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Residents of Cordova have hired a private company to set up motion sensor cameras in their neighborhood to find out what kind of unknown animal is killing their dogs. According to wreg.com, there have been three dogs killed and one injured; all of the dogs were in their own fenced yards.
Huge cat-like paw prints have been found, and it has been speculated a bob cat or a coyote may be on the prowl. One of the dogs killed had its throat ripped apart.
Another dog was behind a six-foot high fence.
The attacks are all happening at night, but residents are nervous that whatever the animal is, that a child's life might be in peril.
Residents are now keeping their dogs indoors.
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The University of California at Berkeley has historical strengths in the areas of social sciences and humanities in both western and vernacular languages. The Southeast Asian Collections are some of the finest in the United States, comparable to those of Yale University Library, Cornell University Library and the Library of Congress.
In particular, the collection on Indonesia is one of the most comprehensive among the Southeast Asia collections in this country. Since 1964 Berkeley has participated in the Library of Congress Southeast Asia Cooperative Acquisitions Program, under which it has received more than 230,000 items including books, government documents, periodicals and newspapers. Since 1970 the collections on Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei have also been strengthened by the Library's participation in the Library of Congress Program for these countries.
Berkeley has had a strong interest in the Philippines that has resulted in comprehensive library collections on the American and Republic periods. The Library has developed strong collections on Thailand and Vietnam, in western as well as vernacular languages, and has purchased extensively on all countries of Indochina since the pre-second World War period.
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The ORDINARY of NEWGATE his Account of the Behaviour, Confession, and Dying-Words of John Shears, a Seaman , that was Executed at Tyburn, on Friday, May the 16th. 1701.
ON Saturday the 3d Instant, the above-named John Shears (with another hereafter mention'd) received Sentence of Condemnation.
On the Day following, viz. the Lord's Day, being the 4th, I preach'd to them and other the Prisoners, that were brought up to the Chappel, both Morning and Afternoon; and my Text was Deut. 32. 29. O that they were wise, that they understood this; That they would consider their latter end.
From which Words I shewed my Auditory, on the one Hand, the madness and folly of those who did not, and on the other Hand, their great wisdom and prudence, who did seriously consider their last end, namely the Judgment to which they must all of them be brought, that will determine their future State, either of Endless Miseries or Eternal Bliss. Which having represented to them, and enlarged thereupon, I then proceeded to lay before them these three Considerations, viz.
1st - That though Men should live to the utmost Extent of their Days, and should not be cut off by any accidental stroke; yet they could not reasonably reckon upon their living here in this World, above the Term generally allotted them, to wit, Three or Four Score Years; which is but a very short time, if compar'd with that Eternity that is next to follow.
2dly - That they should frequently number their Days, and take notice how they run a-pace. How their Lives waste, and their precious Moments hasten away, and themselves draw nearer and nearer their latter End; their Eternal and unalterable State.
3dly and lastly, - That when Men's Days are near an end; when the Glass of their Lives is e'en run-out, and Death is within Sight; making its close approaches to them: Then indeed it more especially concerns them to apply themselves to a most serious Consideration and Contemplation of Death, and to a due and happy Preparation for it.
Upon the first Two of these Heads, I discoursed in the Morning, and on the Third in the Afternoon; concluding (at both times) with such Exhortations to Repentance, as I thought most proper for the Condemn'd Persons: Whom I continued to see and admonish twice every Day following; except Thursday and Friday the 8th and 9th instant, when the Officers of Newgate (as well as my self) were attending the High Court of Admiralty, at their Sessions then held at Justice-hall in the Old Baily. But,
On Saturday the 10th I did again give my usual attendance upon the Condemn'd Prisoners. And
On the Lord's Day the 11th, preach'd to them again; and took for my Text these Words of our Blessed Saviour, Mat. 25. 46. And these shall go away into Everlasting Punishment; but the Righteous into Life Eternal.
From which Words I shew'd them the two vastly different States of the other World: Whereof one is Everlasting Punishment: The other, Life Eternal. And I shew'd them also, who they were that should respectively partake of them; namely, the Wicked of the former, to wit, Everlasting Punishment; and the Righteous, of the latter, viz. Eternal Life. And of this I treated under these three following Heads.
1st, - I shew'd the Nature of the Punishment spoken of in the Text, which obstinate and impenitent Sinners shall receive after this Life.
2dly, - What is meant by that Eternal Life, which is here promised to the Righteous, that is, such as love and fear God, and are from their Hearts displeased with their Sins; with their having, at any time, transgressed the Divine Laws.
Thus far I proceeded in the Morning; when the time not permitting me to enter upon the Third and last Thing propos'd; I referred it to the Afternoon; which was to shew;
3dly and lastly, The certainty and Eternal Duration of what shall be the respective Portion of both these; namely the Wicked, that is, the impenitent and harden'd Sinners: And the Righteous, viz. such as by true Repentance and Amendment, are (through Mercy) in titled to the Righteousness of Christ.
To this I spoke under these two distinct Particulars; shewing, the Certainty and Eternal Duration of that State;
1st. Of Misery;
2dly, Of Happiness;
which shall be allotted to Men, as they shall be found to have lived in this World; that is, as they shall have done, viz.
Either Good;
Or Evil.
Thus having Discoursed to them, I closed both my Morning and Evening Exercises with practical Observations and Admonitions; and particularly directed my self to those Persons (being then 11 in Number) under Sentence of Death, and shewed them the necessity of, and gave them some Rules and Directions for Self-Examination, in order to their having an abhorernce of themselves, and of their sinful Lives past, and being (through the Divine Grace) wrought into a true and sincere Repentance.
On Monday the 12th, and the following Days, to this Friday, I pressing this Work of Repentance upon all those Persons so nearly concern'd to make their Peace with God; found them (as far as I could judg) to be, all of 'em, very sensible of their Condition, and desirous of God's Mercy, and particularly John Shears; who made this free and ingenuous Confession, as follows.
