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ACE has added some really awesome abilities to the Arma 2 AI (such as firing RPGs at helicopters). It seems a natural skill for them would be to use smoke grenades, but they do not.
Thankfully smoke nades actually block AI vision (thanks again to ACE) making them actually useful in SP. I think it would be a really great feature if the AI had the ability to autonomously throw smoke grenades.
The ability has already sort of been done by VFAI: It will cause units to throw smokeshells whenever they're hit. They will try to throw smoke into the direction of the gunner to block his view.
(This is not a request for adding a certain addon or copying that function exactly, it's just an example.) I feel this would add a lot to the game and improve the AI even more.
Updated by JDMT over 7 years ago
Make them fire smoke grenades from tanks, etc too
Updated by stubs over 7 years ago
It would be great to have parameters such as...
1. throw smoke if noticed by enemy and x(little) amount of cover is within x radius.
2. throw smoke if being suppressed.
3. throw smoke if being fired on by sniper.
4. throw smoke if courage/morale is low or retreating.
5. throw smoke if spotted by armour and has little or no AT weapons avaliable.
Updated by rocko over 7 years ago
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BIS should solve this not us.
Updated by KingHomer over 7 years ago
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Planned (Needs Contributors))
If BIS should solve it, we need no ticket here but in the CIT.
Updated by AnimalMother92 over 7 years ago
Can this be cleaned up (of ACE references) and moved to CIT, or should I make a new ticket over in CIT myself?


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Just a quick update today that came out of some coaching I've been doing with a team that's been relatively successful with agile at scale. They've had challenges around recording architectural and design decisions. What should they keep and how should they record it. There are some that would say that all you need is the code and forget recording anything outside of the code. There are others that believe that every aspect of an application should be described separately to the code.

The answer I've seen work best for large projects and or product development is somewhere in between the two.

My experience is that you need the following:-

Enough described to be useful and no more

A low cost of recording this knowledge

The ability to have the frequently asked questions answered

Here's what I've found works in these areas:-

Enough described to be useful and no more

To address the first point, having an artefact that records the architecture of the system works well. A good architectural record is like a good architecture. It has enough to fulfil it's purpose and no more and follows the architectural principle of form follows function.

Now I've seen some completely useless architectural documents and same can obviously occur with recorded presentations. If the content is poor it doesn't matter how it's recorded it's equally useless. So what should be in the architectural recording. Well there's some standards about what should be described. I'm still a fan of Philip Krutchen's 4+1 view, it's simple without being simplistic, some have a added a data view. However, the way you describe it is your call. Just keep it simple.

A low cost cost of recording this knowledge

So given that it's form should be low cost and allow us to easily consume what the key elements of the system are, in the absence of direct access to key team members, I've seen one approach work really well. Creating a video recording of the lead architect presenting the key architectural elements to the team.

These session is recorded using a video camera (smartphones are good enough now) in front of a live audience that is made up of the team, ideally in a theatre style conference room using whiteboards, modelling tools with a data projector or smart whiteboards. If you have a remote audience then smart whiteboards work and modelling tools will work better. I've used Papershow pretty successfully if you can't stretch to smart whiteboard. Use a tripod even if you're only using a smartphone, it makes the whole thing look more professional. I've used the glifplus with an iPhone.

The ability to have the frequently asked questions answered

Ideally the audience for the session will have some new team members to ask the "getting started" questions. The key things are being able to record the session as a video and having the audience there asking questions of the architect that are answered.

The question and answer part of the presentations should cover the answers to the typical questions a team has about an architecture, such as; "How do we handle security at the field level?" or "If the application falls over what does a recovery look like to the users?" This may mean some scripting if the team has already some of these things before the session.

In my experience of joining projects or having others join projects I've been leading, these videos become one of the most used artefacts for new joiners.

But we outsource

It works equally well with outsource relationships where either the delivery partner is taking on an application maintenance contract and you're providing the architectural video artefact or you're receiving a video back after some architectural changes or for a new application delivery project.

Summary

Video architecture artefacts are relatively quick and low cost to re-record, easy to publish and access using the web and collaboration tooling. These video recordings become key artefacts that new team members or those maintaining the application will use.

 Just a quick update today that came out of some coaching I've been doing with a team that's been relatively successful with agile at scale. They've had challenges around recording architectural and design decisions. What should they keep and how should they... 0 0 2068 urn:lsid:ibm.com:blogs:entries-84bf5a16-ca80-4a15-a8f3-2270ca32d709 Big Agile 2013-12-12T11:45:35-05:00 urn:lsid:ibm.com:blogs:entry-948d10d1-e228-4f56-8e2c-6eab6cf5fa3f The importance of (agile) architecture and design jl.marechaux 060001NWA6 active false Entradas de Comentários application/atom+xml;type=entry Curtir true 2011-12-14T08:53:24-05:00 2012-01-18T14:02:42-05:00 Architectural analysis is a set of activities to build and improve the software architecture of a system. When conducted iteratively, this architectural thinking helps uncover and address issues during software development without requiring significant up-front architectural effort. Architectural analysis activities are crucial for every software-intensive system.
Despite what dogmatic agile development coaches might say, I believe that there is no successful software development without architectural analysis.

I had a strange conversation with an IT professional last week. To preserve his anonymity, let's call him Oleg.

JL (that's me): Hey Oleg, nice to see you ! How is it going?
Oleg: Pretty well, JL. I joined a new project two months ago. It's an agile team and I like it very much.
JL: Glad to hear that. What kind of project is it?
Oleg: We are developing a new solution to enrich our existing internet banking application. Our new component will integrate services from several departments and even business partners.
JL: Sounds like an interesting challenge. Are you working on the architecture of this new solution?
Oleg: No, we don't do architecture, we are an agile team.
JL: ??!!?........ (speechless....)
Oleg: We focus on developing a set of services to enable the integration.
JL: Ok, I understand that your primary objective is to deliver working software but integration of services from different sources must not be easy. How do you define the structure of your component? How do you identify the different services needed? How to you mitigate risks?
Oleg: Well, it took two weeks before the project really started. Just the time to obtain the buy-in from the business sponsor and assemble the whole team. It was a great opportunity for me and some colleagues to start thinking about our new project. We addressed some of these questions at this time.
JL: I see... so you pictured the technical solution during the project warm-up. And how are you evolving your architecture during your sprints?
Oleg: Well, as I told you, it's an agile team. We do test-driven development and refactoring all the time, but we don't waste time on architecture.
JL: You mean that because you are an agile team, then you don't...THINK?
Oleg: Don't get me wrong. I work with brilliant people and we have brainstorming sessions all the time.
JL: Ok, so you are doing architectural activities, right?
Oleg: Well yes, but the client does not want to pay for architecture. So we don't really publicize this. We keep it secret in our war room and we bill our time on development tasks.
JL: I see. Architecture is really part of development sprints anyway, so you bill your time at the right place. Just curious, are you doing modeling at all?.
Oleg: Of course we do, because a picture is worth a thousand words. It helps us a lot during our brainstorming sessions. And we have a lot of short brainstorming sessions during the sprints to tackle new technical challenges uncovered. But again, this is not something we expose too much as the client does not pay for diagrams.

