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"Fish and Their Habitat" Coloring Pages Available for Download
November 09, 2010
Coloring pages about freshwater fish and their habitat are now available from www.outdooralabama.com, the website for the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (ADCNR). Alabama has more than 300 types of freshwater fish. The numerous types of freshwater habitats, the high number of river basins, Alabama's five geological provinces, and the high rainfall in Alabama contribute to a diversity of freshwater organisms. Links to the coloring pages may be found at, www.outdooralabama.com/fishing/freshwater/fish/link.
The purpose of the coloring pages is to help school children understand the diversity and uniqueness of Alabama's freshwater ecosystems. Third grade students learn about Alabama's unique freshwater habitats. Fourth grade students will study the state and learn about the five geological provinces in Alabama: Highland Rim, Cumberland Plateau, Ridge and Valley, Piedmont and Coastal Plain. Knowing there are unique fishes in each region helps make the five regions relevant to the students.
Coloring pages for habitats and fish are currently available for six species: largemouth bass, bluegill, vermilion darter, orangefin shiner, Tallapoosa shiner, and Alabama hog sucker. Officially Alabama's "State Freshwater Fish," the largemouth bass is found throughout Alabama. Bluegill is a colorful and popular sport fish found in more locations of Alabama than any other fish. An endangered species only found in Alabama, the vermilion darter is limited to the Turkey Creek basin just west of Birmingham. The orangefin shiner is a minnow that is common in the Coastal Plain of Alabama. Only found in the Piedmont of Alabama and Georgia, the Tallapoosa shiner is an orange and steel-blue colored minnow. The Alabama hog sucker is only found in the Mobile Basin; it is also the mascot of the new Alabama Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries Division (WFF) hands-on education program "Creek Kids" at Tannehill Ironworks Historical State Park.
The coloring pages are the result of WFF employees stepping beyond their usual job tasks. Julie Mitchell is a WFF administrative assistant; she drew the specific freshwater habitats and incorporated the fish outlines. Thomas Tarpley, a WFF biologist aide, drew some of the invertebrates on the coloring pages.
The Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (ADCNR) promotes wise stewardship, management and enjoyment of Alabama's natural resources through five divisions: Marine Police, Marine Resources, State Parks, State Lands, and Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries. To learn more about ADCNR, visit www.outdooralabama.com.


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Post: June 30 2012 4:30 pm By: Steve Davis
And of course, cultural multi-level selection does not apply only to humans.
Darwin pointed out that the intellectual differences between humans and other animals were differences of degree, not of kind.
Post: June 30 2012 6:33 pm By: Lynn O'Connor
Wonderful post, and it would be so obvious if many academics hadn't gone through decades of trashing group selection—but lets face it, the western faith in individualism forms an underpinning to this bias against group selection. I've worked with David Sloan Wilson, followed him for years, and our own research clearly indicates processes that involve group selection (competition between groups) as well as individual fitness (competition within groups). For two decades we've been studying empathy-based guilt (for example, survivor guilt broadly defined, how you feel when you see a beggar on the street or how you feel when you get a promotion while your friend gets laid off, or when you are happily married while your brother is miserable, married to an abusive wife), or a guilty-kind of worry about others due to "imaginary crimes." Survivor guilt is associated with cooperative behavior on one level (and one of David's students demonstrated this empirically)—that is it's a good thing for competition between groups, but it can be associated with depression, anxiety, etc, for the individual, so it is not necessarily so adaptive in competition within the group. Recently I posted on my Psychology Today blog, "Our Empathic Nature" describing our recent research on the role of this kind of guilt in forgiveness (again, something required on the level of between group competition). You can find other empirical studies on our lab's web site, http://www.eparg.org —Thanks for this post, I'm going to get your work.
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Post: July 2 2012 9:11 am By: Peter Turchin
Lynn, I think you are right in pointing to the western faith in individualism as one of the reasons why multilevel selection had to struggle so much for acceptance. That's probably why the selfish gene theory, but also rational choice theory and methodological individualism in social sciences have been such dominant paradigms. Another factor is that most people who live in western societies take cooperation for granted. They just don't realize how fragile it is, and that the fact that we are capable of cooperating in societies of millions of individuals is one of the greatest evolutionary puzzles.
Post: July 4 2012 2:08 pm By: Helga Vierich
After weeks of debating about the applicability of group selection to human culture, especially the human bio-cultural evolutionary dance, at the Richard Dawkins' Foundation website, I was startled to see Richard preface yet another essay from one of his supporters for "only" gene selection with the following plea:
"In the nicest possible way and with great respect, could I make two suggestions to would-be commenters, based on past experience when this topic has come up-
Please pause before offering your own common sense view. There are topics in science, of which this is one, where common sense is not a good guide. If it were, professional biologists would not have been arguing about it for five decades. There is a large back literature in which the likelihood is strong that whatever commonsense view you put forward has already been proposed and exhaustively discussed. As an analogy, common sense is notoriously misleading when we try to understand quantum mechanics. If you could do physics by common sense, we wouldn't need physicists. To a lesser extent, something like the same thing applies here.
