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A very thourough web site featuring practically every statistical agency worldwide that produces data on Africa, notably commercial, educational, and governmental statistics.
Provides access to information on the occurrence of cancer world-wide held by the Unit of Descriptive Epidemiology at the International Agency for Research on Cancer.
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CESSDA promotes the acquisition, archiving and distribution of electronic data for social science teaching and research in Europe. Information is compiled by CESSDA's member countries.
The ERS is part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and provides analysis of economic information on issues relating to agriculture, food, and the environment.
Like its counterpart, the Social Statistics Briefing Room, the ESBR provides public access to statistics in areas such as Income, Prices, Transportation and Employment. A link to the Social Statistics Briefing Room is also provided.
Country Intelligence supplies in-depth analysis of current political, policy and economic trends with an 18 month outlook. Quarterly and annual statistics with at least 150 data points picked from the most reliable sources and reviewed by analysts to provide objective and impartial coverage. Equivalent coverage across over 195 countries worldwide, making it easy to compare national conditions. Country Intelligence contains country reports and profiles, risk ratings,licensing and trading information for the new economies, plus G-8 and regional forecasts. An online newsletter, Business Middle East, designed for executives,is also available full-text
Issued annually, the ESCAP Population Data Sheet provides population and development indicators of countries in the Asian and Pacific region. From the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific.
Statistics focusing on euro area countries (EU member states that have adopted the euro as their official currency) and designed to support the monetary policy of the ECB and other tasks of the Eurosystem and the European System of Central Banks. Online publications include a monthly bulletin and statistics pocket book.
A project of the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, EIRO is a monitoring instrument providing news and analysis on European industrial relations. The site's aim is to collect analyze, and disseminate high-quality and up-to-date-information on key developments in all labor matters in Europe at the national and European levels of institutions and organizations.
Find today's exchange rates to the eighth decimal point.
Multilingual database containing over 3 million time-series records covering international statistics in the following areas: Production, Trade, Food Balance Sheets, Food Aid Shipments, Fertilizer and Pesticides, Land Use and Irrigation, Forest Products, Fishery Products, Population, and Agricultural Machinery.
Provides international comparisons of hourly compensation costs; productivity and unit labor costs; labor force, employment and unemployment rates; and consumer prices. The comparisons relate primarily to the major industrial countries, but other countries are included in certain measures. Produced by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, a subdepartment of the U.S. Department of Labor.
Monthly statistical reports, imports and exports by country, trade balances, commodity trade. Also contains historical data back to 1991. Produced by the U.S. Census Bureau.
This document proposes and defines indicators but provides no statistics. From the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Carbibbean.
Gender statistics and indicators designed with sources that include national statistics, United Nations databases, and World Bank-conducted or funded surveys. Covers many worldwide countries, reporting on such themes as poverty, education, economic development, demographics, and political participation. Users have the option of saving the country views in Excel (or aother formats) to customize them for their own reports. From the World Bank Group.
Data sets from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and its partners. Includes more than 400 different variables, as national, subregional, regional and global statistics or as geospatial data sets, covering freshwater, population, forests, emissions, climate, disasters, and health.
Provides access to the national, sub-regional, regional and global statistical data sets used for UNEP's third Global Environment Outlook (GEO-3) report. These consistent data sets are derived from primary Data Sources around the world. They underpin much of the state of environment assessment undertaken for the report, and have been used as the basis for many of the graphics as well. Data is browseable by geographic region in the areas of biodiversity, the atmosphere, disasters, forests, freshwater, land, and urban areas.
Developed by the United States Agency for International Development's (USAID) Center for Human Capacity Development to provide the Agency and its development partners with statistical data on international education.
United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UNCHS) collection of databases, with statistical data on urban indicators, human settlements, and city profiles worldwide. Coverage is inconsistent, but this source is nevertheless quite unique.
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Database containing statistical tables of demographic, and socio-economic data for 227 countries and areas of the world. Provides information dating back as far as 1950 and as far ahead as 2050. From the U.S. Census Bureau's International Programs Center.
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From the U.S. Department of Justice, a collection of resources on international crime and justice.
Compares education statistics between countries. Produced by the University of Pennsylvania/Graduate School of Education.
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Useful database of international labor statistics, offering annual time series from 1979 to the present for a wide range of variables, including employment and unemployment, wages, earnings, strikes, and other factors.
Another ILO resource. Standard survey of work-related statistics, sorted by country.
Covering European, international, and comparative aspects of industrial relations, employment, labor market policies, and social protection. Developed by the libraries at the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) and the European Trade Union Technical Bureau for Health and Safety.
Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS) household surveys have become an important tool in measuring and understanding poverty in developing countries. The Development Economics Research Group (DECRG) of the World Bank maintains this website to make available to researchers around the world the data sets and methodological lessons from these surveys.
MEASURE DHS assists developing countries worldwide in the collection and use of data to monitor and evaluate population, health, and nutrition programs. Demographic and health surveys provide information on family planning, maternal and child health, child survival, HIV/AIDS/STIs (sexually transmitted infections), and reproductive health.
NCES is the primary federal agency for collecting and analyzing data on education in the United States and other nations.
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See also the OECD Statistics Portal's Education and Training page, which includes their Education at a Glance publications.
Most comprehensive source of statistics on health and health systems in OECD countries, with data on health status, health care utilization, pharmaceuticals, social protection, non-medical determinants of health, and more.
Includes 108 essential health indicators to quantitatively characterize the health situation of 48 countries and territories of the Region of the Americas for the period 1997-2003.
Historical data, from 1959-, for 30+ categories of economic statistics for 152 countries and 29 subjects. Topics include GDP, exchange rate information, capital stock per worker, construction, an import/export information. One of the richest sources of international statistics on the Internet.
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From the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. The statistics section of SourceOECD includes data in the areas of international trade, telecommunications, foreign aid, migration, and many other categories. Between the full-text publications and statistical data analysis, the topics covered are country studies, forecasting publications, reports, and socioeconomic datasets. (For access to the statistics section, click the gray STATISTICS tab at the top of the main OECD page.)
Find data for more than forty demographic and socioeconomic variables by region, subregion, and country. From the United Nations Population Fund.
Socioeconomic, demography, environment and trade statistics for the European Union and the euro-zone.
A collection of recommended sources from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.
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Compilation of data relevant for the analysis of world trade, investment and development for over 190 countries and territories and 50 economic or trade groups. Provides an interesting analysis of the structure of world trade flows. Includes trade in services. From the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. Free access, but registration is required.
The central database for sex-disaggregated social data covering European and North American nations. Provides series that are presented in line with the following policy areas: population, families and households, work and the economy, education, public life and decision making, health, crime and violence. Data series are presented by country, year, and by social and demographic breakdowns. From the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe.
Data from over 200 countries in the fields of education, science and technology, culture and communication. Data tables can be downloaded for manipulation in Microsoft Excel. They can also be custom-built with user-specified variables via a web interface. The main objective of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is to contribute to peace and security in the world by promoting collaboration among nations through education, science, culture and communication. See also their Education Information Center.
Economic and social statistics on the countries and territories of the world, with particular reference to children's well-being. Combined international statistics are available in the annual report The State of the World's Children.
Many of these publications include statistics on the situation of women and children worldwide.
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Data on the incidence of reported crime and the operations of criminal justice systems. Includes data sets for 1970 to 2000 (see "Survey Waves" section at bottom of page).
Presents data from environmental observation sources.
WHOSIS is the World Health Organization's most extensive statistical database. Statistics viewable by topic or by country/region.
European monetary unit data profile
Under construction: Topic Indicators offer an overview of statistics in this research area. Users can choose a country or group from the drop-down menu to compare it to the aggregate figure for developing countries. Excel versions and time series data are available in the WDI CD-ROM and WDI Online (UIUC access only) databases. The index of indicators and their corresponding tables helps to navigate the contents of the sample tables.
WDI Online is composed of more than 550 indicators in 80 tables, organized in six sections: World View, People, Environment, Economy, States and Markets, and Global Links. The tables cover 148 economies and 14 country groups-with basic indicators for a further 59 economies. The data go back to 1960, depending on the country.
Presents several types of GDP data, as well as statistics on inflation, for all countries, advanced economies, and developing countries. Updated twice annually--if you are not seeing the most current version, search the site for 'world economic outlook.'
Information on income inequality for developed, developing, and transition countries (over 140 countries in total) in an easily retrievable, exportable, and analyzable format. Data is at both cross-country and time series levels over the period 1950-98, with a particular focus on the period since 1980. A new version of the database is expected to be available in Fall 2004. From the World Institute for Development Economics Research.
