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We are a Harry Potter-based, post-book game set in the present day. Lord Voldemort has been defeated and the wizarding world is back to business as usual, and business as usual for thousands of underaged wizards and witches world-wide means skipping school, drinking, cheating, stealing, and fighting. Play as an inmate, a marshal, or one of the creatures native to the island.
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Astrid Orville
Jul 4 2011, 10:36 PM
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Food brought people together.
It was a fact of life, something Astrid understood all too well. She took a break from chopping some celery to poke at the small puIdge around her stomach. If only food wasn't so delicious and she wasn't so unmotivated to exercise. But food was so delicious, especially when she made it. Right now the thing on the menu was chicken noodle soup bubbling away in a stew pot on the small stove. It was a bit odd, cooking in someone else's kitchen, but she didn't have her own stove. Yet. It was something she would work on the Warden for.
Sigmund, the runty cat, weaved around her ankles, mewing plaintively for a bite. Conceding - she really was a pushover for her cat - she threw him a bite of chicken. Then she put it in the pot. It was smelling good, and she hoped the aromas were wafting out into the hall, or possibly the small faculty rooms off to the side. Food was the best way to meet new people. Everyone loved food, right?
Behind her the door opened, striking up a flock of small butterflies in her stomach. Astrid forced them to settle. It was just meeting new people - her coworkers. Yes, her coworkers. It made it easier to think of them in that formal, impersonal way. Still, to have a stranger in the room made her nervous in a way she wouldn't have been nervous a few months ago.
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Dante D'arco
Jul 14 2011, 01:53 PM
Megaera Head � Mind Specialist
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Member No.: 90
Joined: 21-June 11
Dante entered the faculty lounge, stomach growling. He had rarely come in here since his arrival at the facility but today he had been drawn to the room my a delicious aroma. Dante had yet to eat and so he was starving. He looked around for what was causing the delectable smell when he saw a lovely face before him.
Dante recognized the face from around the building but he could not put a name or position to it. He closed the door behind him and walked over to the pot, and therefore the woman. "I apologize for bothering you but your soup smelt so good I just had to come and see what the smell was. And I apologize again but I seem to have forgotten your name." Dante smiled at the woman and than looked at the pot again, his stomach making an audible growl as he did.
Dante got a sheepish look on his face, showing his embarrassment, before saying "May I have some. It smells delicious." He than looked at the pot once more before turning his attention back to the woman. Despite his focal point shifting, his stomach continued to growl with hunger, food within inches of his grasp.
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Astrid Orville
Jul 19 2011, 06:01 PM
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A door shut behind her, alerting Astrid to the presence of others. At her feet Sigmund mewed, half because of the newcomer and half because he was hungry. She whirled about, knife in hand, to look at the other faculty with wide, gray eyes.
"Oh no, not a problem," she said, stammering at first but quickly regaining her composure, "I'm pretty new, so I don't know anyone's names. I'm Astrid Orville, the new school psychologist."
At first glance, the most she took away from her initial view of the other faculty was 'dark'. His dark hair and dark eyes loomed over her - even though he was of average height for a male, he was still almost a foot taller than she was. He seemed nice enough, definitely hungry, and she willed her heart to slow down. Ever since the incident with her step brother she'd been so jumpy. But now she put on a smile, then turned to stir the soup.
"Sorry, you'll have to wait a few minutes," she told him apologetically, "still needs to cook a bit."
With that she tipped the last of the veggies in the pot, stirring it again. From the look of the overall kitchen area, not many people cooked here.
"So what do you teach? And do you live in here?" she asked, gesturing with the spoon to the other rooms.
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Tobias Maldechor
Jul 20 2011, 01:37 PM
Mind Specialist
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Joined: 27-February 11
What was that delicious, fantastic, riveting and all too enthralling aroma coming from the Lounge Room? His mind nearly exploded with all sorts of emotions, sensations and memories.
The Professor quickly dismissed whatever it was that he was briskly running to and altered his destination. Dodging and avoiding the inconvenient scores of inmates between him and the Lounge he spirited himself through the door rather dramatically expecting to find inside someone familiar.
As he peered inside the room, the aroma came from a steaming pot. There were two younger Marshals inside. He completely entered the room, dressed in his perennial long dark cape, his dark tunic, his flamboyant long sleeves and his traveling boots. He smiled a confused smile at the two.
He had no idea who they were, he was so bad at remembering names, faces or even co-workers for that matter. He approached them, his best manners and politeness showing up. "Hello!"
He stopped for a second, he didn't know what else to say. He was obviously there for the aroma and that didn't help him think on anything else. "I am Professor Maldechor. I don't get out much." He stitched a smile to that last word.
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Dante D'arco
Jul 20 2011, 03:20 PM
Megaera Head � Mind Specialist
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Posts: 47
Member No.: 90
Joined: 21-June 11
Dante was about to respond to Astrid's question when a new person entered the room. Dante didn't recognize him but he was infuriated. This guy had interrupted a moment. Well maybe it hadn't been a moment yet but Dante had been working on making it a perfect moment. Now he wouldn't be able to even attempt since there was another male in the room.
Dante gave the newcomer-Professor Maldechor? How formal- a quick glance and glare before turning his attention to Astrid-and the food- once more. "As I was about to say before you... so kindly entered to join in the delectable food, I am Dante D'arco. I am a mind specialist and the head of house for Megaera House. It is nice to meet both of you, especially you Astrid."
Dante bent down and kissed her hand, the way tradition in Italy had taught him to do. "Shall we all sit and chat a bit while the soup finishes cooking?" Dante suggested. He would play nice for now. Hopefully the intruder would leave as soon as he got some food. But for now it wouldn't do him any good to be rude. He sat down in a chair and looked at the other two, hoping they would join him. He would enjoy this conversation very much so.
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Tobias Maldechor
Jul 20 2011, 08:41 PM
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Joined: 27-February 11
Tobias had expected the witch to answer first, however the other wizard did. He seemed rather too polite; something he�d learned to be careful at, specially here in Furiae. He remembered old Professor Mendelssohn, the nasty corpse gentleman, courteous and fine as a recently filed scalpel. Tobias gave him a wide smile. He introduced himself as Dante D�arco, Mind Speciliast. Then the wizard pulled a noble gesture out from his sleeve and kissed the witch�s hand.
Professor Maldechor disregarded, for the moment, the wizard�s invitation to go sit at the table. At least he supposed the witch wouldn�t for she was still preparing the brew, so he let D�arco, Mind Specialist, sit by the table all by himself. �Nice to meet you Mr. D�arco. You must be one of the new ones right? I haven�t had the chance to meet all of you. Feel free to go by my Laboratorium any day soon.�
Then Tobias walked towards the steaming pot were the soup was being prepared and smiled a huge smile at the witch. He regarded the soup as if it was a big, interesting and quite exotic experiment. Then he beamed at the witch, �Didn�t know Psychologist could cook?� He then muffled a smile behind his hand. �Now really what are we preparing here? Not that I am interested in a small portion at all, if that�s okay?�
He then regarded the Mind Specialist, �You have a nice accent. Its Italy is it? I studied many years ago back in Italy, it ended up horrendously.� He smiled, �Then I came here, or was rather sent. That very first year I became Professor of Evocations, then the next I was Defense against the Dark Arts and even then I rustled up teaching Mechanical Constructs, it was a fascinating class. And now after so many years in this place I am now a Mind Specialist.�
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Astrid Orville
Jul 20 2011, 10:53 PM
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Before the young, dark wizard could say anything, another figure swept dramatically into the room. She stifled a laugh, feeling it might not be quite all polite. He did look a bit older, and somehow she didn't feel he was the joking type. Like the other professor, he wore dark clothing. Suddenly she felt a bit out of place in her emerald robes, bright red hair, and white pants. Bright and cheery, though, was what Astrid did well, and this facility could use some of it. She blushed as Dante kissed her hand, allowing him to hold it for a second before snatching it away on a premise of needing to stir the pot.
