't enough to dampen their spirits with all of them ready for work early on day one! The work we had planned for this special group was, completely honestly, very hard and not our normal routine but we decided that with a large group of people we could do a significant amount of work on the drainage ditches along the main road into the park.
We also had time to do some reforestation work, planting 25 saplings along the edge of the football field to help keep the soil moist in the dry season and of course provide a little more shade for people watching. Of course with a large group of new people in the park we had to take another opportunity to visit the caves, which as usual amazed everyone in the group and provided us with several good chances to teach everyone a little about the amazing area that we are working in.
At the beginning of the month we also spent a few days working to remodel the trail that leads from the kitchen area to the conference room which was starting to look a little old and faded. We came up with the idea of using rock to line the trail edge and clear an area about 50cm further into the forest so we could place some ornamental plants along the edge of the pathway. With this part done and the subsequent heavy rains we were able to see where the water needed to be diverted and channeled to keep the trail relatively dry.
Richard Munday
Conservation Coordinator
Barra Honda National Park
October 2009


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Where do your favorite bloggers live? Do you know? Does it matter? Well, for this blog challenge it does.
This week's blog challenge is to research your favorite bloggers, usually the ones you read through your feed reader or bookmark and return to repeatedly, to find out where they live and work.
The answer might be more interesting than you think. They might live and work in one country, or live in one and work in another. Or they may not have a fixed geographical location, much as I don't since I travel on the road, though the past few years has found me staying more in the United States than out.
Finding where your favorite bloggers live might be a challenge as many do not declare where they live, so be inventive and see if you can figure out their location. If not, ask.
When you figure out where your favorite bloggers are geographically located, blog about what you learned about discovering this information, and then if it changes your perception of them. Sometimes it helps to know where someone is coming from, and sometimes it doesn't matter. Which is it for these bloggers and for your blog reading experience?
This is one of many blogging challenges I offer weekly to help kick your blogging ass. For more challenges, see the Blog Challenge category.
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Christmas Masks
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Your creations are a great inspiration.
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Samsung's top-spec edge LED LCD TV comes in the form of the ES8000, a thin-bezel Series 8 behemoth that, at the 55-inch stature of this review model, will dominate any room.
The Pocket-lint team has seen all manner of tellies throughout 2012, but can the Samsung UE55ES8000 live up to the hype to be crowned king of the LED category?
The way a TV looks when switched off is arguably becoming almost as important as how good the picture quality is when on. Tellies are progressively more fashion-conscious, and the ES8000 is no exception.
The slender screen is surrounded by a thin, silver-coloured bezel that only expands to encompass the built-in camera and microphone at the top of the screen. We're not keen on this protruding camera "lump" at the top of the screen - it's a bit "creepy" and throws the balance of the design; it should have been a detachable unit instead.
The curved, compressed-U-shape stand is also impressive to the eyes and sits the whole set in a shallow-slung seated position. It doesn't offer any swivel rotation though, so getting around the back of the screen to pop in HDMI cables or USB keys of content can be a nuisance.
There are plenty of connections on the rear, though the lack of an SD card slot is a shame.
Big screen, big bucks
Buying a big-screen TV isn't something that can be taken lightly, especially when considering that we're talking about a couple of grand apiece.
Samsung's 55-inch ES8000 comes in at a weighty £2,500 - but that does undercut the likes of both the LG 960V and Panasonic WT50 series by a couple of hundred pounds at retail.
READ: Panasonic Viera TX-L55WT50B review
It's not as though the Samsung has fewer features though. If anything it's got a more expansive feature set than its competitors, thanks to the likes of gesture control, face recognition and smart evolution updates.
Gimmick or genius?
That's right: gesture control, voice control and face detection. All those things that your current TV is missing, right? No, we're not convinced either.
Fun though it may sound, the gesture control works by using your open hand to guide a cursor around the screen, selecting options by closing the hand. It's slow, inaccurate and we just don't see the point. Voice control can be reasonably effective, but it's no Siri and, again, it's slow with the exception of filling out search fields. It's a TV. Pass the remote.
Fortunately the main remote is far more successful. It has backlit buttons for when it's dark and all the controls required for guiding through channels, multimedia input and the TV's smart interface.
