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Company files first rate case in 12 years, outlines plans for modernization, economic development
JACKSON, Miss., June 10, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Entergy Mississippi, Inc. has a plan for Mississippi's electric service needs through 2025. To implement that plan, the company has filed its first general rate case in nearly 12 years with the Mississippi Public Service Commission. This rate case is a blueprint for the future that lays out the company's plans for improving reliability, modernizing the grid, maintaining its workforce, stabilizing rates, utilizing new technologies, attracting new industry and more.
"Under this plan, we'll spend the next decade focusing on low rates, more jobs, more choice and smart investments," said Haley Fisackerly, Entergy Mississippi president and CEO.
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"Over the last 12 years, we've been keeping pace in the midst of a rapidly changing power landscape that includes more stringent and expensive federal regulation," said Fisackerly. "Working in partnership with the MPSC, we've been successful in managing the higher risks and challenges we've faced, and I believe we've done what our customers and regulators would want their electric utility to do: make wise decisions to keep costs down now and make prudent investments to keep costs down in the future. This plan will help us continue to do so."
The filing seeks an increase in revenues that would change the monthly bill of a typical residential customer using 1,000 kWh per month by approximately $6.28, or about .20 cents per day. However, this increase is expected to be significantly offset by the expiration of other charges being billed on a temporary basis, including the recently approved fuel and ad valorem tax increases totaling $5.57. The net impact on typical customer bills is expected to be less than .75 cents, or less than .03 cents a day. Entergy Mississippi is not asking for an increase in its allowed shareholder rate of return on equity.
"We work hard to keep rates low and do not take any rate increase lightly," said Fisackerly. "With the proposed increase, Entergy Mississippi rates are expected to remain both below the national average and among the lowest residential rates in the state and the Southeast."
The national average residential rate per 1,000 kWh is $122.60, according to the U.S. Department of Energy's latest figures. Based on expected fuel costs and current projections, Entergy Mississippi's residential rate in January will be approximately $114.36.
Despite increasing costs from more numerous and stringent federal regulations and flat sales growth since 2008's economic downturn, Entergy Mississippi has been able to keep rates low through the years by reducing overhead costs and making smart power planning decisions. The proposed rate case will help Entergy continue this trend.
Entergy Mississippi, Inc. provides electricity to more than 441,000 customers in 45 counties. It is a subsidiary of Entergy Corporation. Entergy Corporation is an integrated energy company engaged primarily in electric power production and retail distribution operations. Entergy owns and operates power plants with approximately 30,000 megawatts of electric generating capacity, including more than 10,000 megawatts of nuclear power, making it one of the nation's leading nuclear generators. Entergy delivers electricity to 2.8 million utility customers in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas. Entergy has annual revenues of more than $11 billion and approximately 14,000 employees.
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Forward-looking statements involve a number of risks and uncertainties. There are factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in the forward-looking statements, including (a) those factors discussed in this release and in: (i) Entergy Corporation and subsidiaries' most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K, any subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and (ii) Entergy Corporation and subsidiaries' other reports and filings made under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934; (b) uncertainties associated with rate proceedings, formula rate plans and other cost recovery mechanisms; (c) uncertainties associated with efforts to remediate the effects of major storms and recover related restoration costs; (d) nuclear plant relicensing, operating and regulatory risks, including any changes resulting from the nuclear crisis in Japan following its catastrophic earthquake and tsunami; (e) legislative and regulatory actions and risks and uncertainties associated with claims or litigation by or against Entergy Corporation and its subsidiaries and (f) economic conditions and conditions in commodity and capital markets during the periods covered by the forward-looking statements, in addition to other factors described elsewhere in this release and subsequent securities filings.
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So Mr. Commish has finally admitted that if there is no agreement reached by Sept. 15, he will most likely impose a lockout....again. Link is from ESPN...BLAH....but the point is still there.
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Painting a room is always an easy and cost-effective way of sprucing up a home. Take things to the next level by painting stripes on the wall of your entryway to add interest or in your child's room for a little whimsy. In fact, painted stripes can take any space from sophisticated to playful, or anything in between.
Home Depot's Joe Autry and Scott Krueger share the nine steps to create a successful striped paint job.
Step 1: Choose Vertical or Horizontal Stripes
A subtle striping technique, with alternating flat and glossy stripes, can add perceived dimension to a room. They are classic, elegant and never go out of style. Horizontal stripes make a room appear more spacious. Vertical stripes make the ceiling appear higher.
Step 2: Prep Work
First paint a base coat on the walls. For stripes, that's really important because the base coat will be one of the stripes. Use a flat paint that is exactly the same color as the stripe to be painted on. It's also important that the base coat dry for 48 hours before you start to work on the stripes.
Step 3: Measure and Mark the Walls
After the base coat is completely dry, begin measuring and marking the walls for the stripes.
Measure the wall, starting in the corner that's least seen.