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Skip to comments.Biden says Administration Doesn't Have Time to Prosecute People Who Lie on Background Checks
Posted on 01/20/2013 8:01:47 AM PST by forty_years
As has been widely reported, an NRA representative recently met with an Obama administration-directed firearm task force led by longtime gun control supporter Vice-President Joe Biden. It came as no surprise that the meeting had little to do with keeping our children safe and much to do with an agenda to attack the Second Amendment. But you may be surprised to know one of the revelations that came out of the meeting.
Jim Baker, NRA-ILA's Director of Federal Affairs, represented NRA at the meeting. As detailed in a recent Daily Caller article, Mr. Baker was given five minutes to present NRA's concerns and the approach NRA saw as being the most effective way to safeguard our children. During those five minutes, Baker mentioned the need to vigorously prosecute existing gun laws. He further noted the low number of prosecutions for falsifying information on Form 4473s, and the low felony prosecution rate for gun crimes in general.
In response to Mr. Baker's comments, Vice-President Biden said, "And to your point, Mr. Baker, regarding the lack of prosecutions on lying on Form 4473s, we simply don't have the time or manpower to prosecute everybody who lies on a form, that checks a wrong box, that answers a question inaccurately." That's right: Biden said the administration just doesn't have time to prosecute crimes (felonies punishable by up to a 10-year prison sentence) under existing laws, but is proposing a host of sweeping new laws.
According to federal statistics cited in the Daily Caller article, in 2010, prosecutors considered just 22 cases of information falsification, and 40 additional background-check cases ended up before prosecutors for reasons related to unlawful gun possession. Prosecutors pursued just 44 of those 62 cases, although more than 72,600 applications were denied on the basis of a background check. Overall, gun prosecutions per capita in 2011 were down 35 percent from the previous administration's peak in 2004.
"We think it is problematic when the administration takes lightly the prosecutions under existing gun laws and yet does not seem to have a problem promoting a whole host of other gun laws," said Baker. "If we are not going to enforce the laws that are on the books, it not only engenders disrespect for the law but it makes law-abiding gun owners wonder why we are going through this exercise we are going through now."
Commenting on the administration's inability to prosecute persons who lie to obtain a firearm, NRA-ILA Executive Director Chris W. Cox said, "They don't have time to pursue people who are dangerous, who aren't supposed to get guns, and the message they have sent is literally 'Good luck, go get them elsewhere.' You can talk all you want," Cox continued, "but until there is a will to follow through, then it is literally just going to paper over the problem and guarantee that bad people continue to have access to firearms and good people will be blamed for it."
They don't have time to chase down illegal aliens either. Just what the hell do they do all day?
Well then it certainly doesn't have the time to enforce any of the other laws Biden is pressing for. Time to repeal a bunch of laws until there's enough time to prosecute the remaining ones. May I suggest the Gun Control Act of 1968, as amended, and the National Firearms Act of 1934, as amended? That would be a good start, but there might be more if there still isn't time to prosecute those, either.
Have you recently filled out the documents to purchase a gun?
I do not take those statements lightly and I despise the intimidation associated with them.
Gun running is hard work.
Well . . . if the Regime can't handle the job . . . . .
Biden, Obama and dems are NOT interested in 'crime control' but in 'gun control'. They want to take guns away from lawfull citizens. Dems are NOT trying to take guns away from gang members - the type who slaughter the children of Chicago. Nope, they're after middle class guns. Guns honest people use for protection.
ALL the school shooters were democrats or their parents were democrats. Most were on psychoactive drugs. Over 96% of prison inmates are democrats. Chicago street gangs organized recently for democrats...
Biden is NOT going after criminals. Biden is going after us.
Biden, Obama and dems are NOT interested in 'crime control' but in 'gun control'. They want to take guns away from lawful citizens. Dems are NOT trying to take guns away from gang members - the type who slaughter the children of Chicago. Nope, they're after middle class guns. Guns honest people use for protection.
ALL the school shooters were democrats or their parents were democrats. Most were on psychoactive drugs. Over 96% of prison inmates are democrats. Chicago street gangs organized recently for democrats...
Biden is NOT going after criminals. Biden is going after us.
Background check records will provide one more place to do opposition research.
Candidate x said on his application he lived at 123 first street. In fact he lived at 124 first street.
Headline in democrat newspaper: CANDIDATE X LIED ON HIS GUN PERMIT APPLICATION!
During class photos in High Skrool they asked if you had any awards?
My brother wrote he was a member of the National Honor Society. On the Deans List. Class prisident, MENSA member, volunteered as a candy striper, etc etc.
Made himself to look like GODS gift to the world.
None of which was true at all but it all made it in the year book. NO ONE CHECKED
Oh, you know, beer summits, surfing internet porn, looking for other people's reports to plagiarize, selling guns to Mexican drug cartels, there's hardly enough time in the day!
Or the space on the form was so frickin small (and I believe they cracked down on that pernicious racket of abbreviating), the guy may have just done the best he could and the examiner's interpretation of his scrawl is different from his actual address. That's what passes for a "crime" these days.
Prince Humperdinck: [sincerely] Tyrone, you know how much I love watching you work, but I've got my country's 500th anniversary to plan, my wedding to arrange, my wife to murder and Guilder to frame for it; I'm swamped.
Count Rugen: Get some rest. If you haven't got your health, then you haven't got anything.
LOLZ — we just watched that movie for the first time in years last night!
Are we absolutely sure these particular people were ever good in the first place?
My husband has said for years, the government wants a certain level of crime. How else can every police department in American have a SWAT team, with all the goodies .How else could they justify the Department of Education having a SWAT team. They have to have big unions, so they can pass money to them.If we had way less crime, we would need to have way less LEO. It so goes along with what you're saying.
case in point:
"Murderous 'monster' acquires an arsenal"
I don't get it. They have a host of laws that they don't enforce and they still want more.
Enforce the old ones and you won't need any new ones.
Eat the peas that are on your plate and you won't be hungry for more.
Biden could just as well have said they don't have time to prosecute all who are responsible for fraud in the government and have caused spending to go out of control.
Spending oodles of our money on worthless or fraudulent tasks is a big job. It takes lot of time. We understand, Joe.
I've been seeing this all over the net this weekend. I have searched for evidence of this and have not found it...can you give me sources? I would love to spread this info far and wide, but not if it's going to be debunked by "snopes."
Theres lots of golf courses theyve never been to.
Background checks starting at our White House!
Lack of proof in this case is proof. If they were conservative republicans or TEA party advocates it would have been front page news still.
We know. 0bama's uncle and aunt have been here a while now. 0bama's background is a cypher; costs money and time to keep it that way, though.
It is not brain surgery. Fingerprints, criminal records. They have all the data and it should be able to be done in a few minutes.
Just arrest high government people.
The only thing background checks do is make a gun purchase more expensive and time consuming for law abiding Americans. My sister in NJ, texted me yesterday and said that NICS background checks are taking 3-4 days. On a recent gun purchase I made in PA, it took 40 minutes to just to get through on the phone for a PICS background check. (PA doesn't do the national background check.)
The problem isn't law abiding citizens, it is criminals and liberals that seem to love to release them from jail without proper punishment that sets them straight so they will never, ever want to break the law again.
If you are telling us they aren't going to check the checks, then why do we have them, Joe?
I'm sure it makes sense to him.
Biden says Administration Doesn't Have Time to Prosecute People Who Lie on Background Checks
They certainly had no time to prosecute our unqualified president who lied on his Birth Certificate and who has used at least 2 bogus social security numbers.
"Dems are NOT trying to take guns away from gang members - the type who slaughter the children of Chicago."
I grew up in a suburb of Chicago (Des Plaines) and still watch WGN on the superstation. Almost every night, there is someone killed by gang violence in Chicago, and even further out; as a child, I always thought it was normal. And that's pretty sad.
Hey, if it's good enough for the president...
You're right - it is sad. I pinged you to an article you might enjoy... Thanks for sharing...
There's an illegal alien squatting at 1600 Penn ave. DC!
Joe Biden; the stuff that floats to the top after an unsuccessful flush..
They don't seem to have the time or manpower to win the war on drugs either.
they figure out creative new ways to loot their taxpayers and yoke them up to debt slavery.
