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Robert Bowling
Studio Robotoki has ceased operations, Human Element on hold
Robert Bowling's development studio Robotoki has shut it's doors and its apocalyptic survival game is now "on hiatus."
Robert Bowling headlines
Human Element is no longer free-to-play, new publisher to be announced
After revealing Nexon as the publisher of Human Element back in May, Robotoki has announced the two companies have dissolved the partnership as the open-world first-person survival game will no longer be free-to-play title.
Human Element to be published worldwide by Nexon
Human Element, the open-world first-person survival title developed by Robotoki Inc.and led by Robert Bowling, will be published by Nexon.
Robotoki to use CryEngine to develop Human Element
Crytek has announced a CryEngine licensing deal with Robert Bowling's studio, Robotoki. The team will use the engine to develop Human Element for PC and consoles. The open-world survival game, which challenges players to rebuild society 35 years after a zombie apocalypse. Players will have to learn to adapt as the world "evolves based on […]
Breach & Clear out now from former Call of Duty leader
Former Infinity Ward creative strategist Robert Bowling has released his latest game, Breach & Clear, on the App Store. The military tactics title is on sale for $2 to celebrate its launch, and if you pick it up before the first title update you'll score an exclusive weapon. The game boasts three factions, loads of […]
Robotoki police raid results in face off with Call of Duty statue
The following article contains absolutely no news regarding upcoming or current release video games but it is pretty hilarious.
Robotoki's The Adventures of Dash Kickstarter ends well short of goal
The funding round for The Adventures of Dash, the Kickstarter project from Robert Bowling's Robotoki studio, had ended well short of its $400,000 goal with only $33,121 pledged by 496 backers.
Robotoki takes to Kickstarter for The Adventures of Dash
Former Call of Duty creative strategist Robert Bowling has a new project on the go – a crowd-funded 2D puzzle platformer called The Adventures of Dash.
Breach & Clear is Robert Bowling's new game
Former Infinity Ward poster boy Robert Bowling has teamed up with Saturday Morning RPG developer Mighty Rabbit Games for a new mobile title called Breach & Clear.
Human Element prequel confirmed for Ouya console
Robert Bowling's Human Element will receive an episodic prequel on the Ouya console. The announcement was made via an update on the console's Kickstarter page.
Human Element players earn resources from location check-ins
Robert Bowling's apocalyptic survival sim Human Element will allow players to use their knowledge of real world resources to assist them in-game.
"You can't let business objectives guide your creative decisions," says Bowling
Robert Bowling has said while working on the Call of Duty franchise for seven years, he learned what works well and what doesn't.
Bowling started Robotoki to create a game "no one else was doing yet"
Robert Bowling has reiterated he started his own development studio in order create something new and get a fresh start, thus one of the reasons he didn't join up with former Infinity Ward co-workers at Respawn.
Human Element is Bowling's zombie apocalypse game, slated for 2015
Robert Bowling has revealed his firm's first project, Human Element, will focus on surviving the zombie apocalypse.
Bowling left Activision to follow his "passion to create new opportunities and experiences"
Robert Bowling has said when he made the decision to leave Activision he knew with his next venture he wanted to "create new opportunities and experiences."
Ex-Call of Duty dev Robert Bowling founds Robotoki
Former Call of Duty community manager and creative director Robert Bowling is at the helm of a new development studio, Robotoki.
Robert Bowling exits Call of Duty, Infinity Ward, Activision
Call of Duty strategist Robert Bowling, long one of the franchise's most well known faces, has abruptly announced his departure from the whole shebang.
Modern Warfare 3 Xbox 360 double XP weekend extended
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Xbox 360 players will enjoy bonus experience for a little longer than previously scheduled after a prime time outage threatened to ruin the fun.
Infinity Ward and Treyarch share CoD feedback "as a franchise as a whole"
Call of Duty developers Treyarch and Infinity Ward have a famous rivalry, but have joined forces to share feedback for the good of the franchise.
Infinity Ward to fix MW3 DLC single profile lock
Infinity Ward is working on a fix that will enable the first bit of DLC for Modern Warfare 3 Elite subs to be available to multiple users, the studio has said.
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Studio Robotoki has ceased operations, Human Element on hold
Human Element is no longer free-to-play, new publisher to be announced
Robotoki police raid results in face off with Call of Duty statue
Robotoki's The Adventures of Dash Kickstarter ends well short of goal
Human Element players earn resources from location check-ins
"You can't let business objectives guide your creative decisions," says Bowling
Bowling started Robotoki to create a game "no one else was doing yet"
Human Element is Bowling's zombie apocalypse game, slated for 2015
Bowling left Activision to follow his "passion to create new opportunities and experiences"
Robert Bowling exits Call of Duty, Infinity Ward, Activision
Infinity Ward and Treyarch share CoD feedback "as a franchise as a whole"
'Optional' CoD Elite subscription "about giving more flexibility to our hardcore" fans, says IW
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Infinity Ward "put a ton of emphasis" on the Modern Warfare 3 PC experience
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PlayBook: Fake Tough
Inside the rude and brainless subculture of the starting pitcher.
Very few creatures are more misunderstood or maligned than the starting pitcher. They are a rude and brainless subculture that live under rocks and largely elude society. They appear only in broken intervals, every five or so days and only when the weather is good. They are geeks and stats junkies and bores, aberrations from the primordial ooze. They speak in strange tongues and have hoarse voices and at the end of the week, they collect their enormous paychecks and disappear for another 96 hours to the back nines of America with statuesque blondes and expensive champagne.
They are "fake tough," cardboard cutouts from a magazine selling the American Dream. They saunter back and forth for the sellout crowds like a show horse on display. They keep up that old cowboy act for maybe two or three hours at a time, the gunslingers from the Midwest throwing smoke and painting corners, painted faces in the press room when it's all said and done, the sweat still dripping from their brow when they tell the world they gave it their all, it was everything they had. One more pitch might have broken the camel's back and we wouldn't want that; we need them again in four or five days and four or five more after that. We've needed them before and we'll need them again, so pay the piper and be glad he played. Who the hell are you to tell him the tune?
If Josh Beckett wants to golf on his off days, that's his business; if Cole Hamels wants to welcome someone to the Bigs with a fat old fastball to the ribs, why shouldn't he? He's a starting pitcher and he'll do whatever the fuck he likes, thank you very much. Except that Josh Beckett golfed a day after missing his start because of a tight left quad, and Cole Hamels had no good reason to lay a 95-mile-an-hour fastball into the small of a 19-year-old rookie's back.
