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Species distributed across broad geographic ranges often exhibit extensive variation in life-history traits, and understanding the causes and consequences of this variation has been a central topic in evolutionary ecology for decades. Environmental factors that exert strong effects on animal life histories include food availability (Ballinger 1977; Yom-Tov et al. 2006; Naya et al. 2007), rainfall (Blois et al. 2008; Marquis et al. 2008), and population density (Massot et al. 1992; Jenkins et al. 1999). However, most attention has focused on the effect of temperature (Adolph and Porter 1993; Atkinson 1994; Gotthard 2001; Adams and Church 2008; Angilletta 2009), largely due to the fact that temperature directly impacts on many aspects of the physiology and behavior of organisms (Angilletta 2009). For example, one of the most recognized ecogeographic rules, Bergmann's rule, predicts evolution of larger body size in colder environments as a result of enhanced ability to conserve heat (Bergmann 1847). Although Bergmann's rule was originally conceived for endotherms (mammals and birds), with focus on interspecific comparison, some groups of ectotherm taxa show clear geographic clines in body size that are consistent with Bergmann's rule (intraspecific examples: Arnett and Gotelli 1999; Ashton 2001; Ficetola et al. 2010; interspecific examples: Cushman et al. 1993; Cruz et al. 2005; Olalla-Tárraga et al. 2006; for discussion see Olalla-Tárraga 2011 or Meiri 2011). On the other hand, several ectotherms show the opposite pattern, that is, smaller body size in cooler environments (Lindsey 1966; Ashton and Feldman 2003; Olalla-Tárraga et al. 2006; Cvetković et al. 2009). The selective regimes that drive these patterns are not fully understood and may include other aspects of the environment than ambient temperature. This is particularly relevant for studies that rely on latitude as a proxy for temperature (e.g. Ashton and Feldman 2003; Cruz et al. 2005; Pincheira-Donoso et al. 2008), because latitude may correlate with several abiotic and biotic factors that generate selection on body size (Hawkins and Diniz-Filho 2004). For example, it has been shown that environmental productivity (Rosenzweig 1968) or environmental seasonality (Murphy 1985; Meiri et al. 2005) can drive body-size patterns, possibly by affecting food availability across climatic gradients. Furthermore, as most ectotherms grow larger when reared at lower temperatures (Atkinson 1994; Partridge et al. 1994; Van Voorhies 1996; Angilletta and Dunham 2003), Bergmann clines may at least partially arise as a result of general plastic response in cell size (Van Voorhies 1996).
Adaptive explanations for geographic variation in life-history traits mainly focus on how temperature and other factors mediate costs and benefits of growth and therefore the optimal age and size at maturity (Berrigan and Charnov 1994; Kozlowski et al. 2004; Arendt 2011). As regards temperature, most ectotherms grow slower and attain larger final body size in colder environments, which is achieved by prolonging growth and delaying maturation (Morrison and Hero 2003). Optimality models predict evolution of larger body size in cool environments if the cost of reduced survival to maturity can be offset by, for example, a larger increment in fecundity or improved survival (Kozlowski et al. 2004; Arendt 2011). When growth rates are lowered by reductions in food, age and size at maturity respond in the opposite way, that is, animals mature later at a smaller size (Berrigan and Charnov 1994).
Although temperature has a direct influence on different aspects of behavior and physiology of ectotherms, some species including many lizards, are active thermoregulators that use various behavioral mechanisms to maintain relatively constant body temperatures during activity (e.g. Bauwens et al. 1996). Thus, individuals inhabiting warmer environments do not necessarily exhibit higher body temperatures compared to individuals from colder environments (Castilla et al. 1999). However, there is substantial variation across climatic regimes in the amount of time that a lizard can be active at its preferred body temperature (Adolph and Porter 1993). Activity times determine how much energy will be allocated to growth or reproduction (e.g. Niewiarowski 2001) as most processes which are linked to energy acquisition and energy assimilation are highly temperature dependent and both are being maximized at preferred body temperature (Avery 1971; Van Damme et al. 1991). Individuals with longer activity season are therefore expected to grow faster and attain maturation at smaller size and earlier age (Adolph and Porter 1993; Sears 2005). Thus, in lizards, selection on age and size at maturation imposed by the thermal environment could arise through its effect on activity times and not through temperature per se (Adolph and Porter 1993; Sears and Angilletta 2004; Olalla-Tárraga et al. 2006; Olalla-Tárraga 2011). However, whether geographic variation in body size can be explained by variation in activity patterns has rarely been tested (but see Sears and Angilletta 2004; Sears 2005; Olalla-Tárraga et al. 2006).
Our aim in this study was to conduct a spatially and phylogenetically controlled analysis of the drivers of geographic variation in body size and fecundity, and their relationship, in the common lizard, Zootoca vivipara (Lichtenstein, 1832). The common lizard (Fig. 1) is a very suitable system for addressing this issue because its phylogeography is relatively well understood (Surget-Groba et al. 2001, 2006) and it has the widest geographic range of all terrestrial reptiles, occurring from Ireland in the west to Japan in the east and from southern Spain to northern Scandinavia (see Fig. 2 and Table A1; Dely and Böhme 1984). We specifically focused on testing whether (1) differences in seasonal activity better explain variation in body size than differences in mean ambient temperature experienced during activity; (2) costs associated with higher growth rates (longer seasonal activity) are offset by some benefits (e.g. improved fecundity or survival; Arendt 2011); (3) other abiotic factors which have an effect on growth rate (e.g. via food availability) significantly contribute to variation in body size; (4) the potential costs of higher growth rate are offset by benefits in terms of fecundity or survival at the population level.


