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Two years ago, as a sophomore, Thomas More Prep-Marian's Cameron Fouts spent the football season playing on the offensive and defensive lines. Eventually his athleticism led to him being moved to tight end as a junior. He wasn't used as a legitimate receiving threat throughout most of the season, but as a sixth blocker on the edge.
And as the senior enters the 2014 season, his role is going to change again. Standing near to 6-foot-1 and weighing 190 pounds, the former offensive lineman has emerged as one of TMP's top receiving threats, with soft hands and enough speed to make one question why he was ever put on the line to begin with.
"He's a tremendous athlete," senior running back Nick Schmidt said. "To go from tight end to slot or wide receiver, it seems like a big jump, but for him it's the same speed he's been going. His hands are there. The routes are a little bit different but he picked up on that the first two days. So it's like he's been doing that for a year or two already."
As Fouts played through his junior year -- �a second consecutive 2-7 campaign for the Monarchs -- �he developed aspirations of adding 15-20 pounds on his frame to continue evolving as a tight end. Instead of adding weight, the end result proved to be a lean and deceptively fast athlete the coaching staff saw as a viable option to replace key graduates at wide receiver, especially the 6-foot-4, 195-pound Ryan Mayorga.
"They felt that with my speed development that I was able to make the transition to wide receiver," Fouts said. "It will take some time to get used to the position. It's more finesse than the aggressive tight end where you are down in the trenches a lot more. But I think with the work I've been putting in this season I am making the transition pretty well."
Fouts, who also plays basketball and was the spring's Class 3A runner-up at state in the javelin, ran with the middle tier athletes during sprints at practice last season. This fall he has been running with the skill position athletes and is usually the first player back to the starting line.
He may not shatter records on the track, but on a football field Fouts is proving to possess a rare combination of size, strength and pure speed.
"Fouts is a unique athlete for us," TMP offensive coordinator James Harris said. "He's a kid we can put in multiple different formations, multiple different positions in different formations and utilize him in different ways. He has great hands. He's quick. He's elusive. He has all the skills you want in a skill player, and we want to be able to utilize those skills in every way possible."
Another important factor in Fouts' move from tight end to receiver was the maturation of junior Justin Pfeifer. At 6-foot-3 and 185 pounds, Pfeifer spent most of his sophomore season just as Fouts did -- �on the offensive line. And, much like Fouts, his athleticism didn't go unnoticed by the Monarch coaches, who felt comfortable enough with him at tight end to send Fouts out wide.
Joining Fouts at receiver will be 5-foot-11 junior Jared Schumacher, 6-foot-1 junior Chase Romme and 5-foot-7 sophomore Tucker Rhoades. Backup junior running back T.J. Flax could also line up outside.
"With Pfeifer's development and showing us that we can count on him in a down to down basis, down in and down out, it really allowed us to do some unique things with getting more athletes out in space and in position to carry the ball," TMP third-year head coach John Montgomery said.
"First of all, it's difficult to replace a Ryan Mayorga. That's a tough position to fill. But absolutely we can look at the development of a Jared Schumacher. We can look at the competitiveness of Tucker Rhoades and his desire to get better every day. Then when you throw Fouts into the mix, it gives us some good options out there on the edge. I think it will cause some problems for defenses."
For Fouts, who also starts at linebacker and was named one of the team's captains for the 2014 season, it will be an opportunity to spend more time in the spotlight, something the soft-spoken leader hasn't been keen to seek out.
Nonetheless, after years of blocking for others, it could be Fouts' turn to be on the frequent receiving end -- literally -- �of the splendor that comes with scoring a touchdown under the Friday night lights.
"It gives me more opportunities to get out in space and get open so that I can get the ball more," Fouts said.
"It's something I've been working hard at this offseason so I can catch up to the people that are experienced at wide receiver. I think it will help a lot."


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I went up for an altar call in the Friday morning meeting. I have had a lifelong diagnosis of scoliosis, a 45-degree curve. I experienced a remarkable lessening of the twist of the spine. My right arm started tingling, and a big bulge visible on the top of my spine has shrunk visibly as testified by my mother. I will pursue a doctor's examination.


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Museum of American Finance
Looking northeast from Wall Street toward the museum.
|1988 (as the Museum of American Financial History)
|48 Wall Street
New York City, New York, United States
|40°42′23″N 74°00′33″W / 40.70639°N 74.00917°WCoordinates: 40°42′23″N 74°00′33″W / 40.70639°N 74.00917°W
|Finance museum; Smithsonian Institution affiliate
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The Museum of American Finance is the United States's only independent public museum dedicated to preserving, exhibiting and teaching about American finance and financial history. Located in the Financial District in Manhattan, New York City it is an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution.[1] It is a tax-exempt 501(c) 3 organization chartered by the Board of Regents of the New York State Department of Education.[citation needed] With education at the core of its mission, it is an active national-level advocate on behalf of financial literacy.
The museum was founded in 1988 as the Museum of American Financial History but was renamed the Museum of American Finance in 2005.[2] Until December 2006, it was located at 26 Broadway. On January 11, 2008, the Museum opened in a new location at 48 Wall Street,[3] the former headquarters of The Bank of New York.[4]
Financial education[edit]
In 2010, the Museum founded its Center for Financial Education, which offers classroom programs for students in grades kindergarten through masters of business administration (MBA) in addition to its tour programs.[citation needed] In 2011, it launched the Museum Finance Academy (MFA), an eight-week after school personal finance program open to high school juniors and seniors. In 2011–2013, the Museum partnered with Junior Achievement to offer its "Finance Park" program within the Center for Financial Education.[5]
Collections and exhibitions[edit]
As part of its mission to document US financial history, the Museum actively collects documents and artifacts related to the financial markets, money and banking.[citation needed] Its world-class collection includes more than 10,000 stocks, bonds, prints, engravings, photographs, bank notes, checks and books.
Permanent exhibitions focus on the financial markets, money, banking, entrepreneurship and Alexander Hamilton. Recent[when?] temporary exhibitions include "Barings in America: An Interactive Investment Experience" (December 2012 – April 2013),[6] "Checks & Balances: Presidents and American Finance" (November 2011 – March 2013),[7] "Tracking the Credit Crisis" (ongoing since 2009);[8][9] "Alexander Hamilton: Lineage and Legacy" (April 2011 – March 2012);[10] "Scandal! Financial Crime Chicanery and Corruption That Rocked America" (2010–11)[11][12] and "Women of Wall Street" (2009–10).[13]
The exhibit "Alexander Hamilton: Indispensable Founder and Visionary" had its grand opening at the Museum of American Finance in New York City on October 29, 2014. Former Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner cut the ribbon to open the exhibit, which is located in the Hamilton room in the museum. The exhibit was co-curated by John Herzog, Founder of the Museum of American Finance, and Mariana Oller, the Chair of the Alexander Hamilton Awareness Society.This exhibit was created to commemorate the 225th anniversary of Alexander Hamilton becoming the first Secretary of the Treasury that year. The exhibit is currently one of the main attractions of the Museum, and features rare objects associated with Alexander Hamilton and his financial programs.[14]
Programs and events[edit]
Prominent speakers from across the financial industry participate in the Museum's Financial History and Practices Lecture/Symposia Series, with subject matter ranging from discussions of current financial practices to observations on significant events and individuals in America's financial history. Speakers have included John Bogle, Sallie Krawcheck,[15] David Walker, Abby Joseph Cohen, Henry Kaufman, Niall Ferguson and Neil Barofsky.[16]
Other programs include the Lunch and Learn Series, which features talks, demonstrations and presentations during lunchtime, as well as walking tours and film screenings. The Museum's annual gala honors an individual with the Whitehead Award for Distinguished Public Service and Financial Leadership, which is named after former Deputy Secretary of State and co-chair of Goldman Sachs John C. Whitehead. Honorees have included Paul Volcker,[17] Pete Peterson,[18] William Donaldson,[19] Felix Rohatyn[20] and William Harrison, Jr.[21]
Since 2012, the Museum of American Finance has partnered with the Alexander Hamilton Awareness Society co-hosting several events of the yearly CelebrateHAMILTON and Happy Birthday Hamilton! programs in July and January. Events included "The Essence of Alexander Hamilton's Greatness" by AHA Society founder, Rand Scholet,[22] Hamilton vs. Jefferson historical interpreters "Debate",[23] "Conversation with the Curators" with John Herzog, founder of the Museum of American Finance and Mariana Oller, Chair of the Alexander Hamilton Awareness Society on the process of collecting original Hamilton documents and then creating the "Alexander Hamilton: Indispensable Founder and Visionary" exhibit with them,[24] the "New Discoveries in the life of Alexander Hamilton" Talk by Author and Historian Michael E. Newton,[25] and the presentation of his new book "Alexander Hamilton - The Formative Years".[26][27]
The Museum also regularly publishes on subjects pertaining to the history of finance. Its quarterly magazine, Financial History, reaches members in 50 US states and 20 other countries. The magazine publishes vetted articles by financial historians and journalists on historically significant events and individuals and other related topics in the world of finance.[28] In 2011, the Museum commemorated the 100th issue of Financial History with a full-color double edition.[citation needed] The Museum also publishes books and catalogs including, most recently, The Revolutionary Beginning of the American Stock Market, which features many of the documents in the "America's First IPO" exhibit.
