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Hey, I saw that you live in or near Damariscotta, I lived on pemaquid (sp) for a brief time, it was in a cabin right on the lake. It's beautiful there and I miss the quiet! |
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Hello Hibbs,Pemaquid is beautiful for sure.I live on a cove in Boothbay.I was an R.N.(retired)at Miles Hosp.in Damariscotta for over 20 years so I know the area very well.I just love Maine.Regards Josie |
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Hi all, I'm not a regular poster here, but I do enjoy peeking through every once in a while. With summer in full swing, I wanted to share some photos of my dry garden with you all. I began transitioning to drought tolerant plants about 5 years ago, and it's still a work in process, but this is the first year that many of my plants can be considered "established" and can withstand the dry conditions. I water once a week, and in some places, once every two weeks. I'm truly amazed at what you can achieve with so little water. I hope you enjoy! I apologize for the low quality photos ahead of time! I took these with my phone. Native Oenothera from seed collected in the hillsides around our home Salvia Canariensis is so dramatic! I love it paired with our native artemisia Our native Datura Wrightii also grown from seed collected in the hillsides around our home. Native clarkia also from seeds from around the hills here Native Dudleya Pulverulenta from the coastal hills just west of us. This one requires some shade in our inland location. Echeverias are colorful as always I'm not sure what plant this is, but it started off as a small cutting last year. The blooms are so beautiful! Some more mixed drought tolerant plants. a Native penstemon from the Sierra Nevada Mountains near Yosemite (just east of us) Native Zephyranthes bulbs blooming! Some Agastache |
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- Posted by socks12345 Zone 9 (My Page) on Fri, Jun 14, 13 at 10:34
That is terrific. I admire your garden and the hard work it took to get it started. |
The photos are good, don't apologize...and the garden is wonderful. It's totally the direction I'll be going on our next property. Think of the extra money we'll have when we're not paying for excessive amounts of water.... |
Congratulations- it's beautiful! Just what i am trying to do here. When you water, is it dripped or sprinkled or just hand-watered here and there? Min |
- Posted by kathi_mdgd 9 S.Ca (My Page) on Fri, Jun 14, 13 at 20:46
That's very pretty,so many pretty plants.Really love that white datura.I grew clarkia one year from seed and had hoped it would come back,but it didn't . You did a wonderful job with your garden and should be proud. |
- Posted by hosenemesis SoCal Sunset 19 USDA (My Page) on Sat, Jun 15, 13 at 1:20
Your garden is gorgeous. That salvia's color is just perfect with the silver foliage. I'm so glad to have these pictures so that I can copy your ideas! |
Your mystery blooming succulent is a Cotyledon orbiculata var longifolia. The Zephranthes isn't actually native to California, and I suspect the Clarkia is an escaped garden hybrid as well. Nice looking garden... |
- Posted by deviant-deziner Oh zone (My Page) on Sat, Jun 15, 13 at 16:22
stunning. I enjoyed experiencing your dry garden very much. It's a wonderful inspirational example of what can be done with very little water. lovey compositions. thank you for the tour. |
I like that,and I like the horticultural propagational zest! Are those King palms in back? Are those the little King palms of 4-5 years ago? And hows the Majesty in the front yard? |
- Posted by central_cali369 USDA z9b/ Sunset z9 (My Page) on Sun, Jun 16, 13 at 1:53
Thank you all for the compliments! I wish I could dedicate a little more time to the maintenance of it and the clearing of weeds but work keeps me busy! haha Min, I water by hand here and there as I see needed. There is a large queen palm that was in place when we moved in and so I try to keep the palm well watered. I have created somewhat of a dry creek bed that pools at the base of the palm. About every two weeks, I turn on an irrigation line that lets water flow down the dry creekbed and ultimately waters the palm and all the plants that are along the edges of the streambed. The Oenothera pictured above, as well as Mimulus Cardinalis live along the streambed. Kathi, for being a native, clarkia isn't as pestiferous as one would imagine. They're beautiful plants though! Hosenemesis, (I love the handle name btw!) I have absolutely fallen in love with the silver and purple of that salvia! I've really taken a liking with using grey-toned plants and adding little spots of eye catching, bright colors here and there. Bahia, Thanks for the ID! I will write that down! The comment means a lot coming from you. I've seen the kind of garden's you've designed. I'm a huge fan! haha Stan! You have a good eye! And great memory! the 4th and 10th pictures show a whiteish trunk in the background. They are both of the same Aloe Hercules. Picture 13 shows two queen palm trunks (pre-existing), and fronds of that same Majesty from several years ago as well as fronds from a Butia. I can post a picture of that Majesty in a few minutes. |
- Posted by central_cali369 USDA z9b/ Sunset z9 (My Page) on Sun, Jun 16, 13 at 2:30
Stan, here is the photo of the Majesty palm. I planted it out in 2008 sometime, so it has been in this spot for 5 years now. It seems to take cold better now than when it was smaller, but it definitely looks stunted in it's growth. It began as a houseplant, then, when it became to big, I decided to use it outside. I never thought it would survive the winter, but it did, and now it's putting on a trunk. You can see some winter damage on the right-most frond there. |
The palm looks fine. Prune off that one frond,and its like any palm in Florida..green new fronds all. Just keep doing whatever you're doing. Its working. |
Great post--I've been looking for more ideas on what to put in my dry garden, (beyond my current succulent collection) and there are some great ideas here. You even provided all the info I was wondering about, like where you got the datura and the primrose. |
- Posted by central_cali369 USDA z9b/ Sunset z9 (My Page) on Mon, Jun 17, 13 at 2:16
