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Hear the silence. Smell the forests. Feel the wind on your face. Explore enchanted places. Watch the ospreys circling. Taste the fruit growing along the trail. A walk through the Uckermark region is a pleasure for all the senses. With every step you take.
Brandenburg's Uckermark region lies in the north-east of Germany, close to the border with Poland. The Märkischer Landweg Trail starts in Feldberg in the Feldberg Lakes nature reserve. Reiherberg hill lies to the north of Lake Haussee and, at 143 metres, is the highest point in the area. Other nearby hills also offer stunning panoramic views stretching far into the distance. The Feldberg Lakes are an insider's tip. Set amidst hilly, partly wooded scenery, these lakes have a fjord-like quality thanks to their steep banks and pure water. With water as far as the eye can see, the area is ideal of all kinds of water sports. The first half of the Märkischer Landweg Trail is particularly abundant with lakes – a true paradise on Earth! Himmelpfort Monastery near Lychen was once used as a home for wayward monks. You'll feel like you've stepped back in time in this sparsely populated region where you'll come across shepherds tending their sheep and former charcoal burners' villages. After the Templin lakes, the scenery changes as you reach the tranquil wooded areas of the Uckermark. But water soon reappears in the form of channel lakes left over from the Ice Age, before giving way to swamp-like ancient forests. The Märkischer Landweg Trail also leads through the Lower Oder Valley National Park, which contains Europe's last remaining pristine river meadow. This is a paradise for waterfowl, and cranes gather here in their masses every September.
Tip: chapel in the forest, Alt Placht
One of the gems along the route can be found between Lychen and Templin. Alt Placht's 'chapel in the forest' is tucked away below the broad branches of ancient lime trees. Built around 1700, this estate chapel was falling into ruin in 1989, but was rescued in 1990 when a preservation society was set up.
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I would love to harvest a cow moose but never wanted to give up my points in MT to do so. A couple of years ago I started buying points for moose in Utah, I have 2 now and will be purchasing my 3rd. This year in reviewing statistics I noticed you have to have 10 pts to have under a 1% chance to draw a bull permit.
My question... How tough is it to obtain a cow permit and how many pts do you have to have to start getting a 10% chance or so?
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When I was in elementary school, I was not the easiest of kids. I had (and still do have) some serious authority problems, interrupted my teachers, was rude and disrespectful. And that was on my good days. On my less-than-good days I was throwing paper airplanes (that I'd specially modified with a pin sticking out of the nose). All of that made me a regular fixture in Mr. Tague's office. And it always seemed to me that when he saw me coming, Mr. Tague, the principal, got a gleam in his eye. And why not? He was about to paddle my butt with a large wooden racquet of some kind. (Where did anyone come up with the "the principal is your pal" as a way to remember how to spell principal?)
I used to tell my kids about my butt paddling experiences—partly to impress them with how difficult my childhood had been, partly to emphasize how lucky they were not to be living in more barbaric times. So you can imagine how shocked I was when I read that spanking by school administrators is still allowed by law in 19 states. In Georgia alone, more than 28,000 students were spanked (usually with a Tague-like paddle)
It's against the law for prison guards to hit prisoners unless it's in self-defense. And it's against regulations for a drill instructor to hit a recruit in boot camp. So why on earth is it okay for some school principal or teacher to smack our kids around?
Personally, I'm against spanking (no sense rehashing the whole spanking debate here—another example of a topic where it's nearly impossible to change anyone's mind). But I can imagine that even if I thought it was okay, I wouldn't want someone else deciding how, when, what for, and how long to hit my child.
According to the Center for Effective Discipline, here are the states that allow corporal punishment in schools: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Wyoming. If you're in one of those states, please write your congressperson or senator and ask them to help drag your state out of the dark ages.


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Zucchini bounty? Here's a zucchini salad to love
As anyone with a backyard garden knows, it's a great time of year for summer squash. Whether you've got a bumper crop of zucchini from the garden or you've been fancying it at the farmers market or you just like to cook and eat in season, chances are you'll love this zucchini and hazelnut salad. I spotted it in one of my favorite new cookbooks, Plenty: Vibrant Vegetable Recipes from London's Ottolenghi by Yotam Ottolenghi. Well, it's not exactly new: It was published in the U.S. last year, but it's new to me. Check out this L.A. Times profile of chef Ottolenghi, written by the Times' restaurant critic, S. Irene Virbila, to gain some insight about the chef and his style of cooking.
Anyway, here's my adaptation of his recipe:
Toast 1/3 cup shelled hazelnuts for 12 minutes or so in a 300-degree oven. Let them cool, then rub a dishtowel over them to remove the papery skins. Chop them roughly.
Trim the ends off of 1 3/4 pounds of zucchini (about 4 medium zucchini) and cut them on the bias into 3/8-inch slices. Toss them in a bowl with 2 tablespoons olive oil, plus salt and freshly ground black pepper. Place the slices on a very hot grill or grill pan and grill just until they have distinct char marks, then turn with tongs to grill the other side. When they're finished, place them in a bowl and toss with a teaspoon of balsamic vinegar.
When the zucchini is cool, add another tablespoon of oil, 1 1/4 cups basil leaves and the chopped hazelnuts, toss and adjust seasonings. Transfer it all to a serving platter, scatter with three ounces of thinly sliced or shaved Parmesan and drizzle 2 tablespoons of hazelnut oil over it.
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REVIEW: Denon AH-D5000
Pros: Beautiful looks and great sound
Cons: For a "closed" can, they isolate no better than some "open" cans
Please note: this is a re-post of my original review from 2007.
This is the link to Denon's website, if you read Japanese:
I bought the D5000's from Pricejapan.com for $553 shipped via DHL express. I received them within one week of order. Some immediate things I noticed:
1.They are perhaps the most comfortable headphone I have ever worn. I always thought Beyerdynamic headphones were unbeatable in this regard. The Beyers are supremely comfortable, but they clamp a little more, and are a little heavier, than the Denons. Note that I don't find leather "hot" like some people, though, and all my Beyers have leather pads.
2.While these are closed, the seal is not too good, but it isn't sensitive to placement in the ear. The way the earpads are there is really only one way for it to go over the ear, unlike a Beyer or AKG headphone where it surrounds the ear so much that it can be slid back and forth quite a bit, which does effect balance. They do not isolate as well as the 06 DT770's – a notable amount less. They are certainly not going to bother anyone next to you, but they do not block out tons of external sound.
3.They are very light, and they are much smaller in depth than the JVC DX1000 (but about the same diameter).
4.These don't do well un-amped. I know the specs say 25 ohm and 106db sensitivity, but to get the same volume level as an 80 ohm Darth Beyer required 30% more crank from my Meier Opera.
5.The cable is not microphonic at all, unlike the JVC DX1000 where the cable transmits quite a bit of noise to the headphone.
6.The driver sits VERY close to the ear, which undoubtedly has a lot to do with why there is a somewhat forward presentation.
7.The wood is very pretty, but not the most beautiful I have ever seen. It's most like Wenge - very dark brown wood with very little red in it. Pics below. The leather earpads and headband are awesome and very supple. Again, easily the most comfortable headphone I have ever worn.
Sound Quality
Overall, they sound very, very good. Very open mids, deep, well defined bass, and clear, clean, treble. This is not to say they are the best thing I have ever heard, but they are easily worth $500.
The highs are smooth, and there is quite a bit of treble energy - well extended and nicely detailed. I would not describe it as bright, but it isn't laid back in the treble, either, though. It suits the overall response well. The treble is also quite transparent, which gives it a very open, natural quality.