They start silly wars to kill off the patriots so they can replace them with dependent entitlement zombies,
they figure out ways to take away any means of defense against their soft tyranny
they are bizzy bizzy bizzy running guns in Benghazi and Mexico
they are bizzy pushing through diabolical scams like Obamacare to kill off the old people so they dont have to pay out social security or medicare
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Conservation and Electrical Safety to be Topic of NYPA Presentation
Ann Cianfrocco
(315) 792-8335
September 29, 2009
MARCY—New York Power Authority (NYPA) community
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What is IFSC Code of INDIAN OVERSEAS BANK situated at SURAMPATTY- RTGS-HO?
IFSC Code of INDIAN OVERSEAS BANK situated at SURAMPATTY - RTGS-HO is
What is the meaning of IFSC Code, MICR Codes in Banking industry?
IFSC or Indian Financial System Code is the code allocated to all banks branches. Bank branches use this code to participate in RTGS and NEFT transactions.
What is the significance of IFSC Code and how we can use it?
IFSC Code is a 11 digit code and we can use this code to communicate between different branches of different banks. Upon receiving the request for fund transfer it is easy for a bank to identify the payee branch. First four characters are code of bank, last six digits are branch code and fifth character is left 0, for any future use.


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We need a 'conversation'
To the editor:
Our country is being Balkanized by those who seize on the Travon Martin George Zimmermann case to further divide us into racial categories. History reveals how sharp divisions can tear a nation apart. News reports from around the world echo the same message. I believe that many leaders who are calling for Zimmermann's blood are rehashing an old battle from the '50s and '60s. To make Zimmerman fear for his life, because one of his parents was white, makes no sense.
Some activists keep picking at the scabs of the past and refuse to allow healing to take place. Their memories of an unjust era still linger. I too recall vividly those old days and they were ugly. When my parents moved us to Texas in the late '40s we were shocked at the terrible treatment of people based only on skin color. In every phase of life, even in churches, minorities were humiliated. Fortunately this evil was put on the public agenda by both blacks and whites who courageously sacrificed themselves to show the country (and the world) just how unjust racial discrimination is, and how brutal the oppressors could be in defending that institution. We as a nation had a lot to learn.
Has there been progress or does the Zimmermann verdict show nothing has changed? I submit significant changes have been made. Acts have been passed by Congress to enfranchise blacks and ensure rights. Government officials such as a former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, a former Secretary of State, the current President and his Attorney General, as well as the Director of the ATF, are black. Clearly college campuses overwhelmingly support minority rights. Black studies are among the courses taught. I belonged to the Organization of American Historians for 30 years and can attest to the fact that minority views dominated the agendas of annual conferences. I challenge anyone to point out unfavorable views of minorities in the textbooks used in our schools. Actually, the slant is quite the opposite, and has been for the last 30 years. Our country doesn't need to apologize to the world, as the major media suggest.
Do problems still exist? Yes, but I suggest minorities need new leaders who have a vision for the future and seek reconciliation. Those seeking an individual case to enflame the public to demonstrate and destroy property do not serve the public interest. No enforcement agency will ever be entirely free of losers. A fresh approach would look at the real problems of disparity. Instead of just offering excuses and ignoring serious neighborhood problems, we need to dig a little deeper for solutions. We all know the heartbreaking statistics that stifle the achievement of the young. The conversation might begin with how the victim mentality is by its nature self defeating. Mrs. Obama had it right when she once told black school children that she's an example of how they too can make it. Good parenting, a stable family, possibly charter schools and decent role models worth emulating, might make good talking points. It would also be helpful in any constructive conversation to avoid labeling a different viewpoint as racist.
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I love 1/2 the songs on this album.
Starting Over was a great first single..
Clean Up Time is very funky
I'm Losing You is a very good mid tempo rocker
Beautiful boy is well, umm...beautiful.
Watching The Wheels---great autbiographic tale
Woman--Very Beatlesque--one of his best post-beatles vocals
Dear Yoko---only one that i don't like LOL
Too bad i have to skip every other song.[}:)]


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Appeals court hears permit case
LANSING – The Michigan Court of Appeals heard arguments Tuesday for and against overturning a permit to build a coal-fired power plant in Rogers City.
The Sierra Club and the Natural Resources Defense Council are appealing a decision upholding the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality's issuance of a permit to install to Wolverine Power Cooperative. That decision came in 2012 when an Ingham County Circuit Court judge affirmed the DEQ's actions. Nick Schroeck, an attorney with the Great Lakes Environmental Law Center who is representing both organizations, said the permit has technical issues with the levels of air toxins it would allow the proposed plant to release.
"In essence, we believe that the DEQ failed to include some essential emissions limits from the permit, mainly dealing with mercury and other air toxics," he said. "Our argument is those limits should have been included in the permit, and we've asked the court to remand or send the permit back to the DEQ to include the emissions limits.
While the litigation focuses on these particular issues, both the NRDC and the Sierra Club are on record opposing the plant, Schroeck said.
However, a brief filed by the Michigan Attorney General's office and the DEQ states the case is "moot" because the appeals court can't possibly "grant any effective relief" to the Sierra Club. This is because the DEQ no longer has the authority to set limits for mercury and other pollutants for coal-fired power plants.
When the DEQ issued the permit to Wolverine in 2011, the Environmental Protection Agency had no rules in place for hazardous air pollutants, according to the brief. Instead, the DEQ developed limits on a case-by-case basis based on "maximum achievable control technology." About six months after the permit was issued, the EPA adopted the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards, which supersede state limits on these pollutants.
"If this Court were to remand the case to MDEQ, Wolverine would instead be required to meet the emission limits in the MATS rule, a result that is no different than Wolverine's current obligations," the brief states.
The EPA had proposed its MATS a month before the DEQ issued Wolverine its permit, and federal law requires state agencies to consider proposed rules when developing case-by-case limits, the brief states. The DEQ did this, and determined to keep its own determination because the proposed rules may change before the EPA finalized them.
A decision by the United States Court of Appeals concerning a lawsuit challenging the MATS rule ultimately will have no effect on the case, the brief states. No matter how the court decides, the DEQ still will lack the authority to determine case-by-case emissions limits.
This appeal is the latest chapter in a lengthy saga surrounding Wolverine's permit dating back to 2007, when the power cooperative applied for it, according to the brief. The DEQ denied the permit based on a lack of need in 2010, a decision Wolverine appealed. They were successful, and the permit was finally issued in 2011. The Sierra Club and NRDC filed suit in September of the same year with the Ingham County Circuit Court, which upheld the DEQ's decision in March of 2012.
Ken Bradstreet, community and government affairs director for Wolverine, said the cooperative isn't directly involved with the lawsuit but supports the DEQ's decision.
"We support the fact that the state granted a permit, and believe that permit was lawfully granted," he said.


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Cool. I hope my post didn't offend anyone or look like I was questioning Biz's endurance and dedication or the awesomeness of his latest. This thread has been amazing.
....... Does anyone want me to ask John more questions about the Dry malt product or another Malt product?Norma
Ask John where the nearest MM is, and what his opinion is about the crust/texture/flavor/sweetness in relation to the product he represents.
The experiment using Peters MM#5 formulation with the Brer Rabbit Mild Flavored Molasses and Wildflower Honey went well today. The dough ball sat out for 4 ½ hrs to warm-up. The dough ball looked about the same color as MM dough balls, and opened well. The dough could be tossed and twirled. The pie baked well, and did have good oven spring and also a moist crumb rim. The color of the crumb also looked good to me.Steve, my taste testers, and I thought this attempt at a MM clone was really good.
I dont know if John sends me a Dry malt product sample to try if that will help this thread or not. Does anyone want me to ask John more questions about the Dry malt product or another Malt product?
Norma,Your latest MM clone pizza looks very good. But can you tell us how close a replica it was to a real MM pizza? And how did the latest pizza compare with other MM clone pizzas you have made?Peter
Norma,As between sucrose (table sugar), honey, molasses, brown sugar, and malt extract, the malt extract is the least sweet (if sucrose is 100 on a scale, malt extract is about 65). So, increasing the amount of malt extract and reducing the amount of molasses to get a 50/50 mix should mean less sweetness, not more. I'd be surprised that the new malt product that John at Malt Products wants to send to you changes that outcome. I believe the closest MM unit to John if he is in New Jersey is the new MM unit that you went to in DC.Peter
Do you advise any other changes to the formula for another attempt? All these clone MM doughs fascinate me in that the dough doesnt seem to ferment much when left at room temperature for awhile. I wonder what causes that.
