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Jul 4, 2013 at 3:36 pm #1304973
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Sgt. Joe Caravetta, a B.C. conservation officer, said two men in their mid-30s from Fernie were walking on a popular hiking and mountain biking trail between 9 a.m. and 10 a.m. when they encountered a sow and her cub.
He said the sow became "very defensive" of her cub and attacked one of the men and pushed him about six metres down the steep trail near the peak of the mountain.
The man used his bear spray and the grizzly retreated, said Caravetta. The sow then went after the other hiker and knocked him to the ground before chewing on his arms and upper body.
Caravetta said the hiker pulled out his gun and shot the bear at close range. The wounded animal ran away with her cub. The men administered their own first-aid from supplies they were carrying in their packs.Jul 4, 2013 at 5:37 pm #2002551
Two people slightly gnawed on by a bear. Morals: Carry pepper spray. Maybe even a gun if you are so inclined.
8 people slightly dead while driving home from camping trip. More morals: Don't drive while intoxicated. And especially not the wrong way on the parkway for 3 km:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Taconic_State_Parkway_crashJul 4, 2013 at 5:41 pm #2002552
Ken T.BPL Member
Wonder how the bear is doing?Jul 4, 2013 at 5:46 pm #2002553
Greg MihalikBPL Member
@greg23Locale: Colorado
She's hurting, and looking for an easy meal….Jul 4, 2013 at 5:51 pm #2002554
Ken T.BPL Member
So now we have a problem.Jul 4, 2013 at 6:13 pm #2002556
Jerry AdamsBPL Member
@retiredjerryLocale: Oregon and Washington
If you look at the Herrero bear statistics, in every case the offending bear is tracked down and killed
Maybe a few more bears that happen to be wandering by alsoJul 5, 2013 at 9:13 am #2002680
Brian MixBPL Member
@aggroLocale: Western slope, Sierra Nevada
I wonder what caliber the bear was shot with, small handgun it will likely heal, larger caliber it will likely die without a posse hunting it down.Jul 5, 2013 at 9:21 am #2002682
Rob EMember
@eatsleepfishLocale: Canada
I also am wondering what type and caliber of gun was used, primarily because handgun possession laws are much stricter in Canada, so much so that the statistical chances of a hiker being able to legally carry a handgun for bear protection in Canada is effectively zero. So without knowing anything more, I would guess that it was likely a small pump action shotgun, or a rifle.Jul 5, 2013 at 10:07 am #2002692
Jerry AdamsBPL Member
@retiredjerryLocale: Oregon and Washington
"small handgun it will likely heal"
They will track it down and kill it before it has time to start healingJul 5, 2013 at 10:55 am #2002715
While the link given above suggests a handgun with the wording, "the hiker pulled out his gun and shot the bear at close range.", other news reports:
report that a shotgun was used. Which is a whole more likely (because it is more legal) to be carried in Canada. The OP's link makes it sounds like the use of the gun was what stopped the attack. The article linked above describes:
"The man was able to get his bear spray out and when he sprayed the sow, she retreated but went after the second man, who fired a shotgun at her and, according to his report, struck her at a fairly close distance, Caravetta said.
The bear continued to attack the man, biting his upper arm and chest before retreating.
"Perhaps once the bear had him down, she felt the threat was gone," Caravetta said, adding the attack is considered defensive and not predatory."
Indicating that, for this attack, this bear, this turn of events; pepper spray stopped the attack on the first man, a shotgun didn't stop the attack on the second man – his going down stopped the attack. UL note: Pepper Spray = 14 oz and worked, shotgun = 6 pounds and didn't work, duck&cover = 0 oz and worked albeit with some injuries.)
And, as Jerry has been pointing out: ""We're not pursuing the bear because it's a bad bear, we're pursuing it because we think it's wounded," Caravetta said, adding depending on the severity of its injury, the bear would have to be euthanized and the cub likely taken somewhere to be rehabilitated."
Spray: +1 Gun: 0
Humans -0.05 Bears: -1
Gun forums are pondering what gauge shotgun and what load (buckshot, slug, etc) was used, and have the implicit or explicit idea that if he carried the right weapon, the bear would have gone down instantaneous. Having seen a medium-sized black bear take two .338 bullets (3800 foot-pounds versus a 1-ounce 12-gauge slug at 1000 foot-pounds) and keep going, I know that's not always true.
I ponder "How much noise were they making immediately before the encounter?" I wish (like seat belt use in a MVA) that was a standard interview question and included in more news reports. UL note: yelling weighs nothing.Jul 5, 2013 at 8:36 pm #2002891
Eric BlumensaadtBPL Member
@danepackerLocale: Mojave Desert
A 12 ga. slug will work nicely, either breaking major bones and/or damaging vital organs or instantly killing with a head shot.
Buckshot, not so much…Jul 6, 2013 at 9:32 pm #2003225
Delmar O'DonnellMember
@bolsterLocale: Between Jacinto & Gorgonio
"UL note: Pepper Spray = 14 oz and worked, shotgun = 6 pounds and didn't work, duck&cover = 0 oz and worked albeit with some injuries.)"
Hm. I have a different interpretation.
Pepper spray did not work, as bear attacked again after the pepper spray. Perhaps the hot sauce agitated the bear further.
Gun worked, although not instantly, as bear retreated soon after. (Hardly an UL option however.)
"Perhaps once the bear had him down, she felt the threat was gone," Caravetta said…
Well, since we're speculating wildly, I'd speculate that perhaps the bear retreated due to wounds. But that's probably not politically correct.Jul 6, 2013 at 10:51 pm #2003234
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"I heard a growl, and then we both heard a second growl, and we said, 'What was that?'" said Farkas.
"And before we could react, she was on us … She knocked [Braconnier] over, hit him in the back and took him downhill out of my sight behind some shrubs."
After the bear swiped Braconnier four times and swung him through the air by his arm, he managed to hit back with some bear spray.
"She was right there — arm's distance — I hit her with some bear spray," Braconnier recalled.
Undeterred, the bear turned on Farkas, who was fumbling with a shotgun.
"When I saw her coming back up the hill, I had been fumbling with unstrapping the shotgun off my back, fumbling with shells," he said.
"I managed to load a shell. I saw her paws. I shot … She seemed to stand up and writhe in pain like I had connected with her. And in an instant like lightning, she was around a bit of a corner and airborne at me, and she clawed me and pushed me back."
Farkas feared for the worst when he landed on his back more than three metres down the hill, with the angry grizzly bearing down on him.
"The most terrifying part was I was so vulnerable, head down hill, feet up. I was screaming. Her face was no more than a foot from my boot. And she turned around and left."Jul 7, 2013 at 8:50 am #2003295
peter vaccoMember
@fluffinreach-comLocale: no. california
David has the crux of it Right There.
" Pepper Spray = 14 oz and worked, shotgun = 6 pounds and didn't work "
you can add that if it's correctly mounted, you can deploy spray Vastly Faster, and without even using your hands if necessary.
Vastly Faster outguns Possibly Later in surprise attack defense.
