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What size shoe do 2 month olds usually wear?
i noticed there are shoe sizes called "crib shoe" for newborns. but then there are sizes 1, 2, 3.ect. what do 2 o 3 month olds wear? and how about 6 month olds?Answers:
pe this helps a little.
They don't.
All babies fuss and manage to take their shoes off.
When they get a little bigger and figure out what to do with their hands, they pluck them off that way.
Most of the time a zero for a small baby
My youngest wore a one at about 6 months old
ll really depends on the child
But small babies really don't need shoes
If you feel that their feet are cold put on an extra pair of socks
it's hard to say with little ones the best thing is to take them to the store with you to see if they will fit
My son wore a size 1 at 2 mons and he is 7 mons now and wears a size 4 or 5. Each child is different though so take him or her with you if you can and let them try them on. If you cannot take them then buy bigger, they can always grow into them but once they are too small they are no longer useful!
There are different slippers you can get if you're worried about feet getting cold but until child starts crawling, I wouldn't bother with shoes for a newborn.
Once your child takes his first momentous steps, he's ready for his first pair of shoes. Until then, he'll just need some socks or booties to keep his tootsies warm when it's cold. In fact, even after your child's racing around, it's a good idea to let him go barefoot whenever it's safe. He'll enjoy the sensation of various surfaces (soft sand, lush carpet, cool tile) beneath his feet, and a barefoot base will him build strength and coordination in his legs and feet, too. For places where he'll need protection, though (outdoors or on a splintery surface, for example), get him a pair of comfy shoes that will aid his toddling efforts.
Buying shoes for an infant is a waste of money.Do yourself a favor and buy the kid some thick socks that he or she won't out-grow in a month.
They shouldn't wear shoes at that age. A baby shouldn't be given shoes to wear until they are walking well enough to walk outside when they need them. The bones in babies toes are very soft and any restriction can adversely effect their growth and cause deformaties, even sock should only be put on if absolutely necessary also avoid tights and all in one outfits with feet.
for those people that say to just buy socks....its funner to buy shoes especially pumas...I bought my kids each a pair of size 0 pumas for the 3 boys blue and for the 2 girls purple and they never take it off
Crib shoes are cute for the 1 minute it takes to take a photo. Other than that they are useless, uncomfortable, and bad for the babies feet.
And babies have different sized feet regardless of age, just like adults.
it varies.
at 2-3 months, i'd say about a size one and six months about a size 2. My kids are big though and went through shoes like no tomorrow. The have those robeez things...i think thats what they're called and they're soft like slippers and babies can't get them off. The best part about those shoes is that they let the babies feet breathe and shape on their own whereas regular running shoes would force the babies feet into shape, which isn't always good.
good luck
The shoes they have where I live are given more by age range, say 0 to 6mths, than by sizes like that. I just wanted to say that usually babies will kick off anything on their feet (at least my girl did) and it was a waste to buy her shoes before she started walking at around 10mths. I had a couple little soft canvas shoes that went well with her dresses, but they are really just for looks. So you can go larger, unlike when they wear them to actually start walking and need them to fit. Dont spend a lot of money buying hard soled shoes (which my sister in law just did).
It depends on the child they are each different. It is like asking what size a 25 year old wears. It varies.
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Junior Lacey Smyth earned her first win over a ranked player of the season, but Arizona women's tennis (7-1) fell to No. 19 Texas Tech (6-1), 6-1 on Friday at McLoed Tennis Center.
Smyth defeated No. 115 Kenna Kilgo, 6-3, 6-3, but it was the only Wildcat win of the day.
"This was not a great day for our girls," Head Coach Vicky Maes said. "We didn't compete the way we had to, to beat a team like Tech. I felt going in that we matched up well, but we didn't get off to a good start."
Freshman Lauren Marker and Austin pushed a third set tiebreaker, but both lost at the No. 4 and 5 spots, respectively.
In doubles play, Smyth and sophomore Shayne Austin battled No. 37 Adams and Kilgo at the No. 1 spot, but fell, 8-4.
"My hope is that we can take this experience and learn from it," Maes said. "We will have a chance to rebound against Georgia State tomorrow."
The Wildcats will face Georgia State on Saturday, Feb. 15 at noon in Lubbock.