Norma,I think that there are several possible reasons why you have not seen a lot of fermentation when the dough balls are left at room temperature prior to using. First, a frozen dough ball does not get much fermentation to begin with. You will get a little while the dough ball rests at room temperature for a brief period before placing into the freezer, and it will continue to ferment a bit longer until it freezes. Once frozen, there is zero fermentation. The real part of the fermentation occurs during defrosting and tempering before using the dough ball. But a good part of the time that the dough ball is in the refrigerator is spent defrosting. It might not be until the second day in the refrigerator that the dough ball experiences more fermentation. That fermentation will continue once the dough ball is removed from the refrigerator and allowed to temper at room temperature. Of course, a tempered dough will ferment faster in a warm room temperature environment than a cooler one, and it will ferment more if a long temper time is used as opposed to a shorter one. Second, molasses includes a mixture of simple sugars, and those sugars are fermented at different rates by the yeast. As noted previously, one of those simple sugars is fructose, and there is a fair amount of it (the sucrose is inverted by the enzyme invertase to fructose and glucose). Yeast prefers other simple sugars over fructose, so there may be reduced fermentation activity as a result, especially given that the window of "active" fermentation is fairly short to begin with--maybe not long enough for the yeast to ferment a good part of the fructose. If honey is also used, there is even more fructose in the dough (honey is 38% fructose). Third, a hydration of around 53-54% is low, even when effectively increased by a couple percent or so because of the water content of the liquid sweeteners and any added oil. All things being equal, a low hydration dough will ferment more slowly than a higher hydration dough. You would perhaps need a lot more yeast to see real signs of fermentation, as manifested by a significant rise in the dough.Fourth, freezing damages part of the yeast. The extent of the damage may vary from one case to another, including the temperature of the freezer, how fast the dough is frozen, whether the freezer has a defrost cycle, and the duration that the dough is held in the freezer. There may be other factors that affect the rate and degree of fermentation but I believe the above reasons are the main ones. Peter
Tonight, I made what turned out to be my closest copy to date of the 10 MM pizza (pepperoni) that I had this past August in Jacksonville Beach, Florida. The combination of sweeteners I used for this pizza was 7% Grandmas Original molasses and 6% cheap, generic, store-brand clover honey. The form factor of the pizza was almost perfect, with a large bulbous rim surrounding a sunken interior, just as I had experienced with the MM pizza that I had in Florida. That is something I have struggled to produce with my prior MM clone dough balls for some time, although I suspect that with practice I have gotten somewhat better at achieving this result. The sweetness of the crust, which has been a topic of much discussion and experimentation in this thread, was pretty much as I remembered it, and the color and texture of the rim and crumb were also as I remembered them. There were even some fermentation blisters but not quite as pronounced as the crust of the MM pizza that I had in Florida. Also, the rim of my pizza was uniform in height. The rim of the MM pizza that I had in Florida had high and low spots. The dough itself handled beautifully, better than any of the other MM clone doughs I have made to date. I think that the superior handling qualities helped achieve the sunken interior with the pronounced, bulbous rim that I have been striving to produce over the last few months. I had no trouble opening up the dough ball and stretching and tossing and spinning the skin. The steps I took to achieve these results were as follows. After making the dough (using my Cuisinart 14-cup food processor), I let it rest for about 15 minutes (to get some fermentation activity going) and then put it into the freezer compartment of my refrigerator. The dough was frozen for about six days. I decided to let the frozen dough defrost in the refrigerator for two days before using. The temper time (after I took the frozen dough ball out of the refrigerator) was about two hours, at a room temperature of around 76 degrees F. The dough at this point looked and felt like those I had seen in the various MM videos.The pizza itself was baked on a pizza stone (Cordierite) that I had placed on the lowest oven rack position of my electric oven and preheated for about an hour at around 525 degrees F. It took six minutes to bake the pizza. I did not have to lift the pizza off of the stone to a higher oven rack position to achieve better top crust coloration. There was plenty of sugars in the dough to achieve good crust coloration, both top and bottom. There was exceptional oven spring, which helped create the bulbous rim. Here are the particulars of the MM clone dough formulation, using the expanded dough calculating tool at http://www.pizzamaking.com/expanded_calculator.html:KABF/VWG Blend* (100%):Spring Water (53%):IDY (0.60%):Salt (2%):Vegetable (Soybean) Oil (2%):Cheap, Generic, Store Brand Clover Honey (6%):Grandmas Original Molasses (7%):Total (170.6%):203.4 g | 7.17 oz | 0.45 lbs107.8 g | 3.8 oz | 0.24 lbs1.22 g | 0.04 oz | 0 lbs | 0.41 tsp | 0.14 tbsp4.07 g | 0.14 oz | 0.01 lbs | 0.73 tsp | 0.24 tbsp4.07 g | 0.14 oz | 0.01 lbs | 0.9 tsp | 0.3 tbsp12.2 g | 0.43 oz | 0.03 lbs | 1.75 tsp | 0.58 tbsp14.24 g | 0.5 oz | 0.03 lbs | 2.06 tsp | 0.69 tbsp347 g | 12.24 oz | 0.77 lbs | TF = N/A*The KABF/VWG Blend comprises 197.74 gram (6.98 ounces) King Arthur bread flour and 5.66 grams (0.20 ounces) Hodgson Mill vital wheat glutenNote: The amount of dough is for a single 10 pizza, based on a nominal thickness factor of 0.15279; the adjusted hydration (to compensate for the water content of the molasses and the honey) = 55.6%; the effective hydration (that compensates for the oil) = 57.6%; the bowl residue compensation = 2%It should be noted from the above that the thickness factor that corresponds to the amount of dough (12 ounces) for a single 10 pizza is 0.15279. That is a larger value than used to make a 14 pizza (0.118684) that Norma and others have been making under this thread. As previously discussed, MM does not use the same thickness factor for all of its pizza sizes. Also, as noted above, I have been using King Arthur bread flour and an amount of Hodgson Mill vital wheat gluten to achieve a total protein content of 14.2%. I used the Mixed Mass Conversion Calculator at http://foodsim.toastguard.com/ to calculate the amount of vital wheat gluten needed to achieve the 14.2% total protein content of the KABF/VWG blend. Those with high-gluten flour are likely to achieve even better results, although it might be necessary to adjust the formula hydration slightly when using high-gluten flour. Peter


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Seahorse is the title given to forty-seven species of marine fish in the genus Hippocampus. "Hippocampus" comes from the Ancient Greek hippos meaning "horse" and kampos meaning "sea monster".[2]
Seahorses are mainly found in shallow tropical and temperate waters throughout the world, and prefer to live in sheltered areas such as seagrass beds, estuaries, coral reefs, or mangroves. In Pacific waters from North America to South America there are approximately four species. In the Atlantic, the H. erectus ranges from Nova Scotia to Uruguay. H. zosterae, known as the dwarf seahorse, is found in the Bahamas.
Colonies have been found in European waters such as the Thames Estuary.[3]
Three species live in the Mediterranean Sea: H. guttulatus (the long-snouted seahorse), H. hippocampus (the short-snouted seahorse) and H. fuscus (the sea pony). These species form territories; males stay within 1 square meter (11 sq ft) of their habitat while females range about one hundred times that.
Physical description
Seahorses range in size from 0.6 to 14 in.[4] They are named for their equine appearance. Although they are bony fish, they do not have scales but rather thin skin stretched over a series of bony plates, which are arranged in rings throughout their body. Each species has a distinct number of rings. Seahorses swim upright, another characteristic that is not shared by their close pipefish relatives, who swim horizontally. Unusual among fish, seahorses have a flexible, well-defined neck. They also sport a coronet on the head, which is distinct for each individual.
According to Guinness World Records 2009, H. zosterae (the dwarf seahorse) is the slowest moving fish, with a top speed of about 5 feet (150 cm) per hour.[5] They swim very poorly, rapidly fluttering a dorsal fin and using pectoral fins (located behind their eyes) to steer. Seahorses have no caudal fin. Since they are poor swimmers, they are most likely to be found resting with their prehensile tails wound around a stationary object. They have long snouts, which they use to suck up food, and eyes that can move independently of each other (like a chameleon).