PettyPease, thanks! both my primrose and datura are setting seed. I can send you some later in the season if you send me an email. I also just started a named cultivar of the same primrose called "Sunset." It has orange blooms instead of the typical yellow. |
Very nice! I'm in the process of planting a xeric garden in my back yard. It`s going to be the entire yard and it`s a large yard. It`s all dead grass back there because it`s too expensive to try to keep it green. I have installed chaparral shrubs this year. I will fill it in more in fall. |
- Posted by DJSquireDesigns 10 (My Page) on Tue, Jul 23, 13 at 20:03
Beautiful! Working on finding good lists and photos of Native Plants with a lush and lovely quality. |
- Posted by greenwitch Sz19 SoCal (My Page) on Sun, Aug 4, 13 at 10:11
Really beautiful! Good for you keeping that Penstemon newberryii alive, it's not easy. I have the Oenothera hookeri too and you have inspired me to grow the orange 'Sunset.' Some of my favorites are the native bunchgrasses, Sporobolis airoides, sporobolis wrightii, Bouteloua 'Blonde Ambition,' and Deergrass. I also love Purple 3-Awn but I have dogs and don't think the foxtail-like seeds are safe for them (or my socks!) - the grasses I listed look like little fountains or fireworks that move with any slight breeze and catch morning or evening light. Native sunflowers when pampered will get about 8' tall & wide and look plenty lush, I have orange form and pale yellow 'Claremont' and birds come to eat the seeds. California fuchsia, Zauschneria/Epilobium are good ones too that love periodic water, they have screaming red tubular flowers hummingbirds love. I am training native grapes to cover my fences with walls of green and in the fall the foliage turns yellow on Vitis girdiana and red on 'Roger's Red.' There is also a hybrid between Fremontodendron and a Mexican relative, Monkey Paw that takes garden water in summer, has big, upturned orange cupped flowers with sweet nectar - it looks pretty lush. Left on it's own it gets really big but I'm keeping mine pruned back and trained against a wall (tall, commercial bldg next door). |
- Posted by central_cali369 USDA z9b/ Sunset z9 (My Page) on Mon, Aug 5, 13 at 19:55
greenwitch! Please post a photo of your Chiranthofremontia! I found a nursery in the Bay Area that sells it but I haven't had a chance to get out there. I will be traveling there for work in the fall so I'll try to snag one while I'm there. |
- Posted by melle_sacto Z9/Sunset 14 CA (My Page) on Thu, Aug 8, 13 at 14:21
Love your dry garden! I would adore to have a garden like that in our front yard. My attempt at a dry garden is not nearly as lovely, and it's not really a dry garden, either, as I have to water a couple times/month. |
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We are students from Singapore Polytechnic's Diploma in Landscape Architectural programme. We are signing this petition to justify the character and moral ethics of our lecturer Mr Malcom Tan. Mr Malcom Tan is our lecturer and we justify that Mr Malcom Tan is not a sexual pervert and is morally ethical and knows the clear line between work and personal space. He has been worngfully accused.
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Hi, Picture attached but there are more here: http://imgur.com/a/E02pT#0 We just had a big storm pass by in the past hour, dumping a ton of rain all at once, but the problem pictured happens with anything more than a drizzle. Pictured is a low point of the sidewalk (city owned) and my hell/easement strip. The concrete, done in the early 70s, sinks down in a specific spot, but has not seemed to dip lower. The problem, though, is you can see where "erosion" has started to occur on the berm/bump I have prepared for some plants I'm about to get. I am wondering how I could either divert or alter where the water pools, as it has already taken some of the soil away and will continue to do so. I don't plan to have any plants on either side of it, but at the top. Should I just wait until there are plants on top, when they establish and improve the soil structure? Can I put some of the black plastic landscape edging to help divert it away? Since the city owns it, unless it's destroyed to he point a pedestrian could not traverse on it safely, it's my problem. I once inquired with a contractor who does concrete, and they wanted almost a thousand to repair, which sounded steep but also way too much for a small problem like this. Thanks. |
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These are the kind of problems that cities seem to fix in batches every few years -- wherever the need is worse -- but it could be a 35 year wait. (Whenever they get a grant from Washington!) This is not the kind of problem I would call a contractor to fix. I would do it myself for $50 and get it over with. Probably on a Sunday when the city was least likely to discover my philanthropy. Forget about black plastic edging. And erosion. Just plant your plants and ignore this thing. If you don't want dirt washing, plant some plants in the area that cover the ground and stop erosion. |
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Alton Clark of NBA Playbook is covering the 2012 Orlando Pro Summer League on behalf of Magic Basketball. This is Alton's roundup of Day 5.
Celtics 94, Magic 73
- Being that this was the final day at the Orlando Pro Summer League, most of the teams rest the players that they have made a decision on and use this day to evaluate guys they might be on the fence about with regards to inviting them camp or extending a contract offer. With that said, there are still a few guys who took advantage of the opportunity to play more then they have throughout the week.
- The Celtics' Dionte Christmas had one of the best all-around games of anyone here this week. Christmas did everything for Boston today, as they gave the Orlando Magic their worst defeat this week with a 94-73 victory. Christmas shot the ball well, scoring a game-high 21 points (7-for-14 from the floor, 3-for-7 from three-point range, and 4-for-4 from the free-throw line). Christmas also added 5 rebounds, 4 assists, and 3 steals to his stat-line. The second unit of the Magic had no answer for Christmas on either ends of the floor, as he raised a lot of eyebrows from opposing NBA scouts who witnessed his performance today. If Christmas can carry this momentum with him next week in Las Vegas, he could play his way into an NBA job.
