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Cosmopolitan Property Buyers Still Holding Their Breath
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February 1, 2011|
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It's like waiting for the axe to fall! Will Portugal follow Ireland and Greece and turn to the EU and IMF to avoid defaulting on its sovereign debt? And in this cosmopolitan world of interdependent economies, will Spain be the next domino to fall – bringing the very survival of the euro into question?
Despite our apparent economic and monetary sophistication, the fact is that nobody really knows. Greece said it didn't need aid. Ireland said it didn't need aid. But in the final analysis, both countries took the cash. On that basis, nothing the Portuguese or Spanish governments say should be taken at face value.
But here's the view of one of the world's leading economists, 2010 Nobel Prize winner, Christopher Pissarides of the London School of Economics, one of those who believes that if the Spanish economy does collapse, the threat to the euro may indeed be too overwhelming to resist.
"If Spain collapses the way Greece collapsed, for instance, then in my view even the stronger European countries, and Germany in particular, would probably be unwilling or unable to accumulate the funds needed for a bailout.
"On that basis, I would say that EU policymakers need to seek a more fundamental solution instead – and one of the possible solutions would be if Spain were to revert temporarily to the peseta."
Despite a successful bond auction in the middle of January – just a matter of weeks ago – concern that Spain won't be able to reduce what has become the eurozone's third-highest budget deficit has driven up the cost of finance for Spanish banks – which have more than €30 million in debt falling due over the next four months.
Even so, the likelihood of dramatic pre-emptive action by the EU or the Spanish government still appears to be remote. There's no political appetite for a return to the peseta and the admission of failure that that would entail. Paralysis, it appears, is the order of the day.
"Throughout this whole crisis, including the current threat to Spain, the response of policymakers in Europe has been terribly reactive", says Russell Jones, Global Head of Fixed Income Strategy at Westpac Banking Corporation, Australia's oldest bank.
"That's just giving a greater incentive for the markets to continue their speculative attacks on various bond markets – and driving this further on towards a rather unpleasant conclusion."
Here on Mallorca, Michael Cunnington of real estate agents, MJC Associates, who work with Savills, agrees that political will – and perhaps even backbone – appears to be in unfortunately short supply.
"As in other countries, political will in Spain tends to be very much short-term orientated", Cunnington told abcMallorca. "And the problem is that, as elsewhere, opposition parties tend to simply criticize the government for whatever measures it takes, without proposing any sensible alternatives.
"But with an unemployment rate of 20 percent, Spain certainly has a long way to go before it sights recovery – and the banks in particular still have to reconcile the exposure to property on their balance sheets."
And yet as 2011 gets into its stride, the state of the property market on Mallorca could be so much worse, according to Daniel Chavarria Waschke, the spokesman for Engel & Völkers, which operates in 40 countries on five continents.
In its end-of-year review for 2010 and preview of 2011, Engel &Völkers says total sales on the island for 2010 ended at pretty much the same level as in 2009 – with the average value of sales in the south-west at around €1 million, and the average value in the north settling in or around €850,000.
"All in all, 2010 closed somewhat better than we expected following a slow summer", said Chavarria Waschke. "Our indicators show that the market is now stable, with slight price increases – if any – expected towards the end of 2011.
And yet in some parts of Spain, the market appears to be back almost to where it was before the global property crash – with plenty of money washing around for 100 percent finance …
In Murcia, for example, one development is advertising plots of land of 228 square metres for just £25,000 sterling a throw. There's apparently 100 percent finance available on the plots. There's a 133 percent buy-back scheme after three-and-a-half years. The developers say you can build your own three-bedroom detached villa for a total of £85,000 sterling including the land and building costs – which is 50 percent below the market value of comparable properties.
The development is somewhere in the region of Lake Argos, where, the advertising tells us, Paramount Theme Park has announced it's building a new resort which should attract three million visitors to the area and create 20,000 jobs. There's even a new airport planned for this very year.
In some lucky corners of Spain it seems it's just like the old days – with not a qualified promise, a "maybe", or a nod to the ailing state of the Spanish economy anywhere. Caveat Emptor.
And yet broadly across Spain, the latest figures from the statistics bureau, Instituto Nacional de Estadistica (INE), show that residential property prices fell by 2.2 percent in Q3 2010 compared with the same period in 2009. The prices of both new and second-hand properties are falling – down 2.6 percent and 1.8 percent respectively on the year.
Madrid was the only region to have marginally rising prices in Q3, up 0.9 percent compared to a year earlier. Andalucia had a fall of 2.2 percent. The Balearics were down 2 percent. The Canaries dropped 2.9 percent. And the biggest fall of all was Cantabria, down 6.7 percent.
All of this, according to the Bank of Spain, means prices are already back roughly to 2005 levels and could fall further. So Mallorca's cosmopolitan property buyers are holding their breath. They can find substantial value today – but many investors believe we still haven't seen the bottom yet. Another few months of 2011 should tell.


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This map should fit your needs https://sites.google.com/site/fragnbrag ... -epic-town
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On Friday and Saturday, men's track and field competed in the New England Intercollegiate Amateur Athletic Association (NEICAAA) Championships at the Reggie Lewis Center in Boston. The meet included teams across all athletic divisions, and the Jumbos faced tough competition. Overall, the team finished ninth out of 31 teams and had a number of its athletes qualify for the NCAA Championships.
The meet kicked off on Friday with some good showings from the Jumbos. Junior jumper Stefan Duvivier won the high jump, clearing a height of 2.10 meters and earning his fourth straight win in the event. His score ranks third nationally. Duvivier also set the new Tufts school record for the high jump, replacing the old record of 2.08 meters, which he set earlier this season. Senior tri-captain Luke O'Connor took third in the finals of the 5,000-meter run with a time of 14:52.11. O'Connor and Duvivier's combined scores resulted in 16.2 points for Tufts on the day and put them in third place at the end of Friday. Unfortunately for the Jumbos, senior tri-captain sprinter Nick Usoff missed out on qualifying for the 400-meter finals by .001 seconds.
On Saturday, sophomore hurdler/jumper Josh Etkind finished seventh in the 60-meter hurdles with a time of 8.29 seconds. He finished second in the preliminaries however, running a 8.16 time that broke Tufts' school record and replaced the record of 8.25 he set last year. His time ranks him seventh nationally. The 4×400-meter relay team, composed of senior Usoff, junior hurdler Andrew DiMaiti, sophomore mid-distance runner Thomas Doyle and first-year long sprinter/long hurdler Billy Witrock finished fourth, improving on their season-best time with a 3:18.31 and scoring five points for the team. DiMaiti went on to place seventh in the 400-meter dash, adding two more points to the team's total. First-year short sprinter Robert Jones garnered a point for the team in the 60-meter dash by running a time of 7.05 and placing eighth in the race. The 4×800 relay team, made up of junior mid-distance runner Tom DePalma, sophomore mid-distance runner Christian Swenson and first-year mid-distance runners Roman Lovell and Matthew D'Anieri, also earned a point with an eighth place time of 7:53.49.
The Jumbos ended the meet with a total of 27.2 points, finishing ninth out of the 31 teams competing at the event. This was the highest the Jumbos have placed in the NEICAAA Championships since before 2000. Northeastern won with a score of 177 points. Even though the Jumbos finished ninth, they finished third out of all the Div. III teams competing at the race, only losing out to Middlebury, which finished sixth with 33 points, and the Coast Guard Academy, which finished eighth with 27.5 points.
Senior tri-captain Tom Wang was happy with how the team competed against non-Div. III teams.
"Better competition will always be motivation to step it up, so it was fun to see our guys race other respectable athletes in other divisions," Wang said. "At the same time, I don't think this scared anyone or changed anything about how we prepared for this meet. We know we are good. We know we can compete amongst some of the best in New England."
The Jumbos will host the Tufts Final Qualifying Meet on March 4 in Gantcher Center. This will be the Jumbos' last chance to earn qualifying times for the NCAA Championships on March 10–11.
Currently, sophomore mid-distance runner Hiroto Watanabe, Nichols, O'Connor, Etkind and Duvivier have all qualified for nationals. Usoff thinks there are still some Jumbos who will be able to qualify, however.
