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We always hear of celebrities who tell their fans to: "be yourself, be who you want to be and you'll go far." At the same time, these celebrities hawk certain places, items or services that encourage their fans to join the crowd by doing the same thing and ultimately NOT be themselves. I find it weird, but hey, that's marketing and with the popularity of social media, that's just the way the world works these days.
I find it sad that in this day and age there are still people who prefer to follow the majority instead of being their own person. They would visit certain places, eat certain things or wear certain brands just because that's what a lot of (popular) people do and not because that's what they really want.
I know some people who love to casually let slip that they go to this and that place or patronize a certain shop just to point out that they are "in." I think these people are loads different in how they point this out compared to people who genuinely like these places or shops. For the latter, they don't have to say it unless someone asks and it is never the center of the conversation. For the former they'd not just say it, they will even post pictures with the logo of so and so and even tag the location just to point out where they are. Sometimes there'd even be a tweet or status post about it that will just show the person doesn't genuinely understand why he or she likes that place or that shop. It's sad, really.
It's even sadder when these same people pick on others for having different choices. We can't all be lemmings (Never Been Kissed reference there, if you don't get it look it up). What would the world be if we were all alike anyway?
If the world was created for everyone to be the same, I don't think that we would all look different or be brought up in different environments and circumstances. The world would be a boring place if we were all the same. The beauty of the world is in our differences, not in our similarities. It is this variety that makes life more interesting…which is why I don't get why there are so many who would rather be like someone they're not instead of embracing who they are.
If you like something that everyone likes, that's not a problem. You like it and it just so happens that a lot of other people do. It's not a big deal. But if you like it BECAUSE that's what everyone likes, then you've got a problem there.
A lot of people probably think that by being an individual you have to be radically different like Lady Gaga but that's not it. To be unique, you have to be your own person. You can't be a mindless drone following everyone else. You need to listen to what you want and not what people dictate on you, that's what being an individual is about.
Let's not be ashamed to be who we are. There's nothing wrong with being different (unless it means you're out to commit crime or break one of the Ten Commandments). There's nothing wrong with being you. Life is too short to be living it following someone else...at least that's what I think.
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During the first decade of the new millennium (2000-2010), Buffet's
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Performances like that are why I always like to keep an eye on
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Buffett can beat the S&P 500 37 out of the 45 years since he
started Berkshire back in 1967, then it stands to reason he can do
it again...
So after taking a look at some of Buffett's more notables moves in
2011 -- including a $5 billion investment in
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, and an $8.7 billion
of the specialty chemical company Lubrizol -- I think Buffett is
getting ready to put even more of Berkshire's $37 billion in cash
to work in 2012. Here's why...
Buffett still says stocks are attractive. According to Buffett's
address to shareholders on
last month, Buffett believes stocks will perform better than "
, gold or any other investmentoption over time". He followed by
saying stocks still appear relatively cheap even after prices have
improved from earlier this year.
But that begs the question... where will Buffett invest next?
After careful deliberation with my research staff, I think we may
have found the answer in Japan.
The huge earthquake and tsunami that devastated the country last
year hasn't soured Buffet's opinion on Japanese firms.
"There are lots of opportunities in Japan," Buffett said during a
visit to the country to inspect a tool-making company owned by a
Berkshire Hathaway subsidiary. Buffett has made
bets on Japan's
Nikkei 225
contracts, according to
Bloomberg News
I think that's a sign Buffett could getting ready to buyout a major
electronics manufacturer in Japan... If that happens, it could
spawn a wave of buyouts as U.S. companies decide to put the $2
trillion in cash on their balance sheets to work.
But even if Buffett doesn't invest a dime in Japan, I think we can
still make some significant money here.
You see, corporate America has plenty of ammo to wage takeover
battles. U.S. companies have $1.9 trillion in cash sitting on their
balance sheets. That's 7.4% of their total assets -- the largest
share since 1959. For comparison, in the better times of 2006,
assets came to about $1.5 trillion.
