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Name: Shawn Porter
Alias: Showtime
Born: 1987-10-27 (Age:28)
Birthplace: Akron, Ohio, USA
Hometown: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Stance: Orthodox
Height: 5′ 7″ / 170cm
Reach: 69½″ / 177cm
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Manager: Al Haymon
Trainer: Kenny Porter
An immensely talented pugilist with a decorated amateur pedigree, Porter, 10-0 (8 KO's), was Manny Pacquiao's lead sparring partner for his super fight with Miguel Cotto. Blessed with speed, power and boxing ability, Porter is frequently compared to Andre Berto.
Amateur achievements
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- 2007 National Golden Gloves Middleweight champion
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- Getting the shot: landscape-specific shooting tips and tricks
- Choosing the right equipment
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- Reducing noise
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With your images transferred, and your selects made, you're ready to start your image editing process. Just as there is an overall workflow that you should follow - import, rate images, and make selects, edit, and finally output - when you're editing and adjusting your images, you also need to follow a specific workflow. By performing edits in a particular order, you'll have an easier time determining what edits need to be made. But more importantly, you'll preserve better quality throughout your edits. To begin working within an image, you have to open it. You can launch an image into Photoshop form Bridge, simply by double-clicking on the image's thumbnail, or by pressing the Return key.
Of course, there are lots of other ways to open images, but if you've already been working in Bridge, it's probably easiest to launch into Photoshop directly from there. Earlier, I strongly recommended that you shoot your landscape images in RAW format, so we're going to begin our editing lessons with RAW images. This is a RAW file right here. It has a CR2 extension. This is a RAW file from a Canon camera. Not all RAW files have the same extension. If you're shooting Nikon, you'll have an NEF extension. Olympus cameras have an ORF extension, and so on and so forth.
So, there is no standard for RAW format. I'm going to double-click on this image. A couple of things happen. First, you see that we switched to Photoshop, and now you see this big dialog box you may not have ever seen before. It says Camera Raw. Camera Raw is a plug-in, which controls RAW conversion in Photoshop. We're going to be spending a lot of time here. Camera Raw performs all of the RAW conversion that your camera normally performs when you're shooting in JPEG mode. In other words, it takes all of the steps required to get it from RAW sensor data to a finished image.
The advantage, of course, is that you're in control of how these steps are made. Let's take a quick tour of the Camera Raw dialog box. Obviously, right here in the middle is a big preview of my image. Just like in Photoshop, I can zoom in and out, and pan around. I can zoom in and out using the Magnifying Glass tool, click to zoom in, Alt+Click or Option+Click to zoom out. I also have this nice little pop-up menu down here with some different sizes. I've got these buttons over here. But probably the easiest way to get in and out is the same way you do in Photoshop, which is Command or Ctrl, Plus and Minus to zoom in and out and Command+0 to fill the screen with an image.
Unfortunately, unlike Photoshop, there is no Command+1, which takes you to 100% view. When you're zoomed in, you can use the Pan tool, which is this little hand here to pan around, or you can just press and hold the Spacebar while you click and drag. That will bring up the Hand tool when you have another tool selected. Up above the image, I have a bunch of tools. We're going to go over these as we work through these lessons. I've got these Eyedropper tools and Cropping tools and Straightening tools and Retouching tools. Rotation tools, if your image came in rotated wrong, you can fix it that way.
Preview button lets me toggle the current adjustments on or off. I don't have any adjustments right now, so clicking it doesn't do anything. But this basically gives me a way to see before and after. This button lets you go fullscreen If you have sized the window down, this not only takes it up to the full width of your screen, but also wipes out the Photoshop menu bar. It gives you just a little bit of extra space. If you're working on a laptop, that can be particularly useful. To the right of that, we have a histogram. This is a three-channel histogram.
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Published in 1894, The Wood Beyond the World is the fourth of Morris's early prose romances and the second, after The Glittering Plain (1891), to combine the essential elements of the fantasy genre—a purely imagined medievalesque world and the supernatural. Together with The Well at the World's End (1896), it has a title capable, as the later fantasist C. S. Lewis pointed out, of evoking a feeling of wonder. From the earliest folklore and fairy stories, the wood has been the locus of the mysterious, the dangerous, and the marvelous, but how then did this one get beyond the confines of this world? How does one get there? In one sense the book's title insures its success, for we are compelled to read it to …
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Turkish Airlines THA Can'ot buy the confirmed ticket thru phone, on-line or in person using credit card and turned back from AIRPORT Los Angeles, California
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I called rep again and he informed me that I can only book through im. He tried to book me but it did not work and he told me to go to Sales office and pay money there. I informed him that being saturday, the sales office is closed. He told me that my ticket will be waiting at ticket counter and I just need to pick it before departure of flight.
Next day I reconfirmed from NYC office and 800 number that I will get me ticket at counter. After waiting for 30 minutes, the lady sitting there asked for cash($1400+).i told her that i have credit card and even ATM card don't have that much money but she told me that we started operation last month and can't handle the credit card. After call 800 number again and same issue that they can not accept credit card on phone, I had no other option but to return back home after spending money on shuttle and wasting my full day.
I called them on monday and asked them if they can put me on Tuesday flight with same price ticket. The customer rep again told me that they have rebooked with same reference number and I need to call NYC office so they can accept the credit card.