Smarter than most
Samsung's Smart Hub interface - which is easily accessed via the hub cursor on the main control - is, as the name suggests, where all the smart, connected action happens.
Whether using BBC iPlayer, Netflix, Lovefilm or any number of other apps, Smart Hub also offers a schedule manager, web browser and another way to access the guide, channels and source input too.
It's all laid out beautifully, is easy to navigate, and includes broader breakdowns such as "Fitness", "Kids", "Family" and so forth.
The camera, too, comes into use here. Whether for making Skype calls or similar, it certainly has its place - we're just not too keen on the way the built-in design looks.
As well as automatic updates that prompt for download, the ES8000 can have its hardware upgraded. Yes, you read that right - like a desktop PC, this TV can have one of Samsung's as-yet-unknown-priced Smart Evolution kits inserted to upgrade, say, the dual-core to a quad-core for that new app that comes out in 2014. It's a bold idea and, assuming cost is fair, could add some life to the TV - if, that is, anyone retires a TV because it hasn't got the app they want. It's not something we're able to test to any successful degree, however, so it's more a concept for the time being.
Picture quality
To the crux of it: just how good is the ES8000's picture quality?
Although the TV sells itself as an "LED" TV this is a half truth, in exactly the same way all manufacturers, in our opinion, oversell the technology. It's actually an LCD TV that gets additional backlighting from side-positioned LEDs. It's this backlight that can assist with punchier-looking colours, or the absence of the backlight will make darker scenes look "deeper".
The technology has issues however, present by light leaks, such as the clouding above, or slight delays when shifting from a bright to a dark scene where the whole screen may have a slight - but noticeable - delay in brightness. The most uniform screen we've seen on an LED-LCD TV this year would be the Sony Bravia HX853 model which uses a full-array LED system rather than the Samsung's edge LED system.
READ: Sony Bravia KDL-46HX853 review
Although the ES8000's uniformity isn't spot on - which will be a hindrance for hardened movie fans who want to watch the deepest, richest of blacks in a low-light setting - the overall picture quality can be a great visual experience, once it's set up right. But you'll want to tweak the picture settings because the batch of presets work a little too hard and push vividness a step too far.
HD TV looks gorgeous though, and the Motion Plus technology evens out fast scenes to silky smooth visuals. Great for telly, but you'll want to customise or switch this setting off when watching anything cinematic/24p as it becomes overly smooth and loses that cinema-like quality. And an episode of Sons of Anarchy that feels a bit like EastEnders just isn't right. Having all these controls available is great though, as it gives you ability to process the image's smoothness, fluidity, colour and brightness with a high degree on control.
In summary picture quality is good, but it's not over-£2,000 good and, arguably, not even as good as some previous-generation Samsung TVs. We were expecting to be wowed based on the hyperbolic critical acclaim this model has received in the UK, but felt more pleased than astounded.
3D visuals, however, are up there with the best that you'll find on a modern TV. The glasses may be a little bit flimsy and plasticky, but there are four pairs included in the box and the results are tip-top.
Sound-wise, the ES8000 has a full-sounding output and a variety of pre-sets to match the bass and treble to the content. There's standard, music, movie, clear voice and amplify, though no custom option is available to tweak EQs, which is a shame.
Overall we found the standard setting to produce a very levelled audio experience - it's not booming like the Sony HX853's soundbar, yet still delivers the necessary guts to the full audio spectrum.
Gimmicks such as the UE55ES8000's gesture control are best ignored, as at the core of this TV there's some quality stuff.
Take Samsung's Smart Hub, for example. We think it's up there with the best smart TV interfaces and made catch-up TV via iPlayer or other apps a breeze.
Picture quality is smooth and detailed, but movie buffs are likely to want to switch off or customise the level of Motion Plus for that true cinematic experience.
Although picture quality is good, the edge LED backlight can cause uniformity issues and the blacks aren't the deepest we've seen on an LED-LCD TV this year. For more than £2,000 we were honestly expecting that little bit more, hence the score - this is good, but not as great as many initial reviews scattered around the internet may have you believe.