"I'm just trying to continue the old baseball," said Hamels after the game. "Sometimes the league is protecting certain players and making it not that old-school, prestigious way of baseball." Prestigious like what? Tony Conigliaro and Jack Hamilton, Valerio de los Santos and Adam Greenberg? Or old-school like Ty Cobb sharpening his spikes in the dugout and sliding feet-first into second or the shin of an unsuspecting shortstop? Cobb was little more than a dumb criminal who fired guns blindly into the night and was hated so fiercely by everybody who ever knew him that his own teammates once sent a gift basket to a player who beat him out for the batting title. He was hated and loathed and he was old-school so tell us, Cole Hamels, how old-school are you?
Beckett, on the other hand, is a whiny little broken shell of a man who used to be a pitcher, who used to be good. He's run out of excuses in Boston and can no longer explain why his ERA hovers around 6.00 or why he can't get an out without giving up a run or why he spends his downtime lapping it up over 18 holes while his team is being outscored by 18 runs.
"I spend my off days the way I want to spend them…My off day is my off day…We get 18 off days a year. I think we deserve a little time to ourselves."
Baseball players get 18 off days a season, not a year, and starting pitchers get 128 if they average one start every five days. For some cultish reason, golf is as much a part of starting pitching as pitching itself, but if Beckett can't do the fans in Boston the courtesy of at least pretending to hurt while everyone else hurts, the least he can do is pitch well; if can't manage to do that anymore, then he could at least be graceful about it. Instead he sat there like a child defying all those who would defame the Great Josh Beckett, starting pitcher who brought a World Series to Boston in the foul year of our Lord, 2007.
What Beckett doesn't realize is that legends are made, not born, and Boston has a short memory and even shorter patience for a pitcher who can't pull his weight and doesn't seem to care. Southies will tie rich kids from Texas to the tracks; being booed in Boston is a quick way to proclaim yourself an enemy of the state. Sports in New England are a religion and the only cardinal unforgivable sin is not caring.
In no other sport would we allow the kind of bad gibberish that spews from the mouths of starting pitchers to stand. We'd string them up and strip them of all recognition and fame. But this is baseball and for some strange reason we see fit to pay people to play every five days.

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I share some of the concerns Jenny has about her kids and the easy/constant access to electronics, although I tend to take a somewhat less black and white stance. My house is pretty wired (or unwired these days, although not in the electronics-free sense). It always has been. I'm a bit of a gadget guy and that appreciation for electronic gear was readily adopted by my children. I don't think there's a room in the house that is completely electronics-free — there's even a WiFi repeater taking up an unused electrical outlet in one of the bathrooms. We have a full suite of video game consoles, they each have iPads, iPods and there is a computer set up in their playroom. We've had a lot of fun together playing games, watching videos and listening to music; I don't have any issue with our kids having access to electronics or in their using them. But I also believe in balance, so we've always ensured there are bins of Lego, Star Wars action figures, board games and plenty of other physical toys available. Sports are encouraged and they play organized soccer and volley ball.
Naturally, we have tons of books and comic books too, but the collection is largely virtual as I made the switch from dead tree versions several years ago. On a side note, that was one of the smartest decisions ever, with multiple kids in the same age range and the natural desire to use whatever a sibling is using. E-Books and e-comics mean everyone can have a copy at the same time, no fighting and no accidental tearing of covers. They're still competitive, but now the fight is over who can read a book faster. I can live with that one.
With summer approaching, we wanted to make sure that the kids didn't spend the bulk of their time lazing on the couch, glued to the TV. While I've been fortunate enough to be a stay-at-home dad for going on four years, I work the equivalent of full-time hours. So, while I see the kids during the day in the summer and have the flexibility to be able to take them to the beach, park or pool on most days (with the trade-off of writing later than night), I also need to spend at least a few hours every day holed up in my office. Which means that they're left to their own devices to a certain extent.
Ideally, I want them to make the choice to include physical play and reading with their electronics activities. My wife and I encourage physical activity, but I'd like to know that I don't have to mandate it. I'm avoiding the impulse to set specific time allocations on specific devices (unless things get out of hand, of course). But we're trying to make things available to encourage that healthy mix to happen. So here's what we've done to set up the summer, which officially begins for our kids this Thursday: Continue Reading "Plugged or Unplugged? Given the Choice, Will Kids Opt for a Balanced Summer?" »


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I like the option of feeding sugar syrup in buckets like in the April 2009 ABJ article Commercial Beekeeping 101. Any suggestions on the size of the holes drilled in the side of the buckets? anyone familiar with Dave Menedez methods?
I like the option of feeding sugar syrup in buckets like in the April 2009 ABJ article Commercial Beekeeping 101. Any suggestions on the size of the holes drilled in the side of the buckets? anyone familiar with Dave Menedez methods?
open feeding has some advantaged over single hive feeding
-when time is short, the ability to get feed into the bees more quickly
-time and money saver, one feeding station rather than 1-25 feeders
-can not regulate or know if the weaker hives are getting enough food
-can not control disease because every bee is at one station...cross contamination
In Ontario the OMAFRI (sp), was working with beekeepers who were having severe losses over the winter. Some of the things they looked at was open feeding. The found open feeding was a contributer to the spread of diseases, and worked hard at convincing the farmers to go to single feeders. They discovered that the mortality rate dropped, bees came out of winter healther and the amounts of nosema dropped in the hives. It was one of the changes they helped farmers implement. One of the ladies involved in working with the beekeepers in that area came out and gave a talk at the Manitoba Beekeepers convention in Feb '09.
we did open feeding in two yards last fall because with flooding we had a hard time getting to the hives when we needed to. We used rubber maid tubs, drilled a pinkie sizes holes in the sides and then put straw in as a floater. Alot of bees drowned. We ended up putting wood under the straw to help it "float" better. Would i do it again, maybe in a pinch. I prefer the single feeding method.
I've done open feeding with buckets in several ways. One way I used 5lb honey buckets, drilled a ring of 1/16" holes around the rim, right next to the lip of the lid when it was in place. Filled the bucket, put on the lid, turned upside down inside an empty box on top of the top bars. you could also do this one in an open feeder arrangement.
I do bottle feeding thru a hole in my migratory covers, I put 3 holes 1/16" drill bit in the lids of plastic pepsi bottles and turn upside down into the holes I drilled into the migratory covers.
I've taken 5 gallon buckets and cut the bottom out of one, filled it with 1/16" holes and let it float on top of syrup in another bucket. The plastic bottom full of holes floats well enough to hold the bees up as they drink. I bet this one would work without drilling any holes as there is a small space all the way around the floating bottom they could drink from while standing high and dry on the solid plastic bottom floater.