(and this, coming from a fellow who is moving towards building an electric "polar bear fence" so he can get some sleep on his next trip)Jul 7, 2013 at 9:11 am #2003301
peter vaccoMember
@fluffinreach-comLocale: no. california
"Perhaps once the bear had him down, she felt the threat was gone," Caravetta said…
Well, since we're speculating wildly, "
not quite so fast my politically incorrect friend. this is a bear with cubs. she will be Defending her own from the hikers, not feeding on them. interpretations of the situation is not speculation. not at all. this is what they do. i know this. i had pretty much the same thing for a mom. bears are reasonably predictable. not 100%, but close enough.
once hiker #1 sprayed her and was down (now threat free), she went after #2. noise, wound, fear, all notwithstanding, after he went down, she was finished. job done, same as. next ?
guns shmuns, i love 'em too, but for surprise bear encounters they are a distant third best thing to making noise and carrying spray.
on the other hand, if an encounter goes on and on, and you are being stalked over time/distance, well then, it's not really a surprise anymore is it ? about that time, rest assured, that little tin can is going to feel terribly not-enough, and you'll be sorely wanting that stainless 338 with kevlar stock we all dream about. back to speculation, no healthy sow with cubs is going to stalk a pair of smelly humans. it's not what they do.
mostly though :
you gott'a make some noise, and you got to stand fast your ground as well.
is gets scary.Jul 7, 2013 at 2:21 pm #2003437
Delmar O'DonnellMember
@bolsterLocale: Between Jacinto & Gorgonio
You guys must strongly believe in the power of pepper spray, to interpret this story's spraying as effective when the bear continues to attack "undeterred" (in the words of the report) after being sprayed. And apparently you also think the shotgun blast had little or no effect in breaking off the attack? This interpretation stretches credulity for me, but I understand that's one possible view…so…OK!
Obviously spray is much lighter in weight and thus much preferred for backpacking. And it doesn't require "fumbling around" to load, as the (apparently) unloaded shotgun did in this story.
You mention a person can deploy pepper spray "without even using your hands if necessary." How is that done?Jul 7, 2013 at 2:52 pm #2003451
DougBPL Member
"You mention a person can deploy pepper spray "without even using your hands if necessary." How is that done?"
Well, you have to carry it in a sling between your legs and train your penis, but it is doable….Jul 7, 2013 at 4:35 pm #2003489
Mike MBPL Member
@mtwardenLocale: Montana
sounds like the guy carrying the shotgun didn't have bear spray (or decided not to use and went for the shotgun)????; got to wonder why would you carry a shotgun, presumably for bear protection as there aren't many hunting seasons open in July and not have it loaded????
lots of what ifs, but what if both individuals were carrying bear spray, both deployed them and both sprayed????
I'm frequently asked in the backcountry what I would use in a grizzly charge- my duty sidearm or the bear spray I'm also carrying- it's an easy one to answer for me, the bear spray- it's much easier to "hit" a charging bear w/ a wide aerosol pattern of bear spray than a bullet and unlike Hollywood, charging big critters (including humans) very seldom drop like a ton of bricks, they much more often keep goingJul 7, 2013 at 5:44 pm #2003521
Nick GatelBPL Member
@ngatelLocale: Southern California
It is interesting to me that those who have lots of experience with Grizzlies and firearms see spray as the first line of defense. Maybe we should listen?Jul 7, 2013 at 6:16 pm #2003537
Philip TschersichBPL Member
@philip-akLocale: Kodiak Alaska
I've lived on Kodiak Island Alaska for almost 25 years and have solo traveled thousands of miles here and throughout coastal Alaska. I only carry bear spray. Just sayin'.Jul 7, 2013 at 6:54 pm #2003549
its all a moot point anyways cause the BPL bears never attack anyone …. they simply lounge around the forums looking cute … that way you would never have to add the back breaking weight of that spray to your XUL spreadsheet
BPL bear =>
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Eric BlumensaadtBPL Member
@danepackerLocale: Mojave Desert
My Dear Mr. Vacco,
With your disdain for firearms as protection against griz attack I hope you don't ever go into grizzly territory. Others with similar ideas have fared very poorly when attacked by Ursus Horribilis.
I have heard similar opinions from those who eschew firearms. As the saying goes, "a Democrat is a Republican who has never been mugged." (Well, I AM a Democrat but I carry and I hunt. I see no conflict there.
I see from others' posts that you have travelled extensively in grizzly territory, likely carrying bells and bear spray. I bow to your experience, having only faced down black bears myself – with the largest canister of bear spray I could buy.
And, upon closer reading of your post I see you do know that a "Kevlar stocked .338 (Win, mag.) would be comforting if stalked by a bear.
In light of this I retract my acid comment forthwith.
As Rosanna Rosanna Danna used to say on SNL, "Never mind."Jul 7, 2013 at 8:29 pm #2003581
I didn't see that Peter had anything against guns per se. Actually, he said he liked guns and spoke fondly of a certain .338.
Mike is a Montana Game Warden.
I had caribou stew tonight. From Adak in the Aleutians which I schlepped out from the hunt last Fall.
One can appreciate guns as tools for certain tasks, look at the evidence of scores of bear encounters and conclude that I, personally, am going to carry spray (if anything) and make a lot of noise (always).
No one is telling you not to carry a gun. I'm always telling people to do whatever approach they want. HYOH. I'm not going to stop someone from bringing their grandfather's canvas umbrella tent. It's how I started camping. But I'll point out that a nylon dome tent, sil-nylon tarp, etc, is lighter and more effective. Cause it's a forum for discussion of various issues.
I've looked at published research, talked to lots of people (except for that patient of my wife's who squeezed off a rifle round, clipped some brown bear hairs and drew some blood because he was, well, dead from a chomped skull), and pondered all the grizzly experiences we've had and the ones we've avoided having.
For myself: Always noise. And being alert to my surroundings. Spray in a higher-threat time and place. Guns, for me, only if I'm going for some bear sausage, roast, etc. Like 6 weeks ago.
But to each their own.Jul 7, 2013 at 8:57 pm #2003588
Nick GatelBPL Member
@ngatelLocale: Southern California
You may want to do a little research on Mr. Vacco, especially his experience with Grizzly and Polar bears. I think he was the first person to hike the Brooks range in Alaska; solo.
He is pretty modest so we don't know a lot about him.Jul 8, 2013 at 5:50 am #2003647
DougBPL Member
"You may want to do a little research on Mr. Vacco, especially his experience with Grizzly and Polar bears."
+1 and then some
He's also a great drinking companion – wonderful stories, great sense of humor, an all around rascal. I'd love to do a trip with him some time.
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We are working hard on this year Troutfest. The Banquet will be held at the Festival Tent - Little River Outfitters in Townsend, TN. Friday, May 16th at 7pm.
Festivities begin at 6pm. The Festival will held at Townsend Visitor Center, May 17th and 18th. Times are from 9am to 6pm on Saturday 10am to 6pm on Sunday.
The Bamboo for Bookies rod this year is a 6' 2pc 4wt, rod with extra tip. Is a darkly flamed hand - planed Bamboo rod with root beer colored wraps, bright nickel silver ferrules and reel seat hardware, a burled walnut reel seat spacer, and a combination cork and rattan grip. It comes with a hexagonal hardwood rod tube, both of which are contained in a beautiful cherry/maple glass-topped display case. It will be on display at Little River Outffitters in a couple weeks.
