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Digital Photography Glossary
|A/D Converter
|(Analog to Digital) A device that converts analog information (a photograph or video frame) into a series of numbers that a computer can store and manipulate.
|Angle of View
|The amount of a scene that can be recorded by a particular lens. This is determined by the focal length of the lens.
|The process of reducing stair-stepping by smoothing edges where individual pixels are visible.
|The maximum size of the hole through which light enters the camera.
|Distortions or excess noise which are caused by the sensor, the optical system or image processing (such as compression).
|Aspect Ratio
|The ratio between the width and height of an image or image sensor.
|A file sent along with an e-mail message so that it can be viewed or saved by the recipient.
|Automatic Exposure
|A feature where the camera automatically adjusts the aperture or shutter speed or both for the proper exposure.
|Automatic Flash
|A flash unit with a light-sensitive cell that determines the length of the flash for proper exposure by measuring the light reflected back from the subject.
|A system that automatically focuses the camera lens.
|See Matrix Metering.
|A video format used by Microsoft Windows®.
|Black and white.
|Back Lit
|The subject is heavily lit from behind which generally causes it to be underexposed.
|An artifact of color gradation where graduated colors are reduced to larger blocks of a single color.
|A distortion which occurs with wide-angle zoom, in which straight lines at the edges curve toward the center, giving the image a barrel-like appearance.
|(BInary digiT) The smallest unit of computer memory.
|Bit Depth
|The color or gray scale of an individual pixel. A pixel with 8 bits per color gives a 24 bit image. (8 Bits x 3 colors is 24 bits.) 24 bit color resolution is 16.7 million colors.
|A method of storing information that maps an image pixel bit by bit.
|A visual effect caused by overexposing a CCD sensor, which can cause distortions of the subject and/or color.
|An uncompressed bitmapped file format (BMP) used with Microsoft Windows.
|The value of a pixel in an electronic image, representing its lightness value from black to white. Usually defined as brightness levels ranging in value from 0 (black) to 255 (white).
|A temporary storage area usually held in RAM and used as a temporary holding area for data.
|Burst Mode
|The ability to rapidly capture images as long as the shutter button is held down.
|A group of 8 bits, the basic unit of information for the computer.
|A term used in digital imaging meaning " to photograph". The term is used to differentiate the method by which the image is made. As the word "photograph" is closely associated to film photography, "capturing" is applied to specify a digital sensor is used."
|A sealed package containing storage chips or other electronic devices for use in a card slot on a camera, printer, computer, or other device.
|Card Reader
|A device, which allows your computer to directly, read flash memory cards. See also PCMCIA and PC Card
|(Charge-coupled device) An image sensor that reads the charges from the sensor's photosites one row at a time.
|(CompactDisc Recordable) A recordable CD which can be written once, which holds 650~700 MB of digital data.
|(CompactDisc ReWriteable) A CD-R that can be erased and re-used many times, which holds about 450 MB of data.
|Center Weighted
|An autoexposure system that uses the center portion of the image to adjust the overall exposure value. See Spot Metering and Matrix Metering
|Chromatic Aberration
|A fringing effect around the edges, which is caused by lens not focusing correctly.
|(Camera Image File Format) A method of digital camera image storage used by many camera makers.
|(Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) An imaging system used by digital cameras.
|(Compression and Decompression) Compresses information so that it can be sent across a network faster, and decompresses information received via the network.
|Color Balance
|The accuracy with which the colors in the image match those in the original scene.
|Color Correction
|The process of correcting or enhancing the color of an image.
|Color Depth
|The number of bits assigned to each pixel in the image and the number of colors that can be created from those bits. True Color uses 24 bits per pixel to render 16 million colors.
|Color-Filter Array
|The filter dyes placed directly over each pixel on the chip surface (CCD, CMOS).
|(CF) The most
common type of digital camera flash memory storage. There are two types:
|COM port
|A serial communication port which support the RS-232 standard of communication.
|The process of reducing the size of a file. Compression is either lossless or lossy.
|Continuous Autofocus
|An always-on autofocus system.
|A measure of rate of change of brightness in an image.