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Marriage between closely related cousins is a heavy taboo in many cultures and its critics often cite the higher risk of genetic diseases associated with inbreeding. That risk is certainly apparent for very close relatives, but a new study from Iceland shows that very distant relatives don't have it easy either. In the long run, they have just as few children and grandchildren as closely related ones.
Shuffling the genetic deck
Sex chromosomes aside, every person has two copies of each gene, one inherited from their father and one by their mother. Not every gene will be in correct working order, but there's a good chance that a faulty copy will be offset by a functional one from the other parent.
However, if two parents are closely related, there's a higher-than-average chance that they will already share some of the same genes and a similarly increased chance that their child will receive two defective copies. That can be very bad news indeed and in cases where important genes are affected, the results can include miscarriage, birth defects or early death.
Sex, then, is a shuffling of their genetic deck and theoretically the more closely related the partners are, the greater the chance that their child will be dealt a dud hand. And yet, some studies have found that some closely related couples actually do better than distant relatives in terms of the number of children they manage to raise. This trend is certainly unexpected and the big question is whether it is the result of biology or money.
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I wrote a Lanczos eigenvalue solver for my large sparse symmetric matrices. After some step in the algorithm, I have to solve some reduced symmetric dense generalized eigenvalue problems.
I have some problems using Lapack driver routine dsygvd if I use this routine I can find the eigenvalues correctly but my eigenvectors are not right. I guess with the driver routines I do not need a backtransformation so they give the eigenvectors of the original problem.
I am calling the Lapack routines from C++. Now the problem is that if I use the code for a symmetric problem example as given in the NAG example pages. It works correctly. However, my matrices are not that simple as given in the examples of NAG. Let me rephrase, now due to the theory of the Lanczos computations,
AX = lambda BX
is reduced to a matrix pairs, A' and B' on the reduced problem level, so I have a reduced problem as such
A'z = lambda' B' z
where A' is in theory an identity matrix and B' is a symmetric tridiagonal of reduced dimensions depending on the size of the projection basis used to generate A' or B'.
Numerically, A' and B' have off-diagonal terms of very small orders, 1e-16 or smaller, using dsygvd here runs into problems with the eigenvector computation however eigenvalues are correct. I also tried to zero out these small entries but that did not help. I am now suspecting if I am using the routines correctly or not?
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WWDC The iPhone's ascent as a full-fledged development environment was in evidence Tuesday night when the 2009 Apple Design Awards were announced at the company's annual Worldwide Developers Conference.
Since they were instituted in 1997 as the Human Interface Design Excellence Awards - and nicknamed the Heidi's - the Apple Design Awards have been an annual exercise and a good way to gauge the focus of the Apple Developer community. In 2007, for example, iPhone apps were still a twinkle in Steve Jobs' eye - and a subway-scheduling dashboard widget named The BART Widget was among the winners.
Does anyone code widgets anymore? Thought not.
Last year, awards were handed out to two iPhone web apps created using Apple's original - and highly restrictive - iPhone web-centric development scheme. At the same event, however, iPhone Developer Showcase awards were also bestowed on a handful of full-fledged but unreleased iPhone apps - unreleased because the 2008 awards event was held in June and the iTunes App Store didn't launch until July.
This year the success of the iPhone Developer Program was celebrated - there were, for example, more iPhone awards than Mac OS X awards: six to five. The reason for the award inflation is simple: last year a mere 1,700 iPhone web apps existed. This year there are more than 50,000 apps in the iTunes apps store. For the iPhone, it's been a hell of a year - and the latest Apple Design Awards event put an exclamation mark after that inarguable statement.
In past years, awards were handed out in specific categories - best game, best developer tool, best scientific computing solution, and the like. This year, that scheme was dropped, and the winners were simply grouped into "showcases," with the exception of the student winners and one as-yet-unreleased iPhone app.
iPhone awards
iPhone Developer Showcase:
- MLB at Bat 2009 1.0.1 - MLB.com
An impressive array of deep-tech capabilities was used to create this baseball-lover's delight from a deep-pockets developer.
- Postage 1.0 - Rogue Sheep
An attractive, easy-to-use interface distinguishes this straightforward design-an-online-postcard-and-mail-it app.
