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Rare Retreat to Jackson Hole
The White Buffalo Club • Jackson, WY
Escape Kit
- A Two- ($499) or Three-Night ($749) Stay for Two in a Miller Suite
- Or, a Four-Night Stay for Two in a Miller Suite with One Massage per Person ($1,079)
- $50 Dinner Credit at Cellar's Restaurant
- Combine Unlimited Vouchers for an Extended Stay
Seeing a white buffalo is extremely rare. So rare, in fact, that many Native Americans consider the pale bison a sacred symbol. If getaways are your white buffalo (read: seldom encountered), you'll want to treat this Escape to Jackson Hole as a sign.
You and a companion will roam to The White Buffalo Club and unwind for two ($499) or three ($749) nights in a Miller Suite. Stay for four nights and you'll also receive one massage per person. No matter how long you stay, all packages include a $50 dinner credit at Cellar's restaurant. Accommodations feature deep soaking tubs, flat-screen TVs, and leather and wood furnishings, and the hotel's rooftop terrace offers unmatched views of the surrounding scenery.
"Located 60 miles south of Yellowstone, Jackson Hole's million-dollar homes sprout all over the valley (formerly called a 'hole'), but there is still open space, a respect for cowboys and resistance to too much glitz," Frommer's says. "Modern Jackson Hole has become a mix of ski bums, blue bloods, nouveau riche, avid outdoor types, and a few real, live cowboys, many with a hunger for music, art, and good restaurants."
Skiers find the slopes at Jackson Hole an absolute treasure, and Forbes named it the number one ski resort in the US. After conquering more than a few black-diamond runs, stroll around the town square—located only three blocks from the hotel.
Then, settle in for an après cocktail at the on-site restaurant Cellar's, where Escapees receive a $50 dinner credit. Graze on innovative American dishes, succulent New York strip steak, and fresh ahi tuna flown in from Hawaii in a mountain lodge-meets-vineyard tasting room ambience.
In the morning, improve your range of movement with a workout in the state-of-the-art fitness center or let a masseuse work out any humps in your back during a well-deserved massage.
As far as typical ski-town lodging, The White Buffalo Club is anything but ordinary and a price this low is an unusual sighting.
"An excellent experience for us. The room was contemporary, comfortable, and clean. It had a full kitchen and sitting room where we could relax... Our steaks were melt-in-your-mouth delicious and the sides were scrumptious as well."-- TripAdvisor
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Brian Hayes
Looking for Lamarck in All the Wrong Places
If Lamarckism has no value in a static environment and only the
slimmest of marginal benefits in a fast-changing environment, it's
natural to wonder if there might be some intermediate condition
where the utility of Lamarckian inheritance is maximized. This would
be a condition where change is quick enough to make learning
worthwhile, but not so rapid as to make genetics irrelevant. I have
surveyed a broad range of rates of environmental variation looking
for this point of optimality, without reaching any firm conclusion.
The level of statistical fluctuations in the output of the model
suggests that much longer runs and larger populations would be
needed to settle the question. I do feel confident in saying there
is no level of variation where Lamarckian inheritance is worth as
much as learning is, or even half as much. But there may be a range
of variation rates where a species could benefit from a Lamarckian
mechanism if it cost no more than a tenth of what learning costs.
Even where the model's answers are clear, they are at best
preliminary and provisional. The model is too simple to capture much
detail about the lives of real organisms. On the other hand, it's
not simple enough to explore the entire space of parameter values.
Another reason for caution is that the model sometimes behaves in
ways I don't understand. For example, in certain mixed-population
experiments the Lamarckian gene is driven toward the lowest possible
values, indicating it is unfavorable and "wants" to be
zero, yet at the same time the Lamarckian breed drives its
competitors to extinction. What does that mean?
It would be interesting to test the model on problems other than
moth camouflage, especially problems where the environment is not a
passive background but can react and evolve on its own. One realm
where Lamarckian mechanisms look particularly attractive is the
immune system. Every child must reinvent immunity to measles and
chickenpox and other diseases. It's done through a miniature
Darwinian process of generating many random antibodies and selecting
those that recognize a pathogen. Wouldn't it be better to pass on
the selected antibody genes to later generations, so that babies
would be born pre-immunized? Edward J. Steele of the University of
Wollongong in Australia argues that something like this does go on
in the immune system, through the agency of reverse transcriptase.
But Steele has won few converts. It's hard to be a believer in
genetically transmitted immunity when your parents had chickenpox
and you had chickenpox and your children get chickenpox.
If Steele's mechanism could exist, would it prevent disease? The
obvious drawback is resistance: A generation born with a high titer
of antibody would exert powerful selective pressure on the pathogen,
so that mutants with slightly different surface markers would
proliferate. Thus every generation would have to come up with a new
defense anyway, and Lamarckian inheritance would be rendered
superfluous. But this is speculation; a model might well reveal
subtler effects.
In closing, I want to say a word about cultural evolution, which is
often described as a Lamarckian process. Suppose it were
truly Lamarckian: Suppose some neurogenetic innovation
allowed your children to be born already knowing everything you
know. What a boon to humanity! What a head start! No one would ever
again have to spend all those years learning the alphabet and the
multiplication tables and the conjugation of Latin verbs and the law
of cosines and the preamble to Evangeline and the date of
the Battle of Hastings and how to ride a bicycle. But the more items
I add to this list—let's not forget the state capitals or the
nine orders of angels or the 20 amino acids or the recipe for mom's
meatloaf—the more I'm struck by the fundamental problem of
Lamarckism. Which acquired traits do you choose to pass on?
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He much would they save if they cut him?
it has nothing to even do with just one year but also that he is due a lot of money. He is not worth 7 mil, we could get same production for like 2-3 mil easily.
How do we know that we can get a better corner in the draft? Someone who's ready to start from day 1 opposite Prince?
Web had 4 or 5 excellent years in a row. I'm not going to destroy what's left of any depth that we have in the secondary.
Webster hasn't been perenially bad. This year was his first year since his early years of really being BAD. There are some on the board who believe that for every dollar we cut, we'll have an equal amount to spend in free agency, which is just not the case. We just cut Bradshaw, Canty, and Boley to get under the cap by all of what, 3 million? Cut Webster and we assume another five or so comes off. We have to sign our LT, top two WRs to extensions, and at least one offensive lineman. Corners are a premiere position, so another good corner will NOT be cheap.
Simply put:
1. The options for replacing Webster without spending more than what he's costing us cap wise are not plentiful. There is no Brandon Carr on the market this year.
2. Webster is only one year removed from a pretty friggin good season. A season where he covered some of the league's best and more than held his own. It is not out of the realm of possibility that he can return to form in a contract year.
3. Shortcomings in the secondary can be symptomatic of other issues, such as lack of a pass rush. I think there were times this year where this was clearly the case on our team. Bolstering the pass rush, which is something Reese is clearly going to look to do regardless could become a natural cure all.
4. Even if you believe there are free agents better than Webster, they could decide to sign elsewhere, forcing us to overpay. At the end of the day, a seven million dollar cap hit for a CB that has been a #1 and could get back there is not that bad at all.
5. There are two CBs that rate out to be first rounders this year in the draft. I'm a big fan of Xavier Rhodes, and wouldn't be upset if he is our pick at all, but this isn't a particularly deep class of CBs. You can always find some in later rounds, but usually with size or technique issues that make them vulnerable in their early years. See: Jayron Hosley.
6. You don't get rid of corners, ends, offensive tackles, or wide receivers. Some on this board have pointed to Chris Gamble, who has a cap number of what, 9 million, is coming off of a knee injury, and Carolina is STILL trying to keep him. Premium position. You can't have enough good corners.
Why are we in such a rush to get rid of Webster. I understand he was very bad this year, but he could rebound. It's not out of the realm of possibility at all.
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Yes you guys are right in saying last year was his first real bad year