For more information please go to our website www.Troutfest.org
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"It's great to be this blue-mouthed old lady hitting on somebody," he said, in his character's soft Scottish burr, "opening your blouse and saying, 'What about these? Behold my dirty pillows, my fun bags. Come nurse at the fountain of bliss.'"


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We present this blog with the intention to serve as a journal about the life on our planet. While we are not (yet) experts in the field, our enthusiasm and interest on the different lifeforms around this world came to provide texts and comments on new and relictic subjects. This blog came from the idea of entereing the blogroll of science writting and reviving our past sites in the subject, all in Portuguese language: BioData by Rafael and Biolista by Piter. The blog will serve as a sibling to our other existing journal, Poisor Tristesi, as well for discussing the representation of both extinct and extant life in art.
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by Piter Kehoma Boll Elephants are considered animals of high intelligence and social complexity, able to solve puzzles, use tools, show empathy and have self-awareness. Moreover, of course, they have an amazing memory. When in captivity, elephants use to become … Continue reading →... Read more »
English, M., Kaplan, G., & Rogers, L. (2014) Is painting by elephants in zoos as enriching as we are led to believe?. PeerJ. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.471
by Piter Boll in Earthling Nature
by Piter Kehoma Boll For as long as life exists, it spreads. Organisms move (even if only as gametes or spores) and conquer new environments if they fit. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be found all over the world. … Continue reading →... Read more »
Albuquerque, F., Peso-Aguiar, M., & Assunção-Albuquerque, M. (2008) Distribution, feeding behavior and control strategies of the exotic land snail Achatina fulica (Gastropoda: Pulmonata) in the northeast of Brazil. Brazilian Journal of Biology, 68(4), 837-842. DOI: 10.1590/S1519-69842008000400020
Justine, J., Winsor, L., Gey, D., Gros, P., & Thévenot, J. (2014) The invasive New Guinea flatworm in France, the first record for Europe: time for action is now. PeerJ. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.297
Sugiura, S., Okochi, I., & Tamada, H. (2006) High Predation Pressure by an Introduced Flatworm on Land Snails on the Oceanic Ogasawara Islands1. Biotropica, 38(5), 700-703. DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2006.00196.x
Sugiura, S., & Yamaura, Y. (2008) Potential impacts of the invasive flatworm Platydemus manokwari on arboreal snails. Biological Invasions, 11(3), 737-742. DOI: 10.1007/s10530-008-9287-1
by Piter Boll in Earthling Nature
by Piter Kehoma Boll This is the first bird featured in Friday Fellow and I have chosen it for a special reason: it's binomial name is Tyrannus melancholicus, the melancholic tyrant. Isn't it almost poetic? Found from southern United States to the … Continue reading →... Read more »
Cintra, R. (1997) Spatial Distribution and Foraging Tactics of Tyrant Flycatchers in Two Habitats in the Brazilian Amazon. Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment, 32(1), 17-27. DOI: 10.1076/snfe.184.108.40.20659
Legal, E. (2007) Aspectos da nidificação do siriri, Tyrannus melancholicus (Vieillot, 1819), (Aves, Tyrannidae) em Santa Catarina. Atualidades Ornitológicas On-line, 51-52. info:/
Pinheiro, C. E. G. (1996) Palatablility and escaping ability in Neotropical butterflies: tests with wild kingbirds(Tyrannus melancholicus, Tyrannidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 59(4), 351-365. DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.1996.tb01471.x
by Piter Boll in Earthling Nature
by Piter Kehoma Boll I have already written about the problems of taxonomy in small and not-so-cute groups in a previous post, where I talked about the fact that several species, after being described, are completely ignored for decades or centuries. … Continue reading →... Read more »
Antunes, M., Leal-Zanchet, A. M., & Fonseca, C. (2012) Habitat structure, soil properties, and food availability do not predict terrestrial flatworms occurrence in Araucaria Forest sites. Pedobiologia, 55(1), 25-31. DOI: 10.1016/j.pedobi.2011.09.010
Carbayo, F., Leal-Zanchet, A. M., & Vieira, E. M. (2001) Land planarians (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida, Terricola) as indicators of man-induced disturbance in a South Brazilian rainforest. Belgian Journal of Zoology, 223-224. info:/
Carbayo, F., Leal-Zanchet, A. M., & Vieira, E. (2002) Terrestrial flatworm (Platyhelminthes: Tricladida: Terricola) diversity versus man-induced disturbance in an ombrophilous forest in southern Brazil. Biodiversity and Conservation, 11(6), 1091-1104. DOI: 10.1023/A:1015865005604
by Piter Boll in Earthling Nature
by Piter Kehoma Boll So our Friday Fellow is back! After almost a year… but it is! To restart this section, I decided to talk about an interesting plant which can be found in the region where the mysterious Leimacopsis terricola … Continue reading →... Read more »
Bernal, R., & Sanín, M. J. (2013) Los palmares de Ceroxylon quindiuense (Arecaceae) en el Valle de Cocora, Quindío: perspectivas de un ícono escénico de Colombia. Colombia Florestal, 16(1), 67-79. info:/
by Piter Boll in Earthling Nature
by Piter Kehoma Boll Oh, ye olde times… The 18th and 19th centuries were well marked by great worldwide expeditions by naturalists aboard ships travelling all around the world. Charles Darwin is certainly the most famous of them, but he … Continue reading →... Read more »
Diesing, K. M. (1862) Revision der Turbellarien. Abtheilung: Dendrocoelen. Keiserlich-Königlichen Hof- und Staatsdruckerei. DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.2108
Fuhrmann, O. (1914) Planaires terrestres de Colombie. In: Fuhrmann . Mémoires de la Société des sciences naturelles de Neuchâtel, 5(2), 748-792. info:/
Moseley, H. (1874) On the Anatomy and Histology of the Land-Planarians of Ceylon, with Some Account of Their Habits, and a Description of Two New Species, and with Notes on the Anatomy of Some European Aquatic Species. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 105-171. DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1874.0005
Schmarda, L. K. (1859) Thiere beobachtet und gesammelt auf einer Reise um die Erde 1853 bis 1857. Lepizig: W. Engelmann. DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.14426
by Piter Boll in Earthling Nature
by Piter Kehoma Boll As already alerted by Ted Goertzel (2010): "Conspiracy theories that target specific research can have serious consequences for public health and environmental policies". The above quote is in the article from 2010 published in EMBO reports by … Continue reading →... Read more »
Booth, W. (1989) AIDS Paper Raises Red Flag at PNAS. Science, 733. DOI: 10.1126/science.2916121
Cohen, J. (1994) The Duesberg Phenomenon. Science, 1642-1644. DOI: 10.1126/science.7992043
Goertzel, T. (2010) Conspiracy Theorys in Sciences. EMBO reports, 493-4999. DOI: 10.1038/embor.2010.84
by Piter Boll in Earthling Nature
by Piter Kehoma Boll Take a look at these guys: It's a member of the group Acoelomorpha, animals which are still a puzzle in phylogeny. That means no one knows for sure where in the animals' evolutionary tree they are … Continue reading →... Read more »
Boll, P., Rossi, I., Amaral, S., Oliveira, S., Müller, E., Lemos, V., & Leal-Zanchet, A. (2013) Platyhelminthes ou apenas semelhantes a Platyhelminthes? Relações filogenéticas dos principais grupos de turbelários. Neotropical Biology and Conservation, 8(1), 41-52. DOI: 10.4013/nbc.2013.81.06
Egger, B., Steinke, D., Tarui, H., De Mulder, K., Arendt, D., Borgonie, G., Funayama, N., Gschwentner, R., Hartenstein, V., Hobmayer, B.... (2009) To Be or Not to Be a Flatworm: The Acoel Controversy. PLoS ONE, 4(5). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0005502
Hejnol, A., Obst, M., Stamatakis, A., Ott, M., Rouse, G., Edgecombe, G., Martinez, P., Baguna, J., Bailly, X., Jondelius, U.... (2009) Assessing the root of bilaterian animals with scalable phylogenomic methods. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 276(1677), 4261-4270. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.0896