Intellectual leadership[edit]
In 1987, John E. Herzog, then CEO of Herzog Heine Geduld, Inc., established the Museum in response to the stock market crash of that year.[29][30] He provided the bulk of the institution's early leadership and is now chairman and trustee emeritus.[31] The Museum's intellectual leadership is currently provided by eminent financial historians, including board trustee Niall Ferguson,[32] Chairman of the Board Richard E. Sylla,[33] President and CEO David Cowen,[34] and Financial History magazine editorial board member Robert E. Wright.[35]
See also[edit]
- Culture of New York City
- History of New York City
- List of museums and cultural institutions in New York City
- List of museums in New York
- ^ "Smithsonian Affiliates: M". Smithonian Affiliations. Smithsonian Institution. Archived from the original on June 25, 2006. Retrieved September 2, 2014. External link in
- ^ "History". Museum of American Finance. Retrieved September 2, 2014.
- ^ "Where the Capitalism is (Always on Display)". New York Times. February 2, 2008.
- ^ Press release (November 28, 2005). "Museum of American Finance Moving to Wall Street – 30,000 Sq. Ft. Museum Will Be Financial District Visitors Center" (PDF format). Museum of American Finance. Archived from the original on October 11, 2011. Retrieved January 26, 2007.
- ^ "ABC7 Eyewitness News – WABC-TV New York". ABC7 New York. Retrieved November 2, 2014.
- ^ "The British Bank That Forever Altered the U.S. Economy". BloombergView.com. Retrieved November 2, 2014.
- ^ Mark Yost (December 14, 2011). "Checks & Balances – Museum of American Finance – Of Debt and Taxes – By Mark Yost – WSJ". WSJ. Retrieved November 2, 2014.
- ^ "Credit Crisis is a Big Draw for Finance Museum", The New York Times, August 21, 2009.
- ^ Mark Jenkins (October 4, 2012). "Mid-Atlantic offers a wealth of museum exhibits". Washington Post.
- ^ "Meet Alexander Hamilton, founder of U.S. financial system". Retrieved November 2, 2014.
- ^ "Wall Street scandals on display". Reuters. Retrieved November 2, 2014.
- ^ "Of Scoundrels and Scandals", The New York Times, July 18, 2010
- ^ "Museum Celebrates the Women of Wall Street,", The New York Times, June 4, 2009.
- ^ "On Exhibition - "Alexander Hamilton: Indispensable Founder and Visionary"". www.theAHAsociety.com. Retrieved October 29, 2014.
- ^ "Sallie Krawcheck: the big job she didn't take". Fortune. Retrieved November 2, 2014.
- ^ Brian Browdie (October 26, 2012). "Big Banks' Hold on Regulators Must Be Broken: Barofsky". American Banker.
- ^ "UPDATE 2-Obama adviser Volcker: this crisis is different". Reuters. Retrieved November 2, 2014.
- ^ Patrick Cole (January 11, 2011). "Blackstone's Peterson Warns About U.S. Debt After Winning Award". Bloomberg L.P. Retrieved November 2, 2014.
- ^ "Obama Adviser Donaldson to Receive John Whitehead Award at Gala". Retrieved November 2, 2014.
- ^ Amanda Gordon (January 23, 2012). "Scene Last Night: Rohatyn, Whitehead, Martin Lipton". Bloomberg L.P. Retrieved November 2, 2014.
- ^ "Wall Street's Elite, Including Ina Drew, Honors JPMorgan's Former Leader". The New York Times Deal Book, January 9, 2013.
- ^ Museum of American Finance. "Rand Scholet on "The Essence of Alexander Hamilton's Greatness"". www.MoAF.org. Retrieved July 12, 2012.
- ^ Museum of American Finance. "Hamilton vs. Jefferson Debate Featuring William G. Chrystal". www.MoAF.org. Retrieved July 11, 2013.
- ^ Scholet, Nicole. "Conversation with the Curators". www.theAHAsociety.com. Retrieved January 9, 2015.
- ^ CelebrateHAMILTON, The AHA Society & Museum of American Finance. "Alexander Hamilton scholar Michael E. Newton presented "New Discoveries in the Life of Alexander Hamilton". www.MoAF.org. Retrieved July 14, 2014.
- ^ Museum of American Finance Events. "Michael Newton on "Alexander Hamilton: The Formative Years"". www.moaf.org. Retrieved July 10, 2015.
- ^ Newton, Michael E. (July 1, 2015). Alexander Hamilton: The Formative Years (Hardcover ed.). Eleftheria Publishing. p. 774. ISBN 0982604033.
- ^ Petito, Katie. "Museum of American Finance: New Name, New Location" (PDF). dndco.com.
- ^ http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=9871274&privcapId=50258218&previousCapId=3701492&previousTitle=OneLink Corporation
- ^ "Topics: People: R Rockefeller, John D." October 25, 1998. Retrieved November 2, 2014.
- ^ Museum of American Finance. "Museum of American Finance Founder John E. Herzog Retires From Board". GlobeNewswire News Room. Retrieved November 1, 2014.
- ^ http://www.smu.edu/TateSeries/LectureSchedule/2012-2013/FergusonNiall Archived November 18, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Dr. Richard Sylla Elected Chairman of Museum of American Finance". Retrieved November 1, 2014.
- ^ Nathaniel Popper, "At Wall Street Museum, Financial Crisis Staged a Takeover," Los Angeles Times (October 29, 2010). http://articles.latimes.com/2010/oct/29/business/la-fi-finance-museum-20101029
- ^ "Dr. Robert E. Wright". Retrieved November 1, 2014.
External links[edit]
- Media related to Museum of American Finance at Wikimedia Commons
- Official website
- 1988 establishments in New York (state)
- Finance in the United States
- History museums in New York City
- Museums established in 1988
- Museums in Manhattan
- Museums of economics
- Numismatic museums in the United States
- Smithsonian Institution affiliates
- Financial District, Manhattan
- Financial history of the United States


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The finale of this season's "MasterChef" is finally here. The two-hour instalment, consisting of episodes 17 and 18, depict the three finalists, Brandi Mudd, Saun O'Neale and David Williams, as they struggle to produce their finest dishes in the kitchen. In what seems like a long and arduous battle, the home-cooks from various parts of America present an appetiser, an entrée and a dessert to the judges.
To be sure, the Season 7 finale of "MasterChef" is determined by judges Christina Tosi, Chef Gordon Ramsay and Chef Wolfgang Puck. The American celebrity chef makes his way to the MasterChef kitchen after appearing in the Season 7 premiere.
