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An annoying scavenger to many, the gull is classed as a
nationally vulnerable species - on the same level as
yellow-eyed penguins.
For many years, Lyndon Perriam, a ranger for the Department
of Conservation at Taiaroa Head, has kept an eye on the gull
colony at the headland, watching its gradual increase.
Now, a study he and marine science researcher Dr Chris Lalas
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place for the endemic gulls.
Of the 26 breeding locations along the Otago coast, 16 were
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Mr Perriam said this year, for the first time on the
headland, the gulls had ''hopped the fence'' and nested
around the viewing area below the albatross colony. They
normally concentrated their nesting next to the walkway up to
the viewing area.
''It'll be the largest seabird colony you can get this close
to - it's rare in New Zealand.''
The birds did not appear to mind the regular human visitors,
leaving a margin between their nests and the walking tracks,
he said.
The population's increase had been attributed to the predator
control undertaken for the albatross colony, rat control
around the gulls prior to 1999 and the easy access to food
such as krill at sea.
''Size matters - a decent sized colony means they can protect
themselves a whole lot better.''
The headland now provided ''a glimpse'' of what the mainland
could have been like before introduced predators, he said.
A previous study attributed the decline in the other major
gull colony, at Kaikoura, to a decline in the availability of
prey linked to changes in oceanographic indicators.
Fluctuations in sea surface temperatures at Otago and
Kaikoura might explain the trends in gull populations, with
the population rising in Otago, but dropping in Kaikoura.
Dr Lalas and Mr Perriam recommended future conservation
management at Taiaroa Head and at other key mainland breeding
locations was necessary to ensure the viability of red-billed
gulls in Otago.
''Future monitoring will help establish whether the recorded
declines at the main colonies either reflect an actual
overall decline in the New Zealand population or these
declines are compensated by increases at Otago.
''Above all, we regard control of predators and people at
important mainland locations as key to the viability of
red-billed gulls at Otago.''
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This is the approx route we did on MapMyRun. It is 22 miles approx and climbs up over 13,000'.
One of the Ski hills in Taos...
What a great hill repeat that would be!
What we're here training for....
The Golf TDI that has taken me to so many races and training runs all across the country...228K!
Our starting altitude
Deb painting shot
Our starting trail
We saw Bighorn, which you'll see in later photos and is why we didn't bring the dogs.
These people were going back and forth with us for awhile until we left them in the dust ;-)
The rear horse is from Texas and was having difficulty with the altitude.
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Deb having a good day...
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BoW's pasture
A yurt at the top of the trail
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It was beautiful and very quiet up here
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River crossing
We're about to enter private property, unknowingly. It wasn't posted.
An old worn trail sign
The private property road
Powerlines we were following
Deb up ahead on the road
Because we now know this is private property and had a slight run in with the property owner, we will no longer use this route.
Gate entrance at the far end of the road, where it is posted
We came down from the other side of that gate, we're now going to Middle Fork Lake
It is a nice trail
That follows a river
Another river crossing, to do the out and back to the Middle Fork Lake
It was a nice road, but went up and up
It was about a mile up from the river crossing
It was an awesome lake up near 11,000 feet!
A happy couple having a great day...
Inge and Ted Parker, we met as we were running back down.
They live in Taos and are in their 70's.
Now back at the bottom and heading to Lost Lake...a 4 mile uphill trail
Wheeler in the distance, we'll be on that later today
A little rocky, but it's uphill so we're walking ;-)
Some sections of this trail were really nice, wish we were going downhill!
Some views along the way, this is at 11,100'
This section of trail was our favorite of the day, reminded us a lot of some of Hardrock
A dropoff and views to our left
Deb wanted to get a pic of me
Same shot, but zoomed out to show where I'm standing
Many of the pine trees had red tipped branches...these are not pine cones.
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Lost Lake
Scraggly trees up around 12,000'
Yeah, there was still some snow up here
More Hardrockish type terrain
Some water waaaay down there.
Rugged terrain up here
But awesome!
We stayed straight
A garden spot up high
So wet and green!
Deb's creation...it reflected the day we were having.
There were many snowfields to cross, but I hear we won't have many at Hardrock this year.
Horseshoe Lake
We had some company just to our left, a herd of Bighorn sheep
There's the guy
A male and his harem
They were shedding, as you can see...or at least the male was.
The herd was only about 30 feet from us and unconcerned
Smells good!
Mmmm, he likes that!
We stopped for lunch at Horseshoe Lake.
It was so windy you can hardly hear me...
As we start up the trail to the ridge, looking down on the sheep herd.
You can see how close the trail is to where they are.
We were sitting having lunch to the left in front of that windbreak.
Horseshoe Lake, a little over 12,000 feet.
Nice image of the lake and the ridge we'll be on soon
Looking to my left (West)
Deb gets ahead of me as I take pictures
She's crankin' at 12,500'!
It was so windy up here, Deb got blown down several times
We're now up on the ridge heading towards Wheeler Peak, this is where we came from
Wheeler Peak plaque
Very windy
The trail on the ridge where we headed
Walter Peak
A great view of the ridgeline trail, all above 13,000 feet
Looking back
Don't slip!
Looking to my right (NE?)
Looking to my left, that's Taos Ski Valley
Deb starting down off the ridge.
(Guess I better clean the lens)
Horseshoe Lake from up on the ridge
This is a pretty cool trail
Wind was so strong, we had to walk at times
You can see the trail switchbacking down through that hillside
Getting hot down here, so we stopped to remove a layer
Ahhh, shade.
More snow...
Deb's trying to figure this one out ;-)
Looking back from where we came
Our car is parked down there somewhere
Doesn't seem to be getting any closer
So down we continue
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So far, this NHL spring might be best remembered as the season in which the league waited so long to start the Stanley Cup finals, it seemed like a dramatic reenactment of the lockout, with Bradley Whitford playing the part of Bob Goodenow.
By the time they get around to dropping the puck, one wouldn't be surprised if, like those old grainy, black-and-white shots from space, the Stanley Cup finals will be accompanied with the script, "This is only a simulation."
But the most significant development might turn out to be that the playoffs delivered results that, ultimately, might kill the entire concept of the big trade-deadline deal.
Which is bad. Very bad.
