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Fresh off rave reviews for his wildly entertaining sci-fi pic Edge of Tomorrow, director Doug Liman is adding yet another project to his docket. THR reports that Liman is in talks to helm a remake of the 1981 action film Victory, which takes place during WWII and revolves around an allied POW soccer team preparing for a game against the German National Team, all the while the French Resistance and British officers make plans for their escape. John Huston directed the original, which starred Sylvester Stallone, Michael Caine, and Pelé. The Warner Bros. redo already has Gavin O'Connor (Miracle) working on the script, and this is certainly an interesting choice of material for Liman—it's described as a cross between Monuments Men and Miracle.
But first, Liman will next direct the Splinter Cell movie with Tom Hardy, which is poised for a 2015 release. He is also attached to direct an adaptation of the sci-fi children's book Railhead, also at Warner Bros. Watch the trailer for the original Victory after the jump.


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This young puppeteer was named Steve Whitmire, and this is his Saturday.
Rizzo the Rat
Beaker (1991-still)
Statler (2002-still)
Ernie (1990-still)
Wembley Fraggle
Secondary Characters...
Foo Foo
Marlon Fraggle
Bean Bunny
Waldo C. Graphic
The Muppet Newsman (Disney Xtreme Digital)
Link Hogthrob (Muppet Party Cruise)
All About Steve
Steve often talks fondly of the first time he met Jim Henson and auditioned for the Muppets. This story can be seen and heard here in an interview (1:57 in) portion of The Muppet Show Live! from MuppetFest in 2001. Steve Whitmire eventually (of course) joined the Muppet team in 1978, and it's been an uphill ride for him ever since. According to Muppet Wiki, Steve's first day of shooting was March 24, 1978. He started out like all Muppeteers do, performing background characters and right hands for live-hand characters (such as Rowlf), Steve slowly began to work his way up the Muppet ladder (which, surprisingly, is not a talking ladder). Steve was soon performing and speaking in the forefront of the show. He would perform such one-note characters as Winky Pinkerton and Liberace's security guard.
Soon enough, Steve gained his own characters on the show. Including Miss Piggy's precious pooch Foo Foo, the Electric Mayhem's freelancing sixth member, Lips the trumpet player, and, most notably, Rizzo the Rat.
Before long, Rizzo became Steve's main character. He had a small part as a bell-hop at the Happiness Hotel in The Great Muppet Caper and a larger part as a waiter at Pete's Luncheonette in The Muppets Take Manhattan. Rizzo was quick to garner popularity after that, becoming a main character for The Muppet Christmas Carol, Muppet Treasure Island, Muppets From Space, and beyond. Here, Rizzo began to play off Gonzo the Great and Steve's chemistry with fellow Muppeteer, Dave Goelz, shone bright.
Great Steve Performances
- "Light the lamp, not the rat!" - The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)
- "I Believe" - Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (2008)
- "The Muppets on The Muppets" (Part 2 here)- Available on The Muppet Show: Season 2 DVD (2006)
- "Especially For You" - An Evening with Kylie Minogue (2001)
- Kermit and Fozzie Interview for The Muppet Show: Season 3- 2007
- Kermit and Terry Fator sing "You've Got a Friend" - America's Got Talent (2007)
- "Skateboarding Dog Gets Served" - Part of the VirMup campagin (2008)
- "Ode to Joy" - Part of the VirMup campaign (2008)
- Sesame Street - Kermit talks about Light and Dark
- Sesame Street - Ernie and Bert "What's the Name of That Song?"
- CNN News: Muppet Treasure Island - 1996
- Muppet*Vision 3D Pre-Show - 1990
- Sesame Street - Ernie's Rhyming Game
- "Beanbo" Parody
- "Barnyard Boogie" - The Muppet Show
- Fraggle Rock - "Help Me For a Change"
- Fraggle Rock - Doc and Sprocket play charades
Steve Whitmire is truly one of the most talented puppeteers of all-time. Watching Kermit and Rizzo in Muppet Treasure Island with the sound muted is astounding. The small, intricate moves Kermit does with his hands and his face are astounding. They aren't at all necessary, but Steve's adding them in makes the frog seem so much more alive. Rizzo, albeit not nearly as hysterical without the sound, shines here as well. His body movements are distinct and incredible. Even the varying degrees with which he opens his mouth are sensational--when he's trying to crack a bad joke, his mouth opens WIDE, all the way down to his neck. When he's timid and cowardly, it barely opens at all.
Why the Muppets do not need to replace Steve Whitmire as Kermit
As of late, some fans have been saying that Steve should be recast. That Steve should no longer perform Kermit. That is the most ridiculous, uncalled for, unbelievable proposal I have ever heard. You honestly mean to tell me that you think that Steve Whitmire, a man who has worked with the Muppets for over thirty years, a man who was thrust Kermit after his idol, his mentor, his friend Jim Henson died, a man who ressurrected the frog from the ashes and has continued to perform him to his highest degree for NINTEEN YEARS should be made to give up HIS CHARACTER?
Steve Whitmire is Kermit the Frog. You may not agree with every single stingle word that comes out of his mouth as Kermit, but like it or not, he is Kermit. He HAS BEEN Kermit for NINETEEN YEARS. He will continue to be Kermit until he CAN'T anymore. JIM HENSON knew Steve Whitmire. Jim saw Steve's talent and Jim (I think) had a hand in choosing Steve as Kermit. Frank Oz has said that, "Steve loved Jim and Jim loved Steve, taking on Kermit was not easy for Steve." Steve Whitmire has worked his tail off to be Kermit the Frog for the past NINETEEN YEARS and asking him to change that is unthinkable. The thought of bringing in an entirely new performer for Kermit the Frog after Steve Whitmire has performed him for NINETEEN YEARS is laughable, is inconcievable, is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard.
After NINETEEN YEARS of Steve Whitmire as Kermit the Frog, there is no question that Steve Whitmire IS THIS CHARACTER. From the voice, to the mannerisms, to the head/hand shape--EVERYTHING ABOUT KERMIT IS STEVE WHITMIRE.
Steve Whitmire is Kermit the Frog. All others are just impersonators. Anyone who is not Steve Whitmire that slips on the puppet of Kermit the Frog is an impersonator.
Even More Steve
- Muppet Central Interview with Steve Whitmire
- Tough Pigs Interview with Steve Whitmire
- 2momluvme.com Inteview with Steve Whitmire
- Steve Whitmire Cameos
- SWAEHB Fan Club on Muppet Central Forum
- View Steve's work on the DVD's of...
- The Muppet Show: Season 3
- Fraggle Rock: Complete Series
- The Muppet Christmas Carol
- Muppet Treasure Island
- Muppets From Space
- It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie
- Kermit's Swamp Years
- The Muppets' Wizard of Oz
- A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa
- Muppets.com
- SesameStreet.org

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BIG changes come from lots of small steps – that's the driving philosophy behind an organisation determined to make Basingstoke one of the greenest places in the country.
The Basingstoke Community Energy Fund Society, created by the Basingstoke Transition Network green movement, wants to see the borough slash its carbon emissions by 20 per cent by 2020.
Local residents Martin Heath, from Brookvale, and Andy Molloy, from Old Basing, are two of the driving forces behind the co-operative and they firmly believe that the goal is achievable if residents, businesses, communities, and the council all start to do their bit.
The Transition Network says a key way to cut the amount of global-warming greenhouse gas emissions is for more people to turn towards renewable energy to power the town's homes and businesses, as well as upgrading buildings to save energy costs.
"Basingstoke spends £550million a year for its energy," said Martin, quoting statistics from the Government's Department for Energy and Climate Change.
"Where does all that money ultimately go? – City hedge funds, sheikhs, and oil oligarchs. In our view, Basingstoke can easily make more than 20 per cent of that energy itself, and save £110m a year. We believe an average home in the town can reduce its energy bill by £1,000 a year."
This saving can be achieved in a myriad of different ways. This includes insulating homes properly to curb the amount of heat loss and, on a more ambitious scale, through community owned-renewable energy projects.
That is where the Basingstoke Community Energy Fund Society comes in.
The soon-to-be-launched scheme relies on lots of people making a relatively small contribution. It works by individuals or community groups investing cash into the co-operative. This amount can be between £500 and £20,000.
The money is pooled into the Basingstoke Community Energy Fund where each investor has a say on how the money is spent.
By pooling funds, money is raised to pay for a renewable energy project – such as creating a solar farm on a warehouse roof.
The electricity generated will be used to power the building, and excess electricity is supplied back to the National Grid, resulting in the Government paying the co-operative Feed-in-Tariffs – a Government scheme which pays for energy produced from renewable energy.
The surplus cash that is generated is returned to investors as well as put back into the community-run cash pot to fund further schemes.
"Community schemes are the best way forward for many of us," said Martin. He added that co-operatives open up renewable technology to everyone. "They allow anyone to invest in them."
The scheme hinges on the community coming together. While solar energy is becoming increasingly popular, Martin estimates that installing solar panels on to homes is out of reach, or not suitable, for many residents.
"In the majority of cases, people just don't have the money, or the right kind of roof, to install solar panels themselves," said Martin. "A community-run project overcomes this. It gives the people of Basingstoke the potential to invest in the future of the borough."
