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I haven't bought one yet, I was just renting for the weekend. EMS has this deal that if you rent they will take the rental price off the cost of the Kayak. Anyway I was using the Perception American. It was perfect. For just small ponds it was alittle too much but I am looking for something I can go out to Mono. with. Everything else is either too small or too long and thin. I think I am going to get the American with a rudder.
13" Brookie was great, got him on a mickey finn. Terry showed me some great spots too. Thanks.
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Very cool! Hey Nate - which yak did you go with? Is it a sit-on-top or a traditional?
I am still contemplating the choices for a flats vehicle for this season.
(I'm ready Terry!)
Nice Brookie Nate!
Well Nate and I hit the Shawsheen this AM. Air temp was 32 deg, water not much better.
Water pretty cold and high. Beautiful run though. We got nada there, but what a spot. I could picture a Salmon or Steelie shooting up there from the Merrimack if only the dam dams weren't there.
Next we hit a small pond called Berry Pond in Harold Parker State Forest (No. Andover). Nate brought a kayak and circled the pond while I cast from shore. I had quite a few rises to aim at but couldn't interest them. Nate hooked up with a trout which turned out to be a greater then 12" brookie. Probably a holdover. Nice fish, saved us from PU.
Nice morning. Getting warmed up. Don't forget high tide Friday on Bass River mid afternoon.
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Come celebrate the Diva in you at the North Myrtle Beach Divas Half Marathon and 5k! The half marathon will take place on April 28 but many other events will surround this fun race for women! Other events include a two-day Health and Fitness Boutique, Divas 5k, and a pool party. Tiaras and pink feather boas are encouraged!Next Date:

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Where a bottle normally enters the top of a cooler, a float assembly is fitted. A hose coming directly from your water source, which can be tap water, filtered water or RO water, is connected to the back of the float assembly, then goes down the back of the cooler and out of sight. When water is drawn from the cooler, the float assembly allows water to flow back into the cooler until full, thereby providing a continuous source of water without bottle storage or spilled water.
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Police considered McGill's daughter a suspect in killing
SPOKANE, Wash. - The daughter of a woman who was stabbed to death while walking her dog along the Spokane River was once considered a suspect in the killing and now her attorney is saying police misrepresented her level of cooperation in the case.
For several months, police thought 25-year-old Billie McKinney may have hired a hit man to kill her mother, Sharlotte McGill, so McKinney could collect $750,000 in insurance money.
Before she died, McGill told police she had been attacked by a black male with a bad eye and detectives questioned several men in the area that fit the description including Avondre Graham, the 17-year-old now charged with her murder.McGill murder investigation
However given the random and unprovoked nature of the deadly incident investigators began to wonder if there wasn't some other reason for why McGill was targeted for the mid-day ambush along the popular walkway known as Tuffy's Trail.
Detectives learned McGill had life insurance policies totaling $750,000 and retirement investments through her employer Costco and that her daughter Billie was the sole beneficiary of those assets.
Investigators became suspicious of McKinney when friends of McGill told police McKinney's behavior was inappropriate given the circumstances and that McKinney refused to accompany her mother in the ambulance on the way to the hospital.
During the police department's subsequent interview with McKinney detectives say she showed little emotion and asked very few questions about the ongoing investigation.
Detectives said McKinney made multiple attempts to collect her mother's life insurance policy and that McKinney was scheduled for six different polygraph tests, none of which were completed.
However McKinney's attorney, Jeffrey Finer, says his client did voluntarily make herself available for the exams.
"That's clearly not true, she did have a number of polygraph sessions and the first one happened within just a few days after her mother's funeral and she had been very ill," Finer said.
Finer says he understands why police needed to scrutinize McKinney and that "she understands that an investigation must go where the evidence leads and that investigators must be persistent."
However Finer said when detectives were applying for search warrants for McKinney's phone and home, they misled the court about the level of McKinney's cooperation.
"The affidavit says she never cooperated. The affidavit says she never completed a poly and they don't tell the judge that actually she was ill, she was trying, that the polygraph examiner said he was having problems with the machine and so the judge was misled," Finer said.
The alleged errors in the affidavit the court considered are "unsettling" and in the coming days Finer said he will demand a formal explanation from the police department.
Spokane police report that McKinney is no longer considered a suspect in the case and as of last week McKinney has started receiving her mother's benefits.
Finer added McKinney has been cleared of any involvement in the murder, adding that "Ms. McKinney asks that her family and friends, and the community of Spokane understand that she is bereaved, that she grieves the loss of her mother deeply and for her the pain is undiminished."
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88 counties in Iowa chose to join the Livestock Master Matrix in January. Both Washington and Keokuk County will not be using this system. The matrix is a system that can help livestock producers in the planning phase of building a new facility on a farm says Byron Leu, a Livestock Expert with the ISU Extension.
It is a point system that helps farmers determine if a plot of land will have an effect on the community or environment.
It doesn't place any restrictions on building, but gives livestock producers an idea of whether or not the board of supervisors will approve that building. For a more in depth look at the livestock master matrix, listen to our In Touch program on Monday.
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I was bumping around on Cabela's website (as I do too regularly according to my wife) and found Hevi shot 3 inch shells with 2 oz. or #7s on sale for $19.99 per box versus the regular price of $26.99. I bought a few boxes for testing and so that I'm ready come next spring...of course that is IF I have turkeys to shoot at...just kidding. I'll store the ammo in a dry box and will be testing at the range with some of it over the summer.
This week my best friend and I managed to secure exclusive rights to 600 acres of prime turkey hunting land beside the river that hasn't been hunted in years. Happy, happy, joy, joy!!
I'd rather have plenty of ammo ready than be scrambling around at the last minute hoping to find what I need.


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Using a gobble call on public land is one of the most dangerous things you can do in all of turkey hunting. A strutter decoy is a bad idea here as well.
Most hunters won't approach hen calls, but almost all will go after a gobble if they hear one. If an actual gobbler shows up he might get shot at from three or more different directions.