So what did Oleg tell me exactly? He stated that on his project, team members are not doing architecture because they are following an agile process. But then he explained that before their first development sprint, they spent some time to envision the architecture.
Oleg also told me that his team is not officially doing architecture during sprints. But he also confessed that they are hiding to create models, as if it is some sort of perversion. Their models or sketches are considered helpful for their just-in-time modeling sessions during sprints. It is how they refine the architecture of their software-intensive system over time.
So the good news is that Oleg's team is thinking about the new solution that they are developing (the bad news is that they seem ashamed of their architectural work).
Of course, you can not deliver a system if you keep thinking about it forever. Architectural work must be integrated to the development lifecycle. Architecture is intentional because you make deliberate decisions based on what you know when you start a project.
Architecture is also emergent because you always uncover new technical challenges during development sprints. Architectural analysis is a set of activities to build and improve the software architecture of a system. When conducted iteratively, this architectural thinking helps uncover and address issues during software development without requiring significant... 0 0 2934 urn:lsid:ibm.com:blogs:entries-8c054795-1eba-4290-80af-3c3e2ab27479 Pragmatic Architecture, DevOps, and Cloud Computing 2017-01-01T13:34:32-05:00 urn:lsid:ibm.com:blogs:entry-b254ed2d-86e0-4805-b2a5-acc4d4646eff Looking backwards learning forwards: There's one plan or no plan TonyGrout 28000000S8 active false Entradas de Comentários application/atom+xml;type=entry Curtir true 2011-11-16T16:35:57-05:00 2012-01-16T06:33:55-05:00
This is the first in a series off entries based on harvested lessons from agile teams I'm working with. Some of the findings are common sense but so many times common sense is not commonly applied. Hope you enjoy the series.

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At a recent retrospective one of the teams challenged the value of the planning tool being used. The product release programme was using Rational Team Concert for work item management and planning across the global teams. It was being used in fairly typical way showing all the epics and user stories by product area split into a product backlog and those for the current sprint. However due to a misunderstanding, some of the technical teams had a separate plan called their "bubble chart". This chart showed all of the stories they had left to do, broken down by months, they were told in agile you couldn't do this. Some but not all of these items were in the official plan. Then there were was considerable technical debt from the previous release to dig out plus defects to fix from this release. None of this additional work was in the official Rational Team Concert. Leaving it invisible to the teams and senior management and killing any chance of predictability.

With this setup there was no way of finding out, in one place, where the projects were and then rolling that up to where the product release was. Without all of the information the planning tool was becoming a burden that added no perceived value to the teams.

Many teams I work with still have more than one plan either knowingly or unknowingly. They have a formal plan that shows the project managers view of the tasks they believe are left to complete. The developers then have a list of additional work they need to do as a group and then individuals have their "to do" lists on top of that. Ditto for the testers and so on for the other roles. In reality the "to do" lists are the real plan that we're working to, like it or not. That's the work the team will actually do.

Ironically the management group were equally frustrated because they were constantly chasing the team to update RTC and didn't understand why they weren't. They didn't know about the other plans, the real plans, the "bubble chart" and "To Do" lists. The result was that effort was being wasted and any level predictability was missing .

From this retrospective the key things the team did was to get management to accept their "bubble chart" into the main plan with all of it's "extra" activities, so that there was now only one plan.

The other key thing was to explore how to simplify the configuration of Rational Team Concert so that it's as quick enough to be used as a "To Do" list tool.

A programme or project must have only one plan. The plan can be at many levels of detail but it should contains all the work needed to be done at the level of accuracy and precision appropriate for where the project is and for as far ahead as it's possible to plan. The plan should be built up from the individuals "to do" lists. The plan must be visible to the whole team.

So in summary what it is typically missing:-

Backlog work items with sizing estimates for the release

Defects

Developers "To Do" lists some of these related to work items but some were work the developers wanted to do (it's also easier to identify potential over-engineering if there's only one plan)

Non-development tasks including setting up of test environments

A plan that doesn't include all the effort required to complete the project has little value to anyone.

 This is the first in a series off entries based on harvested lessons from agile teams I'm working with. Some of the findings are common sense but so many times common sense is not commonly applied. Hope you enjoy the series. Situation At a recent... 0 0 2160 urn:lsid:ibm.com:blogs:entries-84bf5a16-ca80-4a15-a8f3-2270ca32d709 Big Agile 2013-12-12T11:45:35-05:00 urn:lsid:ibm.com:blogs:entry-e513c332-5b5a-4e02-b04a-f136f6b27651 Webcast - Agile in a regulatory environment ScottAmbler 120000HESD active false Entradas de Comentários Curtir true 2011-11-04T15:39:36-04:00 2012-01-23T08:51:23-05:00 On Nov 16 2011, Kim Werner, Agile Coach from ATSC and Liz Parnell, Solution Design Manager from Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina (BCBSNC), gave a webcast sharing their experiences regarding how BCBSNC adopted a few Agile techniques, with the help of some good coaching, and adopted some IBM Rational Jazz tools (Rational Team Concert and Rational Requirements Composer) to reduce time to market and lower development costs. BCBCNC works in the highly-regulated healthcare industry, so faced a few interesting constraints when adopting agile.

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Back in my life, and back in my heart. For a long time she has been absent, and her void was filled by a certain cheeky American treasure hunter going by the name of Nathan Drake. But now Lara has burst back in, guns blazing (well, arrows first, guns come later) and has since happily reclaimed her place as one of my favourite gaming characters.
The Tomb Raider reboot is an excellent game, and I'm enjoying it far more than I thought I would. I last dabbled with Lara in Tomb Raider: Underworld, and while that game was OK, it wasn't a patch on any of the Uncharted series. I didn't really care for the characters, and not knowing much of the previous games' backstory (my last lot of tomb raiding came in the shape of Chronicles on the PC), I just couldn't get as involved with it as I had with Drake.
But with Tomb Raider, I'm hooked. Hooked, attached, involved and engaged. I'm rooting for Lara, I care for her, and I want her to survive and conquer this Lost-like island that's she's found herself stranded on in her latest outing. I think what really works for this game is the open world element. You certainly do get the feeling of being stranded out there, and I'm enjoying being able to look around and re-visit areas before moving on to the next section of the story – something you're not able to do in Uncharted.
But the game also doesn't leave you totally out there on your own. The story moves along at a good pace, and guides you through the terrain with gentle encouragement. It keeps you wanting to know what exactly is happening on that crazy island – although, not wanting to blow my own trumpet or anything, I think I've already figured that out a quarter of the way through the game. There are also some good 'shock' elements to the storyline, such as unexpected deaths and the like, in the beautifully rendered cutscenes.
The gameplay also 'feels' good. Lara's animation is a lot more fluid, and feels 'lighter' than previous incarnations. She's fast and agile, and responds well to the controls. She's got some new moves too (new to me at least), like throwing dirt in an enemy's eye to temporarily blind them, or using her axe to scale rocky walls.
And then there's her weapons. Her bow is surprisingly great, and can be used for a variety of functions. The guns also feel more sturdy, and seem to offer a higher degree of control than I've experienced in other Tomb Raider games (and kind of reminds me of Uncharted a little). Having the ability to upgrade Lara's weapons and skills gives the game a more inclusive feel as well – something you don't get with Uncharted.
The graphics are pretty damn amazing, and while I was initially shocked to see what they'd done to my beloved Lara (giving her a facelift and a breast reduction – this new Lara is only 21, after all, and so they had to de-age her somewhat), this newer, younger Lara has certainly grown on me. The violence and gore is satisfyingly realistic, and the environments are of cinematic quality.
My only gripe about the game (so far) is the voice acting. The new Lara sounds a little bit too un-posh for me, and *gasp*, slightly American? And also, she's lacking any real drama in her voice. She's being knocked out by pirates, tied up and dropped onto spikes, falling down cliff faces and being almost devoured by wolves, and all she can muster after these pant-wetting and death-defying stunts is a feeble 'God, that was close'.
It just doesn't quite do her justice.
Overall I was massively impressed with this game, and can't wait to see where it goes. It really is an excellent origin story, and it does an excellent job of understanding what shapes Lara and made her into the kick-ass Tomb Raider she was when we first met her. I can't wait to get to the end of this adventure, and hope the developers carry it on in such fine style soon. Watch out Drake, you've got some competition.
(For the record, there is a multiplayer offering included with the lengthy singleplayer campaign, but it's not very good anyway.)
*First published on Andy Hemphill's blog, which you can find after the jump
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Tomb raider is probably my favorite franchise of all time. The games just seem to suck you in and absorb you. I can't wait to try this one.