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May 24, 2004
More Dirty Spies
You may have heard about Obama's stalker, but down in Kentucky-3… A common but sometimes covert campaign tactic, sending observers to monitor the opposing candidate, became unusually public last week in the race for Congress in the 3rd District between Republican Rep. Anne Northup and Democrat Tony Miller. On the home page of the Louisville-Jefferson County Democratic Party's Web site, www.louisvilledemocrat.com, the first picture was of two smiling young men at the party's primary-night celebration. They were labeled "Anne …Read More »
May 24, 2004
Herseth is the Choice
Argus Leader endorsement: Intelligence, sense of what's important for S.D. would let her shine in Congress ...Herseth and Diedrich aren't clones, though. It's true, either would enter Congress as a freshman and, while good committee assignments might come along, would be at the bottom of the seniority-influence ladder. But the real issue in this race is simple. As one member of the 435-person Congress, who can better lobby for the needs of South Dakotans? Who can make a voice …Read More »
May 24, 2004
Hard Sell Monday Redux
Ok, this article from Salon, "A House Divided," gives about 100 other good reasons to help us out. Here's one: For two years, the assistant who answered Rove's phone was a woman who had previously worked for lobbyist Jack Abramoff, a close friend of Norquist's and a top DeLay fundraiser. One Republican lobbyist, who asked not to be named because DeLay and Rove have the power to ruin his livelihood, said the way Rove's office worked was this: "Susan …Read More »
May 24, 2004
Hard Sell Monday
Every Monday we try to give you one good reason to help us out. Today's reason is simple: We can win. With President Bush's political strength eroding, Democrats face improved electoral prospects this fall in the House and Senate — political terrain that not long ago seemed firmly in the GOP's grip. Recent polls indicate that problems in Iraq and continuing lack of confidence in the economy are not only hurting Bush but undercutting voters' assessment of Republicans in …Read More »
May 23, 2004
Under Oath
Seattle Times: Presented last fall with a detailed catalog of abuses at Abu Ghraib prison, the U.S. military responded Dec. 24 with a confidential letter to a Red Cross official asserting that many Iraqi prisoners were not entitled to the full protections of the Geneva Conventions. The letter, drafted by military lawyers and signed by Brig. Gen. Janis Karpinski, emphasized the "military necessity" of isolating some inmates for interrogation because of their "significant intelligence value" and said prisoners held …Read More »
May 23, 2004
Incompetent II
Kevin Drum links to Kautilyan speculating on the source of the forged uranium documents, asking whether Iran might have had something to do with it. As it happens, I was writing this post on the same question, and will add a couple things. We were both caused to wonder by this in Knight Ridder (5/22/04): The Defense Intelligence Agency has concluded that a U.S.-funded arm of Ahmad Chalabi's Iraqi National Congress has been used for years by Iranian intelligence …Read More »
May 22, 2004
Matsui / Pelosi Not Letting Bush Off Hook
This morning's Sacramento Bee has a great story about Rep. Matsui (our chair) and Democratic Leader Pelosi turning up the heat on Bush's lack of war planning and preparation. Relevant snippets: "Democrats hurled sharp barbs at the White House, with Rep. Robert Matsui of Sacramento, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, declaring that President Bush is "either clueless or incompetent" when it comes to the war." [snip] "It's a healthy debate," said Frank Rusciano, a political scientist at …Read More »
May 21, 2004
"I believe we are absolutely on the brink of failure. We are looking into the abyss." —General Joseph Hoar, a former commander in chief of U.S. Central Command; testimony to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, May 20, 2004 "I'm surprised that he is surprised because there was a lot of us who were telling [Rumsfeld] that it was going to be thus… Anyone could know the problems they were going to see. How could they not?...I think that some …Read More »
May 21, 2004
Matsui Has Pelosi's Back
SFGate.com: Matsui echoed Pelosi's critique of Bush, calling developments in Iraq a sign of the president's "either being clueless, or being incompetent.'' As for the charge that such criticisms are inappropriate during a time of war, Matsui said: "Frankly, that's McCarthyism.''Read More »
May 21, 2004
Why Contractors?
Financial Times asks the experts: Several high-ranking military legal officers believe the Pentagon used private contractors to interrogate prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan in a deliberate attempt to obscure aggressive practices from congressional or military oversight, according to a civilian lawyer who has spoken with them. The civilian lawyer said that the military lawyers, part of the Judge Advocate General corps, complained to him about the use of private contractors during meetings last year, before the scandal over abuses …Read More »
May 21, 2004
Go Vote!
Go Vote to support Pelosi. Now. Quick.Read More »
May 21, 2004
What a Difference a Chamber Makes
CQ Today gets a hold of the new GOP talking points. I am posting them in their entirety in the extended entry for those interested, but the Senate and the House published different sets, and it's worth seeing the difference on one matter in particular: Senate: "The actions of the soldiers in the photographs depicting detainee abuse are totally unacceptable and violate the law. They betrayed their comrades, who serve honorably every day, and they have damaged the cause …Read More »
May 21, 2004
The Goth Problem!
The Kansas City Star reports on Rep. Graves' (R-MO6) crowning acheivement: Almost half of a $273,000 grant awarded in 2002 to fight the Goth culture in Blue Springs has been returned because of a lack of interest - and the absence of a real problem. Blue Springs received the grant two years ago from the Youth Outreach Unit, money the city and U.S. Rep. Sam Graves trumpeted proudly as a way to fight a perceived Goth problem. But $132,000 …Read More »
May 21, 2004
Cross Post: Seth of College Dems
Seth Tanner of Smart Ass gave us permission to cross post his thoughts on Diane Farrell and South Dakota, amongst other things. Enjoy. This previous weekend, I went home to Connecticut from DC in order to go on a Costco run and gather stuff for my move into a new dorm. My little bro, Scott, asked me to come with him to an organizational meeting for interns on the Dianne Farrell for Congress campaign in Connecticut. Scott and I …Read More »
May 21, 2004
Prisoner Accounts
Washington Post: Previously secret sworn statements by detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq describe in raw detail abuse that goes well beyond what has been made public, adding allegations of prisoners being ridden like animals, sexually fondled by female soldiers and forced to retrieve their food from toilets. [...] The statements provide the most detailed picture yet of what took place on the cellblock. Some of the detainees described being abused as punishment or discipline after they …Read More »