Certainly you can see the danger involved in this scenario. Some fools, and especially inexperienced ones, will do anything to try and tag a bird, don't know or care about ethics and won't respect your position or privacy. This situation has only worsened over the years as private land is harder to find and public lands have gotten overcrowded.
This is, of course, an extreme example but public land stories abound about hunters that have been shot, decoys that have been shot, or conflicts that arise from hunters going after the same bird. Suffice to say, save the gobble call for the private land where access is limited and you know who is there and where they are.
You should be safe to gobble on your sister's ranch.
Great advice Fan!! I hunted a WMA locally last year because I'd exhausted all my other places and the price of gas. Luckily, I got to on to gob who responded to a box. He was in a gully below (from the sound of him, couldn't get a visual) He was close enough that I set up with gun up, clucked and purred, scratched leaves a little and waited while waiting for him to stick his head up over the terrain break . After about 10 min. with no response, I put the gun down and scratched again. BOOM!!!! Someone down below me who never even called (at least that I could hear) took a whack at the bird. I never even heard or for that matter saw the shooter!!!! I was mad at first, then thankful that the bird didn't stick his head up, thus causing me to shoot down into the gully where the shot came from. This could've have easily resulted in a REAL TRADEGY that no bird is worth!!!


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Lion Fight 10 is coming up this summer, on July 26th and will once again feature Yodsanklai Fairtex, one of the most popular Thai fighters to fight outside of Thailand in the past few years. Lion Fight have released the full video of his fight at Lion Fight 8 against Gregory Choplin for the world to watch again, for free. Yes, for free, which is pretty awesome. All of this is building to July 26's big Lion Fight 10 which will air live on AXS TV.


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Barium enema is a special x-ray of the large intestine, which includes the colon and rectum.
Lower gastrointestinal series; Lower GI series
This test may be done in a doctor's office or hospital radiology department. It is done after your colon is completely empty. Your doctor will give you instructions on how to empty your colon.
During the test:
Your bowels need to be completely empty for the exam. If they are not empty, the test may miss a problem in your large intestine.
You will likely be given instructions for cleansing your bowel. This is also called bowel preparation. Follow the instructions exactly. This ensures accurate results.
Your bowels are emptied using an enema or laxatives. For 1 to 3 days before the test, you need to be on a clear liquid diet. Examples of clear liquids are:
When barium enters your colon, you may feel like you need to have a bowel movement. You may also have a feeling of fullness, moderate to severe cramping, and general discomfort. Taking long, deep breaths may help you relax during the procedure.
It is normal for the stools to be white for a few days after this test. Drink extra fluids for 2 to 4 days. Ask your doctor about a laxative if you develop hard stools.
Barium enema is used to:
The barium enema test is used much less often than in the past. Colonoscopy is done more often now.
Barium should fill the colon evenly, showing normal bowel shape and position and no blockages.
Abnormal test results may be a sign of:
There is low radiation exposure. X-rays are monitored so that the smallest amount of radiation is used. Pregnant women and children are more sensitive to x-ray risks.
A rare but serious risk is a hole made in the colon (perforated colon) when the enema tube is inserted.
It is normal for the stools to be white for a few days after this test. You should try to drink extra fluids for 2 to 4 days. Ask your doctor about a laxative if you develop hard stools.
Bartram CI, Taylor S. The large bowel. In: Adam A, Dixon AK, Grainger RG, et al., eds. Grainger & Allison's Diagnostic Radiology: A Textbook of Medical Imaging. 5th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Elsevier Churchill Livingstone; 2008:chap 33.
Zeligman BE. Radiography and radiographic fluoroscopic contrast examinations. In: McNally PR, ed. GI/Liver Secrets Plus. 4th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Elsevier Mosby; 2010:chap 20.
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Add something savory to your family's Asian night! Serve slow-cooked turkey drumsticks with flavor of plum sauce served with rice.
Take a few minutes to remove the skin before cooking the drumsticks. First, less fat will form on top of the sauce during cooking. Second, the skin would not become golden brown because it will be simmering in the sauce. Third, the flavor of the plum sauce will cling to the turkey meat instead of to the skin.
Plum sauce is a sweet-and-sour sauce made from plums, apricots, sugar and seasonings. You can find it in the Asian-foods section of the supermarket or at an Asian grocery store. If plum sauce isn't available, use apricot or cherry preserves and it still will be delicious!
Keep to the Asian theme by serving this plum-good turkey with crisply cooked pea pods. A fresh salad of assorted melon-cantaloupe, honeydew and watermelon-drizzled lightly with your favorite fruit salad dressing makes a light yet satisfying meal.
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Atrocious - that's the word Kiwi tennis No 1 Marina Erakovic has used to describe the serve that repeatedly let her down in a heartbreaking first-round defeat at the Australian Open in Melbourne today.
Frenchwoman Alize Cornet, the former world No 11, beat Erakovic 7-5 6-7(3) 10-8 in three hours and 28 minutes.
The match total of 43 games was just five off the record set in 1996 between Arantxa Sanchez Vicario and Chanda Rubin.
Erakovic will rue her chances as she had service breaks in all three sets and completed 17 double faults in total.
At times she looked the better player as Cornet scrambled and chased down shots that looked like winners.
"I definitely had my chances all through the match. There's not a lot to say. I fought hard but every time I had a chance I let it go. We were nervous.
You get nervous at a Grand Slam, but you do your best to deal with it," Erakovic said after the match.
Played in front of a large and enthusiastic crowd who were fully behind the Kiwi the match never had a rhythm, with both players looking set to capitalise on service breaks or game points on their serves before letting their opponent come back.
"At the end of the day you always want to win no matter how you're playing, even though there was some shocking tennis."
When asked about her serving, Erakovic used the word atrocious under her breath then said: "Serving today was pretty bad. Seventeen doubles, no comment, I really just want to go back to the room."
Had she won against Cornet she would have faced a second-round meeting with former world No 1 Venus Williams.