* You can find out more about the Basingstoke Transition Network, and its associated organisations, by going to basingstoketransition.org or bes.coop.


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Retired Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf dies
Retired Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, who topped an illustrious military career by commanding the U.S.-led international coalition that drove Saddam Hussein's forces out of Kuwait in 1991 but kept a low public profile in controversies over the second Gulf War against Iraq, died Thursday. He was 78.
Schwarzkopf died in Tampa, Fla., where he had lived in retirement, according to a U.S. official, who was not authorized to release the information publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity. His sister says he died of complications from pneumonia.
Former President George H.W. Bush, who remains in the intensive care unit at Methodist Hospital, released a statement on the passing of Schwarzkopf.
"Barbara and I mourn the loss of a true American patriot and one of the great military leaders of his generation. A distinguished member of that Long Gray Line hailing from West Point, General Norm Schwarzkopf, to me, epitomized the 'duty, service, country' creed that has defended our freedom and seen this great Nation through our most trying international crises. More than that, he was a good and decent man — and a dear friend. Barbara and I send our condolences to his wife Brenda and his wonderful family."
The White House also released a statement on Schwarzkopf's passing Thursday evening.
"With the passing of General Norman Schwarzkopf, we've lost an American original. From his decorated service in Vietnam to the historic liberation of Kuwait and his leadership of United States Central Command, General Schwarzkopf stood tall for the country and Army he loved. Our prayers are with the Schwarzkopf family, who tonight can know that his legacy will endure in a nation that is more secure because of his patriotic service."
A much-decorated combat soldier in Vietnam, Schwarzkopf was known popularly as "Stormin' Norman" for a notoriously explosive temper.
He served in his last military assignment in Tampa as commander-in-chief of U.S. Central Command, the headquarters responsible for U.S. military and security concerns in nearly 20 countries from the eastern Mediterranean and Africa to Pakistan.
Schwarzkopf became "CINC-Centcom" in 1988 and when Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait three years later to punish it for allegedly stealing Iraqi oil reserves, he commanded Operation Desert Storm, the coalition of some 30 countries organized by then-President George H.W. Bush that succeeded in driving the Iraqis out.
At the peak of his postwar national celebrity, Schwarzkopf — a self-proclaimed political independent — rejected suggestions that he run for office, and remained far more private than other generals, although he did serve briefly as a military commentator for NBC.
While focused primarily in his later years on charitable enterprises, he campaigned for President George W. Bush in 2000 but was ambivalent about the 2003 invasion of Iraq, saying he doubted victory would be as easy as the White House and Pentagon predicted. In early 2003 he told the Washington Post the outcome was an unknown:
"What is postwar Iraq going to look like, with the Kurds and the Sunnis and the Shiites? That's a huge question, to my mind. It really should be part of the overall campaign plan," he said.
Initially Schwarzkopf had endorsed the invasion, saying he was convinced that former Secretary of State Colin Powell had given the United Nations powerful evidence of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. After that proved false, he said decisions to go to war should depend on what U.N. weapons inspectors found.
He seldom spoke up during the conflict, but in late 2004, he sharply criticized then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and the Pentagon for mistakes that included inadequate training for Army reservists sent to Iraq and for erroneous judgments about Iraq.
"In the final analysis I think we are behind schedule. ... I don't think we counted on it turning into jihad (holy war)," he said in an NBC interview.
Schwarzkopf was born Aug. 24, 1934, in Trenton, N.J., where his father, Col. H. Norman Schwarzkopf Jr., founder and commander of the New Jersey State Police, was then leading the investigation of the Lindbergh kidnap case, which ended with the arrest and 1936 execution of German-born carpenter Richard Hauptmann for stealing and murdering the famed aviator's infant son.
The elder Schwarzkopf was named Herbert, but when the son was asked what his "H'' stood for, he would reply, "H." Although reputed to be short-tempered with aides and subordinates, he was a friendly, talkative and even jovial figure who didn't like "Stormin' Norman" and preferred to be known as "the Bear," a sobriquet given him by troops.
He also was outspoken at times, including when he described Gen. William Westmoreland, the U.S. commander in Vietnam, as "a horse's ass" in an Associated Press interview.
As a teenager Norman accompanied his father to Iran, where the elder Schwarzkopf trained the country's national police force and was an adviser to Reza Pahlavi, the young Shah of Iran.
Young Norman studied there and in Switzerland, Germany and Italy, then followed in his father's footsteps to West Point, graduating in 1956 with an engineering degree. After stints in the U.S. and abroad, he earned a master's degree in engineering at the University of Southern California and later taught missile engineering at West Point.
In 1966 he volunteered for Vietnam and served two tours, first as a U.S. adviser to South Vietnamese paratroops and later as a battalion commander in the U.S. Army's Americal Division. He earned three Silver Stars for valor — including one for saving troops from a minefield — plus a Bronze Star, a Purple Heart and three Distinguished Service Medals.
While many career officers left military service embittered by Vietnam, Schwarzkopf was among those who opted to stay and help rebuild the tattered Army into a potent, modernized all-volunteer force.
After Saddam invaded Kuwait in August 1990, Schwarzkopf played a key diplomatic role by helping to persuade Saudi Arabia's King Fahd to allow U.S. and other foreign troops to deploy on Saudi territory as a staging area for the war to come.
On Jan. 17, 1991, a five-month buildup called Desert Shield became Operation Desert Storm as allied aircraft attacked Iraqi bases and Baghdad government facilities. The six-week aerial campaign climaxed with a massive ground offensive on Feb. 24-28, routing the Iraqis from Kuwait in 100 hours before U.S. officials called a halt.
Schwarzkopf said afterward he agreed with Bush's decision to stop the war rather than drive to Baghdad to capture Saddam, as his mission had been only to oust the Iraqis from Kuwait.
But in a desert tent meeting with vanquished Iraqi generals, he allowed a key concession on Iraq's use of helicopters, which later backfired by enabling Saddam to crack down more easily on rebellious Shiites and Kurds.
While he later avoided the public second-guessing by academics and think tank experts over the ambiguous outcome of Gulf War I and its impact on Gulf War II, he told the Washington Post in 2003, "You can't help but... with 20/20 hindsight, go back and say, 'Look, had we done something different, we probably wouldn't be facing what we are facing today.'"
After retiring from the Army in 1992, Schwarzkopf wrote a best-selling autobiography, "It Doesn't Take A Hero." Of his Gulf war role, he said, "I like to say I'm not a hero. I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war." He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II and honored with decorations from France, Britain, Belgium, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Bahrain.
Schwarzkopf was a national spokesman for prostate cancer awareness and for Recovery of the Grizzly Bear, served on the Nature Conservancy board of governors and was active in various charities for chronically ill children.
"I may have made my reputation as a general in the Army and I'm very proud of that," he once told the AP. "But I've always felt that I was more than one-dimensional. I'd like to think I'm a caring human being. ... It's nice to feel that you have a purpose."
Schwarzkopf and his wife, Brenda, had three children: Cynthia, Jessica and Christian.
Reaction to the death of Norman Schwarzkopf
"Barbara and I mourn the loss of a true American patriot and one of the great military leaders of his generation. A distinguished member of that 'Long Gray Line' hailing from West Point, Gen. Norm Schwarzkopf, to me, epitomized the 'duty, service, country' creed that has defended our freedom and seen this great nation through our most trying international crises. More than that, he was a good and decent man — and a dear friend. Barbara and I send our condolences to his wife, Brenda, and his wonderful family." — former President George H.W. Bush.
"With the passing of General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, America lost a great patriot and a great soldier. Norm served his country with courage and distinction for over 35 years. The highlight of his career was the 1991 Persian Gulf War, Operation Desert Storm. 'Stormin' Norman' led the coalition forces to victory, ejecting the Iraqi Army from Kuwait and restoring the rightful government. His leadership not only inspired his troops, but also inspired the nation. He was a good friend of mine, a close buddy. I will miss him. My wife, Alma, joins me in extending our deepest condolences to his wife, Brenda, and to her family." — former Secretary of State Colin Powell.
"The men and women of the Department of Defense join me in mourning the loss of Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, whose 35 years of service in uniform left an indelible imprint on the United States military and on the country. The son of a decorated Army officer, Gen. Schwarzkopf followed his father's legacy of service by enrolling in West Point in the 1950s. His bravery during two tours in Vietnam earned him three Silver Stars, and set him on the path lead our troops into battle in Grenada, and then to take charge of the overall allied effort in the first Gulf War as commander of United States Central Command. Gen. Schwarzkopf's skilled leadership of that campaign liberated the Kuwaiti people and produced a decisive victory for the allied coalition. In the aftermath of that war, Gen. Schwarzkopf was justly recognized as a brilliant strategist and inspiring leader. Today, we recall that enduring legacy and remember him as one of the great military giants of the 20th century. My thoughts and prayers are with the Schwarzkopf family in this time of sadness and grief." — Defense Secretary Leon Panetta.
