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In the 1997 field season a locality containing abundant vertebrate fossils was located within the Wahweap Formation within Bryce Canyon National Park. The locality has yielded fossils of mammals, dinosaurs, turtles, crocodilians, fish, and herptiles as well as invertebrates such as gastropods and ostracods. The mammals are more primitive than those recovered from the Kaiparowits Formation, and sharks and rays are abundant as they are in the type area of the Wahweap Formation. We have also significantly increased sampling of the uppermost Cretaceous rocks on the Paunsaugunt Plateau and the additional material confirms the distinct differences between this fauna and that of the Wahweap Formation. This data strongly suggests that the uppermost Cretaceous rocks along the southern margin of the Paunsaugunt Plateau and Bryce Canyon National Park are equivalent to the Kaiparowits Formation.
Figure 1Map of the Paunsaugunt Plateau area showing the major faults, distribution of undifferentiated Cretaceous formations (Ku), the Claron Formation (Cl), Tertiary basalts and other volcanics (Tb), Quaternary alluvium (Qa), and the area from which most of the Cretaceous vertebrates have been recovered from the uppermost Cretaceous rocks (indicated by the "1") and from the Wahweap Formation (indicated by the "2") (modified from Eaton, 1993a). Outline of Bryce Canyon National Park is approximate.
Bryce Canyon National Park is situated along the eastern margin of the Paunsaugunt Plateau, southwestern Utah. The plateau is bounded to the east by the Paunsaugunt fault system and to the west by the Sand Pass and Sevier fault systems (Figure 1) (Eaton et al., 1993). The southern margin of the plateau is an erosional scarp formed above the Skutumpah Terrace. The top of the plateau is formed by the pink and white resistant caprocks of the Claron Formation of Early Tertiary age.
Below the colorful cliff-forming rocks of the Claron Formation is a problematic series of Upper Cretaceous rocks. The Paunsaugunt Plateau contains less than half the thickness (approximately 900 m, Figure 2) of Cretaceous rocks that are present immediately to the east on the Kaiparowits Plateau (approximately 2000 m) (Eaton et al., 1993). Critical to interpretation of regional history and tectonics is why the Cretaceous sequence on the Paunsaugunt Plateau is so much thinner than that of the Kaiparowits Plateau.
The presence of the Dakota Formation, Tropic Shale, and the Tibbet Canyon, Smoky Hollow, and John Henry Members of the Straight Cliffs Formation has been documented on the Paunsaugunt Plateau (Gregory, 1951; Eaton, 1993a; 1993b; Eaton et al., 1993). Difficulties arise in interpreting the equivalency of the uppermost Cretaceous rocks on the Paunsaugunt Plateau. Gregory (1951) was unable to distinguish the Straight Cliffs Formation from the Wahweap Formation and mapped them as a single unit (Ksw). Gregory (1951) placed a conglomerate high in the Cretaceous section at the base of the Kaiparowits Formation and considered it to lie unconformably on top of the combined Straight Cliffs-Wahweap formations (Ksw). Overlying the conglomerate are gray and variegated mudstones and sandstones that Gregory included, along with the basal conglomerate, in the Kaiparowits Formation. Doelling and Davis (1989) also maintained that the Kaiparowits Formation is present on the Paunsaugunt Plateau (and to the west) and suggested that the Straight Cliffs Formation is very thin (30-80 m) on the plateau but provided no justification for this hypothesis.
Bowers (1990) and Tilton (1991) suggested that the conglomerate did not represent an unconformity at the base of the Kaiparowits Formation, but rather the uppermost member of the Straight Cliffs Formation, the Drip Tank Member, which can be conglomeratic on the Kaiparowits Plateau (Eaton, 1991). Both Bowers (1990) and Tilton (1991) suggested that the beds immediately overlying the conglomerate belong to the lower part of the Wahweap Formation rather than to the Kaiparowits Formation. This is certainly the most parsimonious explanation as it requires only a single erosional unconformity prior to deposition of Tertiary rocks.
Goldstrand (1994), Goldstrand et al. (1993), and Eaton et al. (1993) suggested that the Kaiparowits Formation may be present on the plateau based on comparisons of sandstone petrology between the uppermost rocks of the Paunsaugunt and Kaiparowits plateaus. Eaton et al. (1993) suggested several possible scenarios that might preserve a remnant of the Kaiparowits Formation on the Paunsaugunt Plateau. All of these scenarios require a major unconformity within the Cretaceous sequence on that plateau that is either absent or undetected on the adjacent Kaiparowits Plateau.
An attempt to compare the mammalian fauna recovered from the uppermost Cretaceous rocks of the Paunsaugunt Plateau to faunas from the Wahweap and Kaiparowits formations on the Kaiparowits Plateau yielded equivocal results. Eaton (1993a) tentatively suggested that the fauna recovered from the uppermost Cretaceous rocks of the Paunsagunt Plateau correlated more closely to the fauna of the Kaiparowits Formation rather than that of the Wahweap Formation. There was some concern at the time as to whether the fauna might represent a more upland facies of the Wahweap Formation than had been sampled on the Kaiparowits Plateau.
Figure 2A preliminary interpretation of a generalized stratigraphic section on the Paunsaugunt Plateau (see Eaton et al., 1993, and Eaton, 1993a, for other interpretations) compared to the section on the adjacent Kaiparowits Plateau (based on Eaton, 1991). Only the stratigraphic position of localities within the Kaiparowits(?) and Wahweap formations of the Paunsaugunt Plateau are indicated.
Vertebrate Faunas
Vertebrate localities are common throughout the Cretaceous sequence on the Paunsaugunt Plateau; however, access is extremely limited due to localities occurring on cliff faces far from roads. As a result, few localities have been screen-washed for vertebrates.
Vertebrates have been recovered from the Dakota Formation along the western margin of the plateau near the town of Alton and the mammals recovered from that locality (Museum of Northern Arizona Locality 939) have been described in Eaton (1993b, 1995).
No vertebrates have been recovered from the Smoky Hollow Member of the Straight Cliffs Formation around the margins of the plateau, but vertebrates have been recovered on the nearby Kaiparowits Plateau (Cifelli, 1990a; Eaton, 1995). Fossils are relatively common from stratigraphically higher rocks variously interpreted to represent the Straight Cliffs or Wahweap formations, particularly in the area of Bryce Canyon National Park (Eaton, 1994). There is no road access to any of these localities as most are high on roadless cliff faces. As such, surface collection of crocodilian, dinosaur, and turtle scrap are common, but small, biostratigraphically useful materials have not been recovered until recently. A single test screen-washing of a small sample from a locality within Bryce Canyon National Park yielded microvertebrate fossils including a partial upper molar of a marsupial (Eaton, 1994). During the 1997 field season, a locality was discovered in the Wahweap Formation within Bryce Canyon National Park (Utah Museum of Natural History Vertebrate Paleontology (=UMNH VP) Locality 77). This locality is considered to represent the Wahweap Formation rather than the Straight Cliffs Formation because there is no evidence of the brackish water or coal deposits that characterize the Straight Cliffs Formation, the mudstone sequences (floodplain deposits) are proportionally thicker relative to sandstones as in the Wahweap Formation in its type area on the Kaiparowits Plateau, a thick conglomerate that appears to be equivalent to the Drip Tank Member of the Straight Cliffs Formation is present at the base of the section, and the area of the locality (Campbell Canyon) was mapped as the Wahweap Formation by Bowers (1990).
Eighteen sacks of matrix were hauled by backpack from this locality and processed. At the time of this writing most of the concentrate has been picked, but there has been relatively little taxonomic study. The material recovered to date includes the teeth of mammals (a pediomyid marsupial and a multituberculate with teeth smaller than, but morphologically similar to, those of Cimolodon similis), dinosaurs, sharks, rays, fragmentary jaws and postcrania of herptiles, and shell material of turtles (Table 1). These fossils will be accessioned into the collections at the Utah Museum of Natural History.
The vertebrate fauna described by Eaton (1993a) is from the top of the plateau in an erosional window cut through the Claron Formation into the uppermost Cretaceous rocks (Figure 1). Approximately 2,000 kg of matrix were processed for microvertebrates during the 1988-1989 field seasons. The fauna includes material of dinosaurs, herptiles, and mammals, which are housed at the Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff (mostly from MNA localities 1073 and 1074). An additional 4,000 kg was processed during the 1996-1997 field seasons and will be accessioned into the collections at the Utah Museum of Natural History in Salt Lake City (mostly from UMNH VP Locality 83, the same locality as MNA 1073, but also from two new localities UMNH VP Locs. 61 and 84). Much of this new material remains to be picked and studied.
The material discovered to date from this uppermost Cretaceous unit does not include a single shark or ray tooth. The turtle Compsemys is relatively abundant as are ceratopsian teeth. Only the mammals have been studied in detail and the list presented in Table 2 is essentially the same as that presented in Eaton (1993a). Differing from the original faunal list is the question mark preceding Cimexomys gregoryi. Eaton (1995) noted the similarity of this taxon to Bryceomys described from the Smoky Hollow Member of the Straight Cliffs Formation. More material of the Paunsaugunt Plateau taxon would be required to confirm this synonymy. An M2 recently recovered strongly suggests the presence of Bryceomys in the fauna and compares closely to MNA (Museum of Northern Arizona) 7042 from the Kaiparowits Formation.
Faunal Age and Correlation
The material from the new Wahweap locality is
consistent with previous known localities from the Wahweap
Formation of the Kaiparowits Plateau (see Eaton, Cifelli et al.,
in press). Sharks and rays are abundant. The rays are similar
to the species of Myledaphus from the Kaiparowits
Formation but appear to be more primitive. There is another taxon of
ray informally referred to as "smile button" which is known
from the Wahweap Formation, but not the Kaiparowits. The
turtle Compsemys is present, but rare relative to other turtles,
whereas Compsemys is a common element of Kaiparowits faunas.
The mammals are similar to those known from the Wahweap,
particularly the specimen of Cimolodon. The single
pediomyid tooth is a deciduous fourth premolar and compares almost
identically to a tooth recovered from the uppermost
Cretaceous beds on the Markagunt Plateau interpreted to be either
latest Santonian or earliest Campanian in age (Eaton, Diem et
al., in press). Nothing like this odd pediomyid tooth is
known from the Kaiparowits Formation.
Table 1Vertebrates from the Wahweap Formation (UMNH VP Loc. 77), Bryce Canyon National Park.
Order Orectolobiformes
Family Ginglymostomatidae
Squatirhina sp.
Squatirhina americana
Order Rajiformes
Family Rhinobatidae
cf. Myledaphus sp.
Family Sclerorhynchidae
cf. Ischyriza sp.
Family indet.
Ptychotrigon sp.
Class Osteichthys
Order Lepisosteiformes
Family Lepisosteus
Lepisosteus or Astracosteus sp.
Order Amiiformes
Family Amiidae
Amia sp.
Class Amphibia
Order Urodela
Family Scapherpetontidae
Scapherpeton sp.
Class Reptilia
Order Chelonia
Family Pleurosternidae?
Compsemys sp.
Order Squamata
Infraorder Scincomorpha
Family Teiidae
Chamops segnis
Family Scincidae
Contogenys sp.
Order Crocodylia
Subclass Dinosauria
Order Saurischia
Suborder Theropoda indet.
Order Ornithischia
Family Hadrosauridae indet.
Family ?Ankylosauridae
Class Mammalia
Order Multituberculata
Family Neoplagiaulacidae
cf. Mesodma sp.
Family Cimolodontidae
Cimolodon sp.
Order Marsupialia
Family Pediomyidae indet.
Family Alphadontidae
cf. Alphadon sp.
Order Lepisosteiformes
Family Lepisosteus
Lepisosteus or
Astracosteus sp.
Order Amiiformes
Family Amiidae
Amia or Melvius sp.
Class Amphibia
Order Urodela
Family Scapherpetontidae
Lisserpeton sp.
Family Sirenidae
Habrosaurus sp.
Class Reptilia
Order Chelonia
Compsemys sp.
Order Crocodylia
Subclass Dinosauria
Order Saurischia
Suborder Theropoda
Order Ornithischia
Family Hadrosauridae
Family Ceratopsidae
Class Mammalia
Order Multituberculata
Suborder Ptilodontoidea
Mesodma sp., cf. M.
Mesodma sp., cf. M.
Mesodma sp.
Family Cimolodontidae
Cimolodon sp., cf. C.
?Cimolodon sp.
Family Cimolomyidae
Family ?Cimolomyidae
Suborder and Family
incertae sedis
Paracimexomys sp.
Order Symmetrodonta
Family Spalacotheriidae
Order Marsupialia
Family Alphadontidae
Alphadon sp., cf. A.
Alphadon sp., cf. A.
Alphadon sp., cf. A.
Turgidodon sp. indet.
cf. Turgidodon sp.
Eaton (1993a) considered the fauna from the uppermost Cretaceous rocks of the Paunsaugunt Plateau to be more closely equivalent to Kaiparowits (most closely correlative to the Judithian Land-Mammal "Age") than to Wahweap (most closely correlative to the Aquilan Land-Mammal "Age") faunas. The species of Alphadon and Mesodma appear to be even younger than those known from the Kaiparowits Formation. Unfortunately, many of these species are based primarily on size and it is now clear (see Eaton, Diem et al., in press) that species of Alphadon and Mesodma appear to have had a wide range of sizes throughout the Late Cretaceous and that size alone is not a reliable taxonomic guide. Two new specimens (M1s) of Mesodma (UMNH VP 6789, 6794) compare closely to specimens from the Kaiparowits Plateau specimens (MNA V5291 and V7525 respectively) and are similar to M. hensleighi, also supporting correlation to the Kaiparowits Formation. Turgidodon was described from the Kaiparowits Formation by Cifelli (1990b) and is unknown from the Wahweap Formation. Its presence strongly supports correlation of the fauna to that of the Kaiparowits Formation. A recently recovered upper molar that is Turgidodon-like (but lacks stylar cusp C; B and D are subequal) compares closely to an undescribed Kaiparowits Formation molar (Oklahoma Museum of Natural History (=OMNH) 23320). This indicates a diversity of Turgidodon-like taxa in the uppermost Cretaceous of the Paunsaugunt Plateau which would not be expected if this unit represented the Wahweap Formation.
The presence of Symmetrodontoides foxi originally argued strongly against correlation to Kaiparowits faunas as symmetrodonts were completely unknown from the Kaiparowits Formation and the type of this species was recovered from the Wahweap Formation. However, a single symmetrodont tooth (probably Symmetrodontoides) has now been reported from the Kaiparowits Formation (Eaton, Cifelli et al., in press).
The complete absence of sharks and rays suggests the
seaway was well to the east. The sea was at its greatest
distance from the area (during the time represented by Cretaceous
strata on the Kaiparowits Plateau) during deposition of
the Kaiparowits Formation and sharks are unknown from
that formation except from near the base. Teeth of ceratopsian
dinosaurs are relatively common in the uppermost
Cretaceous beds of the Paunsaugunt Plateau. Although ceratopsians
have an older record (Wolfe et al., 1997), they are not found commonly in this region until after deposition of the Wahweap Formation. Also the occurrence of the salamander Habrosaurus from the uppermost beds on the Paunsaugunt Plateau suggests a Late Campanian age (Kaiparowits equivalence) as this salamander is not known from older rocks.
So in the years that have followed the original description of the fauna from the uppermost Cretaceous beds of the Paunsaugunt Plateau (Eaton, 1993a), the age of this fauna still remains somewhat equivocal but the specimens recently recovered more strongly indicate an equivalence of this fauna to that of the Kaiparowits Formation .
In the 1997 field season we resampled the uppermost Cretaceous localities on the Paunsaugunt Plateau and plan to increase our sampling of the Wahweap Formation in Bryce Canyon National Park over the next several field seasons. It is hoped that this continued work will provide final resolution to the question of the presence or absence of the Kaiparowits Formation on the Paunsaugunt Plateau.
The thinning of the Cretaceous section across the Paunsaugunt Plateau remains somewhat of a mystery. The thinning occurs 130-150 km from the thrust belt and may reflect a short wavelength forebulge associated with a zone of crustal weakness (Eaton et al., 1997); however, this is only one of many possible hypotheses and further work is needed.
A new locality from the Wahweap Formation of Bryce Canyon National Park has produced a fauna typical of the Wahweap to the east on the Kaiparowits Plateau. The fauna contains abundant sharks and rays, mammals, and other taxa consistent with an interpretation of an Early Campanian age (approximately correlative to the Aquilan Land Mammal "Age"). Most of the vertebrates previously recovered from the Paunsaugunt Plateau were from the stratigraphically highest Cretaceous rocks on the plateau. This fauna appears to be correlative to those of the Kaiparowits Formation (approximately correlative to Judithian Land Mammal "Age" ) based on comparison of the mammalian and herptile taxa to those from the Kaiparowits Formation, the occurrence of abundant ceratopsian teeth along with the common occurrence of the turtle Compsemys, and the absence of sharks or rays. Continued work on these sequences should produce final resolution of this problem over the next few years.
The National Park Service, particularly Richard Bryant, and the Bryce Canyon Natural History Association under the guidance of Gayle Pollock, have aided our research within Bryce Canyon National Park. The U.S.D.A. Forest Service, particularly Marion Jacklin and Carlton Guillette, have been very helpful in all aspects of our research on the Paunsaugunt Plateau. Jared Morrow, Patrick Goldstrand, Terry Tilton, William Bowers, and Ed Sable have all made contributions to my understanding of the plateau. The Petroleum Research Fund of the American Chemical Society (30989-GB8) and the Bryce Canyon Natural History Association are funding our current work on the plateau.
Bowers, W. E. 1990. Geologic maps of Bryce Canyon National Park and vicinity, southwestern Utah. U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Investigation Series Map I-2108.
Cifelli, R. L. 1990a. Cretaceous mammals of southern Utah. III: Therian mammals from the Turonian (early Late Cretaceous). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 10:332-345.
. 1990b. Cretaceous mammals of southern Utah. I. Marsupials from the Kaiparowits Formation (Judithian). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 10:295-319.
Doelling, H. H., and F. Davis. 1989. The geology of Kane County, Utah. Utah Geological and Mineral Survey Bulletin 124, no. 192. Geologic map scale 1:100,000.
Eaton, J. G. 1991. Biostratigraphic framework for the Upper Cretaceous rocks of the Kaiparowits Plateau, southern Utah. In J. D. Nations, and J. G. Eaton (eds.), Stratigraphy, depositional environments, and sedimentary tectonics of the western margin, Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway. Geological Society of America Special Paper no. 260, p. 47-63.
. 1993a. Mammalian paleontology and correlation of the uppermost Cretaceous rocks of the Paunsaugunt Plateau. In M. Morales (ed.), Aspects of Mesozoic geology and paleontology of the Colorado Plateau, Museum of Northern Arizona Bulletin 59, p. 163-180.
. 1993b. Therian mammals from the Cenomanian (Upper Cretaceous) Dakota Formation, southwestern Utah. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 13:105-124.
. 1994. Vertebrate paleontology of Cretaceous rocks in Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah (abstract). Geological Society of America, Rocky Mountain Section, Abstracts with Programs, 26:12.
. 1995. Cenomanian and Turonian (early Late Cretaceous) multituberculate mammals from southwestern Utah. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 15:761-784.
, R. L. Cifelli, J. H. Hutchison, J. I. Kirkland, and J. M. Parrish, in press. Cretaceous vertebrate faunas from the Kaiparowits Plateau, south central Utah. In D. D. Gillette (ed.), Vertebrate paleontology of Utah. Utah Geological Survey.
, S. Diem, J. D. Archibald, C. Schierup, and H. Munk, in press. Vertebrate paleontology of the Upper Cretaceous rocks of the Markagunt Plateau, southwestern Utah. In D. D. Gillette (ed.), Vertebrate paleontology of Utah: Utah Geological Survey.
, P. M. Goldstrand, and J. Morrow. 1993. Composition and stratigraphic interpretation of Cretaceous strata of the Paunsaugunt Plateau, Utah. In M. Morales (ed.), Aspects of Mesozoic geology and paleontology of the Colorado Plateau. Museum of Northern Arizona Bulletin no. 59, p. 153-162.
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Fish food for snails
Food for aquarium fish is also quite suitable for feeding land snails and slugs. This was already mentioned in my chapter on raising snails in the book The Mollusks, edited by Sturm, Pearce and Valdés.
Here is a juvenile Triodopsis eating a piece of goldfish flake. The white stuff on the flakes and on the snail's shell is powdered limestone that I also give to my snails.
And here is a closer look. The snail's mouth is at the front of its head towards the bottom. You can see a strip of flake disappearing in its mouth.
Probably any brand of food for aquarium fish would be satisfactory for snails. The one I use is for goldfish. The first 3 ingredients in it are wheat flour, fish meal and brewers yeast, all of which are suitable for feeding to terrestrial mollusks. Most of them don't normally encounter dead fish in their habitats, but many appear to be omnivorous and eat dead animals as well as animal byproducts.


