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Princeton University student Stephanie Hill stows gear after a scientific sampling tour of Lake Carnegie. She is part of the Summer Undergraduate Research Training Program at the Princeton Environmental Institute, where students are learning to conduct research as part of a multi-year environmental monitoring program that is kicking off this summer. The goal is to help improve water quality and ecological balance across the campus and local watershed.
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Princeton students explore Lake Carnegie for nature's sake
Posted July 1, 2008; 02:00 a.m.
You have to love nature, rising junior Stephanie Hill said, when you grow up, as she did, in a remote, pristine village on the shores of a glacier-fed lake in British Columbia.
Megan Prier, a rising sophomore who hails from suburban Malvern, Pa., developed her passion for environmental issues in a different way. She became inspired about the possibility for change in high school after watching a documentary film on global warming.
And Reid Fritz, a rising junior from San Diego, Calif., said he can't remember a time when he wasn't interested in all things aquatic.
Together, these Princeton University students have embarked on a unique project this summer with others to study Lake Carnegie, its ecosystem and the streams that feed into it, part of a major, long-term effort that will complement University-wide goals to develop and expand in environmentally sustainable ways.
Travis Zerba (left), a member of PEI's information technology staff and a computer science major at Moravian College, consults with Megan Prier, a Princeton student, about the website they are developing for her research. Students in the research project will share their results through media projects linked to an interactive website. It will feature real-time data from a water monitoring probe deployed within the deepest part of Lake Carnegie.
By participating in the Summer Undergraduate Research Training Program at the Princeton Environmental Institute (PEI), the students are playing key roles in an ambitious, multi-year environmental monitoring program that is kicking off this summer. The goal is to help improve water quality and ecological balance across the campus and within the Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed, with the 237-acre Lake Carnegie at its center. The Princeton campus sits on a natural hillside with the lake valley on its southern edge, making it a natural drainage basin.
As project managers of their own experiments, the students must map out a plan and establish procedures that will yield statistically significant data that will help them begin to assess the very health of the lake and its contributing rivulets. This summer, they must record the all-important "baseline" measurements reflecting the biological, chemical and physical constituents of Lake Carnegie and major stream drainages, such as the Washington Road stream that is slated for restoration, enhanced floodplain and added wetland features.
"This is a chance to work on an important independent project and on issues that I find very interesting," said Hill, a politics major who is also a leader of the student environmental group Greening Princeton.
She can imagine drawing the particulars of her senior thesis project from her research. "I am trying to understand how policy is developed and how decision-making works in the public sphere," Hill said. "Doing a project like this where we get to talk to the very people who will be making decisions, such as engineers and landscape architects, and see how it all gets put into place, will be fascinating."
Students in the research program divide their time between labwork in Guyot Hall and fieldwork in kayaks on Lake Carnegie. The lake and contributing streams they are studying are located only a short walk away -- across Washington Road and down the hill.
The University's Campus and Sustainability Plans, finalized in 2008, are aimed at balancing sustainable growth with parallel improvements in infrastructure, transportation and open space. They emphasize sustainable building design, expanded landscaping and reforestation, stream restoration, increased conservation and recycling, and improved water management.
The students in the summer research program divide their time between two work areas -- their bright, airy laboratory in Guyot Hall and their other "laboratory," Lake Carnegie, located a 10-minute walk down Washington Road. Their kayaks, one of them equipped with sonar used to map the depth of the lake, are stored near the water. But they carry their oars and monitoring equipment.
With sunlight raining down on them, students in the program spent a recent day in the kayaks, collecting water samples and making measurements of dissolved oxygen, chlorophyll, turbidity and pH with a probe that can record and store data throughout their journey down the lake. At the same time they noted native plants and wildlife they spied along the way, including a heron. The sampling is part of a routine they have developed for the duration of the summer.
Prier, who plans to major in civil and environmental engineering and is a member of the student group WaterWatch, will test the lake water samples later in the lab for levels of nutrients that often result when water washes into the lake and area streams from stormwater runoff -- ammonium, nitrate, nitrite and phosphate. Hill will test water samples taken from the Washington Road stream for the same constituents. Fritz, who is majoring in ecology and evolutionary biology, is tracking fish populations in the lake from schools of sunfish to pickerel. He also is taking tallies of the macroinvertebrate population, including nematodes and flatworms, to evaluate the health of the stream.
Eileen Zerba, the principal investigator on the research project and the director of undergraduate laboratories at PEI, designed the project to involve hands-on monitoring and real-life observations taken on Lake Carnegie and in the immediate area. Here, Zerba, along with Princeton student Reid Fritz, are tracking fish populations in the lake.
Beyond gleaning specific knowledge from such a program, the students also will learn the rigors of academic research and explore topics that could provide the basis of their junior papers and senior theses. As the work advances and the students continue their explorations through advanced environmental science classes, they also expect to publish their results in a peer-reviewed scientific journal, in partnership with their adviser, Eileen Zerba, the principal investigator on the project and the director of undergraduate laboratories at PEI. In addition, students will share the results of their work with the community through media projects linked to a new environmental studies interactive website featuring real-time data.
As Zerba sees it, students who are working on the project will develop a sense of stewardship for the area, kindling their leadership abilities. "What we always hope is that we are developing students here who will be role models for their communities," said Zerba, also a lecturer in ecology and evolutionary biology and freshman seminars. "We want to develop critical thinkers, problem solvers and scholars -- an important goal of undergraduate education."
The project is being funded by the High Meadows Foundation, PEI, the Community-Based Learning Initiative and the facilities department, which support the summer work as well as development of a new course on "Environmental Challenges and Sustainable Solutions" that Zerba will teach.
This summer, the research group will record important baseline measurements reflecting the biological, chemical and physical constituents of Lake Carnegie and major stream drainages. They will be collecting water samples all summer. The project is part of a long-term effort that will complement University-wide goals to develop and expand in environmentally sustainable ways.
The water monitoring efforts by the students are part of a larger project being managed by Zerba that also will address the impact of a "green roof" design (under construction at Butler College) on stormwater runoff and on energy use for heating and cooling. The goal of the long-term monitoring project is to better understand how land use changes, driven by the University's plans, will affect the biological, chemical and physical characteristics of Lake Carnegie, the regional watershed, surrounding natural habitats and landscapes within campus. That knowledge, in turn, will inform sustainability policies for the future.
Participants in the program will include Princeton faculty, PEI technical staff, facilities and information technology staff, undergraduates taking introductory and advanced environmental sciences courses, and volunteers from student groups and community partners such as the Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed Association.


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Montserrat Population: 5,189
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|English and Irish colonists from St. Kitts first settled on Montserrat in 1632; the first African slaves arrived three decades later. The British and French fought for possession of the island for most of the 18th century, but it finally was confirmed as a British possession in 1783. The island's sugar plantation economy was converted to small farm landholdings in the mid 19th century. Much of this island was devastated and two-thirds of the population fled abroad because of the eruption of the Soufriere Hills Volcano that began on 18 July 1995. Montserrat has endured volcanic activity since, with the last eruption occurring in July 2003.