Of course that cash hoard reflects the caution many companies feel
about investing in their business in an
where growth is painfully slow. But at this point I'd say there is
little doubt things are improving. I'm betting that in the year
ahead we will begin to see a shopping spree on
Wall Street
as companies look for businesses to buy that will boost their own
bottom lines.
I don't have to tell you about some of the heady returns you can
see from owning a stock that becomes a
takeover target
. Overnight gains of 20%... 30%... even as much as 50% aren't
uncommon. But investing solely on the basis of a takeover can be
risky... that's why you have to pick your candidates wisely.
So which companies could make takeover targets?
One of my favorite places to look right now is the energy patch.
With energy prices high and likely to rise for years, buying
smaller companies in the field has become of the fastest ways for
larger companies to grow.
One such company is
Approach Resources (Nasdaq:
, an independent oil and natural gas company headquartered in Fort
Worth, Texas.
Approach Resources is a small company -- just $1 billion in
market cap
. However, it is growing quickly. In 2011, its total proved
reserves increased by 52%. And because it is small, the company is
at a point to where it can increase production at a rapid pace.
Last year saw not only reserves increase, but production jumped by
Approach Resources invests in various Texas shale deposit and
tight-sand oilfields. Being relatively concentrated geographically
gives the company a cost advantage, as well as a significant risk
management advantage, as it is drilling in proven areas. Production
is about 55% oil and natural gas liquids, and 45% natural gas.
Of course, this fast growth has been great for investors. In the
past two years, Approach Resources has beaten the S&P 500 by
249 percentage points.
And all that makes the company highly attractive for a takeover.
But even if Approach Resources doesn't get acquired in the next 12
months, I think the overall investment theme still remains. After a
shaky year in 2011, companies are going to start actively looking
for more growth opportunities.
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lot of money to be made investing in potential buyout targets right
A major increase in mergers and acquisitions is only one of the
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I'm not sure about the way I drew meowth but ah well. Miaow miaow~
Credit to Pokemon
I'm not sure about the way I drew meowth but ah well. Miaow miaow~
Credit to Pokemon
So cute!!!
that's a paperpoke
papermon are paper digimon
papermon are paper digimon
Miaow.... so cute !! love it !!
Cuuuute! <33
So adorable! Loving the pose <3 <3 <3 <3
That Meowth is so adorable! ^_^
I luv your art
Very cute, dear!
Cute! ^^
Oh my gosh.. it's freakin adorable x3
Meowth That's Right :3
I'm sorry I had to.
So cute btw
I'm sorry I had to.
So cute btw
So kawaii!!!!!!
Cuuuute! ^___^Love this pic
Aaah this is too cute ; u ; <3
Nya~ How adorable~! >w<
<3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3
and yesh he is proudly guarding my lenses
and yesh he is proudly guarding my lenses
aww cute!
Aww.. It's so cute.. I want to hug it!
Fairly sure that is the cutest Meowth I have EVER SEEN. True story!
Cuuuteee *0*
Adorable. Do u take requests?
So cute!!
So cute!
omg my lord! that is the cutest thing i have ever seen!! QAQ
the way you drew him is perfect~<3 i love it!!
the way you drew him is perfect~<3 i love it!!
0w0 nya that's such an honour! Thank you so much! Thank you for your awesome comment ^^
D'AWW! THIS IS ADORABLE! >w< Although his eye... It looks kinda human... But as you said, oh well~ XD Meowth is adorable! I love the bell around his neck! X3
I should have had them both closed but ah.. never mind ^^ thank you very much foryour comment! I'm happy youthink it'scute!~ yayay! thanks so much *bow*
Yeah! But oh well~ (Your paperchildren aren't easily edited, eh?) This is still so cute and of amazing quality either way! X3
Well, once they're inked erm, no not easily editted at all Oh gosh wow, what an honour to have my art called quality!! 83 Thank you so much!