Please note that Homo sapiens is a very peculiar species and probably not the best testbed for the theories under discussion. That is not to say that the theories under discussion will forever be irrelevant to human affairs. But the argument at hand is sufficiently difficult that it is worth trying to understand it and solve it, at least to begin with, without the additional complications that arise with human culture. It's not a bad idea to think about lions or ants or acorn woodpeckers as your model animal when trying to get to grips with these evolutionary theories.
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I stopped coming to the site from then on. I give up. He gets it, but he does not want to talk about it, I guess.
Post: July 14 2012 8:02 pm By: Helga Vierich
That said, I have a few quibbles with the material represented here by Peter Turchin. One obvious one is that he has ignored the evidence from forager ethnographies which strongly suggests that monogamy is widespread among them, especially in mobile populations. Since our evolution was dominated by this form of economic system, it seems unlikely that it was invented by the Romans. This is underscored by the fact that humans universally "fall in love". They tend to form intense emotional and sexual bonds, which MAY coincide with marriage, but often occur despite such previous culturally mandated arrangements. The sex drive is manifestly less emotionally powerful than this drive to form "pair" bonds (see http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=OYfoGTIG7pY&feature=user).
Secondly, and of greater import, is that "groups" (meaning more or less permanent and stable co-residential groups) are not actually typical of foragers, at least not on a local level. Foragers form temporary camping groups ("bands") that are fluid in membership and size. These camps move every few weeks or months, and often change membership with each move. there are clusters of such camps in a local region, which exchange members more often and are more closely related, but even then, different camp "clusters" tend to exchange members and personal through intermarriage and frequent back and forth visiting. Even the whole grouping comprising people speaking a common language is not without its links of gifting networks and intermarriage. The co=linguistic unit would be the one I would chose if asked to identify a "group" that the people themselves identify with. In my own particular fieldwork, among hunter-gatherer people in the Kalahari, each such linguistic entity numbered between 1200 and 3000 people. The smaller "camp cluster" between 130 and 180, and the camps between 15 and 50 (average 28).
If one is to try to apply multilevel selection to the models of human bio-cultural evolution before the neolithic "revolution", then, it would be most appropriate to apply it to the kinds of selection pressures that might have favoured one forger "group" over another. given that there is scant evidence of widespread violence - and almost none of warfare, in the ethnographic evidence from mobile foragers, not in the archaeological evidence, the role of cooperation and trade would seem to me to loom larger than the role of "collateral" competition featuring violence.
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Post: November 23 2013 8:20 pm By: Tim Tyler
The problem for group selection is not "history", but kin selection. Kin selection is widely accepted, and the best formulations of group selection makes no new predictions not also made by kin selection. Group selection's main contribution seems to be confusion and controversy - and these are not particularly useful or novel.


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STORMVILLE, N.Y. — A suggestion: Leave some extra travel time when you plan on visiting the Stormville Airport Flea Market. The GPS said it would take 42 minutes, but it did not allow for the traffic trying to get into the parking lot for the market. At 7:45 am, with the show opening at 8 am, the line of cars approaching the parking lot, from one direction only, was just short of a mile long, and it moved slowly. When leaving the market some 2½ hours later, the cars coming off the Stormville exit of I-84, heading for the parking lot, was even longer than before, measuring just over a mile.
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Ashlee Simpson has had a rough couple of days. Forget the run-in today with some overeager paparazzi -- last night her ex-boyfriend Josh gave her the oh-so-cold shoulder at an L.A. nightclub. ''I know this is really dorky,'' says the younger sib of pop tart Jessica, ''but when he was leaving I stood up and flipped him off. I was really mad. Really mad. He acted like he'd never met me before. I was like, 'Okay, I can't wait till you hear my album.''' Those familiar with MTV's ''The Ashlee Simpson Show'' know Josh as the dispassionate, driver's-capped cutie with the distinction of being the 19-year-old dancer-turned-actor-turned-singer's ''first heartbreak, first love, and, like, all that kind of stuff.''
Ashlee, the show and the singer, was devised by Simpson manager/patriarch/Svengali Joe. The series' aim is to chronicle the creation of -- and create buzz for -- Simpson's debut album, ''Autobiography,'' out July 20. Though she was initially against the idea (''I'd been around my sister's cameras, and I was like, 'There is no way that I'm going to do a reality show!'''), Dad prevailed, and his strategy seems to be working. The show, which premiered to 2.9 million viewers four weeks ago, continues to hold the majority of its lead-in, big sis Jessica's ''Newlyweds''; and Ashlee's first single, ''Pieces of Me,'' is No. 3 on the SoundScan charts.
