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NY woman's mom: Craigslist slaying 'destroyed' her
BOSTON A Boston University medical student who police said killed a masseuse he met through Craigslist and later committed suicide in jail was a "monster" who "can never escape God's justice," the victim's mother said Thursday.
Carmen Guzman, mother of 25-year-old New York City resident Julissa Brisman, said through a Spanish interpreter that Philip Markoff "destroyed my life and that of my family."
"I curse the day, the hour and the minute that Philip Markoff picked my daughter as his next victim," Guzman said in a statement before her daughter was honored with 35 others at an annual ceremony at Boston's Garden of Peace, a memorial for nearly 700 homicide victims.
Prosecutors formally dropped murder charges Thursday against Markoff, who committed suicide in his jail cell while awaiting trial in Brisman's slaying.
Police said Brisman was beaten with a gun and shot three times at a Boston hotel.
Suffolk District Attorney Dan Conley, whose office filed the document saying the prosecution had been terminated because of Markoff's death, said Brisman's relatives are frustrated they won't be able to face the accused.
"They were robbed of the opportunity to have him held accountable in a court of law," Conley said. "In some respects, these trials - when they do occur - are cathartic for people."
Conley said he plans to publicly release evidence against Markoff within a few weeks, which he hopes will bring some satisfaction to the family and show the public the "compelling, very, very strong case" prosecutors had. The evidence will include surveillance video showing Markoff, 24, in the lobby of the Boston hotel where Brisman was killed and a hollowed-out copy of the medical textbook "Grey's Anatomy," where authorities said Markoff stashed the gun he used to kill Brisman.
Brisman and the other victims were memorialized with engraved stones in the garden near the Massachusetts Statehouse. A family friend read a statement from Guzman.
"With the passage of time, and after hearing about Markoff's suicide, I could verify that my angry feelings were totally justified, that with this action this man ratified his cowardice, incapable of facing justice from humanity here on Earth, but he can never escape God's justice," it said.
Guzman's comments were presented instead of a victim impact statement that might have come at a trial.
Afterward, Guzman, who is from the Dominican Republic, told reporters in Spanish that she had nothing to say to Markoff's relatives because they weren't at fault but wished she had been given the opportunity to speak directly to the man accused of killing her daughter.
"I would have asked him, 'Why did you take my daughter's life?'" she said in Spanish. "'Why hurt her, when she had never hurt anyone and was always good to others and was always helping people?'"
Guzman said she wanted Markoff to face justice and doesn't know if he committed suicide because of his conscience.
Guzman also said she was shocked when she found out that Markoff was a medical student. She said she also had studied medicine and couldn't understand why anyone in a field designed to help people would cause pain.


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Oceanside hands over management of Sunshine Brooks Theatre
OCEANSIDE The Oceanside City Council on Wednesday turned over management of the city-owned Sunshine Brooks Theatre from the current operators to recently formed theater company.
The council voted unanimously to allow the Oceanside Theatre Company to run the decades-old, 200-seat theater for the next five years. The facility, just down the street from City Hall, is at 217 N. Coast Highway. The company formed in January.
New Vision Theatre Company had run the Sunshine Brooks since 2005.
Under the new contract, Oceanside Theatre Company will pay $1,200 in rent per month. The city will also receive 50 cents for each ticket sold beginning in the second year of the new agreement. The company will have the opportunity to renew the agreement for another five years when the newly approved lease is up.
In the old agreement, the city paid utilities and allowed New Vision to run the theater rent-free. The company began paying utilities and covering maintenance when the contract was extended for one year in June 2010.
Oceanside Theatre Company has been recommended unanimously by a committee that reviewed proposals for the theater's management, the arts commission and the parks and recreation commission.
New Vision director John Kalb, who ran the theater with his wife, Yolanda, said he thought things were going well at the theater, which puts on about four productions a year and regularly allows the facility to be used for other purposes, such as an open mic night.
A city staff report said the current management has met all of the goals and objectives in its agreement with the city.
About a dozen addressed the council representing or supporting either theater company.
Toni Perrine wondered why the matter was up for discussion in the first place.
"The bottom line for me is, if it ain't broke, don't try and fix it," she said.
Some used their time addressing the council to praise the experience and talent of staff and management of the Oceanside Theatre Company.
The companies were evaluated on criteria such as their finances, how they would use the facility, public economic benefits they might bring and their relevant experience.
