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Liz blahh 5/21/2009 10:11:46 PM
Great shot! #1131031Christine R. Lobsinger 5/22/2009 4:08:18 AM
Hi Liz,Annette Carr 5/23/2009 3:42:59 AM
Excellent pov and beautiful image! Colors are great. #7549650Christine R. Lobsinger 5/23/2009 6:28:43 AM
Thank you Annette... it is different isn't it? I appreciate your comments!!Marisol Pastor 5/26/2009 11:30:31 AM
It IS different Christine, and I love it! #7559180Christine R. Lobsinger 5/26/2009 12:51:45 PM
Thanks again Marisol...Sherry McClead 6/9/2009 5:49:35 AM
Another great EP Chris... Congrats girl!Sherrybear #7611850
Christine R. Lobsinger 6/9/2009 6:15:15 AM
Thank you again Sherry for taking a look!!Sharon 6/19/2009 12:21:03 PM
Congrats on your finalist!!! #7648606Valentin M. Armianu 6/19/2009 12:41:07 PM
Congratulations on your astounding Finalist!! #7648700Annette Carr 6/19/2009 12:45:30 PM
CONGRATULATIONS CHRISTINE! FINALIST :) This image is deserving! #7648734Linda L. Ruiz 6/19/2009 2:06:21 PM
#7649353M.Christine Duncan 6/19/2009 3:07:26 PM
Hey girl.... CONGRATS on the finalist capture!!! This wheel sure is lucky for you!!! Bravo! From myself and all of us at the DRU club!!! #7649967Melissa Gurdus 6/19/2009 5:58:47 PM
Congratulations on your wonderful finalist!!! #7651476Patrick Rouzes 6/19/2009 6:49:35 PM
HEYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY, Christine, CONGRATULATIONS on this amazing finalist!!! WTG!!! #7651909Christine R. Lobsinger 6/19/2009 7:02:48 PM
WOW... I am thrilled- and smiling Largely!!!Sharon, Valentin, Annette, Linda, CD, Melissa and Patrick- THanK YOU so much -
Teresa H. Hunt 6/19/2009 7:10:52 PM
Congratulations Christine!!! #7652101Sam Britt 6/19/2009 7:26:45 PM
Big congrats, Christine! #7652216Christine R. Lobsinger 6/19/2009 8:03:29 PM
Hi Teresa and Sam... thank you once again... I really appreciate you and your congratulations!!Eugenio Diaz 6/19/2009 10:10:10 PM
Huge CONGRATULATIONS on your well deserved Finalist...well done!!!Christine R. Lobsinger 6/19/2009 10:15:32 PM
Thank you so much Eugenio... Wasn't sure about entering it - but I am delighted I did...Patricia A. Coblentz 6/20/2009 9:26:39 AM
Fantasic, Christine!!! Congratulations!!!Max Aureli 6/20/2009 10:09:13 AM
Congratulations again!!! #7656649Christine R. Lobsinger 6/20/2009 12:32:48 PM
Hi Max....Christine R. Lobsinger 6/20/2009 1:23:36 PM
Hi PATTI... I thank you too - I almost missed you... so excited - I'm sorry!!!Kim Andelkovic (Kovic) 6/20/2009 5:06:03 PM
WTG Christine.....congrats big time.....good luck in the next round. #7658629Christine R. Lobsinger 6/20/2009 6:12:21 PM
Thank you so much Kim!!! I am very happy!Laura E. Swan 6/20/2009 7:25:50 PM
I FOUND IT!!! YIPPEEEEE!!!HUGE CONGRATS!!! I am dizzy just looking up at this one! HA!
Lets hope it spins into gold! :)
Love, Sis
Christine R. Lobsinger 6/20/2009 7:44:38 PM
You are great... sis Laura... Thank you so much!!!Sherran Andersen 6/20/2009 9:56:49 PM
Congrats Chris. Sherran #7659323Christine R. Lobsinger 6/20/2009 11:18:10 PM
Thanks so much Sherran!!Lorna Shutter 6/21/2009 4:52:50 AM
CONGRATULATIONS on your Finalist Award for this fabulous image, Christine!!!!! :) #7660174Christine R. Lobsinger 6/21/2009 8:30:01 AM
Hi Lorna...Marisol Pastor 6/21/2009 11:48:55 AM
Hey! ANOTHER finalist this month! Congrats my friend! #7661288Christine R. Lobsinger 6/21/2009 3:18:14 PM
Marisol, thank you big time!Lisa J. Boulden 6/21/2009 4:01:55 PM
Very cool capture and perspective!Christine R. Lobsinger 6/21/2009 4:58:48 PM
Thank you Lisa... I appreciate you stopping in to say so!!!Cindy Campbell 7/20/2009 6:34:12 PM
I love shooting ferris wheels. This is one of the best I have seen. Congrats. #7760161Christine R. Lobsinger 7/20/2009 7:31:03 PM
Hello Cindy C... thank you very much for your wonderful comment above.. I truly appreciate you taking time to write here.Bill Houghton 2/4/2010 8:16:38 AM
Chris, this is an awesome shot. Thanks for commenting on my 'Taking Flight' photo. Have a great day, BillIf you have time, check out my website:
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Christine R. Lobsinger 2/4/2010 8:18:30 AM
Thanks Bill... take care.Thomas E. Hinds 2/13/2010 8:00:43 PM
Love the Skywheel images! (Even if this is from a while ago!) This might be my favorite, I don't know! Great pov! Glad I'm not up there though! Wonderful work, Chris! #8380066Christine R. Lobsinger 2/13/2010 9:22:26 PM
T-H-A-N-K-S SO MUCH THOMAS FOR LOOKING AT MY SKYWHEEL SHOTS...Thanks again..