#19 Texas Tech 6, Arizona 1
Feb 14, 2014 at Lubbock, Texas (McLeod Tennis Center)
1. Lacey Smyth (AZ) def. #115 Kenna Kilgo (TT) 6-3, 6-3
2. Rashmi Teltumbde (TT) def. Kim Stubbe (AZ) 6-4, 6-2
3. #110 Nikki Sanders (TT) def. Akliah James (AZ) 6-0, 6-2
4. Lynn Kiro (TT) def. Lauren Marker (AZ) 7-6 (7-4), 6-2
5. Samantha Adams (TT) def. Shayne Austin (AZ) 6-3, 7-6 (7-2)
6. Sam Czarniak Rego (TT) def. Laura Oldham (AZ) 6-1, 6-1
1. #37 Samantha Adams/Kenna Kilgo (TT) def. Lacey Smyth/Shayne Austin (AZ) 8-4
2. Nikki Sanders/Rashmi Teltumbde (TT) def. Lauren Marker/Akliah James (AZ) 8-1
3. Lynn Kiro/Sarah Toti (TT) def. Kim Stubbe/Susan Mc Rann (AZ) 8-5
Records: Arizona 7-1, #19 Texas Tech 6-1
Order of finish: Doubles (2,1,3); Singles (3,2,1,6,5,4)


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The use of geodemographic data is common in the regulation of urbanized land and development. Demand for geodemographics has created an industry of commercial providers retailing complex data assemblages, called market segmentation sets, describing synthetic consumer identity groups and linking these groups to their locations in urbanized space through GIS. Among other uses, this data directs real estate development. Radical Railbanking articulates a position from which architects may find agency within the hegemony of geodemographics.
I. Geodemography
Over the past several decades, the use of geodemographic data has grown ubiquitous in the regulation of urban land use and development. City planning commissions use geodemography to aid in the implementation of policy, and private corporations reference geodemographic data when purchasing, selling or developing real-estate. Demand for geodemographics has created a surging industry of providers, such as Claritas and Axciom, that collate and retail data for commercial use. These corporations collect census data, consumer spending statistics, figures scraped from internet usage, and information about race, ethnicity, sexuality, income and consumer tastes. These statistics are then amalgamated into data called market segmentation sets, which describe idiosyncratic and highly synthesized consumer identities and link these identities to their spatial locations in our cities or urbanized areas. These data sets, and their instrumentalization through GIS, attempt to make the distribution of identity across geographic space scientifically knowable. In doing so, these practices impose a narrow epistemological regime – privileging extant quantitative variation over latent qualitative difference and accepting as scientific fact distinctions about race, gender and ethnicity that are merely naturalized. For these reasons, among others, market segmentation geodemography is often assailed as statistically unfounded, and ideologically contentious.
Nevertheless, market segmentation sets are increasingly used to guide commercial urban development. Thus, the built environment plays a critical role in their instrumentalization. When real-estate companies use market segmentation data to choose a site for development, the resultant buildings deeply implicate the synthetic identities targeted. The presence of the shopping malls, big-box outlets or fields of coffee houses that result encourages the predicted consumer behavior. These entities become territorial beacons for the collection of a specific combination of consumers. United in space, this combination of consumers – in effect – becomes the synthesized consumer identity described in the operative geodemography. In this way, development guided by market segmentation geodemographics forges a complexly solipsistic relationship between constructed consumer identity, and the construction of the built environment. These practices serve to reify artificial sociocultural divisions based on the categories of data collection and limit potential urban development to the repetition of conventional consumer building formats. Thus, while some have argued against the validity of market segmentation data, and this data's underlying demographic distinctions are constructed, the development guided by market segmentation geodemography serves to make its assumptions real. These data sets re-describe the spatiality of our cities as an assemblage of spatio-statistical territories populated by hybridized consumer identities.
II. Railbanking
Figure 1: Aerial of Detroit with selected railways in pink
Territories lining the railways in Detroit
Railbanking is a process through which unused railways and easements may be turned over for development as public space. Historically, railways have been assembled from land parcels with varied and discrete ownership types. Some parcels are owned out-right by rail companies, while others are regulated by complex ownership agreements, limited rights of use or temporary government land grants. When a rail company abandons a railway, property rights for the land parcels composing the rail default to differing beneficiaries depending on their original ownership type. Railbanking provides an omnibus legal proceeding through which the complex patterns of ownership around an unused railway may be consolidated and a new public realm may emerge.