"There are definitely a lot of people who are close [to qualifying]," Usoff said. "It just takes one good meet and we definitely have the advantage being on the home track, so we will try to utilize that. We're pretty hopeful more guys can hit the mark."
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COLORADO SPRINGS — The Norris-Penrose Event Center is the home of the state cross-country meet this fall, it is also the location for the Cheyenne Mountain Stampede that took place this past week. Distance runners from all over the state took part in what has been coined the Pre-State meet for a chance to break in their running legs on the course that will decide who takes home medals this October.
Alamosa hit it hard, placing second in both boys and girls 3A class competition. In 2A the Centauri girls picked up a third-place finish with 66 team points. Also competing were Centauri boys and Del Norte's boys although both squads were a body short of competing as a team.
For Alamosa's boys, the top place individual finish went to Josh Medina who placed 6th overall. Medina was followed closely by teammate Josh Lopez who took tenth place overall. Cole Schweizer rounded out third place on the five-person team, running the course in 18:55. Alamosa boys as a team would score a collective 111 beating out Frontier Academy by four points to take second place.
Alamosa's girls enjoyed similar success, with a 75 point team score also taking second place. All 3A girls cross-country runners were paced by Alamosa senior Lilly Lavier who ran the course in 19:14 (26 seconds faster than her 13th place bid at last year's State Championship) and took first overall on Friday. Following Lavier, was teammate and sister Emily Lavier. Emily took 2nd on the team and 8th overall with a time of 21:44.20. Finishing third on the six runner team was senior Alliyah Molina who ran a 22:53.10.
In the 2A class, Centauri's girls put together a strong effort on the championship course led by junior Lizzie Valentine. Valentine would finish 6th overall. Behind Valentine were freshman Abigail Sowards and junior Alyssa Bagwell who placed 15th and 17th respectively keeping the Falcon's point totals low and registering a third-place finish for the Centauri girls.
Looking forward Del Norte's next action is scheduled for August 30th at Widefield. Centauri will go back to work August 31st with a meet at Lake County, while Alamosa's runners aren't scheduled to be back until their shared home meet with Adam State on Sept. 7 at Cattails Golf Course, which figures to attract most of the local Cross-Country clubs.
Complete results from Cheyenne Mountain Stampede below.
2. Alamosa Girls - 75
1. Lilly Lavier 19:14.00
8. Emily Lavier 21:44.20
21. Alliyah Molina 22:53.10
26. Abby Wubben 23:25.90 21
35. Whitney Thong 24:26.00
38. Annahi Molina 24:35.50
2. Alamosa Boys - 111
6. Josh Medina 17:52.10
10. Josh Lopez 18:18.30
25. Cole Schweizer 18:55.10
30. Santiago Trujillo 19:03.30
46. Gradie Gardner 19:36.40
3. Centauri Girls – 66
6. Lizzie Valentine 23:34.30
15. Abigail Sowards 27:05.60
17. Alyssa Bagwell 27:32.20
24. Kalee Salazar 28:13.00 17
32. Reanna Bagwell 30:16.30
Centauri Boys
42. Erik Mestas 22:54.20
53. Breck Guymon 26:21.80
54. Bo Cormier 26:28.40
64. Josh Taylor 37:55.30
Del Norte Boys
15. Logan Cestone 20:11.40
34. Kyle Dahle 22:13.70
36. Ben Parra 22:25.00
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Hey there! PoisonxPoptart back with some more community rankings! Every week (except last week) I collect votes from the community ranking all of the ammy teams. I went ahead and wrote a little a bit about the teams and what I think, and this week Reyas went ahead and did the same and will also be included in this writeup! So BIG shoutout to Rey for giving us some quality insight (and probably more entertaining then my writeups).
I hope you enjoy the rankings and I'll be back next week for more!
12. Reflex (11.17 average ranking) (+0 position from last week)
Record: 0-3
No games in week 2
Off to a rough start, and since I didn't do writeups last week, this week better than never since Reflex didn't play in week 2. Going 0-3 against some tougher teams like Underrated and Hyperdrive, but even getting sweeped against pre season low rankers Wrecking Crew all in week one. And going into the season I'd think that Reflex would be a solid team, but just seeing how everything is coming together so far, the roster just seems awkward, there doesn't seem to be a standout player really other than Taco and he's more of a support player. Next week Reflex has games against Defiance and Oblivion, I think they could pull the win off against Oblivion, but most likely a loss against a top tier Defiance.
MVP of the week: N/A
MVP of the season: Nuclear Taco
Reflex is a tough team to write about at this current point in time as whilst they do currently sit on a 0 wins 3 loss record, they have been without their big money player pacfan for two of those losses. Two 4 minute losses without pacfan compared to their best performance of the season thus far being with pacfan shows the influence he has on the team. If Pacfan is able to be available for games throughout the season then this team could easily get a few wins in. No games played in week two but an important matchup against fellow 0/3 team Oblivion and a double header vs Defiance in week 3 could be the deciding factor of how their season will go.
MVP of the week: N/A
MVP of the season: Nuclear Taco 42
11. Bad Intentions (11.33) (+0)
Record: 0-3 (0-1 in week 1)
Losses against Underrated 5-0 and 5-1
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OVERweightGOAT (Jaybar)
James Fury
2 losses to Underrated was expected and it's been some hard matchups for Bad Intentions in the first two weeks. I am glad to see at least the main 3 (DJ, halfbreed and Jaybar) playing this week. BI is definitely off to a rough start though, 0-3 and only 2 goals scored so far this season, even if it was against some of the better teams there's some story telling with those stats just alone. It's easy to understand why they are in this position. It seems Jaybar and Halfbreed still aren't very used to the game yet, but even with that, games against them I'd still see few moments where they've shined and I think with more games they'll start to become threats again. DJ is DJ, get's a lot of kills, slays things, has fun. James Fury has impressed in some moments with his sword and his ability to pressure the runner. With that being said I would like to see DirtyMurder in the lineup with the other 3 at some point. I do understand the fun aspect to this team, and I respect that, I almost know that this team could have serious potential with just Jaybar and Halfbreed alone if they cared enough about improving at H5. Next weeks is a pretty tough week just for the fact that they have to play against Legendary, but then games against Wrecking Crew and Zero Gravity could really show where this team is and if they deserve such a low ranking.
MVP of the week: James Fury
MVP of the season: halfbreed105
With 3 defeats and only 2 goals scored so far for Bad Intentions it's not looking good.. They've yet to even last 10 minutes in a game, with only 7 carried kills between their 3 main players, showing that the team is incapable of defending once they have lost possession of the ball. Their one saving factor is that new player James Fury has shown he can handle a ball should his 3 teammates be able to tank well to support him, something which they have been unable to do thus far. If they can practice a bit more and work on staying alive and tanking as a team then Bad Intentions could push to get a few wins but I can't see them making playoffs this season.
MVP of the week: James Fury
MVP of the season: halfbreed105
10. Oblivion (10.14 avg) (+0)
Record: 0-3
Losses against Hyperdrive 5-0, Secret Society 5-0 and Underrated 5-1
Dooms Day 584 – 3 Games Played
Mr Epicbeast – 3
GamezoMcStuffit – 3
Danglypants – 1
XBXDave (MrRedRing?) – 1
FluffyGodFather – 1
Not an easy start for Oblivion, all 3 of their first games against high tier teams, definitely the underdogs going into those games. Going into the season I was hoping for a bit more, but there's not currently any power players for this team, the 2 big threats you have are Doomsday, who has been impressive to me at times with his tanking and running ability when just generally playing against him, and he's usually just a smart player in general. I haven't seen much of that in the game we played against them, and stats wise it isn't showing up either, I think chance of success out of this team will be through Dooms and we'll hopefully see that when Oblivion plays against some of the mid tier teams. The other main player that I was expecting more out of was Gamezo, but it's still kind of the same thing is that we haven't really seen much of his true potential in actual games, but maybe that's because Gamezo (to me) is more of a support player and he can't really build momentum of this team right now. Oblivion looks like a team that is filled with players that I would want to help make a team stronger rather than build around, still think Dooms squad still has a chance to be a good team, but yet again we won't really know until some more games, but yet the hard season continues next week against a game immediately against Legendary, but then they should have a game that I would say they're favorites for against Reflex.