"We set up this process to try to make this as fair as possible," Councilwoman Esther Sanchez said. "What we were forced to look for is allowing whoever takes control of the Sunshine Brooks Theatre, is (making sure) they're able to do it financially."
She said Oceanside Theatre Company came in first and New Vision came in second based on that criterion.
One of the main differences in their plans had to do with whether children's programs should be held there. New Vision leaders said the Sunshine Brooks' location, near several bars, is not appropriate for children. Oceanside Theatre Company representatives have said children's programs could be conducted safely and would be beneficial for the community.
"It really takes more than one or two people to really keep things running well," said Naomi Olson, Oceanside Theatre Company president. "We envision making the needed improvements, being part of the community and enhancing the quality of life for residents and businesses alike."


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In Maya 2011 Essential Training, George Maestri demonstrates the tools and feature set in Maya, as well as the skills necessary to model, texture, animate, and render projects with this deep and robust piece of 3D animation software from Autodesk. This course takes an in-depth tour of Maya's interface, including navigating and manipulating objects in 3D and customizing the workspace. The course also covers object creation and modeling basics, shading and texturing, surface mapping techniques, character rigging, and lastly, rendering and final output. Exercise files accompany the course.
Probably the biggest reason for drawing a skeleton into your character is so that that skeleton can be used to deform a mesh. So let's take a look at how to deform meshes. Let's go ahead and start with a very simple cylinder. We are just going to start with something very, very simple, and then we'll work our way up. So I am just going to go ahead and create a simple polygonal cylinder and kind of shape it like let's say the leg or the arm of a character. Now in order to deform this with the skeleton, we need to go ahead and draw one in there.
So let's go ahead and do a very simple skeleton. We are going to go Skeleton > Joint tool and again, just draw one, two, three joints. Now again what I am doing here is I tend to draw things a little bit in this V-shape and that just indicates the direction of the bend, which helps later on when you get more sophisticated into rigging. So all I need to do in order to deform this mesh is to create what's called a skin. Now there are three types of skin. There is Smooth Bind, Interactive Skin Bind and Rigid Bind.
So let me show you the basics of these. I am actually going to go into my Perspective window here. So all you have to do is select the skeleton and all the joints or the hierarchy of the skeleton and then Shift+select your mesh. Then you can bind the skin. So in this case, I am just going to do what's called Smooth Bind. Now Smooth Bind basically works by what's called vertex weight. So whatever vertex is closest to the joint gets weighted more closely to that joint. So once I have my Smooth Bind done, all I have to do is select the joint and rotate it.
Let's go ahead and shade this. And it will bend accordingly, very simple. It's probably the simplest way to skin a character. I am going to see if I can undo this, let's go ahead, yeah, so I have got this undone now. So let's go ahead and select our joint chain and select our mesh and let's go ahead and do the second one, which is called Interactive Skin Bind. Now what this does, it's a little bit more sophisticated. What it does, it create these little shapes around your joints and whatever part of the mesh that falls into that shape gets deformed by that joint.
So I can actually get interactive. That is why they are called Interactive Skin Bind. I can actually scale this up or down. I select a different joint. I can actually scale that up or down, and control very interactively how much of that mesh gets deformed by that joint. So now when I rotate that joint, again it manipulates the mesh. Now on this simple type of geometry you might not see much of an effect, but just know that that's how that work.
So I am going to go ahead and undo that. In fact, another way to undo it is just to go Edit > Delete by Type > History, and now go ahead and get rid of any deformation you have on it. Again, I am going to select the skeleton and the mesh and then let's do what's called Rigid Bind. Rigid Bind is the oldest type of deformation in Maya. It was the first type of deformation they had, and this doesn't have really soft selection. It's basically just the vertex is either on one joint or the other.
So it's basically either it's on this joint, or it's on this joint, and that's it. But Rigid Bind has a number of other tools that allow you to put lattices around joints, that sort of thing, to allow you to control a little bit more closely how the bend works. So those are some of the basics of Bind Skin. Let's go ahead and use those on our character. Let's go ahead and open him up. I saved it out as Dog_16 and here we have the joints.
I did not put a skeleton through the hand. So I'm going to actually move those out so that we don't get so confused here. So all we really want to deform is this particular arm. So for this really almost any one of those binding should work because it's really not all that sophisticated. We really don't need the Interactive Skin Bind. So in this particular one I am just going to do Bind Skin > Smooth Bind and that's the easiest way to do it. So now I've got my arm bending along with my character.