Midrange is just slightly on the forward side of neutral, but highly transparent, and not edgy at all. The midrange is very alluring. I normally prefer a more relaxed midrange presentation, but because the Denons have powerful bass, the slightly forward mids do not make them annoying. There is enough bass power to balance the slightly forward midrange, and the transparency of the midrange make it very engaging. There is no glare, harshness or grain.
The D5000s have robust, powerful bass. They are headphones that a bass lover (like me) can really enjoy. The bass is not as strong as the older DT770's, but on par with the new ones, and a little better in quality. Bass articulation, definition, and attack are very good, and way above average. It does bass very well, since the quantity is plentiful, and the quality of that robust bass is VERY good.
For soundstage...the D5000 has a slightly smaller soundstage than any of my Beyer headphones. It is less wide and less deep. However, image specificity is excellent - maybe a little better than any of my Beyer headphones. So there is a bit of a trade-off there.
I have listened to the Denons on a variety of headphone amps: Meier Audio Opera, Aria, HA-2 II/SE, and Singlepower PPX3, and ASL OTL mk III. I liked the Denons best on the Opera and Singlepower. I like a warm sounding headphone, and on the HA-2 and Aria I wanted just a little more warmth. The PPX3 did the trick for sure, and I swear everything seems to sound its best on the Opera .
For obvious reasons, I did some extensive comparisons to the JVC DX1000. These are both excellent headphones. The JVC has the deepest bass I have ever heard from a headphone, and the Denon didn't best it there. The Denon's bass is a little more robust overall, and both have among the very best in terms of bass articulation, definition, and speed for cans with a good amount of bass.
The Denon, to me, has the more natural midrange. It really excels here. The JVC always had just a slight nasal coloration to the midrange that keeps it from being a very top tier can. The Denon has no such coloration. It probably has the most neutral midrange of any headphone I own, right up there with the DT880 and the K701's mids.
The treble is a toss up, and neither is perfect. The JVC lacks the last little bit of extension and air, but the Denon may have just a tiny bit of extra sparkle. This may disappear with even more break in. Both have excellent treble overall, however.
The Denon images better. The soundstage is about the same width and depth, and image specificity is better. But again, both are very good.
The Denons are also more comfortable, although the JVC's are just fine. But I put the Denon's on my 8 year old son's head, and the first thing he said was "these are so comfy"! They really are. It's hard to imagine how a headphone could be more comfortable than the D5000.
I like both of the Japanese woodies a lot, and initially I thought I liked the D5000 better. However, over time, I changed my mind about the JVC's mids, and the Denon's imaging. The DX1000's mids are a slight bit unique, but in the end they have an incredibly musical presentation. And the JVC's imaging is more holographic than the D5000. In the end, I ended up preferring the DX1000, so much that I eventually sold the D5000 (which I then replaced with the D7000!).
I compared the D5000 to the DT880/600, using the ASL MG-Head OTL mkIII. These headphones sound more similar than the D5000 and the Darth Beyers do, or even JVC DX1000's do. The Denons have more bass output, and a slightly more forward midrange than the DT880. The DT880's sound a little smoother, have a slightly more refined treble, and have a better overall soundstage. I slightly prefer the DT880's treble and midrange, and I prefer the bass of the Denon. But they are very close.
I further compared the D5000 to the DT990. The tonal quality is very different of course. The Denon has slightly forward mids, and the DT990 slightly recessed. This gives the DT990 the feeling of having both more bass and treble, of course. I think that the Denon's mids are just forward of neutral. The DT990's are just recessed of neutral. So they sound pretty different. But anyone who wants a headphone with punchy bass but more forward mids than the DT990 has would do well with the Denon. The articulation of bass on the Denon and DT990 are fairly comparable, with the Denon maybe having a slight edge.
Finally, I also compared to the Headphile Darth Beyers, and the Denons are pretty different sounding. The Denons have excellent bass, but less midbass than the DB's. The Denons have a more neutral midrange, though, and are the more "accurate" headphone overall. They also have more detail. It's very difficult for me to say which I like better. The Denons are the first headphone I have ever had that had a really neutral midrange and detailed treble but still had enough bass for me, and that's why I am pretty enamored with them. I like them for the same reasons I like the 2006 DT990's so much. But the Denons ate the far superior headphone. While the Darth Beyers are wonderful for a "relaxed listen", that I still prefer them in some respects, the D5000 are better across the board.
So, to sum up, the AH-D5000 is a very high quality headphone with some outstanding qualities, and is a great listen. It will appeal to a large number of music lovers, and is very fairly, even attractively, priced. Well done, Denon!


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UBShould Republican Senators Join Senators Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Mike Lee and Jim Inhofe To Filibuster Any And All Legislative Assaults on the Second Amendment Or Should They Capitulate and Get Behind RINO Proposed "Compromise" Gun-Control Legislation
It might seem like a question with an obvious answer. But at this very moment, 40 Senate Republicans are either confused or are secretly planning to side with at least one senior GOP Senator who mistakenly thinks it better to"compromise" with Barack Obama and his gun-grabbing colleagues than to stand firm against any attacks on our Second Amendment rights.
Well... we're going to help them end their confusion. And make no mistake... we're not ASKING them to filibuster the Obama-Feinstein Gun Grab... we're DEMANDING that they filibuster the Obama-Feinstein Gun Grab... and we're ACCEPTING NOTHING SHORT OF A FILIBUSTER.
Use the hyperlink below to send your urgent Blast Faxes to each and every one of the 45 Republican Members of the United States Senate. Or alternately, send your urgent Blast Faxes to each and every Member of the United States Senate.Why Defeat Barack Obama When We Can Capitulate To Him?
It seems like insanity even though Senators Paul, Lee, Cruz, Rubio and Inhofe are trying to rally support for a filibuster, others in the Republican caucus are SABOTAGING those efforts and calling for "compromise."
At this very moment, Senator Charles Grassley is crafting his own version of "gun-control legislation" and according to The Hill, this act of sabotage is gaining traction.
Our reaction must be clear. Sam Rolley, writing for the Personal Liberty Digest, put it this way: "Conservative critics of the forthcoming GOP gun bill have said that any effort by Republicans to address any aspect of gun control is going too far. And it is yet to be seen whether Senators like Rand Paul (R-Ky.), who have vowed to filibuster any new gun legislation, will embrace the GOP version of gun control."
Why is it that Republican leaders in Congress reflexively and instinctively compromise even after being shown a clear and fool-proof path to unconditional victory? Why ask why?
Simply put, they must be stopped. And as you have proven so many times in the past, only patriotic Americans like you can stop them.
You need to let them know, in no uncertain terms, that as far as you are concerned, any Member of the Senate who DOES NOT openly participate in a filibuster of the Obama-Feinstein Gun Grab is effectively voting in favor of the Obama-Feinstein Gun Grab.
That's a message they will understand. That's a message they will heed. But the time to take decisive action is upon us the time is now.
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Nevada Tribal Community Transforms Contaminated Property
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EPA, the Nevada Division of Environmental Protection (NDEP) and the Reno-Sparks Indian Colony (RSIC) joined efforts to clean up a former industrial site in Reno, Nevada. This is the first cleanup in Nevada to be completed using a Revolving Loan Fund (RLF) grant and the first of its kind on a tribal Brownfields site in the western region of EPA.
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In November 2007, RSIC was awarded a $950,000 Brownfields grant from EPA's Revolving Loan Fund to work on the site, located near Highway 395 on East Second Street. The site was previously home to several industrial operations including machine shops, a commercial printing shop, auto repair shops and a sheet metal fabrication factory. The site had a recorded release of diesel, propane, paint and paint thinner due to an explosion in April 1999 in an auto-painting facility.
