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"The problem is that we're in a boat."
That's part of the answer that Professor Christopher Lowe gave me when I asked him about why he needs a shark tracking robot. Lowe heads the Sharklab at California State University Long Beach. The goal of the lab is to learn more about shark behavior – why they do the things they do and in what context they do them.
The lab's goals were made a little easier to achieve starting four years ago, when Lowe was contacted by Professor Christopher Clark from Harvey Mudd College. There, Clark directs the Lab for Autonomous and Intelligent Robotics, which focuses on applications for multi-robot systems. Clark contacted Lowe to gauge his interest in building an autonomous robot that track sharks in ways that humans simply can't.
After receiving a grant from the NSF, the research team began work on developing a robotic shark tracking system. The primary robot is off-the-shelf – they use Ocean Server's Iver2 autonomous underwater vehicle. But they've added their own custom modifications.
For starters, the team added two hydrophones to each side of an Iver2. The hydrophones receive a signal from the radio tag on the shark that the team is interested in tracking. By using two of them, the computer on the robot is able to ascertain the bearing of the shark they're looking for, and steer the robot accordingly. Then, for the programming of the propulsion systems, they "trained" the robot the same way you'd train a shark tracking grad student.
"Students have a tendency to chase the sharks and get too close," Lowe told me. "You want to get close to get an accurate position, but if you get too close, the shark's behavior changes. So we have to train students to find the right spot."
The robots work the same way. Out in the ocean, the team actually uses two of the robots, each of which are working to track a given shark. The two robots communicate with each other to control their movements.
"What we've done is created a circle," Clark told me. "The AUV's are located on opposite sides of the circle, keeping their distance from the shark. But because they're on different sides, it's easier for them to catch up if a shark suddenly moves in one direction."
In addition to tracking sharks, the robots are also equipped with a number of sensors. These measure things like water temperature, salinity, pressure, and other factors that give biologists more insight to how sharks behave.
"They build a 3-dimensional world that the shark is swimming through," said Lowe. "It tells us where we are in that world, and helps me understand how animals make decisions."
And unlike people, the robots can sample the water and track the shark at the same time. That's something that a person can't do. The robots can also get more data about where the shark is at a given time. It picks up a signal from the tagged shark every 2 seconds. People are sometimes able to get a more accurate position, but the data points are more spread out through time.
Overall, the work that the team is seeing from the robots will provide opportunities to learn things about sharks they never have before. In a few weeks, they plan to do a study of the behavior of baby Great White sharks – something no other team has done yet.
"For me, it's revolutionary," said Lowe. "It changes the way we do this kind of science."

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Children Of Naturalized Americans Become Official U.S. Citizens
Ninth grader Shifa Jahan born in Bangladesh, waits to take the oath... News PhotoBangladesh,Government,Grader,Human Interest,New York City,Oath,Office,People,Politics,USA,Vertical,WaitingPhotographer John MooreCollection: Getty Images News 2013 Getty ImagesNEW YORK, NY - FEBRUARY 19: Ninth grader Shifa Jahan, 14, born in Bangladesh, waits to take the oath of allegiance to the United States at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), office on February 19, 2013 in New York City. Her father Mohammed Firoz, is a naturalized American from Bangladesh working in construction, and they live in Brooklyn, New York. Almost 300 foreign-born children of naturalized immigrants received citizenship certificates Tuesday at the USCIS center during the special event. Children of naturalized immigrants receive U.S. citizenship if they arrive to the United States as minors, but they must go through a process at USCIS to receive official citizenship documents proving they have become Americans. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)


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GROWERS have a chance to sell into an expanding food service market and replace imported produce, says the NFU.
Horticulture board chairman Sarah Dawson spelled out the opportunity during the first Craft Guild of Chefs Cookery and Food Festival.
She said the fresh produce sector had been overly focused on the retail market, possibly at the expense of seeking out opportunities to supply restaurants, schools and hospitals – a sector worth £45 billion a year to the British economy.
She said: "By developing relationships with chefs and the food service sector, I believe there is huge potential to displace large volumes of imported produce. British growers in certain parts of the country could be encouraged to grow more of the exotic, niche ingredients that chefs want to use, but which are currently only available as imports."


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Stomach cramps are a common symptom of a wide variety of mild to serious diseases, disorders and conditions that are often related to the abdominal organs and sometimes the pelvic organs, such as the uterus and bladder. Most people will experience stomach cramps at some point during their lifetime, and they can occur in any age group or population. Common causes of stomach cramps include indigestion, gastroenteritis, menstrual cramps, bladder infection, and excessive flatulence (gas).