Thunder 89, Jazz 75
Pistons 71, Sixers 67
- Devin Searcy of the Sixers has been rock solid all week, doing the little things that help good teams become great. Searcy had another solid game today with 10 points and a game-high 12 rebounds. The 6-foot-10 power forward from Dayton was coached well in his collegiate years and it shows with how he hasn't ventured out from his role the entire week. Searcy does a good job of running from rim-to-rim in the open floor, establishing solid post position deep in the paint, and making contact on ball screens. With the Sixers signing Kwame Brown today to a 2-year, $6 million contract, the chances of Searcy making the roster are even more slim than they were before. With his height and traditional style of play, Searcy could work his way onto a Euroleague roster.
Nets 90, Pacers 77
- MarShon Brooks has taken himself, coaches, executives, and fans on a rollercoaster ride this entire week. After shooting 0-for-10 from the floor in his first game this week, Brooks waited until the final game in Orlando to have the highest scoring output of any player here. Brooks tied an Orlando Pro Summer League record, scoring 34 points on 13-for-27 shooting. Much can be said about Brooks' shot selection and his ability to play within an offense, but he made sure that everyone knew that his ability to score in bunches was not all hype.


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BOUNTIFUL, Utah - The 11-year-old boy lost for four days in a mountain wilderness did just what he had been taught, his parents said Wednesday: He stayed on his trail and avoided strangers, even though they were searching for him.
Brennan Hawkins was found in good condition Tuesday by a volunteer on an ATV who was out looking on his own, miles outside of active search grids.
Brennan left Primary Children's Medical Center in Salt Lake City early Wednesday, said Bonnie Midget, a hospital spokeswoman.
One of the first things he asked about was whether the Pokemon cards he ordered had arrived yet, his parents said.
"He ordered them on eBay last week, and I tell you, that's what got him off that mountain," his mother, Jody, said. "They were here."
"Those things kind of give us an indication he's alright," his father, Toby Hawkins, told reporters Wednesday outside the family home in Bountiful. "He's doing remarkably well. Brennan continues to amaze us."
The boy hadn't been able yet to communicate much about the time he was lost.
The Hawkinses said Brennan didn't remember much and they don't plan push him to talk about his four days in the woods. "It's going to take a while to get everything out," Toby Hawkins said. "This is how he approaches all situations."
They described the boy as social immature, but not mentally disabled.
The parents said Brennan had seen people searching for him on horse and ATV, but avoided them because of what he had been taught.
"He stayed on the trail, he avoided strangers," Jody Hawkins said. "His biggest fear, he told me, was that someone would steal him."
They said they hadn't talked to Brennan and his four siblings about what they should do about strangers if they were lost. "This may have come to a faster conclusion had we discussed that," Toby Hawkins said.
Part of the delay in finding Brennan was caused because he defied conventional wisdom: He went up hill instead of down.
Sheriff Dave Edmunds had said Brennan would have been more likely to head down a river valley from a 530-acre Boy Scout camp in the Uinta mountains. "Typically children walk downhill, along the least path of resistance," he said.
That possibility raised particular fears because the East Fork of the Bear River, which is normally ankle-deep, was swollen by heavy mountain snow melt.
However, Brennan had hiked some 600 feet higher and more than five miles into the mountains to the spot where searcher Forrest Nunley found him before noon Tuesday.
"I turned a corner and there was a kid standing in the middle of the trail. He was all muddy and wet," said Nunley, who dialed 911 on his cell phone and said he was lucky to find a signal.
"He was a little delirious. I sat him down and gave him a little food," Nunley said.
After downing bottles of water and eating all the granola bars carried by a group of volunteer searchers, the boy asked to play a video game on one rescuer's cell phone, the sheriff said.
The youngster from the Salt Lake City suburb of Bountiful was found on a 9,400-foot pass above Lily Lake, a summer-only campground in the Uinta range.
In Bountiful, an impromptu celebration was held Tuesday on the Hawkinses' front lawn. Neighbors and schoolchildren tied celebratory yellow ribbons to every part of the Hawkinses' yard, the family's boat, and trees surrounding the home. Others honked car horns or held up signs heralding Brennan's safe return.
"This is a miracle. This is how it should happen," neighbor Kristie Swain said. She and her husband, Mark, spent Sunday and Monday helping search for Brennan.
The boy carried no food or water when he vanished Friday, and his family had said he did not have a good sense of direction. But the nights were mild, with temperatures falling only into the 50s.


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A Pakistani man adjusts a prayer cap on his head as he tries it ahead of the holy Fasting month of Ramadan, at a shop in Peshawar, Pakistan, 28 June 2014. The Islamic holy fasting month of Ramadan, which depending on the moon, it begins on 29 June in most part of the Muslim world. Throughout the Ramadan, followers are required to abstain from food, drink and sex from dawn to dusk.
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The scientific community got a wake-up call in the October 4, 2013 issue of the journal Science. In an article titled "Who's afraid of Peer Review," writer John Bohannon describes a "sting operation" he conducted to test the credibility of the peer-review process in the burgeoning world of for-profit, open-access publishing. What he discovered is sobering for any of us who believe that rigorous peer review is the backbone of scientific publishing.