This project hijacks and radicalizes the tactics of railbanking by manipulating geodemography through the productive misuse of conventional GIS software. In doing so, the project attempts to locate a constructive position relative to the hegemony of market segmentation geodemography from which the architect can operate. The project's site encompasses several lengths of active railway in Detroit that currently negotiate abrupt formal and demographic division. (Figure 1) Just as conventional railbanking uses a legal proceeding to consolidate land rights in yield of public space, Radical Railbanking uses GIS to analyze and recombine development potentials that are latent in the spatial and statistical relationships between the land parcels along Detroit's rails. The process makes visible potentials for urban development that would not register within the episteme of conventionally applied geodemography.
Key to the Radical Railbanking process is a modeling technique called TIN modeling. Common to many GIS platforms, TIN is an acronym for Triangular Interpolated Network. TINs are typically used in GIS to model topography and enable subsequent ecological analyses. But Radical Railbanking misuses TIN models to eschew and hybridize the categories of conventional geodemography. Thus, while most applications of GIS are fundamentally positivist and limited by the categories of data collection within their applied geodemography, this project is fundamentally relational, spatially and statistically reformulating data.
An initial TIN model is created by offsetting the profile of the selected railways one half mile to each if its sides and interpolating population density values as they register at the offset lines across the resultant corridor. (Figure 2) This interpolation creates a model with an abruptly serrated profile, imaging differing intensities in population density in relation to the geometric offset of the selected railways. Thus, statistical certainty is reformulated as a spatial and statistical relationship. The serrated model is analyzed and the ridges with the highest values are isolated. These ridges indicate relatively high population density values where they intersect with either one, or both, railway-offset lines. Lines at the locations of these ridges are projected back onto the city and combined with the railways to create a "Connective Armature Diagram" across the railway's dormant proximity. This is a projective diagram for new development along the railway that, critically, is based on a fundamental reformulation of conventional geodemography. The diagram is meant to locate trajectories for development that might stitch together unusually vital neighborhoods, channel one zone of higher density into another of lower density, and organize the aggregation of further spatio-statistical relationships in a second round of analysis.
The geometry of the Connective Armature Diagram is then used as a basis for a series of second-generation TINs. (Figure 3) Datasets for these TINs are chosen for one of two reasons. The first category of data sets relate to conventional demographic categories that seek to define a "community" such as the African American "community" or the Hispanic "community." Under this category, demographics are used for the total African American, Hispanic, Caucasian, and Youth populations. The second category of data sets are chosen because they relate to programs that have been historically conceptualized as structural elements within urbanism, such as schools, churches or transit stations. Under this category, demographic figures such as the Blue-Collar Worker Population, the Highly Educated Population, the Religion Index and Mass Transit Ridership are used. This step in the Radical Railbanking process images relationships between data values as they register on the Connective Armature Diagram, and projects those relationships across the space between. Hence, standard geodemography, with all of its positivist biases, is again reformulated and made increasingly spatially and statistically relational. No longer representing a singular statement of statistical "fact," the second generation TINs reformulate and hybridize datasets in relation to the Connective Armature Diagram and the data used in its initial creation. The result is a set of TIN models of complex pseudo-topographic triangulation. These models are then analyzed using a standard topographic analysis function to isolate only those faces of their triangulated surfaces with the most intense slope values. (Figure 4) Under the assumption that the territories with the highest gradient of difference are those most potentially mercurial, these high-slope faces are interpreted as regions in the compound spatio-statistical relationships imaged where the values indicate volatility, or where the most possibility for change exists. In each of these steps, the intended uses of conventional GIS are co-opted, and geodemographic classifications are hybridized.
