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Prairie Valley senior, Colton Brown, signed his national letter of intent to be a part of the South Plains College Rodeo Team.
Check out our basketball coverage from Tuesday night as we made visits to Prairie Valley, Midway, Nocona, Christ Academy and Rider. And for all the scores check out http://texomashomepage.com/sports/local-scores
Even though the Munday Moguls and Jasmine Sillemon brought home the most UIL medals, there were plenty of Texoma's top athletes showcasing their talents on the big stage in Austin! Congrats to another great season on the track and field. Press Play!
The State Track & Field Meet begins Friday in Austin.
Our Team of the Week for February 9th, 2012: The Prairie Valley Girls Basketball Team!
Tonight's sportscast includes basketball scores and highlights from across Texoma.
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Originally published on Sat July 14, 2012 7:21 pm
At some point today, you will probably flip on a light switch. That simple action connects you to the oldest and most plentiful source of American electricity: coal.
Since the early 1880s — when Edison and Tesla pioneered the distribution of electrical power into our homes — most of that power has come from the process of burning coal.
Let's turn to another story we've been following in recent weeks: African-Americans and same-sex marriage. When President Obama came out in support of gay marriage, some African-American religious leaders protested. But according to new polling data, African-Americans are no less supportive or, for that matter, opposed to gay marriage than any other group in the country.
Originally published on Sun April 15, 2012 4:43 pm
Staying overseas, and to Egypt now, where election officials have stunned voters by banning three of the top contenders running in the country's upcoming presidential elections. Those candidates include Omar Suleiman, the vice president under Hosni Mubarak, the other two, a powerful leader from the Muslim Brotherhood and an ultra-conservative Islamist cleric.
And if you're just joining us, you're listening to WEEKENDS on ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Guy Raz.
In Afghanistan today, the Taliban has launched a string of attacks across the country, including coordinated strikes in the capital, Kabul, that hit near western targets and Afghan government buildings. The Taliban says today's attack marks the beginning of what they call the spring fighting season, the period after the winter thaw when mountain passes and roads become accessible again.
Originally published on Wed April 4, 2012 1:47 pm
It's MORNING EDITION, from NPR News. Good morning. I'm Steve Inskeep.
And I'm Renee Montagne.
A flight departure board at the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport yesterday told the story. One word was repeated again and again: cancelled, cancelled, cancelled.
INSKEEP: That was just one sign of chaos, as up to a dozen tornadoes spun through the area. Amazingly, nobody was reported killed.


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Deschamps says France's players "can no longer make mistakes."
PARIS: New France coach Didier Deschamps will not tolerate the bad behavior which marred the national team's last two major tournaments, after he was officially unveiled.
The 1998 World Cup-winning captain has taken over from Laurent Blanc after Les Bleus, who mutinied at the 2010 World Cup, went out with a whimper to eventual champions Spain in the Euro 2012 quarterfinal.
Four players, including midfielder Samir Nasri who launched a foul-mouthed rant against a reporter, are due to face a disciplinary hearing on July 27 over their misbehavior at the tournament in Ukraine and Poland.
"I'm something of a perfectionist. I'm not here to threaten people or what have you, I am trusting, but today the situation in French football is such that the players can no longer make mistakes," he told a news conference a day after being named coach.
Deschamps believes the national side are still recovering from the amazing scenes in South Africa two years ago when players refused to train in support of striker Nicolas Anelka, who had been sent home for verbally abusing then coach Raymond Domenech.
"Given the history that dates back to 2010, professional football players who wear the team jersey of France have very important duties," the former Olympique Marseille, Juventus and Monaco coach said.
"Today, players cannot afford the slightest deviation. I will not analyze what happened in Ukraine. I will take time to reflect, to have a deep think as I always do, while awaiting the decision of the Disciplinary Committee."
While saying he would take "sporting sanctions" if players misbehave in future, the 43-year-old Deschamps was keen to talk about football too.
France have tricky World Cup 2014 qualifiers ahead including against world champions Spain. "What matters to me is to fight to win, to do everything to win. To get there, I want to see a team who take control, who impose themselves on the opponents," he said.
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Programs in any programming language could in principle be compiled into either managed or unmanaged code. In practice, however, each programming language is typically compiled into one type. For example, the Java programming language is almost always compiled into managed code, although there are Java compilers that can generate unmanaged code (such as GNU Compiler for Java).
There are many historical examples of managed code running on a virtual machine, such as UCSD Pascal utilizing p-code. Java popularized this approach with its Bytecode executed by the Java Virtual Machine. Microsoft uses managed code in its CLR virtual machine in the .NET Framework, or another similar virtual machine.
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Al Gore's ambitious call for 100 percent domestic clean energy within 10 years strongly evoked President John F. Kennedy's "moon shot" speech. But a better starting point on the road map for today's clean energy transformation may be where the space race began: Sputnik.
Fifty years ago, in the wake of the launch of Sputnik, the federal government authorized the National Defense Education Act (NDEA) of 1958. The legislation provided billions of dollars to inspire and train a new generation of young innovators to confront the Soviet challenge. It was a critical first step toward developing the human capital necessary to put a man on the moon and invent the technologies that catapulted our world into the Information Age.


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About Worcester
Worcester is located in central Massachusetts, 40 miles from Boston and an hour from both Providence, R.I. and Hartford, Conn. With a diverse population of more than 175,000, it's the second largest city in New England, behind Boston.
Founded as a town in 1722, Worcester became a city in 1848. With a history that predates the American Revolution, the city cradled such native sons as Isaiah Thomas, the Patriot printer who rode with Paul Revere; and John Adams, the second U.S. President (who was also a Worcester schoolmaster).
By mid-century, just north of Worcester in Leominster, factories were producing the world's first pink flamingo lawn ornaments, while in neighboring Shrewsbury, the legendary Hebert Candies company was inventing white chocolate. Comedian Dennis Leary was born in Worcester in 1957, when the city was home to WORC — the first radio station to play the Beatles. In 1963, the yellow "Smiley Face" was invented in Worcester.