This year, the format appears to be slightly different. In the first part of the finale, the home-cooks get 60 minutes to make an appetiser. After this, they get the same amount of time to prepare their entrée and their dessert.
While the three finalists have a mature palette and have produced distinctive dishes throughout the competition, it remains to be seen who will take home the MasterChef trophy.
So far, Brandi's food has impressed the judges the most. The 27-year-old contestant from Kentucky has produced dishes that have been comforting, hearty and carry soul. However, she faces tough competition from the other two finalists, David and Shaun.
Among the three, Shaun is definitely a fan-favourite. The 33-year-old contestant from Las Vegas has been one of the toughest competitors in Season 7. His sophisticated take on dishes has been an inspiration and in many ways, Shaun seems to embody the traits judges look for in a "MasterChef." However, David's technique is strong as well and the battle between these two men could get intense.
Who do you think will win? Let us know in the comment section.
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Text editors, whether they're desktop apps like Word or Notepad or online apps like Google Docs are for writing simple text. MS Word supports writing subscripts and superscripts and text that's been struck out but that is as far as it goes. Strictly speaking from a productivity and effective communication point of view, all you really need is to write simple text, at the most you will need to underline it. If what you're writing isn't meant to serve a productivity related function, and you're just looking for fun ways to write text then your regular text editor won't do the trick. Here's a list of websites that you can use to quickly generate strike-through, upside-down, small subscript, and very wide spaced text.
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On a comparative basis, households in Ontario's lowest income bracket (the fifth quintile) rely much more heavily on electricity at home than do high-income earners.
While the provincial average for households using electricity for heat is only 14%, within the fifth quintile the figure is almost 27%. Similarly, 42.8% of the lowest income households have electric water heaters, compared to a provincial average of 28.6% and only 19.7% for those in the first quintile.[1]
Hence, the logic of targeted assistance, as advocated for by the Low-Income Energy Network (LIEN), says Mary Todorow.
The Ontario Electricity Support Program (OESP), a direct on-bill rate subsidy, is expected to lower participant's bills by 10%. Those approved can expect a monthly credit ranging from CDN 45 to CDN 75, with the lower rate applied to anyone in who qualifies under Canada's Low-Income Measure (LIM) category. The higher level of support is awarded to households that are electrically heated, have a large number of residents, or use two or more electric medical devices.
A primary aim of the subsidy is to improve payment patterns and reduce disconnections of electricity service (which are costly and inconvenient for both customers and utility companies).
People who self-identify as First Nations can also qualify for the higher level of support. The Ontario Native Welfare Administrators Association (ONWAA) is helping people in First Nations communities apply for the OESP and says efforts look promising. In the first four months, they have reached a 10.5% participation rate.
LIEN and other poverty advocacy groups also successfully lobbied for emergency measures for both electricity and natural gas customers. The Low Income Energy Assistance Program (LEAP) includes three components;
- emergency financial assistance when they face a crisis and cannot pay their bill and face disconnection;
- mandated customer protection service rules for utilities that provide more flexibility for low-income customers; and
- targeted conservation and demand management programs such as theHome Assistance and Aboriginal Conservation programs that provide free energy upgrades and services.
Low- and middle-income individuals and families in the North can also apply for a refundable tax credit called the Northern Ontario Energy Credit (NOEC), which ranges between CDN 126 and CDN 224 per year.
Ms. Todorow points out that the Ministry of Energy public accounts for the fiscal year 2014/15 report a payout of CDN 24.3 million on the NOEC.
Will such measures make a difference for those dealing with high and extremely high monthly energy bills? It is not clear yet, says Ms. Todorow, but monitoring and evaluation are built into the programs. The low-income conservation programs (like the ACP), which will be available again later this year, are currently under review. The OESP will be reviewed within three to five years.
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One topic that comes up fairly often is why photography costs as much as it does. I'm going to attempt to break it down here and hopefully give you the information that will help you more fully understand the answer to that question. These figures are average and will vary from one photographer to another. Also, keep in mind that a single unmarried photographer will probably have a lower cost of living than one supporting a family of five. Individual differences between photographers such as this, among others, does impact what a photographers needs to charge to survive.
Let's assume the photographer lists a price of $2700.00 for 10 hours of coverage, an engagement session, a book of 500 proof prints and a 30-page coffee table album.
Out of that $2700.00 you need to consider the photographers expenses. First, there are the annual expenses that take a part of each weddings income. Among those expenses would be insurance, advertising, updates and maintenance of their website and sample albums, advertising, accounting and legal expenses, repair or replacement or upgrading of very expensive cameras and computers, continued education, wear and tear on their automobile, and for some...studio rent, electric and telephone. All this may come to $300.00 per wedding.
Next, there are the fixed expenses for each wedding. Include in this figure...proof album and proof prints, consumables such as DVD's or CD's, and the cost of the coffee table book. This figure may come to $800.00.
After these expenses, the photographer is left with $1600.00. Federal, state and local taxes, social security and payroll taxes will take, on average, 40% of that $1600.00, or $640.00. This leaves the photographer with $960.00 in earnings for photographing your wedding.
Wow, you say...a thousand bucks for a few hours work on a Saturday sure isn't bad. If it was that simple...you'd be right...it would be pretty good money. So, let's look at the time investment for each wedding.
2 hours for meetings, emails and phone calls as you interview the photographer.
3 hours for the shooting and editing of your engagement session.
12 hours on your wedding day.
10 hours to process your images, get proofs printed, etc.
10 hours designing and producing the final album.
5 hours for misc. meetings, phone calls, emails, planning sessions, trips to the lab, etc.
All this and you still need to add in the hours each week needed to run the business.
All told...a photographer invests 40-50 hours in each wedding. Also consider that the wedding photographers season in this part of the country is about 40 weeks long. There are relatively few weddings in January, February and March.
The national average income for wedding photographers is approximately $28,000.00 per year. So if it seems like wedding photographers make huge amounts of money...they do not. On average their incomes are pretty much in line with the rest of the employed public. Some make more and some make less, depending on experience, talent, the actual type of product being delivered, and overhead costs specific to that photographer.
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Addressing the annual convention of the National Association of Black Journalists, on August 4, 2011, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder highlighted the Department of Justice's recent successes, while also calling upon reporters to keep looking at deficiencies in the delivery of right to counsel services.
AG Holder was "extremely proud" the agency had "launched the landmark Access to Justice Initiative … and – at long last – reduced the unfair sentencing disparity between crack and cocaine offenses." And he attributed much recent success to the tireless reporting done by those represented in the ranks of the NABJ. "[B]y raising awareness about … deficiencies in our indigent defense system; and disparities in our sentencing policies – you've also rallied our nation's citizens and leaders – and, in many instances, our nation's Justice Department – to action." Still, AG Holder called upon journalists to keep their focus on these important issues: "you must not become complacent."
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Thursday, January 24, 2013
An Urban Bobcat
My interest in the bobcat (Lynx rufus) began in graduate school when I was taking a course in Mammalogy. One of the requirements for graduate students taking the class was to conduct a field research project on some aspect of mammal biology. Although my principal interest was memorizing the location of every freckle on the mammary system of a redhead I was married to at the time, ultimately I studied the food habits of a colony of beavers living along the South Fork of the Kinnickinnic River that ran through campus. Fellow graduate student Wayne Norling chose to attempt a population estimate of bobcats in his natal Burnett County, Wisconsin. Having grown up in northern Wisconsin I knew that there were bobcats out there somewhere however despite lots of time spent tromping though the forests of northern Wisconsin studying animal tracks I had never even seen the foot print of a bobcat. Wayne had seen them in Burnett County and his research project revealed that there were more than just a few hanging out in those primordial forests. However you couldn't prove it by me.
The first bobcat I ever saw in the wild was an adult that crossed the road in front of me just east of Carmel, Monterrey County, California, on October 29, 1980. It made a quick appearance and then like a ghost it disappeared. My second bobcat was also an adult and this one was stalking a flock of Gambel's Quail in riparian forest along the San Pedro River east of Sierra Vista, Arizona in May 1998. I obviously wan't seeing bobcats very often.
