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March 20, 2014
Opening statement
"It was a well-played game on both teams' parts. Both teams competed really hard and that's what the postseason is all about. Mississippi State did a tremendous job in those first 10 minutes of the game. Their rebounding and all the extra possessions allowed them to really take control. I'm really proud that our team was able to battle back and get back in it after that. Again, I thought it was a well-played game. It's tough to end like this, but we're really proud of our kids."
On Tulane's early second-half run
"At the beginning of the game, the offensive rebounding was killing us. At halftime we got it to eight because the rebounding margin was one. In the second half, we came back, played some defense, got some stops and were able to convert on offense. We made a little run there before the 16-minute media [timeout]. We came out with some intensity after halftime and that really helped us."
On Jamie Kaplan setting the Tulane single-season assist record with 209
"She's had a tremendous season of finding people. She's got a knack for really creating on offense. I coached [former record holder] Ashley Langford and I didn't know many people could break that record. It's really a testament for what she was able to do this season, not only with her passing but her floor leadership and what she's done for us. We got 20 wins and I can contribute a lot of them to her."
On how improved Mississippi State is from the two team's preseason scrimmage back in October
"In a scrimmage you do a lot of different things, so I don't think we had a great feel for each other. The thing that we remember them being very good at was their rebounding and they certainly did a good job of that tonight. The confidence of their perimeter has probably developed. We contained the inside pretty well as far as their scoring up until the last 10 minutes or so. Their perimeter players were hurting us getting to the basket and creating offense that way."
On Leslie Vorpahl only playing 16 minutes
"She got hurt. She originally got hurt about three weeks ago with a high ankle sprain and battled back. We lost her for a few games. She battle back in time for the conference tournament and was still hurt. She felt good coming out today and tweaked it again - probably the second possession of the second half. That was a big loss to us. I think she's a really special freshman."
On the impact of not having an injured Danielle Blagg over the last five-plus minutes
"She's our leading scorer so I think that was certainly significant. Again, we had our chances. We had some layups that we didn't make. We got some steals and didn't convert them. And we actually had some stops there. We had our chances and just couldn't make it happen. I told the team I was really happy with the way we battled all the way. Even with just a few seconds left, we really battled."
On her feelings when Mississippi State answered Tulane's second half rally with a 10-0 run of its own
"This is a game of back and forth. When it got to two, four and then six, I felt we were still in it. It was a game of momentum and when they got the four-point lead, we felt that we had to answer. We got a pretty good shot and just missed it. That's the way basketball is. We've had a lot of close games and we've won a lot of close games. In our last few, we've had some opportunities and we just didn't convert them. This is really a team without seniors and I'm excited to get this group back."


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28 September 2007
A paper on Lauria cylindracea that should have been rejected
I occasionally review on this blog papers that are several notches below the standard quality of a scientific paper, including some that should never have been published. There is one example in this post.
This edition is about a paper by Carsten Renker, titled "Genetic break in Lauria cylindracea..." and published this year in the Archiv für Molluskenkunde, vol. 136, pp. 1-7.
Lauria cylindracea is a rather small land snail. It appears to be somewhat variable in the dimensions and morphology of its shell. So, there is a possibility that there may be cryptic species within the group of snails loosely identified as Lauria cylindracea. To evaluate that possibility, which was a great idea, Renker studied 20 samples of L. cylindracea from various locations in Europe, including, Great Britain, Germany and Greece. He compared the sequences of nuclear ribosomal DNA and shell dimensions of the samples.
I am not qualified to judge the DNA part of the study. I am, however, very critical of the way shell dimensions were analyzed and reported in the paper.
The fatal flaw is that Renker compared the means of the 20 samples using multiple t-tests. Even the most elementary statistical courses and books warn the students that they should not use the t-test for multiple comparisons of more than 2 samples. That's because, without going into details, multiple t-tests increase the chances of getting a statistically significant result just by coincidence. The accepted and standard procedure for comparing more than 2 samples is the method known as the analysis of variance (ANOVA). But apparently, neither Renker nor the 2 anonymous reviewers were aware of this fact. (Here is a brief discussion of the t-test versus ANOVA and here is another one.)
All Renker says about the results of the tests is this: "...shells collected in German populations were generally slightly taller (p<0.001) than shells from other countries (Fig. 1)."
First, this is not how one reports the results of multiple comparisons. I would like to know which German samples were "slightly taller" than which of the other samples. Figure 1 from the paper reproduced below shows that there was quite a bit of scatter and overlap in the distributions of the sample means and 2 German samples (marked by the letter D) are positioned among the samples from other countries. Second, Renker's one sentence summary is a meaningless statement. What does "generally slightly taller" mean? It means nothing. There may indeed be statistically significant differences between the means of some of the samples, but no reliable evidence is given in this paper that they are.
The above figure from the paper is a bivariate plot of shell length versus shell width. The markers denote the positions of sample means and the bars are the standard deviations. In a plot like this it would be more meaningful to show, not the standard deviation, but the extent of the standard error of each mean. Since Renker does not give sample sizes either, there is no way to estimate the confidence intervals of sample means from the standard deviation values.
Another problem: Renker states that "Morphological data were tested for normal distribution with the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test." But he does not say if the data were normally distributed. Stating that a test was done is not helpful unless the results are also given. Since the t-test was used, we can only assume that the distributions were normal.
I am disappointed that Archiv für Molluskenkunde published this paper. If I had been a reviewer, I would have rejected it.
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27 September 2007
Snail's Tales'
sister niece blog
Deniz The Niece who is my niece now has her own blog, The Girdle of Melian. Deniz has been an occasional commenter on Snail's Tales and this post featured a picture of her that I had taken during a snail collecting and sight seeing trip the 2 of us had taken thru some cemeteries and winding streets lined with old houses in Istanbul in 2002.
Deniz lives in Montreal with one husband, 2 cats and several thousand books. She knows English, French, Turkish and probably some other auxiliary languages. Deniz, unlike me, is a native English speaker (she moved to Canada from Turkey before she uttered a single meaningful word) and so naturally is the person I frequently turn to (via e-mail) when I am stuck with a poorly constructed sentence.
A week from now I will be in Montreal for an extended weekend and hopefully will get together with her and the rest of the family.
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We apologize for any inconvenience...
It has come to my attention that prospective readers attempting to download my 2 chapters from the Mollusks book, the availability of which was announced in this post, have been getting the following error message from Earthlink:
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The Web page or file that you requested is temporarily unavailable. It has been so popular this month that it exceeded its free monthly traffic allotment. Access to this Web site will be restored on the first of next month. Please come back then.