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One tool elevating women to the top rungs of leadership right now are same-sex support groups, which journalist Pamela Ryckman calls stiletto networks. In her debut book, Stiletto Network: Inside the Women's Power Circles That Are Changing the Face of Business, she investigates the recent rise of these informal but powerful coteries, which have tens of thousands of members across the country. Her findings paint a new picture of the way women do business. Though most stiletto networks are small (usually 10 people or less), their influence is undeniable: Stiletto members have been responsible for creating the most downloaded app in history of Warner Bros. (for the film Happy Feet Two), for overseeing the largest high-yield bond offering of 2010 and for launching the most successful fundraising pilot in the history of the Red Cross, to name a few.
Ryckman talked to More about the impact of these networks, why participation has exploded in recent years and what they mean for the future of business.
More: How did you discover these stiletto networks?
Pamela Ryckman: In November 2010 I went to a women's conference and it was a room of 50 very successful women. What struck me immediately was that they defied the age-old stereotypes of high-powered ladies. They weren't in the blue-and-gray pinstriped suits and trying to dress and sound and act like guys, which women have historically done to get ahead. One woman I met was a semi-conductor CEO and she mentioned that in the late '90s she had belonged to a dinner group. When I asked who was in it, she said, "It was me and Meg Whitman, when she was running eBay, and Joyce Covey when she was CFO of Amazon, and Dana Evan when she was CFO of VeriSign, and another woman named Kim Polese." And I said, "That's really interesting, because you all have technology at the basement level of your businesses, but you're all in different industries. How did you find each other?" And she laughed and said, "You know, when you're the only skirt in the room and another one walks in, you kind of notice."
Then I went to another event in New York and I interviewed another woman who mentioned her dinner group. And then a woman in Atlanta mentioned her lunch group. When I met a woman from Anchorage at another conference who mentioned her lunch group, I knew I was on to something.
More: Unlike traditional old-boy networks, many of these stiletto networks comprise women from disparate fields. Why?
P.M.: The groups that started developing 20 or 30 years ago came together because, in those days, there was only room for one woman at the top in a given field. And when that's the case, there's a lot of backstabbing and competition [rather than networking]. So those top women had to find top women in fields different from their own. What I think is different now is that there is more room for women to breathe at work and more room for women to succeed. There are enough women in positions of power, even in the same industry, to really make a difference in each other's careers.
More: How else are the groups different from all-male ones?
P.M.: Many of the women say that stiletto networks don't feel like work; they're fun. They are based in trust, loyalty and friendship. They were started for women to meet people who they would enjoy as friends. So there wasn't for the most part an express networking-with-a-capital-N purpose. But what I found is, when you put 10 dynamic, motivated women in a room, the conversations go all over. They talk about their passions, their work, their families, their clothes, their shoes, their hair. And they don't worry about their femininity undermining them.


