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It kind of reminds me of waterfall braids how it lays on the head, but these ones aren't going anywhere- no slipping or falling out for this hair do! We love it and its fast and very easy--- got to love that factor!
If you do this hair do and would like to share we always love seeing what you are up to on our facebook page. Thanks for sharing. **UPDATE** Check out this video for more help on this hairstyle.
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Ohh, love this one! I did this a few times on my middle daughter when her hair was still long, but I hadn't thought of it after the haircuts. Gonna have to try it! Thank you!ReplyDeleteReplies
Yes I agree with you. This style is looking good for my daughter. I do it with coconut water treatmentDelete
Thank you for nice share
Are these knots made with a topsy tail?ReplyDelete
They can be Brandi--- I don't use the topsy tail to do them, but you could easily.ReplyDelete
This does have a similar look to the waterfall braid. I like them both. This style I can actually do for sure and my hair is quite a bit longer. This is versatile for short and very long hair.ReplyDelete
You know those threaders for when you floss with braces? Totally use those when I do this hairdo. {:ReplyDelete
Is there a link for how to do this style? I'd love to try this on my daughter for school!ReplyDelete
What are the steps to recreate this style? My daughter would love this and her hair is about the same length. #newbietostylingReplyDelete
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I found your blog while looking for hair styles for myself. I am letting my hair grow out and am stuck in that awkward stage where I just can't do a thing with it. LOL... I LOVE what you have done with this style. Please forgive my ignorance. I haven't worn anything in my hair since I was a child myself. Do you use bands to secure the knots? I would love to see a picture of how you did this. Thanks!ReplyDelete
I would love to see a step by step for this one. My daughters hair is just this length and I need more to do with it than just a flower in it. Thanks!ReplyDelete
Would also love to know how you did this!ReplyDelete
Me too! I want to know how to do this!ReplyDelete
i would love step by step for this also...ReplyDelete
I found this hairstyle on pinterest and have been doing my 7 year olds hair like this frequently. Every.Single.Time I do her hair like this, she gets stopped constantly with people telling her how cute her hair is! It's our new favorite style. Thanks for sharing it with us.ReplyDelete
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Oh, I'm so excited about this. Very cute!ReplyDelete
My daughter has this type of hair and I can't do anything with it! I would love to try this on her for picture day next week. I am horrible at doing little girl hair and need step by step instructions. Where can I get some instruction?ReplyDelete
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Where can I get instructions how to do this hair style?ReplyDelete
I will try and email this as well, but the video for this hair style can be found at this link. http://www.girlydohairstyles.com/2011/09/knots-video.htmlReplyDelete
Just did this for my daughter - thanks for the great hairstyles for short hair :)ReplyDelete
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can you please do a video tutorial on thisReplyDelete
Thanks for the tutorial - it was so easy to do and I pretty much did it the whole week. Plus, my daughter was complimented by her teacher. :)ReplyDelete
Nice ideas of hair styles for short hair have been presented. Great look for kids. Just love the post. Thanks.ReplyDelete
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I like those twists. Plus, doing that at the front helps to keep a child's hair neater. They play and sometimes end up messing up their hair so this is a good way to keep them looking neat even without using hair gel.ReplyDelete
I love this hair style. It fits my niece beautifully!ReplyDelete
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Fish Tails, Tips and Q and A's, Fly, Wade, S.E. Cape:
The following fishing reports will consist of Inshore Saltwater (Fly-Spin) Fishing. It will include Tips, Techniques, Habitat, Presentation, Baitology, Flies-Hooks, Moon Fazes, Flats, and even some highlights from last years fishing reports. Some of which are pretty exciting.
Some of the material will come straight from my past experience as chief instructor of the Orvis 2 ½ day saltwater fly fishing schools. Additional material will come from first hand knowledge, gained from my many years of eating, breathing, living and loving the, New England - Cape Cod Inshore Saltwater environment. So, sit back, relax and enjoy this Truly World Class Destination Fishery!
Fish Tails: 1999 on the Flats
While wading one day, we had large bass coming at us from all directions for an hour steady. At one point, we were totally surrounded with bass in one to three feet of water. Martin asked me where he should cast and my response was, anywhere. It just didnt matter. These same fish continued to repeat this pattern all summer long.
A couple of days later I was treated to a day on Captain ---- -------, 18 Hewes flatsboat. We had ideal conditions and we counted close to 2,000 bass on the flats in one to four feet of water. There were good #s in the ten to fifteen pound range. Dave and I both released a fish in the twenty-pound range, plus smaller ones.
Again, ideal wade conditions followed the next day. We enjoyed watching schoolie bass chase bait onto the beach in three inches of water. We knelt on the dry sand forty feet away to keep a low profile. The fly was cast ten feet into the water with fly line never touching it. Two strips of the fly and Bill was hooking up. Felt like we were fishing for trout and not the salt.
We also had fifty or so bass in all sizes stacked up in front of us in a narrow channel feeding on the incoming tide. It reminded me of guiding on the Salmon River in New York for tackle busting twenty to thirty pound King Salmon. Spoiled we were as we could see each fish and pick out the one we wanted to present the fly to and catch. When a smaller fish tried to grab it, we would pull it away. What a hoot!
We decided to play, so I put on a shrimp pattern I designed and drifted it through the bunch on a floating line. We waited until we saw the flash (they often turn sideways when feeding, creating a silvery flash) then immediately set the hook. We never felt the fish hit. Instead we just set by sight! We both laughed and couldnt help feeling like two little kids in a candy store.
When there is no sun to help you sight fish; read all of mother natures signature clues, signs she gives you and just cast.
The terns can be a great help in locating fish on the flats when overcast and cloudy weather prevails.
Lately, weve been spotting tailing bass in the AM. incoming tide on the flats. Theyve been in a foot of water standing on their heads grubbing for breakfast. There tails are completely out of the water flopping back and forth for balance, oblivious to us. A quiet approach and stealth like stalking are needed when getting into casting position. Or just let them come to you.
July27 Report
Clouds, Rain, Fog, Major lightning, seals moaning, birds diving, bait spraying, tides running hard and the sweet smell of the salt accompanied us today. No sight fishing today? Actually we sight fished, structure, current, birds, swirls, and fish crashing bait. At one point John Davidson from England was casting into 6 in. of water and letting the current swing his fly over a 1 ft. drop in the sand (rip). We were imitating a baitfish being swept along in the current. The fish were holding tight along the edge of the drop eating heavily and were more than eager to eat Johns fly on numerous occasions. Total for the day was 10 fish in all and the 2nd fish of the A.M. on the 5th cast topped the days tally with a beautiful 36-in. bass. John stated, Ive fished around the world, but this is a day I will never forget! We even had a tea break at 2:00, promptly
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This weeks fishing review and forecast:
We had been experiencing very good tides, but they are starting to slow presently. Fast tides mean more baitfish being pushed around and fish feeding more aggressively. Larger numbers and fresher fish are also a by product of these faster tides. Normally when the tide's speed and height increase's, so does the fishing. When they slow, typically, so does the catching. Im noticing a few less fish everyday on the flats as the tides slow up.
All marshes and tidal rivers around the entire Cape are fishing well. Any fly is working. There is also some super action on the surface during slack tides. Small gurglers are the fly of choice.
Fishing has been productive on the South side, off any jetty, at high tide.
Super HOT when you can see. The entire Cape has fish on them presently. Water temperature is perfect in all area's.
Top Fly Profiles:
I have my best luck with Blues if I imitate large bait, 3-5 inchs tall 5-8 inchs long. Thats what they want, so give it toem. (Herring, Mackeral, Schoolies) Striped Bass - The other major profile of bait that is present are Thin (pencil or less in thickness), 4 inchs long. Adult Sand Lances and Silver sides. White on bottom, Olive on top. Throw in a little gold flash as an attractor.
Count Down Method:
This method is one I always use when fishing deep or fishing in the spring time. Here's why its so productive. A lot of the time ,bait is on the bottom near structure( Rocks, sand bars, eel grass, lobster traps) to blend in and find protection. A major portion of predator fish are also there to feed. So by getting your line down to the bottom , you'll present your fly to the majority of fish. The way to achieve this is to cast and count to 15. Cast and count to 20. Continue to count longer and longer until you pull back eel grass or you feel your fly being pulled through the sand. Now Ill cast and count 5 sec. LESS there by bringing my fly just above the bottom. This technique will catch you 100 more fish then simply casting into deep water and retrieving right away. Having studied bass and watched them set-up around structure. Ive noticed they'll wait to ambush the bait as it searches for cover or is swept along in the current. The times I've been able to see this, Ive cast my fly just above the fish and stripped it towards the structure. The bass have always taken it with pleasure!
Why do I get knots in my leader and how can I straighten it?
Most wind knots (Normally they are actually bad casting knots) are created by improper casting technique. 85% of the time they are created by pushing the rod forward on an even plan during the power stroke. Visualize a paint brush on the end of your rod. You are probably painting a flat ceiling. Now paint the ceiling of an igloo and by george, you've got it! The best way I normally straighten out my leader is with the help of all the monster fish pulling on the other end!
Safety First:
RANDY is it possible to fish Cape Cod flats from a canoe or kayak and where would be a good place to put it in?
Yup, You can fish it from a canoe, kayak. Must be very careful with weather and strong tides in places. Wind and Fog could spell " your dead" if you are not prepared. Compass, Fog horn, Life jackets, and an understanding of boating lanes and tidal movement should be FULLY understood to prepare you for a worse case situation. Dont mean to scare you but people die out here every year! I see boats and wade anglers going into areas out here that I would never go, due to stage of tide or weather. Some days start out with crystal clear skies, then out of no where FOG, so thick you can taste it. They either get stuck and sit out the tide, swim back or worse, dont make it back. Other days the wind is light, youve checked several weather stations and in the middle of the day the wind spins and gusts hard out of no where. A canoe would not be very good transportation if wind, chop, strong currents etc were your company. If you get a map you will see Town Landings (T.L.) these are all public access areas to the water.