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"I went back into tough winter training with an open mind on whether or not I would want to compete indoors this year - training has been going well but I feel that my focus really has to be attempting to win another world title in Russia this summer and not the short-term indoor season," Ennis said in a statement on Monday.
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An aggregation of strange things that interested me in one way or another. tl;dr and government communication in the age of the hipster SPD seized a bunch of my marijuana before I-502 passed. Can I have it back? No. Seattle PD's information on marijuana legalization is an interesting piece with a tl;dr reference and an embedded Lord of the Rings "finest weed" video clip. Compare the voice and audience of this government communication to other state communications. We will kill you so fast We need doctors because people grow up and you fall down and go boom. Everyone's going to need a doctor. Let's have 3 doctors per floor of every apartment building in this town. How about that as a good idea? Like that is a good idea. OK. So let's make college tuition either free or really low. And if you have a country full of whip-crack-smart-people, you have a country the rest of the world will fear. They will not invade a country of educated people because we are so smart. We'll build a laser that will burn you, the enemy, in your sleep before you can even mobilize your air force to kill us. We will kill you so fast because we are so smart. –Henry Rollins Henry Rollins gives a whole new side of STEM […]
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I recently tried to present something on #ds106 and MOOCs in general at VSTE. It's probably best it wasn't filmed. I'm going to try to present something more coherent in writing.1 This will be a description of what made this course work for me although I believe it could be generalized at least some to the world as a whole. My description of #DS106 was essentially an online course2 meets Woodstock. You take a guided online experience and mix it with both chaos and, more importantly, community. At the core, this is all about community. I'll play out a few of the things that seem to indicate that to me. Mechanical Aggregation DS106 seems to have the semi-mythical eduglu working. People are writing in all sorts of places with a variety of clients and it's being captured in a way that encourages both commenting, community, and creativity. The synchronous aspect of this course is important and one that is encouraged and leveraged by being able to display both content and comments in one space with very little effort on the user. It's a really interesting world when we can both have a "room of our own" and aggregate to communal place. It doesn't take a room of Java developers or a million dollar a year site license for the shiniest […]
Science Video Contest
This is a pretty nice little video1 explaining entropy while at the same time giving tips on how to create a good science video. It's made by Small Mammal who makes short videos for people like NPR. And the whole thing is part of a science video contest for Ars Technica that you can submit to here. -via Boing Boing 1 There is a pre-roll Canon ad.
BattleDecks- Presentation Ninjitsu
I found these beautiful notes from SXSW via Boing Boing where I saw Battledecks which led to this summary. credit Mike Rohde Powerpoint meets Karaoke in this battle of wits. Watch your favorite speakers craft an off-the-cuff presentation using slides they've never seen before. Eight competitors will have five minutes to complete their presentation. Three judges will score the participants based on their use of jargon, gesturing and credibility. Who will take home the trophy and who will totally choke? Come see for yourself! Two things came to mind for me. 1. Battledecks with your class. You set up a serious of slides that deal with your topic. Divide the class into groups and give out the deck. They've got X minutes to come up with the content to match the slides. Points are awarded for relevancy, creativity/entertainment, jargon etc. For English, this could get really creative. It'd be an awesome way to do work with vocabulary words or story structure. They could pitch a story Hollywood style using as many vocabulary words as possible while working the story through the basic steps (rising action, etc). You could add difficulty by forcing genres on the students (nice way to review those elements as well). Now, this won't work at all if you're giving them traditional bullet point slide decks to […]
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NASA has announced a contest to design a pennant to be flown into space on the STS-818 shuttle mission. From the official site: The STS-118 flight of the Space Shuttle Endeavour will be the first spaceflight of an Educator Astronaut, mission specialist Barbara Morgan. STS-118 is also an important step in the ongoing assembly of the International Space Station. It's not enough to just come up with a creative design. Students must research their topic, and use what they learn to design their pennant. Then, they must write essays explaining their designs. The essays must tell how the pennants reflect the research about STS-118 or the Vision for Space Exploration. Entries are being accepted now through April 10th by students ages 6-12. See NASA's official announcement for details. Via BoingBoing


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LETTER: Meat as bad for you as cigarettes
Published: Saturday, January 25, 2014 at 6:00 p.m.
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Dear Editor: On the 50th anniversary of the U.S. surgeon general's first report on the health hazards of cigarette smoking, the surgeon general's office released a report linking smoking to several new chronic diseases.
These include diabetes, erectile dysfunction, cancer of the colon and liver and stroke. These are, in addition to the well-known links to lung and oral cancer, high blood pressure and heart disease.
The parallels between cigarette smoking and meat consumption are uncanny:
■The chronic diseases linked to both activities and costs of associated medical care and lost productivity are very similar.
■The first government reports warning consumers about health hazards of cigarette smoking and meat consumption were issued in 1964 (by the surgeon general) and in 1977 (by the Senate Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs), respectively.
■The first warning labels on cigarette and meat packaging were required in 1966 and 1994, respectively.
■Both activities are discouraged by health advocates, and both are declining.
But there is one important difference: The meat industry impacts more state economies with a stronger congressional clout than the tobacco industry.
A surgeon general's report on the hazards of meat consumption is most unlikely.
Our health remains our personal responsibility
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Salmat Weighs Possible Sale of Outsourcing Unit
To sell or not to sell? That is the question for communications provider Salmat.
An unsolicited approach for the company's Business Process Outsourcing arm has put Salmat's management in a quandary, not least because the division is the ASX-listed company's largest revenue generator and best performer in terms of margins.