"Of course I can cook!" she exclaimed, giving the older man a mock severe look, "Everyone needs an outside hobby, and this is mine. I haven't convinced Sicila to give me an oven in my room yet, so I have to make do up here. It's chicken noodle soup."
She gave the pot one last stir, then put on the heavy black lid to let it sit. The key to good soup was simmering. Then she sat down in a nearby chair, prompting Sigmund to jump in her lap, at the same table as Dante the dark, though opposite of him. She didn't know him yet, so she didn't want to just get all buddy buddy. Especially since he was a mind specialist. To her slight dismay, so was Maldechor. Odd that they would have two. People who could rummage around in her brain were a bit unsettling. Unbeknownst to them, however, Astrid wasn't about to let anyone in even for a quick peek. She was an Occulumens, as a complement to her other abilities, and well versed at keeping out nosy minds.
"So both Mind Specialists?" she questioned, looking from one man back to the other, "How did that come about? And what is it that you do?"
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Tobias Maldechor
Jul 21 2011, 09:31 AM
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Tobias watched as the witch covered the steaming cauldron and sat at the table next to the other Mind Specialist Mr. D'arco. He instead turned around to face the two of them and reclined on the wood shelf near the kitchen. The aroma of the chicken noodle soup was out of this world, or was it he'd been so far removed from this reality that he had forgotten all about the good things?
"So both Mind Specialists?" she questioned, looking from one man back to the other, "How did that come about? And what is it that you do?"
Tobias answered immediately in an explaining sort of way. "Well I don't blame the Warden. After all the problem with the Faction Wars I stayed behind and when the new Warden arrived she installed me as a Mind Specialist. However, I was a little distracted with my work back in my lab and really got lost of time."
The wizard smiled and seemed sheepishly bashful. "I sort of disappeared for several months or so. So I figure they had to get a new one." As he said this he locked his eyes upon Mr. D'arco. He then turned to gaze at her sweet eyes. "But believe me, with all the troubled kids in here two Mind Specialists are not enough."
"Oh that is smelling pretty good!" he replied as a puff of that magical substance reached his nostrils.
"As for me I teach the inmates whatever they need to know in order to have fulfilling lives once they get out from this place." He took a good look around and snickered, "It has gotten better with time, you should have seen it under the old administration...the place gave anyone the creeps."
Tobias made a slight pause and then asked her, "What about you, apart from being a Psychologist, what are your interest?"
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The Stranger
by Albert Camus
The Stranger Philosophical Viewpoints: The Absurd Quotes
How we cite our quotes: Citations follow this format: (Part.Chapter.Paragraph). We used Matthew Ward's translation, published by Vintage International published in 1989.
Quote #1
Maman died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don't know. I got a telegram from the home: "Mother deceased. Funeral tomorrow. Faithfully yours." That doesn't mean anything. Maybe it was yesterday. (1.1.1)
The opening sentences of the novel embodies Meursault's absurdist outlook on life, his emotional indifference and detachment to people, and his passive but quiet alienation from the rest of society. It's also a big flashing clue that our protagonist is unaware and apathetic. He doesn't even know which day his mother died, and to him, it "doesn't mean anything" anyway.
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[A] soldier […] smiled at me and asked if I'd been traveling long. I said, "Yes," just so I wouldn't have to say anything else. (1.1.4)
Super typical of his particular brand of passivity and/or detachment (i.e., Absurdism), Meursault does something just so he won't have to do something else.
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That's when Maman's friends came in. There were about ten in all, and they floated into the blinding light without a sound. They sat down without a single chair creaking. I saw them more clearly than I had ever seen anyone […]. But I couldn't hear them, and it was hard for me to believe they really existed. (1.1.15)
Meursault is content being a spectator in life, and may even be slightly solipsistic. (Solipsism is the belief that yourself is the only thing you can truly know exists—you know you're not a figment of the imagination... but you can't say the same for everyone else around you.) If this is true, it explains why he finds it difficult to sympathize or empathize in any way.


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Imagine shopping at a car dealership that only offered pictures of vehicles and a sales person that would tell you about the features of such vehicles. Then based on his or her experience he or she might say, "I know which would be best for you, I don't have a picture of it, but I am sure you would like and it should work out for you." We would never consider buying a car under these circumstances. We would want to go to a dealer that had a selection of vehicles to drive.
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Things that get me going—this is one of them. Intelligent, educated, deserving citizens struggling under the oppressive weight of poverty. The weakening of the American Middle Class is a disturbing and growing trend. Since moving to Portland and seeing the vast array of people struggling with homelessness and poverty (among others–drug use, abuse, etc.) I've been meaning to revisit the issue. It seems especially relevant now in light of a recent report by Charles K. Rowley and Nathanael Smith on the United States' potential journey into Third World status. It breaks my heart that we've let it get to this point. We've figured out how to fly, how to put a woman in space, replace a heart, grow a stem cell, talk loud and clear to somebody thousands of miles away–but we can't figure out a way to make sure everyone who wants the basics covered gets them? What's up with that?
My bus commute is a daily reality check. What I can tell you is that we've really got some work to do if we want to live up to the ideals expressed in our founding documents and the American Dream. How can we rewrite the rules to fit today? Where will small actions lead to major impacts? I'd really love to hear your ideas.
One of mine—cutting out the "I gotta get mine" mentality. It's disgusting, selfish and guess what? It doesn't work. This little recession we've got going on is proof of that. We're in it together. I'm not suggesting communism or socialism, just transparent, fair + ethical capitalism, which is far from what we've had. Every American deserves the opportunity at a job that will allow them to put quality food on the table and a roof over their head, let them get medical assistance when they're sick and provide an education for their children. Whether they take that opportunity is up to them, but it should be there. It shouldn't be elusive—it's the mother-effing American Dream!!! We can't survive without that dream alive and well. It is who we are. It's in our blood. We have to fight like hell for it.
But with eight million jobs cut in the U.S. in since December 2007, that dream has dimmed like Tinkerbell in Peter Pan. Nothing can save Tink but a conscious, sincere and faith-in-ourselves-filled clapping of the hands.
Well, here we are, our light is dimmed, but it isn't dead. We have a choice to make: fight or flight. I think it's an easy choice to make. The way out? Bold moves, a heady dose of innovation and an all or nothing attitude. Full force. Total community participation. Unwavering commitment to the common goal. Clap those hands until you can't clap no more.
Oh yeah, the sheer possibility of what we can accomplish is another thing that really gets me going. It makes me want to move. Makes we want to act. Makes we want to work for it.
We can all do something. One thing. One thing multiplied by 300 million can produce some depressing results—or impressive ones. It's up to us to choose.