But why, based on the events of the past week, would any team go out next winter and spend draft picks, players and prospects to acquire a big-name player at the March trade deadline based on the events of this season?
The Preds, Ducks and Sens, after all, are providing that such efforts might be nothing but a complete waste of time and resources, more hype than substance.
Did I mention that, if true, this would be bad? Very bad?
The NHL trade deadline is arguably the most dramatic day of the entire season. In contrast to other leagues, whose comparable deadlines come and go with mostly a yawn or perhaps a minor deal or two, the NHL's deadline somehow snaps the league's 30 general managers to attention and gets them to think big, often really big.
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On Feb. 27, the final day of NHL trading this season, there were 25 trades, a torrent of last-minute deals designed to give teams that extra edge. It's just downright fun. Period.
But with only two teams left standing, it's clear that crazy day wasn't nearly as pivotal as it appeared at the time. The Ducks and Senators, after all, each made only a token move, and both Anaheim GM Brian Burke and Ottawa GM John Muckler were castigated by some for not taking a great big belly flop into the trade pool. Yet, it is the Ducks and Sens that will face off for the Cup.
Twelve days before the deadline, Nashville was one of the teams that took the plunge, acquiring center Peter Forsberg from Philadelphia for a whopping ransom that included defensive prospect Ryan Parent, young forward Scottie Upshall and first- and third-round draft picks this June.
The motivation for the Preds was two-fold. GM David Poile had a strong team with the potential for playoff success and, just as important, the franchise was looking to cause a stir in the market, attract some new fans and possibly some investors for owner Craig Leipold, as well. The team had averaged less than 14,000 fans per game during the season, up 24 percent from the previous season, but still below the league average and under a threshold needed to hold the Preds to the terms of their 30-year lease in Nashville.
So, what happened? The Preds went out in the first round to Nashville. Then, Leipold announced Thursday he is tired of losing money and getting such a tepid response from the Tennessee market and is selling the team to Canadian billionaire Jim Balsillie. Balsillie, many believe, has plans to ultimately shift the team north to the lucrative Southern Ontario market in Canada.
So, after taking the gamble to get Forsberg, the Predators sacrificed a chunk of their future, didn't get anywhere in the postseason and may have taken the first large steps out of town.
So much for deadline deals making a difference.
Anaheim, interestingly, wanted to make a big swap. Burke, who relishes his reputation as a bit of a riverboat gambler, made a deal to send defenseman Shane O'Brien to Tampa Bay mostly so he could have a first-round draft pick to trade.
But, one by one, all the big forwards on Burke's list went to other teams as he refused to toss in key prospects or even his best young players like Corey Perry. In the end, Burke simply swapped goalie prospect Michael Wall to Colorado for hardnosed winger Brad May. May has gone on to make some useful contributions as a grinder in the postseason, his most useful being a sucker punch that knocked Minnesota defenseman Kim Johnsson out of the series during the Ducks-Wild first-round series.
In Ottawa, meanwhile, there was enormous pressure on Muckler to go out and get veteran winger Gary Roberts from Florida. Roberts had tormented the Sens in previous playoff years as a member of the Toronto Maple Leafs, and was identified by many as the crucial ingredient to ensure the Sens wouldn't fold up easily and early as they'd done in the 2006 playoffs.
Maybe Muckler didn't want to pay the first-round pick he suggested the Panthers demanded, or maybe his former coach and current Florida GM, Jacques Martin, had no intention of trading Roberts to Ottawa and helping the club that had fired him.
The upshot was Roberts didn't become a Senator, and Muckler instead made a small deal to acquire underachieving winger Oleg Saprykin from Phoenix. Saprykin, however, proved to be a useful fourth-line player for Ottawa throughout the first three rounds while playing with center Dean McAmmond and converted defenseman Christoph Schubert. The Senators have also shown plenty of the moxie and grit, so trading for Roberts wasn't nearly as necessary as some had posited.
So what about all the other big deadline deals?
• Detroit picked up Todd Bertuzzi, who contributed a little offense, but by the end of the Western Conference finals, he could barely skate on his bad back.
• San Jose added Bill Guerin and Craig Rivet, but were ousted by Detroit in the second round, leaving GM Doug Wilson bitterly disappointed and promising big changes.
• Atlanta suffered terribly, moving defensive prospect Braydon Coburn to land veteran blue-liner Alexei Zhitnik, and then journeyman winger Glen Metropolit and three draft picks, including a first-rounder, to St. Louis to get Keith Tkachuk. The Thrashers were swept in four by the Rangers in the first round.
• The New York Islanders made a Goring-like splash by landing Ryan Smyth from Edmonton for prospects Robert Nilsson and Ryan O'Marra and a first-round pick this June. That helped them edge out Toronto for the final Eastern Conference playoff spot, but didn't help them win any more than a game against Buffalo before bowing out in the first round.
• Pittsburgh added Roberts and supposedly a bodyguard for Sidney Crosby in Georges Laraque, but the Pens still went down in five to Ottawa.
And on and on it went. All those deals, yet the teams that ended up making the smallest deals have gone the furthest, and Nashville's brave, bold attempt to win playoff games and new fans fizzled completely.
Will this kill the big deadline deal and take the fun out of the NHL's most electric day?
Probably not completely. Both Edmonton and Carolina did make it to the 2006 Stanley Cup finals by making key, late season additions.
But for any GM harboring sneaking doubts about adding this flawed player or that aging star for a bundle of futures when the deadline rolls around again next March, the this season's returns on big deals will certainly give reason to pause.
Or stand pat. Or turn off his cell phone.
Damien Cox, a columnist for the Toronto Star, is a regular contributor to ESPN.com. He is the author of "Brodeur: Beyond The Crease" and "'67: The Maple Leafs, Their Sensational Victory, and the End of an Empire."


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When working with crimes as point features some addresses such as apartment complexes or shopping centres have multiple occurrences geocoded to the same location. When the points are mapped they are stacked on top of each other and look like a single point. One solution is to use graduated symbols that scale the point but I find that approach an inelegant solution because I don't think one large dot has the same visual oomph as a collection of tightly clustered points. Also, when you collapse all coincident points into a graduated symbol you can't colour code them by age since there is only one feature.
