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|Friday morning I slept in a little while and when I woke up MadCow was already packed and ready to go so she headed out (she was the fastest hiker in the group). The rest of us took our time eating breakfast and packing up. This day Lynn decided not to hike so she rode along with Swallowtail while the rest of us hiked a lot of up and down trail. The trail first went steeply uphill and then skirted around Hawk Mountain then went down to Hightower Gap. Then it was up again and then down to Horse Gap. Then at the end of the day we went up again to the top of Sassafras Mountain then down to Cooper Gap. Altogether this day we did about 6 miles.
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|Taking a break at a trail junction
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The first time I'd ever seen these flowers and the photo turned out blurry :(
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Cute little temper on Nancy today! I kinda wondered how she would like the way Sluggo was eyeing the swim instructor yesterday…..
Ya beat me to it…
Hopefully this storyline will not result in the mysterious drowning of Mandy as Nancy begins her life as a serial killer.
No, Nancy wants the swim instructor to be a man so she can give a leering smile to him and make Sluggo jealous, just as she is now.
Oh boy! More Mandy!
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Actually, it's not that uncommon. Half my family (the female half) is like that. It's definitely genetic. Before the twiggy look and the war by feminists on women who looked feminine, it was the preferred look. Now it's "unnatural" thanks to various activists and the media. What the WHO calls "famine victim" and our government calls "healthy" is in.
One thing fer sure. A 2-piece swim suit is not "Daddy Approved" or "Willie Approved"
Hey Guy. Now Ya gotta feature an APSU Gov's shirt!
And since You are close enuf, How 'Bout a WKU shirt?
The guy who has the pen draws the girl. I've seen what a girl drawn by a female looks like and I don't like it. (See; Petunia of Neurotica. 'nough said.)
Interesting thought.
Reminds me of Al Capp. Once someone asked him why he drew all of his female characters with large breasts, which was not actually true. and early on wasn't even true for Daisy Mae.
However his response was that he did so because he liked larger chested women. The he added, if you like small breasts read Little Orphan Annie.
I am just hoping that we get to see Aunt Fritzi on her actual date with Phil! Any time that Phil and Fritzi can be together is definitely one of the best parts of any day.
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I love this tasting. It was a good way try different varietals in a small setting without traveling to each region. Our host, Florencia was great. She even recommended a local wine bar for us to visit before dinner.
If you are visiting Buenos Aires, I would highly recommend this tasting.
I booked this at the recommendation of a friend and could not have been more pleased. Cara was phenomenal and the wines -- even better. Plus, each wine tasting comes with a fantastic food pairing traditional Argentine food. If you can't make it to Mendoza, then bring Mendoza to you right in Buenos Aires. One hint for future wine tasters: don't be nervous when you walk up/have your cab drop you at the address. The black door is the correct location. It's like a speakeasy!
A great experience. Our host Florencia was very knowledgable and entertaining. The wine was great and the food pairings were appropriate and the right amounts. We met new people and enjoyed the conversation, wine and food.
This wine tasting was great! Cara was our hostess and she very extremely nice. She had a lot of great information and history to share. Better than your typical wine tasting where they only give you a drop. The food pairings were delicious. Do not eat before you go.
Third visit and as good as ever
It was a great experience the instructor was very knowledgeable and the food paired very well with the wines.
Great wine and lots of it - wowowowo
This was a great idea. Diego was well informed and it was worth the trip to the Palermo neighborhood.
I went to this on my very first night in Buenos Aires and it was a fantastic start to my trip. Met some NY ladies while there which was great to run into some Americans to get my trip started. The wine tasting was great as were the tapas served with them. And you can order wine to be delivered with no shipping cost! I ordered one case of wine while there. Highly recommended.
Don't be alarmed by this random door on the street, it leads to a wonderful and entertaining evening! This was such a lovely evening with a wonderful host, Diego. We tasted 5 different types of wines and Diego is very knowledgable about the wines. The wines were paired with delicious little portions of different foods and desserts. I am not a big wine enthusiast but still really enjoyed the atmosphere. Highly recommended!!
Don't be put off by the dodgy looking entrance - this is more like a private home than a wine bar. The hosting was expert and charming - the wines very good and the food pairings inspired. It was a brilliant way to spend an afternoon and fantastic excuse for daytime drinking on vacation.
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Condition and Performance Monitoring of Subsea Production Systems
Integrity management involves availability, access, and the analysis of necessary information. Even though you identify what is wrong, you need someone who is able to correct the issue and who has the correct spare part. Operators are focused on maintaining production and they prefer to conduct maintenance at planned intervals. When things start to fail, procedures exist for whom to call, how to troubleshoot, and what to do next.
The goal of a condition and performance monitoring (CPM) system is to detect irregularities and the details associated with them before a production alarm situation is reached. That way, the appropriate action can be taken to ensure equipment availability (Fig. 1).
The increase in field complexity and the decrease in the number of control room operators makes it necessary to think differently when it comes to integrity management. Integrated operations combine the operator and vendor in a common team for troubleshooting and solving issues. CPM is a solution developed by FMC Technologies to avoid unplanned production stops.
How It Works
Data collectors receive directly tagged information from subsea control systems. While the topside control system is primarily focused on production critical data, the CPM data collector also assesses equipment performance and internal housekeeping data from smart instrumentation and the control system itself. The data is also streamed to a location where the operator and the support organization can access it. The CPM software performs a combined analysis on the data stream and on historical data to present a picture of the current condition and performance of the field. All data is added to a historical database for later access. The graphical user interface is designed to help fault-finding and to enhance understanding of the condition of the equipment. The analysis process uses steady-state and dynamic models of the equipment performance to detect changes. Knowledge from the customer support organization and vendors is used to develop algorithms targeting relevant known failure modes and performance issues.
