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Quinnipiac University released a new poll today with a headline that includes: "…Gov's Grades Are Low, But Best Ever." This description gave many republicans in Florida reason to jump for joy. However, those that were spinning this poll as good news for Gov. Rick Scott failed to read the actual crosstabs. This poll shows that Gov. Scott has an undoubtedly bumpy road ahead in his attempt to be reelected in 2014.
In a head-to-head match-up Crist leads Scott by 10%, but this isn't the most concerning aspect of this poll for Gov. Scott.
One of the most important questions in this poll asks registered voters whether Rick Scott deserves to be reelected.
Only 35% of registered voters in Florida feel Rick Scott deserves to be reelected, 35% of Independent voters, 37% of Hispanic voters, and an incredibly low 29% of women feel he deserves to be reelected. These numbers should be very concerning to Florida republicans and Gov. Scott, especially the low numbers from women, which represent approximately 52% of the expected electorate in the 2014 general election.
Now, let's take a look at the favorability of Gov. Scott.
His overall favorability has increased over the past year, but he is garnering much of his support from Republicans, with an extremely high 74% favorable rating in that subgroup. It is interesting to note that though 74% of Republicans find him favorable, only 63% of Republicans feel he deserves to be reelected. Again, let's focus on Independents, Women, and Hispanic registered voters. 38% of Independents, 35% of Women, and 34% of Hispanics find Rick Scott favorable, this is not good news for Rick Scott. Also important to note, 29% of Black voters, and 26% of Hispanic voters "haven't heard enough about him" to give an opinion. These two subgroups represent a significant problem for Rick Scott going forward, as voters become more aware of the upcoming election and are bombarded with messages illustrating the negative policies that Gov. Scott has embraced since becoming governor.
The favorability ratings of Charlie Crist show a dramatic difference when compared to Gov. Scott's.
Crist is +19% net favorable among Independents and Hispanics, and is +23% net favorable among Women. Charlie Crist is the anti-Rick Scott in terms of favorability, he has wide appeal among all subgroups except Republicans. And even among Republicans, 27% have a favorable view of him despite the relentless attacks by the Republican Party of Florida. An interesting number in Crist's favorability numbers is that 36% of Hispanics "haven't heard enough about him" to give an opinion. This a very fruitful subgroup for Crist to focus on, to extend his overall favorability.
And now let's look at the head-to-head matchup between Crist and Scott.
Crist has a 10% lead on Gov. Scott overall, a 12% lead among Independents, a 19% lead among Women, and a 7% lead among Hispanics. Again, of note is the large amount of Hispanic voters (24%) that are not sure who they are supporting in this match-up. Furthermore, voters under the age of 55 support Crist by a wide margin, and a large voter registration drive focused on college campuses would benefit Crist immensely where 18-34 year olds support Crist over Scott by a +16% margin. Another interesting section of this crosstab is the "annual household income" subgroups, surprisingly those making over $100,000 per year support Crist over Scott by a +13% margin, while those in the $50,000 – $100,000 household income level support Scott over Crist by a +3% margin. Crist could cut into this margin by distinguishing his policies that would help the middle-class, compared to that of Scott's which has pushed for corporate tax giveaways, huge incentive packages for companies to move to Florida without any accountability for actually producing jobs, and Scott's recent signing of a bill that bans local governments from implementing paid sick-leave time that helps working families.
So far this poll has a ton of bad news for Rick Scott, but this might be the worst news of all. The Republican Party of Florida has been attacking Charlie Crist for changing political parties, and arguing it shows that he doesn't have any core principles and cannot be trusted. This tactic does not resonate with registered voters in Florida, especially among Independent and Hispanic voters.
Independents see Crist's change in party affiliation as a positive thing by a +8% margin, and Hispanics, by a very large margin (+25%) view it positively. Usually when there are continued attacks on a political candidate, the messages used in the attacks are viewed negatively by a majority of voters and/or the recipients of the attack messages. Not so, in this case. Basically, Republicans "attacking" Crist for his political evolution is inevitably helping Crist being viewed more positively by very influential subgroups. The irony is palpable.

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Suerte with your writings in 2013.
Love the azteca Valentine.
- February 14, 2013 at 5:52:00 AM MST
- Manuel Ramos said...
congrats on all the "short" success -- nothing like a good story to fix the reading jones -- Border Noir aborted but like you I've moved on, am hopeful about a new home for "When the Air Conditioner Died" -- Happy Valentine's Day, one and all
- February 14, 2013 at 6:53:00 AM MST
- ERNEST HOGAN said...
Thanks for the good wishes. Maybe I should market the Aztec Valentine, Rudy. And, Manuel, good luck with placing that story.
- February 14, 2013 at 9:26:00 AM MST
- Melinda Palacio said...
Yes! Market the Azteca Valentine. I would like a tshirt, size M, make it soft. Ditto on the love. Love y'all. Viva La Bloga!
- February 14, 2013 at 10:05:00 AM MST
Love it! I have a painting I'd like to scan, permission? Have a happy sacrifice, may the Gods be well pleased!