I called her today (Tuesday) and they were quoting higher price ($1800+) while I explained that as per my conversation, I should be paying same price as original ticket but of no avail.
I will advice all to shun Turkish airlines as they have worst customer service.
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The Man Who Loved War
By Kenneth Silverman
Published: August 23, 1998
The Life of Stephen Crane.
By Linda H. Davis.
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THE lives of many great figures are meagerly recorded and make miserable subjects for biography. What is known about Chaucer or Bach, leaving aside their works, can be told in a few pages. At the opposite end, the Adams family papers colossally span 608 reels of microfilm; the to-and-from correspondence of Ezra Pound, I'm told, weighs in at 300,000 letters.
On the good-subject scale from Bach to Pound, Stephen Crane is about a five. Appealingly to a biographer, he tore through one of the most extravagant lives in American literary history. Frustratingly, though, his career lasted only eight years: he died young. What he thought and did day by day is hard to get at, too. He kept no diaries, and of his 350 or so extant letters, many are brief notes. Scores of reminiscences of him by others exist, but many can't be trusted. And he enjoyed going underground, disguising himself or traveling under an assumed name, leaving obscure traces or none.
Linda H. Davis, the author of a biography of the New Yorker editor Katharine S. White, has fashioned the scrappy record of Crane's life into a biography that is flawed but respectable. She solidly re-creates his early milieu, drawing on his parents' correspondence and the newspapers of Port Jervis, N.Y., and Asbury Park, N.J., where he grew up. The Cranes were a writing family: father, a Methodist minister, wrote sermons; mother, a lecturer for the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, published fiction; brother Townley worked for The New York Tribune; sister Agnes wrote for women's magazines. Stephen followed, composing poems by the age of 7, and his first known story when about 14. Not made for classrooms, he dropped out of a ministerial seminary, a quasi-military school, Lafayette College and Syracuse University, where he registered for one course and left after one semester. He began writing full time, at first sketches and newspaper articles about camping in Sullivan County and life in the New Jersey shore towns, sometimes with a satirical sting.
As Davis portrays him, the young man who evolved from these beginnings seems born to raise hell -- sensitive artist, tough dude, sophomoric slob, an American John Keats by way of John Wayne and John Belushi. Orphaned by the age of 20, he moved into the old Art Students' League building in New York, grubbing along on potato salad and sausages. Hamlin Garland and William Dean Howells encouraged his writing and recommended him to the Bachellor-Johnson newspaper syndicate, which hired him to do a story on Bowery flophouses. Slender, mustached, handsome -- ''a god,'' Ford Madox Ford called him, ''an Apollo with starry eyes'' -- he nevertheless wallowed in the watery soup and dime-a-night beds, his clothes filthy, hair matted, stinking of nicotine and garlic. By the age of 24, in the lushest blossoming of any young American writer ever, he had published ''Maggie: A Girl of the Streets,'' ''The Red Badge of Courage'' and a volume of murderously sorrowful free verse, ''The Black Riders.'' ''The Red Badge of Courage'' especially made him a literary celebrity, hailed as a genius here and in England, interviewed, banqueted, endlessly parodied (''The Red Badge of Hysteria,'' ''The Blue Blotch of Cowardice'').
In Davis's account, Crane's four remaining years seem driven by inner demands that he live up to this reputation and also witness the combat he had described but had never experienced. Late in 1896, Bachellor-Johnson sent him to cover the nationalist uprising in Cuba. He left from Jacksonville, Fla., on a coal-burning tug heavy with ammunition and machetes. In a foaming squall its engine room flooded, sinking the ship. Crane, in a small dinghy with the broken-armed captain, made it back to Florida after rowing 30 hours through enormous seas -- the germ of what became his short story ''The Open Boat.'' Having failed to reach Cuba, he took off to report the Greek-Turkish war over Crete, where he at last heard the roll of musketry. It ''had the wonder of human tragedy in it,'' he wrote. ''It was the most beautiful sound of my experience, barring no symphony.''
Crane settled for a while in England with his hefty, golden-haired lover, Cora Taylor, who lived with him as Mrs. Stephen Crane. The loss of his letters to her makes the most frustrating gap in the documentary record, for she was his diamonds-in-the-muck psychic twin. Daughter of a painter, estranged wife of the son of an English baronet, she had also been the madam of the Hotel de Dream, the sportiest sporting house in Jacksonville. Always barely able to make a living, Crane cranked out flimsy fiction and journalism but also wrought intense small masterworks like ''The Monster'' and ''The Blue Hotel.''
He left Cora for nine months to cover the Spanish-American War. To some observers in Cuba he seemed to be asking for it. A reporter saw him coolly standing in oncoming rifle fire, rolling a cigarette and smoking it without moving from the spot. By another account, he headed up San Juan Hill on a pinto pony, wearing a white rubber raincoat, a radiant target. But in fact he was through tempting fate. He developed a lingering case of malaria, and learned that he had tuberculosis.


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Two grasses under consideration for biofuels in the United States are considered invasive species that may do more harm than good, critics say.
About 200 scientists from the ecological and wildlife communities called on the government to review certain crops that may be used for biofuels production. A letter sent to the White House said some of the crops under consideration are viewed as invasive species.