Next, divide the wall. Stripes should be between 4" and 12" wide. Place the first strip of tape in that obscure corner where you began measuring.
Step 4: Make a 'Tape' Measure
Make a "tape legend" for easy measuring. First tear off a strip of low-tack painter's tape, 4' to 6' long. Stick it to the wall for easy handling and using a tape measure, mark it with dots corresponding to the width of the stripes you wish to paint. This will keep you from having to measure each stripe as you tape the wall.
Step 5: Press the Strip of Tape to the Wall
Place the end dot on the tape you've already applied to the wall and press the strip to the wall.
Next, use a laser level to shoot a beam onto the second dot. Pull the tape loose at that point. The beam from the level will show you exactly where to place the next strip of tape
Step 6: Adjust the Width
It's unlikely that the measurements will work out perfectly. Any small differences won't be seen because you started in an obscure corner. If you want to be more exact, adjust the width of the stripes on the last wall. A 1/4" to 1/2" difference won't be visible to the eye.
Step 7: Burnish the Wall
Burnish wall with burnisher (a credit card works too) to seal the tape edges so no paint seeps underneath the tape.
Step 8: Paint Over the Tape
Paint over the tape line with a semigloss paint, making sure to cover the entire area of each stripe (anything missed will show up as a contrast in sheens). One coat should be enough.
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Teacher Turnover and Teacher Shortages: An Organizational Analysis
January 09, 2002
Richard M. Ingersoll, American Educational Research Journal, Fall 2001
In this review published in the American Educational Research Journal, Penn education sociologist Richard M. Ingersoll pokes imaginatively into the question of whether high teacher turnover rates arise from immutable demographic shifts, fundamental supply shortages, individual teacher characteristics, or organizational characteristics of the schools themselves. Mind you, he went in search of the latter. And he found some interesting evidence that various school characteristics cause lots of teachers to leave (about 15% per year of late). He concludes that "School staffing problems are primarily due to excess demand resulting from a 'revolving door' - where large numbers of qualified teachers depart their jobs for reasons other than retirement." He thus partakes of the field's common assumption that teaching ought to be a lifetime career, not something that one simply does for a while before or after doing something else. But if you share his assumption, you must be alarmed by his conclusion that no supply-enhancing efforts in K-12 teaching can possibly succeed until and unless steps are taken to curb the "excess demand" that he identified. (Incidentally, the highest turnover rates he found are not in public schools at all but in small private schools.) What is going on? Ingersoll says that "Retirement accounts for a relatively small number of departures, a moderate number of departures are reported due to school staffing actions, a larger proportion of teachers indicate they depart for personal reasons [e.g. health, family], and an even larger proportion report that they depart either because they are dissatisfied with their jobs or in order to seek better jobs or other career opportunities." Policy makers should ponder these findings, which suggest that many sources of teacher turnover are, or could be, amenable to policy intervention. You can get a copy by emailing email@example.com or by calling 202-223-9485.


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It would appear that due to a bug in EnableVisualStyles you have to call Application.DoEvents after the call to Application.EnableVisualStyles or your image lists won't work properly any more. Hope this helps someone.
Using a new beta of SharpMT today. It's excellent - easily the MT blog tool of choice at the moment. Thanks Randy!
The new web site contains a Mailing Lists page where you can subscribe to the following lists:
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Just confirmed that I'll be going to the Microsoft PDC this year - my first visit. I'm really quite excited about it, and looking forward to finding out about all the cool new buzzword technologies. Are you going?
I've revamped the web site for Programmers Notepad completely, mainly to include information about PN2, but also to move to a much cleaner implementation. The old website was mostly built with classic HTML - font tags and all. The new web site is all designed using style sheets. It's not "beautiful", but it's an improvement. The best thing is that now it's done with stylesheets the design can be changed much more easily - anyone got any ideas?!
I also replaced all e-mail links with a javascript workaround - not pretty but it will help to reduce my spam load a bit. Most that I get is from addresses on that website. I had started doing this before but it's almost complete now.
The web site is 90% complete. The FAQ is missing and will be re-added, and the list of new articles on the front page is not there yet - I need to wire that back up with CityDesk.
Let me know what you think!
Alex Pierson has contributed a block sort plugin for PN1, it can be downloaded here. Thanks Alex, and sorry it took me so long to get around to sorting this out.
Free ASP.NET service from Microsoft to allow you to administer MSDE and SQL Server databases. Download from here. It's my useful tool of the day.
I tried two different add-ins for VS.NET that run NUnit test inside of visual studio. The first is NUnit-Addin by Jamie Cansdale. This installed and just worked, the output from the tests was text format and shown in a "Test" part of the output docker. The only thing I really missed from this tool was being able to see a list of the tests and run individual ones.
The other add-in that I tried was called TestRunner and I found it on mailframe.net. This tool claimed to show a nice graphical view of the tests that could be run similar to the NUnit gui. Unfortunately I just couldn't get this add-in to work at all, and it also required a specific reference to its own build of the NUnit assemblies - not something I was happy to do.