So what to do? Jitter the points. By jitter I mean add a small, random fluctuation in the x and y coordinates of every point so that previously coincident points become overlapping but visually discernable points. Many GIS programs have the ability to do this with some tool or another but I prefer to jitter points at the data file level so that I can preserve the jitter, edit it by hand if need be, and maintain a record of the pre- and post-jittered locations. I have found that Excel makes jittering points quick and easy using the built-in function RandBetween().
A worked example will help illustrate the benefits of the technique. Below is a list of point features that I am going to map in ArcGIS. You'll notice that this contrived example has 6 points that all have the exact same UTM X and Y coordinates.
If I put these on a map I will get the following not very helpful map.
To better visualize the points I will jitter them using the aforementioned Excel function RandBetween(). RandBetween() is superior to regular old Rand() because it produces a random number between any user-specified lower and upper boundary which makes it ideal for moving points around. The following image shows how simple it is to use.
The X_UTM_JITTER column is calculated by adding the current X_UTM value to the output of the RandBetween() function where the lower and upper boundaries are -100 and 100. Since the range for RandBetween() is -100 to 100 there is an equal chance of moving the point left or right (this is the X-axis recall). Doing the same for Y_UTM (random up or down movement) means that the coordinates for each point feature will be randomly translated in a square around the true values. Since the numbers output from RandBetween() are random each point will be uniquely jittered ensuring that the points no longer overlap. The result is this Excel table:
Which, when mapped, looks like this:
Recognizing that my UTM units are meters my choice of -100 and 100 comes down to personal choice — you don't want to jitter so much that the points stop clustering but you want to jitter enough to create the effect. The correct amount of jitter comes down to the scale of the map and I have found that at the map scales I traditionally work with a 100 meter jitter works well. If it looks right at the desired scale, go with it.
I've had some people object to the jittering process saying it introduces imprecision in the map. That's true, but once again it has to do with scale. Look at the following three map snippets.
Too much jitter.
Not bad.
Maybe not enough?
Obviously, in the first map, the jitter of 100 meters has significantly shifted the point features and if someone was using the map to locate the points in real life then they would not be well served by this technique. But, as you scale out the points begin to resemble a simple cluster of point features which emphasizes that there is multiple points in close proximity. For crime mapping, which is often intended to give a flavour of an area as opposed to specify exact locations, the scaled out clusters work quite well.
Two final things. First, once the jitters have been calculated in Excel it makes good sense to copy and paste as values the jitter columns. The reason is that RandBetween() will be executed every time the spreadsheet is loaded or one of the columns changes and this means that the values will be constantly changing. By pasting as values the jitters are locked in place and can be referenced at a later date without having them change. Second, it is possible to jitter using decimal degrees, you just have to pick smarter RandBetween() parameters so that you don't end up sending your points to other side of the planet.


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Running Time: 127
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Cast: Tice Bune, James Bonn, Roxanne Hall, Torri, Teri Starr, Brick Majors, Alexandra Nice, Tracy Love, Andrea Madness, John West, Eve (II), Michael J. Cox, Frank Towers, Amber (I), Sean Michaels, Santino Lee
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The Potential Response of Terrestrial Carbon Storage to Changes in Climate and Atmospheric CO2
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We use a georeferenced model of ecosystem carbon dynamics to explore the sensitivity of global terrestrial carbon storage to changes in atmospheric CO2 and climate. We model changes in ecosystem carbon density, but we do not model shifts in vegetation type. A model of annual NPP is coupled with a model of carbon allocation in vegetation and a model of decomposition and soil carbon dynamics. NPP is a function of climate and atmospheric CO2 concentration. The CO2 response is derived from a biochemical model of photosynthesis. With no change in climate, a doubling of atmospheric CO2 from 280 ppm to 560 ppm enhances equilibrium global NPP by 16.9%; equilibrium global terrestrial ecosystem carbon (TEC) increases by 14.9%. Simulations with no change in atmospheric CO2 concentration but changes in climate from five atmospheric general circulation models yield increases in global NPP of 10.0–14.8%. The changes in NPP are very nearly balanced by changes in decomposition, and the resulting changes in TEC range from an increase of 1.1% to a decrease of 1.1%. These results are similar to those from analyses using bioclimatic biome models that simulate shifts in ecosystem distribution but do not model changes in carbon density within vegetation types. With changes in both climate and a doubling of atmospheric CO2, our model generates increases in NPP of 30.2–36.5%. The increases in NPP and litter inputs to the soil more than compensate for any climate stimulation of decomposition and lead to increases in global TEC of 15.4–18.2%.
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Stay Away
My kids stayed at this hotel for Spring Break 04. After checking in they reported a leak in their toilet to housekeeping. No one showed up to fix it, and after they checked out my credit card was charged $350.00 for a broken toilet. The hotel management team will not respond to my emails or phone calls. BEWARE they use spring breakers as a way to renovate their hotel!!!!
i went my senior year 02 for spring break, As soon as we arrived there were girls every where, which is what we came for. The hotel is right by club Lavela. There was really no need to go though cuz the boardwalk was a constant party itself. I had alot of fun, but this year im goin to the Sandpiper for spring break 04.
Best way to go for location and low rates
The entire trip was great, the hotel is right next to all the bars/clubs, and everything on the beach is so close. the rooms are exactly what u pay for, and the hotel allways has a concert, like i saw Nas, then there was 50 cent the next year, and im going back this year....hopin for another great break!
Repeat Guest
We stay at the Boardwalk every year for our family vacation and we have always enjoyed our stays at the hotel. The rooms are neat & clean and the staff is friendly. The prices are affordable compared to some of the other places that charge "an arm & a leg". If you're looking for a 4 star resort, this isn't the place for you but if all you want is a clean affordable hotel that is walking distance to alot & has some extra services, the Boardwalk is great.
Fun for spring break~
We stayed at the "Ho-Jo" during our college Spring Break. It was definately not the type of place I'd want to stay for a "nice" vacation where I'd like to do some relaxing. However, for Spring break it was awesome! It's right next to two huge clubs and there is a club right downstairs. Also, they do have a nice pool and they're really close to the ocean so we had a beautiful view. So much fun!
Pay a little more and stay somewhere nicer!
The day before going on our trip, we checked the Boardwalk's website and they had posted a new room rate special. I called the reservations number to see if we could take advantage of the new deal. We called twice, and both times the reps had no idea what we were talking about.