One thing? Is that really to much to ask? Or are we just going to settle?
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Madhu Shalini has revealed that she has lent her own voice for her character in Avan Ivan. The actress, who plays the role of a college student, has said that she has picked up Tamil language well, as she has worked hard on the speaking skills.
The actress, who is working for the first time with almost all the members of the team, feels that her dream to work with Bala has come true with Avan Ivan. She is more than happy for working with him in the early stage of her career.
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Dr. McDade graduated Magna Cum Laude from Tufts University School of Dental Medicine in Boston. While in dental school, he received the Charles Evens Restorative Dentistry Award and the Teledyne Best of Best Award in Prosthodontics. In addition, he participated in the honors program in implantology using state-of-the-art dental technology.
Dr. McDade completed his orthodontic training at the University of Pittsburgh, receiving his Master of Dental Science degree after completing a three-year residency program. During his residency program, he participated in advanced studies in dento-facial abnormalities, cleft palate therapy, diagnosis and treatment of temporo-mandibular joint disorders and magnetic resonance imaging techniques. In addition, Dr. McDade has a Masters Degree in Microbiology from the University of Connecticut. Recipient of the Medical Professional Award, Apple of Excellence 2005. Recognition Presented by Camarillo Health Care District.
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If you're going on a cross-country trip anytime soon and have any ideas about getting lucky, you might want to read up on the places you're visiting. Why? It turns out that some state laws go way past traffic regulations and right into your bedroom.
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text: The much-discussed surveillance video of dramatic shooting of gunman, who had just killed former co-worker, on NYC street today, has emerged. It seems to back police claim that he did draw gun from bag, though he apparently did not fire (nine bystanders hit by police). It's also a wonder that so many shots from the cops went wild given the very close range. My full day of coverage here. You may need Adobe Flash to view below or go here for larger image. UPDATE Police, after offering misleading info for a full day, finally admitted that all of the bystanders were injured by police bullets. NYT covers gently.


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NHPR Audio: Can demand for local meat sustain N.H.'s three new slaughterhouses?
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MCY 2015 - 2016 Meet Schedule:
Click below to check out this season's schedule in a format that you can copy and have on the fridge if you need. This was printed 11/19/15 for your records:
MCY 2014 - 2015 Meet Schedule:
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***It is required that all members of the MCY swim team compete in at least three YMCA meets during the short course winter season to be able to compete in the end of the season Championships that begin March 6 - 8th, 2015. This first Championship is open to all swimmers who do not have too many ~ 4 "AA" cut times for 8 and under swimmers and 6 "AA" cut times ~ all other Championships have time standards to be allowed to enter those meets.
****All MCY swimmers who are also swimming on a local area High School team are required to get your three YMCA meets in BEFORE starting your High School meet season.
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Human Rights Organizations Condemn Murder of Women Journalists in Mexico
On September 1, 2011 the murdered bodies of Ana María Marcela Yarce Viveros – founder and reporter of Contralínea – and Rocío González – independent journalist – were found in Mexico City. Four days earlier Carmela Elisarraráz Méndez – leader in the defence of the rights and dignities of sex workers and secretary of the organization Monarcas Libertad de Michoacán – was murdered in Morelia. The open letter warned that these cases of femicide are not isolated acts, and add to the seven human rights defenders and three journalists murdered in Mexico since 2010.
"The State of Mexico has failed in its obligation to protect and give the minimum guarantees so that we women can exercise our right to the freedom of expression and the defence of our rights.
We demand the appropriate authorities investigate the murder cases and attacks against defenders and journalists, punish those responsible, and take all necessary measures so that women human rights defenders and journalists can practice their work in secure conditions."
– Open Letter Human Rights Defenders condemn the increase of violence against women human rights defenders and journalists in Mexico.
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Gender crime seen in 2 Mexican women's deaths, Associated Press, 2 September, 2011.
2 Journalists Murdered in Mexico City, Voice of America, 2 September, 2011.
Murders of Reporters Heighten Despair and Shock, IPS, 2 September 2011.
MEXICO: Two women journalists found strangled in Mexico City, Guardian, 2 September 2011.
Murder of two women journalists brings media death toll since 2000 to 80, Reporters Without Borders, 2 September 2011.
MEXICO: Two women journalists found strangled in Mexico City, PEN International (WiPC), 6 September 2011.


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On Jun 25, 3:37 pm, calyth
> Since I didn't see this first hand, I'll try my best to describe this
> (and hope that someone has seen this).
> So there's a nfs share that's mounted on a Mac, and the user wanted to
> rm -fr (at least probably some variant of rm -fr) a directory with
> subdirectories at least 6 levels deep.
> Somehow the rm command would fail at the 6th level and complains that
> the directory isn't empty, but when he tries the command again, rm
> succeeds without complaints.
> Has anyone see something similar to this?
I haven't used a Mac client. But I can see how it's possible, if the
client has an open file in that directory.
When unlinking a file opened by some other process, the client
typically renames it to a temporary file called something like
".nfsXYZ". So now the original file is gone from the namespace, and
the process that has the file opened can still access it. (The actual
removal of the temporary file happens when the file is closed.)
However, from the "rm -rf" perspective, the directory is non-empty
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This is a discussion on Best Practices or Design Patterns for Error Handling in KDE - KDE ; I am evaluating KDE as a desktop environment and need to know how it is recommended that developers handle errors and report them back to the user. I have worked quite a bit with C# in the past and had ...
I am evaluating KDE as a desktop environment and need to know how it is
recommended that developers handle errors and report them back to the user.
I have worked quite a bit with C# in the past and had good success using typed
exceptions in the .NET Framework to cleanly separate error handling from the
normal logic of the program itself. However, though unsuccessful at finding
much documentation on best practices for error handling in KDE (or in QT for
that matter), I have seen some discussion that C++ exceptions should be avoided
as otherwise significant performance penalties are incurred. On the other hand,
I have found that checking return values, as I have seen in Qt samples) after
each method call is unwieldy and distracting to program.
In the .NET Framework, I would have done the following (illustrated using a
call stack):
If bar() ran into a problem, then I could raise a typed exception, catch it at
the outer end (i.e., in foo()) and report the message in foo(). This is
especially important where blah() and bar() in a separate, re-used class or
even shared library and would not know how the error should be reported in the
client (i.e., foo()). With an exception, foo() could read the error message
from the typed exception and report as appropriate (e.g., via a dialog or
status bar and/or writing to a log, etc.).
What is the recommend practice for handling errors like this in KDE?
I tried searching on Google for various combinations of the following but did
not find any useful resources:
KDE QT "error handling" "best practices" "design patters"
Reference to documentation or model sample or project code or coding guidelines
would be greatly appreciated.
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The Morning Download: Life Without Data
The Morning Download cues up the most important news in business technology every weekday morning. Send us your tips, compliments and complaints.
Good morning. CIOs are giving up a lot of control these days — they're allowing vendors to run their infrastructure and software in the cloud, and striking deals with outsourcing firms to take application development and sometimes entire business processes off their hands. That, in theory, gives CIOs more bandwidth to manage the crown jewels of any organization — its data.