"I was saddened to learn today of the passing of Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, a fellow West Point graduate, former CENTCOM commander and one of the 20th century's finest soldiers and leaders. I join the civilian and military leaders of our country, and servicemen and women, past and present, in mourning his death. Gen. Schwarzkopf embodied the warrior spirit, serving with distinction in three conflicts over his 35 years of dedicated service. The hallmark of his remarkable career was the swift and decisive victory over Saddam Hussein's forces after they invaded Kuwait. The thoughts and prayers of the Joint Chiefs and the Joint Force are with Gen. Schwarzkopf's family and friends." — Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.


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Respite care is temporary care for a loved one that allows the primary caregiver time away from the responsibilities as a caregiver. The primary caregiver could use that time to visit other friends or family, to leave the house, to run errands or just give them a much-needed break. For whatever reason, respite care should give the caregiver peace of mind to get on with other things without having to constantly worry, "Is my loved one OK?"
In addition to offering a break for the caregiver, respite care can also help the senior by letting him or her interact with someone other than the primary caregiver in a safe and supportive environment. Respite caregivers can help the senior complete daily activities like housework or cooking, personal hygiene, mental stimulation or just offer companionship.
Respite care can take place in a hospice or medical facility, in a senior day care center or the comfort of the senior's own home.
Caring for a loved one is demanding, and everyone needs a break sometimes. Though your loved one no doubt appreciates your work, which allows Mom or Dad to stay comfortable in the home, the physical, emotional and mental burden to the caregiver can be overwhelming. Did you know that 40 to 70 percent of family caregivers have clinical symptoms of depression? 1 Further, over 10 percent of family caregivers report that caregiving has caused their physical health to deteriorate.2
By taking time to look after your own needs, including health, exercise and social interaction, you can ensure that you're able to look after your loved one to the best of your ability and give the person the care that is needed. It is perfectly normal to feel frustrated or burnt out, and respite care can be a great way to step away from these feelings and recharge. Respite care can also help with your loved one's health. Studies have shown that the number of hospitalizations decreases as the number of days of respite care increases.3
On average, family caregivers spend at least 20 hours a week caring for their loved one and in 13 percent of cases, they spend over 40 hours providing direct care.4 And keep in mind, your other commitments don't disappear when you start caring for a loved one. In fact, 60 percent of family caregivers remain employed.5
Respite care can help you make time for life outside of your caring duties. Even when you're out of the house, you may not be fully switched off from your responsibilities as a family caregiver and there are often feelings of guilt involved with having left your loved one's side.
Respite caregivers can help with tasks around the home, personal care, prepare healthy meals or simply keep your loved one company. Critically,med when your loved one is with a professional caregiver, you know Mom or Dad is in good hands, so you can spend guilt-free time doing the other things in life.
Respite care will be available to fit you and your loved one's schedules. Professional caregivers can visit as frequently as you desire on a program based around you and your loved one's needs. The care can be temporary or longterm. It will be available weekdays, weekends and holidays. A home care agency will work with you to create a care plan that works for both you and your loved one.
The number of hours of care that you need can vary depending on several factors. Are there other family members helping you provide care? What are your responsibilities away from your loved one? What is your work schedule? Do you have kids? Do you need a couple of hours twice a week or a full 24 hours away from the house?
It may also depend on what type of care your loved one needs. Does Mom require personal care? Does Dad have other companions who visit with him? Is Mom safe in the house alone? Does Dad need help taking medicines at set times of the day? Professional home care professionals will help you to build a care plan that looks after both your needs and the needs of your loved one.
It's also important to remember that as your loved one gets older or the condition worsens, more care may be needed. Your loved one's care plan is constantly evolving, and your home care provider can be there in the future to expand the role as needed.
The cost of respite care can vary depending on the type of care your loved one needs. How often your senior needs care also plays a role in determining cost and costs can vary across the country. A home care service provider should partner with you to schedule care as needed and within your budget.
In most cases, Medicare does not pay for long-term care. There are some instances where they may cover respite care for you and your loved one. If your loved one has a short-term condition and a doctor expects him or her to recover, Medicare may cover some care provided in the home.6 If your loved one has a terminal illness, and the doctor believes that the person has less than six months to live, and he or she accepts palliative care instead of treatment for the condition, your loved one may be covered. Medicare will cover respite care, both in the home and also short-term stays in a hospice or medical facility.7
If your loved one does not qualify for Medicare, there may be other ways to fund it. State Medicaid funds some forms of respite care (varies by state.) If your loved one is a veteran, he or she may be covered by the Department of Veterans' Affairs. If your loved one has long-term care insurance, this will likely include respite care.
1 Zarit, S. (2006). Assessment of Family Caregivers: A Research Perspective
2 How Do Family Caregivers Fare? A Closer Look at their Experiences. Center on Aging Society. 2005.
3 http://www.amchp.org/Calendar/Conferences/amchp-conference/Handouts2012/Sunday/E04%20-%20CYSHCN%20-%20Part%201%20-%20Handout3.pdf
4 https://caregiveraction.org/resources/caregiver-statistics
5 http://www.caregiving.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/mmi-caregiving-costs-working-caregivers.pdf
6 https://www.medicare.gov/coverage/home-health-services.html
7 https://www.medicare.gov/coverage/home-health-services.html
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It is once again time for the Canadian Cyclist Classics Fantasy Tour - Sponsored by Specialized, and this year there are two contests! The traditional men's contest, including all the top one day events, such as Milan-San Remo, Paris-Roubaix and both Canadian WorldTour stops, plus, for the first time, a Women's Classics Tour, which includes Canada's premier women's event, the GP Gatineau.
As always, Specialized Canada has provided fantastic prizes, with the top player in each contest to receive a Specialized bike worth over $2700. In total, over $8500 in prizes will be awarded for the two contests. Intermediate prizes will be awarded at the end of the Spring events to the top two players in each Pool, and overall prizes after the final World Cup event to the top five players in each Pool.
There have been some changes to the rules, so be sure to read them carefully. The most important one is the number of teams you may enter. This year, based on player feedback, we are limiting the number of team entries per person to three (3) per e-mail address used to register AND you need a (free) code to get your second and third entries. Your first team just requires registering for the Pool. To enter two more teams requires visiting your local Specialized Dealer and picking up a postcard with an entry code. The list of Specialized Dealers where you can obtain that code is listed Here. The same code will work for both the Classics and Women's Fantasy Tours, however, you can only register a maximum of three teams for any e-mail address.
The full list of prizes and complete rules can be found on the entry page for each event at the links below. Registration for each contest ends on April 7th at 5:00 pm EST.
Good luck!
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BOSTON (Reuters) - Workers tearing down Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, site of one of Americas worst school shootings, have been required by the town to sign confidentiality agreements barring them from discussing or photographing the site.
The move is aimed at protecting families of the victims from further airing of details of the incident in which a gunman entered the school last December and opened fire, killing 20 young children and six faculty and staff before turning his gun on himself, Selectman William Rodgers said.
"The town has already restricted access to the site among its own citizens, limiting access essentially just to families. Given that, a level of sensitivity is required among the workers too, and that is why we've done this," he said.
The town last month voted to accept a state grant of nearly $50 million to demolish the school and build a new one. Demolition, which will be conducted behind a screen perimeter to block onlookers, is meant to be completed before the December 14 anniversary of the shootings.
The mass killing prompted Connecticut, as well as neighboring New York and nearby New Jersey, to pass laws tightening their already restrictive rules on gun ownership. An attempt to pass stiffer federal laws died in Congress. Gun-rights advocates said tighter restrictions would harm law-abiding gun owners while doing little to deter crime.
Connecticut in September also released $5 million of an expected $15 million in state funding toward boosting security at school buildings, including installation of bulletproof glass, panic alarms, surveillance cameras and other technology.
That move came days after the United States experienced another mass shooting, when a gunman at the Washington, D.C., Navy Yard killed a dozen workers having breakfast before police shot him dead.
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It's been a while since our last update on a potential sequel for "X-Men: First Class," last year's critically praised film that took Marvel's famous mutants back to their early days and cast Michael Fassbender as their former ally and eventual arch enemy, Magneto.
With Fassbender turning up in films almost everywhere you look lately (the latest "Haywire" opening tomorrow), IFC managed to get a few moments with him to find out what's in store for the mutant master of magnetism, and what he knows about the next film's status.
Asked how he'd characterize his role in the first film — which seemed to be both hero and villain at times — Fassbender said that ambiguity was entirely intentional, and something they'd like to carry through in future installments.
"I get where [Magneto] is coming from, that's for sure — having read the source material, the comic books," he explained. "From what we know with human beings, history has told us that we're a pretty destructive race, so you can see where he's coming from. It's always interesting for me to have the villains doing positive things as well as negative or destructive things. I just think it's more realistic."
"It's like the actions will define the character . . . but it's more about making sure that it's intelligently written and there's a real driving force, there's real drama there, relationships are interesting, and that it's not lazy in anyway," he continued. "A lot of the times I think with action films, the plot can be pretty weak because it's taking a back seat to the action sequences and the special effects. What we wanted to do with 'X-Men' was definitely the reverse of that. We wanted to really focus on the characters and the plot and then have the action sequence there to sort of enhance the story."