Erakovic will now play in the doubles draw where she will team up with British player Heather Watson to face ninth seeds Anna-Lena Groenefeld and Kveta Peschke.


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Forum to address Iraqi museum looting
An open discussion, "Material Culture and Ethics: Questions Raised by the Looting of the Iraq Museum," will be held at 3:30 p.m. Friday, April 25, in room 140 of the Science I building on the Binghamton University campus. The event is free and open to the public.
The forum will feature introductory slides and commentaries by Susan Pollock of the Department of Anthropology, Nancy Um of the Department of Art History and Donald Quataert of the Department of History. Reinhard Bernbeck will moderate.
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Wilms' tumor is a rare kidney cancer that primarily affects children. Also known as nephroblastoma, Wilms' tumor is the most common cancer of the kidneys in children. Wilms' tumor most often affects children ages 3 to 4 and becomes much less common after age 5.
Wilms' tumor most often occurs in just one kidney, though it can sometimes be found in both kidneys at the same time.
Improvements in the diagnosis and treatment of Wilms' tumor have improved the prognosis for children with this disease. The outlook for most children with Wilms' tumor is very good.
Wilms' tumor doesn't always cause signs and symptoms. Children with Wilms' tumor may appear healthy, or they may experience:
Make an appointment with your child's doctor if you notice any signs or symptoms that worry you. The signs and symptoms associated with Wilms' tumor aren't specific to the condition and are much more likely to be caused by something else.
It's not clear what causes Wilms' tumor.
Doctors know that cancer begins when cells develop errors in their DNA. The errors allow the cells to grow and divide uncontrollably and to go on living when other cells would die. The accumulating cells form a tumor. In Wilms' tumor, this process occurs in the kidney cells.
In a small number of cases, the errors in DNA that lead to Wilms' tumor are passed from parents to children. In most cases, there is no known connection between parents and children that may lead to cancer.
Factors that may increase the risk of Wilms' tumor include:
Wilms' tumor occurs more frequently in children with certain abnormalities present at birth, including:
Wilms' tumor can occur as part of rare syndromes, including:
Start by making an appointment with your family doctor or your child's pediatrician if your child has signs or symptoms that worry you. If your child is diagnosed with Wilms' tumor, you may be referred to a doctor who specializes in treating cancer (oncologist) or a surgeon who specializes in kidney operations (urologist).
Because appointments can be brief, and there's often a lot of ground to cover, it's a good idea to be well-prepared. Here's some information to help you get ready and know what to expect from your doctor.
Your time with your doctor is limited, so preparing a list of questions will help you make the most of your time together. List your questions from most important to least important in case time runs out. For Wilms' tumor, some basic questions to ask your doctor include:
In addition to the questions that you've prepared to ask your doctor, don't hesitate to ask other questions during your appointment.
Your doctor is likely to ask you a number of questions. Being ready to answer them may reserve time to go over points you want to spend more time on. Your doctor may ask:
To diagnose Wilms' tumor, your child's doctor may recommend:
Once your child's doctor has diagnosed Wilms' tumor, he or she works to determine the extent (stage) of the cancer. Your child's doctor may recommend a chest X-ray, chest CT scan and bone scan to determine whether the cancer has spread beyond the kidneys.
The doctor assigns your child's cancer a stage, which helps determine the treatment options. The stages of Wilms' tumor are:
Treatment for Wilms' tumor usually involves surgery and chemotherapy. But treatments may vary by the stage of the cancer. Because this type of cancer is rare, your doctor may recommend that you seek treatment at a children's cancer center that has experience treating this type of cancer.
Treatment for Wilms' tumor usually begins with surgery to remove all or part of a kidney (nephrectomy). Surgery is also used to confirm the diagnosis, since the tissue removed during surgery is sent to a laboratory to determine whether it is cancerous.
Surgery for Wilms' tumor may include:
Chemotherapy uses powerful drugs to kill cancer cells throughout the body. Chemotherapy treatment usually involves a combination of drugs that work together to kill cancer cells. Chemotherapy can be administered through a vein or taken in pill form.
What side effects your child experiences will depend on which drugs are used. Common side effects include nausea, vomiting, loss of appetite, hair loss and frequent infections. Ask your child's doctor what side effects may occur during treatment, and if there are any potential long-term complications.
Chemotherapy may be used before surgery to shrink tumors and make them easier to remove. Chemotherapy may be used after surgery to kill any cancer cells that may remain in the body. Chemotherapy may also be an option for children whose cancers are too advanced to be removed completely with surgery.
For children who have cancer in both kidneys, chemotherapy is administered before surgery. This may make it more likely that surgeons can save at least one kidney in order to preserve kidney function.
Radiation therapy uses high-energy beams, such as X-rays, to kill cancer cells.
During radiation therapy, your child is positioned on a table and a large machine moves around your child, precisely aiming energy beams at the cancer. Possible side effects include nausea, diarrhea, fatigue and sunburn-like skin irritation.
Radiation therapy may be used after surgery to kill any cancer cells that weren't removed during the operation. Radiation therapy may also be an option to control cancer that has spread to other areas of the body, depending on where the cancer has spread.
Your child's doctor may recommend participating in a clinical trial. These research studies allow your child a chance at the latest cancer treatments, but they can't guarantee a cure.
Discuss the benefits and risks of clinical trials with your child's doctor. The majority of children with cancer enroll in a clinical trial. However, enrollment in a clinical trial is up to you and your child.
Here are some suggestions to help you guide your family through cancer treatment:
Wilms' tumor can't be prevented by anything you or your child can do.
If your child has signs and symptoms that increase the risk of Wilms' tumor, your child's doctor may recommend periodic kidney ultrasounds to look for kidney abnormalities. While this screening can't prevent Wilms' tumor, it may help detect the disease at an early stage, when treatment is most likely to be successful.
Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Fla., and Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, Ariz., are ranked among the Best Hospitals for cancer by U.S. News & World Report.