For the sting, Bohannon wrote a completely fictitious manuscript by a fake author from a nonexistent institution. The paper claimed to show that a particular lichen molecule inhibited growth of a specific cancer cell, a fabrication that Bohannon describes as having "such grave errors that a competent peer reviewer should easily identify it as flawed and unpublishable" (Bohannon 2013). He submitted the manuscript to 304 peer-reviewed, open-access journals between January and August 2013. Though each copy of the paper had slight modifications to create unique submissions, the "hopelessly flawed" experiments and "meaningless" results remained the same.
Eye-Opening Results
In all, 157 journals — nearly 52 percent — accepted the paper (which Bohannon then withdrew to prevent publication). Ninety-eight journals (32 percent) rejected the paper, and 49 (16 percent) were still either considering it or had folded by the time the Science article went to press.
The 304 journals were not just randomly drawn: Bohannon got them from two sources. One was Beall's List, published by Jeffrey Beall, a library scientist at the University of Colorado-Denver. Today it lists 477 of what Beall calls "questionable" open-access publishers, and includes criteria for determining "predatory" publishers. Bohannon's other source was the comprehensive Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), a list of more than 9,700 journals compiled by Lars Bjørnshauge, a library scientist at Lund University in Sweden.
Bohannon's goal was to demonstrate that some publish-for-profit, open-access journals are "predatory" (i.e., more interested in money than science), lack credibility, and provide cursory or nonexistent peer review. Clearly he achieved his goal by showing that authors who submit manuscripts to predatory publish-for-profit journals are likely to have high acceptance rates for their submissions.
Value of Open Access
Despite the potential flaws in the pay-to-publish, open-access model, the concept behind open access remains valid. Providing free access to scientific research for anyone with a computer and Internet connection is a public service that seems like a no-brainer. And for authors, open access appeals because it often gives them a faster turnaround from submission to publication than traditional subscription journals and generally provides broader dissemination of their work, which can increase citations. For these reasons, a growing number of authors are choosing to publish open access, which has two basic forms:
• Green Open Access: Also referred to as self-archiving, this form of open-access publishing is free of charge to authors but often involves posting only the author-accepted manuscript (AAM) as opposed to the final published version of record (VoR). AAMs have been peer reviewed but have not been copy edited, formatted, or enhanced by the publisher. The author posts these articles on an institutional repository, a subject-based repository, or their own personal website (not on the publisher's website), sometimes following an embargo period of six to 24 months (Laakso 2014).
• Gold Open Access: This method of open-access publishing requires authors or their institutions to pay an article publication charge (APC), which buys the right to publish the final version of record online and make it freely available to all. Fees for gold open access averaged just over $900 in 2010, and went as high as $3,900 (Solomon and Björk 2012). Fees to publish in the not- for-profit Public Library of Science, or PLoS, vary from $1,350 to $2,900.
Some open-access journals may accept manuscripts — even questionable ones—to reap publishing fees, which industry-wide are substantial: The gold open access publishing business was worth an estimated $225 million in 2013 (Outsell 2013).
Trying to track all that money is tricky business. As part of his Science article, Bohannon created an interactive website labeled "Follow the Money," showing that a journal's publisher, editor, and bank account are "often continents apart." About one-third of the journals in his sting were based in India—now the world's largest base for open-access publishing. But even if journal editors or banks are based in the developing world, says Bohannon, the journal's parent company is often in the U.S. or Europe, with some big-name academic publishers "at the top of the chain."
Balancing Finances and Quality
Of course, money enters the picture for traditional, non-open-access journals as well, which sustain themselves on author fees for page and color charges and on subscription revenues. The Journal of Wildlife Management charges TWS authors $90 per page for the first eight pages and $150 per page thereafter, plus $650 per color plate. JWM's revenue per article from page charges in 2013 averaged $1,000 — less than most open-access fees. The Wildlife Society and its publisher share revenues from page charges and from institutional and member subscriptions as well — a significant source of funds to help offset production costs, enable the Society to continue to publish its journals, and generate additional funds to support TWS programs.
Given such economics, moving to an entirely open-access model is not always economically feasible for well-established scientific journals like TWS's. Yet the Society is taking steps to move toward the open-access arena, which may ultimately become the future of scholarly publishing. For example, the Society's journal authors can now opt to publish open-access papers through OnlineOpen for a fee of $3,000, and TWS is evaluating other possible options. But as it considers moving further into this open arena, the Society needs to be strategic about retaining revenue from its publications.
Ultimately, the move to open access should only happen if TWS also holds the line on quality, as we have done for 75 years. Our journals will never publish 'junk science,' and will continue to adhere to a rigorous peer-review system that results in the publication of credible science (see sidebar). Professional societies can only maintain high credibility by publishing trustworthy, reliable science. It's therefore important that researchers and authors understand the distinction between publishing in a peer-reviewed journal produced by a professional society versus in a for-profit, open-access journal of questionable quality.
Perhaps more important, that distinction needs to be made clear to the media and the public, both of which can peer review, where qualified reviewers and editors make a decision about whether a manuscript should get published, but with little or no chance for others to offer different opinions—unless they are willing to publish another peer-reviewed article critiquing the original.
The organization Peerage of Science promotes another model that is quite different from conventional peer review. After an author submits a manuscript to Peerage of Science, any qualified "non-affiliated" peer can review the manuscript. Then, the peer reviews are themselves peer re- viewed, "increasing and quantifying the quality of peer review." Journals that subscribe can then offer to publish the manuscript, with the author accepting a direct publishing offer, or authors may choose to export the peer reviews to any journal of their choice.