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Meekly sandwiched between her showbiz dad and Schur, Ashlee -- who, true to Schur's wishes, has traded in her Jessica-like blond tresses for a wicked, Joan Jett-black dye job -- appears more at the mercy of powerful men. But the oft-overbearing Schur maintains that he was the victim of selective sound-biting and only had Ashlee's individuality in mind. ''Ashlee told me coming in: 'I don't want to be anything like that. I'm not like my sister. I like rock,''' he says. ''I knew there'd be times when she wouldn't understand me and would get pissed -- which she did -- and I don't care about that. My job is to make the record great.'' Simpson, who cowrote all the songs on the album, confirms: ''Jessica and I are like day and night. She grew up listening to Celine Dion and Mariah Carey. I grew up listening to Alanis Morissette and Green Day.'' By that standard, ''Autobiography'' is a success: It's a Pretenders-influenced pop-rock showcase of Ashlee's raspy, Courtney Love-lite delivery and packs enough vague-yet-honest teen-trospection to fill a 10th grader's diary.
Now effectively divorced from her two-year stint as sticky-sweet Cecilia on The WB's ''7th Heaven,'' Simpson will likely have more trouble differentiating herself from angst-ridden Avril than from her sister. But ''Autobiography'' producer John Shanks (Melissa Etheridge, Michelle Branch) dismisses any parallel. ''For a year it was like, Michelle, Vanessa, Avril,'' he says of Branch, Carlton, and Lavigne, ''which is like the Britney-Christina thing before that. Everybody wants to compare everybody. That's because they're too lazy to really listen to the whole record.''
As for Josh? ''Guys come and go,'' says Ashlee, who is now dating singer Ryan Cabrera, yet another Joe Simpson protégé, ''but you're the one that has to stay strong.'' She adds, giggling, ''Like, I got over him. I wrote 'Pieces of Me' about my new boyfriend.''


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I'm in the market for a Cooper hatchback. Every cooper I've ever tried has too harsh a ride, so my initial guess is I should go for the 2nd generation, base Cooper (not the Cooper S) with 15" wheels and without runflats. But I would rather like something faster. And I prefer the 1st generation. So I started looking on the forum, and learned that (1) Koni FSDs are a big improvement, (2) the JCW suspension is actually softer than the normal suspension because it's designed for big wheels, so if I use smaller wheels … , but (3) the 2nd generation Cooper S cannot use 15" wheels. Mostly good, but it leaves me with some questions:
Cooper vs Cooper S, and gen 1 vs gen 2: If one uses the FSD dampers and 16" wheels on all four of these cars, does one end up with the same ride quality, or do the S's and/or gen 1 cars have stiffer springs or other components?
And how would the gen 2 Cooper S on 16s compare to the others on 15s?
What about the JCWs on the smallest possible wheels? How would the gen 1 JCW (on 16s) and the gen 2 JCW (on 17s) compare to the above?
(I know that the gen 2 cars were available with optional sport suspensions. In this case (and in all other cases) I am of course only interested in the cars with the least stiff option. P.S. I know there was a sport suspension + ("SS+") option. Were there 2 other choices (normal and sport suspension ("SS")) or just one?)
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Hey guys, this is pretty accurate I'm sure! If you would like to know what the chords are (as in how to play them) or you have any other questions, then feel free to drop me Enjoy! VERSE 1: C2 You spread out the skies over empty space E7sus Said, "Let there be light" to a dark and formless world C2 D G/B Your light was born VERSE 2: C2 You spread out Your arms over empty hearts Em7 said, "Let there be light;" to a dark and hopeless world C2 Your Son was born PRE-CHORUS: Am7 G/B C2 You made the world and saw that it was good Am7 G/B C2 You sent Your only Son, for You are good CHORUS: D/F# C2 What a wonderful Maker Em7 What a wonderful Savior C2 How majestic Your whispers D/F# G and how humble Your love C2 With a strength like no other, Em7 and the heart of a Father C2 How majestic Your whispers D/F# Gsus G What a wonderful God VERSE 3: C2 No eye has fully seen how beautiful the Cross Em7 and we have only heard the faintest whispers of C2 How great You are
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School Troubles in a Booming Metropolis: Part 3 of 4 – Intergenerational Neighbourhoods and Housing Diversity
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Wrestling with the conundrum of why growing cities like Vancouver face declining public school enrolments, the first two posts in this series suggest links between municipal and regional populations of school-aged children and the affordability and suitability of family housing. Today's post explores the value of intergenerational communities in both urban and suburban contexts, and considers how housing diversity may influence demographics at the neighbourhood scale.
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Researching the dispersal of children across local neighbourhoods, the Curious Dad newspaper column found that Vancouver's east-side communities house the most young children, while … Continue Reading


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Kawasaki KE100
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As one of Kawasaki's best selling and enduring models, the KE100 has remained true to its simple mission of providing basic, enjoyable all-around transportation on the street or dirt.