This John Shears told me he was about 23 Years of Age; and indeed he did not seem to be much older. He said he was a Seaman by his Profession; and had served his present Majesty (whom God ever preserve) in several of his Ships of War; namely the Monmouth, under the Command, first of Captain Robinson, and afterwards of Capt. Piggot: In which Ship he said he served about two Years in the Channel and Bay of Biscay. And this was about Nine Years ago. Then he served in the Devonshire, Capt. Houghton Commander, 3 or 4 Months in the same Station, namely, the Channel and Bay of Biscay; and here he was taken by the French, and by them kept Prisoner for a certain space of time (which I have now forgot) at a place called Donnom in Britany. From whence returning into England, he was taken again into the King's Service for 27 Months, on Board the Lancaster, under the Command of the said Capt. Robinson, in the Streights. Whence he returned home, about 15 Months since, in the Squadron Commanded by Admiral Rook; and when arrived here in England, he was turned into another Ship of his Majesty's, out of which not long after he run away; and then became (as he freely confess'd) very disorderly. He acknowledged he had been a very grievous Sinner; that he had broken and profaned the Lord's Sabbaths; That he had wholly neglected the Service of God, and never before now considered either of his Mercies or Judgments; and had never taken notice of his great and marvellous Works. He with tears confessed that he had been guilty of most Sins; the thoughts of which were now
bitter to him; And Oh! (says he) that God would but lend a merciful Ear to my sad Moans, and grant me the pardon of all my Sins! He said he flung himself upon God's infinite Mercies, and though he sometimes despair'd of ever finding Favour with God, because his Transgressions were so great, and of such heinous a Nature; yet at other times he felt some refreshing hopes of being delivered from the heavy Load of his Sins, through the Merits of Christ; saying that he was grieved at his very Heart, that he had ever offended his heavenly Father, and hoped that this grief that he felt, and his abhorrence of his past Life, and earnest desires of returning to God with true purposes of Amendment, would find acceptance, and prevent his falling under the Eternal Wrath of God. Thus he appeared to have a just sense of his Spiritual Miseries, and most bitterly lamented the sad Condition which Sin had brought him into. Not that he carr'd for this Life, or was afraid of losing it; for he was not (as he said) unwilling to lay it down, being he had forfeited it to Justice: But his fear, yea the great terrour that was now upon him (and returned ever and anon, notwithstanding his hopes in Christ's Merits) was this, that if God would not accept of his late and forced Repentance; O what should become of him! And hereupon he advised all other Sinners, now to leave off their Evil Courses, before it be too late, that they may avoid the Miseries that otherwise will certainly ensue. Besides the Crime for which he was Condemn'd, (which was Felony and Burglary) he ingenuously confessed he was Guilty of another Robbery by him before committed; but said he had not long followed this Trade, neither did he know above two or three Persons ingaged in this Course, whom he earnestly pray'd to desist from it, and to lead a better Life. He added, that he heartily wished he could make full amends and satisfaction to whomsoever he had any ways wrong'd or injur'd. He humbly begg'd their Pardon, and prayed to God for them. He declared he dy'd in Charity with all the World.
When he was carried to the Tree, he behaved himself both on the way, and there, as a dying Man ought to do, and as one that was truly sensible of his Condition; shewing a great Dejection and Sorrow for his Crimes, and earnestly imploring God's Pardon for them, and for all and every thing wherein he had done amiss. He again with Grief confessed, that he had committed the greatest lewdness and folly, and all manner of Sins; Murther only excepted. For he had many and many ways dishonour'd God, and his holy Religion; had been disobedient to his Parents, and often trespassed against his Neighbour; that he had refused to receive Correction, and would not take warning by former Chastisements, and be reclaimed from his Evil ways. So that he acknowledg'd, that unless God was infinitely merciful to him, he was undone and damn'd to all Eternity; and that if he were punished as he deserv'd, there was no Mercy for him to hope for. Yet he trusted in the Merits of his Saviour, and hoped that all his heinous Sins would be washed away in that most precious Blood which was shed for penitent Sinners. And herein he now expressed a greater and more uninterrupted Confidence than before: Greater indeed (I fear) thn other Offenders may justly have, who will not take Warning by this fresh Judgment of God upon bold and rash Sinners; which Judgment they have now set before their Eyes, for the awakening of them from Sin unto Righteousness. He wish'd that all Transgressors would timely repent, and so prevent their own Ruin in this World, and eternal Punishment in the next. He desired all good People to pray for him, that God would be merciful to his poor Soul; and admonished all about him, and all others, far and near, especially Young-men, that they would take due Warning by his Fall, and carefully avoid the grievous Sins of Drunkenness and Debauchery, going after strange Women, Cursing, Swearing, Sabbath-breaking, and the like; all which himself (to his unspeakable trouble) had been Guilty of, and which had now deservedly brought him (a young Man that he was) to this his sad and shameful (and withal frightful) Untimely End. He joyn'd with me in Prayer, and that (in all outward appearance) with great affection and Devotion: And as he had before declared to me, that he would dye in the Protestant Religion, into which he was Baptiz'd; so having now repeated the Apostles Creed he said, that was his Faith; and he hop'd for that Forgivness of Sins, and Life Everlasting, which he professed to believe. He sung after me a penitential Psalm: And when this was done, I did again pray with him and for him. Then I gave him my Blessing, and heartily recommended him to the boundless Mercy of our God. After this I left him to his own private Devotions (for which he had time allowed him) and just before the Cart drew away, and he was turn'd off, he mightily called upon God for Mercy, in these and the like Ejaculations. Lord have Marcy upon me a great Sinner! Lord forgive all my Sins! Lord take pity of my poor Soul! I am undone, undone, without thy Mercy! Lord open thy Gate unto me! I come, Lord, I come, I come. Oh! let me enter in. Lord Jesus, receive my Spirit!
Robert Johnson having unhappily fallen into bad Company, that had brought him into the Commission of an heinous-Fact; received also Sentence of Death with John Shears. But in regard that it was his first Offence, and he was drawn into it against his Will, he has obtained his Majesty's most gracious Reprieve. He seems to be a poor innocent Person, and shews great Signs of Repentance: God grant that it may be sincere, and that both he, and all other Sinners, may resolve upon a new Life, and have Grace to shun the Paths of Wickedness, that tend to Shame and Destruction; and walk in the ways of God's Commandments, which will afford them present Comfort, and bring them at last into unspeakable Pleasures, and Life for evermore.
This is all the Account, which can be given of this Sessions, by
WHereas a certain Book, now lately publish'd, (said to be Printed for E. Hawkins near Fleet-bridge) under the Title of A Sermon preach'd last Sunday by the Ordinary of Newgate before Capt. Kidd and other Prisoners there; These are to give notice, that the said pretended Sermon is a Sham-Paper, having little or nothing on it (besides the Text) of what was there deliver'd in the Pulpit.
ADvice to the Sceptick, (and Comfort to the Christian.) With a Request that he look not on it as Visionary. Of the Immortality of the Soul, and the Life to come; the Existence of the One, and the certainty of the Other; Is here Asserted, Vindicated, and Prov'd, in opposition to Atheistical Principles. Sold by G. H. next the Golden-Still in Church-street, near St. Anns Church, where they may be had in Quires, and by Benj. Barker, at the White-Hart in Westminster-Hall, and A. Baldwin, at the Oxford-Arms in Warwick-lane.