And the balance established in "First Class" between action, character development, and plot is expected to measure out similarly in any sequels — at least as far as Fassbender and co-star James McAvoy understand it.
"Hopefully we'll get to do another one; that's what we want to carry that vein through for sure," he told IFC. "Personally, I do and I know James feels the same."
Referencing the on-again, off-again friendship between McAvoy's character, Charles Xavier, and Fassbender's magnetic mutant in the Marvel Comics universe, Fassbender hinted that there's always the possibility that they'll be on the same side again. Although if their comic-book history is any indication, it could take another threat bigger than both of them to bring the former friends together.
"You know what's interesting about Magneto and Professor X from the comic books as well, is there's such a complexity to their relationship," he explained. "It's not just like clear-cut enemies; they're best friends as well. In the comic books, even after they've had this sort of rift, Professor X asks Magneto to come back and look after the students at certain points."
"I think there's always that complexity in their relationship," he said. "And we want to keep that alive as possible, because that's I think a really interesting thing — the conflict there."
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England finished day two of the fifth Ashes Test in a strong position despite the late wicket of Kevin Pietersen.
Pietersen hooked Mitchell Johnson straight to debutant Michael Beer but the dependable Alastair Cook and nightwatchman James Anderson guided England to 167 for three at the close in reply to Australia's 280 all out.
That Australia got close to 300 was thanks to some late-order hitting from Johnson (54) and Ben Hilfenhaus (34), while Andrew Strauss crunched 60 off 58 balls to give England's reply early impetus.
The tourists must merely avoid defeat here to become the first England team to win an Ashes series in Australia since 1986/87.
Australia began a cloudy morning on 134 for four, and it seemed they needed a substantial contribution from at least one of Michael Hussey or Brad Haddin.
Instead, Haddin went tamely in only the fourth over of the day - chasing a wide ball from Anderson (four for 66) and edging behind on the back foot.
Hussey kept England at bay until Paul Collingwood struck with the final delivery before the second new ball was taken.
The dismissal was a triumph of the teamwork England prize so highly, after Hussey had crunched a series of tempting full balls into the covers only to have them cut off by well-positioned fielders in the ring.
Collingwood tried a different tack with the sixth ball of the over, a tighter line and a touch of inswing to the left-hander who inside-edged on to the top of his stumps in defence.
Chris Tremlett was unlucky to see his second over with the new ball go for 11 runs.
But Anderson exacted swift revenge on his behalf when Steve Smith aimed an ambitious drive at a ball which was not quite there for the shot - and edged to the safe Collingwood at third slip.
Moments later, more outswing brought Anderson his 20th wicket of the series - Peter Siddle edging obligingly, but less culpably than Smith, to first slip.
Johnson and Hilfenhaus were in no mood to go quietly, though, and England appeared to run out of ideas while the former was clubbing five fours and a six in his 63-ball 50.
Hilfenhaus hoisted a six over long-on off Tim Bresnan, and Johnson added a four and another maximum in the same favoured direction at the start of the next over from Graeme Swann.
It was therefore a significant relief to England when Johnson missed another swipe to leg and lost his off stump to Bresnan (three for 89), and Hilfenhaus was eventually last out - wonderfully caught high above his head by Matt Prior from an edge on an attempted hook at an Anderson bouncer.
With swing and occasional uneven bounce in the equation, stand-in Australia captain Michael Clarke handed Johnson the new ball.
That experiment did not work and as Australia mostly bowled too short, Strauss and Cook cut and pulled with conviction.
The captain was especially fluent on his way to a 49-ball 50 which contained seven fours, and a pull for six off Hilfenhaus in an opening stand of 98.
Australia hit back again, though - Hilfenhaus cutting his fingers across the ball from round the wicket and clipping Strauss' off-stump as he aimed wide of mid-on, and Jonathan Trott going for a duck when he played on via an attempted drive at Johnson.
Thereafter Cook made it his business - in company with Pietersen - to continue an accumulation which has already brought him more than 600 runs in this series.
The partnership was almost cut short as it moved towards 50 when Cook went for a big heave off Beer's left-arm spin, with Hilfenhaus accepting a simple chance at mid-on.
However, Billy Bowden immediately knew something was wrong - he signalled to third umpire Tony Hill, who confirmed Beer had overstepped, denying him a first Test wicket.
Both Cook and the partnership moved past 50 soon after, before a scrambled single off Beer took the opener to 5,000 runs in Test cricket - the second youngest man, after Sachin Tendulkar, to achieve the feat.
But Australia belatedly got their breakthrough as Pietersen top edged a hook shot off Johnson and Beer held a straightforward catch at deep backward square.


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Friday, February 10, 2012
Begging For Candy
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- JHMDF said...
Scottsquatch..... I mean Sassquatch is always watching from the woods on Halloween... waiting to steal your Tootsie Rolls.
- February 10, 2012 at 6:42 AM
- Mr Black said...
Fun as always. Are the kids you and someone you know or just made up. I know I use myself for a template for some of my creations. Also, I wanted to tell you I watched The Woman in Black last night and it was a religious experience. I loved it. Very creepy and atmospheric.
- February 10, 2012 at 6:45 AM
- Rot said...
Just some made up trickortreaters...
Cool. We've been planning to see this in the theater. Wanted to see it on the big screen.
- February 10, 2012 at 6:48 AM
- Jay's Shadow said...
I think this Halloween trick or treat night I am going to walk around and do the squatch call....
- February 10, 2012 at 7:20 AM
- Rot said...
we were walking in a park nearby and when we got in a desolate area I told bean i was going to do the Squatch call. I inhaled a giant gulp of air and got ready....I mentally heard the perfect bigfoot howl..but the second before it sang out, I lost my nerve...we laughed like idiots...and every time i tried, I was too embarrassed to do it.
I respect those guys doing that on camera..
- February 10, 2012 at 7:25 AM
- Jay's Shadow said...
Well, I guess I can come out and say this, last year when my parents,wife,daughter and daughter's friend were at Myrtle Beach S.C. I did a squach call on the crowded beach....my dad dared me to do it.
We all thought it was hilarious.
The rest of the beach didn't.
- February 10, 2012 at 8:22 AM
- Arcane said...
Love those tot's and their chats. Johnny Appleseed is looking good in the foreground.
- February 10, 2012 at 8:51 AM
- House Bloodthorn said...
We in the Pacific Northwest wish you lived here, too. Have I ever seen a Bigfoot?
(wait for it)
Not yeti.
- February 10, 2012 at 11:34 AM
- pensive pumpkin said...
And now I know what my celebration scream will be when I finish this Half Marathon. LOL
Thanks for the Woman in Black review, Mr. Black. Been wondering.
- February 10, 2012 at 12:37 PM
- Jon said...
Laughing out loud at the squatch call story...
- February 10, 2012 at 2:45 PM
- Jon said...
"No yeti"
I didn't read that until after making my last comment. Nicely done.
Also: weirdest word verification ever.
- February 10, 2012 at 2:48 PM
- Dave Lowe said...
Seriously Rot?
You set a bar for amazing Halloween themed decor, now you set another for Halloween themed comic strips?
Have I ever commented how much I hate you? LOL.
- February 10, 2012 at 10:09 PM
- Rot said...
Thanks, man!
- February 11, 2012 at 8:24 AM
- SaraB! said...
I love these little guys, they make me all nostalgic. This is the time of year when I start wishing for pumpkins and apple cider instead of snow and hot chocolate, so they're a welcome treat.
- February 11, 2012 at 3:39 PM
- Chris 'Frog Queen' Davis said...
I have been in the PNW for ...well, a long time...no Bigfoot yet...but I have not given up hope!! I always take my camera on walks!!!
....and when I see House Bloodthorn....I will punch him in the arm for that terrible comment! :D
- February 12, 2012 at 11:59 AM
- 3rik said...
Nicely done :)
- February 25, 2012 at 5:19 PM


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Scuderi: "Ugly but Effective"by Jon Rosen / Los Angeles Kings
Rob Scuderi turned 34 years old in December and is currently the senior member of the Los Angeles Kings' locker room.
Amongst the other 29 National Hockey League teams, only Toronto's John-Michael Liles, born November 25, 1980, and Vancouver's Roberto Luongo, born April 4, 1979, are younger "elder statesmen" of their team's respective rooms.
"I've been playing the same ugly but effective game since I was 18. If you pulled up college video of me, you'd be seeing me doing the same exact thing," Scuderi said. "Although I know I'm the oldest guy here, it's not something I think about or dwell on. I just try to enjoy myself and play the game hard and try to be a good leader for everyone else."
That "ugly but effective game" has helped Boston College win an NCAA Championship and the Kings and Pittsburgh Penguins win Stanley Cups. Though he admittedly misspoke at the time, there actually is some truth in "The Piece," a nickname affixed by his former Pittsburgh teammates when he gaffed during a Stanley Cup interview in 2009, accidentally referring to himself as "the piece" instead of "a piece" to a championship puzzle.
With Willie Mitchell and Matt Greene out of the lineup due to injury, Scuderi's stay-at-home smarts and ability to lead by example through his on-ice character, shot blocking and lane-clogging stick work are of heightened importance as a model for several younger blueliners whose defensive zone play has improved during the team's recent resurgence.