Property Cleanup
In 2001, RSIC completed an eight year, multi-million dollar plan to purchase multiple properties comprising the 22-acre site. The properties were acquired with tribal tax revenues and a tribal municipal bond issue. Environmental site assessments uncovered the property's former uses and indicated further investigation was needed. A second environmental site assessment was completed with assistance from NDEP, and found that soil was contaminated with pesticides, total petroleum hydrocarbons (TPH), metals, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), lead, and nitrogen compounds from former industrial uses. RSIC used the Brownfields RLF grant to remove approximately 1,000 tons of contaminated soil, completing the first phase of cleanup. Since soil TPH levels were low on another parcel, areas of the property that would be redeveloped as the parking lot were not remediated. However, where soil would be disturbed for construction of the building, the contaminated soil was removed. Cleanup was completed in October 2007.
The New Development
The property will be redeveloped into Three Nations Plaza, future home of a Wal-Mart, which will generate jobs and up to $6 million in annual tax revenues. RSIC will use the tax revenues to repay bonds issued for the construction of a recently completed, $20 million tribal health center that provides services to over 9,000 Native Americans in the Washoe County area. Tax revenues will also be used to build and relocate to a new $8 million Northern Nevada Restitution Center for low-risk, nonviolent offenders on Indian Colony land. This will allow RSIC to develop additional commercial facilities near the New Three Nations Plaza at the location of the old restitution center. The new restitution center is expected to be completed in 2011. Tax revenues will also be used to enhance police services, fund education improvements in the Washoe County School District, and foster economic development.
RSIC is a federally recognized Indian Tribe composed of more than 900 members throughout its 2,000 acres of Tribal land in and within proximity to Reno, Nevada. The Colony seeks to both preserve its heritage and expand its economic development in an ever-demanding world. In order to meet this need, it has developed more than 80 acres in Reno and Washoe Counties that it now leases to a variety of commercial tenants.


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Welcome to ICAR
The Information Centre about Asylum and Refugees (ICAR) is an independent information and research organisation based at the Runnymede Trust. To find out more see About ICAR and read the latest ICAR newsletter
The ICAR website is no longer being updated and this static archived version is hosted as part of the Living Refugee Archive at the University of East London, where the physical ICAR Archive is also located. For all enquiries, please contact the Archivist, Paul Dudman, on firstname.lastname@example.com.
ICAR has now existed for 10 years and in that time a great deal has changed in the asylum and refugee debates. There is a wide range of information now available on the subject, and a number of resources have recently formed looking at wider immigration issues.
In this time of austerity and cuts to charitable funding it has simply not been possible to raise enough money to keep the ICAR web site updated. Runnymede is optimistic about the future of research into asylum and refugee policies and will continue to pursue ICAR's mission of producing impartial information and research on these issues. However, in line with other organisations we have to think hard about how we do this.
In the meantime, the ICAR website will remain online for the coming months and Runnymede will work hard to archive material from it. Users who want to find information on the asylum and refugee fields can find high quality information on the following web sites:
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- Media (mis)representation is an article in the Runnymede Spring Bulletin where Gabriela Quevedo examines negative press stereotypes of refugees and asylum seekers. Also in the Bulletin: Refugees hit by tuition fee rise by J Lee, Refugee Council.
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- Julie Gibbs has written 'Asylum Seekers and Refugees Face Double Hit' for the Runnymede Bulletin
- Financial Inclusion amongst New Migrants in Northern Ireland is a new research report by ICAR in collaboration with Citizens Advice Belfast, and written by Julie Gibbs. Read more
- Mapping refugee and migrant populations in the UK is a new ICAR Resource Guide written by Gabriela Quevedo, based on the Evelyn Oldfield Unit 'Conducting Community Research' course.
- ICAR's refugee populations series features new introductory guides to Zimbabweans and Afghans in the UK, written by our interns.
- for older items see our news archive
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I haven't really had the time to write anything lately. Don't know really why. Anyway, I've got the laptop now. Very nice, indeed, except for the Winmodem with only a binary kernel module for Linux 2.2.12 (which I don't use). Anyway, I'm using for pretty much of the coding nowadays. This weekend, I was on a funeral in Falun (for my grandfather's woman). After that, I was out in Uppsala for the night, played some basketball on Sunday and did some cleaning of the appartment.
Of course, that's not everything. :) I hacked the initial_ramdisk and fat servers to more-or-less work; the FAT12 code seems almost complete now. I'll just get everything together and start doing the VFS calls, and we'll very soon have (hopefully) full read-support for FAT filesystems. Isn't that great indeed?
Of course, FAT is just a first step; ext2 or others would be cooler but is more work. Besides, FAT is needed anyway, so someone'd better do it.


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The Little Prince (2011)
Directed by Phillip C. Sneed
The Little Prince is one of the best-loved books of all time, read by children all over the world—and yet I came to it only as an adult. Although I knew it by reputation, I had no idea what a richly layered and very grown-up work it was, despite its popularity as a "children's" book. It spoke to me in ways I had not anticipated. It spoke to me of the loss of childhood innocence, of creativity stifled, of magic and joy and mystery. I came to realize that this was not just a story for children but a fable for everyone. I fell in love with The Little Prince when I was preparing that earlier production, and became more excited about a project than I had been for quite a while. I'm delighted to be able to revisit it, some twelve years later—and to work with the same design team: set and lighting designer Trefoni (Tony) Rizzi, and costume designer Clare Henkel.
Tony had worked on an earlier stage adaptation, and offered his insight that the story all happens in the mind of the Aviator, as he lies injured in the sand after crash-landing in the Sahara Desert. I was skeptical at first, until I started to read more about the writer of the original novel, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. The more I learned about his life, the more I started to see that the story was, at least in part, autobiographical: Saint-Exupéry had himself crash-landed in the Sahara, and had numerous hallucinations during the three days before he was rescued. In the 1939 book Wind, Sand and Stars, he wrote about how little children are often prevented by the rules of the grown-up world from realizing their creative potential—which seems to me what this story is mostly about.
The designers and I decided early on that the look of the production would be taken directly from the delightful original illustrations in the book. Drawn by the author himself, and figuring prominently in a story about a man who loved to draw as a child but was discouraged by the grownups, these illustrations seemed the perfect choice for bringing to life the Aviator's hallucinations. The notion of "journeys" also figured prominently in our plans—the Aviator's journey across the Sahara, the Little Prince's journey from his home planet to the earth, and of course the Aviator's inner journey. As with all great journeys of mythology, the hero has a transformative experience, learning important lessons in the process.
Lastly, I wanted to represent two distinct cultures through the music chosen for the production—the French culture of Saint- Exupéry (and of the Aviator), and the culture of Northern Africa, where our hero finds himself stranded. Music thus became the other anchor for our approach to the story.
I believe that we all have a little prince (or little princess) inside us, and that the challenge is to learn how to listen to that voice within. The key, I suppose, is to heed the lesson imparted to the Aviator by the Fox: "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly—what is essential is invisible to the eye."
An experienced pilot crashes in the Sahara Desert. With limited food and water, and only his own expertise to fix his plane, he worries how long he can survive in the barren landscape, when suddenly the Little Prince appears. Despite being distracted by the boy's incessant questions and insistence that the aviator "draw [him] a sheep," the man bonds with the Prince. The two of them learn of each other's lives, what makes us human, and the importance of a rose on an asteroid far away.