MVP of week: Dooms Day 584
MVP of season: Dooms Day 584
It's not looking good for Oblivion. 3 games played, 3 losses and only 1 goal scored. Their saving grace is that the three teams to defeat them are all much higher ranked than them but unless things change soon all teams will be above them in the power rankings. On paper the team doesn't look like they belong dead last and most certainly when I've scrimmed them they've put up some good performances especially Gamezo. Dooms day and Gamezo have been a solid tanking duo in scrims but when it comes to actual games it seems like they crumble under the pressure. One thing I have observed from playing against Oblivion is that they are always heavily reliant on Gamezo when it comes to defending, with the rest of the team often suiciding into being punched. I feel like being more patient in games is the key for Oblivion should they hope for any success.
MVP of the week: Dooms Day 584
MVP of the season: Dooms Day 584
9. Eclipse (8.14 avg) (-2)
Record: 0-0
Not a whole lot to say about this team yet, I hope Eclipse does start making it to games because on paper, this squad looks extremely nasty with the two power player, Sco and Wolverine and then a really great synergy with Warhero and Mungo being a great supporting players. This team should be able to do everything, tanking teams out and making some great plays. Making it to games would be the first step, but honestly I would think Eclipse would be a top 5 team if they start showing up.
MVP of week: N/A
MVP of season: N/A
Still no games played here, nothing really to talk about. Wolverine and blazen could both be contenders for awards by end of the season and warhero/mungo make two good supporting tanks, but the issue is with actually being around to play games. I'm not sure what's going on with the team but I can't wait to see them actually play as they look a very strong team.
MVP of the week: N/A
MVP of the season: N/A
8. Zero Gravity (7.86) (+0)
Record: 1-2
Victory against Wrecking Crew 5-1
Loss against Legendary 1-5
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II GodlyOtaku II
Zero Gravity with a 1-2 record, could be worse and with a 4-5 game against Secret Society I would not too shabby for an underrated squad . They're starting 3 are the core strength to this team. Godly being one of my favorite players in ammy, the pressure he puts on teams with his sword, his plays and his potential of getting a lot of kills near the enemy plate is impressive. Retro coming into this season with a lot more of a hybrid playstyle compared to his full runner style last season, is working out well, he can tank fairly well, and sometimes he can go on really good streaks to make good pushes, generally gets a lot of kills during a game. Then you have Meow who is just a really good tank for the team. Verity is a good supporting player for this Zero Gravity squad, he adds pressure with the sword and can run the ball, even having him being the dedicated runner probably wouldn't be a bad idea with how well Retro does with the hammer a lot of the time and it honestly seems like that's what they're doing since Verity has 5 of Zero Gravity's 10 goals. Next week with a game against Bad Intentions should improve their record and then a underdog game against Aftershock that I think they could win and if they did that would very positive for them.
MVP of the week: II GodlyOtaku II
MVP of the season: II GodlyOtaky II
Whilst Zero Gravity may currently have a losing record, their two losses did come at the hands of Legendary and a narrow loss to Secret Society who are two unbeaten teams. Godly Otaku went into the league being one of my early predictions to contend for MVP and so far he is putting up some solid numbers defensively being the 2nd most carried kills but minute of play time and also having 5 goals to his name. Retro and meowlla are two solid tanks capable of tearing apart most teams in the league, the one let down to this team is Verity. Him and Godly have been a deadly duo so far with their passing plays but against more defensively sound players verity's sneak around for the pass tactic basically leaves his team trying to attack 3v4. If he is able to adapt better to be a supporting tank then this team will easily be one of the top contenders for the championship but currently I can only see them being knocked out in first round of playoffs.
MVP of the week: l Godly Otaku l
MVP of the season: l Godly Otaku l
7. Wrecking Crew (7.43 avg) (+2)
Record: 1-3
Losses against Zero Gravity 1-5, Underrated 4-5 and Legendary 0-5
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Continuing to climb the rankings even after a 0-3 record in the second week, but still with that 5-0 against Reflex in the first week they easily put themselves ahead of the 10-12 place teams despite everyone thinking they would be. Having a very close game against one of the higher tier teams Underrated helped with that a lot. Wrecking Crew looked very questionable at the beginning of the season, but after the close game against my team they proved that they can play to a high level. If they play like how they did against my team, in every game, then you'll see them continue to climb these rankings. SKR Dragon is hands down the biggest power player of this team, being one of the top tanks in ammy. HLG Speedy was kind of a surprise to me with his 8 of 10 goals for the team, he's a player that is good at pressuring and gaining possession of the ball. Vig is a good support tank and defensive player. The only thing I think this team is missing right now that could be holding them back from actually being one of the top teams is a solid 4th player. That being said, they were obviously doing something right if they could take Underrated to a 4-4 game and all going negative k/d at the same time. Having a exciting week 3 against Bad Intentions who they are obviously the favorites for and then a game against Aftershock who before last week I'd say are the underdogs, but I will say if they played like how they did in the last 5 rounds of their Underrated game, then they will win for sure.
MVP of the week: HLG Speedy 00
MVP of the season: SKR Dragon
Wrecking Crew pulled off a shock result this week, although they still lost, with scoring 4 goals against Underrated. From the start of the season you would look at the matchup of those two teams and instantly assume there's no contest, but clearly there is something that this Wrecking Crew team has to be capable of lasting 20 minutes and scoring 4 goals despite some abysmal tanking numbers. SKR Dragon is the stand out player by far for them and for this team to have any hope for the weeks to come then he's gonna need some better performances from his teammates. Three losses this week and all to division rivals does not provide much promise to their playoff hopes.
MVP of the week: SKR Dragon
MVP of the season: SKR Dragon
6. Aftershock (5.29 avg) (+0)
Record: 1-2
Loss against Legendary 2-5
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A 1-2 start isn't ideal, but definitely isn't anything they can't come back from, a very close 4-5 loss against Defiance, still shows they are a great team to me. I don't feel there's a lot for me to say on this team right now, they should have a very strong lineup even with Hide yo and Euphoria being able to out tank most players in ammy and then you have the support/pressure from Panther and Johnmo, occasionally Johnmo making some huge play. I really think all this team needs to get to the next level and become a hands down top team is just playing more together and gaining chemistry. Next week they have 2 games that they should be the favorites for and have a good chance at winning.
MVP of the week: Hide yo o kiddz
MVP of the season: Hide yo o kiddz
Aftershock only played once this week in which they lost to Legendary 5-2. Despite being on a losing record, this team is still very strong and I will be shocked if they aren't one of the top contenders by the end of the season. Euphoria and Hide yo are forming a good tanking partnership but the team in general is lacking the chemisty required to overcome the top teams. A bit more practicing together and this team can be in the 'ship without a doubt.
MVP of the week: Hide yo o kiddz
MVP of the season: Hide yo o kiddz
5. Defiance (5 avg) (-2)
Record 1-0
No games in week 2
Having a 5-4 win against Aftershock in week 1 was huge since Aftershock since they'll fairly closely skilled teams, unfortunately other than that no other games in week 2, but as I've been thinking since bidding, it's hard to think Defiance isn't a top team. Relic, Puppies and Rice being a large reason for this teams potential, and Trespas going in nicely for this team as a support player, I think he's a bit underrated. The high pressure, highly aggressive trio will tear a lot of teams apart. Next week Defiance has a high priority game against Secret Society who I'd say are fairly close in skill, the result could be up in the air, but winning that would put them in a good position especially since they are in the same division. They also have a expected win against Reflex and then another really important game against Eclipse.
MVP of the week: N/A
MVP of the season: InhumaneRelic
Still only the one game played for Defiance, a 5-4 victory over Aftershock, so not much to write about here. They've been having scheduling difficulties regarding InhumaneRelic and it's already confirmed he will not be available for their double header against Secret Society. If Relic's availability doesn't improve then it looks like Defiance could be struggling for the season. It's a very promising team that is easily a challenger for the 'ship so it'll be very upsetting if this team fails to reach playoffs due to schedule difficulties.