Moreno, E., Nadal, M., Baguñà, J., & Martínez, P. (2009) Tracking the origins of the bilaterian patterning system: insights from the acoel flatworm. Evolution , 11(5), 574-581. DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-142X.2009.00363.x
Mwinyi, A., Bailly, X., Bourlat, S., Jondelius, U., Littlewood, D., & Podsiadlowski, L. (2010) The phylogenetic position of Acoela as revealed by the complete mitochondrial genome of Symsagittifera roscoffensis. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 10(1), 309. DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-10-309
Philippe, H., Brinkmann, H., Copley, R., Moroz, L., Nakano, H., Poustka, A., Wallberg, A., Peterson, K., & Telford, M. (2011) Acoelomorph flatworms are deuterostomes related to Xenoturbella. Nature, 470(7333), 255-258. DOI: 10.1038/nature09676
by Piter Boll in Earthling Nature
by Piter Kehoma Boll It's been a long time since I updated the blog, as you might have noticed, but time is really something I don't have much lately. I just came back from Argentina yesterday after taking part in … Continue reading →... Read more »
ROBLIN, G. (1979) Mimosa pudica: A Model for the Study of the Excitability in Plants. Biological Reviews, 54(2), 135-153. DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-185X.1979.tb00870.x
by Piter Boll in Earthling Nature
by Piter Kehoma Boll Beetles are the most species-rich group of living beings on our planet, so it's time for Friday Fellow bring you a representative of them. I've chosen my favorite species, the violaceous longhorned borer Compsocerus violaceus (White, … Continue reading →... Read more »
Garcia, H. A. (1994) Ocorrência e danos de Compsocerus violaceus (White, 1853) (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae) em pomar de citros. Anais das Escolas de Agronomia e Veterinária, 24(1), 148-153. info:/
by Piter Boll in Earthling Nature
by Piter Kehoma Boll Most ordinary people think of a tree as just that, a tree, a big plant with a hard tall stem which provides shade and oxygen and sometimes beautiful flowers or delicious fruits. So, it may not … Continue reading →... Read more »
Moeed, A., & Meads, M. J. (1983) Invertebrate fauna of four tree species in Orongorongo Valley, New Zealand, as revealed by trunk traps. New Zealand Journal of Ecology, 39-53. info:/
Zytynska, S., Fay, M., Penney, D., & Preziosi, R. (2011) Genetic variation in a tropical tree species influences the associated epiphytic plant and invertebrate communities in a complex forest ecosystem. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 366(1569), 1329-1336. DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2010.0183
by Piter Boll in Earthling Nature
by Piter Kehoma Boll I guess most of you already know Rafflesia arnoldii, the corpse flower, as it is quite popular for a lot of reasons. But sometimes it's nice to show the classics too, right? Described in 1822 by Robert … Continue reading →... Read more »
Brown, R. (1821) XV. An Account of a new Genus of Plants, named Rafflesia. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, 13(1), 201-234. DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8339.1821.tb00062.x
by Piter Boll in Earthling Nature
by Piter Kehoma Boll In previous posts, I talked about two scientists who introduced "revolutionary" ideas to explain certain aspects in evolution, contradicting what other specialists use to say. But they come up with such unlikely explanations and use to … Continue reading →... Read more »
Oftedal, O. T. (2002) The origin of lactation as a water source for parchment-shelled eggs. Journal of mammary gland biology and neoplasia, 7(3), 253-66. PMID: 12751890
Oftedal, O. T. (2002) The mammary gland and its origin during synapsid evolution. Journal of mammary gland biology and neoplasia, 7(3), 225-52. PMID: 12751889
by Piter Boll in Earthling Nature
by Piter Kehoma Boll Let's dive deep into the ocean and talk about this awesome animal, the giant tube worm Riftia pachyptila. Initially classified in a separate phylum, Vestimentifera, today it is included in a family of Annelids called Sibloginidae. … Continue reading →... Read more »
Lopez-Garcia, P., Gaill, F., & Moreira, D. (2002) Wide bacterial diversity associated with tubes of the vent worm Riftia pachyptila. Environmental Microbiology, 4(4), 204-215. DOI: 10.1046/j.1462-2920.2002.00286.x
Minic, Z., & Hervé, G. (2004) Biochemical and enzymological aspects of the symbiosis between the deep-sea tubeworm Riftia pachyptila and its bacterial endosymbiont. European Journal of Biochemistry, 271(15), 3093-3102. DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.2004.04248.x
Stewart FJ, & Cavanaugh CM. (2006) Symbiosis of thioautotrophic bacteria with Riftia pachyptila. Progress in molecular and subcellular biology, 197-225. PMID: 16623395
by Piter Boll in Earthling Nature
by Piter Kehoma Boll As you may have heard, or read, a paper published this month in Nature claims that the famous Ediacaran biota, a set of fossils from the Ediacaran Period (ca. 635-542 Mya) of the Neoproterozoic Era, is … Continue reading →... Read more »
Retallack, G. (2012) Ediacaran life on land. Nature. DOI: 10.1038/nature11777
Retallack, G. (2007) Growth, decay and burial compaction of Dickinsonia, an iconic Ediacaran fossil. Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology, 31(3), 215-240. DOI: 10.1080/03115510701484705
Switek, B. (2012) Controversial claim puts life on land 65 million years early. Nature. DOI: 10.1038/nature.2012.12017
by Piter Boll in Earthling Nature
by Piter Kehoma Boll Celebrating the end of the world, there would be no more suitable creature to be featured in our FF than the american cockroach, Periplaneta americana, so famous as a probable (or possible) survivor after a global cataclysm … Continue reading →... Read more »
Vianna, E. E. S., Berne, M. E. A., & Ribeiro, P. B. (2001) Desenvolvimento e longevidade de Periplaneta americana Linneu, 1758 (Blattodea: Blattidae). Revista Brasileira de Agrociências, 7(2), 111-115. info:/
by Piter Boll in Earthling Nature
by Piter Kehoma Boll Biogeography, as you may know, is the study of the distribution of species or ecosystems through the planet. The knowledge which comes from biogeographical surveys is valuable information for other areas, like ecology, evolutionary biology, geology … Continue reading →... Read more »
Froehlich, C. G. (1959) On Geoplanids from Brazil. Boletim da Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras da Universidade de São Paulo, Série Zoologia, 201-265. info:/
by Piter Boll in Earthling Nature
by Piter Kehoma Boll Let's expand the universe of Friday Fellow by presenting a plant for the first time! And what could be a better choice to start than the famous Grandidier's Baobab? Belonging to the species Adansonia grandidieri, this tree is … Continue reading →... Read more »
Baum, D. A. (1995) A Systematic Revision of Adansonia (Bombacaceae). Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden, 440-470. DOI: 10.2307/2399893
by Piter Boll in Earthling Nature
by Piter Kehoma Boll About a year ago, while I was in my class of Techniques of Molecular Diagnosis, an interesting doubt sprouted: why does DNA use thymine instead of uracil as RNA does? I hope everybody reading this knows … Continue reading →... Read more »
Jonsson, J. (1996) The Evolutionary Transition from Uracil to Thymine Balances the Genetic Code. Journal of Chemometrics, 163-170. DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-128X(199603)10:2
by Piter Boll in Earthling Nature
by Piter Kehoma Boll This Friday I'll talk about one of the most charismatic species of butterflies, at least here in Southern Brazil. Diaethria clymena, known as Cramer's Eighty Eight or simply 88 Butterfly, is a small species which features a … Continue reading →... Read more »
Barbosa, E. P., Kaminski, L. A., & Freitas, A. V. L. (2010) Immature stages of the butterfly Diaethria clymena janeira (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Biblidinae) . Zoologia, 27(5), 696-702. DOI: 10.1590/S1984-46702010000500005
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Your car looks mint Charley but whats the point of the bonnet bra ? does it do something special or is just for looks ? Also I notice it covers up the bmw badge too.