The very same problem is also making the photographs in my older posts unavailable. I am trying to remedy the situation by moving the photographs to my Flickr page. However, that is easier said than done, for not only do I have to move the pictures, but I also have to copy and paste a new link for each one and then republish each post. But all the photographs will be restored eventually.
I have no other place to move the book chapters. So, if you want to download them, please try again in October. We thank you for your readership.
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26 September 2007
A thesis on Truncatella
The snails in the genus Truncatella appear to have evolved from marine ancestors to become terrestrial relatively recently on the geologic time scale. They have not ventured far from their ancestral home, for most species still live right at the edge of the sea where they frequently get covered by the waves. They were the subjects of 2 previous posts here and here.
There are several species in the genus and more research about their ecology and biology will certainly lead to a better understanding of how marine snails first became terrestrial. For whatever reasons, however, not many malacologists have been interested in them.
One malacologist who studied the Truncatella species of Florida and the Caribbean for his PhD thesis back in the late 1960s was Landon Ross. In a recent e-mail, he explained that as soon as he got his PhD in 1969 he switched to environmental science and never published anything from his dissertation. His only published contribution to the study of Truncatella was a short note: Ross, L.T. 1969. Notes on the life history of Truncatella caribaeensis. American Malacological Union Annual Reports for 1969 pp. 35-36.
Landon Ross just put up his entire dissertation on the Internet. It is a 25 MB pdf file, but worth downloading, if you are interested in Truncatella, because there is a lot of useful information not available elsewhere. However, be careful with the taxonomy, because getting the identities and the correct names of some of the species is tricky. Consult the following for more recent information: Rosenberg, G. 1996. Independent evolution of terrestriality in Atlantic truncatellid gastropods. Evolution 50:682-693.
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25 September 2007
Train station lepidopteran: Apantesis sp.
I found this dead moth this afternoon along a staircase in the Metro station at College Park, Maryland. It appears to be a species of Apantesis (Noctuoidea, Arctiidae).
The orange color on the hindwings is visible thru the gap between the forewings.
The previous train station lepidopteran featured on this blog was a common buckeye (Junonia coenia).
Posted by AYDIN ÖRSTAN at 23:00 2 comments
Introductory books on snails
A reader left this comment at one of last week's posts:
I've just come across your blog and though I'm more of a palaeontology afficando, I find myself really wanting to learn more about snails. But I really have no idea where to start. Do you have any book or website recommendations for a non-expert on snails?
If you want to learn more about snails, read Snail's Tales!
There really are no recent, good technical books on snails suitable for beginners with a scientific background. Nevertheless, you may want to take a look at the following:
G.M. Barker, editor. 2001. The Biology of Terrestrial Molluscs.
Overpriced! Check it out from a library and photocopy it! There are no excuses in this case. Otherwise, there are some good articles, but they may be difficult to follow for someone with no relevant background.
Geerat J. Vermeij. 1993. A Natural History of Shells.
It is almost entirely about the evolutionary aspects of shell structure and construction pertinent to marine mollusks and being so it won't teach you much about the mollusks' soft parts or their biology or terrestrial gastropods.
Alan Solem. 1974. The Shell Makers - Introducing Mollusks.
Although it is old and somewhat outdated, it still is a useful source. But beware of Solem's many debatable speculations!
Sturm, Pearce and Valdés, editors. 2006. The Mollusks.
This book will teach you mostly about various techniques useful to collect and study mollusks. My review of it is here.
Moore, Lalicker & Fischer. 1952. Invertebrate Fossils.
Chapter 8 is about gastropods. Although it is more than 50 years old, there is good, basic information about shell morphology with emphasis on fossils, although some of the taxonomy is undoubtedly out of date. Nevertheless, this may be a good starting point for a palaeontologist, but, again, there is very little biology and anatomy.
I recently noticed the lack of a good introductory technical book on terrestrial gastropods and started writing one myself. It will be a while before it gets published, though. But, in the meantime, allow me to repeat, if you want to learn more about snails, keep reading Snail's Tales!
Posted by AYDIN ÖRSTAN at 14:40 3 comments
24 September 2007
Nu kar*
Ever since our 1988 Toyota reached its 150,000th mile in July, we've been pondering and at the same dragging our feet about buying a new car. When late Saturday afternoon the Toyota suddenly developed a radiator leak and started dripping some green fluorescent fluid all over the driveway, I decided that it was time to pull the plug. My neighbor tried to persuade me that I could probably get the radiator fixed for about "150 bucks". But I countered him that soon something else would break. He then suggested something called Bar's Leaks brand "Liquid Aluminum Radiator Stop Leak" to repair the leak in the radiator temporarily-at least until I drove the car to a car dealer. So I got a bottle of Bar's Leaks brand "Liquid Aluminum Radiator Stop Leak", shook it hard, emptied it into the radiator and the leak miraculously stopped (Saint Che loves me!).
Sunday morning I drove to the nearest Toyota dealer and bought a brand new 2008 Toyota Yaris. Color? Bayou Blue.
We saved nickels, we saved dimes, we worked till the sun don't shine and bought a bayou blue car. That would make a good song, wouldn't it?
The folks at Toyota must like the late great Roy Orbison.
In case you are wondering, the Toyota dealer gave me $50 for my old car. If I had told them about the radiator, they probably would have charged me a disposal fee.
*New English
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23 September 2007
A Sunday story: creation of a god
O Saint Che, send more visitors to this blog. Amen.
On 9 October of this year, it will be 40 years since the Marxist revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara was killed in La Higuera, Bolivia. The Guardian reports that in the Bolivian town of Vallegrande, where Che's body was displayed, he has achieved the status of a deity:
"In this region, images of Che hang next to images of Jesus, the Virgin Mary, Pope John Paul II and Bolivia's President Evo Morales. Stories of miracles have mushroomed."
Susana Osinaga, a nurse who cleaned Guevara's body, claims that Che "is very miraculous." But it isn't just the old timers who worship him. This is what the 27-year old Freddy Vallejos had to say:
"We have a faith, a confidence in Che. When I go to bed and when I wake up, I first pray to God and then I pray to Che - and then, everything is all right."
This is a fine example of how saints, deities, gods and religions, for that matter, have always been created. Under slightly different circumstances, Che could have turned into a major god with his own holy book easily replacing all other gods that came before him.
Who is to claim in his sane mind that this is not how it happened after some guy was supposedly crucified 2000 years ago?