Thomas E. Hinds 2/14/2010 7:28:47 AM
I like a lot of your images, Chris! The light on the Sky Wheel images is very good! I myself have one little Finalist that was gotten in my first month or two (I've had my gallery about 11 months). I like many of my EPs better than that Finalist so I've left everything where they are. In time I might re-arrange. Who's to know where to put what? LOL!Christine R. Lobsinger 2/18/2010 4:19:39 AM
Smiling...Ellen Hodges 2/20/2010 6:26:44 AM
Really outstanding capture, Chris! The light and the detail are soooooo exeptional!!! Congrats!!!! #8400527Christine R. Lobsinger 2/20/2010 8:29:41 AM
THankS so Much Ellen...SMILING WITH YOU
Rich Helmer 4/26/2010 10:14:56 AM
Great perspective!!! Wonderful image!!!! #8570772Christine R. Lobsinger 4/26/2010 11:50:53 AM
Hi Rich, thank you very much for stopping in and your kind words.JO ANN CLEVELAND 9/3/2010 12:23:36 PM
How cool Christine...love this series..jo ann c. #8879979
Christine R. Lobsinger 9/3/2010 1:00:50 PM
Hi JO ANN, thanks a lot.. I enjoy hearing from you.Julie Burnett 9/7/2010 4:33:13 AM
Congratulations, Christine!! Fantastic finalist, outstanding POV and color!! #8886168Christine R. Lobsinger 9/7/2010 5:29:35 AM
THankS again Julie.... I appreciate you coming by and leaving awesome comments~Laura E. Swan 9/17/2010 8:06:50 PM
I SO MUCH love the POWER we can feel in this one!
That is one big amazing Wheel and you have done it perfect justice, Chrissy!
-Laura #8914369
Christine R. Lobsinger 9/17/2010 8:26:42 PM
THankS again Sis!Laura E. Swan 9/17/2010 8:49:24 PM
Likely paperwork involved for him. He might even be reading this thread! :) Waiting for the green light!!!-Laura :D #8914462
Kim Andelkovic (Kovic) 9/24/2010 4:19:08 PM
Congrats on so many finalist Chris......brilliant work......I love all your ferris wheel shots......your on fire lady......keep up with the great finalist :-) #8928027Christine R. Lobsinger 9/24/2010 8:32:30 PM
Hi Kim, thank you my friend.... appreciate you coming by and leaving awesome comments. I am honoured!!! Thank you very much!Dianna Murphy 10/5/2010 2:10:06 PM
Wow this series is really awesome. Congratulations. #8949647Christine R. Lobsinger 10/5/2010 2:13:34 PM
THANK YOU VERY MUCH DIANNA....Rita Hill 10/6/2010 6:28:47 AM
How wonderful Christine! and congrats on your images being published on their site! How exciting. So very happy for you. #8951098Christine R. Lobsinger 10/6/2010 7:03:10 AM
Hi Rita, thank you very much! I appreciate you!Carla Capra 10/8/2010 4:41:52 PM
Oh, I love the angle of this shot and the colors of the sky, Christine. Congrats on your finalist and publication in the Niagara Blog. Thanks for sharing these with the club.Carla Capra 10/8/2010 4:41:52 PM
Oh, I love the angle of this shot and the colors of the sky, Christine. Congrats on your finalist and publication in the Niagara Blog. Thanks for sharing these with the club.Christine R. Lobsinger 10/8/2010 5:23:43 PM
Thanks so much my friend- I appreciate you coming by and well wishes here and on the blog.JO ANN CLEVELAND 10/15/2010 2:26:32 PM
Loved this!Congratulations on this wonderful finalist Christine!
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Christine R. Lobsinger 10/15/2010 2:50:45 PM
Thanks again my friend!Carol Eade 10/17/2010 7:50:42 AM
What a terrific image, Christine, love it! #8976477Christine R. Lobsinger 10/17/2010 8:42:15 AM
THankS so Much Carol. I appreciate you saying so!John Connolly 10/17/2010 2:11:37 PM
WOW! What a neck cracker of an image Christine!Kim Andelkovic (Kovic) 10/17/2010 3:02:37 PM
Whooo Hoooo congrats Chris on a great finalist WTG girl :-) #8977435Christine R. Lobsinger 10/17/2010 3:07:49 PM
Thanxs John and Kim!!Mariann Kovats 10/24/2010 12:58:35 PM
Stunning capture! #8993194Gary Lange 12/20/2010 2:37:44 PM
Awesome!! I like the perspective. All of the Ferris Wheel shots are great, this is my favorite. Belated congrats on the Finalist as well. #9116579Christine R. Lobsinger 12/21/2010 10:03:27 AM
Hi Gary, thank you very much!! I appreciate you taking time to email me too- loved your letter! I will email you - would like to ask about PS...Smiling Christine #9118216
Christine R. Lobsinger 12/21/2010 10:04:53 AM
Hi Mariann, I'm happy I went back here- did not want to miss you! THANK YOU very much my friend!Smiling again, Chris #9118217
Wm Nosal 1/23/2011 2:01:03 PM
Beautiful Shot, Christine!Christine R. Lobsinger 1/23/2011 6:54:25 PM
Thank you so much Wm-Pat and Graham Robards 1/25/2011 5:13:04 AM
Sorry I am so late Christine in wishing you congratulations!Well done! ~Pat #9192337
Christine R. Lobsinger 1/25/2011 5:18:57 AM
Happy New Year Pat and Graham~Ellen Hodges 1/25/2011 6:28:03 AM
Absolutely love this finalist, Chris!! Couldn't be more perfect! Huge congrats!! #9192566Mary Dimitriw 2/21/2011 8:49:15 AM
Congrats on your finalist! These are wonderful shots!! #9253530Christine R. Lobsinger 2/21/2011 1:59:10 PM
Hi Ellen and Mary, so I am getting back to you now, my computer was ill...Patrick Rouzes 4/27/2011 1:54:58 PM
And Congratulation once again, Christine! Incredible image & capture! #9374170Laura E. Swan 4/27/2011 2:59:51 PM
On This Wonderful Finalist, Chris! So glad this one made the pick again!!! :)
-Laura #9374444
Christine R. Lobsinger 4/28/2011 6:10:48 AM
Thanks so much Patrick and Laura... but this is one from a while back-Mike F. Anderson 6/25/2011 9:12:46 AM
Hi Christine - Great framing, composition and POV! Thanks for all your comments on my photos. #9484780Patricia White 9/5/2011 5:30:30 PM
You really have a way with ferris wheels. They are all fantastic to look at. #9654955Christine R. Lobsinger 9/5/2011 8:38:08 PM
Thanks very much Mike and Patricia-Anthony G. Comella 6/13/2012 3:38:16 PM
Superb series !!! #10179150Christine R. Lobsinger 6/13/2012 9:06:35 PM
Thanks Anthony..Now this was an interesting perspective!
