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OMG ... I would have had a heart attack! I'm so lucky that all I've ever run into is deer, porcupines and skunks ... and the odd harmless snake.
All I know about seeing a bear? Make sure you can run faster than the person you're with ... so you would have lost because Bear can outrun you (had he chosen to run too) ... so next time, bring someone you can run faster than!
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If your dog will recall, and is off-leash, then you call him immediately back and stand your ground, or back slowly away, IF the bear isn't moving. If the bear begins to move, stay still. Do not talk or move. If the bear starts to charge you, most of the time they're bluffing, and you can try to bluff back, but this is asking for trouble. The best solution is to get and CARRY bear spray. If the bear begins to move towards you, use the bear spray. If the dog isn't reliable on recall, use a long line. The dog will lose the battle. Bears can run at speeds of 35 mph, and will outsprint even a dog.
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Legally, we can't carry bear spray where I live ... so I'll just leave the bears to the brave people, and continue to take on the much tamer wildlife where I live!
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Also does this also apply to mountain lions, because they are every bit as prevalent in my area as well. Does Bear spray work on mountain lions too? I guess I'm going to have to get some bear spray and be very careful with my surroundings.
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I have heard that a bear will not mess with a dog growling and standing its ground. I would never test that theory, but I have heard that. Also depends what kind of bear - black bear will usually sprint like a scared cat when surprised and are at a distance, operative word being surprised so if you see one further away clap and shout and they have always run away from me. For grizzlies just act like Tim Treadwell! Okay I am joking do not mess with a grizzly...
I have my dog wear a bear bell when we are hiking in bear country, or in the early mornings and dusk, it keeps away more than bears. I really suggest that, and a revolver. I wouldn't ever release the dog and "take chances" if it charges, because those chances always means one of you will lose. Stand your ground and make a fuss at the bear and tell him to go away, your dog will do the same, and bear spray is the last ditch effort, yes it will work on mountain lions - if it'll stop a bear it will stop nearly anything - but those are ambushers so you won't see it coming at you until it is too late, you need to seriously keep your eyes peeled for those. Last edited by jae; 11-19-2012 at 02:09 PM. |
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Canadians who live in the south are happy to declare protected forests and national parks, as they see no actual costs to themselves. Only those actually affected by these new regulations, those living in the affected areas, oppose them. Canadians would also happily stop all development in the Amazon. It's easy to be an environmentalist at a distance.
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2. We don't know where we want to build yet
3. There is no way of messing with it yet because, short of dumping radiactive waste from helicopters, there is nothing to mess with
Even in Alberta, the oil patch boom is a recent development, since before 2005 most of the development was unprofitable due to low oil prices, high natural gas prices (it is used in oilsand oil separation) and therefore high output cost.
Therefore, certainly, first there will be development, then people will figure out what to protect. There will be clashes, that's for sure, but it is a part of normal process.
People don't really understand how sparcely populated some parts of Canada are. In many cases, if things are rural, they are *really* rural. Take a train from Toronto to Winnipeg and you'll be riding it for 24 hours with no wireless coverage whatsoever.
Another poorly researched article by The Economissed. Too bad their author knows nothing about Canada, by all indications. As mentioned by one poster, there is NO access to most of the area in question. There are NO people living there at all. As for oil exploration in Alberta, it is subject to world leading regulations and is conducted better than anywhere else on Earth. How come that FACT was missed?
@Ohio, things are very different in Amazon rainforest (and taiga, for the sake of the argument), and Canadian shield.
In Amazon, one can clear a patch and grow some agriculture. In Canadian shield, it's impossible.
There is no soil. It's a freaking' bedrock with some pines sticking out of it.
People wonder why Canadians didn't venture further North. It's not because of the temperatures. It is because nothing grows there but lumber. No, seriously. No soil. Just a nice bedrock and some trees that adapted - the rest was scrubbed away by glaciers during Ice Age.
If there is any region where a *sustainable* lumber agriculture makes sense, it is Canadian shield. Because, literally, it is either mining or lumber (or, possibly, grass, but the results are untested due to bogs). Nothing else grows there. Well, maybe, in the future, there will be some breakthrough biotechnology (I would love to see that), but this is what Ontario and Quebec have to deal with now, and, well, I'm pretty sure that if something better comes up, both provinces will be more than happy to adopt it - both of them currently have Liberal governments.
