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Heterogram (from [Greek] heteros, meaning "different", + -gram, meaning "written") is a term used mostly in the study of ancient texts (philology), referring to a special kind of a logogram consisting of the written representation of a word in a foreign language. In most cases, the two languages share the same script. However, while the word in the foreign language may be written either phonetically (representing the sounds of the foreign language) or logographically, in the borrowing language it is necessarily a logograph, since there is no relationship between the symbols used and the pronunciation of the word in the borrowing language.
Heterograms are frequent in cuneiform scripts, such as the writing of Akkadian, which uses Sumerian heterograms. In Middle Iranian scripts derived from the Aramaic scripts (such as the Pahlavi scripts), all logograms are heterograms coming from Aramaic. Sometimes such heterograms are referred to by terms identifying the source language such as "Sumerograms" or "Aramaeograms".
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India's capital markets regulator said foreign institutions would be permitted to reinvest an amount equivalent to half their debt holding in the previous year without having to bid for fresh debt limits.
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India may allow cash-rich state-run companies to invest in the short-term debt of government and private companies, to enable them to earn higher returns on surplus funds, a senior finance ministry official said.
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Yes Bank, India's fourth-largest private-sector lender by assets, said it has signed an agreement with Japan's Shinsei Bank to cooperate on various debt and treasury operations as well as on information-sharing and business development.
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Troubles are mounting for Indian companies that aggressively borrowed abroad some years ago by issuing so-called foreign currency convertible bonds.
This calendar year, 48 Indian companies have $5 billion worth of such foreign bonds coming due for repayment. But as many as half of these companies will likely have to restructure debt to avoid defaulting, according to a report from ratings firm Standard & Poor's.
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These are fluffy soft matzah balls.
- Prep Time : 5 min
- Cook Time : 30 min
- Ready Time : 35 min
- 1/3 cup Olive Oil
- 1/2 cup Cold water or Cold Seltzer
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1 cup matzah meal
Mix ingredients in order listed until well blended.
Cover bowl, and refrigerate for an hour.
Moisten hands and form the mixture into balls. I make them small, but size is up to you.
Add balls to a pot of salted boiling water, and then simmer, covered, for 30 minutes to an hour.
(Alternatively you can boil them up in your chicken soup!)
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The Generated Geometry sample program uses two textures, sky.bmp:
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Both started out as photographs taken near Paradise on the south side of Mount Rainier. Here are the originals:
To use these as textures, I needed the sky to tile seamlessly from left to right, and the rocks to tile in all directions. There are various tools that attempt to automatically tile an image, but for this sample I did it the manual way.
I'm not actually all that happy with the sky texture. I love the photo, but even with quite a wide angle this is still only capturing maybe a 90° field of view, so it gets badly stretched when I wrap it all the way around a 360° skydome (this is why the trees look so implausibly big in the sample). It would have been better to take several photos facing different directions, then collage them together to form a wider image.
Notice how as well as making the sky tile from left to right, I also modified the top and bottom so they fade out to constant gray and black colors. That is necessary because the skydome mesh will fold the texture into a single point at the top and bottom of the cylinder. This would normally cause an ugly discontinuity at the north and south poles, but by making the texture a flat color at those locations, the problem can be hidden.
But enough of that. How does one go about making a texture tile?
First off, you need a decent paint program. I'm a long time Photoshop user, but if you want something free, Paint.NET or the Gimp are both good.
Next, you need to clean up the source image. Mine had a plant growing in the middle of it, which I didn't want in my texture. I used the clone stamp tool with a nice big brush to select an area of good looking rocks and paint them over the unwanted plant. I started with this:
and cleaned it up to produce this:
Now resize the canvas to 200%, leaving the original image in the top left corner:
Clone the image three times, filling the canvas with four identical copies:
As expected, my image does not yet tile, so the seams are very obvious. Again using the clone stamp tool, I selected decent looking areas and painted them over both the horizontal and vertical seams:
Now resize the canvas back down to the original dimensions (50% of the current size), preserving the middle area of the image:
I am left with this final texture:
If all has gone well, this should now tile perfectly. I can check that by repeating the process of increasing the canvas size to 200% and making three new clones to fill the extra space:
Yay! That will do nicely.
You may sometimes find the seams are still visible at the end of this process. Don't worry if that happens, just repeat the same steps again: paint over the objectionable bits, crop out the middle portion of the image as you shrink the canvas to half size, then tile four copies of it back onto a double size canvas to check the new result. If I remember right I actually repeated this three times while preparing the version in the sample.
Note that this kind of editing works best at as high a resolution as possible. I set my camera to the maximum resolution it supports, and only scale down to final game resolution after all my editing is complete. That way I can be fast and sloppy, but still get a nicely antialiased result.
You should avoid using compressed formats like JPG during the editing process. Most digital cameras will save JPG images, and that's ok, but you should convert these to a lossless format like BMP, PNG, or (my personal favorite) TGA before you start to edit them.
One quick way to improve the sky texture would be to double it's width with a mirrored copy. Then instead of needing to make it tile (which it would already if it's mirrored) you could a little time breaking some the symmetry, removing the extra sun, etc.
Instead of resizing and duplicating the image to make it tile a quick way is to use the Gimp's Filters->Map->Displace tool, which shifts and wraps the image. Photoshop has something similar too.