I use a five gallon bucket from a homebrewing supply company that has a hole cut for a spigot on the bottom and a hole for an airlock in the lid with a dog waterer attatched. I cut the spigot off and turned the assembly around so that I have threaded pipe coming out the side of the bucket and I cover the airlock hole with mesh so the feed will flow without bees getting into the bucket and then I attach an automatic dog waterer filled with gravel to the pipe thread.
I'd take a lot of convincing to go back to feeding individual hives. The key to using open feeding is to have easy access for the bees so they can fly in and out -- I use 2 inch holes along the side of a rubbermaid tub. There needs to be a good wood float structure under the straw and a lot of surface area. I use one 20 gallon tub for every ten hives.
Once the bees are familiar with with the food source they will feed at temperatures as low as 6 or 7 C. When I think of how many day I use to spend feeding individuals compared to a couple of days now I just shake my head. Of course, if other beeks have yards close by, your syrup cost are going to go way up.
As far as weaker hives goes, they probably don't need as much feed anyways and the big ones often need more.
In my area open feeding this time of the year gets robbing going like the wild fires of California. Any of you have this type of problems and how do you control/avoid it?
Since I was having trouble with in hive feeding causing robbing, I decided to try a community feeder. There's lots of talk about it causing robbing, so a couple of tips I am trying are to make sure it's far enough from the hives, I am also scenting it with Lavendar EO to give it a unique identity, and use a setup that is not easily defendable. I've read it helps to choose a location that the bees have to "navigate" too as opposed to being a straight shot. As far as a hive trying to take ownership, with 3 hives I am using a medium (2.73G) pet waterer with gravel in the bowl, and am monitoring the fighting, but it may help to use a larger feeding area or multiple feeders depending on number of hives. So far I am happy with how things are going, they are much more interested in the feeder than robbing each other so far. Giving it a unique scent just seemed to make scents.
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"Hang on," I thought, as I finished the first chapter of Park Lane. "I've read this before."
And it did seem familiar. Early morning, housemaid creeps upstairs with heavy coal scuttle to light fire in young mistress' bedroom, Y.M. still asleep in silken sheets after heavy night out in London society ...
But I hadn't read it. I'd seen it. Shades of Upstairs Downstairs (with or without the comma), Downton Abbey, and any other number of have-have not television costume dramas.
And so the novel progresses (even the name is a clue). Grace Campbell from Carlisle takes a position with the Masters family at 35 Park Lane, a mansion provided by the foresight of an ancestral railroad baron. Miss Beatrice Masters is the youngest child of Lady Masters and her profligate husband, who never appears in the book, save for the pronouncement of his death.
It is 1914 and the world is gearing up for a war. Britain is gearing up too, for women's suffrage.
Grace and Beatrice's lives become intertwined, although more by accident than design or a desire to know each other better.
Beatrice meets Michael Campbell at a suffragettes' rally when he saves her from arrest. She becomes involved with the suffrage movement, thanks to her maiden aunt, and takes part in pamphlet delivery, stone throwing and house burning.
Grace, meantime, moves through the servants' ranks, falls in love with Joseph the footman, steals subversive books for her brother, and fights to keep that feisty Cumberland tongue under control.
War arrives, Beatrice becomes an ambulance driver on the Western Front, and Grace leaves the Masters house suddenly and silently.
Described thus, the novel appears pretty prosaic. What sets it apart from others of its type is Osborne's depictions of the fight for emancipation and the right of women not just to vote but to sit on a court jury, to own property independently and to have access to education equal to that of males.
Her descriptions of the force-feeding of hunger strikers, the perfidy of the so-called Cat and Mouse Act (where women hunger-strikers were released when close to death, only to be re-arrested when they recovered) are harrowing. Emmeline and Sylvia Pankhurst are depicted convincingly, and the determination of all those women involved is not to be doubted.
The war ends, Grace is found and reunited with her brother (for so Michael is), the still unmarried (oh the shame) Beatrice goes to New York, and all is well.
Osborne clearly has an affection for and profound knowledge of the period, and this is demonstrated in Park Lane. It is still, though, a lightweight effort where heavier feet have trod.
Phoebe Falconer is an Auckland reviewer.


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Alerts | Bahrain, Egypt, Lebanon, Libya, Syria, Yemen
Journalists to be expelled from Libya; Bahrain deports 2
New York, April 6, 2011--More than 20 foreign journalists were told that they would have to leave Libya within 24 hours, National Public Radio said today. NPR reported that Libyan authorities asked journalists from different international news outlets to leave the country. The media outlets include Britain's Channel 4, CNN, Fox News, The Independent, Italian TV, ITV, Le Figaro, Los Angeles Times, The Times of London, NBC News, The New York Times, RAI, RTL, and The Sunday Times of London. The government has also decided to not issue new visas for journalists who wish to cover the unfolding conflict, NPR's Lourdes Garcia-Navarro reported from Tripoli.


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Each guestroom is named after a California winery, and features antique-style wooden furnishings and rich fabrics. Guests can enjoy the organic bath products, get comfortable in plush bathrobes, and relax while watching cable TV and surfing the Web with free WiFi.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!Opens in a new window
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The Executive Hotel Vintage Court features a California diner serving both breakfast and dinner. A computer station is located on site and high-speed wireless Internet access is complimentary. This 3-star property offers access to a 24-hour business center, limo/town car service, and a meeting room. Event facilities measuring 900 square feet (84 square meters) include conference space. This business-friendly hotel also offers a fitness center, tour/ticket assistance, Braille/raised signage, and multilingual staff. Parking is available onsite for a surcharge.
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Pat Shipman
I first went to Java in October of 1998, chasing the ghost of Eugene Dubois. Dubois was the Dutch physician and anatomist who found the missing link there in 1891. He was a genius, a risk taker, one of the most stubborn men in the history of anthropology and the subject of my next book.
To Dubois, "missing link" meant the extinct form linking human beings with apes. Because few fossil hominids were known, scientists looked to comparative anatomy and embryology for evidence of human evolution. Dubois was almost alone in believing that the best proof would come from fossils. In 1887, he abruptly resigned his anatomy job at the University of Amsterdam and applied for a government grant to find the missing link. He received instead advice not to place so much stock in "that crazy book of Darwin's." His parents and colleagues condemned his plan as risky, dangerous and sure to be ruinous.
Dubois ignored their advice, preferring his own ironclad logic. One: Man evolved from apelike ancestors, so the place to find these ancestors was in the tropics of Africa and Asia inhabited by apes today. Two: One of the few known fossil apes, a putative chimpanzee ancestor, was discovered in Asia, in the Siwalik Hills of India. Three: The other mammals found with the Siwalik ape were also known from the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia), a relatively easy place for Dubois to work. Four: One island, Sumatra, was full of limestone caves—where fossils were usually found in Europe—that had never been systematically explored.