Stomach cramps may be generalized, which means they occur throughout the abdomen. Stomach cramps may also be localized in a small area of the belly, such as the lower abdomen or pelvis near the groin, or in the upper abdomen where the stomach is located.
Depending on the cause, stomach cramps can last for a few minutes or hours, such as when they occur from indigestion due to eating rich food or from vigorous exercise. Stomach cramps can also last for a few days, such as when they are due to a menstrual period. Long-term stomach cramping may be continuous or occur periodically and may be due to more serious conditions, such as colorectal cancer.
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Westgard Pass
Westgard Pass lies below the Ancient Bristlecone Pine preserve in the White Mountains. It is the last stop between Owens Valley and the Sierras to the west and the great desert territory of basins and range that is Nevada and Death Valley.
It's wise to think of the RAW capture as a negative that can be post-processed many ways, just as a musical score is merely the basis for a performance. In that light, it's instructive to look at an earlier (and somewhat less successful) version of this capture. Same RAW digital file, different processing.
This is a fisheye photograph of the remains of the famous Jeffrey Pine on Sentinel Dome above Yosemite Valley.
The tree was photographed as early as 1867 by Carleton Watkins, and later by Ansel Adams and many others. It died following years of drought in 1976, but was standing until mid 2003.
It's really sad to me that when I photographed the tree in 2005 on my Death Valley road trip, it had been defaced by graffiti. It's true that Sentinel Dome is easy to climb and only a one mile hike, but come on! I hope "Alex", whose name is carved in the dead tree, is deeply ashamed!
Moon and Tidal Flats
We seldom stop to think that a great deal of San Francisco, East Bay, and the cities around the San Francisco Bay are built on reclaimed marsh land. Or, more accurately, tidal flats.
At the fringes, tidal flats survive that haven't been built on, where the marshes survived the initial urge to fill-in and build, where they were marginal land used for dumping like the Albany waterfront, where they survived long enough to be saved as park.
These oozy, stinky, beautiful spaces are filled with birds and are great places to photograph sunset and moonlight reflected in the slimey mud flats.
These images are from a few days ago. They are taken from the tidal flats slightly north of Point Isabel.
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Magic in the Moment
There's magic in the moment, and joy in the seeing! May your holiday be one of peace, pleasure, serenity, and meditation! This is a world of grim depths as well as exalted heights, but for a while we can forget the terror and despair and focus on the awe and wonder in the knowledge that the days will grow longer and a new year is coming soon. This is a world of finite limits, but with infinite possibilities.
I took this photograph of a hibiscus flower in my garden on a rainy day in December using my macro flash to stop the motion of the flower in the wind. Thus we stop time at this time of year, and spend a little quiet time with our families.
After the Rain
Kirby Cove
Kirby Cove lies on the Marin side of the Golden Gate. To get down to this beach you walk down a dirt road (it's closed to cars) from the parking lot by the old fortifications above the bridge. Here's an image from the fortifications themselves looking down on the bridge and here's a PDF map of the Marin Headlands area.
If you plan to stay past sunset as I did, the hike back up in the dark isn't too bad. But be careful of the treacherous waters of the Golden Gate. The tide can come up fast at Kirby Cove, and much of the beach shown in these photos is under water at high tide.
I found the starfish (above) in the rock alcove at one end of Kirby Beach. The tide was coming in fast. In the instant after my four second exposure completed, a wave rushed over where my tripod was standing. The glistening starfish happily followed the wave back into the waters of the Golden Gate.
I photographed the sequence below from a small bluff above the beach. As night fell, the exposures got longer, and more and more of the light came from artificial sources (the bridge and city lights, mostly). The final exposure of the series (on the bottom) was a thirty second exposure. If you look at it closely, particularly in the larger size, you can see stars in the sky.
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Water and Meditation
Take almost any path you please, and ten to one it carries you down in a dale, and leaves you there by a pool in the stream. There is magic in it. Let the most absent-minded of men be plunged in his deepest reveries–stand that man on his legs, set his feet a-going, and he will infallibly lead you to water, if water there be in all that region. Should you ever be athirst in the great American desert, try this experiment, if your caravan happen to be supplied with a metaphysical professor. Yes, as every one knows, meditation and water are wedded forever.
— Herman Melville, from Moby Dick
World without End
There's more to this picture than meets the eye. Put another way, no matter how hard you look at the on-screen version, even in its larger size, you won't see everything that is in the image. Let me explain the alpha and omega of it.