Mayo Clinic works with hundreds of insurance companies and is an in-network provider for millions of people. In most cases, Mayo Clinic doesn't require a physician referral. Some insurers require referrals or may have additional requirements for certain medical care. All appointments are prioritized on the basis of medical need.
Mayo Clinic's Children's Center offers the most current treatments and has access to the latest technology. At Mayo Clinic, children who have Wilms' tumor may be seen by specialists in pediatric hematology-oncology, radiation oncology, pediatric surgery, pediatric urology, pediatric radiology and pediatric nephrology.
For appointments or more information, call the Central Appointment Office at 507-538-3270 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Central time, Monday through Friday or complete an online appointment request form.
See information on patient services at the three Mayo Clinic locations, including transportation options and lodging.
Mayo Clinic doctors and scientists are studying new ways to diagnose and treat Wilms' tumor.
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See a list of publications by Mayo Clinic doctors on Wilms' tumor on PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine.
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Cancer drug Ibrutinib gets FDA Breakthrough Therapy Designations tag
Singapore: The US FDA has granted 'Breakthrough Therapy Designations' for Janssen Research and Development's investigational oral agent ibrutinib, which is used as a monotherapy for B-cell malignancies in patients with relapsed or refractory mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) who have received prior therapy, and in patients with Waldenström's macroglobulinemia (WM). Janssen is now a part of the Johnson & Johnson group.
The Breakthrough Therapy Designation, which was enacted as part of the 2012 FDA Safety and Innovation Act (FDASIA), is intended to expedite the development and review time for a potential new medicine "to treat a serious or life-threatening disease or condition and preliminary clinical evidence indicates that the drug may demonstrate substantial improvement over existing therapies on one or more clinically significant endpoints, such as substantial treatment effects observed early in clinical development."
Dr Paul Stoffels, chief scientific officer and worldwide chairman, pharmaceuticals, Johnson & Johnson, said that, "We are pleased that the FDA has granted two Breakthrough Therapy Designations for ibrutinib as the designation represents a major leap forward in accelerating drug development timelines."
He also added, "We are committed to realizing the full potential of ibrutinib for patients with mantle cell lymphoma, Waldenström's macroglobulinemia, as well as other B-cell malignancies, and will work with Pharmacyclics and the FDA to ensure the clinical development program for ibrutinib continues to move forward as quickly as possible."
Janssen Biotech and Pharmacyclics entered a collaboration and license agreement in December 2011 to co-develop and co-commercialize ibrutinib. The filing for ibrutinib in MCL is expected to be made prior to the end of 2013 and discussions with the FDA about filing in WM continue. The implications of Breakthrough Therapy Designation cannot be determined at this time. Janssen and Pharmacyclics are working with the FDA to determine any potential implications of the Breakthrough Therapy Designations to the ongoing and planned development activities.
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On a recent speaking trip to the Washington, D.C., area, I stopped by Ford's Theatre.
That is where, on the night of April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth shot President Abraham Lincoln. The theatre is located about six blocks from The White House.
After the shooting they took Lincoln across the street to a cheap boardinghouse. As he lay dying in a second floor bedroom, Secretary of War Stanton said: "Here lies the most perfect ruler of men that the world has ever known."
Was Lincoln's life always that way? Not necessarily.
When he was growing up in Indiana, and then in Illinois, he criticized people. He criticized them to such an extent that, one day, he left a note on a countryside road criticizing a city official.
That official got so angry that he challenged Lincoln to a duel. And, if it wasn't for their seconds stopping them in the last moment, one of our greatest Presidents could have died in a duel because of criticism.
So, my question to you and me is: What is criticism doing to our lives? Are we criticizing, condemning, and complaining? Maybe that's one reason why we're not as far as we want to be or not as happy as we want to be.
May I suggest to you, for one week, do not criticize, condemn, or complain. Let me repeat: Do not criticize, condemn, or complain. Do so for one week and just look for the good.
The 3 C's – don't criticize, condemn, or complain – are found in Chapter 1 of Dale Carnegie's book: "How to Win Friends and Influence People".
Lincoln learned the important lesson of not criticizing early on in his life and he turned out to be an amazing leader. Perhaps you and I should pay closer attention to that Presidential proclamation and see what it could do to improve our lives.
You are special. You are unique. You are destined for greatness. I see it in you. You are a Champion. Have a powerful day.
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I do not criticize, condemn, or complain. I look for the good.
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Since the days of yore, Mount Carmel has been a symbol of beauty. It is a particularly suitable location for family hikes and recreation pastimes all year round.
Mount Carmel is not particularly high. Its peak only reaches 546 meters above sea level. Mount Carmel is sprawled between the Menashe Plateau in the south, the Haifa Bay in the north and the Jezreel Valley on the east. Its borders are very clear, and create an independent unit that reaches 32 square kilometers.
Its proximity to the sea gives the mountain large quantities of precipitation, which enable the growth of well developed Mediterranean groves. In spring, bloom is especially diverse and colorful: approximately 670 different species of plants grow on this mountain.
During the Carmel's geological development, many types of rocks were formed. Most of them are marine sedimentary rocks, created as a result of the accumulation of remains of animals in the ancient sea. At that time, when the entire area was submerged in the sea, the Carmel region had several volcanic eruptions that brought Basalt rocks. Next to them, the Carmel also has rocks that were formed by skeletons of marine animals such as shellfish and corals.
The geological fractures that occurred in the area created steep escarpments, the most impressive of which is on the eastern part of the mountain, standing upright over the Jezreel Valley.
The Carmel region is full of tourist attractions and sites. You can travel on the "Nof Carmel" (Carmel view) 25 kilometer long path, suitable for all vehicles. You may visit the Druze inhabitants of the villages Daliyat el-Carmel and Isfiya, and get to know their heritage. These villages have many authentic restaurants and unique marketplaces that attract many Israelis and tourists. Another site is the Carmel "Hai-Bar" – a zoological preserve maintained by the Israel Nature and National Parks Protection Authority. In this nature reserve, wild sheep, wild goats, deer and fallow deer are grown for the purpose of releasing them back into the wild.