While the CPM system captures and validates all available data from the subsea and applicable topside systems, the following modules have special focus:
- The hydraulic elements of the subsea control system
- The electrical elements of the subsea control system
- Hydraulically and electrically operated valve and actuator performance
- Chokes and injection valves
- Subsea pressure and temperature sensors
- Multiphase flow meters
The analysis done by the different CPM modules is represented as a technical condition index (TCI). The TCI is a normalized value characterized as a percentage that represents the condition and performance of a given component. TCIs can also represent groups of other TCIs in which either the average or the worst-case values of the sub-TCIs represent the group. For example, a choke TCI will be based on sub-TCIs for the production performance and for the mechanical behavior of the subcomponents. By tuning the aggregation rule, the severity of an issue can be made more or less visible at the top level TCIs. This way of organizing the results makes it easier to spot incidents and find the cause at both the field level and at the level of each component's TCI.
Case Study Examples
A field in the North Sea has been using the CPM system for about one year. During that time, the system has detected one major issue and has been a valuable tool in troubleshooting several others.
Router Module Leakage. A subsea router module is the connection point between the control umbilical and the distributed well and manifold control modules. Because of a weakness in a fiber penetrator, the pressure inside the module started to increase (Fig. 2). At installation time, the pressure was about 0.96 bar (13.9 psi), but at the time the CPM system was installed, it had risen to 1.06 bar (15.4 psi). The CPM system was able to detect and verify the problem 3 months ahead of the first sign of functional failure.
At the time when the module actually malfunctioned, the pressure had risen to 1.3 bar (18.9 psi). During the 3-month period preceding that, after the problem was first identified, the operator was able to plan for an intervention and the vendor could continue to track the severity in real time and using historical data provided by the CPM system.
Choke Issues. Chokes are critical components on a well, but are sensitive to what is being produced by the well. By using mathematical models describing choke performance at current conditions, spurious behavior can be detected before it becomes a problem.
In two specific situations, the CPM system helped troubleshoot problems with production chokes. Both had performance issues in which opening commands had little effect on flow rate. The problem was identified by using a real-time comparison between the current and as-installed performance. By correlating the information with the mechanical behavior of the choke during operation, the reason for failure was identified. One choke had a damaged cage that made the flow rate partially independent of opening, while the other choke had a partially stuck cage that did not react to opening commands.
In addition to detecting the problem by identifying the changes in performance of the chokes, the CPM system also provided the engineer with the data necessary to diagnose the causes of the problems (Fig. 3).
Subsea Hydraulic Control System Leakage. Topside pumps provide pressure to operate hydraulically operated subsea valves. Small directional control valves (DCV) in subsea control modules enable either pressurization or depressurization of an actuator for a given valve operation. DCVs can stop in a middle position so that the hydraulic system leaks from the supply side to the discharge side. These leaks can be so small that the discharge side flow meters do not detect the flow. This makes it challenging to identify the leak and to detect which DCV is leaking.
After an emergency shutdown, selected production wells were restarted according to normal procedures. Initially, each valve operated according to the procedure; however, after some hours the CPM system reported an abnormal consumption of hydraulic fluid. The topside low-pressure pump was running more frequently than normal. No valve had been operated since starting up after the shutdown, so the only reason that could be for this behavior was a leakage. The CPM module tracking the hydraulic consumption reported an increased consumption of hydraulic fluid, but the location was not detected automatically because of the low leakage flow rate. In the CPM system, each valve operation was logged, and by combining this information with the different DCV differential pressures, the correct valve was quickly identified and the leakage was stopped.
Diagnosing and correcting a similar problem would have taken several days or even weeks to assess and correct without the CPM system, whereas in this case, the analysis was conducted in one day and the solution was implemented the next day.
The benefits of CPM systems are clearly illustrated by the examples provided from the North Sea field. These examples show the importance of getting the right information to the right user as early as possible. While the topside operators in the control room focus on production, the complexity of a modern field and the amount of information available make it necessary to have separate systems and users focusing on subsea integrity management.
Issues offshore seldom emerge slowly. They most often happen rapidly, and having a tool that simplifies the troubleshooting process and helps the user quickly isolate the original cause is important. This allows for less disruptive proactive maintenance that provides operators with more confidence and trust in their equipment.
- Andersen, T.M. and Rasmussen, M. 2003. Aging Management: Monitoring of Technical Condition of Aging Equipment. Paper presented at ICMES, Helsinki.


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manga and anime series
InuYasha, also known as InuYasha, a Feudal Fairy Tale, is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Rumiko Takahashi. It premiered in Weekly Shōnen Sunday on November 13, 1996 and concluded on June 18, 2008.
- "I'm not really a demon; not really human. I'm not either. That's all. There was no place for me, so I had find one myself. And then I realized. I had a place, but I was the only one in it. I didn't know any other way to live."
- "Somehow, without my ever noticing it, it felt so natural, having Kagome near."
- "When I saw Kikyo's sad and lonely expression, I felt guilty, for the very first time in my life. After that, I couldn't get her out of my mind. She was always by my side and I by hers."
- "Kagome... before I met you, I never trusted a living soul. But you've cried for my sake. You've always stayed by my side. When I'm with you, I feel so peaceful and happy. But I not supposed to be all ease and cheerful. Kikyo.. Kikyo came after me and lost her life. So its only fair that I repay her with my own life."
- "I couldn't save Kikyo. That pained me. I couldn't say that I was suffering. I felt like I had to bear this alone. But I was so focused on myself that I never considered your feelings. I never noticed that you were also suffering. Forgive me, Kagome."
- "You're wrong! That's not why Kagome was born! Kagome taught me how to smile, how to believe in people! Kagome was the reason I could make friends and rely on those friends! To shed tears for others, to understand true strength and kindness…They're all things I learned from Kagome! Kagome was born to meet me! And I was born for her!"
- "I need you with me, Kagome. Haven't you realized that yet?!"
- "I was afraid. I thought I was going to lose you. I was terrified."