Figure 2
Figure 3: Second Generation TIN
Figure 4: High Slope Regions
III. Rezoning and Pattern Recognition
The high-slope regions are then projected back on to the city. The resultant drawing is conceptualized as a kind of re-imagined zoning map. Figure 5 Added to the map are fields of very low value, land banked or city owned properties. These are thought of as parcels immediately available for use in any future redevelopment strategy. Also added are schools, parks, and major roads, all of which are understood as existing entities that may inform decision making. When high slope regions from the Blue Collar Population TIN occupy available parcels, they are labeled Production Territories, hosting new factories, company towns and so on; high slopes from the Religion Index TIN create Religious Territories, hosting centers of worship, pilgrimage trails, distributed nunneries, and more; high slopes from the Highly Educated Population TIN generate Educational Territories, suggesting new vocational training facilities, magnet schools and the reuse of residential fabric as dormitories or faculty housing. Similar territorial designations are made for zones where each of the high slopes from the second generation TINs intersect available land. (See Figure 13 Legend) Within these territories, incentives are sometimes stipulated for urban programs that directly solicit a demographic or market group modeled, like a tax bonus for new green-industry development where an intense relationship between blue collar worker populations occurs. Elsewhere, in zones where several intense spatio-demographic relationships overlap, urban programs that cut-across or hybridize the conventional categories of geodemography are encouraged – like megachurches or sports complexes. These kinds of entities are labeled "Civic Infrastructures." The Connective Armature Diagram, which is latently present as the geometric base of the spatio-demographic relationships modeled in the TINs, is concretized as incentives for the development of a continuous network of public spaces that stitches neighborhoods together. The map strategically encourages a series of contemporary "best-practice" urban programs – like urban farming and community centers – but deploys them in a way that is meant to intensify the relationship between urban programs and events, elevating latent urban volatility. The map is sometimes blatantly prescriptive, but these prescriptions are intended to be catalytic of playful and unpredictable urban development.
Most zoning maps simply segregate occupancy and regulate development density, and could thus easily sit within the positivist episteme of conventional geodemography. Counter to this, the Radical Railbanking zoning map displays a rich density of pattern reading against pattern; relationships compounding and inflecting one-another. Using the map to generate strategies for urban development requires a process of pattern recognition: deciphering, designing, and making rules for operating within the relationships that the map makes visible. Hence, the map becomes a sort of medium for the projection of architectural and urban imagination, but one that is yielded through a co-opting of techniques of scientific control. Unlike the commercial or mainstream applications of geodemography, the map never reiterates or reifies conventional or constructed identity categories. Instead, buildings and urban designs guided by the Radical Railbanking process incentivize the emergence of creative urban identities and hybrid urban collectives – describing a city that is solicitous of imaginative architectural interventions.
Figure 5: Final zoning map
Final Zoning Map enlargements


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Harrison County Delegate Ron Fragale joined 5 News at 5:30 to discuss some of the big highlights from the legislative session. We also talked about what some of the big issues emerging this year seem to be so far.
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Physics and Astronomy Quantum Nano Seminar
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Physics and Astronomy Quantum Nano Seminar
Professor Tsampikos Kottos, Douglas J. and Midge Bowen Bennet Associate Professor of Physics, Wesleyan University
Thursday, July 10, 2014
Wilder 102
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Intended Audience(s): Public
Categories: Lectures & Seminars
Title: "Taming Wave Propagation Via Parity-Time Symmetry: Examples From Integrated Optics and Electronics"
Abstract: We will introduce the notion of Parity-Time (PT) symmetry and present its implications in classical
wave propagation. Using integrated optics and electronics as a playfields we show how one can construct
new circuitry designs that allow for asymmetric transport due to interplay of the novel properties of PT-
symmetry and non-linearity or gyrotropic elements.
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Reader E wrote in to recommend this lovely purple pump, noting "I first got this one at Nordstrom Rack in the grey which has blue tones in the croc pattern. Really bridged the gap in my shoes from the too-staid, too-parochial navy pump and plain grey ones. Loved it so much, found the purple suede on line. It is soft leather, a comfortable and supportive heel, shows enough of the foot to lengthen the leg, has a bit of a rubber sole for those building floors, and a point that is not extreme. I wish someone, anyone had the purple croc in my size. This is a sad lesson in 'waiting.'" Well — while I can't help Reader E, I will note that 6pm has a ton of colors and sizes still available for up to 60% off, including plum suede (pictured), black leather, black suede, brown snake, camel suede, caramel leather, grey/blue snake, purple snake, and taupe leather, in prices ranging from $39.15 to $49. Amazonalso has limited sizes and colors for around $40. B. Makowsky – Misty (Plum Suede) – Footwear
Coffee Break – Misty Pump
Are Louboutins Appropriate For the Office?
Are Louboutins appropriate for the office with those sexy red soles? Reader J wonders…
What do think about wearing Louboutins in the office? Is the red sole too sexy?? I have a pair of Simple 85s, which are not high at all. They're conservative, black kid leather, round toe, surprisingly comfy, but they have this in-your-face scarlet sole. I'll be working at a bank that has a reputation of being somewhat laidback, but I don't want to make the wrong impression… Help please?