A very thoughtful article on why more areas in Canada aren't declared protected zones or national parks:
I would like more details from the article about the northern plan. The article fails not only to provide sufficient detail but also place in perspective the plan and its motivation etc. I gotta say this does not feel like an economist article.
Economist has interesting stats, "... world's largest intact old-growth forest....more fresh water than the Amazon... breeding ground for 3 billion migratory songbirds...." they forgot to mention 12 million mosquitoes.
By the way, what the hell are the Quebec'ers going to spend $2.1 Billion? If they want to protect the north, then simply leave it alone - don't do anything to it, least of all spend money..... maybe the money is for the mosquito repellent for the environmentalists....
It is somewhat misleading to say that only 12% of the Boreal Forest is protected since 90% of it is Crown land - owned and administered by either the Federal or Provincial Governments. As much as 40% of this crown land, while not protested by statute, is protected to varying degrees by land use planning and management areas. It is not wide open to commercial logging or mining by anyone who feels so inclined.
Only 0.2% of the Boreal forest is harvested annually and by law any forests harvested on Crown lands must be successfully regenerated. Despite what condo dwelling environmental lobbyist in the urban jungles of the world would have you believe the Boreal Forest is not disappearing into pit mines and clear cut wastelands.
When did it become the "Boreal Forest". In my elementary school geography classes it was called the Canadian Taiga and compared geographically to Siberia, that place Solzhenitsyn wrote about. I guess "Save the Taiga" doesn't resonate as well.
What backing has the assumption that the flora of boreal Canada helps to counter climate change? I´d say that assumption is based on religious beliefs rather than facts. A forest not touched, does neither accumulate nor release carbon dioxide. That very forest, if managed by humans, meaning cut and built up again, like sustainable forestry is doing, say in Europe, could in fact still as an ecosystem be carbon-neutral, but by delivering wood to human endevours could take out of that ecosystem wood, which in atleast some instances would be preserved for a 100 years or more in the form of building material and furniture. The part of the wood from the boreal zone, which is burnt to provide energy, is a renewable source of energy. Ergo: Managing and using the boreal forest is by far a better way to counter climate change than leaving it to nature, where assimilation and decay go hand in hand and the netto result is zero. The assumption the article makes, is part of a religious belief, held my a religious sect called environmentalists, who have substituted "nature" for "God", as their focal religous point. The fact that some socalled scientists support this religion, does not make it more "true", but tells us a lot about the essence of the science those socalled scientists are practicing. I am not saying that the aborigines got it 100% right, but they are closer to a scientific way of thinking than the "scientists" of GreenPeace.
As for the tundra, if left to nature, inevitable global warming will melt it and it will take to releasing methane in great amounts. Methane is considered 25 times more potent as a greenhouse gas than is carbon dioxide, if we look 100 years ahead. Scientists should be looking at ways to drain the wetlands resulting from thawing of the permafrost. Perhaps the best thing to do with those areas, climate wise, would be to drain them and cover them with forests. I know that what I am proposing is blasphemy according to the Gaia religion. But should religious fundamentalists dictate what is done about the environment?
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Housing sales are picking up in some of the hardest-hit markets. Will confidence spread?
Last year the Cape Coral area of Florida had the highest foreclosure rate in the country. Banks moved to seize more than 1 in 10 residential properties in the Gulf Coast community of 165,000. The reverberations are still being felt. Newly built McMansions sit vacant, dusty monuments to the great real estate boom. Smaller homes have been ransacked. Apartment buildings have been boarded up. Former owners are stripping whatever items they can from their homes before the locks get changed, says Kirsten Prizzi, a local real estate agent at AC Global Realty. "Knobs, appliances. Someone was selling windows."
But a curious thing is happening in this blighted former boomtown: Buyers are swooping in. First-time home-owners are suddenly entering bidding wars with real estate speculators from as far away as Spain and Germany. Sales in February outpaced those at the peak of the boom, with some houses getting more than 50 offers and selling above their asking price. "I look for markets that are downtrodden," says Rich Lehrer, a retiree and self-proclaimed "emerging-market investor" from Wilmington, N.C., who wants to buy several properties in the area. "I'm expecting to get better yields than I would get on my cash."
