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Potoczek is situated in southern Poland. It is a perfect place for all those who seek a quiet, natural and healthy holiday.
Potoczek is situated in southern Poland. It is a perfect place for all those who seek a quiet, natural and healthy holiday. Here you will find a unique opportunity for the individual or family who care about their 'ecological footprint' but wish to enjoy the full wonder of Poland's expansive, unspoiled nature, glorious mediaeval architecture, warm hearted citizens and superb farmhouse foods! Located in the heart of the hilly region of Lesser Poland (Malopolska), 40km from Krakow and 100km from Zakopane, Potoczek gives you a chance to spend a quiet holiday in the Beskid Mountains far from the crowds and urban bussle, or to visit Krakow - one of Poland's most beautiful cities. You might fancy a trip to Zakopane, Poland's "winter capital" at the foot of the Tatra Mountains. From your Potoczek base you are well placed for all these pleasures and on any day you can combine resting in the countryside with sightseeing and hiking. Just at the end of your south facing garden you will find ICPPC Ecocentre, one of the first fully integrated small scale ecological demonstration sites in Poland. Here you can learn about clay-straw building, organic gardening, renewable energy for the home, grey water systems and much more and you can even book-in for a course and learn about the challenge of self sufficiency from a local Polish farmer. We believe that Potoczek will give you that 'special something' so important for a really good holiday! The House We offer you a comfortable house with 3 double bedrooms, a sitting-room, a bathroom, a toilet and a small kitchen. The house can accommodate 6 people. If necessary, the sitting-room can also be used as a bedroom for 2 additional people. The house was originally built half a century ago but it was refurbished in 2006. All the rooms are fully furnished in a nice and pleasant style. In the sitting-room there is a TV set. In the kitchen there is a fridge and an electrical cooker. Potoczek is and ideal place for families. Children can play in the garden. Pets are welcome. The house and the garden are at the disposal of the guests only. We will take care of everything and make sure that our guests have a nice stay here but at the same time respect their privacy. The Garden Potoczek has a nice spacious garden where you can sit and relax, listen to birds' singing, sunbathe and have a barbecue or a campfire. The garden is fenced, so parents can be sure that their children are safe here. Children can play the ball, badminton and play in the sandpit. Near the house there is also a small swimming-pool for them. In the garden there is an old smithy, where you can see original blacksmith's tools form the first half of 20th century, and a barn. Both the smithy, which is made of stone, and the wooden barn contribute to the atmosphere of Potoczek and give it a country touch.

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Google tablet: How it measures up to iPad, Nook, and others
Google tablet, announced last week, will have an operating system based on the Android. But how will the Nexus 7 Google tablet compare to other tablets already on the market?
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Google Inc. said last week that it will sell its own tablet computer, the Nexus 7, based on its Android operating system.
Google is the latest challenger to Apple, maker of the popular iPad. The new tablet will also compete with Amazon.com Inc.'s Kindle Fire and Barnes & Noble Inc.'s Nook Tablet.
Here's a look at the key differences between those devices.
Google Inc.'s Nexus 7
— Price: $199 for 8 gigabytes of storage, $249 for 16 GB.
— Screen size: 7 inches diagonally
— Screen resolution: 1280 x 800 pixels
— Weight: 0.75 pounds
— Cameras: Front-facing, 1.2 megapixel camera
— Battery life: 9.5 hours
— Operating system: Google's Android
Pros: Access to a variety of games, utilities and other software for Android devices, though not as extensive as apps available for iPad. More features than Kindle Fire at same price.
Cons: Integrates with Google Play store, which is still new and isn't as robust as Apple or Amazon's stores. Data storage cannot be expanded with memory cards. No option for cellular wireless broadband.
Amazon.com Inc.'s Kindle Fire:
— Price: $199 for 6 gigabytes of storage
— Screen size: 7 inches diagonally
— Screen resolution: 1024 by 600 pixels
— Weight: 0.9 pounds
— Cameras: none
— Battery life: 8 hours.
— Operating system: Modified version of Google's Android
Pros: Cheap and portable. Convenient access to Amazon store.