The corollary to this story is that all gods are false; all gods are figments of their believers' imaginations.
Photograph of Che from here.
Posted by AYDIN ÖRSTAN at 17:05 8 comments
22 September 2007
Paper or plastic or reusable?
A movement of some sort against the use of disposable plastic bags seems to have started over in the United Kingdom, according to this article in today's edition of the Guardian. Apparently, many stores and towns have banned or considering banning the use of disposable plastic bags. Modbury claims to be the first town in the UK to be "plastic bag free". I hope they will keep up with it.
Over here on this side of the Atlantic, the large grocery stores I shop at give a small credit, usually 3-5 cents per bag, when the customers bring their own bags, whether they are paper or plastic. For the last 3 years or so we've been putting our groceries into reusable bags whenever we shop at the Whole Foods Market (or at other stores). The initial cost of the bags was something like $2/bag. I shop there almost every weekend. So, the use of reusable bags starts profiting the earth almost immediately and the 5 cents/bag credit the Whole Foods gives starts profiting the customers after a year.
Plastic bags used once and then thrown away waste resources and pollute the environment, not just on land but also in the oceans. Would you consider switching to reusable bags for the sake of our earth?
Reusable bags filled with all sorts of goodies.
Posted by AYDIN ÖRSTAN at 12:02 5 comments
21 September 2007
Temi is 19!
Our beloved fluffy Temi has turned 19. She is doing great for her age, although she may be losing her hearing and getting cataracts in her eyes. She still likes to go out to the backyard to eat grass and to sit around. She can't run anymore, but can still go up and down the stairs, albeit slowly. And she spends most of her time sleeping, but then again, which cat doesn't?
Way to go Temi!
Posted by AYDIN ÖRSTAN at 22:35 4 comments
20 September 2007
Scientific quotes to get us thru the nite I
Evolution summarized
A totally blind process can by definition lead to anything; it can even lead to vision itself.
Jacques Monod, Chance & Necessity, 1972
What you can do with ANOVA
Once it is understood, analysis of variance is a tool that can provide an insight into the nature of variation of natural events, into Nature in short, which is possibly of even greater value than the knowledge of the method as such.
R.R. Sokal & F.J. Rohlf, Biometry, 3rd ed. 1995
Why I am always right
I feel that scientific creativity is rooted in the inner tension, within one and the same person, of knowing that he or she is right and knowing that that conviction has to be proven to the satisfaction of others-in a journal article.
Roald Hoffmann, The Same and not the Same, 1995
So much for poetry
Through a poet's eyes, we see the superficialities of events...But through a scientist's eyes, we penetrate the surface and see the spirit within.
Peter Atkins, Galileo's Finger, 2003
Entropy of birding
Science, it has been said, begins in observation. The best way to become acquainted with birds, for example, is to look at some birds. A good way to become acquainted with entropy is to look at some entropies.
Henry A. Bent, The Second Law, 1965
Posted by AYDIN ÖRSTAN at 22:03 3 comments
The trouble with compact cameras
It is very hard to see the monitor in bright sun light and therefore, to determine if the camera is too close or too far for the macro setting to work.
This appears to have been a common wood-nymph (Cercyonis pegala).
Posted by AYDIN ÖRSTAN at 17:52 2 comments
19 September 2007
How chipmunks help us recycle
This is what a typical jar of delicious almond butter looks like when what is left behind is too frustrating to remove for practical purposes. Throwing this glass jar in the garbage is a waste of resources, attempting to clean it, on the other hand, is a waste of time and water. Luckily, there are chipmunks in my backyard who are more than willing to clean jars like this while getting their nutrition. So the solution that makes everyone happy is to place the jar near a known chipmunk hang-out, which happens to be under the steps leading down from the deck.
Here is the same jar 6 days later.
It was almost sparkling clean except for a few bits of pine needles and a single "example" of what seems to be chipmunk poop.
The chipmunks are happy and the jar is now ready for the recycling bin.
Posted by AYDIN ÖRSTAN at 19:40 4 comments
18 September 2007
Graffitized* snails
During a recent lunch hour expedition I discovered this wall of graffiti overlooking a narrow field of grass. Burnt plant remains and melted plastic garbage indicated that there had been a small fire in the area not too long ago. To my amazement, there were also hundreds of snail shells covering the ground.
Today I spent about an hour there picking up most every shell I saw. The majority belonged to a yet-to-be-identified Triodopsis sp. Afterwards, a rough count estimated the total number collected as close to 300. I will probably go back and look for more. I am sure there are additional shells under the debris and in the nooks and crannies along the wall.
Many shells had been blackened by the fire. I did not see any live snails. But I can't tell if the fire was responsible for the deaths of the snails. There were also several fresh shells with no fire damage. Those may have belonged to snails that died after the fire destroyed the plant cover.
And 2 shells from the bottom of the wall had received their share of the graffiti artist's paint. This appears to be a good choice of paint to mark snail shells.
*Graffitize is apparently not a word in the dictionary. There are a few examples of it on the Web, though.
Posted by AYDIN ÖRSTAN at 18:10 4 comments
17 September 2007
Land snails of Turkey: Paramastus spratti
The land snail Paramastus spratti, endemic to south-central Turkey, is in the family Enidae. Unlike some other endemic enids, however, this one is somewhat rare and is known only from a few spots.
Adult shells are about 20 mm in height. In the lot of 138 shells that I was measuring the other week, there were only 2-and this was one of them-that still had their yellowish brown periostracum. Most empty shells one is likely to encounter are chalk-white like the one pictured below.
This picture shows the columella of P. spratti in the shell's body whorl. Some enid species, especially those that develop a lamella on their columella that is visible in the aperture, have a twist in their columella within the body whorl. Paramastus spratti, which lacks any prominent lamellae or "teeth" in its aperture, has a straight columella.
Some of the previous entries in the land snails of Turkey series:
Lauria cylindracea
Pyramidula chorismenostoma
Pomatias elegans
Zonites osmanicus
Xeropicta smyrnocretica
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15 September 2007
Yellow caterpillar ready to go
I saw this caterpillar while taking a walk in the woods near my house yesterday. I didn't have a container with me so I resorted to the ol' on-my-head-under-the-hat method of carrying insects. The caterpillar, which was a little longer than 4 cm, behaved itself for about a half an hour and didn't do anything nasty to my scalp.