Let's go ahead and move that, pan back. And we can do that again. Select Skeleton, select the arm, Skin > Bind Skin > Smooth Bind. Now if you wanted, you could use Interactive or Rigid Bind. Any one of those will actually work for this simple of a piece of geometry. Just know that we have three different ways to bind a skin to a skeleton in Maya and each one has its own advantages.
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One of YouTube's most famous canine athletes returns for another amazing urban assault session.
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August 9, 2011 11:45 pmPosted 3 years ago
That is one healthy and happy looking dog! I wish that people would do that sport with their dogs here in the U.S. The dog looks like he is having the time of his life and the people he's with really seem to love him.
Great video.
August 10, 2011 2:39 amPosted 3 years ago
An awesome dog that is powerful, athletic, and rocks — check.
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Two mountaineers have set a world record by being the first to use a mobile banking app on Mount Everest….they have successfully traded shares with Breeze Trade and conducted funds transfers with Breeze Banking: Standard Chartered Bank press release, May 23, Nepal.
Climber 1: Ah, Everest. So majestic, so awe-inspiring.
Climber 2: This is phenomenal. Have you checked out the Nikkei crash today?
Climber 1: Eh, what?
Climber 2: The Japanese stock market. It fell a whopping 7.3% today. I checked it out on my mobile banking app.
Climber 1: We'll have to cross that ice-field, it's pock-marked with huge crevasses.
Climber 2: Let me just see what happened to my portfolio. Hmmm…bad…very bad. Do you think this sell-off is a buying opportunity? What? Hey, where the heck are you?
Climber 1: In the crevasse, dangling from the end of the rope. Could you pull me back up please.
Climber 2: Sure, sure. I'll do it just as soon as I sell off these government bonds.
Climber 1: Could you hurry it up, I'm getting strangled here.
Climber 2: Just a minute, I'm waiting for the prices to firm up a bit more. Ah, it's done now. Up you come.
Climber 1: Thanks. Why is it getting dark all of a sudden?
Climber 2: Strange, but not to worry, I've already charged my phone from my solar power charging pack.
Climber 1: I think a blizzard is coming. We should take shelter behind that rock.
Climber 2: This is terrible. I'm sure the damn mobile won't work in a blizzard.
Climber 1: What on earth do you need a mobile for in the middle of this storm?
Climber 2: I had got just the right price for my Unilever stock and was about to hit the Sell button before this blizzard hit. What if the stock has tanked now?
Climber 1: Don't you find this beautiful and exhilarating?
Climber 2: Which one, the tablet or the mobile? Or do you mean the banking app?
Climber 1: I mean the mountain, of course. The calm after the storm, don't you get a kind of Zen feeling?
Climber 2: You mean Yen? Or do you mean the Vietnamese Dong - that's down 20% against the yen. Good time to buy the Dong?
Climber 1: Hey, watch out, AVALANCHE.
Climber 2: I think I'll buy some…….oooops.
Climber 1: Where are you?
Climber 2: Here, buried beneath the snow. And guess what, this is awesome, I have connectivity beneath the snow, I just checked my bank balance. Could you dig me out, please.
Climber 1: Right, there you are, you're fine now. Only a bit more to the summit.
Climber 2: Yes, I can't wait to get to the top to see whether this app works there. Oh hell, the Dow has opened weak.
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Effect of pH on zebrafish GLPs and Aqp1a and human AQP3 expressed in X. laevis oocytes. Oocytes were injected with 1 ng (DrAqp3b, -7, -9a, -9b, -10a, -1a or HsAQP3) or 10 ng (DrAqp3a and -10b) cRNA, or with 50 nl of water (controls). The osmotic water permeability (Pf) was measured in 10 times diluted MBS after 15 min of exposure to isotonic MBS at pH 6, 7.5 or 8.5. The swelling experiments were also performed at the corresponding pH. Data are the means ± SEM of three experiments (n = 10-12 oocytes for each aquaporin). Bars with different superscript in each panel indicate significant differences (ANOVA, p < 0.05) in Pf between aquaporin-injected oocytes. The asterisks denote significant differences with respect the control oocytes at a given pH (Student's t test, p < 0.05).