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No story is more central to Western culture than the crucifixion of Jesus Christ in the New Testament, and none better demonstrates the power of representation in shaping religious faith and practice. The incidence of Passion imagery in diverse media is fundamental to the histories of Christian piety, church politics, and art in European and American societies. At the same time, the visualization and reenactment of Christ's suffering has for centuries been the principal engine generating popular perceptions of Jews and Judaism. The provocative essays collected here, written by eminent scholars with an eye toward the nonspecialist reader, broadly survey the depiction and dramatization of the Passion and consider the significance of this representational focus for both Christians and Jews. This anthology provides a unique, multifaceted overview of a subject of enduring importance in today's religiously pluralistic societies.
Contributors include Robin Blaetz, Stephen Campbell, Jody Enders, Christopher Fuller, James Marrow, Walter Melion, David Morgan, David Nirenberg, Adele Reinhartz, Miri Rubin, Lisa Saltzman, and Marc Saperstein.
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Marcia Kupfer
Part One: Narrative Transformations, Pictorial Elaborations
1. Inventing the Passion in the Late Middle Ages
James H. Marrow
2. The Passion of Mary: The Virgin and the Jews in Medieval Culture
Miri Rubin
3. The Conflicted Representation of Judaism in Italian Renaissance Images of Christ's Life and Passion
Stephen J. Campbell
4. Ex libera meditatione: Visualizing the Sacrificial Christ in Jerónimo Nadal's Annotations and Meditations on the Gospels
Walter S. Melion
Part Two: Popular Spectacle, Mass Consumption
5. Coups de Théâtre and the Passion for Vengeance
Jody Enders
6. Images of the Passion and the History of Protestant Visual Piety in America
David Morgan
7. Realizing the Passion on Screen
Robin Blaetz
8. Jesus of Hollywood
Adele Reinhartz
9. Two Thousand Years of Storytelling About Jesus: How Faithful Is Pasolini's Gospel to Matthew's Gospel?
Christopher Fuller
Part Three: Jewish Perspectives
10. Jewish Responses to the Passion Narratives
Marc Saperstein
11. Barnett Newman's Passion
Lisa Saltzman
Epilogue: A Brief History of Jewish Enmity
David Nirenberg


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You've Gotta Live A Little…
Laugh a little, buy the cutest Orla bag a little…. Okay well maybe that's not part of the song, but you really have to get yourself a bag like mine so we can all be twinsies, because it's way too cute to sit in the Twig shop all alone. See how dahling it looks on white sofas? Imagine it over your arm. Fierce.
It's perfect for Spring and in this juicy watermelon color, well… You can't refuse. Don't I sound like Holly the chipper sales lady? Well, if you'd like one, shop at Twig – I believe the shop owner is still honoring the decor8 discount for all of us, so enter decor8 when you checkout for your 20% off. Seriously, give yourself a little treat. This thing is so nice and happy to look at, and I tell you come Spring, you'll thank me for encouraging you because you'll have the hottest bag amongst your pack of friends. And no one is paying me to say this, I actually used hard cold plastic to buy the items shown in these photos, and paid the same rate everyone else did. But I'm just so over the moon about this handbag that I had to share a few photos. :)
So there's my little weekend post about a recent splurge. Give in if you may. :)
(images from holly becker for decor8)
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Thanks for linking to twig, and for the great blog. Merry christmas


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Palace of Desire
The Cairo Trilogy, Volume 2
By Naguib Mahfouz
(Anchor, Paperback, 9780307947116, 464pp.)
Publication Date: November 29, 2011
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Palace of Desire is the second novel in Nobel Prize-winner Naguib Mahfouz's magnificent Cairo Trilogy, an epic family saga of colonial Egypt that is considered his masterwork.
The novels of the Cairo Trilogy trace three generations of the family of tyrannical patriarch al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad, who rules his household with a strict hand while living a secret life of self-indulgence. In Palace of Desire, his rebellious children struggle to move beyond his domination, as the world around them opens to the currents of modernity and political and domestic turmoil brought by the 1920s.
Translated by William Maynard Hutchins, Lorne M. Kenny, and Olive E. Kenny.
Naguib Mahfouz was born in Cairo in 1911 and began writing when he was seventeen. A student of philosophy and an avid reader, his works range from reimaginings of ancient myths to subtle commentaries on contemporary Egyptian politics and culture. Over a career that lasted more than five decades, he wrote 33 novels, 13 short story anthologies, numerous plays, and 30 screenplays. Of his many works, most famous is The Cairo Trilogy, consisting of Palace Walk (1956), Palace of Desire (1957), and Sugar Street (1957), which focuses on a Cairo family through three generations, from 1917 until 1952. In 1988, he became the first writer in Arabic to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. He died in August 2006.