I liked the Generated Geometry sample- all of these small focused samples are quick to understand and really great starting points for tinkering with.
For anyone using Gimp, you can simply open the file, and select Filters->Map->Make Seamless
The automation can create some artifacts that you might not like (random bright spots that would make your use of tiling painfully obvious), so you'll still need to do a little touch up work, and you'll want to test it. But it is an alternative, especially for those for whom the Clone Stamp tool seems to be wizardry.


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Welch: Senior citizen meals need some pizazz
Unofficially, here's the news:
The lunches aren't as tasty as they used to be at senior citizens' centers. Blame the federal government.
If I were writing a real news story, I'd have to check the facts. On both counts, I'm not. Instead, I'm just repeating what I heard last week from people who should know best — the seniors. I ate lunch with them. What am I saying? I got the over-60 discount myself. The meal — so-called chicken and dumplings, coleslaw, potato salad, whole wheat rolls and cream-less ambrosia — cost me just $3. I wasn't about to complain. But it's true. Things were a bit on the wholesome side and a little short on fat. Maybe short on salt too. I didn't see any cobbler or chocolate cake or light bread. And everyone, including the administrator, apologized to me about the new healthy fare, recalling days gone by when the meals used to be good. I'm not sure the government is to blame for the situation, but it makes sense. I should have delved deeper, but I was delving into the pseudo dumplings.
At least the seniors still have each other. Having something to complain about is just the icing on the cake. Oops. Wrong metaphor.
Meanwhile, I'm guessing government efforts to curb childhood obesity have gone overboard to include senior lunches. Not knowing the facts, I could be wrong. Call it a theory.
Well, right there on television was Michelle Obama. She was talking about — take a guess — school lunches!
She makes a point. If kids in America are getting fatter by the day and it's because they're eating too much sugar and fat and not enough fruits and veggies, then the government shouldn't be contributing to the problem by supporting unhealthy school lunches. Bring on the healthy fare. Kids don't vote anyway.
Ah, but seniors do.
If the government is behind the changes for seniors as well as kids, maybe it's not too late for a Republican candidate to add a platform plank and liven up the campaign scene by promising to get fat and sugar back into lunch programs for senior citizens everywhere. As a last-minute ploy, a candidate might surge ahead on that promise in senior-heavy Florida.
Think about it. For many schoolchildren, lunch is the main meal of the day. The same goes for many older folks. Lunch is their time to fellowship with friends over good tasty food — not over something designed to keep them from getting fat or having a heart attack. Why not fried chicken for lunch? Plus gravy. That's the kind of meal they can enjoy with their peers and then counteract, when they're home alone, with a supper of whole-grain cereal and low-fat milk. Or even skim.
One last thing to remember is that healthy food is more expensive. Our children and grandchildren are worth it, of course. But the government — that's us — could save some money by supporting unhealthy meals for senior citizens. Then everybody could die happy.
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Home energy management continues to hit roadblocks, study confirms
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By Jesse Berst
A new study from Pike Research confirms that the home energy management sector continues to struggle. We agree with all the hurdles catalogued by Pike (see page 2). We also note that companies in the space are beginning to struggle. Several have been seeking additional venture capital in vain; others have been forced to accept capital at unfavorable terms; and a few are shopping themselves around.
We think companies that are tied to home energy management consoles are most at risk. Most homeowners would prefer to see energy information on their smart phones, computers or TVs and don't want a new, single-purpose device cluttering their counters.
So what is working? Our sources say the small- to mid-size commercial space is rife with opportunity. Big industrial sites and big high-rises already have energy management systems and tie-ins to utility programs.
But many smaller commercial properties are still not fully on board. And many utilities (correctly) believe that it will be far easier to convince commercial property owners to play along than to convince residential customers to change their energy behavior.
But despite the stall, Pike forecasts that a combination of drivers will grow global revenue from all home energy management segments to more than $2 billion by 2020, compared to a 2011 base of $93 million.
Jesse Berst is the founder and chief analyst of Smart Grid News.com, the industry's oldest and largest smart grid site. A frequent keynoter at industry events in the U.S. and abroad, he also serves on advisory committees for Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the Institute for Electric Efficiency. He often provides strategic consulting to large corporations and venture-backed startups. He is a member of the advisory boards of GridGlo and Calico Energy Services.
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The home energy management (HEM) market continues to struggle for more traction. By now, with major deployments of smart grid infrastructure in place, the expectation had been that a smarter grid would be enabling the wider use of new tools and incentives for consumers to use energy more efficiently. People would save money, and utilities would benefit from lower overall consumption and not having to spend capital so quickly on new power generating plants.
The HEM market has been stuck in near neutral, though, with numerous trials and only a few cases of industry-led deployments or significant consumer uptake. That view is starting to change a bit. Over the coming years, a continued desire among consumers to reduce bills, regulatory mandates for greater efficiency, wider use of variable pricing schemes, and a strong "green" sentiment will combine to help drive adoption forward. These market forces, however, will be countered by indifference to the promised potential savings, a resistance to paying extra for HEM hardware, unsettled standards for interoperability, a crowded vendor space, and lukewarm support by some utilities. Nonetheless, the driving forces will spur some gains, particularly where mandates have the most teeth.
