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February 1, 2014 by Brian Kraus
Real Friends have officially begun tracking their debut full-length album at Always Be Genius Recording Studio—the same place where they recorded 2013's Put Yourself Back Together EP.
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My research interests concern understanding the impact history of the Earth-Moon system and how these impact events may have affected the surface of the Earth over time. It is exciting to analyze microscopic impact samples from the Moon, which we use as proxies for understanding impacts on Earth, and realize they tell us about large-scale surface-altering events that occurred hundreds of millions of years ago!
Albion is a great little college with a lot of personality! I like teaching here because it allows me to interact with students and get to know them as real people, not just a face in a seat. Helping my students gain a greater appreciation for science is the most rewarding part of my job.
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What goes through the minds of leaders and decision-makers at critical moments in world history? We tend to think history is already written through news, but it can take 25 years or more for people to gain access to documents written by policy makers. Only then do the details begin to emerge. As a diplomatic historian, I often spend time researching in the national archives and presidential libraries. What makes my research so fascinating are those moments when I discover papers revealing new facts that force us to rethink history. The process is like looking for a needle in a haystack, but knowing what went through the minds of decision-makers in critical moments and reliving history through their writings is tremendously exciting.
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Teacher education is certainly challenging, but it is always interesting. Over the past 20 years, I've gradually come to understand how inventive children and youth are with language and literacy, and how rewarding it is as a teacher to notice this creativity. My research focuses on capturing clear images of how children and youth construct literacy in and out of schools. And, my teaching encourages prospective teachers to take a look at these, and similar, situations through their own eyes. In holding this expectation, I believe teachers create opportunities to transform their understanding of things we take for granted and grow as professionals.
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I'm an economist who does research on labor relations and health policy. I love teaching a course on negotiation and dispute resolution. The course has a series of role-playing exercises in which the students negotiate with each other. The students usually have a lot of fun with these exercises, but they sometimes get steaming mad when a classmate double-crosses them. The treacherous student finds that nobody will trust him or her in subsequent negotiations. I hope that, by the end of the course, students learn that it's okay to be tough, but that you should not break a promise.
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September 25, 2015U.S. Department of Education Approves Waivers of Title I of the ESEA for Six CORE Districts in California
Building on the significant progress seen in America's schools over the last six years, the U.S.
July 10, 2014
In his remarks to the National Academy Foundation (NAF), Secretary Duncan emphasized the need to close the nation's skills gap by equipping all students to succeed in college and careers, and noted the value of providing rigorous and relevant school-based and work-based learning opportunities as a part of that preparation. Prior to the Secretary's remarks, business and industry leaders joined NAF officials to announce the launch of the NAFTrack Certified Hiring Partnership that will give students who complete and earn the NAF credential, one that is based on assessments linked to college- and career-ready standards, priority in these employers' hiring processes. The partnering companies include: HP, Verizon, AT&T, EMC, Juniper Networks, KPMG, RBC Capital Markets, US, Xerox, JPMorgan Chase, and Cisco.
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In his remarks to the PTA National Convention, Secretary Duncan talked about the critical importance of parents and families in education and the changes occurring in classrooms across America that are helping to prepare students for success in college, careers, and life. He recognized the hard work of schools and communities who are transforming educational opportunities for students. Secretary Duncan also challenged the audience to be a voice for higher expectations, for bettering schools, and for elevating the teaching profession.
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I am pleased to speak to ASCD's leadership because I believe educators across the country today have finally reached a long-sought turning point.
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Thank you, Dr. Ross, for that kind introduction and for being a great partner in reform.
I'm pleased to be here today to address the Rural Education National Forum because, too often, the challenges of rural education are neglected.
After nearly five years in Washington, I've learned that much of the public narrative surrounding education is wrong or badly exaggerated.
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In what seems to have become an annual ritual, I'm here again today to report on the state of education in America. What I can tell you after nearly five years in Washington is that the public narrative that you hear inside the Beltway and online doesn't reflect the reality I see in classrooms and schools all across America.