- February 14, 2013 at 5:23:00 PM MST
- Sabrina Vourvoulias said...
I love it that you have a luchador story (I have a luchadora story that came out in early 2012 called "La Gorda and the City of Silver").
Maybe we should think about kickstarting a luchador/luchadora anthology!
Can't wait for your story in "We see a different frontier." It has such an amazing title....
- February 16, 2013 at 5:24:00 PM MST


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By Jon Gorvett
International Herald Tribune (Paris, France)
Thung Yeap is one of the lucky survivors of a journey that starts in some of Cambodia's poorest villages and sometimes ends, fatally, in the waters of the South China Sea.
According to local law enforcers and international agencies, hundreds like Thung Yeap, mostly Cambodian farmers, have fallen victim in recent years to traffickers who turn them over to crews on Thai fishing boats, where they work without pay and often at gunpoint.
"It is an issue that needs urgent attention," said Lim Tith, national project coordinator for the United Nations' Inter-Agency Project on Human Trafficking, or Uniap, in Phnom Penh. "It really is a kind of descent into hell."
Kept at sea sometimes for years, these men, who have typically paid to be smuggled into Thailand with the promise of good factory jobs, are often treated brutally, subjected to beatings and even death for any attempted escape.
Until recently their plight fell under the radar of regional law enforcement agencies. Far from shore, the abuse they suffer evades detection, and legal jurisdiction is murky. The victims themselves have often hesitated to seek help, fearing they could be prosecuted as illegal immigrants.
Only in the past year have Thailand and Cambodia expanded trafficking laws written to protect women and children who were sold or tricked into prostitution or other forms of forced labor to explicitly include men. The hope is that men who find themselves in another country as a result of trafficking will be more likely to approach the authorities and be given assistance, because they will be recognized as victims rather than illegal migrants.
Cambodia and Malaysia also recently signed a memorandum of understanding on combating trafficking, as many of the Thai fishing boats operate in Malaysian waters.
Thung Yeap was able to return home to Popok village in Kampong Thom Province last month because he escaped when his fishing boat made a rare stop in port in Sarawak, in the Malaysian part of the island of Borneo. The Malaysian authorities detained him as an illegal immigrant before sending him back to Cambodia.
He and Dorn Chenda, who is from Steung Saen village in Kampong Thom, ended up in the same detention center in Sarawak, and Uniap worked with the Cambodian human rights group Licadho to have them repatriated to Cambodia.
Kampong Thom is one of the country's poorest districts, blighted until just 10 years ago by fighting between Cambodian government troops and Khmer Rouge guerrillas.
"People live hand to mouth round here," said Prak Phanna, village headman of Anlong Kranh, a village near Popok. "We used to make some money cutting and burning trees for charcoal, but the government made this illegal recently, so we have nothing. I'd say most people maybe make $20 to $30 a month around here. So, when the young men can't make ends meet, they go to Thailand."
Chorn Theong Ly, also from Anlong Kranh, was among them.
"One day a middleman came to our village," he recalled. "He said he would take us to Thailand, where we could have an easy life, working in factories. He said we'd earn 4,000 baht a month there," an amount equal to $115. "So, we each paid him 3,000 to smuggle us across the border."
What followed was a nightmare.
"When we got to Thailand we were taken to a house in Samut Prakan" - a seaside province south of Bangkok - "and locked up there. We began to realize then that something was wrong. At 4 a.m. they came for us, the traffickers, and took us straight to the boats. It was then we realized we had been sold to a fishing captain. And by then it was too late to act."
Forced to work under the supervision of an armed Thai crew, the Cambodians - some of whom had never been afloat before - suffered terribly.
"We were all seasick, and I remember vomiting blood," said Chorn Theong Ly. "The captain beat me, too, using an octopus tentacle as a whip. I was beaten almost unconscious. I also saw other crew members killed, twice - one shot, the other beaten to death, when he refused to work."
The promised wages never arrived.
"After four months at sea," said Dorn Chenda. "I started demanding my wages. They told me they had sent them to my wife back in Cambodia. But it turned out they'd never paid her a penny."
The boats typically operate out of ports like the one in Samut Prakan.
"That is one place where there are many houses where the traffickers can lock up the new arrivals," said Manfred Hornung, monitoring consultant with Licadho. "They are brought there illegally, so have no papers, and are totally at the mercy of the traffickers."
The Thai police say they are aware of the practice but say that enforcement is difficult.
"When some do escape, they usually don't want to talk to the police," said Lieutenant Colonel Thakoon Nimsombun of the Thai Justice Ministry's Department of Special Investigations Anti-Trafficking Center, often referred to as DSI. "When they go back to Cambodia, they just disappear, and it's difficult to find them again."
Lisa Rende Taylor, chief technical adviser at the Bangkok office of Uniap, said that until the anti-trafficking laws were extended to cover men, there was little incentive for victims to cooperate.