The photo the image is based on started as a time exposure of the corridor in the Officer's Quarters at Fort Point under the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. (View the EXIF data here.) This was a normally-sized photo taken with my Nikon D200, so at 300 dpi (dots per inch) it measured 2592 X 3872 pixels (about 8.6 X 12.9 inches). I mention the dimensions of the image because they become an issue later in this story.
When I looked at the photo on my computer, I saw six "regressions"–or doorways on the corridor. At the end of the corridor was a dusty, dark, and unattractive display case.
I decided to replace this unattractive display case with a proportionally smaller version of the duplicated image itself, to make the corridor seem to go on longer (for twelve apparent regressions).
It wasn't very hard to paste a smaller version of the image in, thus extending the corridor to twelve doorways. I duplicated the image, measured the size in the original image I needed, and resized the duplicate accordingly (to about 1/6 of the original dimensions, as it happens). Next, I dragged the small version of the image over the large version to position it in place, and dropped it to add it to a layer in the original image. I used a layer mask, the Paintbrush Tool, and blending modes to combine the smaller version fairly seamlessly into the large version. In addition, I realized that at the point in the process where I flattened the layers I'd need to do a bit more detailed retouching using cloning and related Photoshop tools.
It's worth noting that as a matter of workflow I had to flatten the layers in my image a number of times. Each time I did this, I saved an archived version of the image with the layers still intact (except, as you'll see later, when my layered versions exceeded Photoshop's maximum file size of 2 Gigabytes). I did this archiving at every step of the way where it was possible, just in case I later decide to rework the image, and I won't note that I did it each time (but you should do it too when you work with layers).
Looking at what I had, the thought occurred to me, why not repeat the process? So I resized the duplicate image once more, down to about 1/6 of the reduced size, or 1/36 of the original size, and added the new, small version in position as a layer to the original image. Once again, I used a layer mask, the Paintbrush Tool, and blending modes to combine the versions, with the understanding that further retouching would be needed eventually.
Now I was up to eighteen regressions, and the corridor with doorways looked pretty infinite to me. But, in fact, the corridor didn't go on forever. I had to get up pretty close to it, but at 1600% magnification I could see a highly pixelated version of the ugly old display case.
It turns out that 1600% is Photoshop's maximum magnification, so I couldn't zoom in any closer. In addition, the corridor-end-within-a-corridor-end-within-a-corridor had shrunk to an area of about 12 X 18 pixels, so the physical limitations of the building blocks of my image seemed to prevent adding any more regressions. For those of you who don't know from pixels, this is an area smaller than the proverbial pinhead upon with angels dance. As the Wikipedia notes, "A pixel (short for picture element, using the common abbreviation "pix" for "picture") is a single point in a graphic image."
Looking at this 12 X 18 pixel canvas at the end of the known world, I figured why not write something on it. True, no one would be able to see what I had written without being able to examine a full-size version of the image in Photoshop or comparable software at high magnification, or perhaps by vliewing a good, large print up close with a magnifying glass. But it seemed worthwhile to embed a secret in the corridors of apparent infinity.
Typography at this small scale proved to be surprisingly difficult, and I had some much appreciated help from Phyllis. I can't tell you how much it helps my work having a spouse who is also a graphic design whiz!
My first thought was to write my name, but "Harold" simply wouldn't fit in the space I had, even with the strokes only one pixel wide. So a single letter would have to do. In a representation of infinity, perhaps α (alpha) or ω (omega) would have been most apt, but I settled for the more egocentric "H". (I am, after all, at the core of my own solipsistic universe!) As I've said, you'd need to view the original Photoshop file at maximum magnification to see this character. But wait! The plot thickens (or thins)! Things get even crazier.
It occurred to me that although I couldn't paste in another smaller copy of the image there was nothing to stop me from blowing up a copy of the current large image to make it bigger, and then pasting the current large image into the even larger version.
After the flattening the image with type layer and the layers with the two smaller versions, I duplicated it. Next, I used the SI Pro 2 (Stair Interpolation Pro) Photoshop plugin from Fred Miranda Software to blow the image up. As you may know, there are quite a few Photoshop plugins that automate the process of stepping an image up without appreciable quality degradation; I've had good luck with SI Pro.
If you are interested in using the SI Pro 2 plugin, it costs about $25 to download from Fred Miranda Software (you'll find the link about half way down the page on the left). I've used it successfully to upsize images, and also to size images precisely for printing with margin areas on particular paper sizes.
