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The Marvelous Learning Animal: What Makes Human Behavior Uniqueby Arthur W. Staats
What makes us human? In recent decades, researchers have focused on innate tendencies and inherited traits as explanations for human behavior, especially in light of groundbreaking human genome research. The author thinks this trend is misleading. As he shows in great detail in this engaging, thought-provoking, and highly informative book, what makes our species unique is our marvelous ability to learn, which is an ability that no other primate possesses.
In his exploration of human progress, the author reveals that the immensity of human learning has not been fully understood or examined. Evolution has endowed us with extremely versatile bodies and a brain comprised of one hundred billion neurons, which makes us especially suited for a wide range of sophisticated learning. Already in childhood, human beings begin learning complex repertoires—language, sports, value systems, music, science, rules of behavior, and many other aspects of culture. These repertoires build on one another in special ways, and our brains develop in response to the learning experiences we receive from those around us and from what we read and hear and see. When humans gather in society, the cumulative effect of building learning upon learning is enormous.
The author presents a new way of understanding humanness—in the behavioral nature of the human body, in the unique human way of learning, in child development, in personality, and in abnormal behavior. With all this, and his years of basic and applied research, he develops a new theory of human evolution and a new vision of the human being. This book offers up a unified concept that not only provides new ways of understanding human behavior and solving human problems but also lays the foundations for opening new areas of science.
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Editorial Reviews
-Peter Salovey, Chris Argyris Professor of Psychology, Yale University
"Staats has thrown down a challenge to the currently fashionable biological and genetic determinism. Here he places our breathtaking capacity to learn front and center in theunderstanding of human nature in his forcefully argued account."
-Frank Farley, PhD, Professor, Temple University, Philadelphia; former president, American Psychological Association; former president, American Educational Research Association
"In this exciting book, Staats challenges the biological focus that has come to dominate the study of human behavior and makes a compelling case for the central role of humankind's inimitable learning ability in making us the unique species we have become. The importance of this insight cannot be overestimated. It creates the basis for a new paradigm, providing a new way of conceptualizing human nature and a framework for uniting many disparate fields of study and applications of scientific knowledge with real-world social and behavioral problems. The implications for the future development of the science of human nature are profound."
-Karl Minke, Long-term department chair and associate professor (retired), Department of Psychology, University of Hawaii at Manoa
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The MARVELOUS LEARNING ANIMALWhat Makes Human Nature Unique
By ARTHUR W. STAATS
Prometheus BooksCopyright © 2012 Arthur W. Staats
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Chapter OneOF PARADIGMS AND FALLACIES, OF SCIENCES AND THINGS
Once obscure, the word paradigm was made a catchy concept a few decades ago by Thomas Kuhn (1962). There was even a New Yorker cartoon with a beggar asking a potential client, "Can you paradigm?" in place of the Depression-era original "Can you spare a dime?" Kuhn's definition bedazzled the history of science and philosophy of science worlds. Science wasn't just the objective search for truth via fact and theory. Scientific paradigms consisted of much more—methodology, beliefs, convictions, technology, and problems to be solved. Paradigms garnered adamant loyalty. A new paradigm—like Einstein's initially was—couldn't expect an open-armed reception. It had to scratch and fight for acceptance through obstacles of disbelief. For scientists, contrary to popular belief, exhibit human motivations that interfere with that legendary objectivity of their stereotype (Toulmin 1972).
Scientific paradigms—despite their glamorous fruits of problem solution, application, and research creativity—may also contain errors large and costly, to society as well as science. Although improving on the previous paradigm, a new one generally has its own problems and limitations. When those problems are fundamental or extensive enough, and this becomes recognized, another paradigm may be put forth that better deals with the field—abandoning unproductive endeavors, indicating important problems, and projecting new avenues of application and research. Its arrival produces a period of doubt and struggle with the old paradigm, a scientific revolution that may culminate with the acceptance of the new paradigm. This then becomes the primary framework that generates the normal science activities that elaborate its expectations and produce its advances.
A paradigm exists with respect to human behavior and human nature. It is not clean-cut, systematically constructed like advanced theories, but rather is composed of many poorly articulated bits and pieces. The paradigm consists of a mix. If a history of the paradigm existed, it would show that it began long ago, with animistic belief that everything from atolls to zebras contained spirits that determined their nature and behaviors. Volcanoes erupt and oceans storm when their spirits become angry. A human behaves badly when his or her spirit is evil or when an evil spirit invades him or her. As animistic beliefs advanced in many steps to yield modern religions, the spirit concept for humans became the soul. When the search for knowledge brought forth various science endeavors and then science fields, including an interest in human actions, the concept of the soul morphed into the concept of the mind, as well as the personality, the brain, and other internal causal processes or structures. The name psychology literally means the study of the mind, the Greek term psyche meaning either "soul" or "mind."
A theory of human behavior and human nature exists in the common language that we all learn. We can see elements of the common conception of human behavior and human nature in religious and literary writing, as in the Bible and Shakespeare and Dostoyevsky, in descriptions of types of human behavior and their causes. We can see that people behave peculiarly, destructively, because of a mental disease. We can see numberless explanations of behavior—behaviors occur because of inner states such as intelligence, anxiety, honesty, ambition, laziness, greed, and cruelty. Those trait concepts and many others are the conceptual tools by which people explain their own behaviors and the behaviors of others. A child does well in school because she is intelligent, a boy picks on others because he is a cruel bully, and another works all the time because he has ambition. Why does an adult protect children? Human nature. Why have people gone to war throughout history? Human nature. What gave humans the nature that determines their behavior—God, Mother Nature, or genetic evolution? All of these concepts are used to explain human actions.
There are differences in people's complex sets of beliefs, so the paradigm varies for different people. But we all grew up absorbing the explanations of human behavior our language provides for us. That language is part of each of us, rock-hard belief, so natural it is not open to consideration, giving all of us a common core theory. We accept things that fit with these beliefs, and are poised to reject things that do not. That informal theory of human behavior and human nature functions covertly, not realized for what it is and what it does. It affects the beliefs, interpretations, and plans of scientists as well as of lay people, setting gross guidelines for what to study and how to do so. I call this paradigm "The Great Scientific Error" because although it serves many of our purposes—much better than the conceptions of bygone days—it contains profound error and misdirects us in many, costly ways. Billions-of-dollars ways.
This paradigm is implicit, unrealized, and should be brought to light systematically, described, made evident. With such an account it would be possible to consider and work on the paradigm, improve it, address its various problems, as well as understand the widespread effects it has on everyone. No books have been written to describe the Great Scientific Error paradigm. I have come to recognize the paradigm because my fifty-plus-year program of work has on so many fronts taken a contrary view. My aim in this book centers on presenting a new paradigm, so I cannot devote this book to the full consideration of the old paradigm that is needed. But I can introduce the Great Scientific Error and I can additionally flesh out that introduction here and throughout the book and thereby call for a more complete work.