This is a caterpillar of the butterfly spicebush swallowtail (Papilio troilus). According to Wagner (Caterpillars of Eastern North America, Princeton Field Guides, 2005), the caterpillars, normally green, turn yellow or orange when they are ready to pupate. The color of this particular individual was very striking. It is now back in the woods and will hopefully turn into a butterfly one day.
Posted by AYDIN ÖRSTAN at 15:34 24 comments
14 September 2007
A funny story
Today I ran into one of my neighbors from down the street whom I hadn't seen in a long time. Years ago we used to ride the bus together on the way home from work. At that time he was working for a company that was developing some software for the State Department to track down unwanted aliens, although what exactly my neighbor did wasn't clear (he now works as a security guard somewhere else).
Our encounter today reminded me of the day when we were sitting next to each other on the bus and he was telling me about his company. Our mutual misunderstanding of words resulted in the following conversation (this was years before 9/11).
He: The software will help the immigration guys keep the terrorists out.
Me: Why do they want to keep the tourists out?
He (perturbed): Why would you want terrorists in our country?
Me (puzzled): What's wrong with tourists?
He (frustrated): Don't you know what a terrorist is?
Me (annoyed): Of course I know what a tourist is!
Eventually, we sorted it out.
Posted by AYDIN ÖRSTAN at 17:05 2 comments
Mine comes from marzipan
Posted by AYDIN ÖRSTAN at 13:29 2 comments
13 September 2007
Atom bomb, sneezing ferrets and the interferon hype
It's been 50 years since Jean Lindenmann and Alick Isaacs published their papers on the discovery of interferon, an anti-viral protein manufactured by virus-infected cells. Their research was done at the National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR) in London. In today's Nature, there is a 1-page interview with the Swiss scientist Lindenmann, now 83.
Some highlights:
I started out studying physics at the University of Zurich, but 18 months into my course the atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. This so disenchanted me that I switched to medicine.
A petition was circulated [at NIMR] to protest the British invasion of Egypt that had nationalized the Suez Canal. But I felt that I shouldn't sign it because Switzerland was a neutral country.
The fever that the [ferrets infected with influenza] developed could be passed on to other ferrets. In the course of such a passage, a ferret sneezed into the face of [Wilson] Smith, who fell ill with influenza.
Interferon was hyped shamelessly at some phases of scientific research. Of course it never became a miracle cure for cancer and viral infections. Scientists were not innocent in this hyping — it was a way of getting research money.
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12 September 2007
More books to read
I like to alternate between English and Turkish books, sometimes within a half hour train commute. I refer to it as taxing my brain and have a vague notion, although without any data to back it up, that switching between texts written in different languages may help keep one's mind sharp. If I knew a 3rd language, I would add that to my reading schedule too.
For about 2 years now I have been ordering Turkish books from Pandora, a bookseller based in Istanbul. Although shipping costs are sometimes as expensive as the books themselves, Pandora's service has so far been reliable. They also have a store in Istanbul, which I visited when I was there last May. It was disappointingly small, but the employees were very helpful and they had the books I was looking for.
Even though I already have a shelf-long backlog of both English and Turkish books to read, I couldn't resist the urge to order more books from Pandora less than 10 days ago. They arrived today despite the fact that they were shipped by surface mail.
The new additions to the backlog are a small book about the structure of scientific thinking during the Ottoman period, the latest issue of a literature magazine featuring several cat (kedi) stories and another book about the history of the Greek residents of Büyükada (Prinkipo), one of the islands off Istanbul. I have written about Büyükada in this post and in this post and in this post.
Posted by AYDIN ÖRSTAN at 17:56 5 comments
11 September 2007
Oberlin Road beneath the blue suburban skies
Last week I wrote about what appeared to be the ruins of a house in a wooded area near where I work. The topo map showed at least 3 roads that were once present there. One nameless road, identifiable from short segments of a concrete surface at a couple places, coincides with the narrow path that crosses the area (see the satellite photo in the previous post).
Map from TopoZone.
A few days later, I went back to search for Oberlin Road shown on the map. It turned out that the south half of that road had been obliterated by the overgrowth of miscellaneous plants. So I wondered around for a while under the trees not knowing exactly where I was. Along the way, I discovered 2 or 3 more ruins of foundations of buildings similar to the one identified in the previous post.
Eventually, I ended up in a wide overgrown path surrounded by trees along both sides. I suspected I was on the right track and kept on pushing thru the densely intermingled plants. Then suddenly, a concrete surface appeared in front me: Oberlin Road.
A reader, in her comments to the previous post, identified the ruins as those of the buildings that once housed the workers of the nearby and now-closed Engineering and Research Corporation (ERCO) plant. The area is now known as the Cafritz property and not too surprisingly, is slated for development. As if what we needed was more houses in a neighborhood already full of houses, the recovering trees will be cut down, the other plants will be cleared and houses will be built in their places. Despite the upscale image they are attempting to create for the planned development at the web site, I very much doubt that it is going to look like that; they are surrounded by noisy railroad and Metro tracks on one side and some commercial buildings and a non-existent town center on the other.
It would make more sense to me if the area was instead joined to the existing small park to the north. What we need more is green space.
Posted by AYDIN ÖRSTAN at 14:03 3 comments
10 September 2007
OVUM is coming to Pittsburgh
What with the winter approaching, the end of October may be a little too late for a northern hemisphere mollusk to ovulate, but it is never too late to have a meeting about mollusks.
The first annual one-day meeting of the Ohio (River) Valley Unified Malacologists (OVUM), organized by Tim Pearce and Charlie Sturm, will be at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, PA on Saturday, 27 October 2007 from 10AM until the last presentation (to end by 5PM at the latest).
The meeting is open to professionals, amateurs, and students; basically anyone who has an interest in mollusks. OVUM has no dues, officers, abstracts, or publications. This is as casual as a scientific meeting can get. If you are working with mollusks, this is a good opportunity to present a short update of what you've been up to lately and pass some ideas around; if you are interested in mollusks, but don't know much about them, this will be a perfect chance to get yourself initiated into the wonderful world of snails, slugs and the 8-armed octopuses.
From the e-mail announcement:
Light refreshments such as fruit, bagels, coffee, tea, and water will be available from 9-10:00AM. The meeting will be in the American Indian Room on the third floor of the Museum...
Presentations should be limited to 15 minutes. A computer projector and overhead projector will be available. Presentations are encouraged from amateurs, professionals, and students. Presentations are informal and can cover any topic relating to mollusks. Current research, a recent collecting trip, or an interesting specimen are all likely topics for a presentation. You can notify us ahead of time or the morning of the meeting if you would like to speak on some topic.