Have Fun, BUT you have to have a clear understanding of ALL of the above to be safe!
Remember that Mother Nature makes the rules!
Best Fishs,
Randy Jones
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If ocean waves are caused by wind, how can there be strong waves on calm days?
Waves form where there are winds. Energy from the wind is transferred to the water and then that is transferred to nearby water molecules. The wave moves as a transfer of energy across the sea. Once the wave starts, it doesn't need more wind to keep it going.
Ocean Waves
Waves have been discussed in previous concepts and lessons in several contexts: seismic waves traveling through the planet, sound waves traveling through seawater, and ocean waves eroding beaches. Waves transfer energy, and the size of a wave and the distance it travels depends on the amount of energy that it carries. This lesson studies the most familiar waves, those on the ocean's surface.
Building Big Waves
Ocean waves originate from wind blowing – steady winds or high storm winds – over the water. Sometimes these winds are far from where the ocean waves are seen. What factors create the largest ocean waves?
The largest wind waves form when the wind
- is very strong
- blows steadily for a long time
- blows over a long distance
The wind could be strong, but if it gusts for just a short time, large waves won't form.
Wind blowing across the water transfers energy to that water. The energy first creates tiny ripples, which make an uneven surface for the wind to catch so that it may create larger waves. These waves travel across the ocean out of the area where the wind is blowing.
Remember that a wave is a transfer of energy. Do you think the same molecules of water that start out in a wave in the middle of the ocean later arrive at the shore? The molecules are not the same, but the energy is transferred across the ocean.
Shape of a Wave
Water molecules in waves make circles or ellipses (Figure below). Energy transfers between molecules, but the molecules themselves mostly bob up and down in place.
In this animation, a water bottle bobs in place like a water molecule: http://www.onr.navy.mil/Focus/ocean/motion/waves1.htm.
An animation of motion in wind waves from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography: http://earthguide.ucsd.edu/earthguide/diagrams/waves/swf/wave_wind.html.
The circles show the motion of a water molecule in a wind wave. Wave energy is greatest at the surface and decreases with depth. "A" shows that a water molecule travels in a circular motion in deep water. "B" shows that molecules in shallow water travel in an elliptical path because of the ocean bottom.
An animation of a deep water wave is seen here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Deep_water_wave.gif.
An animation of a shallow water wave is seen here: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shallow_water_wave.gif.
Waves Break
When does a wave break? Do waves only break when they reach shore? Waves break when they become too tall to be supported by their base. This can happen at sea but happens predictably as a wave moves up a shore. The energy at the bottom of the wave is lost by friction with the ground, so that the bottom of the wave slows down but the top of the wave continues at the same speed. The crest falls over and crashes down.
Storm Surge
Some of the damage done by storms is from storm surge. Water piles up at a shoreline as storm winds push waves into the coast. Storm surge may raise sea level as much as 7.5 m (25 ft), which can be devastating in a shallow land area when winds, waves, and rain are intense.
A wild video of "Storm Surge" can be seen on National Geographic Videos, Environment Video, Natural Disasters, Landslides, and more: http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/player/environment/.
Maverick waves are massive. Learning how they are generated can tell scientists a great deal about how the ocean creates waves and especially large waves.
Learn more by watching this video at http://www.kqed.org/quest/television/science-of-big-waves.
- The largest wind waves are built when a strong wind blows for a long time over a large area.
- When a wave breaks onshore it is not the water but the energy that has traveled from where the wave formed.
- A wave breaks when it is too tall to be supported by its base, which is common as a wave moves up the shore.
Use these resources to answer the questions that follow.
1. What can cause waves?
2. What three factors effect the size and strength of waves?
3. How can large waves be created
4. What causes the overturning of wave?
5. What is storm surge?
6. What generates a storm surge?
1. Do waves break in the oceans or do waves only break when they reach shore?
2. When a hurricane reaches land, the damage done to coastal development often depends on how high the tide is. Why would this make a difference?
3. Describe how a wave that forms in the central Pacific travels to and breaks at the beach in San Diego, California.
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Enter Glacier Bay and you cruise along shorelines completely covered by ice just 200 years ago.
Glaciers form when snowfall in the high mountains exceeds snowmelt. The snowflakes first change to granular snow -- round ice grains -- but the pressure from accumulating weight soon transforms the snow into solid ice. Eventually, gravity sets the ice mass flowing downslope at up to seven feet per day. The park includes some 12 tidewater glaciers that calve into the bay. The show can be spectacular. As water undermines some ice fronts, great blocks of ice up to 200 feet high break loose and crash into the water. Johns Hopkins Glacier calves such volumes of ice that it is seldom possible to approach its ice cliffs closer than about two miles. The glaciers seen here today are remnants of a general ice advance -- the Little Ice Age -- that began about 4,000 years ago. This advance in no way approached the extent of continental glaciation during Pleistocene time. The Little Ice age reached its maximum extent here about 1750, when general melting began. Today's advance or retreat of a glacier snout reflects many factors:
- snowfall rate,
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- climate trends.
The snowcapped Fairweather Range supplies ice to all glaciers on the peninsula separating Glacier Bay from the Gulf of Alaska. Mount Fairweather, the range's highest peak, stands at 15,320 feet. Near Johns Hopkins Inlet, several peaks rise from sea level to 6,520 feet within just four miles of shore. The great glaciers of the past carved these fjords, or drowned valleys, out of the mountains like great troughs. Landslides help widen the troughs as the glaciers remove the bedrock support on upper slopes.
Huge icebergs may last a week or more, and they provide perches for bald eagles, cormorants, and gulls. Close by, kayakers have heard the stress and strain of melting: water drips, air bubbles pop, and cracks develop. Colors betray a berg's nature or origin:
- White bergs hold many trapped air bubbles.
- Blue bergs are dense.
- Greenish-blackish bergs may have calved off glacier bottoms.
- Dark-striped brown bergs carry morainal rubble from the joining of tributary glaciers or other sources.
How high a berg floats depends upon its size, the ice's density, and the water's density. Bergs may be weighed down, submerged even, by rock and rubble. A modest-looking berg may suddenly loom enormous -- and endanger small craft -- when it rolls over. Keep in mind that what you see really is "just the tip of the iceberg."
- Explorer Captain George Vancouver found Icy Strait choked with ice in 1794, and Glacier Bay was a barely indented glacier. That glacier was more than 4,000 feet thick, up to 20 miles or more wide, and extended more than 100 miles to the St. Elias Range of mountains.
- But by 1879 naturalist John Muir found that the ice had retreated 48 miles up the bay.
- By 1916 the Grand Pacific Glacier headed Tarr Inlet 65 miles from Glacier Bay's mouth.
Worldwide, the glacial facts are staggering:
- Glaciers and polar ice store more water than lakes and rivers, groundwater, and the atmosphere combined.
- Ten percent of our world is under ice today, equaling the percent being farmed.
- If the world's ice caps thawed completely, sea level would rise enough to inundate half of the world's cities.
- The Greenland and Antarctic ice caps are two miles thick.
- Alaska is four percent ice.
Perhaps even more staggering is the rate at which some of the worlds glaciers are retreating. Many of the glaciers in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve are exhibiting drastic retreat, mostly caused by climate change.
The General park map handed out at the visitor center is available on the park's map webpage.For information about topographic maps, geologic maps, and geologic data sets, please see the geologic maps page.
A geology photo album for this park can be found here.For information on other photo collections featuring National Park geology, please see the Image Sources page.
Currently, we do not have a listing for a park-specific geoscience book. The park's geology may be described in regional or state geology texts.
Please visit the Geology Books and Media webpage for additional sources such as text books, theme books, CD ROMs, and technical reports.
Parks and Plates: The Geology of Our National Parks, Monuments & Seashores.
Lillie, Robert J., 2005.
W.W. Norton and Company.
9" x 10.75", paperback, 550 pages, full color throughout
The spectacular geology in our national parks provides the answers to many questions about the Earth. The answers can be appreciated through plate tectonics, an exciting way to understand the ongoing natural processes that sculpt our landscape. Parks and Plates is a visual and scientific voyage of discovery!
Ordering from your National Park Cooperative Associations' bookstores helps to support programs in the parks. Please visit the bookstore locator for park books and much more.
There has been over a century of research and scientist involvement at Glacier Bay, beginning well before the area's incorporation into the National Park System. John Muir and Harry Fielding Reid began recorded observations of glacial processes in 1891. Pioneer ecologist William S. Cooper conducted studies of plant succession beginning in 1916, and along with eminent geologist W.O. Field was instrumental in the move to have the area protected as a national treasure. The Ecological Society of America originally lobbied for Glacier Bay to be set aside as a natural laboratory for studies of glaciology and associated biological and physical processes. When Glacier Bay National Monument was designated in 1925, the enabling legislation included an explicit recognition of the area's value in providing "a unique opportunity for the scientific study of glacial behavior and of resulting movements and development of flora and fauna and of certain valuable relics of ancient interglacial forests…".
More information about the park's research program is available on the park's research webpage.
For information about permits that are required for conducting geologic research activities in National Parks, see the Permits Information page.
The NPS maintains a searchable data base of research needs that have been identified by parks.
A bibliography of geologic references is being prepared for each park through the Geologic Resources Evaluation Program (GRE). Please see the GRE website for more information and contacts.
NPS Geology and Soils PartnersAssociation of American State Geologists
Geological Society of America
Natural Resource Conservation Service - Soils
U.S. Geological Survey
General information about the park's education and intrepretive programs is available on the park's education webpage.For resources and information on teaching geology using National Park examples, see the Students & Teachers pages.