Robert Whitledge, Bookbinder , at the Bible in Creed-lane, within Ludgate, Sells all manner of Bibles, Common-Prayers. and other Books, very well Bound, and Cheap.
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Sep 10
Posts: 143
Acer153 says:
Hi all!
Well, we recently bought a 20 y/o TB gelding, we were told he was used as a trail horse, so we thought it was perfect for me and my sis so we could go riding together. We got out and he was fine as we walked/trotted down the side of the road. We checked the mail and started heading back. He refused to walk, the slowest he would go is a fast trot and would suddenly break into a canter or gallop. I couldn't get him to slow down and he swerved into the road cutting a truck off and just continued to run. he wont listen to my legs or to the bit and I'm sorta scared to ride him cause I dont want to get hit. The mare we go riding with just continued to walk or trot while he takes off but he dont care! After this we found out he was an ex-racer. Any advice on what I'm doing wrong when he takes off?
Thanks all!
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Jul 08
Posts: 198
classicalfan says:
A lot of horses pick up speed when they turn for home. Try to do some schooling work with him so that he listens to you.
Being an ex-racer he will go faster if you pull on the reins. If, when he picks up speed, you become tense you are unconsicously squeezing with your leg and signalling him to go up a gear. If you can, stay relaxed and give him some rein. Make sure you stay well in the saddle and block the forward movement with your seat not with your hand.
Nov 10
Posts: 382
izzymcq says:
Why didn't the old owners tell you he was an ex racer?
They probably should have,
I suggest email his old owners or something and ask them about riding adivice for him...
Jul 09
Posts: 89
xbabyprincessx says:
well clearly they dont care about him enough to make sure he goes to a suitable home so what would emailing them do, they're not exactly gonna say 'sorry we lied' are they.
I'd avoid riding him on the roads it just too dangerous for both of you. Ex racers need plenty of schooling as they've been taught at an early age the completely different aids and so effectivley you are breaking him in to ride as a normal horse. So stick to lots of groundwork, establish some manners and trust in him and then start some schoolwork. It will take some time so be patient with him, its not his fault, good luck, hes gorgeous btw, tell us how you get on! :) xxx
The owners didn't know he was an ex-racer. They thought he was a TB mix and was a trail horse his whole life. She only owned him for two years and only rode him in an arena, which wasn't very often so he acted fine just like he does in out 90x90 corral.. He was really just kept in a small pen for 2 years (I wish I had taken a video of when he came here. Going from that pen to 50 acers, he was in HEAVEN! and he got to run and play with our other two horses) Thanks for the advice! I was thinking of just going back to the start of training and working him from there and now its seems like the best, if not only, option.
Thanks so much!
May 11
Posts: 7
whitbey21 says:
hi there I own an ex-racer who was quite good in his time. The first day I rode him out, I gave him all the wrong aids (for a racer) and he shot off with me (I managed to get him back). I have found over the past 4 years that pulling on him just starts a "battle"...and he is stronger than me! I rode him tonight and as always he is jogging as soon as I head for home. So i just do gentle half halts and as soon as he stops jogging I release, then he jogs....and so on, but after a while he settles. When I first got him I daren't ride out in company as he always wanted to take off and "win the race" but over time he has understood that he doesn't need to do that anymore. Whilst he is not very well schooled I do lots of schooling whilst out on a hack to get him focused and listening which does tend to get him thinking. I also ride him in a dutch gag on the middle link which gives me that extra control without being too harsh.
Nov 09
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tbgirl25 says:
take a look at the retraining exracehorses website, they have loads of tips on dealing with horses that have been trained to run fast and not much else.
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With Lara told to use a French Link Eggbutt Snaffle as it was kinder for her than a snaffle, also keep your legs off her dont grip up as she will do the opposite of a normal horse, so pulling on the reins will be telling her to go faster, the nutter here rode her when I could with a loose rein. Everything softly softly.
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Mabye the reason why he bombed off with you is because he felt insecure. We had a horse called snowy and we could'nt just turn him round and sett of home we had to find some sort of circuit where toy did'nt have to turn directly around. Schooling sould help build up trust and aids. Ex racer are taught completly diffrent aids. I know I have one myself and schooling really helps. If you do have to turn directly around try working him as hard as you can first so he is less likely to take flight (well not as fast anyway.) But try to do as little road work as possible.
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R. Mark Leckie
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The Mancos Shale crops out extensively across nearly the entire Colorado Plateau, where it ranges from 200 to 1500 m in thickness and spans up to 20 myr of the Late Cretaceous. The formation is of interest because it records dynamic changes in relative sealevel that resulted in complex intertonguing relationships with terrestrial strata and, consequently, the development of important organic fuel resources. Although the Mancos Shale has received much study, no detailed investigation previously had been undertaken at its type area in the Mancos Valley of southwestern Colorado, where the formation was named for poorly exposed slopes of marine strata that lie between benches formed by the Dakota Sandstone and Mesaverde Formation.
Because of poor exposure in the Mancos Valley, we selected a principal reference section just to its west, below Point Lookout at the north end of Mesa Verde National Park and extending out of the park to the north. This site was chosen because it presented a steep but accessible exposure of the entire Mancos Shale, and the National Park status of much of the section insured its protection and accessibility to researchers in perpetuity.
High-resolution event stratigraphic principles (HIRES) were employed in measuring and sampling the section. This method entails trenching the entire sequence to fresh rock and sampling extensively for sediments, geochemistry, microfossils, and macrofossils. Although some short-term disturbance of the land resulted from this work, an extraordinary data base was generated for the Mancos Shale that can benefit both science and Mesa Verde National Park.
The Mancos Shale was named by Cross (in Cross and Purington, 1899) for "typical exposures" in the Mancos River Valley between the La Plata Mountains and the Mesa Verde near Mancos, Colorado (Fig. 1A). Cross estimated a thickness of 1200 feet (366 m) for the Mancos in its type area and provided a brief description of the formation, but no specific type section was designated. While acknowledging that fossils of the Mancos Shale were characteristic of several distinct formations east of the Front Range, Cross concluded that subdivision west of the Front Range in the Mancos was not practical. Cross and others (1899) first noted that "the whole formation was well exposed along the north face of Mesa Verde near Mancos". Subsequent workers have investigated these nearly continuous exposures below Point Lookout on the north side of Mesa Verde National Park. In this area, Pike (1947) measured 2191 feet (668 m) of section in the Mancos and recognized five faunal zones, and Wanek (1959) measured a total thickness of 1997.5 feet (609 m), not including the transition interval with the overlying Point Lookout Sandstone.