"In one case, when a boat had put out to sea and run out of gas, many of the trafficked crew had died, with the bodies thrown overboard," she said. "When the boat was finally brought back to port, there was a big question as to what law to prosecute them under. The crew were classed as illegal immigrants, so how could they testify without being arrested?"
Another problem, said Police Colonel Akarapol Punyopashtambha of the DSI, "When the crimes are committed, they are out at sea, and there are a lot of jurisdictional problems there. They may be at sea for years, too, so it's hard to get to them."
Meanwhile, in Kampong Thom, the survivors of this ordeal at sea are now trying to come to terms with their experience.
"We were always thinking of escaping," recalled Thung Yeap. "There was no way, though. We were powerless. The sea itself was our prison."


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Start your advertisement agency
An advertisement agency can turn out to be a profitable source of income with minimal initial investment. Many organizations require assistance from advertisement agencies to market their events or products. Traditional advertisement agencies help their clients by providing banners and hoardings or by advertising the event or product through newspapers, magazines, TV channels or radio channels. Nowadays, digital advertisement agencies are also emerging as good career opportunity with increasing digitalization in world. If you are a creative person with strong communication and people skills you can do very well in this field. Let's see what are the resources which you will need to start up an advertisement agency.
A computer with internet connection: This will help you to find out your potential clients. You can create your website and develop your strong on-line presence. You can do this by creating your facebook page, google + profile , india mart profile and just dial profile. In addition to this, a business e-mail address is a must for maintaining your professional contacts. Once you list yourself as an advertisement agency on internet, your potential clients will be able to search you.
A telephone and mobile network connection: This will help you just as a professional email address will help you. Your clients will be able to contact you regarding their assignments. A professional telephone and mobile network connection will also help you to keep your personal and professional lives separate. As a result of this, you will be able to work with more focus.
Advertisement platform: The advertisement platform depends on type of advertisement agency you establish. For an instance, an advertisement agency specialized in advertising the election campaigns will require banners and hoardings as advertisement platforms. In this case, you will require adobe photoshop skills and will require to make arrangements for printing as well. If you wish to advertise through radio channels you will require to set-up a recording studio. Now I guess you can realise, the infrastructure required for making television advertisements will further require model-actors and professional videographer. If you wish to focus on digital advertising you will require to focus on developing web-based digital content. So as you can see, everything depends on the niche in which you wish to work.
Formal training or educational courses
Although, it is not mandatory to receive formal education in order to start an advertisement agency, having a college degree can be an added plus. A bachelors degree in Journalism, Advertising or Marketing can help you to boost your confidence. However, a college degree is more of mandate, when one wants to seek a job opportunity in advertising. When it comes to best educational institutes providing education in advertising and media these institutes top the list in following order:
- IIM Calcutta
- Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahemdabad
- Xavier Institute of Communication, Mumbai
- University of Mumbai
- and St. Xavier's college Kolkata
If, one wants to know more about these institutes and their courses, he/she is reffered to read this article. Having told this, one should always remember that experience is greatest teachers.
Looking for role models in the advertisement business?
An advertisement agency undoubtedly has a vast scope. Therefore, it may be a bit tricky to understand how one should go about starting one. This dilemma can be reduced by looking around and knowing about other people in the same business. I believe having a look at services provided by The Crayons Network can greatly help to visualize the scope of an advertisement agency.
In addition to learning from people in the same business, reading about advertising can also turn out to be very powerful resource. As you will read more about advertising, you will gain the confidence to start your venture. Reading will be more helpful, specially when one hasn't received formal education or training in the field of advertisement and media. Therefore, one can begin his or her research by reading books like:
How towrite a good advertisement
Tested advertisement methods
Scientific Advertising
and I am sure, a book like Breakthrough Advertising: How to Write Ads That Shatter Traditions and Sales Records will be worth a millions for ambitious beginners in this field.
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I've been thinking about socks lately because one of my fave online shopping places has new designs in, and I've been buying one design I love–"Fight Like A Girl"–for everybody. And at roughly the same time I've started sinking into who Nita is.
I know she wears all black because she's so driven that she doesn't have time for clothes, and because it absorbs heat, and because it fits her mood most of the time. Also, if everything's black, it all matches. But I thought she'd have a secret lust for color, and that her big sister would know about it, and she'd buy her something that was wildly colorful that she could keep hidden. My first thought was underwear, but I'd done scenes with Liz and her t-shirts and underwear and it didn't feel right.
And then I saw the "Fight Like a Girl" socks, and I remembered that when I'd gone in for the eye surgery, the nurse looked at my feet and said, "You win best socks of the week" (different socks, same store), and I thought, "That's it. Socks." And then I started searching for the Socks That Nita Would Wear.
They're fabulous.
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And then I found Sock It To Me:
(That top squid is Cthulhu. Because Nita says so.)
And of course there's Amazon:
The key is, I picked them all because they'd fit in with scenes or conversations I already knew were coming up. They're actually part of the plot.
Socks. The key to characterization. Who knew?