Now comes along Gil Elbaz, late of Google, with a buzzy new company called Factual, which is aggregating as much data as it can get its hands on and then selling it to businesses; its customers include Facebook, Yelp and most major search engines not named Google. And Elbaz thinks that eventually, CIOs need to get out of the data business too.
Elbaz believes real data experts should do the dirty work of acquiring and cleansing the data, allowing CIOs to avoid liabilities associated with data, such as unintentional releases of personally identifiable information or other data breaches. And, he tells CIO Journal, "no one has enough time to go into rat holes to get data."
Factual isn't the only outsourced data game in town. Salesforce.com, perhaps realizing that selling on-demand sales tools can only take it so far, got into the business of selling data last fall with the launch of data.com, following its acquisition of Jigsaw, a service allowing salespeople to trade data about sales leads.
We don't usually lead off the Download with vendor news, but we wanted to ring an alarm bell about this trend. Many CIOs have accepted the idea that giving up control of certain technology functions frees them up to do more important things — and that often makes a lot of sense. But at what point are CIOs giving up too much? Moreover, even granting that giving up control of data is desirable, how much control should any third party vendor have over that data that isn't yours any longer? Tell us what you think in the comments, or drop us a line.
Sometimes small steps are best. "You want to make sure that as you're looking at future directions and strategy, you're not constraining yourself to a concept from the late '80s and early '90s," says American Water's CIO, Emily Ashworth. Stuck with outdated collaboration tools from Microsoft and IBM, but unconvinced that new suites combining email, IM, Internet-based telephony and document sharing are "fully baked," Ashworth tells CIO Journal she's using a stop-gap solution from harmon.ie she hopes will improve collaboration among the company's business units until she's sure of the next big thing. "I don't want us to have to switch twice – now, and then in three or four years, when this unified communications thing matures," she says.
The number of female CIOs is falling. While almost a quarter of Fortune 100 CIOs are women, females represent just 9% of the total CIO population — down from 12% just two years ago, according to a survey by recruiting firm Harvey Nash. The irony of the situation, notes CIO Journal's Rachael King, is that women continue to be under-represented in IT ranks while IT leaders complain that there isn't enough IT talent to be found.
Yahoo launches big data analytics tool. Notable for actual technology reasons for a change, Yahoo will launch a new tool in July to help online advertisers deliver more appropriately targeted campaigns. Yahoo has contributed most of the code for Hadoop, the open source database project at heart of most Big Data-related projects. The new tool, called Genome, is designed to help companies sift through and analyze massive amounts of behavioral and advertising-related data gathered from Yahoo's various networks as well as those of interclick, a company Yahoo acquired in December, reports PC World's Jaikumar Vijayan.
Facebook valuation goes even higher. Facebook is making the most of the investor frenzy over its IPO, raising the price range to $34 to $38 a share. That lifts the company's value to as much as $104 billion, the WSJ reports. Interest shows no sign of slowing, despite lingering questions about its business model and its efforts to monetize its mobile platform, DealBook notes. The company will most likely stop accepting orders for its IPO shares today, is expected to price its shares on Thursday and start trading on the Nasdaq on Friday.
Apple to unveil new iCloud functionality. Apple is preparing to unveil new features for its iCloud service, which allows users to store music, images and other items on the Internet, the Journal's Jessica Vascellaro reports. Among the new features: the ability to share sets of photos with other iCloud users. Currently users can only share one set of photos. People close to Apple say that the increasing popularity of cloud-based storage is making Apple cautious about rolling out new features because of the costs associated with storing huge volumes of data.
Apple plans thinner laptops. Apple is preparing a new lineup of thinner MacBook laptops running on more powerful chips made by Intel, Bloomberg learned from anonymous sources. The MacBook Pro machines, to be unveiled at Apple's annual developers conference starting June 11, also will feature high-definition screens like those on the iPhone and iPad, as well as flash memory to cut start-up times and extend battery life.
SMB cloud confidence grows. A study released Monday by Microsoft reveals that security worries among small-to-medium-size businesses about embracing cloud computing are easing. A similar survey from Symantec shows SMBs are seeing improved disaster preparedness in virtual or cloud environments. The global Microsoft study, conducted on its behalf by comScore, shows that 35% of SMBs have experienced noticeably higher levels of security since moving to the cloud. Also, 32% said they spend less time worrying about security and, by the same percentage, said they spend less time per week managing security than before they went to the cloud, reports eWEEK's Robert Mullins. Let's hope this increased level of confidence doesn't turn into complacency, because cloud or not, the buck always stops with the CIO.
Cloud-based HR businesses just keep getting hotter. SilkRoad, an online vendor of payroll and human-resource management software whose clients include McAfee and International Paper, just landed $35 million in financing led by Keating Capital and NTT Finance, AllThingD's Arik Hesseldhahl reports. Late last year SAP and Oracle, two giants in traditional on-premise HR applications, as well as Saleforce.com, each acquired an HR-related on-demand software vendor. SAP, for example, spend $3.4 billion for SuccessFactors.
Twitter unveils weekly email of relevant tweets. Twitter will start sending members a weekly summary of the most relevant tweets based on who they follow — including tweets from people they don't follow but which the service thinks they probably should, writes Twitter's director of growth, Othman Laraki, in a blog post. The idea is to help users survive the fire hose of Tweets to which they are subjected while helping new users navigate the new experience, writes Mike Isaac at AllThingsD. But he agrees with the WSJ's Liz Heron, who questions – in a tweet – whether weekly updates are sufficient for a service that specializes in almost constant real-time updates.
Game on: Game graphics player Nvidia buys patents to shield mobile move. Chip company Nvidia and patent portfolio incubator Intellectual Ventures acquired 500 wireless communication patents in a move to protect Nvidia's nascent mobile business from litigation, the Journal's Shara Tibken reports. The patents, purchased from IPWireless, include technology for the 4G Long Term Evolution wireless communication standard. Best known for developing chips for gaming graphics, Nvidia has sought a mobile business in the face of slowing computer sales and increased competition in graphics.
Activision reaches back to rev up. Games maker Activision Blizzard is banking its future on releasing new versions of games that go back more than a decade. Tuesday, the company will debut the latest result of that strategy: "Diablo III," a new version of the dungeon exploration game that last came out in 2000, reports the Journal's Ian Sherr.
CIOs: Beware the 'pimply-face kid.' Anonymous member Christopher Doyen tells the National Post's Catherine Solyom that the loosely knit hacker collective has access to every classified database in the U.S. government. Doyen, who is in Canada after fleeing a charge in the U.S. for his cyber activities, said access came from the employees themselves. "The five-star general (and) the Secretary of Defense who sit in the cushy plush offices at the top of the Pentagon don't run anything anymore," said Doyen in the comic book-speak that has become an Anonymous specialty, "It's the pimply-faced kid in the basement who controls the whole game, and Bradley Manning proved that."
LightSquared files for Chapter 11. Hours before defaulting on its debt, LightSquared filed for bankruptcy protection. Investors poured billions into a venture aimed at competing with the likes of AT&T, but hopes for building a new high-speed wireless broadband network were dashed by federal regulators over fears that the network would interfere with Global Positioning signals, report the WSJ's Jacqueline Palank and Greg Bensinger.