Explanation of origin is central in a conception of human behavior and human nature, humanness. Before Charles Darwin, the dominant explanation of origin lay in the biblical account of God's creation of humans. Of course, that explanation of origin had many predecessors in the beliefs of many different peoples. A belief of an Australian Aborigine people had a beautiful simplicity: a pool exists of little fish, some of which are selected by spirits to become people. When a person dies he again becomes a little fish in that pool, waiting another turn.
Darwin's theory of evolution raised a fury by calling into question the truth of theological creationism. Various science-oriented thinkers, including Erasmus Darwin, previously had suggested an evolutionary process. The church successfully opposed such views, and they were believed by relatively few. Charles Darwin, however, shook that balance with his systematic collection of observations that confirmed evolution, and with his theory of natural selection. That provided the principles by which evolution took place, and his theory had the weight of demonstrable evidence. Darwin's evolution was translated into many languages and read by a wide audience, with a profound impact. Evolution—with its findings, scientific methods, theory, and productivity for many fields—constituted a new paradigm that challenged the old religious paradigm of divine creation. This development gives a good example of the paradigm clash; the new one is ensconced in science fields but the old one is still continuing in some religious circles.
The impact of Darwin's theory of evolution and Mendel's genetics provided the foundation for various sciences from biology to paleoanthropology, from psychology and the social sciences to the philosophy of science. Of special interest to the present book, this synthesis contributes heavily to traditional beliefs about humans, about origin, about what human nature is, and about why humans behave as they do. These developments enormously affected the human-behavior paradigm.
Given the proven value of the theory of evolution, wherein lies the Darwin fallacy? Interestingly, as tends to be the case with scientific theories, the power of a theory when it is true matches the power of the error it projects when it is in error. Darwin's theory did contain error, egregious error, and that has had great impact too. The following words of Darwin are simple and seemingly innocent, but, as with the iceberg, we must look for the much larger, lurking danger.
As man is a social animal, it is almost certain that he would inherit a tendency to be faithful to his comrades, and obedient to the leader of his tribe, for these qualities are common to most social animals. He would consequently possess some capacity for self-command. He would from an inherited tendency be willing to defend, in concert with others, his fellow-men; and be willing to aid them in any way.... (See Watson 2005, 689)
Such words are common in the belief of the society, that the causes of human behavior come from within, in biologically inherited traits of various kinds. What must be recognized is that being faithful, self-commanding, and obedient, along with defending and aiding fellow humans, describe behavioral traits. They are not physical traits like a bird's beak, a horse's hooves, or a human's hand. That lack of distinction is understandable; his beliefs regarding human behavior and human nature were like everyone else's, a pastiche of belief learned like everyone else in the acquisition of language. Of course he did not distinguish physical and behavioral traits; no one else did. In the religious paradigm, God created man physically and behaviorally. Darwin's lack of distinction between physical and behavioral traits of humans threw their explanation into the same mold. That was an enormous mistake, providing the foundation for expecting behavioral traits to be explained by the biological sciences, from genetics to neurology to paleoanthropology. The power and breadth of this conceptualization can't be overestimated.
No question, Darwin made a monumental study of the physical features of various species. He systematically worked out how physical traits possessed by some members of the species were selected because the traits aided survival and reproduction. Called natural selection, his work on this principle was scientifically impeccable—the hallmark of his theory was massive evidence. That same careful science analysis, however, was not extended to the evolution of human behavioral traits. He had no evidence of that, no evidence that "humans would from inherited tendency be willing to defend, in concert with others, his fellowmen; and be willing to aid them in any way" (Charles Darwin, quoted in Watson 2005, 689). Darwin said such things on simple assumption, following the beliefs of his culture, without any evidence, because he didn't distinguish between physical and behavioral traits.
Because of the power of his approach, that error continued with those who followed Darwin's evolution theory; after all, they also had the same language theory he did. His cousin, Sir Francis Galton, for example, interpreted intelligence as a trait that had evolved because it aided survival and reproduction. He attempted to prove intelligence was inherited by tracing the number of exceptionally able relatives in the families of geniuses. Ignoring the possible effects of the environment, wide individual and group differences in intelligence were interpreted as evidence that some groups of people had evolved more, or better, than others. One derivation of this view was that human intelligence could be maximized by eugenics, by selecting only intelligent people for reproduction. Such extensions helped fix the very strong belief in the biological explanation of intelligence.
That was not all. Various traits of behavior were analyzed in evolutionary terms, and a field of social Darwinism formed. It enjoyed a period of popularity, but social Darwinism did not lead anywhere, since it was comprised of "after-the-fact interpretation," assuming things that could not be proven or tested or used profitably. In science, developments that lead nowhere may be pursued for a time but will be abandoned eventually because support by evidence constitutes science's bottom line.
So social Darwinism faded away. But the underlying belief did not die; like a cat with nine lives, Darwin's view that human behavior traits are genetically evolved later gave rise to the field of sociobiology. For example, Edward O. Wilson—selected a while back as one of the small group of top scientists of the twentieth century—studied the behavior of ants as insects whose social behavior enables them to survive and procreate. His observations showed that soldier ants fight intruders into the nest, perhaps losing life in the process. He called the behavior "altruistic," a seemingly simple act of naming. Oops, error! "Altruism" is a human act. Calling the behavior of the ants altruistic equates it with the human behavior. That is sleight of hand that brings on a host of other beliefs. Is the behavior of an ant fighting and dying under attack by foreign ants to be considered the same as the altruism of a male passenger giving a woman his lifeboat seat on the Titanic? Are the two to be explained by the same genetically evolved trait? On consideration we might question that, and more generally the value of Wilson's equating of animal behavior to human behavior. Is it really productive to assume that human behavior traits have evolved in the way that animal behavior traits have?
Perhaps the answer to that question is there to see, for sociobiology really came to the same end as social Darwinism. After a run of a quarter century, it began fading away; sociobiology too hadn't been able to explain anything; it merely inferred, after the fact, evolutionary processes that could not be tested and proven. In 1997, the professional journal of the field dropped the title of Sociobiology and adopted that of Evolution of Human Behavior. This title, of course, shows that Darwin's position is still retained. It would have been constructive if it had been recognized that the field of sociobiology had failed along with its progenitor social Darwinism because both were built on Darwin's fallacy. Oh well.