"He just does a lot of little things right that go unnoticed," Jake Muzzin said. "For me, I learn a lot just by watching him [in] practice, games. If I have a question, he's a pretty easy guy to talk to, so he helps me out a lot."
Providing that consistent voice before games and between periods hasn't necessarily been the role Scuderi has forged through his four seasons with the team. As someone who lets his on-ice contributions speak louder than any emotional oration he has delivered, there hasn't really been a major shift in his dressing room identity that is without a pair of character stay-at-home stalwarts.
"Maybe I'll try to be a little more vocal because Greenie's not around and he's usually the big voice in the locker room," Scuderi said. "You just try to pipe up a little bit and say what you think the team needs to hear. But overall I think the coaches have done a good job kind of explaining what we want to do as a philosophy out there, so besides maybe a guy picking up a useful tip – maybe just observing – we haven't had to talk [to the younger players] in detail about anything."
Simply observing Scuderi would be beneficial to the developing Muzzin as well as Andrew Campbell, who currently serves as the team's seventh defenseman and is yet to appear in an NHL game. The rough edges of the highs and lows of an NHL season have been smoothed over by the veteran defenseman whose consistency sets an example for his younger teammates to follow.
"Most older players develop that, and most of them [are] able to play longer because of that," Darryl Sutter said of consistency. "It's like talking about somebody Muzz's age to Rob's age. Well, maybe in 10 years you'll say, 'How about Muzzin? He's pretty consistent right now, isn't he?' It's experience."
The nebulous characteristics of Scuderi's veteran leadership are a challenge to define. On the ice he plays well without the puck. He blocks shots and is a steady counterweight to a more aggressive defensive partner. More importantly than that, the results from the team-wide defensive effort have been trending upwards. Entering game action on Wednesday, following Monday night's win against the Ducks, the Kings have held seven consecutive opponents below their seasonal scoring average. The team has won six of seven contests, limiting the opposition to seven total goals in those victories.
Personally, he's a plus-eight over his last four games. His two assists in Calgary last Wednesday marked his first two-point game since January 19, 2010.
Off the ice, it's impossible to measure intangibles such as "leadership" and "consistency," though the Syosset, New York native appears to set a strong example towards game preparation. Steadiness is surely a characteristic of an approach chiseled out by watching and observing the veterans when he was in a similar position as players like Muzzin and Campbell.
"It's kind of strange, because a lot of what you do is natural for you," Scuderi said. "I don't have a lot of offensive talent, but putting yourself in the right position, just knowing where to be, knowing where to put your stick, trying to drive a guy in a certain direction – a lot of those things kind of happen naturally that you develop over the course of your life, and you hope that maybe it's hard to explain, but hopefully a guy just sees it and sees how you do things. I know that's how I picked up some things – not necessarily through conversation, but just through observation and trying to pick up things to help myself."


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Tuesday, April 30, 2013
I Mustache You a Question...
Hola Amigas! I have another happy client. Here are birthday party invites I made for a pool party this summer.
I LOVE IT! and here is the inside of the invite
Of course the actual invite had all the deets. So what do you think? Are you looking for inviations or/and favors?
If so email me or call me I would love to work with you!
Paper: Wisteria Wonder, Basic Black, Whisper White, Silver Glimmer
Accessories: MDS, Big Shot, Chevron EF, Itty Bitty Punch Pack, Rhinestones, Dimensionals
Monday, April 29, 2013
Challenge 221-Celebration Projects
Hola Amigas. Hope everyone had a GREAT weekend. Here in JERSEY it was BEAUTIFUL! and of course that was short lived because today is cold and rainy. This week the LNS Challenge Crew are celebrating and we hope you will too.
You can make a card or project that celebrates something important to YOU! With Spring here (even though it's hidden) we have Weddings, Graduations, New Babies and so much more to celebrate.
I have chosen to create a birthday card. It seems that whenever I speak to my daughter she is telling me she got invited to yet another birthday party. I have yet to try the stacked birthday DSP and it was FUN and super easy.
What do you think? I hope you will play along with us this week. I look forward to seeing your artwork.
Paper: Rich Razzleberry, Summer Starfruit, Whisper White, Sycamore Street DSP
Stamp: Wishes Your Way
Ribbon and Accessories: Sycamore Street Ribbon and Button Pack
Thursday, April 25, 2013
Freaky Just Got FABULOUS!
Hola Amigas! Last month Solimar celebrated her 8th Birthday with a Monster High Bash! Here is the invite I made for her friends. This is called a Tri Fold Shutter Card.
I bought Martha Stewart Journals from Staples for $1.00 and covered them in Whisper White and the Binding in Basic Black. I bought all the girls a Monster High Stamp Set and they had a chance to decorate there journal with the stamp set along with the Just Jawing Stamp Set.
The girls also made a Just Jawing Card Set. There was FUN to be had and we had it!
Bella, Olivia and Ashley, 2 more BFFs showing off their Monster Teeth and Olivia (middle) came dressed as Jinafire Long. Ashley has a Glitter Tattoo on her face too courtesy of ME!
The GIRLS had a FREAKY FABULOUS TIME and so did I!
Paper: Melon Mambo, Whisper White, Basic Black, Silver Glimmer
Stamp Set: Just Jawing (retired)
Ink: Whisper White Craft, Melon Mambo
Accessories: Big Shot, Elegant Lines EF, Rhinestones, Pink Sharpie
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Ailya's 1st Birthday
Here are 1st Birthday Invitations that I was asked to make for a Special Little Girl. I love how I was able to use the Hopscotch Stamp to highligt that she will be 1 years old. I also inked up the Embossing folder to give the debossed areas a more vintage feel...
Paper: Pretty in Pink, Very Vanilla, Soft Suede
Stamp: Create a Cupcake, Recess
Ink: Soft Suede, Chocolate Chip
Ribbon: Pretty in Pink Satin
Accessories: Big Shot, Top Note Die, Vintage Wallpaper EF, Cupcake Builder Punch, Itty Bitty Shapes Punch Pack, Pearls, Adorning Accents Edgelits, Pretty in Pink Marker, Stampin' Dimensionals
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Iman's Ameen
Hola Amigas. I had the ABSOLUTE pleasure of making these invites for Iman's Ameen.
Looking forward to celebrating with Iman and her family! What an HONOR!
I was able to color match her name to the invite in MDS.
I am also making her favors to match.
Except they won't say Iman as they do now. It will say Thank You in Urdu. Inside I made a divider on the one side will have Tasbih Beads and the other will have 6 Hershey Nuggets.
RECIPE: ALL Stampin' UP!
Paper: Very Vanilla, Marina Mist
Stamp: Bella Toile BG
Ink: Marina Mist
Ribbon: Very Vanilla Satin
Accessories: Pearls, Big Shot, Perfect Pennants Die, Lacy Brocade EF, Circles #2, Essentials Paper Piercing Pack
Monday, April 22, 2013
Challenge 220-Switcharoo
What a fun challenge we have for you this week. We are going to find a scrapbook layout and use it for a card or vise versa! It is more fun that you would think--give it a try! Come by and view the inspiration for each of the Design Team samples on the LNS Challenge Blog.
Here is the Sketch that I used
I hope you can come by and play with this fun challenge this week.
Paper: Lucky Limeade, Rich Razzleberry, Melon Mambo, Whisper White
Stamp: Tea Shoppe
Ink: Melon Mambo
Accessories: Big Shot, Perfect Polka Dots EF, Designer Frames Folders, Extra-Large Oval Punch, Itty Bitty Shapes Punch Pack, Scallop Edge Border Punch, Rhinestone Basic Jewels
Paper: Lucky Limeade, Rich Razzleberry, Melon Mambo, Whisper White
Stamp: Tea Shoppe
Ink: Melon Mambo
Accessories: Big Shot, Perfect Polka Dots EF, Designer Frames Folders, Extra-Large Oval Punch, Itty Bitty Shapes Punch Pack, Scallop Edge Border Punch, Rhinestone Basic Jewels
Monday, April 15, 2013
Challenge 219-Paired Punches
Hola Amigas. It's slowly getting warmer and then Mother Nature takes it back...I love SPRING! My Mini Crafty Chicas met yesterday for their monthly card class. They are all 8 and I love their excitment. Here is one of the 5 cards they made. I knew I wanted one for this weeks challenge and this is perfect. We used the RETIRED Flight of the Butterfly with the RETIRED Butterfly Punch. They LOVED the two-step stampin and the matching punch. Here they used a pop up acetate and embossed butterfly in the upper right corner. I hope you will join us in our LNS Challenge this week. I love how Stampin' UP thinks of everything and coordinates our colors, stamps punches and SO MUCH MORE.
RECIPE: ALL Stampin' UP!
Paper: Whisper White, Daffodil Delight, Beyond the Garden DSP RETIRED
Ink: Daffodil Delight, Tangerine Tango
Ribbon: Tangerine Tango Satin SAB, Daffodil Delight Taffeta
Accessories: Acetate, Daffodil Flower Button SAB RETIRED, Big Shot, Lacy Brocade EF, Scallop Edge Border Punch
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Juneau Archery Club right on target for education and recreation
Published: 03/01/2012 13:20:00
Archery is a challenging sport and a lot of fun and the Juneau Archery Club makes it accessible for everyone. Their indoor archery range on Montana Creek Road is open to the public and provides a year round Archery Program as well as bow hunting safety classes. The President of the club, Richard Ely, gives us some details.