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Thanks, Mike, for the kind introduction. It's a pleasure to join all of you.
The theme of this leadership conference—"building bridges"—is fitting.
Today, I'd like to talk with you about how the Administration and the Department of Education are continuing to support education reform and success for all students in the second term.
July 19, 2013Statement from U.S. Secretary of Education Secretary Duncan on House ESEA Reauthorization Bill H.R. 5"America's families, students and teachers deserve an education law that advances progress for all students—especially our most vulnerable children. The bill that the House passed today is not that law.
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Recently-hired Georgia baseball coach Scott Stricklin hasn't wasted any time in trying to establish his recruiting base, and it appears he has chosen Gwinnett County as an early focal point by convincing one of next year's top seniors to change his mind.
Mill Creek's Logan Moseley had initially given a verbal commitment to attend the University of Miami back in February, but the 6-foot, 175-pound shortstop/right-handed pitcher says he will now join Stricklin and the Bulldogs in the fall of 2014.
While Moseley said Stricklin wasn't the only reason he decision to flip his commitment, he was one of them.
"It was a lot of different things, Coach Stricklin being one of them," said Moseley, who hit a team-best .391 with four home runs, 22 RBIs, six doubles and 25 runs scored in helping the Hawks (22-10) to the Region 7-AAAAAA championship and the second round of the Class AAAAAA state playoffs. "It was also the financial (aid) situation and the distance from home for my parents. And Miami wanted me to just pitch, and at Georgia, I'll have a chance to play (in the field and hit)."
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David Sloan Wilson, professor of biological sciences, was mentioned in the Chronicle of Higher Education on August 1 as a contributing editor to the book, The Literary Animal: Evolution and the Nature of Narrative. The book covers the issue of Literary Darwinism, which has been garnering attention because it joins evolutionary-minded scholarship in various fields.
Binghamton University was listed in Forbes and BusinessWeek.com as one of the top colleges for getting rich. The study, conducted by Payscale.com, looked at earnings of alumni at colleges around the country. Graduates of Binghamton University, which ranked eleventh, were found to earn an average of $201,000 a year for executives.
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Brian Hazlett, director of undergraduate admissions, was quoted in an article titled, "The SUNY Surge," in The Syracuse New Times on August 28 stating, "SUNY rivals Ivy League schools, but at one-third of the cost for an Ivy League education. Students are getting top jobs and into graduate schools and there's less debt on them. Binghamton has been witnessing students choosing state over private for years." The article also noted that Forbes magazine recently ranked Binghamton University 16th among public universities and 57th among public and private universities in the nation.
David Sloan Wilson, professor of biological sciences, was featured in numerous publications throughrout August including The Huffington Post regarding his leadership of the University's Evolution Studies program. Wilson stated "It really is the case that evolution has become a set of basic principles that really explains life. As that becomes ever more apparent and ever more powerful, then it's clear that something's got to give with respect to out own species." This program received National Science Foundation funding to expand into a nationwide consortium.
Scott Hanson, visiting assistant professor of history, participated in an Ask America webchat on August 29 on the Macro World Investor website where he discussed religious diversity in America. "Pluralism is perhaps the best word to describe the state of living in a diverse society…The conditions for diversity seem to stem from a democratic government that permits immigration and protects religious freedom by law," said Hanson.
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Novacom USB communication toolset released to open source 12
Today saw yet another release along the Open webOS roadmap, with Novacom and Novacomd finding their way onto GitHub. The two pieces comprise a generic communication toolset used to communicate between a host (your computer) and embedded device (your webOS device) over USB. It's what allows the webOS SDK and programs like WebOS Quick Install to access the device over a USB connection without having to put the device into USB Mode. Plus there's the fact that USB mode doesn't allow access to the file system.