- Topple 2 1.1 - ngmoco:)
The iPhone's accelerometer is used to good effect in this Blockhead deriviative for casual gamers.
- Tweetie 1.3.1 - atebits
If you really must tweet, here's an elegantly interfaced way to keep up with your twittering friends and colleagues
Best iPhone Student App:
- Wooden Labyrinth 3D 1.2.1 (iTunes link) - Elias Pietil
There are a ton of roll-the-ball games available on the iPhone, but this student-written example has one of the most-refined interfaces.
Best iPhone OS 3.0 Beta App:
- AccuTerra 1.0.0 beta - AccuTerra
This hiking and biking route-finder and experience-sharer exploits iPhone 3.0 technologies such as in-app payments and push notification.
Mac OS X awards
Mac OS X Leopard Developer Showcase:
- Billings 3.0.5 - Marketcircle
Lots of apps help small businesses manage their time and billings, but few offer such a broad array of options and attractive invoice templates.
- BoinxTV 1.3 - Boinx Software
The developers of this "TV sudio on your Mac" used an impressive array of Leopard componets to wring tons of performance and functionality out of that OS.
- Things 1.1 - Cultured Code
Simple and easy-to-use are the ways to go for personal task managers, and this app's developers built their feature-full, AppleScriptable offering with that in mind.
- Versions 1.0.3 - Sofa
The Subversion open-source version control system is insanely useful but a total bee-atch to use. Versions puts a clean Mac GUI between developers and Subversion.
Best Mac OS X Student Product:
- Fontcase v1.1.3 - Pieter Omvlee
This insanely comprehensive and easy-to-use font manager was created by a single Dutch student. Hire him the first chance you get.
That's this year's crop of Apple Design Award winners. Expect next year's Apple judges to put the spotlight on developers who exploit the capabilities of the iPhone 3G S and iPhone Software 3.0, plus new technologies in Mac OS X Snow Leopard such as Grand Central Dispatch and OpenCL.
Or, it's just possible that a new category of awards will open up, focused on software written for the long-rumored Apple tablet/netbook/media-pad/ebook/whatever. ®


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Fed stays on hold but sets up December hike
Fed stays on hold but sets up December hike
As had been widely expected, the US Federal Reserve (Fed) left interest rates unchanged at Wednesday's meeting. However, the US central bank is paving the way for a rate rise in December.
In the accompanying statement they said "The Committee judges that the case for an increase in the federal funds rate has strengthened but decided, for the time being, to wait for further evidence of continued progress toward its objectives." They also noted that the inflation rate was on track to reach 2% and that near term risks were "balanced". There were three members who dissented in favour of higher rates.
In its projections the Fed downgraded its growth forecasts and has cut potential growth. In line with these moves, the Fed's view of the neutral rate has also come down from 3% in June to 2.875%.
Against a backdrop of firming activity and a steady rise in inflation we should be on track for a December rate rise of 25 basis points. However, this call could be derailed by the presidential election on 8 November, or even the Italian referendum later that same month.
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In for example English, words are read with tiny spaces (pauses) between them, at least that could be done. Is it true that in Qur'aan recitation those tiny spaces are omitted, so that words are read in continuum?
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We are not linguistic specialists, so can only answer on our limited knowledge as to the linguistic part of the question.
There are specific timings for the saakin letters and voweled letters in the recitation of the Qur'an, so there is a continuous flow of sound within a section being read with one breath.
In reading English, sometimes there is a continuous flow of sound (there are idghaamaat between two words in some cases etc), and other times when there is a slight space, and still other times there are pauses. This being said, it is difficult to compare reading a book or paper in English with reading/reciting the Holy Qur'an.
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Beyond the convention center filled with glistening hearses, beyond the rows of perfectly arranged caskets and bottles of embalming fluid, funeral directors await perhaps their greatest windfall ever: The death of the baby boom generation.
For thousands of professionals gathered here at the National Funeral Directors Association convention, the current economic slump does nothing to dampen longer-term hopes pinned to the projected rise of the U.S. death rate as the cohort born between 1946 and 1964 passes away.