"These invasive species already cost billions of dollars a year in the United States and are one of the primary threats to North America's native species and ecosystems," the letter states.
The United Nations last year warned that the increased use of biofuels could strain agriculture systems normally used for food. The Union of Concerned Scientists, in a 12-page report last week, found that biofuels produced from non-food crops, farm residues and waste products could become a major source of renewable energy, however.
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True or untrue. It's still gossip. And in case the Christian Post is unaware...
Gossip is frowned on in the Bible.
1.Proverbs 11:13
A gossip betrays a confidence, but a trustworthy person keeps a secret.
Proverbs 11:12-14 (in Context) Proverbs 11 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations
2.Proverbs 16:28
A perverse person stirs up conflict, and a gossip separates close friends.
Proverbs 16:27-29 (in Context) Proverbs 16 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations
3.Proverbs 18:8
The words of a gossip are like choice morsels; they go down to the inmost parts.
Proverbs 18:7-9 (in Context) Proverbs 18 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations
4.Proverbs 20:19
A gossip betrays a confidence; so avoid anyone who talks too much.
Proverbs 20:18-20 (in Context) Proverbs 20 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations
5.Proverbs 26:20
Without wood a fire goes out; without a gossip a quarrel dies down.
Proverbs 26:19-21 (in Context) Proverbs 26 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations
6.Proverbs 26:22
The words of a gossip are like choice morsels; they go down to the inmost parts.
Proverbs 26:21-23 (in Context) Proverbs 26 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations
7.Romans 1:29
They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips,
Romans 1:28-30 (in Context) Romans 1 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations
8.2 Corinthians 12:20
For I am afraid that when I come I may not find you as I want you to be, and you may not find me as you want me to be. I fear that there may be discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, slander, gossip, arrogance and disorder.
2 Corinthians 12:19-21 (in Context) 2 Corinthians 12 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations
RE: Gossip is frowned on in the Bible.
Well, then a lot of what is being discussed and reported here at FR is frowned upon in the Bible, especially as it relates to Democrats.
Might as well ask the mods to delete most of the posts and threads relating to a person's private affairs.
I guess but at least 60% of the material on FR -- including your own posts -- can be seen as "gossip" in one capacity or another.
I disagree with your definition of gossip.
It is not gossip to expose a public figure for adultery, and to explain why someone is suspended as head of a Christian college.
It is not our job to cover other people's sins for them.
"And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them." Eph. 5:11
Those who prefer to do their evil in darkness count on the misunderstanding of what gossip is to help cover the evil they do.
Gossip is malicious speech - untrue - and designed for harm. Detailing the reasons for D'Souza's suspension meets none of these criteria.


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HOUSTON (AP) - Andrea Yates walked into court Monday for formal sentencing on her murder convictions and looked toward the bench where her family sat for four weeks during testimony.
None of her relatives were there. They were making television appearances.
The only familiar faces were a pair of jail psychiatrists who first treated Yates after she arrived at the Harris County Jail last June after telling police she had drowned her five children in the bathtub of their Houston home.
Asked by State District Judge Belinda Hill whether she had anything to say, Yates shook her head no. The judge then told Yates she was going to prison for two concurrent life terms for drowning three of her five children.
"Good luck to you, Mrs. Yates," Hill told her to complete the less than 15-minute sentencing.
Yates, 37, who will become eligible for parole in 2041, was dressed in an orange Harris County jail jumpsuit instead of the dresses she wore during her trial. She was fingerprinted in the courtroom and left in handcuffs, a departure from the previous routine where she was escorted by deputies but not restrained.
Yates was returned to the Harris County Jail to await transfer to a crisis management prison cell at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
Once there, Yates will be closely watched for at least 30 days and then remain in protective custody, prison officials said. She will join 69 other women in Texas prisons serving time for killing one or more of their children.
Yates was convicted of capital murder March 12 in the June 20 attack on her children after a jury rejected her insanity defense. The same jury Friday chose a life term over death.
"She wants to know what all this means and it's very difficult to explain," defense attorney Wendell Odom said. "She wants to know what's happening.
"I think Andrea right now thrives on solitude and being quiet and being away from it all."
Her family, however, was far from quiet.
Some relatives accused her husband, Russell, of not doing enough to assess his wife's mental illness.
Brian Kennedy, her brother, in an interview broadcast on ABC's "Good Morning America," called Russell Yates an "unemotional" husband inattentive to Kennedy's sister's needs.
"I think that any man and woman whose spouse was that severely down, confused, that sick, that I would do whatever it would take to make sure my other half would get the help that was necessary," Kennedy said.
Russell Yates, meanwhile, told NBC's "Today" show some people "don't understand the biochemical nature of Andrea's illness ... so they'll say there must have been something else going on in that household, or there must have been this or that and it's all false."
Several of the jurors who voted to convict Yates of capital murder said the way she drowned her children in the family bathtub seemed premeditated and methodical.
Leona Baker told CBS' "The Early Show" that a "couple" of jurors initially voted for death, but then the jury discussed it and became unanimous on the sentence.
"I believed that she was not going to be a threat to society being in prison for the next 40 years of her life," she said.
On the "Today" show, juror Melissa Ryan said, "I think she should be punished for what she did considering she did know right from wrong and I think prison's the way to go."