Novacom has been distributed as part of the webOS SDK and webOS Doctors since what seems like the beginning of time, and was released as a separate downloadable executable a while back as well. The separate release, while not open source, enabled WebOS Quick Install to get by without downloading the entire webOS Doctor just to be able to extract Novacom to install a single app or patch.
There are two parts to the release, Novacom and Novacomd. The latter is the service that runs on both the host and the target device, while Novacom is the command line user interface that provides a human-accessible way to access that service. With both now out in open source, the webOS developer community (and the developer community at large) is free to enhance, fix, and repurpose the two as they see fit.
The release of Novacom nearly closes out the Open webOS release commitments for March, with just LevelDB and MojoDB/DB8 left for the month. Major releases for March have included the Nyx hardware abstraction layer and the Linux Standard Kernel 3.3, both of which will go a long way towards opening up Open webOS to installation on a wide range of devices. There's still a lot to go on the roadmap, but despite what feels like near constant drama, Open webOS is still making progress.
Update: HP has also released to open source the DB8 database abstraction layer. It's aparently "a work in progress and not currently buildable," though that is expected to soon change. DB8 first step in incorporating LevelDB databases into Open webOS.
Source: The Open webOS Project Blog, GitHub (Novacom, Novacomd)
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Did the widgets ever get released?
You mean the UI widgets? Yes, those were released. They're widgets in that they're bits to help build apps, not widgets in the Android sense.
I'm worried about people not realizing how important this is, such as the kernel release some days ago.
It seems that, if it has no visuals, it doesn't exist!
I've just taken a peek at "http://www.openwebosproject.org/documentation.html", and the amount ob job it shows is impressive! That IS important!
The problem is that, for 99.9% of everybody, OpenWebOS is NOT important if there is no device to put it on.
How will this help the TP owners and remaining pre-users? Maybe a tweak or so here or there, maybe make it easier for someone to come up with a nice app, but for the most part, openWebOS is meaningless if there are no new devices to run it.
The excitement will come when there is something to run the OS on...
@jmarcos, sorry the but the WebOS excitement is a very personal thing now. HP is making it possible for you to "build" what you want.
In 2012, the "market excitement" is a full o/s, fully integrated into highly capable hardware, complete with a catalog of the latest apps, services and content. And that is the dilemma, for there to be apps, one must have customers and developers. If there are no apps, there are no customers. If there are no customers, there are no developers. For WebOS, there is no chicken, there is no egg.
WebOS is not a brand, not a technological resource, not a system. It is a hobby. You can toil and tinker and make the worlds best feature phone that is internet linked and has a few highly productive native apps(for now). And you have the building blocks to build something more if you like and share it with other WebOS folk, but its not a commercial center reaching critical mass. It will not exhibit compound growth and even remotely keep pace with the market.
Don't feel bad, RIM is in a death spiral too. And even MS is starting to see developers back away now that 91% of o/s sales have fallen into one of two camps in the last 90 days. Consolidation is not pretty, HP systematically eliminated customers, carriers and developers with extreme malice. It was their Darwinian moment, Leo and his pals, were the weakest link.
> the WebOS excitement is a very personal thing now.
I always take my computers as something personal.
> HP is making it possible for you to "build" what you want.
And my greatest fear is this: After huge efforts, the few folks remaining at Palm achieve the incredible and make the full toolset available. And then nothing happens.
> For WebOS, there is no chicken, there is no egg.
Nice summary, great truth.
> WebOS is not a brand, not a technological resource,
> not a system. It is a hobby.
Sure. I've been into other hobby projects, spun off a once profitable segment of the industry. It's where great people are, but not many have the endurance to keep fighting for years for something the world doesn't even know about.
> Don't feel bad, RIM is in a death spiral too.
I hope you don't mean I should feel "good" at that! :-) It's a pity, when RIM finally has a product at least connected to 21st century reality, the company realizes it's been dragging too much legacy to keep going.