Evolution and fossil record
Anatomical evidence, supported by molecular, physical, and genetic evidence, demonstrates that seahorses are highly modified pipefish. The fossil record of seahorses, however, is very sparse. The best known and best studied fossils are specimens of H. guttulatus (though literature more commonly refers to them under the synonym of H. ramulosus), from the Marecchia River Formation of Rimini Province, Italy, dating back to the Lower Pliocene, about 3 million years ago. The earliest known seahorse fossils are of two pipefish-like species, H. sarmaticus and H. slovenicus from the coprolitic horizon of Tunjice Hills, a middle Miocene lagerstätte in Slovenia dating back about 13 million years.[6] Molecular dating finds that pipefish and seahorses separated during the Late Oligocene. This has led to speculation that seahorses evolved in response to large areas of shallow-water, newly created as the result of tectonic events. The shallow water allowed the expansion of seagrass habitats that selected for the camouflage offered by the seahorses' upright posture.[7] These tectonic changes occurred in the Western Pacific Ocean suggesting an origin there with molecular data suggesting two later and separate invasions of the Atlantic Ocean.[8]
The male seahorse is equipped with a brood pouch on the ventral, or front-facing, side. When mating, the female seahorse deposits up to 1,500 eggs in the male's pouch. The male carries the eggs for 9 to 45 days until the seahorses emerge fully developed, but very small. Once the seahorses are released into the water, the male's role is done and he offers no further care.[9]
Before breeding, seahorses court for several days. Scientists believe the courtship behavior synchronizes the animals' movements so that the male can receive the eggs when the female is ready to deposit them. During this time they may change color, swim side by side holding tails or grip the same strand of sea grass with their tails and wheel around in unison in what is known as a "pre-dawn dance". They eventually engage in a "true courtship dance" lasting about 8 hours, during which the male pumps water through the egg pouch on his trunk which expands and opens to display its emptiness. When the female's eggs reach maturity, she and her mate let go of any anchors and snout-to-snout, drift upward out of the seagrass, often spiraling as they rise. The female inserts her ovipositor into the male's brood pouch and deposits dozens to thousands of eggs. As the female releases her eggs, her body slims while his swells. Both animals then sink back into the seagrass and she swims away.
The male releases his sperm directly into seawater where it fertilizes the eggs,[10] which are then embedded in the pouch wall and become surrounded by a spongy tissue.[11] The male supplies the eggs with prolactin, the same hormone responsible for milk production in pregnant mammals. The pouch provides oxygen as well as a controlled environment incubator. The eggs then hatch in the pouch where the salinity of the water is regulated; this prepares the newborns for life in the sea.[12][13] Throughout gestation, which in most species requires two to four weeks, his mate visits him daily for "morning greetings". They interact for about 6 minutes, reminiscent of courtship. The female then swims away until the next morning, and the male returns to vacuuming up food through his snout.[12]
Research published in 2007 indicates the male releases sperm into the surrounding sea water during fertilization, and not directly into the pouch as previously thought.[14]
The number of young released by the male seahorse averages 100–200 for most species, but may be as low as 5 for the smaller species, or as high as 1,500. When the fry are ready to be born, the male expels them with muscular contractions. He typically gives birth at night and is ready for the next batch of eggs by morning when his mate returns. Like almost all other fish species, seahorses do not nurture their young after birth. Infants are susceptible to predators or ocean currents which wash them away from feeding grounds or into temperatures too extreme for their delicate bodies. Less than 0.5% of infants survive to adulthood, explaining why litters are so large. These survival rates are actually fairly high compared to other fish, because of their protected gestation, making the process worth the great cost to the father. The eggs of most other fish are abandoned immediately after fertilization.[13]
Questions surrounding reproductive roles
Reproduction is energetically costly to the male. This brings into question why the sexual role reversal even takes place. In an environment where one partner incurs more energy costs than the other, Bateman's principle suggests that the lesser contributor takes the role of the aggressor. Male seahorses are more aggressive and sometimes "fight" for female attention. According to Amanda Vincent of Project Seahorse, only males tail-wrestle and snap their heads at each other. This discovery prompted further study of energy costs. To estimate the female's direct contribution, researcher Heather D. Masonjones, associate professor of biology at the University of Tampa, chemically analyzed the energy stored in each egg. To measure the burden on the male, Masonjones measured its oxygen consumption. By the end of incubation, the male consumed almost 33% more oxygen than before mating. The study concluded that the female's energy expenditure while generating eggs is twice that of males during incubation[12] confirming the standard hypothesis.
Why the male seahorse (and other members of Syngnathidae) carries the offspring through gestation is unknown, though some researchers[citation needed] believe it allows for shorter birthing intervals, in turn resulting in more offspring. Given an unlimited number of ready and willing partners, males have the potential to produce 17 percent more offspring than females in a breeding season. Also, females have "time-outs" from the reproductive cycle that are 1.2 times longer than those of males. This seems to be based on mate choice, rather than physiology. When the female's eggs are ready, she must lay them in a few hours or eject them into the water column. Making eggs is a huge cost to her physically, since they amount to about a third of her body weight. To protect against losing a clutch, the female demands a long courtship. The daily greetings help to cement the bond between the pair.
One common misconception about seahorses is that they mate for life. Many species of seahorses form pair bonds that last through at least the breeding season. Some species show a higher level of mate fidelity than others.[15][16] However, many species readily switch mates when the opportunity arises. H. abdominalis and H. breviceps have been shown to breed in groups, showing no continuous mate preference. Many more species mating habits have not been studied, so it is unknown how many species are actually monogamous, or how long those bonds actually last.[17]
Although monogamy within fish is not common, it does appear to exist for some. In this case, the mate guarding hypothesis may be an explanation. This hypothesis states "males remain with a single female because of ecological factors that make male parental care and protection of offspring especially advantageous."[18] Because the rates of survival for newborn seahorses are so low, incubation is essential. Though not proven, males could have taken on this role because of the lengthy period the females require to produce their eggs. If males incubate while females prepare the next clutch (amounting to 1/3 of body weight), they can reduce the interval between clutches.
Feeding habits
Seahorses feed on small crustaceans floating in the water or crawling on the bottom. With excellent camouflage and a lot of patience, seahorses ambush prey that float within striking range. Mysid shrimp and other small crustaceans are favorites, but some seahorses have been observed eating other kinds of invertebrates and even larval fish. While feeding they produce a distinctive click each time a food item is ingested. The same clicks are heard with social interactions.
Threats of extinction
Many seahorse species are data deficient, and there is insufficient information to make an assessment about their risk of extinction. Because the seahorse population is unknown, there is a risk of losing more seahorses because of the lack of information about how many are dying each year, how many are being born, the number used for souvenirs, etc. Coral reefs and seagrass beds are deteriorating, reducing viable habitats for seahorses.[19]
While many aquarium hobbyists keep seahorses as pets, seahorses collected from the wild tend to fare poorly in home aquaria. Many eat only live foods such as brine shrimp and are prone to stress, which damages their immune systems and makes them susceptible to disease.
In recent years, however, captive breeding has become more popular. Such seahorses survive better in captivity, and are less likely to carry diseases. They eat frozen mysidacea (crustaceans) that are readily available from aquarium stores,[20] and do not experience the stress of moving out of the wild. Although captive-bred seahorses are more expensive, they take no toll on wild populations.
Seahorses should be kept in an aquarium to themselves, or with compatible tank-mates. Seahorses are slow feeders, so fast, aggressive feeders will leave them without food.[20]
Seahorses can co-exist with many species of shrimp and other bottom-feeding creatures. Gobies also make good tank-mates. Keepers are generally advised to avoid eels, tangs, triggerfish, squid, octopus, and sea anemones.[21]
Animals sold as "freshwater seahorses" are usually the closely related pipefish, of which a few species live in the lower reaches of rivers. The supposed true "freshwater seahorse" called H. aimei was not a real species, but a name sometimes used for Barbour's and Hedgehog seahorses. The latter is a species that can be found in brackish waters, but not actually a freshwater fish.[22]
Use in Chinese medicine
Seahorse populations are thought to have been endangered in recent years by overfishing and habitat destruction. The seahorse is used in traditional Chinese herbology, and as many as 20 million seahorses may be caught each year and sold for this purpose.[23] Medicinal seahorses are not readily bred in captivity as they are susceptible to disease, and it is believed that they have different medicinal properties from aquarium seahorses. Seahorses are also used as medicines by the Indonesians, the Central Filipinos, and many other ethnic groups.
Import and export of seahorses has been controlled under CITES since May 15, 2004. However, Indonesia, Japan, Norway, and South Korea have chosen to opt out of the trade rules set by CITES.