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As I sat down in front of my computer to compose my blog post for this week, I realised that I have nothing to say. No wise words, no boring words, just nothing. So instead of waffling my way through 500 words or so to put something on my blog, I am putting my 6 graphs of progress up. And that's it.
Next week, along with everyone else, I will reveal my theme for the A-to-Z Blog Challenge.
There will also be three swag packs (South African residents only) to give away to subscribers to my mailing list. Details next week.
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Putin unveils Ukraine ceasefire plan
Russian President Vladimir Putin proposes a seven-step roadmap towards ending the Ukraine conflict while Ukraine's President is hopeful over the launch of a peace process during meetings in Minsk later this week. Mana Rabiee reports.
Residents in this area of Donetsk, in eastern Ukrainian, flee into their basements, to escape the artillery shelling above. Donetsk is a stronghold of pro-Russian separatists and their battles with nearby government forces are said to be raging. Russian President Vladimir Putin has proposed a seven-step roadmap for ending the violence. Among other things, it calls for rebels to halt their operations, Ukrainian forces to pull back from their positions and an end to government airstrikes. Putin outlined the plan while visiting Mongolia. (SOUNDBITE) (Russian) RUSSIAN PRESIDENT, VLADIMIR PUTIN, SAYING: "I very much count on Ukrainian leadership supporting this emergent progress in bilateral relations and using the positive work of the contact group to achieve a final and comprehensive resolution of the situation in southeastern Ukraine." Peace talks in Minsk are scheduled for Friday, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko says he's hopeful the talks can lead to a peace plan and he's urging politicians to support negotiations. (SOUNDBITE) (Ukrainian) UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT, PETRO POROSHENKO, SAYING: "Listen, how can anyone be against peace? How can anyone reject the fact that people must stop dying? How can we stop these awful events today?" But Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk calls Putin's 7-point proposal "deception". Meanwhile, earlier proposals of a possible ceasefire had no immediate impact on the ground. And rebel leaders have little faith that government forces will observe any truce. Talks in Minsk offer a glimmer of hope, but no guarantee that residents of eastern Ukraine can emerge from the darkness of war anytime soon.


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Welcome from the Sacramento Dean's Student Advisory Committee!
On behalf of the students of the Graduate School of Management's Sacramento part-time program, I would like to congratulate you on becoming part of the Graduate School of Management community.This is an exciting time for the School, and a great time for you to focus on your professional development.The lessons and knowledge that you will gain during your journey here will help elevate you to the best version of yourself.We look forward to being part of your educational experience, and are thankful that you have chosen to join us in leading our companies and communities to an exceptional future.
Welcome, and we can't wait to see you in the fall!
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SeeClickFix is helping to improve communities around the world as reports from citizens in Espoo, Southern Finland pour in. Currently, there are around 160 open issues reported there with watch areas set up for the mayor, an Espoo board member, and a local neighborhood group.
With walking and cycling as major modes of transportation, Espoo has a great demand for SeeClickFix; the maintenance of sidewalks and bike paths is critical. For example, one open issue involves an unpaved section of a bike path. Yikes! Espoo is another great place for citizens to use SeeClickFix and work together to improve their community!


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In the past seven years Girl Scouts of Northern California has touched the lives of thousands of Northern California's girls through a partnership with Kaiser Permanente, helping them make positive choices and thrive as adults. Kaiser Permanente has contributed over $200,000 in grant funding for Got Choices (GSNorCal's signature prevention and intervention program for at-risk teens and tweens), sponsored leadership events like Camp CEO, and provided us with countless dedicated volunteers who make our work possible.
In 2016 alone, twenty-five staff members from Kaiser Permanente volunteered as mentors, troop leaders, or in other troop volunteer positions, and requested matching funds for volunteer hours. Girl Scouts of Northern California is proud to partner with Kaiser Permanente in the South Bay and San Francisco on a variety of programs and events.
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Don't Kill Urban Coyotes, Enact Stronger Urban Planning Instead
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Urge your governor to work with your state's legislature and local county commissioners to ensure that humans don't further encroach on wild lands. Only then will we see a decline in the amount of these "urban coyote attacks."
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You've seen the headlines: Coyotes are attacking humans with more and more frequency. One wandered into a Chicago sandwich shop. Another lives in Central Park in New York. Five people have reported coyote attacks in the Denver area. Five coyotes have been killed in Austin so far this year. Our government spends millions of dollars to trap, shoot and poison more than 90,000 "urban coyotes" every year.
But the real problem isn't coyotes attacking humans, it's human suburban sprawl that increasingly takes over the habitat of wild animals like coyotes. Rather than hunting down and killing animals whose habitat has been destroyed by human subdivisions, we should enact stronger urban planning laws that protect the habitat of our nation's wildlife.
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Turner Prize-winning Chris Ofili draws inspiration from an eclectic array of popular, artistic, and religious sources such as the Bible, William Blake, blaxploitation films, hip hop, and his Nigerian heritage.