Dark Noise
|The charge accumulated by pixels while not exposed to light. Normally, this charge is reduced or eliminated prior to capturing a picture.
|The process of restoring the contents of a compressed file.
|Depth of Field
|The distance between the nearest and farthest points that appear in acceptably sharp focus in a photograph. Depth of field varies with lens aperture, focal length, and camera-to-subject distance.
|The adjustable aperture of a lens, which controls the amount of light passing into the camera and may be in front of, within or behind the lens.
|Digital Zoom
|A digital magnification of the center 50% of an image. Digital zooms increase the apparent image size by interpolation. They do not increase the amount of image information.
|The process of converting analog information into digital format.
|Diopter Correction
|An adjustment on the viewfinder of a camera, allowing someone to adjust the viewfinder to their vision and removing the need to wear their glasses when looking through it. Diopter adjustments cannot compensate for all vision problems, only near and far sightedness can be compensated
|Direct Vision
|Cameras using an optical viewfinder.
|A defect in an image caused by the lens, such as barreling and pincushioning.
|Transfer data from a device to a computer using a cable connection.
|(Dots Per Inch) A measurement value used to describe either the resolution of a display screen or the output resolution of a printer.
|(Digital Print Order Format) A format which allows you to embed printing information on your memory card. Select the pictures to be printed and how many prints to make. Some photo printers with card slots will use this info at print time.
|(Dynamic Random Access Memory) A type of memory that is lost when the power is turned off.
|DRAM Buffer
|Fixed memory used for image processing before the image is stored. Cameras with a burst mode have much larger DRAM buffers. This also makes them more expensive.
|Dye Sub
Thermal Dye Sublimation
|A printing process where the ink is thermally transferred to printing media. Usually expensive but providing extremely high quality. Thermal dye printers require special paper.
|Dynamic Range
|A measurement of the accuracy of an image in color or gray level. More bits of dynamic range results in finer gradations being preserved.
|(Enhanced Parallel Port) A high-speed, bi-directional printer port on modern computers used by some digital cameras and scanners.
|(Evaluative-Through The Lens) An exposure system that uses a brief pre-flash before the main flash to calculate the exposure index (used by Canon®).
|Embedded camera and exposure information that a digital camera puts in the header of the JPG files it creates. Many programs can read and display this information.
|To print, compress or save a data file using a particular file format or function.
|The amount of light that reaches the image sensor. Exposure is controlled by a combination of the lens aperture and shutter speed.
|A numerical designation (f/2, f 2.8, f3 etc.) indicating the size of the aperture.
|see IEEE-1394
|Fixed Focus
|A lens, which is preset to a given focus, distance in order to provide the maximum depth of field.
|A flash supplies additional light to compensate for low lighting, back-lighting and other lighting issues.
|Flash Memory Card
|A card containing chips that store images.
|Flash Memory Reader
|An accessory that attaches to your computer by cable and allows your computer to read directly from a flash memory card.
|Flash RAM
|(Flash Random Access Memory) Rewritable memory often used for temporarily storing information such as digital pictures.
|Flat Bed Scanner
|An optical scanner in which the original image remains stationary while the sensors pass over or under it.
|Focal Length
|The distance from the optical center of the lens to the image sensor when the lens is focused on infinity, usually expressed in millimeters.
|The process of bringing one plane of the scene into sharp focus on the image sensor.
|(FlashPiX) An image format that contains a number of resolutions, each of which is broken into tiles that can be edited and displayed independently.
|One of the still pictures that make up a video.
|Frame Grabber
|A device that lets you capture individual frames out of a video camera or off a video tape.
|Frame Rate
|The number of frames that are shown or sent each second. Live action relates to a frame rate of 30 frames per second.
|A white fringe appearing on the edges of objects in the image.
|A graphic file format limited to 256 colors, which used mainly for web graphics or small animated files.
|A smooth transition between black and white, one color and another, or color and no color.
|Gray Level
|The brightness of a pixel.
|Gray Scale
|An image containing shades of gray as well as black and white.
|Hot Shoe
|A flash connector generally found on the top of the camera that lets you attach a flash unit and trigger it in sync with the shutter.
|An autofocus system that has trouble finding the focus in an image so that the system moves in and out of focus continuously, "hunting" for the correct focus point.
|A high-speed bidirectional parallel port specification used by printers and devices like card readers.
|A port capable of transferring large amounts of data. Currently the fastest available port. Commonly known as Firewire.
|(Interchange File Format) the Amiga file format.
|Image Formats
|The method of compressing and saving an image file.
|Image Processing Time
|The time lag that occurs between the shutter is pressed and the camera is ready to take another picture, which occurs while the camera converts the image from an analog format to a digital format and stores the data.
|Image Sensor
|A solid-state device containing a photosite for each pixel in the image. Each photosite records the brightness of the light that strikes it during an exposure.
|Image Stabilization
|An optical or digital system for removing or reducing camera movement.
|A type of printer that sprays dots of ink onto paper to create the image. Modern inkjet printers can have resolutions of up to 2880 dpi (dots per inch) and create true photo-quality prints.
|An image sensor that gathers its data by first processing the odd lines and then the even lines. See also Progressive Scan.