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숙박 가능인원6
침실 수3
면적110 m²
Floor No.2
- 가족 / 아이들과 친근함
- 부엌
- 에어콘
- 세탁기 / 건조기
- 발코니/테라스
- 수건
- 식기 세척기
- 인터넷
Accommodation summary
|Calle Iuques, 07400 Puerto de Alcúdia, 스페인
|Acceptance rate
|Response time
|A few hours
|Calendar updated
The two storey chalet with a size of 110 m2 is ideal for families and small groups of friends. One of the bedrooms counts with a double bed, the other two bedrooms are equipped with two single beds each. There are 2 bathrooms in the 1rst floor, both with shower cabin. On the ground floor, where the living room and dining area are, there is a toilet. All the accommodation counts with air conditioning, there are 6 units, one in every bedroom and two others in the common areas.
Enjoy a BBQ at the terrace, which has a table with chairs for 6 persons. In the living room with its sofa you will pass a pleasant time reading a good book or just enjoying your free time.
The independent kitchen offers you everything you will need for your holidays: microwave, coffee machine, dishwasher, food blender, electric oven, vitro ceramic hob and a fridge with freezer. Of course there is also a washing machine, tumble dryer, iron and ironing board. The whole plot (with the house) measures about 115 m2. There is parking space on the plot for up to 2 cars. Furthermore, you could park in front of the property on the street free of charge. The house is located in a small urbanization and there are direct neighbors.
The location of the chalet is perfect because you reach all the installations you may need in a few minutes walking or driving by car or bus. Close to the chalet you will find a supermarket, restaurants, and the bus station. The bus goes every 15 minutes to Alcúdia harbor, Alcúdia old town, Puerto de Pollença or other directions like Can Picafort. Enjoy a relaxing beach day, bask in the sun and take a refreshing bath in the sea; or go for a pleasant stroll along the beach. You reach the fine grained sand beach with its crystal clear water in only 200 meters.
In Puerto de Alcúdia you will find lots of restaurants for every kind of tast. For your coffee or tea break you will find lots of cafeterias on the promenade. There are also lots of shops there; beside shops for clothes, shoes and souvenirs you will easily find small supermarkets for grocery shopping.
The old town of Alcúdia with its little cobbled streets is a must see. Visit the old squares, the church and the town walls where you can also walk around the top of the old town. Lots of small bars and good restaurants invite you to stop off for a coffee or a snack and take it all in. On Tuesday and Sunday there is market day in Alcúdia and the town turns into a busy place with lots of people. Don't forget to visit the Roman Ruins including a villa, a bull-ring and an amphitheatre.
By car or bus you could easily reach other nice beach areas like Playa de Muro, Can Picafort, Playa de Formentor or Puerto de Pollença. Also the bay Cala St. Vicente is a must to see. A visit of the old town of Pollença with its tiny church (Calvari) and the nice main square with lots of restaurants would be a nice half-day trip. To access the Calvari, you would have to climb more than hundred stairs - but the views are worth it!
This house offers a home away from home in one of the nicest and most visited zones of Mallorca. Don't spend your holidays somewhere - make your holidays an unforgettable experience!
Pets are not allowed.
Airport: 64 km
Beach: 100 meters
Small supermarket: 500 meters
Big supermarket: 1.1 km
Puerto de Alcúdia center: 2.5 km
Bus station: 200 meters
Pharmacy: 1.1 km
Golf course (Alcanada): 8 km
숙소규정Check-in: 16.00h
Check-out: 10.00h
Very late check-in (from midnight has an extra cost of 50 €
Damage deposit: 300 EUR (payment in the day of check-in and will be returned back in the day of departure)
Pets are not allowed.
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Ein sehr schönes Haus, die Beschreibung passt genau. Es ist etwas kleiner als es auf den Fotos wirkt, dafür ist es aber sehr sauber. Der Weg zum Strand durch die verkehrsarme Straße dauert genau 2min, perfekt.
Alcudia ist ein sehr schöner Ort wenn man mit der Familie unterwegs ist.
Ich kann das Haus auf jeden Fall weiterempfehlen.
Was nur etwas stört ist die Straße nach Can Picafort, die ist echt laut.
Für spanische Verhältnisse eine sehr gute Unterkunft mit guter Ausstattung.
Lage sehr nah am Strand - optimal für Badeurlaub. Praktisch auch die Aussendusche nach dem Strandbesuch. Der Strand ist sehr schön, auch sonst gute Infrastruktur.
Haben den Vermieter nie gesehen, nur via Mail - hat aber alles reibungslos geklappt.
Ein paar Schwächen, daher Abzug:
- Die nahe gelegene Hauptstrasse ist laut. Wer das nicht gewöhnt ist der wird sich ggf. daran stören.
- Sauberkeit ist ok, allerdings kleben alle Küchengriffe und der Kühlschrank war auch nicht sehr sauber - das nervt.
- Starker Abflussgeruch / Gammelgeruch im Bad beim Elternzimmer. Das ist sehr störend.
- Viele der Betten quietschen - gemeinsam mit den Strassengeräuschen hatten wir ein paar unruhige Nächte. Vielleicht sind wir aber verwöhnt von Daheim.
- Kein WLAN (Beschreibung ist Korrekt) - wäre aber sehr hilfreich.
Das Haus ist sehr gepflegt, sauber und modern eingerichtet - hier wurde an nichts gespart. Übergabe problemlos und schnell. Zum langen Sandstrand (mit gemütlicher Strandbar) nur 3 Minuten zu laufen. Restaurants, Kneipen, Fahrradverleich und alles, was man sonst noch braucht ebenfalls in Laufnähe. Alles in allem also eine perfekte Location - dafür geben gerne 5 Sterne!
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Its a fantastic Finca in the countryside of Mallorca but still very close to Santa Margalida. It has a beautiful, large and clean pool. The sourrounding yard is decorated with beautiful flowers. The house is decorated in an "old-fashion/classical" style and very cosy. The furniture in- and outside is very comfortable and solid - no plastic chairs or similar. The interior gives you everything you need: A huge fridge including 3 big ice buckets, a washing mashine, a barbeque on the terrace and a nice outside-couchplace. The kitchen provides any tool you´d need. Well, I could write a novel about the beauty of this place...
Last but not least we had very nice expirience with the daughter of the owner who visited us the second day in order to ask if everything is okay and to give some info about garbage and electronics.
To make a long story short: We had a fantastic stay and we will come back to this beautiful place a s soon as possible.
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Very nice house! Very nice Garden. Great Beach! Very quiet arround the accomodation. Good Place to relax. We enjoyed our stay!
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In WW2, the Germans had by far the better squad machinegun. Nevertheless, it had a severe drawback to its excellence: It required a highly-trained operator to be at its most effective in the field, and that operator had to be supported by at least one assistant (while the BAR could be operated by just one man).
Oppositely, the US soldier and, after 1942, the Marine of WW2 was armed with by far the better battle rifle, and was given sufficient training to allow for its very effective use.
Advantage: USA.
On a side note, it has been observed about the three premier bolt-action rifles of WW1 and WW2, that the Germans were armed with an excellent hunting rifle, the Americans were armed with an excellent target rifle, and the British were armed with an excellent battle rifle. (The French were armed primarily with the bayonet.)


text: Sorry, this post is a rant against Farmers Insurance - if you don't want to hear me rant then move on - I'm HACKED. I know some of you have Farmers Insurance, and I know that some of you like it. That's not my experience, and I think that I'm a pretty fair person ... just read all my comments going back through time on this site, I think I've only ripped into like two or three people. Overall, I think I'm very fair and like to give the benefit of the doubt. The facts are that I was in a wreck 23 months ago (have to settle in 24 months in Texas) and at that time they said I was 40% at fault for the accident. So I went to my own insurance company and they took farmers to arbitration. Well, it took over a year, but we WON arbitration against Farmers. Ok, cool, I am officially 0% at fault and Farmers has to pay all of my claims. So now, when I am trying to fully settle against all of the claims and they just came out and said that they have no proof that I won arbitration and they aren't going to pay me anything. What? They already paid the vehicle off and I got my $500 deductible back from my insurance company. I sent them in additional rental costs and they said they were going to pay, but did not pay. I sent in my lost wages and they said they would pay, then they said they would not pay. There are other things out there and they said they would pay, then they said they would not pay. VERY frustrating. This is either a bad system they have (which is possible - let's be fair) or they are using this as a stalling strategy. I was in a wreck that caused $9,500 in damage to my vehicle ALONE. The other vehicle's front end was demolished and the woman who caused the wreck had a broken sternum. She was also ticketed at the scene for failure to yield to me. My insurance company took Farmers Insurance to arbitration and won. Meanwhile, my neck and back still hurt, I just went into the Chiropractor again two weeks ago. I have two days lost work (should have been more, but I was 4 weeks into a new job and didn't have a big reserve of time off to take). My wife was pregnant and was at home in bed for 12 weeks with the worst kind of nausea (hyperemesis) that pregnant women get (1 out of 200 women get it), so I couldn't even get all of the treatment that I needed. Anyhow, I have an attorney lined up and if it comes to that they will step in and take over for me, but I'm really just looking to get 1) my lost wages, 2) medical bills and medicine, 3) something reasonable for pain and suffering because my neck still hurts and the chiropractor has a therapy plan for me to still work on... 4) lost use of my vehicle for 4 months and only got 1 month of rental car out of it. Anyhow, that's my rant. Hopefully it will all work out - I hate to have to get into a lawsuit, but I've done it becuase when I had to, so I guess I will do it again.