When I was a first year associate I was completely jealous of another first-year associate who had done some serious shopping during her bar trip — LV bags, Hermes scarves, and Louboutin shoes. She had a classic kitten heel Louboutin, with the trademark red sole. This was before Louboutins were quite as "big" as they are today, so the red sole really stood out, and I thought, looked fabulous. So for my $.02, yes, simple Louboutins are appropriate for the office. [Read more…]
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Java Spotlight Episode 126: Jitendra Kotamraju on JSON Processing @jcp
By Roger Brinkley on Mar 26, 2013
Interview with Jitendra Kotamraju on JSR 353 the JavaTM API for JSON Processing.Right-click or Control-click to download this MP3 file. You can also subscribe to the Java Spotlight Podcast Feed to get the latest podcast automatically. If you use iTunes you can open iTunes and subscribe with this link: Java Spotlight Podcast in iTunes.
Show Notes
- FishCAT is a GlassFish Community Acceptance Testing program
- Beta period for NEW Java EE 6 Enterprise Architect OCM Exam underway through April 13th
- Java Magazine March/April: Java Is Community
- Mar 26-27, Devoxx UK, London
- Mar 28-30, Devoxx FR, France
- Mar 26-29, Design West, San Jose
- Mar 27-28, Cartes - Asia Word-Expo, Hong Kong
- Apr 17-19, Oracle User Group, Norway
- Apr 23-24, JavaOne Moscow, Russia
- May 8-9, JavaOne Hyderabad, India
- May 10, GIDS, Bangalore, India
- May 14, Java Day Tokyo
- May 18-19, Geecon, Poland
- May 22-24, GR8Conf, Denmark
- May 24-25, JEEConf, Kiev
- Jun 3-5, JAX Conf, Santa Clara, USA
- Jul 16-19, Uberconf, Denver, USA
- Jul 22-24, JavaOne Shanghai, China
- Jul 29-31, JVM Summit Language, Santa Clara
- JavaOne San Francisco 2013, September 22 - September 26
Feature Interview
Jitendra Kotamraju is a software engineer at Oracle. He has been contributing to the many Java EE technologies and GlassFish projects for the last 8 years. He was the specification and implementation lead of JAX-WS 2.2. At present, he is the specification lead of JSR 353:Java API for JSON Processing and also implementing various web technologies like Server-Sent Events (SSE), and WebSocket in GlassFish.
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Can You Name The Three Sun Devils In The U.S. Open?
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7:07 a.m.-12:52 p.m. — MATT JONES (with Matt Every and Roberto Castro)
7:51 a.m.-1:36 p.m. — PHIL MICKELSON (with Justin Rose and Matthew Fitzpatrick)
1:25 p.m.-7:40 a.m. — PAUL CASEY (with Luke Donald and Harris English)
By Ari Richman, Sun Devil Media Relations Intern
For the third time in 16 years, the U.S. Open will be returning to Pinehurst, North Carolina. The tournament begins on Thursday (June 12) and goes through Sunday (June 15). Could this year's Pinehurst location produce the first U.S. Open winner who is an Arizona State graduate?
One of the most recognized golfers throughout the world is Phil Mickelson. The ASU alum, who graduated with a degree in Psychology in 1992, will be seeking his sixth major championship, but his first U.S. Open title. However, the Sun Devils have more than one player in the field. Former teammates for two years, Paul Casey (1998-2000) and Matt Jones (1998-2001) are also pursuing a prestigious win to add to their professional golf resume.
As teammates, they helped Arizona State win seven tournaments.
Pacific-10 Championship, Tempe, Ariz. (April 24-26, 2000)
ASU Thunderbird/Savane Invitational, Tempe, Ariz. (Apr. 15-16, 2000)
Las Vegas Intercollegiate, Las Vegas, Nev. (March 10-12, 2000)
USC Southwestern Classic, Westlake Village, Calif. (February 28-March 1, 2000)
NCAA West Regional, Tucson, Ariz. (May 19-22, 1999)
Pacific-10 Championship, Seattle, Wash. (April 25-28, 1999)
ASU Thunderbird/Savane Invitational, Tempe, Ariz. (April 16-18, 1999)
Casey, from Surrey, United Kingdom, was a three-time Pac-10 champion and three-time All-American. Casey's personal bests included a 15-under 265 at the Broadmoor Golf Club in Seattle on the par-70 course in 1999, with an NCAA record single-round score of 60 in the final round. In total, he collected six championships and 19 top-10 finishes in three years at Arizona State. Professionally, Casey is ranked 84th in the world heading into the U.S. Open. He has collected 24 top-10 finishes on the PGA Tour, with a first-place finish at the 2009 Shell Houston Open.