Today, Worcester boasts an up-and-coming downtown as well as New England's largest urban wildlife sanctuary, Broad Meadow Brook. The city has 53 parks, the renowned Worcester Art Museum, the popular EcoTarium, and the unique Higgins Armory Museum (where else can you see a suit of armor for dogs?). Greater Worcester also has 13 universities and colleges, with a combined student population of more than 31,000. Worcester is one of only three cities in the country to win the All-America City Award five times.


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Per Theater Chart: Boyhood has Extended Childhood
July 23rd, 2014
The biggest film on the per theater chart this weekend was Boyhood, for the second weekend in a row. It expanded from 5 to 34 theaters, but its average fell just 56% to $34,418. That's fantastic. It has already earned a measure of mainstream success, while it has its eyes on Chef for best limited release for the summer. Second place went to There's No Place Like Utopia with $30,710 in one theater. This is a great start, but there are still no reviews, so I think it will have short legs. A Five Star Life and Mood Indigo were relatively close with averages of $15,996 and $13,256 respectively. The only wide release to reach the $10,000 club was The Purge: Anarchy, which earned an average of $10,626.
There were a few other new limited releases that did quite well with Alive Inside earning $7,150 in one theater. Wish I Was Here earned an average of $7,124 in 68 theaters. Opening in 68 theaters is a lot for a limited release, so this is arguably the best result for any new limited release this weekend. I Origins opened in four theaters earning an average of $6,921. There were a couple of limited releases that missed the Mendoza Line, depending on what you consider a limited release. Persecuted opened in 736 theaters, which some consider semi-wide, but only made $851,000 for an average of $1,157. Video Games: The Movie opened in 25 theaters and only managed an average of $510.
This past week also saw milestones reached for several Per Theater Chart alumni:
- Boyhood earned more than $1 million over the weekend, so clearly it reached $1 million in total. It's not done.
- Words and Pictures got to $2 million just before the weekend, but that's as far as it will go.
- Chef reached $25 million over the weekend and is by far the biggest limited release of the summer so far. In fact, this is more than Endless Love made in total.
- C.S.Strowbridge
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My Story with Violence Against Women begins in a remote rural community in the state of Sacatepéquez, Guatemala, where I'm sitting in the house of María Jose, a 35-year-old single mother of two boys, who invited me for coffee to share her success in managing her first income-generating project. She was using a microcredit from AFEDES' microfinance program to support her small business in selling clothes in the local market. I remember her vividly as being a dynamic, optimistic and caring woman who loved her boys fearlessly. She had left her husband because he was violent against her and she didn't want to put up with it anymore.
In 2005, I traveled to Guatemala to volunteer with AFEDES – Women's Association for the Development of Sacatepéquez – to gain experience on microfinance, training, community organizing and monitoring and evaluation-related activities. I had found AFEDES through IDEX (International Development Exchange), a San Francisco-based organization that supports global social justice work.
AFEDES is an indigenous women-led organization working in 16 municipalities in the Sacatepéquez province of Guatemala with over 1,000 indigenous women members, promoting their political participation and social empowerment. AFEDES focuses its programs on training on women's social, political and economic rights, civic participation, economic development and leadership education.
Through their economic development program I was assigned to visit AFEDES women members to track their progress in their income-generating project. It was through this work that I was fortunate to meet María Jose. My internship was only six months and I left Guatemala enriched and inspired by the amazing indigenous women who were taking ownership in making changes for their families and their communities.
A year later, I went back to Guatemala and visited my friends at AFEDES again and that is when I heard the shocking news. A few weeks before my arrival María Jose had disappeared and only a few days before she had been found dead at the side of a road, far away from her home. There was no official conclusion of the cause of her death, but it was clear she had become a fatal case of the increasingly rising levels of violence against women in Guatemala.
Guatemala is one of the poorest countries in Latin America. About half of the total population lives in rural areas and in poverty surviving on less than $2 a day. Guatemala's poor are primarily rural and indigenous – 72% of the poor live in rural areas and 72% are indigenous.
Indigenous peoples have been in Guatemala for millennia and have experienced the effects of invasion and colonialism throughout their history. Violence against women and disregard of their rights, however, is one of the largest and most prevalent scourges afflicting the dignity of women in Guatemala.
The 36-year long violent armed conflict in the second half of the twentieth century, where 200,000 people were killed due to state-sponsored socio-economic, political and cultural discrimination, was also one of the clearest manifestations of violence against women in Guatemala. Indigenous women were the primary targets of all forms of human rights violations, which included systemic gender violence, ethnic discrimination and sexual violence.
After the peace accord of 1996, 40,000 military men and almost a million men from the resistance returned to civilian life in Guatemala after perpetuating violent acts on women. Unfortunately, no institutional rehabilitation program or psychosocial care has been offered to men coming back from war, which has left men without any outlet to release their anger and sentiments around their coerced involvement in the war. This has been linked to the increasing levels of violence against women.
As reported by the Guatemalan Human Rights Commission, in a period of eight years, from 2000 to 2008 (post civil war), there were 4,000 women violently murdered; from the cases reported to authorities 98 percent remain in impunity, or 98 out of 100 killers got away with murder. Early this year, La Prensa, a Guatemalan newspaper, reported 448 women were murdered in the first semester of 2011, which the UN termed 'unprecedented'. By November of 2011 the number had increased to more than 600 women. "There still exists a wide gap between the number of cases of violence due to machismo that have been resolved by the judicial system (144 litigations) and the number of complaints reported (a total of 6,318)," the newspaper stated.
Among the small and piecemeal government efforts to reverse this trend of violence against women is the 2008 Anti-Femicide Law. This law defines femicide as the "violent death of a woman by virtue of her gender," and allows women for the first time in Guatemalan history to press criminal charges against their perpetrators in an occurrence of domestic violence. However, families and survivors who denounce the crimes face indifference, corruption and a gender biased judicial system. Women are generally blamed for the violence inflicted against them at home or in the streets. Most Guatemalan women, especially indigenous women, are unaware of their rights and of the laws available to them in cases of domestic violence, and their communities may be underserved by police and judicial authorities who could help uphold this law.
In such a scenario, the empowerment of Guatemalan women becomes a crucial step to create a profound and lasting change in gender equality and women's rights.
Taking all this contextual history of violence against women and the need to address this effectively to meet the needs of indigenous and urban low-income women in the state of Sacatepéquez, AFEDES developed a grassroots-led survey to assess what needed to be done to empower women and address the high levels of violence against women. It was through this participatory process that their solution drove to transition from working purely on economic development to incorporating a rights-based framework.