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Napoleonic Weekend - Monday, 22 March 2010
Date: Saturday 27 and Sunday 28 March 2010
Location: Leeds
Charge down to the Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds on Saturday 27 & Sunday 28 March and witness history brought to life. This special themed event features some of the most exciting stories from the era of Napoleon, the Peninsular War and fictional book/TV character Sharpe.
Calling swabs of all ages! Scrub the decks and stand by ya' beds! Join the Press Gangs and see what life was like in the Royal Navy 200 years ago.
There will be spectacular living history displays by the 33rd and 68th Rifles re-enactment groups. The Sharpe Appreciation Society will be joining us along with Jason Salkey, aka Rifleman Harris, one of Sharpe's chosen men from the well-loved series.
Join us for a fun and informative guided tour of the Museum at Clarence Dock, get up close to contemporary artefacts in our special handling sessions and experience explosive live cannon firings.
This event is just one of the Royal Armouries themed weekends will hold this year and follows on from the Dragons' Den weekend in January and Spies and Secret Agents half-term activities last month.
For more information on our Napoleonic Weekend and other dangerously entertaining Royal Armouries' events please visit www.royalarmouries.org
Media contact
Tel: 0113 220 1978
Email: email@example.com
Notes to editors
- Themed Interpretations
- From 11am throughout the day
- Free
- Themed Horse Show: Cavalcade
- 2pm
- Adult: £2.50
- Conc: £1.50 (ages 3-15, 60+)
- Guided Tour
- 11am
- Free
- Handling sessions
- 12 noon – 4pm
- Free
- Living History Displays
- From 11am throughout the day
- Free
- Press Gang (max 20 per session)
- 11.30am, 3.30pm
- £1.50
- 5-12 years
- Military Drill & Gun Firings
- 12 noon, 3pm
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- Royal Armouries is the national museum of arms and armour and has sites in Leeds, HM Tower of London, Fort Nelson and Louisville, Kentucky. It is the first British national museum to open a permanent presence in another country
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NORTH KEY LARGO -- Jim Duquesnel walks into the hardwood hammock just off County Road 905 in the Crocodile Lake National Wildlife Refuge and peers into a wooden snake trap.
It's empty.
Next, the U.S. Geological Survey biologist continues up and down three rows containing some 24 traps in all. He looks inside each one. They're empty too.
If Duquesnel were a hunter, he'd surely be disappointed. But for a scientist, and indeed for Key Largo in general, this empty harvest is good news because it suggests there still aren't many Burmese python making the trek from the Florida mainland onto the island.
But that doesn't mean Duquesnel isn't worried.
"The population on the mainland is making more and more pythons every year," he said. "The frequency of them making it here it is going to increase."
Duquesnel's work on the python traps is one of the tasks he shares with fellow biologist Michelle McEachern. Together, they're the USGS's front line as the agency attempts to stop pythons, tegu lizards and other invasive species that are increasingly common in South Dade from making it to the Florida Keys.
It's a crucial task. In Everglades National Park Burmese pythons are wiping out a range of small mammals, such as marsh rabbits and opossums, a National Academy of Sciences study released this year found.
Meanwhile, the tegu lizard, a black and white Argentine import that typically grows to around three feet and reaches a weight of eight pounds, is a forager that thrives on eggs that are laid on the ground. If they arrive here it could mean problems for a range of Upper Keys species, including box turtles, burrowing owls, nighthawks, least terns and even the American crocodile, Duquesnel said.
Scientists are also on the lookout for other invasive species. Recently, for example, Duquesnel was the first to document the popular Mayan cichlid aquarium fish in the waters of North Key Largo. But it's the tegu and the python that are the focus of the federal agency's attention, though the trapping programs are in different phases.
During the cooler months, tegus often hibernate, so the USGS has suspended that trapping program until March. But over the summer, the agency placed some two dozen traps between Key Largo and Florida City on the 18-Mile Stretch.
They caught approximately a dozen tegus, half of which scientists killed. The USGS fitted the remaining lizards with transmitters and then released them. They've been monitored ever since.
Though the ultimate goal is to contain the tegus' spread through the South Florida wild, the USGS is just as concerned right now with understanding the lizard, according to Duquesnel.
"Our assignment is to study behavior, movement and dispersal patterns," he said. "If we can find the Achilles heel for tegus, that is what we're looking for."
Burmese pythons are a more established and more studied problem in South Florida. So that USGS trapping program isn't seeking to learn the snake's behavior. Rather, its two-headed goal is to sample different trapping techniques and to stop the python from invading the Upper Keys.
Some pythons are already here, though they're not breeding in Key Largo yet. The first python captured in the Keys by scientists, in 2007, had the remains of two endangered Key Largo woodrats in its belly. Five pythons have been reported in the Upper Keys since August, though not all of those have been caught. It's not clear how many of those pythons were wild and how many were pets that had been released.
The USGS's 91 traps have caught just one python since Duquesnel got on the job in February, he said.
The agency had placed 46 snake traps off the 18-Mile Stretch, but those are being deactivated due to budget cuts. That leaves 45 traps in north Key Largo, which are strategically located to catch pythons in naturally occurring bottlenecks on the island.
About half of the traps sit on their own, baited with rats.
Almost daily, Duquesnel and McEachern visit those traps, where they refresh the rats' food, check for snakes and document the visits.
The 24 other traps aren't baited. Instead, they are lined up in parallel rows, separated by a fence. When the snake hits the fence, the theory goes, it will turn right or left, and slither into a trap.
The trapping program is augmented by evening road patrols, which become increasingly useful in winter months, when pythons often come out of the brush and onto the asphalt to soak up the pavement's warmth.
Duquesnel stressed that during the winter months people are more likely to see pythons on the roadways and in sunny clearings. Those who do should get a photograph then call (888) IVE-GOT1 right away and follow the instructions for a live operator. The line is always manned, he said, so if you end up with a recording, call back and listen closely to the prompts.
"We need the public to be our eyes and ears because they're everywhere we can't be," Duquesnel said.


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I was able to check out Adams Golf's new Speedline Super XTD Fairway Wood over the weekend at a local demo day and I walked away very impressed! This may be the perfect fairway wood! The Speedline Super XTD Fairway Wood sets up very clean at address and the face depth inspires confidence from both the fairway and the tee. When compared to the Fast 12 Fairway Wood, the Super XTD features a 14% hotter face thanks to the titanium construction and dual velocity slot technology. Precision milled tungsten heel-toe weighting provides a low center of gravity for increased MOI and higher launch conditions and the forged titanium crown and body increases ball speeds and overall performance. Tour inspired sole geometry improves turd interaction and the premium Mitsubishi Fubuki graaohite shaft provides consistency and a high, piercing trajectory. This Speedline Super XTD is easily the best fairway wood Adams has ever created and it has already made its way into multiple bags on the PGA Tour. In fact, Kenny Perry had to game this club in a 5 wood as opposed to a 3 wood because he hit the 15* too far!
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I got home today from a 8 day vacation, which began with 3 days at Master Beekeeper program and Bee College in St Augustine Fla. I have bait hives in my back yard. Nothing. So I expected nothing at my other bait hives. I went out to my apiary where I have one bait hive and low and behold, bees have moved in. Not a large colony and I didn't want to poke around too much, they are in a deep box building comb on 2 foundationless frames and covering the 2 drawn frames I put in. Then I went to my son's where I have a nuk bait box on a ladder next to the garage, and they are moved in there. I could hear and see plenty of bees. I didn't take pics. I have 3 boxes in my back yard and I still have 2 more sites to place boxes.
Makes up for the colony I lost this spring. It is certainly spring in SW FL. I got some great teaching on africanized bees, as this is a big concern in my area. I am equipped to deal with that too. Bee college was fantastic, and I am now an "apprentice beekeeper" in the Master Beekeeping program.


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At a Glance
Facts about the Nephrology Fellowship Program.
Program Options
Two- and 3-year clinical and research training options offering a broad knowledge base in renal physiology and pathophysiology and first-hand experience in evaluating and managing nephrology-related disorders.
The Einstein-Montefiore Nephrology Fellowship Program curriculum includes broad-based clinical education and experience in caring for patients with renal diseases, with activities and experiences tailored to each fellow's career goals.
Goals & Objectives
Educational goals for the Einstein-Montefiore Nephrology Fellowship Program and for a competency-based core curriculum.
By Year
A description of the fellowship training experience during years 1, 2, and 3.
Lectures & Conferences
A listing of the Nephrology Fellowship's 50+ core curriculum lectures per year.
Clinical & Educational Resources
Resources available to fellows include clinical facilities, research databases, libraries, and funding to attend national nephrology conferences.
Fellow Privileges
Delineation of privileges for first-year and second-year nephrology fellows.
Program Leadership
Program administrators and administrator roles.
Evaluation and Assessment
Evaluations and ABIM eligibility, fellow evaluations by faculty, fellow responsibilities, and program director responsibilities.
Fellow Accomplishments & Awards
Published abstracts, publication of original research, abstracts presented at national specialty meeting, chapters in medical textbook, and oral presentations to the NY Society of Nephrology.
Admission & Application
Admission requirements for the Einstein-Montefiore Nephrology Fellowship Program.
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Was thinking (and maybe too much) that since in many cases the corners of both brood & supers (where one mostly places their hive tool to break the boxes) are perhaps the most vulnerable part of the box. So, placing a piece of flat bar 1/8"x3/4"x3"long in one corner (top & bottom) would help the boxes last longer. It would be easy to route those corners 1/8" deep and 3" long to screw the flat bar and of course the flat bar would need to have holes counter-sunk for a flat head screw. You would only need to do it one corner top & bottom & just get used to opening from that corner. Doing this would provide a place to pry w/o damaging equipments.
Any thoughts on this? What have I missed? Was just thinking of doing it on new equipment.