- "Kagome taught me how to smile ... how to trust. It's because of her that I have friends. Relying on my companions -- shedding tears for others -- true strength and kindness . . . Kagome taught them all to me. She was born to meet me. And I, too, for Kagome's sake..."
- "For fifty years, kikyo's soul has wandered, unable to break free of this haunted world. She wouldn't have met that fate, if i'd simply been able to trust her. How can you expect me to forget that?"
- "Kagome, I like it when i'm with you. Somwhow... I feel calmer."
- "I thought it would be better if you were far away. But then, when I saw your face, somehow... I felt inspired. Then I realized... I actually did want you near me"
Kagome HigurashiEdit
- Oh! How could I forget!? You have a thing for dead girls!
- Sit boy!
- Why did I even meet him? If I knew it was going to hurt this much, I wish I never laid eyes on him. But I want to see him again. I can't deny it. I want to see Inuyasha once more! It's clear now. I must be in love with him. Before I knew it, I've grown to love him so much.
- But, Inuyasha, I also know that you and I meeting was no coincidence. It's more than that. Deep down you must know that I want you to live.
- Inuyasha. We've talked about it before haven't we? About me staying with you. I know there's a bond between you and Kikyo and that I can't ever ask you to forget about her. And yet... I chose to stand by you Inuyasha because that's what I know I have to do.
- What you're saying to me is completely wrong. Inuyasha can never forget Kikyo and even though I can accept this rationallly, I always feel pain and bitterness in my heart.
- What the hell did you come just now!? You ruined my bike, you idiot!
- You can't want to die with her.
- Inuyasha, may I ask you a single question? Inuyasha, will you let me stay?
- Inuyasha will never forget Kikyo. But I still love him, so there's nothing I could do.
- I want you to be happy. I want you to laugh a lot. I don't know what exactly I'll be able to do for you, but I'll always be by your side.
- Will you bear my child?
- You have it wrong! I was merely standing guard to protect you from danger, nothing more.
- Wait Sango! Don't be rash!
- Resist all temptation....
- What good is this cursed hand if I can't use it to protect the woman I love?
- If this is indeed a trap, I will gladly fall into it!
- Oh, how I longed for this. This pain brings back fond memories. It has been far, far too long Sango.
- Forgive me, it's hard to control myself around such beauties
- No matter how Sango hates me, there's nobody can catch her heart easily.
- No, Sango! Just only you...you must live!
- I wouldn't let you escape again! I must exterminate you right now...besides, it doesn't for my own sake!
- But before that, I'm also the one who cannot replace Sango's heart with ease.
- Before Kikyo's situation is getting worse, I got a chance to eliminate Naraku by using my Wind Tunnel. But I was afraid to die...and I doubted to open my Wind Tunnel. Kikyo sacrificed her life to save me by removing all miasma from my body...but I just...
- Damn, it was not easy to collect single fragment, yet it was a tainted fragment. I would face problem if I touch it.
- If the demon is truly big, then we are no match for it. Its irrational. Its impossible. Its against my religion.
- Even though the same thing may be repeated... being together... is it okay?
- Please, body, hold fast until I can complete my final task.
- As long as Kohaku is in Naraku's hands... I know I'll end up betraying you again!
- No way. You're not leaving me again. You're my only little brother.
- Kill you? What makes him think I can kill you? I... can't.
- No! If you can't go on... then we'll die here together!
- Kohaku, I'm so glad.
- You can't be serious Kagome! ME love that pervert!?
- Oh, I knew that. You don't have to tell me. Its not as if... as if I hoped you would love me. I never thought that.
- Bring back my weapon...bring back my Hiraikotsu! I wanna kill that guy...who destroyed my village by myself!
- Kikyo, at the first time I was having resentment against you for deciding to sacrifice Kohaku's life...and using his shard to destroy Naraku. But then, while I saw you saved Koga's life...I thought if the moment is truly coming...perhaps you will do the same thing as previous for protecting Kohaku, is it...?
- I'm just a little kid!
- Can't be forgive...
- Unforgivable...even you are a young girl, I still...wanna hit you! Including Inuyasha's sake!
- Perhaps Miroku can't resisit Sango's loneliness, after all.
- I must show my weaknesses to no one. I must never have doubts or demons would overtake me. I am human yet I cannot be human. We are quite alike you and I. You half-demon..... That is why I could not kill you.
- It's possible. It's true you are a half-demon but you are also half human. If the Shikon Jewel of the Four Souls fell into the hands of a demon, their powers would undoubtly increase. However, if it is to be used to turn you into a human it would be purified. The Jewel of the Four Souls would probably cease to exist.
- Liar! I was a fool beyond compare in believing your farfetched tales and wishing to live together with you. I despise you with my last breath. My spirit cannot forget that all consuming hatred. So as long as you live my spirit cannot be freed.
- You are saying you wish for me to die, is that it? For if my soul were to return to the girl, then I would cease to exist forever. You must know that. Is that what you desire Inuyasha? I refuse to die. My spirit cannot rest in peace until I see you dead!
- Inuyasha, after meeting you I renounced my position as a shrine priestess. I became an ordinary woman. I longed to embrace you like this when I was alive. We are unable to turn back the hands of time. So please, allow me to embrace you a little longer.
- Go Naraku.... Gather the shards of the Jewel and once you've found them all, I will send you to Hell. I am free to hate. My soul is so much freerer now than it was then. Free to hate. Free to love.
- Do as you please with Kagome. I have no intention of interfering. However, if you do any harm to Inuyasha, I will personally see to your demise!
- The battle continues. The fact that I walk this path once more only serves to confirm my wretched fate. And what awaits me beyond this darkness. Once more, just once more, I must asertain the whereabouts of those ressurrrected from the grave.
- I choose to stay here. I want to stay close to those children for a while. Besides, even if i wish to, I cannot go. Inuyasha, you saw them. You saw my soul collecters being repelled by the aura of this land. It took everything I had to stand at the base of the mountain.