Though dipping slightly over the last several years, and expected to be stagnant for several more, the death rate of about 8.1 per 1,000 people is expected to inch significantly upward sometime in the next decade and eventually go as high as 10.9. The exact dates are tough to pinpoint because of the size of the generation and medical advances.
Experts say the mortality rate is the greatest single predictor of the industry's business, estimated at about $11 billion annually at funeral homes alone. So bottom lines are likely to bulge.
"It sounds kind of morbid, but they are looking at boom times," said Tara Olson, the owner of AllPoints Research, a marketing research firm that has worked with funeral homes to develop business plans. "They're just sort of waiting for the baby boomers to start dying off."
Because of the high startup costs of getting into the business, the surge of customers is expected to be served by roughly the same number of funeral homes as now. Dan Isard, whose Phoenix-based The Foresight Cos. consults with funeral homes, says he expects the average funeral home to go from serving 120 families a year to 165, before the death rate drops off again around 2040.
"It's a good thing," he said, "but how much of a boom it's going to be is open to conjecture."
Isard and others note cremations, which generally cost less than burials, and questions about what else boomers will want could mean the amount spent on each service goes down. And it is possible that some families may turn to event planners to take care of funeral arrangements and just use funeral directors for essentials such as transporting and embalming the body.
"Other than the fatality, what's the difference between a wedding and a funeral?" he asked.
To that end, funeral directors say they try to set themselves apart with caring touches and a willingness to accommodate any type of memorial a person wants, made easier by the endless parade of products on display at the convention.
There are New York Yankees caskets with pin-striped interiors, wicker caskets for the eco-conscious, caskets for firefighters and Star Trek fans, even caskets with digital photo displays on the inside cover. Urns are disguised as marble lamps, wall paintings and Gund teddy bears. They are fashioned in the shape of Buddha, made of rock salt or paper to dissolve in the sea, even sold as small aluminum cylinders that fit in the stock of a rifle.
Some in the industry fear they will not have adequate staffing to meet increased demand, but they are trying to attract those seeking second careers and to change licensing laws.
They say economic woes are being felt now, but not nearly as bad as in other businesses. Funeral directors say they have had to absorb some price increases and that some customers have cut back by not using a limousine or by buying a less expensive casket. But there has not been a drastic change, and they are not expecting one.
For now, funeral directors milled the floors of the convention center here, in a surreal world where people in Snow White and Tinkerbell costumes hand out flyers for a funeral webcasting company and a marching band performs near a display of tiny caskets for children.
Chocolates come in the shape of coffins, boxer shorts have jokes about cremation, and giveaway calendars devote months to products such as JaundiBalm ("Toughest against jaundice!") Excitement builds around the most mundane products.
Some convention-goers tested out a device used to lift corpses by being lowered into a coffin, then back unto a table.
"Best thing ever invented," one exclaimed.
The funeral industry is waiting for boomers' final purchases
Beyond the convention center filled with glistening hearses, beyond the rows of perfectly arranged caskets and bottles of embalming fluid, funeral directors await perhaps their greatest windfall ever: The death of the baby boom generation.


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The first episode of Duane's World Season II is out. This special two part episode covers Adobe MAX in Milan, Italy and San Francisco (will be featured in part 2) plus interviews with Redmonk founder James Governor. Code and Tunes features tutorial on how to use BlazeDS to build a 3 tier architecture and invoke services using AMF from a Flex front end.
The interview with James is very cool as he is very modest about Redmonk's accomplishments. Redmonk has been voted a major force in the IT industry and has re-written a lot of the rules of how the analyst industry works in IT.


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How it works:
1. Phone: Start BankID on your phone. The program will say that it's waiting for a connection.
2. Computer: You go to your bank/government service web page, select Mobile BankID, then type in your 'person nummer' (like SSN).
3. Phone: BankID on your phone will then prompt you for your PIN.
4. Computer: You're logged in.
It's all happening over the internet. Sure, it might not work if you change SIM, for example, but at least it's not telephony based.
Best of all, I could get an activation code for mobile bankid using the win 7 bankid instance I set up in http://verahill.blogspot.com.au/2014/11/602-surviving-bankid-rant-moving-nge.html and now I never have to use it again.