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"All the magic, mystery, and suffering of Egypt in the 1920s are conveyed on a human scale." —The New York Times Book Review
"A grand novel of ideas. . . . A marvelous read." —The Washington Post
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The arrogance of youth. That's what Andrew Garrad says led him to leave the comfort of the Wind Energy Group, Britain's leading wind turbine company in the mid 1980s, and start a consultancy with friend and colleague Unsal Hassan. "After five years there I had slowly become frustrated because we'd developed the MS2 wind turbine but nobody wanted to sell it. Unsal and I had PhDs, I was good at the mathematical stuff and he was good at measurements so we thought we'd make a perfect partnership."
Andrew Garrad founded Garrad Hassan 25 years ago and, like Windpower Monthly, is fierce about independence and global reach.
The arrogance of youth. That's what Andrew Garrad says led him to leave the comfort of the Wind Energy Group (WEG), Britain's leading wind turbine company in the mid 1980s, and start a consultancy with friend and colleague Unsal Hassan. "I was 30. After five years there I had slowly become frustrated because we'd developed the MS2 wind turbine but nobody wanted to sell it. Unsal and I had PhDs, I was good at the mathematical stuff and he was good at measurements so we thought we'd make a perfect partnership."
They mortgaged their homes, cashed in their pensions and left WEG, then owned by a trio of seriously solid companies that included construction giant Taylor Woodrow and British Aerospace. "It was either bravery or stupidity," says Garrad. The rest is history.
Since then, Garrad Hassan (GH) has acted as the "owner's engineer" for over 30,000 MW of wind projects and carried out energy assessments for over 100,000 MW, over 80% of the world's current wind capacity. It has never owned any part of a turbine or a wind farm. It believes independence is critical to credibility.
Andrew Garrad's eyes sparkle when he talks about the early days. "I am an atheist. The closest I get to a religious experience is making a mathematical model, running it, taking measurements and finding that these agree." In 1984, GH started to develop and test models for validity. Within six months they had designed GH Bladed, turbine software described by Garrad as "a mathematical windmill," and the model that has been commercially successful for 25 years. With no pretence at false modesty, Garrad calls it the industry's standard design tool for simulating the way a wind turbine behaves.
The company's first client was Gifford Technology, which became Vestas Blades UK Ltd in 2004. "Jim Platts (a Gifford owner) sent us 500 quid as a retainer. I didn't know what a retainer was and I told him we hadn't done the work yet. He said never mind, we know you will."
With few private sector clients, much of Garrad Hassan's early income came from government research programs. "There was loads of money around," says Garrad, referring to grants given by the UK's Department of Energy and later the European Commission, the executive arm of what today is the EU. GH competed with universities and won a large share of research and demonstration money, much of it doled out by the commission's DG12 under the supervision of Wolfgang Paltz.
Openness and sharing
In this early phase of wind energy development, only a handful of players were involved, perhaps as few as 35-40 people throughout all of Europe. GH had six employees. "It would have been easy to be cynical about public money," Garrad says. "But we were serious and did our best to fulfil our obligations. And in the process, we learned." This openness and sharing of information, Garrad says, was the best thing about the early years.
For several of its support programs, the European Commission required applications from groups of co-operating companies from three countries. GH was a popular partner and knowledge spread fast. "We were never more than three to six companies," Garrad says. "Today you can find 500 companies on one project."
Much changed with privatisation of the British energy sector. GH shifted its focus from wind turbines to wind farms, but with National Wind Power (headed up by old colleagues from WEG) sweeping 90% of the wind farm contracts, clients were still in short supply. Survival meant moving outside the UK. GH already had some experience with New Zealand, but its first real venture outside Britain was in Spain. "We learned very quickly that working outside the UK wasn't as difficult as we had anticipated, but it was critically important to have employees who lived there and who could speak the national language. By this time, we had all become Europeans."
Garrad has willingly thrown himself into lobbying work for the sector. He is a past chairman of both the British and European Wind Energy Associations and involved in more lobbying efforts than most. "We're not good at the politics," he says, reflecting on the industry's past efforts. "Solar is still four times as expensive as wind, but this is not what bankers or the public think. It's completely bonkers." Garrad says that wind energy attracted a different type of personality than solar. The Danish mentality was agricultural, the German "gear box technical," neither good at public relations. He says another problem wind experienced was "silly ideological arguments" about how to structure markets - whether to subsidise purchase of wind power or whether to set mandatory targets and let prices find their own level.