I figured I needed to blow the image up 6X to be able proportionally to fit the 18 doorways into it, for a new total of 24 regressions (I am fondly calling each doorway a "regression", although of course technically it is no such thing).
After enlarging the duplicate six times, the new dimensions were 15,300 X 22,857 pixels at 300 dpi (or about 51 X 71 inches at 300 dpi). It still looked pretty crisp on my monitor. I was bumping up against a Photoshop limitation, namely a maximum image size of 30,000 X 30,000 pixels, and a maximum Photoshop file size of 2 Gigabytes. I was to find out about the file size limitation when I tried to save a layered version of the large-size image.
And now, a word about my hardware. I noted in an earlier story that it takes quite a bit "under the hood" for me to post-process my images, particularly when complex channel operations are involved. Specifically, I do my image processing these days on a Mac Pro with 2 X 3 Dual-Core Intel Xeon processors (four processors in total), 5 GB of blazingly fast 667 MHz DDR2 RAM, about a terrabyte of SATA disk storage, and a 30 inch Apple Cinema monitor. True, Adobe hasn't come out yet with a native version of Photoshop, but even in simulation mode this is pretty good hardware.
On the large-sized image, things slowed to less than a crawl. Simple operations, like displaying a histogram, or adjusting a curve, took minutes. While I waited for each operation to complete, I could not only twiddle my thumbs and drink a cup of coffee, I could brew the coffee as well! A good thing I also have my Windows XP machine going for mundane tasks like email, word processing, and blog writing! Here's to multitasking if saving a file takes half an a hour!
So now I took the 2592 X 3872 pixel image, with the 18 regressions, and pasted it in position as a layer into the 15,300 X 22,857 pixel large version. As I've noted, when I tried to archive a version of this image with the layers intact I hit the 2 Gigabyte file size limitation of Photoshop, but fortunately I could work on the image in Photoshop with the layers even if I couldn't save it, and I just squeaked by just under the 2 GB limit when saving layer-flattened versions.
Besides simply elongating the corridor, an interesting optical effect happened when I combined the images. The doorways start sharp, and gradually lose apparent sharpness as the eye goes down the passage (and the image gets magnified). But at six doorways in, where the pasted original version takes over, the doorways get sharp again. This effect creates an illusion that the passage is even longer than it is, because it doesn't seem to lose definition as the eye travels down it.
You won't really be able to see all the doorways in the version on the web. You certainly won't be able to see the H embedded at the end of the World without End. There simply isn't enough resolution. To fully see my image, you'll need to come visit me and look at it on my monitor. You could then inspect the end of the corridor at 1600% magnification and see the H.
Of course, I'd also like to make a print that is close to one-to-one. Alas, my Epson 4800 only goes up to 17 inches wide. There are a number of places around here where I can get my hands on a 9600, with a maximum width of 44 inches. A little smaller than I'd like, the print on a 9600 would end up about 40 X 60 inches. I'll bet that with a magnifiying glass you could even see the end of the corridor.
How's that for finding infinity's end?
Fire and Water
Somewhat surprisingly, fire and moving water can pose similar photographic challenges. With both fire and water, you may want to get a great deal of depth of field to get different parts of a photo in focus. High depth of field images tend to have the appearance of sharpness because nothing is out of focus.
To get high depth of field, you need to close the camera down and use a small aperture on your lens. This implies a long exposure, even considering the brightness of flames and the lightness of foam in a waterfall.
But with a long exposure, both flames and moving water can appear almost solid, very different from the way fire and water look to our naked eyes.
Surfing the Golden Gate
Falling Snow
The plunging waterfall seen in this image is The Cascade, found just off Route 140 coming into Yosemite Valley before the junction with SR 120. If you think the image looks a bit hazy, look closely at it in the larger size. You are looking at falling snow!
Special thanks to Leon Turnball, who helped me correctly identify this waterfall (yes, I can sometimes confuse locations after the fact!), and whose web waterfall gallery has an excellent photographic directory of California waterfalls.
A Mystical and Primeval World
My Canary Island Flickr friend MagicalGarden posted a comment comparing my photo Upper and Lower Yosemite Falls to the paintings of Caspar David Friedrich. As Paul (a/k/a MagicalGarden) put it:
Mystical, primeval world! Wow!!! Could be a painting from Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840).
The image (I mentally dithered a little as I composed this sentence between "photo" and "painting", but settled on the neutral "image") that Paul graced with his comment is in the same series as the winter image above and also Yosemite Dreams.