Aside from the proliferation of new models, a long-standing pressure on the
peer-review process has been the need for journals and authors to generate citations of their published work. The more citations a journal has, the higher its "impact factor," a number based on a complex formula involving a ratio of citations per number of published articles as calculated by the Thomson Reuters Science Citation Index (SCI). Though attitudes about the importance of impact factor are shifting, many researchers are still regularly evaluated on the number of times their work is cited in other articles, with greater prestige ascribed to appearing in high-impact journals.
A newer, related pressure involves the potential of a published article to "go viral"—meaning it's picked up by the popular media and spread rapidly on the web. Articles that go viral can bring much attention to an author, institution, or journal, and this may pressure some editors to accept and publish articles with high viral potential. (Consider the flurry of articles about rediscovery of the ivory-billed woodpecker a few years ago.)
The proliferation of non-traditional 'citations' through social-networking tools like blogs, Twitter, and Facebook clouds the whole idea of "impact," and has led to what some researchers are calling "altmetrics" — a method of screening science scholarship across the social web. According to one report, "Altmetrics expand our view of what impact looks like, but also of what's making the impact." The system does this by screening the online sharing not only of science articles but also of "raw science" like data sets, "nanopublication" of citable data instead of the entire article, and self-publishing via blogs (Priem et al. 2010). Such alternative sources of science are becoming significant. According to the authors, "As many as a third of scholars are on Twitter, and a growing number tend scholarly blogs."
Beware "The Nasty Effect"
Even if the science presented on a blog is highly credible, negative online comments that random readers may post can negatively affect readers' perceptions of the research. This so-called "nasty effect" was recently documented in a study led by science communication professors Dominique Brossard and Dietram Scheufele at the University of Wisconisn-Madison (Anderson et al. 2013), which found that the nastier the comments, the worse readers' perceptions became.
Where does all this leave the peer-review process and our ability to trust for-profit, open-access publishing, let alone 'publishing' through social tools on the Web? I'd argue that although the peer-review process is not perfect, it has survived the test of centuries of use and can help thwart phony science and misleading sensationalism. Furthermore, as the publishing landscape changes rapidly with new technologies and open models, the role of professional societies like TWS becomes increasingly important in maintaining high-quality peer review of science, particularly as the credibility of science comes under increasing scrutiny.
After all, part of the mission of TWS is "disseminating wildlife science" and providing research through the Society's journals, technical reviews, and other publications. All of us have a role to play in ensuring that this mission is sustained.
Author Bio
Gary C. White, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology at Colorado State University. He is the Central Mountains and Plains Representative on The Wildlife Society's Council, Chair of Council's Publications Committee, and has served as an author, peer reviewer, and associate editor of peer-reviewed journals.
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text: I was playing the LoTR Board Game the other night and noticed on the last area (Mordor) there is a conflict (I believe the very first one) that states the following: " You may discard 3 runes to either draw 2 quest cards or move back a space." My thoughts were that this does not specify that you can only do this one time. So in theory, this means that you could drop 9 runes and move back 3 spaces… or 9 runes and pick up 6 cards. Your thoughts? I didn't think it was clear enough to consider this action cheating, but I would love to hear what others think. Thanks.


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These are two completely different things. However, the baptism in the Holy Spirit depends on being born of the Spirit.
The Fast of Daniel aims to meet two key points:
First, lead those who have a sincere heart to the new birth.
That is, being born of the Holy Spirit.
But as many as received Him (Jesus), to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God (the Spirit of God). John 1:12-13
Jesus said: That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. John 3:6
Second, lead those who have already been born of God to receive the baptism in the Holy Spirit.
When the Day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all with one accord in one place… And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit… Acts 2:1-4
Those were filled with the Holy Spirit on the Day of Pentecost had already been born of God.
The apostle Paul only had the authority to lay hands and administer the baptism in the Holy Spirit after being certain that those disciples were born of God. Take a look:
He said to them, "Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?" So they said to him, "We have not so much as heard whether there is a Holy Spirit." And he said to them, "Into what then were you baptized?" So they said, "Into John's baptism (baptism with water)."
Then Paul said, "John indeed baptized with a baptism of repentance, saying to the people that they should believe on Him who would come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus." When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. And when Paul had laid hands on them, the Holy Spirit came upon them, and they spoke with tongues and prophesied.
Acts 19:2-6
Can people who live in sin receive the baptism in the Holy Spirit?
Can those who are enslaved by sin receive the Holy Spirit?
No, no and no!
How can Jesus fill someone who lives and loves sin with His Spirit?
That would be a complete contradiction; it's like saying that a righteous person agrees with an act of injustice.
First, they must die to sin and then repent.
Second, they must call upon the Lord Jesus for their salvation.
These acts of faith will show the person's willingness and sincerity to the Holy Spirit, who – in turn – will come upon them to perform the miracle of the new birth.
Look at what happened in the past:
After the apostle Peter pointed out their sins, the Jews asked him: What shall we do?
Then Peter said to them, "Repent, and let every one of you be baptized (in water) in the Name of Jesus Christ for the remission (forgiveness) of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit." Acts 2:37-38
This means that, first you must repent (new birth), and then you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit (baptism in the Holy Spirit).
Repentance is not a feeling of remorse.
Repentance is acknowledging your sin and abandoning it immediately. Then, learning to hate it and run away from it.
Again: The Baptism in the Holy Spirit only happens after the new birth.
Can a sincere person be born of the Spirit and right after, receive the baptism in the Holy Spirit?
Who can possibly stop an act of God?