The wind industry's worst self-inflicted injury, however, has been the sheer pace of technology development, says Garrad. "The good news is that we've developed the world's biggest rotating machines in a very short period of time. The bad news is that we've made too many errors along the way and haven't been careful enough to understand our errors before we went public."
He says that engineers' egos drive technology forward and it was a good thing that, when GE entered the picture in 2002, unlike its competitors, it did not rush to bring bigger turbines to the market, but focused on perfecting the technology it had acquired.
"Here we feel humiliated when we make errors," says Garrad, referring to cultural difference between the West and China. "Because there is a stigma to failure, we hide it. In China, there is no stigma to failure, but instead to inertia and inactivity. If you make an error, you just go and fix it." He regrets the lack of transparency in the new marine renewables. "You've got these people working in secret making the same mistakes. Yes, it's a barrier to progress, but it's unavoidable in a commercial system."
Size is a social issue
What does Garrad now expect from an industry moving out of adolescence and charged with meeting tough targets for green energy? A whole new type of wind turbine for offshore, he says. Today's models are "social turbines," designed to be pleasant to look at and quiet. They are not optimised for efficient generation. Offshore, however, fast moving, noisy rotors will not offend neighbours. Offshore wind turbines of 10 MW and even 15 MW are being discussed, he points out, while another vision is to fit multiple 6 MW rotors onto one structure. Floating wind turbines far out to sea are a serious option, adds Garrad. He foresees offshore turbines constructed so that people can live in them. With maintenance critical, it would be cost-efficient to have someone there all the time.
The industry's next major task is pulling electricity grid networks into shape to carry wind power to where it is needed. Building transmission lines is a job for governments, says Garrad, just as building highways has been. "A year ago, the market was the great god, but no more. It's disingenuous for the public sector to say they are in favour of renewable energy and then not co-operate."
Garrad would like to see more wind scientists, too. He believes academic institutions are developing the appropriate curriculum and is heartened by a recent trip to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in northern California, which has been told to move 25% of its research from weapons to wind energy. "That's a lot of brainpower," he says. "We also need to train technicians - we need both the academic and the practical."
General advances in power electronics are strongly influencing wind industry technology, Garrad says, facilitating wind farms that provide grid support and making full power conversion from variable speed turbines economic. That does away with the need for cost- saving partial power conversion and the complexity of doubly-fed induction generators. Among singly-fed machines, the efficiency and lightweight advantages of permanent magnet generators (PMGs) means Garrad is convinced these will be the new standard within five years. The discovery of large deposits of powerful rare earth magnets in China has contributed to the significant shift to PMGs, he adds.
Garrad returns to politics as one of the big concerns for the future. "This is a political business," he says. "Unless you get the politics right, it won't go anywhere." Garrad believes that privatisation of the power generation business was an impediment to early wind development in the UK. "A Department of Energy that is instructed to put its efforts into R&D will do so if you have a policy and a goal, but first you must have the political will."
Now that Garrad Hassan has set up a policy advisory unit, Garrad has been told to expect a telephone call from one American who needs some first-rate advice on wind power. His name? Barack Obama.
- Lyn Harrison, Windpower Monthly Editor Reporting and Nancy Graham Holm, 25th Special Editor.


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Change of pace, lunatics. We'll be taking a break from EUREKA SEVEN and YU YU HAKUSHO for a week or so to catch up with a number of fine, new Funimation titles that have come to my doorstep. Read my thoughts on…
Look, you'd be have to be hopelessly dense for a show titled YAMADA'S FIRST TIME to ever surprise you when it gets tricky - - the synopsis is laid right out on the packaging. See, this 15-year-old chick's aiming to end her virginity with a 21 cannon salute by sleeping with no less than a hundred guys. It's basically like a shonen where the hero's on a quest to defeat a horde of villains, but the fighting's swapped out for freakin'. One easily can figure that Yamada will learn all sorts of abilities throughout the course of this saga, and possibly even reach progressively higher levels of sexual Super Saiyan.