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By the Webroot Threat Team
Two of NASA's satellites were hacked during 2007 and 2008, according to a draft report to be officially released later this month. According to the United States–China Economic and Security Review Commission, the 'birds', which focused on Earth observation for tasks such as climate monitoring, were reportedly pwned by the attackers, to the extent that they could have taken total control of the systems, had they wished.
The Landsat-7 earth observation satellite was hacked into for twelve minutes, during October 2007 and July 2008. The Terra AM-1 earth observation satellite was disrupted for two minutes in June 2008, and attackers enjoyed another nine-minute ride in October that year.
It's all a bit scary, isn't it? Mostly, security professionals focus on botnets, auction scams and spam. We rarely if ever cast our eyes and our thoughts skywards – and there are a lot of things floating around up there.
As of August, there were at least 965 operational satellites in orbit around the world, according to the Union of Concerned Scientists. The breakdown of these satellites is as follows:
- 443 were launched by the US
- 101 were launched by Russia
- 69 were launched by China
These satellites perform a broad spectrum of functions, ranging from scientific research, commercial/business purposes, and various military functions.
These are the ones that are known about; there are doubtless a few unclassified birds up there, too, probably with powerful lenses, among other things. With valuable data on everything from commercial inventory to ATM data flying around, how safe are all these things from attack?
Not very, as it turns out. One of the biggest problems for satellite manufacturers is that once a bird is up there, it isn't that easy to nip up and patch a piece of equipment.
The UK Ministry of Defence denied that Skynet, a satellite network used to co-ordinate military activities, had been hacked in 1999 (but they wouldn't, wouldn't they?). Reports said that the hack had been traced to a group in southern England that had intercepted the link between a control network and the ground station.
Ground station access seems to be a common method when satellites are hacked. The NASA hackers took advantage of a Norweigan ground station, according to the draft report, which will be published on November 17. The Svalbard Satellite Station in Spitsbergen, Norway, denied the allegations, saying that its NASA satellite control system is effectively a closed loop. But that station is connected to the Internet at some points, and NASA has since confirmed that there had been 'suspicious activities' with its birds.
How easy is it to hack a satellite in space?
There are other ways to hack satellites, although they're less sophisticated. One involves denial of service. Jamming a signal to communicate your own, for example, can wreak havoc with satellite communications systems. In 1986, Captain Midnight (aka John R. MacDougall) worked for a satellite teleport and ramped up the power on his employers' communication system to display messages of his own on top of the satellite's audio-visual channel.
MacDougall's incursion was commercial; he was fed up with HBO scrambling its signal and costing his satellite resale business customers. Other hacks have been politically motivated. Outlawed Chinese group the Falun Gong was accused of hijacking AsiaSat's satellite signals in 2002, and the Tamil Tigers did it with an IntelSat system in 2007.
And then, there's piggyjacking. For years, Brazilians have been building their own modified ham radio systems to communicate with each other via unencrypted channels on older satellite systems from the 1970s. This practice, which started in the 1990s, has been used by everything from smugglers to illegal loggers.
The cost of opportunity for hackers is falling. Speaking at BlackHat 2009, famed security researcher Adam Laurie explained how, a few years ago, satellite hacking required expensive equipment. Now, digital video broadcasting (DVB) boxes are sold very cheaply, and open source ones such as the Dreambox Linux-based satellite receiver can be used to extract satellite feed data and analyse it using cheap or free tools like this one.
Laurie demonstrated this, accessing raw IP data being sent from Africa, muxed with audio-visual signals. He even wrote software that scanned the night sky, looking for satellites hanging out on their own with channels that changed over the course of a few days. "What's new is interesting," he said.
Or, you could eliminate the whole sticky task of hacking a satellite altogether and just steal the data after it has been downloaded and stored. That's what Romanian hacker TinKode did when he snooped on files stored on the web site for NASA's Earth Observation System at the Goddard Space Centre.
Why would hackers bother doing this at all?
Controlling communications hubs in the sky gives you an inordinate amount of power over potential adversaries, whether political, commercial, or military. Satellite attacks would be one of the first steps in an overt information warfare campaign. For example, in 1998, the PanAmSat Galaxy IV satellite experienced an outage. It took down 80% of pagers in the US, and threw CBS and NPR off the air.
No wonder that the Chinese have been implicated in the attack against the weather satellites. The Commission, ever-suspicious of Chinese political and commercial motives, says that the attack patterns are consistent with others used by Chinese hackers. China denies it, and so the toe-to-toe plausible deniability dance continues.
It is only going to get easier to put satellites into space. Private corporations such as Elon Musk's SpaceX are already planning to haul tin for commercial and public sector clients, and, just as the cost of hacking satellites is decreasing, so is the cost of getting the birds up there in the first place is also plumetting. As space becomes increasingly privatised, and the number of satellites increases, we can expect to see more stories like this. So, how will you know that a satellite has been hacked? Just keep one eye on the stars, and the other on your cat.


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Five finalists for dean of the School of Education at the University of Colorado at Boulder will begin campus visits on Sunday, April 13.
Following campus visits by each of the five finalists the search committee, chaired by Engineering Dean Ross Corotis, will make its final recommendation on the position to Wallace Loh, vice chancellor for academic affairs.
The finalists, their current positions and the dates of their campus visits are:
Ann D. Thompson, director of the Center for Technology in Learning and Teaching and professor of curriculum and instruction, Iowa State University. April 13-15.
James Louis Heap, professor and chair, department of theory and policy studies and chair of several graduate programs, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. April 16-18
Enrique (Henry) Torres Trueba, visiting professor of human development and psychology, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University. April 20-22
Robert E. Floden, professor of teacher education and educational psychology, College of Education, Michigan State University. April 25-28
Robert J. Tierney, director, School of Teaching and Learning, College of Education, Ohio State University. Dates of Tierneys visit will be announced.
Interim Dean Lorrie Shepard has led the School of Education since former Dean Phil DiStefano left the post last September to become associate vice chancellor for undergraduate education. He had been dean since 1986.