Standing underneath the Skywheel...
Hopeful to hear thrills of excitement as the Skywheel 'backflipped.'
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In this article, we're going to try to generate useful diagrams of assemblies. I'm interested in assemblies primarily during the period of their development, but trying to understand an already completed assembly is a similar task.
The previous article (Diagrams with Reflector and the Graph Plugin (Part 1)) used Reflector as a host, hence the name of the article, but the new plug-ins use a new host called Refractor. This is all included in the download.
Previously, we dealt with graphically showing which methods call which other methods, within a class. Classes come in all shapes and sizes, but the ones we're interested in diagramming are generally the ones that are difficult to understand. Typically, these include WinForms classes, where the linkage generated by events calling common methods rapidly becomes confusing. This was implemented via a plug-in to Reflector, and worked quite well.
This has already proved useful to me in my everyday job in several different ways:
I wanted to see if there were other useful diagrams out there, in "diagram-space". Quite quickly in fact, I needed diagrams of assembly dependencies whilst fixing a large build process, and I put together a similar plug-in to show this, for all assemblies within a project.
However, I had some issues with the host plug-in architecture.
Hence the new host.
Following on from the ClassMethods diagram of the first article, we have three more diagrams:
As well as the "inside" linkage of items (i.e., all those items contained by an item), we can also look at "outside" linkage, all those items that use, or are used by, an item. Conceptually, these have a "central" node, and then inward dependencies to the left, outwards, or the right. This can typically form a double fan, so I've called them "butterfly" diagrams to distinguish them.
Butterfly diagrams are more difficult to generate, as to discover the left hand side requires a search of anything that may use the item. This is the equivalent of "grepping" code, searching all source code for hits on an item, and is something your average developer does *a lot*. However, there is an up side, in that we're only interested in files we've opened as part of the host project.
While we already have a plug-in for AllAssemblies, with a large project it can be difficult to see for a single assembly, or slow to produce. This shows assemblies used by an assembly (as does Visual Studio), but also all assemblies that use this assembly (within the project). I've found this useful during build construction and maintenance.
This tells us who we inherit from, what we implement, who inherits or implements us, any class we use directly in functional fashion, and any class that uses us directly in functional fashion. This is quite useful in conjunction with the ClassMethod diagram - having both open and selecting a class gives you the inside view and the outside view next to each other. It's also an interesting way of navigating around the code. If I could trust that it had found every possible dependence, and if it could jump to lines of code, then it would be more useful, as a possible replacement for some of the "grepping".
All methods that may call the central method, and all methods that this method calls. Again, this can lead to interesting code navigation.
This does an amazing job of laying out a connected graph, with minimal user input. The curve drawing is fantastic. However, the control implementation is not so good, and the portion of the UI update that has to be run on the UI thread is large enough to cause freeze-time on large graphs.
I'd really like to have more flexibility with the graph - for instance, to be able to move nodes. Even hiding them proved to be a nightmare. Its placement of orphans is terrible. Sadly, it hasn't been updated on the MS site since 2006, so I assume it's not going to get updated at any point soon. I've spent some time looking at layout algorithms, and may try a replacement viewer in the near future - the plug-ins are isolated from the graph implementation.
The entire package is quite large, and includes the library DLLs for the docking, the tree control, etc. If you've used Reflector, you shouldn't have any problems understanding the UI. There's no installer - unzipping produces the run folder, ready for program files or wherever if you decide to keep it. The source for the diagrams plug-in is also included, you should be able to open the project and hit Run. Alternatively, just run the exe in the bin folder, and drop a few DLLs/exes into the project window.
Please bear in mind that this code is still all prototype, and that it may, for one reason or another, miss certain kinds of dependencies. It should be used as a guide, and not as a definitive reference.
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Location | India, Andhra Pradesh |
Central coordinates | 79o 19.00' East 16o 31.50' North |
IBA criteria | A1 |
Area | 356,809 ha |
Altitude | 100 - 917m |
Year of IBA assessment | 2004 |
Site description Rajiv Gandhi Wildlife Sanctuary, formerly known as Nagarjunasagar-Srisailam Tiger Reserve spreads over five districts Nalgonda, Mahboobnagar, Kurnool, Prakasam and Guntur in Andhra Pradesh. The landscape is hilly and varies from plains to precipitous cliffs. The wildlife is generally confined to the plateaus during the monsoon and to the valleys in the summer. Perennial water sources are located in the valley, while the plateaus suffer from acute water scarcity in the summer. The River Krishna flows over a distance of 130 km through the Reserve. The multipurpose reservoirs, Srisailam and Nagarjunasagar, which are an important source of irrigation and power for Andhra Pradesh, are located within the Tiger Reserve. The area receives rainfall from both the southwest and northeast monsoons. The vegetation is essentially Southern Tropical Mixed Forests (Champion and Seth 1968). Important tree species are Tectona grandis, Terminalia tomentosa, Anogeissus latifolia, Butea frondosa, Pterocarpus marsupium, Hardwickia binata. In the scrub patches, Acacia arabica, Madhuca indica and Hardwickia binata stand over Calotropis gigantea, Zizyphus oenoplia, Grewia spp. and Cassia auriculata. Occasional clumps of bamboo are encountered on the hillsides and on the banks of forest streams. The invasive Lantana, Parthenium, Duranta and Strobilanthus grow profusely as weeds in this area (Rao et al. 1997).