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A nation whose sovereignty has been stolen has no rights that the big powers – or their scientists – are bound to respect. American zoogeographers recently snatched the rarest of Haitian reptiles, with impunity. "The animals collected on this expedition were endangered animals and possibly the last individuals of their kind." Had the shoe been on the other foot, it would have represented an international crime, since "such comportment by scientists is criminal and would be illegal in the United States."
The Americans Take What They Want in Haiti – Even Near-Extinct Lizards
by Dady Chery
This article previously appeared on Dady Chery's web site.
"There was no conceivable scientific justification for removing the endangered lizard."
More frog species live in Haiti than anywhere else in the Caribbean. This broad speciation partly resulted from the isolation of animal populations by the mountainous landscape. Many species of the small lizard anole also make Haiti their home. These animals have attracted the attention of well-meaning conservationists as well as soulless seekers of fame.
At the end of July, an expeditionary team withdrew over 100 animals from an isolated patch of virgin forest in the mountains of Haiti's Tiburon peninsula. The team included no Haitians. It was led by Pennsylvania State University biologist Blair Hedges, who brought along one of his graduate students, Philadelphia journalist Faye Flam, Dominican free-lance photographer-naturalist Miguel Landestoy, a videographer, and a botanist with some knowledge of Haitian Créole.[1]
The group was flown by helicopter to a remote Haitian forest at an altitude of about 1800 meters where they removed as many lizards and frogs as they could find from a chilly patch of woods that the animals had made their sanctuary.
The journalist reports that:
"Near the end of the trip, the team began searching in a region that was lower and much hotter, and the blistering sun was threatening the whole collection of rare frogs and lizards. With my own skin beginning to burn, I volunteered to take the more than 100 animals back by helicopter to the island of La Vache, off the south coast of Haiti, where there was an air conditioned hotel room waiting for them. These high-altitude creatures are adapted to cool temperatures and can die if exposed to more than a minute or so of harsh daytime sun….
"Though some will inevitably die, the goal was to get them through the trip and back to Pennsylvania alive, where they can be studied and catalogued. Every time I checked, the frogs and lizards were stirring. By luck, most got through the night, and are now in Port-au-Prince awaiting their first and only trip to the United States!"
What sorts of scientists would show up for a project like this without a cooler, and then abandon their samples of rare and endangered animals to the heat, or to a journalist, casually expecting some of the animals to die?
"Suppose a group of Haitians were to decide to go, say, on a helicopter trip to the Ozark Mountains to collect endangered animals because the Ozarks were being destroyed by mountaintop removal."
From the footage at about 9 minutes into the video it is evident that at least one of the anole lizards was quite furious about being plucked away from the tree fern where he was sleeping on a moonless night. Justifiably so. This animal happened to be Anolis darlingtoni: the rarest lizard in Haiti and the one in the most immediate danger of extinction. It is also given the common name "darlingtoni lizard," though this animal surely has a Haitian name. In characteristic colonial style, it was renamed after U.S. zoogeographer Philip Darlington who catalogued it in the 1930s.
Returning to our expedition. Suppose a group of Haitians were to decide to go, say, on a helicopter trip to the Ozark Mountains to collect endangered animals because the Ozarks were being destroyed by mountaintop removal. And let us suppose further that this group of Haitians bagged 100 animals or so — all rare, some never before reported, others nearly extinct — and tried to fly them all to Haiti. What do you think would happen?
It turns out that Blair Hedges, the scientist who headed the Penn State team had removed the same species of lizard from another region of Haiti. Anolis darlingtoni has not been seen there since. Here is how he got his previous quarry and what happened to it [3]:
"…we collected on the slopes of the Massif de la Hotte south of Castillon. On the evenings of the 5th and 9th of November [1984], at an elevation of 1360 m, we found Anolis darlingtoni in a one-hectare patch of disturbed forest….sleeping on vegetation about 1-4 m above the ground. Three juveniles (two were collected) were found sleeping vertically on the tips of dead tree fern branches (l-4 m high) while three adults were found sleeping horizontally on limbs of small trees low (1 m) to the ground.
"Two of the three adults (all males) were deposited in the United States National Museum and the third (skeletonized) was deposited in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. The two juveniles were used in biochemical analyses and are in the frozen tissue collection of the junior author.
In other words, all the collected animals were killed, although before that expedition the animals were considered extinct and had not been seen for 50 years."[4]
"All the collected animals were killed, although before that expedition the animals were considered extinct and had not been seen for 50 years."
About the current expedition, the journalist writes further:
"Hedges estimates they've picked up about 33 unique species here – several of them never seen before – living proof that if deforestation doesn't stop in Haiti, we will never know the full extent of the country's loss."
Sounds kind of noble, doesn't it?
In addition to Anolis darlingtoni, rare animals noted in the video include:
*La haute glanded frog,
*Mozart's frog,
*The Hispaniolan lesser racer, and
*The Macaya dusky frog (exceptionally rare)
Wouldn't it be better to help stop Haiti's loss instead of merely monitoring it? Had these scientists felt any motivation to stem this loss, the logical next step would have been to collect extensive videotape footage of the animals in their natural habitat, leave the animals alone, and use the videos to advocate for official protection of the mountain sanctuary on their behalf. But this is not what these scientists did.
Instead, they took the animals to a laboratory at Penn State to be ground up and studied. Here's how they justified these actions:
"Bringing specimens to the lab is critical for several reasons. DNA sequences are needed for correct identifications. Morphological analyses are needed to describe new species, and cryo-banked cells will keep species alive in case they go extinct in the wild."
In other words, Hedges is claiming that it is necessary to bring an animal to the lab to look at it carefully, to kill the animal and extract its DNA to identify it correctly, and to freeze its cells to "keep [the] species alive." This is quite misleading, of course. A far superior way to preserve an animal's genetic material is by treating him with respect and letting him live out his sexual life. In any case, the same species had already been frozen in 1984, and such deep-frozen specimens should last indefinitely. And so there was no conceivable scientific justification for removing the endangered lizard.
A bit later, the video notes, in the continuing calm tone of the readers of devastating side effects of drugs in U.S. television advertisements, that the Macaya dusky frog was "later found to be genetically distinct from the Macaya populations." Meaning that the little frog that we saw being manhandled in the video is quite dead now, and its DNA has been extracted and studied.
Hedges is not the only westerner who has chased after Haitian frogs and lizards. Other collectors of these animals have claimed that they were meant for captive-breeding programs, but I have yet to find such a program. In fact, some of these individuals could be adventurers who trade in endangered animals or fools who try to keep the animals as pets.
"Wouldn't it be better to help stop Haiti's loss instead of merely monitoring it?"
Whatever the motives of this Penn State team, one thing we know for sure is that the animals collected on this expedition were endangered animals and possibly the last individuals of their kind.
Yes, deforestation is advancing in Haiti. I make no excuses for us Haitians in this regard, though I do feel obliged to note that the world loses 16 million acres of forest each year, and deforestation is a problem for the entire globe, including the U.S. [5]
The Haitian frogs and lizards were hunted in their forest sanctuary: one requiring a tortuous journey by helicopter and picked for its inaccessibility to humans. The animals were spirited away to a U.S. laboratory to be ground up and exploited for their DNAs.
Such comportment by scientists is criminal and would be illegal in the United States. It brings to mind the Christian missionaries who kidnapped 33 Haitian children immediately after the earthquake. Like the missionaries, these U.S. scientists feel that while in Haiti they are under no legal or ethical guidelines. In fact they were so proud of their deeds that they publicized them in an article[1] and a video.
Obviously, their overarching interest is to publish scientific papers that move their careers along. But DNA sequencing, which is what these scientists evidently do best, is actually quite boring and undemanding. Scientific papers on DNA sequencing do not make careers, unless one sequences the DNA of the cholera that infected Haiti or something of the sort. In other words, if the owner of the DNA is exciting, then one can instantly turn an otherwise boring sequencing project into a "hot" career-building enterprise.
"This summer's expedition to the peninsula by a rival Penn State team to rediscover this elusive animal might have been motivated merely by a desire for one-upmanship."
As it happens, lizards are a hot scientific topic right now. The first genome (all the DNA that makes up the genetic material) sequence for a reptile was published three months ago, and it was the sequence of the green anole (Anolis carolinensis) genome.[2] The justification offered by a team at Harvard for this project was that there was a connection to human health because of
"the anole split brain and the fact that female anoles alternate ovaries in producing eggs, just like one other group of vertebrates."
The project resulted in a huge grant to the Harvard group, which had searched Haiti's Tiburon peninsula for Anolis darlingtoni in summer 2009 and failed to find it. And so this summer's expedition to the peninsula by a rival Penn State team to rediscover this elusive animal might have been motivated merely by a desire for one-upmanship.
Scientific research and competition are well and good, but the U.S. scientific establishment ought to pay more attention to the ways scientists are collecting their biological materials for genome sequencing projects these days.
Back in the late 19th century, the likes of Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace, and leagues of lesser-known scientists and adventurers, undertook long voyages after which they returned from the New World with boatloads of animals preserved by pickling or taxidermy for stocking the British natural history museums. The sale of rare beetles was so lucrative that many people made their living from it, and the stocks of the animals collected in those times were so vast that, even after more than 140 years, only a minor fraction have ever been exhibited. We, of more enlightened times have, of course, come to consider this mode of study as being no longer an acceptable way to treat animals.
Have you ever wondered how many species of birds and beetles the 19th-century scientist adventurers eradicated? I have.
In a sort of scientific neocolonialism, we find a 21st-century group from the U.S. casually removing and destroying rare animals from places they consider to be their backyard.
The video's concluding remark is:
"Without protection, they will all disappear soon."
Without protection against whom?
Dady Chery grew up at the heart of an extended working-class family in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. She emigrated to New York when she was fourteen and since then has traveled throughout the world and lived in Europe and several North American cities. She writes in English, French, and her native Créole. She holds a doctorate. She can be contacted at dc(at)dadychery.org.
1. Penn State team finds a long-lost lizard in Haiti
2. How the green anole was selected to be the first reptile genome sequenced
3. Caribbean Journal of Science, Vol. 27, No. 1-2, 90-93, 1991.
4. A Day of Highs and Lows in Haiti
5. Global deforestation.