This previous work on the Mancos Shale in its type area was superficial in comparison to recent detailed research conducted on contemporaneous marine strata of the Western Interior in other areas (e.g., Pratt, et al., 1985, Nations and Eaton, 1991). As such, we initiated a study utilizing modern high-resolution event stratigraphic methods (HIRES; Kauffman, 1988) in order to establish a principal reference section for Mancos Shale in the type area. In the Cretaceous of the Western Interior, this study represents one of the greatest stratigraphic thicknesses and time intervals to ever be explored utilizing HIRES techniques. The copious data gleaned will be under analysis for years to come.
Kauffman (1988) introduced the term HIRES to describe high-resolution correlation methods that employ the detailed collection of all types of physical, geochemical, and bioevent data in order to maximize chronostratigraphic correlation. This technique was first pioneered in the Western Interior by Hattin (1962), in a study of the Carlile Shale of Kansas, and was subsequently employed by him in numerous other detailed studies of the Cretaceous in Kansas. Kauffman and others (1991) noted many studies that have used this methodology and provided examples of useful types of event stratigraphic information that can be collected. In brief, this method requires a freshly exposed outcrop section on which lithological features to cm-scale can be observed (i.e., ash beds, limestone or concretion beds, shell beds, storm beds, sediment bypass or disconformity surfaces). After the physical data are recorded, the section is excavated for macrofossil collection, and closely-spaced bulk samples are taken for microfossil and geochemical analyses. This collecting methodology results in the definition of diverse event data that are integrated into a composite event stratigraphy for that section and compared to event stratigraphies of other sections to yield highly refined correlations. In addition, these diverse data provide detailed information that can be used to interpret depositional history.
The principal reference section at Mesa Verde was measured, described, and collected during the summers of 1988 and 1989 (48 days on the outcrop). The entire Mancos Shale thickness (700 m) was exposed in 95 trenches dug in 23 different areas from sections 19 and 20, T36N, R14W, north of Mesa Verde National Park, to section 5, T35N, R14W, at the base of Point Lookout within the park (Fig. 1A). Numerous event stratigraphic units (particularly ash beds) present throughout the Mancos allowed precise correlation between trenches and the establishment of a composite section for the formation (Fig. 1B). The section was measured using a refined Jacob's staff (Elder, 1989), and lithologic units and meter levels were marked by flagged nails prior to detailed description and collection. In order to allow correlation to the subsurface data, gamma-ray measurements were taken through the entire section using a portable gamma-ray scintillometer.
After section description, two-kilogram bulk sediment samples were taken at one-meter intervals or less through the lower 494 m of section and at two-meter intervals or less above, resulting in a total of 664 bulk samples. These samples are being analyzed for micropaleontology, clay mineralogy, and geochemistry (e.g., Leckie and others, 1991). Finally, the trenches were extensively sampled for macrofossils, which were locally abundant. Many macrofossils are not recoverable unless fresh unweathered rock is examined. After all sampling and analyses, the trenches were backfilled. No evidence of the trenches was apparent after a few rains.
Although the methods used in this study required some land disturbance, long-term impact is minimal and is greatly out-weighed by benefits to both science and the Park Service. These benefits include the documentation of the paleontologic resources at Mesa Verde National Park and their preservation for future scientific study. The Park Service plays a role in this preservation not only by protecting the land on which the fossils are found, but also by the housing of the many molluscan specimens collected in this study at the Mesa Verde Research Center, where they will be available to scientists for further study.
Among the initial results of the project are the recognition of 686 lithological units and numerous bioevent levels in the 700 m thick Mancos Shale (Fig. 1B). Fossiliferous strata in the lower 647 m of section provided age control through that interval, and fossils in the overlying Point Lookout Sandstone allowed a lowermost Campanian age to be placed on the top of the section. Several thousand macrofossil specimens representing over 110 species, several of which are new (Fig. 2), were recovered through the 20 late Cenomanian to early Campanian molluscan biozones recognized. Refined placement of molluscan biozone boundaries was facilitated by both compacted specimens from the shale and uncrushed fossils from concretions and calcarenite beds (Fig. 2). The recovery of a specimen of Uintacrinus in the upper Santonian Desmoscaphites erdmanni Zone indicates a significant range extension for this rare taxon. Study of the foraminifers also is under way (Fig. 2), and an integrated molluscan-microfossil biostratigraphy is being developed.
In addition, we have greatly refined the lithostratigraphy in the Mancos Shale type area. We now recognize most of the Colorado Front Range lithofacies units in the thick shale and mudrock sequence at Mesa Verde reference section, where we can differentiate eight members in the Mancos; these members include the Fairport, Blue Hill, and Smoky Hill lithofacies equivalents, and two new members with regional extent, an unnamed calcareous member and an unnamed upper member (Fig. 1B). Also, several stratigraphic breaks were noted in the sequence. The most significant break occurs at the basal contact of the Smoky Hill member, where the entire lower Coniacian and much of the middle Coniacian are omitted, reflecting the "Carlile-Niobrara" disconformity. Finally, the outcrop gamma-ray profile has permitted correlation into the subsurface of the northern San Juan Basin, including the recognition of prominent bentonites.
This study demonstrates that paleontologic research in national parks can be beneficial to both science and the Park Service. Science benefits by having research sites that are protected and accessible to researchers in perpetuity, and the Park Service benefits by having increased knowledge of their paleontological resources and by being able to distribute this knowledge to the public through resultant papers and public brochures. Our results are being prepared for an illustrated scientific publication that also will be suitable for sale to the public at Mesa Verde National Park. Although short-term land disturbance is necessary to bring sedimentological and paleontological research up to modern standards, this can be done without undo impact or long-lasting effects. These types of detailed research studies are compatible with the mission of our national parks.
We express our gratitude to Mesa Verde National Park for their support. We appreciate the helpful people of Mesa Verde National Park and ARA Leisure Services Inc. for making our stay at Mesa Verde enjoyable and productive. In particular we thank Liz Bauer, Mary Griffitts, Nancy Harris, and Jack Smith of the Mesa Verde Research Center and park rangers Jim Lynch and Dave Dyson. A special thanks to Stanley Hindmarsh for access into the section north of the park. The extensive field data collected would not have been possible without the able assistance and good humor of David Finkelstein, "Sooz" Kirkland, Richard Cashman, Christein Farnham, Constance Hayden-Scott, Huaibao Liu, George "Skip" Price, John Roy, Peter Vaz, Oona West, Dave Wolny, and Richard Yuretich. Invaluable assistance through numerous discussions about Colorado Plateau stratigraphy, as well as access to electric logs, was provided by C. M. Molenaar (USGS-Denver). We also acknowledge helpful discussions with Donald Hattin (Indiana Univ.), Erle Kauffman (Univ. of Colorado), William A. Cobban (USGS-Denver), Robyn Wright-Dunbar (Rice Univ.), Elana Leithold (North Carolina State Univ.), and Robert Zech (USGS-Denver). We thank Marie Litterer for drafting assistance and Maxine Schmidt and Oona West for the foraminifer photos. Acknowledgment is made to the donors of the American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund for field and laboratory research support to R.M.L. Additional support for field work was provided by the University of Massachusetts (Faculty Research Grant to R.M.L.), Amoco Production Company (Denver), and NSF Grant No. EAR-8904608 to R.M.L. and R. Yuretich.