Key Biodiversity
AVIFAUNA: About 242 species of birds have been recorded from this site (Rao et al. 1997). Most of them belong to tropical dry deciduous forest habitats and are generally common. The large expanse of undisturbed forest, especially in the core area, probably constitutes the best of its kind in India. BirdLife International (undated) has identified 59 Biome-11 species (Indo-Malayan Tropical Dry Zone), of which 36 have been sighted here. The globally threatened Yellow-throated Bulbul Pycnonotus xantholaemus was seen in April 1997 near a place called Ummamaheshwaram, close to Mannanur (Srinivasulu and Rao 2000). Some Near Threatened species, identified by BirdLife International (2001), are also listed by Rao et al. (1997) in their comprehensive checklist. The Greater Spotted Eagle Aquila clanga considered Vulnerable by BirdLife International (2001) is regularly seen around the water bodies that have formed due to the dams. Despite protection during the last 25 years as a reserve forest, sanctuary and now a tiger reserve, the forest cover and quality appears to be deteriorating since the days of Dr Sâlim Ali, when he collected birds here in the former Hyderabad State in the early 1930s (Ali 1933; Ali and whistler 1933a, 1933b, 1934a, 1934b). As pointed out by Rao et al. (1997), Ali recorded 105 species of birds from this region, especially at Mannanur, Amrabad Plateau and at Farahabad. Some of the dense forest species recorded by Ali, such as Indian Scimitar Babbler Pomatorhinus horsfieldii, Malabar Trogon Harpactes fasciatus and Nilgiri Wood-Pigeon Columba elphinstoni are no longer seen. The latter species is confined to the Western Ghats (Ali and Ripley 1987, Grimmett et al. 1998) and is listed as Vulnerable (BirdLife International 2001).
OTHER KEY FAUNA: Nagarjunasagar-Srisailam is one of the largest tiger reserves in India. The 1979 census showed 49 Tigers in the Reserve, which by 1988, had increased to 65, according to the Forest Department. The Reserve also has Leopard Panthera pardus, Wild Dog Cuon alpinus, Golden Jackal Canis aureus, Wolf Canis lupus, Sambar Cervus unicolor, Chital Axis axis and Wild Boar Sus scrofa. Blackbuck Antilope cervicapra is present outside the Reserve in open areas. The Mouse Deer Moschiola meminna is also found, but it is extremely difficult to see due to its small size and secretive nature.
Species | Season | Period | Population estimate | Quality of estimate | IBA Criteria | IUCN Category |
White-rumped Vulture Gyps bengalensis | non-breeding | 2004 | present | - | A1 | Critically Endangered |
Greater Spotted Eagle Clanga clanga | winter | 2004 | present | - | A1 | Vulnerable |
Indian Vulture Gyps indicus | non-breeding | 2004 | present | - | A1 | Critically Endangered |
Yellow-throated Bulbul Pycnonotus xantholaemus | resident | 2004 | present | - | A1 | Vulnerable |
Protected area | Designation | Area (ha) | Relationship with IBA | Overlap with IBA (ha) | |
Nagarjunasagar-Srisailam | Sanctuary | 356,809 | is identical to site | 356,809 |
IUCN habitat | Habitat detail | Extent (% of site) |
Forest | - | |
Rocky areas | - | |
Shrubland | - |
Land-use | Extent (% of site) |
forestry | - |
Notes: Forestry | |
nature conservation and research | - |
Notes: Conservation and Research | |
water management | - |
Notes: Dam: Irrigation and Power Supply |
Acknowledgements Key contributor: IBA Team.
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Ali, S. and Whistler, H. (1933b) The Hyderabad State Ornithological Survey. Part 3. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 36(4): 898-919.
Ali, S. and Whistler, H. (1934a) The Hyderabad State Ornithological Survey. Part 1. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 37(1): 124-142.
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Champion, H. G. and Seth, S. K. (1968) A revised Survey of the Forest Types of India. Govt. of India Publication, New Delhi.
Grimmett, R., Inskipp C. and Inskipp, T. (1998) Birds of the Indian Subcontinent, Christopher Helm, London.
Rao, V. V., Nagulu, V., Anjaneyulu, M., Srinivasulu, B., Srinivasulu, C. and Rao, J. V. R. (1997) Status of Avifauna of Rajiv Gandhi National Park, Andhra Pradesh, India. Pavo 35 (1 & 2): 85 - 100.
Srinivasulu, C. and Rao, V. V. (2000) Occurrence of the Yellow-throated Bulbul Hypsipetes indicus (Jerdon) in the Nalamalla Hills, Andhra Pradesh. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 97(1): 144-145.
Contribute Please click here to help BirdLife conserve the world's birds - your data for this IBA and others are vital for helping protect the environment.
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Life under the sea
Shallow-water sponges
The initial undersea section displays an attractive uniform green, split up into separate tracts by large,
rounded, yellow-gold sponges
, where other small plants also vegetate. At this depth, there are only a few fish to be seen.
On the grasslands of Mediterranean tapeweed
When the seabed reaches 4-5 metres in depth, a 1.5 metre high dark green line marks the beginning of the grasslands of Mediterranean tapeweed, which are at their most lush at around 10 metres deep. All of a sudden, the dynamism of marine life increases, and there are many more species of fish to be found: chromis chromis, bream, cuckoo wrasse, the camouflaged broad-nosed pipefish (which can easily be mistaken for a leaf of tapeweed), banks of sarpa salpa, large groupers, blotched picarel, Marida picarel and cuttlefish. These waters play host to a large number of
urchins, with their delicious gonads
This is also home to the
fan shell
Pinna nobilis
which is the largest bivalve in European waters
and which secretes a byssus that was once used for the production of fabrics and was known as "sea silk".