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The specific topic of this investigation is the crystal chemistry and thermotropic polymorphism of the inorganic mineral acid salts of the n-alkyldiamines. This series of compounds contain organic cations with a linear alkane backbone that ranges from short to long chains. As a result their properties changes according to chain length. As they are salts they have the ability to conduct current resulting in wide industrial applications, biological as well as in their use as surfactants and ionic liquids at relatively low temperatures. They also have promising properties for use as propellants, explosives and other pyrotechnic compositions. Their electrical and electronic properties are under investigation. Their ability to exhibit polymorphism has not previously been established. Polymorphism is the ability of a material to exist in more than one crystal form. Since long-chained materials are known to have flexible hydrocarbon chains, by chemical intuition it is reasonable to assume that these materials may have more than one type of molecular arrangement. Various investigations of the conformational and thermotropic polymorphism of the salts of the related n-alkylamines have previously been published in the literature but very little information is available for the polymorphism that may or may not exist in the salts of the n-alkyldiamines. This study is limited to the short and medium chain length n-alkyldiammonium halide salts; nitrate salts; sulphate and perchlorate salts where the general chemical formula for the materials under investigation is CnH2nN+H3X where n = 2 to 12 (except 11) and X = Cl-, Br-, I-, NO3 -, SO4 2- and ClO4 -. It was anticipated that within this range of materials both the hydrogen bonding interactions and the Van der Waal's forces (as combined packing forces) will play a part in controlling the molecular packing. A large number of the materials were synthesized and their structural information was analyzed by the complimentary techniques of X-ray diffraction and thermal analysis. X-ray diffraction was used in this investigation as it is the best technique to study the crystal chemistry and the polymorphic behaviour of these materials. The results obtained from this method of analysis, the positions of atoms in the crystals, allows for the analysis of the three-dimensional packing in the crystal structure as well as the identification of the hydrogen bonding interactions. The technique of single crystal X-ray diffraction allows the determination of the crystal structures of polymorphs at specific temperatures resulting in information on the effect of change in temperature on crystal packing. Since the compounds investigated in this study were relatively easy to crystallize it was possible to obtain the large single crystals required to obtain single-crystal X-ray diffraction data, and accurate crystal structures could be obtained by this method. Out of a total of thirty-eight crystal structures compared in this investigation, sixteen were novel crystal structures and fourteen were rederminations of previously published structures deemed to be of inferior quality and not suitable for the comparative study. The remaining eight data sets were used as published. Two thermal analytical techniques, Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC) and Hot-Stage Microscopy (HSM), were employed to establish if thermotropic phase changes were evident in these materials. Phase transition temperatures at above ambient temperatures were determined by DSC methods while morphological and textural changes in crystals of the compounds under investigation were monitored by HSM methods. In many of the materials analyzed, multiple above ambient phases were identified and only one structure showed a unique below ambient solid-state phase transition.
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Getting a Little Discouraged
Sunday, August 30, 2009
Well, this is the 4th week I've been at 220 lbs. Getting a bit discouraged. My grand plan is to lose at least 3 lbs a month until I get to my goal weight. To me 1 lb in a month is not acceptable but I don't quite know what to do about it. This is going to take some thought.
I have been walking around our small MH park - once around is 0.17 mile - at least one lap a day for months. Sometimes, depending on how hot it was out and/or how my ankel felt, I'd do 2 laps around once a day. Recently I've upped it to 3 laps - which equates to 0.5 mile - twice a day and still no weight loss.
I've been basically good with my eating plan. Paying attention to calories etc. . I haven't "cheated". As a matter of fact I've been under my low number a number of times.
Could my body think I am starving it and refuses to lose? That may be it. It also could be that I'm not drinking as much water as I should. I will remedy that.
My goal for August was to lose 3 lbs. I lost 1 lb. Guess it is better than gaining I suppose but that wasn't the goal. I thought 3 lbs a month was doable and I still think so..
I WILL NOT let this get to me.
I AM going to keep trying.
I WILL continue to watch and track what I eat.
I WILL continue to drink as much water as I can every day. I've never gotten to the 8 glasses a day that is recommended but I CAN get 6 into me. The goal is still 8 glasses a day.
I WILL continue to walk 3 laps around the MH park twice a day. Back at it tomorrow. I decided to give myself a day off today after I noticed that, although the humidity is down it was 86 degrees out at 9:00 am today. I may walk tonight after it cools off a bit.
I WILL NOT allow this to defeat all I have done so far.
I WILL NOT give up on myself. I've come a long way in the last 4 months and I owe it to myself to keep on keeping on.
I WISH this site had more fonts to use for expression LOL ... ...
Now that I've gotten it out I feel a bit better about the whole situation.
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You can do this. Keep working at it. You will make it.
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Make sure you are eating enough calories to fuel your body into buring the calories to lose the weight. Sometimes when we cut back or try to stay at the low end, thinking eating less is better, it's not. The calories you burn the more calories you will need to eat for FUEL to your BODY.
Hope this helps. Hugs, Anna
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Good attitude and dropping one pound is great. I know it could be disappointing to drop only one pound a month, but think about what a pound of butter looks like, that's what you got rid of.
Also, once, when I first started on a diet, it took me 2 months to drop one pound. I was horrified at this thought. But I dropped 6 inches off my waist the first month, I was dropping inches faster than the weight. The weight started coming off very quickly then.
So hold on to your hat, things will change.
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Life is hard yard by yard but it's a cinch ..inch by inch :)
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Yes sounds like to me you are setting yourself up for success. Only do what you can handel. And stay positive. keep up the good work. And you should try the walk away the pounds series. That way you can walk in the comfort of you own home.
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You have a good attitude. I am a slow loser too! When I hear about people losing 5 pounds a week, I just want to scream
! Why can't I do that? But I have finally realized that I will succeed no matter how long it takes. I think that the slower we take it off, the easier it will be to keep it off. We are like the tortoise & the hare-slow & steady wins the race! So keep up your good work & your attitude. You can do this & we are here to help whenever you need us. Kim
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I like your positive self talk. It's hard to keep motivated when it takes longer than we'd like. Maybe focus other positive changes until your goal manifests? Good luck!
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Watch going under your calorie count. That can be more harmful than good. But you have your mind set and are thinking positive so in time you should see positive results. Keep it up!!
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Yes, PR types can be aggressive, enterprising and--occasionally--witty in trying to represent their clients. So why do these guys suddenly shut up when a lawyer walks into the room?
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By Mike McCall
Welcome to the fourth installment of our Foreign Exchange series, where we examine Southern's upcoming game through a different perspective. This week, I.C. Murrell, the Pine Bluff Commercial sports editor who also covers Arkansas-Pine Bluff, was kind enough to put up with my badgering and answer a few questions about the Golden Lions.
Q: Just how good is this team? There are no eye-popping stats, but they're consistently doing enough to win.
- I.C. – This team has all the capability in the world but they're not as consistent or disciplined in their play as they should be.
Q: How would you characterize this offense? The Golden Lions use a lot of spread out formations with interesting alignments, yet they've had much more success on the ground. Are they a threat through the air?
- I.C. – UAPB has a run-first mentality. They've been spotty at best with the pass. QB Ben Anderson has only one 200-yard game this season, and a lot of that is because of the receivers' inconsistency in catching the ball.
Q: Outside of QB Ben Anderson, RB Dennis Jenkins and WR Ladarius Eckwood, who is an offensive playmaker that fans should keep an eye on?
- I.C. – If RB Justin Billings is healthy (he had a broken nose two weeks ago), look for him to break out with a big game.
Q: How about on defense?
- I.C. – Brandon Thurmond, a DE, has the second-most sacks in the FCS with 7.5 (SWAC counts it as 8).
Q: Obviously, this game ended in awful fashion last year with the brawl that led to 41 suspensions. What are UAPB coaches and players saying about it now?
- I.C. – The guys are putting it behind them, embarrassed over what happened.
A special thanks to I.C. for helping out. As you can see, he pretty much crushed my assertion that UAPB has been consistent, but I'll forgive him.