This Pike Research report examines global and regional home energy management trends as they play out along a continuum of five segments: paper bills, web portals, standalone systems, in-home displays, and integrated HAN/HEM systems. The study also explores the drivers and inhibitors shaping the market, plus major technology issues. It provides market forecasts through 2020, with breakdowns by these five segments and by world regions. Key vendor profiles, analysis of new players, and case studies are included as well. In addition to the supply-side analysis, results from a Pike Research consumer survey focus on the demand side of HEM as well, making for a complete market overview.
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I agree. I've never worried about him dying or something. That's absurd. I also don't like the assumption that if he died the worst part about it would be the fact that the series won't be finished as opposed to how sad it would be that a person, y'know, died.
Very noble of you... given that there are people dying on this planet every second do you cry for all of them too?
It certainly sucks when people die but I can't bring myself to wallow in pity for all of them because dying is the inevitable sequel to living.
I don't know GRRM, all I know is his work. So yes, from my point of view the biggest impact on me would be his work being unfinished.
And FYI, his mortality is on his mind as well, he's given the show runners broad stroke info on how the story plays out in case he were to die.
Oh, someone is getting defensive.
I'm not saying you have to cry for him but I am saying the fact that a man who is much loved by his fans and colleagues dying is much sadder than the fact that ASoIaF wouldn't be finished. But, hey, that's just me with my priorities straight. I care about people before fandom.
I am well aware that he gave the broad strokes to D&D but that was also because they need to know them so they know what to omit and what not to omit when making the show. And for that matter, Martin has repeatedly stated he finds it eerie that people are talking about and predicting his death. I can't blame him.
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With the NBA trade deadline about six weeks away, Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban has announced that team is ready to make a deal. "We're letting everybody know that the 'Bank of Cuban' is open. If it's the right deal, we don't mind taking back money. But we're not going to do a trade just to do a trade. It's got to be worthwhile." The Mavericks are having a pretty subpar season despite the play of OJ Mayo and Vince Carter. The Mavs currently have 4 expiring contracts in Chris Kaman, Dahntay Jones, Elton Brand, Dominique Jones. They're also holding the option on restricted free agents Darren Collison and Roddy Beaubois and OJ Mayo has a player option. The Mavs are currently $10 million under the luxury tax limit. Cuban is known for his savvy business acumen and passion for his Mavs, we know from his past track record he's not afraid to spend to make things happen. Who do you think would be a good team for the Mavs to make a trade with?
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The weather channel made a unilateral decision this season to start naming winter storms.: The large snowstorms called Nemo and Plato are recent examples of this.: Their argument is that this is a better way to communicate about an upcoming storm and track the destruction, such as has been used for hurricanes for decades.: Some may think that this is silly and unnecessary.: If this helps communicate the impending doom and devastation of a Hurricane or Winter Storm then what is the harm?
The news media should track the destruction from "Tax Storm Barack", much like they would a hurricane.: The tax increase primarily was directed at the wealthy, such as business owners.: These wealthy are similar to the people who live closest to the coast in a hurricane, in that, they are only the first hit by the storm.: Coverage of the effects could be interviews with unemployed people who remained unemployed, since businesses never hired them after the tax increase.: Maybe they could visit yacht manufacturers and talk about the reduction in orders, or turn cameras on a Mercedes showroom where a salesman is asked about his prospects of making his quota this month.: Maybe there is a pro golfer who has laid-off a secretary who can be interviewed.: There should be a large on-screen banner that is labeled "Tax Storm Barack Devastation!".: They would also have to do follow-ups every month, because the damage keeps hitting as long as the tax increase is in place.
The President wants to increase taxes to avoid the March 1st: sequester, so the media needs to start warning about the upcoming storm.: This naming idea needs to have a mechanism to warn about the impending doom.: Along the lines of naming a Tropical Depression, perhaps Tax Depression could be used.: This could also act as a warning that an actual Depression could ensue if the warnings are not heeded.: Since we need to use a different name for each Tax Storm, why not use Harry (for the Senate majority leader) for this one.: Stories could start to be written now about "Tax Depression Harry", so the citizens could be mobilized to ward off the storm.: If the Republicans fail to hold the line, it will naturally turn into "Tax Storm Harry".: Names should be simple enough to line up based on seniority in the Democratic leadership, so Nancy could be next.: Maybe there could be some honorary titles like Al or Bill, so older Democrats don't miss out on the dishonor.: Democrats never run out of tax increase ideas, so there will be plenty of naming of Depressions and Storms opportunities to go around.
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Boy Behaviour
You've probably gone to extreme lengths before to try to impress someone, which might've involved a bit of showing off!
But why do we do that? Well, scientists have been on a mission to find out why young people, particularly boys, are big risk- takers.
They put skateboarders to the test to see if behaviour changes around pretty girls. Here's Tash.
NATASHA THIELE, REPORTER: These skateboarders think they're involved in a test to find out what makes a good skater, but that's not the case!
They're actually part of an experiment to see if guys are more likely to show-off in front of girls.
And the girl for this experiment is the researcher...Catherine.
She's videoing the boys and chatting to them as they skate.
Catherine wants to see if they are more likely to show off by performing risky tricks when the researcher is female, instead of male.
Each time, the skaters pushed their tricks to the limits and sometimes came to a painful end.