|Method used to increase the resolution of an image map by adding pixels to an image based on the value of surrounding pixels. This method can cause artifacting.
|(InfraRed) A method of transferring data from camera to a computer using a beam of invisible light, requiring no cables.
|A standard that allows data to be transferred between devices using infrared light instead of cables.
|A number rating indicating the relative sensitivity to light of an image sensor or photographic film. Faster film (higher ISO) is more sensitive to light and requires less exposure than slower film.
|Iris Diaphragm
|A continuously adjustable lens aperture consisting of interposed metal leaves.
|Slang term for the stair-stepped appearance of a curved or angled line in digital imaging. The smaller the pixels, and the greater their number the less apparent the "jaggies". Also known as pixelization.
|A specific type of the JPG file format. Also known as EXIF.
|(Joint Photographic Experts Group) A lossy compression format, this is the most common type of image file format used in digital cameras.
|(Kilobyte) 1024 bytes.
|An image taken with the camera in its normal horizontal orientation.
|(Liquid Crystal Display) Two types: (1) a high-resolution color display device used in handheld televisions and digital photography viewfinders. (2) A monochrome information display using black alphanumeric characters on a gray/green background.
|An image format which stores the image in a non-compressed format.
|An image format that sacrifices a certain amount of image information in order to create a smaller compressed file.
|(Lempel-Ziv-Welch) A compression scheme used to reduce the size of image files.
|The ability of a lens to focus very close (less than 8") for taking pictures of small objects at a 1:1 ratio.
|Matrix Array
|CCD's that can capture full-color images instantaneously.
|Matrix Metering
|A metering method which uses the entire image; however, it breaks the area down into smaller segments and uses the individual readings to calculate the best possible exposure. Matrix-metering is the most accurate of the metering systems.
|(MD) Digital recording media like a small floppy disc.
|(Megabyte) 1024 kilobytes.
|(MP) Having a resolution of one million pixels. A megapixel digital camera has an image resolution of 1280 x 960 pixels or greater. The most common digital cameras are rated at 1.3 megapixel, 2.11 megapixel and 3.34 megapixel.
|Memory Stick
|A flash memory storage device developed by Sony that comes in sizes from 4 MB up to 128 MB.
|The process of calculating the exposure from the existing light conditions. See: Matrix Metering, Spot Metering and Center Weighted
|(MultiMedia Card) A flash memory card used in some digital cameras and MP3 players.
|A visible pattern that occurs when one or more halftone screens are misregistered in a color image.
|Apple QuickTime MOVie motion video file format.
|(Motion Pictures Expert Group) A motion JPEG movie file.
|An image or image sensor with over two million pixels.
|Multi Spot Focusing
|An autofocus system using several different portions of the image to determine the proper focus.
|Multiple Exposure
|An image made up of two or more superimposed images.
|Misinterpreted pixels found in your digital image, usually occurring in longer exposures. Can be seen as misplaced or random bright pixels in the picture.
|Optical Zoom
|Indicates that the camera has a real multi-focal length lens, as opposed to a digital zoom, which magnifies the center portion of the picture.
|Orientation Sensor
|A sensor that knows when you turn the camera to take a vertical shot and rotates the picture so it won't be displayed on it's side when you view it.
|An image that appears too light because of too much light reaching the sensor.
|A thumbnail of all available colors to a computer or devices. The palette allows the user to chose which colors are available for the computer to display. The greater the number of colors, the larger the data file becomes and more processing time is required to display your images. If the system uses 24-bit color, then over 16.7 million colors are included in the palette.
|A panorama shot is an extremely wide-view image created by capturing a series of images.
|Parallel Port
|A port on the computer that is faster than a serial port but slower than SCSI, USB, or IEEE 1394 ports.
PCMCIA Card
|(Personal Computer Memory Card International Association) A credit card-sized device which can be a flash memory card, a network card, a modem or even a hard drive.
|PCMCIA Adapter
|A device that allows the use of memory cards in a PCMCIA slot. The adapter accepts the smaller memory card and transfers its connections to a standard PCMCIA connection
|A compressed, lossy file format which supports RGB, indexed-color, grayscale, and bitmap color modes.
|A small area on the surface of an image sensor that captures the brightness for a single pixel in the image. There is one photosite for every pixel in the image.
|A graphics file format used primarily on Macintosh® computers.
|An effect which occurs with telephoto zoom, in which straight lines at the edges curve in toward the far corners.
|(Picture Element) An individual element of either a CCD sensor or a digital image.
|An effect seen when you enlarge a digital image too much and the pixels become obvious. See also Jaggies.