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text: "If you keep the person you like on your cell-phone wallpaper for three weeks without anyone finding out, your feelings will be answered." Story: 5/10 The story is quite average, despite terrifying and vomit inducing twists, that will leave you wondering why this anime is portrayed in such a lighthearted manner in the beginning, when you were sadly, unaware of the disturbing ending that awaits you. The protagonist is a rather awkward young teenage boy, who like any other, is fixated on finding a girlfriend and doing all of the wonderful things that comes with the joy of dating. Makoto Itou has... See full review


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Planning to visit Israel? There's so much to see and you wouldn't want to miss anything! Whether you're travelling alone or with your loved ones, we suggest you check out this itinerary before making any plans.
Say farewell to Jerusalem today, and head for Tel Aviv, beginning with Old Jaffa, where you can wander the restored old lanes lined with galleries and shops. Stop in at the Visitor Center, which showcases the long and fascinating history of this port city to which Solomon brought the cedar wood from Lebanon to build the Temple and from which Jonah set sail to be swallowed by the whale. See St. Peter's Church, recalling Peter's famous vision on the rooftop of Simon the Tanner. There's also a great view of Tel Aviv from here, to whet your appetite for your next stops.
Tour Tel Aviv's White City to see the preservation of buildings of Bauhaus architecture (a UNESCO World Heritage Site) including Independence Hall, where Ben-Gurion declared independence in 1948. Sheinkin Street is famous for its fun shopping, dining and people-watching in a youthful atmosphere, while the open-air Carmel fruit and vegetable market is a treat for all the senses. On Tuesdays and Fridays, the Nahalat Binyamin pedestrian mall comes alive with stalls selling handicrafts of every type.
Art buffs will enjoy the Tel Aviv Art Museum, with its fascinating changing and permanent exhibits of contemporary Israeli art, French Modernist and other collections.
Then, from the 49th floor of the Azrieli Tower, the Azrieli Observatory offers an incomparable view of Tel Aviv and miles beyond in every direction, great any time of day and fabulous at sunset.
Take a walk through Tel Aviv's Yarkon Park and head to the nearby Tel Aviv Portfor sunset and a fish dinner.
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I wonder how long it will take for the community to finally learn that bringing a project to production stage is not an achievement. Rather, keeping that project maintenained and supported is.
See http://wakkawiki.com as an example: Programmer "proofed" that he could do, did, and.. faded away afterwards to face other challenges. Of course it's a personal project, and it's open source, but leaving behind a void is not nice. Sure, everyone is grateful for the programmer's time and code, and he is not obliged to do anything, but.. I think this behaviour is still a problem with the Open Source movement.
And yes, it's a bit controverse what I stated, but recently, for example, I had a nice talk with an OpenGroupware.org representative at LinuxTag. She told me that many Open Source developers still start their talk with something like "Hello, I'm Mike, I'm 27 years old, married, two children". I have to agree: That's not the way to address people who have to rely on what you're doing. We don't have to wonder about the fact that non-OSS still has the best standing among conservative companies.
So, generally speaking:
1) Be reliable. Show that others, that companies can trust you. 2) Be serious. Adept to the level others - they - expect. You don't have to wear a tie, but show them you're serious about them and yourself. 3) Listen to what their problems are. ("Well, if we can't SPEND money on that, we can't get it through." -- "Hm, I see the problem, what about a support contract? Software's for free, the support contract helps you to spend your money.")