Cape Coral isn't the only bright spot in housing land. Some of the very regions that led the U.S. housing market into the abyss are beginning to show signs of life. Sales on the Gulf Coast of Florida, California's Inland Empire near Los Angeles, and the Las Vegas metropolitan area surged by more than 80% in February vs. the same month last year.
So what's going on? In all of these markets, banks are dumping foreclosed properties, attracting cash-rich speculators looking for cut-rate bargains. "Why wait [for a bottom] if it's the right deal?" says Brent McAlee, a 31-year-old Las Vegas resident who recently paid $140,000 for a three-bedroom home that fetched around $350,000 a few years ago. He hopes to rent it out for $1,300 a month.
What's more, first-time buyers are finally rushing in, lured not only by plunging prices but also government incentives like ultralow interest rates and hefty tax breaks. Such sweeteners are just too tasty for some to pass up, at least in markets that have already plunged by 50% or more.
Frenetic buying in a few depressed areas doesn't mean the national bust is over—far from it. But it does herald the start of a new phase in the boom-and-bust recovery cycle. Economists might call it equilibrium: Prices have fallen so much in some areas that shoppers are getting interested again, improving the balance between buyers and sellers. That doesn't mean prices will surge anytime soon. But heavy buying should at least begin to put a floor under prices. "Are we at the bottom?" asks Christopher Thornberg, an economist with Beacon Economics. "We are getting close."
If Thornberg is right, one might expect other markets to begin the bottoming out process in the coming months. Just as California, Florida, and Las Vegas led the nation into the housing bust, those areas could provide the template for a national recovery. "One of the big problems we have across the nation is a lack of confidence," says Adam York, an economist with Wachovia (WFC) in Charlotte, N.C. "As these former bubble markets bounce off the bottom in terms of sales, it could give some hope to [other markets] that the declines are going to end."
Plenty of caveats are in order, because there are peculiar bear-market factors at work. The fact that inventories are falling precipitously in California—to just 6.5 months' supply from 15.3 months a year earlier—would seem to augur well. Historically, "prices respond very dramatically to inventory," says William C. Wheaton, director of research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Center for Real Estate.
But inventories are falling fastest in markets where speculators and first-time buyers are driving the action. Those parties don't have to put their own homes on the market to make a deal. It remains vexingly difficult for home-owners who have bought in the past five or so years to sell one property and buy another.
On top of that, government incentives of up to $8,000 in tax credits for first-time buyers and low mortgage rates engineered by the Federal Reserve are luring shoppers who otherwise would be sitting out. If the government were to take away the punch bowl, markets that seem to be bottoming could well turn down again.
What's more, banks have tightened their lending standards so much that only the most qualified buyers are finding it easy to get loans. Until financing loosens up, the housing market can't possibly take off.
It's best to view the brisk sales in some markets as glimmers of hope in a national market that seems likely to remain weak for a while. Sales continue to fall in many areas, especially those that didn't get hit until recently. In Charlotte, where home prices were rising until a few months ago, sales dropped 38% in February over the previous year. Nationally, the S&P/Case-Shiller index that tracks home prices in the top 20 metro areas was down 19% in January from a year earlier and 29% from its 2006 peak. "The market is still doing badly," cautions Robert J. Shiller, a professor of economics at Yale University and a creator of the index. But, he adds, "there's always light at the end of the tunnel."
That light could be growing brighter in Las Vegas. Home sales began to drop in Sin City before they fell in most other parts of the country. Now Vegas is deeply mired in recession. Unemployment has risen to 10.1%, far above the national average. More than 80% of the homes for sale are distressed properties, either those where the owner faces foreclosure or those already owned by a bank. Median prices have fallen from $315,000 in June 2006 to $155,603 today, roughly the same level as in 2002.