One of the most notorious YBAs (Young British Artists) Ofili's creations contribute to a complex narrative about African culture, black stereotypes, history, and exoticism.
Since the scandal surrounding the exhibition of The Holy Virgin Mary (1996) at the Brooklyn Museum during the "Sensation" exhibition Ofili has had an impressive international career.
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[j60] Avouris N., Yiannoutsou, N., (2012). A review of mobile location-based games for learning across physical and virtual spaces, Journal of Universal Computer Science, vol 18,(15), pp. 2120-2142. (pdf of authors copy)
In this paper we review mobile location-based games for learning. These games are played in physical space, but at the same time, they are supported by actions and events in an interconnected virtual space. Learning in these games is related to issues like the narrative structure, space and game rules and content that define the virtual game space. First, we introduce the theoretical and empirical considerations of mobile location based games, and then we discuss an analytical framework of their main characteristics through typical examples. In particular, we focus on their narrative structure, the interaction modes that they afford, their use of physical space as prop for action, the way this is linked to virtual space and the possible learning impact the game activities have. Finally we conclude with an outline of future trends and possibilities that these kinds of playful activities can have on learning, especially outside school, like in environmental studies and visits in museums and other sites of cultural and historical value.
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These displays have started to arrive at Verizon Wireless stores for Friday's launch of the Motorola Droid Razr. This device is just about as exciting as the very first Droid launched two years ago this month, also at Verizon Wireless. The original Droid was surrounded by a $100 million dollar sci-fi advertising budget that really worked. But is that the case now?
Motorola is obviously trying to build off the brand that they created with the clamshell (flip) Razr phone. In it's lifetime, Motorola sold more than 130 million Razr phones, their best cell phone ever. The thinking here is that those customers who purchased a Motorola Razr between 2004 and 2007 are probably ready for a smartphone and what better way to do it than to bring back the name.
However that's about where the argument drops off. See the Motorola Razr was a phone for all people. You could walk the streets of Manhattan or the local shopping mall and find men, women, children, soccer moms and senior citizens using the Motorola Razr. Back in June while Motorola Mobility CEO Sanjay Jha was speaking at the Bank of America/Merill Lynch technology summit, Jha admitted that their dark toned, deep voiced, sci fi branding and creative (think commercials) was probably wrong.
Why doesn't the same thing apply here?
The Razr will most likely work out because it is by no stretch a Verizon Wireless exclusive. We've already seen ads abroad and have seen a gsm version clear the FCC. Motorola is going to make a huge run with this phone, but at least for America's largest and most reliable wireless network, are the robot arms, Droid eye and Mister deep voice guy really attracting soccer moms and the over 50 set to probably the best phone Motorola has released to date?


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Its hard for me to believe but a year ago, today, Zee escaped from my fevered brain into the real world.
Its a modest little box with a drop on lid but the technique used to make it has taken me places I didn't expect. Its evolved to allow 3D patterns over all visible faces of my boxes. Allows strings to cross any line at any angle (with a little help from Steve, sras). All in all the technique has liberated my box design. Its evolved practically as well. I now use router bits to achieve the 45° double mitre cut, less fraught and only one setup per cut (minimising errors). I now regularly cut up patterns I've spent hours on without fearing their destruction (providing I keep my concentration).
The feedback I've been getting from the people here at LJ's is also a major contributor to this evolution. I find great encouragement here from you all. I am very grateful. This has done my self confidence no end of good. I used to feel very wary when I posted but now I look forward to my little photo-shoots and postings for the latest project. I like to entertain.
I enjoy making these boxes and I hope you get some enjoyment out of seeing them. I now attempt things in my woodworking that I never would have thought possible. Thank you all for spurring me on. Lumberjocks has been and continues to be the place I want to be for my woodwork.
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"How Old is That Giraffe?" and Other Tall Stories
Their extra-long legs and neck, patchwork hides and knobbly horns make them an enigma of the bushveld. As a result, our guests always have plenty of questions about these ungainly beasts.
Here are some of the answers:
How old is that giraffe?
It is difficult to tell the age of a giraffe just by looking at it, especially if it is alone. Up to a point, the larger a giraffe is, the older it is. Males generally tend to become taller than females at the age of 6 years old. Females only reach maturity at 6 or 7 years old, so it is unlikely that they will be seen nursing a calf before that.
Scientists have recently discovered that Thornicroft's giraffes (known also as the Rhodesian giraffe) tend to become darker as they age. No studies have been conducted on South African giraffes as yet, but the older ones do appear to be slightly darker.
The most reliable way to tell a giraffe's age is by studying its teeth. They wear down with age just like horses' teeth do. Although this can be difficult to assess in a live wild giraffe!
How do giraffes drink water?
The truth is. Nobody knows. We know that they have to stretch their legs out and bend down from a great height to do so. We also know that their jugular veins have stop valves in them to prevent blood from rushing to their heads when they drink.