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know what? I´m from austria. And this is epic.
He looks rather epic. I love hatching.
i love this!!!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i love this!!!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nicey! *Does random violin tune to express happiness*
Oh my god this has to be one of the most beautiful and artistic things I have come across on this site. I love his expression, the line work, the colour, just everything works so damn well. xD
I absolutely love this! I just went into a fangirling fit!
FIRST TIME SOMEONE DREW ME IN ALL MY BEATIFULNESS (me and my friends hetalia roleplay at school Im austria!)
He looks really mysterious !
So awesome!
almost looks like harry potter lol beautiful as always
aaaa I love it soo much }^>^
Very nice Austria.
I love the lines of this one
I am not much into that Hetalia thingy, but when I see this character, I am a little bit proud of my country! Cx
Österreich braucht mehr Männer von dieser Sorte! 8-I
Love it!
Österreich braucht mehr Männer von dieser Sorte! 8-I
Love it!
*fangirl squee* and i'm not even an austria fan girl!! XD
OMG. What program do you use? It's totally awesome. Just like your drawing. You can probably tell I'm a little obsessed with Austria, but man he's sexy.
marry me handsome >u<
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o.o ... O.O ... wow!
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I love the expression in his eyes~ He's gorgeous!
lovely portrait c:
Uooooh, gorgeous! *-*
lol thank you person for commissioning him because I love seeing great art of him!
First drawing and he looks great.
Love the way you drew this.
Wow amazing!!
wow everything you do is awesome
Lovely <3
Awww~ Austria! He looks so dashing~ <3
What a noble *giggles* <3
Great job! 8D
What a noble *giggles* <3
Great job! 8D
X3 you should draw Austria more often <3
This is so good ;_; *goes to practice* Faving for study!
This is so good ;_; *goes to practice* Faving for study!
I love it!! 8D
Great job!
Great job!
This is just so...*squee* I love it, great job.
He's my favorite. *drags him off*
My first impression was one of a very hot harry potter XD lol
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Beautifull! <33
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Simple Definition of bring
: to come with (something or someone) to a place
: to cause (something or someone) to come
: to cause (something) to exist, happen, or start
Full Definition of bring
brought play \ˈbrȯt\ bring·ing play \ˈbriŋ-iŋ\
transitive verb
1 a : to convey, lead, carry, or cause to come along with one toward the place from which the action is being regarded b : to cause to be, act, or move in a special way: as (1) : attract <her screams brought the neighbors> (2) : persuade, induce (3) : force, compel (4) : to cause to come into a particular state or condition <bring water to a boil> c dial : escort, accompany d : to bear as an attribute or characteristic <brings years of experience to the position>
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3 : prefer <bring charges>
4 : to procure in exchange : sell for
intransitive verb
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She brought her boyfriend home to meet her parents.
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Origin of bring
Middle English, from Old English bringan; akin to Old High German bringan to bring, Welsh hebrwng to accompany
First Known Use: before 12th century
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My understanding is that when a king was coming to visit your city/country in ancient times, people would go meet him half way, then walk back the rest of the way with him. Similarly, when we "meet Christ in the air," we will come back to earth with him as he restores creation.
And FWIW, these are our Fathers too, you know.
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Battling Budget Priorities
In a useful exercise, David Frum lists the four budget priorities the Republicans will have to reconcile:
1) No tax increase
2) No defense cuts
3) No Medicare cuts
4) Rapid move to a balanced budget.
Obviously it's impossible to meet all four of those commitments. It would be difficult enough to combine #4 with even two of the first three.
My own view is that we keep commitments #1 and #4 by jettisoning the middle two, though until unemployment falls further my preference would be to focus on making the debt levels more sustainable rather than achieving a balanced budget per se. How about you?
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Trumpeter Terell Stafford's sense of melody and uniquely expressive sound make him ideal for Strayhorn's repertoire. Produced by Grammy-winning bassist and composer, John Clayton, This Side of Strayhorn offers a refreshing and unique interpretation of a number of Strayhorn's compositions.