- To live is to die. To die is to live. My name is Kikyo. I am a priestess who is unable to leave this world and reach the sacred place. No, that is not entirely the truth. Once I was a priestess. Now I am but a corpse with a cursed, false existence. No matter how much I desire to do good and help others, the truth is I live off the souls of the dead.
- Souls of miserable women...come to me.
- I loathe all things, I despise every living creature who's bound to time.
- All that for a memory and a dead mortal girl? If I'd have known that's what it would take for you to fight, I would have killed her sooner.
- You fool! Don't think you could ever escape my grasp!
- What are you smiling about? I simply asked a question. I don't care, I'm just curious.
- I couldn't save her? Tensaiga. I let you die for this thing. Nothing could be worth the cost of Rin's life!
- I have never considered that half-demon my brother!
- Your primitive concoctions are no match for my superior powers.
- Our father's great power... however, I did not inherit his merciful heart for human kind.
- Inuyasha.. be like your half-breed self and.. CRAWL ON THE GROUND!
- You haven't even released the full power of the Tetsusaiga. Watch as I, Sesshoumaru, destroy 100 demons with one blow.
- I will make you regret bringing up that worthless half-breed in my presence.
- My real wish, you say? That's right.Now I remember. All I wanted was Kikyo's heart. It looks like I won't be joining Kikyo... in this or the next world.
- Jealousy? Is this, too, part of Onigumo's grubby heart?
- Help each other and think of each other... then... because of that... end up dying.
- How touching... betraying your companions for your little brother's sake.
- Fools. Do they pity Kanna? But Kanna cannot feel a thing, be it pain, fear or sorrow. She cannot even understand the reason for your pity.
- I will not kill you...I will break you.
- Foolish creature... it never realized that it was being consumed from within...
- Your time has come Kikyo. Now, Naraku returns you to the underworld forevermore.
About InuYashaEdit
- The biggest issue was whether to have the heroine Kagome remain in the past or the present at the end, and since the anime's completion in 2004, I'd been constantly torn about it. As a result, that was the time I had the feeling I should be storyboarding the final chapter. Regardless of which world she chose, "separation" was unavoidable, so in the end, I decided I wanted to go in a direction where Kagome was happy, and people would still be pleased when they finished reading.
- I figured that "collecting" of items and companions was the basis of storytelling.
- Rather than say I want to write a lot of characters, when it's a long-running serialization, the number of characters just multiplies. But, having a lot of characters helps me write a lot of stories without it getting boring.
- Writing characters to have happy endings is so I can feel good about the story once I've finished it. Even when I'm writing stories with a lot of sadness and hardship, I like stories where it's all redeemed somewhere.
- Even with villains, I'm unable to write a character that I truly hate. When I'm writing evil characters, I think a lot about why they became evil, and what sort of background and motivation they have. I couldn't write them any other way.
- Rumiko Takahashi, Shonen Jump January 2009 [1]


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Simpli Home Acadian End Table (Tobacco Brown) for $49.50 shipped. Here is a screenshot for reference. The console table is made of solid plantation grown pine, has 2 shelving spaces, and measures 19"W x 19"D x 20"H. Most places have it for about $74 or more.
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Sign up for fall safety and education classes
SPRINGFIELD, ILL. — Illinois hunters and trappers are better educated
and safer than ever before, according to the Illinois Department
of Natural Resources.
During the past 25 years, more than 500,000 hunters and trappers
have participated in the mandatory Illinois hunter safety and trapper
education courses. The courses teach safety and help students develop
respect for wildlife and the environment.
Hunters and trappers also are safer because conservation organizations
stress safety and responsibility to their members, who pass those
attitudes to others. Legal requirements, such as wearing blaze hunter
orange during certain seasons, also have a big impact.
"Our first and last concerns – and all thoughts in the middle –
focus on safety, responsibility, ethics and knowledge," says Jeff
Hopkins, safety education administrator at Illinois DNR.
A better definition of success
Success is more than harvesting an animal, according to Hopkins.
That distinction is important to relay to young hunters and trappers.
"True success involves being safe, making good decisions, enjoying
the friendship of those with you, and just being outdoors," Hopkins
"Safety is a product of knowledge, experience and attitude," says
Hopkins. "Our mission is to deliver these products -- to make safety
a primary focus in people's minds before anything else."
Statistically, hunting is safer than driving a passenger car, bicycling
or water skiing. In 2003, 311,700 licensed Illinois hunters and
trappers spent more than 5.6 million days afield. Fifteen hunters
were injured; five were due to falls from tree stands. The one fatality
was firearms related. "One injury is too much," says Hopkins. "But
hunting and shooting are safe activities when pursued properly."
Mandatory education
Anyone born after January 1, 1980, must pass an Illinois hunter
safety course, and all first-time trappers under 18 must pass mandatory
trapper education course before they can buy their respective licenses.
Adults or guardians must accompany children under the age of 10.
Education instruction and course materials are provided free of
The Illinois hunter safety course consists of a minimum of 10 hours
of instruction to cover hunter responsibility, wildlife conservation
and identification, firearms and ammunition, field safety, wildlife
management, First Aid, archery and muzzleloading skills.
The Illinois trapper education course includes of a minimum of
eight hours of instruction. It focuses on applicable laws but also
covers equipment, trap and pelt preparation, wildlife management
and methods of capturing animals humanely.
Both courses involve classroom and field instruction, and stress
state regulations and respect for public and private property. Participants
are assessed on mental attitude, physical level and must pass a
final exam before receiving certification. Certified volunteer instructors
and local conservation police officers teach courses according to
national guidelines and state standards.
"Mere attendance and written test will not guarantee passing a
course," Hopkins emphasizes. "Instructors measure mental and physical
acuity, attitude and the ability to demonstrate and recognize safe
procedures before certifying students."
Volunteer instructors
Each year, trained volunteers offer about 470 hunter safety and
20 trapper education courses around the state. More than 22,000
people graduate from these courses annually. These programs would
not be possible without volunteer instructors who generously contribute
their time and knowledge to up-and-coming generations.