How they get water up that long neck though? Scientists speculate that giraffes are capable of creating a plunger-like effect with their mouths, throats and tongues to push the water up to their stomachs. They are still, however, trying to figure out how to prove this.
We'll keep you posted.
Why do Giraffes have such long necks?The obvious answer is 'to browse the tops of trees', but their long necks more likely evolved so that they could compete better for females. Giraffes fight by necking each other with these long appendages, so in the battle for a mate, a longer neck is better.
We prefer the Shona tale. This tells how Giraffe, which originally had a short neck, stretched up to better hear God's instructions just after Creation. Pleased with this diligence, the Creator rewarded Giraffe with an extra-long neck to reach the juiciest tree-top leaves.


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25 February 2018 – £45.00
- Explore the history behind and the reasons why we're passionate about using natural plasters
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- Discover how natural plasters can eliminate condensation
- Learn how to make clay plasters from the earth and from manufactured products
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With Barbara Jones FRSA – best selling author of Building with Straw Bales.
The course will begin at 10am and end at 4pm. Tea and coffee provided, please bring your own lunch. A pen and notebook will be useful. The venue is at the University of Lincoln.
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The Dorset Chalk Stream Club will have its March, (pre trout season) social gathering in West Stafford Village hall (DT2 8AG) on Friday the 10th March 2017
starting at 7.30pm
Just look at another amazing evening we have lined up for you all…
Salmon and Silt a recipe for extinction – with Bill Beaumont from the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust – https://www.gwct.org.uk/fishing/research/
Four from Dorset, a round trip of 26,000 miles in search of wild Trout – with Richard, John, John and John
There will also be a stand featuring a rather fine Fly Rod Builder "Tom Regula"
Looking for that little treat for next season, check out Tom's website – http://www.tomregularods.co.uk/home
- Please bring a plate of good food to pop on the buffet table.
- A bottle of your favourite tipple, or grab a drink from the Wise Man Inn
- Bring along any of your unwanted tackle, flies and books to sell on the second hand tackle table, and if you would like to have a stand (FOC), just give me a ring 01305 257490 or ping me an email – firstname.lastname@example.com
- Please bring friends along to meet fellow Chalk stream and fly fisher folk.
- News on meetings coming over this winter. Could you please avoid parking in the pub car park, use the village hall car park, in front of the pub or please park at our house (The Dairy House, map at the bottom of this link) just a short walk from the village. Entrance for this winters gatherings will again be free of charge.
- The heating and website has again be sponsored by West Dorset Foodie
- The Dorset Wildlife Trust through the Dorset Wild Rivers Project have again very kindly sponsored the hire of the village hall for the Dorset Chalk Stream Club


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Mills Fleet Farm Kids' Fishing Appreciation Day
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11:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Mills Fleet Farm Stores at 14 locations in Minnesota
Mills Fleet Farm hosts the Kids' Fishing Appreciation Day on Saturday, July 11, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., at store locations throughout Minnesota. The event teaches kids to appreciate and learn basic fishing skills, such as casting, knot tying, fish identification, safety, and live bait use.
Representatives from Minnesota Sea Grant, DNR AIS, Law Enforcement, and Watercraft Inspection Programs, Master Naturalists, Wildlife Forever, lake associations and others will co-host Stop Aquatic Hitchhikers!TM booths to help educate anglers, young and old, about the problems caused by aquatic invasive species such as Eurasian watermilfoil and zebra mussels. Free educational materials will be distributed.
Free and open to all kids. For more information, call or visit the Customer Service Desk at any one of the following stores in: Alexandria, Baxter, Blaine, Brooklyn Park, Cambridge, Carver, Fergus Falls, Lakeville, Oakdale, Owatonna, Rochester, Waite Park, and Winona.


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In one of the most disconnects of the racing economy of the Bay Region, much more folks wish to purchase a house than wish to market one, causing the the smallest property industry within the country Would be homebuyers are crowding into open homes that are rare and fighting for that several accessible, resulting in increasing costs, quick revenue several houses market inside a week seekers Here Is The many experienced amount of stock that was reduced I Have observed in 20 to 24 years," explained mind of the Serene Team in Silicon Valley, Chris Trapani Several homeowners awaiting their houses to recuperate worth before they market and continue to be spinning in the property breast. Others are scared when they market, they wont locate another house due to the scarcity. Homeowners who refinanced at the low-interest charges of last year's also may not be unhappy where they're to remain.
Document: An offered indication is published on July 30, 2013 before a house available in Bay Area, California In the same period, the Bay Area technology growth has increased demand within the three smallest areas within the U.S. Based On online property website Tulia, which monitors how stock is checking up on need, the East Bay has got the smallest offer, followed closely by the South Bay and also the Peninsula, including Bay Area It may be annually or even more prior to the marketplace rights Trapani said.