"Widely considered one of the greatest American composers, Billy Strayhorn enjoyed a three-decades-long collaboration with Duke Ellington that resulted in a number of timeless standards and jazz classics. Trumpeter Terell Stafford's sense of melody and uniquely expressive sound make him ideal for Strayhorn's repertoire. Produced by Grammy-winning bassist/composer John Clayton, This Side Of Strayhorn offers a refreshing interpretation of a number of Strayhorn's compositions performed by Stafford and his working quintet of saxophonist Tim Warfield Jr., pianist/arranger Bruce Barth, bassist Peter Washington and drummer Dana Hall. The album grew out of Stafford's involvement in an event called "Celebrating Billy Strayhorn" (held in Strayhorn's hometown of Dayton, Ohio), where his ensemble performed some of Strayhorn's most celebrated compositions as well as lesser-known gems with the Stivers School for the Arts Jazz Orchestra." -All About Jazz
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Down Beat (p.64) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "He makes some broad leaps of tone and emotional latitude in the program. His flugelhorn brings a stoical and impassive containment to 'Lush Life,' even as he lightens the existential bleakness toward the end."
JazzTimes (p.69) - "[W]e're reminded of both Strayhorn's remarkable composing gift and Stafford's startling interpretative talent."
Album Notes
Personnel: Terell Stafford (trumpet, flugelhorn); Tim Warfield (soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone); Bruce Barth (piano); Dana Hall (drums).
Audio Mixer: Katsuhiko Naito.
Liner Note Author: Terell Stafford.
Recording information: Systems Two Recording Studio, Brooklyn, NY (05/17/2010-05/18/2010).
Photographer: Jimmy Ryan .
Arranger: Bruce Barth.
Trumpeter Terell Stafford's 2011 effort This Side of Strayhorn features the hornman performing a series of classic and lesser-known compositions from Duke Ellington's longtime collaborator Billy Strayhorn. Born out of his week-long participation the "Celebrating Billy Strayhorn" fest in Dayton, OH, the album is an urbane and well-crafted affair that finds Stafford wringing much joy improvisationally and otherwise out of these superb compositions. Joining Stafford here are such similarly adept players as saxophonist Tim Warfield, pianist Bruce Barth, bassist Peter Washington, and drummer Dana Hall. To these ends, tracks like "Smada" showcase Stafford's longstanding love of trumpeter Lee Morgan's bluesy and propulsive style, while "Little Brown Book" is a warm, cup-muted number. Elsewhere, the burnished slow-burn blues "Multicolored Blue" and the laid-back and sultry midtempo ballad "Lana Turner" are easily some of the best small group interpretations of Strayhorn you could ever find. ~ Matt Collar
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Old-Fashioned Pork Chops Recipe
—Loy Acerra Crane, Jackson, Tennessee
- 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
- 1-1/2 teaspoons ground mustard
- 1/2 teaspoon garlic salt
- 1/2 teaspoon pepper
- 6 boneless pork loin chops (5 ounces each)
- 2 tablespoons canola oil
- 1 can (10-1/2 ounces) condensed chicken with rice soup, undiluted
- 1 medium onion, quartered
- 1-1/2 teaspoons dried parsley flakes
- 1. In a large resealable plastic bag, combine the flour, mustard, garlic salt and pepper. Add pork, a few pieces at a time, and shake to coat.
- 2. In a large skillet, brown chops in oil on each side. Transfer to a 3-qt. slow cooker. Top with soup, onion and parsley. Cover and cook on low for 5-6 hours or until meat is tender. Yield: 6 servings.
Nutritional Facts
1 serving equals 283 calories, 14 g fat (4 g saturated fat), 70 mg cholesterol, 467 mg sodium, 9 g carbohydrate, 1 g fiber, 29 g protein.
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I just found out what you get when you combine a talented underwater photographer, the keen interest of a year 10 student volunteer, and a museum expert: five species new to science!