The Selfish Gene
With that history of two burials—of social Darwinism and sociobiology—why would the underlying belief be resurrected again? The answer: because the underlying belief is strong in the culture everyone learns, so strong its failure under one rubric leaves room for its resurrection under a different name, inspiring renewed efforts. That present name is evolutionary psychology, and it proceeds with the usual verve and fanfare (see Workman and Reader 2004), adding conceptual elements and making analyses of new phenomena. For example, with more conceptual "sleight of hand" Richard Dawkins added the concept of the "selfish gene" to the theory of how behavior is passed on via evolution (1976). According to his theory, genes are selfishly motivated to reproduce themselves. Somehow, with a biological mechanism he does not indicate, the gene motivation he assumes determines the organism's behavior. That was why Wilson's soldier ant risked its life, because saving the nest and the queen means saving its own genes for reproduction. All kinds of behavior are supposedly "explained" by this motivation in evolutionary psychology (see Workman and Reader 2004). Popular as it is to many biological scientists—as indicated by various studies and articles that use the conception—it has no more explanatory power than the old "instinct of self-preservation," also popular as an "explanation" of behavior a century ago. Has anyone ever found a selfish gene in an ant, let alone in a human? Has anyone ever manipulated a selfish gene and changed any behavior thereby? By what mechanism would a gene activate behavior such that the gene's reproductive selfishness is fulfilled? Does the brain have neurons sensitive to gene motivations, whatever they are? Can those neurons, once activated, select the behaviors needed? To my knowledge, such mechanisms have never been found. Let's face it, without such evidence, the concept of the selfish gene is pure assumption and titillating speculation. When we ask "Where's the beef?" the evidence turns out to be like that of Wilson's "altruistic" ant soldiers, namely absent. Without such evidence, the conception is empty, leading nowhere in our understanding not only of ants but also of humans.
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Arthur W. Staats is professor emeritus in the Department of Psychology at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Internationally known as an innovator, he is the inventor of the "time-out" concept that so many parents have used with their children as well as the creator of the token-reward system (token economy) to modify behavior patterns. In 2006, Child magazine recognized him as one of "20 People Who Changed Childhood." He is the author of six books, more than fifty chapters, and over eighty journal articles, among other publications.
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I think we will see it continue lower as we have seen issues with mortgages and lending now hitting the UK. I would first like to see the pair break below the support level and then possibly going in. Here we go:
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... his MFA at the U. of Washington. He played several parts in Pericles and shared a touching story of his audition for his dream role as Caliban in The Tempest.
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... by a Washingtonian who went to high school with my aunt Jen, though she swears she doesn't know him) did an excellent job in befriending the audience despite his evil deeds.
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The Congo
During the winter of 1907 the world rang with the reports of the atrocities in the Congo,
and Robert J. Collier, of Collier's Weekly, asked Richard to go to the Congo and make an
investigation. I do not believe that my brother was ever in much sympathy with the
commission, as he did not feel that he could afford the time that a thorough investigation
demanded. However, with his wife he sailed for Liverpool on January 5, 1907, and three
weeks later started for Africa. Regarding this trip, in addition to the letters he wrote to his
family, I also quote from a diary which he had just started and which he conscientiously
continued until his death.
From diary of January 24th, 1907. Last day in London. Margaret Frazer offered me gun
from a Captain Jenkins of Nigeria. Instead bought Winchester repeating, hoping, if need
it, get one coast. Lunched Savoy-Lynch, Mrs. Lynch, her sister--very beautiful girl. In
afternoon Sam Sothern and Margaret came in to say "Good bye." Dined at Anthony
Hope's--Barrie and Mrs. Barrie and Jim Whigham. Mrs. Barrie looking very well, Barrie
not so well. As silent as ever, only talked once during dinner when he told us about the
first of his series of cricket matches between authors and artists. Did not have eleven
authors, so going along road picked up utter strangers one a soldier in front of embracing
two girls. Said he would come if girls came too--all put in brake. Mrs. Barrie said the
Llewellen Davis' were the originals for the Darlings and their children in Peter Pan. They
played a strange game of billiards suggested by Barrie who won as no one else knew the
rules and they claimed he invented them to suit his case. Sat up until three writing and
packing. The dinner was best have had this trip in London.
Compagnie Belge Maritime Du Congo.
S. S. February 11th, 1907.
To-morrow, we will be in Banana, which is the first port in the Congo. When I remember
how far away the Congo seemed from New York and London, it is impossible to believe
we are less than a day from it. I am so very glad I came. The people who have lived here
for years agree about it in no one fact, so, it is a go-as-you-please for any one so far as
accurate information is concerned, and I am as likely to be right as any one else. It has
been a pleasant trip and for us will not be over until some days, for at Matadi, which is up
the river, we will probably live on the steamer as the shore does not sound attractive.
Then I shall probably go on up the river and after a month or six weeks come back again.
At Boma I am to see the Governor, one of the inspectors on board is to introduce me, and
I have an idea they will make me as comfortable as possible, so that I may not see
anything. Not that I would be likely to see anything hidden under a year. Yesterday was
the crossing of the Equator. The night before Neptune, one of the crew, and his wife, the
ship's butcher, and a kroo boy, as black as coal for the heir apparent came over the side
and proclaimed that those who never before had crossed the Equator must be baptized.
We had crossed but I was perfectly willing to go through it for the fun. The Belgians
went at it as seriously as children, and worked up a grand succession of events. First we


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2011-2012 Utah Tick Survey
Female western black-legged tick (Ixodes pacificus) tick collected in Harker Canyon, Tooele County. Jared Kunz, USU.
1. Reason for Survey
2. Summary and Objectives
3. Survey Plan and Sites
4. Western Black-Legged Tick Biology and Distribution
5. Can I submit a tick for identification?
6. Tick Links
Current Results
Collection sites in Utah and Tooele Counties
Tick Survey Image Gallery
Since the initial diagnosis, Lyme disease has climbed to the top of the vector-borne diseases list in the US (Bacon et. al, 2008), affecting over 274,268 Americans between 1995 and 2009 primarily in the northeastern US (Center for Disease Control, 2011). In recent years Utah has received an average of eight Lyme disease cases per year, however, none of these cases are believed to have originated in Utah, but are due to out-of-state travel to areas where Lyme disease naturally occurs. In 2010, a few residents from Lehi, Utah were associated with a potential Lyme disease cluster (Utah Department of Epidemiology, 2010), prompting the Utah County Health Department (UCHD) and the Utah Department of Health (UDOH) to form a task force to examine the validity of these Lyme disease cases. UDOH and Utah State University (USU) are interested in understanding the prevalence of Lyme disease and it's tick vector (the western black-legged tick) in Utah. Money provided by Utah State University Extension, the Center for Disease Control, and the Utah Bureau of Epidemiology are funding the tick survey for 1 year. To date, the findings of the task force have yielded no confirmed cases of Lyme disease originating in Utah.