Starting with building a framework to understand the Anti-Femicide Law, AFEDES shifted its programs so that all stakeholders were informed and trained to take advantage of this law. Workshops were carried out with the Peace Judges, members of the police department, and education and health authorities to learn how to deal with a woman who has put a denouncement of violence committed against her. AFEDES also coordinated radio broadcasts/shows to communicate to the general public the existence of the Anti-Femicide Law and to stress the importance of women registering a claim under this law.
As many indigenous women are illiterate or are used to the traditional patriarchal norms, they did not easily recognize violence made against them, nor would they be informed of the Anti-Femicide Law if the Department of Justice were not disseminating this information amongst its judges. AFEDES developed a curriculum program for indigenous women to identify violence against women and implemented workshops with information on available government resources.
AFEDES has now become a serious advocate for women's rights and when AFEDES accompanies a woman survivor of violence to the police to submit her case, the police will respond in a serious manner, as they know that AFEDES will track their behavior.
But the work does not stop with just AFEDES influence. AFEDES knows they need to support grassroots women leader to become more advocates and agents of social change amongst indigenous women. Thus, AFEDES developed a program strengthening girls and women's rights through leadership development of indigenous women.
This program was called the School for Women's Political Education, which encompasses themes such as: • Cultural identity and diversity, • Roots and tools of various forms of oppression, • Ways to understand and respond to oppression, • Human rights and women's rights, • Political participation, • Relationships between women and local authorities, • Women and feminist movements in Guatemala, and • National and international laws supporting women.
Graduates of the political leadership program have demonstrated strong skills in community organizing, political advocacy and facilitating participatory processes to develop community solutions to address local challenges. Particularly in the women's area of rights, participants have learned to analyze women's cases and elaborate strategies to engage women on taking action.
In addition to the School of Women's Political Education, a parallel program initiated by AFEDES included family members of the women participants in separate family gatherings. In these spaces, family members have increased their knowledge, cultural identity, gender awareness, and women's organizing. As a result of these family gatherings, the contribution that women make to her family, community and country in economic, social and political ways have been visibilized to their family members.
It's incredible for me to see how AFEDES has become a strong reputable women's rights organizations using a grassroots holistic lens to advocate for violence against women to stop now and prevent it for happening in future generations. I am comforted in knowing that the chances for another María Jose to meet this unfair tragic death are becoming slim and in its place, empower women are developing to join the efforts to advance gender justice.
Take action! This post was submitted in response to Ending Gender-Based Violence 2012.
Sometimes, I feel the battle has just begun, one will not with levity collect the kernel fruits from the shell. It is well with women worldwide.
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Dear KatZavala, wow, thank you for sharing this holistic and historical context regarding women's rights in Guatemala. The story about Maria Jose is so powerful- from your story it is clear that she was a strong and brave woman. Your point about men not receiving psychosocial support as they return home from conflict is an interesting one. There are so many drivers of violence and inequality. AFEDES sounds like an incredible organization providing support, training and resources to women and communities in Guatemala. It is inspiring to know that such an organization exists and that so many women are doing amazing things. This gives me faith and hope. Thank you!
Querida Kat
Qué increíble es que ocurra la violencia en contra de la mujeres en nuestra región .He sido amargo testigo de que a cualquier nivel educativo o económico esto se reproduzca de manera tan natural. He luchado contra mi propia familia para terminar este antinatural ciclo de violencia, para que la generación detrás de mi no sea educada pensando que lo mínimo que puede esperar de su pareja es violencia verbal. Nunca más,hasta aquí llegamos y alzaremos la voz hasta que esto sea parte del pasado Un abrazo desde México Klaudia
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Kusadasi Shore Excursion: Private Tour to Ephesus including Basilica of St John and Temple of Artemis
Please note that Ephesus Museum will be closed until June 2015
- Private shore excursion from Kusadasi to Ephesus
- Explore the ancient city of Ephesus, the House of Virgin Mary and the Basilica of St John
- Visit the Temple of Artemis, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
- See ancient artifacts at the Ephesus Museum
- Transport by private luxury vehicle for extra comfort
- Private tour guide for a more personalized experience
- Covered by Viator's worry-free policy: guaranteed on-time return to your ship
What You Can Expect
You will then visit the House of the Virgin Mary, where Mary spent the last days of her life. The house was discovered in the 19th century after the repeated visions of a Catholic nun, Anne Catherine Emmerich, were published in a book. When the ruins of the house were discovered, a small shrine dedicated to St Mary was found there.
Next, see the graceful columns and mosaics that remain of the Basilica of St John, built by the Emperor Justinian over the tomb of St John the Apostle. Enjoy the panoramic views of the rural Selcuk countryside and the ruins of the Temple of Artemis. This temple, also known as the Temple of Diana (the Roman goddess equivalent), was first built during the Archaic period and is one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World .
Visit the Ephesus Museum, located near the entrance to the Basilica of St John, which displays excavations from the ancient city of Ephesus as well as frescoes and mosaics.
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A city mayor is fighting illegal parking by running over cars using a Russian tank!
This happened in the capital of Lithuania, Vilnius. The mayor, Arturas Zuokas, got so fed up with people leaving their luxury vehicles illegally parked in pedestrian zones that he decided to make a statement by running over a Mercedes Benz using a Russian tank!
When asked about it, he said:
"It shows a lack of respect and won't be tolerated. [...] I thought this would be a way of drawing attention to the fact that the city intends to be proactive in its fight against illegal parking."


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Approximate Running Time: 3 hours and 10 minutes, with 1 intermissions
In Italian with English captions
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Mariusz Kwiecien's performances are made possible by generous financial support from the James and Sherry Raisbeck Singers' Endowment.
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Revolving members of the string sections are listed alphabetically.
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The Mourning Dove (Zenaida macroura) is a member of the dove family (Columbidae). The bird is also called the American Mourning Dove or Rain Dove, and formerly was known as the Carolina Pigeon or Carolina Turtledove. It is one of the most abundant and widespread of all North American birds. It is also the leading gamebird, with up to 70 million birds shot annually in the U.S., both for sport and for meat. Its ability to sustain such pressure stems from its prolific breeding: in warm areas, one pair may raise up to six broods a year. Its plaintive woo-oo-oo-oo call gives the bird its name. The wings can make an unusual whistling sound upon take-off and landing, and the bird is a strong flier, capable of speeds up to 88 km/h (55 mph).