Those dizzying price drops are attracting the likes of Mark and Claudia McLaughlin. The couple, who work for the New York State Corrections Dept. and live in Westernville, N.Y., plan to retire in Las Vegas in six years or so. They're eager to find a place while prices are still low. In late March they went house hunting with an agent, checking out 18 homes between $75,000 and $100,000. "We figure we'll buy something now and get a good price on it," says 55-year-old Mark McLaughlin. "We'll rent it out, and it'll pay for itself." They won't need to sell their upstate New York home for years, by which time that local market might have improved.
The Garvins, too, are doubling down while keeping their current home. In 2004, hotel finance manager J.D. Garvin and his wife, Nona, a nurse, paid $202,000 for a 1,200-square-foot townhouse in Las Vegas, which would probably sell for half that today. After the birth of their first child last year, they decided they needed more space. So in late January they bought a 3,800-square-foot home for $300,000 in the suburb of Henderson, Nev.
With prices still low, the Garvins decided to find a tenant for their first home rather than sell it. The rent almost covers the monthly mortgage on their first property. Says 30-year-old J.D. Garvin: "We feel good about the fact that we're paying a little bit more than the other mortgage—and the house is three times as big."
For the Garvins, who weren't eligible for the government tax credit, record-low interest rates were a big enticement. With the rate on their 30-year fixed-rate mortgage at 4.75%, the payment on their $292,000 loan is around $1,600 a month. Nationally, the rate on a 30-year fixed-rate loan averages around 4.85%, the lowest on record.
In California, politicians are adding to the federal inducements. The legislature has passed a $10,000 tax credit available to anyone who buys a newly built home. (Existing homes don't qualify.)
The tax break lured Marisol Monroy to make the switch from renter to owner. Monroy had been sitting nervously on the fence for more than a year as friend after friend faced foreclosure in Southern California. In March the married mother of three bought a four-bedroom home in a new development in Fontana, part of the once-bustling Inland Empire. Her monthly payment, including taxes and insurance: $2,100, only $600 more than the rent on her three-bedroom apartment in Placentia. Monroy figured her kids would hate moving but says they're excited to get into their new home: "They're counting down the days on the calendar."
Real estate investors are sensing their moment, too. Speculators get a bad name during boom times for driving prices into the stratosphere. But in the depths of a bust, they're needed to help clear out inventory and stabilize prices. John Hoehl has trekked down from Vermont to scope out investment properties in Cape Coral—where some foreclosure properties are selling for just $30,000. So far, he's bid on three properties, scooping up a three-bedroom house on the water for $150,000. "At this rate we're going to see a big shortage of inventory by summer, and that will trigger prices to rise," says Paula Hellenbrand, president of the Cape Coral Association of Realtors. Local agent Marc Joseph of Foreclosure- ToursRUs.com has bought two boats to take prospects in search of waterfront properties on "foreclosure cruises."
The buying would be brisker still were it not for the banks. Financing remains a wet blanket both for first-timers and speculators. With banks toughening their lending standards, it helps for first-time buyers to come with as much cash as possible. Dean Brittingham and her partner, Nancy Rocks, put a solid 20% down on a $350,000, Mediterranean-style home in Santa Rosa, Calif.—and they still had problems. An investor had bought the three-bedroom house just a few months before for $187,000. The quick flip on the distressed property raised red flags for their mortgage lender, which insisted on a second appraisal. As the couple jumped through that hoop, they missed a deadline and decided to start the process all over at a different bank. The two finally closed on the property in March. "Our agent said it's a brand-new time," says Brittingham. "Everything's different."
Speculators, too, are dealing with tight financing—sometimes by looking beyond banks. During the boom, Robert Close made a tidy profit building homes that cost as much as $640,000 in the Inland Empire. Now he's focused on working with a small group of investors to buy and fix up foreclosed properties. Because many banks won't lend money for homes that need major repairs, Close pays cash—or turns to what's known as "hard money," independent financiers who charge interest rates as high as 12%.
But Close says he can make money even with such high interest rates—a sign that prices may be too low. He typically shells out $75,000 for each house, plus $20,000 for repairs. He then rents it out for up to $1,500 a month, producing double-digit returns on his investment. In the past seven months Close has picked up 34 properties, taking care to avoid the homes he built. "I guess I'm superstitious," he says. "I don't want to press my luck." That kind of cautious speculation is a far cry from the go-go days. But after a three-year bust, it's a sign that some markets might be moving in the right direction.