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Desperate government attempts to stimulate the economy have been criticised as "expensive experiments" by an influential group of MPs.
The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) said the Treasury did not seem to understand the risks and benefits of £375 billion of quantitative easing (QE), while its flagship lending guarantee scheme had failed.
The department was also rebuked for not getting a grip on spending across Whitehall, and "impenetrable" book-keeping.
The verdict was delivered in the cross-party committee's report into the Treasury's performance in the last financial year.
The MPs noted that it had managed to cut the public purse's exposure to bank guarantee schemes in the wake of the credit crunch, and was doing better at holding on to key staff.
However, the Government was still facing a £34 billion loss on shares in RBS and Lloyds, and there were doubts as to whether the department had "sufficient capacity and skills" to respond to any future banking crisis.
Plans for more job cuts and high turnover of personnel threatened its "ability to effectively control the risks it is managing on behalf of the taxpayer".
The committee expressed concern that the Treasury had a "limited understanding" of its role in QE, and pointed out that the National Loan Guarantee Scheme - intended to help firms access cheaper lending - had only achieved 15% of planned take-up.
The initiative had now been superseded by the Bank of England's more generous Funding for Lending scheme.
"The Treasury has limited understanding of its role in these measures. It has not set out its goals and intended outcomes, and it has limited management information to help it monitor progress, giving the impression of a series of expensive experiments indemnified with taxpayers' money," the MPs warned.
PAC chair Margaret Hodge said: "The Treasury acts as both the finance ministry and economic ministry.
"But it appears to neglect its role as finance ministry. Its own accounts are impenetrable and this committee keeps seeing instances of poor decision making by departments, which the Treasury could and should have prevented.
"High staff turnover threatens the Treasury's ability to respond to crises and manage public spending effectively. While staff turnover fell in 2011-12, it is still very high.
"Furthermore, the Treasury remains committed to cutting its headcount by a third and there are still very few women at senior levels."
The Labour MP said the support provided to banks during the credit crunch had helped prevent the banking system from collapsing.
"We are pleased that the Treasury has successfully withdrawn nearly all of the taxpayer guarantees to banks. But the taxpayer still owns some £66 billion of shares in RBS and Lloyds, a sum which is yet to be recovered," she said.
"The Treasury has not convinced us it understands either the risks it has taken on by indemnifying the Bank of England against losses on QE or the expected economic benefits.
"Some £375 billion has so far been injected into the economy as an 'experiment' but the department could not explain to us what the effect has been on the whole economy or on different parts of society.
"The Treasury's attempts to stimulate economic growth through new lending have, so far, not been successful. The National Loan Guarantee Scheme achieved just 15% of its intended take-up and has now been superseded by a more generous Bank of England scheme.
"The Treasury needs to be clear what it wants this Bank of England scheme to achieve, and how it intends to monitor it.
"These measures are characterised by a lack of goals and intended outcomes, with no means of monitoring progress. Throughout, the Treasury seems to be embarking on a series of expensive experiments, indemnified with taxpayers' money."
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Its a sad, sad day for cupcake lovers all over America.
The famous, CRUMBS CUPCAKES, has been 'forced' to close its doors. A statement released yesterday says, "Regrettably Crumbs has been forced to cease operations and is immediately attending to the dislocation of its devoted employees while it evaluates its limited remaining options."
The store may consider filing for bankruptcy. Crumbs, once the world's largest cupcake empire, has been crumbling in recent months - due to NASDAQ stopped trading the company's stock on July 1 because Crumbs had failed to meet the minimum stockholders equity requirement of $2.5 million, The New York Times reported. The company went public in 2011 but then quickly began losing money, Business Insider has previously reported.
Crumbs was born on Manhattan's Upper West Side in 2003, a few years after the HBO show "Sex and the City" inspired a cupcake craze in the Big Apple. The chain is known for its massive "Crumbs Signature Size cupcakes" that sell for as much as $4.50 each.
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REVIEW DATE : March 30, 2012
PROS: Lots of USB 3.0 and eSATA ports. Mini-Displayport and HDMI ports. Overclocked Core i7 processor. Two high-end graphics cards. No bloatware. Nice internal wiring.
The Cyberpower Zeus Thunder 3000SE ($2,299 direct) is a great performance desktop PC in a flashy case. It saves a little money by using an off-the-shelf tower chassis, but the care taken in assembling this custom gaming PC shows in its top performance marks. This is the sub $2,500 custom gaming rig you will want to buy after cutting your teeth on a lower priced entry-level model. It has the power to fill a 1080p HD screen, even at the highest quality settings. The Cyberpower Zeus Thunder 3000SE snags our Editors' Choice for mid-level gaming machines. Welcome to the grid, program!
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The 3000SE is a peach playing 3D games. The system comes game-ready right out of the box, since the system comes devoid of extra preinstalled software. The only things that are pre-installed aside from Windows 7 are the drivers for the motherboard and the graphics cards. The included copy of Office 2011 Starter isn't installed yet, so you can opt to never install it. This is great, since gamers don't want to deal with uninstalling the sorts of trialware that comes with retail systems. A lack of bloatware is one of the big reasons to buy from a custom builder. The system comes with a one year parts and three year labor warranty. This means that you can send the system back for tune-ups for free, but if a part goes bad, you'd better hope it goes off in the first year of ownership. Like most custom builders, Cyberpower's sales reps will help make sure you get the components you need, and their tech support folk are less likely to be support drones working from a set script.
Essentially, should you get the Cyberpower Zeus Thunder 3000SE? Yes, if you can get past the cheapish plastic on some of the chassis' panels. Yes the system has plenty of gaming oomph to make up for it, but only if you refrain from laying hands on the system too often. The Cyberpower has better overall performance than the now former EC-winning Digital Storm ODE Level 3, the iBuypower Chimera 4-V1 ($2,499 direct, 4 stars), and the AVADirect Quiet X79 Gaming PC. The main thing the Digital Storm has over the Cyberpower is the quality of its Corsair Graphite Series 600T chassis, which earned its own Editor's Choice award last year. In any case, if you have a budget of around $2,500 for you midrange hardcore gaming PC, the PC to buy right now is our new Editors' Choice, the Cyberpower Zeus Thunder 3000SE.
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The holster that I just recieved has the small pocket for the knife.
On all images I have seen of the ESB holster, I have not seen that small pocket.
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Stephen Muse, FAIA, didn't have to travel far to make his mark. Working out of his Washington, D.C., home, he found his first commissions virtually in his own backyard, in the fine, old residential neighborhoods of the city and its inner suburbs. In the years since, he has tended those neighborhoods like a garden. "We got known as the firm to hire if you like your house in its basic premise but it isn't working for you," Muse says. "I got a lot of calls from people saying, 'I don't want to screw up my house.'" Good call. Muse has demonstrated an uncanny deftness in grasping the visual vocabulary of existing houses and neighborhoods—and seamlessly extending that vocabulary—to make statements of contemporary relevance.
"We went from working on really great houses to working on really important historic homes, then to doing new houses in those same neighborhoods," Muse recalls. "Then we started getting calls for institutional work," typically from former clients who wanted their new church or school building to work as well in the neighborhood as did their houses. Context is the key element, Muse explains, and the response must be neither slavishly historicist nor "violently" anachronistic. "We try to walk that fine line." And while his 15-person firm is a far cry from that home-based practice, the aesthetic remains unchanged. "It's all about the same thing: the notion of context that we've been developing for 25 years."
What is the most gratifying aspect of residential practice?
Making a home that is better than the owner ever thought it could be.
What is the most frustrating aspect?
Balancing my time. I have a terrific wife and two kids, all of whom have been extremely patient and supportive.
What is your mission statement or firm goal?
To build a body of work in which every project represents our personal take on the issue of contextualism. Every project is an individual response to site and client.
What is the most indispensable tool in your office?
Our people, our paper, and our pencils.
What software does your firm use?
We use both Macs and PCs, but I would not be the one to ask for any more detail. My software is my pencil.
Who is your ideal client?
One who shares our values and brings a lot to the table. We want our clients to be involved. We have designed houses for many amazing people.
What is your favorite building?
My favorite type of building is one that understands its role in the larger context, while still being terrific on its own. Two examples are the Hôtel de Beauvais in Paris and the New York Yacht Club in New York City.
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Hatton: Murray should be world middleweight champ
Promoter Ricky Hatton says he cannot understand how Martin Murray didn't emerge victorious against Sergio Martinez on the weekend in front of more than 40,000 fans in Buenos Aires. The Englishman scored a knockdown in the eighth round and had the Martinez on the canvas again in the tenth only to see it ruled a slip. Despite this, and punch stats leaning in Murray's favour, all three judges posted scores of 115-112 for the home boxer.
"I think Martin should be the middleweight champion of the world," a dejected Hatton said. "It was a good competitive fight but there was only one winner for me. When you go into the lion's den you have to rip the title from the champion and although he couldn't finish as strong as he we would have liked, Martin was the aggressor. He also scored a knockdown and it should have been two in my opinion."
"I think if one good thing did come out of the fight, it's that we now know that Martin is the best middleweight in Britain as his performance against Martinez eclipsed Macklin and Barker's by a long a way."
Another Hatton Promotions star, Gary Buckland, is flying home from South America disappointed as his WBC International Silver super-featherweight title fight Fernando David Saucedo was cancelled at the last minute.
A number of fans stormed the ring following the Martinez-Murray bout, rendering it unfit to host another fight.