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grasslands of Mediterranean tapeweed
appear irregular, interrupted by sandy clearings.
This section of the sea plays host to the flat, wide-eyed flounder and the brightly coloured greater weever, as well as stargazer, lizardfish, red mullet, reef mullet, striped seabream, flying gurnard and pearly razorfish.
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are frequently found in the breaks between rocks - they are fished intensely as they are very popular when fried.
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As you proceed gradually towards the outlet of the bay, the coast becomes higher.
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The first section plays host to numerous colonies of red algae, along with sponges of various colours, false coral snake and red sea squirt.
Proceeding towards the interior of the caves, you come across numerous
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and myriad other species, thus confirming the
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On leaving the bay of Porto Conte, you come to the submerged caves of
Capo Caccia
, which are extremely imposing and stretch to several dozen metres in width. Having passed beyond the facies that are covered in red coral, the deeper you advance into the caves the more the rock appears naked.
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realm of large shellfish such as lobster, crayfish
, slipper lobster, squat lobster, shore crab, dromia personata crab and prawn. Fish species present in large numbers here include sea bass, European conger, certain species of grouper and pout whiting.
By now, the sunlight has almost entirely disappeared and sub-aqua divers must rely exclusively on electric torches. The limestone formations include stalactites.
The base of the cliffs
Externally, along the cliffs of Capo Caccia and Punta Giglio, the seabed slopes down rapidly between large masses where you encounter predators such as dentex, sea bass and greater amberjack, which glide past rapidly spreading fear amongst the smaller fish. Up above, the elongated silhouettes of barracudeas flash by.
On the walls of the masses you will see madrepore and branches of red coral.
Heading towards the area in front of the Capo Caccia promontory, more than 40 metres down, you will witness another breathtaking sight.
We are in the
realm of great red gorgonian coral
black coral
with yellow polyps.
This marks the start of a fascinating world - the world of coral biocoenosis and of the clastic coastal seabed.
hotspot for sub-aqua divers
, the cave is also exceptionally rich in marine life: from fish such as grouper and sea bass, through crayfish and lobster, all the way to sponges and moss animals.
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Project Squid Skin: Pentagon Gives $6 Million to Mimic Marine Life
Biomimicry, or the emulation of nature to solve human problems, inspires some fascinating scientific research. Marine animals in particular are useful sources of information; last year, for example, MIT researchers began work on electronic screens and ink that use less than one hundredth the energy of traditional screens—and are based on the color-changing abilities of cuttlefish. Now the U.S. Department of Defense is giving a $6 million grant to researchers at Rice University and the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole for "metamaterials" that mimic skin colors and patterns seen in sea creatures.
"This project will enable us to explore an exciting new avenue of vision research—distributed light sensing throughout the skin," said Roger Hanlon, a Woods Hole marine biologist, in a statement. "How and where that visual information is used by the nervous system is likely to uncover some novel neural circuitry."
The project, internally nicknamed "Project Squid Skin," will focus on two main areas: mimicking the regulation of skin patterns, colors and contrasts by cephalopods and the emulation of cephalopod skin using metamaterials. Specifically, the researchers hope to leverage patterns of organized nanostructures to create sheets of materials that quickly change colors (like the pixels in a high-definition TV screen) and "see" light like squid skins.
The research is still in preliminary stages, but we imagine that the Department of Defense hopes to gain some marine creature-inspired methods for military camouflage.


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When Mike and Debbie Zelenak opened Maple Street Grill more than five years ago, they joined the trend of downtown entertainment.
Over the years, Murfreesboro's historic Square gained popularity as a hot spot for nightlife – whether for dinner or an after work cocktail.
The downtown area appealed so much to the Zelenaks that they opened a second venue, Maple Street Uncorked, to provide a wine and tapas bar for late-night patrons.
"We've always wanted to have a second venue somewhere, but it made sense to have it here because the nightlife is already on the Square," Mike Zelenak said, adding that the laid back atmosphere caters to a slightly older crowd looking for a place to lounge.
Coupled with long-time staples like Marina's on the Square and City Café, new restaurants like The Chef Place offer even more variety to the plethora of options. The same goes for retailers – Anastasia's Boutique and The Attic have joined veterans like Sugarees and Trendy Pieces.
Even On the Rocks, which recently opened near Concert Productions, and Whiskey Dix have added new venue options to the already thriving nightlife entertainment.
Bluesboro has also been a prominent fixture on the Square – taking a couple years off only when the business changed ownership and was renamed Blue Rooster. It, too, has been so successful that it prompted owner Rob Fortney to open 3 Brothers Deli & Brewhouse on the Square with his brother.
Fortney attributes the surge in popularity of the Square to its proximity to nearly everything.
"You're in the city's center, so from almost any point in Murfreesboro, it's the same distance," he said. "You're downtown, and I think that's probably more attractive than anything. And there's the walkability of the Square. It's an absolutely beautiful downtown."
He also pointed to the local aspect of the Square – the business are all owned by neighbors.
"It's not corporate; these are hometown folks who have put their money in and invested it downtown. Downtown Murfreesboro is about local people trying to be successful. And the money stays here," Fortney continued.
"It's always been a gathering point for people to come and meet … we've created as much traffic during the night as we have in the day. It's a downtown business district as well as a downtown entertainment district."
This is exactly the direction the square needs to be going, according to Kathleen Herzog, director of Main Street: Murfreesboro, a downtown revitalization program.
"One of the goals, and obviously one of the four legs of the stool of all Main Street programs, is economic development, so if you can have these buildings alive 24 hours a day, that's what we want," she said.