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Sharon Weiner, a post-doctoral member of the Woodrow Wilson School's Research Program on Science and Global Security , will receive a grant of $100,000 from the Carnegie Corporation to continue her research over the course of two years.
Weiner came to Princeton to "study the bureaucratic politics of national security in the United States." Weiner said the grant will allow her to devote her time to studying U.S. programs that re-employ former Russian nuclear weapons scientists.
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As reported by SSG the maquette is now up for preorder at SWS.com, and will be exclusive to SWS.com, Cartoon Network.com (preorder Nov), and the GG site (preorder Nov) as well.
Personally I hope this isn't the last of the CW Maquette's. I'd still love to see Grevous, Anakin, Mace, Dooku, Durge, Ki-Adi, Aayla, Shaak Ti, Kit Fisto, and Sideous someday. Also with the new CW series coming next year there should be plenty more character to choose from.


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Journalist dies from gunshot wounds in Somalia
Nairobi, October 29, 2012--Somali authorities should conduct a thorough investigation into the October 21 shooting of journalist Mohamed Mohamud "Turyare," who died from his wounds on Sunday, and bring the perpetrators to justice, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.
Mohamed, 22, a reporter and website editor for the Shabelle Media Network, had been shot by unidentified gunmen in the Hawo Tako neighborhood in the Wadajir district of Mogadishu, according to local journalists and news reports. He was hospitalized for abdominal surgery, and local journalists told CPJ his health was improving until Saturday afternoon. He died at around 8:30 p.m. on Sunday, the journalists said.


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I'm a beginner and I mean beginner at hunting turkeys. Is there a set of instructional DVDs that I can purchase that can teach me? I'd like to learn how to locate turkeys, turkey signs, calling, etc. Thanks for your help. I didn't hunt Spring Gobbler because I just didn't know how to approach it.
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Deeplinks Blog posts about Copyright Trolls
The copyright trolling world has been hopping in the past several weeks, and some developments seem to bode well for the protection of due process. All in all, we've seen the number of total Does sued rise to over 190,000, and we estimate that the number of Does remaining after the various dismissals is over 140,000. The following are the cases in which Does have been dismissed since we last reported.
Sherman Frederick is the former CEO of Stephens Media, former publisher of the Las Vegas Review Journal, and one of Righthaven's biggest cheerleaders. When the litigation campaign of Stephens Media's copyright enforcer Righthaven first got underway, Frederick famously wrote "So, I'm asking you nicely once againdon't steal our content. Or, I promise you, you will meet my little friend called Righthaven."
Over the past two weeks, EFF has won the dismissal of two bogus infringement lawsuits filed by notorious "copyright troll" Righthaven LLC. In the first case, a federal judge ruled that Righthaven had no standing to sue an online political forum for a five-sentence excerpt of a news story posted by a user, because EFF sleuthing revealed that Righthaven did not own the copyright. Last week, the court relied on the evidence presented in the first case and dismissed Righthaven's lawsuit against a non-commercial blog that provides prosecutor resources for difficult to prosecute "no body" homicide cases.
Notorious copyright litigation company Righthaven got another smack down from the Federal bench today, in Righthaven v. Hoehn. In line with Judge Roger Hunt's decision last week, Judge Phillip Pro held that Righthaven did not own the copyright at issue, and – even if it did – the use in question was protected by the fair use doctrine. Importantly, Judge Pro rejected Righthaven's last minute attempt to save its business model by revising its contract with Stephens Media (the publisher of the Las Vegas Review Journal).
Last Friday, the federal district court in Nevada held that the non-profit organization Center for Intercultural Organizing's posting of a copyrighted news article was a non-infringing fair use. The well-reasoned opinion sets a powerful precedent for fair use and against copyright trolling.
The newspaper article at issue was originally published by Stephens Media's Las Vegas Review-Journal newspaper. Per its standard practice, copyright troll Righthaven LLC found it online and entered into a scheme with Stephens Media, under which the publisher purportedly assigned the right to sue to Righthaven. The litigation factory would then carry on the litigation at its own expense, splitting any proceeds with Stephens Media (less expenses).
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Fidelity invests $75 mn in Trivitron Healthcare
Bangalore: Fidelity Growth Partners India (FGPI) has provided a round of investment of approximately $75 million (Rs400 crore) to Trivitron Healthcare. This investment also provides partial exits for ePlanet Ventures and Headland Capital, who have been invested in Trivitron since 2007.
For the past 15 years, Trivitron has been India's largest exclusive pan-India wholesale distributor and after-sales support provider of medical equipment and devices. Its areas of expertise include imaging, lab diagnostics, cardiology, critical care,renal care, operating room and ophthalmology equipment.
Trivitron Medical Technology Park, a 25-acre state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Chennai, was established in 2009 to house over 15 different medical technology manufacturing facilities of Trivitron's subsidiaries and joint ventures;Trivitron's joint ventures with Hitachi-Aloka (Japan) for manufacturing ultrasound equipment and with Biosystems (Spain) for lab diagnostics reagents are already operational.The company has recently set up centres of innovationfor biomedical equipment in collaboration with the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Chennai and under the leadership of its Director (R&D), Prof Bhuvaneshwar, a wellrecognized innovator in this area.
The funds will be used to increaseTrivitron's shareholding in Kiran Medical Systems, an international player in imaging accessories, expanding operations at Trivitron Medical Technology Park, and enhancing the company's distribution operations in South East Asia, Middle East and Africa.
Trivitron was founded in 1997 by Dr G S K Velu. Additionally, DrVelu has co-founded and built the country's leading path lab chain, Metropolis Healthcare, as well as Medfort, a chain of single specialty, eye-care and diabetes-care hospitals. He has also co-founded a joint venture with the Apollo Hospitals Group for dental clinics(Apollo White) and dialysis centers (Apollo Dialysis).