Salmat says the approach is conditional and it's keen to keep the interested party's identity under wraps, at least for now. But the board reassured shareholders the potential buyer is "credible" and, together with financial advisers Macquarie Capital and legal firm Clayton Utz, it is willing to consider the approach alongside other strategic options.
The news sent Salmat shares up as much as 21% to 2.38 Australian dollars (US$2.33) versus Tuesday's close. At 0555 GMT, Salmat had a market value of A$353 million.
"It's all about having options," Ord Minnett head of research Stephen Scott told Deal Journal Australia. "It is like a party: whether or not you're going to go, you want to get the invitation."
Salmat's BPO arm manages outsourced business services for large corporate clients, targeting consumers through bulk and direct marketing. The division also has a data management capability that allows it to record, store and cross reference large amounts of archive information for clients in Australia, Hong Kong, Taiwan and the Philippines.
Market participants say the interested party could be a multinational keen take Salmat's significant share in the Aussie market. Consolidation in the industry, given recent tough market conditions and the growth of digital services, is likely. The possibility of a private equity interest also shouldn't be ruled out.
The targeted division has been a key earner for the company, which is the largest BPO operator in Australia.
At A$158.6 million, BPO posted the highest revenue of the company's three key divisions in the first half of the current financial year and accounted for 38% of the total. Its margins were also recorded at 13.6%, compared to 13.1% in Salmat's Targeted Media Solutions division and just 4.7% in its Customer Contact Solutions division.
Still, there are worries over market conditions and the stock's bounce on the news is from a very low base. Shares had slumped Monday to their lowest level since mid-2003, with investors fretting over the outlook for marketing communications sector amid a move into the online environment. At just A$1.92 a share Monday, Salmat's stock had more than halved since the beginning of 2011.
In a note in February, Goldman Sachs raised concerns over the business, saying the BPO division was under pressure from the gradual shift to electronic distribution from printed mail packs.
"BPO's e-business revenue increased [24%] to A$23.6 million in the first-half. However, this was not sufficient to offset the fall in BPO traditional mail pack revenue, which was down 6% to A$135 million," Goldman Sachs said.
But in a presentation to the Macquarie Australia conference earlier this month, Chief Executive Grant Harrod backed the BPO business, which he described as "resilient" amid challenging market conditions. The BPO division is also preparing for the launch of Digital Post Australia–a joint venture with Computershare and Zumbox designed to offer a secure online mailbox for essential communications, like bills and tax receipts.
Salmat says it's early days and there's "no certainty that this approach and subsequent discussions will lead to any agreement being reached between the parties or a transaction occurring."
But as Mr. Scott says, it's all about having those options.
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Ex-Cantor Fitzgerald Traders Lose Market-Abuse Dispute
Two former traders at Cantor Fitzgerald LP's London unit and a Swiss fund manager lost a case against the U.K. finance regulator over disciplinary penalties for committing market abuse.
Stefan Chaligne, an equity-fund investment manager, instructed Cheickh Tidiane Diallo and Patrick Sejean at Cantor Fitzgerald to trade on his behalf with the goal of driving up the share prices for certain companies. He must pay a 900,000-pound ($1.46 million) fine and 362,950 euros ($469,548) disgorgement, a London-based financial tribunal ruled today. He is also banned from working in the U.K. finance industry.
Sejean must pay a 650,000-pound fine the tribunal ruled, 100,000 pounds more than the one the FSA first sought to impose. Sejean had argued at a hearing in April that while he accepted a penalty was appropriate, the fine should have been cut to 10,000 pounds because of financial hardship.
The tribunal ruled it was "one of the rare cases" where the FSA's internal disciplinary committee "was too lenient." He was also banned from working in the industry.
A ban against Diallo, who had maintained that a ban was too severe, was also upheld. Before the case reached the tribunal, an internal appeals panel at the FSA ruled that a 100,000-pound fine against Diallo was appropriate, but that it shouldn't be imposed because it would cause him financial hardship.
Chaligne, a French citizen who lives in Switzerland, requested trades through Cantor Fitzgerald on Dec. 31, 2007, and Jan. 31, 2008, according to the Financial Services Authority.
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He traded in eight stocks and American Depositary Receipts valued at about 5 million pounds on European and North American stock exchanges in 2007, giving instructions to Diallo and Sejean "to make the prices of all the stocks as high as possible on the close," the regulator said. In early 2008, Chaligne traded two stocks on European exchanges with the intent to move the price of the stock, according to the FSA.
Chaligne, who made 266,924 pounds from the trades, instructed the other men to trade on those specific dates because they were the days on which his performance fees were decided, based on the fund's value, the regulator alleged at the April hearing.
"I am pleased that the Tribunal has decided that it was 'not in my contemplation' to cheat my investors," Chaligne said in an e-mailed statement. "The Tribunal also found in my favor that, in the context of the turmoil in the markets in 2007, it was reasonable for me to fear an attack on the stocks held by the fund, which could cause them to reach unfair and inappropriate prices."
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Chaligne said he has asked that the disgorgement part of the fine be paid to his investors.
Diallo worked for Cantor Fitzgerald from 2006 until April 16, 2011, in a customer-trading role, according to the FSA register. Sejean worked for the firm from 2002 until March 16, 2011. He was a trader on the French sales desk of the firm. At the time of the trial in April, he was working for Makor Capital Markets in Geneva, according to the regulator.
"Sejean was a willing participant in Chaligne's scheme," said Tracey McDermott, the head of enforcement at the FSA. "Not only did he fail to prevent or report the abuse, he exploited and abused his position of trust and involved more junior traders in his misconduct. He has no place in the financial services industry."