They then got a male researcher to take over filming to see if it made a difference.
Turns out, the skateboarders didn't take as many risks.
Like this guy, who kicked the board away because the trick was too hard.
DR RICHARD RONAY, SCIENTIST AND DR JONICA NEWBY (CATALYST REPORTER): He's on top of the board, the board's positioned under his feet. Yeah. Until, now he kicks it. Okay, so between two frames a decision got made, decision to abort? Now the board's kicked out.
The guys were also tested for testosterone. That's a hormone found in men and women, but there are higher levels of it in guys.
They wanted to see if the urge to show off actually had a scientific reason behind it. Results later!
Researchers reckon it all goes back to the animal kingdom, like when male animals compete with other males to attract females.
And they do some pretty crazy stuff to get attention!
Even squid send messages to each other like you can see here.
The one on the left is the guy and see how one side of him is brown, well that's what happens when they're near females!
And scientists think it's all about taking risks.
In our experiment, the researchers eventually told the guys the real reason behind the test.
And it was time to reveal the results.
They found the guys had more confidence when a girl was around and took 43 per cent more risks than with the male researcher!
And here's the science bit, the testosterone sample was 39 per cent higher when the tricks were done in front of Catherine.
Scientists say the risk taking function has to do with this part of the male brain.
It takes care of emotions and decision making.
PROF. BILL VON HIPPEL, SCIENTIST: There's evidence that it gets activated by the presence of attractive women. What that suggests to me is that maybe evolution put a short circuit in there.
It's almost as if that part of the brain, which would usually say 'that's a bad idea', changes when a girl is around.
So maybe we're more like animals than what we think and showing off is part of human nature!
Extra Info reported on 03/08/2010 in episode 20
- → Skating on the edge: Why are young men such reckless risk-takers?: ABC Catalyst
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Feathershaft :
01 Sep 2010 9:57:14pm
Yeah, good on ya, BTN. This is a LOL funny story! It's great how animals are mentioned in the story-humans, in fact, have almost all of the same behaviours as animals! But what if a girl shows off more in front of another girl?
yssischmack :
23 Aug 2010 8:51:50am
its obviously true, i mean boys always show off, even in front of each other! its kind of funny though, cos they do really silly things sometimes
big a249 :
21 Aug 2010 1:01:14pm
boys a cool even girls try to impress boys like justin beiber and other celebreties
Cool Kid :
17 Aug 2010 7:12:07pm
Boys show off in front girls but girls also show off in front of girls also
Mr ME :
13 Aug 2010 12:29:18pm
amy 2468 :
12 Aug 2010 2:53:08pm
I think thay feal better around girls to.
kobi howarth :
11 Aug 2010 10:14:06am
i want ot know why girls dont show off as much as boys because i do the same
Nicholas Mckenzie :
11 Aug 2010 10:13:57am
Yeah,if science says it is true,then it will be true,because science never lies.I Have seen it first hand at a skate park too. Boys can do some pretty weird stuff just to show off to a girl and i'm a boy!.I sometimes wonder if half of the skating accidents are caused because a boy was showing off to a girl,how pathetic!. I would never do that because i9 don't skate,rarely scoot and i would not have enough guts to go show off to a girl.
matthew mcdonald :
11 Aug 2010 10:13:30am
boys will be boys and when threr is a pretty girl around they will show alot what ever there hobbie is.
Stesha Hipwell :
11 Aug 2010 10:08:29am
Boys shouldn't show off just because girls are around
the awesomest one :
10 Aug 2010 2:56:35pm
i find it entertaining actually because it seems true but i never thought someone could get scientific info bout it.
PaigeDivineyStack :
10 Aug 2010 12:34:15pm
so true!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
big a249 :
21 Aug 2010 1:03:49pm
yeah right
jb luvver :
09 Aug 2010 5:42:07pm
i agree boys are total show offs
Alotaibi,Khaled :
08 Aug 2010 7:47:34pm
Guys should take cake when they take risk to play Skateboarders because it is not safety games. Indeed, family should take own their responsibility to raise their kids in the safe way
crystal :
08 Aug 2010 4:57:41pm
i don't really skate but i am a show off with my tom-boy look. :D then comes when everyone thinks i'm a boy. LOL!!!
alexa09 :
07 Aug 2010 3:03:23pm
Boyz does show off 2 girlz, they do that a lot especially in public where, i think, most girlz go.It won't be a surprize if the girlz does it 2.
Britz :
09 Aug 2010 12:13:20pm
so do i plus i think its hilarious!!!! :p
britni metuariki :
06 Aug 2010 6:46:56pm
i think guys do that alot to impress a girl!!!
hazza125 :
06 Aug 2010 9:57:32am
there was no point in the test being scienctist they should know what would happen with the girl around.
Someone :
09 Aug 2010 4:42:49pm
No they probs thought it would end up like that but really they wouldnt know 100% so they didnt know really
05 Aug 2010 6:30:03pm
he dudes im a boy wazzup the is totally bogus
Ez :
05 Aug 2010 5:55:27pm
You guys say you show off because ur better well thats soo not true cause girls will always be better. lol.