> And even MS is starting to see developers back away now
> that 91% of o/s sales have fallen into one of two camps
Microsoft never understands markets, the XBox 360 being the only proof againsta that. And if Apple flicked the swith, and began to work the way Google does with Android (read: there's the source, make anything), I'm sure there would be only one mobile device in the world.
does this open the way to printing/
projecting, or is the usb port
destined to remain slave ?
I've seen in the forums that people are able to access a pendrive through the TouchPad's USB port. The only quirk is that you have to provide external power. So that would mean that webOS USB port can be as functional as in regular operating systems.
Many times, commercial decisions constrain these things. For example, if I were a music company willing to do busines with you, I'd be very worried at our device being able to obtain music for free through that USB port.
Isn't there the possibility to get the power from the internal battery, by flipping a register/ port bit somewhere? This was done for other devices too which lacked official implementation of USB OTG but the hardware delivered.
When will secure user data return to Palm/webOS-enabled devices? I'm curious if this newly open sourced USB connectivity will return the possibility of syncing contacts/calendar data (or even the backup/editing of memos) with a computer? I have increasing privacy concerns about the prescibed method of syncing to Google/Yahoo/Facebook. Heck, the webOS inability to interface with Palm Desktop/Outlook/[insert favorite software here] always begged for an open source solution.
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Racism is one element in the Travon Martin/ George Zimmerman tragedy. But rather than a uniquely American sin, racism is an aspect of a larger, perhaps even universal failing: Xenophobia. Xenophobia is in turn a product of fear: Fear of the "other."
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JavaFX Balls v2.0: Better benchmarking, Mobile support
In a previous blog entry I described JavaFX Balls, the bubblemark benchmark for JavaFX 1.0. Now I took some time to improve the benchmark and also make a Mobile version!
Going Adaptive
In a forum discussion involving JavaFX Balls and the bubblemark, Dmitri Trembovetski complained that "Gunning for maximum fps in this benchmark is meaningless". Other posters think the current benchmark is valuable, it depends on what you want to measure; but I agree with Dmitri that scores nearing 1000fps are not representative of real-world apps.
So, I enhanced JavaFX Balls with a new option of Adaptive ball count. Click that option, and the program resets at 128 balls but changes that number dynamically, at each 3s intervals, until reaching a stable performance that's close to 200fps (up to 5% higher or lower). The display that's layered on top of the animations is now a string like "29? Image Balls, 198fps". The "?" means that the ball count is unstable (changed in the last FPS update); when you select Adaptive, you must wait until this question mark disappears.
UPDATED: I removed this old version of JavaFX Balls, mostly to make sure nobody will use it anymore as a benchmark because it suffers from JavaFX 1.0's performance. Please check the latest version, for JavaFX 1.3.
Going Mobile
One of JavaFX's most interesting qualities is desktop/mobile portability. It's not perfect, as JavaFX is not a self-contained platform (need SE/ME APIs for such mundane tasks as file I/O); and because, frankly, it's not yet complete - for one thing, JavaFX's native (SceneGraph-based) component set is still missing in v1.1, so your choices are either writing your own components, using platform-specific code or waiting until 1.5. But having said that, even at this stage JavaFX offers a very impressive set of cross-platform capabilities.
Enough talk, here is the Mobile version of JavaFX Balls (also showing the result of the Adaptive mode). Get the full source code for NetBeans, with both versions (check the README.TXT).
Follows an account of all changes I had to do, to produce this Mobile version:
- Refactored all platform-specific code (the "Control UI") in a single place: MainDesktop.fx (~60 LOC) and MainMobile.fx (~50 LOC). The desktop version is still the same toolbar using javafx.ext.swing. The mobile version has no visible Control UI, it's completely keypad-driven:
- LEFT reduces ball count, RIGHT increases it. Notice that I don't inc/dec the count - I cycle to the previous/next element of a sequence of standard ball counts just like the radio buttons in the desktop version;
- UP toggles Image/Vector rendering;
- DOWN Starts/Stops animation;
- STAR toggles the Adaptive mode.