Yates could have received the death penalty for drowning Noah, 7, John, 5, and 6-month-old Mary. Evidence also was presented about the deaths of Paul, 3, and Luke, 2.
"This will probably end up being the best of all verdicts," lead defense attorney, George Parnham, said outside the courthouse Monday. "This type of verdict has generated so much support and discussion about the law and about mental health issues. Not guilty by reason of insanity would have never produced this type of outpouring of concern and interest on both sides."
Prosecutor Joe Owmby said he was relieved the case is over.
"The hardest part emotionally was dealing with these children being dead," he said.
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All right, enough with this stuff. Final parody for now: Hitler finds out his schools did not make #AYP
Uh oh, he does not sound happy. Now, folks that are hip to the Internets should know this meme and realize that I am NOT calling "eduformers" Hitler. Look up Downfall parodies. They're everywhere. Here's my contribution to the meme. Hitler finds out his schools did not make AYP. from Chalk Face on Vimeo.


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Optical Properties of Some New Azo Photoisomerizable Bismaleimide Derivatives
AbstractNovel polythioetherimides bearing azobenzene moieties were synthesized from azobismaleimides and bis-2-mercaptoethylether. Kinetics of trans-cis photoisomerization and of thermal conversion of cis to trans isomeric forms were investigated in both polymer solution and poly(methyl methacrylate) doped films using electronic absorption spectroscopy. Thermal recovery kinetics is well described by a two-exponential relation both in solution and polymer matrix, while that of low molecular weight azobismaleimide fit a first-order equation. The photoinduced cis-trans isomerization by visible light of azobenzene chromophores was examined in solution and in polymer films. The rate of photoinduced recovery was very high for azobismaleimides.
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The New York City Clinical Data Research Network (NYC-CDRN) was founded with support from PCORI to join its PCORnet program. Our mission is to create an accessible, sustainable, scalable clinical data network to facilitate patient-centered research, learning healthcare systems and the national research network PCORnet. We have focused our efforts on the following:
- Creating thoughtful privacy policies that protect the identities of individual patients, clinicians, and health systems
- Establishing a de-identified database with clinical data on at least 1 million New Yorkers
- Engaging patients, caregivers, and clinicians in network governance and decision making
- Embedding research activities in the delivery of health care to minimize the burden on patients, clinicians, and health systems
- Developing a high-functioning, sustainable governance structure
The NYC-CDRN brings together 22 institutions—including health systems, medical colleges, patient engagement organizations, research institutions, health information exchanges, and government agencies—that have agreed to share data, develop common tools and services, and support patient-centered collaborative research. Participating institutions include academic medical centers and a practice-based research network of federally qualified health centers.
In Phase II we will build on our strong Phase I progress to create a network that can facilitate patient-centered research and improve health and healthcare delivery. Our initial focus is on three important conditions, namely diabetes, obesity, and cystic fibrosis. To help researchers compare and investigate new treatments, we have built a secure database for medical research at the New York Genome Center that protects the identities of patients and physicians. We are also able to access rich data sources at each of our institutions. Our network will continue to meet the highest standards of privacy and security by consulting with our central institutional review board at the Biomedical Research Alliance of New York, and with other security and privacy experts.
We will continue to engage patients and clinicians to generate meaningful research topics and questions, make research projects more patient and clinician friendly, and identify ways to share the results of research widely to inform medical decisions. We will also continue to collaborate with local and national researchers, other clinical data and patient-powered research networks, and the PCORnet community. The NYC-CDRN is emerging as a trusted resource and participant in PCORnet, which is a transformative initiative to enable research that will find answers to save lives.
Clinical condition for high prevalence cohort: Diabetes
Clinical condition for rare disorder cohort: Cystic fibrosis
Populations covered by network: Underserved, urban, rare disorders, children, geriatric, minority, disabled, other vulnerable populations
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National Day of Service and Remembrance, Sept 11. 2016
Free admission to all active duty Police, Sheriff Dept., Fire-Rescue and US Military and their families. Please present ID at admissions desk.
October 3-16 Lighthouse Tower Closing for Annual Preservation Work
Tours will be conducted to the Lighthouse Deck area only (no climbing) and are half-priced.
General Admission
Visitors are permitted access to the Lighthouse and Lighthouse grounds on a guided registered tour only through the Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse and Museum. Admission desk is located in the Museum gift shop.
Prices are: $10 for adults, $5 children ages 6-18. Free: Children ages 5 & under, Lighthouse Members, & Active US Military and their immediate families with ID. Regular admission includes Museum exhibits and Lighthouse Guided Tour. Last lighthouse tour at 4pm. Prices are subject to change.
Children must be at least 48" tall to climb the Lighthouse and must climb under their own power. Carrying a child is not permitted in the tower. Children under that height may still go on tour but will have to stay with an adult at the deck area of the Lighthouse.
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Lighthouse Tower Closings: October 2-15 for Annual Preservation Work- Tours will be conducted to the Lighthouse Deck area only.
* Closed New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Fourth of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day & Christmas Day. Periodically we may close early due to events. Hours are subject to change. Please visit our Calendar of Events for specific programs & holiday hours and early closings.