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Today I married my dream girl and couldn't be any happier. I love you, Kathryn!
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CONGRATS x1,000,000!! She's soo gorgeous and jeremy looks cool! Ha i love how he's still wearing his bracelet things on his wrist :)


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- Elizabeth Cunningham, the wife of Robert Alcorn. She was my fourth great-grandmother.
See also Cunningham Surname Origin.
A brick wall? Since Alcorn is not a common name, you would think that perhaps it might be easy to dig up info on his wife. But not always, eh!
I actually don't know, Wendy. I haven't had occasion to work on this one yet. Someday I'll take a whack at it, though.


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As part of $16 million in grants to 25 states to promote the conservation of threatened and endangered species, El Paso County and the City of Colorado Springs will receive a $600,000 grant to provide funding for a comprehensive county wide plan for the long-term conservation of the Prebles meadow jumping mouse and its habitat. Through this plan, regulatory assurance will be provided to the residents of the county, riparian habitat will be protected and habitat linkages between existing mouse populations will be provided. While protecting the mouse, other species will benefit from protected habitat, including the Ute ladies-tresses orchid and the bald eagle.
"The help of the States and individual landowners in recovering these species is critical, and as with everything in this world, making money available to assist with these actions greatly benefits all parties," said Ralph Morgenweck, Director of the Services Mountain-Prairie Region. "This project will not only help the targeted species but all wildlife that live in the same habitat so we get a lot more for the money," Morgenweck added.
"These grants are very much in line with my philosophy that states should be given more resources and greater flexibility to protect habitat and conserve threatened and endangered species," said Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton. "States will use these grants to strengthen and build vital and cost-effective conservation partnerships with local communities and willing private landowners - partnerships that are essential to helping species prosper and recover."
The grants will benefit threatened and endangered species in every region of the country, helping local partnerships acquire and protect crucial habitat and supporting the development of Habitat Conservation Plans (HCPs) that allow private landowners to use and develop their land while conserving listed species.
The grants will benefit dozens of threatened and endangered species, such as marbled murrelets and bull trout in the Pacific Northwest, the aplomado falcon in the Southwest, the Karner blue butterfly in the Midwest, the Florida scrub jay in the Southeast, Atlantic salmon in the Northeast, and the Prebles meadow jumping mouse in the Rocky Mountains. In many cases, projects funded by the grants will also protect green space that is vital to many communities, while benefitting game species and other wildlife that share threatened and endangered species habitat.
Section 6 of the Endangered Species Act provides funds to States and territories, and through them, to communities and individuals, for species and habitat recovery actions on non-Federal lands. Todays grant awards are the first under the Recovery Land Acquisition and the Habitat Conservation Planning Assistance Grant programs. Congress funded these new grants to respond to the growing interest shown by States and landowners in managing their lands in ways that benefit species and their habitats. Non-Federal project partners contributed an average of 25 percent of their projects total costs.
The Service awarded approximately $10.4 million in Recovery Land Acquisition grants, which provide funding to States to acquire lands that support approved endangered species recovery plans. Land acquisition and protection is often an essential element of a comprehensive plan to recover listed species. With land values increasing in many areas of the country, the Service and the States sometimes lack the resources to acquire or protect key habitat needed to recover a species.
Grant funding will be used to acquire and protect important prairie, coastal, mountainous desert, cave and riparian habitat, land that represents critical portions of species last remaining habitat. Some of these acquisitions support many endangered species, as well as important habitat for migratory birds and other wildlife. For example, acquisition of property in Kern County, California, benefits the largest known population of the Kern primrose sphinx moth by securing protection for an area that is the only place this species has been sighted in the past 20 years. In Tennessee, acquisition of a 25-acre site will protect one of only five known populations of the endangered Tennessee coneflower.
An additional $6 million in grants for Habitat Conservation Plan planning assistance will help states support the development of HCPs. These conservation plans balance the need to conserve threatened and endangered species with landowners desire to use and develop their property. By working with the Service during the HCP process to identify ways to offset any harmful effects of use or development on listed species, landowners can continue to use their land while promoting listed species conservation.
Grants will underwrite the development of HCPs across the country in areas ranging from the North Slope of Alaska to the islands of Hawaii, from the mountains of West Virginia to the forests of the Pacific Northwest. These HCPs will benefit a wide range of plants and animals, including the Houston toad in Texas, Ute ladies-tresses in Washington state, and the Florida golden aster in Florida. Most of the HCPs will address multiple species, many of them on a city, county, or large watershed basis. Each region of the country received at least one grant in each category, if applications were received.
"These grants recognize creative and effective partnerships among states, organizations and landowners that are making a difference for endangered species on the ground. Successful implementation of the Endangered Species Act depends on these types of partnerships," said Marshall Jones, acting director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Attached are descriptions of the grants approved for this years program. Project descriptions may also be viewed at http://endangered.fws.gov.
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Whittle the Wood artists begin creations for Craig contest
A pair of rookies past and present shared a quick conversation today at Craig City Park. Mark Mahorney, of Kremmling, a first-year competitor in last year's Whittle the Wood Rendezvous, spoke with John Parker, of Nederland, who is competing in the 12th annual competition for the first time this year. "I have been looking for a carving contest for a while, and I ran into Faye (Braaten) who told me about this one," Parker said. "I jumped on it and signed up on the last day they were accepting carvers." This year's tree carving contest kicked off today in City Park.
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Jaguars coach Mike Mularkey admits first-round pick Justin Blackmon is "pressing" and getting "a little frustrated" due to his slow start.
6-of-16 NFL scouts polled by the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel voted Clemson's Deshaun Watson this year's top draft-eligible quarterback.
Karen Guregian of the Boston Herald considers it a "long shot" that the Patriots will trade Jimmy Garoppolo before or during next week's draft.
According to ESPN's Mike Reiss, if the Patriots trade Malcolm Butler to the Saints, "this is the week for it to happen."
Washington's John Ross garnered 6-of-16 first-place votes from NFL scouts polled on this year's top wide receiver prospect.
14-of-16 NFL scouts polled by the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel named Alabama's O.J. Howard this year's top draft-eligible tight end.
Falcons re-signed WR Taylor Gabriel to a one-year, $2.81 million contract.
The Bills have until Monday to match the Patriots' two-year, $6.4 million offer to RFA Mike Gillislee.
Raiders GM Reggie McKenzie implied that the draft is the team's deadline for signing Marshawn Lynch.
In a poll of 17 NFL executives done by the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, nine voted Utah OT Garett Bolles this year's No. 1 draft-eligible offensive lineman.
Texans GM Rick Smith said he doesn't feel pressure to draft a quarterback in the first round.
CBS Sports' Jason La Canfora "continues to hear" that coach Hue Jackson and his staff is "all in" on Myles Garrett at No. 1, but the front office and owner Jimmy Haslam is leaning more toward Mitchell Trubisky.


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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — One week to go, and skydiving history may be made.
Next Monday, "Fearless Felix" Baumgartner will attempt the highest, fastest free fall in history and try to become the first skydiver to break the sound barrier.
He plans to jump from a helium balloon 23 miles over the New Mexico desert and reach 690 mph, or Mach 1. He will be wearing a pressurized suit and helmet like an astronaut.
It is venture fraught with risks — including the possibility of deadly bubbles in the bloodstream and a massive clot in the brain.
His chief medical adviser is a former NASA flight surgeon who lost his wife in the space shuttle Columbia disaster and has dedicated himself to improving astronauts' odds of surviving a high-altitude disaster.