The problem may be exacerbated by the growth of pills and capsules as the preferred method of ingesting medication. They are cheaper and more available than traditional, individually-tailored prescriptions of raw medicinals, but the contents are harder to track. Seahorses once had to be of a certain size and quality before they were accepted by TCM practitioners and consumers. Declining availability of the preferred large, pale and smooth seahorses has been offset by the shift towards prepackaged medicines, which make it possible for TCM merchants to sell previously unused juvenile, spiny and dark-coloured animals. Today almost a third of the seahorses sold in China are prepackaged, adding to the pressure on the species.[24]
List of species
- H. abdominalis, big-belly seahorse, southern and eastern Australia and New Zealand (Lesson, 1827)
- H. alatus, winged seahorse (Kuiter, 2001)
- H. algiricus, West African seahorse (Kaup, 1856)
- H. angustus, narrow-bellied seahorse (Günther, 1870)
- H. barbouri, Barbour's seahorse (Jordan & Richardson, 1908)
- H. bargibanti, pygmy seahorse, western Pacific (Whitley, 1970)
- H. biocellatus, false-eyed seahorse (Kuiter, 2001)
- H. borboniensis, Réunion seahorse (Duméril, 1870)
- H. breviceps, knobby seahorse, southern and eastern Australia (Peters, 1869)
- H. camelopardalis, giraffe seahorse (Bianconi, 1854)
- H. capensis, cape seahorse (Boulenger, 1900)
- H. colemani (Kuiter, 2003)
- H. comes, tiger tail seahorse (Cantor, 1850)
- H. coronatus, crowned seahorse (Temminck & Schlegel, 1850)
- H. denise, Denise's pygmy seahorse (Lourie & Randall, 2003)
- H. erectus, lined seahorse, western Atlantic (Perry, 1810)
- H. fisheri, Fisher's seahorse (Jordan & Evermann, 1903)
- H. fuscus, sea pony (Rüppell, 1838) (Indian Ocean)
- H. grandiceps, big-head seahorse (Kuiter, 2001)
- H. guttulatus, long-snouted seahorse (Cuvier, 1829)
- H. hendriki, eastern spiny seahorse (Kuiter, 2001)
- H. hippocampus, short-snouted seahorse, the Mediterranean and the Atlantic (Linnaeus, 1758)
- H. histrix, spiny seahorse, Indo-Pacific (Kaup, 1856)
- H. ingens, Pacific seahorse, eastern Pacific (Girard, 1858)
- H. jayakari, Jayakar's seahorse (Boulenger, 1900)
- H. jugumus, collared seahorse (Kuiter, 2001)
- H. kelloggi, great seahorse (Jordan & Snyder, 1901)
- H. kuda, common seahorse (Bleeker, 1852)
- H. lichtensteinii, Lichtenstein's seahorse (Kaup, 1856)
- H. minotaur, bullneck seahorse (Gomon, 1997)
- H. mohnikei, Japanese seahorse (Bleeker, 1854)
- H. montebelloensis, Monte Bello seahorse (Kuiter, 2001)
- H. multispinus, northern spiny seahorse (Kuiter, 2001)
- H. pontohi (Lourie and Kuiter, 2008)
- H. procerus, high-crown seahorse (Kuiter, 2001)
- H. queenslandicus, Queensland seahorse (Horne, 2001)
- H. reidi, slender seahorse, Caribbean coral reefs (Ginsburg, 1933)
- H. satomiae, Satomi's pygmy seahorse (Lourie and Kuiter, 2008)
- H. semispinosus, half-spined seahorse (Kuiter, 2001)
- H. severnsi (Lourie and Kuiter, 2008)
- H. sindonis, Shiho's seahorse (Jordan & Snyder, 1901)
- H. spinosissimus, hedgehog seahorse (Weber, 1913)
- H. subelongatus, West Australian seahorse (Castelnau, 1873)
- H. trimaculatus, longnose seahorse (Leach, 1814)
- H. whitei, White's seahorse, eastern Australia (Bleeker, 1855)
- H. zebra, zebra seahorse (Whitley, 1964)
- H. zosterae, dwarf seahorse, Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean (Jordan & Gilbert, 1882)
Pygmy seahorses
Pygmy seahorses are less than 15 millimeters (0.59 in) tall and 17 millimeters (0.67 in) wide members of the genus. Previously the term was applied exclusively to the species H. bargibanti but since 1997, discoveries have made this term obsolete. The species H. minotaur, H. denise, H. colemani, H. pontohi, H. severnsi and H. satomiae have been described. Other species that are believed to be unclassified have also been reported in books, dive magazines and on the Internet. They can be distinguished from other species of seahorse by their 12 trunk rings, low number of tail rings (26–29), the location in which young are brooded in the trunk region of males and their extremely small size.[25] Molecular analysis (of ribosomal RNA) of 32 Hippocampus species found that H. bargibanti belongs in a separate clade from other members of the genus and therefore that the species diverged from the other species in the "ancient" past.[26]
Most pygmy seahorses are well camouflaged and live in close association with other organisms including colonial hydrozoans (Lytocarpus and Antennellopsis), coralline algae (Halimeda) sea fans (Muricella, Annella, Acanthogorgia). This combined with their small size accounts for why most species have only been noticed and classified since 2001.[25][27]
- ^ Hippocampus Rafinesque, 1810, WoRMS
- ^ Duvernoy, HM (2005). "Introduction". The Human Hippocampus (3rd ed.). Berlin: Springer-Verlag. p. 1. ISBN 3-540-23191-9. http://books.google.com.au/books?id=5GkpPjk5z1IC&pg=PP1&dq=Duvernoy,+The+Human+Hippocampus&client=firefox-a&cd=1#v=onepage&q=&f=true.
- ^ "Rare seahorses breeding in Thames". BBC News. 2008-04-07. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7333980.stm. Retrieved 2009-11-11.
- ^ "Seahorses, Seahorse Pictures, Seahorse Facts". National Geographic. http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/fish/sea-horse/. Retrieved 2012-05-17.
- ^ Guinness Book of World Records (2009)
- ^ Žalohar J., Hitij T., Križnar M. (2009). "Two new species of seahorses (Syngnathidae, Hippocampus) from the Middle Miocene (Sarmatian) Coprolitic Horizon in Tunjice Hills, Slovenia: The oldest fossil record of seahorses". Annales de Paléontologie 95 (2): 71–96. doi:10.1016/j.annpal.2009.03.002.
- ^ Teske PR, Beheregaray LB (2009). "Evolution of seahorses' upright posture was linked to Oligocene expansion of seagrass habitats". Biol Lett. 5 (4): 521–3. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2009.0152. PMC 2781918. PMID 19451164. //www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=2781918.
- ^ Teske PR, Cherry MI, Matthee CA (2004). "The evolutionary history of seahorses (Syngnathidae: Hippocampus): molecular data suggest a West Pacific origin and two invasions of the Atlantic Ocean". Mol Phylogenet Evol. 30 (2): 273–86. doi:10.1016/S1055-7903(03)00214-8. PMID 14715220.
- ^ Foster S.J, Vincent C.J. (2004). "Life history and ecology of seahorses: implications for conservation and management". Journal of Fish Biology 65: 1–61. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8649.2004.00429.x. http://www.seaturtle.org/PDF/Foster_2004_JFishBiol.pdf.
- ^ Sex and the seahorse
- ^ "The biology of seahorses: Reproduction". The Seahorse Project. http://seahorse.fisheries.ubc.ca/biology5.html. Retrieved 2007-05-08.
- ^ a b c Milius, Susan (2000). "Pregnant—and Still Macho - seahorses | Science News | Find Articles at BNET.com". Findarticles.com. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1200/is_11_157/ai_61291647/pg_1. Retrieved 2009-11-11.
- ^ a b "Seahorse Fathers Take Reins in Childbirth". News.nationalgeographic.com. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/06/0614_seahorse_recov.html. Retrieved 2009-11-11.
- ^ Connor, Steve (2007-01-19). "Sex and the seahorse". London: The Independent. http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_technology/article2165477.ece. Retrieved 2009-11-11.
- ^ Kvarnemo C, Moore G.I, Jones A.G, Nelson W.S, Avise J.C. (2000). "Monogamous pair bonds and mate switching in the Western Australian seahorse Hippocampus subelongatus". J. Evol. Biol. 13 (6): 882–8. doi:10.1046/j.1420-9101.2000.00228.x. http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/119188977/PDFSTART.
- ^ Vincent C.J., Sadler L.M. (1995). "Faithful pair bonds in wild seahorses, Hippocampus whitei". Anim. Behav. 50: 1557–1569. doi:10.1016/0003-3472(95)80011-5. http://courses.umass.edu/wfcon470/Vincent%20and%20Sadler%2095.pdf.