Danni :
09 Aug 2010 12:24:13pm
That's so true girls are way better then boys. GO GIRLS!!!!
cookiesn cream :
05 Aug 2010 5:50:44pm
i think its hilarious how the boys are trying to deffend them selves but they only come up lame with excuses
Tara :
05 Aug 2010 10:10:11am
Just wondering if girls show off in front of guys. I know I never have.
Alessia.Medina :
04 Aug 2010 6:49:44pm
i think it kind of silly just to do this test on boys because girls do it too. and more that you think
04 Aug 2010 6:27:52pm
Boys always show off but I'm not saying girls don't I'm a girl and i have shown off in front of a boy before. I bet everyone in the world has or will show off. It doesn't have to be in front of a boy it can be any time.
k1ck :
04 Aug 2010 2:09:56pm
i think its not right because im male
ladiesman108 :
06 Aug 2010 10:15:01am
well i think you might tried it once or twice
Dazza :
04 Aug 2010 2:04:23pm
I think that it is not proven because not all boys do it.
im 2 kool :
05 Aug 2010 9:49:00pm
well i think it is true u see boys take risks when a pretty girl near them . by the way boys does that 2 only get girlz attention :)
dman :
04 Aug 2010 2:04:20pm
we only show off in front of girls because they think there so good so we show them were better
Example1 :
06 Aug 2010 1:35:16pm
yer like thats true
sauceyisdabomb Joel :
04 Aug 2010 2:04:13pm
that dosent prove anything and why cant u do the same quiz on girls
04 Aug 2010 2:04:13pm
I think it could be true and why can't they do it on girls with dancing or some other sport
bellabanjo :
04 Aug 2010 2:02:41pm
i don'tthink they should just say it's scientifically proven if they haven't done it lots of times on lots of people because there are lots of people who would do different things in front of girls
Danni :
05 Aug 2010 11:47:35am
That is true!
And i'm a girl
chillilily :
05 Aug 2010 5:19:49pm
i think its hilarious how all the boys are trying to defend themselves!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
kk123 :
04 Aug 2010 2:01:53pm
I think the story was very typical because boys will be boys!!
ursybar :
04 Aug 2010 4:51:42pm
true i think it rally helps thourgh
a boy that cant really ride a scooter rode down a huge hill and broke hs arm
Example1 :
04 Aug 2010 5:23:29pm
thats right lol :) :)
jim :
08 Aug 2010 4:14:47pm
i agree
Danni :
09 Aug 2010 12:10:36pm
Yeah i know that boys will be boys and they'll do anything to impress the girls
04 Aug 2010 2:00:08pm
show us the proof its not that we are trying to show off its that we are trying to show them that we are better than them
04 Aug 2010 11:59:14am
Bahahahahaha That's Hilarious :)
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"They are faced with really difficult decisions, between money that they're able on their low income or fixed income, to put toward medical expenses or rent," said Seneor. "A cut like this is going to make those decisions a lot more difficult."
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"I can't afford child care most of the time, and then transportation. It's been different things here and there," Escobar said. "Right now I really want to work, and I've gotten three job offers, but I don't know what I'm going to do about child care."
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The Red Sox have a hole or two in their outfield roster and it appears that they are close to filling one. While it was thought that the Sox had their sights set on re-signing Cody Ross after his 2012 campaign in Boston, it now appears that general manager Ben Cherington and Co. are also focusing on free agent outfielder Johnny Gomes. In fact, the Sox and Gomes are "closing in" on a two-year deal, according to the Boston Herald's Scott Lauber. While that could come as a bit of a surprise to many Sox fans who expected to see Ross back in right field at Fenway next season, Cherington has always been aware of the possibility that Ross could get a better offer somewhere else. Gomes — who, like Ross, is regarded as a good clubhouse guy – turns 32 on Thursday, and is coming off a season with the A's in which he hit .262 with 18 home runs and 47 RBIs. Ross will also be 32 at the start of next season, and is coming off a 2012 campaign where he bashed 22 homers and drove in 81 runs while hitting .267 for the Sox.
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In a paper published in the November 27th issue of PLoS Genetics, a research team led by scientists at The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) report the determination and analysis of the complete genome sequence of this organism. Isolated from a hot spring on the Russian volcanic island of Kunashir, this microbe lives almost entirely on carbon monoxide. While consuming this normally poisonous gas, the microbe mixes it with water, producing hydrogen gas as waste.
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The question is, could they have made better effects by using more PS2.0 instead of using PS1.x.
In benchmark, which has an objective to test DX9 performance, this is not relevant. If it were a game, it of course would be crazy to use PS2 shaders too often.
The only problem with simple PS2.0 shaders in benchmarks is that they can easily be replaced by PS1.X shaders in the drivers, thus falsily improving performance. If I remember right, there once was a certain benchmark - wait it's name was 3dsomething03 or something like that - where the benchmark makers used too simple PS2 shaders that could have been replaced by a dishonest vendor.
But I bet it isn't easy to find a situation where you really
PS2 shaders. You all have seen the HL2 benchmark screenshots, and there is a minimal difference between DX9 and DX8 - which tells us that DX8 shaders are at least almost as good as DX9. If I've understood right, the only effect that can't be done properly with DX8 in HL2 is the high dynamic range light effects, because like the name says, there needs to be high range of intensity values in the shader code, which only DX9 FP numbers can offer.