Human Lyme disease in Utah continues to be of public health concern, both in rural and suburban habitats. Little research or outreach have been performed examining the presence of Lyme Borrelia in Utah. We will collect Western black-legged ticks in northern and southern Utah and test for presence or absence of Borrelia burgdorferi, the causal agent of Lyme disease, using molecular tests. Knowing the prevalence of Lyme disease in Utah, as well as identifying specific habitat where tick populations exist, is valuable information for private physicians, local, state and federal public health professionals, and the citizens of Utah. If Borrelia is detected in Utah, healthcare professionals could make faster, more accurate diagnoses for patients showing Lyme-like symptoms leading to proper treatment; citizens could take extra precautions when traveling in tick habitat; and, community-wide tick control programs could be implemented in high-risk habitats. The information will also be important to bordering states so that health professionals can determine if Lyme disease exists in close geographical areas, where their citizens may pick up infected ticks while traveling in Utah. Objectives:
1. Select high-risk tick habitat in northern Utah and collect ticks
2. Identify and Test ticks for the presence of the Lyme disease-causing bacteria Borrelia burgdorferi
3. Distribute outreach education materials with our findings
Sites were selected based on their suitability as tick habitat. Prime habitat includes areas along forest/field edges, in low-lying river basins, or along game trails where hosts (e.g. rodents and deer) are abundant or frequently travel. These areas were selected using GIS host distribution and vegetation data provided by the Utah Division of Wildlife Habitat, areas of prior Ixodes pacificus collection, visual inspection, and on the recommendations of county Extension agents, state and federal wildlife or forest employees, and citizens. In spring/summer 2011, tick collection was focused in Utah and Tooele Counties. With additional funding from the CDC and the Utah Bureau of Epidemiology, the survey was expanded to Washington and Juab counties in the Fall of 2011. To view site pictures and descriptions for surveyed areas in 2011 click here. A map of sites surveyed in 2011 is below. (Images of sites surveyed after July 22 have not yet been added to this page). Fifty-one sites were surveyed in 2011.
Map of collection sites in Utah,Tooele, Juab and Washington Counties in 2011.
|Sites surveyed for ticks in northern UT, 2011. Red marks indicate locations where ticks were found. The two red marks near Dutch Peak in the SW corner of the map (Tooele Co.) are where western black-legged ticks (Ixodes pacificus) were found.
|Sites surveyed in southern UT in 2011. Red marks indicate locations where ticks were found. The northern red mark SW of Enterprise is where 2 western black-legged ticks (Ixodes pacificus) were found.
Ticks were collected using a 1 x 1.25m white flannel cloth ("flag") with a dowel rod attached to the anterior end using staples, and a chain hemmed into the posterior end. Rope was attached to the protruding ends of the dowel rod and the flag was dragged over vegetation where there were suspected questing tick populations. Questing ticks that adhered to the flag were collected from the flag using forceps, and stored in individual vials containing 70% ethyl alcohol for identification and testing at a later date.
Jared Kunz constructs tick drag.
Finished tick drag.
Jared Kunz drags for ticks at Harker Cn.
All ticks were identified using a light stereoscope. After identification, the DNA was extracted from Ixodes pacificus ticks using a Qiagen DNeasy extraction kit. The DNA was then used to perform a nested PCR technique to detect presence or absence of Borrelia burgdorferi. Finally, the PCR product will undergo DNA sequencing for further genetic analysis.
4. Black-Legged Tick Biology and Distribution in Utah
Ixodes pacificus is a hard tick in the family Ixodidae. The exact life cycle of Ixodes pacificus in Utah is unknown, however it follows the typical three-host tick cycle as outlined by Sonenshine (1991). Adult females take a blood meal from a large invertebrate host (e.g. deer, canine, human), drop to the ground, mate, and lay eggs. Feeding of the adult female may occur in fall or spring, or when conditions are appropriate. Upon egg hatch, six-legged larvae emerge and search for small invertebrate hosts (e.g. rodents, lizards). If a host islocated, a blood meal may be taken over several days. Fed larvae drop and molt into eight-legged nymphs, which quest for hosts in fall, or the following spring. Nymphs that successfully feed will molt to adults, which feed in fall, or spring of the following year. Feeding is mandatory for reproduction and molting between developmental stages. The life cycle in Utah likely takes two to three years to complete as it does in northern California (Padgett and Lane, 2001).
Typical life cycle of a 3-host tick. Image taken from the Center for Disease Control.
Tick activity and development depend on environmental factors such as habitat type, temperature, and humidity (Padgett and Lane, 2001; Eisen, et al., 2002; Eisen et al., 2010). In Utah, Ixodes pacificuscan be found in varied habitats from hot, dry desert scrub, to cool, moist higher elevation coniferous forests (Allred et al., 1960). The location and timing of Ixodes pacificus activity, in addition to host preference, can be extrapolated from historic tick collection data (Allred et al. 1960) (see map below). In Utah, Ixodes pacificus ticks have been collected from Beaver, Juab, Millard, Tooele, and Washington counties, but most frequently from Utah County, our targeted collection area. Collection dates for Ixodes pacificus in Utah range from April to November. Allred (1960) reports larvae and nymphs from April and July, adult males and females in July and October, and adult females also in November. In general, we expect that ticks in hotter, arid parts of the state (e.g. Washington County) to reach peak activity in April and May, and ticks at higher elevations (e.g. Provo Canyon in Utah County) to be active from May through July. Ticks at all geographical locations can be active in the fall when temperatures cool and moisture increases. In Utah, ticks were collected from hosts such as: mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus), humans (Homo sapiens), cactus mouse (Peromyscus eremicus), deer mouse (Peromyscus maniculatus), pinyon mouse (Peromyscus truei), magpie (Pica hudsonia), and dogs (Canis familiaris).
Historic records of western black-legged tick (Ixodes pacificus) in Utah. Adapted from Allred, Beck, and White 1960.
5. Can I submit a tick for identification?
Submitting ticks collected from any UT location is encouraged. Ticks can be submitted to the Utah Plant Pest Diagnostic Lab free of charge, however, prompt identifications and responses will not be provided. Information from resident-collected ticks will be compiled with data from the survey and will be published in an Extension fact sheet on ticks and on this website. When submitting a tick be sure to include the following information:
- Your Name
- Date of tick collection
- Specific location of tick collection (place name or gps coordinates)
- What the tick was collected from: human, dog, deer, elk, etc.
- *Place ticks in a vial containing 70% ethanol for submission (water and rubbing alcohol will work)
- Send Ticks to:
Utah State University
5305 Old Main Hill
Logan, UT 84322
If you want a tick identified as part of our normal services, which includes an identification and quick response, please follow the submission directions ($7.00 fee and submission form required).
University of California, Davis
Lyme in Utah
Bureau of Epidemiology 1
Bureau of Epidemiology 2
Center for Disease Control
Center for Disease Control
Ticks Commonly Encountered in CA
How to Remove a Tick


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Rogero has realeased a new version of his CEX 4.40 CFW. It's recommended to update if you are on v1.02.