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If you take care of yourself, the options increase exponentially. A trim body in either gender is always attractive. Years ago, divorced or widowed women in their 40s, 50s or 60s usually had to date up — to the geriatric ward, where men were often self-centered and bloated; think Danny DeVito on a bad day.
Now fast-forward. Women look so good, it's hard to know their age. Science not only gives us nifty gadgets like iPhone and Tivo, it delivers long-term beauty. Now, younger men want to be with older women.
If you look up the definition of "cougar," adjectives like sleek, smart and strong appear. And independent. Cougars pursue a variety of prey. Variety is always good especially when you've lived a life being loyal to one person who then either dumps you or disappoints you. In fact, this cat has the greatest range of any wild terrestrial mammal in the Western hemisphere—even wider than the wolf. It's solitary and doesn't need to stick around like those herding animals. Nor does a cougar want to stick around, which makes them more appealing. So don't cringe at the term. Embrace it. Be a cougar. Test the waters. As the men soon discover, experience is its own reward.
5) You've matured
Your personality has changed and you are not the kid who was dating way back when. As Dr. Mark Banschick, who runs "The Intelligent Divorce" program in Katonah, New York, says, "If you were awkward, you are less so. If you liked "bad boys" you may pick a different sort today. If you were super conservative, you may choose fun over boredom." Many of us married resumes or what we thought we should marry. But knowing thyself can be a good thing. We are more self assured, self reliant and conscious of our sexual and spiritual needs.
The key to enjoying this special stage in life is to remember that you carry many roles now as an adult. As Dr. Banschick cautions, "While you may be dating a variety of interesting men, remember to set your 'second adolescence' aside when needed." Your kids still need an adult mother and your job still requires an adult sense of timeliness and responsibility.
6) Divorced women get time off from their kids – a true luxury
Divorced women share a secret. Unlike married couples who have kids 24/7 and can be exhausted from all the domestic responsibilities, divorced women by law must share their kids with their spouse. This allows women to pursue their interests as well as work projects without interruption or guilt. You can stay in bed and read all day, visit friends, shop or spend the night at a boyfriend's or college pal's house. Kid-free weekends allow you to experiment and have fun, and make you feel young again.
7) You may not want sex all the time
There are only two four-letter words that are offensive to most men – "don't" and "stop"—unless they're used together. After enough sex to last a lifetime, some women are happy to put that self-imposed obligation behind them. Occasional sex—vs. the required two times a week—actually can be more heated and satisfying. Absence can make the heart grow fonder of many things. You now can have sex when you want it, whenever that is.
8) You don't have to discuss your relationship ad nauseam
How exhausting is it to ask where the relationship is going, or whether your partner cares about the relationship, and then get a grunt or a shrug or a disappointing response. Now you don't have to ask the question because you aren't married or interested in getting remarried. Your companion doesn't have to be Mr. Right; he can be Mr. Right Now.
9) You're a realist.
Divorced women know the lay of the land. They are savvy to relationship pitfalls and work hard to avoid them. True, they may not have the same financial security, but freedom is priceless. As my divorced friend Debbie says, having the freedom to do whatever, with whomever, whenever is worth every penny of living alone.