Those were the only bobcats I had seen in the wild until I moved to Florida in March 2008. In the intervening five years I've seen probably 20 of these magnificent cats and just like the first two I saw, all of these Florida bobcats were in wild areas like the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge in Brevard County or mangrove forests on the Rookery Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve in Collier County. That statement remained truthful until yesterday afternoon when I saw one in heavily urbanized Manatee County within spitting distance of Interstate 75 and adjacent to a very busy shopping mall. The location of the sighting in relation to the freeway and other development is shown in this satellite image from Google Earth.
I was returning from a movie at the Lakewood Ranch Cinemas and following Cooper Creek Parkway home. As I drove past BJ's Wholesale Store an adult bobcat ambled out of the shrubby vegetation adjacent to the freeway and darted across the road in front of me. My first thought was that it was a raccoon but it quickly dawned on me that 1) it was too tall and 2) it was spotted and 3) it didn't have a long, ringed, bushy tail. Then it sunk in - a bobcat.
Bobcat's are refreshingly common in Florida and according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission they are fairly well adapted to urban and suburban settings. That's encouraging given the burgeoning human population in Florida and its attendant and rampant urbanization. Hal Kantrud, my old office partner at the Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center in North Dakota once said that the key to wildlife biology is the concept of "adapt or die." Bobcats seem to have taken Hal's words to heart.
Although my thoughts of bobcats will probably always revolve around images in my head of snowshoeing up to a bobcat as it dines on a recently captured rabbit in a northern Wisconsin forest, I will remain happy to see one in my urbanized environment that is filled with nutcase drivers from Ohio every winter. I just hope they dont run over any bobcats. I'll keep an eye out for them just in case.
Louie Gay - The Best Baseball Coach I Ever Had
January 16, 2013
Louie Gay
Sun City West, Arizona 85375
Dear Louie:
The Cameron Comets played the Prairie Farm Panthers in Prairie Farm in mid-April 1966. It was probably our first game of the year and it was my first time starting as catcher in high school – as a freshman no less. You were hitting balls to the infield to warm them up and I was standing next to you occasionally throwing balls down to second base. You told me to make sure that each time I threw to second that I throw the ball wildly. I didn't understand why but I did so. Later in the game, the first two Prairie Farm hitters to make it to first base were instantly thrown out trying to steal second base. They thought my arm was poor. We showed them differently! You taught me how to use ruse to my advantage that day.
The other thing you did that day was take me aside before the first pitch and tell me "I don't care what you say to the batter I want you to make an ass out of him." That was sort of like a license to fly for me and my fervent love for heckling baseball players was born. You taught me two good lessons that day.
Enclosed for your reading enjoyment (I hope!) is my latest book (I've now published six books – this is the first novel and the only one about baseball) titled "Minor League Heckler." It can trace its roots back to that day almost 47 years ago when you taught me how to heckle. This book is a fictionalization of the final year of the Sarasota Reds, a Class A (High) minor league team in the Cincinnati Reds organization. The Reds were made up of some great players but things just never worked for them. I had recently retired and moved to Sarasota and started going to Reds games. The experience generated a love for minor league baseball and it brought back all of those things you taught me about heckling the opponent. Thinking about the Reds lousy season I tried to rationalize why they did so poorly. One thing led to another and eventually the reason came out. It's the same reason everyone uses to figure out baseball. It was the umpires fault.
In a game the Sarasota Reds played against the St. Lucie Mets (Class A for the New York Mets) in August 2009 I got on the case of a Dominican kid really badly and assisted him with two strike outs in his first two at bats. By the seventh inning he was mine! With the count 2 and 2 the Reds pitcher let loose with a screaming fastball and as he did I said to this Dominican kid in his native Spanish "Tiene le pene del nino" (You have the penis of a small boy). This obviously upset him no end and as he swung and missed he let the bat go at the end of the swing and it flew straight at me. Luckily the netting behind home plate held and the bat bounced off it without doing any damage. (The Reds won that game by the way).
The following afternoon while having lunch with a friend I told him the story of the flying bat. My friend said "You know, Craig, one of these days there is going to be a story about you on ESPN Sports Center. They are going to tell about some minor league team that comes off the field and into the stands and beats the shit out of you and they are going to call the story "Minor League Heckler." I pedaled my bicycle home from lunch that day and had the first chapter of this book written in my head before I got to my computer. I never could have done it without you teaching me how to be a world class heckler! This story is fictionalized (but awfully damned close to the facts) at the end of the first chapter of the book.
I was talking recently with Keith Popko and your name was brought up. We thought it would be great if I could get you a copy of the book when it came out. Keith contacted Tom Hagen who provided your mailing address and Keith then sent it to me.
Minor League Heckler was released on December 31, 2012, and my author copies arrived in the mail today. I wanted you to have the first copy. I hope you enjoy reading it and I hope you enjoy the inscription on the title page.
The good news here is that the Baltimore Orioles do spring training in Sarasota and pitchers and catchers report on February 12. So, I have less than a month to go before I can watch a real sport again!
I hope all is well for you in retirement out in the desert.
And, again, thanks for teaching me so much so long ago.
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
To Zane Chaffee - The World's Finest Literature Professor
Through the help of the Alumni Relations Director at the University of Wisconsin - River Falls I was able to track down Zane Chaffee the literature professor who turned this northern Wisconsin farm boy into someone who could not only crave literature but also create it himself. My recent book "Continental Drifting" is dedicated to Zane Chaffee. The letter I wrote to him transmitting the book follows:
Professor Zane Chaffee
Grantsburg, Wisconsin 54840
Dear Zane,
I was able to track you down through the UW River Falls Alumni Relations Director. Several years ago I wrote to you when I couldn't remember the name of a couple of stories you had us read in English 252 (Literature – Comedy) during winter quarter of the 1970-1971 school year. One was a story titled "The Richest Man in Bogota" and the other was Tolstoy's excellent story "How Much Land Does a Man Need." I wanted to read the former because I was about to embark on a trip to Bogota. I wanted to re-read the latter because that story had a huge influence on me in my 31 year career as a wildlife biologist with the US Fish and Wildlife Service. You can't count how many times I asked a developer "just how damned much land do you people need anyway?" I thought of you and that Tolstoy story each time I asked that question!
Also last time I contacted you I told you about my first travel book (fourth published book in total) "Somewhere South of Miami" that was published in 2002. It was a mostly-true tale about how I used travel in the Caribbean, Central America and Mexico to heal from my divorce from my former wife Ruth James, daughter of former UW-RF wrestling coach Byron James.
I have continued my writing now that I am retired and recently had two new books come out in print (there is a third book about travel in South Africa that is in press). One of those new books, "Continental Drifting" is dedicated to you. The dedication reads "To Zane Chaffee – The world's finest literature professor." I made that factual statement because in my book you are. Your Mark Twain-like wit and humor converted this northern Wisconsin farm boy (I'm from Barron County originally) from someone who was mainly content reading the labels on sacks of cattle feed into someone who craved literature. You never made us read a book. You made us want to read a book! You never bored us with dissecting words and word phrases and then making futile attempts at uncovering the author's hidden meaning (there usually are no hidden meanings). Instead you helped us understand how words in print made us feel and you helped us understand our feelings.
Chapter 6 of "Continental Drifting" is titled "Where Papa Used to Fight." It's a story about my time on the Bahamian island of Bimini – the place where Hemingway lived when he penned his book "Islands in the Stream." Beginning on book page 121 through page 124 I tell a story about you and how you influenced me so much. I also recount the startlingly hilarious way that you entered the classroom on the first day of class for English 252 more than 40 years ago.