The restricted marketplace and high costs have pressed first time held them hiring despite the fact that rents are one of the greatest within the country or homebuyers possibly towards the outer edges of the Bay Region "for each six-number application manufacture, you've individuals employed in the service-industry, in restaurants and retail and residing in high-thickness circumstances or shifting more out where there is affordable housing or rental property,said Leslie Appleton-Younger of the California Association of Agents It'd consider professionals real estate weeks to offer all of the houses shown available in San Mateo Areas and Santa Clara, significantly below the 6 months that is deemed a marketplace that is healthy, based on the affiliation. Alameda Costa areas aren't definitely better down, at somewhat greater than 8 weeks.
Roberts assisted a pair purchase a home in Newark once they dropped someone to a bidding battle that drew 26 presents and offered within the selling price for $ 90 " a large amount of individuals were bidding in it along with We absolutely went right into a dilemma where there have bean's several homes," stated her customer, an electronic manufacture having a technology company in Northern San Jose, Ken Taylor. Taylor a visual artist, May Burton, looked over homes to get a month without discovering significantly We'd invest a complete evening and find out eight or six homes, but which was all of the houses within our budget range which were available on the market," said Taylor. "lots residents we did not wish to cope with and of them had fascinating issues with permits.
Whenever a three- two, room bath house in Newark arrived available on the market, they got it FO $20, over selling price and offered the vendors three weeks' rent. "We acknowledged that since that is so just how it's he explained In this competitive marketplace, costs have grown and produced "an emergency of cost," explained public affairs representative of the Bay East Association of Agents, David Stark. "It Is difficult to find the next house, making you hesitant to place your home.
Costs of simple-family houses were up 17.1 percent in May in the prior year over the Bay Region, based on Data Quick. The Bay Region has got the two urban centers Bay Area and San Jose using the greatest average house costs within the country Tracy Tumble and Steve viewed their friend is Nice Hill house determined the full time was fresh to market and move-out of the region, and market for $ 100 000 3 months before We'd two individual money offers along with four additional presents," Tumble stated. "We could not think it. The very first money present was obtained by us The ultimate successful bet was 000, for $880 It's growing using the summertime houses purchasing period though stock continues to be reduced, and a few of the stress might relieve.
However many of this current stock development might be people houses aren't promoting and since homeowners are overpricing their houses. 5.5 percentage in May decreased in the prior year over the eight-county Bay Region, based on property information service Data Quick The current escalation in stock "isn't supplying lots of reduction on the market simply since you do possess some entries that were expensive," stated Appleton-Young of Realtors' California Association. "That has a tendency to occur at this time in a period.
There are many of explanations why possible vendors are currently maintaining their houses off the marketplace Some are acting like traders having a warm inventory, attempting to "period the marketplace" by possessing their qualities of marketing in the maximum within the wish, stated East Bay supervisor for Zip Realty, Don Jones Datanagan "you will find individuals today who noticed the understanding increase 20, and who offered their property this past year - percent since that time,he explained. "They Are currently wanting.
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Nigora Khaydarova,
Art Critic
In the art of modern animation, the Uzbek specialists and filmmakers turned to historical themes, appearances and deeds of our great ancestors, giving them a new incarnation according to the national ideology. The principle of educating the younger generation in the spirit of national ideas based on the instructive examples, taken from the history of our nation, has took on the new interpretation. The animated films like "The Legend of Jaloliddin", "Toumaris", "The Star of Zardusht" and "Spitamen" have been created in this vein.
The artistic director of the Cartoon Studio at the "Uzbekfilm" Film Studios, the Honored Worker of Culture of Uzbekistan, director and animation artist – Mawzur Makhmudov – made a great contribution to the Uzbek hand-drawn animated films. After graduating from the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography in 1976, he began his career in the "Cartoon Association" of "Uzbekfilm". His tutor was a famous director – I. Ivanov-Vano, who helped him to master the secrets of the art of animation. The debut film by M. Makhmudov as director and artist was "The Ballad about the Falcon and the Star" (1978, script by O. Khmelnytskaya).
The animation film by M. Makhmudov, "The Legend of Jaloliddin" (1999, script by M. Tuychiev) is dedicated to the great commander, fair and glorious Sultan Jaloliddin Manguberdi, who fought heroically against the invaders in the beginning of the XIII century. This film is about patriotism, love and devotion to the Motherland, the unity and dedication of the people in the fight against the enemy.
It should be noted that the figure of Jaloliddin Manguberdi at that period is reflected not only in animation, but also in other art forms. Therefore, director has created a generalized image of the hero using the possibilities of animation. He portrayed him using the drawn pictures confirming that the possibilities of an animation director are extremely broad.
The figure of Jaloliddin Manguberdi in the animated scenes of the film is important because, in his stature and proud look, bursting with energy and force, there are new features that were missing in the perception of this great ancestor by the people of Uzbekistan, who in the film by M. Makhmudov is the living image of the devoted son of the nation, urging people to become the advocates of peace and tranquillity in their Motherland.