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Geographic Range
Western kingbirds (Tyrannus verticalis) have a range that extends north to the southern parts of Canada and south to just beyond the border of the United States and Mexico. These birds are found as far east as the Mississippi River, however, they occasionally cross over into parts of Wisconsin and Illinois. Their western range stops shy of the Pacific coast. Populations of these birds are also known to winter in southern Florida. (Alsop, 2001; MacKenzie and Sealy, 1981)
Western kingbirds favor dry savannas, agricultural croplands, and riparian woodlands with scattered trees and shrubs. They prefer larger, taller trees with many perches available. Western kingbirds are also known to inhabit urban areas, making use of man-made structures such as utility poles and wires. (Alsop, 2001; Bergin, 1992; Blancher and Robertson, 1987; MacKenzie and Sealy, 1981)
- Habitat Regions
- temperate
- terrestrial
- Terrestrial Biomes
- desert or dune
- savanna or grassland
- scrub forest
- Other Habitat Features
- urban
- agricultural
Physical Description
Western kingbirds are relatively large flycatchers. Adult males and females look the same with physical characters that include a small black bill, dark eyes, black legs and feet, and an orange-red central crown patch that is often hidden from view. They have an ashy gray head, neck, and breasts. Their lores are dark and their malar is white. Their coverts are dark and their back is a contrasting olive green. Their tail is black and square with white edges. Their belly and undertail coverts are bright yellow. Juveniles are similar in appearance, but are paler overall. (Alsop, 2001; Sibley, 2000; Vuilleumier, 2011)
- Other Physical Features
- endothermic
- bilateral symmetry
- Sexual Dimorphism
- sexes alike
- Average mass
- 35 to 45 g
- oz
- Average length
- 20 to 24 cm
- in
- Average wingspan
- 38 to 41 cm
- in
Western kingbirds are monogamous and begin reproducing in late May to early June. Extreme cases have been reported into mid-July. In southern parts of their range, they begin constructing their nests in early May. Yet there are cases of nest building as late as the second week of July, most likely as a second attempt at nesting. Males perform a special courtship flight where they take off upward into the air, they flutter nearly in place, while vibrating their feathers and delivering a trilling song. (Blancher and Robertson, 1987; MacKenzie and Sealy, 1981; Murphy, 1988; Ohlendorf, 1974)
- Mating System
- monogamous
Western kingbirds prefer to nest in large trees and build cup nests placed 6 feet or more above the ground. They have also been known to use artificial structures for nesting such as telephone poles. When given the option, they choose to nest in cottonwood trees. More than one pair may nest in the same tree at any given time. Their nests consist of grasses, twigs, and weeds lined with finer materials such as hair or cotton. Nests are usually placed near the trunk on a horizontal limb. They have an average clutch size of 4, but depending on food availability, clutches may vary between 3 and 6 eggs. Their eggs are oval shaped and have an average weight of 3.83 grams. Eggs are brown or black with lavender spotting. Once the young hatch, they stay in the nest another 16 to 17 days. On average, western kingbirds produce 1 to 2 broods each year. (Blancher and Robertson, 1987; MacKenzie and Sealy, 1981; Murphy, 1988; Ohlendorf, 1974)
- Key Reproductive Features
- iteroparous
- seasonal breeding
- gonochoric/gonochoristic/dioecious (sexes separate)
- sexual
- oviparous
- Breeding interval
- Western kingbirds typically produce 1 to 2 broods per year.
- Breeding season
- Western kingbirds start mating in early May to late June.
- Range eggs per season
- 3 to 6
- Average eggs per season
- 4
- Average time to hatching
- 18 to 19 days
- Average fledging age
- 16 to 17 days
Among western kingbirds, both sexes contribute to nest building. The incubation is completed solely by the female and lasts about 18 to 19 days. Both males and females contribute to feeding. (Blancher and Robertson, 1987; MacKenzie and Sealy, 1981; Murphy, 1988; Ohlendorf, 1974)
- Parental Investment
- male parental care
- female parental care
There is very little information available regarding the longevity of western kingbirds; however, they are believed to have a maximum lifespan of about 6 years. (Vuilleumier, 2011)
- Range lifespan
Status: wild
- 6 (high) years
- Range lifespan
Western kingbirds are solitary but may sometimes be found in small pairs or groups, especially in the winter. They are known to be aggressive toward potential avian predators such as hawks, crows, and owls and chase them away from their nesting areas. Where nesting density is high, they take advantage by grouping together to ward off potential nest predators. As many as 10 individuals have been observed attacking as a group. Likewise, in one case, a western kingbird and a scissor-tailed flycatcher were observed simultaneously ganging up on a boat-tailed grackle that entered their nesting tree. Western kingbirds seem to tolerate similar species such as other kingbirds, despite their similar diets. Western kingbirds are a migratory species and disperse from their nesting areas in mid-August. (Blancher and Robertson, 1984; Blancher and Robertson, 1987; Hespenheide, 1964; Ohlendorf, 1974)
Home Range
There is currently no data available regarding the home range size of western kingbirds.