The novel, The Little Prince was one of the last works published during Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's life. Born in 1900 to an aristocratic family, he was the third of five children, and the oldest son. The young Saint-Ex (an affectionate nickname gained after he became a pilot) seems to have been an intelligent man, able to master any subject to which he applied himself. He tried to attend naval school, but failed his oral exams, only to then become an auditor at the École des Beaux-Arts, where he studied architecture. In 1921, Saint-Exupéry was mobilized for two years of military service, and was assigned to the air force regiment in Strasbourg. Here he gained his civilian and then military pilot's licenses, and had his first introduction to North Africa during training in Morocco.
The end of World War I left most aviators flightless, but Saint-Exupéry managed to stay in the air by signing on with an international postal service and helping to establish flight paths in Africa and South America, through the Andes. The ensuing years were split amongst France, South America and the United States. In 1935, attempting to break the record for flight between Paris and Saigon, Saint-Exupéry and his navigator/mechanic Prévot crashed in the Sahara Desert. For five days they were stranded, and were only saved when they crossed a Bedouin trail, and a passing caravan picked them up. Saint-Exupéry was a prolific writer, publishing throughout his life in newspapers, books and magazines.
As World War II approached, Saint-Exupéry was too old to fly, and his many peers and colleagues encouraged him to use his status to inform others about the war. However, Saint-Exupéry was happiest when flying, and he obtained a special permit to continue to fly and train on the new, faster planes. On July 31, 1944, the day before his friends planned to ground him, he took off on his final reconnaissance mission, only to vanish.
In 1998, a fisherman working south of the port of Marseille found a silver bracelet that allegedly belonged to Saint-Exupéry. In the following months, a diver discovered the wreckage of a plane in the same area.
The French government and press and Saint-Exupéry's descendants all dismissed this information as a hoax, and closed the area off from further investigation. It was not until 2003 that the wreckage was examined and discovered to be Saint-Exupéry's plane. How his plane crashed into the Mediterranean 100 miles away from his plotted course is a mystery, but unlike his Little Prince, who vanished, the body of Saint-Exupéry had at last been found.
By Hadley Kamminga-Peck
Most people first encounter The Little Prince as a children's book, or perhaps in a beginning French class. It is an easy story to enjoy; it is simple, yet with elements recognizable from daily life. Who has not known the pleasure of cold water to quench extreme thirst, or the sadness of leaving a tamed animal? Antoine de Saint- Exupéry's poetry carries the reader along on an unforgettable journey, bringing to life his adventures in the desert.
What few realize is that Saint-Exupéry based The Little Prince on his real-life experiences as an aviator. When he became a pilot, aviation was in its infancy, and Saint-Exupéry pioneered many of the routes, practices and techniques. His initial training included fixing the planes, which led Saint-Exupéry to register patents for many inventions that are utilized in current plane models. Saint- Exupéry also test-flew new plane models, which makes it no surprise that he crashed several times, on land and over sea. His 1935 crash in the desert informed much of the Aviator's story in The Little Prince, and many of the characters Saint-Exupéry encountered during his career as a pilot made their way into the book. During his crash in the Sahara he met the little desert foxes that would become the Prince's tamed fox, saw the desert roses and mountains, and heard the response of the echo. His fellow pilots and commanding officers in the military also make appearances in the personas found onthe various planets.
However, the autobiographical details of the book are far more prevalent than Saint- Exupéry's profession. The character of the Rose was inspired by at least three women in the author's life: Louise de Vilmorin, Renée de Saussine and Consuelo de Saint-Expuéry neé Suncin. Each woman represents a different moment of Saint-Exupéry's romantic life. Louise was the first woman to whom he was engaged, and though he worked hard to appease her family and take care of her, even giving up flying, she eventually broke off their engagement. Renée represented a distant love, someone to whom he wrote constantly and therefore molded into his image of the ideal woman, though she never responded to his courtship. Consuelo eventually became his wife and wrote a novel entitled The Tale of the Rose, which told the story of how their love inspired the character of the Rose. Though their relationship was tumultuous, and they eventually lived apart, Saint-Exupéry always held great affection for his wife. Most likely it was a conglomeration of these women, as well as components from his mother, his three sisters and his imagined "ideal woman," that created the Prince's Rose.
The Little Prince himself is a reflection of Saint-Exupéry's younger brother François, who died in 1917. Saint-Exupéry (who bore the Prince's blond curls as a young child) was impressed with the calmness and dignity with which his brother accepted death, and immortalized this trait in the Prince. In his memoir, Flight to Arras, he says, "One does not die… There is no more death when one meets it… When the body breaks apart, the essential is revealed. Man is only a knot of relationships…" The Little Prince is the distillation of the thoughts, ideas, relationships and people Saint-Exupéry had encountered throughout his life. Saint-Exupéry said it best in a letter to his mother: "You must look for me as I really am, in what I write, which is the scrupulous, meditated result of what I think and see."


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Quakertown, K-Mart 309
Finally found R2-Q5. Picked up the last and only one. Not to mention it was the "Imperal" droid; version .0400. Lando, Jar Jar (Tatooine), Battle Droid (Boomer Damage), and Tessek adorned the pegs too.
Quakertown, K-Mart 309
Finally found R2-Q5. Picked up the last and only one. Not to mention it was the "Imperal" droid; version .0400. Lando, Jar Jar (Tatooine), Battle Droid (Boomer Damage), and Tessek adorned the pegs too.
Life is only a dream and we are just the imagination of ourselfs
Nium, hey there buddy! I haven't seen you post here in ages...well, actually neither have I. Congrats on the R2-Q5. Well, since I haven't posted in awhile, I'm not sure what you need or haven't seen yet, but I'll keep you posted as to what I've been finding lately. Wal-Mart Whitehall-nothing except some Bespin Guards and a few of the Ketwol wave. Toys R' Us Whitehall-Duros, Gungan Warriors, Coruscant Guards and some of the 25th Anniversary two-packs (mostly Vader-Kenobi). My "reliable" source lately has been the TRU in Philipsburg, NJ right off of 22E. It's a small journey from Allentown that usually pays off. In the last two weeks, I've got Eeth Koth, Zutton, Imperial Officer, Rebel Trooper, FX-7, and Amidala there. I last visited on Monday (march 4th), and this is what they had:
4-Eeth Koth
2-Rebel Trooper
Some of the Lando wave and other "older" waves
All the 25th Anniversary packs (5-6 each)
Sorry, I did grab the last two Imperial Officers there.
I hope this helps, there is also a Wal-Mart right there in the same complex as the TRU, but I haven't even bothered to check it. I'd rather support TRU anytime!
There are a lot of Wal-Marts around Allentown. I find myself visiting everyone about once every other week or so.
here are some of the locations:
Wilson Exit on 33
145 N by Burlington Coat Factory
East Stroudsburg
S'up Little Yoda,
Glad to see your still out there too! By the total number of posts listed under both our usernames I can tell neither of us been postin too much . I just got done cataloging my POTJ collection because I realized I wasn't really sure what was in my POTJ collection. Turns out I'm fairly well caught up...well that is till I read your post on what you'd found at TRU in Jersey a colllecting's never done (hee hee). So far the figs I haven't seen and didn't really know were out...
-Amidala (that's Royal Decoy right?)
-Eeth Koth
-Rebel Trooper
-Imperial Officer
In checking over my POTJ turns out the only .0000 cards I have is one Coruscant Guard and Tusken Raider.
Hope to be seeing more posts from you.