CFW4.40 v1.03 released on first page, it is recommended to update from v1.02 because v1.03 is better built with more features.
I'll have to remove my link in a while, so mirrors will be appreciated, Thanks.
Rogero CFW4.40 v1.03
- Rebuilt the CFW with minimal patches needed for similar OFW Stability, also adding full compatibility with multiMAN Tools.
- All known issues from v1.02 are fixed now (XMB PS2 Game Saves, Sequential Video Playback, Media Server always on)
- Removed Cinavia Patch used on v1.02 because of some compatibility issues (When DEX4.40 is public it will be added properly again)
- Added the ToolBox to [app_home/PS3_GAME] to restore multiMAN/StealthMAN launch mode from ToolBox.
- Updated the ReactPSN patch to work offline without the need to log into PSN at all (Credits to Team Rebug for their original 4.30.1 Patch)
- Added both noBD/noBT patches to allow installation on consoles with broken BluRay Drive or Bluetooth board.
Download and more Information: Official Release Thread @ Tortuga Cove
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Definition of hear
heardplay \ˈhərd\;
hearingplay \ˈhir-iŋ\
transitive verb
1 : to perceive or become aware of by the ear didn't hear what she said thought I heard them leave
2 : to gain knowledge of by hearing heard that you were ill
3a : to listen to with attention : heed would not hear my side of the storyb : attend hear mass
4a law : to give a listening to legal arguments in : to give a legal hearing to hear a caseb law : to take testimony from hear witnesses
intransitive verb
1 : to have the capacity of perceiving sound : to be able to become aware of sound He doesn't hear well.
2a : to gain information : learn tired of hearing about his problemsb : to receive communication haven't heard from her lately
3 : to entertain the idea —used in the negative wouldn't hear of it
4 —often used in the expression Hear! Hear! to express approval (as during a speech)
hearerplay \ˈhir-ər\ noun
Examples of hear in a Sentence
Do you hear that music?
I couldn't hear a word of what he said over all that noise.
I thought I heard him leave.
Would you turn the volume up a little? I can't hear.
I heard her in concert a few years ago.
Have you ever heard Wagner sung in English?
The committee will hear witnesses today.
I hear he's leaving town.
I don't know what happened. I'll let you know if I hear anything.
I've heard it said that smoking is bad for your health.
Origin and Etymology of hear
Middle English heren, from Old English hīeran; akin to Old High German hōren to hear, and probably to Latin cavēre to be on guard, Greek akouein to hear
First Known Use: before 12th century
HEAR Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of hear for English Language Learners
: to be aware of (sound) through the ear
: to listen to (someone or something)
: to be told (something)
HEAR Defined for Kids
Definition of hear for Students
1 : to take in through the ear I hear laughter.
2 : to have the power of hearing He doesn't hear well.
3 : to gain knowledge of by hearing I hear he's moving to another state.
4 : to listen to with care and attention Wait till you hear both sides of the story.
hearer\ˈhir-ər\ noun
Headscratcher for hear
You need ears to hear and you need "ear" to spell "hear."
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Legal Definition of hear
1a : to give a hearing to the court heard the claims the judge agreed to hear argument on the objection b : to conduct a hearing about the magistrate's authority to hear a matter properly before him
2a : to take testimony from the committee will hear 30 witnesses b : to take (as testimony) at a hearing the judge heard statements from the victim's family
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Source: Philadelphia Business Journal
Date: July 11, 2003
Byline: Natalie Kostelni
Tinicum firefighters getting a new home
Bernardon Haber Holloway has designed a 39,000-square-foot fire station for the Tinicum Fire Co. that may be part of a bigger trend affecting fire companies across the state.
Tinicum is one of the first fire companies to form out of a merger of two neighboring fire companies in Essington and Lester, two Delaware County communities near the Philadelphia International Airport that have their roots in industries which once dotted areas along the Delaware River. The two groups merged for financial and coverage reasons, hoping that combining resources will put them on course for a stable future.
"This particular fire station is unique in the state of Pennsylvania," said Gerry Hanby, an architect at the Kennett Square, Chester County, firm that initially worked on the project. Its uniqueness comes as a result of the two stations merging, something that the state is encouraging and is likely to happen more often in the future.
"This has become somewhat of a test program," Hanby said.
While it became necessary for a new station to be constructed after the two combined forces, it became even more urgent in light of the fact that most modern-day fire equipment no longer fits in firehouses that are sometimes up to 60 years or more old, Hanby said.
Fire equipment has become bigger and more sophisticated, he said. The new firehouse off Tinicum Island Road in Essington will be large enough to accommodate state-of-the-art equipment, including a boat, and it will have eight vehicle bays. It will also house rescue and other emergency medical service vehicles.
Both stations were so-called "second response" teams to any fire-related problems at the airport. They also, by way of sitting along the Delaware, were on-call to respond to any marine situations.
While fighting fires is obviously a priority for fire companies, a firehouse also serves as a social gathering place for the community. In turn, a large banquet facility that will seat between 200 and 300 people was incorporated into the plans. In addition to being a meeting place, fire halls are major sources of income for firefighting organizations. The banquet hall would double as an emergency evacuation center.
Another aspect of the new facility is a recreation area. It became apparent after extensive interviewing that it was important to have a space the firefighters could use to simply hang around the station.
"The best way to get them to respond is to have people at the station," Hanby said as opposed to having them drive in from their homes or work, which ends up happening more often than not because of the all-volunteer status of most fire companies. The recreation room has exercise equipment, a pool table and a big screen television. There are also 10 bunks in the firehouse.
"The kind of stuff that guys at a fire station would like," said Geoffrey Coleman, an architect at Bernardon Haber who is the currently overseeing the project.
The exterior of the fire station will look somewhat industrial because of the town in which it is located, Coleman said.
The station will borrow certain architectural features, such as large arched doors and the use of brick, found throughout the industrial buildings in Essington and its neighboring towns of Lester and Tinicum. It will also recall fire stations from the past and have a cupola on top for the siren. In older fire stations, the cupolas not only housed a fire bell but doubled as a hose drying tower for the canvas hoses once commonly used in firefighting.
Ground is expected to be broken in October. Progress was held up a bit because the site, being that it lies adjacent to the Delaware River, sits in a swampy area and needed to be stabilized with piles of new dirt. The project should be completed by the fall of 2004.


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Dan's Morning
Short Story by: Don George
Status: Finished
Genre: Mystery and Crime
Dan was freaked out, "I've never felt so lonely," he thought to himself while the Sycamores rustled outside in the cool breeze. The last day of summer was approaching at a much too rapid rate. The girl of his dreams was nowhere to be seen. She had given him the slip once again. His memories would not let him forget the sweet taste of her lips, the silken hair and the delicate touch of her eyes. In dreams they had met many times, seemingly under the guise of many lifetimes.