MVP of the week: N/A
MVP of the season: InhumaneRelic
4. Secret Society (4.57) (+0)
Record: 2-0
Victory against Oblivion 5-1
An expected win against Oblivion, but continuing a strong 2-0 start. It's good to see the questions answered on whether Pimp and Cutthroat were going to be playing often and at what level, and I'm glad that they are meeting expectations to making SS a serious threat of a team. This is easily a playoff team, and I can't really expect less then that, pretty much all of these players are at least above average and there's a lot of experience and smart play with Pimp and Cutthroat. In week 3 a double header against Defiance is going to be really important.
MVP of the week: Cutthroat912
MVP of the season: Steezy Gunman
A lot of controversy around Secret Society this week. Diffiiculties occurred regarding a certain game which led to Fiery Motive allegedly quitting. They went on to win their only game of the week with a comfortable 5-1 victory over Oblivion without Fiery so you can't write them off yet. Hopefully Fiery does return as this team looks very strong and will easily contend in playoffs. Only two games played so far though so still early days.
MVP of the week: Cutthroat912
MVP of the season: Steezy Gunman
3. Hyperdrive (3.86 avg) (+2)
Record: 2-0
Victory against Oblivion 5-0
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Hyperdrive has had an easy start to the season with games against Reflex and Oblivion, so seeing what Hyperdrive does against some higher tier teams would be beneficial. That being said Hyperdrive is an easy playoff team for me and I think they are going to meet expectations with this #3 spot. The new blood in this roster is very talented, but PD and Taz alone make a really good roster in ammy. I'm actually pretty excited to see them play, but unfortunately they have no games scheduled for Week 3, so we'll have to wait unless they have some rescheduled games that will be played this week.
MVP of the week: Perfect Demise
MVP of the season: cL Taz
After only playing 2 games, Hyperdrive now have a 2 week break until their next fixture. They have had a very good start with 5-0 and 5-1 victories so far however the teams they've played are the current bottom two teams in the league not to mention one of them didn't even have their best player. Nonetheless you've got to beat what's put against you and they've done so efficiently. Two quick victories and an impressive start to Riccardo's AGLA career shows that this team has promise, yet I'll hold back my praises until they play more games.
MVP of the week: Riccardo
MVP of the season: cL Taz
2. Underrated (2) (+0)
Record: 5-1
Victories against Bad Intentions 5-0 and 5-1, Oblivion 5-0 and Wrecking Crew 5-4
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A big week and a crazy ending to the week of Underrated, but despite a very messy game from me and my team, still managed to take 4 wins out of this week. The real test is about to begin for this Underrated squad though as the only team top tier team we have faced was Legendary and it was a loss. There's a high expectation for this team so it will be interesting to see if other teams will be able to pull upsets on us.
MVP of the week: Invayda Zim
MVP of the season: Invayda Zim
Underrated had a busy week picking up 4 victories. Invayda Zim is becoming a frontrunner for tank of the season already with game after game of solid performances and has so far clearly been the best pick up of the bidding. Him combined with gambit make a deadly tanking duo to protect their runner Rayzyr, and should that fail Poptart has shown time after time that he's able to single handedly defend for the team picking up an impressive 28 carrier kills so far. Apart from a shaky performance against Wrecking Crew, this team looks flawless. It'll be interesting to see the next Underrated vs Legendary matchup when hopefully Underrated will be able to play their main 4 this time around.
MVP of the week: PoisonxPoptart
MVP of the season: Invayda Zim
1. Legendary (1.71 avg) (+0)
Record: 4-0
Victories against Aftershock 5-2, Zero Gravity 5-1 and Wrecking Crew 5-0
Reyas – 3 Games played
Noplex – 3
HWM Jester – 2
Juc – 2
Smokey741 – 2
Honestly Legendary is just way ahead of the game right now, there's nothing wrong with the team, and they've proved that they don't really have a whole lot to improve on, at this point it's about the other teams catching up to them. Rey is just a monster on pretty much every aspect, tanking, running, whatever. Noplex is just an incredible smart player and just improves every player around him, he's great at defense and as I said in the pre season he's been putting up fantastic numbers here in ammy k/d wise. Jester has been putting in a lot of work with tanking. Even Juc who came back from the grave is playing really well both k/d wise and scoring them goals. It's going to be hard to take this #1 spot away from Legendary.
MVP of the week: Reyas (honestly really hard decision between Rey and Noplex)
MVP of the season: Reyas
Being my own team, this may seem bias but I'll be as honest as I can. Legendary seem to be the team to beat at the moment. Unbeaten after 4 games including two confident wins over Underrated and Aftershock, their main conference rivals. They've also never used the same lineup twice yet so far which shows that the whole team of 6 is capable of working together successfully to overcome their opposition. Noplex Sobriety Rey and to many people's suprise Jester all have great tanking numbers at the moment with noplex also having the second most carrier kills in the league further shows their dominance.
MVP of the week: HWM Jester
MVP of the season: NOPLEX
And that's it for Week 2's Ammy Rankings! I really hope you enjoyed! If you have any feedback or questions just message me here on the hub or xbox live GT: PoisonxPoptart.
Like Rey has done, I really wanna push as many people to put there thoughts in on the teams as well, if you want you to include your writeups, just let me know, I'd be more than happy to get more thoughts, it's make it a lot more fun for me and the community to have more than like 3 people to participate in community content!
Yet again I hope you enjoyed and I'll be back next week with another article!


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The positive terminal of the wire is to be connected with all led's and the another terminal of the battery should be dipped in water at the base of tank. now connect wires with the LED saperetly and connect the last led with buzzer also dipp the wires in the water tank.
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when the nagetive charged wire comes in the contact of water the charge flow in the water.
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I remember seeing this movie in the theaters when it first came out and I thought it was hilarious as well as cutting edge. The film was queer positive, racially progressive, filled with teen angst, and provided a positive message that you cannot fail if you believe in yourself. Now believe it or not, the film spawned five sequels (they were all straight to video releases) and it also became a celebrated Broadway musical in 2011. The film was originally released by Universal Pictures on August 25, 2000. The 35mm film print that was screened came from the fine folks at Universal. Three trailers for the next M4M show was screened before the film: 1992's WAYNE'S WORLD, 2001's FREDDY GOT FINGERED, and 2008's STEP BROTHERS.
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Like the previous film, I saw this when it first came out and it too was cutting edge. It had a short, chubby teen with big hair who gets the guy at the end, addressed racism and equality, and it was the first John Waters film to receive a PG-13 rating, which at that time was unheard of. The film was released by New Line Cinema on February 26, 1988, earning a modest gross of $8 million. However, it managed to attract a larger audience on home video in the early 1990s and became a cult classic. Then in 2002, the film was adapted into a Broadway musical of the same name, which won eight Tony Awards, including Best Musical in 2003. A second film version of HAIRSPRAY, an adaptation of the stage musical, was also released by New Line Cinema in 2007. John Waters makes a cameo appearance in that film as, what else, a flasher. Several later John Waters trailers were screened before the movie: 2004's A DIRTY SHAME, 1998's PECKER, and 1990's CRY-BABY.
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Probably the most famous of Van Damme's early work, it has some awesome kick ass fight scenes, plus some interesting moments showing the difficulty of training and trying to achieve your best while not losing your focus. Even though it suffers from some cheesy acting, dialogue, music, and a highly disturbing dance scene that must be seen to believe, it still holds up after all these years. The film was originally released to theaters on September 8, 1989. Before the film, Jesse screened seventeen, count 'em, SEVENTEEN Jean-Claude Van Damme trailers, ranging from 2012's THE EXPENDABLES 2, 2008's JCVD, 1994's STREET FIGHTER, and 1992's UNIVERSAL SOLIDER. Yes folks it was indeed a sight to see!!
And another Midnites for Maniacs show has come and gone! The next show will be on January 11, 2013 so mark this date on your calender and come on out to the City by the Bay and join in on this movie magic and fun! To learn more about Midnites for Maniacs, visit their website at www.midnitesformaniacs.com. To view upcoming shows at the Castro Theatre, visit their website at www.castrotheatre.com.
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Post-operative haemorrhage is a recognised complication following thyroid, parathyroid and neck dissection surgery. It may develop quickly and result in acute respiratory distress. If the haemorrhage is not dealt with quickly in a structured manner it may in rare instances be fatal or lead to anoxic brain damage.
This topic was recently discussed at the AGM of the BAETS and the feedback and comments from all members at the meeting are reflected in the construction of this page.