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Our focus on using antibiotics to kill bacteria has blinded us to their diverse functions in the organisms that make these chemicals
Robert L. Dorit
Researchers such as Fernando Baquero and Jose L. Martinez of the National Center for Biotechnology in Madrid, and Julian Davies of the University of British Columbia, among others, have begun to articulate a radically different perspective on the role played by the now-mislabeled "antibiotics." Far from being just stone-cold killers, naturally occurring antibiotics appear to be part of the vocabulary of bacteria, words in the nuanced language of this world unseen by humans. Like language, antibiotics are capable of conveying multiple meanings to different recipients.
At sublethal concentrations, antibiotics can have profound and unexpected effects on surrounding cells. Several different antibiotics, when present at a small fraction (less than 1 percent) of their lethal concentration, coordinate the expression of whole sets of genes in bacteria that sense the antibiotic. These coordinated responses are not simply the molecular expression of panic (the aptly named "SOS response") expected when an antibiotic is present. The signal may, for instance, induce Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteria to develop into a bacterial biofilm—an architecturally complex, surface-bound conglomeration of cells—which, regrettably, makes bacteria much less sensitive to antibiotics in clinical settings. In another irony, low concentrations of antibiotic appear to upregulate the expression of a suite of genes responsible for increased virulence, in effect transforming a benign bacterium into a pathogen. These and other examples, in short, suggest that antibiotics may be far more than just toxic substances designed to kill all bacteria within range. And in the latest of many surprises, George M. Church of Harvard Medical School and his colleagues have isolated hundreds of soil bacteria able to subsist on antibiotics as their sole source of nutrition. This is not resistance but rather downright insolence, as these bacteria think of antibiotics not as threatening molecules, but instead as food.
Our ability to understand the origin and role of antibiotics has, in effect, been hindered by the uses to which we put them. In a fit of intellectual narcissism, we assume that if we use them in clinical settings to kill bacteria, that must be what they evolved for. However, when we recast them in a subtler role as agents of competition, and also as regulators and communicators in the bacterial world, we can view their lethal (and thus, for us, salutary) effects in a different light. It is when we administer doses of antibiotics that are orders of magnitude greater than those encountered in nature that a subtle, modulated signal is transformed into a deafening, and increasingly deadly, roar.
If antibiotics are part of the whispered conversations of the microbial world, what then should we make of antibiotic resistance? The last 65 years of clinical antibiotic use have exposed a dizzying array of mechanisms that bacteria use to survive the presence of toxic antibiotic concentrations. The diversity and complexity of these mechanisms—enzymes that chemically disable antibiotics, shape-shifting targets that prevent antibiotics from binding, complex pumps that eject the antibiotic from the target cell—have raised an obvious evolutionary question: Where do these mechanisms come from? Part of the answer, unsurprisingly, is self-defense. Many of the bacteria that produce antibiotics also harbor mechanisms that make themselves impervious to that antibiotic compound. In the case of the lethal protein antibiotics discussed previously, the bacteriocins, producer bacteria also synthesize a second protein that pairs up with the antibiotic, rendering it inactive until it reaches its target.
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American University law professor to present 'Reform of International Financial Institutions' March 27
DETROIT (March 22, 2012) — Wayne State University Law School's Program for International Legal Studies is pleased to host a lecture by Daniel Bradlow, professor of law at American University's Washington College of Law and SARCHI Professor of International Development Law and African Economic Relations at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. The lecture, titled "Reform of International Financial Institutions," is part of the Winter 2012 Speaker Series and will take place from 12:15-1:30 p.m. on Tues., March 27, in the Damon J. Keith Center for Civil Rights Lecture Hall.
"International financial institutions such as the World Bank, International Monetary Fund and European Central Bank have played a central role in responding to the recent international economic crisis, yet they are far from perfect," says Gregory Fox, director of Wayne Law's Program for International Legal Studies. "Bradlow is one of the world's pre-eminent authorities on how these institutions work and what changes need to be made in order for them to function more effectively. We're really privileged to have him speak at Wayne Law."
Bradlow is chair of the Roster of Experts for the Independent Review Mechanism at the African Development Bank, and a member of the boards of directors of International Lawyers and Economists Against Poverty (ILEAP) and New Rules for Global Finance. He also is a member of the executive council of the American Society of International Law. His current scholarship focuses on global economic governance, international financial institutions, creative financing for development, and international legal issues that arise at the interface of large projects and sustainable and equitable development.
The event is free and open to the public. Lunch will be provided.
For more information on the event or the Program for International Legal Studies, visit www.law.wayne.edu/international-studies.
Program for International Legal Studies
Wayne Law created the Program for International Legal Studies in recognition of the breadth of the faculty's international engagements and expertise and the fact that nearly all aspects of law now have an international component. From regulation of cross-border financial transactions to controlling pollution that recognizes no boundaries to human rights treaties that regulate how governments treat their citizens, law is an interconnected global phenomenon. The program coordinates all activities at Wayne Law related to international law.
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It was Giovanni who founded Foppiano Vineyards after moving to Healdsburg, California when his search for gold was unrewarding. He purchased a working winery called "Riverside Farm" on the same land where today's Foppiano Vineyards still stands and operates.
Petite Sirah, the family's favorite wine, has become the winery's signature wine, and is known nationwide as one of the country's top Petites year-in and year-out.


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Betty Goodwin - Prints
20 May 2002 - ?
The National Gallery of Canada is extremely pleased and proud to present an exhibition that brings together almost one hundred works from the vast body of highly original prints created by Betty Goodwin between 1969 and 1994. On display in the Prints, Drawings and Photographs Galleries, The Prints of Betty Goodwin will be featured at the National Gallery of Canada from 31 May to 2 September 2002. This medium and the prints she made between 1968 and 1975 brought Goodwin to prominence. Her innovative series of vests, shirts and gloves brought her into the ranks of the foremost artists and laid the foundation for ideas that led her to make the drawings and sculptures for which she is famous.


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This week is both the American Honey Producers and North American Beekeeping Conference and Tradeshow. Is it common for vendors to have "show discounts" on equipment at these shows?
I have found it informative just to look at the vendor lists and link to their websites even if not attending the shows.


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Sourcing Fresh Free Range Eggs in Vancouver
Once upon a sunny February afternoon, four members of the LUSH team went to visit our free range egg supplier, Rabbit River Farms. Located only 20 minutes away from our Vancouver production facility, Rabbit River supplies the fresh eggs we use in our Cosmetic Warrior, Sacred Truth and Brazened Honey face masks.
Eggs are fantastic for the skin, as they balance the natural sebum production. We were lucky enough to get a personal tour from the owner himself, the delightful and innovative Steve Easterbrook. We arrived to spot a sign outside the front door "Welcome LUSH!" Already charmed, we peeked inside the "barn" door to see the hundreds of eggs being packaged up to be sent out to local grocery stores across BC. Steve greeted us warmly and told us how excited everyone was to have us visit. Before taking us on a tour of the entire facility, which is the only egg production site in BC that both raises hens and packages the eggs, Steve, who comes from one of the original settling families in Richmond BC, took the time to tell us about how his farm came to be. Rabbit River Farms was started by Easterbrook in 1993. His great grandfather owned the first grain mill in Richmond, producing grains for human and animal consumption. As a child, Steve had looked after a few free range chickens in the backyard- a hobby that would later become his life's work. Steve left farming as a young man, venturing into other "boring industries", as he put it. Eventually, he felt called back to his roots and decided to purchase a large plot of land. Unsure of what to do next, Steve visited a local organic farm and asked what the market was missing. Can you guess what they suggested? Eggs! At the time, there were no producers of organic eggs in Canada, let alone British Columbia. In fact, there weren't even any standards for certifying eggs as organic. Steve approached the certification board and they agreed to let him experiment, effectively writing the standards as he went along. The only two rules in existence were "organic land, organic feed". At the time, organic feed (which by definition includes no animal products of any kind) wasn't available, so Steve approached a friend of his and, together, they developed one of the first organic animal feeds in Canada.
Did his business take off from here? Not exactly. At first, his farm and processes had to be refined, and some research had to determine what customers wanted. Eventually, Steve convinced a small organic grocery store in Vancouver to sell his eggs. To everyone's surprise, they were a hit. Customers were willing to pay a little more to ensure that their eggs were organic and the chickens supplying them were treated in a humane environment. As the demand for his organic eggs grew, so did his farm. Today, Rabbit River Farms produces over 216,000 eggs a week! All of the eggs produced are certified organic, free range (meaning the hens are free to walk around outdoors) or free run (hens are kept in an open-concept house with controlled access to the outdoors). His hens are never kept in cages, given antibiotics or any sort of genetically modified feed. Rabbit River Farms is also certified by the BCSPCA (British Columbia Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals).
Steve was kind enough to show us the entire process, from hen to carton. He took us to the (absolutely massive) main barn, which houses approximately 5200 hens. The first thing we noticed upon walking in was how much quieter it was then we expected. You'd think a few thousand chickens would make more noise! All we encountered was the low hum of wings flapping and beaks pecking in the food troughs. The hens were moving around the barn freely, preening, feeding, and most importantly-socializing. It's vital for chickens to establish a (literal) pecking order, so being able to socialize normally (without being kept in cages) makes for a harmonious laying environment. After a few photos with our new flock of friends, we followed the conveyer belt that ran from the laying nests to the washing station. Thousands of eggs run through hot water and steam, as per food safety standards, before being carefully inspected for cracks. The eggs are then sorted by weight, packaged and handled by the lovely staff. Steve showed us all the various sizes and colours eggs could come in, calling the little spheres "nature's perfect package".The entire process was very complex, yet so simple at the same time.
Steve's extensive knowledge and experience combined with his passion for farming have revolutionized the way eggs are produced in Canada today. His commitment and passion for his farm is abundantly clear. We hurled questions at him for hours and he answered every one with as much enthusiasm as the first. "I love animals" Steve stated simply. He suggested that much of what we need to live is dependent on contributions from animals, so it only makes sense to give them respect and humane treatment. He often refers to his philosophy as "freedom farming", meaning farms should be an environment where animals are well taken care of and free to engage in their natural behaviors. He's constantly challenging himself to "do it better for the birds".
We love that Steve is local, but we also buy from Rabbit River Farms because their values and ethics are in line with ours here at LUSH. Steve summed it up wonderfully for the both of us; "It's about taking ownership and passion in your product".