Two instructors recently won state and national distinction for
their outreach and education efforts.
Ron Boesser, of Mattoon, recently was named an Illinois DNR Volunteer
of the Year for more than 19 years of combined efforts as a certified
education instructor for hunting, trapping and boating safety. He
has invested his own money in classroom equipment and gear; he recruits
and trains new instructors.
Irv Schirmer, of Marengo, won the Fur Takers of America's prestigious
American Heritage Award. The national honor is given annually to
an outstanding individual for promoting trapping as an important
wildlife conservation activity. Schirmer was credited for his exemplary
work as a trapper education instructor.
"Some of the most dedicated people you will meet are volunteer
hunter and trapper instructors," says Hopkins. "These folks know
that the future of these activities rests with youth. Our young
folks are charged with practicing these activities properly, as
well as showing Illinois citizens that hunters and trappers care
about wildlife and are good stewards of wildlife and natural resources."
To take a course or be an instructor
To sign up for a fall or winter safety education course, you can
contact the Illinois DNR at 217-557-9206, 800-832-2599 or go online
at http://dnr.state.il.us/safety/index.htm.
Visit the Fur Hunting and Trapping in Illinois website
For more information about trapping, visit the Illinois DNR's new
website, "Fur Hunting and Trapping in Illinois," at dnr.state.il.us/orc/wildlife,
or contact the Illinois DNR at 217-782-6384.


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Obama's Dreams
After reading Barack Obama's book "Dreams from My Father," it became painfully clear that he has not been searching for the truth, because he assumed from an early age that he had already found the truth — and now it was just a question of filling in the details and deciding how to change things.
Obama did not simply happen to encounter a lot of people on the far left fringe during his life. As he spells out in his book, he actively sought out such people. There is no hint of the slightest curiosity on his part about other visions of the world that might be weighed against the vision he had seized upon.
As Professor Richard Epstein of the University of Chicago Law School has pointed out, Obama made no effort to take part in the marketplace of ideas with other faculty members when he was teaching a law course there. What would be the point, if he already knew the truth and knew that they were wrong?
This would be a remarkable position to take, even for a learned scholar who had already spent decades canvassing a vast amount of information and views on many subjects. But Obama was already doctrinaire at a very early age — and ill-informed or misinformed on both history and economics.
His statement in "Dreams from My Father" about how white men went to Africa to "drag away the conquered in chains" betrays his ignorance of African history.
The era of the Atlantic slave trade and the era of European conquests across the continent of Africa were different eras. During the era of the Atlantic slave trade, most of Africa was ruled by Africans, who sold some of their slaves to white men.
European conquests in Africa had to wait until Europeans found some way to survive lethal African diseases, to which they lacked resistance. Only after medical science learned to deal with these diseases could the era of European conquests spread across sub-Saharan Africa. But the Atlantic slave trade was over by then.
There was no reason why Barack Obama had to know this. But there was also no reason for him to be shooting off his mouth without knowing what he was talking about.
Similarly with Obama's characterization of the Nile as "the world's greatest river." The Nile is less than 10 percent longer than the Amazon, but the Amazon delivers more than 50 times as much water into the Atlantic as the Nile delivers into the Mediterranean. The Nile could not accommodate the largest ships, even back in Roman times, much less the aircraft carriers of today that can sail up the Hudson River and dock in midtown Manhattan.
When Obama wrote that many people "had been enslaved only because of the color of their skin," he was repeating a common piece of gross misinformation. For thousands of years, people enslaved other people of the same race as themselves, whether in Europe, Asia, Africa or the Western Hemisphere.
Europeans enslaved other Europeans for centuries before the first African was brought in bondage to the Western Hemisphere. The very word "slave" is derived from the name of a European people once widely held in bondage, the Slavs.
As for economics, Obama thought that Indonesians would be worse off after Europeans came in, used up their natural resources and then left them too poor to continue the modern way of life to which they had become accustomed, or to resume their previous way of life, after their previous skills had atrophied.
This fear of European "exploitation" prevailed widely in the Third World in the middle of the 20th century. But, by the late 20th century, the falseness of that view had been demonstrated so plainly and so often, in countries around the world, that even socialist and communist governments began opening their economies to foreign investments. This often led to rising economic growth rates that lifted millions of people out of poverty.
Barack Obama is one of those people who are often wrong but never in doubt. When he burst upon the national political scene as a presidential candidate in 2008, even some conservatives were impressed by his confidence.
But confident ignorance is one of the most dangerous qualities in a leader of a nation. If he has the rhetorical skills to inspire the same confidence in himself by others, then you have the ingredients for national disaster.
Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305. His website is: www.tsowell.com.
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Part II, The House-Packing Dialogues: The Temple of Doom
July 5, 2016
At last we have emptied our Seattle house of all our belongings. We drove carloads of things to Goodwill and gave some to friends, but all the rest are on a truck headed east, or so we hope. Given the chaos of this move, it is hard to be certain. There were delays, dropped […]Read more, see more
Isaac's Storm
A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
At the turn of the last century, Isaac Cline, chief weatherman for Texas, believed no storm could do serious harm to the city of Galveston, a fast growing metropolis on the Gulf Coast destined for great things. In September 1900 a massive hurricane proved him wrong, at great personal cost. The storm killed as many as 10,000 people in Galveston alone, stole the city's future, and caused hurricane experts to revise their thinking about how hurricanes kill. The book won the American Meteorology Society's prestigious Louis J. Battan Author's Award.
For the record, of all my books, this is my wife's favorite. I also discovered that some people in Texas would read this book to their children at bedtime, presumably leaving out the pyres of burning corpses toward the end—or maybe not.