|(Portable Network Graphics) A compressed image file format similar to JPG.
|Point and Shoot
|A simple, easy to use camera with a minimum of user controls and automatic control of most functions.
|A connection point on the computer that accepts a cable, allowing communication between the computer and another device.
|Portrait mode
|Turning the camera to take a vertically oriented photograph.
|(Pixels Per Inch) A measurement to describe the size of a printed image. The higher the number, the more detailed the print will be.
|Preview Screen
|A small LCD display screen on the back of the camera used to compose or look at photographs. Also called Electronic Viewfinder.
|Progressive Scan
|An image sensor that gathers its data and processes each scan line one after another in sequence. Compare to Interlaced.
|A motion video standard created by Apple®. QuickTime® video sequences are stored as .MOV files and can contain an audio track. Additional information is available on the QuickTime website.
|An image resolution of 320 x 240 pixels.
|(Random Access Memory) The most common type of computer memory, which is used by the CPU to store software, programs, and data currently being used. RAM is usually volatile memory, meaning that when the computer is turned off, crashes, or loses power, the contents of the memory are lost. A large amount of RAM usually offers faster manipulation or faster background processing.
|The viewfinder on most cameras is a separate viewing device that is independent of the lens. Often mounted above and to the right or left of the lens. It exhibits a problem known as parallax when trying to frame subjects closer than five feet from the camera so it is advisable to use the color LCD when shooting close-ups for this very reason.
|(CCD raw format) The uninterpolated data collected directly from the image sensor before processing.
|Recycle time
|The time it takes to process and store a captured image.
|Red-eye and Red-eye Reduction
|Red-eye is an effect caused by an electronic flash reflecting off of the human eye and making it look red. Red-eye reduction mode fires a preliminary flash to close the iris of the eye before firing the main flash to take the picture.
|Refresh rate
|The time it takes the camera to capture the image after you press the shutter release.
|Resolution is expressed as either the number of pixels counted horizontally by the number of pixels counted vertically or by the number of megapixels. It can be expressed as one of the following formats: QVGA (320 x 240), VGA (640 x 480), SVGA (800 x 600), XGA (1024 x 768) UXGA (1600 x 1200).
|Resolution, Digital
|See Resolution, Interpolated.
|Resolution, Interpolated
|A number based on adding pixels to the image. Note: interpolation does not add any new information to the image.
|Resolution, Optical
|An absolute number that the camera's image sensor can physically record.
|(Red, Green and Blue) The color system used in most digital cameras in which the image is separated by capturing the red, green, and blue light separately and then are re-combined to create a full color image.
|The degree to which a color is undiluted by white light. If a color is 100 percent saturated, it contains no white light. If a color has no saturation, it is a shade of gray.
|A device that uses light to read printed information and converts it into the computer in a digital form for editing.
|(Small Computer System Interface) A high-speed input/output bus which is faster than serial and parallel ports but slower (and harder to configure) than USB and Firewire ports.
|SD Card
|(Secure Digital card) A flash memory card identical in size and shape to the MultiMedia Card (MMC) flash cards.
|An electronic device that converts the light allowed in by the shutter to an electrical signal.
|Describing the shades of brown found in the pictures from very early in photography, the term is also used as a special effect on some digital cameras, which converts the existing image into shades of brown.
|Serial Port
|Standard, but extremely slow, connection port found on most computers. Also called RS-232.
|The device in the camera that opens and closes to let light from the scene strike the image sensor and expose the image. The three primary types used in digital photography are digital shutters, iris shutters and focal plane shutters.
|Shutter Lag
|The time between pressing the shutter and actually capturing the image. This is due to the camera having to calculate the exposure, set the white balance and focus the lens.
|Shutter Speed
|The length of time the shutter opens to let light pass through the lens to the focal plane
|(Single-lens Reflex) A camera that has one lens that is used for both composing the frame and capturing the image to memory, as opposed to Range Finder. The same as TTL.
|(SSFDC, Solid State Floppy Disc Card) A popular form of flash memory card.
|An editing tool which averages pixels with their neighbors to reduces contrast and simulate an out-of-focus image.
|Spot Metering
|A method of autoexposure based on a meter reading of a small circle in the center of the viewfinder.
|An image resolution of 800 x 600 pixels.
|(Tagged Image File Format) An lossless uncompressed image file format that produces no artifacts as is common with other image formats such as JPG.
|A lens with a focal length that gives you the narrowest angle of coverage, good for bringing distant objects closer.
|(Thin Film Transistor) The type of hi-resolution color LCD screen used in many digital photography cameras.
|Thermal Dye Sublimation
|see Dye Sub.