My schematic of this discovery, which also explains why I'm a scientist not a cartoonist.Image: Blair PatulloSource: Museum Victoria
In the latest Museum Victoria Memoirs there is a report that describes five new marine species, two of them from Victoria. Perhaps not that amazing considering that's partly what museums do – we discover and describe new species – but this report needed the help from two members of the community.
Firstly, a student volunteer spent over 30 hours looking down a microscope studying the species. And by chance, we also received an image from a recreational diver, participating in Reefwatch Victoria, that showed one of the species spawning in the wild. The result is a perfect combination of scientific detail and real life underwater action.
The sea cucumber Paracaudina bacillis spawning at Rye Pier in Port Phillip Bay.
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The new species are all sea cucumbers from the genus group Paracaudina. They were previously thought to be the same as the tropical species Paracaudina australis, which this report now confirms is unlikely to live in Victorian waters. These Paracaudina are some of the largest sea cucumber species in Australia.
P. Mark O'Loughlin, Shari Barmos and Didier VandenSpiegel. The paracaudinid sea cucumbers of Australia and New Zealand (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea: Molpadida: Caudinidae). Memoirs of Museum Victoria 68 :37-65 (2011) (PDF, 2.86MB)
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Two of our volunteers getting involved in the train building. Image: Kearston BloxidgeSource: Museum Victoria
MUG describe themselves as "Adult Fans of LEGO®" and say that they have witnessed the power of LEGO® play to help children with ASD communicate and grow. They are dedicated to increasing awareness and understanding of ASD around the world. It is believed that the systematic and highly structured nature of LEGO® appeals to children with ASD, while giving them the opportunity to share tasks with their peers. Studies have shown that ASD children receive long-term benefits from this kind of play, too.
The train under construction as each individual trailer was added.
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The goal was to construct the largest road train possible in the two days. Once the individual trailers were built, visitors could let their imagination run wild in building the cargo for the train to haul. After two days, up to 3000 visitors to Scienceworks had contributed to the construction of 190 trailers which combined made a road train just over 46 metres in length.
This dinosaur robot was just one of the many amazingly creative lots of cargo seen on the trailers.
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Ursula Smith works in the natural sciences collections at Museum Victoria. Though a palaeontologist by training she finds all the collections fascinating and swings between excitement at all the cool stuff in them and despair at the lack of time to look at it all.
I've been asking the people who work with MV collections what some of their favourite items are, starting with Dermot Henry, the Manager of the Natural Sciences Collections.
Dermot's speciality is geology and he's looked after the geosciences collections for many years. When asked what his favourite item was he took care to tell me that he didn't have a favourite because there are so many fascinating objects, but when pressed he picked the Murchison meteorite as "probably the most famous and scientifically important rock in the collections."
The Murchison meteorite is one of 16 meteorites known from Victoria, and is rare in that it was actually observed falling, rather than just being found on the ground, so it came to scientists fresh (other than some surface dirt from falling into mud and cowpats and the like). It exploded in the atmosphere over Murchison, Victoria, about 160km north of Melbourne, on 28 September, 1969 and fell over an area around 35km2. So when we talk about 'it' we're really talking about lots of broken pieces of a single object.
Display in Dynamic Earth.Image: Ursula SmithSource: Museum Victoria
These pieces are on display in Dynamic Earth and are just a very small portion of what was collected. The largest piece found weighed nearly 7kg though many more were just a few grams each. In total, around 100kg was collected and over 80kg of that made it into science collections. While a lot of the material went overseas (mostly to the Field Museum in Chicago who have nearly 52kg and the Smithsonian in Washington DC who have nearly 20kg) some remained in Australia. Over 7kg stayed at the University of Melbourne and much of this was later donated to Museum Victoria. We have about 3.5kg and only the largest pieces that are on display; we also have lots of smaller pieces.