Communication and Perception
Western kingbirds have a high, squeaky song, which sounds like "pidik pik pidik PEEKado". Their call is best described as a rapid and rising shrill, described as "widik pik widi pik pik". They also have a sharp, hard "kit" call. In addition, these birds perform non-vocal behaviors when they perceive a threat, such behaviors include fluffing their crown feathers, fluttering or flicking their wings, and crouching. (Gamble and Bergin, 2012; Sibley, 2000)
Food Habits
Western kingbirds predominantly eat flying insects. These insects are relatively large compared to those eaten by other flycatcher species and include bees, robber flies, winged ants, and grasshoppers. In particular, one study showed the majority of their diet consists of insects from orders Coleoptera and Orthoptera. Western Kingbirds also consume fruits, berries, and arachnids. Fruits from buckthorn and sumac or poison ivy seeds are among their known food choices. These birds forage from open perches, which vary in height from low to high. When foraging in a riparian zone, they tend to perch higher than when they are in a desert landscape and they prefer flying insects less than 5 feet above ground. Western kingbirds spot prey from their perch and fly to catch it, usually returning to same perch afterward. They hover above their target and dip into the foliage or onto the ground to catch the prey. In one instance, they changed their foraging behavior to opportunistically feed on an abundance of tiger beetles on a pondside beach. (Blancher and Robertson, 1984; Blancher and Robertson, 1987; Ohlendorf, 1974; Schultz, 1983)
- Primary Diet
- carnivore
- Animal Foods
- insects
- terrestrial non-insect arthropods
- Plant Foods
- seeds, grains, and nuts
- fruit
Predation causes up to 50% of nest losses. Cooper's hawks and Chihuahuan ravens are major nest predators. In response, western kingbirds are more aggressive toward these species than others. Unspecified falcons and owls have also been mentioned as nest predators. Open riparian nest sites suffer losses to predation more often than desert or forested riparian nests. There is no mention in the literature of adult birds being victims of predation. (Blancher and Robertson, 1984; Blancher and Robertson, 1987)
- Known Predators
- Cooper's hawks (Accipeter cooperii)
- Chihuahuan ravens (Corvus cryptoleucus)
Ecosystem Roles
Western kingbirds may help naturally control insects, feeding largely on flies, grasshoppers, and winged ants. These birds may also carry a variety of internal and external parasites. (Blancher and Robertson, 1984; Gamble and Bergin, 2012)
- lice (Brueelia) (Class Insecta, Order Phthiraptera)
- lice (Menacanthus tyranni) (Class Insecta, Order Phthiraptera)
- lice (Philopterus) (Class Insecta, Order Phthiraptera)
- lice (Picicola foedus) (Class Insecta, Order Phthiraptera)
- mites (Ornithonyssus sylviarum) (Class Arachnida, Order Mesostigmata)
- trematodes (Plagiorchis noblei) (Class Trematoda, Order Plagiorchiida)
- trematodes (Brachylecithum transversum) (Class Trematoda, Order Plagiorchiida)
- trematodes (Paradistomum) (Class Trematoda, Order Plagiorchiida)
- cestodes (Passerilepis) (Class Neoophora, Order Cyclophyllidea)
- nematodes (Diplotriaena sylvinae) (Class Secernentea, Order Spirurida)
- nematodes (Acuaria) (Class Secernentea, Order Spirurida)
- acanthocephalans (Prosthorhynchus formosus) (Class Palaeacanthocephala, Order Polymorphida)
Economic Importance for Humans: Positive
Western kingbirds may benefit humans by controlling insect populations. (Blancher and Robertson, 1984)
Economic Importance for Humans: Negative
There are no known negative economic effects of this species.
Conservation Status
Western kingbirds are considered common and their population is stable and/or increasing. Currently, the IUCN states their population is increasing with a status of 'least concern'. (Birdlife International, 2012)
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- US Migratory Bird Act
- No special status
- US Federal List
- No special status
- No special status
- State of Michigan List
- No special status
Demetri Lafkas (author), Northern Michigan University, Alec Lindsay (editor), Northern Michigan University, Leila Siciliano Martina (editor), Animal Diversity Web Staff.