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By Teresa Rivas
Research In Motion's (RIMM) BlackBerry World conference began today in Orlando, including the introduction of a prototype of the BlackBerry 10, widely expected later this year, and plenty of giveaways to developers in hopes that buzz and software will follow.
However, analysts remained skeptical of the stock's prospects leading up to the conference, and today aren't changing their tune much, although there were some saw glimmers of hope. Here are some summaries:
RBC Capital Markets analyst Mark Sue reiterated his Market Perform rating, as he sees RIMM delivering results below the Street's expectations in the near term.
Prototype BlackBerry 10 Device Unveiled. RIM unveiled its prototype BlackBerry 10 (BB10) device at its annual user conference in Orlando today. The prototype device (with 4.2″ 1280×768 touchscreen, no QWERTY keyboard) resembles a smaller version of the PlayBook and appears similar to many of the Android touchscreen slabs out there. CEO Thorsten Heins appeared confident that RIM is meeting milestones to launch the device in the 2H/CY12. We believe carriers may be targeting an October launch.
BB10 Targets Core Users. RIM received applause from the friendly audience for new BlackBerry 10 features that address its core productivity/message-centric customer base. The BlackBerry 10 UI (based on QNX cascades) appears similar to Microsoft Metro with quick to view notifications (which looked to us like Metro's Live Tiles) and seamless multi-tasking (e.g. view a PDF attachment, email, and list of messages all at the same time). RIM's new on-screen keyboard appears innovative offering predictive next word suggestions (as opposed to just word completion), and may offer the productivity that BlackBerry users are looking for in a touchscreen. RIM also appears that it will have BBM available for BB10 smartphones (addressing a prior concern).
Everyone Wants Apps. Several developers including Gameloft, Citrix, and others showed off some competitive apps on BB10. Many indicated BB10 is easy to develop for, a big improvement from legacy BlackBerry. While RIM is addressing prior shortcomings that limited developer momentum, it is still playing catch-up vs. Apple's 600k apps and Android's 400k. We believe beyond core BlackBerry fans, RIM's smaller app/content ecosystem could constrain BlackBerry's traction among the broader consumer market.
JMP analyst Alex Gauna reiterated a Market Underperform rating and $12 price target on the firm following the BB10's debut.
There were no real surprises unveiled as what appears to be a reasonably well-attended 2012 Developer Conference got underway. The absence of new devices and only a beta version of its new tool kit for HTML 5 and native software development means earnings power should continue to deteriorate and leave any favorable sentiment hinging on takeout speculation until the new phone arrives in the fall. We are reducing our FY13 and FY14 estimates to reflect the recently reported Apple (MP) and Samsung smartphone upside that we assume is taking a heavy toll on RIM market share and reiterating our $12 price target based on an approximate 1x tangible book.
Pacific Crest Securities analyst James Faucette also saw the events at the first day of the conference as underwhelming.
Modest negative for RIMM. We view today's sneak peek of BB10 as modestly disappointing, particularly as the company spent more than half of its time on the new BB10 OS featuring the new touchscreen keyboard, which to our view seemed like a Tuner version of every other touch-screen keyboard already on the market. The other features that were previewed of full multitasking and photo editing capabilities were somewhat interesting, but we have questions as to their real world feasibility given potential drain on battery life.
Renewed focus on enterprise evident. The company's renewed focus on enterprise was evident, with most of the partners that were trotted up being companies talking about their existing use of BB in the enterprise combined with superficial comments on how their respective applications will support BB10.
Further behind than PALM was in 2009. Based on the little that RIMM showed during its keynote at BB World 2012, we believe that RIMM may be further behind iOS and Android in terms of product development to help catalyze ecosystem development than what Palm was when it launched webOS at CES 2009 (for which it won the Best of CES award). We all know the sad outcome of that journey (although we would admit that RIMM has substantially more resources at its disposal than Palm ever did—user base, cash, cash flow, etc).
Think Equity analyst Mark McKechnie raised his target price by $1 to $13, but reiterated his Hold rating has he sees RIMM with a "valley" to look through between the present and the release of the BB10, at which point it will still face fierce competition from Apple (AAPL). His price target reflect his belief that RIMM can "monetize its patents or save its services revenues."
BlackBerry 10 ("BBX") developer units handed out. At today's keynote,RIMM focused the majority of its time on its upcoming BBX platform scheduledfor a "late CY12″ introduction but recent blogs have been speculating October.In conjunction, RIMM is handing out development platforms which to us looklike "shrunken down" PlayBooks – all touch – but running the new BBX software.
BBX looks a lot like a Windows Phone 7 to us. RIMM referred to itsnew "windowed" or "tiled" GUI as "cascades", which look very similar to theWindows Phone 7 environment. Demos included low-latency performance,linked notifications, and easy navigation between multiple windows in an application.
Adding secure third-party support to its MDM offering. This was the bignews to us as it represents the first real strategic shift we've seen by RIMMsince the addition of new CEO Thorsten Hines. Simply put, RIMM plans to openup all the features of its BlackBerry Platform, including secure connections toe-mail and contacts, to its BlackBerry Fusion offering in the next 12 months. Weview this as a step in the right direction to hopefully offset continuing declinesin RIMM's US subscriber base.
We do believe RIMM will face execution challenges as key employees JimBalsillie (former CEO) and David Jach (the original architect of RIMM's BESserver/NOC) left the company earlier in the year. We also note RIMM facescompetition in the Mobile Device Management ("MDM") space from numerousprivate companies as well as SAP/SY.
Related: See commentary from UBS, released this morning.