- The enhanced FPS display includes information that would be missing in the mobile UI, like ball count; but this happens to be a nice enhancement even in the desktop UI. (I also fixed the code so every time the animation is reconfigured because the user changed ball count or other option, the FPS counter is properly restarted with a new start time.)
- The original code used a javax.swing.Timer for the FPS updates. This API doesn't exist in CLDC/MIDP, but it's unnecessary (and probably yet another artifact from the original code being ported from a Swing version). I just used a secondary Timeline.
- I'd changed the original code to use System.nanoTime() (stupid!), now I had to go back to System.currentTimeMillis() because it's available in CLDC. This sucks because currentTimeMillis()'s precision is just ~15ms. JavaFX really needs its own hi-res clock API. For JavaFX Balls it's not a big issue because I use that only to measure FPS each 3s, so max error is ~0,5%.
- Note: The program (since its original version) only reads the clock because we can't trust the timer to fire in exact deadlines - it's not a hard-RT platform, so jitter can be high. The time interval calculation could be removed otherwise. Another minor detail that must be considered in good benchmarking code.
- The code used a java.awt.Insets object for the walls boundary data; another leftover from porting from the port from Swing. I fixed it to use javafx.geometry.Rectangle2D.
- The program used Math.random(), a convenience method that's not available in CLDC. Fixed it with java.util.Random.
- I changed the standard set of ball counts from [1, 10, 16, 32, 128] to [1, 4, 10, 16, 32], due to the lower resolution (~1/2 of the desktop's). I kept the default setting of 16 balls; this will result in a higher (quadratically?) number of collisions, but that has insignificant cost and people will want to directly compare the desktop and mobile scores.
I didn't attempt to make the mobile program adapt to the device's screen resolution; it's hardwired for 240x320 (QVGA), a popular resolution for MSA-Subset (or better) devices, and arguably a minimum resolution for any RIA-capable device. JavaFX Mobile will probably run on JTWI devices with a decent MMAPI and lower resolutions like 176x220, but I doubt JavaFX will be very cool or efficient on older devices that also have much worse CPUs, color depth, etc.
And JavaFX Mobile is not really released; we (outside Sun) can only test in the beta emulator. After JavaFX Mobile is released and I can test it on real devices, I'll revisit the code as necessary. I'd appreciate if the authors of other bubblemark versions would port them to mobile runtimes - Flash Lite, Silverlight for Mobile, MIDP with the LCDUI or other JavaME APIs, etc.
How good is JavaFX Mobile's performance? I've got a 82 Balls score for 25fps (which is the locked FPS target for Adaptive mode on Mobile). This consumed 52% CPU (laptop with a dual core T7250 CPU, so that's roughly a full core). I picked 25fps as a standard because the emulator in the beta Mobile release used that rate as the default PULSE_DURATION, but also because 25fps makes sense for devices (it's good enough, and each extra FPS costs you in battery). But the performance is obviously just a curiosity for an emulated, beta runtime.
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Removing the dependency
by lucasjordan - 2010-02-01 09:57I whipped up this little method for setting the "com.sun.scenario.animation.pulse" property, this removes the dependency on the Scenario.jar file, makes the netbeans project a little nicer to work with.
public class Bench {
//com.sun.scenario.Settings.set("com.sun.scenario.animation.pulse", "1000");
public static boolean setup(){
Class clazz = Class.forName("com.sun.scenario.Settings");
Method method = clazz.getMethod("set", String.class, String.class);
method.invoke(null, "com.sun.scenario.animation.pulse","1000");
return true;
}catch(Exception e){
throw new RuntimeException(e);
and then call this in MainDesktop.fx, something like:
var result = Bench.setup();
Thanks for the cool demo!
- Lucas Jordan
Please forgive the formatting... java.net's comment system has always given me fits :)
That's a good idea, thanks!
by opinali - 2010-02-01 10:10
I have also noticed that with each NetBeans and/or JavaFX SDK update, the path for the scenario API changes and even my own project configs have to be fixed. I will use something similar in future updates of my benchmarks (just waiting for JavaFX 1.3...), I guess will just eat the exception instead of rethrowing, to be better-behaved with future JavaFX runtime releases as these internal APIs are not guaranteed to remain backwards-compatible.