The island is entirely volcanic in origin and comprised of three major volcanic centers of differing ages
|Caribbean, island in the Caribbean Sea, southeast of Puerto Rico
|Geographic coordinates:
| total: 102 sq km
land: 102 sq km
water: 0 sq km
Size comparison: about 0.6 times the size of Washington, DC
|Land Boundaries:
|0 km
|40 km
|Maritime claims:
|territorial sea: 3 nm exclusive fishing zone: 200 nm
|tropical; little daily or seasonal temperature variation
|volcanic island, mostly mountainous, with small coastal lowland
|Elevation extremes:
| lowest point: Caribbean Sea 0 m
highest point: lava dome in English's Crater (in the Soufriere Hills volcanic complex) estimated at over 930 m (2006)
|Natural resources:
|Land use:
| arable land: 20%
permanent crops: 0%
other: 80% (2011)
|Irrigated land:
|Natural hazards:
|volcanic eruptions; severe hurricanes (June to November) volcanism: Soufriere Hills volcano (elev. 915 m), has erupted continuously since 1995; a massive eruption in 1997 destroyed most of the capital, Plymouth, and resulted in approximately half of the island becoming uninhabitable
|Current Environment Issues:
|land erosion occurs on slopes that have been cleared for cultivation
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| noun: Montserratian(s)
adjective: Montserratian
|Ethnic groups:
|black, white
|Protestant (Anglican, Methodist, Pentecostal, Seventh-Day Adventist, other Christian denominations), Roman Catholic
|5,189 (July 2013 est.) note: an estimated 8,000 refugees left the island following the resumption of volcanic activity in July 1995; some have returned
|Age structure:
| 0-14 years: 26.2% (male 708/female 652)
15-24 years: 13.5% (male 357/female 341)
25-54 years: 47.9% (male 1,174/female 1,309)
55-64 years: 6.3% (male 156/female 171)
65 years and over: 6.2% (male 199/female 122) (2013 est.)
|Median age:
| total: 30.8 years
male: 30.3 years
female: 31.3 years (2013 est.)
|Population growth rate:
|0.48% (2013 est.)
|Birth rate:
|11.37 births/1,000 population (2013 est.)
|Death rate:
|6.55 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)
|Net migration rate:
|0 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2013 est.)
| urban population: 14% of total population (2010)
rate of urbanization: 2.4% annual rate of change (2010-15 est.)
|Sex ratio:
| at birth: 1.04 male(s)/female
0-14 years: 1.08 male(s)/female
15-24 years: 1.04 male(s)/female
25-54 years: 0.9 male(s)/female
55-64 years: 1 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 1.55 male(s)/female
total population: 1 male(s)/female (2013 est.)
|Infant mortality rate:
| total: 14.16 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 10.86 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 17.62 deaths/1,000 live births (2013 est.)
|Life expectancy at birth:
| total population: 73.65 years
male: 75.31 years
female: 71.91 years (2013 est.)
|Total fertility rate:
|1.28 children born/woman (2013 est.)
|Drinking water source:
| improved:
urban: 100% of population
rural: 100% of population
total: 100% of population (2010 est.)
|Sanitation facility access:
| improved:
urban: 96% of population
rural: 96% of population
total: 96% of population
urban: 4% of population
rural: 4% of population
total: 4% of population (2010 est.)
|Education expenditures:
|5.8% of GDP (2009)
| definition: age 15 and over has ever attended school
total population: 97%
male: 97%
female: 97% (1970 est.)
|School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education):
| total: 15 years
male: 14 years
female: 17 years (2007)
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|Country name:
| conventional long form: none
conventional short form: Montserrat
|Government type:
| name: Plymouth
geographic coordinates: 16 42 N, 62 13 W
time difference: UTC-4 (1 hour ahead of Washington, DC during Standard Time)
note: Plymouth was abandoned in 1997 because of volcanic activity; interim government buildings have been built at Brades Estate in the Carr's Bay/Little Bay vicinity at the northwest end of Montserrat
|Administrative divisions:
|3 parishes; Saint Anthony, Saint Georges, Saint Peter
|none (overseas territory of the UK)
|National holiday:
|Birthday of Queen ELIZABETH II, second Saturday in June (1926)
|Montserrat Constitution Order 2010, effective 1 September 2011
|Legal system:
|English common law
|18 years of age; universal
|Executive branch:
| chief of state: Queen ELIZABETH II (since 6 February 1952); represented by Governor Adrian DAVIS (since 8 April 2011)
head of government: Premier Rueben T. MEADE (since 27 September 2011); note - the office of premier came into effect with the new Constitution Order; he replaces the Chief Minister
cabinet: Executive Council consists of the governor, the premier, 3 other ministers, the attorney general, and the finance secretary (For more information visit the World Leaders website )
elections: the monarchy is hereditary; governor appointed by the monarch; following legislative elections, the leader of the majority party usually becomes premier
|Legislative branch:
| unicameral Legislative Council (11 seats; 9 members popularly elected to serve five-year terms; the attorney general and financial secretary sit as ex-officio members)
elections: last held on 8 September 2009 (next to be held by 2014)
election results: percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - MCAP 6, independents 3
|Judicial branch:
| highest court(s): the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (ECSC) is the itinerant superior court of record for the 9-member Organization of Eastern Caribbean States to include Montserrat; the ECSC - with its headquarters on St. Lucia - is headed by the chief justice and is comprised of the Court of Appeal with 3 justices and the High Court with 16 judges; sittings of the Court of Appeal and High Court rotate among the 9 member states; 1 judge of the Supreme Court is a resident of Montserrat and presides over the High Court note - Montserrat is also a member of the Caribbean Court of Justice judge selection and term of office: Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court chief justice appointed by Her Majesty, Queen ELIZABETH II; other justices and judges appointed by the Judicial and Legal Services Commission; Court of Appeal justices appointed for life with mandatory retirement at age 65; High Court judges appointed for life with mandatory retirement at age 62
subordinate courts: magistrate's court
|Political parties and leaders:
|Montserrat Democratic Party or MDP [Lowell LEWIS] Movement for Change and Prosperity or MCAP [Roselyn CASSELL-SEALY] New People's Liberation Movement or NPLM [John A. OSBORNE]
|International organization participation:
|Caricom, CDB, Interpol (subbureau), OECS, UPU
|National anthem:
note: as a territory of the United Kingdom, "God Save the Queen" is official (see United Kingdom)
|Diplomatic representation in the US:
|none (overseas territory of the UK)
|Diplomatic representation from the US:
|none (overseas territory of the UK)
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Severe volcanic activity, which began in July 1995, has put a damper on this small, open economy. A catastrophic eruption in June 1997 closed the airport and seaports, causing further economic and social dislocation. Two-thirds of the 12,000 inhabitants fled the island. Some began to return in 1998 but lack of housing limited the number. The agriculture sector continued to be affected by the lack of suitable land for farming and the destruction of crops. Prospects for the economy depend largely on developments in relation to the volcanic activity and on public sector construction activity. Half of the island remains uninhabitable. In January 2013, the EU announced the disbursement of a $55.2 million aid package to Montserrat in order to boost the country's economic recovery, with a specific focus on public finance management, public sector reform, and prudent economic management.
|GDP (purchasing power parity):
|GDP (purchasing power parity): $43.78 million (2006 est.)
|GDP (official exchange rate):
|GDP (official exchange rate): $NA
|GDP - real growth rate:
|3.5% (2008 est.)
|GDP - per capita (PPP):
|GDP - per capita (PPP): $8,500 (2006 est.)