Your car looks mint Charley but whats the point of the bonnet bra ? does it do something special or is just for looks ? Also I notice it covers up the bmw badge too.
Hi mate, fanx. The bonnet bra is to help protect the front of the bonnet from getting stone chipped. Yes, it does cover up the badge, but I think everyone would recognise the square grills and instantly know it was a BMW anyway.
Yeah, I'll have to buy at least 1 tin of tyre weld, but I do have RAC anyway. Has anyone actually used the Tyreweld before? How good is it? Is the tyre still usable after the puncture is repaired or will the tyreweld inside do something to the tyre over time?
Sweet looking ride and gotta luv those Hamann sideskirts.
Fanx Dragon, they do give a more distinctive and individual look to the car, and understated too, not too fussy.
Where did you get the bonnet bra from please Charley? Love the car by the way, well smart!
Fanx citylink, got the bra from
They are in the US, and I think it was $58 shipped. Took under a week to get here.
Hello car looks sweet im interested in getting a bonnet bra my self for my trip to the ring next year :-) Nice to see another saloon getting modded, keep up the good work looks wicked
looks sweet mate. 1 thing though matt black kidney grills
I know I know, gna make a trip to the breakers and see if theres any there, spray them up. Am I the only person who's got Hamann skirts on any series BMW? I mustadmit I haven't seen any others on the road or in any forums.
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Insurer advocates pill splitting as a way to cut costs
UnitedHealthcare's chief executive Tim Heady said, "For every patient that chooses to reduce their costs by 50 percent, it would reduce ours and their employer's cost by half of the cost of that prescription as well."
Among the 15 pills the insurer recommends splitting are expensive cholesterol drugs such as Lipitor, antidepressants such as Zoloft and blood pressure pills such as Aceon and Diovan.
Seniors, with the help of doctors and pharmacists have split pills to cut costs for years, but recently insures have promoted it as studies have shown it can save massive amounts on purchasing drugs.
According to the article, the U.S. department of Veterans Affairs saved $46.5 million a year by having 1.1 million patients split the cholesterol drug Zocor, and The Regence Group, a health insurer operating in Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Utah, saves $5 million a year through pill splitting.


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My new game is only semi-officially announced now, but I figured for anyone cool enough to be following me here, you deserve to at least see what I'm currently up to!
The new game is called PuzzleByte, an action match-3 style game inspired by the likes of Tetris Attack (aka Panel De Pon/Puzzle League), Meteos and Puzzle and Dragons. I found that existing puzzle games on the app store mostly try to appeal to common players but in doing so they leave out puzzle gurus and players who are really into the genre. Not so with PuzzleByte. Thinking quickly, finding patterns and learning the flow of moving blocks around is what this game is all about.
PuzzleByte is currently an Android (Google Play) exclusive. The goal is generally to match up blocks in the usual formations (3 in a row of the same color, horizontally or vertically) to score points. Like Bejeweled or Candy Crush, PuzzleByte still works in "turns" where you are unable to make moves while the action is happening, but unlike those games, you can pick up any block and shift it around the board freely, displacing other blocks as you go. Your only limitation is a timer, which can be recycled – any remaining time after you set your block down can be used as soon as your matches are deleted and new blocks fall in to replace them. You are also given the ability to earn more time by making multiple matches or larger ones. This "chaining" feature is a key part of earning high scores, and makes PuzzleByte a fast-paced and frantic game.
PuzzleByte is all about the score and replayability. It's something that I hope will have players coming back for a quick round every day, watching their progress and unlocking new features as they improve. Google Play has a lot of features such as online leaderboards, achievements and cloud saving which I think will lend a much-needed sense of connectedness to the game.
This game is, more than anything, my love letter of sorts to the puzzle games of my youth which I still love to this day. It's currently in alpha and I'm looking for feedback on the game (if you happen to have a device you'd like to test it on, send your Google+/Play email to firstname.lastname@example.com and I'll add you to the tester community so you can give it a shot) as I implement features, tune up the gameplay, and tighten the visuals. I want to say it's close to release, but anything could arise as this is my first time ever getting this far along in development and trying to mess with these external APIs.
I'm excited to get to show off this game that I've been working on for half a year now, and excited at my ever-improving development and design skills. I hope it's a hit, and I hope I get the chance to go on to make more, better games.


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Which is more important: The right of a person with AIDS to have quick access to a reasonably safe drug or the right of the same person to know just how well an expensive drug works?
The question is at the heart of a furious volley of sometimes hyperbolic consensus statements, calls-to-action and outright diatribes that jammed the fax machines of major AIDS treatment-advocacy groups recently. The faxes were mobilizing opposition to a recently announced proposal for a clinical trial of protease inhibitors. "This is the worst set of feelings I've seen in years," said Dr. Donald Kotler at an ACT UP/New York meeting.
The fury was not aimed at a pharmaceutical giant or a government agency but at New York City-based Treatment Action Group (TAG). The fuss, brewing since ddC was approved last year, exploded after the financial weekly Barron's quoted TAG member Spencer Cox as favoring a slowdown in the rapid pace of drug approval.
The man leading the charge against TAG's proposal is Martin Delaney, founder of the San Francisco-based advocacy and information group Project Inform. Delaney says that protease inhibitors, a new class of anti-HIV drugs with an encouraging street reputation, should be approved as quickly as possible -- even if that means no one will really know how effective they are. "Our point is that the community needs to say that we still believe in the accelerated approval process," he says.
TAG doesn't want researchers to make the same research mistakes made when the marginally effective nucleoside analog drugs AZT, ddI, ddC and d4T were tested. "When do you start AZT? When do you switch to ddI? When do you stop?" asks TAG member Gregg Gonsalves. "No one can answer any of these questions. We shouldn't make the same mistakes with protease inhibitors."