NUnit-Addin - Recommended.
I've begun work on the projects implementation and also a text-clips window in the past week or so. Text-clips are very simple and are now 50% complete. Projects are about 2% complete! I know roughly what I'm trying to achieve:
Multiple files per folder (duh!).
Multiple nested folders in each project.
Multiple projects per "solution" or project group.
Then there is project build (or tools) configuration which will hopefully go something along the lines of: Projects in PN2.
It'll take a while to get this right, so bear with me. I'll try and post some screenshots of all these developments when I get a moment. There have been some more find changes by Bjoern Graf too.


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Anti-HS2 campaigner to stand as Independent in Perivale (From Ealing Times)
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Updated 6:06pm Thursday 6th February 2014 in Local News By Melissa Massey
ALEX Nieora, is hoping to build on his community work to become an independent voice for Perivale in this year's Ealing borough elections.
Mr Nieora, 30, chairman of North Ealing Against HS2 since January 2012, is planning to stand as an Independent candidate on May 22.
He said: "Because of my HS2 campaign, but also after helping to organise the Perivale Music and Light Festival last November (attended by 1,500 people) and other campaign work I have done, I now have a great following in Perivale."
Perivale is currently represented by two Labour and one Conservative councillors.
Each of Ealing's 23 wards will be able to elect three candidates to represent them on the currently Labour-run council.
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DELAHOYA SAYS MAYWEATHER AFRAID OF ALVAREZ, afraid to fight him???
DELAHOYA SAYS MAYWEATHER AFRAID OF ALVAREZ, afraid to fight him???
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Every time someone pulls that "X is scared to fight Y" shit, I roll my eyes.
The only fighters for whom that can be legitimately said are guys who, even if you win against them, put you in real physical danger due to the abuse you take.
Mike Tyson ? Yes.
Sonny Liston ? Yes.
George Foreman ? Yes.
A young Manny Pacquiao below 135 lbs. ? Yes.
We're talking about extremely powerful punchers, with good chins and a vicious mentality.
Who the fuck has Canelo absolutely destroyed like any of the fighters named above ? He's good good skills and decent ability, but let's get real.
He has NOT done anything "fear"-inducing.
Precisely Max. But the hype machine is so good...so consuming. People begin to believe the improbable. And they trust what they hear and read in a business that can be so unscrupulous...
I've seen fighters before that I would say fight with a kind of nervous energy (skittishness even)...but truly, how can anyone who laces up gloves and enters a small space for the purpose of laying on hands (and being handled) by another strong and intent athlete be thought of as scared. Especially when they're making a career doing what 99% of the populous would/could never do. And on the elite level, no less. I'm not buying that either.
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General Morphology
Subfamily OPHIONINAE
By Ian D. Gauld & David B. Wahl
The Ophioninae includes the large orange-brown species that are commonly found at night flying around lights. All nocturnally active ichneumonids are pale, slender with long antennae and legs -- but not all are ophionines. Most commonly, species of the nocturnal tryphonine genus Netelia are mistaken for them, but these are readily distinguishable (see here). Ophionines can be found almost everywhere, and because they come to light they are easily collected in quite large numbers. Most museums and insect collections will have many specimens. Although the group is classified in 33 genera worldwide, the overwhelming majority of species encountered in the New World belong two genera: Ophion which predominates in temperate areas and on tropical mountain tops, and Enicospilus, a vast, primarily tropical genus. However, not all ophionines are nocturnal, and species of two day-flying genera, Thyreodon and Rhynchophion, occur in America. Both comprise mostly large, dark (blue, blue-black or reddish-brown) species, many of which mimic aggressive aculeates such as the pompilid Pepsis. A few species of Thyreodon occur in North America, but the greatest diversity of the group is in tropical latitudes (Gauld & Janzen, 2004) where the group has apparently radiated to exploit the caterpillars of humming-bird hawkmoths (Sphingidae: Macroglossinae). Although the large dark species do not obviously closely resemble the nocturnal species, they are easily recognized as ophionines by the characteristic fore wing venation.
Classification and diversity
There have been three major classifications proposed for the genera of Ophioninae (Cushman, 1947; Townes, 1971; Gauld 1985). The first author recognized three groups of genera, the Ophion, Thyreodon and Enicospilus genus-groups. Townes (1971) subsequently amalgamated Cushman's Thyreodon and Enicospilus generic groups and recognized two tribes, the Ophionini (= the Ophion genus-group) and the Enicospilini (= the Thyreodon + Enicospilus genus-groups). Gauld (1985) pointed out that whilst Townes's Enicospilini was monophyletic, his Ophionini was a paraphyletic assemblage. In order to create a more phylogenetic classification, Gauld arranged the 32 World genera of Ophioninae into five monophyletic genus-groups: the Ophion, Sicophion, Eremotylus, Thyreodon, and Enicospilus genus-groups. The first three genus-groups more or less correspond to the Ophionini sensu Townes, whilst the Thyreodon and Enicospilus genus-groups constitute that Enicospilini sensu Townes. The large Enicospilus genus-group was further divided by Gauld into five subgroups: the Orientospilus, Ophiogastrella, Stauropoctonus, Leptophion and Enicospilus genus-subgroups.