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New Image for Japan's Pachinko Parlors
"Aim for the pegs in the middle," says a smartly dressed young man, who has come to check on my progress. I'm playing pachinko, one of the most popular gambling games in Japan, at P-ARK Ginza in Tokyo's swanky Ginza district. I could use the advice. This is only the third time I've ever set foot in a pachinko parlor, which has long had the reputation of being a seedy joint reeking of cigarette smoke and sweat and blasting Japanese military marches over the clatter of metal balls and the microphone-enhanced shouting of attendants.
But Japan's pachinko industry is now trying to reinvent itself as pachinko parlors work to shed their sleazy reputation and become more attractive to female customers. To be sure, most of the players around me are men in business suits, but there are more women than I had expected. All seem to hunch forward in their seats, dropping balls into a slot. Every few minutes a staff member stops by to give me some pointers. They want me to win a little so I'll come back. "If you have any problems, just call us any time," says the eager-to-please employee.
Pachinko is a uniquely Japanese phenomenon. Its roots trace back to the 1930s, but the game didn't take off until after the end of World War II. As Japan's economy grew and people had more money to spend, pachinko parlors were just about everywhere. Even in major cities, you had a better chance of finding a pachinko parlor than a convenience store.
A $257 Billion Business
Pachinko machines are strange-looking: part upright pinball machine, part video game, part slot machine. But pachinko's currency isn't coins; it's little steel balls. The aim of the game is to win as many of the balls as possible, which can later be exchanged for gifts or cash.
During the postwar boom, pachinko machine makers did their part, designing new models that would cough up winnings faster. And the faithful kept coming back. By 1995, more than 44 million Japanese—about a third of the population—were playing regularly, according to Japan's Entertainment Business Institute. And pachinko shop operators' annual revenues were almost $300 billion, according to the Japan Productivity Center for Socio-Economic Development.
But by 2006, the figure had fallen to $257 billion as interest in playing the game waned. What went wrong? Despite strong profits, pachinko's image was suffering. Operators were accused of everything from tax evasion to shady North Korean money transfers to ties to the yakuza, Japan's Mafia. And the game came to be seen as a pastime for deadbeat borrowers and gamblers. It didn't help that pachinko parlors skirted the strict rules in Japan for gambling establishments. Then, as today, customers weren't allowed to trade balls for cash at parlors. Instead, they stepped around the corner to an independently run kiosk to convert winnings into yen.
A Chance to Clean Up Their Image
Worse was to come. After years of looking the other way, in 2004 regulators ordered that pachinko machines offering big payouts be replaced with new machines with smaller payouts. Many shops went bust, unable to afford the big investments in new equipment (BusinessWeek.com, 6/5/07). Today, there are 13,585 parlors in Japan, down from a peak of 17,631 in 1995.
Yet many others saw a chance to clean up their image and reach out to a different crowd. Shops are now less intimidating for first-time players such as women like me, and twentysomethings or thirtysomethings whose attention is being increasingly monopolized by DVD players, big-screen TVs, and video games. P-ARK Ginza, which opened in 1995 across the street from Tokyo's Kabuki Theater, sits just a couple of blocks from the ritzy Ginza shopping district. You'd never guess it was a pachinko parlor; from the outside, it looks like an ordinary Internet café. Inside, it was quieter and cleaner than I had expected.
Big Wins in the Penny Arcade
After explaining to an employee that I hadn't been to a parlor in years, I was led to a bank of machines for beginners.
My machine was easy enough to control. There was a knob, which is used to control the angle at which each ball is shot into the machine. That starts up the digital slot machine on a large LCD screen at the center. The goal is to rack up points by getting the balls to land in certain cups around the machine.
I chose the equivalent of the penny arcade. I paid for 1,000 balls with a 1,000-yen note ($10). My machine, which was programmed to pay back more frequently and in smaller jackpots, played scenes from a Korean TV show that was a hit in Japan a few years ago. Before long, I'd hit the jackpot, and balls poured out of the machine and into my tray. And then again. And again. To my surprise, I was enjoying myself.
Winning over skeptics like me has been a big focus of the industry for many years. Operators have opened new shops in fashionable districts such as Shibuya, the hip neighborhood on the western part of the Yamanote train line that circles central Tokyo. They're hiring college grads to staff operations—which now look more like high-end boutiques with smoke-free areas—and pachinko makers are spending millions on prime-time TV commercials. In 2005, the biggest operators formed a self-policing organization called the Pachinko-Trusty Board (PTB). Today, the biggest seven operators, whose total revenues account for more than 10% of the market, must undergo a stringent annual audit, and results are made public.
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That has paid off: Outside experts estimate women make up 35% of their clientele vs. less than 20% a decade ago. "People who were dreaming of hitting the big jackpot and spending large amounts of money have gone away, but they have been replaced by new customers," says Norimichi Okuno, a consultant at Funai Soken, a Tokyo-based consulting firm.
Even so, obstacles remain. In December 2005, midsize pachinko parlor operator P-ARK, which runs P-ARK Ginza, applied for a listing on Jasdaq, Japan's second board. This wasn't the first time the company had tried for an IPO, having applied unsuccessfully several times in the 1990s. After P-ARK got past the first stage in 2005, a group of lawyers objected, appealing to the National Police Agency, the Financial Services Agency, and the Tokyo Stock Exchange. A listing application is usually granted in a few months, but P-ARK has not received an answer from the Jasdaq Securities Exchange (Jasdaq refuses to comment on individual cases). The two biggest parlor operators, Maruhan and Dynam, are now taking a wait-and-see approach. (The story is different for pachinko machine makers, which have been listed since the late 1980s.)
The industry may still have a way to go to shed its old image, but I'm now a fan. After a half-hour playing at P-ARK Ginza, I get up to leave, taking my winnings in a tray to the front counter. I want to swap them for sweets, but the staff members strongly suggest I cash out. They count the balls and hand me a box containing a tiny piece of gold to take to a stand-alone booth a few meters down the street. When I get there, I push the box toward the woman behind a Perspex screen. She passes me a 1,000-yen bill—I've broken even.