The last time I saw you in person was September 3, 1977, the day after my oldest daughter Jennifer was born. I stopped at Swede's Standard station (across the street from May and Johnson Halls) to tell Swede that Jennifer had arrived. You were there picking up your car from being serviced. Swede asked me about Jennifer and asked "Does she look like you or does she look like Ruth?" I thought about it a second and said "You know, Swede, she's just this little pink wrinkled thing." You burst into laughter and said "Craig, you're the first father I've ever heard tell the truth about his newborn child." You even made me laugh when I wasn't taking a literature class from you.
When I sent you a copy of "Somewhere South of Miami" you wrote and said you looked forward to reading my "magic." If I was successful you may also find magic in "Continental Drifting."
I hope all is well with you and yours. Living in Grantsburg, you are just down the road from the Crex Meadows Wildlife Management Area. It was one of the natural and wild areas that had a profound influence on me and helped shape the environmental ethic that I took with me throughout my career. I hope you will think of me the next time you are out there looking at birds.
I don't get back to Wisconsin very much any longer but in late June I will be in that state to our west that begins with an M and has a professional football team with purple jerseys (I refuse to utter that state's name – it's a Badger thing). My oldest daughter (Jennifer mentioned above) will be getting married at my former wife's home north of Brainerd and that isn't too far from Grantsburg. I just might have to come over to Grantsburg and take you out for a beer or two so I can once again hear you tell stories like those that made me want to read and tell stories like you did and to eventually turn my own stories into books.
Stay well, and thanks for being such a huge and enduring influence on me and my life. I guess that's the true test of a great teacher, isn't it?
cc: Dan McGinty
Director of Alumni Relations
University of Wisconsin – River Falls (with copy of the book for the University Archives)
Sunday, January 20, 2013
Letter to My Congressman on Gun Violence
It is profoundly disheartening to accept the fact that I am represented in the United States House of Representatives by Vern Buchanan . Vern holds the distinction of being the 8th richest member of the United States Congress (House and Senate combined). When Vern isn't busy dodging ethics investigations (he's a member of the Republic Party- of course he has ethics issues) he is out campaigning for re-election with the slogan "Working For You." Well, it's about time Vern went to work for me and not the 1 percent with whom he is in bed.
Recently President Obama encouraged the American public to write to their elected representatives and ask them bluntly for their opinion on controlling gun violence in America. Barack also said to ask them why they are not supportive of regulations on gun violence. I have done that in this letter that was just put in the mail box to old Vern (By the way, I've been told that when you email Vern he only tallies the number of emails and pays no attention to the content. If you want to get his attention you need to write a hard copy letter).
Below is my letter. Any bets on how quickly it falls on deaf ears?
Craig Faanes
University Park Florida 34201
January 20, 2013
Congressman Vern Buchanan
2104 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Re: Gun Violence
Dear Vern
I am thoroughly fed up with the inability of the Republic Party membership in Congress to take any reasonable action to curb gun violence in the country. Wasn't the murder of those children in Connecticut enough to wake you up or are the campaign contributions you receive from the gun industry and the National Rifle Association more important?
I am writing to ask you bluntly - Will you support legislation to ban the sale and possession of assault rifles in the United States? Yes or no. If not, why not?
Secondly, Will you support legislation to limit the number of bullets that a gun can hold in its clip or magazine to something less than 10 bullets? Yes or no. If not, why not.
Third, Will you support legislation requiring mandatory background checks on all individuals intent on purchasing a gun (of any kind) thereby eliminating the internet and gun show loopholes. Yes or no. If not, why not?
I am a retired US government employee who was raised on hunting. I was an avid duck hunter. Since 1935 US Federal regulations have restricted duck hunters to having no more than two shotgun shells in the magazine of their gun on top of the single shell in the chamber. I have not heard one duck or goose hunter in America claim that his or her 2nd Amendment rights have been infringed because of that law regulating how many shells they can carry at once. If duck and goose hunters don't have an issue why should anyone else? Especially with a law that has been in place for 78 years.
Also as a former hunter I can assure you beyond the wildest claim of the National Rifle Association that I never once needed an assault rifle to hunt deer or squirrels or any other animal. Assault rifles are for the use of the military not for the use of every drug dealer at the corner of 14th and K in Washington DC, and certainly not for the use of every nutcase who wants to shoot 20 children in an elementary school let alone former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords.
Vern, every year your campaign slogan is "Working for You." Well prove it Vern. Prove to me that you are working for me and not the 1 percent who financially support your campaign every two years. This person whom you allegedly work for wants you to put aside partisan name calling and voodoo witch hunts and do what's right for the country. Nobody has said a word about banning guns or confiscating them. We want action to limit the ability of nutcases to get a gun and then their ability to shoot 100 people at a setting with them. How can that be un-American?
Lastly, Vern, I would like you to answer my questions directly. I do not want you to send me a form reply that some LA or an Intern wrote as a mass reply. I want to know if you will or will not stand up for the rest of us for a change.
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MD development
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|05/10/2010 03:47 am
|Good day to you !
Is MD still developped ? Are we going to get upgrades in the future ?
Thank you !
|05/20/2010 12:35 pm
do you guys fear to answer ?!!
|05/21/2010 02:11 am
Thank you for writing us.
Please excuse me - I am in charge of replying and was out of town. I missed your message during my episodical Internet sessions.
No, Mass Downloader is in the development. We are fixing a couple of stubborn bugs now and need to add one important feature. I hope we will release te next Mass Downloader version in the beginning of June.
Best regards,
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MP Staff
|05/21/2010 02:39 am
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Thanks Alex, have a nice day.
|08/24/2010 02:49 am
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what would be that important feature you're talking about ?
Have a nice day.
|Alexander Bednyakov
|08/24/2010 04:56 am
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Unfortunately, Mass Downloader has changed the developer, the new one need some time to go deeply into the project.
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Established in 1938, Stavropol State Medical University is a non-profit public higher education institution located in the urban setting of the small city of Stavropol (population range of 250,000-499,999 inhabitants), Stavropol Krai. Officially accredited/recognized by the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, the University is one of the authoritative educational and scientific medical centers of Russia. In 2010 all activity spheres of the University were licensed and the State Accreditation Certificate was received.
The University has 75 chairs where 97 Doctors of Sciences, more than 300 Candidates of Sciences, 47 honored Physicians of the Russian Federation, 4 honored Scientists of the Russian Federation work. There are 7 faculties in the University where 4 500 Russian and foreign students from 33 countries of the world are trained. In 2011 in Stavropol State Medical University new lines for preparation of specialists are opened: defectology, biology, biotechnology, physical training for persons with health deviations, economics, and social work.
The Stavropol State Medical University is one of the few Russian medical universities recognized by the Medical Council of India. The University is listed in the World Directory of Medical Schools published by the World Health Organization (WHO) which enables our graduates to hold a job in any country of the world after taking national examinations. The activity of the University has been marked by high international award "Earth maker", which testifies belonging to community of world leaders of various industries, sciences, cultures and national health services.
University highlights
- Established in 1938 in the city of Stavropol, an ancient city in the North Caucusus, it is today among the largest educational, scientific and methodical center of medicine in Russia
- High creative potential of the teaching staff and the modern laboratory equipment encourages scientific researches which have great value for practical public health services
- Medium of instruction is English
- Stavropol State Medical University is one of the few Russian medical universities recognized by the Medical Council of India
- International students are taught in batches of 8 to 12 in a class
- The University ranks among the Top 5 Medical Universities in Russia
- Equipped with the most modern diagnostic and teaching aids
Courses offered and duration
In Russia, Medical courses are offered in both English and Russian languages.
English Medium
- General Medicine - 6 years
- Dental - 5 years
- Sports Medicine - 6 years
Russian Medium
- General Medicine - 7 years (Includes 1 year language course).
- Dental - 6 years (Includes 1 year language course).
- Sports Medicine - 7 years (Includes 1 year language course).


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Donnie and Brandon speak to the crowd.
Donnie speaks to the crowd.
Alma looks on.
Jim presents the trophy.
Paul and family at mini-golf.
Mark is surprised.