Pace of technology adoption isn't necessarily a good thing. Fast Company's Farhad Manjoo writes that the tech industry is becoming increasingly hits-driven—and that's not a good thing. It takes high quality tech products time to build a base and establish an ecosystem. Noting how just a decade ago, the Apple iPod was reporting sales of a "Zune-like" 40,000 a month, Manjoo says "the iPod's slow start would make it a dud today, the TouchPad of music players (remember H-P's ill-fated tablet? Me neither)."
More customers hang up on major carriers. Despite gains from Verizon and AT&T, major carriers overall reported a net loss in the total number of contracted customers last quarter, reports AllThingD's Ina Fried. Sprint and T-Mobile, in particular, reported large losses. By contrast, prepaid carriers collectively saw a gain of two million customers.
Groupon posts loss, but shows improvement. As Groupon tries to rebound from an accounting slip up, the daily-deals company turned in its first operating profit in two years, even as its revenue growth continues to moderate. Groupon said Monday that its income from operations for the quarter ending March 31 was $39.6 million—the first time revenue has exceeded its operating costs since the first quarter of 2010, when the company was a fraction of its current size, reports the WSJ's Shira Ovide.
Baidu to offer low-cost smartphone. Baidu is poised to launch a low-cost smartphone running its newest mobile operating software, as the company that dominates Internet searches in China looks to shore up its presence in the mobile-device field, the Journal's Paul Mozur reports. A person familiar with the matter said the phone will run the company's Baidu Cloud software, which gives users 100 gigabytes of storage on which they can store documents and other digital files and share them among different computers and devices.
Know thine enemy. Time Warner CEO Glenn Britt reveled his ignorance of Apple's Internet streaming technology, reports Brian X. Chen of the NYTimes. "So the current Apple TV, the little thing, the hockey puck, really doesn't do anything to help enable you to get Internet material on your TV," Britt said in a group interview. Getting Internet video on the TV is precisely what the "little hockey puck" does courtesy of AirPlay technology.
Apple, Apple, Apple…Taiwan-based DigiTimes has made a mini-industry out of dishing Apple rumors to tech publications that depend on stories about Apple to drive web traffic. Time Magazine's Harry McCracken fact-checks the rumors and finds—surprise!—many of them are false.
CFO fired for Facebook posting. Gene Morphis, the CFO of Francesca's Holdings, was fired for sharing company information on Facebook, reports Ashley Lutz at BusinessInsider. Francesca's management didn't say which post got Morphis fired, but maybe it was the one from March 13 that reads, "Earnings released. Conference call completed. How do you like me now Mr. Shorty?" In all honesty, Morphis seems to have been truly proud of his company; it's too bad if there wasn't a social media policy in place for him to follow.
European debt crisis: what you need to know. The German economy rebounded in the first quarter as exports to emerging markets offset waning euro-area demand, Bloomberg reports. That's helping ease fears about a meltdown in Greece, but there's plenty of caution because the other euro-zone countries didn't fare quite so well. Italy contracted for a third straight quarter, the Netherlands also recorded its third quarterly contraction and France had zero growth.
Meanwhile, Greek leaders will again try to form a coalition government after failing yesterday. And Jean-Claude Juncker, the Luxembourg prime minister who heads the group of euro zone finance ministers, hit back at EU leaders for "threatening" Greece with expulsion from the single currency, saying the will of Greek voters must be respected, the FT reports.
Dimon faces shareholders. Jamie Dimon has some explaining to do to shareholders today at the JP Morgan's annual meeting. But the bank has been closing ranks around its CEO and expects to defeat a shareholder proposal to name an independent chairman, the WSJ reports. And even if shareholders back the nonbinding resolution, board members won't strip Dimon of his chairmanship. The action kicks off at 10:30 a.m.
J.C. Penney CEO Ron Johnson's turnaround plan put to the test. The retailer reports after markets close, and results could reinforce investor skepticism if sales or earnings fall short, says Ahead of the Tape's Spencer Jakab. Analysts are forecasting a loss of two cents a share vs. profit of 28 cents a year earlier.
Best Buy board penalizes founder. An internal Best Buy investigation cleared former CEO Brian Dunn of any suspicion of using company resources while conducting an inappropriate relationship with a female employee, but faulted Best Buy founder and chairman Richard Schulze for failing to alert the audit committee in December when allegations surrounding Dunn's actions were first known. Schulze will step down as chairman next month, reports the WSJ's Miguel Bustillo. Dunn left the company in April.


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Headline: In Egypt, gripes about U.S. government are a common theme
To Read: Walter Russell Mead thinks that President Obama is too impressed with his own rhetoric-
You cannot be a great speaker unless you are a great doer. If Martin Luther King Jr. had not led the civil-rights movement to success and ultimately laid down his life for it, his speeches would be little studied. If Churchill had surrendered to Hitler, nobody would care about his defiant addresses.
At worst, as in Mr. Obama's Cairo speech, the contrast between exalted rhetoric and mingy deeds undermines both speech and speechmaker. But even at their best, the president's speeches often demonstrate an intellectual mastery of the subject but lack a true aim. To change that, he would do well to quit thinking of speechmaking as an act in itself and begin to think of it as the verbal expression of an action already under way. Otherwise, Mr. Obama's speeches will continue to resemble the fireworks that lit up America's skies last week: briefly dazzling the crowds, then fading quickly as the dark returns.
Quote: "There's an elephant in the room here. It is in our national interest, the best interests of the United States and the best interests, in our view, of our goal of assisting the Egyptian people in their transition to democracy to take the time necessary to evaluate the situation before making such a determination", Whitehouse spokesman Jay Carney commenting on the coup question.
Number: 68, the percentage of Americans who favor holding national referendums on key issues.
Headline: Netanyahu taps close aide Ron Dermer as new ambassador to US
To Read: According to Yehudah Mirsky, the whole of Israeli society has some thinking to do about religion and state-
Thus, in confronting Haredi Judaism and its increasing assertiveness, which are as much signs of change and internal crisis as they are of triumphalism and aggressiveness, Israeli society's establishment—or what's left of it—must confront the crisis of its own values. It's not a pretty picture. The collapse of the commanding, highly centralized Labor ethos of the founding decades has splintered Israel into a collection of unabashedly self-asserting tribes. Those sectors of Israeli society still committed to forging a decent polity at large must recapture some sort of language for dealing with complexity. They cannot afford to retreat into the comforts of technological success and the false messianisms of faith, power or, on the Left, the paralyzing cocktail of despair and good intentions. Rather like the Haredim, they need to find a new way of simultaneously talking and living in dialogue with both heaven and earth, without confusing one for the other, and without disturbing the integrity and inescapable discipline of either.
Quote: "Their ways are not our ways, and the sages said he who lifts up a hand against his fellow is called an evil person", Shas Leader Arye Deri distancing his party from a high profile incident in which a Haredi soldier was attacked by ultra orthodox Jews.
Number: 1,000,000, Israel's defense establishment believes that more than one million West Bank-based Palestinians will enter Israel during the month of Ramadan.
The Middle East
Headline: Egypt's Brotherhood rejects cabinet offer
To Read: John Bolton believes that the US should have heeded Mubarak's predictions-
Obviously, Mubarak was no Jeffersonian democrat. The former commander of Egypt's air force, he became Anwar Sadat's vice president, and then president when the Muslim Brotherhood assassinated Sadat for concluding the Camp David peace accord with Israel. Mubarak led a violent crackdown against the Brotherhood, watched it warily for 30 years, and warned the West that if his government fell, the Brotherhood would inevitably take power. Western cognoscenti scoffed at Mubarak's prediction, calling it just a convenient excuse for repressing the Brotherhood and other dissidents threatening the ultimate authority of the military, which controlled Egypt since King Farouk's 1952 overthrow.