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I myself have problem with rejection of theme, but I will share my opinions with you anyway:
1. Ditch the subheading stating: Norris is a super-clean theme for personal & portfolios. It does not look good. 2. Navigation doesn't pop-out. It fades within the page. Also add some graphic style to it. You have very outstanding picture in the background, which distract from the navigation. Make it for example rounded corners with light (white etc.) color. 3. Diagonal lines as pattern does not look good or modern anymore. So ditch those too. Pattern outlines are generally old web design trend, so I suggest to ditch them in general.Hopefully, I helped you a little. I know, I am not the most experienced person, but I give you my "customer" opinion on your theme
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The redwood sleeping platform pictured at left was built by a contractor. But owners Tom Nelson and Randy Bolin provided the details that make the retreat in their Oakland, California, backyard look like it's straight out of Bali.
They gave a futon a burst of color with fabric and pillows from an import store. The Indonesian wooden friezes, temple guardians from an import store, and batik wall hanging complete the look.
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A family of six was temporarily displaced early Tuesday morning when a fire broke out in the carport of their midtown home.
Shortly before 3 a.m. a 20-year-old man woke up when he smelled smoke and saw a large fire outside his family's home in the 5100 block of East 28th Street, near South Craycroft Road and East 29th Street.
He woke up his dad and four siblings and they all evacuated the home safely, Capt. Barrett Baker, a Tucson fire spokesman said in a news release.
Several calls to 911 indicated a truck parked in a carport and the roof were engulfed in flames.
Firefighters who extinguished the blaze quickly and a brick wall that separated the carport from the home prevented the flames from spreading to the house, the release said.
Nobody was injured.
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Couched Constructions is a new exhibit at IUPUI's Herron School of Art and Design's Eskenazi Hall that will run through April 19, 2012. Wes Janz, Professor of Architecture and the exhibition's curator, recruited several CAP Faculty and Alumni to participate in this show that explores sustainability of everyday items and challenges the viewer to "rethink the purposefulness of standard objects." A public reception will be held on Wednesday, March 21, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. in the JCC Art Gallery, located at 6701 Hoover Road in Indianapolis. Complimentary refreshments will be served. Stop by and meet the artists.
Read more at http://www.herron.iupui.edu/galleries/exhibitions/couched-constructions.