To avoid that, TAG discouraged the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) from inviting Hoffman-La Roche to submit an accelerated approval application for its protease inhibitor, saquinavir. Instead, TAG proposed a "large, simple trial" (LST). Rather than asking a very specific question based on arcane immunological values, like most clinical trials, the LST would test whether adding a protease inhibitor to a regular treatment regimen delays death or AIDS.
TAG's action provoked widespread fear that access to a promising new treatment was being taken away. But Gonsalves claims that Project Inform and ACT UP are misrepresenting the LST concept and the extent to which approval would be slowed. "You don't have to choose between access and information," he says.
Because TAG has the ear of the FDA, Project Inform began circulating a consensus statement to show the agency that there is, in fact, broad-based support for the status quo. "It would be a major step backward to use the concerns about 'how best to use drugs' as a lever to slow accelerated approval," the statement says.
TAG insists its proposal will not dramatically diminish access. "This proposal is not about taking anything away," says TAG member Derek Link. "It's about adding something. We don't just need drugs, we need information."
This is a slow pot that has just come to a boil. The fire was lit when the FDA approved ddC on the condition that Hoffman-La Roche conduct post-approval studies to determine how to use the drug. Tens of millions in sales later, Hoffman-La Roche has not conducted the studies. TAG's LST proposal would force drug companies to spend the money for full FDA approval.
So AIDS activists opposing the TAG proposal have found themselves in the unfamiliar position of defending multi-national drug companies. Perhaps uneasiness about this is one of the reasons the rhetoric has gotten so heated. One unsigned circular passed around an ACT UP/New York meeting in mid-August -- that quickly made its way across the country -- accused TAG members of being a "genocidal, patriarchal elite." Spencer Cox was not amused. "They're either too dumb to discuss the issues or it's a conscious political move. If you hype people into a frenzy over personalities, they never stop to think whether these drugs work."
Many activists are searching for a middle ground in time for a mid-September FDA hearing on the subject.
Meanwhile, Jeff Getty of ACT UP/Golden Gate is angry. "There's a space in my medicine cabinet I thought would be filled by a protease inhibitor by November," he says.
Whether that's good or bad is largely in the eye of the beholder.
TAG, ACT UP in Hot Fax War
Which is more important: The right of a person with AIDS to have quick access to a reasonably safe drug or the right of the same person to know just how well an expensive drug works?


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Former Everton Head of Medicine Mick Rathbone is our guest for the podcast this week, which is probably for the best, as after our six week pre-season break the weight has really piled on!
Baz, as he's known to his friends, has a new book out this month and told us all about his career as player, manager, and physio while sharing stories from Bellefield (and Finch Farm) and also letting us in on a few secrets.
We also take a 30 second look at Everton's transfer dealings this summer, and promise that the usual sections of "internet warrior" and "poster of the week" will return next week when we look ahead to some actual football!


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Inter Club Matches
Inter Club Match News – 28th June 2011
It was a busy time for Inter Club golf in Newlands over the last week. Six teams took to the field with varying degrees of success.
On Sunday the 19th June the Jimmy Bruen squad under the management of Aidan Keogh and Alan Dunning took part in the Metropolitan Qualifying section in Malahide. The team was a mix of youth and experience and although they did not qualify it was a great opportunity to build for the future. Our thanks to Aidan and Alan.
Last Thursday our Junior Foursomes team just came up short in the Qualifying round in
Congratulations to Irish Mixed Foursomes team who won a very tight match on Friday night last with one match going to Newlands on the 20th in
The Metropolitan Qualifying section of the Senior Cup, in which eighteen teams participated, was hosted very successfully by Newlands over the weekend. Hard luck to our lads who just missed out in a titanic struggle against
Congratulations to our Bloom Cup team, the current holders, managed by Sean McEvoy and John O'Sullivan who reached the Semi Finals with a great win over Ballinascorney on Sunday. They won all home matches and achieved the necessary half match away to complete the victory.
Congratulations to our Ladies Junior Cup Team on another successful outing in Malahide against the
Our Junior Cup team are already in the Leinster Finals which will be held at Greenore Golf Club on 23rd & 24th July.
We send our best wishes to all four teams in their forthcoming matches.
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Posted by Sheryl Pattek on November 19, 2012
While I'm not usually a political or news junkie, in looking at the activity of the past few weeks, it's been quite a few weeks! It ranged from the saga of David Petraeus to the absurdity of a famed Nascar driver intentionally crashing a competitor (resulting in fist fights between the crews), brands' use of Twitter during Hurricane Sandy (the good and the not so good), and finally the culmination of BP pleading guilty to 14 criminal charges and paying a record $4.5 billion in fines and penalties resulting from the 2010 oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico. Each of these stories highlights how important it is to have a strategy in place to protect your brand in times of crisis. While every one of these examples is interesting, in this post, I'll concentrate on the insights we can gain from the Petreaus and BP incidents to manage brands effectively through a crisis.
Posted by Sheryl Pattek on November 9, 2012
No matter what your politics, from coast to coast, the country is breathing a sigh of relief that the 2012 election season is finally behind us. Already, quite a bit has been written about what marketers can learn from the election. So, in this post, I won't be talking about the huge dollars spent on advertising, how social, digital, and mobile communication continued to be important touchpoints, the impact of grassroots marketing, or how important effectively communicating the candidate's message or brand affected the outcome. No need for another political pundit in the mix!
While all of these areas have something to teach B2B marketers, what I found the most fascinating is how the use of data, the right data, served as the foundation for Obama's successful re-election. Starting on election night, the analysts on the best-known news shows were already talking about how calm and confident the Obama team members were. And, why were they confident? According to Obama's team, it had the data to back up its march to a second term. The team members believed that data and how they used it was one of the biggest advantages they had over the Romney campaign. Think about that for a minute. Obama, traditionally seen as the image and message guy, ran his re-election campaign based on using the right data effectively. And, it worked.
Posted by Sheryl Pattek on November 8, 2012
Following a 25-year business-to-business (B2B) executive marketing career, I joined Forrester's CMO & Marketing Leadership Team as VP, Principal Analyst, less than a month ago. And, what a month it's been! A whirlwind of meeting other Forrester analysts, attending the Seizing Opportunity From Digital Disruption: A Forum For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals in Chicago, leading a session on rebuilding brands at the CMO Club Summit in San Francisco, and meeting with as many CMOs and marketing leaders as I can.
I'm not sure exactly what I expected my first month to be like, but I will tell you that I've quickly learned that as CMOs, we all share strikingly common concerns that will form the basis of my research at Forrester. When asking what keeps you up at night, the CMOs I've met with so far from a variety of industries confirm my practitioner experience. We are all trying to effectively understand and respond to the significant marketplace and customer changes happening as we enter the always-connected and empowered age of the customer.
With this in mind, over the next year, I will be exploring the following areas that have consistently emerged from my discussions with you:


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At the same time, the elite intelligence agent Marina Houjou witnesses a young boy jumping from a rooftop in a desperate attempt to end his life. He only says "the plan his begun. Nobody can stop it anymore. It will be terror". Marina however discovers a strange tattoo showing a honeybee in the palm of his hand. Before she realizes it, Marina becomes the object of a plot which sees police accusing her of murder and hunting her.