- Nearctic
living in the Nearctic biogeographic province, the northern part of the New World. This includes Greenland, the Canadian Arctic islands, and all of the North American as far south as the highlands of central Mexico.
- acoustic
uses sound to communicate
- agricultural
living in landscapes dominated by human agriculture.
- bilateral symmetry
having body symmetry such that the animal can be divided in one plane into two mirror-image halves. Animals with bilateral symmetry have dorsal and ventral sides, as well as anterior and posterior ends. Synapomorphy of the Bilateria.
- carnivore
an animal that mainly eats meat
- chemical
uses smells or other chemicals to communicate
- desert or dunes
in deserts low (less than 30 cm per year) and unpredictable rainfall results in landscapes dominated by plants and animals adapted to aridity. Vegetation is typically sparse, though spectacular blooms may occur following rain. Deserts can be cold or warm and daily temperates typically fluctuate. In dune areas vegetation is also sparse and conditions are dry. This is because sand does not hold water well so little is available to plants. In dunes near seas and oceans this is compounded by the influence of salt in the air and soil. Salt limits the ability of plants to take up water through their roots.
- diurnal
- active during the day, 2. lasting for one day.
- endothermic
animals that use metabolically generated heat to regulate body temperature independently of ambient temperature. Endothermy is a synapomorphy of the Mammalia, although it may have arisen in a (now extinct) synapsid ancestor; the fossil record does not distinguish these possibilities. Convergent in birds.
- female parental care
parental care is carried out by females
- insectivore
An animal that eats mainly insects or spiders.
- iteroparous
offspring are produced in more than one group (litters, clutches, etc.) and across multiple seasons (or other periods hospitable to reproduction). Iteroparous animals must, by definition, survive over multiple seasons (or periodic condition changes).
- male parental care
parental care is carried out by males
- migratory
makes seasonal movements between breeding and wintering grounds
- monogamous
Having one mate at a time.
- motile
having the capacity to move from one place to another.
- native range
the area in which the animal is naturally found, the region in which it is endemic.
- oviparous
reproduction in which eggs are released by the female; development of offspring occurs outside the mother's body.
- scrub forest
scrub forests develop in areas that experience dry seasons.
- seasonal breeding
breeding is confined to a particular season
- sexual
reproduction that includes combining the genetic contribution of two individuals, a male and a female
- tactile
uses touch to communicate
- temperate
that region of the Earth between 23.5 degrees North and 60 degrees North (between the Tropic of Cancer and the Arctic Circle) and between 23.5 degrees South and 60 degrees South (between the Tropic of Capricorn and the Antarctic Circle).
- terrestrial
Living on the ground.
- tropical savanna and grassland
A terrestrial biome. Savannas are grasslands with scattered individual trees that do not form a closed canopy. Extensive savannas are found in parts of subtropical and tropical Africa and South America, and in Australia.
- savanna
A grassland with scattered trees or scattered clumps of trees, a type of community intermediate between grassland and forest. See also Tropical savanna and grassland biome.
- temperate grassland
A terrestrial biome found in temperate latitudes (>23.5° N or S latitude). Vegetation is made up mostly of grasses, the height and species diversity of which depend largely on the amount of moisture available. Fire and grazing are important in the long-term maintenance of grasslands.
- urban
living in cities and large towns, landscapes dominated by human structures and activity.
- visual
uses sight to communicate
Alsop, F. 2001. Birds of North America: Life Histories of More Than 930 Species. New York, NY: DK.
Barry, J., L. Butler, V. Rohwer, S. Rohwer. 2009. Documenting Molt-Migration in Western Kingbird (Tyrannus verticalis) Using Two Measures of Collecting Effort. The Auk, 126/2: 260-267.
Bergin, T. 1992. Habitat Selection by the Western Kingbird in Western Nebraska: A Hierarchical Analysis. The Condor, 94/4: 903-911.
Birdlife International, 2012. "Tyrannus verticalis" (On-line). IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. Accessed April 14, 2013 at http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/22700497/0.
Blancher, P., R. Robertson. 1987. Effect of Food Supply on the Breeding Biology of Western Kingbirds. Ecology, 68/3: 723-732.
Blancher, P., R. Robertson. 1984. Resource Use by Sympatric Kingbirds. The Condor, 86/3: 305-313.