It is clear that individual surgeons and units will have their own techniques for closing the wound after thyroid and parathyroid surgery and therefore there is no "One rule fits all" scenario. However, there are a few steps that surgeons can undertake to try and ensure that patient safety remains paramount at all times.
The BAETS recommends the following actions:
1. All units undertaking these operations should have a clear written protocol detailing how acute postoperative haemorrhage should be managed.
2. First responders, ward nursing staff, FY's, Registrar's, Crash Team (including anaesthetic registrar's), should all be aware of the protocol and the potential critical urgency of post-operative haemorrhage, understand the local protocol and the actions needed to secure a safe airway.
3. The protocol ensures that locum or agency staff who do not work regularly in the hospital but may be looking after these patients have an understanding of the measures needed. This may be in the form of a poster on the ward or written instructions on how to open the wound in the event of an acute post-operative haemorrhage causing airway compromise.
Detailed below (and available to all surgeons to download) are examples of local protocols of how the members of the Executive address the issue of post-operative haemorrhage in their own units. Please review them, adapt them and use them for your own local practice as you see fit.
This is an interactive educational page, with a view to making thyroid and parathyroid surgery safer for patients. The Executive welcomes any input on this and if you have a protocol or teaching aid that you use and think that other units would benefit please contact the BAETS Secretary and we will endeavour to make this available as well.
Improved patient safety will only be achieved through structured regular education for First Responders, the cohort of which will change frequently!
Posters and PowerPoint Presentations
These are very useful for placing in the Recovery Unit or on the ward as a reminder of the actions needed. They are especially useful in helping first responders act and where agency or locum staff may be working for the first time.
The presentations have been used at Trust Induction for all junior doctors in a few of the Exec Trusts. Additionally, they can be e mailed out to all doctors to raise awareness across the Trust.
Instructions for Opening the Wound: SCOOP
These link to a JPG file which can be printed as a colour A4 sheet and attached to a patient's operation note to return to the ward with the patient. The original PSD file is also available to download here (20MB). This can be downloaded, altered and adapted to suit individual surgeon's closing technique (e.g. staples, clips, beads). This ensures that first responders (nurses/juniors doctors) who may be agency or locums who have not been briefed to the local protocol, will have a clear guide available in an emergency.
In Oxford the use of the SCOOP acronym has been invaluable as a teaching aid to remembering the steps involved in opening the neck urgently and ensures that all nurses and doctors know exactly we are referring to. Several hospitals across the UK are now adopting this acronym and are using the colour A4 sheet attached to the operation note or patient records.
YouTube Video on how to open the neck
This has been extremely useful as a teaching aid for nurses and doctors in understanding the steps needed to secure the airway. It can be watched very quickly (even in an urgent situation) on any device by simply going to YouTube and typing "Scoop Thyroid" in to the search engine.
We will endeavour to update it with a more professional look!


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Dept of Interior Decision Science Webinar
I gave a webinar for the Dept of Interior about my postdoc work, focused on the portfolio selection decision support tool I helped develop. The recording is available freely here.
Bird Conservation, Structured Decision Making, Marshbird and Wetland Ecology
I gave a webinar for the Dept of Interior about my postdoc work, focused on the portfolio selection decision support tool I helped develop. The recording is available freely here.
Prior to coming to Forbes last summer, I worked with the Gulf of Mexico Avian Monitoring Network (gomamn.org). GoMAMN came together after the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill to better coordinate how we collect data about birds, so we're better able to assess the impacts of restoration and management in the Gulf of Mexico, as well as the impact of one off events, such as oil spills and hurricanes.
I'm thrilled to be selected for the 2020 BioOne Ambassador Award, for my 2019 paper in Waterbirds, which presented the results of my three year wetland management experiment in Missouri examining the impacts of water level management during autumn migration on rails and waterfowl.
This is an update to a previous post. Folks who see twitter as something full of cat videos and the president's latest thoughts often laugh when I tell them that twitter has been incredibly valuable to me, starting as a grad student, and now as a professional scientist.
I'm a fairly goal oriented person, I've been setting them, almost annually for some time (not sure what happened in 2015) 2013 - 2014 - 2016 - 2017 - 2018 - 2019
2019 has been a year of big changes, big challenges, big opportunities and big growth. The whole human and dog family moved to Illinois with me in June, and I've made it 6 months in the new job now, and I love it. The team here at Forbes Biological Station is fantastic, I'm learning a ton, getting new projects started, and learning how to be a good Director/supervisor/support to the rest of the team here.
I along with an amazing team are thrilled to announce that we're receiving a grant from NOAA RESTORE for "Fire Effects in Gulf of Mexico Marshes - Historical Perspectives, Management, and Monitoring of Mottled Ducks and Black and Yellow Rails"
Some folks in my talk today asked if I could make my slides available.
Drymon, JM, Feldheim, K, Fournier, AMV, Seubert, E, Jefferson, A, Kroetz, A, Powers S Tiger sharks eat songbirds: Reply Ecology 10.1002/ecy.2870
Fournier, AMV, Shave, A, Fischer, J, Siegrist, J, Ray, J, Chesky, T, MacIntosh, M, Fraser, K. Testing the island habitat-selection hypothesis in a long-distance migratory songbird Journal of Field Ornithology
Fournier, AMV, Mengel, DC, Gbur, E, Raedeke, A, Krementz, D.G. Evaluating tradeoffs in the response of Sora and waterfowl to the timing of early autumn wetland inundation Waterbirds 42:168-178
Fournier, A.M.V., Bond, A.L., Holford, A, Leighton, M. Unpaid work and access to science professions PLoS ONE 14(6): e0217032. 10.1371/journal.pone.0217032
Fournier, AMV, White, ER, Heard, SB. Site-selection bias can drive apparent population declines in long-term studies Preprint: peerj.com/preprints/27507/ Conservation Biology 10.1111/cobi.13371
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I am very pleased to announce that I will be joining the wonderful staff at Forbes Biological Station as their Director in June.
Continue to fight against injustice and for equity, stay informed, voice my opinion, do work worth doing.
2018 was my first full year of post grad school employment, and was an action packed whirlwind that included the most non-field work related travel I've ever done for a job, which I simultaneously loved and really took a tole on my physical and mental health, something I've focused on more in the later half of the year. I learned that I can, and am quite good at wrangling big teams into writing big grant applications, that it is ok to say no sometimes, and that Black Rails are real. I didn't accomplish many of the things I set out last January, but I did learn how better disconnect from work at the end of the day, to celebrate failures, lean into rejections and how to leave my laptop behind and be present.
On Friday I am leading a discussion for the COAST Women in Science Group about imposter syndrome. The feeling that you are an imposter, and everything else knows what they are doing, but you are a fraud. Its a common feeling among many folks, across career fields, and stages. It can be really debilitating and discouraging, and we're hoping have an open discussion about it will help everyone realize that they are not alone.
For many reasons the past few months I've been feeling especially grateful for the wonderful people who are apart of my work and life because I am active on twitter. Folks who see twitter as something full of cat videos and the president's latest thoughts often laugh at this, but science twitter is a powerful community, that has supported me in many small and huge ways over the past 5 years.
Back in February I was working on tweeting from R on behalf of the Wilson Ornithological Society, as I'm the person who tweets about new articles in the Wilson Journal of Ornithology.
Last week I had the great privilege to attend ROpenSci's unconf. Having typically been in work situations where I was the only or primary R user, I was excited and nervous to attend my first R related event. I've been involved with the larger R community for several years, through The Carpentries, reviewing packages for ROpenSci, and through several package specific groups, but a chance to spend two days with my email closed, working on something new in R with many people who I've 'known' for years via twitter was fantastic. In addition ROpenSci worked diligently to ensure that unconf was a welcoming and inclusive place for everyone, from a clear and emphasized Code of Conduct, to ice breakers that helped start conversations among participants, to accommodating everyone's dietary needs, and ensuring things like lactation rooms were available really made it clear that each participant was valued.
The unconf focuses on two days of community driven development, which can include new features of existing packages, lesson development, new packages and many other things. I spent my first day with the education group, talking about the opportunities and challenges of teaching R in a formal education setting. It was great to share experiences across disciplines [history, ecology, bioinformatics] and see that many of the struggles we as educators face are common across these disciplines. Our group's goal is to form a community of educators in R who can share their materials more cohesively. More details on how the group outlined that sharing can be found here.