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MarkedGirl: I could of sworn I wasn't imagining myself, but you never know.
RRJR47: take care
I wonder what I'm not supposed to be for real? But, as someone pointed out far more astutely in a comment in my journal, I am a masochist, and I do seek out this pain and suffering while searching for those elusive good conversations. You know, the ones where people speak in complete sentences with some semblance of proper punctuation. I keep hoping someone will strike one up that's good today while browsing through the flash at tattoodles.com.
My owner bought me a subscription to that site today, and told me to pick out some things I like to give him an idea for a neck tattoo for me, which is not one I could possibly do myself. He's got a room booked in the quarter weekend after this, conveniently close to my favorite tattoo shop.
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Stocks: The Start of Something Big?
The 3.46% drop in the S&P 500 on Feb. 27 was eye-catching, but it certainly was not record-setting. In fact, it was only No. 31 on the one-day "hit" parade since 1950. The first trading day's decline after September 11 was bigger, as was the fallout from Long-Term Capital Management's implosion in 1998. Of course, the mother of all single-session slumps occurred on Black Monday, Oct. 19, 1987.
What triggered the major decline? Many things, in our opinion, which essentially related to the prospects for a worldwide economic slowdown. In the U.S., investors had been barraged by a battery of less-than-rosy economic reports and comments, including the current debate on the impact from submerging subprime loans; last week's larger-than-expected rise in the core consumer price index; a warning by former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan about the possibility the U.S. economy could slip into recession by yearend; and a durable-goods orders report that was substantially weaker than anticipated.
Fear of a sharp revision to the preliminary fourth-quarter 2006 real GDP report was realized, as the number was lowered to 2.2% from 3.5%.
Unfazed Fundamental Forecasts
When China was added to our more parochial ponderings, investors began to worry that the legs supporting worldwide economic growth had become less stable than earlier believed. Investors are well aware of the Chinese government's attempts to slow economic growth through interest rate increases and higher bank reserve requirements, but when the Shanghai market tumbled more than 9% on Feb. 27, it became the tipping point for worldwide markets as investors, we think, worried that the engine of global economic growth was shifting into lower gear.
Investors shouldn't be too surprised by the market's sharp decline, however. The S&P 500 index posted positive performances in each of the last eight months (and was on the way to recording its ninth). This string of uninterrupted strong numbers is less common than investors might think. What's more, the S&P 500 had not experienced a 2% one-day decline since May 19, 2003. It enjoyed 949 days of relatively smooth sailing, which was the longest span since 1950. The second-longest streak was 807 days from Aug. 21, 1975 through Oct. 30, 1978.
In addition, Mark Arbeter, S&P's chief technical strategist, warned that the three major U.S. markets, as well as at least eight of the 10 S&P 500 sectors, were in severely overbought conditions, by his analysis, and that divergences were emerging.
The real question now is, how long will this downturn last? In the short term, we believe the answer lies in the technical action of the market. In other words, the market will stop declining when it wants to, and we will take our cues from its near-term fluctuations. In all, Arbeter believes we could see a correction of between 5% and 7% in the S&P 500.
Abounding Opportunities?
Longer term, however, S&P Equity Strategy believes the underpinnings for equity price advances remain intact. Our yearend forecast for the S&P 500 remains at 1,510, for an expected 6.5% price gain from 2006's closing price of 1,418.30. S&P Economics is calling for a 2.4% advance in U.S. GDP this year, representing a healthy component of the 3.3% growth anticipated in worldwide GDP. S&P equity analysts are still projecting an 8% rise in S&&P 500 operating earnings during 2007, and as a result of the recent decline in prices, valuations are even more attractive than before, in our opinion.
Based on trailing 12-month earnings, the S&P 500 is currently trading at a 19% discount to the average price-to-earnings ratio since operating earnings were first captured by S&P. The p-e on projected 2007 earnings now stands at 14.8. From an "as reported" standpoint, the trailing p-e is at a 25% discount to the average since 1988 and the forward p-e is 30 basis points away from the average trailing p-e of 15.7 since 1935.
One man's trash is another man's treasure.
In order to unearth some treasures, we have to sift through those sectors and subindustries that were trashed in the recent carnage. Even though all 10 sectors within the S&P Composite 1,500 index (consisting of the S&P 500, S&P MidCap 400, and S&P SmallCap 600 indices) posted declines, the levels of retreat were fairly uniform. Decreases ranged from –2.7% for the health-care sector to –4.2% for the materials group.
Sifting Through the Wreckage
In addition, all 138 subindustry indices posted declines on the day, from –1.5% for brewers ("When the going gets tough, the tough go eating, smoking, and drinking!") to –6.8% for steel companies.
So, which industries and companies will likely recover the most? Let the sifting begin. The accompanying table lists the 10 subindustry indexes that were hit hardest on Feb. 27, but have positive 12-month forward fundamental outlooks by S&P analysts, as well as component companies with either 5 STARS (strong buy) or 4 STARS (buy) recommendations from S&P analysts.
While the long-anticipated and much-needed correction may be at hand, S&P believes that once the dust settles, a clearer array of buying opportunities may emerge.
|S&P 1,500 Subindustry
|Favored component companies
|Apparel, Accessories & Luxury Goods
|Coach (COH; 5 STARS), Quiksilver (ZQK; 5 STARS)
|Asset Mgmt. & Custody Banks
|Franklin Resources (BEN; 5 STARS)
|Broadcasting & Cable TV
|Comcast (CMCSA; 4 STARS)
|Commercial Printing
|R.R. Donnelly (RRD; 4 STARS)
|Computer Storage & Peripherals
|Western Digital (WDC; 5 STARS)
|Newmont Mining (NEM; 4 STARS)
|Human Resource & Employ. Svcs.
|Robert Half Intl. (RHI; 5 STARS)
|Industrial REITS
|AMB Property (AMB; 4 STARS)
|Integrated Oil & Gas
|Exxon Mobil (XOM; 5 STARS), Chevron (CVX; 4 STARS)
|Investment Banking & Brokerage
|E*Trade Finl. (ETFC; 5 STARS), Goldman Sachs (GS; 5 STARS), Lehman Bros. (LEH; 5 STARS), Merrill Lynch (MER; 5 STARS)


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If you've been reading my column, you know that I've got a thing for classic muscle cars. I dream about 'em, I cruise the classifieds for 'em, and I've got one in my own garage.
But with Bike Week 2013 around the corner, let me tell you that I'm also a motorcycle guy. Big time.
Shoot, every gearhead I know loves bikes, and let me tell you why: there's just nothing else on earth as fast and fun as a motorcycle.
Some of you young guns haven't been around long enough to remember this, but there was a time when most cars were slow as molasses. In particular, the 1970s were a lost decade for speed. The OPEC embargo sent gas prices through the roof, car companies responded by strangling their engines' output, and the result was serious disappointment for speed demons like me.
But guess what: even the fastest motorcycles are incredibly fuel-efficient, so they kept right on being fast.
And when I say "fast," I mean faster than the fastest cars.
Let me give you an example: I had a 1974 Kawasaki H2 Mach IV, which was known as "The Widowmaker" because let's just say its chassis wasn't up to the standards of its motor. But what a motor! It made 74 horsepower, which was a whole lot for a bike that barely weighed 400 pounds. I could turn 12-second quarter miles all day on that thing. Not even the strongest muscle cars could touch me, even the ones that were built before OPEC got stingy in 1973.