Of course, I am wonderfully flattered by the comparison and the comment. But truth to tell, I was not familiar with the work of Caspar David Friederich before now. Certainly I've enjoyed getting to know his work, with his romantic and mystical view of landscape. I see Friederich as a precursor to the luminist painters of the Hudson River school and the American west. It's too bad that Hitler also liked his work, but not after all the artist's fault since he died in 1840.
Friedrich wrote:
The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself. If he sees nothing within, then he should stop painting what is in front of him.
This is certainly how I view my hybrid art: one part photography, one part digital manipulation, in an attempt to recreate my feelings and vision about the scene rather than a literal recreation of the scene (as if this literal recreation was possible in the first place!).
The problem with heroic and romantic landscape painting by artists like Caspar David Friedrich and Albert Bierstadt, or even the monumental landscape photographs of Ansel Adams, is that the work can verge on the overwrought and sentimental. On the other hand, at its best it is transcendent and spiritual.
Thank you, Paul, for recognizing my aspirations.
Golden Gate Bridge from Baker Beach
The bridge lights glow and the surf turns into an eerily solid mist in this time exposure from Baker Beach that is not a camera toss!
Fairy Lights in a Water Drop
Inside the fire was burning, the Christmas tree was lit, and the family was happily and merrily manufacturing mayhem.
I stepped outside to taste the weather and for a moment of quiet. The rain had stopped and the world was very still and foggy. I noticed that the succulent on our front porch was plastered with jewel-like water drops, and the drops reflected our outdoor Christmas lights (or, as they call them in England, Fairy lights).
Exposing using the available light provided by the reflections of these small and distant colored bulbs, and whatever ambient light they provided, was on the tricky side. It was hard to see anything, either on the camera, the macro rig, or the composition. Forget about visually checking depth-of-field! (You can view this image's EXIF data here.)
These were long time exposures. Fortunately, everything did stay very still. There was not a breath of wind.
It was hard for me to keep my concentration hearing the ruckus inside.
Nicky came out, and held down the remote shutter release for me on a couple of the exposures in the series, including this one. He was proud to help, and it was fun "keeping still" for the exposure with him.
And, yes, I am pleased with how this image came out.


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It is absolutely 100% conceivable to argue that the best football on your television this weekend is soccer. Manchester United versus Arsenal. Ghana vs. Egypt in the Cup of Nations. No college and the gimmick that is the NFL Pro Bowl…no argument.
For those that remember the preamble to this Sunday's match, it ended with Arsene Wenger walking into the stands like a petulent child–and probably rightfully so–after he was thrown out by the referee for a somewhat dubious reason…was it kicking a water bottle I believe.
In the front end of the series, Arsenal outplayed Manchester United at Old Trafford with Andrei Arshavin dialing up a killer strike to put Arsenal ahead one-nil. You just can't call it a mere goal it was a strike.
Wayne Rooney then created a penalty kick on a questionably legal tackle by Manuel Almunia in the box. 1-1.
Abou Diaby decided to play the ball into his own net (2-1 Devils) and finally Robin Van Persie netted the equalizer only to see it called back for offsides (and rightfully so.)
A quality contest. At the time of writing this, Man U stand one point from the top of table, Arsenal at just two. Wow!
This Sunday, the game will be at the Emirates. Wenger's squad comes in still attempting to deal with the loss of Van Persie and Bendtner up front; Sir Alex's squad comes in with a gathering chorus of fans and pundits questioning if the Red Devils rely too much on Mr. Wayne Rooney.
So what's with the USMNT reference above? (I expect to get heat for this one as somewhat of a leap.)
Take a look at Sir Alex's squad.
Quality goalkeeper in Van Der Sar? Check
Injuries along the backline? Affirmative
Inability to move the ball effectively and create offense through the center of the pitch? Yup.
That inability to move the ball up the middle the result of two primarily defensive midfielders who are aggressive and borderline reckless tacklers (I'm speaking about you. Sir Darren Fletcher)? Again, yes.
A player of the same ilk (and once of much better quality) than Landon Donovan on the left? Giggs, circa early 2000's, untouchable.
A completely dominant top 5 global player who is on a scoring tear striking up top?…..oops! Can't help you there.
Beyond the Rooney contract, you're looking at a very similar set of strategy and tactics executed by better player at Manchester United.