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Reported by Colin Stolley of Condor I believe I've figured out why I'm getting those: globus_mutex_lock() failed; errno 6 globus_mutex_lock() failed; errno 6 errors. The mutex in question, internalMutex, is NULL. It appears that it's never getting initialized. It looks like the function that was designed to do this is globus_l_thread_activate() (line 51). After setting break points on that function, it appears that it never gets called. I added a line to globus_mutex_lock that calls globus_l_thread_activate() if the mutex pointed to by mut is null. That seems to fix the problem, though you might have a better solution.
*** Bug 1844 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Closing this, as we're not working on C GSI on Windows, just java. Univa's release plans for windows C GSI are unclear, but don't involve funding/effort from us.


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I don't think there can be such a thing as monthly storage service. Maybe you are thinking of something else perhaps, such as monthly vaulting of records. Yes IP will work well for that in any number of ways including iSCSI (native IP storage) and FCIP (FC tunneled over IP).
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April 2nd, 2009 by knitnzuRemember the contest, it ends tomorrow!
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evidence of spinning
So here's what I spun up (trying for thin) from the samples from Amy's class (posting at lunch, so this will be light on links!).
Some eensy "skeins" there… I love love love the color and feel of the yellow wool/tencel blend, but I have a hard time spinning it… maybe I need to get more tension in it so it doesn't fall apart on me.
evidence of knitting
The back of the sweater is nearly done, less than an inch to go.
And notice that most of the snow seems to be gone in my front yard, though you can still see some where it got piled up, which leads us to
evidence of spring
Now you may be thinking WTF (mud?), but what it is is the garlic bed, with little garlic shoots coming up! You get an inkling of the backyard slope here…
See, green and growing garlic,
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American takes stand in Italy murder trial
An American student on trial in Italy for the murder of her British roommate testified Friday for the first time, her voice sometimes shaking, and said the last time she saw the victim was hours before the killing.
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An American student on trial in Italy for the murder of her British roommate testified Friday for the first time, her voice sometimes shaking, and said the last time she saw the victim was hours before the killing.
Alternating between English and Italian, 21-year-old Amanda Knox said that on the night of the murder, in November 2007, she smoked a marijuana joint, had sex with her boyfriend - now her co-defendant - at his house and then fell asleep.
Prosecutors contend that Knox, an exchange student from Seattle, and Raffaele Sollecito killed 21-year-old Meredith Kercher in the apartment she shared with Knox in Perugia, central Italy.
Kercher's body was found there in a pool of blood on Nov. 2, 2007, and legal experts said she had been killed the night before. Prosecutors said Sollecito was holding her by the shoulders from behind while Knox touched her with the point of a knife.
"On Nov. 1, I told Raffaele that I wanted to watch a movie so we went to his place," Knox said. After dinner, they went upstairs to his room, she said.
"I sat on the bed, he sat at his desk, he prepared the joint and then we smoked it together," she said. "First we made love, then we fell asleep."
Knox occasionally paused to take a breath and had a wound on her upper lip, which her family said was a cold sore caused by stress. However, during most of her testimony she appeared calm and confident.
Knox said she last saw Kercher on the afternoon of Nov. 1. They talked about what they had done the night before - a Halloween night out - and Knox said Kercher still had a bit of her vampire makeup on.
Sollecito then arrived at the house; he and Knox had something to eat while Kercher was in her room, Knox told the court.
"She left her room, said 'bye,' walked out the door," Knox said, at this point speaking Italian. "That was the last time I saw her."
Sollecito, 25, has said he was at his own apartment the night of Nov. 1, working at his computer. He said he does not remember if Knox spent the whole night with him or just part of it. The two have said they could not remember events clearly because they had taken drugs.
Knox also repeated her accusations that she was beaten by police and confused when she was questioned in the days after the killing. Police have denied any misconduct.
After the killing, Knox accused Diya "Patrick" Lumumba, a Congolese man who owns a pub in Perugia, of being the culprit. Lumumba was jailed briefly in the case, but he is no longer a suspect and is seeking defamation damages from Knox.
Knox was called to testify both in her own defense and in a civil case brought by Lumumba.
"The declarations were taken against my will, so everything that I said was said in confusion and under pressure," Knox said under questioning by Lumumba's lawyer.
"They called me a stupid liar; said I was trying to protect someone. I was not trying to protect anyone," she said. "I didn't know what to respond. They said I left Raffaele's home, which I denied, but they continued to call me 'stupid liar.'"
Knox smiled as she walked into the court before her testimony. She was dressed in a white shirt and white trousers and had her hair pulled into a ponytail.
Knox's father, Curt Knox, said his daughter looked "confident in what she wants to say."
"She has nothing to hide," he told The Associated Press during a break. He said he hoped people could now see a "different Amanda," - different from the way she has been portrayed by the media so far.
Knox and Sollecito have been jailed since shortly after the slaying. They are both charged with murder and sexual violence.
They could face Italy's stiffest punishment, life imprisonment, if convicted of murder. The trial began in January and a verdict is expected after a summer break.
A third suspect in the case, Ivory Coast national Rudy Hermann Guede, was found guilty of murder and sexual violence and was sentenced to 30 years in prison. He was given a fast-track trial at his request, and his appeal is set to start in November. He, too, denies wrongdoing.
The trial has been closed to cameras but the presiding judge, exceptionally, allowed them in to film for Knox's testimony - only to ask them to leave a few minutes later for causing too much disruption. The cameras were then crammed in the press room, where proceedings were being shown on a screen.