Gamble, L., T. Bergin. 2012. "Western kingbird (Tyrannus verticalis)" (On-line). The Birds of North America Online. Accessed December 18, 2013 at http://bna.birds.cornell.edu.proxy.lib.umich.edu/bna/species/227/articles/conservation.
Hespenheide, H. 1964. Competition and the Genus Tyrannus. The Wilson Bulletin, 76/3: 265-281.
Johnston, D. 1971. Niche Relationships among Some Deciduous Forest Flycatchers. The Auk, 88/4: 796-804.
MacKenzie, D., S. Sealy. 1981. Nest Site Selection in Eastern and Western Kingbirds: A Multivariate Approach. The Condor, 83/4: 310-321.
Murphy, M. 1988. Comparative Reproductive Biology of Kingbirds (Tyrannus SPP,) in Eastern Kansas. The Wilson Bulletin, 100/3: 357-376.
Ohlendorf, H. 1974. Competitive Relationships among Kingbirds (Tyrannus) in Trans-Pecos Texas. The Wilson Bulletin, 86/4: 357-373.
Schultz, T. 1983. Opportunistic Foraging of Western Kingbirds on Aggregations of Tiger Beetles. The Auk, 100/2: 496-497.
Sibley, D. 2000. The Sibley Guide to Birds. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
Vuilleumier, F. 2011. American Museum of Natural History: Birds of North America Western Region. New York: DK Publishing.


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Late yesterday, MSNBC host Toure issued an apology on Twitter after saying surviving the Holocaust was a result of the "power of whiteness." Here is his original tweet.
The power of whiteness: RT @hope_and_chains: My family survived a concentration camp, came to the US w/ nothing, LEGALLY, and made it work.
— Touré (@Toure) May 23, 2014
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Or, a movie where half his face is obscured for the entire time turned off some people that might have come to actually see Karl Urban and not just a helmet.
Of course, the other side of the coin, seventeen years after the fact and fans are still bitching that Stallone took the helmet off. Hell, the helmet is such a focal point, that practically everything I've seen discussing the movie, stuff on the internet, magazines, on TV all go out of their way to point out that Urban keeps the helmet on.
And no offense to Karl Urban, like I said in my review post he owns the role of Dredd and his portrayal of Dr. McCoy is one of Trek XI's few highlights, but is he really famous enough that enough people saying "I won't see this movie because he keeps his helmet on and we never see his face" would make a serious enough dent in the ticket sales?
I seriously doubt Urban keeping the helmet on had ANY effect on the box office. I'm sure some people might complain, but those people would be morons and morons should not be pandered to.
And for the record, what was bad about the Stallone movie also had little to do with the helmet staying on or coming off. However, the fact that it *did* come off was just a symptom of the greater problem, which was a fundamental inability or unwillingness to understand the source material, coupled with a desire to pander to as large a demographic as possible by turning Dredd into a quasi-superhero action star. Honestly, him kissing Hershey was a much greater betrayal of the character than the helmet thing.
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Oh how cute! My little Matthew squeals all the time. He did it in the middle of the night once. I think it's so adorable there's no way I'm going to discourage it. Of course, my kids are loud sometimes but I've never had a squealer and I love it. I love to kiss his cheeks just so he will and so does my 4 year old. I think that Matt's squealing is helping my 4 year old to "connect" and bond wth him so I look at as a good thing. Anyway, my vote is to enjoy it when she's happy and ignore it when she's mad and she'll maybe stop when she's mad. I have no idea if it's going to be a problem in the future for her. ?
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might be the wrong forum... sorry. Ok so I used to paint in photoshop by having opacity set to pen pressure.. Its was easy to create smooth value transitions because it was just like a pencil. Since I figured this was not helping me learn to paint at all.. since paint doesnt work that way.. I started setting size to pen pressure instead. I am pulling my hair out right now because I cannot for the life of me control my values. No matter what I do everything looks like a hard edge.. its awful. Should I have opacity at 100%? lower?. I feel like a total idiot.. and im encountering problems that I dont while oil painting. could it be the hard brush? Or maybe I just need to work at it more and get better? I cant help but think somethings wrong... because although I suck at painting,.. I can usually do better than this nonsense.
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Well the values and edge hardness aren't affected by changing size to pen pressure. Just make sure you have Opacity set to pen pressure. There are several shortcuts to changing edge hardness, look them up depending on what version photoshop you have. If you're going for a painterly look though, you're not going to generally want blurry brushes. Try out different brushes, download some from the Photoshop forum on CA. Also, I recomend turning your flow setting todown to as low as 50%, and setting it to pen pressure.