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Life is only a dream and we are just the imagination of ourselfs
I did find the AotC preview figures over the weekend! I went to visit a friend of mine in Altoona, PA and we were both able to purchase all four figs at the Altoona Wal-Mart. These figures are sweet! When we asked the gentleman working in the toy dept. about the supposed "release date", he just sorta chuckled and said he knew nothing about waiting until the 16th, or 23rd, or whenever. Besides, why would they wait, within a matter of seconds, my friend and I spent 60 bucks on 9 figs (he bought an extra Clonetrooper). I tried to be "strong" and wait until TRU or Target would get these figs, but once I had them in my hand, forget it. I have nothing against Wal-Mart, but I just don't want to see TRU become the next K-Mart. I know, I know, my toy purchases alone won't matter much, but it's the whole "my one vote won't make a difference" idea.
Uhhhhh yeah, I found the figures! Sorry, didn't mean to go off there!
Congrats Little Yoda,
I found nothing over the weekend. I had checked Whitehall TRU and Phillipsburg TRU along with the Wal-Mart in the same complex and all I saw where Duro and the rest of the latest pegwarmers. Thus the search continues.
Life is only a dream and we are just the imagination of ourselfs
I found the sneak preview set at the Wal-Mart in Scranton.
Sorry doesn't put thumbs on the hand....
Congrats on the find kwy! I think these figures are awesome! What's your opinion? Nium, I can't believe you didn't find anything at the TRU in Phillipsburg, sorry about that. I almost always walk out with new figs. I'll keep you posted as to when and what I find "over there". It may be a few weeks before I venture to NJ again. The Whitehall TRU, WM, and K-Mart all stink lately, nothing but pegwarmers...but those stores were useful when I was buying the Lego sets for my Star Wars Chess Set that I put together. I hope the TRU gets the AT-ST's soon, and the Teebo Wave!
191, Bethlehem
AOTC for $6.99ea
-They had all 4 of the AOTC figs. Looked like a full case on the pegs.
-Vader (Emporer's Wrath)
-Luke Skywalker (X-wing suit)
-Han Solo (Death Star Escape)
-25th Silver Anniversary Figures
-Deluxe Figures
..Darth Maul w/ Sith Attack Probe
..Luke in Bacta Tank
-Darth Maul
-Maul (Tatooine)
Life is only a dream and we are just the imagination of ourselfs
309, Quakertown
Instead of new POTJ figures I ended up findin 3 [strong]Jedi Starfighters[/strong] for $19.76 ea. I left two behind. At first I thought it was a model or a puzzle by the sedate apperance of the box.
Initially I had some trouble getting the wings or gun covers to stay on but they easily go on after a few times. Even though the R2 unit isn't removable at least it's head spins. The springs for the missles are pretty weak but the wings fly right off.
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Looking for a classic dessert? Then check out this delicious bread flavored with plums and spice.
*Cranberry or nut quick bread & muffin mix can be used instead.
Traditionally, plum pudding is a steamed Christmas dessert, made with spices, fruits, nuts and bread crumbs. This bread is reminiscent of the traditional dessert. For a special spread, blend 1/4 cup plum jam and 1/3 to 1/2 cup softened butter. Serve it with the warm bread.
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After I got back in the house from feeding the deer tonight, my wife excitedly walked into the room and told me to look outside. There amongst the deer were two adult hens and four poults, which are about 2/3rds grown. It has been years since I've seen turkeys in the yard. I hope they keep coming around. I figure once they find the bird feeders they'll be regular visitors.
I will keep the telephoto lens on the camera in hopes of getting a decent picture or two. I hope the gobblers find this place again too. About 10 years ago we had two bruiser gobblers hanging out here in the afternoons. Once the leaves came off the trees, the turkeys left and didn't come back.


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Regional Climate Centers
Regional Climate Centers (RCCs) are a federal-state cooperative effort. NOAA's National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) manages the RCC Program. The six centers that comprise the RCC Program are engaged in the production and delivery of climate data, information, and knowledge for decision makers and other users at the local, state, regional, and national levels. The RCCs support NOAA's efforts to provide operational climate services while leveraging improvements in technology and collaborations with partners to expand quality data dissemination capabilities. For more information, please see Partner Regions Map and Program Maps.
Regional Climate Centers support a three-tiered national climate services support program. Partners include: National Weather Service, and State Climate Offices. Read about the RCCs Role in National Climate Service. For a brief overview on Regional Climate Centers see RCC Overview and RCC Program Description.
RCCs help build the nation's climate archive and provide access to essential climate variables through the Applied Climate Information System (ACIS), a part of NCDC's National Virtual Data System (NVDS). Located at major research institutions, RCCs provide monthly regional climate monitoring and engage in applied climate research.
The six RCCs are located at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York; the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge; The University of Nebraska in Lincoln; the Illinois State Water Survey in Champaign; and the Desert Research Institute in Reno, Nevada.
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Reporting on State, Regional, and National Climate Services Collaboration
Dr. Degaetano AMS Summer Meeting, August 2008, Boulder, CO
State and Regional Partners in National Climate Services Serving Society's Needs
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Applied Climatology in a Changing Environment
Dr. Ken Kunkel and Dr. Arthur Degaetano, One-NOAA Science Seminar, October 2008, Silver Spring, MD
Applied Climatology and the Role of NOAA's Regional Climate Centers
Additional Information:
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State Climate Offices Role In National Climate Services
Regional Climate Center Contacts
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Jason Mark
Jason Mark is the coauthor (with Kevin Danaher and Shannon Biggs) of the new book Building the Green Economy: Success Stories from the Grassroots (PoliPointPress). His new book charts the efforts of local communities to create a more ecologically sustainable and socially responsible economy. The book tells the stories of people who have successfully grown urban farms; built wind power projects; fought toxic polluters; created networks of locally owned enterprises; established worker coops; and founded businesses that place people and the planet before short-term profit.Building the Green Economy also includes a dozen interviews with prominent grassroots leaders. The book is an inspiring "greenprint" for how, together, we can realize a more safe and humane society.
- Connecting the Peace and Environmental Movements in Order to Break Our Addiction to Oil
- Citizen Challenges to Corporate Power
- No Blood or Oil: Breaking America's Petroleum Addiction
- Corporations and "Free Trade": The REAL Agenda Behind the WTO and FTAA
- Connecting the Global Peace and Global Justice Movements
- International Observation of the US Elections
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Today I committed the big change: I moved mailing-lists.ent from out of the Handbook directories and into the per-language share/sgml directory, and created a PUBLIC identifier in each language-specific catalog file. Speaking of that, I think I need to move all the 'language-specific' sections of doc/share/sgml/catalog into each language's own catalog.
Also, if this goes well and without fallout, a move of the authors.ent and other such files into share/sgml directories and into PUBLIC identifiers (instead of SYSTEM) is not far behind.
A small detail: Seems like nobody really prepared to have much inside of doc/lang/share/sgml as the validate target, which is used to ensure that large documents such as the Handbook would build without actually building them, did not bother to check the language-specific catalogs whatsoever. So I fixed that, too.


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Medical Oncologist
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About Me
I am a pediatric oncologist who specializes in the treatment of children and young adults with sarcomas and other solid tumors. At Memorial Sloan Kettering, we have a strong history in the treatment of sarcomas, having done pioneering work that has led to the therapies used to care for patients today.
There is still a lot we don't know about sarcomas, and research is necessary to make progress. My research focuses on new strategies for the treatment of relapsed pediatric sarcomas (those that have returned despite prior treatment). We are evaluating new drugs and new ways to deliver anticancer drugs, such as inhaled chemotherapy for sarcomas in the lung. In the laboratory, I have worked on deciphering the signaling pathways used by osteosarcoma cells in an effort to find new targets for therapy.