Drawer containing pieces of Murchison meteorite.Image: Ursula SmithSource: Museum Victoria
Most of the pieces of rock in this drawer are parts of the Murchison meteorite (though not the big rock on the right – that's actually a different meteorite of a similar type called Rainbow that was found in Victoria in 1994). Opening the sealed tubes, you can still smell, very faintly, what Dr. John Lovering from the University of Melbourne who organised the collection of the meteorite pieces in 1969 described as "just like methylated spirits – very strong". This was the first indication that the meteorite he was looking at was a rare type called a carbonaceous chondrite. Unlike more common rocky meteorites, a carbonaceous chondrite is packed full of organic molecules and a lot of water; this one is eight per cent water.
The year after it was collected, papers began to appear in scientific journals describing the chemical composition of the meteorite and excitement about its scientific significance began to grow. A paper in the journal Nature describing the discovery of amino acids of extra-terrestrial origin in the meteorite made, if you'll pardon the pun, quite an impact, and was widely covered in the press, even making it into Time Magazine. Papers are still being published on it – one came out in August this year in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and a new chromium sulfide mineral, Murchisite (Cr5S6), was just reported in American Mineralogist.
To date over 70 amino acids have been identified from the meteorite, only 19 of which are known from Earth. These, and the many other chemicals that have been identified, suggest there could be thousands of complex organic chemicals present. What's so interesting about these molecules is that they demonstrate that the simple chemical building blocks necessary for life on Earth seem to form quite easily in other places.
It isn't just the origins of life that the Murchison meteorite may tell us about. It contains tiny pre-solar grains – nano-diamonds and silicon carbides, among others, that formed in supernovas long before our own sun appeared – which tell us a lot about how our own, and other, solar systems formed. But not only that, information from the pre-solar grains in the Murchison meteorite has been fundamental in figuring out a lot about how elements are originally produced and a lot about the structure and mechanics of stars.
So the Murchison meteorite is definitely pretty cool – biologists, chemists, astrophysicists and those of us who just think rocks that fall out of the sky are fascinating all agree on that. As Dermot says, "it's so unusual and it's yielded so much information about cosmology, element formation and how the universe works – it's probably generated more publications than any other meteorite. And it's Victorian!"
Two pieces of the Murchison meteorite in Dynamic Earth.Image: Ursula SmithSource: Museum Victoria
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The range of invertebrate animals that we found at Neds Corner was spectacular. At the robust end of the scale were the Rasping Crickets with their big jaws and impressive biting powers. We encountered pairs of these large crickets, the females having the long egg-laying ovipositor off the tip of their tail.
Rasping CricketImage: David PaulSource: Museum Victoria
We also found the delicate pottery brood chambers built by potter wasps. They build these perfect small chambers to contain their young and then bring food to the developing grubs.
Above: Adult potter wasp | Below: The nest of the potter wasp.Image: Patrick Honan | Mark NormanSource: Museum Victoria
Grace Lewis from the Entomological Society of Victoria witnessed the life and death tug-of-war between a spider wasp and meat ants over a paralysed wolf spider. The ants won.
Above: Antlion larva in its conical pit | Below: Winged antlion adultImage: David Paul | Mark NormanSource: Museum Victoria
The ants were not so lucky in the many antlion pits we found scattered in the red sand. Antlions are the juvenile stage of an insect related to the lacewings (order Neuroptera). The young antlions with their big jaws dig a conical pit in the sand and sit in the bottom waiting for ants to slide in. The flying adults were attracted to our night lights. We also saw another related insect known as a mantis fly or mantispid – it has a lacewing body with the attacking front end of a praying mantis.
Mantispid or mantis flyImage: Mark NormanSource: Museum Victoria
The centipedes were beautiful and fast, with lots of legs for running. We also found small red-eyed cicadas everywhere and saw them emerge from their wingless cases.
Colourful centipedeImage: Mark NormanSource: Museum Victoria
Dr John Stanisic of the Queensland Museum was pleased with his tally of ten land snail species including some of the smallest animals imaginable. Our photographer David Paul has perfected photographing "gliding sand grains".