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Looking ahead to Thanksgiving, I'm plopping some dressing in the deep fryer to make a one-bite appetizer.
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Deep Fried Friday: Thanksgiving Dressing
Deep Fried Friday: Candy Corn
Just in time for Halloween, I'm deep-frying candy corn. You'll be the most popular house on the block if you pass out these treats!
Deep Fried Friday: Jack and Coke
An adults-only beverage is turned into a delicious adults-only dessert. Watch as I deep-fry a favorite Southern cocktail—Jack and Coke.
Deep Fried Friday: Pecan Pie
Pecan pie is already delicious and oh-so Southern, but watch me turn it into an insanely decadent deep-fried treat, complete with bourbon whipped cream!
Deep Fried Friday: S'Mores
I'm breaking the rules and deep-frying marshmallows! Watch and see if I make an ooey-gooey mess or a new hit.
Deep Fried Friday: Sweet Tea
Like all good Southerners, we like our tea sweet and cold. But what about deep-fried? I will be attempting to change your mind:
Deep Fried Friday: Pimiento Cheese Sandwich
If you think nothing can top a pimiento cheese sandwich, think again! Watch as I give this Southern staple a deep-fried makeover.


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Jody Smith joins with other ME voices in honor of Understanding and Remembrance Day for Severe Myalgic Encephalomyelitis.
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Having penned songs for acts like Adam Gregory, Tim McGraw and Garth Brooks(on the smash hit "More Than a Memory"), Lee Brice had quite the resume as a songwriter before he had even began his recording career.
He's seen a lot of success there as well. His latest album, 2012's Hard 2 Love, reached #2 on the Country Albums charts and gave us hits like "A Woman Like You," "Hard to Love" and "I Drive Your Truck." How he'll follow that up, I'm not sure!
I do know when he'll follow that up, as his third studio album, I Don't Dance, is set for release September 9th. Apparently Lee is quite the perfectionist and thinking of the album keeps him up at night! So…something tells me the product will be something to look forward to! You can read more on the release on Lee's website!
The lead single from the upcoming album is also the title track, check out the video for "I Don't Dance" below!


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Light blue looks like a Carolina Blue in the picture. It is NOT at all. It's a very pale gray/blue. Disappointed.
LOVE the rugs but in ordering the different sizes, they were not the same color. I have the large round and two 4' x 2's. The 4' x 2's are a totally different color and cannot be used together.