|GDP - composition, by end use:
| household consumption: 95.7%
government consumption: 53.4%
investment in fixed capital: 35.2%
investment in inventories: 0%
exports of goods and services: 23.6%
imports of goods and services: -107.9% (2012 est.)
|GDP - composition, by sector of origin:
| household consumption: 95.7%
government consumption: 53.4%
investment in fixed capital: 35.2%
investment in inventories: 0%
exports of goods and services: 23.6%
imports of goods and services: -107.9% (2012 est.)
|Agriculture - products:
|cabbages, carrots, cucumbers, tomatoes, onions, peppers; livestock products
|tourism, rum, textiles, electronic appliances
|Industrial production growth rate:
|Labor force:
|4,521 (2012)
|Unemployment rate:
|6% (1998 est.)
|Population below poverty line:
|Household income or consumption by percentage share:
| lowest 10%: NA%
highest 10%: NA%
| revenues: $31.4 million
expenditures: $37.04 million (2011 est.)
|Fiscal year:
|1 April - 31 March
|Inflation rate (consumer prices):
|Inflation rate (consumer prices): 3.3% (2012 est.) 3.7% (2011 est.)
|$3.6 million (2012 est.) $1.26 million (2011 est.)
|Exports - commodities:
|electronic components, plastic bags, apparel; hot peppers, limes, live plants; cattle
|$30 million (2012 est.) $26.32 million (2011 est.)
|Imports - commodities:
|machinery and transportation equipment, foodstuffs, manufactured goods, fuels, lubricants, and related materials
|Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
|$24.81 million (31 December 2011 est.)
|Debt - external:
|$8.9 million (1997)
|Exchange rates:
|East Caribbean dollars (XCD) per US dollar - 2.7 (2012 est.) 2.7 (2011 est.) 2.7 (2010 est.) 2.7 (2009)
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|Electricity - production:
|22 million kWh (2009 est.) country comparison to the world: 211
|Electricity - consumption:
|20.46 million kWh (2009 est.)
|Electricity - exports:
|0 kWh (2010 est.)
|Electricity - imports:
|0 kWh (2010 est.)
|Electricity - installed generating capacity:
|10,000 kW (2009 est.)
|Electricity - from fossil fuels:
|100% of total installed capacity (2009 est.)
|Electricity - from nuclear fuels:
|0% of total installed capacity (2009 est.)
|Electricity - from hydroelectric plants:
|0% of total installed capacity (2009 est.)
|Electricity - from other renewable sources:
|0% of total installed capacity (2009 est.)
|Crude oil - production:
|0 bbl/day (2011 est.)
|Crude oil - exports:
|0 bbl/day (2009 est.)
|Crude oil - imports:
|0 bbl/day (2009 est.)
|Crude oil - proved reserves:
|0 bbl (1 January 2012 est.)
|Refined petroleum products - production:
|0 bbl/day (2008 est.)
|Refined petroleum products - consumption:
|1,000 bbl/day (2011 est.)
|Refined petroleum products - exports:
|0 bbl/day (2008 est.)
|Refined petroleum products - imports:
|572.6 bbl/day (2008 est.)
|Natural gas - production:
|0 cu m (2010 est.)
|Natural gas - consumption:
|0 cu m (2010 est.)
|Natural gas - exports:
|0 cu m (2010 est.)
|Natural gas - imports:
|0 cu m (2010 est.)
|Natural gas - proved reserves:
|0 cu m (1 January 2012 est.)
|Carbon dioxide emissions from consumption of energy:
|147,100 Mt (2010 est.)
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|Telephones in use:
| 2,600 (2010)
country comparison to the world: 216
|Cellular Phones in use:
|4,200 (2010)
|Telephone system:
| general assessment: modern and fully digitalized
domestic: combined fixed-line and mobile-cellular teledensity exceeds 100 per 100 persons
international: country code - 1-664; landing point for the East Caribbean Fiber System (ECFS) optic submarine cable with links to 13 other islands in the eastern Caribbean extending from the British Virgin Islands to Trinidad (2011)
|Broadcast media:
|Radio Montserrat, a public radio broadcaster, transmits on 1 station and has a repeater transmission to a second station; repeater transmissions from the GEM Radio Network of Trinidad and Tobago provide another 2 radio stations; cable and satellite TV available (2007)
|Internet country code:
|Internet hosts:
|2,431 (2012)
|Internet users:
|1,200 (2009)
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| 1 (2013)
country comparison to the world: 225
|Airports (paved runways):
| total 1
under 914 m: 1 (2013)
note: volcanic eruptions that began in 1995 destroyed most of the 227 km road system; a new road infrastructure has been built on the north end of the island (2008)
|Ports and terminals:
|Little Bay, Plymouth
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|Defense is the responsibility of the UK
|Military branches:
|no regular military forces; Royal Montserrat Police Force (2011)
|Manpower available for military service:
|males age 16-49: 1,353 (2010 est.)
|Manpower fit for military service:
| males age 16-49: 1,135
females age 16-49: 1,223 (2010 est.)
|Manpower reaching militarily significant age annually:
| male: 35
female: 34 (2010 est.)
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|Transnational Issues
|Illicit drugs:
|transshipment point for South American narcotics destined for the US and Europe
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Karolinska Instituet, University of Glasgow study: DNA variation in human's IRGM gene increases levels of gut microbe Prevotella
Singapore: New research led by the Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, and the University of Glasgow, Scotland, has identified a link between a human gene and the composition of human gastrointestinal bacteria.
The team conducted a statistical analysis on bacterial DNA sequenced from samples of intestinal tissue from 51 healthy people with no history of bowel conditions in relation to 30 specific genes. These genes are shown to increase the risk of Crohn's disease, and are likely to play an important role in gut-bacteria interactions.
The team found that DNA variation in one of these genes, known as IRGM, was associated with the presence of increased levels of a type of microbe known as Prevotella. The research thus suggests that the IRGM gene could play a role in influencing the overall makeup of an individual's microbiota, pushing it towards Prevotella dominance instead of an alternative community dominated by a closely related bacteria, bacteroides.
Dr Mauro D'Amato, associate professor, department of biosciences and nutrition, Karolinska Institutet, said, "The hypothesis that our genes contribute to tailor-make our microbiota is very attractive. We still do not know whether certain DNA variations can result in the assembling and perpetuation of specific microbiota profiles, and this may bear important implications for the potential to treat common diseases through therapeutic modification of the gut flora."
Dr Christopher Quince, school of engineering, University of Glasgow, said that, "This is a small study but it could have important implications. We've provided further evidence that the human microbiome may also depend on the human genome, which invites serious investigation in the future."
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Family: Rhinocodontidae, Whale Sharks view all from this family
Description Capacious mouth which can be up to 1.5 metres (4.9 ft) wide and can contain between 300 and 350 rows of tiny teeth. It has five large pairs of gills. Two small eyes are located towards the front of the shark's wide, flat head. The body is mostly grey with a white belly; three prominent ridges run along each side of the animal and the skin is marked with a "checkerboard" of pale yellow spots and stripes. These spots are unique to each individual and are useful for counting populations. Its skin can be up to 10 centimetres (3.9 in) thick. The shark has a pair each of dorsal fins and pectoral fins. Juveniles' tails have a larger upper than lower fin while the adult tail becomes semi-lunate (crescent-shaped). Spiracles are just behind the eyes.
Dimensions Up to 60' (18.3 m).