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With the release of the Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5 public beta, new and current users have the opportunity not only to explore the latest additions to the company's database-driven image editing and workflow tool, but to provide feedback to Adobe and help shape the final release. Adobe also has a dedicated user forum to share thoughts with and hear opinions from the Lightroom community.
The Lightroom 5 public beta has come to light surprisingly quickly, just 13 months after the final release of Lightroom 4. And while Lightroom 4 brought sweeping changes to working methodologies along with two brand new modules, the headline features in the Lightroom 5 public beta are devoted almost exclusively to image editing.
The Lightroom 5 public beta introduces a refined healing tool that can be used to paint on an image, much like the Spot Healing Brush found in Photoshop. A new Radial Gradient tool offers a more flexible way to apply selective location-based edits. Also making its debut is a perspective correction tool that uses image analysis to automatically straighten images and eliminate keystoning. The feature that will potentially have the most wide-reaching impact on every photographer's workflow is the ability to edit images while they are offline, by enabling what Adobe calls 'Smart Previews'.
I'm going to briefly take you through these and some of the other more significant additions to the Lightroom 5 public beta so that you can jump in and start experimenting with these tools on your own. As always, bear in mind that this is a beta version, whose release is aimed at generating feedback and bug reports from a diverse user base. Tools, features and performance may change significantly before a final shipping version is released. You'll need to create a new Lightroom catalog to use version 5 and I'd never recommend performing mission critical work on an early beta release.
With that said, let's get started and take a look at the following:
System requirements
Users of older machines should note that the minimum operating system requirements for Lightroom have changed. Support for Windows Vista has been dropped. Lightroom now requires a version of Windows Windows 7, Service Pack 1 or higher. Mac users must be running OS 10.7 or higher.
Advanced Healing Brush
|The Spot Removal tool is now more versatile, with the ability to use it as a brush...
|...to remove unwanted scene elements.
While Lightroom's Spot Removal Tool is effective at hiding dust and small blemishes - one click at a time - users have long been requesting a faster and more flexible retouching option. In response, Adobe has introduced significantly more advanced functionality to the Spot Removal Tool in the Lightroom 5 public beta. In addition to the regular click-a-circle approach, you can now paint on an image area to apply cloning and healing adjustments that can remove large, irregularly-shaped objects from the scene entirely.
If you're a user of Photoshop CS5 or later and use the Content-Aware mode in the Healing brush or Fill menu, start drooling now, because the ability to clone/heal irregular shapes - whether retouching crow's feet or removing scene elements - inside Lightroom eliminates perhaps the most common reason Lightroom users still head to Photoshop. Here's how it works.
The Spot Removal results won't always be this good when eliminating large objects. I'd bet that nearly all of the demos you're going to see of this tool involve large areas of grass, sand or other repeating textures. Like Photoshop's Content-Aware Fill option, this technique requires large patches of consistent color and tone to work well. Patterns like grass, sand and masonry are very helpful for hiding seams.
This new Spot Removal capability is something you'll definitely want to experiment with to get the most out of, so we've provided the full size images used in the above example so you can try out the Spot Removal tool's new functionality for yourself. Click to download the before image and the after image.
As I mentioned earlier, you can still use the Spot Removal tool just as you always have, one click at a time. And that's still the best way to handle the dust-spotting of your images. And for those instances, Lightroom 5 public beta offers a Visualize Spots option (shown below), that when checked, provides a 'Threshold' view to more easily identify spots.
Radial Gradient
Photoshop users who've tried the Blur Gallery tools in CS6 will recognize the interface of Lightroom 5 public beta's new Radial Gradient Tool (Shift+M). This newest addition to Lightroom's group of selective editing tools features the same slider options for white balance, exposure, sharpening, noise and moiré removal as the Adjustment Brush and Graduated Filter. The difference here is that you draw an oval shape around the area where you want to direct the viewer's attention. Here are three examples of how this can be put to use.
In the example above, you could certainly achieve this result by painting with the Adjustment Brush, but using the new Radial Gradient Filter is much faster precisely because you're selecting the relatively small area that you want to protect from the edits. With the Adjustment Brush I would have had to paint everywhere except the oval area around the eye.
The Radial Gradient Filter has additional functional benefits as well. In the example below, I've drawn an oval shape and adjusted the feathering of the exposure edits.
If the previous examples are a bit too dramatic for your tastes, you can use the Radial Gradient Filter for very subtle results, as shown below.
|In this original image I felt that my subject could benefit from standing out just a bit more from the background.
|By using the Radial Gradient Filter, I was able to give him greater separation without calling undue attention to the edit.
As with any of Lightroom's selective edit tools you can apply multiple pins to achieve different results on separate areas of the image. That's what I've done to get the result shown above. Here's how.
The new Radial Gradient Filter is intuitive and provides a lot of flexibility for precisely targeted edits. It's very easy to go overboard into the realm of smartphone filters, but equally you can use it to more subtle effect for natural-looking, yet still dramatic results.
Upright tool
Lightroom 5 public beta introduces an automated perspective correction and leveling tool. It's called, appropriately enough, Upright, and is an important addition for both architectural pros using wide angle lenses and vacationing photographers who often find themselves pointing their camera up at tourist attractions.
Upright works most effectively when used after checking the Enable Profile Corrections box. This allows its algorithms to take into account the lens characteristics contained in a Lightroom lens profile. You can still use Upright on unsupported lenses, but it's best to enable these profile corrections where possible. Below we'll take a look at a couple examples.
Here's another example of perspective distortion that required more drastic correction.
It's important to note that after performing its corrections, Upright is cropping your image. It's not creating new pixels to fill in blank image areas. This means you end up with a file of smaller dimensions, just as you would with a manual crop. But it greatly minimizes the possibility of compromised image quality along the edges of your image.
Below is an example of just how much image area can be lost after the correction, something to be aware of when shooting detailed interior scenes such as this one.
|This is the image result after applying Upright.
|Correcting for the skewing you see in this original version of the image means cropping off a significant portion from the bottom (indicated here by the shaded area).
Smart Previews
Okay, here's the update that may get overlooked, but one that has serious workflow implications for nearly every Lightroom user. Lightroom 5 public beta now lets you edit images that are offline. That's right, you're no longer prevented by the '?' icon from making Develop module adjustments to files on drives that are not plugged in.
This is made possible by Smart Previews. Built on the lossy DNG file format Adobe introduced back in Lightroom 4, a Smart Preview is a lower resolution (2540 pixels in the long dimension) DNG file that takes up only a small fraction of a full-size DNG file. When available, Lightroom will use this Smart Preview to provide an image preview in the Develop module. Best of all, any edits you make to the photo are re-associated with to the original raw file and its 1:1 preview once the file is brought back online.
|In the Library module you can selectively generate Smart Previews by clicking on the Original Photo box underneath the histogram. That brings up a dialog window explaining the rationale behind Smart Previews along with a confirmation button.
The only catch here is that you must proactively generate a Smart Preview with the image still online. You can do this to a single or multiple images by checking the Original Photo box shown above. You can also turn on an option to create Smart Previews upon each new Import session.
While this may just seem like a boon to those who don't want the hassle of plugging in missing drives, what's really valuable is the ability to export your Lightroom catalog, using only Smart Previews, to a laptop with smaller storage capacity than your desktop machine when traveling. This makes it feasible to not only add metadata but to edit any images in your existing catalog while on the road without lugging around numerous external hard drives for storage.
How much space do you save? We're still running comparisons, but in a Lightroom 5 public beta test catalog containing 1100 raw files, the standard Previews.lrdata file (which contained 1:1 previews) took up 3.65GB of storage. We exported this same catalog of images using only Smart Previews and the resulting Smart Preview.lrdata file weighed in at a meager 420MB. The size of each Lightroom catalog (.lrcat) itself was essentially identical.
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Electrical Heating to Overtake Gas?
From Engineering on November 07, 2008 in Electrical
During the time period in which I worked both as a realtor and in the construction field, the demand for gas was much higher than electricity. Electric heat and hot water heaters were considered a detriment, and if given the choice, pretty much all homeowners opted for gas. As with many recent economically-driven trends, electric is making a comeback and gas is getting the boot, as pointed out in Electrical Heating to Overtake Gas by 2018. There are a few factors driving this trend, but the financial consideration is the underlying influence. The initial installation of gas is more expensive for builders, and now more than ever, expense makes a big difference. The biggest factor is obviously rising fuel prices, and with winter setting in, many homeowners are faced with exorbitant heating bills. Long-term, however, electric is not the answer either. It is still expensive, and the electrical grids are often stretched to their limit, causing occasional blackouts in heavily populated areas. That is why alternative and renewable energy must gradually supplement electric and gas, eventually becoming more and more prominent. Some utility companies are already building solar and wind farms to supplement their standard systems. They are also rewarding those customers who are producing their own energy by offering net metering programs. If you are faced with deciding which energy source you should use, consider incorporating at least a solar supplement, if not a complete solar system. Initially, the cost is greater, but in the long run you have the potential to save the extra expense through lower energy bills. Check-out what your state has to offer in the way of incentives, and do your part to further our nations progression towards more energy independence and sustainability.