They kept trying to tell us that it 'meant' something else. We just printed the page and took it with us. When we checked-in, the girl gave us the new rate and said that they just learned about it a few minutes ago. My husband and I stayed at the Boardwalk the first of September (the weekend following Labor Day). First of all, it was great going at the end of the season. The beaches were not crowded at all. We arrived on Thursday at about 1:00. They let us go ahead and check-in eventhough check in wasn't until 4. The room seemed clean and nice enough. It was great having a refrigerator and microwave in the room. We immediately hit the beach and it was pretty much deserted. The hotel was only about 5 floors high, and the beach was very long. So for this beach, you had a lower number of people per area compared to the skyscraper hotels with just a tiny square of beach. That part was nice. The hotel itself looked very dumpy from the beach side....real 60's looking. Rooms do not have a private balcony. The balcony is the outside hallway. We had a room with a King sized bed. The bed did not have a King blanket on it. They had a Full sized blanket turned sideways! Of course it did not fit! Our 2nd night there, my husband was turning down the covers while I was sitting on the couch and he found something in the bed. I'm somewhat of a neat/cleanliness freak, and he wouldn't tell me what he found. I assume it was a bug since he grabbed his shoe and started hitting at something. He still won't tell me what was there. Early the next morning (approx. 2 AM), a couple checked-in the room next to us that was the joining room. They were talking in normal speaking voices and we could hear every word they said! So beware of those joining rooms!
Don't fall for a pool side room. Looks like half of those are a view of a building or the top of the lobby roof. The pool itself was nice though. I don't know what restaurants the hotel website is referring to. There was a breakfast buffet that was only open on Saturday, the Blue Moose Bar, and a snack bar kind of thing were you could maybe get a carton of milk. When comparing room rates, remember that they charge you an extra $3 per night for unlimited long distance phone service, and of course add tax to that. So you're paying an extra $4 per night.
I didn't try asking to turn the phone off when we checked-in. I definetly would NOT want to stay there in the middle of the summer or spring break. The hotel is about 2 down from Club LaVela....the obvious hot spot for teenagers. Do NOT go here expecting a real Resort. This is not a resort at all. To sum things up...if you want a nice trip, pay a little more and stay somewhere nicer. If you just want to take a cheap trip, this hotel should be ok. Personally, I don't think we'll be staying there again.
Stayed June 2002-Awful, unorganized!
We had made reservations in Feb 2002 for arrival in June 2002. When we arrived, our 'oceanview' room was overlooking a palm tree & Domino's Pizza roof! No ocean in view! They finally (after contacting management) placed us in an adequate, okay room. The other 7 people that were to have a suite, (didn't happen) got put in a neighboring hotel FREE of Charge!! Just confirm your reservations and where your rooms are located!!
Great Hotel!
I went to this hotel for BigStuf camp and while i was staying there i had so much fun! The view is great and its a pretty nice hotel! The workers where were friendly and willing to help! I would suggest this hotel!
What a DUMP!!
What ever you do, don't stay here! Filthy. Noisy. Broken air conditioners. Ugly. Bad security. Yikes! I need to take a shower just thinking about it.
The Boardwalk has it all!
The Boardwalk Beach Resort is my favorite place to stay at Panama City Beack. Parties by the pool, out on the beach, and in every hotel room. It is a very clean place to stay in and at a reasonable price. There is plenty of security so that it does not get too out of control. The Boardwalk is close to LaVela and Spinnakers. Noone should choose a place to stay at during Spring Break before checking out the Boardwalk Beach Resort.
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... and traditional than Seaside. The Red Bar is busy, noisy, and looks a bit of a dive, but the queue outside despite a 90minute wait to be seated hinted at the quality inside. We were not to be disappointed. My dish of blackened grouper fish (chunky fillet grilled with Cajun spices) was by far the best seafood dish I've ever eaten, and up there with some of the best food I've eaten, period. If you ever find yourself in that neck of the woods, ...
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Zac Efron was spotted out in Los Angeles wearing his Diesel Thanaz jeans in 008SV wash. Isn't it amazing that your perception of an actor can change so much just by watching one movie? I have blogged Zac a few times before but until now I haven't watched any of his movies. I recently watched "17 Again" and now I think he is so cute! Before I seen him in "17 Again" I honestly admit I didn't "get" his popularity, but now I do!
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It's great to see candids of Zac Efron in denim again. Here he is in Vancouver, Canada at a party wearing Nudie Thin Finn Jeans. He has just finished filming his new movie 'The Death & Life of Charlie St. Cloud' so hopefully we will see him out and about more in his Nudie's, Diesel's, April 77 and maybe other brands. I wonder what Zac is doing pinching some other girls butt? Vanessa did you see that? Haha.
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Alleged connection to The Office Wife[edit]
You cannot use IMDb as a WP:reliable source, especially since it makes no connection between the two films. Heck, even the 17 viewer reviews of Man Wanted and eight of Office Wife don't mention the other film at all. Nor can you cite someone who puts out a newsletter. TCM specifically states Office Wife is based on a novel by Faith Baldwin, while Man Wanted comes from a story by Robert Lord. Did Lord "borrow" Baldwin's plot? Wouldn't be the first time, but that's simply unsourced speculation. Clarityfiend (talk) 22:56, 3 May 2015 (UTC)
- This blog post – which, of course, also cannot be used as a reliable source (see WP:SPS – does a pretty good comparison between the two films. It specifically says that Man Wanted is not a straight remake of The Office Wife, but makes the claim that there are comparable scenes between the two films. This is, obviously, the bloggers opinion, as no sources are cited connected the two, and I don't find the claim to be particularly strong. I think the blogger is much closer to the mark when he calls Man Wanted "generic and familiar". In truth both films are pretty generic, and Warners and the other Hollywood studios of the time was more concerned about churning out product than anything else. Those films were considered to be pretty ephemeral, and no one could have predicted a future in which even Grade Z films would be studied, compared and contrasted. In any case, as Clarityfiend rightly says, you can't put anything into the article comparing the two films until you get a citation from a reliable source which makes the comparison. BMK (talk) 01:04, 4 May 2015 (UTC)


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News Terrorists Love Gatorade (and iPods)!