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We are dedicated to providing a safe environment for all guests. To do so, we ask that you please refrain from bringing the following prohibited items the Lighthouse & Museum:
Food & drink, tobacco products, pets, wet clothing, tri-pods,backpacks-large bags- or purses (no larger than 11"x11"), drones, selfie sticks or other non-handheld cameras are prohibited on lighthouse tour or in the museum. Photography is not permitted inside the museum's Seminole exhibit or inside the lens room of the Lighthouse.
For your safety, all persons must be able to climb unassisted and may not be carried up the Lighthouse tower. Children must be 48" or taller, no spike heeled shoes or barefeet. The tower climb is strenuous: persons with health considerations do so at their own discretion.
Please be aware that the Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse and Museum is located on Town & Federal Property is in located in the federally designated "Outstanding Natural Area" and each park complies with local, state and federal rules. Pets, fires/grills, drones or aerial craft are not permitted anywhere in the park. For general information call 561-747-8380 x101.
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Parking, wheelchair ramp accessing the Museum & Gift Shop/Admissions and restrooms in the Museum building are accessible.
Once registration has been completed in the gift shop, the visitor may access the museum with exhibits and a short narrated video on the history of the lighthouse featuring the sweeping views of landscape. Regular and large print exhibit guide books are available at the Museum front desk and must be returned at the end of your museum exhibit visit.
A base tour to the Lighthouse tower is available and the distance of the path leading from the museum to the Lighthouse deck is approximately one-quarter of a mile. A Lighthouse Tour guide book is available for non-climbers at the admissions desk. These guides books are provided for use during the tour and must be returned to the admissions desk at the end of the Lighthouse Tour.
The deck is wheelchair accessible and provides access to view the Keepers' Workshop, Banyan Tree, Cistern and view of the Jupiter Inlet and Lighthouse grounds. However, the light station is an historic site and certain areas are accessible only by stairs, including the tower. There are 34 steps up a hill leading to the base of the tower. Upon request at the registration desk, materials describing the climb and tower top views will be provided to non-climbing visitors who choose to remain at the shaded deck .
A ramp equipped with handrails access the Tindall Pioneer Homestead exhibit.
Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse and Museum offers climbing tours of the landmark 1860 lighthouse. The waterfront Museum in the restored WWII Naval housing building offers its local history exhibit, Five Thousand Years on the Loxahatchee. Outdoor exhibits include the Keeper's Workshop, Tindall Pioneer Homestead, Pennock Plantation Bell and Seminole Chickee. Also available are a museum store featuring lighthouse merchandise, books, clothing and fine gifts and Lighthouse Fudge. The Lighthouse & Museum offers educational programs including, Hike Through History, Lighthouse Lectures, Lighthouse Story Time for Kids, Tales from the Archives, Twilight Yoga at the Light, Sunset & Moonrise Tours and Weddings & Special Events.
The Hiking Trail on the north side of Beach Rd. meanders through Florida Scrub habitat and leads to an observation tower overlooking a quiet manatee refuge surrounded by red mangroves. Visitors are encourage to bring their cameras and binoculars for exceptional flora and fauna sightings. The Lighthouse is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is part of the federally designated Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse Outstanding Natural Area in the National Landscape Conservation System.
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We've reached a most exciting time on the New England Patriots' 2012 schedule. Back-to-back home games against the Houston Texans and San Francisco 49ers, both in prime time, will have the NFL's spotlight shining brightly on the team.
The scene and overall mood in the locker room following the Patriots' AFC East-clinching victory over the Miami Dolphins was notable.
There was no champagne. There was no over-the-top celebration. Some players donned their AFC East championship hats and T-shirts, but others simply tucked them away, because the theme was that there are bigger goals to accomplish.
For someone who grew up in the region, I remember when an AFC East title would have been celebrated. Not anymore.
That's because we're living in the golden era of Patriots football.
Q. Hi Mike, the two most anticipated games of the season are coming up. I consider them "measuring stick" games. How the Patriots perform the next two weeks will be a good gauge of what to expect next month in the playoffs. Agree or disagree? -- Paul O. (Kenosha, Wis.)
A. Paul, I think that's fair. We're talking about two of the best teams in the NFL coming into Gillette Stadium in a span of six days. It should be a playoff environment, times two. If you like competition and football played at a high level, I don't know how you can't get excited for this part of the schedule. I was previewing the Patriots-Texans game for a piece on ESPNBoston.com and going through that process already has me excited for what is ahead. I don't think the season is lost if the Patriots come away with two losses, but these are the games that figure to have the greatest impact on playoff positioning. If the Patriots want a No. 1 seed, they need to win both.
Q. Tom Brady always struggles more than expected when up against a good defense, never mind one of the best in the NFL in Houston. Plus he'll likely be without Rob Gronkowski and may be missing Julian Edelman, who has surged recently. I'm thinking the Patriots' O will put up 14, maybe 17, points given home-field bonus, but will be dependent on special teams and the D to put up points as well. Your thoughts? -- Otis (Boston)
A. Otis, I think the Patriots will score more than 17 points in the game. The Texans' defense is good, but if the front holds up, I think there are opportunities to move the ball and score points. The protection is huge, especially when going up against someone like J.J. Watt, one of the most impressive defensive linemen to enter the league in recent years. The Texans have some questions in the secondary, but when they get a good pass rush, it helps mask some of those issues. As for Brady, I think we'd all agree that it wasn't his best game Sunday, but after re-watching it, I think it speaks to how high he's raised the bar over the years. A lot of quarterbacks would take that type of performance -- he played smart, he avoided the critical mistake (that was a terrific interception by Reshad Jones), and he had the majority of the burden placed on his shoulders because they couldn't run it for the first 3½ quarters. He's such a mentally tough player.