The Old World genera Hellwigia Gravenhorst and Skiapus Morley were treated as a tribe, Hellwigiini, in Campopleginae by Townes and later authors (Townes, 1970; Wahl, 1991) (but note that Horstmann (1969) raised the tribe to subfamilial status). Miah (1998) could not recover the tribe within the campoplegines, with his analysis indicating "its separate identity as a member of Ophioniformes group with affinities with Ophioninae and other subfamilies but not with Campopleginae." Quicke et al. (2005) recovered the two genera in or near the Ophioninae, never forming a monophyletic group. Hellwigia consistently nested deep within the Ophioninae in the combined morphological and molecular data sets, but Skiapus was the sister-group to Ophioninae; in the molecular data sets, Skiapus was erratic in its position. We accept Hellwigia as an ophionine but incertae sedis within the subfamily. Skiapus is problematical and cannot currently be assigned to a subfamily with any certainty. It should be treated as incertae sedis within the Ophioniformes.
Worldwide, there are 1025 described ophionine species (Yu & Horstmann, 1997), 48 of which are found in the Nearctic region (Carlson, 1979; Gauld, 1988a; Leblanc, 1989).
The general biology of Ophioninae
Ophionines are solitary koinobiont endoparasitoids of the larvae of other holometabolous insects. Virtually all rearings are from Lepidoptera, although a Nearctic species of Ophion is known to parasitize a coleopteran larva (Townes, 1971) and a European species has occasionally been recorded from a sawfly host (Thompson, 1957). The most usual hosts are moth larvae that feed exposed on vegetation, especially species of the families Noctuidae, Lasiocampidae, Lymantriidae, Saturniidae, Geometridae, Arctiidae, and Sphingidae. The larvae of Rhopalocera and Microlepidoptera are seldom attacked.
Adult ophionines occur in almost all habitats. Large numbers of species are crepuscular or strictly nocturnal (Rohlfs & Mack, 1985b). These insects are most frequently encountered at light, but sometimes they may be observed at dusk visiting flowers. Occasionally nocturnal species can be found roosting on the underside of leaves during the day. The diurnal ophionine species are more conspicuous and may often be encountered feeding from flowers or flying amongst shrub layer vegetation. Diurnally active koinobionts are probably exposed to a greater array of potential predators than are nocturnal species (Gauld, 1987), so it is not surprising to observe that many diurnal ophionines have protective devices. Some are aposematically coloured and resemble agressive aculeates. For example, Rhynchophion flammipennis is bluish-black with orange, black-tipped wings and in flight looks extremely like some species of Pepis (Pompilidae). Others, such as Thyreodon species, have elaborate flanges that guard the cervical membranes, and probably offer protection against asilid predators, whilst a few Thyreodon species have sharp processes on the mesoscutum which may serve to deter vertebrate predators.
Adult female ophionines are not known to feed on prospective hosts (Jervis & Kidd, 1986).
All the females I (IDG) have dissected (12 species) are apparently pro-ovigenic, that is they emerge from the pupa with a full complement of more or less mature eggs. Most individuals have between 7 and 30 mature eggs in each of their lateral oviducts. I have seen three individuals with one or no eggs present, suggesting further oocytes do not develop during active adult life. Rohlfs & Mack (1985a) observed that adult females of Ophion flavidus commenced oviposition within 24 hours of emerging from the pupa. Oviposition is into the host larva and is accomplished rapidly by the female straddling the host and thrusting her ovipositor forwards, into the host (Vickery, 1929). The ovipositor is withdrawn almost immediately. The ophionine egg is cylindrical, slightly curved, and pale coloured. No sign of paralysis has been observed in newly parasitized hosts. Many ophionines oviposit into relatively mature larvae in their third or fourth (Vickery, 1929), or fourth or fifth instar (Moutia & Courtois, 1952; Rohlfs & Mack, 1985a), though some species attack young larvae (Price, 1975). Generally a single egg is deposited free in the haemocoel. No species of ophionine are known to develop gregariously. It is not known if ophionines inject viral particles or physiology-manipulating venoms into their hosts. However, they may do so since species of the related Campopleginae are known to do both (Vinson & Stoltz, 1986), as are species in other subfamilies in the lineage to which the Ophioninae belong (Stoltz et al., 1981). The ichneumonid egg hatches to produce a caudate first instar larva (Clausen, 1940) that lives in the haemocoelic cavity of the host (Moutia & Courtois, 1952). In most cases it is not known what effect parasitization has on the host caterpillar, although parasitized hosts are sometimes, but not necessarily, smaller than healthy ones. One species of Ophion has been shown to depress host-larval food consumption (Rohlfs & Mack, 1983).