So when watching the game today….and isn't it pretty cool that some will be watching in 3D, take a look at how Manchester United uses, abuses, or gets abused on the wings against Wenger's 4-3-3….because the US is going to see a lot of the 3-front offense against England come June 12th with Rooney, Defoe, and either Gerrard or Lennon pending which side the ball is on.
And let's all hope potential EPL defender of the year Thomas Vermaelen is in there insteal of Statue Campbell.
Read more on Arsenal at quality blog, Arseblog
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Red Bull Frozen Rush« All Events January 8, 2015 - January 9, 2015
Pro4 Truck Racing on Snow
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Check out the televised broadcast of Red Bull Frozen Rush, which premiered on NBC on March 1 as part of the Red Bull Signature Series
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Using the eraser is simple and easy when used properly. In this About.com video you will learn how to use the eraser tool in Photoshop.See Transcript
Transcript:Photoshop Tutorial: How to Use the Eraser
Hi this is Frank Bayless for About.com and this how to use the eraser in Photoshop.
Example Using the Eraser Tool
What I have set up here is two images layered on top of each other. The layer at the bottom is a black-and-white image which is the exact duplicate of the one on top. I'm going to grab my eraser or tool or E on my keyboard and show you that you easiest way of using it. If you go up to the top you have some options of how the eraser will actually erase when using it. You can select a different size of how much will be erased, you can select the hardness, and you have multiple tips to choose from for the style of the erasing. You select what type of mode you'll be in brush, pencil, or block. You can also select the opacity of the easer.
Erasing the Photoshop Image
Next I'm going to erase part of my top layer image to show you exactly how the eraser works. All you need to do is click and drag on the image and the eraser will erase the part of that image that you're clicking and dragging on and will reveal any layers underneath it. Which is how interracial works which is the races of the layers you have selected and reveals any layers underneath it.
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Check out these photos from Mud Day festivities in Westland, Mich. Looks fun, but yuck!
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After a particularly bad rainstorm while camping, we let the kids run through mud puddles. We showered them clothes and all, but that was nothing like this. I think I would pass on this.
Mud and anything sticky-not for me!
For those who are into it, go for it! Looks like fun.
It does look like fun…would probably make my skin crawl, but others seem to be enjoying the event.
We do this at Cub Scout camp – on a somewhat smaller scale. I have great pictures and the kids all have fond memories. You plan accordingly – have one outfit that you know is going to be thrown out – save those really trashy, smelling sneakers for this event in the summer, etc. Give it a shot! What have you got to lose?
They did this around here somewhere recently. It was called the Mud Run, I think. I saw pictures, everyone looked like they had a great time!
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U.S. sees big drop in acreage burned by wildfires
PHOENIX -- In 2013, wildfires burned less than half the acreage they burned in 2012 across the nation.
"In some cases it is as simple as we didn't get a start that we couldn't rapidly get to," said Clay Templin, head of an elite Tonto National Forest incident management team on why less acreage was burned.
While Templin's team helped contain some of the largest fires in the country, including the Yarnell Hill Fire that claimed the lives of 19 Granite Mountain Hotshots, he gave credit to the public for sparking fewer blazes.
"People are paying closer attention to the conditions and helping us out," he said, adding that about 10,000 less fires were reported in 2013 than 2012.
Templin sayid the severity of 2014's wildfires depends on conditions this winter.
"If the drought continues and we have a weak winter with little rain and snowfall, we could certainly be back into another bad situation next year," he said.
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Lawyers also questioned whether dispatcher was overwhelmed with work that night, given that emergency workers were on strike at the time
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TORONTO — An emergency dispatcher who took a 911 call about a dying man in the lobby of a downtown apartment building told an inquest Monday he should have followed emergency protocol more carefully.
It took three 911 calls and 35 minutes before emergency crews arrived at the Alexander St. building, but by then 59-year-old James Hearst had died of a heart attack
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Hot Pockets in Pizza Shops
I think that it would be great if pizza shops would offer Hot Pockets for sale. A lot of pizza places here in NYC sells these Jamaican Patties, that often priced at $3.00-$3.50, but not everyone is a fan of these yellow pastries. Hot Pockets on the other hand are known by many people, and theres lots of different ones of them: Lean and Hot Pockets, at least 4 different types of crusts, truckloads of different stuffing. I personally prefer the BBQ beef ones, but they almost always sold-out at the local supermarkets, and I don't mind paying $1.50-$2.00 for one of these at a pizza place.
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The 2013-2014 OHL season is upon us and for the returning players on the Barrie Colts, the devastating Game 7 loss just a few months ago is still fresh on their minds.