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Airlie Beach News & Events:
The cyclones have passed, so its business as usual
Event Description :Last night Cyclone Yasi passed over the Queensland coast adjacent to the seaside resort town of Mission Beach. While Mission Beach and nearby centres including Innisfail, Tully, Cardwell, Ingham, Cairns and Townsville will take time to recover, Airlie Beach has been spared.
The cyclone centre passed some 350 KM to the North of Airlie Beach and despite its massive size, we endured some moderately strong winds and rain ... and that's about it. Previous years have delivered the summer storms as expected and thus the Airlie Beach community is well used to events of this nature and recovers quickly as we return to being Queensland's best resort town, right in the heart of the Great Barrier Reef, Whitsundays, Australia.
Power and other services continue to flow to Toscana Resort and we look forward to welcoming new guests due to arrive as soon as today with the expectation that blue skies will shortly return.


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I think our defense against the run will surprise everyone. . I really like our additions, both rookies and FA pickup..
I think our defense against the run will surprise everyone. . I really like our additions, both rookies and FA pickup..
Wouldn't better tackle play alleviate that concern? I mean, if the RB is getting to the LB level, that speaks more of an issue with the DTs, not the LBs. Also, didn't we sign a few DTs in FA and draft one?
Not necessarily because the DT will be Doubled -- The MLB's Job is to shed the blocker on him and Stuff the hole -- So NO Don't blame the DT's It the MLB who has to do this
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The first line of Defense against the run is the DT's if they do their jobs and hold there ground and shed blockers Rb's won't make it to the Lber's!!!! There is a reason they signed Cullen Jenkins,Mike Paterson,Sean Rodgers and Frank Okam in FA and Drafted Big Hank Rogers,Okam and Hankins are space eating Run stuffers exactly when we need. Jenkins is versatrile enough to be good against the run and if Austin does as well in pads as he is without like coach Nunn has said you can throw him in there as well. Our MLB won't be a concern. LBers look bad when DT's don't do there jobs and that's a fact!!!!!
Good luck with seeing a 250 MLB shed a 325lb Guard and stuff a hole!!!!! Once a lineman like a guard or center get there hands on a MLB I don't care how good the LBer might be he isn't getting to the hole befor the RB gains 4 yards at least!!! It is the DT's job to occupy the blockers so the MLB can run free and stuff the hole its football 101. The whole point of having DT's is so your LBers can freely plug holes and make plays. If a LBer has to shed an O lineman then he is shedding them to chase down the RB not plug the hole cause the RB is already thru the hole!!!!!