"In the final phase, we'd like to see more living space available, then you would actually have a 24/7 Square. You'd have people working, office jobs, retailers, restaurateurs, night life, and you'd have residents."
One example of the residential investment on the Square is the Jones home, which is nearing completion near the corner of Maple and Vine streets.
"That someone is investing that much in downtown Murfreesboro is really a statement about downtown Murfreesboro," Herzog said. "What we'd really like to see is residential space upstairs … the few apartments upstairs that are available that I've been in are just beautiful."
She added that with career, dining, entertainment, shopping and residential opportunities on the Square, people are traveling to Nashville less and instead, staying local. MP


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National Institutes of Health (NIH) researchers have developed an animal model of human hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) in rhesus macaques, an advance that may lead to treatments, vaccines and improved methods of diagnosing the disease. The study, conducted by researchers at NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), is published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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People become infected with hantaviruses by inhaling virus from the urine, droppings or saliva of infected rodents. This infection can progress to HPS, a severe respiratory disease that was first identified in 1993 in the southwestern United States. HPS attained global attention in the summer of 2012 when physicians diagnosed 10 cases -- three of them fatal -- in Yosemite National Park in California. The primary HPS agents are Sin Nombre virus in North America and Andes virus in South America. Since 1993, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reported approximately 600 HPS cases, including 200 deaths, in the United States; case numbers for South America are not available.
In their study, NIAID scientists infected healthy deer mice with Sin Nombre virus obtained from descendants of wild deer mice. The researchers then exposed 10 rhesus macaques to the virus derived from the newly infected deer mice. Nine monkeys became infected and seven developed severe disease. In the diseased macaques, researchers observed how and where the virus established infection, evaded the immune system and caused pneumonia. Of note, they report that, similar to hantavirus infection in people, the virus in the monkey model triggers a life-threatening immune response nearly two weeks after infection. NIAID researchers aim to identify biological markers during that initial timeframe that may be useful for early diagnosis.
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Narayanan, Rajeev (2012) A Framework for Noise Analysis and Verification of Analog Circuits. PhD thesis, Concordia University.
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Analog circuit design and verification face significant challenges due to circuit complexity and short market windows. In particular, the influence of technology parameters on circuits, noise modeling and verification still remain a priority for many applications. Noise could
be due to unwanted interaction between the various circuit blocks or it could be inherited from the circuit elements. Current industrial designs rely heavily on simulation techniques, but ensuring the correctness of such designs under all circumstances usually becomes impractically
expensive. In this PhD thesis, we propose a methodology for modeling and verification of analog designs in the presence of noise and process variation using run-time verification methods. Verification based on run-time techniques employs logical or statistical monitors to check if an execution (simulation) of the design model violates the design
specifications (properties). In order to study the random behavior of noise, we propose an approach based on modeling the designs using stochastic differential equations (SDE) in the time domain. Then, we define assertion and statistical verification methods in a MATLAB SDE simulation framework for monitoring properties of interest in order to detect errors.
In order to overcome some of the drawbacks associated with monitoring techniques, we
define a pattern matching based verification method for qualitative estimation of the simulation
traces. We illustrate the efficiency of the proposed methods on different benchmark
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Item Type: | Thesis (PhD) |
Authors: | Narayanan, Rajeev |
Institution: | Concordia University |
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Program: | Electrical and Computer Engineering |
Date: | 16 April 2012 |
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Once the big snow was over, I expected the sun to come out and stay out for a while. I was waiting for an opportunity to get some pictures of the sun glistening off the snow and ice on Lake Michigan with blue skies and the deep marine blue lake water to set off the bright white lighthouses. I wanted that picture to hang above the fireplace in the condo. So I waited.
Here's Silver Beach on January 2nd...
We came over the weekend of January 9/10 but I didn't bother to take any pictures since it was still grey and gloomy.
Here's Lake Michigan January 17th...
And on January 18th...
I didn't bother to take pictures the weekend of January 23/24 because it was still cloudy.
Finally, the sun came out on Saturday January 30th. According to the meteorologist on TV, it was the first time the sun had come out since that brief time the morning after the snow storm, January 2nd! Talk about a month of gloomy, grey weather! Anyway, I finally got my picture :-)
Isn't it lovely?! Just look at that lighthouse reflection on the St. Joseph River. That's what I'm talkin' about! Beautiful!
I sure hope February has more sunshine!
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Wonderful post! My fiance' and I just came back from a long weekend in St. Joseph. It was absolutely stunning there and we fell instantly in love. We've thrown around the dream of moving there permanently, but neither one of us are sure about the harsh winters. What you have helped me to see is that it's all in the perspective. Snow can be (and is!) very beautiful!
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A boy learns more than he expects when he tries to improve his golf game in this drama. Timmy Price (Mason Gamble) is a 12-year-old boy who has begun to display a precocious talent for golf. Hoping to hone his son's interest in the game, Timmy's father, Mr. Price (Dylan Baker), arranges for his son to have a summer job as a caddy at a nearby country club. Timmy gets a crash course in the nature of class when he becomes aware of the sharp divide between the wealthy people who patronize the club and the working-class men and women who are there to quietly fulfill their desires. Charlie Logan (Philip Baker Hall) is one of the leading members of the club who is very much impressed when he sees Timmy practicing, and suggests to Mr. Price that Timmy would do well to study with an accomplished player. Mr. Price arranges for Timmy to train with Foster Pearse (Gary Sinise), a local golfer who once displayed tremendous promise, but dropped out of the professional circuit after winning his first tournament. As Timmy gets to know Foster, he learns a lot about golf, but even more about life, and discovers there's a secret behind Foster's decision to leave to pro tour. A Gentleman's Game was the first directorial credit for producer J. Mills Goodloe. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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- Lead Actor: Dylan Baker , Mason Gamble , Gary Sinise , Philip Baker Hall , Henry Simmons
- Supporting Actor: Ellen Muth , Brian Doyle-Murray , David Zayas
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Lyra Magice is a powerful witch who works with the laboratory department of the Necropolis police. Lyra takes an ancient book from Theron LeNoir with the belief that it can help translate the markings left by a vicious murderer. She soon realizes she needs Theron's help with more than just translating, but can she trust the playboy dhampir?