At noon, we will break for lunch. There are numerous restaurants within walking distance of the Museum as well as within the Museum. A list of restaurants will be made available the day of the meeting. Information on local hotels can be obtained from Charlie Sturm.
The collection and/or library of the Section of Mollusks will be available after the presentations are concluded. Those interested in availing themselves of these opportunities should contact Tim Pearce (PearceT AT CarnegieMNH DOT org; phone 412-622-1916) or Charlie Sturm (csturmjr AT pitt DOT edu) in advance.
If you have any questions regarding the meeting or the Carnegie Museum, please contact Charlie Sturm.
I plan to go.
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09 September 2007
Tomato thermodynamics
An animal, a slug maybe, had violated the integrity of this backyard tomato by opening up a hole on top of it. I took advantage of this portal to the inner universe of the tomato by conducting a little experiment in tomato calorimetry.
The results conclusively demonstrate that tomatoes exposed to full sun could get rather hot. At 1500 hours yesterday afternoon this tomato had an inside temperature of 44°C.
Next project from the dull edge of science: a lentil mystery.
Posted by AYDIN ÖRSTAN at 11:08 3 comments
08 September 2007
O arm of St. Anthony...
send more readers to this blog.
Many relics have been recognised as fake, such as the arm of St Anthony of Padua, which turned out to be a stag's penis on examination.
Antonio Lombatti, quoted at firstname.lastname@example.com
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07 September 2007
Friday nite's beer review: J.K. Scrumpy's Hard Cider
This isn't exactly beer, but fermented apple cider with 6% alcohol. It is yellow, cloudy, sweet and tastes like, well, apple cider. Oh yes, it is organic, if that matters. Although I enjoy slightly sweet beers, I'd prefer my hard cider a bit less sweet.
J.K. Scrumpy's Hard Cider comes from Michigan. The company's web site is here, but as is the norm with such sites, there is little useful information.
Posted by AYDIN ÖRSTAN at 17:33 2 comments
06 September 2007
What I have accomplished today
*Defiance of copyright laws is so much fun. Evil laugh
**K.M. Wrinn and G.W. Uetz. Impacts of leg loss and regeneration on body condition, growth, and development time in the wolf spider Schizocosa ocreata. Can. J. Zool. 85:823–831 (2007).
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05 September 2007
Ruins of an old house, maybe
It is good to go off the beaten paths every now and then. A couple of weeks ago during my lunch break, I was exploring an area that I had recently "discovered" not too far from where I work. I was on a narrow unpaved path, the "main artery" that crosses the wooded lot when I came to a fork going to the right and which I had ignored in the past. That day I decided to go that way.
About 100 m later, I came to a sort of clearing in the woods where the ground was slightly elevated and surrounded by a narrow concrete border. There were chunks of concrete littering the ground.
The peculiar thing about these slabs of concrete was that they had pebbles embedded in them. While searching for snails during a later trip to the same spot, I discovered that the thin accumulation of leaf litter at the surface was hiding a thick layer of pebbles underneath, the kinds you would find at a beach or along a creek.
I suspect there was once a house here.
As the recent satellite picture from Google Earth shows, the general area is surrounded by residential streets to the north, industrial buildings to the south, railroad tracks to the east and a busy road to the west.
The yellow marker is the approximate location of the house ruin.
It is surprising that this parcel of land has escaped development so far. However, the trees are quite young; they may have been growing for only about 20 years or so. Furthermore, the outdated topographic map shows a Woodbury Street and an Oberlin Road that are not there anymore. You can still see the faint outlines of those streets on the Google Earth picture. The topo map doesn't show the area as being wooded (it would have been green). So it appears that this area didn't use to be as "wild" as it is now (I saw a deer there on another trip). However, the topo map doesn't show any houses despite the labelled streets.
Map from TopoZone.
And yes, I did find snail shells there but that's for another post.
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04 September 2007
Mollusks book chapters now online
I just uploaded the pdf versions of the 2 chapters I contributed to The Mollusks, edited by Sturm, Pearce and Valdés.
Pearce, T. & Örstan, A. 2006. Terrestrial gastropoda, Chapter 22 in C. Sturm, T. A. Pearce & A. Valdés, editors, The Mollusks: A Guide to Their Study, Collection, and Preservation.
Örstan, A. 2006. Rearing terrestrial gastropoda, Chapter 23 in C. Sturm, T. A. Pearce & A. Valdés, editors, The Mollusks: A Guide to Their Study, Collection, and Preservation.
Download them and read them.
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Fat, green horned devil
I found this caterpillar on a path in the woods near my house yesterday. It was alive, but just lying there to be run over by a bicyclist or a runner. It didn't object too vigorously to being picked up with a leaf and carried to my backyard.
It looked like there was some black encrustation around the caterpillar's body behind its head. During the photo session, a wasp got interested in the caterpillar and kept landing on the encrusted parts. I don't know what the deal was.
After the photo session I placed the caterpillar in a secluded place in my yard. When I checked on it about an hour later, it wasn't there anymore.
Later, a quick search thru the caterpillar pictures on BugGuide revealed that this was a Hickory Horned Devil, the caterpillar of the Royal Walnut Moth (or Regal Moth, Citheronia regalis).
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03 September 2007
Happy Laboratory Day!
Figs. 172 and 175: Millikan & Gale, Elements of Physics, 1927.
Fig. 16: Pierce & Haenisch, Quantitative Analysis, 1940.
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01 September 2007
A small survivor
The huge and pretty Australian land snail Hadra bipartita was the subject of a recent post at A Snail's Eye View. These snails can grow up to a rather respectable shell diameter of 68 mm.
In stark contrast, tonight I was measuring a tiny, tiny snail, Vertigo pygmaea from my backyard. At least 2 times a year, I collect all the live adults I can find, measure their shells and then return them to the yard. The sample averages are about 1.8-1.9 mm (details here and here).
Usually once a year I also mark* the shells of a number of snails. That helped me determine that adult snails can survive the winter (details here). The last time I marked some snails was on 25 December 2006 when I used red ink on 20 adult snails. To my surprise, one of the 12 adults I found today had a red mark on its shell. Prior to last December, I had used red ink also in March 2006. I will assume that an ink mark on a shell would not last that long. Therefore, the marked adult found today was probably marked last December and has been alive as an adult for at least 8 months.
Those dots in the container under the microscope are the snails I measured tonight.
*I have been using various colors of Pigma Micron pens. The ink survives on snail shells for at least 3 months. In the case of one of the snails collected today, the ink was visible after 8 months.