Randy Lein, former men's coach at Arizona State who won eight Pac-10 titles and the 1996 NCAA Championship, saw the potential in Casey and Jones.
"I was very fortunate to have coached talented players (at Arizona State), but Matt and Paul are two of the best I have coached," Lein says.
One characteristic of Paul that stood out to Lein was the way he played to win.
"He didn't show up to play golf or at workouts to go through the motions…he was very gifted physically too."
Jones, on the other hand, had a much different approach on the course. "Matt was very easy going and laid back. He didn't get too excited or upset on the course," says Lein. "When I watch Matt play, he has one of the better swings out there. He makes everything look natural and easy."
A first-team All-American in 2001 and an honorable mention in 2000, the Sydney, Australia native had 13 top-10 finishes. In his last season, he recorded a 71.46 stroke average. He ended the year on a strong note by shooting 32-under in his final six events (20 rounds). Jones, along with Casey, led ASU to finish first in their conference (1995-2000) and in their region (1998, 1999, 2001). Currently, Jones is ranked 48th in the world. He has finished top-10 in 17 tournaments on the PGA Tour, including a win this year at the 2014 Shell Houston Open.
Coincidentally, Phil Mickelson has also won the Shell Houston Open in 2011 – just two years after Casey's first place win, and three years before Jones' first place finish at the same tournament.
In the 156-player field for the U.S. Open, this year's competition includes three of Arizona State's own in the pursuit of a major title. For Casey and Jones, Lein saw their potential early at Arizona State and "knew their goal was to play on the PGA Tour." This Thursday marks the opportunity for three Sun Devils to enter their name in golf history books by capturing the illustrious U.S. Open title.
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Finding time to create a blog when you are busy doing other things can be quite difficult. This is why I have found that it is important that I begin write different types of posts dealing with some of the financial aspects of raising money and the finances that come along with it Our first post be today which I have done a little bit of research on understanding.
There are quite a few issues that are happening financially and I would like to tackle some of the. Although there is a lot of disagreement among many Americans as to our state of the economy, I also have differing views but would like to see how it all comes out in print.


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Giant African snail, Achatina fulica, a potential predator of gastropods
Back in July, Christopher Taylor over at Catalogue of Organisms had a post about snails in which he casually mentioned that the giant African snail Achatina fulica was a predator of invertebrates. "What?" I exclaimed upon reading that, "This ludicrous error must be corrected!" and quickly left a comment on Christopher's post to indicate that Achatina fulica was a dreaded plant pest with the implication that it was unlikely to be a predator of invertebrates.
Imagine my surprise and embarrassment when the March issue of the American Malacological Bulletin arrived early in August (because I had become a member only a few months earlier) to present, among other interesting articles, a short note titled "Giant African snail, Achatina fulica, as a snail predator"1.
The paper reports that individuals of A. fulica have been observed consuming the slug Veronicella cubensis in Hawaii. On one occasion the authors offered a live slug to 3 juvenile A. fulica with the following results:
All three A. fulica climbed on top of the slug and proceeded to consume the integument of the slug. It took over five minutes for the snails to kill the slug. During the first three minutes, the slug crawled and pulled the snails with it as it moved. In the last two minutes, the slug seemed distressed and tried to curl up. After the slug stopped moving, the snails continued to consume the slug for a few minutes.According to the authors, carnivorous behavior by A. fulica has not been reported before.
Achatina fulica is an introduced species in Hawaii and many other places. It is considered a serious plant pest in areas where it is not native (more info from the USDA). Now we know that introduced populations of A. fulica may threaten not only agricultural and native plants but possibly also native gastropod species.
I have one criticism for the subject paper. Since A. fulica was observed eating slugs not snails, the title of the paper should have been "Giant African snail, Achatina fulica, as a slug predator".
1Meyer, W.M., Hayes, K.A. & Meyer, A.L. (2008). Giant African snail, Achatina fulica, as a snail predator. American Malacological Bulletin 24:117-119.


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Barbara Fister of the 'Library Babel Fish' blog recently posted a rather scathing response to an article in The Scientist about the danger of journal cancellations by academic libraries. Worried that the cancellation of journals due to library budget cuts will affect scientific research, the author quotes one scientist, "it's time for faculty to stop being complacent about library cuts and put pressure on their administration to increase resources."