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The singer's voice pierced the quiet like a dagger. She's good, Emily thought. But she's a coloratura soprano. Emily, a lyric soprano, relaxed. She listened to coloratura sopranos for pleasure, not competition.
Caro nome che il mio cor. Festie primo palpitar. Dear name that is in my heart. Who first made my heart beat.
So far, Emily had not heard any other lyric sopranos, which boded well for her chances in the Central City Opera apprentice auditions. The hundreds of young artists from around the country--from baritones to sopranos--were, in a sense, competing for just a dozen or so places in the prestigious program. But if the judges made their decision with an ear toward next summer's Central City Opera schedule and needed a lyric soprano to understudy one of the featured roles, the less competition the better. As it was, Emily faced the stiffest odds, because lyric soprano is the most common female range.
So many beautiful voices, so few spots. At this level, nothing came easy; she'd have to be at her best to win. And the competition would get even rougher in a few weeks, at the Metropolitan Opera National Council regional auditions in mid-January.
Still, Emily knew that her real challenge came from within. She had been given la voce, the voice she sometimes thought of as an independent entity, but that didn't give her a free ride to stardom. She had to work hard. It had taken nearly a dozen years of dedication and sacrifice, including the end of her marriage, to get this far. Now 28 years old, she'd done well in regional opera contests over the past two years.
Suddenly the singing stopped. Cara Johnston walked out of the University of Denver audition hall and into the waiting room. She rolled her eyes and smiled as Emily and a half-dozen other singers turned to gauge her reaction to the judges.
Cara looked like a young woman from Kansas, which is exactly what she was. A pale, thin, pretty blond, lightly freckled and fresh-scrubbed, except for the ruby red lipstick. As a coloratura, her quick, light voice came at the high end of the soprano scale, seemingly capable of ascending into a realm where it could be heard only by dogs and angels.
At the other end of the scale is the dramatic soprano, with lyric in the middle. Compared to a coloratura, a lyric soprano voice is expected to be heavier, perhaps not as nimble, but richer, warmer. Sexier. Emily looked the part, with her cafe au lait skin and dark eyes. You had to look closely to see the faded, cross-shaped scar below her left eye that was a reminder of her days as a tomboy.
Emily walked over to where Cara was talking quietly with tenor Ken Gayle, who'd come to Denver from Seattle for the auditions. Their conversation soon turned to such operatic shop talk as the best way to get rid of phlegm. "I gargle for a half-hour every morning. It's like a cat coughing up a hairball," Emily said, as the other two laughed and nodded.
The three were strangers but old hands at auditions. And so their banter was relaxed rather than mean-spirited, as they critiqued the singers marching one at a time into the audition hall, where they would sing two selections--one of their own choosing, one from a list they had submitted as being prepared to sing. For them, this was a form of continuing education. No one expected to make it through an audition unscathed; there was always something to be learned, or a lesson reinforced, by dissecting another's performance.
A young woman rushed up to the threesome, half-wild with anxiety. She was scheduled next, but the woman currently before the judges, another coloratura, was singing the aria she had selected. "Should I change?" she asked, her eyes darting from Emily to Cara to Ken.
They all shook their heads. "No," said Emily. "Sing what you sing best." Secretly, she was pleased: not a lyric soprano.
At an audition, Emily liked talking to the other singers; they understood how difficult the path had been to get to where they were today. But others in this waiting room had different ways of dealing with the stress. One woman sat in a corner with her eyes closed, her hands clasped on her lap, holding down her music as though it might fly away. A thin young man with a ponytail paced around the room, avoiding all eyes. He didn't appear to have gotten much sleep the night before; his skin was sallow and his face unshaven. When his name was announced, he grabbed his music and stalked off as if heading for a firing squad.
Emily shrugged. "Some are so competitive or nervous, they can't even look at you," she said. "I can't imagine going through life that way. The way I see it, they're here to do the best they can, and I'm here to do the best I can."


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The worst seat at Miller Park
Miller Park August 25th, 2009
Contrary to the video above that is NOT the worst seat at Miller Park. Tonight the worst seat in Miller Park will be the one I am sitting in (or depending on your point of view, the one next to mine). Why? BECAUSE I AM FREAKIN' SICK!
Seriously, who gets sick in the middle of August? Can't I get sick during Packers season or when the Bucks are playing? I blame the fair. You think carnies have any health codes? Doubt it. That corndog I ate Sunday night was probably touched by more unwashed hands than Lindsay Lohan's breasts. So thanks to them tonight instead of a beer, I'll be drinking... I don't know, what else do they serve there?
Taking the day off to attempt a recovery in time for the game.


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From a dark brown seed from the Vatican Gardens in Rome... What is this tree? Planted two months ago, about 10 inches now
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Warm, flat aqua-blue waters that you'll find here are like the kiting conditions you see in your dreams. Perfect for beginner and advanced riders wanting 15 – 20 knot winds morning, noon and night. There's no wonder that The Cocos Islands are growing in reputation for blissful kiteboarding and if you're lucky you can kite with the turtles, reef sharks and manta rays.
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Nestled deep in the heart of the Whitefish Range stands Nasukoin Mountain. Nasukoin in Kootenai means "chief". That is an appropriate name for this mountain as it is the highest peak in the United States' portion of the Whitefish Range and the fourth highest overall in the entire range with the three higher peaks located in British Columbia.
Getting There
Getting there is an exercise in patience as you must travel over many miles of unpaved, rocky roads.But, to begin, drive 18.5 miles north of Whitefish on Highway 93. Turn right on the access road to Upper Whitefish Lake which is almost directly across the highway from the Olney turnoff located between mile markers 145 and 146.