As was the case with that other notably tricky mainstream show, VAMPIRE BUND, I took a deep breath when I popped this disc into my XBOX, held my breath as the show started rolling and was then able to slowly exhale in relief as the show proved to be working extra hard to be entertaining in spite of the grosser stuff. This is actually a lot like FLCL in the speediness of dialogue, the cleverness of the abstraction and the density of sheer visual information being thrown at you. It puts a show like SHIN CHAN to shame for how much more skillfully it's able to pull off the machine gun gag style. Even if you're not laughing at every joke, you're at least constantly entertained by the exuberant storytelling. If I wasn't a guy in his 20s, I'd recommend it.
But it is tricky. That can't be stressed enough. It's definitional tricky. As in this episode starts with Yamada shaving her pubic hair, builds conflict with her trying to get felt up in the middle of the school library and then features enough panty shots of her that you eventually start taking them for granted. And all of that while she's repeatedly stressed to be 15.
That makes it...
There's a fair argument that this isn't any less appropriate than child assassin shows like GUNSLINGER GIRL. And there's a chance that the show may play the reliable high school sex com shell game by having Yamada never actually follow through on her scheme. She could very likely learn that she isn't anywhere close to the kind of maneater she's trying to be. To whit, her courtship with the "cherry boy" in this episode is actually rather sweet. But I know I can't stick around to find out if that'll play out - - not when I'm watching something that gives me the persistent anxiety that the feds may bust into my apartment at any moment and seize it.
Watch this episode, "Boy Meets Girl, Let Me Have Your First Time" below and decide for yourself.
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The Microsoft Robotics Studio 2008 offers a suite of tools that makes it easy to write code that controls robots, from simple robots to advanced robots. Application developers can choose from the Visual Programming Language within the Microsoft suite or C# to create code. The runtime takes care of all the concurrency headaches so developers can focus on the more important issues of coding for robotics.
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Robotics Studio includes the Visual Programming Language IDE, as well as several runtime libraries to handle the connections to the devices. There is also an entire simulation environment and a set of preconfigured services set up to work with several popular robotic devices (such as Lego Mindstorm devices).
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Robots involve multiple concurrent processes. For example, the robots the United States has sent to Mars have to do an enormous amount of things simultaneously. They move around the terrain, which involves controlling the steering and power of six wheels, each of which has a separate motor. They're also taking readings from the various instruments, responding to remote commands from Mission Control, and sending data back to Earth. And don't forget they're even performing scientific experiments. (For example, they include an alpha particle X-ray spectrometer.) All of these processes involve separate code in the form of multithreaded processing. For a programmer, that can be nightmarish, as they have to take care of locks, semaphores and all the usual multithreaded headaches. That's where the Robotics Studio makes life easier: It includes the CCR (Concurrency and Coordination Runtime), which is a programming model that handles messaging and orchestration primitives, alleviating the need to manually handle all the low-level threading headaches. This lets the developer focus on more important tasks and spend less time fighting with low-level code.
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I ran Microsoft Robotics Studio on a Toshiba Satellite U305, running Microsoft Vista, with Intel Core 2 Duo 1.8GHz and 2GB RAM. One fun thing about the Robotics Studio is it includes a 3-D simulation environment that models actual physics (using the PhysX engine from Nvidia). At first glance, the presence of this Microsoft Visual Simulation Enviroment in a robotics studio might seem a bit odd, but the reason is that the simulation environment can include a simulation of the robot itself. This simulated robot can interact in an environment in the same way that a real robot would. In other words, if you don't have access to a robot, you can still control a simulated one that behaves just like the real thing. Microsoft included with the Simulation Environment several pre-packaged sample simulations of actual robots, such as one called iRobot Create. This is an educational robot for students and researchers made by iRobot, a company that makes
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According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 1.9 square miles (4.9 km²), of which, 1.8 square miles (4.7 km²) of it is land and 0.1 square miles (0.3 km²) of it (5.26%) is water.
There were 377 households out of which 19.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 41.1% were married couples living together, 12.5% had a female householder with no husband present, and 43.0% were non-families. 38.5% of all households were made up of individuals and 20.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.01 and the average family size was 2.65.
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The median income for a household in the town was $23,750, and the median income for a family was $31,964. Males had a median income of $30,865 versus $21,696 for females. The per capita income for the town was $14,234. About 14.6% of families and 20.4% of the population were below the poverty line, including 33.0% of those under age 18 and 8.1% of those age 65 or over.


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| B r e a k e v e n |I'm breaking apart; you love it.