Theron LeNoir soon chases Lyra back to the USA to reclaim his book. He finds himself agreeing to help with the investigation, just so he can spend more time with her. There is something about Lyra that appeals to him, not knowing if it is her innocence or her magic. If Lyra finds out about his shady past she will never have anything to do with him again.
It becomes obvious that Lyra is a target of the murderer when the latest body turns up looking exactly like her. Translating the markings on the bodies is becoming more and more urgent. Lyra is spending her time working with Theron to try and stop what is starting to look like an attempt to open a gateway to hell. Theron begins to suspect that it is not her magic they want but Lyra's innocence, but can he tell her she is wanted as the sacrificial virgin?
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Airlines and their partners—especially co-branded credit cards—lavish miles on you these days. The challenge isn't accumulating miles; it's in finding ways to use them. And getting full value can be really tough.
This biggest barrier—and this shouldn't be a surprise to anyone—is that scoring a frequent flyer seat, at the low or "saver" mileage value, where and when you want it is a really tough challenge. I reported earlier this year on data developed by IdeaWorks showing overall success ranges from a decent 50 percent to 60 percent for American, Continental, and United to a dismal 25 percent or so for Delta and US Airways.
Best Use of Miles
The situation is even worse in business class, says AlphaFlightGuru's Tim Gibson. He and I agree that the best use of frequent flyer miles is for international trips in business class, and here, he says, a typical traveler's initial success rate is less than 10 percent. His company specializes in helping business travelers get the most from their miles, and he says his company can ultimately "help 80 percent of the people." But his agents really have to work at it, sometimes mixing and matching airlines within alliances or even use different alliances.
Secret Strategy
But the strategy with the best odds of success, notes Gibson, is to wait to confirm seats until three to seven days prior to departure. That's the time when airlines finally decide how many seats they really aren't going to sell and release them for frequent flyers. Even when clients have to set firm travel dates well in advance, AlphaFlightGuru helps them by providing highly discounted consolidator tickets when the mileage awards don't become available.
My own experiences confirm Gibson's view, although I've often found even more trouble. Service at my home airport (Medford, Oregon) is almost entirely on regional airlines, so just about anywhere I want to fly requires at least one connection. Getting seats on a single flight is tough enough; getting seats on a decent connection is almost impossible. Right now, for example, Delta's online booking system shows no one-week trips on any dates through June from Medford to Paris at the lowest award level, in either economy or business class.
Biggest Return on Investment
Why is international business class the best use of miles? Because those awards give you the biggest return. Even at a sale price, a round-trip business-class ticket to Europe or Asia is likely to cost somewhere around $5,000. On most lines, that trip would require around 100,000 miles for a "saver" award, so your frequent flyer credit is theoretically worth about 5 cents a mile. By contrast, using 50,000 miles for an economy international ticket you could buy at a sale fare of $750 makes the miles worth a cent and a half. And at the other end of the scale, these days a long-haul domestic coach ticket generally costs less than $500, so if you can score a seat at the typical 25,000 miles, your credit is worth two cents a mile or less.
Of course, when you're trying to value your miles realistically, you have to apply a big discount factor to compensate for the difficulty in finding seats. "Get almost any seat" awards generally require at least twice the "saver" requirement—often more—which automatically devalues your miles by 50 percent.
Non-Travel Purchases
How about using your miles for non-travel purchases, as some airlines now urge? The reason is simple: You realize even less value than using your miles for travel. In most of the programs I've examined, the purchase value is about a half cent a mile, and I've never seen a deal valuing credit as high as even one cent a mile.
Given the problems of scoring seats, I believe that if you aren't interested in overseas business class, you're better off accumulating miles through one of those "bank buys a ticket" credit cards programs or even a straight cash-back card. These days, quite a few cards average around two cents for each dollar you charge, and that's usually enough to buy coach tickets without worrying about seat limitations.
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The ThinG diary
ThinG has been created in
7 days
...well, almost. But at least I got the main things running, including Cut'n'Paste of most of the Thinlet components.
Back when I started to develop ThinG in Nov 2004, I made a record of the progress. Every night I made a screenshot of how ThinG was looking that day. It weren't seven
days, but it were not more than seven days alltogether. This is a strong argument that Thinlet drastically speeds up your GUI design, because, I guess, if I had done it with Swing or SWT, development would have taken much more time.
Here comes the record of the progress...
Day 1
You can add exactly
panel, and add buttons to this panel.
The property editor shows the properties of the selected panel or button, but you cannot edit them yet.
Day 2
Now you can add all kinds of components. ThinG checks whether it is allowed to add a certain component to the current selected component. Inapplicable components are automatically hidden from the toolbar.
The property editor lets you edit boolean (true/false) properties.
Nice toolbar icons, but some component icons are still missing.
The ThinG application is now rendered anti-aliased.
Day 3
New "Document" tab showing the Thinlet XML for the current component tree (
later renamed to "XML"
The property editor lets you edit string, choice and integer properties. This means, that by now you already have enough functionality to create some small gui's! Just copy and paste the XML document on the "Document" tab over into your favorite editor.
Inputs for "property" attributes are checked to adhere to the Thinlet convention ("
"). If not, an error dialog is shown. The screenshot shows what happens if you enter an invalid property text.
You can remove components with the new button
Remove selected component
You can add a popupmenu to a component only once. Likewise for table headers.
Some more icons. Btw. I created all icons by myself, using
Microsoft Paint
... |-)
Still on my TODO list: load & save, import & export, copy & paste of components, setting method properties (ie.
), fonts and colors in property editor.