Mubarak, it transpires, understood his country better than the Western know-it-alls.
Quote: "Therefore, there is every reason to believe that it was the armed opposition fighters who used the chemical weapons in Khan al Asal", Russia's Ambassador to the UN, Vitaly Churkin, claiming that Syrian rebels used chemical weapons in March.
Number: £50 million, the amount of money the UK pledged to help Lebanon deal with its Syrian refugees.
The Jewish World
Headline: Jewish Agency, WJC call for outside intervention in Claims Conference
To Read: A 'Times of Israel' piece tells the remarkable story of Nicholas Winton, a 'British Schindler' who saved 669 Jewish children and didn't tell anyone about it for 50 years-
Winton, then a young British stockbroker, dropped everything in early 1939, set up a refugee committee operation in Prague, and worked tirelessly to get Jewish children out on kindertransports to England and Sweden. No one knew what he had done because the children were either unaware of who had saved them, or were too young to remember. Winton himself went on to serve in the Royal Air Force and later to marry and start a family, never mentioning his act of heroic kindness to anyone.
Quote: "What I'm looking for is a chance to be heard. I want the voters to listen to what I've done, look at the record that I developed as attorney general, as an assistant district attorney, as governor, and say, 'This guy understood the public interest'", Eliot Spitzer making a comeback to public life.
Number: 30, the number of Israeli public figures who have signed a petition against the candidacy of Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu for chief Sephardic Rabbi.
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Oh My Teen discusses Starglass by Phoebe North. Oh My Teen book group is a program for teens that meets the second Tuesday of every month at the Trails West branch library. Copies are available for checkout at the branch library.
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Dr. Heather Castleden to join Queen's University as a Research Chair
The department is excited to announce that Dr. Heather Castleden has been recruited to join Queen's University this summer as a Research Chair. She will hold a joint appointment in the Department of Public Health Sciences (Faculty of Health Sciences) and the Department of Geography (Faculty of Arts and Science).
This is a very exciting development for our department and, in particular, for our graduate programs. Dr. Castleden is a geographer and community based participatory researcher who studies the intersections of environment and human health. In her new appointment, she will be offering students within PHS the opportunity to take part in a field school that focuses upon Aboriginal Health, and she will be developing a new course in qualitative research methods.
Heather is extremely excited about taking up her joint appointment at Queen's University and moving her family to Kingston
To learn more about Dr. Castleden's research, visit her website.


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Definition of motor in English:
1A machine, especially one powered by electricity or internal combustion, that supplies motive power for a vehicle or for another device with moving parts: these electric motors are highly reliable the sander has a smooth and powerful 520 watt motor
More example sentences
- The steam engine had symbolized the First Industrial Revolution and the electric motor and internal combustion engine the Second.
- Electricity powers the electric motor, which in turn propels the vehicle.
- Instead of an engine, a stack of fuel cells and an electric motor will supply power - but you won't even see them.
1.1A source of power, energy, or motive force: hormones are the motor of the sexual functions
More example sentences
- For example, the force generation by molecular motors has been studied as well as the mechanical properties of biopolymers.
- Molecular motors generate force and motion by continually binding and breaking down energy-releasing molecules at a rate of about 100 molecules per second.
- Atomic force microscopy and optical traps are used to probe cellular and subcellular forces, such as those of kinesin motors.
2British informal A car: we drove out in my motor
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- One can only respond enthusiastically to the idea that the compact, prestige Beemer represents a hot motor among people in their 70s.
- Together since 1951, Peugeot and Pininfarina have created some of the most stylish mass-market motors of all time.
- The motor vehicle driver should always allow at least a half-car-width between the bike and the motor.
1chiefly British Driven by a motor: a motor van
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- When the business expanded with the move to a larger premises in Leinster Street, his mode of transport changed and a motor van was provided.
- He has a 1915 steam roller and a 1935 motor roller of his own, which he takes to the summer shows.
- During the summer months the harbourmaster is responsible for more than 2000 moorings and has to deal with hundreds of day-sailors, big yachts and motor cruisers from all over Europe.
1.1Relating to motor vehicles: motor insurance
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- He eventually moved to the Daily Herald, where he made his name as a motoring and motor sports commentator, and later worked for the BBC.
- Many older drivers resent the high cost of motor insurance - especially if they have never had an accident and do not use their cars very much.
- The most expensive components of motoring are: financing the car, motor insurance and car tax.
2Giving or producing motion or action: demand is the principle motor force governing economic activity
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- It's being driven by the fact that creativity has become the economic motor force.
- Germany is accustomed to thinking of itself as the motor force of European recovery rather than what it has become in recent times.
- But the working class still exists and it will be the motor force of the transformation of society.
2.1 Physiology Relating to muscular movement or the nerves activating it: the motor functions of each hand
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- In the muscular dystrophies pharyngeal motor function is usually only moderately affected.
- Her higher functions, cranial nerve examination, and motor and sensory examinations were all within normal limits.
- Generally, the left side of the brain controls the motor movements of the right side of the body, and vice versa.
verb[no object, with adverbial of direction]
1Travel in a motor vehicle: they motored north up the M6
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- Here I find myself writing to the Richmond News again, first about the fires on the dyke and now about motorists motoring through red lights at pedestrian walks.
- If I remember rightly, she did eventually go on to pass her test, and is now motoring around quite happily.
- Looking like fugitives from a bankrupt circus, the platoon slowly motored down a narrow muddy road to rejoin Charlie Company.
1.1 informal Run or move as fast as possible: he had motored along to second base on a passed ball
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- How was I supposed to know that his little legs could motor so fast?
- Armstrong followed his move a split second later, motoring around the others and up behind Beloki as if he were being winched out of a ditch.
- Silver Star really motored from half way and she got up to take second place two lengths behind the winner and it was a similar distance back to Moonbeam in third.
Late Middle English (denoting a person who imparts motion): from Latin, literally 'mover', based on movere 'to move'. The current sense of the noun dates from the mid 19th century.
In early use a motor was a person who imparted motion. It derives from a Latin word meaning 'mover', based on movere 'to move'. The current sense of the noun dates from the mid 19th century.
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Food Habits
Main Foods Taken
Freshwater and marine invertebrates washed up on shore, terrestrial, and benthic invertebrates.