Drive up the main dirt and rock-filled road for almost 19 miles until you come to a large turnout on the left and signs indicating Link Lake Rd # 589. Turn left on Link Lake Rd and follow it for approximately 1.5 miles until you see the meadows on the right...the trail begins just beyond the meadows.
Two-wheel drive, low clearance vehicles were parked at the trailhead the day we were there but I would certainly recommend a high clearance vehicle for these roads.
Trail Information
Nasukoin Mountain is a walk-up, but it is an extremely strenuous 12 mile round-trip hike to attain the summit. There are significant elevation losses and gains that must be overcome on the trail. The first is the worst...about 500' down the east side of Lake Mountain on switchbacks.The first and largest obstacle is attaining the summit of 7814' Lake Mountain. SP Member Cougar14 has done an excellent job detailing the rigors involved in attaining Lake Mountain's summit.
For the sake of continuity I will briefly give those details again. Follow the Link Lake Trail #372 for about 1 to 1.5 miles until it forks left. Take the left fork which is Nasukoin Trail #375. Numerous switchbacks take you up the next approximately 2 miles to the summit of Lake for an approximately 1800' elevation gain. A few feet back down from the summit of Lake there is a trail cairn which marks the continuation of the trail onto Nasukoin...it is also here that you must lose about 500' feet in elevation if you wish to continue. But you should also stop and savor the views...including the summit ridge of Lake.
Before setting off...take the time to enjoy or dread...whichever you prefer... the rest of your route to Nasukoin. The trail wraps around the far side of the connecting ridge...where you will encounter two more areas of elevation loss...neither as bad as the first...but one of which you will not be looking forward to on your way back.
The trail is easy to follow...in some places there are cairns...but these really aren't needed. The trail is very rocky, particularly after you descend the Lake Mountain switchbacks.
At this point, on the first section of the last group of switchbacks coming off the ridge, one could leave the trail and bushwack over to the rocky, small cliffs of the SW ridge of Nasukoin and ascend the ridge directly to the summit. We opted for the trail as the rock looked very loose and the ridge is steeper than it looks from a distance.


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In a perfect world, station wagons and speed would not be mutually exclusive concepts. If the auto market doesn't offer you a wagon that goes like stink, sometimes you just have to build one yourself. One Volvo owner has done just that by swapping a twin-turbo inline-six from a Toyota Supra into an early-model 240 wagon.
The car featured in the video is a burgundy 1975 Volvo 245 station wagon, complete with factory roof rack and early dual-round headlamps. We first see a shot of the wagon in stock form. The next time we see it, it's sporting a twin-turbo 3.0-liter 2JZ I-6 out of a '90s-era Supra Turbo. To show off its new power, the wagon drifts effortlessly around a warehouse.
The driver then decides to take the Volvo out on the highway, on the hunt for worthy and willing challengers. The Franken-wagon eventually comes across something interesting – a 500-hp E60-generation BMW M5. Check out the video below to see which car manages to come in first in this impromptu race.
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An exciting young adult novel gets the big screen treatment this fall. Check out the official trailer for The Maze Runner:
Do you have a favorite book from the previous year or are you looking for a few good reads? Be sure to check out YALSA's Top Ten nominees and vote for your favorites now through October 19. All the books on the list were nominated by fellow teens. Voting is open to readers ages 12-19.
What does YALSA stand for? The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) is a national association of librarians, library workers and advocates whose mission is to expand and strengthen library services for teens, aged 12-18.
One of my personal favorites from the list is The False Prince by Jennifer Nielson, which is the first title of the Ascendance trilogy. The second book, The Runaway King, is great, too, and I anticipate it will be on next year's Top Ten. Of course, now I am stuck in that awful place of having to wait for the third book to come out! I listened the the audio version, and I found both books to be riveting.
What are your favorites from the list? Post a comment and let me know.
Seraphina is the winner of the 2013 Morris Award, which honors a debut book written for teens by a first-time author. I listened to the audiobook while driving back and forth to work, and I had to peel myself out of the car each time as I was so enchanted by the world created by author Rachel Hartman.
Seraphina is the assistant music director of the court in the medieval kingdom of Goredd. Though incredibly gifted musically, Seraphina does all she can to avoid the limelight, for she holds a secret that could prove deadly to her: she is half-dragon. In Goredd, dragons and humans have an uneasy truce which becomes more strained when a member of the royal family is murdered in a rather draconian fashion. Seraphina soon discovers a plot to create war between the species, and she must do all she can to expose the culprits who would destroy the peace.
The dragons in Seraphina's world can take on human form and are teachers and scholars, and Seraphina is taught by Orma on whom she strongly relies. The story is stellar in its treatment of Seraphina's struggle to accept herself as she grapples with human emotion and the logical and cold side of being half-dragon. The story is replete with action, intrigue of the court, a love interest, and, of course, dragons in this sumptuous fantasy world--highly recommended for teens and adults who love fantasy!
Check out the YALSA Blog The Hub for a more detailed review of Seraphina.
There is a sequel in the making, Drachomachia, which is currently scheduled to be released in February 2014--a definite on my "must read" list!
Have you read the book? Leave a comment and let us know what you thought of it.
Here's another great book trailer from Kelsey. Pick up a copy of Legend by Marie Lu today!
Kelsey has created a new book trailer for Just Listen by Sarah Dessen. Take a look:
Check out the book today!
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