This just in from CNN…
The terrorists who were planning on exploding ten planes over the Atlantic with liquid explosives were going to do so with an energy drink and an iPod… uhh, WHAT?!?
A senior congressional source said it's believed the plotters planned to mix a "British version of Gatorade" with a gel-like substance to make an explosive that they would possibly trigger with an MP3 player or cell phone.
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Batman: The Animated Series (1992–1995)
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Season 2
13 Sep. 1993Shadow of the Bat
Commissioner James Gordon is arrested for corruption, forcing his daughter, Barbara Gordon, to take a dramatic step to help him.
14 Sep. 1993Shadow of the Bat Part II
Barbara Gordon, now Batgirl, joins Batman and Robin's investigation of Commissioner Gordon's framing.
16 Sep. 1993The Worry Men
The Mad Hatter plants mind-control devices inside miniature native dolls distributed to high-society Gothamites by Veronica Vreeland.
17 Sep. 1993Paging the Crime Doctor
After losing his medical license, Dr. Matthew Thorne, younger brother of crime boss Rupert Thorne and a former colleague of Thomas Wayne and Leslie Tompkins, is forced to peddle his services to his brother and members of his gang. When Rupert insists that Matthew perform his heart surgery, Batman must protect both of them from assassination.
2 May 1994House and Garden
Poison Ivy, after being released from Arkham, has apparently settled for a normal life, married to her psychiatrist and doting on his two children. Batman and Robin are suspicious, however, because semi-sentient plant-like creatures are committing mayhem all over Gotham.
3 May 1994Sideshow
Killer Croc escapes a prison train and finds refuge with a group of former circus freaks living in the mountains, who take pity on him.
9 May 1994Avatar
Batman travels to Egypt and joins with Talia to hunt down Ra's al Ghul who is searching for an ancient source of ultimate power.
16 May 1994Trial
A district attorney who loathes Batman is forced to defend him in a twisted parody of a trial run by the inmates of Arkham Asylum who have seized control and taken them both prisoner.
23 May 1994Harlequinade
When Joker steals a nuclear weapon, Batman arranges for Harley Quinn's release from Arkham, so she can help him track the Joker down.


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I have a virtual machine running linux which runs as a guest machine through VM player on my laptop and acts as a server to my application which I am hosting on IBM Webshphere Portal. On the most machine I have added the ip of the guest machine onto my host file as www.vmportal.com.
I am able to ping www.vmportal.com from the host machine and can even access all the same application pages through a browser. The problem comes when I try to create a BitKinex WebDAV connection to the server.
Details of the configuration below:
I also tried using port 10039 which gave me:
1/16/2013 1:19:03 PM.173 [ERROR] [1] couldn't connect to www.vmportal.com:10039 => ip: 192.168.10.141, port: 10039; err. code: 0
Using 10032 I then see this in the logs which I really don't understand:
Any help in getting this to connect would be greatly appreciated, I've tried everything I can think of, is there any setting etc I need to check on either my host of virtual machine to get this to work?
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As I listened to AFA-American Family Radio, I realized that even mainstream news media has begun to cover and expose Obamacare cancelling out Americans' intact insurance plans. I received my termination letter and will no longer have insurance after Dec. 31. I paid $43 a month with $10 co-pay and was blessed.
Now I am scrambling to get all appointments and tests done so I can face the future without insurance. I have 2 1/2 years until I can receive Medicare, and Obamacare plans are not affordable on my limited income. One detail, which could be wisdom for those on Medicare, is get your appointments with any specialist you may need and build a relationship with that provider because in a year or so, Medicare patients will have issues getting a specialist to take new patients under that plan because reimbursement is so low.
There is a saying, "Nothing's free." Our "entitlement society" is about to learn a hard lesson. The sad news is the whistle blowers who tried to tell you will suffer the consequences along with you! Take responsibility and vote responsible next election.
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Permissiveness' troubling turn
The roots of the decline of America's schools go everywhere. Unionization of teachers has made education no longer a calling but a job where employee comfort, enrichment and morale trump the needs of students. By emphasizing effort over achievement and substituting undeserved praise for constructive criticism, the self-esteem movement in public schools has spawned pandemic narcissism; think "American Idol." Even the seemingly inconsequential change of allowing students to use electronic calculators in the classroom has left millions unable to perform simple calculations in their heads.
This is not meant to be an exhaustive list, but an underestimated contributor to this downslide is the evolution of the teacher from authority figure deserving of trust and respect to student confidante and personal adviser. Today, teachers seek to bond with students as if they were their peers. This inevitably has led to two important changes in student-teacher dynamics: growing classroom chaos because of the declining respect for teachers (negligent parenting exacerbates this); and increasingly, "consensual sex."
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The Ghost of Climate Yet to Come
Irreversible does not mean unstoppable: "Why show me this, if I am past all hope?"
Unlike Scrooge, we don't get a spirit to show us what the future holds if we don't change our ways. We did get the tiniest glimpse this year of climate gone wild (see "Masters: "The stunning extremes we witnessed gives me concern that our climate is showing the early signs of instability"). And we did get dozens of scientific papers warning us of what is to come (see A stunning year in climate science reveals that human civilization is on the precipice).
Yes, it is increasingly unlikely that we will stabilize at 450 ppm atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide, and then quickly come back to 350. But when reporters ask me if it's "too late," — or, as one did last week, "have we crossed a tipping point?" — I have to explain that the question doesn't have a purely scientific answer.
For if humanity gets truly serious about emissions reduction — and by serious I mean "World War II serious" in both scale and urgency — we could go to near zero global emissions in, say, 2 decades and then quickly go carbon negative. It wouldn't be easy, far from it (see "How the world can stabilize at 350 to 450 ppm: The full global warming solution"). But even in the 2020s it would be vastly cheaper and preferable to the alternative (see Scientists find "net present value of climate change impacts" of $1240 TRILLION on current emissions path, making mitigation to under 450 ppm a must).
Delay is very risky and expensive. In releasing its 2009 Energy Outloook, the executive director of the International Energy Agency said last year, "The message is simple and stark: if the world continues on the basis of today's energy and climate policies, the consequences of climate change will be severe." They explain, "we need to act urgently and now. Every year of delay adds an extra USD 500 billion to the investment needed between 2010 and 2030 in the energy sector".