Similar Species Basking Shark (Cetorhinus maximus) lacks the Whale Shark's distinctive color pattern.
Habitat Open ocean.
Range Mid-Atlantic, Southeast, Florida, Texas, California.
Discussion The whale shark is a filter feeder — one of only three known filter feeding shark species (along with the basking shark and the megamouth shark). It feeds on macro-algae, plankton, krill, Christmas Island red crab larvae, and small nektonic life such as small squid or vertebrates. The many rows of teeth play no role in feeding; in fact, they are reduced in size in the whale shark. Instead, the shark sucks in a mouthful of water, closes its mouth and expels the water through its gills. During the slight delay between closing the mouth and opening the gill flaps, plankton is trapped against the dermal denticles which line its gill plates and pharynx. This fine sieve-like apparatus, which is a unique modification of the gill rakers, prevents the passage of anything but fluid out through the gills, trapping anything above 2 to 3 millimetres (0.079 to 0.12 in) in diameter. Material caught in the filter between the gill bars is swallowed. Whale sharks have been observed "coughing" and it is presumed that this is a method of clearing a build up of food particles in the gill rakers. Whale sharks migrate to feed and possibly to breed.


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I was thinking about possible mechanics for turn based strategies and it struck me that I can't recall almost any games that were not about a map with units moving to kill other units! So, if you know any, let's create a list of turn based strategies where you don't move units on a map to kill other units (planets count as a map too).
Such game needs to meet ALL conditions below:
- turn based
- strategy (in a very broad sense)
- you don't move units on some sort of map to kill other units
Whenever I think I found one (there are many sims/tycoons/managers that are not about moving units on a map) I quickly realize that it's not a turn based game
So far, I could think only of Dictator on ZX Spectrum as the lone example


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If there was any doubt about how big of an impact player Danny Amendola could be in this offense or questioned his toughness, whatever critics he may have had should be a little quieter after seeing his performance during New England's 23-21 win over the Buffalo Bills.
Amendola's impact was huge during the Patriots win over Buffalo on Sunday.
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Amendola, who had been limited in practice for much of the week with a groin injury, made his Patriots debut against the Bills on Sunday and hauled in 10 passes for 104 yards. His injury hampered him in the first half and forced him to leave toward the end of the 2nd quarter, but he received treatment at half time and fortunately came out and was a huge contributing factor in New England's victory over the Bills.
In the final two quarters, Amendola caught 7 passes, five of which came in the final quarter of play and four of them were during New England's game winning drive as Amendola twice converted a 3rd down and kept the chains moving. His second third down grab was huge, as the Patriots were facing a 3rd-and-8 from the Bills 39 yard line and were in dire need of trying to get into field goal range to give Stephen Gostkowski a shot at winning the game.
On that play Amendola made a terrific catch, taking a tough shot from Bills safety Aaron Williams and somehow managed to hold onto the football. That reception extended the drive and gave Shane Vereen the opportunity for his ensuing 15-yard run that helped set up Gostkowski's field goal.
He made some critical catches throughout the game. Of his 10 receptions, seven of them came on 3rd down – all conversions. Two more also went for first downs. After the game he credited Tom Brady's pinpoint accuracy and the play from the other guys in the offense for the reason he was able to have a big day.
"It's a testament to Tom [Brady] putting the ball on the money and the O-line and the guys around in the huddle," Amendola told WBZ after the game. "So it was a big win for us."
Overall the Patriots converted eleven 3rd downs on Sunday, which means Amendola was responsible for 64% of them. He's quickly carving out a nice role for himself in this offense, although it would be hard to imagine him keeping this pace all season. It's a long year and it's obviously going to be a little more critical some of the rookies to become more involved in the offense. Veteran Julian Edelman joined Amendola as the other bright spot on Sunday, finishing with seven receptions on nine targets for 79 yards and two touchdowns.
Unfortunately none of the rookies fared well, as Kenbrell Thompkins struggled in his NFL debut, and Josh Boyce had his number called twice but didn't have a reception. Rookie tight end Zach Sudfeld was completely shut down and the one pass that did go his way went off his hands and into the arms of a Bills defender and set up the touchdown that got the Bills back in the game.
For now Amendola is off to a good start, and the way he toughed out Sunday's win seems to have garnered Brady's respect. Now he'll have to spend this short week trying to get healthy so he can hopefully go out and have another big game Thursday night when the Jets come to Foxboro.
"He really toughed it out, which was pretty impressive," said Brady of Amendola. "He fought all day. We've got a whole team full of fighters. I think there's going to be some ugly wins, but we're always going to fight and we're just going to fight today and it's not an easy place to play. We've always had tough games up here."
"I mean he played…gave everything he got, so that's all you can ask. Who knew what to expect when he came out there in the second half? I thought he was going to be out for the rest of the game. He showed a lot of toughness, mental and physical, and made really the plays of the game for us along with Julian [Edelman], Shane [Vereen], offensive line played great, ran a bunch of plays on opening day. So it's a short turnaround, hopefully we can get some good night rest and start getting ready for the Jets tomorrow."


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Bird Weight: 18.4lbs
Spurs: 1 1/16"; 1 1/8"
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Taken with: Remington 11-87 shotgun
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My son Andrew and I got to the field at 5:50am, little late, for the final day of turkey season in NC. We have been turkey hunting for several years with no success. The morning was foggy, it had rained the night before. I asked my son where he wanted to set at, he chose the back of the field where we had seen several turkeys' just days before. I chose middle way of the field. We walked around the field to our spots, I stopped middle way and started setting up my decoys, he walked on to the back of the field and set up his decoys, I set up in the wood line and waited for my son to finish setting up in the wood line, before we would start any calling. While my son was setting his decoys up in the field he could he some turkeys in the trees behind him "talking" to each other. I texted my son and asked him was he ready, he immediately texted back he was. So at 6:13am I picked up my Knight and Hale Glass Hammer slate call, I made a few yelps and just as I finished the last note, the morning stillness was broken by the beautiful sound of a tom turkey gobbling on the roast. The hair stood up on my back and head, I thought man this is totally awesome. So we waited, my son could also hear the turkeys behind him "talking" to each other. We waited, a crow came cawing by the ol' tom gobbled at him. Then in few minutes we could hear some turkeys cackling as they were flying down from their roast. About 10 minutes later I struck the call again and immediately the ol'tom gobbled again. I could tell he was not more than 50 yards from where my son had chosen to set up at. Man I sure hope my son can kill this bird; he is right up on top of him. Of the couple of birds that had flown down by my son, he texted me and told me that a Jake and hen were headed my way, but in my mind I did not want to shoot a Jake knowing Mr. Tom was here. So I waited. My son watched the tom glide down toward his decoys, he touched one foot on the ground about 60 yards from my son and diverted to flying across the field to a hen, checked her out then walked back toward the decoys, stopped and gobbled. My son could see the steam coming out of mouth when he was gobbling; he stopped walking toward his decoys at about 70 yards and then started in a full run across the field toward my decoys. My son was texting me as fast as he could to tell me dad don't shoot the Jake there is a big tom headed your way. I looked across the field and I could see his white head bobbing as he was running across the field toward my decoys. As he ran I got my gun into position, took the safety off and had a bead on him and I was waiting for him to make his move. He came in to check the decoys and looked at them and stepped back, as if he knew he should not be there, he turned around and was moving his head and I figured it was now or never so I fired and he fell down and started to flop, and acted as if he may want to fly, he picked 1 foot off the ground and I fired again, this time he stayed on the ground flopping and I went running to him. Totally Awesome!! This beautiful bird was down at 6:35am. This was so wonderful to have experienced this with my son. Both of us hunting together!