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I have been using Clinique for years and I decided to try something different. I love this stuff. Full coverage and doesn't leave my face so oily/greasy. Packaging is ok, price is ok.
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The dopes at Lorac made the compact so that it is too shallow to fit a powder puff, making it useless as a powder to carry around and a real PITA to use. I have to keep a powder puff separate from the compact so I hardly ever use it. Forget this one!
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This should be LORAC Perfect Birthday Cake, just add foundation. I thought perhaps that I had been to heavy handed with my foundation and this was a fluke, but three attempts later it still makes my face look overdone, fake, and slathered in crusty powder.
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Deathbed rumours spread over Chavez
Venezuela's president Hugo Chavez is suffering new complications after cancer surgery, prompting growing speculation about whether he has much longer to live.
Vice president Nicolas Maduro looked weary and spoke with a solemn expression as he announced in a televised address from Havana on Sunday that Mr Chavez now has a respiratory infection nearly three weeks after his operation. He described his condition as delicate.
The streets of Caracas were abuzz with talk of Mr Chavez's increasingly tough fight, while the news topped the front pages of the country's newspapers.
"He's history now," said Cesar Amaro, a street vendor selling newspapers and snacks at a kiosk in Caracas. He motioned to a newspaper showing side-by-side photos of Mr Maduro and National Assembly president Diosdado Cabello, and said politics will now turn to them.
He expected a new election soon to replace Mr Chavez. "For an illness like the one the president has, his days are numbered now," he said.
A government-organised New Year's Eve concert had been planned in a Caracas plaza featuring popular Venezuelan bands, but was cancelled due to Mr Chavez's condition. Information minister Ernesto Villegas urged Venezuelans to keep their president in their prayers.
Political analyst Ricardo Sucre said the outlook for Mr Chavez appears grim, saying Mr Maduro's body language during his televised appearance spoke volumes.
"Everything suggests Chavez's health situation hasn't evolved as hoped," he said. He said Mr Maduro probably remained in Havana to keep close watch on his condition.
"These hours should be key to having a more definitive prognosis of Chavez's health, and as a consequence make the corresponding political decisions according to the constitution," Mr Sucre said.
It seems increasingly unlikely that Mr Chavez will be able to be sworn in for a new term as scheduled on January 10.
He has not been seen or heard from since undergoing his fourth cancer-related surgery on December 11, and government officials have said he might not return in time for his inauguration for the six-year term.
If he dies or is unable to continue in office, the Venezuelan constitution says that a new election should be held within 30 days.
Before his operation Mr Chavez acknowledged he faced risks and designated Mr Maduro as his successor, telling supporters they should vote for the vice president if a new presidential election were necessary.
Mr Maduro, who arrived in Havana on Saturday for the sudden and unexpected trip, is the highest-ranking Venezuelan official to see Mr Chavez since the surgery in Cuba, where the president's mentor Fidel Castro has reportedly made regular visits to check on him.
Medical experts say that it is common for patients who have undergone major surgeries to suffer respiratory infections and that how a patient fares can vary widely from a quick recovery in a couple of days to a fight for life on a respirator.
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Work on the stuffing box while the boat is in the water
Thanks for the replys. I never thought about using a toilet gasket to seal the prop shaft. Interesting idea! tsenator suggested using plumber''s putty and I have heard talk about using children''s Play Dough. So, I have three ideas so far. I would like to know how much water entered the boat while you had the stuffing box out? I would like to hear from anyone else who has actually done the job before I tackle the project. Thanks again for your input. Peter
Work on the stuffing box while the boat is in the water
I have never tried this, but it was suggested to me:
Go the hardware store and get one of those wax gaskets used to install a toilet. Break out the mask and snorkle and press this gasket around the prop shaft where it exits the hull. When you are done remember to turn the shaft so the wax falls off.
You could also just turn on the bilge pump and work fast. It is scarey but I''ve repacked my stuffing box like this.
Good luck
Work on the stuffing box while the boat is in the water
I think the friction fit of the hose on the tube will be enough to keep most of the water out. You only need to loosen the clamp and move the hose a 1/2" right ?! I wouldn''t worry. If you -really- concerned I have heard putting some plumbers putty on the outside around the shaft is a good temporary fix for water ingress.
ps....make sure your bilge pump works well..;-)
Work on the stuffing box while the boat is in the water
Here''s my problem. I hope you guys can help. I have my 34'' Yorktown in a marina slip. I have the engine sitting in the main salon while I install a new aft fuel tank. I have had to remove a considerable amount of gear to get to this point. Being I had the engine out I have completely rebuilt the cockpit floor and tidied up the engine compartment. I decided to check the condition of the clamps on the stuffing box and put the screwdriver to them. I found only one clamp holding on the aft side of the stuffing box. In other words, the stuffing box is not installed far enough up the tube the prop shaft goes through to allow both clamps to hold. I need to loosen the one clamp and move the hose aft about 1/2". Of course, when I loosen the one clamp, that is holding, the ocean tries to get into my bilge. Any ideas, barring trying to find a sand bar to put up on or a haul out, to fix my problem. Thanks, Peter
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United States Representative Timothy V. Johnson today issued the following statement upon passage of the STOCK Act, which prohibits members of Congress from using insider knowledge for financial gain.
Representative Johnson was among a handful of original cosponsors of the bill when it was first introduced in 2006. The legislation failed to get out of committee at the time and only gained traction after a "60 Minutes" episode last year revealed questionable insider trading by members and leadership from both parties.
"I can only say it's about time," Rep. Johnson said.
"The thought that public servants would use insider knowledge for private gain is anathema to me and to most Americans. This is not why we run for office. Our approval ratings are in the tank because people don't trust us. We often give them little reason to."
Representative Johnson repeated that message in a statement submitted to the Congressional Record. It states:
"Today, many government officials live in Washington, secluded from their constituents, and out of touch with reality. They benefit from financial insight used to improve their own stock portfolios, enjoy luxury trips disguised as CODEL's, and upon retirement, receive generous pensions despite their own actions while in office. Politicians come to Washington not to represent their constituencies, but for their own avail.
Vainglorious acts such as these, committed by our country's leaders, are simply unacceptable.
I have introduced several pieces of legislation intended to reduce government waste, hold Members accountable for their actions, and increase transparency within our federal government. For example, the STAY PUT Act would require the completion of a study on the costs of Congressional foreign travel claimed to meet criteria of "official business," by Members, officers, and employees of Congress. Another piece of legislation I have introduced, the Citizen Legislator Act, aims to cut the time spent in Washington, DC in half, cuts Congressional salaries and budgets in half, allows Members to work jobs outside of public office, and increases the time Members spend in their districts with the people who elected them.
"Mr. Speaker, while, many of us may attempt to project the appearance that our motives are truly altruistic, the time has come for real action. I applaud my colleagues for passing the STOCK Act today and encourage them to consider additional legislation bearing similar objectives, to listen to their constituents, and to spend more time in their districts. I remain optimistic that many of us still remember why we find ourselves here today: to serve the American people."
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A delicate marinade flavors these pork chops with the fragrant seasonings of India and tenderizes the meat at the same time. Writes Linda Lacek of Winter Park, Florida. "The colorful relish would be delicious alongside any grilled entree. It's also a tasty substitute for butter or baked potatoes!"
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- 2 tablespoons fat-free plain yogurt
- 2 teaspoons honey
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 teaspoon white wine vinegar
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon ground turmeric
- 1/8 teaspoon ground cloves
- 1/8 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/8 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 1/2 teaspoon minced fresh gingerroot
- 4 boneless pork loin chops (4 ounces each)
- 1 large mango or 2 small peaches, peeled and diced
- 3/4 cup chopped red onion
- 3/4 cup chopped seeded tomatoes
- 4 teaspoons chopped seeded jalapeno pepper
- 2 teaspoons lime juice
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- In a large resealable plastic bag, combine the first 11 ingredients; add pork. Seal bag and turn to coat; refrigerate for at least 2 hours.
- Meanwhile, combine the relish ingredients in a large bowl. Let stand at room temperature for 1 hour; refrigerate until serving.
- Drain and discard marinade. Using long-handled tongs, moisten a paper towel with cooking oil and lightly coat the grill rack.
- Grill pork chops, covered, over medium heat or broil 4-5 in. from the heat for 4-5 minutes on each side or until a thermometer reads 145°. Let stand for 5 minutes before serving. Serve with mango relish. Yield: 4 servings.
Editor's Note: Wear disposable gloves when cutting hot peppers; the oils can burn skin. Avoid touching your face.
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Science is driving combination therapies to overcome resistance and increase effectiveness. That is the future oncology landscape that anyone bringing new products to market needs to be aware of.
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2014 is the year of Immuno-Oncology
One of the hot topic of conversation amongst the VCs at the JP Morgan Healthcare conference in San Francisco this past week was the field of immuno-oncology. We have already seen significant excitement in anti-PD1/PD-L1 drugs and their early promise in melanoma, renal and lung cancers. Taking a more strategic view, however, the question is […]
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Joseph Johnson
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About Joseph Johnson, Governor
Joseph Johnson (December 19, 1785 – February 27, 1877) was a United States Representative and was the 32nd Governor of Virginia from 1852 to 1856. Born in Orange County, New York, he moved with his mother to Belvidere, New Jersey in 1791 and thence to Bridgeport, Virginia (now West Virginia) in 1801. He engaged in agricultural pursuits, served in the War of 1812 as captain of a company of Virginia riflemen, and was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates in 1815, 1816, and 1818-1822.
Johnson was elected to the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Congresses (March 4, 1823 – March 3, 1827); while a Representative, he was chairman, Committee on Expenditures on Public Buildings (Nineteenth Congress). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1826 to the Twentieth Congress and was elected to the Twenty-second Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Philip Doddridge, serving from January 21 to March 3, 1833; he was not a candidate for renomination in 1832. He was elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-fourth Congress and reelected as a Democrat to the Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1835 – March 3, 1841); he was chairman of the Committee on Accounts in the Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Congresses. He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1840 and was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1844.
He was elected to the Twenty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1845 - March 3, 1847); he was chairman, Committee on Revolutionary Claims (Twenty-ninth Congress), and declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1846. He was again a member of the Virginia House of Delegates in 1847 and 1848, after which he resumed agricultural pursuits. He was a delegate to the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1850 and 1851 and was elected Governor of Virginia in 1851, serving a short term, and was reelected and entered upon the duties of the office January 1, 1852, and served four years. He died in Bridgeport, West Virginia in 1877 and was buried in the old Brick Church Cemetery.
Johnson was an uncle of Senator Waldo P. Johnson of Missouri.
Several locations are named after Johnson in Bridgeport, West Virginia including Johnson Avenue, Johnson Elementary School, and his former home, the Governor Joseph Johnson House.
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Lost Creek, Harrison, West Virginia, United States