The Dutch East Indies were a perfect place to find the missing link and a perfect place for failure. Dubois had support neither for his expedition nor for his family. Europeans in the Indies died of tropical diseases at horrific rates. The landscape was blanketed in dense tropical vegetation, cloaked in unbearably hot and humid weather and very steeply sloped in the volcanic regions where the caves were. Undaunted, Dubois enlisted for eight years as a military surgeon with the Royal Dutch East Indies Army, packed up his wife and infant daughter and sailed to Sumatra. He was not yet 30 years old.
Soon after disembarking from the steamer at Padang, Dubois began fossil hunting, finding thousands of mammalian fossils but no missing link. He also published his theory on the location of the missing link, observing pointedly that someone would beat the Dutch to it if research funds were not forthcoming. He was promptly relieved of medical duties and seconded to the Ministry of Education, Religion and Industry to search for fossils. In 1890, he shifted operations to Java and, brilliantly, also shifted his searching strategy. Instead of the cave sites that yielded so much in Europe, Dubois followed his unsupported intuition that open-air sites along the banks and point bars of the big, sluggish rivers might prove profitable.
In September of 1891, on a bend in the Bengawan Solo River near Trinil, Dubois's men excavated the tooth of a higher primate. The very next month, they found a beautiful skullcap, fossilized to a rich chocolate-brown color. The skullcap was a true treasure, boasting the prominent brow-ridges of an ape and the capacious braincase of a human being. In May of 1892 a dense, chocolate-colored left femur was excavated, unmistakably the thigh bone of a creature that walked bipedally. Five years, two weeks and three days after setting foot in the Indies, Eugene Dubois named his missing link Pithecanthropus erectus (it is now known as Homo erectus), using the generic name for the hypothetical ape-man suggested by Ernst Haeckel and adding erectus to emphasize its evident adaptation for upright walking.
Further excavation yielded no more remains of P.e., as he nicknamed it, but these three bones were a splendid confirmation of a hypothesis most thought foolish if not actually lunatic. That he nearly died several times over of fever, tiger and wild boar attacks, cave-ins and other adventures was unimportant.
Dubois decided to write a monograph, despite his limited scientific library, his scanty comparative collection of bones and a total lack of prototype for the sort of monograph he was trying to write. Before Dubois, no one had ever compared a fossil hominid to apes and to humans. Previous studies attempted to align the fossil with a human race. He created a new, transitional position for Pithecanthropus, halfway between apes and humans. Dubois completed his monograph in 1894, mailed it off to announce his find to the scientists of Europe and sailed home in 1895.
Instead of well-deserved accolades, Dubois was greeted with cruel skepticism. Academics who stayed comfortably in Europe while Dubois searched for fossils doubted his three specimens came from one individual and disagreed with his interpretations. From 1895 to 1900, Dubois defended his missing link with every weapon at his disposal. He barraged his critics with facts, geological diagrams, measurements and analyses. He thrust his fossils under their noses, making the missing link such a hot topic that more than 80 articles were written about Pithecanthropus before the end of the century. Then for more than 20 years, he turned his attention to other studies and refused to let anyone study P.e. Dubois always found it too inconvenient to interrupt his own work to show others the fossils, especially as this might open the door to still more controversy. He sequestered his fossils successfully for years, until international complaints reached the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences, which suggested pointedly that one employed by the government as the curator of the Dubois Collection was obliged to make his fossil material accessible to fellow scientists. While he waited decades for vindication, Dubois single-handedly shaped the direction of research in paleoanthropology.
Java was the place that made Dubois who he was, and I knew I had to see it. Visiting Dubois's site, Trinil, was a revelation. My guide was apologetic because we arrived after the site museum had closed, but I didn't care. I walked happily through the huge wrought-iron gates and wandered into the small museum garden. "I did not come to see the museum. I came to see the place of Dubois," I explained. Then I spotted the monument Dubois erected in 1893 when he finished his work at Trinil. Seeing it in this foreign place was like encountering an old friend. I rushed over to place my hand on it. "You see, Anto?" I asked the guide. "This is it. This is why I came to Java."
On the monument is a bronze plaque.
"P.e." is Pithecanthropus erectus; the numbers and arrow point to the find spot 175 meters east-northeast; the dates are the years of excavation.
The last, probably hopeless task on my agenda was to find the old European graveyard in Tulungagung so I could follow up on an enigmatic entry in Dubois's daily diary on August 30, 1893. "Anna abortus," he wrote in pencil, and then crossed the words out with thick, dark lines that nearly tore the page. Later, gently, he rewrote "Anna abortus." Anna was his wife, and they returned home to Holland with three children, Eugenie, Jean and Victor. This fourth child is mentioned neither in colonial archives nor in the remaining family letters. I wanted very much to find the grave.
Cemeteries in Java are not orderly, with neat rows of graves separated by grassy pathways. Graves are arranged helter-skelter, new ones squeezed in between the old at every sort of angle. Nearly all the graves in this cemetery appeared to be Javanese, among them many small children's graves.
Nevertheless, I finally saw what I was looking for, a tiny patch of ground surrounded by the old, crumbling double row of bricks. Such a small space, less than a foot square, to contain someone's heartache: a little headstone, no capstone, no inscription. There was no real proof that this was her grave, but I knew with a startling certainty that little Anna Jeanette Dubois was buried here. I had not considered her name—Anna after her mother, Jeanette after her grandfather—or sex before, but I knew them now, intuitively. Here, her mother had railed and wept at the cruelty of the tropics; here, her father had laid his fourth child to rest. Here, they left her behind, all alone, when they returned to Europe. It broke my heart.
My guide was startled by my sadness and later asked about the incident. He could not understand how I could feel "so sharp about someone dead 100 years." He explained that the Javanese mourn their dead mothers, fathers and grandparents, but not "someone you never see." Nothing I said about my emotional connection to this long-dead man whose words and work I had studied so closely seemed to resonate with him. I tried a metaphor, saying that I was walking in Dubois's footsteps, chasing his ghost, but this seemed equally incomprehensible. Then I remembered a passage in my phrasebook.
Verbs in Indonesian are not conjugated. That is, unlike European languages, the form of the verb does not change according to the tense or the person. So, for example, mereka pergi can mean "they go", "they will go", "they were going", "they went", or "they have gone." . . . Usually the context in which you hear the verb will make it clear whether the speaker is referring to the past, present or future.
In Bahasa Indonesian, the past is implied, not demarcated. The linguistic difference reflects a perceived difference in the nature of time. Western time is a linear, unidirectional narrative; Javan time is not. This revelation confused me as profoundly as my search for the concrete remnants of history had confused many Indonesians on my journey.