Mourning Doves are light grey and brown and generally muted in color. Males and females are similar in appearance. The species is generally monogamous, with two squabs (young) per brood. Both parents incubate and care for the young. Mourning Doves eat almost exclusively seeds, but the young are fed crop milk by their parents.
There are five subspecies of Mourning Dove:
The ranges of most of the subspecies overlap a little, with three in the United States or Canada. The West Indian subspecies is found throughout the Greater Antilles. It has recently invaded the Florida Keys. The Eastern subspecies is found mainly in eastern North America, as well as Bermuda and the Bahamas. The Western subspecies is found in western North America and parts of Mexico. The Panamanian subspecies is located in Central America. The Clarion Island subspecies is found only on Clarion Island, just off the Pacific coast of Mexico.
The Mourning Dove is sometimes called the American Mourning Dove to distinguish it from the distantly related African Mourning Dove (Streptopelia decipiens). It was also formerly known as the Carolina Turtledove or Carolina Pigeon. The species' scientific name was bestowed in 1838 by French zoologist Charles L. Bonaparte in honor of his wife, Princess Zénaide. The "mourning" part of its common name comes from its call.
The Mourning Dove has a large range of nearly 11 million square kilometers (6.8 million square miles). The species is resident throughout the Greater Antilles, most of Mexico, the Continental United States, and southern Canada. Much of the Canadian prairies sees these birds in summer only, and southern Central America sees them in winter only. The species is a vagrant in northern Canada, Alaska, and South America. It has been spotted as an accidental at least seven times in the Western Palearctic with records from the British Isles (5), the Azores (1) and Iceland (1). In 1963, the Mourning Dove was introduced to Hawaii, and in 1998 there was still a small population in North Kona. The Mourning Dove also appeared on Socorro Island, off the Western coast of Mexico, in 1988, sixteen years after the Socorro Dove was extirpated from that island.
The Mourning Dove is a medium-sized, slender dove approximately 31 cm (12 in) in length. Mourning Doves weigh an average of 4 to 6 ounces. The elliptical wings are broad, and the head is rounded. Its tail is long and tapered ("macroura" comes from the Greek words for "large" and "tail). Mourning Doves have perching feet, with three toes forward and one reversed. The legs are short and reddish colored. The beak is short and dark, usually a brown-black hue.
The plumage is generally light gray-brown and lighter and pinkish below. The wings have black spotting, and the outer tail feathers are white, contrasting with the black inners. Below the eye is a distinctive crescent-shaped area of dark feathers. The eyes are dark, with light skin surrounding them. The adult male has bright purple-pink patches on the neck sides, with light pink coloring reaching the breast. The crown of the adult male is a distinctly bluish-grey color. Females are similar in appearance, but with more gray coloring overall. The iridescent feather patches on the neck above the shoulders are nearly absent, but can be quite vivid on males. Juvenile birds have a scaly appearance, and are generally darker.
All five subspecies of the Mourning Dove look similar and are not easily distinguishable. The nominate subspecies possesses shorter wings, and is darker and more buff-colored than the "average" Mourning Dove. Z. m. carolinensis has longer wings and toes, a shorter beak, and is darker in color. The Western subspecies has longer wings, a longer beak, shorter toes, and is more muted and lighter in color. The Panama Mourning Dove has shorter wings and legs, a longer beak, and is grayer in color. The Clarion Island subspecies possesses larger feet, a larger beak, and is darker brown in color.
Courtship begins with a noisy flight by the male, followed by a graceful, circular glide with outstretched wings and head down. After landing, the male will approach the female with a puffed out breast, bobbing head, and loud calls. Mated pairs will often preen each other's feathers.
The male then leads the female to potential nest sites, and the female will choose one. The female dove builds the nest. The male will fly about, gather material, and bring it to her. The male will stand on the female's back and give the material to the female, who then builds it into the nest. The nest is constructed of twigs, conifer needles, or grass blades, and is of flimsy construction. Mourning doves will sometimes requisition the unused nests of other Mourning Doves, other birds, or arboreal mammals like squirrels.
Most nests are in trees, both deciduous and coniferous. Sometimes, they can be found in shrubs, vines, or on artificial constructs like buildings, or hanging flower pots. When there is no suitable elevated object, Mourning Doves will nest on the ground.
The clutch size is almost always two eggs. Occasionally, however, a female will lay her eggs in the nest of another pair, leading to three or four eggs in the nest. The eggs are small and white. Both sexes incubate, the male from morning to afternoon, and the female the rest of the day and at night. Mourning Doves are devoted parents; nests are very rarely left unattended by the adults. When flushed from the nest, an incubating parent may perform a nest-distraction display, or a broken-wing display, fluttering on the ground as if injured, then flying away when the predator approaches it.
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Incubation takes two weeks. Mourning Doves are strongly altricial, with the young, called squabs, being helpless at hatching and covered with down. Both parents feed the squabs pigeon's milk (dove's milk) for the first 3-4 days of life. Thereafter, the crop milk is gradually augmented by seeds. Fledging takes place in about 11–15 days, before the squabs are fully grown but after they are capable of digesting adult food. They stay nearby to be fed by their father for up to two weeks after fledging.
Mourning Doves are prolific breeders. In warmer areas, these birds may raise up to six broods in a season. This fast breeding is essential because mortality is high. Each year, mortality can reach 58% a year for adults and 69% for the young.
The Mourning Dove is monogamous and forms strong pair bonds. Pairs typically reconvene in the same area the following breeding season, and sometimes may remain together throughout the winter. However, lone doves will find new partners if necessary.
Mourning Doves eat almost exclusively seeds, which make up more than 99% of their diet. Rarely, they will eat snails or insects. Mourning Doves generally eat enough to fill their crops and then fly away to digest while resting. They often swallow grit such as fine gravel or sand to assist with digestion. The species usually forages on the ground, walking but not hopping. At bird feeders, Mourning Doves are attracted to one of the largest ranges of seed types of any North American bird, with a preference for corn, millet, safflower, and sunflower seeds. Mourning Doves do not dig or scratch for seeds, instead eating what is readily visible. They will sometimes perch on plants and eat from there.