But with a new season, brings new opportunities and when you ask any Colt player about that game in London, they are quick to say it is a forgotten memory and the goal this year is to be right back in the OHL final once again.
"You just have to learn from it, you can't dwell on it," Said Colts defenceman Jonathan Laser. "It's a new season now, new start. Obviously we're trying to get back there and we just have to use that memory as fire to get back there and win it."
With 18 returning players, there is no question Barrie is once again a favourite to be atop the Eastern Conference at the end of the season.
Their biggest strength will be on the backend with six returning defenceman. Captain Ryan O'Connor and veteran Alex Lepkowski, who have both moved onto the pro ranks is a big loss but with newly named team captain and top ranked prospect Aaron Ekblad leading the way, this Colts defence is not an easy group to play against.
Jonathon Laser, Alex Yuill, Jake Dotchin and Ekblad are all now in their third seasons in the OHL while Michael Webster and CJ Garcia enter their second year.
"It's nice to play with guys you're familiar with and getting that experience coming back after going on that long playoff run last year and everyone had a good summer, it's definitely good having a lot of guys returning back there this year." Says Laser.
Dotchin came to camp 20 pounds lighter and his foot speed is much improved. Garcia has looked phenomenal, skating with confidence and looking like a veteran in this league despite only playing 29 games in his rookie year.
Barrie currently has nine defencemen still on their roster with Josh Carrick, Liam Maaskant and Jayme Forslund fighting for the two remaining spots on the backend.
One question mark entering the season is will the Colts be able to score like they did last year without Mark Scheifele, Anthony Camara and Steven Beyers. The three players amounted for 91 goals and 208 points and were an integral part of the Colts run to the OHL final.
If game one of the season was any indication of what to except this year, I think it's safe to say that Barrie will have no trouble with offence. The Colts lit up Jake Paterson and a very tough Saginaw Spirit squad 7-4 in front of just under 3000 fans in the home opener at the Barrie Molson Centre on Thursday night.
"I think tonight (Thursday) was a big thing for us getting seven goals, really proves we have depth on this team and from last year's playoffs the guys who really didn't play that much can play now and they can put the puck in the net. I think everybody has a lot of skill otherwise they wouldn't be here." Said Colts winger Josh MacDonald.
Barrie enters the year with two of the best overagers in the OHL as leading scorer Zach Hall and Mitchell Theoret both return for their final OHL season after being sent back to Barrie after attending NHL training camps.
Andreas Athanasiou who is one of the most explosive players in the OHL is determined as ever after having a breakout year in his first season in Barrie last year. The 19 year old is looking to make a case for Team Canada and the World Junior squad with his game breaking ability and blazing speed.
Returning forwards Josh MacDonald, Erik Bradford, Brendan Lemieux and Tyson Fawcett will be given bigger roles this season and expectations are high for them to produce.
MacDonald, who enters his third year was in Dale Hawerchuk's doghouse for the majority of last season will be given every opportunity to prove he is a top six forward in this league. MacDonald got off to a hot start to the year as the London native found the back of the net twice against the Spirit.
"It's definitely a big thing for me I think getting a couple tonight was big and keeping it going is the big thing," Said Macdonald after his two goal performance. "Playing with certain guys and getting some chemistry going with the guys and getting to know what they do and get to the quiet spots on the ice and put the puck in the back of the net I think is going to be huge for us this year."
Also returning is Dylan Corson and Justin Scott. Devin Rymarchuk just completed wrist surgery and there is no timeline for the wingers return. Overager Cody Brown looks to be the odd man out with Hall, Theoret and Fawcett filling the three overager positions but the 20 year old will remain with the team for the time being.
New faces up front include; first round pick Matthew Kreis who potted his first career OHL goal in the season opener. The 16 year has shown no fear in his short time in Barrie thus far and is a threat to score everytime he touches the puck.
Andrew Mangiapane was brought into camp as a free agent and impressed the coaching stuff with his terrific speed and ability to score goals. Kevin Lebanc and Cordell James are also in their rookie seasons.
The most interesting battle will be between the pipes and who will be able to grab the number one starter's position. Alex Fotinos is the guy for now but if he struggles like he did last year he could quickly find himself back on the bench. Slovakian import Daniel Gibil and Mackenzie Blackwood were equally as good in camp and are waiting for their opportunity at the starter's role.


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The views were incredible - the forest floor below, as described by Matt, looked like broccoli!