This is all by way of introduction to a holiday rerun repost. Two years ago I wrote about a NOAA led paper, which found:
"¦the climate change that is taking place because of increases in carbon dioxide concentration is largely irreversible for 1,000 years after emissions stop"¦. Among illustrative irreversible impacts that should be expected if atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations increase from current levels near 385 parts per million by volume (ppmv) to a peak of 450-600 ppmv over the coming century are irreversible dry-season rainfall reductions in several regions comparable to those of the "dust bowl" era and inexorable sea level rise.
We most certainly do not want to significantly exceed 450 ppm for any length of time, as Dust-Bowl-ification isn't the only impact that is irreversible:
- New study of Greenland under "more realistic forcings" concludes "collapse of the ice-sheet was found to occur between 400 and 560 ppm" of CO2
- Science: CO2 levels haven't been this high for 15 million years, when it was 5° to 10°F warmer and seas were 75 to 120 feet higher "" "We have shown that this dramatic rise in sea level is associated with an increase in CO2 levels of about 100 ppm."
- Nature Geoscience study: Oceans are acidifying 10 times faster today than 55 million years ago when a mass extinction of marine species occurred
- Geological Society: Acidifying oceans spell marine biological meltdown "by end of century"
- 2009 Nature Geoscience study concludes ocean dead zones "devoid of fish and seafood" are poised to expand and "remain for thousands of years"
That said, RealClimate made a good point with the title of its 2009 post, "Irreversible Does Not Mean Unstoppable":
We at Realclimate have been getting a lot of calls from journalists about this paper, and some of them seem to have gone all doomsday on us.
Indeed, the NOAA-led study is the perfect paper for someone, like say, Lou Dobbs, who can go from hard-core doubt/denial to credulous hopelessness in one breath, as he did January 30, 2009 [ (h/t ClimateScienceWatch):
Let's assume, for right now, that there is such a thing as climate change, let's assume it's manmade. What indication-what evidence do we have, what reason do we have to believe that mankind can do anything significantly to reverse it because a number of people, as you know in the last two weeks, are reported that, that, this is a 1,000-year trend irrespective of what we do.
Yeah, let's assume, for right now, there is climate change and let's further assume its manmade since there's like no factual basis for actually knowing those things (see U.S. National Academy of Sciences labels as "settled facts" that "the Earth system is warming and that much of this warming is very likely due to human activities"). Then let's tell the public the latest research means if there is manmade climate change, the situation is now hopeless "" when in fact the latest research makes it all the more urgent to keep total emissions and concentrations as low as possible.
Seriously. This guy had his own hour TV show on a major cable network "" albeit one that fired its staff covering science and environment and hired a psychic to cover climate change (OK, let's assume, for right now, that I made up that last part).
The whole world has become Dickensian (see "A Tale of Two Disasters"), which just happens to remind me of another Dickens story relevant to the theme that irreversible does not mean unstoppable:
"Before I draw nearer to that stone to which you point," said Scrooge, "answer me one question. Are these the shadows of the things that Will be, or are they shadows of things that May be, only?"
Still the Ghost pointed downward to the grave by which it stood.
"Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead," said Scrooge. "But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change. Say it is thus with what you show me."
The Spirit was immovable as ever.
Scrooge crept towards it, trembling as he went; and following the finger, read upon the stone of the neglected grave his own name, EBENEZER SCROOGE.
"Am I that man who lay upon the bed?" he cried, upon his knees.
The finger pointed from the grave to him, and back again.
"No, Spirit! Oh no, no!"
The finger still was there.
"Spirit!" he cried, tight clutching at its robe, "hear me. I am not the man I was. I will not be the man I must have been but for this intercourse. Why show me this, if I am past all hope?"
For the first time the hand appeared to shake.
"Good Spirit," he pursued, as down upon the ground he fell before it: "Your nature intercedes for me, and pities me. Assure me that I yet may change these shadows you have shown me, by an altered life."
The kind hand trembled.
Or, as RealClimate put it less poetically:
But you have to remember that the climate changes so far, both observed and committed to, are minor compared with the business-as-usual forecast for the end of the century. It's further emissions we need to worry about. Climate change is like a ratchet, which we wind up by releasing CO2. Once we turn the crank, there's no easy turning back to the natural climate. But we can still decide to stop turning the crank, and the sooner the better.
Indeed, we are only committed to about 2°C total warming so far, which is a probably manageable "" and even more probably, if we did keep CO2 concentrations from peaking below 450 ppm, the small amount of CO2 we are likely to be able to remove from the atmosphere this century could well take us below the danger zone.
But if we don't reverse emissions trends soon, we will probably triple that temperature rise, most likely negating any practical strategy to undo the impacts for hundreds of years:
- M.I.T. doubles its 2095 warming projection to 10°F "" with 866 ppm and Arctic warming of 20°F
- Hadley Center: Catastrophic 5-7°C warming by 2100 on current emissions path
- Our hellish future: Definitive NOAA-led report on U.S. climate impacts warns of scorching 9 to 11°F warming over most of inland U.S. by 2090 with Kansas above 90°F some 120 days a year "" and that isn't the worst case, it's business as usual!"
- Royal Society special issue details 'hellish vision' of 7°F (4°C) world — which we may face in the 2060s!
Such is the climate change yet to come.
21 Responses to The Ghost of Climate Yet to Come
The tobacco industry too 60 years before it lost a court case brought against it and the anti ACC brigrade are sill casting doubt today even as our global energy demands grow as does the global population. To say we have time to avoid 450 in 35 years time (2 ppmv per annum) with a mismatch of technologies none of which is proven as yet to do more than offset our growth requirements (2-3% per annum)is a little odd to me.
Sure the public dont need to be sold doom but what else are we selling them otherwise? We have tried selling them reasonable risk alternatives but all that does it drive the deniers on politically which is working. The recent ACC political conferences have drawn up little more than frameworks rather than hard and fast terms for emissions reductions.
I also see only yesterday that the USA is a bit peeved at China for subsidising alternative energy sources in its own country. Shame on the USA really but thats politics for you and bodies such as the WTO, WB and IMF lie arnt really helping either now are they.
Time to have a real political battle again and to stop being kind.
I printed and picture framed (hot red letters,white background) the acronym AGW/WAF in my hallway in hopes that someone might ask me what it means at this evenings get together. Little purposeful xMas spirit for the cause.