Praise for Isaac's Storm
The best storm book I've read, consumed mostly in twenty-four hours; these pages filled me with dread. Days later, I am still glancing out the window nervously. A well-told story."—Daniel Hays, author of My Old Man and the Sea
Isaac's Storm so fully swept me away into another place, another time that I didn't want it to end….Erik Larson's writing is luminous, the story absolutely gripping. If there is one book to read as we enter a new millennium, it's Isaac's Storm."—Alex Kotlowitz, author of The Other Side of the River and There Are No Children Here
There is electricity in these pages, from the crackling wit and intelligence of the prose to the thrillingly described terrors of natural mayhem and unprecedented destruction. Though brimming with the subtleties of human nature, the nuances of history, and the poetry of landscapes, Isaac's Storm still might best be described as a sheer page turner"—Melissa Faye Greene, author of Praying for Sheetrock and The Temple Bombing
Superb…Larson has made [Isaac] Cline, turn-of-the-century Galveston, and the Great Hurricane live again."—The Wall Street Journal
Erik Larson's accomplishment is to have made this great-storm story a very human one—thanks to his use of the large number of survivors' accounts—without ignoring the hurricane itself."—The Boston Globe
Vividly captures the devastation."—Newsday
This brilliant exploration of the hurricane's deadly force…tracks the gathering storm as if it were a character…Larson has the storyteller's gift of keeping the reader spellbound."—The Times-Picayune
With consummate narrative skill and insight into turn-of-the-century American culture…Larson's story is about the folly of all who believe that man can master or outwit the forces of nature."—The News & Observer
A powerful story…a classic tale of mankind versus nature."—The Christian Science Monitor


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Well, we have completed our extensive testing of the new Nvidia GeForce 7950 GX2 graphics accelerator. It is time for us to make some conclusions. Did Nvidia manage to win back the leader's laurels? Has the newcomer become the world's fastest single graphics card for $649?
GeForce 7950 GX2: Winners Come in Pairs
The results obtained during our test session let us answer "yes" to both these questions. It is true, in most cases GeForce 7950 GX2 managed to outpace its main rival, ATI Radeon X1900 XTX, that costs about $100-$150 less. The newcomer won a convincing victory in 15 benchmarks out of 20, and in two tests it performed equally fast with ATI Radeon X1900 XTX. It is quite logical: contemporary gaming performance doesn't depend only on the pixel shader processing speed. There are some other factors involved, such as texturing speed, for example.
Although the rivals feature the same amount of units responsible for pixel shader processing – both ATI Radeon X1900 XTX and Nvidia GeForce 7950 GX2 have 48 units like that – the Nvidia solution is quite far ahead of the ATI one when it comes to TMUs and rasterizing units. GeForce 7950 GX2 has 48 TMUs and 32 ROPs, which eliminates all potential bottlenecks typical of Radeon X1900 XTX with its 16 TMUs and 16 ROPs. As a result, with the joint power and resources of two G71 GPUs, GeForce 7950 GX2 won even those battles where GeForce 7900 GTX capitulated.
Thanks to the new ForceWare driver series, GeForce 7950 GX2 managed to compete on almost equal terms with such expensive solutions as GeForce 7900 GTX SLI and even Radeon X1900 XT CrossFire. However, when the new ForceWare driver for the rest of the GeForce 7 graphics card family comes out, their performance will grow up as well. Besides, ATI Catalyst developers may also do something with their software to speed up Radeon based solutions.
Besides that, the newcomer performed very well in higher-quality full-screen anti-aliasing modes than the standard FSAA 4x, which used to be the privilege of the expensive SLI and CrossFire tandem owners. The new Nvidia graphics accelerator is beyond any competition here because none of the currently available single-chip cards supports high-quality anti-aliasing. Those of you who have a Radeon X1900 XTX may get close to the anti-aliasing quality provided by the new GeForce 7950 GX2 by using FSAA 6x and Temporal Antialiasing supported by ATI Technologies' cards.


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321. In Essence. 26 x 20 cm (10 x 8") photogravure etching, Izote Umber Black etching ink on Fabriano Tiepolo paper (2015)
322. Fast Forward. 26 x 20 cm (10 x 8" ) photogravure etching, Izote Mars black etching ink on Kyokushi paper (2015)
315. It All Comes Down to This. 43 x 31 cm (17 x 12"), photogravure etching, Warm Black etching ink on Fabriano Tiepolo (2014); Blackwater Falls, W Va, U.S.A.
311. Press/Release. 27 x 20 cm (11 x 8"), photogravure etching, Carbon Black etching ink on Rives BFK (2014); weathered rock at Vityaz Bay, Primorsky, Russia
310. Our Gift, 41 x 30 cm (17 x 12") photogravure etching, Warm black etching ink on Fabriano Tiepolo (2014)
318. Song of the Open Road. 41 x 30 cm (16 x 12") photogravure etching, Carbon Black etching ink on Fabriano Tiepolo (2014)
320. Nocturne, 20 x 14 cm (8 x 6") photogravure etching, Carbon black etching ink on Fabriano Tiepolo paper (2015).
325. Peak Experience. 44 x 30 cm (18 x 12") photogravure etching, Izote Mars Black etching ink on Rives BFK paper (2016)
328. Over the Top, 34 x 24 cm (14 x 10") photogravure etching, Warm black etching ink on Magnani Pescia paper (2016)
319. Myriad Destinies, 43 x 31 cm (17 x 12"), photogravure etching, Warm black etching ink on Fabriano Tiepolo (2014)
305. Time and Time Again, 33 x 25 cm (13 x 10"), photogravure etching, Carbon Black etching ink on Mitsumata washi (2014) Furusato Series, Hakone
300. Here and There ・ 移り行く, 20 x 14 cm (8 x 6"), photogravure etching, Carbon Black etching ink on Mitsumata washi (2014) Seascapes Series, Daikakuji, Kyoto
301. This Other Eden, 26 x 19 cm (10 x 8"), photogravure etching, Carbon Black etching ink on Mitsumata washi (2014) Seascapes Lakes Series, Hokkaido
313. Further Reflection ・ 西芳寺。 26 x 21 cm (10 x 8") photogravure etching, Black etching ink on Fabriano paper (2014)
307. After the Party. 27 x 19 cm (11 x 8"), photogravure etching, Carbon Black etching ink on Fabriano Tiepolo (2014) Seascapes Series; Moscow River
306. As If, 34 x 26 cm (14 x 10"), photogravure etching, Paynes Gray etching ink on Mitsumata washi (2014) Pathways Series, Oze National Park, Japan
317. Network-6. 35 x 27 cm (14 x 10"), photogravure etching, Carbno Black etching ink on Fabriano Tiepolo(2014)
308. Network-3, 26 x 34 cm (10 x 14"), photogravure etching, Carbon Black etching ink on Mitsumata washi (2014) Seascapes Series, Ine, Japan
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Netherlands: Eric van den Ing, Saru Gallery, tel: +31(0)6-2246-4074.