Mourning Doves show a preference for the seeds of certain species of plant over others. Foods taken in preference to others include pine nuts, sweetgum seeds, and the seeds of pokeberry, amaranth, canary grass, corn, sesame, and wheat. When their favorite foods are absent, Mourning Doves will eat the seeds of other plants, including buckwheat, rye, goosegrass and smartweed.
Mourning Doves can be afflicted with several different parasites and diseases, including tapeworms, nematodes, mites, and lice. The mouth-dwelling parasite Trichomonas gallinae is particularly severe. While a Mourning Dove will sometimes host it without symptoms, it will often cause yellowish growth in the mouth and esophagus that will eventually starve the host to death. Avian pox is a common, insect-vectored disease.
The primary predators of this species are diurnal birds of prey, such as falcons and hawks. During nesting, corvids, grackles, housecats, or rat snakes will prey on their eggs. Cowbirds rarely parasitize Mourning Dove nests. Mourning Doves reject slightly under a third of Cowbird eggs in such nests, and the Mourning Dove's vegetarian diet is unsuitable for cowbirds.
Mourning doves sunbathe or rainbathe by lying on the ground or on a flat tree limb, leaning over, stretching one wing, and keeping this posture for up to twenty minutes. These birds can also waterbathe in shallow pools or bird baths. Dustbathing is common as well.
Outside the breeding season, Mourning Doves roost communally in dense deciduous trees or in conifers. During sleep, the head rests between the shoulders, close to the body; it is not tucked under the shoulder feathers as in many other species. During the winter in Canada, roosting flights to the roosts in the evening, and out of the roosts in the morning, are delayed on colder days.
The number of individual Mourning Doves is estimated to be approximately 475 million. The large population and its vast range explain why the Mourning Dove is considered to be of least concern, meaning that the species is not at immediate risk. As a gamebird, the Mourning Dove is well-managed, with up to 40-70 million shot by hunters each year.
The Mourning Dove appears as the Carolina Turtle-Dove on plate 286 of Audubon's Birds of America.
References to Mourning Doves appear frequently in Native American literature. Mourning Dove imagery also turns up in contemporary American and Canadian poetry in the work of poets as diverse as Robert Bly, Jared Carter, Lorine Niedecker, and Charles Wright


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Rifle Concludes Air Gun Championships
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – Five members of the No. 3-ranked West Virginia University rifle team competed at the USA Shooting Winter Air Gun Championships, Dec. 6-8, at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo.
Sophomore Garrett Spurgeon ranked sixth overall at the championships with a 1852.5 aggregate score, also placing third overall at the junior level. He shot his best score on Saturday, shooting a 619.0 mark and a 121.5 showing in the final, placing fifth overall.
On Friday he placed 10th overall and seventh in junior's with a 615.9 score and 99.7 final showing. Spurgeon also placed fourth overall and seventh in junior's on Sunday, shooting 617.6.
Redshirt-freshman Jean-Pierre Lucas shot a three-day total of 1837.3, placing 14th overall. He had a fifth place junior's finish on Friday with a 611.6 mark and 141.5 score in the final. Lucas shot 611.3 in the open relay and a 163.0 in the final on Saturday for a junior's fourth-place finish, and 614.4 on Sunday for a 12th-place finish.
Junior Thomas Kyanko shot 621.9 and 98.7 in the final on Friday, placing seventh in the men's open relay. He shot 615.3 on Saturday, placing eighth, and had a 605.5 showing on Sunday.
Junior Meelis Kiisk shot an aggregate 1845.4, placing 11th overall. The Paide, Estonia, native shot 614.4 on Friday, placing 12th in the men's open relay. He shot 615.4 on Saturday, placing ninth, and 615.6 for the 11th-place spot on Sunday.
Senior Chance Cover shot 602.1 on Friday, 603.3 Saturday and 600.5 on Sunday, for an overall score of 1805.9.
Spurgeon and Lucas were selected for the 2014 Bavarian Airgun Championships junior level shooting. The championships are Jan. 19-26, in Munich, Germany.
The Mountaineers (6-0, 4-0 GARC) will return to the WVU Rifle Range and begin spring semester competition against Great American Rifle Conference (GARC) foe NC State on Jan. 19.
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CORPUS CHRISTI - Three more area athletes committed to play for colleges Friday.
Once King's Raven Perrin verbally committed to play golf at Southern Arkansas, it helped fuel her best season on South Texas courses.
Perrin made matters official on Friday, signing a national letter of intent with the Muleriders and first-year coach James Robertson to continue her golfing pursuits and education.
"It's been my best year of golf ever. I've dropped my scores tremendously this year," Perrin said. "Ever since I verbally committed I've had this weight lifted off my shoulders. I've been able to play fearless."
Perrin carded her best round as a high-school golfer, a 74 in the opening round of the Region IV-5A tournament Wednesday in San Antonio. The District 28-5A runner-up followed that with a 78 on Thursday to finish in a tie for seventh, earning alternate status for the state tournament next week.
Perrin said she plans to major in biology with hopes of becoming a neonatology to help infants born with birth defects.
"It had a great campus, it had a great family feel, it has a great biology program," Perrin said. "I fell in love with the coach and the team, and they welcomed me immediately."
Meanwhile, Flour Bluff baseball player Garrett Foster inked with Adams State University in Alamosa, Colo. The Grizzlies, a Division II program, play in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference.
Foster has had a strong season at the plate as the Hornets' leadoff hitter, carrying a .412 average with 26 runs scored and 5 RBIs into Friday's game against Laredo Cigarroa.
Over in Ingleside, Skyler Shugart committed to play football for Division III power Mary Hardin- Baylor in Belton. The Crusaders, members of the American Southwest Conference, lost in the national semifinals last season.
Shugart was a unanimous all-district selection at wide receiver for the Mustangs and an honorable mention on the Texas Sports Writers Association's Class 3A all-state team. As a senior, he had 51 catches for 1,107 yards and 16 touchdowns.