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Is this black algae?
I have all this black algae looking stuff growing all over the place. It is making the tank really dirty looking. I have been doing a lot of reading and before i do anything to the tank, I want to make sure that I have the right type of algae or bacteria.
I did attach a picture of what my tank looks like and what I think it is, black algae.
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Posted 04 April 2013 - 01:19 PM
I seem to remember this subject has been addressed before, but . . .
Since November, I have been working on an 8.5 x 11 album for my daughter and her friends with pictures from an outdoor photo shoot before their homecoming dance. (It was supposed to be a Christmas present for them - but 42 pages later, it's finally done, or as done as it's gonna be!) Once I talk to all the girls for their permission, I hope to post it in the "Albums" section.
Anyway, my plan the whole time has been to print it at Shutterfly. They've done other photo books for me and the quality has been exceptional, but never before have I uploaded jpegs of "done" pages that I've scrapped.
So here is the quandary: My 8.5 x 11 pages don't fit their whole-page template! It's evidently slightly smaller so my page bleeds over, and their crop dimensions don't allow you to manipulate the jpeg so all of it will fit. Plus elements that go across the 2-page spreads do not line up. Customer service can't tell me the "true" page size so that I can resize them. And of course, I failed to allow enough of a bleedover for my cover, too.
I have a 12x12 album of several years' worth of spring breaks that I was also planning to print at some point, and I wonder if I'll have the same problem with it. My question is whether any of you have run into this, and are there any sites you know of that print "true" page sizes and do a good job. One of the appeals of Shutterfly is that they offer permanent storage and they are always putting on good sales, aside from producing a quality product.
Thanking everyone in advance!
Posted 04 April 2013 - 05:11 PM
In your case, you will lose a LOT off the top and bottom because your pages are already a 1/2 inch too big. Re-sizing or re-designing 42 pages sounds like a giant chore! Yikes. Maybe someone will come along who knows a book printer who does your size pages.
I have not printed a 12x12 book, but maybe someone can help you with that, too.
And if any printing companies are listening.... wouldn't an 8 1/2 x 11 size make sense????
Posted 04 April 2013 - 05:34 PM
Posted 04 April 2013 - 06:00 PM
Then I dragged my first layout onto the page and resized it smaller so there was a border all the way around. You might need to add some extra on the side you already know is too small.
I did this for each page, cover, etc and saved as a jpeg then uploaded to the printing company. It wasn't always exact around the edges, but at least I ddin't lose any of my photos or layout.
Hope that helps and good luck. I can imagine how frustrated you must be after all your work.
Posted 04 April 2013 - 09:37 PM
Then going forward, you'll know to check the printing specs before starting the project:) (Ugh...things should always just be perfect...I know!)
Posted 05 April 2013 - 09:23 AM
- First, I opened the psd file of my page and pulled all the layers into a new document that was the right size with the bleed lines marked.
- I selected the background layer and re-sized it to fit the page.
- Next I selected all the other layers (click the bottom one, hold the shift key and click the top one) and re sized them together to fit within the bleed lines.
- Then I saved the file as a jpg. After finding several typos after uploading the book, I started saving the psd files too so it was easier for me to edit the altered page.
It took me two albums before I started creating my Project Life pages in the right size for the template in the first place.
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Posted 07 April 2013 - 04:47 PM
Just now have had a chance to check back (Senior Prom Friday night!), and I appreciate all the responses - they are all helpful and give me a place to start. I so enjoyed putting this project together and feel like it turned out so well that it really is frustrating to think that a) I'm not done with it yet, and it's not going to look like I made it - without a lot more work (see "a").
What makes it more confusing is that I went back and measured a book I previously ordered from Shutterfly using one of their templates. The cover from edge to edge measures 8.75 x 11 3/16 inches. The book I have has a black edge that went over the spine. I guess I could just use my cover design in one photo on the front with a colored border around it. I had imagined the cover over the entire front.
The inside pages on the book I ordered before measure 8 7/16 inches x 10 15/16. I laid all my psd files out as double page spreads (except the title page and last page). I'm just sitting here thinking about whether I can go back in and resize the backgrounds on a new template - I have page edges and masks and blends and all kinds of stuff going on, and elements that bleed over the edges. Hmm. Don't think I'm going to make it by Wednesday (50% off sale expires). Can't afford to print multiple copies without that. Oh well - back to the drawing board!
This is (was going to be!) my cover:
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Posted 07 April 2013 - 05:44 PM
I found the info on the Shutterfly site re the scrapbook page uploads and specs, 8x11 just like you said. Will let you all know how it turns out . . .
Posted 07 April 2013 - 10:48 PM
I went back to the Shutterfly site and did more looking and found the templates and instructions to work with digitally scrapped pages. I did lose a bit of the edges on the 8x11 book but my elements across the pages lined up pretty well, considering. I guess I'll be able to live with it . . . I've done the resizing and ordered 1 book to see how it turns out before I order any more. I will let you know how it looks.
Love you guys! Thanks again!
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Posted 10 April 2013 - 10:47 AM
not sure what sizes blurb does but they do a variety of sizes and do sometimes have sales..they arent as inexpensive as shutter fly but the quality of papers and binding is excellent
here is a link to my book for 2012
and as mentioned before just be careful what you put in the 1/4 inch around..blurb as a line they show you which is pretty conservative...it usually doesnt cut off that amt usually less
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Hope this helps
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2 men accused of assaulting same 14-year-old boy
MADISON, Wis. - A Middleton man who is a former church music director has been charged with two counts of sexual assault of a child.
James A. "Alex" Gillespie, 48, of Middleton, stood silent Thursday during his initial appearance in Dane County Circuit Court.
Middleton police said the victim, a 14-year-old boy, is the victim in another local sexual assault case involving a Mount Horeb police lieutenant living in Madison.
Late nights at Gillespie's condo in the 5500 block of Century Avenue prompted neighbors to grow suspicious.
"They're concerned about young men, boys, in his apartment late at night, coming and going, and they expressed those concerns to us," said Capt. Charles Foulke, of the Middleton Police Department.
The criminal complaint said the victim told police, "Yeah, we did something." He went on to tell detectives that Gillespie performed oral sex on him on several occasions, according to the complaint.
Initially, the victim told investigators he was 18 years old.
The detective who contacted the victim said he appeared to be younger than 18 years old.
"Eventually they brought him back to the Police Department and ran a Fast ID on him -- digital fingerprints. We learned he was 14 and that he was a runaway from the Beloit area," Foulke said.
The victim had been missing from his Beloit home since October 2012, Middleton police said.
The victim said he told Gillespie that he was 18 years old and that Gillespie never questioned him about his age, school or anything like that, according to the complaint.
Middleton police said they discovered the victim turned out to be the same boy found living with Dennis Jenks, a Mount Horeb police lieutenant, who is accused of sexually assaulting the same teen.19131186
"This 14-year-old, he came out of left field," Foulke said. "We had no clue about that."
Police said their investigation of Gillespie began in December and continues. Gillespie was fired this week from his position as music director at St. Luke's Lutheran Church in Middleton, the church said.