Commenting on the transaction, Mr Raj Dugar, senior MD, FIL Capital Advisors, the private equity advisory arm for FGPI, said that, "The medical equipment sector in the country is still nascent and dominated by imports. We believe that India will follow the same evolution trajectory as other emerging markets like China where large, indigenous manufacturers of medical equipment have emerged over the past decade. Trivitron is well positioned to capitalize on this trend with its unparalleled distribution and service infrastructure that is difficult to replicate."
Dr Velu said, "We are excited to have Fidelity as new investors and board members in Trivitron. Fidelity with its vast knowledge in the medical devices space in China, US, and Europe will be able to add substantial value to Trivitron in becoming a global player in the imaging and lab diagnostics segments.Fidelity's long-standing experience in China would also help us in making in-roads in the value segment."
Kotak Mahindra Capital, the investment banking arm of Kotak Mahindra Bank, was the exclusive advisor to Trivitron on the transaction. Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A Shroff & Company acted as the company's legal counsel.
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Project Description: The Pioneer Elementary School project will solve arsenic contamination levels by drilling a new deep well and installing new fire hydrants and piping system.
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When Chris Matthews says we need a leader like George Bush to make decisions. He clarified by saying even though he did not agree with his decisions he was strong enough to make one.
When you start losing support from somebody like this you have backed yourself into a corner. This is coming from a former Carter speech writer. Just think what Putin thinks of our current administration.
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Why Can't a Democrat be More Like a Man? (5.30.09)
I don't know of anyone else who cites LaBarre as an influence, but if nothing else, he's a very entertaining writer, full of pithy and astringent comments, asides, and insults. Interestingly, he was a militant atheist, but that doesn't necessarily bother me. So long as someone has a piece of the truth, their overarching philosophy is of no consequence to me, no matter how shallow or ignorant. I have no difficulty accepting whatever parts of Darwinism comport with perennial truth. I only reject those parts of Darwinism that are not true and cannot possibly be true.
Chapter 6 of The Human Animal deals with sexual differences and the evolutionary circumstances that supposedly allowed humanness to emerge. In an evolutionary tradeoff, human brains grew so rapidly that women had to give birth earlier and earlier, to the point that the brain's incomplete neurology could only be wired together in the extra-uterine environment. The resulting infantile helplessness (and maternal preoccupation) meant that the family unit switched from the mother-infant diad to the mother-father-infant triad. These symbiotic relationships further modified all of their members, as they adapted to -- and became intersubjective members of -- each other, thereby creating the "interior unity" of the family (which mirrors the dynamic interior unity of the Creator).
LaBarre notes that "a society's attitudes toward women and toward maternity will deeply influence its psychological health and all other institutional attitudes." He wrote in 1954 -- well before the degradations to womanhood brought about by the feminist movement -- that "It is a tragedy of our male-centered culture that women do not fully enough know how important they are as women." Sadly, today so many women only know how important they are as men. This is a tragedy of monumental proportions, in part because it also results in men not understanding their own role in terms of being men.
One of the keys to understanding male-female differences lies in examining the different ways in which we are permitted to love. As a child we must love in one way, but in order to become an adult we must love in others. The process is significantly more complicated for males, because our first love object is the mother with whom we are merged. Male identity must first be wrested and won from this primordial union, otherwise there will be no manhood, only maleness. In other words, our love must transition from male-female, to male-male, then back to male-female. Many things can go wrong along the way, as you might well imagine.
On the other hand, female identity is coterminous with their union with the Great Mother, both literally and archetypally. They only have to transition from the female-female love to female-male. As a result, their identity is much more secure, because they never have to renounce the primitive identification with the Great Mother, at least totally. Still, things can and do go wrong, for any number of reasons we don't have time to discuss here.
All primitive men know that women can magically produce children out of their bodies. This is another reason that women are generally more "grounded" and secure in their identity than men are. It would also explain the essential restlessness (and sometimes rootlessness) of men, along with the psychological adaptiveness of male homophobia. (A couple of days ago we were discussing the hobo archetype; there is a reason why they are almost always male, whereas the female usually has a much stronger nesting instinct.)
Femaleness as a category is secure: its undeniable signs are menstruation and maternity. But manhood -- as opposed to mere biological maleness -- has no such obvious visible markers. Rather, it is something that must be constructed and achieved. The adaptive mechanism that allows males to become men is culture.
What connects mother to infant is very concrete: the breast and all it symbolizes and implies ("breast" is a psychoanalytic term of art that is more analogous to "cosmic source of all goodness," if viewed from the infant's omnipotent perspective.) Likewise, what originally connected male to female was the evolutionary change that made females sexually available year-round.
But what connects man to man? "What connects father and son, male and male, is the mystery of logos and logos alone..." It is through this shared pattern that "father can identify with son and permit his infancy, within which son can identify with father and become a man, and within which a male can perceive and forgive the equal manhood of his fellow man." (In rereading that passage it has a couple of very powerful ideas: permit the infant to live [both literally and symbolically, and both internal and external], and forgive the manhood of fellow men; few cultures have fully succeeded in doing this, certainly not Islamic culture.)
At the foundation of the State, writes LaBarre, "is our struggle to find both paternal power [an aspect of the vertical] and brotherly justice [the vertical prolonged into the horizontal] in the governing of men." This is why something very psychologically noxious happens when government becomes mother. A similar thing happens when God becomes mother or mother becomes God. It interferes with the primordial basis of culture qua culture, which is to convert boys to men. If that fails to happen -- as with the left -- then civilization either cannot form or will not be able to sustain and defend itself, since there will be no men or manhood, only Democrats, or women and children.
This would explain the (until recently) universal practice of various male initiation rituals, in which boys are sometimes brutally wrenched away from their mothers in order to facilitate male "rebirth" and full membership in the fellowship of men. Again, femaleness is given by biology, but maleness must be proven, not just to oneself, but to the group. If appropriate models are not given for this drive, we will simply have pathological versions of it, such as the urban youth gang, which is all about proving one's manhood, only to other female-centered boys.