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Original post made by pat, Midtown, on Mar 14, 2007
- If you ask people to play straight with the facts, seems you have at least a little obligation to do so yourself.
- I wish posters would provide data to back up their claims, rather than stressing "substance" and "studies" without proof points. We can all learn from these online discussions if only people will play it straight. We would all benefit.
I sent an email to a PAO official and received the following guidelines:
- "If posters can't manage to focus on substance, and instead insist on characterizing other posters, we're inclined to remove them."
- No posts that are "just silly and brings down the value of the site to people who are really interested in having a discussion or in reading what others are saying."
- "Sarcasm is not a productive or respectful form of communication, even when sprinkled with humor."
Yet the following posts were NOT deleted:
- " . . . instead of living in their imaginations, it results in a sad lack of public knowledge, with the further continuance of ignorance spread to others. If you don't do these things, then you will continue to argue from ignorance, . . . " (Apparently OK to say someone is ignorant.)
- . . . "if we give in to a few vocal naysayers (who consistently provide skewed fiscal critiques on these projects), . . . " (No proof that critiques are "skewed.")
- "It must be a bitter pill to swallow, especially when someone points it out . . . It must be even more bitter when all the naysaying crowd has left is a desperate mocking tone directed at those who have passed them by, or toting out a poverty stricken bag of old ideas that barely flew the first time."
- "Many of these naysayers are . . . mostly good people, but very misguided." (I guess it's OK to call people misguided, as long as you also say they're good.)
- ". . . all you have is your "silly" rationale. Pease produce your own studies (23 of them) refuting the 'silliness' yuo claim to be truth. Until you do that, your refutation has no substance, and is itself living in the "Land of Silliness". (Also OK to call people silly.)
- "Please do attempt to answer the challenge . . . instead of coming up with arguments like 'they're silly'. Otherwise, you're just whistling Dixie." (But not OK to be called silly.)
- "Next, we see . . . an "expansus ad absurdium" argument that any high school kid would see through." (I would say this is sarcastic and insulting.)
Enough! There are many more examples. But I'm not in favor of deleting ANY posts unless they're threats, curses, racist comments or otherwise obviously offensive.
My point is that the PAO deletions are subjective. Who decides what's insulting or sarcastic or silly or humorous or substantive? Does PAO think we're not able to sift through nonsense and respond to insulting comments ourselves?
IMHO, the ones who "bring down the value of the site to people who are really interested in having a discussion" by repeating the same arguments over and over without every responding to questions or comments from others. Should their posts be deleted? NO. Vox populi. But let's hear the voices without subjective censorship.
a resident of Stanford
on Mar 14, 2007 at 11:20 am
Completely agree. Keep profanity out, of course...keep threats of bodily harm out..of course....
But, let us decide whether or not somebody is too sarcastic or brings down the discussion too much. We are capable of ignoring or responding to the muck.
In the interest of disclosure, I have to say I have had posts deleted, and been completely flummoxed over why, especially when they are in response to others' posts. And I have never used anything resembling bad language, never called names, nor ever been demeaning or threatening. I HAVE matched tones of the people I am responding to, though.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Mar 14, 2007 at 11:35 am
I just took a copy and paste of your entire post because I'm betting someone at PAO won't like it and will delete it.
"Sarcasm is not a productive or respectful form of communication, even when sprinkled with humor."
I think their censorship statements they made to you (which you thankfully quoted above) are amazing, insulting, arrogant, and outrageously undemocratic.
You might expect this kind of censorship from a biased website dedicated to a particular position, political bent, or issue, but Palo Alto Online is a community conversation sponsored by a NEWSPAPER. So much for freedom of speech! A Newspaper!!! In the US! In California! In Palo Alto!!! It's Unbelievable.
Did we all just get caught in a wrinkle in the time-space continuum? I feel like I must have woken up this morning on the other side of the globe.
Wow, shameful. This is prime time news worthy if you ask me.
(Although I bet the next news agency you tried to send it to would hit the censorship button as well.)
a resident of Old Palo Alto
on Mar 14, 2007 at 11:44 am
I am pretty much in agreement with Pat. I do think the post deletion tool has been used unevenly - although I have some sympathy for the huge job it must be for the Weekly 'censor' to wade through the posts and pick out the objectionable ones.
I also agree with Pat that the standards are stricter than they might be no matter how carefully and objectively they're enforced. Sarcasm and humor often are the best ways of making substantive points. True, sometimes it's hard to draw the line between sarcasm that makes a legitimate point adding to the debate and pure ad hominem argumentation. But some of the examples cited above clearly show that sometimes the standards are enforced with comic puritanical rigidness, and the debate is impoverished thereby.
a resident of Esther Clark Park
on Mar 14, 2007 at 11:47 am
On another thread, I noticed a number of posts were completely deleted (without any mention that they were removed by staff) and the posting on t he thread ws back dtaed to make it appear that those posts were never made.
I posted a query about that policy and recieved the following reposnse from Editor Johnson:
"We generally note deletions when doing so is either helpful in understanding the flow of the thread or if the person whose comment was deleted had been participating earlier in the thread.
We will simply delete the entire post when it is either mindless, contributes nothing but sarcasm or is completely off-point. We are not interested in a series of inane comments, and don't think our readers are either. If you find that bothersome, there are lots of forums available that have no standards or policies."
Well as I respond back to him, this forum is his toy and he can do with what ever he wants, though I feel that their methods leave a little to be desired especially by a newspaper run forum.
But, I guess, this goes along with the whole "palo alto way" of handling things---any criticism is a personal attack, sarcasm is not "respectful", avoid any conflict at all costs.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Mar 14, 2007 at 12:24 pm
I'm beginning to wonder if this whole forum is suspect in the way some posts, indeed even some whole threads, seem to be removed for no apparent reason. Is the ownership or editorial staff biased towards some sort of outcome or interested in seeing one agenda prevail in the discussion? It's beginning to smell fishy.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Mar 14, 2007 at 1:38 pm
Wow, fabulous how Johnson can read his readers' minds and figure out what they're interested in reading even before they get a chance to read it themselves. "We are not interested in a series of inane comments, and don't think our readers are either."
How efficient that quality is for a newspaper editor! You can see how it would save tons of time in writing and publishing a newspaper. They can just go out and write up the 'news' in advance, maybe a week or two in advance, and save everyone alot of time in filtering through all this complicated reality and public input.
Makes you wonder what else they've been kind enough to filter out for us.
a resident of Midtown
on Mar 14, 2007 at 3:13 pm
I've managed to avoid any deletions, and for that, I am thankful. I do have sympathy for the editors because new posts pop up all the time, and I'm sure its difficult to police the forum and keep up with their regular news gathering duties.
Also, at the risk of sounding pedantic, I think its important to remember that the phrase "freedom of speech" in its most common use has no relevance here. PA Online is totally private - they can censor whoever they want whenever they want.
I have noticed some inconsitencies in deletions. It seems like they tolerate more in "Issues Beyond Palo Alto" and less when it relates to local issues. I'm not even sure I have a problem with that.
a resident of Midtown
on Mar 14, 2007 at 11:34 pm
I'd like to see the Town Square adopt the "Digg" model where posters must register and registered users vote up or down on individual posts. I'd also like to be able to have customized blocks so I don't see the posts from some posters as I view them as little better than SPAM.
a resident of Charleston Gardens
on Mar 15, 2007 at 7:53 am
Why does TownSquare not have the same criteria as its Letters to the Editor, which requires name and address? That accountability is as important for TS as for the Weekly's letters, isn't it?
Yes, I agree that spam-blocking certain posters should be available to us readers. Some of the posts are little better than graffiti.
a resident of Crescent Park
on Mar 16, 2007 at 2:37 pm
Editor: You have restricted comment on another thread. The subject matter on that thread concerns individual candidates for a public office. Perhaps you can enlighten us as to why a discussion of the merits of lack there-of should be censored. The comments I have read are not personal attacks. They relate to the public behavior of individuals who have chosen to become public figures and have chosen to enter the arena for a public office. Why are we not allowed to discuss this on this forum?
a resident of Palo Alto High School
on Mar 16, 2007 at 2:44 pm
It looks to me like they are just requiring that posters register first on that thread. They aren't keeping us from commenting. Given all the nastiness going on with the MI debate, I wish they would do this more often...or for all threads.
digital editor of Palo Alto Online
on Mar 16, 2007 at 2:53 pm
Tyler Hanley is a registered user.
You are free to discuss the merits of the candidates as long as you conform to our terms of use. We've simply decided to require registration for this thread, given the intensity of the feelings that have already been shown on this topic in other threads, in hopes that it will encourage a constructive discussion.
a resident of Crescent Park
on Mar 16, 2007 at 3:36 pm
Can you give me some guidelines for how the discussion about candidates for public office can be discussed constructively. Which posts would you consider as not constructive. Given the nature of a discussion of whether or not a candidate is the most qualified, wouldn't it be necessary to discuss the pros and cons of their qualifications?
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Mar 16, 2007 at 3:58 pm
Editor - so lets get this straight.
If we want to talk about something that actually matters - like an election or a pending (one week away) political appointment...
Or someone who actually will have some power and authority over the things that get done and not done in our county government - perhaps someone who will have the political position in the future to extract 'pay back' for people that have opposed them or their views....
Then we HAVE TO GIVE OUR REAL NAMES in order to engage in that conversation.
So lets make sure that if people in this community want to have an open political debate on REAL CANDIDATES for REAL POLITICAL POSITIONS, lets make sure people have to use their real names.
(that ought to do wonders for the democratic process).
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Mar 16, 2007 at 4:14 pm
On the registration process - not clear on what that provides...
If I understand the registratino screen, I give a 'name' but that name is sort of meaningless I could say "PU" is my name, and that would be attached to all my posts. But my private 'real' information is visible only to PAO editors, but never disclosed to anyone else....
And how does the paper use my private information to control the situation? And how do we know that Mr. Editor isn't So and So's buddy, handing him a list of everyone who posted sour grapes against Mr. So and So?
Or is just the deterent factor of the ~possibility~ that someone can break in to the PAO security system to find me out, or the possibility that the PAO censor can find my name and secretly hand it over to my arch enemy?
Exactly how is 'registering' helping improve the quality of the conversation?
a resident of Stanford
on Mar 16, 2007 at 7:02 pm
Registration is not necessary until someone abuses the system.
That is happening now.
If the bully (he called himself that, said he wasn't one :-) were registered, the Weekly would know who the person is and how many times he posts under many different names. He dominates several threads. I expect he'll join this thread too.
Those of us who just want to express an opinion once in a while without giving our names are not a problem. But one person is spoiling the system big time.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on May 30, 2007 at 5:17 pm
I don't mind the fact that there are a lot of Bush bashers and anti war posters that post on relating threads, but I don't think they should be able to take on any and every thread to their own ends. There are times when I would like to see posts removed from one thread and put back into the political arena in which they belong.
a resident of Crescent Park
on May 30, 2007 at 7:20 pm
No offense pat, but you might have a tad too much time on your hands.
a resident of Mountain View
on May 30, 2007 at 10:00 pm
their website, their rules. This is not a "free speech" issue- if I don't like what you say in my home, I can kick you out. If you don't like the message board rules, buy server space, maintain it, and create your own rules.
a resident of Evergreen Park
on May 31, 2007 at 3:29 pm
Comparing a community newspaper to your own home is preposterous.
eric's solution to everything is do it yourself. For him the market is god.
Do you sell advertisements at your own home? Do you distribute thousands of copies? Having opinions about what goes on is a sign of a healthy community. You sure have opinions. Hard to read anything at all without seeing yours.
Where is the sign-in thread?


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Originally Posted by Bee Whisperer
I agree. It would be great to have evidence based facts; excluding extraneous variables in controlled studies, to get to the bottom of this. Then the facts can be used to affect change.
Wasent there a WikiLeaks article posted by said company about how dangerous it was, and how their own scientists were advising against its use?
Originally Posted by Ian
I cant speak for these beekeepers, I dont know of any law suits against the farmer. I doubt it, that beekeeper would have a hard time finding property to put his bees on,...
, but if your referring to bailouts related to CCD,.? What CCD outbreak are you referring to in Canada?
In 2007 many provinces had compensation packages you could apply for, I dont think that is case any longer.
Originally Posted by honeydrunk
Our area is pretty much all corn and soy, so it is a definite possibility. Also the beek in question is like 3rd generation, his whole life kinda beekeeper so it would seem rather odd for a guy like that to suffer such damaging losses, though im a noob so I dont know either way.
With varroa mites, even longtime beeks have losses, treat or not. You would have thought treating would have alleviated some losses depending on how it was done and when.
Originally Posted by honeydrunk
In 2007 many provinces had compensation packages you could apply for, I dont think that is case any longer.
that must of been a provincial program
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Not to hijack the thread, but the picture on this site shows what looks like classic varroa/viral collapse. All the untreated deadouts in our area since last October look like this. Small cluster with some uncapped brood outside the cluster area (indicating the cluster size before the collapse), starved in cold weather because the cluster is not big enough to touch the honey. We are in a rural area with no big ag, only woods, abandoned fields, and pasture land, and mostly natural forage. The only pesticides of concern are from homeowners, and I don't think that equals 100s of acres of corn or soy and the accompanying pesticide use. I think varroa is the problem indicated in this picture, especially last year with the mild winter and early spring on east coast. Translates to more winter loss following such a season.
Just seeing that picture, you'd be right absolutely. Unfortunately the photographer missed the important part that mite levels tested reasonable and many were strong doubles the week before. The main symptom seen by these beekeepers was a large number of bees (Really large number) dead and dying within a couple feet of the hive. Samples were taken from each reported site which consisted of 230 separate yards and each one tested positive for high levels of clothiandan. Many bees were observed to have pollen baskets full.
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