I bet this is why things are generally more shiny and the water is 'brighter' in DX9 effects, there is more dynamic range available. But in the HL2 screenshot the DX8 actually looked better to me, the water was too shiny in DX9. In AquaMark3 the scenery with Radeons looked better and it had more dynamic range judging by the screenshots, IMHO, so mebbe the real DX9 is good for something after all.
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Logging Ash to Save Hemlocks
By Matt Miller, senior science writer
This might seem a tough thing for a forest conservationist to admit: there are times when an invasive forest pest can't be stopped.
There are times when you know it's coming, and you can't do anything about it. It will arrive in the forest, and trees will die.
They will die en masse.
It might seem a hopeless situation, to watch helplessly while the trees you're trying to protect are dying.
But what if you could sell those trees for lumber before the pest arrived, and use the proceeds to save other trees?
After all, the trees are doomed anyhow, so this is one positive thing that could be done to benefit the forest.
That is the decision made at the Conservancy's Woodbourne Forest Preserve in the case of the emerald ash borer. The ash borer was coming and the ash trees couldn't be saved. Some trees were timbered to fund the protection of eastern hemlocks (the subject of yesterday's blog).
It's a tough choice made tougher by this important fact: one of the main reasons Woodbourne Preserve was established was to prohibit any logging on the property. When Francis Cope donated the preserve to the Conservancy in 1954, he envisioned a place that would be protected from chainsaws and logging trucks, forever.
But forever does not take into account the wave of invasive forest pests hitting North American forests. It does not account for the devastation wrought by the emerald ash borer.
Welcome to forest management, 2014 edition. Tough choices need to be made if forests are to be conserved. How do conservation scientists and foresters make these decisions? The case of Woodbourne offers a compelling example.
"The Closest Thing to Chestnut Blight"
With increasing global trade comes increasing global pests. The recent report Fading Forests (co-authored by the Conservancy's Faith Campbell) found 28 new invasive species devastating forests in the past 12 years.
For conservationists, it can feel like forests are under siege. Always a new pest threatening to devastate trees.
This is not a new threat in eastern forests: after all, chestnut blight rendered the American chestnut functionally extinct.
The emerald ash borer could prove to be an equally devastating pest. "It is the closest thing I've seen to chestnut blight," says Don Eggen, Division Chief of the Forest Pest Management Division for the Pennsylvania Bureau of Forestry. "I don't think the emerald ash borer will completely eliminate ash trees, but there's going to be a lot less of it for a very, very long time."
The emerald ash borer is a green beetle native to Asia and Eastern Russia. It was first documented in the United States in Michigan in 2002, believed to have arrived in wooden shipping crates.
As its name suggests, the ash borer's larva does bore into the ash tree's bark, and effectively girdles the tree.
Many forest pests can be treated even after an infestation has occurred. The hemlock woolly adelgid, for instance, can be controlled with pesticides and bio-control after it is found in hemlock trees.
Not so the emerald ash borer. Once it is in a stand of trees, it is very, very difficult to control.
The Pennsylvania Bureau of Forestry is selecting 3400 trees for protection around the state, focusing on areas far from where the ash borer has reached. The agency is also collecting seeds to save until a time comes when the trees can be planted without threat from the emerald ash borer.
"It has to be very targeted," says Eggen. "We're focusing on the conservation of genetics of the ash and treating individual trees."
"We Knew It Was Coming"
But that approach only works in areas free of the ash borer. Woodbourne Forest Preserve was near other infestations. Staff there knew it was only a matter of time before it arrived at the preserve. It was already too late to stop.
"We knew it was coming" says Mike Eckley, conservation forester for The Nature Conservancy in Pennsylvania. "By the time you find emerald ash borer, it's too late. You can't put chemicals into the tree, because the tree is girdled and there's no place for the chemical to go."
Ash has commercial value. One idea would be to harvest trees that were going to die anyway, and use that funding to save imperiled hemlocks.
"You have multiple forest pests causing major problems, and they're expensive to control," says Eckley. "Which problems do you focus on? Where do you put your limited funding? You have to focus on where you can make the most difference. We can make a difference for hemlocks. We can't for ash trees."
To some, it might sound defeatist – to essentially write off hopes for protecting a tree species. To others, it's practical.
But these are tough decisions, especially at a preserve with a strict no logging policy. A policy that could only be undone in an extreme situation.
A Woodbourne preserve committee, consisting of neighboring landowners and committee members, has to decide on any potential management action, and they must determine it is the only option.
"We showed them clearly why we were proposing what we were proposing," says Eckley. "It was still controversial. One committee member left. But most understood that this was an important decision to make."
It was a decision based on ecology. Ash provides great habitat but other tree species can serve the same function.
"No other species can take the place of hemlocks," says Eckley. "It's foundational to the ecosystem. We would have had very low success in treating ash, and the ecological return would not be as great."
Why not wait until ash trees are infested and then cut them?
Ash trees quickly lose all value when infested with ash borers. "When you fell trees that were hit with ash borers, they basically split and disintegrate when they hit the ground," says Scott Sienko, a third-generation logger who conducted the ash harvest on Woodbourne. "If you catch it before the tree starts to deteriorate, you can still get a little value out of the tree. But it is a very narrow window."