Day 4
implemented; the screenshot shows ThinG editing itself after
has been loaded. Icons and method definitions are not yet loaded. I implemented "Open" rather quick; it took more time to fix the message dialog, so that it matches the size of its contents.
Day 5
Edit->Icon Path
It is now possible to specify the directory where to load icons from. Icons are actually displayed in the preview. Also, the
Edit Icon Path
dialog has got a neat directory chooser. Have a look at the screenshot; it shows ThinG editing itself ;-).
In fact, coding the directory chooser was the most difficult part. I found out that Thinlet isn't very good at modal dialogs, so the directory chooser had to be inside an external AWT dialog. Same goes for other message dialogs.
The ThinG main frame now has a nice icon. :-)
Day 6
You can now edit method and keystroke (ie. accelerator) properties. Keystroke strings are checked for proper syntax (eg. "
ctrl shift F4
" etc.) Method names and arguments are not checked. This is a
, not a bug; I don't like the idea of checking whether the methods are actually there in some handler class, given its classname and classpath. Maybe later, at save stage.
Actually, this was easier than I thought, because I could use the serializer/deserializer for that: a component tree that has been cut to clipboard simply gets serialized and remembered for later addition. You can even paste from the system clipboard: simply select some Thinlet XML in your favorite text editor and execute
Edit->Paste from system clipboard
Move Component Up/Down
Note that you cannot move "header" and "popupmenu". They stay always at the first or last position of the child list of a component, respectively.
When parsing an erroneous XML file, ThinG now outputs the line number.
Day 7
I know, I should rest on the seventh day, but I hope the lord forgives me coding these new features ;-) :
You can now edit font and color properties with new font and color chooser dialogs. The screenshot shows the color chooser.
You can edit icon properties.
button in the property editor resets the property to its default value.
That's it after seven days. I would call ThinG a product by now. ;-)
Development continues, of course, but I will no longer update the diary. However, it was interesting to document the progress (the first time I actually did this, btw.).
Here's a short list of what I have in mind for the next days:
Create icons for: bean, column, node
On actions "new"/"open"/"exit", ask for unsaved changes (if any)
When saving an unchanged document, warn that formattings get lost.
Import/Export (sub-)tree
Use the statusbar
Create a better file chooser dialog (using Thinlet of course!)
This list is probably out of date when you look at it. The first public release of ThinG has already been done, and it contains even more features.
Bigger ideas naturally come during the development process. I'll write them down in the doc/TODO.txt file. Have a look!
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People take pictures in front of the Snapchat Inc. headquarters on the strand at Venice Beach in Los Angeles, California, U.S., on Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2013. Snapchat is a photo and video sharing application that allows the user to pre-set a period of time, no more than ten seconds, for the receiver to view the content before it disappears from the screen. Patrick T. Fallon / Bloomberg
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The UpTake: "Disappearing messages" have been central to Snapchat's appeal, but an FTC complaint cuts to the very core of Evan Spiegel's wildly popular messaging app.
Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel is young, brash and smart. Increasingly, it also looks like he's sloppy.
Spiegel's mobile messaging company today settled with the Federal Trade Commission over charges that it misled users about its disappearing messages (namely, that they don't really disappear) as well as a security breach that exposed the usernames and phone numbers of 4.6 million users.
Snapchat's wild popularity among teens and millennials (which reportedly prompted a $3 billion acquisition offer from Facebook) has been built on the notion that its messages are private and ephemeral. The FTC's complaint (you can read the statement on the settlement here) alleges that Snapchat "deceived consumers with promises about the disappearing nature of messages sent through the service... [and] deceived consumers over the amount of personal data it collected and the security measures taken to protect that data from misuse and unauthorized disclosure."
The FTC statement specifically calls out a January security breach that put Spiegel on the hot seat. The company apologized. Spiegel didn't.
Snapchat won't pay a fine as part of the settlement, but it will be required to revise its marketing language and participate in a 20-year-long privacy program overseen by an "independent privacy professional."
If Snapchat hangs on that long.
Two decades in privacy rehab seems like an unfathomably long time here in startup land (and Snapchat is a mere two-and-a-half years old).
It's unclear if this hurts Snapchat with its young users, but it can't help as the company builds toward either an IPO or an offer higher than Mark Zuckerberg's $3 billion.
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Sometimes if you self rate as a 4.0 and play against other 4.0's and when you play it becomes clear they can win the match easily they often throw you a few games (sometimes even unintentionally)
But if you play a computer rated 4.0 and lose 6-3, 6-2 because they took it easy on you the USTA computer doesn't understand that and thinks that you were competitive at 4.0 when that may not be the case.
If you arent sure what to self rate at (say between 3.5 or 4.0)it is better to rate the lower level because you can play up but you cant play down and getting bumped down takes time where as you can bump up easily.
We could take this to many extremes ... including having the self rated player give away games so that they do not get the DQ. If all players play honestly then the system will work as I laid it out.
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Our unusual hostel is located in the heart of Warsaw and was founded by Work for the Blind Foundation.
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Camera Hostel is situated in the city center from where everywhere is nearby:
- 500 metres from the Palace of Culture and Science
- 600 metres from the Presidential Palace
- 800 metres from the Old Town and the Royal Castle
- 300 metres from the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
- 1200 metres from The Copernicus Science Centre
- 700 metres from The Chopin Museum
- 100 metres from the Warsaw Philharmonic
- 400 metres from the National Theatre
- 500 metres from the former Jewish district and the Synagogue
We are close to the Central Railway Station (approximately 1 kilometre) and the bus from the Chopin Airport stops on the next street. More than ten bus and tram lines running to the whole Warsaw have their stops in the Hostel's neighbourhood. Furthermore Swietokrzyska Metro Station is just 80 metres from our location.
Camera Hostel has in the offer 80 lodging places both in private rooms and dorms. Dorms can fit three to twelve lodgings. Some rooms have sanitary facilities.
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