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One Fort Lauderdale couple has decided to raffle off their six-bedroom waterfront estate, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported on Mar. 28. Miles and Laura Brannan plan to pick a winner after 300,000 tickets have been sold at $10 apiece. The Brannans bought the house for $2.35 million back in 2005. "My income's been cut in half," Miles Brannan said. "We need to sell the house."
You Call This Going Green?
To help combat foreclosures, Perris, Calif., is paying a contractor about $550 a home to spray-paint brown spots on lawns green, according to a Mar. 18 article in The Press-Enterprise. The "lawn outreach" program is part of a $2 million pot the city has set aside to rev up sales in foreclosure-pocked areas. The money will also help buyers make down payments on homes.
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Things I Love
I've been threatening to come up with a list of some of the things I like most about my adopted country, so here goes:
The National Health System provides free healthcare (funded through taxes) to 60 million Brits every year. While every British resident is allowed unlimited access to this system, in the
It's really beautiful here
In spite of the fact that over 60 million people live on an island that is a bit smaller than
Incredibly old buildings
I love living in a city that is filled to the brim with ancient architecture.
The pub scene
I spent the Christmas holidays in
Great bread, great cheese
I like buying an unwrapped, uncut, freshly-baked loaf of bread with lots of seeds and bits in it.
Being a short distance from a number of other countries
It's mind-boggling to be within an hour or so (by plane) from so many different countries and cultures. I love to be able to hop on a plane and visit
Surprisingly happy Immigration workers
I recently went to get my indefinite leave to remain designation on my Visa in
Gareth went through U.S. Immigration and said the workers were rude and seemed acutely unhappy to be there. He thinks it's a combination of the large number of immigration hopefuls the
Doctors who see you at your appointment time
The first time I went to the doctor, I waited all of five minutes before I was called in. The doctor then apologized for making me wait. Being accustomed to spending upwards to an hour and a half in doctors' waiting rooms, I'm continually surprised at not having to do this any longer. I used to fantasize about sending
The Harley-Davidson void
How blissful it is not to hear the thunderous rumble of hoards of Harleys driving down your street (or across the next county…or even the next state, that's how loud they are). Before a British Harley owner comments that he or she managed to import one (how wonderful for you) I know there are a few here but the number is a tiny fraction to that of the U.S., and therefore, tolerable.


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Improving retinal image resolution with iterative weighted shift-and-add |
JOSA A, Vol. 28, Issue 7, pp. 1395-1402 (2011)
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High-resolution retinal imaging requires dilating the pupil, and therefore exposing more aberrations that blur the image. We developed an image processing technique that takes advantage of the natural movement of the eye to average out some of the high-order aberrations and to oversample the retina. This method was implemented on a long sequence of retinal images of subjects with normal vision. We were able to resolve the structures of the size of single cells in the living human retina. The improvement of resolution is independent of the acquisition method, as long as the image is not warped during scanning. Consequently, even better results can be expected by implementing this technique on higher-resolution images.
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(100.2980) Image processing : Image enhancement
(330.5310) Vision, color, and visual optics : Vision - photoreceptors
(330.6130) Vision, color, and visual optics : Spatial resolution
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Vision, Color, and Visual Optics
Original Manuscript: February 17, 2011
Revised Manuscript: April 23, 2011
Manuscript Accepted: May 14, 2011
Published: June 10, 2011
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"Whether the perpetrator of a rape is a policeman or an army jawan, he should face trial under civil law and not court martial. I fully support the Justice Verma recommendations. It will also end impunity for men in uniform for heinous crimes like rape," said Bedi on the sidelines of a scholarship distribution ceremony at Kashmir University.
Asking senior officials of the police department to stop shielding policemen accused of crime against women, Bedi, a member of the India Against Corruption, said, "Senior officials who maintain silence over the crime against women are equally responsible.
"As an inspector general of police, if I come to know that a policeman has committed rape in custody and will not take action against the culprit, I am equally responsible for the crime," said Bedi, while advocating implementation of the recommendations.