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The National Cancer Institute's Clinical Proteomic Tumor Analysis Consortium (CPTAC) and the NVIDIA Foundation are pleased to announce funding opportunities in the fight against cancer. Each organization has launched a request for proposals (RFP) that will collectively fund up to $2 million to help to develop a new generation of data-intensive scientific tools to find new ways to treat cancer.
CPTAC is a comprehensive and coordinated effort to accelerate the understanding of the molecular basis of cancer through the application of proteomic technologies (using proteogenomic approaches), in order to improve our ability to diagnose, treat and prevent cancer. The NVIDIA Foundation, through its strategic philanthropic initiative Compute the Cure, aims to support cancer researchers in the search for a cure.
Each organization is seeking proposals for projects that leverage computation on integrating large-scale publicly-available omics data sets to dramatically impact the battle against cancer and reduce the time it takes for research outcomes to be used effectively in a clinical environment.
The National Cancer Institute anticipates making up to three awards, with total available funding of $1.8 million. The NVIDIA Foundation will award one project, at up to $200,000.
For additional information about the funding proposal from CPTAC, click here.
For the application and additional information from the NVIDIA Foundation please, click here.
While NCI supports similar goals and objectives as the NVIDIA Foundation's Compute the Cure initiative, the NCI is not providing support to the NVIDIA Foundation for this initiative or endorsing the Foundation's activities.
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The Antibody Portal serves as a public resource of well-characterized monoclonal antibodies made available by the NCI for the scientific community.
The Clinical Proteomic Tumor Analysis Consortium (CPTAC) Data Portal provides a platform for researchers to search, download, and analyze data sets generated by CPTAC.


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(S1.E12.) Chapter 29: Toward the Pacific Century?
Southeast Asia Today. Greetings. We have reached the final chapter in the textbook, 'Toward the Pacific Century?" The file can be downloaded by clicking on the following link. Download file The file will be automatically downloaded to your computer if you have already subscribed to the Then and Now podcast.
Toward the Pacific Century?</strong> This final chapter in the textbook examines South Asia (e.g., India) and Southeast Asia (e.g., China, Japan, and many other nations). The central question that the textbook leaves us with is which country or alliance of countries will be the dominant leader in the world in 2050 or even the year. The nations of South Asia and Southeast Asia have thrown off the vestiges of colonialism and have rapidly built industrialized economies. Democracy has been slower to evolve here. Industrialization has brought vast changes to the society and culture of the regions, but these nations have worked to incorporate traditional values and culture into a modern state. Vast wealth has been created but has not been diffused throughout society, thus creating great disparities within societies. Japan rapidly rebuilt after World War II and achieved its goal of becoming one of the world's economic superpowers. These economic achievements were made in part because Japan has almost no military expenses. The unprecedented growth in the economies of the Pacific rim led to a belief that the prosperity was permanent, however, recent persistent economic slowdowns have undermined optimism. In many Southeast Asian and East Asian nations a re-evaluation of benefits of industrialization is underway.
Check these sites out if you want to learn more about the topics
To visit the official website of ASEAN, visit http://www.us-asean.org/To learn more about Indonesia, visit http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/idtoc.html
To learn about the legal system in Hong Kong and the influence of East and West, visit http://www.info.gov.hk/justice/content02.htm
To learn about the small nation of Brunei, visit http://www.lonelyplanet.com/destinations/south_east_asia/brunei/
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DATE: September 20, 2012
Jackie Evancho appears to exert an invisible force on positively charged people, what scientists have begun to call "the Jackie Effect". Negatively charged people are untouched by Jackie's singing. The power to resist Jackie is a weird phenomenon scientists call "the Lebrecht Effect". The Jackie Effect and the Lebrecht Effect are currently being investigated by a group of otherwise unemployed scientists who recently won a sizeable private grant for just that purpose (rumors put the grant in the low three figures). It appears that a little-known engineer from Stratton, Nebraska may have beaten them to the punch.
On September 20 (today in fact), with no fanfare HITURBINE, a bearded, cowboy hat wear'n, ladies' man (so we're told), dropped onto the Internet a highly original paper that scientists say may well explain the Jackie Effect.
The paper, encompassing less than a single page and forty minutes of effort, claims to solve one side of this important problem in acoustical physics, the Jackie Effect. Since publishing his paper earlier this afternoon, Hiturbine has kept quiet. Others have not.
"I hope it's right," said HoHum, a mathematician at the University of Flyblow in Oxford, Mississippi, and PoohPoohang University of Science and Technology in the no-go zone between North and South Korea. "It would be a fantastic breakthrough."
What is even more fascinating is that Hiturbine has devised a whole new field of study, pre-teen vocal mechanics, just to tackle this problem.
The abstract ideas and notations that pre-teen vocal mechanics manipulate are unfathomable to most people. Hiturbine's new language of mechanics is incomprehensible even to genuinely intelligent engineers and physicists.
"He's taking what we know about young singers and physics and has really taken them apart and then tried to shove them together, something no one has ever wanted to do before," Dr. HoHum said. "He has created a whole new language — you could say a whole new universe of physical objects — in order to say something, anything, about Jackie Evancho that hasn't already been said."
Ms Take (pronounced tak, -key), an otherwise humorless University of Hullabaloo mathematician who writes a mathematics blog, O Come All Ye Slide Rules, said, "At first glance, it feels like you're reading something from outer space."
Some wonder whether the accolades are coming too soon. We at Best of Jackie on the Web really hope not. After Jackie, Angel or Alien?–You Decide our reputation for scientific literacy took a hit. Thank you, Hiturbine for letting us print all these words. Your check is in the mail.
Evangel Theory postulates that there is a "single unitive force" in the universe, from which all other forces and particles emanate — this is termed the Jackie Effect
It was first observed in the "amazingly" complex nucleus of the newly discovered element — Fantabuloso — which broke away from the unstable molecule, "AGT," and about which, sub-particles — fanitrons — orbit at varying distances and speeds.
Fantabuloso possesses an unusually high affinity for every other element in the known universe; thus it is very reactive — and particularly so with carbon-based lifeforms. The Jackie Effect tends to "strip away" fanitrons from other less energetic elements … so Fantabuloso works to achieve "critical mass" … but "evanchoists" have yet to postulate what will occur at that point.