Of course, it's not only the speed that seduces you; it's the wind in your hair, the sense of absolute freedom as you're running through the gears and leaving everyone and everything in your dust. I've never ridden a horse, but I always thought of motorcycles as like horses—it's just you and what's underneath you, and as long as you both stay upright, there's no better feeling in the world.
I could keep going like this all day, but let me bring it back to Bike Week 2013. I can't make it this year, but if I could, I'd be rolling in on my 17-years-new Ducati 916, which is the best motorcycle ever made, if I do say so myself, and which I plan to be buried with when that day comes. I just put on a fresh set of Ferodo brake pads – only the best for my baby – and she stops on the proverbial dime, better than the day I met her. So when all you Bike Weekers are having fun in the sun down there, I'll be with you in spirit. Ride with pride, and be safe out there.
By the way, I've prevailed on the good folks here at Advance Auto Parts to stock some Ferodo brake pads of their own, and they've got some great deals right now. And, I promise they'll hook you up with the right pads for your ride.
Editor's note: If you're heading out to Bike Week, be sure to check out some of the great events in store!


text: This one play changed a lot in recent Cowboys history. Not only did it obviously end an incredible career, I also firmly believed this injury, and the domino effect of receiver injuries afterwards, effectively got Chan Gailey fired. You could even go further back that season and say it all started with McKnight tearing up his knee in that late July scrimmage. Had that not happened, at least he and Rocket could have given it a go as the starting receivers. They were headed to 4-0 in that game, and I really believed the way Aikman was getting comfortable in Chan's offense during his second season, we would have ended up in an NFC Championship Game showdown with the Rams.


text: lets be honest you cant make a franchise out of switching from old QB to old QB. we need to get a young QB soon. even though i havent seen much of him Bruce Grawboski seems like a pretty good qb. he has good accuracy completing 70+% of his passes two years in a row. omar jacobs is a pretty good prospect too. had a down year this year but was top 10 talent just last year. if we could get one of these two in the third or fourth round i'd be pretty happy. what do everyone else think?


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Tuesday, August 12, 2003
Carnegie Mellon Researchers Receive $1.12 Million Grant To Develop a New Process for Growing Bone in Accident Victims
PITTSBURGH—Carnegie Mellon University's Jeffrey Hollinger and his research team will receive $1.12 million over the next four years from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop a new therapy for regenerating bone.
Bone, often called the structural steel and reinforced concrete of the human body, supports the body the way a steel framework supports a skyscraper, and it protects its vital organs the way a cast-concrete roof protects its building occupants. "Unfortunately, bone loss is an unavoidable consequence of aging, osteoporosis and many traumatic accidents," Hollinger said.
To address the challenges of safe and effective therapy to restore form and function to deficient bone architecture, Hollinger's research team at Carnegie Mellon's Bone Tissue Engineering Center has developed an innovative therapy for growing bone by inserting a non-viral gene into the body to induce cells to grow bone.
"We are injecting the NTF gene into a site where bone is deficient via a synthetic hydro-gel made from a hyaluronic acid-based polymer," Hollinger said. "The hydro-gel/NTF is non-immunogenic and is designed to restore form and function to bone deficiencies."
Some of the first pre-clinical trials will involve growing bone in the jaw, said Hollinger. And according to transportation officials, about 10 percent of vehicle accident injuries involve the jaw and the flat bones in the face. "Restoring periodontal bone loss is a high priority for our team, and Bruce Doll, head of the Department of Periodontology at the University of Pittsburgh, is leading this challenge," Hollinger said.
Through ever-improving surgical techniques, the replacement of bone has been done via bone grafting either from the patient's own body or from animal (usually cow) bone. But because the human body is inclined to reject most Œnon-self' grafts, Hollinger's synthetic approach to growing bone will eliminate immune rejections. His research team includes Doll at the University of Pittsburgh's Dental School and Carnegie Mellon Bone Tissue Engineering Center scientists Yunhua Hu and Huihua Fu, the two scientists who perfected the NTF-hydrogel therapy, and whose work was the foundation for the NIH grant.
In addition to growing bone for injuries to the jaw, Hollinger's research team plans to use the new bone regeneration process to treat osteoporotic fractures, and in other applications in other parts of the body including the spine, pelvis and all powerful thigh bone — about 20 inches long and more than an inch across at the midshaft. A mature body contains more than 600 muscles and 206 bones, not counting the tiny seasmoid bones — like sesame seeds — embedded in the tendons of the thumb, big toe and other pressure points.
"After blood, bone is the most frequently transplanted tissue. Current therapies for bone grafting fall short of the mark. The Bone Tissue Engineering Center is developing exciting new bone theraputics that will offer surgeons and their patients much better options. And the NTF/injectable hydrogel is one such example therapy from the Carnegie Mellon-Pitt team," Hollinger said.
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(500) Days of Summer
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(500) Days of Summer
Rating & Content Info
Why is (500) Days of Summer rated PG-13? (500) Days of Summer is rated PG-13 by the MPAA for sexual material and language.
A mans romantic obsession with a woman he meets at work leads to frequent sexual rendezvouses, however we do not see any detailed sexual activity. Discussions with friends are somewhat more verbally explicit. Language consists of one sexual expletive, several scatological and mild profanities along with a crude term for female anatomy. A male anatomical term is repeatedly shouted out a in a park where children are present. Sexual orientation issues are discussed, and a woman lists her past hetero and homosexual relationships. Violence is limited to two men exchanging a single punch each in a bar, and a man slapping another man within a comedic context. Alcohol use is frequently portrayed in social settings. In several scenes characters drink heavily prior to and after engaging in stressful situations.
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|British Columbia
|Coarse and Sexual Language.
|Language May Offend.
|Mature Theme, Sexual Content.
|Mature Theme, Language May Offend.
|Not recommended for young children.
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Cast and Crew
(500) Days of Summer is directed by and stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Zooey Deschanel.
Home Video
The most recent home video release of (500) Days of Summer movie is December 22, 2009. Here are some details…
Release Date: 22 December 2009
(500) Days of Summer on Blu-ray comes with the following bonus materials:
- Feature commentary with Director Marc Webb, Writer Michael Weber, Co-Writer Scott Neustadter and Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt
- Lost Days of Summer (deleted and extended scenes with optional commentary).
- Featurettes: Not A Love Story (the making of (500) Days of Summer), Summer At Sundance
- Audition Tapes (with optional commentary by Director Marc Webb): Geoffrey Arend (McKenzie) and Matthew Gray Gubler (Paul).
- Summer Storyboards.
- Bank Dance (directed by Marc Webb).
- Means Cinemash: Sid and Nancy/(500) Days of Summer.
- Music Video: Sweet Disposition by Temper Trap.
- Six Conversations With Zooey and Joseph.
- Filmmaking Specials.
- Digital Copy of (500) Days of Summer.
(500) Days of Summer on DVD offers the following extras:
- Feature commentary with Director Marc Webb, Writer Michael Weber, Co-Writer Scott Neustadter and Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt
- Lost Days of Summer (deleted and extended scenes with optional commentary).