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The general consensus out of San Diego Comic-Con is that it was fairly underwhelming—Fans and writers alike expected huge announcements regarding Marvel and DC's Cinematic Universes, but all they got was the release date of "Guardians of the Galaxy 2."
Yes, there were some awesome photos and teaser shown to the thousands of fans packed in Hall-H—there was one film that particularly stood out with a mad like action: "Mad Max: Fury Road."
The fourth installment in visionary director George Miller's "Mad Max" film series. Following a silent hero Max, the new film has had several obstacles to overcome and suffered from delays—but from the looks of the Comic-Con trailer, it seems well worth the wait.
2015 is stacked with huge blockbusters with "Avengers: Age of Ultron," "Fantastic Four," "Ant-Man," and "Star Wars Episode VII"—however we're going to tell you why "Mad Max: Fury Road" is the tent pole to watch next year.
Tom Hardy as the titular hero: As previously mentioned, Max is a man of a few words and Hardy is the perfect man to play him. Replacing Mel Gibson is no easy task, but Hardy has the acting chops and gravitas to pull it off as evidenced with his performance in "Locke." Also, with his performance as Bane in "The Dark Knight Rises" he showed he can convey the full spectrum of emotions just using his eyes, something that he'll need playing Max.
A focus on in-camera stunts: Summer blockbusters have become obsessed with computer-generated worlds and action sequences, which is great but at times it takes away from the experience. As evidenced with the Comic-Con trailer the film features some crazy stunts you just do not see anymore, you can feel the impact of every crash and explosion—it will prove to be a unique cinematic experience not seen in today's blockbusters.
George Miller's direction: Miller has directed every single film in the franchise—a franchise that has inspired most of the post-apocalyptic films that have taken over the big screen as of late. Miller's has crafted a world that is unique and still is able to excite daces after it released and he is sure to make another film that will inspire the next generation of filmmakers.
A "Mad" cast of characters: "Mad Max" has always been known for its insane leather cladded characters and "Fury Road" is no different—trailers and images released showcase some of the crazy inhabitants of this mad world including Charlize Theron's Furiousa who has a mechanical arm and a long haired baddy that has a Raiden from "Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance" look. "Mad Max: Fury Road" is definitely set to have some of next year's most talked about characters.
"Mad Max: Fury Road" does not hit theaters till May 15, 2015—it is a crowded year, but it is no doubt the film to watch.
Are you guys excited to see Mad Max back on the big screen? Sound off in the comments.