In fact, this is why so much contemporary rap and hip hop is so perversely male. In a matriarchal culture so lacking in male role models, these clueless boys are constantly trying to prove that they are what they imagine a man -- and themselves -- to be. This is why they are such pathetic, brooding, aggressive, and hyper-sexualized caricatures of manhood. (And ultimately this results from female sexuality reverting back to the mother-infant diad, with no role for men.)
Other males -- we call them liberals -- often take women as their role models, with predictable results. They regard auto-castration as the quintessence of civilization and sophistication. They aren't really assertive in a male way, but a catty or bitchy way, like the New York Times or their quintessential shemale, Obama.
Again, male sexual development is inherently more complex and hazardous, for men must first love and identify with the female, only to make a clean break of it and then return to the same object as an adult. Many things can go wrong with this process at each step along the way, as the road is filled with conflict and ambivalence. It explains why men often have the harder time growing up. Still, that's no excuse to elect one president.
Someone once said that men marry women hoping they'll never change, while women marry men hoping to change them. Someone wants to change us, big time. But a big part of manhood is preserving and defending the precious things that were created and handed down to us by our forefathers.
We are about to elect a feminized man whose official policy is to surrender to our enemies, so we have moved well beyond the theoretical to the actual. In the triangulated war between liberals, Islamists, and the left, only one side can win. Our side will lose if we run out of real men because we simply do not create enough of them. We will lose if we allow the new cutural ideal of the feminized adultolescent male to become the ideal. We will lose if we forget that an upright and noble man with the capacity for righteous violence is at the very foundation of civilization.
Liberals sneer at such men, which is to say, men. I found a typical example by a college professor at dailykos, called A Pacifist's Agony. S/h/it writes that "I've always hated the term 'war crime,' since it's an insidious tautology. It implies that some wars are not crimes, and some of the atrocities committed during war are excusable by virtue of their context. I believe that if there can be any single concept by which a civilization ought to be defined it's this: there is no context that can justify the intentional killing of a sentient being who does not wish it. Period" (somehow, I'm sure there is a loophole for abortion).
The professor's job is not to educate students but to make them "politically aware," which in practice means to arrest their developmental journey toward adulthood. It is a form of spiritual and intellectual body-snatching; for the boys, it means a fantasized acquisition of manhood, for the girls, contempt for it. Before being indoctrinated, students are "not particularly politically aware," but by semester's end, if all goes well, they will be "different people. They now understand the direct relationship between their own deliberately inculcated ignorance and the crimes that are committed in their name." They will have inverted reality, so that they imagine themselves to be Morally Superior to the primitive and murderous men who protect and defend them.
This is why the left must constantly attack and undermine America, for that is what allows the sense of moral superiority to flourish. But the attack brings with it the unconscious fear of father's retaliation, hence the hysterical fears of murderous retribution for "speaking truth" to Father -- fear of spying, of theocratic takeovers, of Al Gore's world melting. When leftists say that George Bush is the world's greatest terrorist, they mean it, although it goes without saying that they have no insight into the unconscious basis of this hysterical projection of their own fear converted to anger and persecution.
Oddly enough, the professor agrees with me that our civilization is threatened: "Chomsky's right. It's over for America. Not just this war, but the American idea. And right now, the peace I'm enjoying in my living room, every selfish mile I drive to and from my home, the electricity that's powering my computer, and the privilege of education that allows me to articulate these thoughts is bought with the blood and dust of all the Hadithas that have made a moment like this and a person like me possible. And it's more than I can bear."
It's a fascinating thing about truth. One of the things that makes a fellow believe in a deity, really. As every psychoanalytically informed psychologist knows, there is the patient, there is the truth, and there is the truth they would like to deny, which is why they are in your office. Truth has a life of its own, and has a way of insisting its way into the patient's discourse, try as they might to prevent it from doing so.
The truth is true, and doesn't actually require anyone to think it. But this is not so of the lie. The lie is entirely parasitic on a thinker. Furthermore, the lie knows the truth, otherwise it could not lie about it. Pacifism is just such a lie, for it contains the truth to which it is a reaction:
Right now, the peace I'm enjoying in my living room, every selfish mile I drive to and from my home, the electricity that's powering my computer, and the privilege of education that allows me to articulate these thoughts is bought with the blood and dust of men who are far better than I, men who stand ready to do violence against the forces of evil that have made a moment like this and a person like me possible. And it's more than I can bear.
Yes, that would require growing up and facing the Truth.


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One fundamental characteristic of Princeton's financial aid program is the unwavering commitment of the University to the principle of access to students from a broad range of economic backgrounds. In a new video, Director of Financial Aid Robin Moscato answers questions about Princeton's landmark no-loan aid policy.
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Princeton aid by income group
The University's comprehensive aid plan helps moderate-, middle- and even upper-middle-income families afford the cost of a Princeton education.
The figures below show the average grant, which does not have to be repaid, for students at various family income levels, based on students in the freshman class of 2012
The standard cost for 2008-09 -- including tuition, room, board, books, travel and other expenses -- is $49,190.
Yearly income:
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Average grant: $45,800
Yearly income:
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Average grant: $39,300
Yearly income:
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Average grant: $35,750
Yearly income:
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Average grant: $32,250
Yearly income:
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Average grant: $28,850
Yearly income:
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Average grant: $26,000
Yearly income:
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Average grant: $22,250
Yearly income:
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Princeton is more affordable to students from a wider range of economic backgrounds than at any other time in its history, according to Robin Moscato, the University's director of financial aid.
In a new video, Moscato answers questions about the University's financial aid program posed by seniors Philip Grace and Devon Ahearn and sophomore Katie Rodriguez. In recent years, a number of other colleges and universities have emulated Princeton's landmark policy of reducing what families are expected to pay and replacing loans with grants that need not be repaid.
View the video of Robin Moscato discussing Princeton's groundbreaking financial aid program.