Day 2 I jumped in with the metadata group, who was working on the
dataspice package.
dataspice takes your raw data, and creates the spice on top of it, the metadata, which is so important for communicating with yourself in the future, as well as any others who may want to use your data. Creating metadata is often a hurdle to many data users/creators, and
dataspice creates template metadata files based on a datafile input, and also has several shiny apps to help the user in populating those templates, which the package then turns into JSON, and if the userdesires a simple website about the dataset. Our hope is to make creating metadata more accessible to everyone!
Beyond being apart of the education and metadata groups, the conference was an amazing chance to meet many of my fellow R-Ladies, including some members of R-Ladies Remote. The ice breaker on the first day, where we grouped ourselves across a continum based on questions like 'I know what my role in the R community is' started some great conversations with folks, like myself, who are still not clear on what our role is. After unconf I feel more confident in my role and more confident in being involved and contributing to the parts of the community I belong to in the future.
ROpensci accepts applications to attend unconf each year in February and whether you are a R developer, or a post doc like me who teahes sometimes, and uses a lot of R packages, I encourage you to apply to attend, its a great way to learn, about R and the community as a whole.
Huge thanks to the ROpenSci team for their great effort in planning this amazing event and ensuring that everyone was welcome and able to participate to their fullest. You can see all the diverse and amazing things to come out of unconf18 here
New paper out today in Royal Society Open Science.
Excited to be interviewed by Rapid Ecology this week for their Ecologist Spotlight segment.
I'm part of the team behind the Wilson Ornithological Society twitter account. My main job is tweeting about the new articles in the Wilson Journal of Ornithology every time a new issue comes out (so 4 times a year). I'v been doing this since last summer, going into tweetdeck, and scheduling each tweet by hand, a process that takes several hours to do, since I want to tweet about each paper several times over the first week they are out, and make sure I hit a variety of time zones.
New paper out in the Wilson Journal of Ornithology !!
Continue to fight against injustice in all forms, stay informed, voice my opinion to those who represent me in government
Huge thanks to Timothée Poisot and the entire Poisot lab for hosting me in late November. It was wonderful to get to share my work with everyone in an seminar and then visiting with folks over several days. Montreal is a beautiful and fun city, and I loved finally getting to try Poutine!
As a long time fan of the Missouri Conservationist, the magazine produced by Missouri Department of Conservation, it is a real treat to see my work on the cover. I wrote a cover story article with Doreen Mengel and Lisa Webb detailing the rail work that has been going on during spring and autumn migration in Missouri the past 5 years.
Interested in learning more about my recent paper in the Journal of Avian Biology with Kiel Drake and Doug Tozer of Bird Studies Canada? Check out this post I wrote for the BOU Blog.
My latest paper is now available in Animal Migration. It details the autumn migration ecology, including the migratory timing and habitat use of Virginia and Yellow Rails in Missouri through five years of data I collected, compared with other sources of data since despite five years off data collection we still had a fairly small sample size.
Just returned from the first meeting of the American Ornithological Society (after the recent merger of AOU and COS), joined by the Society of Canadian Ornithologists to form a fantastic and fun meeting in East Lansing Michigan.
This past spring Arkansas State Parks came and recorded one of my Birds and Breakfast programs at Hobbs State Park. This program was one of the highlights of my PhD and I'm so tickled to have a video to remember all the kids and adults smiling faces while showing them their backyard birds.
Fournier, A.M.V., Drake K.L., Tozer D.C. In Press Using citizen science monitoring data in species distribution models to inform isotopic assignment of migratory connectivity in wetland birds Journal of Avian Biology doi:10.1111/jav.01273
Open Access Preprint: http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/06/01/144527
Open Access Data Dryad Digital Repository. http://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.nb115
The most recent version of our recently accepted paper in the Journal of Avian Biology has been posted on the BioRvix PrePrint server if you would like to check it out.
This week I attended the 60th meeting of the International Association of Great Lakes Researchers. I was invited to give a talk as part of the science communication symposium, which was very fun. Slides are available on figshare.
Last week I had the pleasure of giving an invited talk to Bird Studies Canada reflecting on my ongoing collaboration with BSC and how I've used social media to communicate about our project. The slides are available on figshare.
Last year for the Ohio Ornithological Society and this year for The Biggest Week in American Birding I'm giving a keynote talk entited "Elusive Migration: The Migration Ecology of Rails"
If you have any interest in reading my entire dissertation it is now available online, open access.
Fournier, A.M.V., Krementz, D.G. 2017 Nocturnal Distance sampling All-Terrain Vehicle Surveys for Non-Breeding Rails The Wildlife Society Bulletin 41:151–156 doi:10.1002/wsb.745
I just returned from Fort Meyers, FL where I was attending the 98th Meeting of the Wilson Ornithological Society and presenting on one of my dissertation chapters.
I'm excited to announce I've been voted in as an Elected Councilor for a 3-year term with the Wilson Ornithological Society. So I'll be serving as part of the council helping to guide WOS for the next 3 years.
I am thrilled to announce that I succesfully passed my PhD Defense last Friday, now I just need to address a few edits from my committee and my dissertation and PhD will be complete.
I am thrilled to announce that I have accepted a two year post doc at Mississippi State University, based in Biloxi, MS working as part of the Gulf of Mexico Avian Monitoring Network.
I've had this conversation with several people over the past few weeks, so like most things I talk to people frequently about I figured it was a good idea to write it up.
SUCCESSFULLY DEFEND MY PHD (the rest of this will just be gravy if that happens)
One of the challenges of working with rails is we know so little about them, and what we do know is often scattered in small data points here from the 1960s, and here from the 2000s. There is little data that has been collected in a deliberate way over a long period. The first place I looked was The Birds of North America, which provides detailed species accounts for each species. These graphs showed me some data, with literal question marks on it, that didn't provide a lot of guidance as to when Virginia Rails were migrating (Conway 1995)
As a result of these fairly uninformative graphs I often end up digging into some literature to find data. Over the past two years I've tracked down almost all the issues of The Bluebird, journal of the Audubon Society of Missouri, and compiled all the spring and autumn migration data contained therein Data available here on figshare. These data are opportunistic at best (someone saw a rail, and decided to report it) but when looking at pre-eBird times (eBird being a very large online database of citizen science bird observations, which really took over after 2000) these kind of state by state resources can be vital.
I targeted Missouri because that is where my own field work takes place and I was seeking data to compare to my own. In five years and over 1000 hours of surveys I hadn't seen very many Yellow or Virginia Rails (<100 in each case). This made quantifying their migration difficult especially because I am assuming some level of year to year variability in migration, which is common among birds.
So I sought out this other data, from the state Audubon Society. I also downloaded all August-November eBird.org observations for Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio (roughly the same latitude as Missouri and within the same adminsitrative flyway). These represent another type of opportunistic data, where members of the public go out birding, record what they see, and submit their observations. More data points were available here but eBird data can be biased because people tend to bird where they live, meaning effort is not evenly distributed across the landscape. So I sought out a third type of data, building strikes.
When I tell people rails hit buildings they are often surprised, but many many bird species have been recorded striking buildings. Many species of birds migrate at night and the lights on tall structures in large cities (and even in less urban situations) can disorient them and lead to collisions. In many large cities there are building strike monitoring programs where people walk the same route each morning and record what is found on the sidewalk (in many cases the dead birds are also collected and given to a museum, YAH MUSEUMS!). These data could be another interesting source since they are being collected each day in the same place, though this is only occurring in large cities. I obtained these data points from Loss et al (2014), Thanks Scott!
So I have these three kinds of data, and my own data, and I want to figure out what on earth they can tell me about the migration of two of the least studied birds in North America.
I thought about doing this a few different ways, first trying histograms, and line graphs, even scatter plots. None of these seemed to work. All the sample sizes were different and whatever the story was it was lost.
Then I tried box plots, with the idea this would help take out the highly variable y axis due to different sample sizes, and allow us to compare the duration and median date of migration.