"(If implemented), only then, the security personnel will be protectors and not betrayers. It will ensure safety of women in the country," she added.
The Justice Verma committee on Wednesday suggested that sexual offences by armed forces and uniformed men in conflict areas should be brought under ordinary criminal law.
The Kashmir civil society, separatists and mainstream political parties too have welcomed the recommendations. Chief minister Omar Abdullah is planning an all-party meeting to push for implementation of the recommendations.
On the defence ministry's reservations in adopting the recommendations, Bedi, said, "They have right to accept it or oppose it since these are recommendations till the government accepts them... I am only giving you personnel opinion as a police officer. I am only saying as police officer what is right to do. It is for the army to decide what they want."
Bedi, who distributed cheques of scholarship among the students, praised the talent of students from the state.
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When the U.S. government decides to give a corporation a financial leg up, one of the most common and effective tools it uses is tax breaks. For over 30 years, traditional energy companies have benefited from a special "Master Limited Partnership" (MLP) classification that cuts out corporate taxes and funnels funds straight to shareholders.
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Currently, approximately $290 billion of market capital is invested in energy MLPs, with about 80% of those investments in midstream oil and gas pipeline projects.
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In a rare moment of legal simplicity, Christopher Coons has put forward a "MLP Parity Act" to support the Obama administration's "all of the above" energy strategy and level the economic playing field for all energy sources. Included in the expansion are wind, solar, hydropower, biomass, geothermal, and municipal solid waste energy sources, among others.
The act doesn't affect any currently qualifying companies, and serves as an addendum and definition more than a stand-alone law unto itself.
Coons has pulled together cross-sector support for the act, from corporate executives to academics to environmental organizations. Most importantly, the Senator has political sponsorship from both sides of the House and Senate, with Republican Sen. Jerry Moran of Kansas leading the bipartisan push.
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The MLP Parity Act might be just what these companies need to attract the sort of sustainable investment that stays with a corporation through the thick of research and development and capital expenditures. As China cuts its own subsidies and companies like Trina Solar (NYSE: TSL ) , LDK Solar (NASDAQOTH: LDKYQ ) , JinkoSolar (NYSE: JKS ) , Suntech Power (NASDAQOTH: STPFQ ) , and Yingli Energy (NYSE: YGE ) feel the squeeze, solar investors are on the lookout for new opportunities.
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Leslie Knope has volunteered to work on the 24-hour "Pawnee Cares" diabetes telethon and orders everyone in the office to work the phones for multiple shifts. Tom Haverford is assigned to pick up retired basketball player Detlef Schrempf from the airport, the special guest for the telethon. Leslie is excited because she has been allowed to program her own four-hour block, but her co-workers are upset to learn it runs from 2 a.m. to 6 a.m. Additionally, she has already been up for 24 hours creating T-shirts for her staff to wear for the telethon.
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I ran into my photographer friend Denise Dewire and her husband at Lake Los Carneros yesterday. We took a lap around the lake looking for birds to shoot (with our cameras!) We didn't see very many birds, but did end up finding lots of things to shoot, a few birds, flowers, an adorable boy, two adorable 'therapy' dogs, and the beautiful hawk…not sure what type it is. On our way out to our cars, we ran into woman that said "the swan has just been released" back into the lake. They removed one of the pair for rehab a few weeks ago. The mate waited patiently at the lake and yesterday, on Valentines day, the swans mate was no where to be found. :-( I really hope they reunite soon, and make it a true Valentine's Day love story.
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UPDATED 12:33 PM EST Jan 31, 2014Deputies are looking for a man who asked a 15-year-old girl to perform a sex act on him as she was walking to school in Kissimmee.