[if you're on linux and in Scandinavia, just install mobile bankid on your phone or on android in a vm]
So, if you're on linux and you've been using the official bankid application and you happen to be a couple of continents removed from Scandinavia follow this post which basically does the following:
1. Install ubuntu 10.04 LTS in a VM
2. Install bankid 4.19.XXXX or earlier in the ubuntu VM
3. Copy your ~/.personal from your regular linux computer to the ubuntu VM
4. export your key using persadm export to a USB stick
5. Install windows 7 in a VM using the free, legal isos and the free, legal installation key. The copy will expire after 30 days (but will still continue working).
6. Install bankid in the Win 7 VM
7. Under File/Preferences in bankid add the directory on your USB stick with the exported bankid key
8. Log in to your BankID issuer (probably your bank) using bankid 'on file', and request a mobile bankid. You'll get an activation code
9. Install the bankid app on your phone (e.g. bankid from the play store on android)
10. Start the bankid app on your phone, and type in your personnummer and the activation code. Create a pin, which is your password
11. You're done.
I mean, sure, it's a very awkward way of going about it, but it works and is conceptually simple.
Android in a VM
And there's absolutely no reason you can't use mobile bankid it in a virtualbox VM if you want to -- I used an android 4.4 x86 iso and created a virtual machine, and then set up bankid which works fine.


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Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Indomitable Spirits: Prohibition in the United States online exhibit
Friday brought the launch of the much-anticipated Digital Public Library of America (DPLA). Digital objects from a number of repositories across the country, including the University of Kentucky Special Collections, are now searchable via a single portal. DP.LA also hosts several exhibits featuring materials from the six service hubs. Topics include activism, the Great Depression and New Deal, and national parks. University of Kentucky Libraries faculty and staff collaborated on Indomitable Spirits: Prohibition in the United States, which spotlights images, documents, oral histories, and newspapers from UK Special Collections.
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I really wanted to write a Leap Year post for today. I have been thinking about what to write for weeks now but I have to admit – I was stumped. What does February 29, that once-every-four-years occasion, mean in culinary terms?
My first thought was to write about frogs. I have a bit of interesting history with frogs. When I was a girl I lived in a house near a pond. My Dad and I would sometimes go fishing for bluegills there. There were also snapping turtles and frogs that lived in the pond and in spring there were many tadpoles. Sometimes we would bring a tadpole home. It was fascinating to watch it sprout legs, then slowly loose it's big tail so that it could leap between the water and the land.
Every once in a great while, on a warm summer evening, someone around our house would get the idea to go back to the pond and hunt frogs. It was an antic episode, full of adventure. When we got home my Dad would clean the frogs we caught. I remember how he would skin them, peeling off their green pajamas and laying the white fleshy legs with their long bony toes to the side. Then he would trim off their feet before dredging them in flour or cornmeal seasoned with salt and pepper, and fry them in his big cast iron skillet.
The Magic of Salt
Even more memorable was the way he once entertained me and my girl friends with a trick that he knew. He showed us the plate with the feet from the frogs he had fried, then he sprinkled salt across the feet and delighted in the shrieks and laughter when the long toes began to dance! Somehow salt does that. Then he offered samples of the frog legs he had fried. He had few takers but I tried them. They were good!
I could fry some frog legs today, in honor of leap year, if I knew where to get any in this part of the country. I don't. So I looked for other recipes that related to frogs. I found a cute sherbet frog and instructions on making frog rolls. I found a recipe for Frog Eye Salad which sounded like fun but I couldn't find the Acini de Pepe, and I found a recipe for Chocolate Frogs but too late to run out for dried apricots. What to do?
A Matter of Time
I thought some more. What is the significance of February 29? The Writer's Almanac tells me that it exists because of the need to fix a problem with the Julian calendar. A new system, the Gregorian calendar, was developed that added one day every fourth year, at the end of February, to keep the calendar in tune with the actual length of a solar year. So it seems the significance of leap year is actually time, and what could be more fitting for My Own Sweet Thyme than a post about time/thyme?