That's all well and good, administration should increase resources to libraries, but as Fister points out, the problem is much, much deeper then journal subscriptions. This is about understanding that the whole model is broken. She says to faculty:
You continue to equate prestige with the traditional way of publishing things, and even when you have the option of self-archiving your work to make it accessible to those poor suckers who lost library access, you can't be arsed (as my English friends would say). This is not a library problem. This is your problem, and throwing more money at it, gratifying though that may be for libraries, won't fix anything. (more here)


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Well-know movie critic, Roger Ebert, apparently had what has been termed "a profound experience" during the last days of his life. Born on June 18, 1942, Ebert passed over on April 4, 2013.
Many people claim Ebert was an atheist but he did not like the moniker. Over the course of his lifetime, he attended "churches all over the world… not to pray but to gently nudge my thoughts toward wonder and awe," he is said to have claimed.
However, in a recent Esquire magazine article entitled Oral Histories of 2013, his wife Chaz said that on the day of his death, "he was strong enough again for me to take him back home… he looked really happy," she added noting, "He was smiling."
When he put his head down as if meditating, his wife was "freaked out. There was some kind of code thing, and they brought machines in. I was stunned."
Once the machines were turned on, she said the room became peaceful. As a Dave Brubeck song played, they sat together on the bed.
"I didn't want to leave him," she said. "I sat there with him for hours, just holding his hand."
At the same time she noticed how "really beautiful," peaceful and young he looked. Ebert had expressed doubt in the reality of God before, but at this point she said, "Something really interesting happened.
She noted that during the weeks leading up to his final day, Ebert talked about "having visited this other place. I thought he was hallucinating" or giving him too much medication.
Then on April 4, he handed her a not that said, "This is all an elaborate hoax."
When she asked him what he meant, he replied that life in this world was "all an illusion."
Again she though perhaps he had lost his grip on reality. However, he described the place he had been as "a vastness that you can't even imagine. It was a place where the past, present and future were happening all at once."
Steve Jobs, co-founder and CEO of Apple Inc., also experienced a strange phenomenon during his final days. He stared at his wife, children and sister "for a long time" and then looked right past them, as if seeing something or someone else.
According to his wife, Laurene, his last words were, "Oh wow! Oh wow! Oh wow! Whatever he saw, it must have been quite spectacular.
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The 2010 Winter Olympics will soon be underway in Canada. The world will be watching, inspired and awed by the efforts of driven individuals and teams competing with grace and poise. Great feats of strength will be applauded and rewarded. With the recent devastation in Haiti, we can also expect many special dedications and memorials that will humble and unite the world audience (perhaps as we should already be).
Away from the gathered Olympic crowds, in the quiet Boreal Forest and Tundra there will be no cries of victory, no cheering crowds or medals to win. There will be only the bone-chilling wails of harp seals as they're brutally slaughtered for their fur.
Every year, tens of thousands of seals are hunted down and cruelly bludgeoned or shot to death because there is still a commercial demand for their fur. Many of the seal victims are still infants, barely able to defend themselves. Helpless mothers look on as their children are drawn across the ice with steel hooks in their eyes or mouths before their heads are bashed into unrecognizable pulps.
The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) alleges they've caught over 660 probable violations during the annual seal hunt, but the Canadian government has taken no official action. IFAW estimates that 79% of sealers do not check to see if the seals were still alive before beginning the skinning process, that in 40% of kills, the sealer administered a second strike as the first attempt did not kill the animal and, in 42% of seal bodies examined there were minimal or no fractures, which is often associated with a higher probability of the animal being conscious during the skinning process.
The fur industry has long avoided the discussion on how animals killed for their fur are (mis)treated. Well known fashion icon Karl Lagerfeld has been quoted as saying that the "beasts would kill us if given the chance." Despite the devastating reality these animals suffer, out-of-sight-out-of-mind reigns king in the forest of decadence. Even as the world watches the horrors in Haiti, compassion continues to be self-limiting.
In 2010 approximately 75,000 seals will be killed in the Canadian seal slaughter.