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Is the Hornets' future in New Orleans in doubt?
Published: Sunday, December 5, 2010 at 6:01 a.m.
Last Modified: Sunday, December 5, 2010 at 12:04 a.m.
NEW ORLEANS — The NBA is looking into buying the New Orleans Hornets from George Shinn until a permanent new owner can be found, a person familiar with the discussions said.
The league intends to find an owner who plans to keep the Hornets in New Orleans, the person told The Associated Press Friday night on condition of anonymity because the NBA has not discussed the idea publicly.
Hornets president Hugh Weber declined comment on the NBA's possible involvement, which was first reported by Sports Illustrated. NBA spokesman Tim Frank also declined comment.
Shinn has been in negotiations to sell the team to minority owner and Louisiana native Gary Chouest since last spring, but talks have been stalled for months.
Chouest, who owns 35 percent of the team, runs a business that supplies vessels to the gulf oil industry. Recently, he has become concerned about his ability to run his family business while taking over the Hornets, said the person who confirmed the NBA's possible purchase of the club.
It is not clear if Chouest would keep his stake in the club if the NBA took over.
Attendance for Hornets games has been lower than the club hoped, despite a 13-6 start. Through 10 home games, average attendance has been 13,865. If it doesn't pick up, the Hornets could have the right to break their lease at the New Orleans Arena after this season. The lease runs through 2014, but the team is allowed to break it if average attendance falls below 14,735 during a two-year period.
The Hornets have been in New Orleans since Shinn, the club's founder, moved them from Charlotte in 2002.
Shinn, 69, was diagnosed last year with prostate cancer, which he said has been treated successfully. He decided after that experience that he wanted to move on from NBA ownership and instead focus on his faith and on efforts to fight cancer.
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One of the .NET community leaders in Delaware Doug White has just kicked off his new Ocean Bytes Blog (http://www.oceanbytes.org/).
Doug works with the Oceanic Information Center researching new technologies and systems to help us all understand the ocean just a little bit better. He was also the one the suggested I call my blogs CyKho (thanks Doug!).
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CHAPEL HILL - T.J. Yates is trying not to focus too much on the significance of North Carolina's home game with Virginia Tech.
He knows it's the Tar Heels' first Atlantic Coast Conference game and that the Hokies are the defending league champions. But he's not dwelling on the fact that Saturday is widely viewed as a measuring-stick game for a team that is trying to prove its recent years of struggle are in the past.
"Everybody knows how big of a game it is," said Yates, the Tar Heels' sophomore quarterback. "We're trying not to worry much about what's going on outside this football center. We're trying to stay as focused as possible. We're not exactly trying to think like it's another game, but we're not trying to think of it as any more than a game."
Regardless, the matchup certainly gives Tar Heel fans reason for excitement. North Carolina (2-0) hasn't been nationally relevant since Mack Brown's departure for Texas a decade ago, and the hiring of Butch Davis before last season was the kind of big-name coach the Tar Heels have hoped for since. Now they're coming off a road rout of Rutgers - their most impressive performance in several years - and have the home-field advantage in a matchup of the ACC's Coastal Division favorites.
At the least, the game against Virginia Tech (2-1, 1-0) offers a glimpse of whether the Tar Heels have really arrived.
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The Tar Heels have proven they can throw the ball this season, with Yates throwing five touchdowns against one interception since returning from offseason shoulder surgery. He has plenty of targets - namely Brandon Tate, who leads the nation at 308 all-purpose yards per game - but they'll have to figure out how to run to end their four-game losing streak in the series.
Last year, Virginia Tech held off North Carolina 17-10 in Blacksburg, Va. Now coach Frank Beamer is calling North Carolina the best team the Hokies have played all season, quite a statement considering their opener was a loss to No. 15 East Carolina in Charlotte.
"They played all those young kids last year," Beamer said, "and now they are a year older."
Since their 27-22 loss to the Pirates to open the season, the Hokies have allowed seven points in a win against Furman and 17 in last week's win against Georgia Tech. In that game, Virginia Tech twice stopped drives in the final four minutes to preserve the win.
"That's part of the game some times," defensive tackle John Graves said. "You have to realize that the offense is going to make plays, just as well as the defense is going to make plays sometimes. If your back is up against the wall, you just have to come together."
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Karen Diane Kensicki and Samuel Richard Sapp were united in marriage at 2 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 18, at St. Adalbert Catholic Church, Dillonvale, with Msgr. John C. Kolesar officiating the double-ring ceremony.
Parents of the bride are John and June Kensicki of Dillonvale.
Parents of the groom are Dave and Kathy Sapp of Toronto.
Annette Powell was matron of honor. Becky Sliva was maid of honor. Davy Haught served as best man.
Other attendants were Krystle Hurley, Jamie Shaw, Erica Heistand, Michael Kensicki, Jonathan Shaw, Anthony Trimmer, Jessy Reynolds and Teagan Basinger.
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Hotel Employee was a great host and the locations was prefect. Quiet area and 2 min walk to the beach. Breakfast was great and on the morning we left we told hotel employee we were leaving early so there was no need for breakfast but she ma
Room was small but that was my pick others did look larger. Also remember no TV. It is good to get away but hard to kick the nightly TV habit.
We loved it here. Close to the shops in Lincoln City and the casino. Room was neat and clean. They provied several options for breakfast. Beach was close by and easily accessable.
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My mom gave me this book when I spilled in her book (maybe I should spill in her other gooseberry books :-) ) and there are a ton of yummy slow cooker recipies. I got this book for my cousin who just got married so when her and her husband come home from work there will be something yummy ready for them :-)
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Google Phone Competitor: Vodafone with Linux from Azingo
Sunnyvale CA company Azingo is to develop a Linux-based platform for mobile phone provider Vodafone.