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THUNDERBIRDS DOWN SILVERTIPS – Roberts Lipsbergs scored three goals to lead the Seattle Thunderbirds to a 5-3 win over the visiting Everett Silvertips in Western Hockey League action on Tuesday.
Justin Hickman notched a goal and an assist and Jesse Forsberg got his second goal of the season for the Thunderbirds (12-12-1-0), who broke a 3-3 tie with two goals in the third period. Brandon Glover made 20 saves to post his 11th win of the season.
Kohl Bauml, Josh Winquist and Carson Stadnyk scored while Reid Petryk chipped in three assists for the Silvertips (10-17-0-2), who went 1-for-4 on the power play as they drop their second straight decision. Daniel Cotton made 33 saves in the loss.
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Jordan Messier scored the deciding goal in a shootout to lift the visiting Moose Jaw Warriors to a 4-3 win over the Victoria Royals on Tuesday.
Brayden Point sent the game to overtime with the tying goal with 1:04 remaining in the third period while Travis Brown and Justin Kirsch also scored for the Warriors (9-11-3-4), who rallied from a 3-1 deficit over the final 3:55 of the third period. Daniel Wapple made 19 saves through regulation play and denied three of four Royals' shootout attempts to post the win.
Brandon Magee, Alex Gogolev and Tim Traber – with his first of the season – scored for the Royals (13-12-0-1), who suffer their first loss in extra time this season. Patrik Polivka made 33 stops in regulation, but was beaten twice in the shootout for the loss.
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Brenden Walker scored two goals as the Saskatoon Blades rallied from a 3-1 deficit to post a 5-3 triumph over the visiting Lethbridge Hurricanes on Tuesday.
Nick Zajac, Matej Stransky and Darren Dietz also scored for the Blades (12-12-0-1), who held the Hurricanes scoreless on three power play chances. Andrey Makarov made 22 saves in the win.
Sam Mckechnie, Jaimen Yakubowski and Ryan Pilon scored for the Hurricanes (13-13-1-2), who slump to their sixth loss in a row and remain in fourth place in the Central Division. Ty Rimmer made 29 saves in the defeat.
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Levi Bews scored his 11th and 12th goals of the season to pace the Swift Current Broncos to a 5-3 win over the visiting Brandon Wheat Kings on Tuesday.
Reece Scarlett, Josh Derko and Ryon Moser also scored and Graham Black had three assists for the Broncos (10-12-3-2), who now sit in a four-way tie for second place in the East Division. Eetu Laurikainen made 21 saves to post the victory.
Richard Nejezchleb scored twice and Alessio Bertaggia picked up a goal and two assists for the Wheat Kings (10-14-2-1), who drop their third decision in a row. Corbin Boes made 33 saves in a losing cause.
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English: Imagination of you all day is a 2012 Tamil romantic thriller film directed by Elred Kumar starring Atharvaa and Amala Paul in the lead roles. The film opens with Ram (Atharvaa) fronting a car driven by two guys apparently drunk and rich and with their girl friend(s). He tries to kill them and eventually they escape in the car opening the title. Then it turns to be that Ram enjoys a successful career in information technology. He is hit by Radhi (Yashika) as office romance. He turns down her interest and reveals he is in love with a girl who resides in Bangalore and he is going to visit her. Ram drives to Bangalore and meets Charu (Amala Paul) in her apartment. While sleeping, Ram wakes up goes to the streets, search and kills a person (one of them in the car in first scene). Eventually its revealed that Charu is in some danger and Ram is safeguarding her by not letting her out of that apartment until he cleans up the city for her safety. Later, the screenplay takes many twists when Latha, Ram's CEO comes to India, who is looking alike Charu and the film ends with Ram eliminating every last person who could cause danger to Charu.
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TEMPE, Ariz.—The Arizona State volleyball team honored the 2013 season and its senior class of Stephanie Preach, Jenny Teslevich, Caitlyn Francis, and Bethany Jorgensen on Friday night.
"Our graduating senior class is one of the most special in my career," head coach Jason Watson said. "They have changed the expectations and perceptions of our program. In doing so, they leave Sun Devil Volleyball better than they found it and ended their careers better than they started. It's a strong legacy in which to build on. I'm thankful to each of them for taking a chance and committing to building a program we are proud to put our signatures on."
Preach, who started in each game this season for the Sun Devils (19-14, 8-12 Pac-12), finished her career with 2010 total digs, making her the second in ASU history to surpass the mark of 2000.
Teslevich picked up a season-high 16 digs twice this season and on back-to-back nights as ASU notched a pair of crucial road wins over then-No.23 Oregon and Oregon State. The Phoenix, Ariz., native looks to continue her academic career in medical school.
A two-time selection to the Pac-12 All-Academic First Team, Francis was a consistent presence on the court for the Sun Devils. Double majoring in family and human development and psychology in The Barrett Honors College, Francis was also a three-time selection to the Dean's list.
Jorgensen recorded her career high in kills with seven in ASU's straight-set victory over Alabama State at the ASU Marriott Invitational on Sept. 21. Later that same day, Jorgensen recorded five kills and an impressive .364 hitting percentage as ASU topped Louisiana-Monroe, 3-0.


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Working full time, year round at new high in 2000
November 07, 2001
A total of 148.6 million persons worked at some point during 2000, of which 67.0 percent were employed year round and full time. This percentage was up from the 65.9 percent figure recorded in 1999 and was the highest since the series began in 1950.
The share of men working full time and year round rose from 73.4 percent in 1999 to 74.4 percent in 2000. The percentage of women working full time and year round increased even more, from 57.6 percent to 58.9 percent.
Year-round workers are employed for 50 to 52 weeks a year and full-time workers usually work 35 or more hours a week.
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Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, The Economics Daily, Working full time, year round at new high in 2000 on the Internet at http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2001/nov/wk1/art03.htm (visited June 29, 2016).
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On Friday Ben-Eliezer was put into an induced coma and moved to intensive care when his situation worsened. His stay in hospital began more than two weeks ago during a bout with pneumonia.
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BEAVER, W. Va. -- People who live or work in Lewis County may apply for disaster unemployment benefits if they lost income because of June storms. Lewis joins Logan, McDowell, Mingo and Wyoming counties in the program.
Disaster Unemployment Assistance is funded by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and offered through WORKFORCE West Virginia to help people who lost their jobs or cannot work because of the severe storms, flooding, mudslides and landslides that began June 12, 2010 and continued until June 29.