Q. Hi Mike, Tom Brady had an inconsistent game with overthrows and underthrows, while the long ball remains challenging. What were your thoughts on his performance Sunday? -- Jake M. (Vancouver)
A. Jake, I think we'd probably all agree that we've seen Brady play better, but I don't read anything into it. That game reminded me of some of the recent years where the Patriots were so one-dimensional (until the final 16-play drive) and relied too much on Brady, who in turn relied too much on Wes Welker. I think you have to give the Dolphins some credit for playing solid defense and forcing Brady and the Patriots into that mode. Not Brady's best, but he still did the things needed to lead the team to a win. In the end, that's what it is all about.
Q. Mike, is the signing of Donte' Stallworth an indication that Julian Edelman's injury is serious and if so, what are your thoughts on Stallworth and what he might have left in the tank? -- Gregg (Scottsdale, Ariz.)
A. Gregg, that's how I view the signing of Stallworth. I don't think they do it if Edelman wasn't going to miss time. As for Stallworth, I think the key is that he knows the offense and can come in and get lined up and run a play, so the offense still has the capability to go with a three-wide or four-wide grouping if it so desires. As we saw in training camp, Stallworth can still run, so the physical skills are still there at age 32. I wouldn't set the expectations too high, but I think Stallworth can help them in this "emergency" situation. It could be much worse; they could be signing a player with little background in the system and forced to give him a crash course to get him ready for arguably the biggest game of the regular season to date.
Q. Mike, I am thrilled that we are once again AFC East champs, first goal met! Now onto other goals (securing a top 2 seed for first-round bye), we still really don't have much room for error. I am concerned after the Edelman injury that we are pretty depleted at the WR/TE position. How are the Pats going to face a team like the Texans if we don't have enough passing weapons? Wes Welker, Brandon Lloyd, and Aaron Hernandez ... while they are great, I still feel the need for depth. Are you just as concerned about the passing game? If not, I just don't think we'll have enough firepower to win this crucial AFC battle! -- Prat (Gaithersburg, Md.)
A. Prat, without Edelman and presumably Gronkowski, the weapons are thinned a bit. I see the concern, and it reminds me of the 2009 behind-the-scenes stuff we saw from NFL Films when Bill Belichick was meeting with his coaches and he explained that if teams took away Randy Moss deep and devoted extra attention to Wes Welker inside, they were going to be in some trouble. I think they are better this year than '09, but it's not as diverse and deep as desired with these injuries. One thing I wouldn't overlook -- the running backs as a presence in the passing game. I still think they have enough firepower if the protection holds up.
Q. Mike, I admit that this win wasn't as pretty as seeing the team throw down 40-plus against the Jets, but for me it gave me more confidence. Any team can win when they play well, but not every team can win when they don't. This was not a great game for New England. Miami's defense was very solid, the Pats receivers were dropping them, Brady was off his usual game, the running game was shut down for three quarters and yet they still stepped up when they needed to, especially thanks to some solid defense. Sailing boats look pretty floating in a calm bay but it's when they're in rough ocean waters that you see their true strength. Thoughts? -- Nathan (Melbourne, Australia)
A. I think that's exactly the way to view it, Nathan. The ugly ones count, too. As Tedy Bruschi said in his weekly chat, the good teams find a way on days that the quarterback doesn't put up big numbers. I think we want to be careful about expecting too much. Look around the NFL and no team is posting blowouts each week. Just a few weeks ago, the Peyton Manning-led Broncos barely scraped by the Chiefs, who had one win at the time.
Q. I don't know what Bill Belichick has done to the secondary over the past few games, but he needs to keep it up. Steve Gregory is proving to be a better safety than what New England had in all of 2011. We've been critical of Kyle Arrington this season, but he's still an excellent run defender. The issue may have been covering on the outside receivers as opposed to slot receivers where he's best suited. He kept Davone Bess in check on Sunday. Devin McCourty has improved at cornerback from 2011, but at the moment he should stay at safety. The long plays have been kept at a minimum since the transition. The tandem of Aqib Talib and Alfonzo Dennard allows Belichick to play more physical on outside receivers. Granted everyone stays healthy, this could be a sign of the secondary turning the corner at the right time. At the moment, could you see a better combination in the secondary? Is it likely that this group is capable to allow the Patriots to be more aggressive in the defensive play calling? -- Alvin (Amherst, Mass.)
A. Alvin, the statistics support the thought that with more stability in the secondary, it has allowed the coaching staff to be more aggressive. Before the Patriots acquired Talib on Nov. 1 from the Buccaneers, they rushed five or more defenders a league-low 15 percent of the time, according to ESPN Stats & Information tracking. With Talib, the number of rushes with five or more defenders has spiked to 28.3 percent. They've been better, although there are still some issues to address (e.g. play-action pass from Ryan Tannehill to Brian Hartline that should have been a TD after Steve Gregory appeared to bite on play-action). Specific to Arrington, I think it's an interesting topic because it appears to be a "less is more" type situation. Given the opportunity to focus solely on slot duties, he's playing the best he has all season.