We do know that fanitrons readily interact with Fantabuloso, as these particles attempt to decrease their distance to the nucleus, while affecting forces of attraction and repulsion between "charged" fanitrons …
However, the counterbalance to this attraction is the Evancho Force, a very strong "field" within the Fantabuloso nucleus, which is produced by the Mike-E boson. The Evancho Force prevents fanitrons from colliding with the Fantabuloso nucleus, and perturbing the balance of forces generated by the Jackie Effect.
There is also a second force at work in conjunction with the Mike-E boson field … the Lisa particle, which tends to mitigate to some extent the repulsive force of the Mike-E boson … However, the Lisa particle is very difficult to see, due to its clandestine nature; but Evangel Theory predicts that it must be present somewhere within the Fantabuloso nucleus! …
Evangel Theory also states that Jackie can never be observed in any one place in space-time, since she moves at the speed of light — and appears to be everywhere all at once! Hence we can only observe the Jackie cloud …
Some have speculated that, if the Fantabuloso were to achieve "critical mass," then a "Jackularity" would form — a single point of fanitrons having relatively infinite mass — that actually warps the "fabric" of space time. The distortion created by this Jackularity, would produce an apparent Evancho Field of perfectly phased Jackie Waves. So powerful are these "waves" that no object or particle could be capable of escaping their effect — and, once an entity moved across the Jackie Event Horizon, that entity would become forever part of the Jackularity! However, it is also postulated that this single point of energy would, in time, "explode" in an unfathomable release of pure Jackie energy (E=jefc^2) … The "Big Bang!"
It is further theorized that this "Big Bang" would form a new and splendid universe, where the sound of the erupting Jackie Waves will be heard everywhere — and this remnant sound is refered to as Background Evanchoation. It is the "echo" created by "billions and billions and billions" of Fantabuloso particles, speeding outwards in all directions through space time … and thus the Jackie Effect is self perpetuating!
The theory is still being developed … and we will update you as more details emerge from this new and exciting field.
*For this introduction we acknowledge a debt to a recent New York Times article.
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Current Clinical Trials
To view a current listing of clinicial trials taking place at Ochsner, click here.
Type of cancer-related clinical trials that take place at Ochsner include:
- Brain cancer
- Head and neck cancers
- Breast cancer
- Colon, colorectal, and rectal cancer
- Biliary tract cancers
- Pancreatic cancer
- Neuroendocrine tumors
- Esophageal cancer
- Lung cancer
- Prostate cancer
- Gynecologic cancers
- Melanoma
- Leukemia
- Lymphoma
- Myeloma
Clinical Trials at Ochsner
Patients also have the opportunity to participate in clinical research trials from multiple collaborative groups through the Ochsner Community Clinical Oncology Program (CCOP). Ochsner has been actively involved in cancer research since its inception and is currently the largest clinical research program in Oncology in the New Orleans region. The program currently provides access to our trials at our Jefferson Highway, Baton Rouge, Covington and Baptist sites with plans to expand into our other locations in the future. By having numerous locations involved in research, Ochsner provides access to clinical trials for patients living in southern Louisiana and parts of Mississippi, with plans underway to geographically increase access.
The Ochsner CCOP has been continuously funded by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) since 1983 and remains the core of the program. The CCOP provides a direct link to the NCI and participation in clinical trials for the following research bases: the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG); the National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project (NSABP); the Radiation therapy Oncology Group (RTOG); the North Central Cancer Treatment Group(NCCTG); and the Children's Oncology Group (COG).
Evaluation of new treatments and technologies also occurs in collaboration with industry and other national research consortia providing access to cutting edge treatments that are being investigated. The Ochsner Cancer Institute facilitates active involvement of the physicians most responsible for treating cancer patients across the multidisciplinary programs by providing them with important access to research infrastructure
Clinical Trials and Research
A clinical trial is the study of a medical treatment in human volunteers. The treatment may be a new drug or a new use for an older drug. The treatment could also be a new device or a new surgical technique.
Clinical trials are an excellent way for people to help doctors find ways to improve cancer care. Patients who volunteer to participate in a clinical trial have known health problems. They decide to participate in research to help doctors better understand, diagnose, treat, or cure that disease or condition. The information gained through these studies about investigational treatments may help not only the patient but many other people living with the condition as well.
Clinical trials are important because they compare new treatments with accepted treatments. They allow researchers to find out whether a new treatment works better than accepted treatments. The new treatment might work as well or better than standard therapies, and the new treatment might have fewer or milder side effects. On the other hand, the new treatment might not work as well or might cause more side effects than standard treatments.
Clinical trials help pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies develop medicines and devices that are safer and more effective with fewer side effects. Clinical trials also help these companies decide whether it is worthwhile to seek approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for a new treatment.
Clinical trials are also important in finding therapies when no standard treatment exists. Clinical trials help show how well the new treatment works and what side effects it may cause.


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Here's another reason you really shouldn't ignore someone who is screaming that their seat belt isn't working or engaging. Ever hear about this tragedy, at Six Flags Great Adventure? This girl died.
Popular Mechanics - Google BooksBut as the safety restraints came down on the other riders, Rick and Karen knew something was wrong--dead wrong--and a day of enjoyment and expectation was replaced by tragedy. Karen's safety bar snapped shut behind her, instead of in front, as required. Lightnin' Loops computer sensors indicated that all passengers were securely buckled in--just as Rick and Karen screamed to the operators to halt the ride.
In the 80s-2000s, there were many many times that sleds were sent to the lift and completed the circut with no belt. The belt was probably visually inspected, but I can tell you that there were times the belt wasn't connected. As of 2012, I am going to assume this cannot happen anymore, but I had to speak up about the concept of "NEVER".
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CMs have a tough job but their first concern as many have said should always be the guest. If the CMs loading and unloading do not have the time to reassure gueststhen another CM should be posted at the ride to reassure guests so that no one has a panic attack or worse yet a health situation because of their panic. Never dismiss someone who is clearly trying to follow the rules. Malina I am sorry thAt this happened to you and you should not be reprimanded here for trying to make sure you were seat belted in properly.
The only 'fact' we have is that she was scared and presumably upset over it all. But like most situations, if you only take one side of it, and don't actually talk to the other side afterwards to know what THEY knew... you rarely have a valid picture of the situation.