If there is no past tense, is there no past? The past is the stuff of my work as a paleoanthropologist and historian of science. Thinking about a culture that functions without a past made my eyes cross. What did this mean, I wondered, for Dubois, searching for evidence of the deep past in a land where the past exists only by implication?
Then I recalled a moment of epiphany at the monument Dubois erected to mark the spot where he discovered the remains of Pithecanthropus erectus. I had looked up and seen a man up to his knees in river water, fishing, and standing on the old excavation.
I felt as if I had been slapped, so sudden was my insight. Dubois risked everything, found the missing link, erected a plinth to mark the spot for all time, and he didn't put his own name on it. During his lifetime, Dubois was called hard, stubborn and impossibly demanding by his colleagues; his wife left him; even a former student called him a "psychical monster." But now I saw the truth: Everything he did was about P.e., not about himself. What was not there was more important than what was.
Much later, I learned that the closest equivalent for "history" in Bahasa Indonesian is "a long way away in time." It was the perfect phrase, a long way away in time: That was where I had been. Sometimes I was so close to Dubois that we shared experiences. Yet those who guided me to him neither knew where I wanted to go nor recognized the place when we arrived.
I learned some simple and powerful lessons in Java. Things are not always as they seem. The past may be indistinguishable from the present. Context is everything: geological context, intellectual context, linguistic context, cultural context. In Java, it seems as if the physical laws of time and space are warped into a Möbius strip. One can never hope to see all that is there, and sometimes what is missing is most important of all.
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If you can afford it, go with the 75 gallon, especially if it is cheaper! I have a 55 gallon and the lack of depth in the tank (like you said, they are too skinny) presents quite a dillema in the proccess of aquascaping. A tank that much wider has TONS more potential! Good luck!
HOB filters take up surface space on a tank, where you could have lights. (i.e - canisters filter take up no extra space in the tank so that space can be filled with lights)
Here are some pages I've made with info on CO2 tanks, DIY reactors and I am working on regulators now;
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IMHO you should not try to use DIY on more than a 40g tank. In the end it is too much of a hassle for the result. Tanks ar ean investment and as you get into bigger tanks it will cost money to get things going. You can put pressurized CO2 on a tank for $100-150. Most of the expense is one time. After the initial investment you can add as many tanks as you want for just a few $$ more.
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|my last post sounded kinda funny after realizing i'm in the diy section! rock on!
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|i know, i am the most impatient person in the world when it comes to hobbies such as plant/fish keeping...but many of us have traveled down the road of doing things the cheap way, only to end up with the equipment that the elders told us about years ago. i thought keeping a planted tank was esoteric knowledge for many years, only known by people with endless disposable incomes. but with 3-4 wpg of light, pressurized co2, a good canister, basic fertilizer, and regular water changes, my upkeep costs are minimal these days. i say take your time and start with good equipment.
|How will having a canister filter allow me to have more lights?
|If you go with HOB's just make sure your water is high enough you don't get surface agitation and throw out the carbon inserts and replace them with sponges and filter floss. Canisters...help you get some of the clutter out of the back of the tank. If you're poor, you'll probably be running shop lights so a canister will help you fit more bulbs more easily, but they tend to not flow as much as some of the stronger HOB's so I'd use a powerhead or two to make sure you don't get dead spots.
|With the AquaClears you don't have to change the foam inserts I still have one in mine that is 5yrs old I rinse it in old tank water every couple of weeks to clean it. You won't want or need the carbon and other inserts in a planted tank. You could use the carbon if you have to medicate the tank or your tank starts to smell but if your tank starts to smell you have bigger issues.
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I modifeied the lip so that there is not as much surface turbulence...
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|If you have a kH of 4 and your pH was 5 then you would have had a tank full of dead fish. And I can't believe that DIY would give you a full two point drop in the pH. I don't think I could do that with my pressurized system. And I have very soft water. Out of the tap I have 0 kH and 0 gH. I normally run my tanks at a kH of around 3-4.
|I modifeied the lip so that there is not as much surface turbulence. This tank has been up and running for a couple of months now with no problems. Except for the pressurized co2 and that is mostly my fault for not going with the corresct needle valves. That being said right now I am running diy yeast co2 on both my planted tanks. I have a 2 liter bottle running on the 38 and a 3liter on the 75. I was doubtful that the 3 liter would be enough so I hooked up a 2 liter to it also. Within hours my ph was at 5. I think it has a lot to do with your water. I have soft water to begin with and according to the chart everyone uses even after sitting over night I have like 12ppm of co2 in my water. Kh is 4 and ph overnight is 7. Course the bottle only lasts about a week and a half. Hopefully I will have my valves this week or next and can give the pressurized one more try.
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Carbon? You're running carbon filters on a planted tank?
I use carbon, but then again, I don't have any real plants in my 55g. It is mainly a fish only tank, 4 now.
On my 5g, I use a HOB w/sponge only material, for bio filtration. That's the tank w/plants.
Until I get better lighting and etc on the 55g, I am not going to even bother putting in plants.
I mainly haunt the board, so that I can learn as much as possible, before taking the plunge
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|Carbon? You're running carbon filters on a planted tank? Most of us gave up on carbon a long time ago. That's one reason I don't like HOB filters, most of the cartridges have carbon in them.
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Well let me tell you from experience..........HOBs are not the way to go on the bigger tanks.
Now I only have a 55g, but I do run 2 HOBs on it, since it carries such a large bioload.
In the long run, the costs of cartridges every few weeks to a month, is gonna break you.
If you run 2 AQUACLEAR 500's on a 75g, then you are talking about needing about $66.00 - $68.00 for the filters themselves and then approx $8.00 - $10.00 every time you go to change the carbon inserts.
Pretty quickly, you will surpass the initial costs of a canister filter.
You can go to Big Al's Online and get a Rena XP3 or a Fluval 404 and it should only run you about $95.00 and then you are only talking about needing to replace/ clean media every few months.
If I could do it all again, I would definitely go with a canister!!!!
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For a 75 gallon I would get a Rena XP-3. I have one on my 55 gallon and it works great. I'm not sure who filled your head with nonsense about cannister filters but they should be taken out and shot. I love my cannister filters. Takes about 10 minutes to clean one every 3-4 months. Media is cheap, no cartridges to buy! If you want surface movement then you can run the output of the cannister just under the surface and get it that way. Or you can add a small power-head. In my 55 gallon I have the XP-3, a Bio-Wheel Pro 30 an a 170 gph power-head. The cannister sits in the middle, the Bio-Wheel on one end and the power head on the other. Give me lots of water movement.
The second tube is not in the water. And if you drill small holes and cut the tubing at and angle and pull it though the holes it will not leak and will not require sealing.