Q. Mike, the returns on Talib appear to be mixed for the most part, but I'd argue that his arrival DID actually mean a whole lot to this defense -- primarily because it allowed McCourty to stabilize the safety position. Maybe it isn't "Talib Island" at the CB position, but him and Dennard have held their own, allowing McCourty to play a position he appears to be better suited for. Mix in a healthy Gregory and this pass defense is starting took look halfway decent. Do you agree? -- Zack (Boston)
A. Yes, Zack, I do agree. We've seen some spotty cornerback play over the years from the Patriots (Duane Starks comes to mind) and Talib is closer to the good side of the ledger than most. Not in Ty Law territory, but better than what they've had in recent years. I think the point of how his presence has had a positive trickle-down effect on others (e.g. McCourty to safety, Kyle Arrington to slot) is a good one.
Q. Mike, not to kick Patrick Chung while he's down, but if he's not a starting safety should he be on the field at all? Coverage is his weakness and it doesn't seem to make sense to have him on the field in obvious passing situations. Do you think he will be phased out as the season progresses? -- Dean (Taunton, Mass.)
A. Dean, I was surprised watching the way Sunday's game unfolded to see that Chung wasn't part of the base, nickel or dime defenses. Even rookie Tavon Wilson was ahead of him on the initial depth chart, coming on in the dime. When I saw that, it really made me question Chung's present and future with the team. But the main reason I wouldn't write him off is what happened in the third quarter. When Dolphins fullback Charles Clay caught a 20-yard pass on third-and-8, with Tavon Wilson closest in coverage, the coaching staff made an in-game personnel switch with Chung replacing Wilson. So I think that reflects that he still has some value to the team, even though it's been a hard fall for him from 2009 second-round pick/starter to trying to carve out a role in his fourth season while battling injuries once again. Also, as Tedy Bruschi opined in his Monday chat, if Steve Gregory has another breakdown in "taking the cheese" on play action like he did against the Dolphins, it could accelerate Chung's return to the field.
Q. Hi Mike, big-picture question here for you: What position does Devin McCourty land at long-term? As you've pointed out, he looks more and more like a safety every week. There's a lot of moving parts in the secondary right now with Chung and Talib in contract years, and two young safeties in Wilson and Ebner who are developing but still unknowns. My question is, if the Patriots had their way, will Devin McCourty be at safety or corner when training camp opens next year? -- Tim (Georgetown, Mass.)
A. Tim, thankfully for the Patriots, they don't have to make that decision right now. I truly think it could go in either direction, but it certainly appears that McCourty will stay at safety the rest of the season (barring injury). If I had to choose right now, I'd say keep him at safety, which has been a difficult position for the team to fill in recent years.
Q. It's amazing how durable and tough Wes Welker is. Julian Edelman is turning out to be a good option at receiver, but he is too accident prone. I hope the Patriots and Welker can agree on a new contract in the offseason. Could they afford to sign both Edelman and Welker in the offseason? -- Ashley (Worcester, Mass.)
A. Yes, Ashley, I think they can afford to sign both receivers. That's a tough turn of events for Edelman with his injured foot, as he was really coming on. Sometimes it's just bad luck. As for Welker, I'm not sure his durability gets enough recognition. At his size, and to take the hits he does, it's quite impressive.
Q. Hey Mike, I couldn't agree more with Field Yates' piece that Welker is one of the best offensive weapons in the NFL. Despite his reputation, he seems to always be open in crucial spots and able to make the big play. Based on what I've read in the mailbag throughout the season, a lot of people seem to be thinking that Julian Edelman is being groomed to replace Welker after this season, but given Edelman's seeming penchant for injury, this, to me, only highlights Welker's durability even more, which has to increase his value to the team. Given the trend, I think Edelman for Welker is becoming a less viable argument and we absolutely see Welker back here next year. Thoughts? -- Scott (Indianapolis)
Scott, I also enjoyed Field Yates' piece on Welker. It can be difficult to find "fresh" angles when writing on Welker, because this has been a consistent string of excellence over the last six years and it almost gets to the point of, "What else can be said?" My feeling all along is that the Patriots and Welker will find a way to work it out. Welker is good for the Patriots, and the Patriots are good for Welker. I sense a little bit of a strain there because of how the situation has unfolded -- if you're Welker, there has to be a part of you saying "What else do I have to do?" -- but I truly believe Welker will be back in 2013 (at worst on another franchise tag). Welker leads the NFL with 92 receptions.
Q. Mike, it seems like Brandon Lloyd's invisible game Sunday (he was actually targeted twice if you count Miami's on-side kick) is being blamed solely on Lloyd himself. I was at the game and witnessed a few early plays where Brandon broke free and was ignored. At what point in TB12's leadership role is he responsible for working a guy into the offense? -- DeansDesk (Rumford, R.I.)