Joe, as a progressive, it's best not to use words like "mankind" and "manmade". Those are linguistic representations of patriarchy and us progressives need to move beyond that gendered language.
Merry Christmas and thanks, Joe Romm.
I wish Climate Progress were made into a weekly television show. The need, storylines, and talent are all there, and the subject's many facets would make for a fascinating journey. Richard Brenne and I know a few people on the fringes of Hollywood, and next time you're on the West Coast maybe we can try to make some introductions.
Tiny Tim was able to touch Scrooge, and move him to contemplate the horror of his life. People like Koch, Boyce, and Tillerson embody evil of such breadth that they appear to be beyond such appeals.
This means that, as with the Nazis, the only recourse is to fight them with everything we've got, but this time without employing violence.
The stakes are only… everything.
Please enjoy your vacation, Joe, you've certainly earned it. Don't even drop in here for a week, and empty your mind for a while. It's going to be a long and desperate fight, and we will need you at full and rested capacity.
Lou Dobbs: "…what reason do we have to believe that mankind can do anything significantly to reverse it because…"
because, because, because jibber jabbering pundits and their heedless audiences can't see themselves as part of the problem. This is what happens when authoritarians wind people up with moronically nonchalant prescriptions for how society should work and how to get along in the world — total lack of self and social awareness, total lack of imagination. The robots end up in futilely butting against corners awaiting new instructions from inept programmers.
Saving all of civilization is probably no longer possible. The longer we delay the less that will be saved. BAU to the end of the century will eventually bring humanity to the brink of extinction.
So it is already inevitable that it is going to get bad, but we could end up making it so much worse.
The reason we can do something about CO2 based climate change is the same reason that CO2 is destabilizing the climate in the first place.
It's because the greenhouse heating from burning a ton of fossil fuel is thousands of times its heat of combustion.
Even within a single year, the greenhouse heating is maybe fifty times as great as any possible benefit.
What this measns is that efforts to remove carbon from the atmosphere could also display this disproportionate amplifying effect.
Massive WWII style efforts to shift to carbon neutral renewables could be coupled with retrofitting existing coal fired power plants to become carbon negative BECCS power plants.
It's a solvable problem.
We're just not solving it, right now.
I just can't see how we are going to tackle all the crisis that are now running at us at full speed. 10yrs ago I felt we had a chance, but the dollar amounts involved in solving even one are remote.Oil has been over $90.00 a barrel for 3 days. Tracking the upward swing of prices and the OPEC decision to not raise quotes (I don't think they can really)puts the chances of changing from a growth based economy to a sustainable one farther out of reach. As long as we are still fighting over the question of is global warming real and is it caused by man we lose ground. If most people understood that the truth is right in front of them we could make headway, but even now that truth is still being challenged. And not just in the U.S. if everyone is not on board how do we solve it? And by the time enough people have no doubt about it, will we be able to afford the changes we must make?
I am seeing the phrase massive WWII-style efforts a lot here.
So here's my deep philosophical pondering on this (I'll try to keep it brief).
WWII presented humanity with a challenge on a scale we had not dealt with before: planetwide war, with the capability of destroying a large swath of humanity. As Chruchill stated of the Americans, we indeed did do the right thing, after all the alternatives were exhausted.
I say – here we go again: the thing about AGW is it presents us with a scale of challenge that we simply haven't met before. AGW demands that the entire human species act as a single unit. It's not enough for the Americans to wake up out of slumber at the 11th hour. It's not enough for all the equatorial third world nations to scream at the top of their lungs at the UN. It's not enough for China to do something all by itself, while rejecting to cooperate with any other nation.
The whole human species has to act together, as a single team, or we won't avert a very serious disruption of civilization, as well as alter the biodiversity and the climate of the planet.
We've never done this before. We are still at the level of "how can we negotiate with the Chinese, and still keep American interests protected?". The Chinese are like "we're big enough now to do this on our own terms, we don't need no stinkin' negotiations."
The less powerful third world countries have it right for the wrong reason – they understand the whole world must co-operate in order for their nation to be spared disaster, but they adopt this position simply because they are not big enough to be the bullies on the world stage, not out of any true compassion for the rest of the world.
Old paragigm "Our strategic interests vs Your strategic interests" won't work, but that is essentially how ALL the major players are approaching this.
The Ghost of Christmas Future is actually standing there with us and our neighbors that we have hated for fifty years and saying – "OK, here's a problem that cannot be solved unless a critical condition is met. And that condition is that you and your neighbors, who have hated each other for generations, who have disagreed on fundamental philosphical grounds, religious grounds, and even consider each other military threats, must work on this together. Only then can you solve this problem."
The WWII metaphor is apt because like WWII, this is the problem that will define our century in history, and like WWII, it will demand us to scale up our thinking and co-operation to a level we haven't operated on before.
I can only hope that Churchill's statement applies not only to the US, but to all the major players – that we will, in the end, do the right thing, after we have exhausted the other possibilities.
Speaking of the International Energy Agency (IEA)…
If you have not done so already, you'll want to read: "The IEA's New Peak" posted on Nov 24, 2010 by Tom Whipple on the website of the Post Carbon Institute.
To access "The IEA's New Peak", go to:
Lets be optimistic this year as CO2 will start to drop now that the world is starting to cool. We can then start burning coal again to keep all those poor pensioners warm.
Make money over the next few years, invest in below ground crops like potatoes as we watch above ground crops like wheat start to fail in the northern hemisphere.
We certainly could still save ourselves, from the spectres of climate disruption, oceanic acidification, anoxic oceanic 'dead zones', financial collapse due to massive debt creation and resource depletion, but only through the greatest and most concerted action in history by humanity as a whole over decades. The chances of that occurring in reality are, alas, vanishingly slight. The reason why is plain. The rulers of the planet, they who call all the shots through their money power and control of politics, most decisively that of the corrupt 'republic' (of thieves) the US of A, do not wish it so. They are happy enough wallowing in the trillions that centuries of graft, larceny, pillage and financial legerdemain and decades of deliberate redistribution by their political servants have allowed them to accumulate. To be a plutocrat one must be contemptuous of the rest of humanity, greedy, morally unscrupulous and indifferent to the fate of those yet unborn. Behind every great fortune lies a crime, as Balzac observed. There is no greater crime than the crime against the process of life,(is it not the 'crime against the Holy Spirit' that God will not forgive?)but the capitalist overlords commit it every instant of their existence.