The basis for Azingo's Linux variant is to be the LiMo (Linux Mobile) platform, a standard being developed by the LiMo Foundation out of London. Azingo and Vodafone are both members of the foundation, whose mission is to "create an open, Linux-based software platform for use by the whole global industry to produce mobile devices." Just a few days ago the consortium decided that embedded Linux maker Wind River should be the platform's systems integrator. The California-based Wind River is to integrate the code for "the common infrastructure, tools, testing and integration services."
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"Sapa, all the world's a stage..." Top 5 Page for this destination Sapa by bpwarne
Sapa Travel Guide: 194 reviews and 849 photos
Be sure to bring dongs with you if you intend to 'trek' outside of town as you will need them to pay for your entrance into the local nearby 'ethnic' villages (or even to travel on the roads to them).
What is truly remarkable is the amount of hype and press Sapa has received over the last couple of years, especially from the backpacker crowd on the popular internet forums and the many travel guides oriented towards this particular group. My experience was not so much one of the highly anticipated raw untouched beauty referenced by so many, but more of a highly developed, well seasoned, tourist attraction. One calculated to extract as much money from the tourists as absolutely possible.
From the moment of my arrival one morning at 7:30AM, I was constantly bombarded by touts pushing everything from "see my hotel, please look my hotel first" to "where you go? you go walking/trekking? I can guide you" to "see my baby... we are very poor, please buy from me. Why not? You buy from me later?....You promise? Promise me. I very poor".
It 's very difficult to feel sorry for this poor, backward, little lady, carrying her child around on her back all day, begging you to buy from her or hire her as your "trekking" guide, once you have seen her in full "ethnic" dress, sans baby, riding around on the back of a motorbike the evening prior with a cell phone glued to her ear.
This place is so overrun with tourists (mostly European), touts, overpriced hotels, overpriced restaurants, overpriced motobike rentals, overpriced tour guides, overpriced...well, overpriced everything it seemed, right down to the Russian "jeep" tours. It has the feel of Main Street, Disneyland...but not the attractions.
Sapa is the only place I have been in Vietnam where it is actually difficult to find a local beer for under $1USD or for even anything near $1USD.
While the scenery is truly great and the more remote ethnic villages well worth the trip, Sapa itself and the immediate villages surrounding it are one big disappointment. Get a moto and head out of town, on your own, without the 'ethnic' guide. You will experience much more 'real country life' while retaining more of your dongs.
If you prefer a staged overpriced show though, Sapa may just be the place for you.
Hiked or trekked to Cat Cat village from Sapa today. Very nice, fantastic scenery. Took a moto back for 20000 Dong ($1.25USD)
Sapa, the town itself, has got to be THE most overrated town in all of Vietnam. While there are many cheap (less than $15) hotels, they are all in very bad condition. Any thing nice is $50+ with one exception and that is the Cat Cat View hotel with rooms for $20, $25, and $30 dollars. It is the only true value I have come across and if I stay another night I will move in there. It is in excellent condition, some of it newly opened in Jan of 08. Many of the even crappy hotels here are commanding high prices ($40+), I assume simply because they are so highly rated by Lonely Planet, which really seems more and more to be an almost totally useless guide. I say almost because obviously if you take their recommendations and avoid them, you will more often than not be ahead.
This place is out of control and you cant blame this one on the Americans (sic; Californians), as there just are not many of them here.
Hotel rooms over one hundred a night, local beer, small bottles $1.25 - $2.00 in many of the restaurants. Hamburgers $4+. Whenever prices approach those of San Francisco in a third world country....you have to wonder why you are even there.
The minorities, the ethnic people are the reason I guess, but that seems quite staged to me. You cant even leave Sapa to go to one of the smaller Ethnic villages with out going through a toll station and paying a fee. Yes the minorities are in Sapa, but it appears they commute here to parade the streets in their 'traditional ethnic clothing' costumes and collect money from the tourists, either by sales of crap (which you gotta wonder if it is even really loacally made or some Chinese knockoff thats been imported to maximize return) or by simply begging (you know: " you buy for me, I very poor, must feed family now). They have made a fine art form of putting their children on display and having them beg for money. Not exactly what you come here for, but after all, when all is said and done......It's all about the money....even in a communist state I guess.
Many third world country places we go to to get cheaper the longer we are there. You learn which touts to avoid, how to negotiate a better rate, where the better hotels and restaurants that are not so heavily frequented by tourists are. Not the case in Sapa. The longer I stay, the more confusing the high prices are. Yes, there are a lot of tourists, I guess that is what's driving it so high. But it is not maxed out, there are plenty of rooms availale, restaurants never seem that full, touts are very aggressive, some of the worse I've ever encountered.
I met a couple who were all equipped to 'trek'...nice backpacks, hiking boots, everything. They paid $40USD/ea for a overnight trek to a ethnic village, including a homestay w/breakfast and lunch. When I asked how far they were going to trek they said 1.2km.
Russian jeep tours seem to be a popular excursion with the European tourists here. When I enquired about them I was quoted prices of $100/person for a one day tour. I lost interest rather quickly and rented a moto for $4.50/day. There is a place to buy Vietnam Air tickets directly in Sapa and so avoid the commission that many of the hotels/tourist agencies are charging, typically only a few dollars in Vietnam, but for some reason most are asking at least $10 and some as much as $20/ticket in Sapa.
I bought my Hanoi - Dien Bien Phu ticket there.