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The San Francisco 49ers and Seattle Seahawks released their injury reports for Sunday's NFC Championship game. CB Carlos Rogers (hamstring) is questionable for the third straight week in a row. He practiced this week as a limited participant for the first time since being injured.
Will Tukuafu (knee) has also been a limited participant and is listed as questionable. He sprained him knee against the Carolina Panthers after an awkward fall last Sunday. Both Rogers and Tukuafu expect to play on Sunday.
For the Seahawks, Percy Harvin (concussion) is out for Sunday after re-injuring himself against the Saints. OLB K.J. Wright is expected to play in his first game since Week 14, where he hurt himself against the 49ers.
Here are the full injury reports for both the 49ers and Seahawks:
49ers injury report:
QUESTIONABLE: CB Carlos Rogers (hamstring), RB Will Tukuafu (knee)
PROBABLE: LB Navorro Bowman (wrist), LB Ahmad Brooks (illness), WR Michael Crabtree (wrist), DE Demarcus Dobbs (knee, shoulder), C Jonathan Goodwin (foot), RB Frank Gore (knee), LB Dan Skuta (foot), DT Justin Smith (shoulder)
Seahawks injury report:
OUT: Percy Harvin (concussion)
QUESTIONABLE: DT Jordan Hill (groin)
PROBABLE: RB Marshawn Lynch (not injury related), LB K.J. Wright (foot)


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Lawmakers have this silly option - it's called making laws.
Yeah, they do a lot of it to no effect, too. Ashame they just don't enforce the ones on the books. Nawww, grandstanding is soooo much more fun. As to your assertion they aren't idiots.....
You really mean it may not be a
crime. Last I checked, these cities were part of the USA. Feds set immigration policy, not the locals. Ashame no one really seems to care about enforcing any of the laws beyond rhetorical flourishes and effectively little more than band-aids.
As to Arpaio, if they can make a convincing case in court, they'll get their man in the end. Also, if the feds have a problem w/Arpaio's "doing their job", I'm sure the Justice Dept or even Homeland Security will find a way to stop him.
@TA--2 things. Don't assume people are full of hate just b/c they don't agree with your postions. Two, it's not a strawman question b/c I didn't assert you said anything about the sanctuary cities specifically. The point of the question was to get a more detailed idea of where you are coming from on this. I actually think the better thing to do would be to force their govt to address the issues in their own countries so that people don't emigrate northward, essentially invading another country b/c their's sucks. Actually, I know someone who essentially did just what you're talking about. She's married to my brother's brother-in-law. She's a nice person, but she should still have come here legally.
Now, has it been proven that Arpaio actually stopped these people with that intent or is these just some hyped up allegations by people who don't like the sherriff for whatever reason? So it's clear...If Joe walked up to a Mexican looking man in Phoenix and essentially said (in the presence of credible witnesses) "We must see your papers", that would be unacceptable. The problem w/"racial profiling" isn't that it is wrong, but that it can lead to abuses....as can any police tactic, frankly. You simply don't go checking every mexican in town if the perp was described as white, asian or black. Unless there's incontrovertible proof beyond heresay of alleged "racial profiling", and it's been declared illegal (not merely unseemly), it's irrational to claim he be thrown out on account of that. Nevermind jailed as well. Prove in court that he's broken the law and he goes to jail/is punished. That's how it works last I checked.
Now, I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor, dumb bastard die for his country.---Patton
There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism.---Teddy Roosevelt
I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception.---Groucho
And if you all get killed, I'll piss on your graves.---Shaman Urdnot
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The towing company notified the apartment complex BUT the apartment complex never notified me. When I returned, I found the car missing and was told it got towed about 10+ days ago. I was asked to pay $850 in CASH in order to get my car back OR I would incur further daily charges ($50/ per day).
It is just one of the annoying incidents that I feel a victim off and feel like my property was NOT safe while I was out of town. NO one in the rental office, took the responsibility to inform me that my car was towed. I was only about an hour away, and could have made arrangements to get my car. Plus, why couldn't the towing company simply tow my car elsewhere in the almost empty garage. I live in one of them most LUXURious apartment complex and I pay a LOT to stay here.
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Lubos Kosco's Weblog Lubos's Weblog https://blogs.oracle.com/taz/feed/entries/atom 2014-04-08T14:50:22+00:00 Apache Roller https://blogs.oracle.com/taz/entry/java_debugging_on_czosug Java Debugging on CZOSUG Lubos Kosco 2007-11-08T07:34:11+00:00 2007-11-08T15:35:45+00:00

I gave a small talk inspired by some folks from Java Development & Netbeans Profiler dev team. I generally use java debugging a lot, since most of my work is in java. A pity I blog about it only now, but last weeks were quite hasty.