An ophionine may have three or more larval instars, though this facet of their biology requires closer investigation as it is notoriously difficult to assess the number of instars that endoparasitoids undergo (Rojas-Rousse & Benoit, 1977). Post first instar ophionine larvae are hymenopteriform in appearance (Clausen. 1940). The ophionine larva usually does not kill its host until after the host larva is fully grown, and often after it has spun a cocoon or constructed some other form of pupation retreat. The fully grown parasitoid larva eats out all the body tissue and fluids of the host, leaving only the cephalic capsule and cuticle (Vickery, 1929 and IDG pers. obs.). The final instar larvae of Ophioninae are typical endoparasites (Short, 1978): 1) the antenna is disc-shaped and lacks a central papillus, 2) the epistomal suture is unsclerotized, 3) the mandible is fairly small and without denticles on the blade, 4) the labral sclerite is absent, and 5) the spiracular closing apparatus is adjacent to the atrium. Ophionine larvae are unique for the combination of an elongate and ovoid labial sclerite, and numerous (20+) setae scattered over the labial region.
Generally the final instar larva destroys the host prior to its pupation, and the wasp larva then spins a thick cocoon within the host cocoon or in the host's pupation chamber in the soil (Rohlfs & Mack, 1985a). One Palaearctic species of Ophion is unusual in that it spins a cocoon within the host pupa (Brock, 1982), whilst an American species of Enicospilus kills its host as a fully grown larva and spins a cocoon within the unbroken host larval skin (Hancock, 1926). The cocoons are rather characteristic, being dark brown ovoids with a pale circumferential stripe. Like many other Hymenoptera (Gauld & Bolton, 1988), ophionines apparently have a brief pupal instar. A considerable amount of the time the ophionine spends within its cocoon may be passed as a final instar larva, and species which enter prolonged 'pupal' diapause probably do so as larvae. In north-western Europe one species of Ophion which emerges very early in spring passes the winter as a (?pharate) adult in the cocoon (Morley, 1915).
A great deal of work still needs to be undertaken on the host relationships of ophionines. It is very difficult to establish the real host range of any one species from the literature, as misidentifications of both parasitoids and hosts abound. Host lists of the type compiled by Thompson (1957) can be misleading as they simply collect all records, but fail to re-evaluate the evidence upon which each is based (see also Askew & Shaw, 1986). All too often one finds that several congeneric sympatric species of ophionine are listed as having identical or very similar host ranges. For example, in the U.S.A. the two fairly common large ophionines Enicospilus americanus and E. glabratus were frequently confused in early literature, and they are both recorded from a similar range of saturniid, arctiid and lymantriid hosts (Hooker, 1912). Closer study has suggested that the former species only attacks saturniid larvae, whilst the latter is restricted to the larvae of arctiids and lymantriids (Gauld, 1988a).
The evidence presently available indicates that there is a wide range of host specificity amongst species of Ophioninae. Many will attack a variety of hosts within a given family. The Central American species Thyreodon atriventris is believed to parasitize a range of sphingid larvae, but it has never been reared from similar-sized sympatric larvae belonging to other families (Janzen, pers. comm.). Other ophionines are more restricted in their host range, such as to hosts of a single subfamily; Thyreodon santarosae is only known to parasitize ceratocampine saturniids (Porter, 1986; Gauld, 1988b). Other species are believed to have an even more restricted host range and some apparently are monophagous. For example, Enicospilus lebophagus has only been reared from the saturniid Rothschildia lebeau despite intensive rearing of other sympatric possible hosts (Janzen, pers. comm.; Gauld 1988a).
Medium-sized to large ichneumonids, fore wing length 6-29 mm. Labrum generally exposed. Clypeus usually weakly convex, separated from supraclypeal area by epistomal suture (suture rarely obsolescent); apex truncate, slightly concave, or convex, never with a median tooth or teeth. Mandible bidentate, sometimes twisted. Ocelli almost always large, posterior ones separated from eyes by less than their maximum diameter. Occipital carina usually complete, rarely completely absent. Antenna generally very long and slender, often with more than 55 flagellomeres; males without tyloids. Ventral posterior corner of propleuron without strongly produced lobe. Pronotum with epomia absent. Mesoscutum usually sparsely punctate; notauli weak to obsolescent. Sternaulus absent. Posterior transverse carina of mesothoracic venter complete or interrupted before middle coxa. Propodeal carinae varying from complete to having only anterior transverse carina present and the posterior part coarsely sculptured; very rarely without carinae. Legs slender. Fore tibia lacking a dorsal apical tooth. Tibial spurs very long, usually unequal. Tarsal claws long, pectinate to apices. Fore tibia lacking a dorsal apical tooth. Fore wing without areolet (2/Rs absent), vein 3rs-m distad vein 2m-cu; 2nd subdiscal cell with adventitious vein, originating at vein 2/1A, and paralleling wing margin; discosubmarginal cell often with anterior glabrous area and sclerotized inclusions. Hind wing with vein 2/Rs straight to curved, longer than vein 1r-m; vein 2-Cu always present in New World species. Metasomal insertion on propodeum between hind coxae. Metasoma strongly laterally compressed. Metasomal segment 1 long and slender, T1 and S1 fused and without trace of tergosternal suture; spiracles near apex and glymmae absent. Ovipositor short and straight, about as long as apical metasomal depth (longer only in a few Old World species); dorsal subapical notch usually present. Body colour usually brownish orange to yellowish.