The committee approved the ash harvest, which was completed in March. Not all trees were cut. Conservancy staff established a core area where dead trees would pose a hazard to roads and high recreational use areas.
"A Gut-Wrenching Decision"
Some might consider it a gamble. What if the emerald ash borer never showed up at Woodbourne?
That proved to not be the case. The forest pest was confirmed in two trees that were logged. It was already there – the first found in that county.
"I wasn't at all surprised," says Sarah Johnson, GIS conservation specialist for the Conservancy. "We have been searching for it, knowing it was coming. But it can be a very difficult pest to locate."
"If we had waited five years, the trees may not have any value," says Scott Sienko.
Still, it was difficult for many conservationists to see the logging trucks at Woodbourne. Even for staff, it was not a tough moment when the ash borer was confirmed there.
"We're scientists. We're practical and we understand forest ecology and invasive species," says Johnson. "Still, it can be very emotional. You know it's going to get there; you know it's going to have consequences. But it still hits you in the gut."
Jerry Skinner has lived at Woodbourne as preserve naturalist for 24 years. He's led school groups and citizen scientists. He's documented moths and songbirds and dragonflies.
He knows forest science well – he teaches ecology at a local college. But it was an emotional moment to see the logged forest.
"You'd drive along and see those cut threes, and just have to remind yourself of the reality," he says. "Those trees were going to die anyway. Still, to make the decision to be proactive was a gut-wrenching decision. It really was."
Sacrificing one tree to save another: this is the reality that many conservation managers face. They must look at the science, look at the ecology, look at the costs.
It can seem a harsh accounting, to accept that not everything can be saved. But a savvy conservation scientist can focus on the big picture: to ensure a healthy forest for generations to come.
"Given the circumstances, this was a high-quality outcome," says Eckley. "We maximized financial return on the situation, while reducing liability to people and enabling us to better fund hemlock conservation. We weren't giving up on ash trees so much as doing what was best for Woodbourne."
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The parallels between chestnut blight and emerald ash borer are, indeed, strong.
The USDA advised farmers to cut their chestnut trees in advance of the blight, to salvage the timber, just as the Nature Conservancy is doing now with ash trees.
However, some breeders working on restoring the chestnut tree consider that USDA advice to have been a mistake because it prevented us from observing which trees had a genetic resistance to the blight and which did not.
Wouldn't the same be true of ash trees: some ash trees are surely more resistant to the advances of the emerald ash borer than others, and leaving as many trees as possible standing to observe them is the only way to gather that data.
Hi Vincent,
Thanks for your comment. Excellent point. In this case, not all ash trees were cut — only those close to roads & high recreation areas. This was done to raise funds and to reduce liability.
The Pennsylvania Bureau of Forestry is doing excellent research on EAB resistance and gathering as much genetic material as possible.
You may also be interested in my story on elms resistant to Dutch elm disease: http://blog.nature.org/science/2013/06/04/american-elm-tree-restoration-genetics/
Thanks again for writing!
This seems like basic common sense. It's sad that it has to masquerade as "controversial." Great job TNC.
Biologists are documenting the necessity of dead trees and dead limbs on live trees as required habitat for woodpeckers and secondary nesters. I described the Nature Conservancy's approach to the ash borer invasion that is opposite the advice of biologists. My story in https://birdsnews.com contrasts your approach with the advice of biologists who are noting the increased abundance of woodpeckers even on golf courses that leave dead trees standing.
Has the Nature Conservancy done an environmental assessment of its ash logging — something it has demanded of other logging operations, that like itself seek only to have a "maximized financial return?"
Mr. Graham, I think that your concern about dead trees as woodpecker habitat would be more valid if all of the ash trees were being logged. However, the author states in the article and in his reply to another comment that "… not all ash trees were cut", only those that could be dangerous to the public after they died. My take: let one of those dead ash trees fall on somebody's car, and you'd see more liability lawyers in the vicinity in a week than EAB larvae.
It occurs to me that there will still be plenty of dead (ash) trees left in the non-public areas, as well as plenty of dead limbs on live (non-ash) trees throughout the Preserve, to serve as habitat for the woodpeckers and secondary nesters. As far as dead limbs on live ash trees are concerned, my understanding is that there won't be any of those, as once the EAB infests the tree, the whole tree dies.
It also occurs to me that, as alluded to in your article, there is a good possibility that any such increased abundance of woodpeckers would be short-lived as the number of available EAB larvae decreased over time. If that were to be the case, what difference would there be in the long-term benefit to the survival of woodpeckers between a short-term increase in population of, say, 2 percent, and, say, 20 percent? (I just picked those numbers out of the air, as I don't know have the data or know the methods that one would use to predict such an increase.)
Having said that, it _would_ be helpful to know an approximation of what percentage of doomed ash trees were logged in the Preserve. Also, I think you have a good point about asking if an environmental assessment was done or not. Sauce for the goose and all that.