"In 2001, we eliminated student loans from the financial aid packages for all students, making it possible to graduate from Princeton debt-free," Moscato says.
"While students from lower-income families might expect to receive grants that cover the full tuition, room and board cost," she adds, "what might be less well known is that middle-income students also receive very generous financial aid grants [see sidebar at right] that reduce the cost of attendance, and even upper-middle-income families often qualify for partial grants that help pay Princeton's cost."
Moscato explains how Princeton's admission policy is "need-blind" -- that applying for financial aid in no way disadvantages an applicant during the admission process. She also describes how financial aid staff members individually review each family's circumstances in order to make a fair determination of the amount each can reasonably afford.
"Many families find that Princeton is more affordable than even a state college or community college in their own hometown," says Moscato, noting that the average grant of $33,450 for a member of the class of 2012 covers more than 95 percent of Princeton's tuition of $34,290.
Families can find out how much aid they might be qualified to receive by using the quick and confidential Princeton Financial Aid Estimator.
Moscato says University administrators are committed to the financial aid program as a way of expanding the economic diversity of Princeton's student body. In the class of 2001, the last class to enter before the aid improvements, 38 percent of the students were on financial aid with an average grant of $15,000. Students from low-income backgrounds made up 8 percent of the class.
"Today, more than 55 percent of each entering class receives financial aid," Moscato says. "More than double the number of low-income students enroll with each class compared to a decade ago, and middle-income students are represented in ever-increasing numbers in our student body. We feel it's very important to provide both a level playing field and equality of opportunity to students of all income levels when it comes to obtaining a Princeton education."
Moscato says Princeton's commitment is ongoing, and that administrators each year look at the financial aid policies to ensure they are keeping pace with the changing needs of students and families. For example, in recent years, the University has excluded home value and most retirement funds when calculating a family's ability to contribute and has increased grants to help students pay for dining options and study abroad programs.
"The most important message is that students shouldn't be deterred from looking at Princeton because of sticker price, because you may be missing out on the most affordable college option that you'll have," Moscato says.
For more information, watch the video, which was produced by the Office of Communications, or visit the financial aid website.


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Does your love life need a kickstart? No better excuse than the new year to get things rolling again. Here are the top apps that will let you squeeze in a coffee date, plan a spontaneous adventure, or find a friend while exploring abroad. Add these to your smartphone and your dating life could resemble a romantic comedy in no time.
This classic dating service provides a slew of questions to mathematically match you up with a compatible date. Its "broadcast" service, which sends out a note to those in your vicinity, is an especially useful way to spend a few spare moments.
Good for: Finding a quick date.
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A location tracker shows you who's nearby and lets you get in touch quickly with a "Meet Me" feature. The "Places" feature gives you some ideas for a date and will even send out event notifications for your area.
Good for: Grabbing coffee between meetings.
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The gay men-finding app Grindr has gained an impressive following of 4 million users, and its co-ed partner, Blendr, is following suit. Both allow you search the social network of nearby singles looking to connect.
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This is an interesting site describes where our income tax dollars go.
Click on the interactive tax chart link to the right of the page. It gives you a pie chart for your tax level.
FYI - over $0.40 of every tax dollar goes to the military. Far and away the largest single slice of the pie.


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And theres a fun activity/quiz that roughly measures our carbon-footprint. :) Currently, they offer the quiz for ppl residing in Australia and USA . . . but I did it for the fun of it anyway!(the Aussie one)
So, you can find out what effect u have on the environment. Be honest when u answer the Q's though! And if you like to, share your Carbon Foot Print here.
Mine was 2.7 planets in the first try, so I thought perhaps I wasnt very honest with my elf! So I did it again, a little more leniently, and it increased to 3.1 planets. So basically, if everyone lived the way i do, we would need 2.7-3.1 planets to survive! Yikes!!!!!
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I hit Wondercon on Saturday in the pouring rain, nearly got wiped out on the drive up there by some jackass in a raised pickup, then had to sit for 45 minutes to get from the 5 exit to the parking lot 6 blocks away, and had to hide my camera under my jacket to avoid it getting soaked on the 2 block walk to the convention center.
The volleyball tournament was a weird sight, they seemed confused by the huge costumed crowds. There was no signage explaining that registration was downstairs, and I have to agree with Bikerscout that the layout at this convention center sucks for something like this -- the panel rooms were bad too, very shallow and wide so almost nobody gets to see the dais, almost everybody's in the wings. The exhibit hall wasn't that well organized and was smaller than I expected for a con that last year had 50k people. There were too many dealers surrounding everything, and not enough things to see. That said, it wasn't terrible, I'd like to see them either create a new con in LA or alternate Wondercon in SF and here. Oh, and they REALLY need a better system for their food facilities, that was a confusing mess and there's nothing nearby the doors of the con.
I bought 2 new Koto ice cube trays - Vader and the Stormtrooper. I meant to get the Falcon as well, but I wasn't feeling well and left early.


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Family: Tyrannidae, Tyrant Flycatchers view all from this family
Description ADULT Has a black head and chest, grading to a dark gray back. Wings are black with subtly pale wing bars and fringes to secondaries and tertials. Tail is rather long and mostly black, but with white outer feathers. Belly and undertail are white. JUVENILE Similar, but many wing and back feathers have brown fringes.
Dimensions Length: 6-7" (15-18 cm)
Habitat Locally common resident in southwestern U.S., favoring open woodland, parks, and gardens, but invariably in the vicinity of water.
Observation Tips Easy to see and usually rather indifferent to observers, affording good views.
Range Texas, Southwest, Northwest, California
Voice Call is a sharp tsii; song is a squelchy, repeated tch'wee, tch'weÖ.
Discussion Plump-bodied, essentially black and white flycatcher with a peaked rear crown, not rounded head. Tail is wagged up and down. Usually perches low, but in the open, and engages in aerial sorties to catch flying insects. Sexes are similar.


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