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If you have money to burn, then Eheim is the way to go.
I'd proably be getting 55 gallon except that the 75 is cheaper at the LFS. :?
Plus I hate how skinny 55 gallons are.
Are HOBs really that bad for CO2? I have an HOB on the 20 gallon and the plants are pearling. Either way, which fluval/other filter should I get. They stick the numbers after the name but don't say what tank sizes they are for.
... I'm such a newbie.
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Breaking: Attempted terrorist attack on int'l Northwest flight? Update: Al Qaeda link? Update: "Significant terrorist connections"?
posted at 4:21 pm on December 25, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
This just popped up on the news here in the Twin Cities, and the boss has it, too:
Federal officials and police are interviewing a man, believed to be Nigerian, who allegedly was trying to "explode" a powdery substance aboard a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit, injuring himself and two other passengers, law enforcement officials said.
Northwest Airlines flight 253 landed safely in Detroit at 11:53 a.m. The man, whose flight started in Nigeria before stopping in Amsterdam, is in custody at the Detroit airport and being interviewed by authorities there. Investigators are trying to corroborate several statements he made to them and determine his mental stability.
Delta spokeswoman Susan Chana Elliott said that "as the plane was getting ready to land" in Detroit "a passenger caused a disturbance" by trying to ignite what was reported to be firecrackers. He was "subdued immediately." Northwest is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Delta.
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A couple of thoughts. First, the danger must have been considered low after he was secured, or the flight would have been diverted to an East Coast airport rather than sent through to Detroit. Second, it sounds as though the man succeeded in lighting something, but that it wasn't powerful enough to do damage to the flight.
The big question will be how he got firecrackers or the "powdery substance" through two airport security checks. I seem to recall that the TSA has warned about Nigeria's airport security in the past, but presumably he would have to pass through some sort of security check in Amsterdam.
Update: Michelle says that MS-NBC is retracting the story, but ABC says they've confirmed at least an arrest with TSA:
Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent Sandra R. Berchtold from the Detroit office confirmed that the FBI was at the airport but would not comment further.
"All passengers have deplaned and out of an abundance of caution, the plane was moved to a remote area where the plane and all baggage are currently being rescreened," the Transportation Security Administration, which handles aircraft and airplane safety, said in a statement. " A passenger is in custody and passengers are being interviewed."
If anything more breaks, I'll update it after dinner with the family.
Update II: ABC has reworked the lead to their story to include the skepticism of the authorities of the suspect's claim to affiliation with an extremist group. He may just be a nut who smuggled fireworks on the plane, but still, that leaves the question of how he managed to do that.
Update (AP): A nut who thinks he's in AQ — or a nut who actually is in AQ?
"We believe this was an attempted act of terrorism," a White House official said…
One of the U.S. intelligence officials said the explosive device was a mix of powder and liquid. It failed when the passenger tried to detonate it. The passenger was being questioned Friday evening.
An intelligence source said the Nigerian passenger was being held and treated in an Ann Arbor, Mich., hospital. All the sources spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation was continuing.
One law enforcement source said the man claimed to have been instructed by al-Qaida to detonate the plane over U.S. soil.
Follow the link for details on how he was subdued. Flight 93 redux.
Update (AP): Peter King tells CNN that this guy is for real.
"He is a 23 year old Nigerian who is also – it's been confirmed to me – while he was not on a no fly list, his name was on a list for having terrorist connections," King said during an interview Christmas evening on CNN…
"His name was in a database indicating significant terrorist connections," King said…
"There's a real worry about terrorist activity in Nigeria, so much so that last year the American government gave body detection technology to Nigeria for their airports," King said. "Their level of security, we felt was not comprable to others."
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Now I'm no Indiana girl, but I've got a soft spot for the Irish. Some people say they're snobbish. They say, "Hey, why do the Irish get their own national TV deal? Why do they get to play in their own independent conference? Why are the Irish considered closer to heaven than the rest of us?"
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But they also do academics and haven't been brought down by any sanctions or scandals. Nothing like USC or Miami or Boise. No slaps on the wrist and no deals with the devil.
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EUGENE, Ore. - The electronic music blasting from the stages at the Kaleidoscope Music Festival at Emerald Meadows rocked Jim Evonuk's house.
"Friday night, literally the house was shaking," said Evonuk, who lives nearby. "The pictures on the wall were leaving the wall and banging back up against it. The stove was clattering."
In the last year, Lane County government started leasing the Emerald Meadows venue in the Howard Buford Recreation Area for performances, generating revenue for park maintenance.
The 80-acre site has hosted three musical events in 2013, but organizers admit that the number of complaints was unusually high for the Kaleidoscope event.
Daily crowds numbered between 6,000 and 9,000 people, causing traffic jams and congestion on the roads leading in and out of the venue.
Music at the Kaleidoscope festival started Friday evening and lasted through Sunday night. Headline acts included Bassnectar and hip-hop legend Nas.
Bands played as late as 3 a.m. on Saturday and Sunday mornings on what organizers called the "midnight stage," causing several complaints to be phoned in from across Eugene and Springfield.
"The idea behind the midnight stage was it was less amplified and quieter," said Mike Russell, Parks Manager with Lane County Department of Public Works. "We were taking measurements around the park to make sure we were meeting decibel requirements, but still it was heard."
The festival was organized by One Eleven productions of Eugene.
Jason Lear, the COO of One Eleven Productions, said this is one of the biggest shows his company has organized. He said the first Kaleidoscope festival was a learning experience.
"Many things went phenomenally well," Lear said. "We are still working to improve things. Two immediate priorities are clear: We will do whatever is necessary to ensure sound levels work for the neighborhood. We will also work to make certain the traffic delays that happened on Friday will not occur again."
The production company has a 3-year contract with the county to produce Kaleidoscope festivals through 2015.


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entral Lakes College on Tuesday marked the fourth anniversary of naming its Brainerd campus library after a former instructor who became one of Minnesota's most beloved authors at "A Night with Jon Hassler."
The library event that attracted more than 100 guests featured retired CLC instructor Joe Plut reading from the forthcoming publication, "A Simon's Night Journal." The new companion book that offers insight from the late author while writing his 1979 novel, "Simon's Night."
Plut and Hassler were English faculty at the Brainerd college, where Hassler began his writing career.
Plut, author of "Conversations with Jon Hassler," has followed that work with the next of his many retirement projects centered on his favorite topic: Jon Hassler. As a result of their friendship and Hassler's prolific writing career, Plut taught a special course focused on several of Hassler's 20 books.
Today, 32 years after Hassler left to teach at St. John's University, CLC English instructors Ryan Deblock and Matt Fort include Hassler's first novel, "Staggerford," as part of the curriculum.