Cross, W. and Purington, C.W., 1899. Geologic atlas of the United States, Telluride, Colorado: Folio 57: Washington, D.C., U.S. Geological Survey.
Cross, W., Spencer, A.C., and Purington, C.W., 1899. Geologic atlas of the United States, La Plata, Colorado: Folio 60: Washington, D.C., U.S. Geological Survey.
Elder, W.P., 1989. A simple high-precision Jacob's staff design for the high-resolution stratigrapher: Palaios, v. 4, p. 196-197.
Hattin, D.E., 1962. Stratigraphy of the Carlile Shale (Upper Cretaceous) in Kansas: Kansas State Geological Survey Bulletin 156, 155 p.
Kauffman, E.G., 1988. Concepts and methods of high-resolution event stratigraphy: Annual Reviews of Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 16, p. 605-654.
Kauffman, E.G., Elder, W.P. and Sageman, B.B., 1991. High-resolution correlation: a new tool in chronostratigraphy; in Einsele, G., Ricken, W. and Seilacher, A. (eds.), Cycles and Events in Stratigraphy: Springer Verlag, Berlin, p. 795-819.
Nations, J.D. and Eaton, J.G. (eds.), 1991. Stratigraphy, depositional environments, and sedimentary tectonics of the western margin, Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway: Geological Society of America, Special Paper 260, 216 p.
Leckie, R.M., Schmidt, M.G., Finkelstein, D., and Yuretich, R., 1991. Paleoceanographic and paleoclimatic interpretations of the Mancos Shale (Upper Cretaceous), Black Mesa Basin, Arizona; in Nations, J.D. and Eaton, J.G., (eds.) Stratigraphy, depositional environments, and sedimentary tectonics of the western margin, Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway: Geological Society of America, Special Paper 260, p. 139-152.
Pike, W.S., Jr. 1947. Intertonguing marine and nonmarine Upper Cretaceous deposits of New Mexico, Arizona, southwestern Colorado: Geological Society of America Memoir, v. 24, p. 1-103.
Pratt, L.M., Kauffman, E.G. and Zelt, F.B. (eds.) 1985. Fine-grained deposits and biofacies of the Cretaceous Western Interior seaway: Evidence of cyclic sedimentary processes. Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists Field Trip Guidebook No. 4, 1985 Midyear Meeting, Golden, Colorado, 245 p.
Wanek, A.A. 1959. Geology and fuel resources of the Mesa Verde area, Montezuma and La Plata Counties, Colorado: United States Geological Survey Bulletin 1072(M), p. 667-717.
Figure 1. (A) Generalized location map of the study area. (B) Lithostratigraphy of the new principal reference section of the Mancos Shale at Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado.
Figure 2. Selected fossils from the Mancos Shale. All specimens from the Mesa Verde section unless otherwise indicated. (A) Inoceramus (Magadiceramus) subquadratus Schlüter, x1, MEVE 65842, compacted juvenile from shale, Smoky Hill calcareous member. (B-C) Inoceramus n. sp., x1, MEVE 65843, (B) side and (C) dorsal views, uncrushed juvenile from calcarenite, Juana Lopez Member. (D) Plicatula n. sp., x2, MEVE 65844, latex peel of specimen from limestone, Bridge Creek Limestone Member. (E) Uintacrinus sp., x1, MEVE 65845, partial specimen from shale, unnamed upper member. (F) Collignoniceras woollgari (Mantell), x1, MEVE 65846, latex peel of crushed juvenile from shale, Fairport calcareous member. (G-H) Scaphites whitfieldi Cobban, x1, MEVE 65847, (G) side and (H) apertural views, uncrushed specimen from limestone concretion, Juana Lopez Member. (I) Modiolus n. sp., x1, MEVE 65848, compacted specimen from shale, Smoky Hill calcareous member. (J) Turritella n. sp., x2, MEVE 65849, compacted specimen from shale, Graneros Member. (K) Hedbergella delrioensis (Carsey), x110, umbilical view, planktonic foraminifer from Lohali Point, Arizona. (L) Heterohelix globosa (Ehrenberg), x180, side view, planktonic foraminifer from Lohali Point, Arizona. (M) Gavelinella dakotensis (Fox), x70, spiral view, benthic foraminifer, Graneros Member. (N) Neobulimina albertensis (Stelk and Wall), x120, side view, benthic foraminifer, Graneros Member.


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Jan. 6, 2014 – Becker's Hospital Review, a monthly publication covering business and legal news and analysis about hospitals and health systems, announced St. Mary's Hospital has been named to their Top 100 Hospitals with Great Heart Programs and their Top 100 Hospitals with Great Women's Health Programs.
Bon Secours St. Mary's Hospital is under the direction of chief executive officer Toni R. Ardabell, and has been ranked by HealthGrades for being among the top five percent in the nation for emergency medicine, critical care, stroke, gastrointestinal care, and prostatectomy. The Joint Commission accredits St. Mary's for having centers of excellence in heart failure, heart attack, ventricular assist device, hip and knee joint replacement and primary stroke care. St. Mary's is also a center of excellence for surgical weight loss surgery and breast imaging and is designated as a Comprehensive Cancer Center by the American College of Surgeons.
I am so proud of our cardiac and women's services programs for this recognition from Becker's," said Ardabell. "Our strategic and operational goals focus on attaining this level of excellence, so I am happy for every member of our team who has contributed to St. Mary's being among the most elite in the nation."
The criteria for making the list of Top 100 Heart Programs includes quality of care, clinical awards and research contributions to cardiovascular care. As noted in Becker's report, "The Bon Secours Heart and Vascular Institute was the first in the world to offer digital cardiac imaging through the Innova 2000, the all-digital X-ray cardiovascular imaging system. Bon Secours St. Mary's has been recognized by the American College of Cardiology Foundation and is a Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Distinction Center."
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NEW ORLEANS – The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is designating nearly 6,500 acres in Mississippi and Louisiana as critical habitat for the endangered Mississippi gopher frog – the only endangered or threatened frog in the Southeast.