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What is it like to be with a person when they die? To see their chest rise one final time, to witness the light behind their eyes extinguish, to feel a peace and stillness in a room that wasn't there before?
Just as with the moment we take our first breath, struggling just a little, surrounded by comfort and love, so many of us take our last.
Donna Bonnell was lying in bed with her mother when she died on Feb. 13 last year. Having been diagnosed with multiple myeloma — a cancer of the plasma cells — during the summer of 2011, Gwen Bonnell had been well, even through chemotherapy treatment, right up until a month prior to her death. It wasn't until Dec. 23, 2011, that she was admitted to hospital.
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"We were never thinking for a second she wouldn't be coming out," Donna said. "We figured she'd go in, they'd do what they had to do and she'd be released."
Gwen began, like many terminally ill people do, eating less and sleeping more. She had a couple of cycles of infection and healing before finally, three days before Valentine's Day 2012, doctors told Donna and her father that Gwen was on borrowed time. She passed away in Donna's arms.
"I wouldn't have had it any other way," Donna said. She had been lying in bed with her sleeping mom while her dad sat in a chair nearby. In a quiet hospital room, with the door closed, they spoke softly to each other and watched as Gwen's breathing began to change.
"And then she just took her last breath. Everything stopped. We were waiting for another breath," Donna explained. "Dad said, 'Do you think?' and I said, 'I think so.' We pressed the button for the nurse. And then she was gone."
As a young nurse on a medical floor at St. Clare's Mercy Hospital in
St. John's, Laurie Anne O'Brien found herself drawn to patients who were dying. Doing her medication rounds, she'd leave the terminally ill patients for last, in order to have some time to sit and talk with them. At that time, more than 30 years ago, palliative care wasn't a notion in St. John's, and even physicians, she said, had no formal training on how to break the news of a terminal illness to patients and their families.
Through the encouragement of her administrators, O'Brien became something of a pioneer when it comes to the palliative philosophy of care in this province.
"We talk about whole-person care; treating the person as a whole: what they're going through with symptoms, with pain; emotional in terms of what they're responding to and reacting to; and the spiritual, because spirituality comes into it more so than ever before, when it comes to the meaning of your life, what it's about, what's going to happen, and is there anything beyond here," O'Brien said of the palliative care philosophy, which includes a patient's loved ones as well. Though she has been retired now for a little more than a year, O'Brien is still involved in palliative care as the new president of the Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association.
She has spent 32 years working directly with the terminally ill, and has been present with hundreds of people as they died — something she says is an honour and a privilege. Most patients are at peace during their final weeks, and O'Brien said many have told her they weren't at all surprised to have gotten the news of the state of their illness from their doctor.
Quite a number of them have said they won't talk about their condition with their families because they're afraid of hurting them, preferring instead the kind ear of O'Brien and others on their care team. Strangers, O'Brien has heard, are sometimes easier to talk to.
Many have questions about the process of dying, and have asked O'Brien what it will be like. She knows the physical changes that occur — a withdrawal, changes in sleeping, eating and lucidity (though hearing is said to be the last sense to go, she said), a change in breathing at the very end — but apart from that, she has trouble putting what actually happens into words. In her experience, it has always been peaceful.
"I think there's no way of explaining being present there at that time. People may call it a spiritual experience," O'Brien said. "The fact that someone's there and we have this body and then all of a sudden it's quiet and they're gone.
"I don't think there are words in the English language to explain it."
Being a palliative care nurse means you can't be anonymous, and O'Brien rarely goes out in public without being hugged by someone she meets along the way. She's aware of the effect she has on patients and their loved ones, and their memory lives on for her as much as hers does for them. Her bond with patients in the final stages of their life is strong, and she speaks of them with a gentle voice, her care evident. There's the man who brought a trunk of his belongings in with him, and showed them to her one by one. The lady who had her budgie bird in hospital with her. The young man in his 20s who would write questions down for her in a notebook so he wouldn't forget to ask them when he saw her next.
There was another man, a fisherman disfigured due to cancer of the face, who touched her heart. She asked his family to show her pictures of him before his cancer, so she could get to know him separately from his illness.
"We went in to visit him (at home) and all I remember are those big blue eyes. I remember talking to him and discussing if he wanted to come to palliative care at some point in time. He held my hand and even when he had tears, they couldn't go down the way tears would normally go down, because his face was different," O'Brien said, tracing a line down her cheek with her finger.
"He came to palliative care and in those days we actually had waterbed mattresses. He had a tracheostomy so he couldn't speak, but he could write on paper on a pad. One day, I was doing my rounds and he did (a sign for) 'come here,' and grabbed my hand. Then he wrote, 'I don't know what Heaven's going to be like, because I'm already there.' He was on a water mattress and he felt he was on a boat."
Donna's mother had always made her wishes clear to her family: quality of life was important to her, and she did not want to be kept alive artificially.
O'Brien said advance care planning, working out details of where you want to be and how you would like to be cared for, is one of the most important things a person can do. She'd like to see a more seamless system where people realize this, she said.
Her main goal when it comes to palliative care is to make sure people living their last days are living them to the max, as much as they can.
"Oftentimes patients have said to me, 'I wish they didn't know I had this. I wish they'd talk to me in the normal way, the same way they used to.' That's where we come in, a lot of times, because we can bring laughter, we can bring memories, and we can bring things to show them it's OK today and they can live their day to the fullest."
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This is a Gigapan of the bronze Eastern Airlines Pilots Memorial display located at the Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport (Domestic) at Atlanta, Georgia, USA. These plaques include a representation of over 6,700 names of living and deceased pilots who flew for Eastern Airlines since 1928. Date of hire with Eastern is shown next to the name.
This Memorial is approximately 14 feet wide by 4-1/2 feet high. Each plaque weighs over 200 pounds with each name etched into the 1/4 inch thick bronze plates. For a more detailed description you can read the small plaque located between the two larger ones.


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Smithsonian photo curator lectures, May 3
Posted May 3, 2001; 01:18 p.m.
Mary Panzer, curator of photographs in the national portrait gallery of the Smithsonian Institution from 1992-2000 and a fellow at the Gilder Lehrman Institute of the New York Historical Society, will lecture today at 4:30 p.m. in 106 McCormick Hall on campus.
"The Happy Family and the Infernal Machine," lecture will explore photography and the origins of realism in American art from 1855 through 1895. It is the Willard and Margaret Thorp lecture presented by the University's Program in American Studies .
Contact: Marilyn Marks (609) 258-3601


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This is where the majority of my recreational funds go to...
It's a 2007 Yamaha Rhino 450.
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It has a 2" lift,and 28" tires,
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  <TITLE>Universal Hardware Environment</TITLE>

Universal Hardware Environment

The Universal Hardware Environment (UHE) is a proposal for a standard Virtual Machine specification that enables multiple Operating systems to work under almost any hardware system.
The grand goal of UHE is to enable computer system manufacturers to evolve superior designs free from the lack of standards and the burden of compatibility that currently cripples innovation.
For the Operating System Vendors, UHE also offers the freedom to focus on the User Interface and API's without the burden of pursuing (and failing) to provide support for every possible collection of third-party hardware available in the world.

The current problem with hardware

The current design of commercial computers places the Operating System in direct contact with the hardware devices. This leads to a situation where hardware designers are building systems to suit the individual foibles of OS's while at the same time OS vendors are attempting to accommodate an ever increasing diversity of hardware variances. This leads to a spiral of convergence on a lowest common denominator of compatibility between an OS and the hardware it can run on.

The Future problem

In a situation where the OS determines the hardware design it will recognise, hardware designers are encouraged to build an OS specific computer. At the same time OS makers are encouraged to build an OS that is limited to working with the most common hardware available at the time. One can see that in such a system, OS designers are focused on hardware issues, and hardware designers are focused
on Operating Systems. Each specialist is distracted from their true task and must compromise to reach a common ground within an area they may not be expert in.
There are two logical conclusions to such an arrangement, firstly an OS driven hardware specification that manufacturers must subscribe to, and secondly an OS that is constantly evolving and expanding to accommodate the constant influx of new hardware designs. One could argue that we have the seeds of these two extremes evidenced by MS-Windows and Linux. On the one hand we see hardware with 'Designed for Windows 95' proudly badged on it's substance, while Linux boasts 47,000 kernel supported device drivers. Neither should be seen as a good thing, rather both are admissions of an overall bad infrastructure design.

The solution

The obvious solution to the OS verses hardware conflict is the mediator, an intervening layer that provides a consistent interface to the OS regardless of the actual functioning of the hardware involved in performing tasks. This same mediator also presents to the hardware designer a consistent set of tasks that must be implemented to comply with the the middle layer.
The middle layer then becomes the focus of both the OS producer and the hardware designer, they both have a common ground to meet and a standard to comply with. With a sufficiently flexible and structured middle ground specification both software and hardware designer are free to innovate in their respective endeavors without the need to consider the foibles of the other. Hardware can be certified as complient to the UHE and so the hardware designer can be sure the device will work with any adherent OS, also an OS can be independantly verified to adhere to the UHE and so the OS writer knows all compliant hardware will work.

Can it be done?