The genera of Ophioninae present in the Nearctic Region
Identification and resources
The majority of ophionines are eassily recognized as they are moderately large, orange-brown insects with large ocelli, long legs and long slender antennae. However, they may be confused with other nocturnal ichneumonoids, but are easily separable by several obvious features, especially of wing venation. A few species of ophionines belonging to Thyreodon and Rhynchophion are diurnal and blackish in color, but these may be recognized by their characteristic venation as described in the diagnosis above.Key to Nearctic and Central American Genera of Ophioninae
Ophionine Wing Venation
How to Recognize Ophioninae
Hymenoptera Online Database (HOD)
Currently there are no modern traditional keys to the majority of Nearctic species, except for one species-group of Enicospilus to which Gauld (1988a) gave a key for Eastern North American species.
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Giorgio Bonmassar, Eric L. Schwartz, "Space-Variant Fourier Analysis: The Exponential Chirp Transform," IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 19, no. 10, pp. 1080-1089, October, 1997.
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Abstract—Space-variant, or foveating, vision architectures are of importance in both machine and biological vision. In this paper, we focus on a particular space-variant map, the log-polar map, which approximates the primate visual map, and which has been applied in machine vision by a number of investigators during the past two decades. Associated with the log-polar map, we define a new linear integral transform, which we call the exponential chirp transform. This transform provides frequency domain image processing for space-variant image formats, while preserving the major aspects of the shift-invariant properties of the usual Fourier transform. We then show that a log-polar coordinate transform in frequency (similar to the Mellin-Transform) provides a fast exponential chirp transform. This provides size and rotation, in addition to shift, invariant properties in the transformed space. Finally, we demonstrate the use of the fast exponential chirp algorithm on a database of images in a template matching task, and also demonstrate its uses for spatial filtering. Given the general lack of algorithms in space-variant image processing, we expect that the fast exponential chirp transform will provide a fundamental tool for applications in this area.
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February 26, 2008
PS: Asylum
In this investigation the PRS team visits the Willard Rehab facility in New York, which used to be a Mental Institution. The reports from the staff were fairly impressive, involving a number of different employees and some harrowing experiences including one case where the witness said they not only saw a woman appear in an otherwise empty hallway near them, but she apparently screamed at him before vanishing.
I was doubly excited to see Chip Coffey called in again to consult, but quickly realized that the setting was just all wrong for a psychic experiment. Not that Chip reported any impressions that were inaccurate, everything he said seemed to make sense but then again from the size and layout of the place it wouldn't have been hard to guess it used to be an asylum and many of the other inferences just follow naturally.
There was some reported contact with a spirit named Lucy, as well as some difficulty matching this "Lucy" up with a former employee — if Chip had managed to glean a last name that was verifiable that would have been impressive, but alas it was not to be. And on the off-chance Chip stops by to tell me it doesn't work that way, I'm sure it doesn't — just saying it would have been impressive. I'm also sure it won't be too long before he does have another chance to seriously impress us as he has in the past.
But there was a standout star in this investigation and it was a newcomer (to the show). Chris Moon brought a "Frank's Box", which runs on a random voltage generator and supposedly allows spirits to speak in a way that allows us to actually hear them speaking. During the investigation we see the Paranormal State team ask for a name and the name "Lucy" is clearly audible coming out of the box without delay. In fact there were a number of incidents where we see a question asked and an answer to the question seems to come from the box.
Now, this box isn't new and Chris Moon didn't invent it — although some might say it's "his thing". Ryan acknowleges that it is controversial when he explains they are bringing it into the investigation. I'm not well versed on the controversy (and anyone who is, by all means please fill us in — I'm sure we're all very curious. Also, if someone has a link to some Frank's Box footage that will blow us away, feel free to share) but from what I've seen in uncut footage there is one obvious problem: The box simply doesn't produce clear spoken answers regularly — although some operators like Chris will interpret very minute fluctuations and repeat what they heard, so the hit rate (as in, hit or miss) seems to be pretty high but I think most people wouldn't hear answers in most of those supposed hits.
That's not to necessarily say in a definitive way that there aren't actually any responses there to interpret, but if we're going to try approaching this scientifically there can't be a whole lot of doubt as to whether or not we actually heard a voice and what it said. I should also note that the machine does seem to produce voices fairly regularly, but most of them are impossible to nail down exactly what was said which means it could have been a stray radio signal or something else.