First, I want to say what an amazing gift an extra 24 hours is! Think about it. We do without this 24 hour period, this extra day in the month of February, three out of four years. So, in a sense it is an extra day in our ordered lives, a day for catching up. It also seems appropriate that it should be a day about making amends for our silly mistakes, like miscalculating the solar year, and for patching up the things that all of our best laid plans fail to account for.
And while we think about that, let's have a cup of tea. This is an herbal tea made from honey and...well...thyme! It is adapted from a recipe at The Herbal Touch. And wouldn't it go great with a batch of Thyme, Hazelnut and Lemon Cookies?
Lemon Thyme Lift
1 cup water
1/2 teaspoon fresh lemon thyme leaves
1/2 teaspoon honey
1 small slice of lemon or a pinch of lemon zest (optional)
Boil the water. Remove it from the heat. Add the lemon thyme leaves and allow to steep for several minutes.
Strain if desired. Add the honey and stir.
Pour into cups and garnish with lemon slices or zest if desired. Sip and Enjoy!


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The Cubs minor leagues on Wednesday, June 27.
The Cubs scored three in the fourth and two more in the fifth to beat the Angels 5-4 on Wednesday. Trey Martin went 3-for-5 with a triple and a run scored. Bijan Rademacher had two hits and a run scored. David Bote hit his first home run of the season and had three RBI's. Dan Vogelbach had another hit and also had a walk. Brian Smith got the start pitching four innings and giving up one run. Arturo Maltos-Garcia was not that good, but got the win in relief. Michael Heesch recorded his first save of the season striking out two batters in one inning of work.
Spokane scored five unearned runs in the second which proved to be more than enough as they beat Boise 6-2 on Wednesday. Taylor Scott gave up give runs, all of which were unearned on six hits in 3.1 innings. Joseph Zeller pitched 3.2 innings in relief giving up one run and striking out two. Marco Hernandez and Shawon Dunston Jr. had two hits a piece and Hernandez had an RBI. Lance Rymel had the other Boise RBI on the night. The Hawks record now stands at 4-9.
Jose Rosario and the Peoria Chiefs to the loss on Wednesday. Rosario gave up three runs in five innings of work. At the plate Dustin Geiger went 2-for-4 with a run scored. Paul Hoilman had a double and RBI. Zeke DeVoss, Anthony Giansanti, Yasiel Balaguert, and Oliver Zapata all had hits and Giansanti drove in a run. Although they lost the Chiefs got some good news as Javier Baez played in his first game since having to leave early on Sunday.
Daytona pounded out 17 hits as they beat St. Lucie 12-1. The Cubs got a huge night from Greg Rohan who went 5-for-5 with two doubles, two runs scored, and two RBI's. He now has 63. The Cubs also had a nice day from Matt Szczur who was 3-for-6 with a double, two runs scored and a grand slam. Ronald Torreyes and Arismendy Alcantara each had two hits and each drove in a run. Rubi Silva, Rebel Ridling, and John Andreoli all had RBI's. Daytona's pitching was also very good on Wednesday. Austin Kirk earned his fourth win of the season pitching six scoreless innings while striking out six. Eduardo Figueroa pitched three innings in relief to record his second save of the season.
Not much good came out of Wednesday for Tennessee. They lost 11-0 giving up 21 hits while only recording three hits. Dae-Eun Rhee got the loss tossing four innings giving up six runs on seven hits. Casey Harman was not much better in relief giving up four runs on an unbelievable ten hits in only 2.2 innings. Logan Watkins, James Adduci, and Michael Burgess had the only three hits the Smokies would have on Wednesday. Not much more to say about this one, it was just a bad game.
Iowa gave up at least one run in each of the first six innings played. Josh Vtters had another good day going 2-for-4 at the plate with a double, triple, two runs score, and one RBI. Matt Tolbert, Dave Sappelt, and Diory Hernandez all had two hits a piece. Ty Wright had three RBI's and Adrian Cardenas added an RBI of his own on Wednesday. Chris Rusin gave up eight runs on eight hits in four innings to drop his record to 6-6. Alberto Cabrera did not fair much better giving up two runs in two innings. Mike MacDougal, Jeff Beliveau, and Esmailin Caridad all pitched scoreless innings for Iowa in the game.
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