The concepts of UHE are neither new nor theoretical. The original IBM PC (circa 1981) was designed with a middle
layer between hardware devices and the Operating System(s), it was called BIOS. The BIOS design enabled any hardware
manufacturer to produce a device complete with a BIOS extension that ensured it would work with any compliant OS
loaded into the system. This standard interface approach was a large factor in the explosion of inerest and third
party hardware available for the fledgling PC. Many Operating systems were soon available that thanks to the uniform
interface of the BIOS could all operate regardless of the type of disk drive or video display the hardware was built
from. The hardware was free to evolve, from 8 1/2 inch 180KB floppy drives to 5 1/4 inch 1.2MB drives, from monochrome
displays to colour displays, Winchester fixed disks, through to SCSI and IDE/ATAPI multi megabyte hard disk drives.
All this advance could occure largely without any changes to the Operating system, and hardware could be updated
without reconfiguration of the software loaded onto any given computer.
The BIOS is now seen largely as a vestigial system, the appendix of current PC design, but the need for the middle layer role it once played remains. In the mainframe world the original IBM design remains to this day, and the benefits of this three tier approach are substantial. Modern mainframes can support multiple Operating Systems, can provide the virtual hardware environment of previous hardware and can be upgraded without throwing away the current software.

Implementing UHE

The biggest barrier to the adoption of standards in the computer industry is that companies are reluctant to participate until a substantial segment of the industry has already committed to following the standard. This is a classic chicken and egg dilemma that has thwarted may a good idea. UHE avoids this dilemma by putting the choice in the hands of the individual, that is to say that no grand agreement need be negotiated between powerful players in the industry for the system to get started. UHE attacks the problem of hardware dependence with two core systems;
- Hardware Virtualisation
- Virtual Driver access
The second system, Virtual Driver Access, allows UHE aware Operating Systems to enjoy greater performance by accessing Uniform Drivers through a standard and controlled interface. The UHE aware OS need not have it's own
drivers for any of the hardware systems, it need only know that it can access any device equipped with a Uniform
Driver through the UHE.

The effect of UHE on the computer industry

A system such as UHE signals profound changes in the way the industry operates and the delineation of responsibilities between hardware and software producers. Hardware manufacturers need no longer design and pitch their product squarely at the dominant OS of the day. And neither do they need to expend resources on developing and supporting multiple OS's. The hardware manufacturer need only focus on producing a superior hardware design that has an accompanying Uniform Driver. There can be true competition based on the merits of the product regardless of the manufacturers relationship with OS vendors.
At the same time there is a leveling effect on OS producers and true competition, as every OS can use any UHE compliant hardware. Even if the hardware manufacturer was unaware of the OS, or the OS did not exist when the hardware was designed, the OS can still make use of the UHE compliant device.

The effect of UHE on the computer user

The UHE environment gives back a huge amount of personal power and choice to the consumer of computer systems. The consumer may choose any hardware based solely on it's performance, support and cost, without the concern that drivers will not be available for their choice of operating system, or future releases of their favourite OS will discontinue support for the hardware. Computer Users are also freed to run multiple Operating Systems simultaneously or to change OS without having to discard their current hardware. Users may also upgrade and reconfigure their hardware without fear that the OS will crash or need complicated and expensive reconfiguration to function with the new hardware.

UHE and the future

The computing industry is a fast moving beast. Change is the only constant, and the rubbish tips are piled high with computer equipment that is outmoded or no longer supported by current software. There is also a less tangible rubbish tip piled high with computer applications that can no longer run on current hardware or are no longer supported by current OS versions. Many of these applications were quite capable of fulfilling the needs of their users but due to changes in the systems they once inhabited can no longer be used.
UHE guarantees the lifespan of useful applications in two ways, firstly by separating the OS from the hardware environment, the system will not cease to run due to hardware advances. Secondly the user has the freedom to run the application in it's native environment concurrently with later OS's.

The politics of the computer industry

Some forces within the computer industry have vested interests in maintaining the uncertainty of a disorganised industry and benefit from the status quo. These forces may resist any emerging standards that open the industry to competition and evolution beyond their control. At any given time in any given industry the incumbent big players will resist any shift in the industry toward a more open and inclusive environment. It is these same players that exert the biggest influence on where the industry can go and at what pace. Given this fact it is a wonder that any progress is made at all; but progress the industry does, and there always seems to be a multitude of small upstarts that will champion innovation toward a more democratic industry (until they too become the big incumbent resistors of change).
Despite the potential of powerful self interested parties to oppose the opening of the computer industry, there is a history of consumers voting with their wallets for more open and secure options in computing systems. Given the choice of an open and expandable system verses a largely locked system with a forced migration agenda, the consumer will invariably choose the former.

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OS and Platform independent Drivers
IBM Mainframe Virtual Machines
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Arts: Overview
Arts in Academics
The Lewis Center for the Arts leads a University Initiative to make the arts a central feature of Princeton's academic mission. The Lewis Center is an academic unit that is home to the creative writing, dance, music theater, theater and visual arts programs, each of which offers courses and an undergraduate certificate. The center's interdisciplinary Atelier program allows students to collaborate with professional artists. The Lewis Center also presents professional arts events for the community.
The Department of Music offers academic courses for undergraduate and graduate students and supports performance ensembles. Performance, musicology and composition are fully represented in music courses, and students may work toward an undergraduate major in music, an undergraduate certificate program in musical performance or graduate degree programs. The department sponsors performances by a number of student ensembles and professional groups, and manages a program for private music and vocal lessons.
Many other academic disciplines promote the study of the arts through criticism and the creation of new work. The Committee for Film Studies encourages the interdisciplinary study of films and video. Students may apply to fulfill the senior thesis requirement with creative work. The architecture school and art and archaeology department, among others, provide historical and theoretical perspectives. Additionally, many area and language studies incorporate art in their discussions of culture.
Art Museum and Libraries
The Princeton University Art Museum is one of the nation's leading art museums, with collections of over 92,000 works of art spanning the globe. In addition, the museum organizes a dozen temporary exhibitions each year, as well as numerous educational programs and social offerings. The University library system offers research materials and exhibitions — Firestone and Mudd libraries feature University-owned and borrowed works, while the Marquand Library of Art and Archaeology, Mendel Music Library and Graphic Arts Collection also illuminate study of the arts.
Extracurricular Arts
The full list of student-run organizations reveals the breadth of students' engagement with the arts. Performing arts groups in dance, music and theater allow students to refine and present their skills. Also, student literary publications and student videos offer creative outlets for students to express and share their work.
Campus Art Events & Venues
Several University calendars list arts events around campus. The University and broader community may attend art exhibitions around campus, film screenings, lectures and readings, and student performances in dance, music and theater. In addition, the Princeton University Concerts series brings world-class musicians to campus. Tickets may be purchased through University Ticketing, and students also receive tickets through the Passport to the Arts program.
Among the campus venues for arts events are the Lewis Center for the Arts, the award-winning McCarter Theatre Center for the performing arts, Richardson Auditorium and the Princeton University Art Museum.
Local Arts & Culture
Princeton and its surrounding communities feature numerous resources in the fine arts, film, music and theater.