Police said the case against Gillespie remains focused on St. Luke's Lutheran Church in Middleton.
"That was one of the early concerns," Foulke said. "Some of our investigation has revealed that some of the contacts he made with young men and boys was through the church."
For now, investigators continue to look for more victims.
"We're trying to find anybody that was there, that was underage, that had any type of sexual contact with Mr. Gillespie, whether it be the church or whether it be from some other website, chat site, whatever," Foulke said.
Police said Gillespie met the 14-year-old victim on a social media phone app known as Growler.
The pastor of St. Luke's said Gillespie's position at the church did not put him in direct contact with minors, and he's unaware of any connection between the allegations against Gillespie and the church.
In a Madison Police Department case, officers arrested Jenks, 44, at his home in the 6600 block of Raymond Road on Madison's far west side Feb. 13 on suspicion of sexual assault of a child.
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Here is the fourth part of the "Restoration Series" on this, our 1959 British Daimler Ferret Scout Car. The military vehicles are the "centre" of our family Military Collection. This is the Mk2/3 variant.
Photo .1: Is a picture just to "look good" on the "Show & Tell" page; it is actually when the Ferret was nearly completed, but there is a long, dirty and rocky road to travel before we reach this "nearly finished" state. You will note the celebratory bottle of beer!
Photo .2: Is Keith looking down into the cockpit and surveying the absolute "hell" and wreckage that needs putting right. It will have a full "strip back to bare metal" restoration and all mechanicals will get refurbished, restored, rebuilt or "re" something'ed before the end! (The floor internal armour plate has been removed to reveal what is underneath....which is what you can see here!)
Photo .3: The Ferret has to be moved to our facility which is equipped to deal with any needful task (thanks Rob!). It is stripped of remaining equipment, main armament, side "escape" armour doors and soon after this photo was taken, the turret too!
Photo .4: Is looking in at the "port side" hatch; at the transmission which Keith is looking down on in Photo .2. The Ferret, as I said will be stripped right down to it's veriest bare bones before the re-manufacture and restoration process gets under full steam!
I will continue posting the elements of this "series" until the restoration's end, and perhaps beyond as we continue to own and run it.
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A Sandpoint man has been arrested, accused of possessing child pornography.
Jerry Horner, 48, was arrested last week when investigators found illegal videos on his external hard drive.
The North Idaho Sex Offender Watch Task Force has been investigating Horner since May and found enough evidence to put him behind bars. He now faces charges of possession of child pornography and offering to share child pornography using a shared folder, after the task force determined something illegal was happening online through a file sharing network.North Idaho sex offender task force
"It allows someone to download files from another computer. He had allegedly, at least at this point, was using the program to download child pornography," Josh Studor with the Kootenai County Prosecutor's Office said.
A search warrant was executed last week and that's when investigators found an external hard drive with illegal videos. Videos like this can be downloaded from many different places. The children in those videos are not local, but some kids have been identified by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
"Some of the videos we had, if not all of them, were identified by NCMEC and were able to determine who those children were and that they were underage at the time," Studor said.
This is just one example of the work this North Idaho task force is dedicated to.
"Our work is about the children; we need to protect kids that are out there," Paul Farina with the North Idaho Sex Offender Task Force said.
The task force cracks down on internet crimes against children and makes sure sex offenders are properly registered.
"We've located many sex offenders that were living here in Kootenai County and the five northern counties that were never registered. They were registered in another state and moved here to Kootenai County and they just wanted to fly underneath the radar," Farina said.


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I grew up drinking guava nectar, my first real introduction being rare, but exciting trips to a Puerto Rican corner store with my mother. She would spoil me with tiny bananas, coconut candies and other goodies not found in our neighborhood stores. Opening up a can of Goya drinks, be them mango, pera (pear), or guyaba (guava) would evoke a keen sense of exotica in my mind. ...Read More »
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Have you heard about all of the wild things they put in good old fashioned {commercial} brands of yogurt? Some contain high fructose corn syrup; others have pork-derived gelatin. If you've visited this blog before, you know I'm absolutely against the addition (and creation of) high fructose corn syrup in anything. Additionally, foods with swine are not halal (permissible). That ...Read More »
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Honey is one of my absolute favorite food and health items. I don't consider it as just a food, but also a medicine and a beauty product. Whenever I have an upset stomach, I take a heaping tablespoon of honey and normally feel the stomach ache disappear. To soften my skin, I make my own honey facials. In baking, I use ...Read More »
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Whether you have tons of lemons and limes around or just a few, it's easy to preserve the outer skin, or zest, for future use in baking and cooking. Did you ever realize how expensive it can be to purchase a jar of this stuff? It's steep. That's why I make my own. I had a ton of citrus fruits ...Read More »
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Did you know that most citrus fruits were traditionally grown for their zest, not for their fruits? When you zest, or peel away the skin of citrus, you get all the flavor of a lemon, lime or orange in this skin- without all the acidity of the flesh. One has to just be careful not to zest too much of the outside ...Read More »
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There is nothing more refreshing to me on a hut summer day than cold, cold watermelon. Pineapple is great, too. So are melons! I just love them all and I love them cold. I made these kebobs because not only did I have a lot of fruit from my foray at the grocery store that morning, but I also wanted ...Read More »
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Many of my family members and members of our Facebook page have been asking me to send pictures of my balcony garden, so I've finallly had a chance to take and compile pictures of this lovely extension of my home. I'm delighted that so many people are interested in such a wonderful thing to share. Years ago when I first moved ...Read More »
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I've been in search of u-pick cherry farms for quite a while, but missed the season (in the Midwest it's from late July to Mid-August). My next craving was for peaches, so a little research told us there are plenty of u-pick farms to choose from in Coloma, Michigan which is about a 2 1/2 hour drive from our home ...Read More »


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GALESVILLE, Wis. - The Wagners are the definition of a basketball family.
Mark and Nancy met while both were playing hoops at the University of Mary in North Dakota.
Now, Mark gets to coach his two sons, Tim and Nick, at G.E.T. Nancy gets to watch and take it all in.
"I kind of just try to appreciate it, because I know it's going to go fast," Nancy said. "It has gone fast."
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As an Arkansan I think it's a good hire.
As an Arkansan I think it's a good hire.
big east, big 10, big 12, ACC, and pac 12 are all the SEC's minor league farm system...and we are calling up the AAA first round pick
Repeat after me....Arkansas has not one a conference championship in over 20 years. The reality is that puts Arkansas in the same list as Ole Miss, Mississippi State, South Carolina, Vanderbilt, and Kentucky. Sorry, but that's the truth.holtz? hatfield? petrino? i think the latter proved you could win at arkansas in modern era. what was texas a&m's record against arkansas in southwest classic before they joined SEC? look at cam newton and auburn thats a&ms future. johnny football is a stud no doubt but after next year hes gone (pro) then what?.