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Has anyone noticed that many Texas residents are becoming extremely concerned, even paranoid, that President Obama allegedly is planning to use the Army's Special Ops training exercise code named Jade Helm 15 to "take over the state" and impose martial law?
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His business card says City of Rockwood Animal Control and Codes Officer. To me, Mark Neeley is so much more.
In his more than two years at Rockwood's tiny animal shelter, he has dealt with almost 1,600 animals.
Of those, 320 were taken to the Roane County Animal Shelter, 122 were returned to their owners, and homes were found for 944.
While the typical euthanasia rate at an animal shelter is 70 percent, Mark's is about 3 percent. In my opinion, this is because of his hard work and determination that no adoptable dog is put down.
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Back in February, I wrote a draft paper titled Community Investment Fund (CIF), an "Initiative to Grow" program.
I sat on the article for a number of weeks, and then started pitching the concept to our city and county leaders to see if they would be receptive to further study and consideration of the initiative.
Input was received from city mayors and managers as we met in our semi-monthly meeting.
In Wednesday's edition of my column, I touched on what I thought the Tennessee Titans might do with the number two overall selection in Thursday's NFL Draft.
By the time you're reading today's column, you and I will both already know. However, it's still Wednesday for me.
Every year since I started covering sports way back when at UT Martin, I release my mock draft for the this upcoming Draft. This year, however, I decided to wait. Look on the bright side, at least you can read through this and see how wrong I was.
With April Fools' Day here, it appears that the meat, egg, and dairy industries have been playing us for fools all year-round.
Their more remarkable hoaxes include "California's happy cows," "free-range chickens," "humane slaughter."
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On Thursday night's Tru-TV episode of "The Carbonaro Effect," titled "It's a Makeshift," comedian and magician Michael Carbonaro, puzzles everyone with his tricks and has spectators shaking their heads in amazement.
In the first segment, with the caption, "You had your blue shirt on!" Michael is in a Laundromat and from a tiny box of soap, he continues to pour a huge amount of soap powder into a machine as a man is in awe watching this feat.
When a pretty young woman comes in to wash her clothes, he tells her it is his last day of work. He is doing his laundry and going to Cancun tonight. He was folding a sheet and transformed from his blue shirt; to his tropical one, he was just folding. She noticed that he just had his blue shirt on, and suddenly it is his Cancun clothes. As she questioned his quick change, he picked up his laundry basket and told her he was going on vacation and left.
Back in the Laundromat, Michael was having a problem with the change machine, so he swapped a dollar with another man. When he got the dollar, Michael noticed it had the identical serial number on the one the man gave him, as the picture on the screen. So Michael told him to put the dollar in, when he did; the machine started spewing coins like a slot machine. So Michael asked him for a quarter for his machine, and the man scooped up the rest.
In the next segment, with the caption, "I raise kids and dogs." Michael was working in a second-hand store. When a woman brought in a shopping bag filled with shoes. Michael found a huge scorpion inside one shoe, much to the shock of the woman who brought them. He told her and the crowd that gathered that they find lots of things living inside of shoes. When he asked her if she wanted to take it back home, she told him she raised kids and dogs. As a customer at the shop, he stopped by a table where a woman was selling items for a dollar. He picked up an old vinyl record and played music with his fingernail, as she was amazed at his accomplishment. He tried other records and got different sounds from each one. He finally chose a movie on a disk, that he looked into and saw John Wayne, but when she tried to see the movie, she could not as he took it and walked away.
A woman at Michael's counter had a project for school to make a golden lamp stand. The one she found was partially golden, but the top was wrought iron colored. She hoped to get a good deal, and Michael told her to look on the front of the counter, because today only, the sign read, "Golden Lamp Stands, Free."
At another seller's table, Michael saw a mounted butterfly in a box, when he opened it, the butterfly was alive, as everyone in the shop was shocked when it flew away.
In the next segment captioned, "The tail poked a hole in it." Michael worked at a packaging/mail facility. A man came in with a snow globe he wanted shipped. It was of a lady holding a nutcracker, but when Michael shook it, the nutcracker fell out, without the globe breaking. So Michael told him to tape it on the outside, which he did. When Michael held it again, the nutcracker was back inside and the tape was empty. Michael told him not to shake it again, and he agreed and left the store.
When a woman came to his counter, Michael asked them to please hand him a package on a table. The package had fragile stickers on it, but one side the arrows pointed up and the other side was opposite. Michael opened the box, and inside was a punch bowl filled with punch.
A man with a glass penguin wanted it shipped. Michael told him, because it was glass, he had to wrap it, but Michael will give him the supplies. As he wrapped it in paper and then bubble wrap, put it in the box with peanuts, and taped it up, there was an identical glass penguin on the counter. The man unwrapped what he just packed, and it was empty, but he knew that the tail poked a hole in the paper, and it was the one he just wrapped; but where did it go? He did the identical thing again, wrapped, the same way, and put it on the scale, and the same thing happened a third time.
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ST LOUIS (LALATE) – Lynne Zappone, Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen CTO, battles an Undercover Boss disguise tonight on CBS. Tonight's Undercover Boss represents the first time that CBS has ever sent a Chief Talent Officer in as the Undercover Boss. A twist develops.
Tonight's episode is a rebroadcast of a hit telecast from last year. But in a news statement this week, CBS tells viewers that the excitement is still hot on the grill. "Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen – Lynne Zappone, Chief Talent Officer of Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen, the world's second-largest fried chicken restaurant chain, is frustrated with an employee's lack of Southern charm behind the counter." Hence she gladly takes on the coveted role. But an unusual twist occurs. "Also, the Boss is brought to tears by another employee's generosity".
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After a decades-long fast-food binge, the notion of watching what you eat seems to be hitting more Americans -- but certainly not all -- as they approach the counter of their favorite "quick-service" outlet, experts say.If you're looking to keep tabs on junk food, check out DiseaseProof's Hurtful Food category.
Changing tastes -- along with some regulatory prodding -- means the nation's fast-food industry is also getting the message. Citywide bans on tasty but heart-clogging trans-fat cooking oils, legal moves to mandate calorie counts on menus, and even an effort to outlaw new fast-food franchises in obesity-plagued south Los Angeles have grabbed headlines this year.
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An eight-year-old Redding boy suffering from cystic fibrosis is getting his wish granted. Christopher Elliott's wish was for his whole family to go on a vacation.
So the Make-A-Wish Foundation is sending him and his whole family to Hawaii for a week. While they're there the whole family will get to take a ride on the Sugar Cane Train on Maui and will get to take a ride in a submarine.