Paul and Mark get serious.
Mark gets ready to play.
Mark plays to win.
The new Wahlburgers location.
Mark takes in the crowd.
Paul and Mark play a little more putt-putt.
Alma relaxes on set.
Alma performs in a commercial.
Donnie and doggy hang out.
Mark plays in the AT&T Pro Am.
Paul gets some good news.
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This beachfront resort in Brgy. San Rafael, Puerto Princesa is one of the newest luxury addition to the Astoria Hotel and Resort properties. Nestled along the shores of Honda Bay, Astoria Palawan is a sprawling 5-hectare mango orchard resort showcasing the natural characteristics of the province. Astoria Palawan being an eco-friendly resort upholds the title of Palawan having recognized as a sustainable destination.
Upon our group's arrival, we were welcomed with refreshing drinks and a cultural performance by the native Palawenos. The lobby, with its interesting interiors and fixtures mostly made of natural elements, exude the authentic charm of our destination.
Soon as we got the keycards to our rooms, we were all excited to see how they look like. The moment we got in, it was like stepping into a world of eye-popping details blending with the vibrant colors of tropics. The lively and refreshing vibe of the resort's private accommodation whisks you into an island paradise that is truly Palawan. Above all else, convenience was the core of the room's design. Complete with the modern comforts of control air-conditioning, LCD television with cable TV, complimentary internet access, a kitchenette, and a spacious work desk. The en suite toilet and bath with contemporary-styled amenities surely do not disappoint! Our room has access to the deck, perfect for some early morning sun lounging nearby.
Dining at the resort's restaurant is truly a delight. Set in the middle of the resort grounds, the dining pavilion makes a great place for family and friends to hang out even after a feast. During our stay, one of the things we all enjoyed was the variety of dishes served especially at the buffet breakfast. With its wide selection of local and international fare, even the most discerning palette is sure to be satisfied.
The stunning infinity pool, facing the Honda Bay, is indeed a favorite spot among guests especially at night with surrounding dim lights. One of the new highlights of the resort is the Palawan Waterpark, which was still under construction during our stay. The 4,000-sqm water park is inspired by the wonders of Palawan with its facilities designed to feature fun attractions like water slides, a lazy river, wave pool, a restaurant, and more exciting facilities, both the young and young at heart will definitely enjoy.
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Indulging in luxury that exudes the classic and authentic beauty of a destination only gets better with the admirable hospitality of Astoria Palawan's staff. Truly, any stay becomes more special with the warmth of locals who know how to make every guest's island holiday (in our case, work trip) a wonderful treat.
Why not make Palawan your next island destination?
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Scientists will dig for answers to Earth's deep secrets / Project will look at mysteries behind quakes and volcanoes
Planet Earth behaves in mysterious ways. It bucks and heaves and shudders when earthquakes strike, its volcanic mountains erupt in fire and brimstone, and its continents and undersea slabs of thick crust float like giant rafts that grind and shove against each other across the globe.
Generations of scientists have tried to understand those mysterious and all-too-often deadly motions, but progress, the researchers admit, has been all too slow.
Now, scientists are undertaking the most ambitious effort yet to penetrate our planet's mysteries as they deploy thousands of sensitive seismic instruments across North America. With this vast array, they hope to learn in the greatest possible detail just how and where earthquakes strike, how mountains form, how volcanoes erupt and how the entire continent moves.
Grants totaling $319 million from the National Science Foundation have been awarded to cover the first five years of the major new project, called EarthScope. Work has already begun on its array of instruments and facilities, which will provide the tools for decades of future detailed studies.
One major aspect of the effort calls for a new, heavily instrumented borehole to probe the San Andreas Fault zone at a vulnerable spot in Monterey County that researchers consider to be the "nucleus" of scores of tiny quakes that have been triggered for decades by unknown forces miles underground.
Two other EarthScope facilities have also been financed by the federal science agency:
More than 1,000 receiving stations will collect signals from satellites of the Global Positioning System to monitor tiny changes along the entire jittery boundary between the constantly moving Pacific and North American plates from Alaska to Mexico.
In addition, 200 highly sensitive devices called strainmeters will measure the tensions that increase across particularly active seismic faults, as well as on the flanks of volcanoes whose inner chambers hold ominously moving viscous magma.
During the next dozen years or more, an array of 400 mobile seismometers will roll across the continent from the Pacific to the Atlantic like an extended battalion of tanks, pausing for a year or two to take measurements at each spot within a grid of 1,000 sites.
An additional 2,000 instruments will be placed inside shallow boreholes wherever ground motions have been detected in the past, either from quakes or mining explosions.
"It's a truly phenomenal enterprise," Gregory E. van der Vink, a geophysicist and director of the EarthScope project, said in an interview. "We'll have sensors placed in every area where quakes have occurred in the past, and many will be there right when quakes hit.
"We may finally begin to understand how entire continents deform. Because everything we learn will be completely transparent and open, we hope it will make everyone aware that we're all living on the very thin veneer of a cooling planet -- a planet that's been cooling ever since it formed billions of years ago."
Scientists at Stanford University and the U.S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park, led by geophysicists Mark Zoback of Stanford and William Ellsworth and Stephen H. Hickman of the geological survey, are directors of EarthScope's "San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth," known as SAFOD. It is located near the village of Parkfield, where moderate quakes had been striking roughly every 22 years from 1857 until the most recent one in 1966.
Last year, Zoback and his colleagues finished drilling a vertical pilot hole nearly a mile and a half deep. There, they placed a string of 32 seismic monitoring instruments, primarily to better understand drilling techniques and to gain experience with their instruments.
The instruments in that pilot hole have already detected several "microquakes" on what may be small secondary faults adjoining the San Andreas, as well as fluid-filled cracks deep underground, said Andres Chavarria of Duke University who reported his findings in last week's issue of the journal Science.
In May, Zoback and his colleagues will start drilling the real underground observatory about 60 feet away from the pilot hole. It will descend vertically the same mile-and-a-half, then slope away to the northeast at a sharp angle to penetrate the precise center of a fault zone where hundreds of small quakes have been detected since 1857.
The observatory, lined with concrete and studded with small tunnel-like extensions for instruments, will be filled with seismometers, strainmeters and temperature sensors. Scientists will also haul up samples of rock and fluid to study how their composition has been altered by past quakes.
The entire EarthScope project "is the biggest thing that's ever happened in the solid earth sciences," Zoback said.
Because the underground observatory will penetrate into the heart of where earthquake clusters are known to occur, its discoveries might tell scientists whether predicting quakes is something more than an item on a scientific wish list.
"Our current knowledge of fault-zone processes is so poor that not only are we unable to make reliable short-term earthquake predictions, we don't know whether such predictions are even possible," he said.
According to van der Vink, two other big aspects of the EarthScope project are already under discussion.
One essential but as yet unfunded project would involve a highly specialized NASA satellite, and van der Vink, joined by colleagues at the California Institute of Technology, UC San Diego and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, has already begun lobbying the Space Agency to join.
What the earth scientists are seeking, he said, is for NASA to commit a satellite equipped with down-viewing radar capable of detecting even the tiniest changes in the elevation of mountains, as well as terrain like the Bay Area and the Los Angeles Basin that are crisscrossed with dangerous faults.
Technically termed Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (INSAR), the devices now regularly installed only on European satellites have detected ominously bulging mountain basins in the volcanic Cascade Range of Oregon, in a half-dozen Alaskan volcanoes and along rising peaks of several Andes volcanoes.
The satellites have also detected changes in a rocky dome within California's Long Valley Caldera, a giant crater that is the collapsed remnant of a monster volcano that erupted more than 750,000 years ago. According to Mark Simons of Cal Tech, that Long Valley dome has been thrusting upward at an inch a year for the past eight years.
A satellite equipped with INSAR radar, van der Vink and his colleagues argue, would be crucial in predicting volcanic eruptions as well as mapping zones of accumulating seismic strain where an earthquake is likely to occur.