Little Machine Proves to be a Big Seller
The Kawasaki KE100 has remained true to its simple mission of providing basic, enjoyable all-around transportation on the street or dirt. Its light weight and nimble handling inspire confidence in novice riders, and its longevity in the Kawasaki lineup has made this venerable dual purpose machine one of Kawasakis best selling models of all time.
The KE100 is powered by a simple 99cc air-cooled, two-stroke engine with hi-tech features such as Kawasakis exclusive Electrofusion cylinder that offers efficient heat dissipation and abrasion resistance, and a maintenance-free capacitor discharge ignition (CDI) system. Kawasakis Superlube oil injection system eliminates premixing fuel and oil, a common procedure with many two-stroke engines, and delivers the precise amount of lubrication to the engine for greater reliability.
The frame is made of high tensile steel and has a steel engine guard for off-road protection. A U.S. Forest Service-approved spark arrester assures the KE100 access to many wilderness roads designated for licensed vehicles.
At 187 pounds, the KE100s light weight and seat height of less than 32 inches make it simple to ride and helps give new riders confidence. The light weight also makes it easy to haul and has made it a favorite camping companion.
As has been proven over the years, the light weight and nimble handling, combined with a simple, durable design has made the Kawasaki KE100 a great dual-purpose companion for countless Kawasaki customers.
2-Stroke, Single Cylinder Engine
Thick piston crown for durability
Simple, powerful and reliable, a proven design that delivers hassle-free operation
Electrofusion Cylinder
Dissipates heat better and runs cooler than steel or iron lined cylinders
Allows closer engine tolerances for more power and quieter operation
Its hard and porous to resist wear and retain lubrication
Rotary Valve Induction
A simple and effective system, only one moving part
Allows very accurate intake timing for good power and fuel economy
The whole system, including the carburetor is enclosed, assuring maximum protection and cleanliness
Superlube Oil Injection
Eliminates the hassle of pre-mixing your oil and fuel
Oil delivery to the engine is precisely metered for greater reliability
Capacitor Discharge Ignition
Produces the extremely hot spark needed to ignite the air/fuel/oil mixture of a 2-stroke engine
Easy starting and reliability under extreme conditions
Requires no adjustment
Combined Voltage Regulator/Rectifier
Automatic voltage regulator protects the battery from over charging
Increases electrical system reliability and light bulb life
Universal Tires
Provide good traction on or off the road
Semi-Double Cradle Frame
Made of hi-tech, round section high tensile steel, strong yet light-in-weight metal used in our world-class motocross bikes
Steel Engine Guard
So you dont have to worry about the engine when the going gets interesting
Lighting and U.S.F.S. Approved Spark Arrester
Street-legal lighting with turn indicators so you dont have to be home by dark
Forestry-approved spark arrester keeps Smokey happy
Light Weight
Only 187 pounds, its nimble handling is terrific in traffic and wonderful in the woods
Ignition Switch Steering Lock
Very easy and convenient to lock and unlock the front forks
The Best of Both Worlds
The best of both worlds: You want a bike that's good in the dirt, and you
want it to be street legal for running into town or down the highway, too.
Kawasaki has the answer with do-it-all dual-purpose bikes that come packed
with exclusive features for you to explore new heights of on- and off-highway
riding and exploration.
The KE100 is one of the most enduring and best selling models offered from Kawasaki. Its rugged two-stroke engine is perfect for simple around town transportation or doing a little off-highway adventuring.
The all-new Super Sherpa redefines the dual purpose motorcycle. Not only is it built to tackle a wide range of terrain, but it is engineered to appeal to a broad spectrum of riders.
If you are looking for a lightweight four-stroke 250, then you'll be delighted with the KLR250. It's got the goods for on and off highway excursions, like plush long travel suspension and high ground clearance.
Or the KLR650. It takes you wherever, whenever in smooth, torquey comfort. And with its huge 6.1 gallon fuel tank, the journey continues long after the others stop. So make your own world perfect. On one of Kawasaki's impressive dual-purpose machines.
Engine Type
2-stroke, air-cooled Single
99 cc.
Bore x Stroke
49.5 x 51.8 mm.
Compression Ratio
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Rotary disc valve
Mikuni VM19SC
Electronic CDI
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Double-cradle high-tensile steel
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30 mm. center-axle hydraulic fork
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Dual hydraulic shocks with 5-way preload
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Tire Rear
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Brakes, Rear
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Dry Weight
187 pounds
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Chong, Mew Im (2007) Evaluation Of The Environmental Education Programme At The Forest Research Institute Malaysia. Masters thesis, Universiti Putra Malaysia.