Perfect Timing Is...Almost impossible...It's meant to be.
LeafI watch the treesas they bend and swayto the music of the wind.The leaves twirl gleefully,and get lost in their danceThey waver and spin.They flux and flow.Their song is never ending.But onefalls,floatingdownwardsin a tantalizing decent.It hits the groundand is crushed mindlesslyby feet that rush off without a care.I watchas it tries desperatelyto peel itself off the ground.A cruel smile is etched across my face.As I know exactly how the leaf feels.
Things I Never Say #2No thanks, I don't want chocolate.
Things I Never Say #1I did well on that test!
kiss.our lips meet,I feel n o t h i n g.
fear.I'm scared that I care too much, for a person who is completely ignorant of my existence.
Like Old Times...The sun shines down through the leaves of the Tree. Our Tree. I run my hand along the crevices of the bark. They all feel so smooth, reminding me of all the memories under this tree. All the words said and smiles exchanged."You know, I've realized," He would start every single day. It was the one thing I looked forward to everyday. He would explain something that he had come to conclude, to wonder about, or to daydream upon sometime in the course of the day. His eyes would sparkle and a light breeze swept his hair off his face.A bittersweet smile etches its way across my face. I remember almost every thing. I remember everything that happened near sunset. Sunset was my favorite part of our exchanges. I recall it with sharp details. The exact colors in the sky, from lavender to a brilliant orange to the dark veil of blue and later black that would consume the horizon, are permanently stored in my mind. The light would turn golden and his brown eyes would be set on fi
Swing DanceSwing dancing.The memory passes byIn an instantIt's gone.Swing dancing…One, two, three.A second wave passes me.I taste it on my tongue.It lingers for a whileBut…Like all things in life…It dies.The memory,Too faint to make out,Leaves a heaviness in my chestLeaves me gasping for airLeaves me with nothing butEmptiness.Loneliness.Solitude.Swing dancing…One, two, three.One, two, three.In, out, spin…I feel my heartexplode.A boy.A girl.The boy shows her through all of the steps,smiles at her as they start toDance.She trips.He laughs encouragingly.She laughs and gets up.They try again.I…Sway to the music.There was none.They go along with the melodyThey hum in unison.I trytoremember.For the life of me,I can't.I'm the girl.I know that much.I can still smell the room.I can hear the laughter of two.I can see him.I can see him…No.I shut my eyes.No.I refuse to remember.I refuse.
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HilariousKeep on laughing...you'll die first.
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Schrodinger's CatA hermit died. No one knew.
TrophiesNo trophies, for we have memories
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Spiders? Scary? Spooky?
A sure-fire way to frighten arachnophobics is the very mention of "spiders"--especially on Halloween.
Spiders aren't insects but arthropods, order Araneae. They have eight legs, which according to some, are seven legs too many. They are also distinguished by their chelicerae with fangs that inject venom.
You've seen them. Black widow spiders. Jumping spiders. Crab spiders. Garden spiders.
If you fear them, there's a name for that fear: Arachnophobia. Wikipedia says that "People with arachnophobia tend to feel uneasy in any area they believe could harbor spiders or that has visible signs of their presence, such as webs. If arachnophobics see a spider, they may not enter the general vicinity until they have overcome the panic attack that is often associated with their phobia. Some people scream, cry, have trouble breathing, have excessive sweating or even heart trouble when they come in contact with an area near spiders or their webs. In some extreme cases, even a picture or a realistic drawing of a spider can also trigger fear."
So many myths about spiders. The Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, University of Washington, Seattle, has posted some of the myths, misconceptions and superstitions on its website.
The general fallacies, as listed by Rod Crawford, curator of arachnids:
General Fallacies
- Spiders are insects.
- "Arachnid" is just a fancy name for spider.
- You can always tell a spider because it has eight legs.
- All spiders make webs.
- The orb web (round or "geometric" web) is a "normal" spider web.
- A "daddy-longlegs" is a kind of spider.
- Most spiders could not bite humans because their fangs are too small.
- Any spider species can be found anywhere.
- All spiders are male.
- Spiders are most numerous in late summer.
- You are never more than three feet from a spider.
- Spiders "suck the juices" of their prey, and do not literally eat it.
- Spiders don't stick to their own webs because their feet are oily.
Meanwhile, over at the Bohart Museum of Entomology at the University of California, Davis, plans are underway for an open house themed "Insect Myths." They will focus on spider myths, too.