An estimated 100 to 200 live in the wild in Mississippi, and 892 in zoos, said the Memphis Zoo's Steve Reichling, who keeps the gopher frog stud book.
Most of the land described in a notice to be published in Tuesday's Federal Register is in Mississippi but it also includes the frog's last known Louisiana breeding ground, in St. Tammany Parish, where five of the temporary ponds it needs remain in hopping distance of each other.
Edward Poitevent, whose family owns most of the Louisiana land, has been fighting the designation. He says he cannot comment until he reads the full notice.
Critical habitat designation requires Fish and Wildlife Service consultation for federal permits.
The land includes about 1,600 acres in St. Tammany Parish, La., with the rest in Mississippi's Jackson, Harrison, Forrest and Perry counties. The Mississippi land includes about 3,500 acres of federal land, 264 acres owned by the state and the rest private.
The private landowners in Mississippi are working with the Fish and Wildlife Service, said Connie Light Dickard, an agency spokeswoman. She said the Mississippi National Guard opposed designation of part of the DeSoto National Forest where it has a special use permit, but Fish and Wildlife doesn't expect the designation to hamper the National Guard's activities.
Gopher frogs live in stump holes and burrows dug by other animals, laying their eggs in ponds so shallow they dry up for several months of the year and are therefore free of fish that would eat frog eggs. They're part of a whole ecology that depends on regular fires to burn away brush and smaller trees from the longleaf pine forests where they live.
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Amazon (AMZN) started as the "Earth's largest bookstore," but has evolved into the Earth's largest everything store. Amazon stocks its warehouses with shoes, TVs, diapers, digital movies for download … you name it.
But AMZN isn't content to stop there in its endless drive for a share of where consumers spend their money. The biggest effort lately for Amazon stock has been "consumer packaged goods," which include food and household items that are typically sold quickly and in high volume but at very low costs and profit margins.
Dubbed Amazon Fresh, the program is only available in Seattle and Los Angeles areas right now. But it's clearly not designed to be a quirky little side project.
If AMZN can succeed in finding enough consumers to make the service profitable, expect Amazon Fresh to roll out at scale in a neighborhood near you very soon.
AMZN and Grocery Sales – Using Its User Base
The power of Amazon is that once people get hooked, they can typically be served up other offers on related products. Think of AMZN as the ultimate upsell: In the market for a new flat-screen TV? Well, here are some movies you may like based on your history … or a DVD player … or, heck, even a new table to put it on.
And it's not just intuitive add-ons that get you. Amazon is, at its heart, a tech play with a host of digital tools that make it much more than a simple retailer. The ability for AMZN to track your purchase history and suggest impulse buys specific to you is uncanny — not to mention the ease of use with Amazon.com when you have stored shipping information and "one-click" purchasing power.
Bake in a group of 10 million superusers with its Amazon Prime premium service — some of whom buy almost everything from AMZN — and you have a platform for massive wallet share.
Amazon Fresh may be able to tap into a U.S. consumer packaged goods market worth at least $220 billion, according to analysts. Just a small sliver of that pie will be significant to Amazon and AMZN stock investors if the Amazon Fresh plan reaches fruition.
Furthermore, a Bernstein Research survey indicates that the key factors for consumer packaged goods sales are "pricing, specialized/niche brand selection and delivery convenience" — three things that Amazon does in spades, and that other grocery retailers may not be able to compete with.
It all adds up to a big opportunity for AMZN investors.
What About AMZN Margins?
Of course, the million-dollar question is how Amazon can subsist by selling everything at razor-thin profit margins. Part of the appeal isn't just the convenience and scale of AMZN, but also the low prices that the e-commerce giant offers.
Amazon obviously has a step up on brick-and-mortar retailers thanks to massive warehouses in centralized locations rather than a host of commercial real estate properties with all the staff and upkeep that comes with them.
However, 2013 saw the dawn of taxes across the board on all Amazon.com purchases — a small but meaningful increase in costs — and competitors from Best Buy (BBY) to Walmart (WMT) continue to match prices or push customers towards their own e-commerce engines as a way to fend off AMZN.
With a forward price-to-earnings ratio of over 100 and a long history of investing almost all of its profits in growth, some investors joke that Amazon is the largest nonprofit organization in the world.
But all jokes aside, it's worth noting that the grocery business is one segment of the retail space that is notoriously unprofitable for everyone — whether it be front-of-store sales at Walgreen (WAG) or chips and soda at Safeway (SWY), the need to discount everything and turn over inventory quickly leads to a volume game where merchants at best pinch nickels instead of pennies along the way.
Given Amazon's pedigree in the low-margin sales game and given that fresh food is a $50 billion business, it may only take the will and the logistics for AMZN to be a huge player in this marketplace.
And judging by Amazon Fresh, the will is there … and the logistics are being rolled out quickly.
Related Reading on Amazon Fresh and AMZN
- Some say Amazon Fresh could be "highly profitable." (USA Today)
- Amazon Prime is 10 million strong — as of this spring — and growing. (CNet)
- The official Amazon Fresh website, if you want to learn more (fresh.amazon.com)
- How AMZN exec Jeff Bezos is taking over — well, has already taken over — internet retail. (Fast Company)
Jeff Reeves is the editor of InvestorPlace.com and the author of The Frugal Investor's Guide to Finding Great Stocks. As of this writing, he did not hold a position in any of the aforementioned securities. Write him at email@example.com or follow him on Twitter via @JeffReevesIP.


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Capsule Review: Logitech's G100s, G500s, and G700s Gaming Miceby Dustin Sklavos on March 30, 2013 12:01 AM EST
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Introducing the Logitech G100s, G500s, and G700s Gaming Mice
The dirty secret of gaming peripherals is that if they're good quality products in general, they're often going to be head and shoulders above hardware marketed toward the regular consumer. For whatever reason, high rent keyboards and mice just aren't marketed to consumers who'll often settle on an inexpensive wireless mouse and keyboard combination. This was strangely evident in Logitech's pre-G-branding era, and while the G branding is ultimately a good thing, some users are liable to miss out on some fantastic quality kit.
In the strictest sense, the Logitech G100s, G500s, and G700s aren't new mice. They're three of the four mice that were recently announced (the fourth being the G400s, which we unfortunately didn't receive in time for review), but they're primarily refreshes. That's okay, though: the G100s is a descendant of the G100 which wasn't made available in North America, the G500s gives me a chance to properly review my beloved G500 as a new product, and the G700s sheds light on the oddly scarce G700.