July 17th, 2009 #3
Its a new tool it has its way of working. It's not paint although similar principles apply.
I don't normally use %100 unless I'm putting in a flat color. If I'm painting with it I vary it up between 10 and 40%, a little less a little more depending on situation.
Some people like to let the Ps control the pressure and paint in layers by turning off the brushes dynamic properties, Others like to use the pressure sensetivity, both have their uses.
.. I always used the soft airbrush with 100%... becasue i was an idiot and didnt know better I dont do that anymore.
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Liffey - yep I know that.. but you see I wanted to have more of a traditional painting feel.. and with paint.. pressing lighter doesnt make your mark more or less opaque.. it just changes size. Thats why I wanted to use photoshop this way and set pen pressure to just size. Maybe I shouldnt be?
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I try to adjust my opacity manually as I need to, in order to replicate the way I've learned to use oil paints. The less opaque, the more it will function like thin paint with medium. The more opaque, the thicker the paint.
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I got to know PS brushes very well over the last year, I changed the settings so many times its ridiculous... what I have now is pretty time tested and I'm rather pleased.
what I do is:
All my brushes are set to 100% opacity and flow [except in extreme cases] (like the mighty Jason Chan)
1.I have a brush for sketching - size+flow (always 100% hardness)
I use these 3 basic brushes for painting:
2.I have a brush for blocking in stuff/sharpen - only flow
3.a brush for blending - flow+opacity
4.a brush for fine blending/light strokes/if I need to rush the blending - opacity+flow+airbrush
Usually I go 1-2-3-4 on my fully polished pieces
1-2-3 if I do unpolished pieces/ things in which the line art is a part of the finished piece
2-3-4 for value concepts/ painting from life or photos
1-2-4 for speed
Yet what I've found is that blending is also highly dependent on hardness, so sometimes I barely change brushes and instead just change the hardness, since technically, I can do the entire piece (sketch to polish) with brush 3 or brush 4 (It will just take more time).
I have 9% on spacing for all brushes... I wish I could have less but my comp doesn't have the processing power.
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I'm going to go with what others have said-- digital paint does not act like real paint at all, so I wouldn't worry so much about trying to emulate it exactly. If you had a system that worked when pressure=opacity, just use that. Or get Painter, which will mimic real media far better than Photoshop ever will.
I personally paint with a hard-edged brush with pressure=size. Although I will often go in with a soft pressure=opacity brush first and get my basic colors down. It's all about what works for you, though. While experimenting can be fun, if something is just not working for you, don't freak out, just do what does.
July 18th, 2009 #9
ArtRage is the best tool for simulating the behaviour of oils, way ahead of Painter right now. Clearly no digital tool can simulate a medium exactly, how could it possibly, but if you want a very believable digital alternative, without any frills, you need to go with AR. AR doesn't use opacity because that doesn't exist in actual oil painting, instead it's based around brush loading and addition of thinners.
Photoshop doesn't even try to simulate natural media so if that's what you want to do, simply don't use it.
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1. Combine the broth and turkey in a 4-quart saucepan, cover, and bring to a simmer over medium heat. Meanwhile, peel the carrots and cut them into 1/4-inch rounds; add them to the soup. Trim 1/4 inch off the ends of the stems, then wipe the mushrooms clean with a damp paper towel and cut them into 1/4-inch-thick slices. Add them to the soup as well. When the broth reaches a simmer, add the water and 1 teaspoon salt. Cover the saucepan and cook over low heat until the carrots are tender, about 15 minutes.
2. Five minutes before the soup is done, prepare the dumpling dough: Combine the flour, baking powder, and 1/4 teaspoon salt in a small bowl. Make a well in the middle of the flour mixture and add the egg. Using a fork to work a little bit in at a time, blend the flour into the egg until you have formed a stiff but sticky dough. If the dough is too hard to work, drizzle in a tablespoonful or so of the simmering broth.
3. When the carrots and mushrooms are tender, season the soup to taste with salt and pepper. By teaspoonfuls (no larger—they will swell up to 1 1/2 inches in diameter), drop the dumpling dough into the boiling soup and cook over medium heat, uncovered, until they take shape and float to the surface, about 1 minute.
4. Cover the pan and cook gently over medium heat for 10 minutes, or until the dumplings are swollen, airy, and cooked through. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Remove the soup from the heat and add the dill. Serve immediately.


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