Cocoa was suddenly startled; the hairs on her back were bristling as she let out a low frightened humming noise. Cocoa was Dan's cat. She had been a gift from that mysterious place where all cats seem to have come from. Without warning she jumped and was out the cat door. She strode slowly through the tall grass in the back of the house, pausing occasionally to sniff the air. Did she hear something or was it more just a feeling?
Dan could not get back to sleep. Resignedly, he got up to make some coffee. He wasn't one to drink coffee on a regular basis but it sounded inviting on this particular occasion. The wind was picking up outside, howling now as it whirled in its own crazy dance. Dan was ready to get dressed for the day and he remembered that he had left his clothes in the dryer the previous night. When he went to retrieve them the dryer was empty. Where had his clothes gone to? He lived alone and no one had been by the house recently. Just then the phone rang. "hello?" Dan answered curiously, "Mary? I haven't heard from you for a while-an accident?" "Yes, my screen door was open, slamming in the wind and when I went to close it I slipped on the step, nearly breaking my ankle" Mary said exasperatedly. "Oh dear! What can I do to help?" Dan replied."Do you have an Ace bandage and an aspirin perhaps?" "I believe so," said Dan, "I'll be rightover."
Mary is Dan'sneighbor so he dressed in the clothes that he wore the day before then he collected the bandage and aspirin and hurried over to Mary's place. The front door was locked so he went around to the back door. It was open. He saw Mary at the kitchen table. She said, "Did I wake you?" "Oh no, I was having trouble sleeping because of the wind, I think." He gave her the aspirin and the bandage. "You'll need to stay off that foot for a while. Can I get you anything else?" "No. Thank you," said Mary,"You really are very kind for coming over". Mary is a widow, recently retired from the railroad. She used to run a shuttle service for some of the workers. "Just let me know if there is anything else that I can do," said Dan as he was leaving. "Oh I will. Bye now."
Going out the door Dan nearly slipped on the same step that Mary had. "I'll have to watch that one," he thought to himself then he saw something peculiar. It was one of his socks, right there on the porch. How strange, he thought, I didn't see it there when I came in.
Back at his house Dan discovers that his clothes are now in the dryer where he had left them last night. All, of course, except for that one sock. Perhaps he had only "dreamed" that the dryer was empty but that wouldn't explain the one sock which he still held in his hand.
The whole situation was confusing and this made Dan tired so he went back to sleep to be, once again, with the girl of his dreams.
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Strange stuff like that happens to me all the time. I strongly believe that odd occurence are just a bit too pat sometimes, and when they lead to the next strange occurrence and the next there has got to be some external force guiding them!
Nicely done for a short story. I like your writing style!
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Break out your Vulcan ears: The crew of the USS Enterprise is back. This time around, the Next Generation crew members -- including Capt. Picard, Cmdr. Riker and, of course, Data -- are dispatched as peace ambassadors to their longtime foes, the Romulans. There, they encounter a mysterious new enemy that thwarts not only the armistice process, but Earth itself!


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Thinking Outside the Email
I've spent many of my non-work waking hours working on a presentation for a conference next week. I've four conference proposals bouncing around in my head, gently duking it out so that they self-select before I accidentally throw myself into writing several more things than I can really handle this coming year. I've got a fun presentation lined up in early June with Rob Engelsman. In short, I can't stop making things. (Help?)
Every so often, my mind wanders to contemplate how many things people are making at any given time. Trust me: this sounds like a harmless activity, but your brain will begin to implode after about two minutes. It's a truly human quality to be driven to make stuff, however big or small, visible or hidden, tangible or conceptual the final product might be.
So instead of making your mind cave with exponential numbers, I implore you to think about how many things you made today. Who benefited from what you made? Are those things complete? Will you revisit them after today?
(My short list of making today: my bed, a Grooveshark account, most of a presentation, a to-do list, half a shopping list, the beginning of a packing list, four Google Calendar events, something on the order of 40-50 emails — more on this in a second, a thank you note, a paper airplane, mashed chickpeas with roasted eggplant and feta, toasted coconut and dulce du leche yogurt, four photographs. I'm sure there's more, but that's just a start.)
I've been thinking more and more about the energy I put into the things I do and where and how that energy manifests itself. I want to prioritize the moments where I can put myself into production mode, but in the past few weeks, I've consciously put aside time to think instead. It's okay. Thinking begets making, and making begets thinking, but in many cases, the thinking I'm doing is in writing. In writing, I'm exerting energy for a very specific cause, or for a particular person/group of people.
In both an email exchange and in a meeting today (with two different people in two different parts of the state, mind you), I was asked how I have time to blog and where I find things to blog about. It's a great question. Inspiration is everywhere, but more importantly, writing is all around me and I'm doing it constantly. For the most part, the things I'm sharing with one person could (and should) very well be shared with more than one person.
This is where my current advice to myself fits in: I'm incredibly dependent on my email and on my Twitter account throughout the workday. That's writing, the latter of which seriously factored into my #digiwrimo goals for this past November (though it became a consideration of quality, not quantity by the end of the month, but I digress). Email? That's another creature altogether. Much of that's behind closed doors, yes? For a small select audience? Well, yes, but my defensive self doesn't write anything online anymore without the thought that it might be forwarded, shared, or screenshotted. Read like no one's watching, write like everyone is.
My attitude? I'm putting effort (don't kid yourself, you probably spend most of your day dealing with emails, too) and much thought into what I'm writing, with the little shoulder angel that says "Will this actually be read with care akin to the way I am writing this?" with every keystroke. Nowadays, with every email over two paragraphs, I'm taking the stance that I might very well turn my part of the conversation into a blog post (perhaps with a bit more context, but the bulk of the content is already there). Heck, that's probably going to be my blog post tomorrow and pretty much every day this week. Why should I keep my thinking locked away?
I do want to have time to engage in more free thinking and, by extension, free writing on this blog, but my dirty little secret is that my best free thinking and writing comes from targeted questions. I'll turn inward a bit and let some of my emails free. Run little emails, run! There's a big old world out there for you to see!


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Spring wildflowers remain, despite onset of June Gloom
Look for paintbrush, purple nightshade, coreopsis, sea fig, popcorn flower, and red monkey flower
noon, May 28
The most recent campaign disclosure report for San Diegans for Nathan Fletcher - Mayor 2012, posted online earlier today by the San Diego city clerk's office, reveals a virtual Blue Book of La Jolla contributors to the cause of the ex-GOP Assemblyman, who split from his party earlier in the campaign, pronouncing himself an independent.
And, despite its name, the committee also gathered plenty of cash from out-of-town corporate interests.
San Francisco's Blue Shield of California gave $10,000.
Vista's Robert Carter, general partner in the Bicycle Casino of Los Angeles, kicked in $5,000.