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I used to browse the entire gallery by a week's worth of popular sorted art. When I hit the ten favorites point, I would start to bookmark all the images that looked really great. After getting at least 25 bookmarked, I'd sort and post. Problem with that method is that some galleries never got equal exposure, and that bugged me.
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Rokkaku is a Japanese word that means that this kite has six corners. The size of the kite varies from about 4′ to 7′ and they usually have a four-legged bridle. This style of kite is bowed by two tension lines and is popular because it flies well without tails and provides a nice shape to carry artwork.
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I like this, because it's more 50's-ish/suburban; takes the edge off
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This submission was inspired by my bike ride to work everyday. Each day I take a photo of hand-painted signage. I have an archive that I have created vector graphic toolboxes out of that I plan to have available for purchasing. I feel that this aesthetic look is very compelling and the signage has a very rough and seductive graphic look.
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BiographyDr. David Keith is known for his work with temporomandibular disorders and orofacial pain.
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In 1973, Dr. Keith spent three months on an Exchange program with the Massachusetts General Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and has been on staff since. He received his DMD from Harvard School of Dental Medicine and is currently Clinical Professor of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery.
Dr. Keith has edited a book on Temporomandibular Joint Surgery and an Atlas of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. He has authored over 100 original papers, book chapters and reviews in these fields.
Dr. Keith sees patients at both our Boston hospital-based practice as well as at our Danvers facility.
PublicationsLoveless TP, Bjornland T, Dodson TB, Keith DA. Efficacy of Temporomandibular Joint Ankylosis Surgical Treatment. J Oral Maxillofac Surg. 2010 Mar 19.
Scrivani SJ, Keith DA, Kaban LB. Temporomandibular disorders. N Engl J Med. 2008 Dec 18;359(25):2693-705.
Scrivani SJ, Chandwani B, Keith DA, Kahn M, Heilman C. Women with severe facial pain. Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol Oral Radiol Endod. 2009 Feb;107(2):151-6.
Keith DA. Complications of temporomandibular joint surgery. Oral Maxillofac Surg Clin North Am. 2003 May;15(2):187-94.
Keith DA. Custom-made total temporomandibular joint prosthesis. Atlas Oral Maxillofac Surg Clin North Am. 2005 Mar;13(1):83-9.
DaSilva AF, Shaefer J, Keith DA. The temporomandibular joint: clinical and surgical aspects. Neuroimaging Clin N Am. 2003 Aug;13(3):573-82.
Orup HI Jr, Holmes LB, Keith DA, Coull BA. Craniofacial skeletal deviations following in utero exposure to the anticonvulsant phenytoin: monotherapy and polytherapy. Orthod Craniofac Res. 2003 Feb;6(1):2-19.
Scrivani SJ, Keith DA. Temporomandibular disorders. Dent Today. 2000 Jul;19(7):78-87.
Aghabeigi B, Hiranaka D, Keith DA, Kelly JP, Crean SJ. Effect of orthognathic surgery on the temporomandibular joint in patients with anterior open bite. Int J Adult Orthodon Orthognath Surg. 2001;16(2):153-60.
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By Ronald D. Utt, Ph.D.