- ^ "What's Love Got to Do With It? The Truth About Seahorse Monogamy". fusedjaw.com. http://www.fusedjaw.com/biology/seahorse-monogamy/. Retrieved 2010-10-09.
- ^ Alcock, John. Animal Behavior (8th ed.). Massachusetts: Sinauer. pp. 370–1.
- ^ Lourie, Sarah A., Sarah J. Foster, Ernest W.T. Cooper, and Amanda C.J. Vincent. "A Guide to the Identification of Seahorses." Project Seahorse Advancing Marine Conservation (2004): 1-120. Print.
- ^ a b "Seahorse and Pipefish Foods | Tami Weiss". Fusedjaw.com. 2005-06-25. http://www.fusedjaw.com/food-and-nutrition/seahorse-foods-and-feeding/. Retrieved 2009-11-11.
- ^ "Seahorse Tankmates | Will Wooten". Fusedjaw.com. 2004-06-25. http://www.fusedjaw.com/aquariumcare/seahorse-tankmates-whats-safe-whats-not/. Retrieved 2009-11-11.
- ^ "Hippocampus spinosissimus". Fishbase. http://fishbase.org/Summary/speciesSummary.php?ID=25974&genusname=Hippocampus&speciesname=spinosissimus. Retrieved 2009-11-11.
- ^ "Seahorse Crusader Amanda Vincent" on Nova television show
- ^ New Scientist, January 1995 "Can we tame wild medicine?"
- ^ a b Lourie, Sara; Rudie Kuiter (2008). "Three new pygmy seahorse species from Indonesia (Teleostei: Syngnathidae: Hippocampus)". Zootaxa (Magnolia Press) 1963: 54–68. ISSN 1175-5334. http://seahorse.fisheries.ubc.ca/pubs/2008/Lourie_and_Kuiter2008.pdf. Retrieved 9 June 2009.
- ^ Teske, Peter; Michael Cherry and Conrad Matthee (February 2004). "The evolutionary history of seahorses (Syngnathidae: Hippocampus): molecular data suggest a West Pacific origin and two invasions of the Atlantic Ocean". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 30 (2): 273–286. doi:10.1016/S1055-7903(03)00214-8. PMID 14715220.
- ^ Epoch Times Staff. (8/11/2011.) "Science in Pictures: Pygmy Seahorses." The Epoch Times, Northern California Edition.
Further reading
- Amanda C.J. Vincent and Laila M. Sadler (1995). "Faithful pair bonds in wild seahorse, Hippocampus whitei". Animal Behaviour 50: 1557–69. doi:10.1016/0003-3472(95)80011-5.
- Amanda C.J. Vincent (1995). "A role for daily greetings in maintaining seahorse pair bonds". Animal Behaviour 49: 258–260. doi:10.1016/0003-3472(95)80178-2.
- Amanda C.J. Vincent (1990). "A seahorse father makes a good mother". Natural History 12: 34–43.
- Amanda C.J. Vincent and Rosie Woodroffe (1994). "Mothers little helpers: patterns of male care in mammals". Trends in Ecology and Evolution 9: 294–7. doi:10.1016/0169-5347(94)90033-7.
- John Sparks (1999). Battle of the Sexes: The Natural History of Sex. London: BBC Books. ISBN 0-563-37145-5.
- Sara A. Lourie, Amanda C.J. Vincent and Heather J. Hall (1999). Seahorses: An Identification Guide to the World's Species and their Conversation. London: Project Seahorse.
- Teske P. R., Hamilton H., Matthee C. A. & Barker N. P. (2007). "Signatures of seaway closures and founder dispersal in the phylogeny of a circumglobally distributed seahorse lineage". BMC Evolutionary Biology 7: 138. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-7-138. PMC 1978501. PMID 17697373. http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/7/138.


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Directions to Queen's
By Car
- From Montréal
- West on Autoroute 720, then west on Autoroute 20, then west on Ontario's Highway 401
- About 290 km, or about 3 hours by car
- From Ottawa
- South on Highway 416, and west on Highway 401
- About 200 km, or about 2 hours by car
- From Toronto
- East on Highway 401
- About 260 km, or about 2.75 hours by car
- From Syracuse
- North on I-81 to the border of Canada
- West on Thousand Islands Bridge to Highway 401
- West on Highway 401
- About 215 km, or about 2.5 hours by car
Exit: Follow Highway 401 to Kingston and exit south on Sir John A. Macdonald Blvd. (exit 615).
Follow this street south to Union Street, which is at the eighth set of traffic lights.
Turn left onto Union and continue for approximately 10 blocks to the Queen's campus.
Parking: Paid, underground parking is available off Stuart Street at University Avenue (see campus map for parking location)
By Train, Bus, or Air (and Taxi)
- Train service to Kingston arrives at the Kingston VIA Rail Station
- Bus service arrives at the John Counter Blvd. Bus Terminal
- Flights arrive at Kingston's Norman Rogers Airport
- The Queen's campus is about a $15 taxi ride from station, terminal, and airport
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When you think of Dickies, think tough and rugged. These jeans are both! These jeans feature ultra warm flannel lining for keeping warm on those chilly work days. Dark denim hue with a classic five pocket construction. Jeans are made of 100% cotton. Imported.
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Hello, my name is Greg Wilke and I need your help.
I am building a Stampede but not like most builds. Instead of new and upgraded parts I am going to use only broken and damaged and ugly parts. Hence Frankenpede. I have made only 1 rule for my build, no new parts. How can you help? 2 ways.
1. I would like ideas, suggestions, input, and tips to help make this the ugliest "I can't believe this thing runs"-Pede.
2. I need broken parts. I can only break so many with my daily and abusive bashing :) See my marketplace post for more info please.
Day 1. Only aftermarket part is an RPM bumper, and willl be THE ONLY aftermarket part on there aside from a wheelie bar (for obvious reasons)
A week or so later...broken front turnbuckle, front chassis brace, and servo case
Broken front chassis brace fixed with zip ties and electrical tape (broke into MANY pieces)
Did some body work with drywall tape and shoe goo. But the body is still way too pretty still..
Almost 2 months later (and I'm not easy on my truck) And still looks way too good. Other than a bent caster block and servo saver, no new noticable damage.
Some zip ties, glue, and velcro and a few adjustments later and still 100% functional, but NOWHERE NEAR done. I want this thing to be ugly. I want to sew together a body from 4 or 5 broken bodies. I want mismatched colored parts. I want bent and broken arms, towers, links etc etc. And I want the truck to run like day 1. So far so good :) Please help!!!! Thank you,
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Refrigerated Banana Pudding
- 3/4 cup granulated sugar, plus 2 tablespoons
- 3 tablespoons cornstarch
- 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
- 2 large eggs
- 1 large egg yolk
- 2 cups whole milk
- 3 tablespoons unsalted butter, cut into 6 pieces and chilled
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 45 vanilla wafers
- 4 ounces banana liqueur
- 3 ripe bananas, peeled and sliced into 1/4-inch rounds
- 1 tablespoon freshly squeezed lemon juice
- 1 cup heavy whipping cream, very cold
DirectionsWatch how to make this recipe.
Combine 3/4 cup of the sugar, the cornstarch and salt in a 3-quart saucier. Add the eggs and egg yolk and whisk to combine. Add the milk and whisk until well combined, about 30 seconds. Cook over medium-low heat, stirring constantly until the mixture reaches 172 to 180 degrees F, approximately 5 to 10 minutes. The mixture will begin to
thicken and bubble around the edges. Remove from the heat and whisk in the butter, 1 piece at a time, being sure each piece is fully incorporated before adding the next. Whisk in the vanilla extract. Cover the surface of the pudding with a round piece of parchment and refrigerate until the pudding reaches 45 degrees F, approximately 2 hours.
Lay the vanilla wafers on a half sheet pan. Slowly and evenly pour the banana liqueur over the cookies. Set aside for 10 minutes.
Toss the banana slices with the lemon juice in a small bowl and set aside.
Spread a small amount of pudding in the bottom of a 1 1/2-quart glass mixing bowl. Cover with a layer of vanilla wafers, followed by a layer of banana slices. Spoon 1/3 of the remaining pudding on top of the bananas and repeat, ending with a layer of pudding.
Put the whipping cream in the bowl of a stand mixer, add the remaining 2 tablespoons of sugar and whisk just until stiff peaks form. Spoon the whipped cream over the cooled pudding and spread to cover completely. Top with any remaining soaked cookies. Refrigerate for 30 minutes before serving. Store, covered, in the refrigerator for up to 3 days.