Ultimately though, it is hard to dismiss some of the more solid hits (like asking "What is your name?" and hearing, "Lucy") but there is also the old saying that if you put a dozen monkeys in a room full of typewriters long enough eventually you will get a Shakespeare play. Similarly, the impressiveness of some of the clear "responses" from a Frank's box is diluted by the sheer number of unimpressive responses — although I would agree some of them still seem impressive even knowing how rare they are.
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5:42 pm@
(To whomever just submitted a comment re: Chris Moon explaining how a Frank's Box works, please resubmit your comment, it was accidentally deleted — Sorry!)
9:05 pm@
I lived in Willard and still live in the area. My mother went to nursing school there and worked on the grounds at the OTHER (older) drug treatment center (Van Dyke Addiction Treatment Center) since the 1970s. She has stories of ghostly activity (a woman in red) but in her 30 years of time there never once experienced anything herself.
The grounds for Willard's Pysche Center is massive. The problem with the investigation done by PS was that that only went to ONE building and a lot of the activity my mother knew about happened in other sections that aren't currently on prison grounds.
I didn't care for how they played up the aspect of Willard being notoriously uncaring or hurtful to the patients. In fact, as far as I've known from many people who worked there from the 40s on up it was one of the best centers in the Northeast.
It was interesting that the one person they didn't interview would have been the most knowledgable. She was briefly seen in the graveyard scene. This person was contacted by PS for a lengthy interview but it never aired. I'm guessing it wasn't 'juicy' enough and didn't portray the site in the way they wanted.
The whole thing had the air of a circus act, honestly.
3:28 pm@
Having been a professional in the mental health field for some time, the irony leaps out when they have a ceremony with friends and family to honor the dead. I have to wonder where these "friends and family" were when the patients were alive and the contact would've been more meaningful?
11:03 pm@
My mother worked as a Pharmacist at Willard for the final 15yrs it was open. I spent many hours on the campus just strolling around (my girlfriends father was head of security at the time). I went to church services there and watched movies on Saturdays. I don't remember any of the "hall" names any more, but I've been all over that place and never actually saw or heard anything (and teenagers are prone to creative stories). The oddest thing I ever saw was after a church service, we were leaving the grounds and a patient actually laid on top of our car hood. Not exactly possessed or haunted, but at 15yrs old it kinda freaked me out. I spent a ton of hours walking around that place after dark and never experienced anything at all (just a gorgeous sunset at the bottom of the hill).
10:03 pm@
i was wondering were i can see the video of the willard drug treatment center haunting i have heard so much about it but am having a hrd time finding it or even the name of the book writen about the place.
4:12 pm@
Paranormal State can be found for viewing here. http://www.extremeghosthunters.com/
Scroll down a bit. Enjoy.
10:02 pm@
I was unfortunately incarcerated at the Willard correctional facility from November 2007 until February 2008 during which I guess was the time the investigation was taking place. I still have not seen the footage and there is absolutely no need. I myself had multiple paranormal experiences with the worst being woken up to my bed sliding followed by being tapped in the leg. That place is beaming with activity. I ended up working in the building that was actually filmed in and never really had a distinctive experience besides being really creeped out with how scary that place is. If the prison ever closes again, someone should seriously pursue investigating those buildings. I guarantee they would not miss what they were looking for. F'ing CREEPY!!
9:21 pm@
I was incarcerated their and heard many stories of the place being haunted, never once experienced anything, but beieve in paranormal activity. I would like fot zac from ghost adventures to ivestagate the premesis. He's good at what he does
11:07 am@
Aj Gordon, I would like to hear your full story. We investigated several buildings there and did intensive interviews with the staff! We found that Paranormal States results lack substance and proof. I have heard from staff about the things going on inside the wire and would love the inmates story! Please feel free to contact me at portcityparanormal.com. Thanks in advance! Doug
1:54 pm@
hi guys i knew drom the start that place was haunted i alsopickedup on the ghost lucy bless her she wanted out of that place the evil in the asylum was awful please respect PRS they know what there doing there very professoinal
2:40 pm@
Andrew, I agree with you. The Asylum was the best of it's kind. We have done extensive research on this facility and talked to folks who worked there and some that work for the DOC. We have papers from professionals in the field and they seem to agree that is provided the best care possible. There are no demons there as paranormal State would have you believe. They did one building. We actually did 4 and a full day walk around. We recorded hundreds of EVP. Some were crazy, some were sad. But most were friendly. It is an amazing place with a rich history!Thanks and stay in touch. Much more to come!
2:48 pm@
Paranormal State: The Asylum. It was an episode. It was very sketchy and had no real evidence of anything. Frank's Box is not evidence! Paranormal State…..Ryan Beull sees demons everywhere. We spent a lot of time there and got tons of voices. It is very haunted but now it is off limits to all groups because of State Regs and some idiot vandals. We have stayed very low key because of requests by state facilities! If you want to know more e-mail us!