In addition to caring for patients and doing research, I teach fellows and residents. I am the Director for the Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Fellowship Program, and I also oversee the training of pediatric residents who rotate through our service. In these roles, I design the educational curriculum for our trainees, and mentor and evaluate them. I enjoy the educational component of medicine; teaching the next generation of doctors makes us all better doctors and spurs collaboration.
While we've had enormous success in raising the survival rate among children with cancer, there is still a lot we don't know and a lot to be discovered. I find the science behind pediatric cancers to be exciting, and I want to help support new efforts to help these children get better.
- Clinical Expertise: Pediatric hematology/oncology; pediatric sarcomas
- Languages Spoken: English
- Education: MD, Cornell University Medical College
- Residencies: Pediatrics - New York Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center
- Fellowships: Pediatric Hematology/Oncology - Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
- Board Certifications: Pediatrics; Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
Chou AJ, Gorlick R. Chemotherapy Resistance in Osteosarcoma: Current Challenges and Future Directions. Expert Review of Anticancer Therapy, 2006; 6(7):1075-85.
Chou AJ, Merola PR, Wexler LH, Gorlick RG, Vyas YM, LaQuaglia MP, Healey JH, Huvos AG, Meyers PA. Treatment of Osteosarcoma at First Recurrence after Contemporary Therapy: the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Experience. Cancer, 2005; 104(10):2214-2221.
Chou AJ, Bussel J. Infections and Immune Thrombocytopenic Purpura. In: Shoenfeld Y, Rose NR, editors. Infection and Autoimmunity, New York: Elsevier, 2004:639-649.
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I agree with Blackstone. While not perfect (who is?), I think Gen. Powell (ret) is an honorable man. He was still wearing his soldier hat, or at least "charging the hill" as ordered when he read the information handed to him.
I do not believe that those who wrote that piece, and assembled and chose the intel that went into it, acted honorably or without influence. There were enough doubts cast at the time, notwithstanding Joe Wilson, that I would call that very shoddy work at best.....manipulative at worst. I don't know where the truth lies, but I think its somewhere between those two.
God Bless PFC Jamie Harkness. The US Army's newest PFC, but still our neighbor's little girl!
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(2) having knowledge of any other lawful order issued by any member of the armed forces, which it is his duty to obey, fails to obey the order; or
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Gonzaga women cruise past Eastern Oregon, 90-48
SPOKANE, Wash. - Junior Haiden Palmer scored 11 of her game-high 16 points in the first half and redshirt freshman Shelby Cheslek recorded a double-double of 13 points and 12 rebounds to lead the Gonzaga University women's basketball squad to a 90-48 exhibition victory over Eastern Oregon University Saturday afternoon at the McCarthey Athletic Center in front of 5,396 Bulldog fans.
The Zags had all 15 players see action in the 42-point victory with 14 scoring.
"I thought we did a lot of good things in the game," explained Gonzaga head coach Kelly Graves. "Today was a great opportunity for all of our players, including the young kids, to play under the lights. You have to remember we have 11 underclassmen, so this exhibition game is great to get their feet wet and work on things."
Palmer played 19 minutes for the Bulldogs and sank 6-of-10 from the floor, including 1-of-2 on 3-pointers and was 3-of-5 at the free throw line for her team-leading 16 points. The guard also made a game-high six steals, which resulted in seven points.Gonzaga women cruise past Eastern Oregon, 90-48
Cheslek, the Bulldogs 6-5 center, scored nine of her 13 points in the second half and seven of her game-high 12 boards also in the final stanza. The Pullman, Wash., native added four blocks, three steals and two assists in a team-high 20 minutes of action.
Along with Palmer and Cheslek, sophomore Sunny Greinacher also tallied double-figures, finishing with 13.
"I thought Sunny [Greinacher] played well and I thought Shelby [Cheslek] did a nice job for a freshman," explained Graves. "Both are a big presence inside for us both offensively and defensively."
Brooke Randal led the NAIA Mountaineers with 14 points and two assists. Teammate Tina Miller chipped in 12 points.
Gonzaga controlled the game from the start, building a double-digit lead, 17-7, 5:30 into the opening 20 minutes and pushed it to a 31-11 advantage with 9:56 to play in the half.
Ten players helped the Bulldogs to the early 20 point edge, including freshman Elle Tinkle who scored a layup to make it 31-11.
The Zags would go into halftime up 55-29 by scoring the final 10 points. Greinacher started the run with a layup, followed by three points by Palmer. Senior Meghan Winters got into the action draining one of the Bulldogs six 3-pointers in the half, while Greinacher closed the period with a jumper.
A 16-2 spurt to begin the second half broke the game wide open for Gonzaga at 71-31. Palmer had five points in the run, sophomore Keani Albanez had three and freshman Kiara Kudron capped it off with two of her four second half points.
It was Cheslek that gave the Bulldogs their largest lead. She grabbed an offensive board with four seconds left in the game and scored the put-back moments before the buzzer sounded to give GU the 42-point edge.
For the game, the Zags shot an impressive 51.4 percent (38-of-74) from the field, including 36.8 percent (7-of-19) from beyond the 3-point arc and hit just 46.7 percent (7-of-15) at the charity stripe.
Gonzaga continues to show how well they share the ball as it was credited with 24 assists on 38 baskets. Twelve players recorded at least one assist, with junior Jazmine Redmon leading the way with six.
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Tomorrow (25th November) evening, I will be giving a short talk about PostgreSQL at the monthly Munich Open-Source-Treffen event.
The meetings start around 6PM and are always in Cafe Netzwerk in Luisenstr. 11, a nice and cosy hangout and hackerspace for young Munich students near Hauptbahnhof.
I am currently sitting in the train to Goslar, where the German Conference on Cheminformatics will take place. As part of the Free Software Session, I will give a session on DebiChem. This is the first I attend this conference and I am looking forward to meet Noel O'Boyle and hopefully others from the community.
In light of this, I have packaged and uploaded RDKit and Cinfony over the last weeks and also updated the Debichem task pages, introducing a Cheminformatics Task at the same time. I feel we still need at least tasks for Chemical Education (to expose e.g. Kalzium more prominently), and possibly Protein Docking and Crystallography. So if you have experience/opinions in these fields (or want to propose other fields), drop me a mail or contact us at email@example.com.
The next day, I picked up Martin Michlmayr nearby and we headed for FrOSCon. I was quite impressed by the Makerbot at the Tarent booth, but I still don't know what they are really doing and why they had it on display... In the afternoon, I attended a couple of talks in the PostgreSQL developer room and a talk about a big OpenVPN deployment, before ending the day with the excellent as always social event barbeque. On Sunday, I went to quite a few talks, but I thought that two of them were particularly interesting:
Michael "Monty" Widenius of MySQL gave a talk titled "Why going open source will improve your product" about starting businesses on an open source project, or how business can/should open-source their product. Besides a detailed discussion about the various forms of Open Source licenses and the Open-Core model, he proposed the idea of "Business Source" (see slide 20 of his presentation), where a startup would distribute the source code under a non-commercial (but otherwise open-source) license with the explicit guarantee that the license would be changed to a true FLOSS license at some defined point in the future, giving the company a head start to develop and nurture their project. I asked whether this has been already implemented in practise and how the community could be sure that e.g. lawyers after a hostile takeover would not just remove that part of the copyright notice, as long as a true distribution under a FLOSS license has not happened yet. Monty wasn't aware of any real-word cases, and he did not seem to be concerned about this and said the original intent would be clear in a possible court case. This was the first time I heard about this approach, I wonder how other people think about it, whether it would work in practise and be a useful thing to have?