The objective of this study was to evaluate the differences in environmental knowledge and attitude of 11 year old pupils who participated in a one-day environmental education (EE) programme conducted at Forest Research Institute Malaysia (FRIM), Kepong and the differences among three races – Malay, Chinese and Indian. Referring to a standard instrument called Children's Environmental Attitude and Knowledge Scale (CHEAKS), attitude and knowledge were the major scales measured to evaluate the EE programme. 'Verbal commitment', 'actual commitment' and 'affect' are the multiple-measure constructs for attitude that was measured in the programme. The study found that there was an increase in environmental knowledge and attitude but it did not last more than two weeks. Meanwhile, there were no consistent significant differences in respondents' environmental knowledge and attitude score between races. Overall, a one-day programme was found not to be effective in retaining pupils' environmental knowledge gained during the EE programme. From this study, it is recommended that EE programmes should be conducted in a longer duration and should include emotionally provocative elements.
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rivest266 on January 16, 2014 at 4:33 pm
Closed down in 2012 when Regal took over Great Escape but reopened during 2013.
TLSLOEWS on September 9, 2010 at 4:28 pm
I agree Mike,interesting looking semi-vertical sign though.
Mike Rogers on September 9, 2010 at 4:20 pm
I am amazed how some of these theatres look nothing like a movie house.Thanks for the picture.
Kmm1482 on August 19, 2010 at 2:59 pm
Does anyone know what year this theatre was built?
mitchdeighan on May 9, 2009 at 11:30 pm
I lived in Oxford from 1966 through about 1972 and have fond memories of the Talawanda!
ZookieFreddie on July 11, 2006 at 8:08 pm
I graduated from Talawanda High School in 1960 in the first class to complete all four years there. Throughout the years of 1950-1960, this was the Talawanda Theater.


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In a fascinating article full of interview snippets from Comic Con, we are given many significant hints about the fourth season of Fringe, including how we'll find Walter and Astrid, how the characters respond to the changed environment and what'll happen once (if) Peter returns.
For one thing, in the io9 article we are told by exec Jeff Pinkner in very clear terms that yes, the First People turned out to be Walter, and that's that:
We have a rule in that we never say we're done with anything. But as far as the First People being a mystery? Yes. Mystery solved.
However, there'll be plenty new mysteries to keep us occupied when the show picks back up – it's going to be "dimensionalized" (more than it already is, we presume), which will make the audience – in the writers' own eloquent words – go, "Oh."
We'll explore next season the "consequences" of Peter not only disappearing from but also returning to the show, and the article hints that Pinkner stopped himself listing "Who Joshua Jackson will be playing" as one of the mysteries surrounding Peter!
For Walter, a consequence of Peter not existing would be that it was Olivia who had to get him out of the hospital. As such, Noble reasons that, he needs her, because "she would still be under a condition of approval."
Jasika Nicole (Astrid) explains Walter's condition in a more detailed way:
[Olivia] and Walter have this arrangement that has been made. Walter is so very different, because he did not transition out of the institution into real life, and so because of that, he's really, really weird this season — even more so than he has been before, which I thought wasn't possible. But it's really sad. It's funny, but it's really sad… It's like he's institutionalized himself, in a way.
What's interesting, too, is that Blair Brown (Nina) hints that, "there's a missing piece in these characters' past. And they don't know what it is." This seems to indicate that they will feel like something's missing, like Peter's removal wasn't organic – so we're not seeing an "alternate world" of sorts, where there was never any Peter, but rather a world where there was a Peter but now there isn't.
Jackson says that when Peter returns, it'll be a completely new story and context, because, "The character progression from the Peter we introduced at the beginning of the pilot is finished by the end of season three."
More details revealed include that Astrid will be out in the field, as she's not Walter's caretaker in this reality. When we first see Lincoln it'll be the glasses-wearing blue-universe version that we don't know so well, the one that "doesn't know his own power," in Seth Gabel's own words.
Definitely check out the full article here at io9, where the actors delve more into the characters and share their hopes for the season!
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Of course, it's not just grapes, though they're very high in antioxidants and were used in this research. It can be any antioxidant rich food – vegetables and fruits being the most obvious. In other research, Prior found that grapes, kiwi, cherries, strawberries and wild blueberries were high performers when it came to raising blood levels of important antioxidants.
Getting a ton of antioxidants in your daily diet – either in supplement form, or by eating foods rich in vitamins C, E, zinc, selenium, vitamin A and the many plant chemicals like flavonoids found in the fruit and vegetable kingdom – definitely qualifies as one of the top ways to improve (and probably extend) your life.
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Retinal Vein Occlusion
Signs and Symptoms: The patient presenting with retinal vein occlusion will usually be elderly, often with systemic diseases such as diabetes and hypertension. He or she may be asymptomatic, but often will complain of a sudden painless unilateral loss of vision and/or visual field. The patient may complain of a sudden onset of floating spots or flashing lights. Acuity may range anywhere from 20/20 to finger counting. If vision loss is severe, a relative afferent pupillary defect may exist, indicative of retinal ischemia.