- Pros:Fantastic scenery
- Cons:Overrun w/tourists, overpriced, ethnic tourism bit overstaged
- In a nutshell:Scenery makes it worth the visit, town itself is disappointing
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I was there in 93 when there were only two places to stay. Less than ten tourists there, hiked to villages and locals could not speak one word of English, fantastic time, glad I saw it then!
This is the worst Hotel I have ever stayed in, and they charged me double to what you paid.
Hi Bob and Patty! Great tips and pics! Nice to get some comparisons on where to stay on the one page. Tracey
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New Lenses and Galaxy Camera Create a Paradigm Shift in the Marketplace Samsung strengthens its NX Ecosystem at Photokina 2012
"We are living in a new era of visual communications,"
Samsung underscored its leadership in the digital imaging market by being the first to introduce Wi-Fi connectivity to its range of compact system cameras (NX20, NX210 and NX1000) in 2012, and only strengthens this with the addition of the 12-24mm F4-5.6 ED ultra-wide zoom lens and the 45mm F1.8 mid-telephoto prime lens. Samsung's NX camera range now totals 11 professional lenses that enable photographers of any level to consistently achieve professional results.
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The new lenses join the NX family, giving camera-lovers the chance to maximise their creative potential while keeping their system light and portable.
Thanks to its ultra-wide angle, the 12-24mm F4-5.6 ED lens is perfect for either capturing dramatic landscapes or shooting in confined interior spaces. It is the ideal companion for the travel photographer, weighing in at only 208g and with a compact, portable form. The image quality is also heightened by one extra low dispersion glass lens and two aspherical glass lenses that guarantee superb sharpness and low chromatic aberration.
Photographers looking for a mid-telephoto prime lens need to look no further than Samsung's 45mm F1.8, which delivers a pro-standard shallow depth of field and background blur, creating stunning portrait shots with beautiful bokeh, a blurring technology commonly used with background highlights such as light sources. The bright F1.8 aperture also means that it performs brilliantly for night-time or indoor shooting, with a stepping motor for a smooth and super-quiet Auto Focus. The lens combines lightweight portability with a solid metal body and metal mount for an ultra-professional look and feel. Additionally, the 45mm lens is compatible with Samsung's i-Function system that allows users to easily adjust shutter speed, aperture and ISO settings.
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In addition to launching two new NX lenses, Samsung also showcased its latest innovation in the digital imaging category – its GALAXY Camera. Marking a new era in visual communication;
Boasting a 21x super long zoom lens and a vividly bright 16M BSI CMOS sensor, the GALAXY Camera delivers pictures of brilliant quality. The device also features 'Smart Pro' technology which comprises of a series of modes that make advanced photography easy for all skill levels. The easy-to-navigate menu system contains preset scenario options that automatically adjust the camera's settings according to a specific environment. All of these great features can be experienced on a breathtaking 4.8" (121.2mm) HD Super Clear LCD.
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Juvenile arthritis, also called juvenile rheumatoid arthritis or childhood arthritis, is the most common type of arthritis to affect children. It's can affect many parts of the body, including the eyes.
A child who has juvenile arthritis may develop problems with her eyes. The problems may be caused by the disease or by medications the child takes for the disease.
The most common eye problem is inflammation in a part of the eye called the uvea. Doctors call this condition "uveitis." If it affects specific parts of the uvea, it may also be called iritis or iridocyclitis.
Untreated and severe uveitis can scar the eye. It can also cause vision problems, such as:
- Glaucoma, a condition that causes high pressure in the eye
- Cataracts, a clouding of the lens of the eye
- Permanent vision damage, including blindness
Uveitis can start up to 1 year before your child gets a diagnosis of juvenile arthritis. Or it could happen at the same time, or years later. It can even happen years after juvenile arthritis is in remission, which means that the disease is not active.
How can I tell if my child is developing eye problems related to juvenile arthritis?
Eye inflammation is usually not painful. And the eyes are not usually red as they are in conjunctivitis. So most children with juvenile arthritis who develop eye problems do not have any symptoms.
It's rare, but a child might complain of blurred vision or of light bothering her eyes. Sometimes, a child's eyes might look red or cloudy. But these types of symptoms usually develop so slowly that permanent eye damage can happen before she notices any trouble with seeing.
In order to find eye problems early and prevent them from causing damage, your rheumatologist (a doctor who specializes in treating arthritis) will schedule frequent appointments with a pediatric ophthalmologist. That's a medical doctor who specializes in children's eye diseases.
What will happen during my child's appointment with an ophthalmologist?
Tell the ophthalmologist about the medicines that your child takes. You can get the names of the medicines, the dosages, and the reasons they have been prescribed from your rheumatologist.


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Poll: Ohioans rate Obama low
Ohioans aren't very fond at the moment of President Obama or his signature health care law, giving both low ratings in a survey released Wednesday by the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute.
Among 1,361 registered voters questioned over the past week, only 34 percent approved of the president's work in office, with 61 percent saying the opposite.
Fifty-seven percent of Ohioans said Obama was "not honest and trustworthy."
For more on this story, see Thursday's Vindicator or vindy.com
I'm willing to bet they didn't call any of the demoncrats from Thugstown on this survey.Or the numbers would be a lot different. The KOOL-AID drinkers around the valley would have driven up his popularity numbers
Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.
He fooled the whole nation not only once but twice.
Let me rephrase that, he fooled enough low information voters to be placed in a position where he could ruin the nation.


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Mali's media announced on Monday the launch of a nationwide strike to protest against the arrest of a reporter by the war-torn country's intelligence services.