Second, I attended a talk by Gregor Geiermann, a Ph.D. student in linguistics on "Perceptions of rudeness in Free Software communities". He conducted an online survey about the perceived rudeness of several forum thread posts on Ubuntu Forums. Survey participants were first asked a couple of generic questions about their gender, nationality etc. and were then presented with a series of posts. For each post, they were asked to rate how rude they thought it was on a scale of 1 to 5 and they also had the possibility to highlight the parts of the post they considered rude as well as add comments. He presented a neat web application for analyzing the results, which makes it possible to select different groups (he did male vs. female and Americans vs. Germans in the talk) and have their overall rudeness ratings as well as the highlighted texts visualized as different shades of blue. Comments can be easily accessed. There were quite a few interesting differences e.g. in how Germans perceived rudeness compared to Americans (RTFM comments were considered less rude by Germans for example, IIRC). In response to my question, he said he intended to release the web application as open source and this might be an interesting tool for FLOSS projects to analyze how their public communication channels are perceived by various groups. Unfortunately, I cannot find any other resources about this on the web as of today, so I should try to contact him about it at some point.
Last weekend, I was at the Debian Med Meeting in Travemünde near Lübeck, thanks to an invitation by Steffen Möller and Andreas Tille.
It was a great opportunity to finally meet Steffen and some of the other bioinformatics people in Debian like Manuel Prinz face-to-face for the first time. Also, lots of upstream and related bioinformatics packagers from e.g. Biolinux were present as well, many of them from the UK.
I discussed with and helped some people about Debian packaging. There is a big push to get Debian packages done and integrated in Debian and Ubuntu, but often enough people are not exactly sure what the requirements are and what needs to be done. Hopefully, the sprint was successful to clear things up and move forward.
I also managed to finalize the initial Jmol packaging and uploaded it to Debian towards the end of the sprint. I plan to update the other bioinformatics related packages in debichem like pymol and openbabel as soon as squeeze is released.
Overall, it was a great weekend, many thanks to NERC and Debian for making it possible, and to Steffen Möller for organizing it!
The success of the international climate conference in Cancun appears to be a great (and desperately needed) leap forward in the struggle to preserve our climate. At least news sources in Germany marvel at the very much unexpected and bigger-than-hoped outcome of the final declaration.
However, I keep wondering whether this could also be the first big success of Wikileak's power: what if Cablegate's timely leakage of the US and China's double-game at the Kopenhagen summit has scared their delegations so much they did not dare to repeat the backstabbing of the climate conference a second (or thrice?) time - in fear of their actions being defaced another time next year?
If this was the case, one could either call this Diplomacy by Fear or Diplomacy by Transparency - I choose to pick the latter. And if it indeed turns out Wikileaks had been the prime source behind a success for our planet, nominating the organization for the Nobel Peace prize does not look so absurd to me as it did last week.
So, DebConf is over and it was a blast. I wanted to blog about my talks for a couple of days, but the conference was so great that I did not get around to it until now.
The unique thing about this year's conference were the outstanding contributions by non-Debian FLOSS people from the east coast. I am really glad the organizers decided to reach out to the communi ty and take this opportunity when a lot of great minds were just a couple of hours away. Also, discussing and hanging out with the local team people was so much fun and interesting that it was wor th the visit alone.
The venue was just perfect, the dorms were on campus, the cafeteria had an all-you-can-eat buffet, everything was in short walking distance and the Columbia campus is beautiful. I would have liked to go to a couple more places in the evenings, but hanging out in the Carman basement lounge with awesome people was just as good. A big thanks to Richard Darst, Biella, Micah and the rest of the crew.
The Debian GNU/Hurd talk went quite well, I was pleasantly surprised so many people made it to the Davis auditorium. I wanted to do the presentation on Debian GNU/Hurd (and I had it working before the talk), but as my notebook has a different resolution than the projector, I decided to play it safe and just show a d-i run in qemu. Nevertheless, Jeremie's wo rk on debian-installer is impressive, I got it installed on my ThinkPad without a problem (using qemu) and it automatically installed and setup grub2. Unfortunately, grub2 seems to be having issues when booting my notebook natively, but I got it to work with grub-legacy, including X and evince.
There were quite a few comments and I had interesting conversations afterwards with a couple of people. It is a shame Emilio Pozuelo Monfort (pochu) could not make it to DebConf to give the talk himself, he did lots of great work on porting packages and fixing the Hurd and glibc for various testsuites over the last couple of months.
My other talk about GOsa and FAI was a bit rougher, I scrambled to get FAI integration in GOsa to work based on Mark Pavlichuk'sinstallation scripts which I fixed up over the last couple of weeks to the point where one can install a client using the FAI simple demo classes (which I ported to GOsa's FAI LDAP). There were some problems with the demonstration during the talk and I guess it was a tough audience for a web-based admin tool but I hopefully got my point across that we should salvage this work done for the city of Munich. Indeed, I had great discussions with Andreas Mundt from debian-edu afterwards who posted a summary and call for discussion to the debian-edu mailing list.
This year's DebConf10 (which is great, by the way) at Columbia University, New York will feature Tracks for the first time. We had a Community Outreach track on Debian Day (to be continued by more awesome talks over the rest of the week), a Java track on Monday and an Enterprise track yesterday.
Tomorrow, Thursday afternoon, the S cience and Math track (which I am organizing) will take place in the Interschool lab on level 7 of Schapiro Center.
The Track will start at 14:00 with a short welcome from me, followed by presentations of debian-science by Sylvestre Ledru and debian-math by David Bremner.
At 15:00, Michael Hanke and Yaroslav Halchenko will present their talk on "Debian as the ultimate platform for neuroimaging research".
This will be followed at 16:00 by three mini-talks on "New developments in Science Packaging". Adam C. Powell, IV will talk about MPI, Sylvestre Ledru will present linear algebra implementations in Debian and finally Michael Hanke and Yaroslav Halchenko will discuss the citation/reference infrastructure.
At the end of track, the annual debian-science round-table will happen at 17:00, where David Bremner (mathematics), Michael Hanke (neuro-debian), Sylvestre Ledru (debian- science/pkg-scicomp), Adam C. Powell, IV (debian- science/pkg-scicomp) and myself (debichem) will discuss matters about cross-field debian-science and math related topics.
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Thread: hP's 90g Planted
Febuary 9th
Last night I practically tore all the plants out and gave the tank and new look, CO2 is also running and here are all the details.
I was dealing with a good bit of BBA over the past couple of weeks most probably caused by a CO2/light imbalance; I was most definitely giving this tank much more light than it needed for the amount of plant mass that I had growing. To fix this problem, I had initially cut the photoperiod down to just 4 hours with 216W going, but that had little effect on the algae and a noticable effect on the plants. So then I upped the photoperiod to 216W for 4 hours and then 108W for another 5 hours. The algae stopped spreading as aggresively, probably because the plants were able to compete somewhat, but there was still plenty of algae. At this point (about a week ago), algae had covered most of the plants, driftwood, substrate etc. and so I really had to start tackling it head on.
If you look back you'll see that I began spot treating with H2O2 and this has been working quite well. It takes anywhere from 7-10 days post treatment to completely remove both cladophora and BBA from the spot, but it is effective. As much as I tried though, it seemed that the algae would not stop spreading to the plants and so I had to cut the infested bits off and replant clean portions.