Hi Rex,
I'm a Conservation Forester with The Nature Conservancy in Virginia. I did not directly work on the ash salvation operation in Pennsylvania, but I did have an opportunity to learn about it from our staff there and offer my opinion before the operation began. Typically before any harvest on TNC controlled property a thorough pre-harvest plan is prepared. The pre-harvest plan will describe the objectives of the harvest, identify any general concerns, address Threatened and Endangered Species concerns, identify stakeholder concerns, among several other items. Additionally in this case approval was given by the Woodbourne Neighbor Committee, likely the stakeholder group with most at stake. As mentioned in the blog post, the salvage operation only occurred in areas where large dead trees would be a hazard and would likely need to come down once dead anyway. This amounted to less than 10% of the entire property acreage to be salvaged, leaving over 90% of the property in the "do nothing" category. Ultimately the decision to do nothing on most of the property will result in many dead ash snags, while the revenue generated from the salvage operation should result in a few less dead hemlock snags. Arguably a good outcome.
I put much thought and consideration into any timber harvest I'm involved with, and carefully consider what's best for the forest given our objectives. I'm sure the Pennsylvania Chapter operates under similar principles.
In response to questions posed by Ted & Rex:
Woodbourne's forest conditions have been well documented. The donor's daughter, Theodora Cope obtained an M.S. from Cornell University by writing her thesis entitled 'Some observations on the vertebrate ecology of a Pennsylvania Mountain Farm' which was the first comprehensive ecological inventory performed throughout and adjoining the Woodbourne Preserve in 1932. Once the property was donated to the Conservancy, its first Preserve Naturalist produced a similar report completed in 1979. Then in 1981, a Master Plan was written defining processes for using the Preserve for education, observation, science and research. At some point between 1981 and 2007 the Pennsylvania Natural Heritage Program documented 4 rare plant species as having persisted within the wetland area; now fully submerged by beaver ponding. In 2012 Conservancy staff inventoried the Preserve to quantify current forest conditions and assess threats that Matt covers within his blog series. The 2012 inventory indicated that White Ash accounted for roughly 12% of the total number of trees per acre within the second-growth forest. On average there were 150 to 230 trees per acre that are 6 inches in diameter or larger. Approximately 600 white ash trees were selectively removed from within 42-acres of the Preserve's second-growth forest. Half of the trees removed were of sawtimber size (12+ inches in diameter at breast height) and the other half pulpwood size (6-10 inches in diameter at breast height). The inventory detected an average of 8-10 snag trees per acre throughout the second-growth forest averaging 12 inches in diameter or larger. Recent (2014) field observations within both the Old Growth and Second Growth forest portions of the Preserve show a rapid increase in recruitment of snag trees and coarse woody debris. The long-standing members making up the Woodbourne Committee are passionate birders who are helping the Conservancy to monitor habitat changes and responses through annual bird counts. The USDA Forest Service Northern Research Station is also helping to monitor ecological effects at the Preserve through our partnership in Hemlock Conservation
I am a "Conservation Forester" and these "gut wrenching decisions" have been part and parcel of my 27 year career and training. I find it reassuring that after a major split in conservation over the past 50 to 100 years there is increasing convergence, at least in practice. "Sacrificing one tree to save…" what we value in the forest is the practical reality of life. What if every tree was going to die…eventually? Would that change our decisions? Oh yeah, they all die eventually. And of course dead trees have great value as they stand and decay, which must be recognized. And harvesting has other impacts, to the soil, etc. Some beneficial, some detrimental. But so does doing nothing. Stewardship requires care, balance and sometimes gambles. Thanks TNC for your Stewardship example and thanks Matt Miller for highlighting it.
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PCGH direct hand impressions of 360 version and PC version (multiplayer).
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version does not look good (says ugly though I assuem they base it on a versus PC basis). Being 720p and 30fps. Mentions geometry being rendered in sub-HD (I would think they mean post-processing is very low-res like DOF etc creating aliasing for covered geometry). Version has no geometry edge smoothing thus jaggies are very obvious. Shadows look rough (low-res, low quality I would assume). "Muddy" textures and pre-computed physics animations garbled/clouded the image. Lighting, reflections and camo effect pleased them but was not enough to save the otherwise weak graphic presentation. Previously released multiplayer/promo/bullshots has pretty much nothing in common with 360 version.
version tested, map "Crash site", looks much better. No slowdowns and no spongy 30fps framerate. At end of gaming session they tried to examine games menu but it was disabled by Crytek. However console prompt worked.
PC was running at 1920x1080, DirectX9 mode, 32bit mode with constant 60fps. Vsync was enabled
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PC version also had better textures and pretty parallax mapping. Reflections, explosions, vegetation and shadows looked dramatically/drastically better than 360 version. PCGH thinks game was set to high detail setting on PC based on their observations and hopes for even more stunning 'very high' mode with DX11.
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Backbreaker is an intense, arcade football experience. Score touchdowns by sprinting, juking and spinning past waves of oncoming defenders, racking up combos and score multipliers on your way to the endzone! EDGE Magazine "Brilliant!!!" Pocketgamer.co.uk "Backbreaker Football...
NFL Rivals
* THE GAME OF THE SEASON HAS ARRIVED! * NFL Rivals is an intense arcade football experience like no other. Choose your NFL team and support them throughout the 2012 season. Every time you play, your score gets uploaded to your team's global ranking. Can you drive them to the top? Gameplay...
Icebreaker Hockey
NaturalMotion Games, the makers of the million-selling hit Backbreaker Football, are proud to present: ICEBREAKER HOCKEY! Crushing checks, slick moves, and super-addictive gameplay combine to create an experience that redefines action on the rink! Deke and spin your way towards the goal,...