Moscow: Lumiere Brothers Center, 119072, Москва, Болотная набережная д.3 стр.1 (Red October, Bolotnaya emb 3 b. 1, Moscow, Russia, 119072), tel +7-968-451-4019
Vladivostok: Arka Gallery, 5 Svetlanskaya St, Vladivostok, Russia, tel +7-4232-410-526
Kiyomizu-dera, Kyoto, with Three Streams
Interview with Rfotofolio , also here. 'The artist's responsibility is to use one's own subjective response to draw out meanings and possibilities from the stuff of everyday life.'
Dappled Things, published in 2013, pairs the poetry of Robin Chapman with the photogravures of Peter Miller. There are 23 of each, in a lavishly printed portfolio-book designed by Roman Kames in Paris, and printed on 200-gram Tintoretto paper by Imprimerie Daniel in Prague.
The portfolio book Clairvoyant, published by Revue K; 14 beautifully printed images from a 2012 exhibition. Designed by Roman Kames in Paris, and printed in Prague on 200-gram Tintoretto paper, Clairvoyantwith an Introduction by Jean-Yves Couteau and an essay by art philosopher Marie Parra Aledo.
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Recent posts: Asia Everywhere, the essay for the exhibition and catalog of the same title held at the National Museum of Oriental Art in Moscow in September 2015; The New Shape of Work and Play, a novel perspective on artisanship and industry; Wynn Bullock, Revelations, an appreciation of this prescient visual philosopher; I Used to Be French, a review of Jacques Delacroix' autobiography; and A Case of Mistaken Identity, the story of a disastrous party.Interview by Ivan Oskenov in Oblgazeta (in Russian; for translation, use imTranslator)
New prints are also shown at kamprint.com/xpress.
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Purchasing: Order your own photogravure etching directly from each full-screen page. Or use the Japanese order form.
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Videos: Accidental Discoveries and Unexpected Pleasures: the art and craft of photogravure etching. 偶然な世界、日本語のバージョン (Japanese version)
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鎌倉テレビの番組 (日本語) Kamakura-TV interview and workshop visit.
Video from a return visit to Nara: Visiting Nara and Yoshino Again for the First Time
'Scenes from a Vernissage', the April 2010 exhibit at the Manoir de la Tour, Saint Cyr-sur-Loire (near Tours), France, narrated by Mireille Turquois with thanks to the Dé partement de L'Indre-et-Loire, Ville de Saint Cyr-sur-Loire, Association Touraine-Mongolie. Vladivostok-TV interviews Artetage Modern Art Museum Director Alex Gorodny and me during the Sept 2008 Seascapes exhibit there (in Russian).
Kamakura fireworks (July 2010) video.
In Inklings, learn how photogravure etching emerged from the 600-year intaglio tradition and how it influenced the other graphic arts. The story involves developments in optics, light-sensitive materials, and etching coalescing during the 19th-century Age of Exploration, giving rise to a new medium expressing the aspirations of its time and ours. To order any of the contemporary photogravure etchings at this site, click the Order button on any full-screen page, or visit the Purchasing page. You can also use the Japanese order form ・ 作品の購入 in any language. For advice and information, just send an email or use the inquiry form ・ お問い合わせ. Your inquiry is always welcome.
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It's always a big deal when Team Canada is selected for any hockey tournament, all the national buzz about what players and coaches well represent Canada against the other nations. Obviously, Canada's No. 1 sport is hockey, but football is growing in popularity fast.
Numerous times I have read about the CFL having an All-Star game, one of the idea formats was Canada vs. USA. I loved this idea, the best Canadians in the CFL facing off against the best Americans.
It made me wonder what Canada's best team would compose of. Not just from the CFL, but the NFL as well.
What players would make up Canada's national football team? These are my picks.


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(Part of the series on Sun Tzu's ; The Art of War – from the SEO perspective.)
Sun Tzu said;
The preparation of mantlets, movable shelters, and various implements of war, will take up three whole months; and the piling up of mounds over against the walls will take three months more.
The general, unable to control his irritation, will launch his men to the assault like swarming ants, with the result that one-third of his men are slain, while the town still remains untaken. Such are the disastrous effects of a siege.
SEO Style;
We have already discussed the need for preparedness. It is integral, when not over done, to successfully winning the battle. But this will take time. Time with no immediate return that is self-evident. That in turn will cause those funding the activities, (the country) to be stressed. Many times you will feel forced into action, before the appropriate moment.
It was once said that is it better to be doing nothing than to be doing much, but accomplishing nothing. Moving in hap haphazardly due to frustration and pressure, will inevitably lead to poor performance.
Sun Tzu said;
Therefore the skillful leader subdues the enemy's troops without any fighting; he captures their cities without laying siege to them; he overthrows their kingdom without lengthy operations in the field.
With his forces intact he will dispute the mastery of the Empire, and thus, without losing a man, his triumph will be complete. This is the method of attacking by stratagem.