Ophthalmoscopically, you will note retinal edema, superficial hemorrhages, disc swelling, cotton-wool spots and tortuous and dilated retinal veins. With a central retinal vein occlusion (CRVO), these findings will appear in all four quadrants. A hemi-central retinal vein (HRVO) occlusion will involve only the superior or inferior half of the retina. A branch retinal vein occlusion (BRVO) will manifest these findings--although the tortuous veins may only appear in the most severe cases of BRVO--in only one quadrant; usually the superior-temporal sector, with the apex of the hemorrhaging at an arteriovenous crossing.
The hemorrhaging in any case may be so severe that all features of the underlying retina are obscured. The presence of multiple cotton wool spots indicates retinal ischemia and capillary non-perfusion. Anterior and posterior segment neovascularization may occur later in the course of the disease. Anterior segment neovascularization arises from cases of CRVO and posterior segment neovascularization more commonly occurs from BRVO or HRVO.
Pathophysiology: The etiology of central and hemi-central retinal vein occlusion is an obstruction of the central retinal vein, or one of the vein's two trunks, as it constricts through the lamina cribrosa. The cause is obscure, but may involve abnormal blood flow or blood constituents, atherosclerosis, vessel anomalies or a combination of factors.
The etiology of BRVO is an arteriolosclerotic arteriole crossing and constricting the underlying venule. This will result in leakage from the capillary beds draining into these vessels. This leakage may irreversibly damage the capillary beds, resulting in perpetual non-perfusion of the retinal tissue. If a significant area of capillary non-perfusion is present, then the occlusion is considered ischemic.
Loss of retinal capillary beds with subsequent retinal non-perfusion will lead to retinal hypoxia and the subsequent release of vasoproliferative chemicals. Vasoproliferative factors will then stimulate the proliferation of neovascularization from nearby viable capillary beds.
In the case of branch and hemi-central occlusions, neovascularization will most often form on the optic disc or adjacent retina. In such cases, neovascularization can lead to vitreous hemorrhage and tractional retinal detachment. In central retinal vein occlusions, the closest viable capillary network from which neovascularization will form is the posterior iris. This can lead to rubeosis irides and neovascular glaucoma.
In venous occlusion, macular edema is the main cause of vision loss. With macular edema, visual acuity is typically better than 20/200. However, if retinal capillary non-perfusion involves the perifoveal region, then vision is dramatically reduced (typically finger-counting) and irreversibly lost.
Management: Fluorescein angiography, while long held to be the gold standard in assessing retinal vascular disease, has questionable use in vein occlusions. This procedure is not indicated initially because the fresh hemorrhage will block transmission and reveal no useful information. Later in the course of the occlusion, angiography will give information about retinal capillary perfusion and whether or not the occlusion is ischemic and thus more likely to develop neovascular complications.
Research has indicated that ischemic retinal vein occlusions do not benefit from prophylactic pan-retinal photocoagulation. Withhold this procedure until the patient develops frank neovascularization of the iris, disc or retina.
If the patient has a hemi-central or branch retinal vein occlusion and vision is reduced below 20/40 due to macular edema, then the patient may benefit from focal laser photocoagulation anywhere between 3-18 months after the occlusion onset. CRVO patients with vision reduction due to macular edema do not benefit from focal laser photocoagulation.
Because vein occlusions are often associated with systemic disease, co-manage the patient with an internist. (For a list of tests to consider, see table.)
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"Alas, this camp shall not bequeath another fey beast for another hour and two score minutes!"
With hundreds of Legolas-variations in character names roaming the countryside of games like Everquest 2 and World of Warcraft until recent attempts to thwart the use of "real" fantasy character names, the role playing aspect of the upcoming Middle Earth MMO was never in doubt. How will the game answer concerns of producing a game as friendly to Gandolfs (role players) as BigNukers (pure gamers)? Turbine Dev Floon Beetle weighs in on the issue:
"Role-play is entirely a function of players, not code. Role-play is about people connecting with each other, not with bytes of code or icons. It is about turning what might otherwise be isolated imagination into a shared experience. There are no rules or systems that truly make that more meaningful: it is the personal interaction that makes it significant."
The moral of the story? Give players a world worthy of role-play and see what happens. Sounds good to us! Check out the full article.
No longer can you exploit the... exploit.
Arena.net has apparently closed a common equipment exploit. Their heartily wisening, loquacious PR folks posted this in the Game Updates Area last Friday:
" Closed equipment exploit."
There's nothing more to read, but if you want to see for yourself, go to the official Guild Wars Update Notes area.
Cars that bounce...and carry heavy weapons.
MMORPG.com has posted an Auto Assault preview based on Roadhouse Session #4. We can't remember if it was Terminator or Robo-cop, but one of them might have said this:
"After three weeks of teleconferences and a week of play testing, the final AutoAssault roadhouse, an in game tour, was a bitter sweet occasion — on one hand, I was getting an awesome tour by the makers of the game… but on the other, this was the last of the roadhouse sessions."
You can read the entire Auto Assault Preview at MMORPG.com.