The next viewpoint, Echo Point, had great views across the mountains and the Three Sister rocks.
The mountains get their name from the blue haze that surrounds them which is apparently due to the vapours given off by all the eucalyptus plants.
Thunder had been rolling around the mountains throughout the afternoon so after a brief climb down to the Three Sister rocks we decided to head back to the hostel.
Katoomba is quite a sleepy town with some very 'local' pubs. Although everyone turned to stare at us as we walked in, which was slightly daunting, they did make us feel very welcome. We also found a really good Thai restaurant where we had a meal for 6 pounds each - slightly above our 4 pounds average but you have to splash out sometimes!
The next morning we woke to rain lashing at the window. There had been a storm during the night and flood warnings had been issued in the mountains. Undeterred (surely the storm would blow over), we put on our wet weather gear (which hasn't had an outing for a good 8 weeks!) and set off to Wentworth Falls. On arrival our first stop was a cafe for hot chocolate and coffee - it seemed we were slightly too optimistic on the weather front. After an hour or so though the rain had stopped and the sun was trying to come out. We set off on our walk and straight away were hit by the total lack of signs to 'one of the Blue Mountains top tourist attractions'. After our last directions mishap in Noosa we were ultra careful, taking our time, finding a sign before setting off. After walking for 1.5km through a residential area we started to doubt ourselves. We decided we must be going the wrong way and set off back to the main road to get directions. We had in fact been going the right way but just needed to go 2km to get to the falls - before starting our main walk we had already done nearly 4km. As we started to approach the falls a mist started to roll in and on turning the corner onto the falls lookout this is what our efforts were rewarded with:
It was quite amusing and I took quite a while to recover from laughing so much - better to laugh than cry! We started the walk down to the falls but today didn't seem to be our lucky day - the rain had been so heavy that the path had flooded and we couldn't get through. I bet the falls looked spectacular though with all that rainfall - we could certainly hear them but the mist wasn't budging. We thought we might as well carry on and were rewarded with even more spectacular views from the second lookout:
We have been so lucky with the weather for the last few weeks that it was bound to run out at some point!
It rained all that night and was still raining the next morning. Not just a bit of rain either but totally torrential rain. With the forecast being more flash floods throughout the day we decided to head straight to Sydney. At least we were rewarded at Katoomba train station - the train station stairs looked like a waterfall all of their own!


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Privacy commissioner: Businesses be wary of new anti-money laundering laws
Dec 13, 2007 11:43 AM
Privacy commissioner Karen Curtis has urged businesses to consider the privacy of consumers when collecting personal information under the Anti-Money Laundering/Counter-Terrorism Financing Act 2006 (AML/CTF), amendments which came into effect yesterday.
Referred to as a 'dirty money' crack down by newly-appointed Minister for Home Affairs Bob Debus, the AML/CTF Act requires businesses in the financial, bullion and gambling sectors such as banks, casinos and TABs to implement an anti-money laundering/counter-terrorism financing program which will be upheld by the Australian transaction Reports Analysis Centre (AUSTRAC).
"Australia established its anti-money laundering system in 1988," Debus said. "But with globalisation and advanced technology, transnational crime syndicates and global terror networks now have new opportunities by which they can exploit legitimate businesses to conceal dirty money."
However, privacy commissioner Karen Curtis fears businesses may invade the privacy of ordinary citizens: "While it is of course important for businesses to collect the required information from customers to meet AML/CTF Act requirements, they should be careful not to over-collect, as this may breach their customers' privacy rights."
"Most importantly, businesses should adopt a sound risk-based approach to ensure that all information collected for AML/CTF Act reporting obligations is strictly necessary, and they should not try to apply an 'arbitrary standard' to their collection processes," said Curtis.
For example, in certain circumstances a business may only need to verify the customer's basic details, such as name, address and date of birth.
Curtis also reminded those small businesses with obligations under AML/CTF that they will now have requirements under the Privacy Act.
"Small businesses that fall under the AML/CTF requirements also need to be mindful of their obligations under the Privacy Act, which covers the collection, storage, use, disclosure and disposal of their customer's personal information," she said.
Just last month, reports surfaced that the UK government's HM Revenue and Customs department, responsible for collecting the bulk of tax revenue as well as paying Tax Credits and Child Benefits,
lost two CDs containing confidential information
including banking details of over 25 million child benefit recipients.
According to AUSTRAC, the implementation of the Act has been ongoing for over two years allowing the industry lead time to make changes to IT, risk management, customer identification and other business systems.
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