Try to slam Texas, A&M or whoever you want. But they each have some skins on the wall in the past 20 years. Just sayin'.
and yes Blake I forgot about the Walton's and the Tyson's of Arkansas....I think its a very good hire
the sec has won 9 of 15 (im assuming alabama is going to clobber notre dame like most will agree) bcs championships. so by saying we havent won sec just means we havent won a national championship (in bcs era). tons of other schools havent either. we have been to sec championship 3 times. 3x more any team you mentioned (ms state had 1) right up there with auburn. we are not a national championship contender year in year out (yet) but we are competitive and cyclical on winning west. the best team in any conference would be mediocre at best in sec. you may say well look at a&m well without mack brown foolishly thinking manziel should be a safety and causing him to commit to a&m theyd be right alongside missouri
comparing big 12 championships to sec championships is foolish.
if i were to rank sec schools on average elite-ness itd be
teir 1
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Bielema was whinning when Urban Meyer went after one of his verbal commitments. What's he going to do when Saban and the rest of the SEC coaches do that and more? I'd say he has jumped out of the frying pan and into the fire.
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The fact is that Texas A&M was a mediocre team in the Big 12 for the past 5+ years. So bad they fired their coach. So a mediocre Big 12 team came in, should have beat both Florida and LSU, and beat the big boy Alabama.
SEC has great football, no one will argue that.
All I'm saying is Arkansas has been and will continue to be a tough place for a coach to win.
You can attack Texas all you want, but Mack Brown won a National Championship and played for another in the past 10 years.
Repeat. Arkansas has not won a conference championship in 23 years.


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More than 10 years ago VUSD embarked on a strategic planning process to achieve the mission of graduating ALL students with knowledge and ability to make good choices, act responsibly, earn a living and continue learning throughout life. After several years we are seeing the positive impact of completing many strategies and spreading the planning process to our sixteen schools.
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In today's IT world a core issue remains in datacenter design - how physically dense should a datacenter be and why? This paper defines high density, discusses its relationship with the driving forces of virtualization and consolidation, and offers cost saving examples from various studies.
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A multimedia performance, "A Long Walk Home: A Story of a Rape Survivor," will be presented at 4 p.m. Friday, April 2, in the East Room of Murray-Dodge Hall.
Sisters Scheherazade and Salamishah Tillet founded A Long Walk Home Inc. in 2000 to help people heal from their experiences of rape. The workshop combines art therapy, expressive therapy and social documentary theory to help victims -- and secondary victims such as partners, family members, friends -- to deal with the anger, guilt and hurt they feel.
Scheherazade Tillet is an art therapist at the YWCA Chicago Rape Crisis Center and a freelance photographer. Salamishah Tillet is a doctoral candidate in American studies at Harvard University.
The event is sponsored by the Sexual Harassment/Assault Advising, Resources and Education Office of University Health Services and the women's ice hockey team.
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Oppenheimer & Co.'s networking analyst Shaul Eyal this morning kicks off what he expects to offer as a quarterly summary of the security segment of network hardware and software, using data from research firm IDC as well as his own "field checks."
The market for security products, which was $8.1 billion in 2012, is "healthy," he notes, with growth of 7.2%, year over year, and in the fourth quarter, to $2.3 billion. Eyal expects the category to continue to experience growth "in the high single digits" on a percentage basis.
Cisco Systems (CSCO) had the biggest share, at 16.8%, though it was down from 17.9% in 2011. Check Point Software Technologies (CHKP) was in second place with 12.8% share, up from 11.9% a year earlier. Fortinet (FTNT) was in third place at 6%, and the "Other" category included Blue Coat, Palo Alto Networks (PANW), Sourcefire (FIRE), and Dell (DELL).
"Competition in the network security software market is intense and looks only to intensify," writes Eyal, with Palo Alto and other newer companies growing faster than Cisco and Check Point.
As far as the technology, Eyal focuses on appliances that fall into categories of firewall, "unified threat management," intrusion detection, and virtual private networks. Unified threat management, or UTM, is the current driver of market growth, he notes:
Growth in the market will be primarily driven by the UTM segment. UTM is expected to surpass firewall as the largest network security submarket in 2013 and account for over 40% of network security revenue by 2015.
At the functional market level, the Unified Threat Management (UTM) segment saw the largest year-over-year revenue growth at 34.3% and accounted for 35.0% of security appliance revenue in 4Q12, as multi-function appliances continue to drive growth in the overall market. We would like to remind investors that IDC, classifies next-generation firewalls as UTM appliances. The Firewall/VPN market represented 24.0% of security appliance revenue despite a year-over-year decline of 2.8% after ten consecutive quarters of steady growth. The IPS segment declined by 3.6% compared to the prior year as these dedicated products continue to battle for share in the mid-market with UTM appliances.
Eyal has an Outperform rating on shares of Check Point, Cisco, and Fortinet, and a "Perform" rating on shares of Sourcefire. He doesn't formally cover Palo Alto.


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Dairy Bush GigaPan - 171 – December 05 2012
Year 4 - Week 13 - 360°
A cold morning today in the Dairy Bush (-6C) with some wind out of the NW (33km/h). Thanks to Connor Warne for taking today's GigaPan while I was in Costa Rica.
check out the same week over the past three years:
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I've extracted images from a year of Dairy Bush GigaPans to illustrate the rapid decomposition of the leaf litter in this forest associated with the presence of non-native worms. The forest floor is changing! www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRRv09_oF5w
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There is a timelapse video of the second year of the Dairy Bush GigaPan on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCEdsV_kki4 . (yr 1 is below)
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Philippines: Monsoon rains and storms drench Northern provinces
Heavy monsoon rains, exacerbated by a series of tropical storms triggered major flooding across the island of Luzon in the northern Philippines, claiming 16 lives and forcing the evacuation of more than 380,000 people.
On 19 August, some 60 per cent of the Metro Manila region was under water as the average monthly rainfall for August fell in just one day. The surrounding provinces of Rizal, Laguna, Bulacan, Zambales, Cavite, Bataan, Pampanga and Occidental Mindoro were badly affected. Sixteen people were killed and five remain missing.
Government offices, schools and businesses, including the stock market, were closed and even streets that were not flooded were eerily empty as people from the provinces could not travel into work in the city.
The monsoon rains were exacerbated by the arrival of Tropical Storm Trami, the thirteenth weather system to pass through Philippine territory this year. Trami came only a week after Typhoon Utor, known locally as Labuyo, made landfall across the northern part of Luzon, claiming eight lives.
Schools close
The province of Laguna, just south of Manila, was one of the areas worst affected by the flooding. Schools were closed and turned in to evacuation centres. De La Paz Elementary housed 328 families – about 1,640 people – some of whom reported fleeing chest-deep water in their homes.
"For the first time, classrooms were flooded and we have no electricity in the school now," said Headmistress Czarina Rasco: We hope that people can return to their homes by the weekend so we can reopen as a school and resume classes next week."
More than 20 families in Laguna had their homes completely destroyed and the Department of Social Welfare and Development are now looking for ways to support them over the coming months.
Preparedness born of familiarity
Thirty-one-year-old Cecilia Abad fled with her six children as waist-high water flooded her home. The family has spent the past four nights at an evacuation centre at the San Pedro Central School in Laguna.
"Last year I spent four months in an evacuation centre because my home was flooded," Cecilia said. "I hope to be able to get back to my home so I can clean it and move back in over the weekend."
The Government of the Philippines is well versed in responding to disasters like this week's monsoon rains and last week's Typhoon Utor. Each year between June and December, an average of 20 severe weather systems hit the Philippines.
No significant international assistance was requested after Utor hit, partly because people in the path of the typhoon knew what to expect, and because of the high level of preparedness work that had been carried out at community, local government, and national level.