VIDEO: Archery is a challenging sport and a lot of fun and the Juneau Archery Club makes it accessible for everyone. (Image: Rik Pruett)
"The club was founded in 1987 here in Juneau, a bunch of archers decided they wanted to be able to pass archery on to other people so they got together, founded a club and we shot in different places until we were able to come here to the Fish and Game Montana Creek Shooting Facilities and we have one half of the building that we use now. We're open seven days a week, Saturday through Thursday is open shoots for anybody; you have to be a minimum of six years of age to come shoot. Friday night we dedicate to kids only so the only ones that shoot Friday night is six to fifteen year olds. Our memberships are really reasonable, for a single they're only fifteen dollars for a year, a family is twenty dollars; if you're a member it just costs you two bucks to come shoot as an adult; if you're a youth it doesn't matter if you're a member or not we only charge a dollar. And as a non-member we only charge five dollars. If you show up at 6 o'clock you can shoot for three hours for two dollars if you're a member. We provide equipment, as a member or non-member if you come and shoot, by paying the fees that gives you access to any of the bows up there, any of the gloves, arm guards, tabs, arrows; you can bring your own equipment, the only thing we ask is make sure that it's in good working order. All age levels are welcome, we have people that find us on a webpage, show up and say 'I'm interested in Archery, I don't know the first thing' and we teach them. And then we have people that come in that have been shooting for years just to get warmed up, keep their skills to get ready for hunting season."
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We plan to enroll our daughter in Distance Learning, 6th grade, in a school in the USA, in August or September 2012. In addition to that, my wife will Home School her, for the Colombian requirements: Spanish language, Colombian History, etc.
If anyone knows about web sites, mailing lists, forums, etc., for people in Colombia, please let me know what they are. Thank you!
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UFO watchers spot mysterious bone-like object on Mars
Curiosity delivers again: Another curious image from Mars to make us wonder
The latest oddity spotted by bloggers who follow the images coming from Mars rover Curiosity doesn't take a lot of imagination to see.
It really looks like a thigh bone. Well, some kind of bone.
According to UFO Blogger, the rover captured the image on Aug. 14.
It's the latest in a string of fossilized animals and other unexplained phenomena that bloggers have reported.
These sightings include an iguana, a cat, a dinosaur spine, two dinosaurs, a mysterious light, a toy boat, a half-human and half-goat face and a rock that popped up from one image to the next when the rover wasn't on the move (see all the photos above). NASA itself was initially puzzled by that one but determined the rock changed position when the rover turned in place and pushed the rock.
Curiosity has been on Mars since Aug. 6, 2012. It completed its first Martian year -- 687 Earth days -- on June 24.


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Any chance an image/video URL could be part of what is sponsored here? A picture could be in exchange for words. It would be interesting if I could respond to some posts not verbally but visually. And I'm not talking about spamming the site . visuals are how some of us think. Sometimes it feels far easier to draw a picture, or take a picture.
You could implement some sort of moderator review before it goes live. Maybe even music could be added. Shit if that ain't a voice to be heard.
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Statement from Professor Alan J Thorpe, Chief Executive, NERC, 23 June 2010.
'The Natural Environment Research Council is re-affirming the earlier decision to close the BGS core store at Gilmerton and re-locate the collections to the newly extended National Geological Repository at Keyworth.
The relocation of cores will begin in late summer 2010, and is expected to take some 18 months. This decision has attracted attention and it is clearly unpopular with some, but BGS and NERC have a responsibility to ensure they continue to deliver much-needed science and services with maximum efficiency and cost-effectiveness.
The National Geological Repository will be a national and international cutting-edge facility fit for purpose for decades to come. In closing the Gilmerton site, NERC and BGS are also driving greater efficiency and reducing their estates footprint.
Maintaining multiple core store facilities across the UK is not cost-effective and utilising the Keyworth facility will create real operational savings and enable the realisation of a capital asset.
The new facility will future-proof BGS's capacity to store on behalf of the nation other strategically important collections such as those that may be produced during future investigations into radioactive waste management, and carbon capture and storage in the North Sea and Irish Sea.'
The BGS manages the National Geological Materials Collection. A key component of this collection are borehole cores from both onshore and offshore (United Kingdom Continental Shelf). These are currently stored at three locations across England and Scotland, but they will be consolidated to one location at the BGS Headquarters at Keyworth.
In 2010 the Keyworth core store was extended to increase its storage capacity. The extended store has the capacity to hold the contents of the Gilmerton and Wallingford stores plus additional capacity for expansion.
The BGS is the custodian, on behalf of BEIS, of core samples and records collected by operators as a requirement of Petroleum Operations Notice 9. These are currently stored at the BGS site in Gilmerton, south Edinburgh. The BGS believes that the most cost-effective optimum way of guaranteeing improved availability and inspection facilities for these collections in the long-term is in a single, world-class facility. This facility will be comparable to other purpose-built national facilities such as in Bremen in Europe and in Calgary in Canada, and will future-proof the BGS's capacity to store other strategically important core collections such as those that will be produced during the next round of investigations into a geological repository for radioactive waste and carbon capture and storage in the North Sea and Irish Sea.
The BGS's decision to relocate the offshore cores from Gilmerton, Edinburgh, to Keyworth, Nottinghamshire, was taken following an independent consultant's review of all BGS information management facilities.
The review concluded that the creation of a single core store for UK collections at Keyworth was the most cost-effective solution, offering operational cost savings, the opportunity to reduce the BGS's estates and realise a capital asset and a reduced burden on the public purse. Maintaining multiple core store facilities across the UK is simply not cost-effective, and is an unjustifiable use of public funds.
The DECC offshore cores are just one of many resources made available to a wide range of industrial and academic users by the BGS. The consultant's review looked into where users travel from to use the cores at Gilmerton, and concluded that around three-quarters travel to Gilmerton from outside Scotland. Many oil industry users based in the Aberdeen area (both industry and academia) prefer to use cores stored within commercial repositories in that area.
A business case for extending the existing core storage facilities at Keyworth was submitted to NERC Council in summer 2009 as part of a major estates renovation investment project by NERC at the Keyworth site. This project is being delivered in line with full and rigorous Prince II management principles, and is operating within budget.
The full costs of the core relocation exercise are budgeted in the total project costs. These project costs have been provided to and scrutinised at length by the National Audit Office, and are available to view.
In rationalising its site BGS and NERC are responding to efficiency drives that emanate from Central Government via the Gershon Review. BGS demonstrated to the NAO that yearly cost savings of c. £200k are expected, and the eventual sale of the NERC-owned Gilmerton site will yield a sum in the region of £2m (this figure is based on an independent market valuation). The running costs for the Keyworth store will indeed be low, since heat energy will be piped free of cost from an adjacent new computer facility resulting in low reduced carbon emissions in the longer term. Further efficiencies will result from economies of scale including the operation of the new store by existing core store staff at Keyworth, and through mechanised handling procedures that have been in place at Keyworth for many years. BGS staff at Keyworth are entirely familiar with servicing the needs of industry and academic users of core, and do so on a regular basis.
Health and safety considerations are one of many factors that underpin the decision. Gilmerton is unsuitable for mechanised (fork-lift) handling, and the only way of shifting cores there is by manual handling. In contrast mechanised handling has been standard procedure in the existing Keyworth core store for many years. Cores are lifted on pallets by a Hi-Racker fork-lift and moved to the viewing rooms by conventional fork-lifts. The only manual element is sliding the boxes from the pallet onto the inspection tables, all at waist height.
At Gilmerton the cores are arranged in narrow aisles, from floor to head height. The staff lifting core from the floor level drag it backward into the aisle and then lift it onto a trolley for transfer into the viewing rooms. Staff can lift up to 25 kg by themselves, core boxes over 25 kg require two people to lift them. All core boxes are colour coded to indicate weight. A typical visitor will want between 100 to 200 boxes to look at the rocks in a section of a borehole; this would be typically be between 1 and 3 tonnes of core lifted by hand. The boxes then have to be returned to their storage locations after the visitors leave. The last member of staff to be hurt was on 26 January 2007, when they complained of back pain after moving core boxes. The incident was recorded as a near miss in the Accident Book.
BGS would like to underline the fact that, under the Health and Safety at Work Act, it is required to be proactive in reducing risk, rather than responsive in the event of an incident. We therefore believe that we should be following the best practise in core handling which has been in place at Keyworth for many years. Trades Unions at BGS are, unsurprisingly, highly supportive of this approach.
BGS has considerable experience of transporting cores, including friable materials. Examples include the 2009 shipment of several kilometres of very sandy cores from the New Jersey margin to the IODP Bremen repository, managed by the BGS team who work for the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program.
The precise methodology to be used in preparing the cores for photography and transportation is to be agreed by an independently-chaired group comprising BGS staff, conservation experts, industry representatives, and DECC, which will meet for the first time at Gilmerton in mid-June. The methodology will be published in due course.