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If you had super-powers, would you wear tights?
GameCloud has posted a City of Villains Interview featuring David "Zeb" Cook. All Deliverance jokes involving the word "Zeb" were removed from this news posting. In there place we give you:
"Last year, developer Cryptic Studios and publisher NCSoft released City of Heroes, their long awaited super hero themed MMORPG, to solid sales and reviews. Now the one big thing that most reviewers and players felt was lacking in the original game is about to be taken care of in City of Villains, the stand alone MMO that will give player the chance to try out the dark side. Gamecloud got a chance to chat with the game's lead designer David "Zeb" Cook to find out more about City of Villains."
You can read the entire City of Heroes Interview at GameCloud.
We've been duped! Or have we?
GameSpy has posted a WoW Duping: Fact or Fiction article taking a look at the recent hub-bub in World of Warcraft. An item so nice we duped it twice and then yelled in OOC:
"This week, a look at problems with the latest WoW patch and what Blizzard might do about it."
You can read the entire WoW Duping: Fact or Fiction Article at GameSpy.
3.5 Million Subscribers - 3.4 Million Rogues Who Spell It Rouge.
Blizzard announced that they now have 3.5 million subscribers to their massively multiplayer hit, World of Warcraft. After ganking a warlock a rogue went into stealth mode and wrote:
Worldwide customer base for Blizzard Entertainment®'s popular MMORPG now more than 3.5 million players
IRVINE, Calif. – July 20, 2005 – Blizzard Entertainment®, Inc. today announced that World of Warcraft®, its subscription-based massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), has surpassed 1.5 million paying customers in China – just a month following the game's commercial launch on June 7, 2005. The critically acclaimed World of Warcraft has now achieved another significant milestone as the largest MMORPG in the world, with more than 3.5 million global customers.
"World of Warcraft's success in China has quickly exceeded our expectations, and seeing Chinese gamers respond so enthusiastically to the game has been extremely gratifying," said Mike Morhaime, president and co-founder of Blizzard Entertainment. "We thank the players for embracing World of Warcraft, our partner The9 for helping to make all of this possible, and the Chinese authorities for their support of Blizzard Entertainment."
Blizzard's partner, well-respected MMO operator The9, is leading the operation and management of World of Warcraft in China while upholding its commitment to provide exceptional service as the game's customer base has experienced extraordinary growth. The9's dedicated team in China, composed entirely of Chinese management and staff, has provided localization of game content, synchronization of content updates, and delivery of player feedback to the developers. The9's local team offers 24-hour customer service, with direct game master (GM) support and local call-center representatives dedicated to helping players with questions regarding gameplay and technical issues.
"Chinese gamers across the country have embraced World of Warcraft," said Michael Fong, Blizzard Entertainment managing director, Greater China, "and we are committed to responding with continual updates to the game, including new dungeons for players to explore, additional player-vs.-player content, ongoing live events, and much more. Blizzard and The9 also remain dedicated to delivering unparalleled service to Chinese gamers with fully localized content and local, around-the-clock customer support."
The 1.5 million paying Chinese customers now join the two million players in North America, Europe, and Korea who are already paying to play World of Warcraft. With a worldwide customer population of more than 3.5 million, World of Warcraft is now by far the largest MMORPG in the world. Blizzard plans to continue expanding World of Warcraft with upcoming launches in Taiwan and other parts of Asia.
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GameSpot puts the screws to Scott Brown.
GameSpot has posted an Auto Assault Interview with NetDevil president Scott Brown. Sleep deprivation, hunger and things we simply can't write about here resulted in the following:
"NetDevil is set to broaden its beta test soon for Auto Assault, the online role-playing game where you get to participate in high-speed vehicular combat in a postapocalyptic world. In Auto Assault, you will create a character based on one of three races, take on missions, upgrade your vehicle and weapons, and blow up everything in the world while you're at it. And as you can probably tell, Auto Assault is certainly a change of pace from conventional online role-playing games, which rely on swords and sorcery. The broadening of a beta test is an important milestone for many online RPGs, as it signifies that most of the content is locked down and now needs to be tested on a larger scale. We caught up with NetDevil president Scott Brown for a progress report, and he gave us some interesting details on the game, thus far."
You can read the entire Auto Assault Interview at GameSpot.
Chewbacca, I'm you're Fatharoaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrr.
GameSpy has reviewed Star Wars Galaxies: Rage of the Wookies. GamePeepingTom did not review the game, nor did they admit looking into your window last night. They did release this little tidbit:
"Recent days, though, saw the long awaited release of the two things that were going to "save" Star Wars: Galaxies, the infamous "Combat Upgrade," and the game's second expansion pack -- Rage of the Wookiees. The good news is that it seems to have worked. Rage of the Wookiees brings in lots of interesting content, plenty of quests, some decent rewards, and (at last!) something for combat characters to sink their teeth into that makes the game as rewarding as its always been for crafters and role-players. The down side, however, is that while it's a rewarding enough experience for Galaxies veterans, there's little in Rage of the Wookiees that would attract any new Galaxies players."