And so through the section 'Waging War' we learned to attack laterally, to frustrate but not make an enemy of our competitors. To avoid long drawn out battles in query spaces that can be cash negative. Because we will always have multiple competitors, the less resources spent on any one, will leave more for subsequent conquest.
You must control the battle field and consider what lays beyond any given success. This attitude must be carried onwards never ending until the kingdom's demise.
(tune in Wednesday for the next edition)
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Laurier International
NAFTA Mobility Program: Opportunity to Study in Mexico
Jan 21/09
To Students in the Faculty of Arts:
All Arts Students are eligible to apply for the NAFTA Mobility Program for the fall term 2009 (September to December) or the winter term 2010 (January to May).
Under the NAFTA Mobility Program, students can apply to study at one of two universities in Mexico: Universidad Veracruzana, (Xalapa, Veracruz,México) and Universidad de Sonora (Hermosillo, Sonora, México).
Eligible Students will be provided with scholarships to cover some of their expenses while at their host institutions. As with other international exchange programs, you are still responsible for paying your regular
tuition at Wilfrid Laurier. However, your scholarship funds will help with some expenses incurred at the host institution. Academic terms at Mexican universities are a bit longer and students will need to factor this
into their travel/academic planning. Interested students will be required to pass a Spanish language qualifying exam.
The deadline to apply for the grant is February 13, 2009. Successful candidates will be notified of the decisions by March 6, 2009.
For more information, please contact:
Priya Kaur
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The impact of chronic hepatitis C on resource utilisation and in-patient mortality for Medicare beneficiaries between 2005 and 2010
Younossi ZM, Stepanova M, Mishra A, Venkatesan C, Henry L, Hunt S. Aliment Pharmacol Ther. 2013 Nov;38(9):1065-75. doi: 10.1111/apt.12485. Epub 2013 Sep 12.
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BACKGROUND: As baby boomers age, chronic hepatitis C (CHC) will become increasingly important in Medicare eligible group.
AIM: To evaluate trends in Medicare resource utilisation for CHC.
METHODS: We analysed the Medicare in-patient and out-patient data from 2005 to 2010. For each patient, all claims with CHC as a principal diagnosis were added up and yearly CHC-related spending was calculated.
RESULTS: A total of 48 880 out-patient claims for 21 655 CHC patients and 4884 hospital admission claims for 3092 patients were included. The number of in-patient (1.5-1.6/year) or out-patient (2.2-2.3/year) visits per patient did not change over time, nor did the demographic characteristics of the CHC population. The majority of this population was eligible for Medicare based on disability and the average number of diagnoses per in-patient claim (from 8.11 in 2005 to 8.60 in 2010) and per out-patient claim (from 2.18 in 2005 to 2.71 in 2010) increased (both P < 0.0001). The average total yearly spending per patient increased in the out-patient setting from $488 in 2005 to $584 in 2010 (P = 0.0132) and did not change in the in-patient setting (from $22 245 in 2005 to $23 383 in 2010, P = 0.14). In the multivariate analysis, the number of diagnoses and conditions per claim and the number of in-patient or out-patient procedures per year were the important independent predictors of increased resource utilisation.
CONCLUSIONS: Most Medicare beneficiaries with chronic hepatitis C who sought in-patient or out-patient care in 2005-2010 had received Medicare for disability. Although the total resource utilisation did not change, the proportion of patient's responsibility increased.
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Linux Music Blossoms with Rosegarden (2 tags)
No kidding: many software geeks are also music geeks. It should be no surprise that free software music programs have started to rival their commercial counterparts. Howard Wen walks through Rosegarden, a Linux-based music sequencer and scoring package.


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Eight Iowa Conference championships
PELLA—Central College's Taylor Hill (sophomore, Treynor) and Mike Young (junior, Country Club Hills, Ill., Hillcrest HS) have been named Iowa Conference performers of the week.
Hill was recognized as the women's golf honoree and Young was cited as the league's football defensive player of the week.
Hill coasted to a 15-stroke victory in the medalist race at the Central Fall Invitational at Bos Landen Golf Club. She carded the low score of each round, firing a personal-best 75 in the opening 18 holes and posting a 78 in the final round to finish with 153. She led the Dutch to second place in the team standings, just five shots behind champion Grinnell College.
Meanwhile, Young led the Dutch defense with 13 tackles in a 17-10 win against Augustana College (Ill.) He made seven solo stops and had two sacks for 11 yards and three tackles for loss totaling 13 yards.
The women's golf team returns to action Saturday for the Illinois Wesleyan Fall Invitational at Normal, Ill., while the football squad has a break with an early bye week.


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Reliving the Dream
Here's a photo slideshow with shots from our official photographer, Greg Lee and blogger, Dean Rodgers. Enjoy!
It is now over a month after the ride and the glow is just wearing off, a little. It was my first Cycle O and hopefully the first of many. The ride was amazing, the organization, food, route, mechanics, entertainment, can't say enough about how great and well run and professional it was. Looking forward to another great ride next year!
Im so bummed that I had to cancel my trip. I only smiled as I watched the video.


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is t years?
A company first started recording their profit making in december 2007, before the financial crisis. They recorded it quarterly for 2 years. It is recorded in 1000's dollars.
P(t) = t^2-9t+14
(x intercepts: 2 and 7)
(y intercept: 14)
(vertex: 4.5, -6.25)
1) When the company recorded its lowest profit, what quarter did this happen in?
2) when did there profit first start to rise?
3) Find P(t) when t=0
4) When did the profit reach 20 000 dollars?
5)calculate k if the company made no loss.
P(t) = t^2-9t+14+k
oh ok, my apologies. i was unclear.
1) the lowest profit would occur at the vertex, so 4.5, which i assume would be part of the first quarter of the second year.
2) the profit first started to rise right after the vertex, after x=4.5, but it didnt actually become positive until the x-intercept x=7
so since this is only for the first two years, the profit has not reached $20,000 yet.
5) im not sure what exactly part 5 means.sorry