Every year more and more attention is given to the production of the animated films based on the Uzbek folk tales and poems, classical literature and the works of Uzbek writers. The latest animation technology was used to create them. Since 2010, such animated movies as "Farhad and Shirin", "The Lion and the Carpenter" adaptation of the poems by Alisher Navoi, "Three Comrades", "Spitamen", "The Liar and the Truthful", "Semurg – the Bird of Happiness" based of different historical events, legends and Uzbek folk tales have been released.
Among the animated films based on the works of the great thinker – Alisher Navoi – that have been produced starting from the second half of the 1990s by the director M. Makhmudov, for example, a film based on the poem "Sabayi Sayor" ("The Seven Planets") of the famous "Khamsa". Makhmudov studies carefully the literary source prior to start production of the animation film. He wrote a script for "Bakhrom and Dilorom" jointly with A. Fainberg. The script in condensed form reflects the content of the poem. The film embodies a unique charm and appeal of the poetry by Alisher Navoi.
It is quite a daunting task to transmit via video images the deep philosophical idea of the poem by Navoi, the beauty of his couplets, which can be compared to the gems. Being fully aware of this, M. Makhmudov, began an adaptation of the poem "The Seven Planets" starting from its first part – "Bakhrom and Dilorom", which connects the seven stories that constitute its content. Another poem that makes a part of "Hamsa" by Alisher Navoi – "Farhad and Shirin" – was brought to the animated screen by director N. Tulyakhodjaev (2010), who in collaboration with the screenwriter E. Khasanova and the artist A. Gvardin used the existing experience in creation of this animation film. In this film as well, a deep sense of the love poem has found its perfect incarnation.
A master of his craft, M. Makhmudov is tirelessly seeking the new ways to express the meaningful ideas in his works, therefore he turned to the poem "The Amazement of the Immaculates" ("Hayrat ul-Abror") from the quintuple poem. In collaboration with R. Djabbarov, M. Makhmudov has written a screenplay on the basis of the poetic legend about a lying carpenter – "The Lion and the Carpenter" (2010, artist S. Silka). M. Makhmudov took part in filmmaking also as a director. The deep meaning of the poem has acquired a bright poetic expression at the animation screen. The main idea of the film, topical at all times, is that "a human being should always be truthful", which adds an enormous educational value to it.
In addition to the adaptations of the works of the national classics, the maitres of animation appeal to the foreign classics. Just so, the artist and director – M. Makhmudov has created the animated film "A Happy Prince" (1992) based on the scenario by N. Tulyakhodjaev, adapting the story by Oscar Wilde, in which he touched the theme of human feelings, revealing the spiritual world of a human being. A statue of the Prince mounted in the town square stands as the main character. The eyes of the statue are made of precious stones and the body of golden petals. The final of this film is tragic. The viewer understands that a symbol of the courageous person, willing to give his life for others, is a swallow. The film is attractive due to its psychological content, revealing the depth of the human soul. Intended for the adult audience, this film encourages the spectators to think about the meaning of life, the essence and purpose of human existence. In 1993, the film was awarded by the Griffin Award of the Association of the Cinematographers of Uzbekistan.
Among the young artists of the animated films based on the classic works, the following films should be noted – "The Nightingale" (written and directed by M. Makhmudov, the artist M. Karabayev, 1999), "Come and have potluck with us" (script writer M. Makhmudov, director and artist Dmitry Vlasov, 2004). In "The Nightingale", M. Makhmudov approached the classic genre of the fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen. The idea of this film can be summed up in the words "the beauty will save the world". A true beauty is the naturalness and purity of thoughts. This thought permeated the events in the film. The music that accompanies this film, emphasizes the divine nature of the idea that unfolds on the screen through such descriptive means as metaphor, grotesque and hyperbole.
The ability to transfer inner feelings and emotions through the paper dolls in animation, M. Makhmudov first showed in his film "A Happy Prince", and then in "The Nightingale" it was reassured. This is a specific typological similarity of the two pictures. In 1999, the movie "The Nightingale" was awarded the first prize "Golden Fish" at the International Festival of Children's Animation Cinema held in Moscow.
In the animated fairy tale "Come and have potluck with us" (screenplay by M. Makhmudov, director and artist D. Vlasov, 2004) used the technique of replacement, which resulted in the the modern interpretation of the fairy tale by H. H. Andersen "Whatever a man does, it is perfect". The authors of the film, keeping the original idea of the writer, changed the scene, moving it on the Uzbek soil. Thus, the market in the tale was replaced by the Eastern bazaar, which is full of the items like the national embroidery and embossing on metal.
Such works by M. Makhmudov like "Bakhrom and Dilorom" (1996), "Shadman, the Athlete" (2008), "The Fortune-Teller Against Her Will" (2009) are copyrighted as the Uzbek animation films.
Attention to the text and the artistic metaphors of director and animation artist – M. Makhmudov has grown with the development of the animation art. With the intensification of dialogues and their transformation into a driving force, attention to the visual expression of thoughts and ideas has increased. At the same time, active use of rhetorical means can be observed in the children's films, and visual trend in the films for grownups. In the animated films, where more attention is paid to the visual imagery, there is a tendency to philosophical generalization through symbols.