William Koman of the Koman Group in St. Louis, gave $10,000.
Biggest local dollars came from Bridgepoint Education CEO Andrew Clark, with $20,000, and Robert Price, son of the late retail magnate Sol Price, with $25,000.
In all, the committee, "domiciled" in Sacramento, according to its statement of organization, raised $122,500, spent about $230,000, mostly on mail pieces, and still had $233,986 in the bank at the end of the period.
Outstanding debts totaled about $88,600.
Today, additional out-of-town donors contributed to the committee, including the California Apartment Association Political Action Committee of Sacramento, with $5,000, and South San Francisco's Genentech, with $1,000.
La Jolla's Dan Shea of Donovan's Steakhouse is listed as a principal officer of the committee on its statement of organization.


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Times flies and it is hard to believe we are already halfway through 2015! One of the most exciting developments here at Imire has been the ongoing construction of our brand new elephant and rhino bomas. It has always been our dream to renovate our current rhino and elephant homes and provide our amazing animals with new and improved homes.
Reilly Travers, our game park manager, has extensively researched boma design and consulted with many other conservancies about which enclosures are best designed not only for the comfort of the elephants and rhino, but also for the protection of the animals and their handlers.
We watch the building progress rapidly each day and are very excited that the elephants and rhinos will soon be in their new homes. Thank you to all our incredible donors who have contributed to this project. We will keep you updated!


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Today we went on a beach to go on a boat to see some whales. It took us one hour - in a fast bouncy speed boat to get to where the whales had last been spotted. We saw 3 whales, a
mummy, baby and another adult.
They were all Humpback Whales. We found them by seeing them squirt water out of their blow holes - they were quite difficult to spot at first.
Then they were easy to spot as they were lifting their tails and noses.
We saw 2 of them lift their whole bodies out of the water and back in.It was like they were playing.
They made big hugh splashes when they went back in.
They came quite close to the boat at one stage - it was VERY exciting.
Dad managed to get a few pictures of the whales and lots of pictures of the water!
Afterwards we had a great snack of an apple crumble muffin.
This was one of the best days of the trip so far!
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Dappled Cities first burst onto Sydney's music scene a decade ago, but under the name Dappled Cities Fly. That name, apparently, was the result of a somewhat ill-judged attempt to choose the most impractical band name possible.
Years later, when it became clear that their level of success was going to keep them in the music scene for quite some time to come, they dropped the "Fly". Goes to show you should never choose a band name as a joke, just in case you actually make it!
After four albums, living and recording around the world and a huge baroque performance of their material at this year's Sydney Festival, Dappled are now celebrating ten years since their first single. In fact, they've become quite the institution, perhaps despite themselves.
To celebrate the occasion, the band's two singer-guitarists Tim Derricourt and Dave Rennick dropped by the show to play acoustic versions of a few of their songs and discuss the joy of singing harmonies in falsetto.
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Why a new CBA could force the Dallas Stars to pay more for Jamie Benn, and why Shane Doan's latest contract deadline means more than his previous ones.
DALLAS MORNING NEWS: cited a report by SI.com's Allan Muir suggesting a new CBA could force the Stars to pay more to re-sign RFA forward Jamie Benn. Muir writes it doesn't make sense for Benn to re-sign now, as his pay could be reduced under a new CBA if salaries are reduced by increased escrow payment, unless he's given a higher annual average salary.
Muir also suggested Benn could threaten a holdout when a new CBA is implemented, as the struggling Stars could ill-afford the negative optics of starting the season with its best player on the sidelines. It's believed the Stars would prefer to sign Benn to a "bridge contract", taking him from the end of his entry level contract up to his eligibility date for UFA status.
SPECTOR'S NOTE: Benn's contract negotiations have been kept out of the media throughout this summer, but the potential of a lockout and its implications, as well as recent contract extensions for comparable players like Edmonton's Taylor Hall and Jordan Eberle, are pushing his contract status back into the spotlight. It remains to be seen if the Stars re-sign Benn before a lockout or afterward, but one way or the other, it appears he'll be earning big bucks.
VANCOUVER SUN: Blogger Harrison Mooney suggests Shane Doan's latest contract deadline means more than his previous ones, as the September 15th expiry date on the current CBA combined with Doan's desire to get a new contract before then could push him to consider other alternatives (like the Canucks) if the sale of the Phoenix Coyotes fails to go through before then.
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After the blockade off Galveston was established by the arrival of U.S.S. South Carolina on July 2, 1861, one of Captain James Alden, Jr.'s first captures, on July 6, was the local pilot boat Sam Houston. The little schooner was condemned as a prize and taken into the U.S. Navy. She was armed with a single, 12-pounder smooth-bore gun, and spent most of the rest of the war running dispatches, chasing down blockade runners, and serving as a guard boat at various places around the Gulf of Mexico. After the war Sam Houston was decommissioned and sold at auction to one J. B. Walton on April 25, 1866 for $1,998.70, at New Orleans. She was sold again the following month and re-enrolled at Galveston; her last enrollment document recorded was at Galveston in the spring of 1870.
Most sources, including the ORN, do not provide many details about this little boat, but this evening I came across this description of the schooner in the Galveston Civilian and Gazette Weekly, February 7, 1860:
A Handsome Vessel. — Mr. Rutter, from his ship-yard, Canton [Maryland], expects to launch to-morrow at non, a beautiful pilot boat, built for Mssrs. Davidson, J. E. Davidson, T. Chubb, T. H. Chubb, and Z. Sabel, of Galveston, Texas, and especiall[y] designed as an opposition boat for the Galveston bar. She is seventy tons burden; 65 feet in length; 18 feet beam; and hold 6 1/2 feet. She will draw five feet forward and 8 feet aft. Her mainmast is 56 feet in length, foremast 63 feet, and bowsprit 14 1/2 feet outboard; the main boom is 35 1/2 feet in length, all showing that she will spread a large amount of canvas. She is of the most approved model, built of the best materials, and extra fastened and bolted throughout, rendering her very substantial. She has been named Sam Houston in honor of the distinguished governor of Texas. She has been coppered on the stocks, and will be ready for sailing in a few days after launching. Her appearance indicates that she will sustain the reputation of Baltimore-built vessels, by her sailing qualities. — Baltimore Sun, 18th Jan.
Her postwar registration documents give her a length between perpendiculars of 59 feet 4 inches, with a square stern and an eagle carved into her stem. Must have been a beautiful little vessel, and well-built, to still be serviceable after almost five years ' hard naval service. I'd say she lived up to expectation.