To survive requires that those who are actively and ruthlessly obstructing action be removed from power. If you imagine that you can achieve it by the electoral process in a sham democracy totally controlled by money, where every denialist moron has a vote, then you are dreaming. Experiencing a waking nightmare might be more apt a description. I suggest instead that we do everything in our power to do things on a local level, like growing trees and food, going solar, and crucially, co-operating with others in everything in order to reduce consumption. Living the capitalist ideal of ruthless competitiveness and self-interest, atomising society into billions of ruthless 'individuals' plays right into the pathocrats 'divide and rule' strategy. Bring the system down by withdrawing from it. Stop spending, stop borrowing, live like a monk. Business as usual is suicide, a fate probably already sealed, but certain soon if nothing is done. Of course the forces of evil will fight back. A system prepared to go to the lengths of banning seed banks and seed exchange, to shore up the profits of the corporate undead, will be infinitely vicious when cornered, but, if I might quote that remarkable confection, Margaret Thatcher, a woman in my opinion so spiritually deranged and morally insane as to be worthy of a Dickens or Shakespeare, 'There is no alternative'. Thinking that we can muddle through or wait for a Redeemer, political or otherwise, is madness.
Realistically, under the the most optimistic scenarios imaginable, a negative carbon emission goal is politically impossible. China continues to build a new coal-fired generator every week to 10 days, and the rest of the developing world is not far behind. By the time the consequences have become so painfully obvious that the denialists no longer are in control, our path will be irreversible.
But as for now, every incoming GOP member of Congress denies human-caused global warming.
Coal and wood burning in winter has turned Mongolian capital of Ulaanbaatar into a city of smoke and fog in its cold winter. Apparently the pollution is from wood and coal burning by local residents and power plants to cope with the freezing temperature. http://www.newslook.com/videos/278176-mongolian-capital-air-pollution?autoplay=true
Why do I cry at night
Why do I feel so bad
Something holds me tight, something in the air
I have a prayer, a prayer
A prayer from the heart
Night after night after daylight
Memories of home.
Or if you prefer Led Zeppelin
Wonder what the 12 o'clock version will be….
Silent Night – 7 o'clock news
#9, yogi-one said "… the thing about AGW is it presents us with a scale of challenge that we simply haven't met before. AGW demands that the entire human species act as a single unit. "
It's a fundamental event which happens everywhere in the universe, once a species becomes more powerful than their planetary habitat. We either take control or the planet will boot. Such circumstance is the best solution to throw away dangerous species and or to teach them to evolve. See also the fermi paradoxum.
Tis egoism to claim that Christmas Future is a
Ghost, for a writer may distance oneself from
inherent truths, but that an inherent truth should
be welcomed not treated as a haunting.
#17 prok,
Could be also that Gaia/God does not tolerate any individual species which may treaten her.
It also means that the chance to met hostile aliens is low.
JR, that ghost analogy is brilliant and of course perfectly timed. I was just re-watching this movie (hey, we're getting snowed in!) about global dimming http://witsendnj.blogspot.com/2010/12/insidious-soup.html – which is a fascinating and enormous topic that is rarely broached. It would appear that without the pollution decreasing the sunlight that reaches earth by a very significant percentage, we would be heating much more rapidly with even wilder destabilization than has already occurred.
I have a question and would appreciate any thoughts. Could global dimming be a reason the arctic is heating disproportionately faster than lower latitudes? Is Antarctica also warming more quickly?


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A witch that lives on the milky way, making sure stars don't stray from the stream.
Learned a lot working on this piece, hopefully next time I can accomplish more confidently!
Also put the original up onto Storenvy
Learned a lot working on this piece, hopefully next time I can accomplish more confidently!
Also put the original up onto Storenvy
Lovely work!
I love the pose you chose. The arms are a bit awkward though, perhaps more relaxed next time?
Thank you! And yes it is a little stiff, this was more for the sake of practicing the watercolors, but always a good thing to look out for
Ah, so pretty! I love your colors >.<
reminds me of koyamori's works ^_^
Haha thank you? She's an amazing artist and I hope to become as fluent in inks and watercolors as she is one day.
gah, i can't see her.. it's just too awesome. i can feel flowers grow around me after seeing her!! DX
Hahaha I need to see what you see, thank you~!
Awesome! What did you use to make this, I love the way it looks?
hermoso trabajo !!
ahhhh always love your work!
I love the warm color you use jesus o(--<
I love the warm color you use jesus o(--<
Thank you!! I noticed that I do gravitate towards a certain palette, must explore more >_>!
You're welcome! I think that's also one of your charming point tho, but exploring something new always been good as well ^ q ^ )
Absolutely love this, the colors and concept are beautiful ; u; makes me want to try up watercolor again!
omg, beautiful, draa * o *
draa! I'm loving your traditional pieces! *-*
A very interesting concept. I love how vivid the colors are~
Gorgeous colours ♡♡♡
Magical watercolors! I quite love this, but I would prefer if the luminous bodies were more... luminous. I have no idea how to best execute that with watercolors.
Thank you! And I totally agree, I think the only way would've been to mask out the stars and such beforehand, or use more opaque paint to color in the stars haha
wow *-* i love the colors and the pose c:


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Donnie Lee Gray
Published: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 at 6:01 a.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 at 11:00 p.m.
Donnie Lee Gray, 26, a native of Raceland and a resident of Houma, died Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2001.
Visitation was scheduled from 9 a.m. to funeral time today at Mount Zion Baptist Church in Raceland. Funeral services were scheduled for noon today at the church, with burial in Crescent Farm Cemetery in Houma.
He is survived by his parents, Rita Meads of Houma and Lawrence Gray of Raceland; one child, Diamante McKalyn Gray of Houma; and three siblings, Shentrelle and Tiffany Gray, both of Houma, and Marquel Gray of Raceland.
He was preceded in death by his sister, Latec Rena Gray; his grandparents, Robert and Audrey Pierre, Lawrence Gray Sr. and Sidney Scott; and his great-grandmother, Agnes Smith.
He was a member of Mount Zion Baptist Church.
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