NASA officials are already weighing plans for just such a satellite. Earlier this year, the space agency named an expert team that urged creation of an ambitious Global Earthquake Satellite System, with an INSAR satellite mission flying during the first five year's of the EarthScope project.
Studying dynamic motions of the Earth's crust from space in three dimensions, the planners said, might well make rough predictions of future major earthquakes possible within 20 years.
Another effort van der Vink seeks is to engage oceanographers in an effort to extend EarthScope's land-based earthquake studies into the bottom of the deep sea where the Earth's tectonic plates split apart and create mountainous ridges and "hydrothermal vents," smoking underwater volcanoes where strange living organisms exist without oxygen or sunlight or normal proteins for food.
"We sometimes call our project on land Bigfoot," van der Vink said. "Now we're hoping our oceanographic friends will create themselves a watery Webfoot.
Both are essential in understand the dynamic Earth."


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West MacDonnell Ranges, NT
In April, I receive a phone call: "Stuff having a 60th, I want to see Australia. You in or out?" - Dad's spontaneous wish to head to The Alice to visit Ormiston Gorge that weekend. Naturally, I couldn't say no, and for the next 6 days I found myself scrambling through some of Australia's most fierce and incredible terrain, seeing sights I didn't even believe our country had on offer.
I have a short attention span, and I tire of my most favourite things quickly. Food, music, movies. If i've had something once, I've had it a thousand times. That is everything except the sunset. I'm not sure whether it's the finite time we have to view it each day, the way sounds of birds and insects alike change their tone, or just the way each and every one is different from the last - sunsets seem to just erase the woes and fill you with a sense of calm.
I can recall so many instances of chasing it to the ends of the earth, watching it gently fall beneath the horizon and send the world around me into total darkness. I've seen the process, I've witnessed the colours, and I've felt that very feeling before. But this phenomenon - it just gets better every single time. Then, you arrive in the desert, and a sunset goes from the subtle end of usual day, to a full blown explosion of colour, light and life. The reds are richer, the shadows longer, and the silica in the sand seems to glisten in the fading light. There are many things that should be mandatory in life, but desert sunsets should absolutely be at the top of your list.


text: Bruce your words of wisdom today. Day 16 brought a smile to my face. It reminded me of the days here in Ireland when the Redemptive Priest gave us a Parish Mussion! It was all Fire and Hell! They put the Fear of God in everyone. But in a Sad sense. I came to the Conclusion that sadly I was Beyond Salvation! It reminded me of been in trouble for Staying Out Late! Your parents were going to go Mad so you might as well stay out longer and get the Same treatment!!! And so when my drink and drug addiction caught up with me. I applied the same theory. I ended up in prison believing the God did have favourites. But I was not one of them. I lived a totally different life back then. Thankfully the Sovereign Lord Jesus Lifted Me Up Out Of My Misery! We have a program here in Ireland where the very famous Host asks very famous Celebrities " The Meaning Of Life " Some amazing answers. Always the last question asked is " What If It Is All Real and Jesus Does Exist? What will you say? Again the answers are amazing. I always believed that Jesus existed but that He was going to Beat Me about the head with the Bible and the Book of Records he was Storing Up on Me! How sad is that Image? But today I firmly Believe that Jesus will Ask Me One Question? Who did you bring? As simple as that! When I took you from the depths of your Addiction, Who did you Tell? When I gave you New Life who did you Tell? When I Baptised You In the Holy Spirit Who did you Tell? So we are All called to Evangelize! To be like the ONE Leopard that came back to give thanks. Be be like the Samaritan woman at Jacobs well. To go back into our community and to Proclaim the Good News what God has Done and Will Do if only we Say but the Word. In Jesus Name Amen http://www.pbase.com/kenyaprojects Reply


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In southern England, near Stonehenge, a string of ferret thefts has aggravated and confused ferret owners for the past two years. Writes the Wall Street Journal:
Across rural England, thieves-often with balaclavas, Mr. Bradley [an English ferret owner] says-have struck at night, carrying off their writhing contraband in pillowcases. "They leave everything of value and just take the ferrets," says Mr. Bradley, puzzled.
Ferrets are popular pets in rural England, often used to keep rabbits from digging up gardens and even preventing damage to Stonehenge. Thefts aren't unheard of, but have been occurring with unusual frequency lately, and nobody is quite sure why.
Some ferret enthusiasts say thieves sell animals for clandestine drug research, Mr. Jenkins says. Others speculate they go to the illicit pet trade. Many suspect the involvement of organized-crime rings.
The suggested reasons are certainly worrisome; in neither the illegal pet trade nor the pharmaceutical industry would the ferrets be treated particularly well. Oddly, the black market price for ferrets isn't particularly high; ferrets are legal pets in England, and "the animals' commercial value still is scarcely more than the two shillings and a pint of beer," says an English ferret owner.
The ferret owners aren't taking chances, turning to microchipping and high-tech surveillance and security systems to keep their ferrets safe. But the exact reason for the uptick in ferret theft remains unknown.


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We are all working up against it in the kitchen, from fussy eaters, dietary needs, time obstacles and the increasing cost of food – I can certainly do with some ideas of how to use what I have better, or just some new inspiration for what works well. I asked other parents what their favourite gadgets in the kitchen were, and this is what they said…
Please check out the links on each name – to see more about them and their kitchen obsessions!
- Kendra at www.mrsdoingmybest.com – I'm all about efficiency and saving time. My favourite kitchen gadget is my toaster oven!
- Darlene at www.babycostsmoney.com – Apple slicer! It slices an apple faster than my ToddlerMonster can change her mind. 🙃 She is big enough to eat a whole slice of apple now, but when she was smaller I would use the apple slicer as Step One.
- Ej at www.redifininghistory.blog – I love my Rival Personal Blender it is my ideal kitchen gadget for creating my favourite, refreshing mixed drinks and fruity smoothies right from my very own kitchen or wherever I tote this lightweight gadget. This affordable, durable personal blender provides me with my own personal size 15 oz. on-the-go travel mug, so I will never go thirsty again!
- Natalie at www.newmommasurvival.com – My favourite kitchen gadget is actually my Pampered chef scraper. I use mainly cast iron when cooking and this handy little tool makes it so easy to gently scrape off food. I also use it to scrape off stuck-on price tags or the labels off jars! It's the simplest tool but I seem to use it the most.
- Tracy at www.frugalfloridamom.com – I have so many I did a post on this! My favourite is probably my rotary grater.
- Barbara at www.sunshineguerilla.com – I am all about tools made locally or out of eco-friendly materials (as little nasty toxic plastic touching our food as possible). I love best manufacturer whisks, epicurean turners and cutting boards, and reusable sandwich bags and biobags!
- Kendra at www.omahalulagirls.com and Sybil at www.mamasandcoffee.com are both in love with their Instapot. The speed and size makes for brilliant family meals with low fuss.
- Kristal at www.lattesandlittlehugs.com – Not necessarily a gadget, but I love mason jars! They can be used for a million different things, from a muffin cup holder to a Margarita mixer!
- Nicole at www.theprofesssionalmomproject.com – I love my soda stream! Makes fizzy water in 3 seconds.
- Surya at www.thecrazybusymom.com – Not sure if it's a gadget or not, but I actually love my bread machine. Fresh bread in an hour! And I use it to make my pizza dough or dough for rolls. Set it and forget it!
Here at Frugal HQ we actively encourage the kids to take a role in planning and preparing meals, shopping and cooking. It's an important skill to learn and once the Summer chaos is over we'll be taking a close look at all things family frugal and food related. Hope this was interesting… I've just dusted off the bread machine and discovered you can make jam in it… who knew!!


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Icon Collector searches files and directories for icons. Found icons are listed and can be copied, extracted and saved as icon or bitmap files. In addition, the Collector makes it easy to create icon libraries via drag&drop and to work on them.