Microhabitat For Foraging
Varies greatly among habitats and stage of the annual cycle. Birds primarily fed within 15 m of the shoreline on Big Quill Lake, SK, but also sometimes fed near nest (Whyte 1985). While percentage of feeding near the shoreline varies by sex, age, and stage of breeding, birds feed chiefly within 5 m of the water's edge; only at sunset do parents and broods return to feed on higher ground. Great Lakes birds also forage mostly at the shoreline, in the "splash zone" (Brown 1987), and in open beach habitat, where they glean invertebrates from vegetation and rocks (C. Haffner and J. Stucker, pers. comm.). Back beach ponds, detritus piles, and open beach habitat also commonly used. In North Dakota, birds spend 42% of their time at the waterline and 45% foraging in upland gravel areas (Beckerman 1988). On ocean beaches wrackline is preferred foraging habitat for chicks followed by vegetated dunes (Elias et al. 2000). Adults and chicks also forage in the intertidal zone, however, flightless chicks can be thrown by rough surf (Hecht pers. comm.). Bays and pools are favored by chicks when available (Loegering and Fraser 1995, Goldin and Regosin 1998, Elias et al. 2000). Adults and chicks in New Jersey exhibited flexibility in their choice of foraging habitat but generally chose areas with few people (Burger 1994)
In winter, foraging habitat fairly consistent among numerous Gulf and Atlantic coast sites. On Dauphin Island, AL: protected mudflats or sandflats exposed at low tide (Johnson and Baldassarre 1988); at Texas sites: primarily bayshore sand and algal flats (Zonick 2001). Comparison among 36 Atlantic winter sites (222 birds observed once each) and 75 Gulf sites (1,508 birds observed once each) indicates foraging activity most often associated with mudflats (25.6% of observations), sandflats (25.1%), and sandy mudflats (31.8%; Nicholls 1989).
Food Capture And Consumption
Along shoreline with minimal wave action, a series of short rapid runs interspersed with rapid pecks (Cairns 1977). Pecks and runs occur successively and so quickly that birds appear to be probing randomly rather than directing pecks at specific food items. In other instances (e.g., after a wave rolls up the beach and leaves a glassy film), Piping Plovers extend one foot slightly forward and vibrate it against water-saturated sand. This can occur in successive steps before an actual peck is made, perhaps bringing undersand invertebrates to the surface (Cairns 1977). Such foot trembling commonly observed among adults and juveniles throughout the annual cycle (SMH). Birds also forage in drier areas adjacent to nests. Frequently leave nests to peck at insects in the sand or chase spiders and grasshoppers (SMH). Pecking rate reduced during incubation and brood rearing (Staine and Burger 1994).
Forage alone or in small groups (but not cooperatively) during all hours of the day throughout the annual cycle. Breeding Manitoba adults alternate between 30- and 120-min bouts of incubation and foraging throughout 24 hour day. Similarly, parents alternate brooding chicks, guarding while chicks forage, and foraging. This results in reduced diurnal and nocturnal foraging during incubation and brood rearing phases (Staine and Burger 1994). At coastal New Jersey sites, birds spend about 70% of their time feeding during both day and night but peck rate lower at night (Staine and Burger 1994). Both adults and chicks spend more time foraging in habitats with few people than more populated areas (Burger 1994). Atlantic Coast birds frequently forage during low or falling tide (Cairns 1977, Staine and Burger 1994). Birds on fall migration in Manitoba were seen foraging throughout the day and night (SMH). During winter in Alabama, 76% of the day was spent foraging (Johnson and Baldassarre 1988); 74% in Texas (Drake 1999). More time spent foraging during autumn and midwinter than in spring (Johnson and Baldassarre 1988, Drake 1999).
Major Food Items
Threatened/endangered status prohibits collecting; sensitivity to human disturbance makes sampling food on territories difficult and possibly unwise if birds are present. Nevertheless, Nova Scotia breeders fed on marine worms (2.57.5 cm long) at rate of 58 worms/h; also smaller worms and tiny crustaceans (Cairns 1977). At breeding areas on Big Quill Lake, SK, samples from feeding sites at and near the shoreline revealed the following: Coleoptera: Carabidae (26.9% of total number collected) and Dytiscidae (15.3%); Hemiptera: Corixidae (19.2%) and Saldidae (2.3%); and Diptera: Chironomidae (9.5%) and Ephidridae (2.6%; Whyte 1985). Food on territories at Chain of Lakes, ND, similar to but greater biomass than potential Great Lakes sites: Ephydridae (73%), Chironomidae (13%), and Dolechopodidae (9%) vs. Chironomidae (72%), Dolichopodidae (5%), Muscidae (3%), and Ephydridae (3%; Nordstrom 1990, Nordstrom and Ryan 1996). Invertebrates identified from gizzard and stomach contents of Great Lakes breeders include Hymenoptera (32%), Coleoptera (29%), Diptera (28%), Hemiptera and Homoptera (10%), and Ephemeroptera, Trichoptera, Pseuoscopiones and Arachnida (4%) (Cuthbert et al 1999, F. Cuthbert and B. Scholtens unpubl.data). At ocean and lagoon beaches of Magdalen Islands, QC, invertebrates found in fecal samples were: Gastropoda, Amphipoda, Coleoptera (Cicindelidae, Carabidae, Staphylinidae, Curculionidae, and unidentified), Diptera, and Hymenoptera (Shaffer and Laporte 1994).
Stomach contents of four wintering Piping Plovers from Alabama included marine worms, insects (fly larvae and beetles), crustaceans, molluscs, and other small marine animals (and their eggs; Bent 1929). Fecal samples (n = 24) collected from birds wintering in the Gulf of Mexico indicated species from the following phyla: Mollusca, Annelida, Arthropoda, Crustacea, and Nematoda (details in Nicholls 1989). Although soft body type impedes detection in fecal samples (Shaffer and Laporte 1994), behavioral observations indicated polychaetes (phyla Annelida) were the primary food of birds feeding in ocean beach habitat and bay shore sandflats of Texas; amphipods were also important prey in ocean beach habitat, whereas at bayshore algal flats, birds fed predominantly on surface insects (Zonick 2000). Data from New Jersey suggest if polychaetes are present, birds may selectively feed on them as evidenced by greater polychaete abundance in foraging areas compared to random locations (Staine and Burger 1994). In general, birds appear to consume the same types of invertebrates in the same proportion to what is available at their feeding location (Shaffer and Laporte 1994, Zonick 2000); an exception is when foraging on Texas beaches, birds rarely feed on bivalves despite their abundance (Zonick 2000). Captive reared plovers readily consume a diet of live invertebrates (e.g., crickets, tubifex worms, meal worms, mayflies); growth and development are similar to wild birds (Powell et al. 1997, J. Stucker pers. comm.).
Nutrition And Energetics
No information.
Metabolism And Temperature Regulation
See Behavior: self-maintenance.
Drinking, Pellet-Casting, And Defecation
Drinking occurs during repeated bouts of dipping the bill in water and tilting the head back. Often performed in conjunction with bathing (see Behavior: self maintenance). No observations of pellets cast or caching.
Elliott-Smith, Elise and Susan M. Haig. 2004. Piping Plover (Charadrius melodus), The Birds of North America Online (A. Poole, Ed.). Ithaca: Cornell Lab of Ornithology; Retrieved from the Birds of North America Online: http://bna.birds.cornell.edu/bna/species/002


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Little Dorrit
by Charles Dickens
Little Dorrit Book 1, Chapter 32 Summary
READ THE BOOK: Book 1, Chapter 32
More Fortune-Telling
- Oh, this chapter is a doozy. It's like all the emotional melodrama of high school, packed into a ten-minute conversation. Get ready to get kind of punchy – all Shmoop wants to do is smack Arthur and Little Dorrit around a bit.
- So, yeah, alone at last.
- Arthur is all, hey, how come you're kind of MIA recently?
- Little Dorrit starts to cry. Then she says she's just been busy. And anyway, what's wrong with Arthur? Has he been sick or something?