You can read the entire Star Wars Galaxies: Rage of the Wookies Review at GameSpy.
"One thousand bars' is called a good time where I come from.
The Official Site has a some new Auto Assault Recon posted covering the bling bling of AA, currency. A mutated gob of green slime cough and then wrote this in some crazy language:
"Clink is the lowest common denomination of this system, and is generally composed of any old world coin denomination or other common but valuable objects. It is also called coins, change, or rounders. Scrip is the next tier and usually takes the form of old world paper money. One thousand clink make up one scrip. The bar is the next tier of money, where it represents one kilo of pure refined metal. One thousand scrip equals one bar. The highest tier of money is the globe, a small glowing ball that is rare and found in severely Contaminated areas. They are also known as glows, sparks, or marbles. One thousand bars equal one globe."
You can read the entire Auto Assault Recon Article at The Official Site.
Cars Careening Carefully Creating Cannon-sized Craters.
Voodoo Extreme has four Auto Assault screenshots posted. Voodoo Conservative does not have any AA shots, but we once heard that they said this:
" NCsoft sends along four new screenshots of Auto Assault "
You can view the Auto Assault Screenshots at Voodoo Extreme.
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The BB has 4 TTL serial ports available, and this how-to will show you how to use one to talk to an Arduino. I'm going to show this by using a minimal Arduino on a breadboard, but you can do this with a normal Arduino as well, just use an external power adapter and don't plug in the USB. The "gotcha" to this is that the BB's ports run at 3.3VDC and the Arduino runs at 5VDC. We'll solve that using a logic level shifter.
Things you'll need:
- Breadboard and some jumper wires
- a BeagleBone (any revision including black should work the same)
- an Ardunio
- a Logic level shifter that supports 5v-3.3v and bi-directional on the TX line. I'm using Sparkfun's
- you know how to program and do some basic wiring with an Ardunio
- you know how to install python packages and run scripts on your BeagleBone
Step 1: Program the Ardunio
the basic logic is this:
- in setup(), turn on LED for 2 seconds and wait, this gives us some warning in case were not ready for serial data yet.
- write an "A" to the serial port
- turn on LED for .2 second
- read serial port and if it reads an "A" , turn on LED for 1 second.
program the Arduino in whatever method you are accustomed to. when programmed and powered on, the led should blink about 5 times a second.
Step 2: Program the BeagleBone
I'm just using the PyBBIO serial echo example as is, it simply takes whatever it receives on Serial2, prints it, and sends it back. This should give our Arduino program back the "A" it sends, which will cause it to then turn the LED on for 1 second. If there's any bad wiring or external noise corrupting the signal, the Arduino wont' see the "A".
You can also write your own serial echo script in whatever language you want.
Step 3: Wire it all up!
I've included a Fritzing showing what this might look like with a normal Arduino.
Start with everything powered off, just in case.
First, lets put power to the level shifter:
- Connect both GND pins to the ground,
- Connect the HV pin to the bread board 5V rail
- the LV pin will get connected to the BB later
Next, connect the BeagleBone:
- P9 pin 1 (GND) to the breadboard ground rail
- P9 pin 3 (3.3v) to the level shifter LV pin
- P9 pin 21 (Serial2 TX) to one of the level shifters low side TX pin (TXI)
- P9 pin 22 (Serial2 RX) to one of the level shifters low side RX pin (RXO)
- in the photo, ignore the wire going to the Arduno's reset pin, that's for a later Instructible.
Finally, connect the Ardunio. we're making what's known as a "null modem cable" in PC land. The BB's TX data needs to end up on the Arduino's RX pin:
- D0 (RX) to level shifters high side TX pin (TXO).
- D1 (TX) to level shifters high side RX pin (RXI)
- LED on pin 13 as you normally would
NOTE: If you have a 3.3V Arduino, you can connect the BB and Ardunio together directly, without the level shifter.
NOTE2: I've found communication to be more reliable if the RX and TX wires are twisted around each other like this. The twisting causes EMF interference to be reduced.
Power up the Arduino and the LED should start blinking as before.
Boot up the BB and move to the next step
Step 4: Make it So
You should see the "A" received, and the Arduino should change to a short-blink--long-blink pattern. If it doesn't, you have something off in the wiring. Make sure the RX's and TX's are right, if you get the backwards it won't hurt anything, just don't connect the Ardunio's 5V and BeagleBone bone directly together anywhere because it will damage the BeagleBone. Only the GND can be connected directly in this demonstration.
What's next?
make a framework to get your data back and forth! If you're working from scratch, the Ardunio SerCommand library is very easy to use.
Check out my follow up Instructible that will make use of that reset wire to program the Ardunio from the BeageBone! no more pulling chips or connecting FTDI in awkward installations.