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The Chestnut Munia or Black-Headed Mannikin/Munia/Nun
|Black-headed Mannikin/Munia/Nun11,13,21,23
|Lonchura atricapilla (formerly Lonchura malacca atricapilla), 10 subspecies
Other common namesChestnut Mannikin, Chestnut Munia, Black-headed Munia, Black-headed Nun, Black-headed Mannikin, "Black Hooded Nun"
- L. a. atricapilla: Indian Black-headed Munia, Eastern Black-headed Munia, Indian Chestnut Munia
- L. a. rubroniger: Nepal Black-headed Munia
- L. a. sinensis: Malaysian Chestnut Munia, Chinese Chestnut Munia
- L. a. formosana: Formosan Chestnut Munia, Taiwan Chestnut Munia, Taiwan Black-headed Munia, Grey-faced Munia
- L. a. deignani: Deignan's Chestnut Munia, Indochina Chestnut Munia
- L. a. brunneiceps: Brown-headed Munia
- L. a. jagori: Philippine Chestnut Munia, Philippine Munia, Philippine Black-headed Munia
- L. a. selimbauensis: Selimbau Chestnut Munia
- L. a. obscura: Dark-backed Chestnut Munia
- L. a. batakana: Batakana Chestnut Munia, Batakana Munia
Area of distributionIndia, China, Myanmar (Burma), Nepal, Thailand, Malaysia, Sulawesi, Ambon, Muna, Philippines, Taiwan, Sumatra, Island of Borneo
DispositionGregarious, peaceful, calm.
Physical descriptionsLight grey beak, black head, rich chestnut brown to mahogany body, wings, and tail. Some races have a black belly and a yellow or orange tinge to the tail. Juveniles are a drab cinnamon-brown and are indistinguishable from juvenile White-headed Nuns (L. maja) and juvenile Scaly-breasted Munias (L. punctulata).
SexingSexes appear similar, but only the cock sings.
SongThe cock's song sounds like a kitten mewing from a distance. It begins with a sries of almost inaudible clicks, followed by an extended whine, then ends in a series of slurred notes.
PicturesIf you keep this species and have a photo of your birds to share, please submit your photo for possible inclusion on this site! Credit will be given to you.
Left: adult & juvenile. Right: an adult and a juvenile getting its adult plumage.
Favorite foodsLarge grain millet, sprouted seed.
Natural habitatGrassy areas, especially swampy grasslands and marshy areas, reeds, rice fields, forrest edge, and scrub brush.
HabitsBlack-headed (Chestnut) Munias live in social groups throughout the year; they gather in rushes and tall grasses to roost in flocks. Breeding birds and recent fledglings roost in nests.
Special considerationsNails tend to become overgrown, so frequent nail trimming may be needed. Hybrids have been reported between Chestnut Munias and Chestnut-breasted Mannikins (L. castaneothorax), society finches, White-headed munias (L. maja), African and Indian Silverbills (L. cantans and L. malabarica, respectively), Scaly-breasted Munias (L. punctulata), and Tricolored Munias (L. malacca), so take care not to allow cross-breeding when housing these species together.
Breeding seasonMay to November in the Indian parts of its range, June to September in Burma, and December to October in Malaya.
Breeding tipsFor best results, keep a group of these birds together in a large aviary planted with tall grasses or a growth of reeds in the corner for the birds to nest in. Allow the birds to chose their own partners. Males will court females with the use of a song and courtship dance which includes carrying a piece of grass and hopping on the perch beside the hen. Receptive hens will crouch and tail-quiver, inviting copulation. Mating is often followed by bill-fencing and mutual allo-preening. Nests constructed of dried grass and fine twigs are built in dense reeds, tufts of grass, palm trees, or thick bushes. Both parents share the tasks of nest building, incubation, and chick rearing. Young hatch naked. For rearing food, provide ample sprouted seed, egg food, and mealworms. After the young fledge, they may continue to sleep in the nest for 1-3 weeks.
Life Cycle
|Clutch size:
|4-6 eggs
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|After 12-15 days of incubation
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|22-28 days of age
|Wean date:
|About 6-7 weeks of age
Related Article(s)If you own this species and would like to write an article about your experiences with them for this page, please submit your article for possible inclusion on this site. Credit will be given to you!
Black-headed (Chestnut) Munias
- Chestnut Munias - Good photos.
- Chestnut Munia - Close-up photo.
- The Black-headed Nun - Notes on keeping this species (.pdf format).
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