When I met with Logitech in San Francisco, their statement with these "new" mice was essentially this: "if it ain't broke, don't break it." While I'd be liable to rib them a little bit for complacency, the reality is that many of these products have been phenomenally successful for them and well-received. Seriously messing with the formula runs the risk of disenchanting the customer as well as potentially resulting in a run on a dead product. That's not what you want; you want a run on a live product.
Our conversations regarding peripherals were actually pretty long and detailed, certainly more than I've gotten from other vendors, but I think that's due to Logitech being principally a long-standing peripheral manufacturer. Mice and keyboards can be tricky things; each person's body chemistry is different which in turn affects the way different materials feel in the hand. I can't use Razer mice, they make my palms clammy in seconds, but I know a lot of people love the texture on their products. That's before getting into the differences in preference between the different mechanical switches Cherry produces in keyboards.
What Logitech is pushing with their G branding marketing, other than finally having a unifying brand umbrella (and software package!) for all of their gaming products, is summed up in their slogan: "Science Wins." It's goofy, but the philosophy is sound: they rigorously test their products (apparently one version of the G600 MMO mouse had a small production run alongside the current version, they were tested against one another, and the release one won out), and they design them based on scientific data about how they're used. That means looking at grip, looking at the situations they're used in, and so on.
The G100s, G500s, and G700s may have gradually increasing model numbers (and price tags to boot), but don't be deceived: each really does serve a unique purpose unto itself.
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AwesomeAD - Saturday, March 30, 2013 - linkI don't know about lefties in general, but I'm lefthanded and wield the mouse with my right hand. Reply
Lonyo - Saturday, March 30, 2013 - linkSame.
There are a few lefties who left hand mouse, but I think a good portion right hand mouse.
Means your 11% gets cut down even more, which is why it's not massively worth it to make left handed products (although there are a few).
Because these mice are pretty much set to be right handed due to additional button placement and design curvature, they aren't really left hand suitable. Reply
Murloc - Saturday, March 30, 2013 - linkI'm left-handed and I always use the right hand. That's because most children don't have a computer of their own right off the bat so they just get used to using the right hand. I think it's better this way because it makes you more flexible when using other computers. I use the track-pad on my laptop with the left hand though, and that's not very healthy because it makes me do weird movements, but I barely use it so it's not a big deal.
Left-handed mouses isn't a market worth going in imho. Reply
snuuggles - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkFunny, I'm right handed and mouse left handed because of carpel tunnel. I've had very little issues with buttons. It's mostly just that I'm slower/less accurate with my off-hand. Reply
DanNeely - Saturday, March 30, 2013 - linkI do; but the fraction of lefties who mouse left handed and are willing to pay enough to get something beyond a cheap symmetric mouse is much smaller than the total.
Logitech lost money on it's left handed mouse; the one MS intended to launch a quarter later was canceled. Razer said they didn't expect to make it into the black when they launched theres; and implied that they were doing it for equal parts PR and because their CEO was a lefty gamer. Their second one's release was contingent on its announcement getting a huge number of Facebook likes; so I assume they're expecting to lose money on it too but felt the viralish marketing was worth the money gap. Reply
Traciatim - Saturday, March 30, 2013 - linkYou may want to check out the Genius Gila or the Logitech G300. My son is a lefty, but uses mice with his right hand. Though, just in case we wanted to be sure the mice we buy can be used either way. So far both have been pretty great. Reply
groundhogdaze - Saturday, March 30, 2013 - linkI am left handed but I have learned to use a right handed mouse as well. The reason I want to have a left handed mouse is because of carpal strain and switching between the two helps alleviate it a bit. I have a microsoft mouse on the left with the left & right click remapped and a logitech trackman on the right. With that said, right handed people should use left handed mice more often :) Reply
Friendly0Fire - Saturday, March 30, 2013 - linkAbout the lack of LED notification of the profile being used, I'm a bit surprised. Are you perfectly sure? The G700 (which is what I use and love) has the same three LEDs on the side of the mouse, which by default indicates the charge (in green) but will also indicate sensitivity (in red) when switching using the DPI buttons.
I'd also like to point out that the micro-USB cable bundled with the mouse has one significant advantage over generic cables: if you put it flat on your mouse pad and slide it in, it'll connect perfectly. It's also asymmetrical, so no rotating it twice to get it right. This makes it a total breeze to plug the mouse in, much more so than one could expect from trying to plug a tiny wire in front of a fairly profiled mouse. Reply
yefi - Saturday, March 30, 2013 - linkI found the bundled cable too thick and heavy. Instead I use one of those retractable-style cables that are very thin and flexible. There's very little tactile difference now between it being plugged and unplugged. Reply
Nexos - Sunday, March 31, 2013 - linkJust want to add a few things about the G700: the LED display can show the battery level in green, the DPI in red and the selected on-board profile in orange. I would also like to add that although it is wireless, this is not a portable mouse. Its not designed for battery life, but for performance instead. in my experience the best you can expect on battery power is about 6-8 hrs of gaming (double that for light desktop use), which is enough for me personally, but not really comparable to standard wireless mice. Reply


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Penn State Fayette plans several activities to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Several events are planned to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Jan. 17 at Penn State Fayette, The Eberly Campus. The events are free and open to the public and will take place in the Maggie Hardy Magerko Auditorium at the campus' Community Center.
Starting at 10:30 a.m. a special ceremony recognizing high school students for their achievements in academic scholarship, community service, athletics and performing arts will be held.
Following the high school presentations, "Road to Freedom," a multimedia program, will be held presented by Key Arts Productions.
"Road to Freedom" will highlight the work of people who came together to defy inequality and injustices.
According to Key Arts Productions' website, "Information and thought provoking live commentary, brings to life the story of the efforts of Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Booker T. Washington, Frederick Douglas, W.E.B. Du Bois, the Freedom Fighters, MLK and many others. Rousing musical performance and captivating big screen video images make this powerful program an entertaining educational experience for all."
On Jan. 16, the actual Martin Luther King Day holiday, Penn State Fayette students (who have the day off from classes) will gather to have a "Day On" to perform community service with fellow students from several Penn State branch campuses including Beaver, Dubois, Greater Allegheny, New Kensington and Shenango.


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The home for the Tourism Area of Expertise Team at Michigan State University, this website has information on tourism-related projects, services and programs, along with a National Tourism Database of resources and links to other tourism-related websites.
American Indian Alaska Native Tourism Association
The Mission of the American Indian Alaska Native Tourism Association is to facilitate a network of American Indian tourism interests and cooperatively identify cultural benefits, markets, and tourism opportunities in order to enhance tribal business and economic strategies.
Tourism Center at the University of Minnesota
The Tourism Center at the University of Minnesota is part of Extension Service, and operates in partnerships with various academic units, government agencies, and industry associations. This website is an excellent resource with descriptions of Tourism Center programs, research, publications, and links to other websites and resources.