Video TranscriptTEMPLE IS STILL PENDING. THE CITY AND ORLANDO CITY SOCCER HOPE TO BREAK GROUND THIS SUMMER. A MAN IS LURING GIRLS ON THEIR WAY TO SCHOOL, ACCORDING TO INVESTIGATORS. AUTHORITIES SAY IT'S HAPPENED SEVERAL TIMES. THEY HAVE COME UP WITH THIS COMPOSITE SKETCH OF A MAN WHO TRIED TO LURE A GIRL IN KISSIMMEE, NOT FAR FROM OSCEOLA HIGH SCHOOL. RIKKI KLAUS HAS MORE. DEPUTIES WANT EVERYBODY AT HOME TO TAKE A GOOD LOOK AT THIS SKETCH. THEY BELIEVE THE MAN TARGETING GIRLS WHO GO TO OSCEOLA HIGH SCHOOL BEHIND ME LOOKS LIKE THIS. THEY WANT TO PUT HIM BEHIND BARS AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE. SO HE DOESN'T STRIKE AGAIN. YESTERDAY MORNING, ABOUT 3.5 MILES FROM THE SCHOOL, DEPUTIES SAY SOMEBODY WHO LOOKS LIKE THIS MAN APPROACHED A 15-YEAR-OLD. SHE SAYS SHE WAS WALKING TO THE BUS STOP NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF NORTH CENTRAL AND CARROLL. DEPUTIES SAY HE PULLED UP AND ASKED IF SHE WANTED A RIDE. WELL, SHE DECLINED AND HE MADE SOME LEWD REMARKS, ACCORDING TO DEPUTIES. THEN, AND THIS IS WHAT HAS THEM MOST CONCERNED, THEY SAY HE ASKED HER, "WOULD YOU LIKE TO PERFORM A SEX ACT?" THE TEEN RAN HOME AND TOLD HER PARENTS WHO CALLED THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE. DEPUTIES SAY THIS SORT OF THING HAS HAPPENED FIVE TIMES RECENTLY TO OTHER OSCEOLA HIGH STUDENTS. IT'S ASHAME PEOPLE ARE GETTING HARASSED BY PEOPLE LIKE THIS. HOPEFULLY THE NEIGHBORHOOD COMES TOGETHER AND WE CATCH THIS GUY. INVESTIGATORS THINK ALL THE CASES ARE RELATED BECAUSE THE INCIDENTS AND THE MAN'S DESCRIPTION ARE SO SIMILAR. THE GUY IS DESCRIBED AS A HEAVY-SET LIGHT SKINNED HISPANIC MAN IN HIS LATE 20'S OR EARLY 30'S. DEPUTIES SAY HE HAS SHORT BROWN HAIR, A MUSTACHE AND SHORT BEARD. DEPUTIES SAY IN MOST CASES, THE MAN WAS DRIVING A WHITE FOUR-DOOR CAR AND IT COULD BE A NISSAN HONDA OR TOYOTA AND SOMETIMES A BLACK VEHICLE. A THOUSAND DOLLARS IS BEING OFFERED TO ANYBODY WHO BRINGS FORTH INFORMATION THAT LEADS TO
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Kay Bailey Hutchison
From Conservapedia
Kay Bailey Hutchison | |
Former U.S. Senator from Texas From: June 14, 1993 – January 3, 2013 | |
Predecessor | Bob Krueger |
Successor | Ted Cruz |
Information | |
Party | Republican |
Spouse(s) | Ray Hutchison |
Religion | Episcopalian |
Kay Bailey Hutchison, born July 22, 1943 (age 71), is a former Republican U.S. senator from Texas. She was the first female senator from Texas and held office from 1993 through 2012. Hutchison was a candidate for the 2010 Texas gubernatorial election, challenging incumbent, conservative Governor Rick Perry in the GOP primary, but was defeated. She did not run for re-election to the Senate in 2012.
Kay Bailey Hutchison is pro-choice regarding abortion, and has voted to express that Roe v. Wade was rightly decided and should not be overturned. [1] Additionally, Senator Hutchison is a strong and active proponent of stem cell research that involves the killing of human embryos. [2] However, Hutchison has voted for restrictions on abortion such as supporting the 2003 Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act.
Hutchison voted for the $700 billion Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP), leading Rick Perry supporters to call her "Kay Bailout Hutchison." Hutchison inserted 346 earmarks in the last two years spending bills costing $2.6 billion. [3]
External Links
- ↑ http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=108&session=1&vote=00048
- ↑ http://www.rnclife.org/faxnotes/2005/may05/05-05-06.html
- ↑ Citizens Against Government Waste (http://www.cagw.org); OpenSecrets.org


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