Here's a shot of the tank before I got started:
And here it is after 4 hours of H2O2 treatments, cutting and replanting:
You can't really see much now as I tried to cut plants into single nodes which as you can imagine has made them very short. My thinking is that I'll be able to increase plant mass much quicker if I start with tons of very tiny stems rather than have large stems, cut them, replant, repeat. I'll have a good number of plants growing in quickly hopefully.
To prevent another algae breakout, I've started injecting CO2 (was going to anyway) at ~1bps on the JBJ bubble counter. I've upped Flourish Comprehensive dosing from 10mL/90g a week to 30mL a week. I dose every other day and do a big water change on the 7th day, anywhere from 40-60%. I'll probably be switching to dry fertilizers soon as I'm going through the Flourish really fast and don't feel like spending all that much money for no reason. The photoperiod is now at 11 hours a day 216W which I know is too much for the plants I have now; I'd like to see if they grow faster, or if the algae starts coming back... I don't really know at this point. I've also switched up the flow on the tank by placing both filters on the right side, placing a 125gph pump on top facing downward/left and placing a 200gph pump above the CO2 diffuse facing left. Hopefully this brings more flow over the plants which will even out nutrient distribution and prevent the build up of algae on the leaves which hinders growth.
The fish are all doing pretty well... a couple rasbora seems to have body slime and/or fin rot which is peculiar given that the water parameters are perfect and I didn't notice anything wrong with any of the fish when they came in. I'm guessing that they are some of the weaker fish and they haven't been getting much to eat. I'll try to spot feed them if possible.
Febuary 9th; CO2 Details
To go about setting up CO2, you'll need a CO2 tank with a current test date, a regulator, airline tubing, and a diffuser which you could substitute for an airstone.
To start off, I filled the tank LOL. Cost me $27 for a 10lb tank, but it will most likely come out cheaper depending on where you live. I'm guesstimating that this tank will last me anywhere from 8 months to a year if, and only if, I don't have any leaks which I have not yet checked for.
Filled tank, ready to go:
Next step is to attach the regulator. Some people like to use teflon tape or putty to help seal the regulator onto the tank. You can experiment with what works for you, but teflon tape has been known to come off and get lodged into the solenoid of the regulator leading to an always on state which will gas your fish overnight. I haven't used either of these but I do have a plastic washer inside the nut which typically takes care of the seal. You absolutely must have either a replaceable plastic one or a more permanent disk.
I'm using a second-hand JBJ reg which I bought for $60. These aren't the best regulators but they certainly aren't the worst. The main problem is that you cannot adjust the working pressure, the pressure that is fed into the needle value and then into the tank. It isn't a huge issue, but if you like to tweak, you might skip out on this one.
Reg is hooked up, solenoid is plugged in, CO2 is running:
Pressure in the tank is ~800-850 which is about right for CO2 and the working pressure is in the 30s which is okay for me. The solenoid is set on a timer which comes on ~30 mins before the light come on and goes out ~1 hour before the lights do. This lets the CO2 build up so that the plants get the maximum benefit during the day, and ensures that the fish breathe easy at night. The line is then fed into a ceramic disk diffuser and finally into the 200gph powerhead.
I checked the other side of the tank and it seems like we're getting tiny bubble all around. I just need to do a bit more testing to make sure that there are no leaks in the system. Overall very pleased with how everything went. :)
Your almost making me want to try CO2 on my 90 gallon
I'm looking forward to seeing how much if a difference this will make on your tank. But having said that, you tank looks good the way it is right nowIf you take your time to do the research FIRST, you can successfully set-up and keep ANY type of aquarium with ease.
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Well I'll be keeping a closer journal now that I've started CO2. I'll keep you in the loop Cliff haha.
From what I've read, CO2 should have a 10-20x increase in plant growth provided proper nutrients and light over no carbon dosing at all. Now I don't know if I believe that completely, but I can tell you that just today, the baby tears and the ludwigia arcuata are already an inch taller than last night and theres still 3 hours left in the photo-period.
I'm excited to see the C02 process from the start. This will be a great reference for my own adventure into C02 when the day comes that I finally get a big tank.
So right now are you still doing the 11hr photoperiod? What time of the day do your lights come on and what time do they go off?~Manna
120 gallon FW bowfront in progress
I'll try to post a picture of the tank every night before the lights go out so there is a log of how quickly the CO2 helps the plants come in.
My lights kick on at 9AM and go out at 8PM but this is certainly too much light. I want to keep a close eye on the algae and see what happens. I may also begin dosing excel but I'll wait and see for that too.
Well, here is tonight's FTS:
I'm looking forward to seeing how this works for you. I dose liquid CO2 almost daily (I only miss a day when I forget). Right now I've been using API's CO2 Booster, but once I'm out I'm going to try Flourish Excel. As it stands, I haven't really noticed an improvement in plant growth or algae diminishing. I'm sure pure CO2 would be more beneficial, so I'm glad you're documenting this. ;PAdventures in Aquaria - The KevinVA Story
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Here is tonight's FTS:
The plants are still growing pretty fast, cabomba is about an inch off the substrate, was touching after replanting. I've noticed yellowing in the Amazon swords indicative of Potassium deficiency. I've been dosing Flourish Comprehensive at 3 times the dose as described in a previous post, might not be enough. I'll probably start inserting more osmocote under the substrate.
On a positive note, here are some pics from my 10g shrimper, Rili and RCS:
Found a berried one this morning!
I hope I can help out Kevin! I've been a little hesitant about excel since it will melt plants with delicate leaves, vals and the like. Also, as you've pointed out, doesn't seem to really boost plant growth by as much as you'd hope. Lets see how this goes.
I did just read last night that more light = more co2 = more nutrients (macro & micro). Are you dosing macros, like Potassium, Nitrogen and Phosphorus and trace ferts? According to Tom Barr, there needs to be a strict regimen of dosing equivalent to your light/co2. So, the more light you have, the more co2 you'll need, thus the more nutrients you'll need to keep the plants healthy enough to absorb the co2 and grow.
I'm pretty sure this is why co2 is having little to no effect for me. The plants aren't as healthy as they could be, so they're not absorbing a lot of the co2. I just ordered Flourish Nitrogen, Phosphorous and Potassium the other day, so that I can attempt the EI Method in planted tanks (which is to basically overdose with nutrients throughout the week, then do a big water change at the end of the week to get rid of any unused ferts).
I'm going to give it a shot and see what happens. I'll let you know how it goes. We algae growers need to stick together and keep each other informed. ;P
Great photos, btw. =]Adventures in Aquaria - The KevinVA Story
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"The Reversible Decline of U.S. Cultural Diplomacy" is the subject
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Last night, Stuart and I were having a little argument about the merits of OAuth and whether it is actually suitable for what we are using it for (authenticating destop applications to access a service), as I am not particularly fond of it, and I was working on support for OAuth 1.0a. Stuart's argument is that user's trust the browser, and we need some piece of trust in the system, and OAuth provides that as it pretty much requires a browser to use it. But I don't really think users trust their browser (as so many don't even know what a browser is), but instead, what they trust is the site they're looking at. The browser doesn't even exist. It's just this inherent part of the system that you have to use. To most people it's The Internet, or the giant blue e, or a compass. The browser has no real meaning to them. It's the place they have to go to search for things, and access information. And Humans have two very important attributes. They are both very prone to error, and very resilient. People will keep going to the web, despite all its problems with poorly designed sites, and crashing browsers, and broken plug-ins, because they need to get at the information they're looking for. And they will very often type their password in the wrong place, or mistake a phishing site for a real site. No amount of code will fix this. And nothing that requires a Human to do something will guarantee security and authenticity. It will only create annoyances that Humans will optimize around.
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