Hassler taught at Brainerd Community College from 1968 to 1980, leaving Brainerd to teach at his alma mater, St. John's University, Collegeville. He also taught at Park Rapids ("Staggerford") and Bemidji State University.
"My Simon's Night Journal" will be published soon by Nodin Press, Minneapolis, which also published "Conversations with Jon Hassler." It is based on informative letters to friends while Hassler was writing "Simon's Night."
The CLC event included announcement of several donations to the library and the Jon Hassler Scholarship, as well as readings from Plut's extensive research and the Hassler archives. Special guests included Gretchen Kresl Hassler and publisher Norton Stillman of Nodin Press.
Larry Kellerman, CLC librarian, introduced Jon Hassler items added to the library, from honorary doctoral degrees regalia to publications and multimedia featuring interviews and reviews.
Hassler died in 2008, at the age of 74. The Jon Hassler Theater in Plainview is named for him.
Images from the event may be viewed at http://www.flickr.com/photos/58518185@N04/


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The jaguar habitat at KeyBank Big Cat Falls offers a huge glass window for face to face viewing. Be within inches of a jaguar as it prowls its territory.
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Jaguars can be found from northern Mexico to Patagonia (area in Argentina and Chile). Belize is one of the few remaining areas in the world where jaguars are still abundant and roam tropical rain forests relatively unmolested. There have been several confirmed sightings of jaguars in New Mexico and Arizona!
Jaguars hunt at night, and use tactics like ambush and stalking. Like all other felines (except lions), jaguars hunt alone. They kill their prey by chomping into its neck with one bite! They might also try to cut off its air by gripping its throat. Ouch!
Melanistic jaguars are not uncommon. In fact, melanism is inherited as a dominant gene. Melanism makes their fur black, kind of the way some people have brown or black hair. Since it is a "dominant gene," it is easily inherited. Even though they look solid black, you can still see the outline of their spots. Black jaguars are more often found in the most dense jungle regions because their dark color is adapted to living in darker areas of the forest – they can blend right in!
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A jaguar's typical lifespan is 17 years, though they can live to be 25 years or more. Because jaguars are so secretive, we are not sure how long they can live in the wild. Hey, future researchers, maybe that's something YOU will discover one day!
Jaguars are solitary animals, only coming together to mate. A female's pregnancy lasts 90-110 days. After giving birth to a litter of one to four cubs, the babies will remain inside their den for two weeks before beginning to explore the world outside. After a period of six months, they'll begin to hunt with their mother.
Jaguars live most of their lives on their own. They enjoy hunting during the late night hours, climbing into trees to wait and pounce on their prey. Jaguars have been known to travel great distances to find food and if resources like food and water are plentiful enough, they can sustain a territory as large as three square miles.
Males are generally larger than females. Male jaguars average 123 pounds (56kg) and females average 90 pounds (41kg).
They can range in weight from 88 pounds (40kg) to 150 pounds (68kg).
Jaguars prefer large prey such as deer and peccaries but will eat anything they can catch including frogs. At the Zoo, their diet includes a commercial meat mix, beef long bones and shank bones as well as whole prey such as rabbits. The diet is formulated to meet the nutritional needs of each animal. A beef shank bone is offered once a week. Because shank bones have nearly 7 lbs (3.2 kg) of meat attached to them, some of the meat is removed from the bone before it is offered to this species. In addition to food, the shank bones provide exercise for the animal's jaw muscles.
Jaguars can be found throughout Central and South America. There have also been sightings in the southwestern United States, where jaguars were thought to have disappeared. Jaguars can be found in a variety of habitats: densely covered forests, shoreline forests, scrubland and open ranges with tall grass and rocky terrain. The jaguar depends on finding habitats with an adequate water supply and enough terrain to offer concealment and the opportunity to hunt in stealth.
On the 2011 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, the jaguar is listed as Near Threatened.
The Philadelphia Zoo works with partners and colleagues around the world to save wildlife. From South America to Asia to Africa, these projects are conducting research, protecting habitat, educating communities and building capacity. We are proud to support them and the important work they do.
The jaguar's role as an "umbrella species" adds another layer of urgency to conserving them. Because large cats have large home ranges, their protection will ensure the protection of vast amounts of biodiversity sharing the same habitat.
Dr. Marcella Kelly has been using remote camera-trap surveys to monitor jaguar populations in Western Belize for more than 10 years. A recent a three-year study investigated the impact of sustainable logging on jaguars. A comparison was made to determine how many individuals were using a sustainably logged forest vs. an unlogged forest in Belize, Central America.
The overall aim of this study was to determine whether logging practices in the Rio Bravo Conservation and Management Area, the largest private reserve and second largest protected area in Belize, are indeed "sustainable" in terms of the effects on mid- and large sized animals like jaguars.
More and more cattle ranchers are using land where jaguars used to live. The ranchers are driving jaguars' prey (like deer) out of the area, so the jaguars sometimes have to eat the cattle to survive. This angers the ranchers and puts their cattle in danger, so they kill the jaguars as soon as they see them.


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Crysis 2 is a stellar sci-fi shooter, featuring a gripping single-player campaign, action-packed multiplayer, and some jaw-dropping visuals.
Rain hammers down on the streets of New York City's Times Square. Upturned police cruisers spit fire into the night as the top half of a giant skyscraper lay crushed over the back of an 18-wheeler. A NYC police station is a few feet from my location, but I'm hardly safe. A State of Emergency's been declared, ordering the "Evacuation of Manhattan," and cement barricades lined with razor wire alongside heavily-armored military vehicles choke off the famous intersection.
I clench a Joint Anti-Tank Weapon -- or JAW -- in my hands, remembering my orders to defend this chopper evac site at all costs, as something stomps towards my location: A hulking mechanical killer built from nearly indestructible alien technology, inaptly named the "Pinger." This is just one of many missions packed into Crysis 2's meaty campaign (which takes a good 10-12 hours to complete), but it provides a clear image of what it's like to actually play the game, all of which takes place in various real and fictional locations in and around New York City.
Crysis 2 picks up after the events of the original game, dropping you in the middle of a near-future NYC, which is stricken by not one, but two disasters: a viral pandemic and an alien invasion. At the beginning of the game you inherit the new and improved Nanosuit 2, which the game describes as a piece of combat technology so complete that "the divide between man and weapon disappears." Crysis 2's science fiction feels a bit familiar at times, but the experience itself is really what makes Crytek's multiplatform sequel stand out amongst others in its class. It's an exhilarating action game, both in single-player and multiplayer, that sets a new standard for sci-fi themed shooters.