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Jan Billycan (Djan Nanundie) was born around 1930 and grew up in Ilyarra country in the Great Sandy Desert in the north of Western Australia, and this is the country depicted in her large eight panel painting All the jila 2006. It can be read as a choreographic or musical suite, taking the line for a dance, along with colours, shapes and forms. Of the extraordinary mixed hues of Bidyadanga art Emily Rohr said, '… [these are] discordant colours, which don't belong together. For [the artists'] colours are vibrations … songs in vibrating, pulsating paint, with themes in colour counterbalanced by other answering colours.'[1] The panels of the big composite work may be read separately, but the conjunctions will not break up visually. It is a harmonised set of moments of élan.
Water, until the recent ominous drought, was something quite commonplace for city dwellers in Australia; now they feel acutely how its presence can bring joy to erstwhile desert dwellers. Billycan's work, says Rohr, 'is a story of survival in a harsh landscape; it is also the story of time and creation'.[2] Bidyadanga, where Billycan paints, is a small place of some 800 persons, 250 kilometres south of Broome. It is inhabited by five language groups who came out of the desert to estuarine land when their jila (waterholes) failed due to the disruption of the water table caused by whitefella mining operations. Many of the paintings are memory-maps made to show the younger generation their elders' origins. Often works combine sea and desert on the one canvas. An important youngster Daniel Walbidi has said, 'They old ones are desert mob, but now they live at Bidyadanga, saltwater country'. The paintings are the cartography of memory and of migration.
Most of Billycan's works refer to jila. They are images of fecundity, with lush, highly coloured waterholes. A traditional healer, Billycan paints life, and her x-ray vision penetrates the forms that represent both the land and the human body, itself an extension of the land. All are one. Without immersion in the ancient culture from which the story derives, it can be no more than an emotional pointer to the picture. The picture may do the trick by itself, though: let us see beyond understanding.
The eye that collectors of Indigenous art bring to the pictures they buy is one which knows the work of Hans Arp, Paul Klee, Joan Miró, Jackson Pollock or any one of a number of abstract artists. Bidyadanga painters paint for themselves, to fix their own group stories, a local one, for future generations. Whitefellas are privileged onlookers who take as aesthetic what for Aboriginal people are real memories and real history. Aesthetic distance is fine, but one must remember that Bidyadanga life-work is our work of art only by the accident of Imperial history.
Patrick Hutchings
[1] Quoted in Nicolas Rothwell, Another country, Melbourne: Black Inc., 2007, p. 246.
[2] Emily Rohr, interview with Patrick Hutchings.


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The Auditorium in Roberts Hall
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There will be a good many fine winners knocked down at the Karaka sales next week.
And next year, one of them will advance to a real chance at a million dollars, just as the field for the Karaka Millions will do at 7.15 tonight.
Sadly, there will probably not be a Melbourne Cup winner.
Kiwi stayers have a long Melbourne Cup pedigree stretching from the first winner, Martini-Henry in 1883, and passing through some of the world's greatest horses including Carbine and Phar Lap, and lesser lights such as Kiwi, whose last to first run in 1983 still brings goosebumps when viewed.
Forty-one Kiwi horses have won the Cup and 28 of the last 50 have been stamped 'Made in New Zealand'.
The last was the grey gelding Efficient, by the champion Zabeel, who may be the last of his breed.
Faced with the European invasion of the past few seasons, even this old warhorse is struggling to foot it with the modern European stayers which, as a recent study in the Thoroughbred Owner & Breeder shows, are staying further and faster over all three Classic distances.
Two races this weekend highlight the direction the New Zealand thoroughbred is going. The richest race in this country is now a 1200m race for 2-year-olds.
The Wellington Cup, once one of a trio of great two mile races, was run yesterday over a shortened format at 2400m, with its former group one status downgraded to group three.
The two-mile Auckland Cup, once the blue ribbon event for the biggest meeting of the year, New Year's Day, has been replaced by a 2400m event, the City of Auckland Cup.
Though the 3200m Auckland Cup is still on the calendar, in March, and is of group one status, it is worth half what the field tonight will be running for.
In Europe, two miles isn't even the longest race at group one level.
Royal Ascot and the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe meetings, the most prestigious in England and France, run the Ascot Gold Cup and the Prix du Cardran over a distance of two-and-a-half miles.
This not to say the New Zealand thoroughbred is a lesser animal now, or in less demand. In fact, the opposite is true.
The reality is the bloodstock industry is just that, an industry, and it is delivering a product demanded by clients.
The reason the staying horse is getting stronger and faster is that there are two markets in the UK and Ireland, and also in France, for flat racing and for the even more popular national hunt, or steeplechasing.
The demand for horses which can run distances over four-and-a-half miles, over jumps and in heavy ground is insatiable. They fetch very good prices.
National hunt races the whole year round, with up to five meetings a day. It is the second most popular sport in spectator terms in the UK and Ireland, where the big jumping festivals of Cheltenham and Aintree run for four days to packed houses.
The top steeplechasers and hurdlers are possibly bigger stars than their blue-blooded flat racing cousins.
Steeplechasing, though, has a minor presence in this part of the world, popular in just one Australian state, Victoria, where it is dogged by a vociferous band of animal rights activists. In New Zealand, there is effectively half a meeting a week over winter. In the other important markets for New Zealand thoroughbreds, Singapore and Hong Kong, it has no presence at all.
But while New Zealand may not produce the out-and-out stayer of yesteryear, it has been doing brilliantly with its new breed.
We have seen Karaka graduates So You Think and Little Bridge flying New Zealand Bloodstock's colours among the European bluebloods at Royal Ascot, where both claimed group one victories.
So You Think was also one of the favourites in one of the greatest tests of a thoroughbred, the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe.
New Zealand 3-year-olds are still doing the job in Southern Hemisphere classic races.
New Zealand-bred horses and Karaka graduates won six Derbies last year - the VRC, New Zealand, Perak, Hong Kong, Singapore and South Australian derbies - making it a stunning 18 Derby victories since 2010.
While the Melbourne Cup may now be a few hundred metres too far, Karaka graduate Ocean Park claimed the fifth Cox Plate victory in the last six years for New Zealand horses.
In fact, New Zealand has bred 25 of the last 50 Cox Plate winners, the WFA championship of Australia and arguably the most important race for breeding in this part of the world.
Kiwi horses have won over a quarter of all Australia's group one three-year-old races since 2000 and a third of those over 2000m or more.
Karaka graduates won eight of the 11 2012 Hong Kong Champion Awards, including a clean sweep of the Champion Sprinter, Miler, Middle-Distance and Stayer Awards, plus the Horse of the Year crown.
Often a mark of a champion racehorse is its ability to perform through its classic 3-year-old season.
Group one races for this age include some of the turf's richest events and last season in Australia and New Zealand offered more than $18 million.
Indeed, a Melbourne Cup can be seen as a detriment to a stallion's career, and though So You Think ran a gallant fourth in his attempt in 2011, it may have counted against him joining Coolmore Australia's select stallion band as he has this year on his retirement.
So New Zealand Bloodstock's Karaka Yearling Sales, which begin tomorrow and run to February 4, are still a magnet for the top owners and trainers of Australia and Asia.
Last year, Australian buyers spent $32 million on New Zealand horses, while those from Hong Kong spent just over $12 million and Singapore owners a little under $4 million.
New Zealand trainers, who often have satellite stables in Australia and Asia, spent $25,851,300.
Sales are still down from the pre-economic crisis days of 2008, when $111 million was spent. But the ship has been steadily righting and this week buyers will be out in force looking for the next New Zealand champion.


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Litter mate finalists Holland and Dottie?
Mother /son finalists Windy and Tubb?
Parent finalists Sally and Slider? (She's due 12/10/12 so the pups just finished their first National too!)
Or am I way off?
Congratulations to all the qualifiers, finalists, and especially Team Pete! Pete loved his steak at the winner's party!
It was an exhausting yet exhilarating week and thanks to everyone who worked hard to make it happen, and to the judges for dedicating two grueling weeks to the sport.


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Ali to present seminar on world order, Feb. 17
Posted February 16, 2004; 01:09 p.m.
A lecture on "Imperial Headaches and World Order" will be presented at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 17, in 101 McCormick Hall.
British writer Tariq Ali will lead the Gauss Seminar in Criticism, which is sponsored by the Department of English and the Davis Center for Historical Studies .
Ali is a regular broadcaster on BBC Radio and contributor to magazines and newspapers including The Guardian and the London Review of Books. He has been especially prominent in his commentary on the war on terrorism and the recent Iraq war. His most current work is "Bush in Babylon: The Recolonization of Iraq" (2003). His book of essays, "The Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity," was published in 2002.
Contact: Ruth Stevens (609) 258-3601