The event, free and open to the public, is set for Sunday, Nov. 23 from 1 to 4 p.m. in Room 1124 of the Academic Surge Building on Crocker Lane, off LaRue Road. Directed by Lynn Kimsey, professor of entomology at UC Davis, the museum houses a global collection of nearly eight million specimens and is the home of the seventh largest insect collection in North America, and the California Insect Survey, a storehouse of the insect biodiversity. The museum is open to the public four days a week, Monday through Thursday (9 a.m. to noon and 1 to 5 p.m.) but it sponsors special weekend open houses as well.
The remaining schedule:
- Sunday, Nov. 23: "Insect Myths," 1 to 4 p.m.
- Saturday, Dec. 20: "Insects and Art," 1 to 4 p.m.
- Sunday, Jan. 11: "Parasitoid Palooza," 1 to 4 p.m.
- Sunday, Feb. 8: "Biodiversity Museum Day," noon to 4 p.m.
- Saturday, March 14: "Pollination Nation," 1 to 4 p.m.
- Saturday, April 18: UC Davis Picnic Day, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
- Sunday, May 17: "Name That Bug! How About Bob?" 1 to 4 p.m.
- Saturday, July 18: "Moth Night," 8 to 11 p.m.
When you attend the Bohart Museum open houses, you'll probably have the opportunity to hold and/or photograph "Rosie," a 24-year-old tarantula. It's one of the critters in the live "petting zoo," which also includes Madagascar hissing cockroaches, millipedes and walking sticks.
Jumping spider eyes the photographer. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Crab spider on sedum eyes a honey bee. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Garden spider captures a honey bee. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Lying in Wait
They're ambush predators.
Here you are, a bee, touching down on a flower and little do you know there's a patient and persistent crab spider lying in wait.
Sometimes they're camouflaged, matching the color of a blossom, like a yellow crab spider on a gold coin, or a pinkish-white crab spider on sedum.
But there was no missing this white crab spider on a Mexican sunflower (Tithonia) last weekend. It stood out like a snowy owl perched on a crate of crimson pomegranates.
Crab spiders belong to the family Thomisidae and are often called "flower crab spiders." They're not web weavers or jumping spiders. They're ambush specialists that trap unsuspecting prey.
If you're wondering why some honey bees, leafcutter bees, blue orchard bees or sweat bees don't go home at night, the crab spider is one of the reasons.
Crab spider on a Mexican sunflower, Tithonia. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Crab spider on a gold coin. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Crab spider on sedum. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A Bad Day for a Butterfly
It was a bad day for a butterfly.
We stopped by the Ruth Risdon Storer Garden, part of the UC Davis Arboretum, at noon today as triple-digit temperatures climbed to a scorching 103.
We spotted a few cabbage white butterflies (Pieris rapae) nectaring the Verbena (Verbena bonariensis), and a few honey bees on the gaura (Onagraceae).
The cabbage whites seemed to like the Verbena. They fluttered around the blossoms gracefully, touching down like snowy princesses in winged gowns and spiked heels, belying the fact that their caterpillars are pests of cabbage, kale, radish and broccoli, mustard and other members of the family Brassicaceae.
One cabbage white, however, wasn't so lucky.
As we rounded a corner of the garden, we noticed it wasn't fluttering. It wasn't moving. It wasn't doing anything.
There was a good reason why it wasn't going anywhere.
A hungry crab spider.
Crab spider with its kill, a cabbage white butterly. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
This one got away. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
All That Glitters Is Not Gold
All that glitters is not gold.
The gold coin flowers (Asteriscus maritimus) planted in our yard attract a goodly number of leafcutter bees and hover flies (aka flower flies and syrphid flies).
But if you look closely, gold coins attract something else--arachnids.
This little crab spider (below) blends in so well that at first glance, it's not easy to spot.
And that's the key. Perfectly camouflaged, it awaits prey.
A golden opportunity...
Camouflaged crab spider waits for prey on a gold coin. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Close-up of crab spider camouflaged on gold coin. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Not a Good Day for a Flower Fly
It was not a good day for a flower fly.
A flower fly, aka syrphid fly, dropped down in a patch of pink roses at the Häagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven at UC Davis today to sip nectar.
It was a pink-rose kind of day.
Not for the flower fly, though. A crab spider, lying in wait, pounced.