7:16 pm@
while on a tour of willard asylum I took many photos with my full spectrum camera . while in the theater i felt a presence there I walked to the back of the theater and I snapped many photos . I captured photo of a women in a white dress looking down from the cat walk of the theater . its on my website ghosthuntersofthefingerlakes.com I tryed to get in for a full investigation but was denied . its funny I got more evidence then most groups just doing a quick walk tour of willard . I hear I capture lucy a nurse that had been seen by many people that worked in willard aslum . but its only what I have been told by people that know of lucy and by people that live nearby .
8:03 pm@
Peter, How do you know it was Lucy you recorded? Did she give her name? The only Lucy associated with the Asylum is easily looked up on line. She was a patient. we did an original 55 minute walk around and got 28 EVP. That was a year before we did our full investigation there. When we returned, we got over 150 EVP as well as some striking video and personal experiences that were a bit extreme! And guess what? Ryan Buells demons don't live there! Glad you got to get a glimpse of this place. We are still doing research on the it and will be doing so for some time! we were lucky to get in when Mr. Williams was Supt. The guy there now is by the book and will prosecute tresspassers! Take care!
9:45 am@
I to have been at Hillary once in 2007 and again in 2012 i have seen the woman in white seen lids fly down thehall and have been grabbed buy something that doesn't like to be bothered. Di rauche talks to Lucya lot there has been girls that have seen the girl spirit in the iron room and other things that have gone on there it is haunted¡!!!!!!!!!!!!
4:10 pm@
Port City Paranormal investigated there over two years. We have a ton of EVP as well as personal experiences. The grounds are haunted but there are no demons like PRS states. They are inmates and staff there but there are no demons. PRS is full of crap!
4:15 pm@
PRS has no idea of what is there. There are no demons. Ryan Buell has his own demons but there are none at the asylum. He does not understand the difference between mental patients and demons. You are in death what you were in life. We did a much more extensive investigation there over 2 years. They really have no idea what they are talking about!
4:01 pm@
this is bull it is not real
1:32 pm@
Joey, What is bull? What is not real? Just wondering what you are refering to!
5:23 pm@
During the 3 months i was there i was touched in the leg by a spirit that had just woke me up out of my sleep by moving my entire double bunk bed, saw a good friend of mine, a grown man, bust out in tears because he just saw a woman appear and dissapear in a brightly lit hallway, not to mention countless other little reminders that they were there. This happened almost 5 years ago now and i remember it like it was yesterday. I put my son's life on it, its VERY REAL
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This issue often exists with laptops for a couple of reasons. The most common is if the laptop has a docking station. When docked, the laptop has a different hardware ethernet MAC address. The borrowed license is attached to this connection. When undocked, the hardware address is changed to the internal NIC and thus the license becomes invalid. This also happens if the user borrows while on the LAN NIC and then disables and goes WiFi (or vice versa.) In rare cases, like my laptop for example, my NLM is tied to the BlueTooth device. So when it is disabled, my licenses are invalid. In addition, the borrowed license is also attached to the user account. So even in events where the license is tied to the correct NIC, the user may login as a domain user while on the LAN and then login as a local account while offline. This can cause the same problematic result. To solve the problem, you need to determine what changes with the laptop when the user borrows the license and then leaves the network. Your solution will exist there.
The computer in question was connecting to our network with the built in wireless card when he borrowed the license. It is also setup to automatically log him into his user acount so that shouldn't have changed. Just to verify what you are saying.......If the wireless card is not active, he will get this error. Is that correct. The computer he is using is a Dell M6300 and I'm not sure if he has bluetooth on it or not. I'll tell him to make sure that both are active and we'll see if that helps. He's 12 or 13 hours ahead of us so I won't find out if it works until tomorrow.
Correct. The borrowed license is tied to a hardware MAC address. Whichever one it chooses to associate with when the borrowing occurs (and sometimes it isn't even the active NIC) will need to be active to ensure that the license can be used.
I seem to have encountered the same exact issue. I want to confirm that I'm not missing something here; I now have no possible way to get my offline user a license until he is able to reconnect to the license server. Correct?
If you are correct about the port replicator MAC address being the cause, this sounds like a huge flaw in FlexNET's license borrowing schema. The MAC address is a poor choice to use as a UID when the point of borrowing a license is to remove the network as a factor. The fact that it seems to select a random adapter is even more ridiculous.
Now that we know, I will advise my users to always disconnect from the port replicator and connect an Ethernet cable directly to their laptop before borrowing a license. That sounds like a PITA for them, but hopefully it helps.
Have I mentioned that Autodesk network licensing is killing me this week?
You are correct in stating that there is no way to get an offline user a borrowed license. Your only possible work-around would be to registry fix it back to stand-alone and see if it will run as a 30 day trial. Not much luck doing this though since 2010 was released.
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