Tiny land snailImage: Mark NormanSource: Museum Victoria
Every day we found more radical colours, shapes and sizes amongst the invertebrate fauna than the day before.
Bush Blitz is a biodiversity partnership discovery program between the Australian Government, BHP Billiton and Earthwatch Australia, that aims to document the plants and animals across Australia's National Reserve System. Museum Victoria also participated in Bush Blitz at Lake Condah in March 2011.
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By 25 November, rain drenched Neds Corner and the clay turned to slippery mud. Great weather for frogs. With the rain's arrival, frogs emerged from the mud as our vehicles sank into it.
Rain at Ned's Corner. Left: The view from the homestead porch | Right: Boggy roadImage: M. Hewish / M. ChengSource: M. Hewish / M. Cheng
Pobblebonk frogs turned up everywhere. In our pitfall trap lines, 30 pits contained 37 frogs. These frogs bury into the soil in the dry weather and wait for the rains. Then they emerge to feed and mate.
Pobblebonk Frog (Limnodynastes dumerili) at Neds Corner.Image: David PaulSource: Museum Victoria
The other frogs we encountered were the Spadefoot, Spotted and Barking Marsh Frogs, Peron's Tree Frog and a froglet (genus Crinia). The tree frogs can be recognised by their padded toes, good for climbing.
Peron's Tree Frog (Litoria peroni) with beautiful green spots.Image: Patrick HonanSource: Museum Victoria
The wetter weather was also good for the fungi and Dr Teresa Lebel from the National Herbarium of Victoria found many new records for this region. In arid country many types of fungus rest under the soil in a shrivelled state. As soon as the water reaches them, their stalks hydrate and the heads of species like puffball fungi emerge above the mud to release their spores.
Fungi after rain at Ned's Corner. Left: Fruiting bodies of the Earth Star fungus | Right: Tinder Conch fungusImage: Mark NormanSource: Museum Victoria
One of the fungus highlights was finding fallen white shelf fungi at the bases of big River Red Gums. The spongy dead fungus is called Tinder Conch fungus as Aboriginal peoples used it for carrying the slow-burning coals needed for fire starting.
Our survey team was not as well-adapted as the frogs and managed to bog three cars in one day, but a combination of winches and effort got us all home safe and sound.
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With the warm weather we experienced at the start of the survey, the Neds Corner Bush Blitz team clocked up an impressive tally of reptile species. Being in the driest corner of Victoria, the desert influence is obvious in a wonderful range of skinks, dragons, geckoes and snakes.
Four of the larger lizards have been found. The Inland Bearded Dragon has the scales and scutes of the best fictional dragons and has been found sunning itself on dead logs and fence posts. From above these spikes help them blend against the background. The Shingleback with its bright blue tongue has been observed many times living up to its other name (Sleepy Lizard) by sleeping or slowly loping on the roadsides. They are often in pairs. This species mates for life and can live to up to 50 years old. Sand goannas and a large Lace Monitor have also been recorded.
Shingleback SkinkImage: Mark NormanSource: Museum Victoria
Five gecko species (Bynoe's, Thick-tailed, Tree Dtella, Tassellated and Marbled) have already been found through night walks or searching under bark and through leaf litter. They are a mix of ground dwellers (with normal claws) and tree-climbers with their fat fleshy toes. Many gecko species store fat in their tails and our ones seem well fed. We've been finding some very pregnant females bulging with the two eggs they lay at a time.
Thick-tailed GeckoImage: David PaulSource: Museum Victoria
In addition to the Shingleback, five other skink species have been found including Tree Skink, Boulanger's Skink, Carneby's Wall Skink and several yet-to-be resolved Ctenotus species.