Recipe courtesy of Alton Brown, 2010
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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton met with Nigerian Foreign Minister Olugbenga Ashiru today at the Department of State in Washington, DC. After their meeting, Secretary Clinton said:
"...I am very pleased to have the foreign minister of Nigeria here, and I will address the concerns that we discussed. But I first want to begin with a statement about the assault on Ambassador Robert Ford and our Embassy staff in Syria this morning.
"We condemn this unwarranted attack in the strongest possible terms. Ambassador Ford and his aides were conducting normal Embassy business, and this attempt to intimidate our diplomats through violence is wholly unjustified.
"We immediately raised this incident with the Syrian Government, and we are demanding that they take every possible step to protect our diplomats according to their obligations under international law. Ambassador Ford has shown admirable courage putting himself on the line to bear witness to the situation on the ground in Syria. He is a vital advocate for the legitimate aspirations of the Syrian people now under siege by the Asad regime. I encourage the United States Senate to show our support for Ambassador Ford by confirming him as soon as possible, so he can continue, fully confirmed, his critical and courageous work.
"Now, I'm delighted to welcome the foreign minister. Minister Ashiru is a great diplomat. He's been serving his country for many years and we had an opportunity today to follow up on the meeting that I had in New York with President Jonathan. We have worked closely with the people and Government of Nigeria over the last two and a half years to make progress in key areas.
"The U.S.-Nigeria Binational Commission is our flagship agreement for bilateral cooperation on the entire African continent. When we signed the agreement just 17 months ago, we set bold goals for ourselves. Today, the foreign minister and I discussed how far we have come in each area of the commission, including advancing good governance, promoting energy access and reliability, improving food security, dealing with extremism, and so much else.
"Our joint efforts leading up to Nigeria's elections in April deserve particular attention because we worked so closely with the government and civil society to improve transparency, to address the political and logistical challenges of the elections. And for the first time in recent history, Nigeria held elections that were widely hailed as credible and effective. And we know that over 90 percent of Nigerians thought the elections were free and fair. That is up from 30 percent just a short four years ago. So the people of Nigeria are making strides every day and consolidating their democracy and the institutions of democracy.
"Nigeria has also played an important role on global issues through its seat on the UN Security Council and has been a leader in helping to improve stability in West Africa. Nigeria played a key role in supporting the difficult democratic transitions in Cote d'Ivoire, Guinea, and Niger. Nigeria's own example of credible elections provides it with great credibility in democracy promotion across the continent.
"So as we continue our close cooperation through the second year of our Binational Commission, we will set forth our priorities, and they include improving governance, fighting corruption, delivering services more effectively to the people. We are working toward a strong anticorruption agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, and other ways we can promote transparency.
"Economic development is key; Nigeria is one of the fastest-growing economies in the world, with the largest population in Africa and strong trading relationships. We want to see Nigeria prosper and grow. To this end, the United States Overseas Private Investment Corporation, OPIC, has just approved $250 million in financing to help revitalize the Union Bank of Nigeria, and to reach previously un-banked people in Nigeria. And we will look for ways to support Nigeria as it reduces inequality and builds a broader base for prosperity.
"Finally, we will stand with Nigeria as it faces serious security issues. The bombing of the UN headquarters in Abuja last month was a horrific and cowardly act, and we want to work with Nigeria and West Africa to improve security and to make sure that we also address the legitimate needs of people before extremists have a chance to exploit them.
"So again, Minister, our goals for the second year of the Binational Commission are just as ambitious as our goals for the first. We look forward to working closely with you, and I thank you for your long-standing commitment to the relationship between our two countries."
You can read the full transcript of Secretary Clinton's remarks with Foreign Minister Ashiru here.


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Second dog killed in wolf attack
By STEPHEN ANDERSON
For The Daily News
ATLANTIC MINE – A wolf fatally attacked a sled dog in Houghton County's Atlantic Mine, the second such attack within a month in the vicinity, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources said.
"We got this reported to us yesterday, sent an officer to the site, and he did confirm he felt it was a wolf that killed this animal," Brian Roell, DNR biologist, said Tuesday.
The 18-year-old, 60-pound retired sled dog was allowed to walk freely, and according to tracks in the area, the DNR believes it was a single wolf that made the attack. The rural property owner's name was not released.
"In this case we didn't have a carcass to look at, so we simply make the identification by wolf tracks," Roell said.
Another dog, a 150-pound Newfoundland dog, was killed by a wolf in Atlantic Mine on April 28, and according to Roell, farmer Rich Johnson was awarded a 30-day permit to kill wolves on his property. He successfully killed one wolf, and his permit is still active.
No other reports of wolf problems have been reported in the area.
The DNR encourages people to call only when wolves create a problem in an area, but because of the second attack in Atlantic Mine, Roell advises people to report even just sightings of wolves in that area.
The DNR office in Baraga can be reached at (906) 353-6651, and the Marquette office at (906) 228-6561.


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James McAvoy Gossip
James McAvoy gossip, latest news, photos, and video.
The McDuffs: Best BAFTA Couple
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Eddie Redmayne and Hannah Bagshaw. Benedict Cumberbatch and Sophie Turner. Even Keira Knightley and James Righton. All fine and worthy candidates, sure. But for me, the title of Best BAFTA Couple belongs to the McDuffs, Anne-Marie Duff and James McAvoy, arguably the most acclaimed (though underrated) couple in the business. Full Story
James McAvoy great reviews
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James McAvoy was joined by Anne-Marie Duff last night in London at the after-party following the gala performance of The Ruling Class. I love them, I love them, I love them. And every time I see them, I feel joy and relief. Mostly joy. Joy for them now because they are celebrating. They are celebrating the success of the play. Full Story
Smutty Roundup: West End James, Shaki bump portraits, and Katie in Berlin
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James McAvoy kicked off previews for his latest West End run on Friday in a new production of The Ruling Class. He plays Jack, "the 14th Earl of Gurney… a possible paranoid schizophrenic with a Messiah complex, (who) inherits the title of the 14th Earl of Gurney after his father passes away in a bizarre accident. Full Story
James McAvoy sings Barry Manilow
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And he can! He can! James McAvoy was on Jonathan Ross this weekend. So was Barry Manilow. And it turns out McAvoy is a Fanilow. He told Ross that he used to dress up in his sisters "wee white trousers" as a kid to sing "the love story of Tony and Lola". McAvoy is all about Copacabana. Full Story
Perving on James McAvoy
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Best day ever. Brange is married. Drama at the Beygency. And James McAvoy photos! We just need Hot Prince Harry to pull his pants down now. So here's James McAvoy in New York yesterday promoting The Disappearance Of Eleanor Rigby. I feel like he's never looked/been sexier. Or, you know, you could just listen to him talking to Letterman about his bachelor party. Full Story
X-Men and Don Draper
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There were a lot of studs on Good Morning America today. From the X-Men franchise: Hugh Jackman, James McAvoy, and can we call Ellen Page a stud for being a straight-up badass? As you can see, Hugh and James have great chemistry. At one point James was massaging Hugh's head. And maybe seeing what he'd look like if he had his eyes lifted. Full Story
X-Men dancing
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Have you seen this yet? All credit to Hugh Jackman who just…he just…he makes everyone better. Like if you're on a press tour with Hugh Jackman, or doing a three-way interview with him, you're compelled to be as charming and as charismatic as he is. Because otherwise, you just end up looking like a sulky f-ck. Full Story
Mutants squinting
There's a behind-the-scenes video of a photo shoot featuring James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender for DETAILS making its way around today. Obviously for the upcoming X-Men: Days Of Future Past release. Both are squinting real hard through their shots. The furrowed brow. The stern expressions. Full Story
Jennifer Lawrence: NY Easter
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Jennifer Lawrence spent part of Easter Sunday with friends in Soho yesterday. X-Men: Days Of Future Past comes out in a month. And since she's among the most famous/celebrated/popular members of the cast, they'll want to see a lot of her in the press. If you check the movie on IMDB Full Story
Hugh & James are coming
Wasn't super excited about X-Men: Days Of Future Past until this morning. Because look at these great shots of Hugh Jackman and James McAvoy promoting the film in London today. They're both in leather jackets. Great. They're both hot, obviously. Great. But they're also our favourites – two of the nicest, kindest actors in the business, always gracious, always generous, always fun. Full Story
James wins
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An emotional James McAvoy accepted Best Actor at the British Independent Film Awards in London last night for his performance in Filth. "It's like Scotland's won the World Cup", he said. Filth recently secured North American distribution but still won't be released until Spring 2014. Full Story