The train was a big deal for Christopher, and to ride one in Hawaii just makes it all the better. And just knowing that they're about to go has really brightened his mood.
"He's been excited. There's a lot of anticipation for him," said Roger Eliott, Christopher's dad. "We've shown him pictures of the Sugar Cane Train and we've shown him pictures of Maui. So he's definitely excited."
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Ron Simmons, formerly known as Farooq, is scheduled to have his forthcoming induction into the WWE Hall of Fame class of 2012 officially announced on tonight's Raw Supershow.
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The 2012 WWE Hall of Fame induction ceremony will take place Saturday, March 31, 2012 from the American Airlines Arena in Miami, Florida.


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Man jailed for stealing scrap metal from Eton College
A Romanian father who came to England for a better life has been jailed for stealing metal from Eton College.
Iulian Ispilante, 29, from Diamond Road, Slough, had admitted taking metal poles from the world-famous school meaning to sell them for scrap metal on July 15, during the summer break.
He was handed a community order for the offence on August 8.
But last week St Albans Crown Court heard how just two days later, he and a gang stole a phone from the O2 phone store in the city.
During his getaway the father-of-two nearly mowed down a police officer who stood in his way to stop him, while another, who was able to open the passenger door, was knocked to the ground when Ispilante sharply reversed the car.
The BMW was later recovered abandoned with a stolen iPhone worth £499 found inside.
Ispilante, originally from Bucharest, admitted one charge of theft and another of dangerous driving, as well as being in breach of his order at St Albans Crown Court on Thursday last week.
The judge sentenced Ispilante to eight months in prison for dangerous driving and one month for the phone theft, to run concurrently.
He revoked the existing order and added two four-month sentences to run consecutively for breaching the orders imposed for the Eton theft - making a year-long sentence, half of which must be served.
Judge Andrew Bright QC said: "You left your children behind to come here with your wife, and in due course you intend for them to join you.
"That plan doesn't seem to be going very far very fast, funding your lifestyle by stealing. People who behave as you did can expect to go to prison."
Ispilante was also disqualified from driving for 12 months.
Eton College's buildings bursar Ian Mellor said this week that 'scrap metal' thefts from the school were increasingly common - often involving sports equipment such as goal-posts.


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We all agree Aston Villa fans need something to cheer inside the Football Transfer Tavern, and according to Darren Lewis of the Daily Mirror they may not have to wait much longer.
Under pressure Villa boss Paul Lambert is reportedly lining up a deadline day move for Stoke City striker Kenwyne Jones, after he priced himself out of a move to Swansea City.
Michael Laudrup was keen to bring the striker to South Wales, although is now understood to have turned his attention elsewhere upon learning Jones wanted £55,000-a-week to complete the move.
The news has alerted Lambert who is desperate to add more firepower to his relegation threatened Aston Villa squad.
Jones, who moved to Stoke City from Sunderland in 2010 has managed just five goals in 19 appearances for Tony Pulis' side this season, with it understood that Pulis is willing to sell in order to fund a move for another striker.
Pulis has in fact been linked with a move for Aston Villa striker Darren Bent, leading to speculation of a possible deadline day swap deal. Bent has cut a frustrated figure at Villa Park this season, often finding himself on the bench and scoring just one Premier League goal this season for a club who now finds themselves in the bottom three.
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You don't have to be a regular reader to know that I've been depicting Barack Obama in Hello Kitty regalia for about one year: flags, banners, you name it. Most recently, I did an Obamaman cartoon that depicts our lame superhero president wearing a Hello Kitty logo on his chest.
Now a sharp-eyed FOR points out that an illustrator for the Financial Times has rather brazenly ripped off my meme.
Usually, these things are less than cut and dry. But it's pretty hard to believe that any illustrator could be unaware of my use of the Hello Kitty imagery to define Obama–it ain't as branded as Generalissimo El Busho yet, but come on. This one fails the smell test.
Suffice it to say that, if this sort of thing annoys you, it is possible to email the Financial Times a letter to the editor.


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IOWA CITY, Iowa -- Seven University of Iowa men's swimmers posted U.S. Olympic Trial qualifying times at the Hawkeye/Big Ten Long Course qualifier, which was held Feb. 26 at the Campus Recreation and Wellness Center Pool.
Two Hawkeyes -- junior Byron Butler and sophomore Andrew Marciniak -- qualified in a pair of events. Butler posted a trials cut time of 54.57 in the 100 butterfly and 57.25 in the 100 back, while Marciniak qualified in the 100 breast (1:04.53) and 200 breast (2:18.57).
Redshirt freshman Grant Betulius posted a qualifying time in the 100 back (56.70), freshman Brian Donatelli in the 50 free (23.49), sophomore Dustin Rhoads in the 100 back (56.12), freshman Korey Schneider in the 100 breast (1:04.58) and sophomore Gianni Sesto in the 50 free (23.14).
Five other current Hawkeyes -- junior Jordan Huff, sophomore Tyler Lentz, seniors Paul Gordon and Ryan Phelan and freshman Michael Vinyard -- had already previously qualified for the U.S. Trials. Sophomore Manuel Belzer and senior Duncan Partridge are international qualifiers.
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Residents in Clinton Township near 16 Mile and Gratiot were faced with a situation this Thursday afternoon that left one person shot and killed and another wounded. WXYZ.com reported that at 1 p.m. today an attempted robbery of an armored truck did not turn out as the robbers expected.
In the Bank of America parking lot a guard was approached by two men attempting to rob the armored truck. One of the men was carrying a revolver as he approached the guard wheeling money to the bank and managed to get some cash from him. Who fired first is not known, but approximately 50 shots were fired leaving one man dead and one wounded.
Click on Detroit.com reports that one of the suspects fled the scene in a stolen silver minivan with windows shot out by the guard. The authorities determined that the second man was hit in the gunfire exchange due to blood found in the van.
After the robber fled, the guard retreated to his truck unharmed and waited for police to arrive. The van used by the second robber was later found at Remick Drive and Stair Street, about two blocks from the bank. Police continue to scout the area looking for the second wounded man. Residents are warned to stay inside with their doors locked.
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Suzanne Miller, president of Empire State Properties, Manhattan's leading provider of luxury corporate housing relocation services, recently announced that the firm has launched Luxury Listings from Suzanne Miller, Inc., a brokerage and full-service management division specializing in the sale and management of multi-million dollar properties.
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