Dean, I heard Brady on sports radio WEEI say that he needs to do a better job getting Lloyd more involved. There are a few lines of thinking here: 1. The Patriots were intent on attacking the middle of the field and Wes Welker was too much for the Dolphins to handle, so why go elsewhere? 2. Lloyd could have forced his way into the equation by running better routes and getting open more consistently, which is what the great receivers do even when the ball isn't initially coming their way 3. Brady didn't have his best day, a credit to the Dolphins' defense, and sometimes locked into his security blanket Welker because of that. I know it's going to seem like I'm dodging the question, but I think there is an element of all three in play as to why Lloyd's production was down Sunday in South Florida.
Q. Hey Mike, another quiet Sunday for Lloyd on the stat sheet, but other than hurting my fantasy team, it really didn't bother me. Lloyd seems to be playing hard, and defenses obviously respect his pass-catching ability on the sidelines, opening up the middle for our TE's, Welker, and Edelman. Also, on several of the bubble screens I noticed him making some really great blocks helping our guys get some open running room. Despite not putting up huge numbers (I believe those will come in time), I think he is contributing greatly to the offense, oftentimes in thankless roles. Do you see him being a good fit as a team player, or do you get the sense that he is viewed as a disappointment thus far? I know fans are sometimes hard on him, but I think that comes from unrealistic expectations comparing him to Moss, which is unfair. -- Daniel R. (Monterey, Calif.)
A. I think that's all fair, Daniel. I wouldn't read too much into Lloyd's lack of production, although it does interest me the last two weeks that the Patriots were running some more two-receiver packages with a Welker/Edelman combination, which is a little different. That tells me that there is something Lloyd isn't giving them for the game-plan they've put together. But overall, the main thing I think he's added to the attack this year is balancing it out. He's more of a presence on the outside than they've had of late, which has created a situation where opponents have to think twice about clogging the middle of the field like we saw at times in 2011, and if we want to go back even further, in 2006. I don't get the sense that Lloyd is viewed internally as a disappointment.
Q. Given his recent struggles, what do you think Stephen Gostkowski's effective range is? Unfortunately at this point, anything beyond 35 yards seems like a gamble. Do you think this will lead to the Pats gambling more on fourth down when they're between the 40 and 25 yard line? -- Greg (Boca Raton, Fla.)
A. Greg, my sense is that a lot of that would be tied to the game situation and how the flow of the game has unfolded. I don't think Belichick has done anything out of the ordinary at this point to "protect" Gostkowski, but the inconsistency has to be of concern to him and the staff. Gostkowski bounced back nicely after his 49-yard miss early in that game, but I know he'd like to be making more than 80 percent of his field goals.
Q. Hey Mike, can you speculate as to why we haven't seen more of Visanthe Shiancoe in Gronk's absence? -- Kyle (Baltimore)
A. Kyle, I think it mostly comes down to who is the best complement to Aaron Hernandez at tight end, and Daniel Fells offers the best combination of blocking/pass-catching. Shiancoe, from this view, almost duplicates Hernandez in terms of skill-set (more receiver, less blocker).
Q. Hi Mike, I realize that news flows more freely out of North Korea than it does from Gillette Stadium but any word on the condition of Chandler Jones? Limping, wearing a boot, crutches, still in the country? Any update besides "doubtful" would be appreciated. -- John F. (Walpole, Mass.)
A. LOL, John. Jones has been walking around and if you laid eyes on him, you wouldn't know he was battling injury. I think if this were the playoffs, he would have played Sunday.
Q. Mike, Trevor Scott had a noticeable impact in the Dolphins game. Once Chandler Jones and Jermaine Cunningham return, would the Patriots consider rotating him in more regularly? Obviously this would keep players fresh while also creating confusion along the line for the opposition. This is something the NY Giants do well, and I think it would serve the Patriots well to explore it. What do you think? -- Neil (South Boston)
A. Neil, I could envision that scenario unfolding. Basically, you have three roles we are talking about -- starting defensive end, backup defensive end and sub rusher. Jones had played more than 90 percent of the snaps prior to his injury and there were times I thought the workload was starting to wear him down. When he comes back, it might be smart to lower those playing time numbers, and that's where Cunningham and Scott come into play.
Q. Hi Mike, where do you see this defense being come postseason time? I have heard all of the news about them being really bad in terms of yards allowed but mediocre in points allowed. Do you think the defense will pull through in the postseason when teams get better and don't turn the ball over as much? Thanks. -- Nate B. (Elizabethtown, Penn.)
A. Nate, I don't think we're looking at one of the NFL's most feared defenses, but it is trending in the right direction. I thought they showed Sunday they can win a game when the turnovers aren't plentiful. They just keep checking things off the list in terms of questions to answer. There is nothing that says teams won't turn the ball over in the playoffs, but it's nice for them to know they can pull through on a day when they don't produce a high volume of turnovers.
Q. Just a thought, Mike. I found myself thinking about all the fans who think Belichick should bring in an outside coach to challenge his ideas. Doesn't seem like that strategy worked out well for Andy Reid. The Eagles are in pure chaos. -- Ray (Mass.)
A. That's true, Ray. Another thought is that Belichick does bring in outside ideas, but just in different ways. For example, meeting with Oregon coach Chip Kelly about the up-tempo offense. As for the Eagles, my biggest takeaway is that when the wheels fall off, they really fall off. Things are so fragile in the NFL. It makes one appreciate the Patriots' run of success with 12 straight winning seasons, a mark matched by only the Cowboys and 49ers in NFL history, who both had 16 straight winning seasons.