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Located in the centre of Palanga, only 2,133 feet from the Baltic Sea, Ambra Villa offers rooms with a private parking. Guests of the villa can enjoy a spacious backyard with a gazebo. The rooms in the Ambra are painted in warm colours and have a TV with satellite channels, a fridge and a private bathroom with a shower and a hairdryer. Towels and bedsheets are changed for free. There are barbecue facilities and a playground for children, as well as numerous relax areas. You can also rent bicycles. Breakfast is served upon earlier request in the Ambra Villa dining room. Wi-Fi is available for free in the public areas. Palanga Bus Station is located 2,297 feet from Ambra Villa. It is 0.7 miles from the A13 motorway from Klaipeda to Liepaja.


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053: With Divya Manian & Garann Means
This week we were joined by Divya Manian, an "Open Web Pamphleteer" at Adobe and Garann Means, a web developer at Etsy and fellow Austinite with Dave. Together they from Frip Frap, a video podcast about front end stuff. That's right, #CROSSOVER! We talk about (roughly in order):
- WordPress vs Envato drama. Two second recap: Envato sells WP themes with a split license, WordPress doesn't like that, no solution in sight, Envato authors can't participate (beyond attending) at WordCamps. Jake Caputo was majorly affected. Chris Wallace is similarly confused.
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Just about to leave Port Douglas and head for Ayers Rock, we have had an amazing time here and fallen in love with the place. Saturday we went to the great barrier reef which is just amazing, we went snorkeling with the fish, and I (ian) went to see the coral at the bottom. Angela did well on the boat didnt even throw up!! Went to the local market today and just been out for a lovely meal, both feel sick after to much chocolate. Time for bed now as we have to be up for 3am.
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Once again, Lakeracer LLC and Teague Custom Marine have joined together to bring the best event in the country to you! Another collection of the most significant performance boats across the nation are once again planning to converge on Lake Havasu in 2011!
Wednesday will begin the long weekend with special children and their families from all over Arizona, journeying to Lake Havasu for the event of a lifetime. Together with the Arizona Chapter of Make-A-Wish Foundation and the Havasu For Youth Organization, LakeRacer and the Platinum Powerboat Club present the second annual Desert Storm Putin on the Wish! Providing exciting rides in high performance powerboats and raising funds to help these great charities continue their work!
Wednesday night: We are hosting an open house party at the newest Lake Havasu Boat dealership, Oregon Custom Marine. Join us for Beer and Brats provided by Romer Beverage and the Lake Havasu Marine Assocation.
Thursday will continue the excitement with a down town Street Party, opening this year at noon, all of our participants and Sponsors are invited to display their boats on McCulloch Boulevard which will be closed off for the event. Display and vendor booth areas can be purchased by our sponsors and the public. Last years Street Party was spectacular and over 14,000 people turned out from all over the area, so of course we have to make it even bigger this year. Registration and check in for the poker run and shootout will open Thursday night at the street party.
Friday morning back at the Nautical Resort, the Poker Run takes off with registration, drivers meeting and a parade thru the London Bridge Channel beginning the run. With 3 card stations in the morning, Lunch catered at the Nautical Inn, 2 card stations and a helicopter photo station in the afternoon, there is lots of fun boating action! That evening back at the Nautical Inn we have a huge Pool Party while we open the cards and record the winners, which will be announced Saturday night at the Awards Party!!!
Saturday morning begins with registration and check in for the Desert Storm Shootout. The Shootout Course starts off in Thompson Bay and runs two miles south on the Arizona side. Set to run all day with a break for lunch, well see who have the fastest boats in the west and the King of the Desert!!! Spectators have a great view from Rotary Park Beach and we have display and vendor areas available there as well.
Saturday night well award the top speeds in each class and crown the new King of the Desert! Dinner will be served and loads of prizes given out including the winning hands of the Poker Run, at a huge outdoor party at the Nautical Resort.
For the Desert Storm participants, sponsors and spectators, LakeRacer LLC is again producing a 64 page event magazine with over 5000 issues; advertising in this publication is our sponsors, participating advertisers. We can also showcase your business, several levels ads are available, 1/4 page, ½ page, full page or two page facing ads. Please contact Jim Nichols if you would like to advertise or sponsor. Event Registration forms can be downloaded at www.lakeracerllc.com. Make checks payable to LakeRacer, L.L.C. You can also visit our online store and sign up online with your credit card. If you have any questions, emails can be sent to Jim Nichols at [email protected].


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New London — After struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder and trying to navigate a complex bureaucracy to get help, David Pressler says he wants to give back to veterans who are facing similar challenges.
As the city's new veterans' liaison, Pressler will answer questions from veterans in City Hall. Mayor Daryl Justin Finizio swore him in to the volunteer, unpaid position Thursday.
"There are a lot of resources out there, finding them is hard," Pressler said.
One of the biggest problems, he said, is that service members are trained to go overseas and fight as warriors, "but we don't train them to come back.
"We expect them to integrate into society but they come back with wounds and they're not always on the outside," said Pressler, who was a sergeant in the Marine Corps.
Finizio said the recent tragedy in Waterford "reminds us the stresses and issues confronting our veteran population are serious and suicides among our veterans have reached epidemic levels."
A former Marine, Justin Eldridge, of Waterford, killed himself during a standoff with police Monday night at his home. Eldridge, 31, who was the first commandant of the Thames River Detachment of the Marine Corps League in Quaker Hill, was struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder, according to his friends.
"Having someone at the local level that New Londoners can call and talk to, who not only can give them guidance in terms of where to go to get the services they need but also can actually relate to what they're going through, is so important," Finizio said. "And I think that having this type of a person serving the city is certainly fortunate for us, but it's going to be very fortunate for veterans and it may, in fact, in the end save lives."
The state mandated that cities and towns designate a veterans' service contact person, who can go to an annual training course and help veterans get the services and benefits they have earned. Each municipality had to pick someone by Oct. 1. The bill Gov. Dannel P. Malloy signed was one of several new initiatives designed to improve the lives of the state's veterans and service members.
Pressler, 42, who lives in New London, served in the Marine Corps from 1989 to 2002 and deployed to Iraq in 1991 and 2002. He is studying communications at Mitchell College. He speaks Spanish and Arabic.
State Veterans Affairs Commissioner Linda Schwartz has said her office needs someone in each municipality to call when there are changes in services that veterans need to know about. Most veterans are not using all of their benefits, she added.
"I think of it as a Connecticut safety net for veterans," she said after Malloy signed the bill. "Just knowing someone to contact in your own town is an important step to getting what you need."
The state department plans to hold trainings in each part of the state on the basics of how the federal and state systems work and how claims are processed. The veterans' service contacts will learn how to connect veterans to the correct state or federal offices and help those who are not computer savvy print out the forms they need.
Finizio said he could foresee making the veterans' liaison a paid position one day, but couldn't do so now because of budget constraints. As a military community, he said, "we want to be ahead of the curve in how we treat our veterans, not behind it."
Pressler can be reached at (860) 857-0189 or email@example.com.
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