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November 17, 2012
Adrien Broner KO's Antonio DeMarco, win WBC lightweight championship. Johnathon Banks shocked "Mayhem" Mitchell scores big knockout win
Adrien "The Problem" Broner (25-0, 21Ko's) remains a problem for anyone in or near his weight division. Broner, 23, dismantled the rugged Antonio DeMarco (28-3, 21Ko's) over the course of eight rounds to claim the WBC lightweight world title live … Continue reading
All quiet the night before West final
No way can the Lions be accused of being unprepared after a back-breaking week of practices run by Mike Benevides in advance of his first playoff game as a head coach. The interviews were all done and surely there wasn't … Continue reading
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Boxing Briefs Saturday Preview: Carl Froch defends world title, Broner challenges champ DeMarco and American heavyweight hopefuls slug it out
Here is a look ahead to tonights fights. World championship fights will be taking place on both sides of the pond this weekend with Carl Froch defending his newly won belt and Andrien Broner challenging WBC lightweight champion Antonio DeMarco.… Continue reading
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Ford Models Fashion goes behind the scenes to bring viewers the making of Ford Vol. IV, the fourth show package of Paul Rowland's tenure at Ford. Shot over several days in the fall of 2011, this show package makes a bold statement of intent about the coming Fall 2012 runway season.
Please visit this page for an exclusive look at Ford Vol. IV in its entirety.
Credits include: Title, "The Making of Ford Vol. IV Fall 2012 Show Package"; Creative direction, Paul Rowland; Photography, Sloan Laurits; Styling, Nicholas Grasa; Artwork, Sissel Kardel; Models appearing in this video, Bambi Northwood-Blyth, Ondria Hardin, Lina Sandberg, Corinna Ingenleuf, Karolina Wąż, Kate King, Sigrid Agren, Alana Zimmer, Maryna Linchuk; Video, Damien Neva; Music, "Boléro" by Maurice Ravel.


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Ummm this is my first time doing this so here goes nothing.
I'm going to do commissions!
I can write short stories
I can do art
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I started this because I've made art for people before and they seemed to like it so I thought people might pay to have me make art.
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Machu Picchu was abandoned in 1572 but Peruvian cultural and tourism authorities are desperately trying to put an end to what looks like the birth of a new fad: posing naked in Machu Picchu, the crown jewel of the national heritage. On Friday, four Americans were arrested inside the archaeological complex for taking photos without clothes, the Peruvian Times reported on March 17.
Although not considered a crime, the Ministry of Culture has condemned this practice through a press release, which notes that such attitudes "only seek prominence, subjecting decency, respect and dignity." It also ensured that in recent months officials have stepped up surveillance on Machu Picchu to control nudists.
Despite efforts by Peruvian authorities to stop tourists from baring it all at the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu, they have yet to find an effective solution to the problem.
"International tourists that bear it all for a picture at Machu Picchu caught local and global media attention over the last few weeks when pictures of the naked tourists were posted online. Authorities in Cusco have taken the issue seriously, saying that the growing trend is an attack on decency and threatens Peru's cultural heritage," Peruvian Times reports.
Machu Picchu is a historic 15th-century Inca site located in Peru that was abandoned in 1572 and it is situated on a mountain ridge above the Sacred Valley which is 50 miles northwest of Cusco and through which the Urubamba River flows, Wikipedia writes. Many Machu Picchu historians speculate that Machu Picchu was built as an estate for the Inca emperor Pachacuti, (1438–1472). The site is commonly referred to as the "Lost City of the Incas", and it is recognized as the most familiar icon of Inca civilization.
Machu Picchu was constructed by the Incas around 1450, but it was abandoned a century later largely due to the Spanish Conquest. Before it gained worldwide attention in 1911 thanks to Ayinmerican historian Hiram Bingham, it was relatively unknown to the rest of the world.
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After receiving global attention, Machu Picchu quickly became a major tourist attraction. Most of the outlying buildings have been reconstructed in order to give tourists a better idea of what the structures originally looked like.
Machu Picchu is considered both a masterpiece of architecture and engineering. Its unique architectural and landscape features, and the veil of mystery that has surrounded much of the literature published on the site, have become one of the most popular tourist destinations on the planet.
Machu Picchu is on the List of World Heritage of Unesco since 1983, as part of a cultural and ecological set known under the name Historic Sanctuary of Machu Picchu. On July 7, 2007, Machu Picchu was declared one of the new seven wonders of the modern world in a ceremony in Lisbon, Portugal, which was attended by a hundred million people worldwide.


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On Easter weekend in Buenos Aires we avoided the churches and instead headed to our first Flash Mob event. Hundreds of porteños (residents of the city) met up at the Planetarium in Palermo for a mass pillow fight. Great fun!
Photo of the Week: Mass Pillow Fight
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