The journalists agreed at their general assembly to shut down until the release of Boukary Daou, the editor of the Republican daily newspaper who was detained last week in the capital Bamako, they said.
"We decided at the end of our meeting not to publish and not to broadcast over the airwaves until the release of our detained colleague," said Sambi Toure, publisher of Bamako's Info Matin newspaper.
Almost all outlets are expected to take part in the "Dead Media" campaign, which begins on Tuesday.
Daou was arrested on Wednesday after publishing an open letter criticising the salary earned by Captain Amadou Sanogo, leader of a coup that ousted Mali's government last year and paved the way for Islamist rebels to seize over half the country.
The letter, purporting to be from frontline soldiers and addressed to acting President Dioncounda Traore, said the troops would stop fighting if Sanogo's pay was not reviewed within two weeks.
"We have learned that while we die -- we, in the great desert -- Captain Sanogo, for launching a coup and having put the country in the situation we now see, is to receive a salary of four million CFA (6,000 euros, $8,000) a month," stated the letter signed by a Captain Toure.
Sanogo was installed in February as head of a military reform committee, a post created for him as an incentive to accept a transitional government tasked with steering the country to elections.
He had led a group of fellow mid-level officers to overthrow then-president Amadou Toumani Toure on March 22 last year, upending what had been considered one of west Africa's most stable democracies.
The coup precipitated the fall of northern Mali to Islamist militants linked to Al-Qaeda but a military intervention by French and African troops chased the rebels from the region's main cities.
However, fighting continues in desert areas of northeastern Mali where armed Islamists are entrenched.
"We are in a war situation," Traore told a media conference in the Mauritanian capital Nouakchott.
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For years, it seems, the NFL was the professional sports league of choice for dedicated and diligent conservationists around the country.
And why not? After all, the NFL was more into recycling than the tree-huggin' next door neighbor who tosses you the evil eye every time you haul out the garbage, and the plastic two-liter bottles aren't carefully separated from the week's worth of newspapers in their own, little appropriate trash compartments.
This could be the year, however, in which the league's honorary Sierra Club membership is permanently revoked. Given the ongoing trend during this current firing-and-hiring cycle, one that has infused plenty of fresh blood into the head coach mix, it's just possible the NFL might soon be known as a Good New Boys league.
OK, hyperbole, for sure. Yet teams have been hyperactive in moving new personalities into the head coach pipeline, while rebuffing many candidates regarded as retreads. It's got to be an uneasy time for recently dismissed veteran coaches such as Mike Sherman, Mike Martz, Jim Haslett, Mike Tice, Dom Capers and Mike Mularkey.
In the NFL game of head coach musical chairs, the tune is winding down, and the empty seats have dwindled to a precious few. That's because most of the seats were snatched up by rookie head coaches. Suffice it to say there are going to be some coaches with long résumés, but also long faces when the music stops.
"It's kind of exciting to see a lot of new faces as head coaches, and it's probably good for coaching to have turnover like that," Martz told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. "But when you're one of those guys trying to get one of those jobs it's not exciting."
Time was when coaches job-hopped from franchise to franchise, but that time certainly isn't right now.
We can probably assume the reports are true that Denver Broncos offensive coordinator Gary Kubiak is poised to become the Houston Texans' new boss (and unless you've been living in a cave for a week, you've got to buy into that likelihood, even if it means someone has trampled all over the NFL's allegedly hallowed anti-tampering rules). That means seven of the eight job vacancies created since the end of the '05 season have been filled by first-time head coaches.
The only recycled coach in the bunch is Herman Edwards, who went from the New York Jets to the Kansas City Chiefs, a relocation some conspiracy theorists have suggested was in the works since the start of the 2005 campaign. Only two jobs, with the Buffalo Bills and the Oakland Raiders, ostensibly remain open. Word is that the Bills will hire a coach with prior NFL experience and that the Raiders will hire, well, someone by the beginning of training camp. Oakland owner Al Davis conceded this week that "young guys take a long time," so he is likely looking for someone with experience.
But even if there are no more first-year coaches hired, that's still seven newbies out of the 10 openings, a ratio that once might have been deemed unthinkable.
Seven new coaches is the most since there were a half-dozen rookie sideline bosses for the start of the 2000 campaign and only one fewer than the total first-year coaches for the previous three seasons combined. The old recycling trend, it appears, has been cast off into the dumpster for now.
But not necessarily by design.
"I don't think there's anything here that screams, 'Hey, what's going on here?' I really don't," said New Orleans general manager Mickey Loomis, whose club this week hired former Dallas Cowboys offensive coordinator Sean Payton as its rookie head coach. "It still comes down to hiring a guy with whom you're comfortable, who you think will win, and who is the best fit. It's a case-by-case thing. It's just coincidence or whatever that all but one of the guys hired so far are new guys."
The Saints interviewed five candidates, including former NFL head coaches Martz and Sherman, and Loomis said all were impressive. But the team opted to reinforce the new in New Orleans, because Payton made a compelling case for himself, not because he represented a candidate unmarked by the kind of failure that has plagued the Saints in the past.
There is no connection at all between the fresh start upon which the old Crescent City is embarking and the fresh-faced coach who will lead its football franchise. Payton could become symbolic of the city's rebuilding, but that is a potential quality ancillary to team officials' belief that he can resuscitate an underachieving offense and groom the new, young quarterback the Saints figure to select with their first-round draft choice.
His first job will be convincing Saints veterans of his head coaching viability.
"There's pluses and minuses to it," New Orleans tailback Deuce McAllister said. "It all depends on how well he can adapt. Obviously, the coaches he surrounds himself with will have a lot to do with it."