Local authorities lead response
Barangay (village) captains and local government units were largely able to manage the response to the monsoon rains. However, authorities did make some targeted requests for assistance. The World Food Programme will provide 50 tons of high energy biscuits for 125,000 people affected by the floods, while the International Organization for Migration will support authorities to manage some evacuation centres and ensure that the return of evacuees is planned and implemented in an effective manner.
The World Health Organization raised concerns about the dangers of leptospirosis – a bacterial infection caused by contact with contaminated water.
"OCHA will continue to coordinate international support, and work with government agencies to ensure relief is delivered to the most affected," said David Carden head of OCHA's Philippines office. "We will also continue to encourage resilience building of communities who are repeatedly affected by these weather systems on an all too regular basis."
Reporting by Orla Fagan, OCHA Philippines


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Regan Medals at World Championships
2010 Graduate Earns Fourth International Medal
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Big Ten Rower of the Year Has Sights on Rio
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Spartan helped set world best time earlier this summer
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MSU graduate captures third international gold medal.
Emily Regan Competes at Rowing World Cup
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2009: A CRCA Second Team All-American who rowed as a member of the varsity eight boat in all seven races, sitting in the five seat ... Helped the varsity eight to a first-place finish in the petite finals at the NCAA Regatta ... Member of the varsity eight crew which took first at the Big Ten Championships in a time of 6:06.30 ... Helped lead the varsity eight to a pair of victories at the Big Ten Double Duals ... Helped the varsity eight to an open water victory over No. 20 Notre Dame in the season opening meet ... An Academic All-Big Ten selection.
2008: All-Big Ten second team and CRCA Central Region second team selection after rowing in the fifth seat of the varsity eight boat in every race for the Spartans ... Took home the Big Ten title, the second V8 title in school history, after topping Ohio State by a half length at 6:31.0 at the Big Ten Championships ... Member of the crew that posted a time of 6:40.26, finishing in sixth place at the NCAA Championship Regatta ... Member of the boat that finished second at the South/Central Regional Regatta with a time of 6:35.80 ... Overall, helped the V8 boat compile a 7-2 record on the season leading into the NCAA Championships ... Helped in defeating No. 3 Brown, No. 14 Notre Dame, No. 15 Louisville, Oregon State, Central Florida, Indiana and Minnesota ... Academic All-Big Ten selection.
2007: Helped the second varsity eight to a 6:56.53 finish with open water over Ohio State...Helped MSU to a second varsity eight victory over Indiana, defeating the Hoosiers by more than a length of open water...Helped pull the second varsity eight to its second victory over Indiana at the Big Ten Invitational with a 7:50.35 finish...Rowed the second varsity eight to a 6:13.8 third-place finish at the Big Ten Championships...Helped row the second varsity eight to a second-place finish in the semifinal at the Aramark South/Central Regional and a fourth-place finish in the grand finals.
Prior to MSU: Earned varsity letters in cross country, basketball and lacrosse at Nichols school in Buffalo ... Two-time cross country Coaches and Most Valuable Player Awards ... Played on Class B Independent School State Championship basketball team ... Two-time cross country team captain ... Sister Kelly plays basketball at Manhattan College.
Personal: Born on June 10, 1988 ... Daughter of Lawrence and Barbara Regan ... A hospitality business major.


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|Usually, when I'm playing with bluegill or shellcrackers, I find the best way for them to take it is by letting one of the smaller ones take a nab at the bug, then as soon as I see the bug move, I pop it a good foot or so on the water. This pisses them off, and usually the first one to get to it after I pop it is the biggest, fastest, and meanest of the group. He'll give a nice, strong, quick fight before you play him out. This technique never fails me. If the next hit is just a kiss as well, I pop it again. Sometimes it takes one or two pops for them to take it. I've had miniscule bluegill minnows play with the fly, and after I take it away from them there always seems to be a bigger fish ready to take it. Good luck...
|I avoid going too small with panfish since it resulted in a lot of very deep hook-ups and difficult releases. They somehow manage to get their tiny mouths around some pretty big hooks! My favorite method is using surface flies and I probably connect with one in five, maybe one in three on a good day. The continuous retrieve is a good technoique with surface flies too.
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I usually will not go to a smaller fly, more or less because I don't want to decrease the average size of fish I'm catching. When I keep getting short strikes, I borrow a page from saltwater and do a very slow hand-over-hand retrieve. When I feel a take, I just continue to retrieve the fly until there's pressure moving in the opposite direction. That's when a fish has truly taken the fly, and that's when I do an additional strip set.
It can be hard not to set the hook when you feel the taps of smaller fish, especially when you can see them coming. As weird as this may sound, don't be afraid to do the hand-over-hand retrieve with your eyes closed or looking away once you see fish headed towards the fly. Rely on feel, and you'll get more fish.
tricks you use on panfish that give you the fake take
I went out yesterday and caught one small largemouth and only a couple of bluegill. Here's the question, what do you do when those frustrating and pesky little panfish come up and give your fly a smack and a swirl but no take? Do you go to a smaller fly, lighter tippet, change your retrieve? Just curious as to how to turn these fakers into takers.
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Local political leaders team up to help kids
LA CROSSE, Wis. - Two local political leaders—one Democrat and one Republican—are teaming up to start, "Together for Toys: A Bipartisan Benefit for Toys for Tots."
The event benefits the La Crosse Jaycees Toys for Tots program, which provides toys to families in need this holiday season.
Julian Bradley, the 2012 Chair of the La Crosse County Republican Party, and Andrew Londre, a La Crosse County Board Supervisor and 2011 Chair of the La Crosse County Democratic Party are encouraging Republicans and Democrats from the Coulee Region to donate toys.
The idea came up after Bradley wrote a letter to the La Crosse Tribune about leaders working together. Londre read it and reached out to Bradley about teaming up. The two decided it was perfect timing given the last two years of intense campainging in the state.
"Now that it's finally over, it's really time for us to come together in this community because we can all come together and do really good things," Londre said.
"The time for competition is over," Bradley said. "The elections are over. It's been a very long two years here in Western Wisconsin. People just want to see people come together for good, and that's what we're doing."17575658
The Together for Toys: A Bipartisan Benefit for Toys for Tots goes through this Friday. You can drop-off new or gently-used toys at the Black River Beach Neighborhood Center on Rose Street in La Crosse from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.
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Description ADULT Has subtly browner upperparts and marginally longer bill than Pacific-slope. Wings are dark with pale fringes to inner flight feathers and two buffy white wing bars; white elements on wing become less apparent through wear as summer progresses. Tail is dark and subtly longer than Pacific-slope's. Underparts are pale, with olive or brownish wash on breast. JUVENILE Similar, but wing feather fringes and wing bars are buffy brown.
Dimensions Length: 5 1/2-6" (14-15 cm)
Habitat Common summer visitor (mainly May-Aug) to coniferous forests in Rocky Mountains. Winters in Mexico.
Observation Tips Learn the call as an aid to identification.
Range Rocky Mountains, Northwest, California, Western Canada, Southwest, Texas, Plains
Voice Song typically comprises a thin see, a chirping see-oo and a thin, sharp pik; call is a thin, whistling tsee-seet, often almost disyllabic.
Discussion Almost identical to Pacific-slope. Silent birds, outside breeding range, can be impossible to identify with certainty. Breeding range is a good pointer and call, once learned, is reasonably diagnostic. Behavior is similar to that of Pacific-slope. Sexes are similar.