The calls to complain to city hall, firing, etc are all based on PRESUMED understanding of what they are supposed to be doing, what they were doing, and what they knew, and what risks or not they allowed to happen.
As someone who is supposed to be trained in law.. I would expect better. But sounds a lot like a lawyer who is more interested in winning cases instead of actual facts. Just throw it out there and let them fight it 'in court'
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Imagine if you're in the process of getting into a bobsled and then the person in the bobsled in front of you starts panicking about her seat belt. Do you want the people responsible for your safety to suddenly go help the person that isn't in any real danger? There is a person that is responsible for such a situation and by the OP's own account, the issue was resolved when they got to that last station before dispatch. So maybe the CMs not rushing to calm a worried guest might seem rude to some, but to me it shows they're watching out for everyone else.
And please, please stop comparing this to incidents where people have died. It is extremely disrespectful. In all the incidents brought up someone seriously screwed up. In this case, all issues (besides some hurt feeling over the perception of being ignored) were resolved before the ride started.
a. The seat belt wasn't working right. I'd ridden on the Matterhorn before so I did know how to operate them.
b. The CMs did not respond verbally or physically when they were informed several times of a problem.
As I mentioned, I rode with a friend, so I do have a witness. She was also yelling to the CMs for help because she heard me, but since she was already belted in, she was probably less panicked than I was. Her perception of the incident was just as mine was; ie, the CMs ignored me.
You don't have to leave your post to verbally reassure someone that the situation will be handled. If your job is to look over the belts with a flashlight, at that moment you ARE interacting with them and you have room to say something. Also, if the sleds are being loaded so very quickly that there is no room at all to troubleshoot, perhaps that is an issue in itself.
I am not comparing the incident to the LL one, except to point out that when cast members and ride operators ignore guests that are having difficulties, there can be serious consequences for the riders. Obviously that didn't happen this time. Thank God for that. What about the next time, when the CMs don't give the guest the benefit of the doubt and someone gets hurt?
This is more an issue of hurt feelings than safety.
I would rather have CMs focus on their position. Accidents can occur suddenly, even in the split second it takes for someone to turn away and tell you that you'll be OK. You can argue that maybe they could add another CM to address guest concerns and you'd be entitled to that opinion.
The issue here is not the safety of the attraction. Nor is it an issue of "hurt feelngs."
The issue here is the guest's anxiety and how the park addressed it or failed to address it.
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EVANSVILLE - Oppression requires the cooperation of the oppressed.
That was the message civil rights activist Diane Nash delivered to the approximately 300 people attending Wednesday night's annual dinner of the Evansville-Vanderburgh County Human Relations Commission at The Centre.
"When you change yourself, the world has to fit up against a new you," she said. "We changed ourselves into people who could not be segregated."
During her remarks Nash imparted the philosophies and often-overlooked strategies of a movement that rocked a nation.
Nash — whom the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King described as the "driving spirit in the nonviolent assault on segregation at lunch counters" — helped organize some of the most successful campaigns of the civil rights movement, from lunch counter sit-ins in Nashville, Tenn., to the Freedom Ride.
Nash said the term "nonviolence" didn't embody the full meaning of the strategies, so she coined a new term: "agapic" energy.
The word comes from the Greek word "agape," which means brotherly love.
"People are never your enemy," she said. "Unjust political systems: they are enemies. Unjust economic systems: they are enemies."
Nash said people often believe that demonstrations alone made the movement successful, but there were other components — investigation, education, negotiation, demonstration, resistance and ensuring that the problem doesn't recur — she said.
"In the 1960s, we did not know if agapic energy would work," she said.
"Now we know that it does. We now have an ultimate and better way to conduct social struggle and to wage war."
The night was not without a mention of the proposed cuts to the Human Relations Commission initiated by the Vanderburgh County Commissioners.
Outside The Centre, a group of protesters held placards and voiced their displeasure with cuts proposed to the agency's budget by the Commissioners.
Nash said she's aware of the issues, and opened her speech by saying: "When the median income of black families in the United States is on par with the median income of white families — when the educational level of black children is approximately equal to that of white children — when the number of persons imprisoned is proportionate to the population — and when other measures of the quality of life are nearly comparable, then we can consider whether human relations agencies are still needed."
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In the physical sciences, an energy transfer or 'energy exchange' from one system to another is said to occur when an amount of energy crosses the boundary between them, thus increasing the energy content of one system while decreasing the energy content of the other system by the same amount. The transfer is characterized by the quantity of energy transferred, which can be specified in energy units such as the joule (J), in combination with the direction of the transfer, which can be specified as in (to) or out of (from) one system or the other. The transfer occurs in a process which changes the state of each system. Thermodynamics recognises three categories (mechanisms or modes) of such transfers:
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- Work (thermodynamics), for example, electric power transmission is a (non-mechanical) thermodynamic work process that can transfer energy from a power generation station to your home, where a pump can use it to perform mechanical work on water to lift it out of your basement.
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From Fox News:The family of a Rhode Island seventh-grader who was suspended for three days for having a small toy gun keychain at school is appealing the suspension. WJAR-TV (http://bit.ly/198ZOTV) reports the family of 12-year-old Joseph Lyssikatos (lis-ih-KAH'-tos)
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Updating the job numbers with the new numbers that are out today continues to show that virtually all the jobs created this year have been part time jobs.So far this year there have been 848,000 new jobs. Of those, 813,000 are part time jobs (for both
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Lisa Maxbauer recently wrote a piece in the New York Times worrying about her six-year old visiting homes of gun owners. Here are some numbers from the CDC for both six year olds and those under age 10.For other ways of accidental deaths, the
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LEXINGTON, S.C. -- The utility that manages Lake Murray thinks it is time to add more weed-eating fish to the lake. But South Carolina wildlife officials think it isn't time to put more carp in the largest lake in the Midlands.
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A study commissioned by South Carolina Electric & Gas found that weeds other than hydrilla are starting to pop up under water, which is a first sign that there aren't enough carp in the lake to keep the weeds in check, according to aquatic weed expert Steve de Kozlowski, who did the study.
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Hydrilla isn't native to the lake, but the aggressively growing weed was found in the water in 1993, likely introduced by fisherman who wanted to provide more plant life for fish to eat. Within five years, the hydrilla became so thick it was entangling boat propellers and choking off other life in the lake.
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