Boulanger's SkinkImage: Mark NormanSource: Museum Victoria
The snake highlight has been a Curl Snake, a small species around 30 cm long. It was found while researchers Patrick Honan and Chloe Miller were searching at night for tiger beetles on clay pans. Though small, this species is highly venomous and has caused human fatalities so we handled it very carefully. It is listed as threatened in Victoria under the Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act.
Curl SnakeImage: Mark NormanSource: Museum Victoria
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Parents need to know that this portrait of revolutionary Boston, as seen by Paul Revere's sometimes recalcitrant 13-year-old daughter, has romance and intrigue.
Paul Revere gallops around the countryside on secret missions as his thirteen-year-old daughter, Sarah, tries to make sense of life and the American Revolution. Sarah adores family friend Dr. Joseph Warren but fears that he and her stepmother may be in love. Meanwhile, danger looms for all as the Revolution begins. Good historical fiction that Rinaldi fans will enjoy.
The author's research and attention to details serve readers well, while the common struggles of adolescence strike familiar chords. Despite sometimes awkward writing, this is one of Ann Rinaldi's better efforts, and it keeps readers interested in the emotions of the character while stimulating interest in the historical period.
She gives abundant details of revolutionary Boston, describing Revere's difficulties getting out of Boston for other journeys to distant cities and discussing spying among patriots and loyalists. Readers see Revere as a kind and loving father and learn that he also practiced dentistry and printed money for the patriots. But Rinaldi portrays his mother and oldest daughter as rather nasty characters. In her afterword she notes that she really has no information about their personalities, but the strong impression of the two maligned women may linger in the minds of young readers.
Families can talk about coming of age amid such dramatic events. How do the events of the Revolution influence the kind of woman Sarah is becoming?
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There's little room to talk about jobs and the real economy in DC—where it's debt and deficit every day, all the time. But what's completely off the radar is poverty, despite record numbers that will be even bleaker when the Census report releases new data come September.
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While there are indeed some good people in Congress—notably the Congressional Out of Poverty Caucus, led by Representative Barbara Lee, which has pressed the White House and leadership to protect "social service programs that serve as a life line for our nation's low income and poor communities"—there's a real vacuum in our political and media landscape when it comes to bringing attention to the lives of those who are being hit hardest by this economic crisis.
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My distinct lack of sequel-naming talent aside, it seemed as though, against our will (untrue) the Leon and I would have to team up one last time (improbable) to once again take on the Everest that is the Car Limits driver training course. But this time, it was personal. And Wet.
National Geographic's team of climbers is expected to reach the peak Friday and those who follow along with Instagram will be the first to see it.


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Migrating to DB2? Here's the customer view
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I love hearing from customers. I love it even more when they're willing to share their success stories with the world. Like the case below, wherein Florida Hospital, Deluxe Corporation, and Baldor discuss how migrating from Oracle to IBM DB2 has lowered their costs and improved system performance.Check it out below, then visit our Break Free area on IBM.com.
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at last, we are here
and still, the sun is real!
how i've missed myself in this grassland palace,
brome or bluestem or whatever it is;
to live as a lapwing in your grandmother's dreams
eating at the inland wind,
brimming turtle quietude
just as i had left it:
pond oaks mired with a hundred broken backs,
burrow holes of rabbit tribes and trespassing fawns
whittling the woods while lake cranes are jumping ship
and who knows what else out there garroting the breeze,
riddling the miraculous
cow track heuristics
that seem to solve barbed wire,
boscage and gravity;
one-ton Houdinis
that disappear my blues with ease -
i wait for these simplicities
of listening.
South of Oklahoma by spoemsWatch
©2012-2016 spoems
Achingly beautiful.
yes - gentle...one of your most beautiful pieces
uncharacteristically gentle, and really evocative, full of a sense of place and home.
It's funny you say it seems out of character for me. I don't know why it doesn't show more in my poetry, but I feel I have softness and pliancy to rival the clouds. Surely, any softer and I'll lose all cohesion.
Thanks for reading.
Thanks for reading.
thank you shane...this okie needed a little bit of home