Institute for Tourism and Recreation Research, University of Montana
The Institute for Tourism and Recreation Research (ITRR) was created in 1987 to conduct research on travel, recreation and tourism. ITRR serves as the research arm for Montana's tourism and recreation industry. Its overall mission is to provide information that will help the industry make informed decisions about planning, promotion and management. Thus, the research conducted is designed to assist private firms that provide services and facilities, public agencies and businesses that manage parks, recreation areas and other facilities used by tourists. Research priorities include Social and Environmental Impacts of Tourism, Regional and Community Planning and Development, Visitor Characteristics and Expenditures, Economic Impact of Nonresident Travel, Markets and Marketing Effectiveness, and Wildland Recreation.
Western States Tourism Policy Council
The mission of the Western States Tourism Policy Council is to foster and encourage a positive environment for travel and tourism by serving as a forum to identify, research, analyze, and advocate the travel and tourism related issues of public policy and opinion in the Western United States. Through educational and informative programs the Council assists in establishing a better understanding and consideration of the western tourism perspective.
Assessing and Developing Tourism Resources
Provided by the Community & Economic Development Laboratory, College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Assessing and Developing Tourism Resources presents six steps to help communities inventory their tourism assets, evaluate their tourism assets, and set goals and priorities for tourism development.
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National Tour Association (NTA)
The National Tour Association is the premier association for travel professionals who have a keen interest in the packaged travel sector of the industry. The association, which is made up of nearly 4,000 members, brings together those who package travel – group as well as individual trips – with suppliers and destinations who represent the various components of a trip. NTA's goal is to help members to increase their bottom lines by promoting partnering and networking among members and providing key information members can use to move ahead of the competition.
National Extension Tourism Design Team
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text: I love the NPCs in this game, but I felt like having a set number, although awesome, was a bit limiting and could be expanded on. I'd love to see a bunch of random NPCs move in, who don't really do anything, just live there. Maybe have a population requirement for certain shoppable NPC's to move in, such as a merchant or nurse. At some point I'd love to see wear and tear on armour and weapons, which would require a Black Smith or Weapon Smith to repair these items for you and more complicated things, such as raw resources turned into bars and created into tools, weapons and armour etc. require such NPCs. Not only does this fill out your town a bit more (adding flavour), but adds to the game in my opinion. Although I know some people will be against not being able to craft things on the fly whenever they want, I suggest that a Black Smith could create items, at a price, with less raw materials than needed if you do it yourself. This way, people can still craft quickly, but if they do it efficiently they would want to use an NPC. I also had some other ideas that I thought could be interesting. Right now NPCs require generic rooms to spawn, with some other requirement, but generally the room will do. I'd like to see specific rooms needed for certain NPC's to spawn. Merchant needs a room with 2 chests inside to spawn. Black Smith requires an Anvil. Nurse needs a room with two beds, etc. But for other NPC's, I was thinking... House of Worship This is basically where the holy people will come. Items can be added that will let the game know this is a 'Church' or whatever it will be named, such as a podium, benches and a cross for example. Monk Provides potions that give the player small buffs for a small donation. Priest House of worship needs 2 Monks before Priest arrives. Can bless melee weapons and armour for extra buff at a cost of gold. Buffs only last 24 hours. Tribal Land This shall be where the tribal people of Terraria live. There appearance may be savage but their wisdom is boundless. They require land that is away from the 'white man' (lol). I have no idea how this would work, honestly. Maybe you have to make a tribute to the land and they'll appear on their own, or you need to build tipi for them. Warrior Provides potions that temporarily improve movement, such as speed and jump height. Shaman Tribal land needs 2 Warriors for a Shaman to appear. Can bless ranged weapons and armour for extra buff at a cost of gold. Buffs only last 24 hours. Maybe at some point in the future, guilds could start popping up. Also I'd love to see smaller NPC towns spawn randomly (and rarely) throughout the world, all with slightly different items you could buy. Maybe if you join the merchants guild, you can see which merchants from which towns buy certain precious jewels at which prices, so you can sell to the right people. I'd love to see this. Would give the game more lasting power. Right now its very static, you don't stand to lose much if you die and whatever money you do lose isn't that important because you have all the best gear. But when you need someone to repair it, or buffs to fight that X boss from the Shaman, money suddenly becomes important. Of course, these ideas are just stuff I thought up off the top of my head. If you have better ones, reply!


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USRobotics Launches First SIP-based VoIP Product at CES
CONSUMER ELECTRONICS SHOW/Las Vegas, Nev. (January 5, 2006)– USRobotics, a leader in Internet access and networking known for quality, innovation, and performance, launched its first SIP-based VoIP product at the annual Consumer Electronics Show today. The USR9550 Wireless 802.11g 4-Port VoIP Router marks the company entrance into the SIP-based VoIP market, after its launch of instant messaging-based products in October.
"VoIP has become a reliable alternative to expensive telephone company services," says Rizwan Akbar, USRobotics product manager. "With one billion broadband subscribers around the globe, access to the technology for VoIP has grown. An increase in demand for products to support VoIP applications can be expected in the coming months."
With four LAN ports, one WAN port, two telephone handset ports, and one telephone line port, VoIP subscribers will now be able to take advantage of their broadband connection to power Voice and Data traffic. Users will be able to share their Internet connection without wires, secure their network with the integrated advanced firewall, and receive voice calls when registered to a VoIP service provider. The USR9550 gives service providers a reliable, easy to install and use, and secure device for installation in customer's homes.
Fully compatible with 802.11b and g devices, the USR9550 includes Quality of Service features, WEP and WPA (TKIP and AES) wireless security, support for G.711 and G.729A voice encoding, packet loss concealment technology, and other features. The router includes PPPoE WAN, DHCP Server, and an SPI Firewall and NAT. Session Initiated Protocol voice ports include FSX (two RJ11 connections for two channels of VoIP), PSTN fallback in North America and Europe, and FXO in Europe only. VoIP features include SIP NAT traversal, provisioning support via TFTP, Caller ID, three-way conference calling, and T.38 fax.
The USR9550 is currently being tested by a number of European and North American VoIP service providers and is expected to be available in early 2006 for approximately $129.99.
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For three decades, USRobotics has been a leader in Internet access and networking known for quality, innovation, and performance. Without losing its focus on the analog modems that made the company a household name, USRobotics is rapidly expanding its category leadership by offering high-speed, broadband modems; wired and wireless networking solutions; and Internet security devices to the growing home, home office, and small- to medium-sized business markets. USRobotics is privately held and headquartered in the Chicago area. For further information, please visit the Web site at www.usr.com.
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