This was ok. I only had one data point for building strikes of Yellow Rails, so I excluded it, and this figure is fine. But I wasn't really happy with it, I was still wrestling back and forth with if I should be describing each data type on its own, or if they should all be lumped together, and I found this graph deceptive, it did a good job of making it clearer because the sample size was hidden, but that hidden element bugged me.
|Data Type
|Yellow Rail
|Virginia Rail
|The Bluebird
|(Fournier 2016)
|(Sullivan et al. 2009)
|Building Strikes
|(Loss et al. 2014)
|My Surveys
|Fournier et al. Unpublished Data
So I tried some other methods, again and again.
Finally I settled on this one.
This graph does a few things I really like. It separates out the Birds of North America data, which isn't really data so much as my visualization of the information on the graph in the Birds of North American Accounts. It also lumps the data in a way I am comfortable with. All the data I gathered from other sources, Audubon Society of Missouri, eBird and the building strike data, are lumped into 'Opportunistic Observations' which I think is the most conservative way of looking at them. My data, which were collected through nightly regular surveys are separated for two main reasons 1) they are my data and I wanted to compare my data to other data, 2) they were collected under one standardized protocol, unlike the other data types.
I think this data does a better job of showing the story. Yellow Rail migration, in my study and in the opportunistic data is occurring in two strong peaks which are near each other. Why they aren't the same could be related to a variety of biases and assumptions in the data set. These also overlap well with the Birds of North America account range though they start earlier, which could be a big deal.
Virginia Rail migration is clearly a different beast. Opportunistic observations have two peaks, one of which strongly overlaps with my data, and migration is starting earlier and continuing much later than it does in the Birds of North America Account.
One thing I don't like about this figure is I don't have a good way of showing the yearly variation in the data, which is probably asking too much of what is still a pretty limited data set, but a ornithologist can dream!
I'm still working on this manuscript, and still trying to decide if this is the best way to visualize this kind of data. If you have ideas I'd love to hear them, email@example.com or @RallidaeRule.
Conway, Courtney J. (1995). Virginia Rail (Rallus limicola), The Birds of North America (P. G. Rodewald, Ed.). Ithaca: Cornell Lab of Ornithology; Retrieved from the Birds of North America: https://birdsna.org/Species-Account/bna/species/virrai DOI: 10.2173/bna.173
Fournier, Auriel (2016): The Bluebird Rail Data. figshare. https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.2760913.v2 Retrieved: 21 50, Dec 05, 2016 (GMT)
Loss, S. R. S. S., T. Will, P. P. Marra, S. R. S. S. Loss, and P. P. Marra. 2014. Bird–building collisions in the United States: Estimates of annual mortality and species vulnerability. Condor 116:8–23. http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1650/CONDOR-13-090.1%5Cnhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1650/CONDOR-13-090.1.
Sullivan, B. L., C. L. Wood, M. J. Iliff, R. E. Bonney, D. Fink, and S. Kelling. 2009. eBird: A Citizen-based Bird Observation Network in the Biological Sciences. Biological Conservation 142:2282–2292.
2016 numbers followed by (all time project total)
Presented one of my dissertation chapters at the North American Ornithological Conference this past week. Using species distribution models from marshbird monitoring data to inform bayesian assignment of migratory rails during autumn migration.
Rebecca Heiseman, Beth Ross, Desiree Narango, Jordan Rutter and myself did a short workshop at the North American Ornithological Conference Tuesday, highlighting the many ways twitter can be used by scientists.
Building off the success of the workshop Matt Boone and I taught at AOU in 2015 I taught a full day R workshop on programming, functions, data management and how to build an R package at the North American Ornithological Conference this year. Had 60+ participants and everyone learned a ton. Hoping to tweak it again, improve it some more and teach it again at AOU in 2017.
Just returned from a great meeting in Corpus Christi, Texas and the annual meeting of the Society of Wetland Scientists. I've never been to SWS before and it was a wonderful and informative meeting and great chance to break out of my often very bird focused bubble and think about wetlands in some new ways.
There are pictures of me geeking out about birds since I was quite small. Those who knew me even in passing as a kid are unsurprised where I ended up. I have been incredibly fortunate along the way to be guided mentored and at time shoved by some very key people in my life.
Sometime around American Thanksgiving I was asked on Twitter to recommend a few historic women in ornithology for someone's kid to research for a school paper. I sat there, stared at my screen and then hung my head.
Last fall I tweeted from @RealScientists and @BioTweeps as part of the outreach for my fall field work (#MORails). I choose to do this during my field work since live tweeting rail captures is WAY more exciting then live tweeting running R code or writing which is what I do the other 9 months of the year.
My latest post as the science/math editor for Science Borealis is up. Talking about the role of hunting and statistics in wetland conservation, especially as it relates to migratory birds.
I'm already into my second week as the Teaching Assistant for the Undergrad/Graduate Biometry course here at UA. I am really excited to be teaching again this semester (I always forget how much I enjoy it) and doubly so since I get to teach people about R. I'm working on moving all the course materials over from systat to R, since this is the first time its being taught in R. If you are curious what we cover check out the repo.
Submit 4 of 5 chapters for publication (multiple times if necessary!!)
If you are a regular reader the topic of my most recent paper won't be too surprising. Dr. Alex Bond and I have written an editorial in The Wildlife Society Bulletin entitled Volunteer Field Technicians Are Bad for Wildlife Ecology.
I was interviewed for the podcast BreakingBio about rails, wetlands, atvs and diversity in STEM. Check it out here
Here are the best photos and tweets of the 2015 #MORails season. https://storify.com/amv_fournier/morails-2015
The fall migration part of my project was highlighted recently in the University of Arkansas Research Blog Field Notes. Check it out here
72 nights
10 sites
30 treatment wetlands
10,700 miles driven in the truck
~1200 miles driven on ATV
169 hours of surveying
1063 Sora (don't do the math for miles/dollar per Sora, just don't)
7 Virginia rails
12 Yellow rails
62 rails captured (3 Virginia, 5 Yellow, 54 Sora)
62 sets of feathers gathered for migratory connectivity research (these will be combined with feathers from previous years, the 60 from Canada this summer and hunter feathers from all over the central US!!!)
120 hours of nighttime go pro video footage (videos will be posted once I get time to process them)
5 fouled spark plugs
3 carburetors cleaned
2 spotlights held together with electrical tape and hope
1 new air filter
5 oil changes on ATVs
1 flat tire (ON THE FIRST DAY)
5 seasons of Breaking Bad watched
+/- 1000 cups of tea and coffee consumed
0 times running out of gas on the ATVS
0 times losing wallets
0 times putting ATVs into way to deep water
0 King Rails (sadly)
0 Black Rails (still not sure they exist….)
many hours sprawled out in random parking lots trying to figure out what was wrong with the atvs
many hours of laughing and brownies and cooking together
In response to a request from a friend who is just starting her PhD, here is what I wish I could tell my first year PhD Student self, and what advice I can give to other graduate student Women in STEM. This was written during the first week of my field season, so the thoughts are short, but I am happy to discuss them more if folks have questions or comments.
My work in Saskatchewan this summer was highlighted in the University of Arkansas Research Blog Field Notes recently.
Monday August 10th begins my fourth field season. Just saying that makes me pause, I'm a fourth year PhD Student, a PhD Candidate, man time has flown.
I'm pleased to say I am joining the Science Borealis team as a Math & Statistics Editor. I'll be writing posts and helping in other ways to spread the job of Math and Statistics. So far they are graciously ignoring the fact that I am not in fact Canadian.
Matt Boone and I have compiled our notes and resources from the workshop we taught at the 2015 meeting of the American Ornithologists Union/Cooper Ornithological Society. If you are interested check out the repo here
I gave a presentation at the American Ornithologists Union/Cooper Ornithological Society meeting in Norman, OK this past week highlighting some work that I started in my undergraduate and which I hope to soon have accepted for publication.
I'm giving a presentation today at the Association of Field Ornithology / Society of Canadian Ornithologists / Wilson Ornithological Society Joint Meeting in Wolfville, Nova Scotia today.
I've been on both sides of the problem for several years now. I spent years applying for field technician positions, interviewing, and snagging a few, now I just finished hiring for my fourth field season of my PhD fieldwork. I'm something of a questioner, I'm always asking people for their thoughts on how to do things, and I've picked many brains about how to apply for field jobs and here are my take aways, for those who are coming up in the ranks.