The battle ended quickly, but the syrphid-fly feast was not to be. Not today. The predator dropped its prey.
You can see lots of predator-prey action at the Häagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven, a half-acre bee friendly garden located next to the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility on Bee Biology Road, west of the central campus.
It's open from dawn to dusk. Admission is free for all--including predators and their prey.
Crab spider nails a flower fly in the Haagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Crab spider loses its prey and heads down a stem. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)


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'I did not kill, I did not rape, I did not steal. I was not there,' Amanda Knox told the Italian court set to rule later today on the appeal of her 26-year prison sentence for Meredith Kercher's murder.
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Amanda Knox gave the speech of her life today, tearfully appealing to an Italian court to quash the 26-year prison sentence she received after being found guilty of murdering her British flatmate.
In an emotional 10-minute address, the American told the six jurors and two judges who now hold her fate in their hands that she was innocent of the crime.
"I did not kill, I did not rape, I did not steal. I was not there," she said, her words ringing out around the medieval, frescoed courtroom where her appeal has been heard over the last 11 months.
At their original trial in 2009, Ms. Knox and her former boyfriend, an Italian computer studies graduate named Raffaele Sollecito, were found guilty of sexually assaulting and murdering Meredith Kercher in her bedroom in Perugia, an historic hill town in Umbria, central Italy.
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The concentrations of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), organochlorine pesticides, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), polychlorinated dibenzofurans (PCDF), polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins (PCDD), and mercury (Hg) were determined in blubber and liver tissues of harbor seals (Phoca vitulina) collected along the northeast coast of the U.S. Average PCB concentrations in seal blubber (sum of congeners) were 12.0 μg/g (wet weight) with a range of 7.30 to 24.3 μg/g in 1980 and 6.66 μg/g (wet weight) with a range of 2.61 to 11.3 μg/g in 1990–1992. Comparisons between blubber data from this study and previous work indicated that the concentration of PCBs along the northeast coast of the U.S. may have decreased over the past twenty years.
The average p,p′-DDE concentrations in seal blubber were 10.9 μg/g (wet weight) in 1980 with a range of 6.95 to 21.9 μg/g and 4.12 μg/g (wet weight) with a range of 1.83 to 7.84 μg/g in 1990–1992. Only trace amounts of PCDFs and PCDDs were found in a few blubber samples; levels in most tissues were below detection (3–5 pg/g) (wet weight). Trace amounts (<30 ng/g) of phenanthracene, anthracene, and alkylated MW-178 compounds were found in some seal samples; all other PAH compounds were below the detection level (5–15 ng/g).
Toxic equivalents (TEQ) of selected coplanar and mono-ortho PCB congeners and relative toxic equivalents (RTE) (pg total TEQ/μg total PCB) were calculated, using recently proposed dioxin toxic equivalent factors (Ahlborg et al. 1994). The TEQs ranged from 41 to 315, and the RTEs ranged from 2.25 to 16.3. The RTEs for seal blubber indicated that the present values were in the midrange of those reported in the literature. Toxic equivalents calculated on the basis of the concentrations of the coplanar PCBs, PCDDs, and PCDFs indicated that coplanar PCBs, rather than PCDDs and PCDFs, may pose a more important toxic threat to harbor seals.
Mercury levels in liver tissue averaged 70.0 μg/g (wet weight) and 44.1 μg/g (wet weight) in the 1991 and 1980 samples, respectively, and are similar to those found in relatively polluted waters of the British Isles.
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- Title
- Contaminant levels in harbor seals from the northeastern United States
- Journal
Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology
Volume 29, Issue 1 , pp 128-134
- Cover Date
- 1995-07-01
- Print ISSN
- 0090-4341
- Online ISSN
- 1432-0703
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Additional Links
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- Authors
- C. A. Lake (1)
- J. L. Lake (2)
- R. Haebler (2)
- R. McKinney (1)
- W. S. Boothman (2)
- S. S. Sadove (3)
- Author Affiliations
- 1. c/o U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Science Applications International Corporation, 27 Tarzwell Drive, 02882, Narragansett, Rhode Island, USA
- 2. Environmental Research Laboratory, U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, 27 Tarzwell Drive, 02882, Narragansett, Rhode Island, USA
- 3. OKEANOS Ocean Research Foundation Inc, 278 East Montauk Highway, Box 778, 11946, Hampton Bays, New York, USA


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