BGS has undertaken to create a photographic image collection of the cores, and to make this available free of cost to the user via the BGS website. Commercial users have stated that such an image collection could significantly improve the efficiency of their activities by enabling them to do a substantial part of their work online, from any location with a web connection. The methodology to be used in preparing the cores for photography and transportation is to be agreed by a group comprising BGS staff, conservation experts, industry representatives, and DECC, which will meet at Gilmerton in mid-June. BGS believes this process to be achievable, and the methodology will be scrutinised by experts. BGS is indeed engaging with industry experts on the matter.
The decision to relocate the Gilmerton collections has attracted considerable attention, with much interest in the related costs. The following table presents the estimated costs provided to the National Audit Office (NAO) in March 2010 (published previously on this website), and the revised costs (as of late October 2010) based on actual contract values. The revised costs were presented to the BGS Board at its meeting on 2 December 2010 in Nottingham.
|Previous estimate (published March 2010 on this website and provided to NAO)
|Revised costs (October 2010) based on actual contract values
Construction of the Keyworth core store extension
|£1 900 000
|£1 720 000
|Photography and bespoke packing of cores
|£250 000–£350 000
|£289 089
|Relocation of the cores and paper archives (Gilmerton and Loanhead)
|£350 000
|£278 020
|Cost of pallets for transport and storage
|£350 000
|£303 588
|Income from Gilmerton site (guarantee from NERC, based on an independent market valuation)
|-£2 000 000
|-£2 000 000
|Income from Loanhead (guarantee from NERC)
|-£500 000
|-£500 000
|Total net cost
|£350 000–£450 000
|£90 697
The revised, actual costs for the Gilmerton relocation exercise are substantially less than the estimates made in March 2010. The reasons for the cost reductions are principally the actual costs of the core store extension (£180 000 less than the earlier estimate), and the actual costs of the pallets for transport and storage (£46 412 less than the earlier estimate). The cost of pallets is an essential capital cost for the extension to the core facility, and would have been incurred irrespective of whether or not the Gilmerton cores were relocated to Keyworth.
A £4.2m commercial quote form packing and transportation of the cores has caused much confusion in the context of the costs of the exercise. It should be understood that this quote was requested entirely independently of BGS without any discussion with the BGS over the detailed specification of the works involved, and the quote was provided in good faith by the commercial company.
The suggested commercial methodology is one more applicable to newly-extracted cores, not to cores that have already undergone transportation without any special packing or conservation whatsoever, and then invasively sampled by users. The suggested methodology therefore contains numerous elements that are simply unnecessary. Furthermore it involves removing every single core from its box and packing in bags; this process would undoubtedly damage some of the more delicate cores that the opponents of the move are most concerned about. BGS has commented in detail on the proposed methodology in information provided to the NAO.
As stated above, the methodology to be used in preparing the cores for photography and transportation is to be agreed by a group comprising BGS staff, conservation experts, industry representatives, and DECC, which will meet at Gilmerton in mid-June. It must be borne in mind that many of the Gilmerton cores are already in poor condition, having undergone extensive road transport within the UK with no special protective packing whatsoever, and subsequently invasively sampled by users at Gilmerton. The BGS's task is to ensure the safe transport of the cores without further deterioration in their condition.
Regrettably the Gilmerton store is not fit-for-purpose. Modern core storage facilities use mechanised handling, palletised storage and high racking for maximum space efficiency and to eliminate manual handling as far as possible. The existing Gilmerton premises are unsuitable for this method of storage because of height restrictions and foundation issues. The floor plan is unsuitable for palletised storage, being 'T-shaped' rather than rectangular. In addition, the flooring is unsuitable for the installation of palletised storage and would need to be dug out and the foundations strengthened. The building would need to be demolished and completely rebuilt, with the additional disruption of moving the core twice, into and out of temporary storage. This could lead to some parts of the collections being unavailable to industry for considerable periods of time, an issue that will not be presented by the move to Keyworth.
The use of the Gilmerton collections reflects the evolution of the oil and gas industry of the North Sea province. Its use by major oil and gas companies has significantly declined over the past ten years, but the collections are still used extensively by smaller oil and gas producers and consultants with the objective of developing smaller oil and gas plays. It will also play a role in the definition of reservoir characteristics for carbon capture and storage offshore in the North Sea. BGS is custodian of the Gilmerton cores and records under a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with DTI (now DECC) dated June 2005. This MoU is in the process of being updated.
Gilmerton core sample collection | Keyworth transfer methodology (including trial results) describes the methodology for stabilisation, photography and transportation to be used in the relocation to Keyworth, Nottinghamshire, of the UK Continental Shelf core and cuttings collections currently held at Gilmerton by BGS on behalf of the Department for Energy and Climate Change. The methodology has been developed by BGS in partnership with the specially convened and independently chaired Gilmerton Core Advisory Group comprising representatives from industry (including the Petroleum Group of the Geological Society of London), the Department of Energy and Climate Change, and the UK museum conservator community who have particular knowledge and experience in the conservation of ageing collections.
Comments on the details of the methodology were invited between 5 November and 10 December 2010.
The results have been collated and appropriate notes added by the Gilmerton Core Move Advisory Group. For more information download the Feedback Review document. The BGS thanks all those who provided feedback.
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He becomes frustrated that his father is still spending more time with Finn (in the episode, Kurt dresses like his dad and pretends he's no longer gay while singing John Mellencamps' Pink Houses and dating Brittany) and sings this song to express his acceptance of his personality. He expresses his anger at the way his father seems to ignore him, for the "son" he always wanted (referring to Finn). Burt overhears his performance, and reassures Kurt that he still loves him.
The song is originally performed by Ethel Merman in the musical Gypsy: A Musical Fable as the finale and it was also performed by Patti Lupone (Kurt's idol) in the 2008 Broadway Revival of the musical. It was written by Stephen Sondheim and Jule Styne.
All that work, and what did it get me?
Why did I do it?
Scrapbooks full of me in the background.
Give 'em love, and what does it get ya?
What does it get you?
One quick look as each of 'em leaves you.
All your life, and what does it get ya?
Thanks a lot, and out with the garbage.
They take bows, and you're battin' zero.
I had a dream.
I dreamed it for you, Dad.
It wasn't for me, Dad.
And if it wasn't for me, then where would you be,
Miss Rachel Berry?
Well, someone, tell me; when is it my turn?
Don't I get a dream for myself?
Starting now, it's gonna be my turn!
Gangway, world, get off of my runway!
Starting now I bat a thousand!
This time, boys, I'm taking the bows and...
Everything's coming up Kurt!
Everything's coming up Hummel!
Everything's coming up Kurt!
This time for me, ha ha ha ha ha!
For me!
For me!
For me!
For me!
For me!
For me! Yeah!
- Only a small portion of the song is sung in the episode. Some of the lyrics were changed to fit Kurt's storyline:
- "Everything's coming up Rose; everything's coming up Rose's" is changed to "Everything's coming up Kurt; everything's coming up Hummel."
- "June" and "Herbie" is changed to "Dad."
- "Gypsy Rose Lee" is changed to "Rachel Berry" as a possible reference to the Defying Gravity diva-off in Wheels.
- Kurt would later sing Some People, also from Gypsy, in Funeral.
- After Kurt sings the lines "All that work and what did it get me?," Dominic Barnes, the actor who portrays Trent, is seen walking by.
- This is also the first performance that has a background showing (one of) the performer's name in lights. The second one is Human Nature in Michael, which showed Mercedes' name.


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I migliori libri anglo-asiatici del 2010. The Guardian ha pubblicato la top ten di Nikesh Shukla.
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Nikesh Shukla. Wednesday 22 December 2010
From Hanif Kureishi to Helen Walsh, the novelist celebrates books that find room for naked raves and Bruce Springsteen as well as wrangles over arranged marriages
1. Hanif Kureishi – The Black Album (Faber)
While The Buddha of Suburbia is a masterfully comic tale of rise and fall that loves its characters, there's something a lot more sinister about The Black Album, making it the oddball in his output. It seems to foreshadow works like Four Lions, City of Tiny Lights and even the forthcoming Ours Are the Streets by decades, and is written with the energy and exuberance of Kureishi's early work, embodied by the raw funk of Prince's eponymous album, and the dizzying chemical overload of the ectasy that fills the rave scenes. It charts clean-cut Shahid's trip into hedonism and flirtations with fundamentalism with eerie prescience, and its take on the classic Anglo-Asian identity crisis tale throws a cleancut, sheltered lad in at the deep end of a naked rave party.
2. Hari Kunzru – My Revolutions (Penguin)
Hari Kunzru takes a break from technology-obsessed India and colonial India to deliver a bittersweet tale of the realities that befall an activist commune, and the secrets and regrets that haunt them well into their dotage. The slow-burn reveal of how all the empassioned polemics and free love fell out is beautifully explored, from the impetuousness of their adolescent smugness into the 20-20 hindsight of guilt and regret. Refreshingly un-brown, which is a rare allowance by a publisher for an "ethnic" author.