Marsh Bird Field Technician: Missouri
This post was originally peeked by a thread on reddit about lab safety horror stories, and is in fact horrifying. My experience lies in a different realm, field work, where safety is often also a big issue, though the guidelines around it are often missing, or totally ignored. I chatted very briefly with a few folks about this on twitter a week or so ago and my initial wanting to write this post was dampened by the realization that like the reddit post, this may spark a string of 'oh you did that dangerous thing, mine was so much more dangerous' and further fuel the masochistic dangerous mindset that often hangs over fieldwork and is very alienating to many, and dangerous for everyone.
In March I coordinated a Software Carpentry workshop here at the University of Arkansas. We did a two-day workshop on R, the Unix Shell and Git and it was very well received. A few people have asked me to write up my thoughts on planning the workshop, the workshop itself, etc, so here it goes.
I originally wanted to call this 'why I love birds' but I realized that my urge to write this comes not really from my love of all things with feathers, but from my passion for what I do, and the sadness I sometimes feel when others try to tell me my passion is bad, or don't have passion of their own towards their own science.
FYI This post lead to the publication of a paper in 2015 with Alex Bond. Fournier, A.M.V., Bond, A.L. Volunteer field staff are bad for wildlife ecology The Wildlife Society Bulletin 39: 819-821 doi:10.1002/wsb.603 pdf link
At The Wildlife Society National Conference this year in Pittsburgh I presented a poster summarizing our results from the first year of our crossover experiment. If you would like to check it out, it's on figshare.
Every year of fieldwork I do seems like an additional argument for Murphy's Law and Long-Term Research. No two years are alike, and this year was the year of thunderstorms and rain. 2012 was a drought and 2013 was drought-like (it rained earlier in the year, but not much during the season). Despite the weather's best efforts we were able to get in all the surveys we needed to complete and picked up on some weird patterns along the way. This year had no clear peak in migration (unlike the previous two field seasons) though we saw essentially the same number of birds, they just came through at a more steady rate throughout the year.
Somehow the 2014 field season is already half over, and once again the weather and the birds are throwing a totally different suite of challenges our way.
Each season of my project is broken down into four rounds of surveys. We visit each region of the state four times and we've just finished up our first set of visits to each region.
Since I'm now on the other side of comps I've had a few people ask me for suggestions on how to prepare for their own. Here's a few thoughts.
My comps are coming up fast (8 days!!) and the end of the semester is finally past, FINALLY. The past two months have been a bit of a wake up call about how I need to take care of myself as well as my work. In the spirit of taking care of myself, I'm carving out a few minutes to breathe and share a bit more of my comps process.
Can you see the tiny clear antennae sticking out from between his feathers, that is the geolocator
Marla showing a cardinal to some kids
Staying focused is hard, being productive perhaps even more challenging. In grad school the challenge of focus is especially true because there are SO many things pulling for your attention. Your research, your classes, any teaching you do, writing grants, writing papers, presenting at conferences, and all the other tasks. It makes it easy to be very busy without actually doing anything.
Science is all about discovering new things, whether its information new to humanity as a whole or just to yourself. The moment of discovery is what drives many of us in science. As I'm studying for my comprehensive exams I am having a lot of these moments. Things are clicking together. I am forming connections between papers and ideas which had never occurred to me before. Constant discovery is what makes all my studying so addictive, even when it takes me two hours to get through a paper because I'm going to Google every other paragraph for another explanation.
A few weeks back I had a series of conversations with some other scientists who decided to tell me different variations of 'birds aren't important' 'people who work on birds lack creativity' 'you aren't as good of a scientists because you work on a charismatic animal'.
Pass my Comprehensive Examinations - If I accomplish nothing else this year but this it will be a huge success.
I love science because the idea a bird can FLY from continent to continent twice a year and come back to the same place, amazes me. I love things with wings, with feathers, with elaborate songs and displays. I love birds, and I have since I was young, (granted I still am, so lets just say, younger). I love how many different ways there are to move from place to place throughout the year. So many different strategies and ideas. I love the fact that migration has captured the human imagination for millenia and connects people across languages and cultures.
2013 was a very good year, both personally and professionally.
Looking at the numbers can be really discouraging as a woman in STEM. It often seems like the cards are stacked against us and I must be very crazy to think that I am the exception to all of it. That is probably another discussion for another time. This post for The Lab and Field got me thinking about my own work and how I can help change those statistics myself, more then just being a female in STEM. That post references an article in nature that encourages us each to calculate our own gender gap. Or the ratio of Females to Males in our own work. It's easy to talk about these gaps as national wide, or international problems and brush them off, but when you look at your own numbers, it's pretty sobering.
One of the things I greatly enjoy and also find really challenging as a grad student is serving as a mentor to others, both undergraduates and the technicians that work for me during my field seasons. I love getting to know people, offering up my experiences and things that I've done and helping them understand the many many confusing paths that they might be able to take through their professional careers. After my techs work for me they of course go on to other jobs and opportunities and I get calls for references for them. I've been really lucky and had some fantastic techs so I am more then happy to pass that along to whatever their up to next, be that grad school or more field jobs. I'm just finishing up my third round of writing a letter of recommendation for one of my techs for graduate school. I find this a lot more challenging then just talking to someone on the phone. On the phone I know that I can better communicate the excitement that I feel about my techs and can give the person as much or as little detail as they want, a letter is totally one sided and I don't' want to come across and unenthusiastic. I want to communicate the strengths of each one of them, the reasons that they were such valuable members of my team and why I think they would be fantastic grad students. And that is hard.
Field Season 2013 By The Numbers
So most people never see rails, and when they find out I work with rails they have a million questions. Most people are frustrated by rails, even the ones that are easier to see like Sora. I've had several people tell me that they don't actually exist.
Not alot of birds out here at the end of October but the wetlands are beautiful as they go through their fall colors.
So the federal shutdown ended, thank goodness, just in time so that my fourth round of surveys was not destroyed. The state properties are only available to us to survey through october 15th so all of our surveys after that date are just on the National Wildlife Refuges, which were closed during the shutdown, thankfully though they are open now and we are back in business.
So I've finally had a chance to get my final copy of the poster up on figshare, if you're interested in taking a closer look at it follow this link.
I've been really lucky in the past 10 years to experience a wide variety of leadership styles, some really inspiring and some really frustrating bosses. I've learned a lot from both and last fall I got my first real chance to implement them.
So I've started on another side project (yes I realize I haven't written much on my other side projects yet but I am really pumped about this one so this one first). Photo by Justin Lehman my awesome tech Yellow Rails have quickly become my favorite of the rails over the past few months. Between there extra sneaky habits and the fact that they are just so pretty I am pretty solidly addicted to Yellow Rails. Those of you who have been subjected to listening about my senior project of my undergrad know a bit about the morphometric model I worked on for the Virginia Rail (my second favorite rail). We were actually pretty successful with that (currently working on getting it published waiting to hear back from a journal!). So now I'm working on getting a group of people together to try and do the same thing for the Yellow Rail.Basically a morphometric model is a statistical model and in our case we're trying to take morphometrics (that is body measurements such as wing length bill length etc) and use discriminant analysis to predict the sex of the bird.So this past week I've sent out dozens of emails to anyone that anyone has ever told me works with Yellow Rails trying to get together a great group of collaborators and the biggest sample size that we can. So far I've received some great positive responses and if you do Yellow Rail research by any chance and are interested in working on this and I haven't emailed you shoot me a line (email@example.com) the more the merrier!
So now that I've managed to get into graduate school and am having a pretty good time thus far I've been getting lots of questions on what method I used to go about getting the position I did. This is a complex question, there is a lot that you need to do and think about and just about as many ideas on how to go about it. But since I keep getting asked here is my take, what I did, and what I've been told can help you along the way. Keep in mind, I'm still in my first year, so while I was successful in getting in only time will tell if I end up successful all the way around.
So this year I'm trying to set some ambitious and varied goals, both professional and personal, just to set out what I hope this year will bring. I know that likely all of this won't happen, and that new adventures and things will present themselves as well, and I am excited for all of them.
Being in grad school makes me even more statsitic centered then I already was, the need to quantify things has led me to put together things list of different numbers for 2012.


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