- Arthur is stunned that she can tell and fesses up that he was kind of in love with someone but it didn't work out.
- Ouch.
- Little Dorrit asks whether it's someone she knows. Flora, perhaps? Arthur is all, ew, no! Then he tells her that he now realizes he's too old for romantic love.
- Ouch again!
- Totally oblivious, he keeps going: Little Dorrit should think of him as a friend and tell him all her secrets. He knows she's always going to be tied down to the whole taking-care-of-the-Dorrits routine.
- Body slam!
- Little Dorrit is intensely pained by this, when suddenly... Maggie pipes up that Little Dorrit should tell Arthur about the princess and the old woman and the shadow. Little Dorrit blushes, gets embarrassed, but then plays it off like it's just some nonsense fairytale she told Maggie and doesn't remember anymore.
- Arthur buys this. He really is just totally terrible at reading people.
- He goes on: does Little Dorrit love anyone? Doesn't she want to share with Arthur? He wants to be her friend and confidant.
- As she is saying "no, no," the door bursts open and in comes... Pancks.
- Pancks is all weird and doing his "fortune telling" thing. He keeps exchanging meaningful glances with Arthur.
- Pancks and Arthur go out in the hallway. Pancks has clearly discovered something super awesome about the Dorrits. He leaves it to Arthur to break the news.
READ THE BOOK: Book 1, Chapter 32


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Cathy O'Brien's Claims of Being an MK-ULTRA victim
by Mark Dice
In 1995 a woman named Cathy O'Brien published a book titled Trance Formation of America, where she claimed to be a victim of the government's mind control program, MK-ULTRA, and was essentially a sex slave for wealthy politicians. While MK-ULTRA was (and probably still is) a top secret program involving sexual abuse, torture, drugging, and hypnotism as methods for brainwashing and mind control techniques, her allegations come under a cloud of suspicion.
Trance Formation of America is quite strange and disturbing, and is written in the form of almost a narrative, including long passages of dialog that O'Brien claims to have remembered. She says that during the mind control sessions she developed dissociative identity disorder, which used to be classified as multiple personality disorder, and that one of her "alters" had a photographic memory and could recall every conversation that occurred in her presence during the years of her captivity and abuse.
O'Brien claims that some of her abusers were George H.W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Dick Cheney, and Hillary Clinton. She says that she was rescued in 1988 by a man named Mark Phillips who claims to be a former CIA operative. Also a part of the story is O'Brien's daughter Kelly who was also said to be a victim of this program.
What makes O'Brien's allegations seem believable to some, is the fact that mind control programs like MK-ULTRA have been exposed, and that the aims of such experiments included some unthinkable practices including torture, mind-altering drugs, sexual abuse, and hypnotism. Some of the actual goals of this program were to create mind controlled slaves or Manchurian Candidates, who would willingly accept and carry out any order given to them regardless of what it was. There are authentic declassified documents which outline these horrific practices and several victims have been awarded financial settlements for their abuse, so some believe that Cathy O'Brien could be another actual victim of such programs. During a press conference, President Bill Clinton publicly admitted that, "thousands of government sponsored experiments did take place, at hospitals, universities and military bases around our nation. Some were unethical, not only by today's standards, but by the standards of the time in which they were conducted."[1]
Adding to the controversy over O'Brien's claims is that in her book she recalls that she was taken to the Bohemian Grove and sexually abused inside the resort. Similar allegations have been made by Senator John DeCamp as he wrote in his book, The Franklin Cover-Up. Numerous children have come forward saying that they were sexually abused in the Bohemian Grove and were forced to participate in child pornography and snuff films, allegations that Ted Gunderson, former Senior Special Agent In Charge of the Los Angels FBI confirms. So such abuse has been alleged to occur in the past, and by young children with no books to sell, and who are not even aware of what the Bohemian Grove is, or who its membership consists of. So one must carefully consider whether O'Brien herself was a victim as well, or if she is just another in a line of frauds making such claims in an attempt to sell books and lectures.
In her speeches, O'Brien has claimed that a smiley face was carved on the inside of her vagina using an X-Acto knife for the pleasure of her abusers. In a documentary film called The Most Dangerous Game, produced by the Guerilla News Network in 2002, the film makers took her to a gynecologist and had her examined, and to the doctor's surprise, there did appear to be such a thing. The film showed extremely graphic video and photos of the examination in an attempt to prove her allegations. Skeptics may view the existence of such a thing as a natural anomaly that was discovered by one of her lovers, which she then included in her story of being a victim of MK-ULTRA. We may never know.
Cathy O'Brien says that her father Earl O'Brien was a pedophile and had been involved in selling her into child pornography when she was a little girl. In her book she includes a photo of him, along with her family and names them all, including her siblings. While the claims she makes are extremely disturbing and far fetched, similar activities have been uncovered by congressional hearings and declassified documents. Serious investigations need to be made into O'Brien's claims and her background. While others such as John Todd and Bill Schnoebelen have little to lose if and when they are exposed as frauds, O'Brien making such damning claims about her father would be disastrous if he, or any other family members would find out, if she was fabricating the allegations.
(Excerpt from The Illuminati: Facts & Fiction by Mark Dice - Available on Amazon.com, Kindle and Nook.)
Perhaps O'Brien was a victim of sexual abuse and child pornography by her father and exaggerated her abuse by spinning tales of being a victim of MK-ULTRA instead of her father. Perhaps emotionally scarred from such abuse, she justified her exaggerations and hoped to earn a living by selling books and lectures. The copy of Trance Formation of America that this author has in my possession is from the fourteenth printing. Generally, the bare minimum book printings are 2,000 copies, which would mean the book could have sold 30,000 copies reasonably, or perhaps three times that many, which could have earned O'Brien a healthy profit of close to $100,000 if just over $1 was earned per book. These are extremely conservative estimates.
Perhaps Cathy O'Brien and Mark Phillips concocted the entire thing, and out of financial desperation, have tried to earn a living by telling such tales. They may have been familiar with the anti-New World Order literature and the existence of the Bohemian Grove, MK-ULTRA, and elite pedophiles and sex trafficking. Or, perhaps she is telling the truth and is a survivor of such activities, which actually do happen. There are very real victims of such programs, and there are elite perpetrators who are involved in such things, so it is possible that a victim would write a book about them and have nobody believe her.
Whatever the truth is surrounding Cathy O'Brien, no matter how unbelievable her story seems, there are bits and pieces of verifiable information that seem fictional to someone who is unfamiliar with the Illuminati, so one must not dismiss the reality of such things even if O'Brien and Phillips are proven to be frauds.
In 1999 a woman using the pseudonym "Brice Taylor" published, Thanks For The Memories: The Truth Has Set Me Free! The Memoirs of Bob Hope's and Henry Kissinger's Mind-Controlled Slave which she alleges is her account of being a victim of MK-ULTRA, as well. Brice Taylor's book is disturbingly insane and a clear hoax to any critical thinker. In 2003 a woman named Kathleen Sullivan released a similar book titled, Unshackled: A Survivor's Story of Mind Control. There are several others with similar stories as well.
Excerpt from The Illuminati: Facts & Fiction by Mark Dice - available on Amazon.com, Kindle and Nook.)
[1] YouTube: Bill Clinton Admits Government Mind Control Experiments