I played the original Crysis in 2007, but like many gamers I'm not convinced that I really played the game...at least, not the way Crytek intended it to be experienced. I played it on a pig of a PC hardly ideal for gaming, which means I had to crank down the quality to prevent my computer from imploding. With that in mind, Crysis 2 is my first "real" taste of the visual spectacle the original was known for delivering. And I don't think I'm alone in that, considering the first game only released on PC, requiring high-end PC hardware to run properly.
While I wasn't necessarily a Crysis "expert" heading into playing the sequel, console first-person shooters are my genre of choice. I play everything from realistic military shooters like Call of Duty and Battlefield, to sci-fi themed offerings like Killzone and Halo. Interestingly, Crysis 2 doesn't exactly fit into either group. While it has aliens, futuristic weapons, and other sci-fi elements, the universe Crysis 2 presents is more grounded in realism than shooters with similar subject matter like Halo or The Conduit. The game does such an exceptional job of combining real-life (New York City, existing weapon technology) with fantasy (aliens, fictional weapons, skintight suits that grant superhuman abilities), that I think it'll appeal to a lot of shooter fans in both camps.
One of the biggest things I walked away from Crysis 2 with was how much I've enjoyed the multiplayer. With many FPS games I usually have a better time with the single-player experience, but Crysis 2's multiplayer is absolutely electrifying. What really sets it apart from other online shooters is how (in most multiplayer modes) everyone is battling in Nanosuits -- unlike the campaign, where you're the only one taking advantage of its unique abilities. Multiplayer matches become frenzied and intense due to the limitless ways you can adapt to and take advantage of your own Nanosuit. And the more you play you begin to develop new tactics to engage the enemy with, who likely have their own unique style of Nanosuit fighting.
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Council of Europe's Anti-Racism Commission publishes new reports on the Czech Republic, Greece and Switzerland
Strasbourg, 15.09.2009 – The European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) released today three new reports examining racism, xenophobia, antisemitism and intolerance in the Czech Republic, Greece and Switzerland. The Chair of ECRI, Eva Smith Asmussen, said the reports note positive developments in all three of these Council of Europe member states, but also detail continuing grounds for concern.
In the Czech Republic, a new criminal code was adopted in 2008, containing more extensive provisions against racism. In recent years the Ombudsman has carried out detailed investigations into cases of possible discrimination against the Roma. Steps have been taken to adjust the education system so as better to meet the needs of socially disadvantaged children.
At the same time, however, there has been a disturbing intensification in the activities of extreme right-wing groups. Most victims of racially motivated offences are reported to be Roma. Little progress has been made towards improving the situation of the Roma, who face segregation in schools and housing and discrimination in employment. The issue of forced sterilisations of Roma women has not been adequately addressed yet.
In Greece, the legislative framework on non-discrimination has been consolidated with the adoption of the 2005 Equal Treatment Act and the 2008 amendment of the Criminal Code making the racist motivation of an offence an aggravating circumstance. In an encouraging development, there have been successful prosecution in recent years against antisemitic and anti-Roma publications.
However, on the whole, the legislation prohibiting incitement to racial hatred is still seldom applied and so far, few racial discrimination complaints have been filed due to insufficient legal assistance and information on available remedies. Roma continue to face problems in the fields of employment, housing and justice and the existing Integrated Action Plan should be better implemented. Issues relating to the freedom of association of persons belonging to some ethnic groups have not yet been solved. Significant improvements are called for in the treatment of refugees, asylum seekers and immigrants.
In Switzerland, measures have been taken to foster the integration of immigrants in areas such as employment, housing and health. The federal bodies in charge of racism and migration have continued to raise awareness on racism and racial discrimination. Steps have been taken to combat right-wing extremism.
However, there has been a dangerous growth of racist political discourse against non-citizens, Muslims, Black people and other minorities. Legislation is insufficiently developed to deal with direct racial discrimination, which targets in particular Muslims and persons from the Balkans, Turkey and Africa. Travellers and Yenish communities with an itinerant life style are still faced with a shortage of stopping sites and prejudice leading to instances of discrimination. Legislation governing asylum seekers has been tightened and hostility towards them has increased.
The reports are part of ECRI´s 4th monitoring round, which focuses on the implementation of its previous recommendations and the evaluation of policies and new developments since its last report. In two years time ECRI will carry out a follow up assesment.
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Agriculture's workplace health and safety record is not up to scratch. Too many people are being injured and dying on our farms. Federated Farmers believes it is time the sector took some responsibility and worked with the government to address the problem.
The Strategic Review of the Workplace Health and Safety System, launched in June, is one of the ways we can do this. An independent taskforce is looking at New Zealand's health and safety system. It is reviewing the legislation, regulation, incentives and enforcement measures in the hope of reducing the number of work-related accidents and fatalities.
Agriculture has the highest number of work-related fatalities out of the sectors identified as high risk; manufacturing, agriculture, forestry and construction. The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment's (MBIE) latest statistics show last year there were 15 work related deaths in agriculture. This compares to three workplace fatalities in manufacturing, four in construction and three in forestry.
The statistics are not good enough, especially when compared with the number of work related fatalities occurring overseas. Every farmer needs to be proactive and have a simple health and safety plan in place on their farm.
It is not difficult to have an up-to-date plan. In May last year, Federated Farmers developed a simple Occupational Health and Safety Manual which is available to members and non-members. The manual provides a step-by-step process to implementing a health and safety plan on farms and includes hazard and accident registers. To purchase Federated Farmers Occupational Health and Safety Manual, phone Federated Farmers customer service team on 0800 327 646.
The last thing Federated Farmers wants is for the Government to place more regulation and compliance costs on farmers.
By working with the taskforce and putting together a submission on the review, we can come up with an improved workplace health and safety approach which addresses the unique challenges agriculture faces.
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Whether we want to admit it or not, no matter how "icky" some of us find it to be, bacteria in our bodies actually protects us. Not all bacteria, of course, but a good lot of it. For some this is common knowledge, for others this is a constant revelation as they are reminded of that fact by their doctors in certain situations. In fact, bacterial cells outnumber human cells ten to one in the body. This community of bacterial genes and human cells is known as the microbiome, and offers up many secrets of the human body and how it operates.
The startup uBiome is crowdsourcing the sequencing and mapping of the human microbiome. This biotech out of the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3) is looking to work with citizen scientists in this era of personalized medicine by given them access to the latest high-throughput metagenomic sequencing technology. The question is, will people want or even consider wanting access to that kind of information, or know what to do with it? Frankly, in this age of constant trivial information, I'd presume yes. Continue Reading "Biotech Startup uBiome: Crowdsourcing the Human Microbiome" »


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EMA Director Jess Powers says the fire broke out just after midnight on Scarberry Lane in Castlewood.
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