3. Sarfraz Manzoor – Greetings from Bury Park (Bloomsbury)
The way this book deals with how a song, a band, a movement can transend race and religion, colour and creed is one close to my heart, and reading about Manzoor's tribal bond with first Bruce Springsteen and then rock'n'roll reminds me of how hip-hop helped me to belong to a club where I knew little of the other members. His descriptions of being British and Muslim and being unsure of how to reconcile the two is wonderfully honest, painful, brutal and triumphant, and damn, he's been one of my must-read journalists for years. It pretty much says everything I want to say about dual heritage and about music but better and makes me … well, feel like I should have given up and he should be writing this list not me.
4. Sathnam Sanghera – The Boy with the Topknot (Penguin)
When successful journalist and materialist Sathnam Sanghera was 24 he discovered his father and sister were both suffering from a severe mental illness he hadn't been aware of. As he researched their conditions and how they had come to be hidden (through ignorance of schizophrenia and guilty family secrets) he started to piece together his history and that of his parents. Each family member is memorable, from his silent father obsessed with BBC Parliament despite his lack of English; his mother, neurotic and obsessed with finding him a wife of equal caste, holding the family together; his brother with his growing obsessions with fashion icons of the times and his two sisters, funny and nasty by turns. The book closes with a letter to his mother, explaining the choices he has made and the secret life of dating white girls and the amount of panic and depression it causes him. But its also warm and funny – especially where he has his hair cut for the first time, a big Sikh no-no.
5. Helen Walsh – Once Upon a Time In England (Canongate)
A story of one moment that changes everything, and leaves a couple desperately in love spending a lifetime passively battling each other for release. Here, it is a brutal act of racism against working man's club singer Robbie's beautiful Tamil wife, Susheela. Set in the north, and featuring plenty of small-town suffocation, dreams fade and hope dims, lives collide and their children grow up in that inbetween world, never quite sure of who they're meant to be and who their parents wish they were. A bittersweet joy to read.
6. Niven Govinden – Graffiti My Soul (Canongate)
The ultimate coming-of-age novel, tenderly exploring the suffocation of suburbia, in small-town Surrey where Verapen, a half-Tamil, half-Jewish running obsessive reminisces about the girl he has just buried, his love Moon Suzuki. He ascribes rules to what he can handle in his life (not much beyond the running), which is difficult given that his parents, in the midst of their own crises, aren't following the rules set out for him. Govinden's charm, warmth and ability to wring a heart-wrenching tale out of teenage life make this less a retread of culture-clash concerns and more about the perils and pitfalls of being a teenager in the grand tradition of JD Salinger.
7. Anjali Joseph – Saraswati Park (Fourth Estate)
The beauty of the whole diaspora writing thing is seeing how Anglo-Asians write about living here and there, back in the "desh". Another debut of note from this year was Anjali Joseph who manages to write about a startlingly modern India, with slackers and movers and shakers and lovers familiar from contemporary London. It captures the middle classes of Mumbai with still, quiet clarity and tells a tragicomic and tale about modern family life.
8. Gautam Malkani – Londonstani (Fourth Estate)
Grossly mismarketed as highbrow literary fiction, Londonstani works best as a YA novel aimed at showing teenagers how easily they descend into warring tribes. It's a Lord of the Flies for our time, set in a west London tense with Muslim/Hindu/Sikh tensions, wicked mobile phones and the purest of friendships poisoned by the lure of money. As the characters try and escape their urban-suburban existences, external forces seek to use them against others. A poignant and gritty book about the difference between friendship and tribalism.
9. Rajeev Balasubramanyam – In Beautiful Disguises (Bloomsbury)
Balasubramanyam's only book released in the UK has moments of frivolity and fantasy that exploit Bollywood tropes with such imagination and wonder that you can't help but be spirited away. The narrator, burdened with a bullying dad, obedient sister and mute mother, is moments away from the obligatory arranged marriage scenario. Her only escape is the pictures, where she learns to ape Holly Golightly and the other starlets. Escaping to the big bad city she learns that … well… I'm sure you can guess. But this is a beautifully energetic book that captures the spirit of escapism and its collision with reality superbly.
10. William Sutcliffe – Are You Experienced? (Penguin)
Ahh levity, my old friend – welcome back, after the heart-wrenching emotiveness of some of the books above, sometimes you just want to read about backpackers trying to find "the real India" – all toilet disasters and sexy gurus and scam artists ahoy as Sutcliffe leads us from Delhi to Goa via recreational sex and drugs, and boy, is it fun. And surprising that the funniest book on this Anglo-Asian list was written by someone more Anglo than Asian.
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FCIAC, SCC announce football crossover for 2013 and 2014
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After months of negotiations, the FCIAC and SCC announced an agreement on Tuesday afternoon that should provide an unprecedented kickoff to the high school football season in Connecticut the next two years.
The leagues, taking advantage of an extra week in each of the next two seasons that will allow schools to play 11 regular season games, will hold 24 contests in both 2013 and 2014, including 17 in the opening week.
Staples and Xavier, which played for the CIAC LL state championship a year ago, will now face each other to start the next two seasons. The same can be said for New Canaan and Daniel Hand, last year's Class L finalists.
"It's a tremendous opportunity for the SCC and FCIAC, and I am so pleased," SCC commissioner Al Carbone said. "It was a collaborative effort between the two leagues. We know we are the best two leagues in the state. There are a lot of risks for our schools, teams and coaches playing competitive games like this."
Indeed, some of the state's top teams will face the prospect of opening the next two seasons with losses that could endanger their postseason prospects.
"It's scary, but it's good for high school football," said New Canaan head coach Lou Marinelli, who is the head of the FCIAC football committee and was active in the negotiations between the leagues. "You are now going to start the year with a tough common opponent against some of the best teams in the state. It is definitely a risk with the state tournament."
Some of the other more intriguing contests will include Darien facing Hillhouse and Greenwich taking on West Haven. Stamford and Fairfield Prep, rivals in a bygone era, will meet again.
To make the most of the opportunity and gain the greatest exposure, the games will be spread out over four days. The sites, dates and times have not yet been announced.
In addition, since each league has an odd number of members, seven more games, spread out during the course of the season, were set to help schools fill byes.
"I'm even more excited about some of those games," Carbone said.
Right now only New Canaan and Brien McMahon are left in the FCIAC to fill open spots in their schedules.
The biggest obstacle in finalizing the plan was caused by Amity, which prior to the talks had agreed to play Seymour. Amity refused to alter its schedule, which created a void for Norwalk, which was matched up against Amity.
In the end, Norwalk and Westhill agreed to meet in the opening week, while Branford, which was supposed to face Westhill, agreed to find another game.
"If you look top to bottom, there are some very competitive games," Carbone said. "That's what high school sports are all about."
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Incident Management Process
OIT's Incident Management process helps restore normal IT service operation as quickly as possible. Incidents are events that are not part of the standard operation of a service. These events may cause an interruption to or a reduction in the quality of that service. Incident Management is meant to minimize impact on University business operations, ensuring that the best possible levels of service quality and availability are maintained.
Where an IT incident is considered to be serious in nature, or multiple occurrences of similar incidents are observed, a problem record may be created. It's possible that the problem will not be recorded until several incidents have occurred. The process of Problem Management varies from the process of Incident Management.
The formal process of Incident Management began in July of 2013 and should be fully functional by the end of 2014.
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Conservation and Environment in Mexico: Monthly Updates
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Patrolling the beaches was one of the most important activities over the last few months. Driving into the dark with mist rolling in from the marine breeze is a thrilling experience. We searched for the adult female turtles and collected their eggs so we could protect them from predators and poachers in a secure and controlled hatchery. The eggs will be incubated until they hatch. During this time the volunteers had the opportunity to see hatchlings come out of the nest and be released into the ocean.
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With the year coming to a close we are reaching the exciting time when the Leatherback turtles (Dermochelys coriacea) are visiting our beach to lay their eggs for the season. We have safely protected three nests in our hatchery and are looking forwards to the first one due to hatch in the early part of January. We even had one lucky volunteer see one of these magnificent turtles laying her eggs!
This high season has turned 2014 into a record breaking year with regards to the amount of nests that the Olive Ridley sea turtles (Lepidochelys olivacea) have laid. We are only half way through October and have already collected over 2,700 nests since June.
The high season for the Olive Ridley (Lepidochelys olivacea) laying their nests is truly upon us. In the first six months of the year, we managed to gather 228 nests but now, only two months into the high season, we have gathered 1,117 nests and regularly gather 30 to 40 nests per night. Our highest recorded amount this year was a night only a week ago when we collected 90 nests from out patch of beach. This equates to 8,293 eggs protected in a single night.
With June the 15th being the official start of the high season for the Olive Ridley Turtles (Lepidochelys olivacea) to lay their nests, we are working hard to prepare ourselves for the very busy period we are expecting soon. We finished off the low season on the very respectable number of 230 nests from the beginning of January until the 15th June.
With the low season for turtle nesting in full swing we have had a low but steady income of nests over the past two months, bringing the total number of nests found since the New Year up to 190. Including 4 Leatherback (Dermochelys coriacea) nests and in our most recent nest we have placed a temperature probe so we can really try to get to grips with what is going on in the nesting intricacies of this majestic species.
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