Find the slides here: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/czosug/events_archive/czosug19_java.pdf

I recorded some video demos in flash as well, so you can enjoy more than slides.

Java monitoring tools demo:

 http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/czosug/events_archive/czosug19_java_mon.html

Java debugging with Netbeans demo:

 http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/czosug/events_archive/czosug19_java_dbg.html

Another pity is that I was a bit ill, so instead of making it a nice long talk(there is just too much to talk and show, dtrace, jdb, jmx, coredump analysis ... ) it was a really quick one, but I think people did enjoy it.

See you next time on some other event.


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Has anyone been able to set this up? I'm trying to do it on my boss's iPhone and am having all sorts of trouble.
If you can help, I would greatly appreciate it!
Has anyone been able to set this up? I'm trying to do it on my boss's iPhone and am having all sorts of trouble.
If you can help, I would greatly appreciate it!
Follow the instructions in the Apple KBase document, "iPhone: Email Account Setup"
I use email from my personal bluehost account every day on my iphone. I am typing this response on my iphone. Great product.
Just setup the iphone as an imap client in the same way you would setup thunderbird or outlook. Specifics would be in the manual that came with the iphone or search for them on apple's site.
Good luck.
This was driving me crazy, and the thread was so clear about it. Choose IMAP. Configure it choosing the IMAP tab not the POP tab. The pop configuration doesn't work.
Im using an ipod touch with firmware 1.1.4, jailbreaked with Ziphone.
Go to:
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With the IMAP tab selected fill the following credentials:
IMAP account information
name: your name
address: your email
Description: My bluehost account or whatever
Incoming Mail Server
hostname: mail.YOURBLUEHOSTDOMAINGOESHERE.com
username: your email
password: your email password.
Outgoing Mail server (SMTP)
hostname: boxXXX.bluehost.com:465 ( where XXX is the number assigned to your virtual server) ask your admin he knows :-D )
username: your email
password: your email password.
If you can't get ahold of your box number, then go to advance and check off SSL for outgoing (not recomended if your sending sensitive information) ans put mail.YOURBLUEHOSTDOMAINGOESTHERE.com:26
You can get your box number from here :http://serverstatus.bluehost.com/
submit your domain and it'll tell you it's current status plus the box number ;)
You might get a certificate error, hit ok and the test will finish. Now You can read and sendyour mail using the mail apps that came with your iphone, or if you have an ipod touch you can purchase the application (along with map, weather and stocks) through the itunes store :rolleyes:
If you have any problems, send me message (click on my username, and follow the send msg link) and ill help ya out :-D
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I cannot get this to work with my BlueHost account!!
Is there anything else in the advanced setting I need to do?
What should server port be set to?
Thanks jguzman!!
I have a standard iPhone (un-jailbroken) and was able to get it set up. It took a couple minutes to register, be patient while its doing it. Just make sure you click "ingore" when the certificate mismatch error comes up. Now I don't have to rely on my gmail account forwarding my email to my iPhone via a forward from my bluehost account.
I've gotten it to work to send/receive email, but for the life of me I cannot get access to any of my IMAP subfolders. I've added 'INBOX' as my IMAP Path prefix, but still am unable to access emails in subfolders, or set my default place to save sent messages or drafts to anything other than the iPod Touch itself... Has anyone been able to get access to subfolders on their iPhone/iPod touch, and if so how??
THKS for a very clear and helpful post


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These pics really made me laugh when I first saw them. As she is flying around she spies a nice panty clad pussy and hovers over it getting horny at the sight of it. This muff is bigger than her whole body and she dives right into it. She is having a grand old time before a huge cock comes along and joins in the fun. He tries to fuck Tinkerbell's tiny pussy but I really don't think it's going to fit inside there!
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We recently received an inquiry from a reader asking, "Is the first-time homebuyer tax credit still available?"
Unfortunately, the answer is no. The first-time homebuyer tax credit has been expired for several years.
Overwhelming support for an extension
While the tax credit has been expired since 2010, there was overwhelming support among HSH.com readers to extend the deadline. Here is the results from a poll we ran back in 2010:
First-time homebuyer programs
While the first-time homebuyer tax credit is expired, there are state-sponsored homebuyer assistance programs geared toward first-time homebuyers. Each state has specific programs headed up by their housing finance agencies that offer some sort of home buying assistance.
HSH.com has compiled a database of statewide first-time homebuyer programs. In addition to first-time buyers, states may also offer assistance to repeat buyers, veterans, the disabled, teachers and first responders. Most states have more than one program targeted at homebuyers.
It's important to understand that each state offers different and unique programs, and the specific programs have different parameters as to who can qualify, how to qualify and what the particular benefits are.
Many state-run housing assistance programs have no set expiration date, rather they expire when the money allocated to the particular effort runs out -- many are first come, first serve.
In all 50 states, a first-time homebuyer is defined as "someone who has never owned a home or hasn't been a homeowner in the last three years."
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Metro area definitionsMetro area definitions for the 27 metropolitan areas in "The salary you must earn to buy a home in 27 metros"
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The United States set a new record for international visitors in 2010.
A total 60 million travelers visited the country, up 9 percent from the previous year.
The top inbound market continued to be Canada, with arrivals up 11 percent to nearly 20 million visitors.
Mexico ranked second, up 1 percent, and the United Kingdom third, down by 1 percent from 2009.
Among the top 15 source nations, China reported the biggest increase, up 53 percent from the prior year, according to U.S. Commerce Department dataa.
The Obama administration is promoting international tourism to the United States as part of its effort to double U.S. exports within five years.
Travel into the United States and spending by international visitors in the country counts as an export on U.S. national accounts.
Spending by inbound tourists to the United States rose even faster than arrivals last year: up 12 percent to $134.4 billion, according to Commerce's Office of Travel and Tourism Industries.
For more information on inbound tourism to the United States, visit tinet.ita.doc.gov/outreachpages/inbound.general_information.inbound_overview.html.
For more on the government's National Export Initiative, visit trade.gov/nei/index.asp.


text: In comments earlier this week at the NFL owners meetings, New Orleans Saints HC Sean Payton insinuated that the team's situation at left tackle this upcoming season was anything but set in stone. With Jermon Bushrod joining former Saints OL coach Aaron Kromer in Chicago, that bumps former second-round pick Charles Brown into the spotlight as the incumbent at the position. However, based upon Brown's injury history, they could be bringing in another option.