The Icon Extractor Package includes two programs: an icon viewer which is able to extract icons from executables or libraries and copy or save them as icon or bitmap files; an additional tool which makes it easy to distribute icon libraries.
Enterra Icon Keeper Deluxe is an utility integrated into Desktop popup menu that saves and restores icon layouts. By creating several profiles the user eliminates time-consuming searches for the software needed and unloads the desktop.
Wise Icon Maker can create icons, extract, and convert all graphics to 32-bit color depth Icon.Include comprehensive collection of drawing tools and effects.Have anti-alias and smoothness functions and excellent 3D gradient effects.
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The Honda CR-V is a compact SUV (now called crossover in North America), manufactured since 1995 by Honda. It was loosely derived from the Honda Civic. There are discrepancies as to what "CR-V" stands for, Honda sales literature in UK reportedly made references to "Compact Recreational Vehicle", other Honda references (including the official Honda Japan CR-V Fact Book and Honda Worldwide) cite "Comfortable Runabout Vehicle". It is produced in both four-wheel drive and front-wheel drive, with availability differing by market.
The CR-V is Honda's smallest SUV other than the related Element sold in Canada and the United States, and the HR-V sold in Europe. In size, the CR-V slots between the Element and Pilot, but due to the Element's discontinuation during the 2011 model year, the CR-V has regained its status as Honda's entry-level SUV.


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Much has changed since 2009. If you're still looking for a slide factory, read our updated post.
The challenge
Let's say you need to produce the same presentation month after month, updating the data each time. Or maybe you have a set of slides that need to go to a bunch of different audiences each with their own specific market, product, business line, or industry. While there are some tools available (see below), ultimately there are some difficult choices to make.
Updating all the slides by hand can be tedious, slow and error-prone. The presentation is basically the same, you simply want to swap out the underlying data. You need something that acts like a "mail merge" for PowerPoint. You're also restricted to a limited set of charting options if constrained by PowerPoint.
Our approach
When we've helped clients with this situation, our approach has been to create re-usable PowerPoint slides (i.e. templates) that link directly to a database. This gives us the ability to stamp out new presentation by changing the raw data underneath. Simple enough to say; not quite so simple in practice. Here are a few of the hairy bits:
Data structuring. We populate the data into a Windows-accessible SQL database such as MS Access or SQL Server so we can use SQL queries to define the data needed for our charts and tables.
Slide templates. We create slides with charts, tables, and text boxes that are formatted to account for the variance in the data that may need to be displayed. Ensuring that the charts always look good is surprisingly hard.
Connect templates to data. Originally we rolled our own solution by creating a "templating" language that we embedded in the notes section of the slides. More recently, we discovered PTReportGen, a tool that extracts data from a data source and populates it into PowerPoint. PTReportGen allows you to connect objects in the slides (i.e. charts, tables, text boxes) to results from SQL queries from our data source. For each slide, there is a .PTR file that connects the contents of the slide to the database.
Scripted production. PTReportGen gives command line control, allowing us to write Python scripts to cycle through our data and populate the charts and tables in our template slides. Because we are interested in generating dozens (sometimes hundreds) of versions of a single slide, our script iterates over the database to pull different results across multiple dimensions. Below is a bit of pseudo-code to give a sense of how the scripting works to produce slides by market and by demographic:
markets = ('Market1','Market2','Market3')
demographics = ('Demo1','Demo2','Demo3')
PTRFileName = 'C:\Documents\UserName\Desktop\MyReportGenerator.ptr'
for demo in demographics:
for market in markets:
ReportFileName = 'PathName\FolderName\demo\market.ppt'
cmd = 'PPTReport.exe PTRFileName -demo -market'
Post-processing. While most chart and data table designs can be achieved by clever template layouts, some advanced designs involve additional intervention to achieve the desired level of polish. A python script combs through the result template and adds coloration and layout improvements.
It isn't simple, but once constructed this "slide factory" is a valuable capability that can free up an enormous amount of time from presentation grunt work. Here's a short video that gives you a sense of what the process looks like. Personally, I find the production of slides vaguely hypnotic.
Other approaches and resources
We are not the first people to encounter or solve this problem. Below are a few other resources on the topic. I'd be curious if there is a native MS Office solution that I could include in this list.
PowerPoint Automation Toolkit: "With the PPTATK, PowerPoint becomes a best-case union of a presentation tool and a report writer. With the Tookit, you can build presentations which combine static slides from a slide library and data-driven slides which display charts, tables, and graphs from structured data sources."
Python PPTX - Some documentation on automating PowerPoint using Python.
Microsoft Help: "Working with PowerPoint Presentations from Access Using Automation. Create a PowerPoint slide presentation from scratch using Access data."
Stack Overflow discussion on "PowerPoint Automation from MS Access…queries to chart?"
Juicebox: Our platform that creates interactive slides (slices) for automating slide quality visuals at scale. Check out the solution pages for some examples.


text: Deceased estate checklist This checklist will help you manage the Australian tax affairs of someone who has died. If the deceased person's tax affairs included carrying on a business, you may need to seek further advice from a legal practitioner or registered tax agent. Follow these steps to understand what you need to do. Step 1 – Does the person have a will? Yes – Determine who is the executor. Go to Step 2. No – Have you or someone else applied for letters of administration? If yes, go to Step 2. If no, consider contacting the public trustee in your state or territory to determine if they will act on behalf of the deceased person. If so, they will take any action required. Step 2 – Has probate been obtained by the executor or has the court granted letters of administration? Yes – Go to Step 3. No – You may need to provide further information if you wish to establish authority to deal with the tax affairs of the deceased person. Go to Step 3. Step 3 – Notify us of the person's death You can notify us of the person's death online, or by completing the paper form Notification of a deceased person (NAT 74279) and submitting this by mail to the address on the form. By doing this you will have: officially notified us of the person's death made us aware of relevant parties acting on behalf of the deceased estate, such as the executor or administrator. If you notify us online, you will need to attend an Australia Post outlet for an interview and present a copy of the death certificate and supporting documents. Otherwise, you will need to send us certified copies by mail. Alternatively, if you are the executor or administrator and you have appointed a legal practitioner to act on your behalf, they can provide us with all this information. You are not required to formally notify us of their appointment however we may contact you to verify this detail. We will also attempt to match individual records to Births, Deaths and Marriages data. Go to Step 4. Step 4 – Do you need to lodge a final individual tax return? Refer to Tax return for a deceased person for when you need to lodge a tax return. You should also check for outstanding tax returns for previous years. Yes, a final return needs to be lodged – The final return should cover the period from 1 July of the income year in which the person died up to the date of death. Go to Step 5. No, a final return does not need to be lodged – Complete a Non-lodgment advice for the year and send this to us. On the form, where it asks for 'Reason for not lodging a tax return' write 'DECEASED' and the date of death. Go to Step 5. Step 5 – Do you need to lodge a tax return for the deceased estate? Refer to Trust return for a deceased estate for details of when you need to lodge. Yes, a return needs to be lodged – Go to Step 6. No, a return does not need to be lodged – If all of the above has been completed, no further information is required by us. Step 6 – Obtain a tax file number (TFN) for the deceased estate Complete and submit a TFN application for a deceased estate (NAT 3236). This is required as a deceased estate is treated as a trust for tax purposes. Go to Step 7. Step 7 – Lodge the deceased estate tax returns Use the Trust tax return and the accompanying Trust tax return instructions. Special instructions for trustees of deceased estates are in the appendices of the instructions. You may need to lodge a tax return each financial year until the deceased estate has been fully administered and is no longer earning income. See Doing trust tax returns for a deceased estate for guidance on whether a tax return is required. See also: The Department of Human Services website provides general guidance on What to do following a deathExternal Link. It has a checklist and links of people and organisations you may need to contact if someone has died. The deceased estates section of our website provides more information for the executor administering the person's estate. You can also phone us on 13 28 61. This checklist will help you manage the Australian tax affairs of someone who has died.Last modified: 20 May 2019QC 49236


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