Loomis is right, of course, in his assessment that the spate of fresh faces is nothing more than an unusual convergence of events, a friendly nexus comparable to having Jupiter aligned with Mars. It certainly isn't as if the owners of all the franchises seeking head coaching changes for 2006 huddled in some smoke-filled back room and colluded to orchestrate a greening of the head coach roster. The NFL can no more dictate that teams hire rookie head coaches than it can mandate they employ minorities, the latter reality now made painfully obvious over the past two weeks.
Still, it would be difficult to ignore altogether a movement in which the pendulum has swung of its own volition toward first-time head coaches. While league officials will never acknowledge it, they are probably pleased with the number of first-year head coaches, since the NFL often privately bristled at the notion the fraternity was a semi-closed shop, one with tough admissions standards.
There's always something to be said for stability. But the league also embraces any and all opportunities to dodge the label of being stodgy or rutted. No one can accuse teams this month of living in the past or hiring strictly on track record.
Counting the eight vacancies filled in the last two weeks, 18 of the last 30 openings dating back to 2002 have been filled by men with no previous NFL head coach stripes. Since 2000, rookie head coaches have filled 28 of 45 vacancies. In all but one of those seven seasons, there were at least three first-time head coaches. Last year, the league was 3-for-3 on new head coaches, with Mike Nolan (San Francisco), Nick Saban (Miami), and Romeo Crennel (Cleveland) all pledging the exclusive fraternity.
The other unusual element to this year's hires is that five of the seven rookie coaches were offensive coordinators with their most recent teams, a switch from the recent hiring pattern. The trend had definitely been toward defense, as evidenced in 2005, when all three first-year coaches had very strong résumés on that side of the ball.
"But I don't think the 'rookie' angle or the 'side of the ball' angle is anything more than coincidence," emphasized Cleveland owner Randy Lerner. "You start with a blank slate, with no preconceived ideas, and let the candidate paint his own picture."
For some candidates, obviously, the process is more like finger painting. But just as obvious is that over the last few hiring cycles, including the current one, first-year coaches have been able to present intriguing portraits of themselves. That should have been clear, for instance, to anyone who watched the Thursday morning introductory news conference of new Detroit Lions coach Rod Marinelli.
Whether one agrees or not with Matt Millen's latest selection -- and given the track record of a general manager whose résumé includes just 21 victories and three different coaches in five seasons, a healthy dose of skepticism is understandable -- he passion of Marinelli for the game and the task ahead of him was palpable.
In 10 seasons in Tampa Bay, the fiery and motivational Marinelli never ascended to the post of coordinator, although he was blocked four times for interviewing for coordinator jobs with other franchises, because Bucs officials held him to his contract. Marinelli was apparently such a good interview that Millen never got around to the follow-up sessions allegedly arranged with other candidates. For a guy under pressure, and with two strikes against him given the failures of Marty Mornhinweg and Steve Mariucci, Millen didn't seem like a man concerned with Marinelli's lack of experience.
"To me, it's less about what they've done, and more about who they are," Millen said.
Who the new class or rookie head coaches are, and what they are about, will be defined soon enough. Over the past five seasons, rookie head coaches have compiled a combined record of 104-136 in their debut campaigns. Five of them -- Edwards (Jets, 2001), Bill Callahan (Oakland, 2002), Mularkey (Buffalo, 2004), Jim Mora (Atlanta, 2004) and Saban (Miami, 2005) -- posted winning records in their NFL debut campaigns. Edwards shepherded his team to a wild-card berth, Callahan and Mora each claimed division titles and Callahan advanced his team to the Super Bowl as rookies.
But for the most part, rookie coaches spend the first season trying to negotiate the NFL's difficult learning curve. Whether the rookie head coaching class of 2006 surpasses its predecessors remains to be seen.
For now, they are a relatively young group, with Marinelli, 56, the eldest. The average age of the NFL's 32 head coaches at the outset of the 2005 season was 51.6 years. The average age of the seven rookie coaches for 2006, including Kubiak, is 44.6 years. Four of the seven are 42 years or younger, and Eric Mangini, the first-year Jets coach, turned 35 on Thursday.
There will be, and in fact, already are some skeptics. One former head coach who has been out of the NFL for a few seasons, but who keeps a very keen eye on events as they unfold in the league, suggested Thursday night that the youth movement is "at least in part a reaction" to mounting salaries in the profession. Martz told the Post-Dispatch that he felt the salary levels he and Sherman had achieved were a "primary reason" neither man landed the Saints job.
And, indeed, it's doubtful that any of the rookie coaches merited a contract worth $3 million annually, which seems to have become the new standard. Most contracts, though, carry so-called "offset clauses," which actually allow a new team hiring a coach who had time left on his former deal to reduce the first-year salary.
So it's doubtful -- even with the Packers owing Sherman $6.4 million over the next two seasons if he opts to just collect paychecks, the Saints and Rams each on the hook for over $3 million if Haslett and Martz don't find work, and Mariucci still due a whopping $11.5 million from the Lions -- that finances played a major role in any of the decisions on the rookie head coaches.
And just as doubtful that a trend that has skewed toward new faces in new places, and toward youth as well, is anything more than coincidence.
"Nobody says to you, 'Well, you've got to hire a new guy,' or 'You've got to hire a minority,'" Loomis said. "There's no [collective] league agenda. What's happened this year, with so many first-year coaches is, well, just something that happened, that's all. There are a lot of qualified people out there and some of them happened to be coaches who made the most of their opportunities to interview for these openings."
Len Pasquarelli is a senior NFL writer for ESPN.com. To check out Len's chat archive, click here.