|Thermo Autochrome Printer
|A printer technology that uses specialized paper with three heat-sensitive pigment layers (cyan, magenta, and yellow) in the paper. Each layer is sensitive to a different temperature. The printer selectively heats areas of the paper with ultraviolet light, one color at a time, to activate and then fix the pigments.
|A small, low-resolution version of a larger image file that is used for quick identification.
|Capturing a series of images at preset intervals.
|True Color
|Color with a depth of 24-bits and 16.7 million colors.
|(Through The Lens) An autofocus or autoexposure system that works through the camera's lens.
|Type I, II, III
|Denotes various PCMCIA or PC Card storage devices (both flash memory and removable hard disk drives). Type I and II fit in the single-height card slots, Type III only fit in the double-height slots.
|A protocol for exchanging information between applications and devices such as scanners and digital cameras. TWAIN makes it possible for digital cameras and software to "talk" with one another on PCs.
|A picture that appears too dark because not enough light got to the imaging system.
|Unsharp Masking
|A process by which the apparent detail of an image is increased; generally accomplished by the input scanner or through computer manipulation.
|Send a file from your computer to another device.
|(Uniform Resource Locator) The address of a Web site.
|(Universal Serial Bus) A high-speed port found on digital photography devices and newer computers, which allows much faster transfer speeds than a serial or parallel port.
|An image resolution of 1600 x 1200 pixels.
|An image resolution of 640 x 480 pixels.
|Video Card
|A card the fits into a computer's expansion slot so you can edit digital video.
|Video Out
|An output jack which can connect to televisions, monitors, and VCR's using either NTSC or PAL format.
|The window you use to frame the subject.
|Viewfinder, Optical
|An eyelevel viewfinder that is used to compose the photograph.
|Viewfinder, Electronic
|A small color LCD with a magnified lens that displays the scene being presented to the image sensor.
|Wide-angle Lens
|A lens using the focal length that gives you the widest angle of coverage, also called a short-focal-length lens.
|An image resolution of 1024 x 768 pixels.
|(Zoom Lens Reflex) A term used by Olympus® to describe their fixed mount lens SLR type cameras. An SLR camera has interchangeable lenses, a ZLR has a non-removable lens.
|Zoom Lens
|A variable focal length lens. The most common zoom lens on digital cameras has a 3:1 ratio.
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Indaswamp wrote:BigRiver wrote:Indaswamp wrote:BigRiver wrote:Can't pick and choose the laws you want to abide by.
Pretty tough to call the other guy a dirty bastard if he and his group look at group limits differently than you, when your freezer is flush with greenheads.
but I"m obeying the law when I have a possession limit from 20 different people in my freezer from people that have "gifted" birds to me....remember-possession limit is terminated once the birds are gifted.
And We are not group hunting, all the birds just fell into the same big pile
different argument...explain to me how what I have proposed is illegal or unethical?
Your possession ends when you give them away. THEIR possession begins when they accept them.
The ducks are ALWAYS in someone's possession until the cease to be ducks. They don't cease being possessed by someone and count to someone's possession limit. Otherwise, you just need to give them to your wife. Officer, I have no ducks. I gave all 60 of my daily limits to her, so nobody possesses these ducks. It doesn't work that way even if you mailed them to your wife or anyone else.
The question is when do they cease legally being ducks. I don't think grinding them up even technically meets the definition. But I'm not worried about them DNA testing my sausage. If it did, all you would need to do if you were going to hunt for a week on travel and take a grinder and transport the ground meat and you can finish making the sausage when you get home.
aunt betty wrote:There's a difference.
If I get caught walking out with 27 ducks stuffed down my waders is one thing.
Having 27 ducks in my freezer is NOT the same thing at all.
I'm pretty damned sure that the last time I checked...there were 12 by some happenstance. I swear!
I only break the bad laws as well. Who doesn't?

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Worth the paper that it's written on? An analysis of statutory duty in modern environmental law
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Evaluates the effectiveness of existing rules governing statutory duty in an environmental context. Comments on the shortcomings of the regime revealed by the House of Lords ruling in Marcic v Thames Water Utilities Ltd and the Outer House decisions in Weir v East of Scotland Water Authority and Magnohard Ltd v United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority. Discusses the statutory duties for sustainable development introduced by water law reforms, the extent to which these are likely to be enforceable and whether a more strategic approach is required to improve access to environmental justice.
Hendry, S. 2005. Worth the paper that it's written on? An analysis of statutory duty in modern environmental law. Journal of Planning & Environment Law. 2005(9). pp.1145-1158


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A colleague sent me this link. He knows I am deeply interested in denominations and in the concept "evangelical." See: www.usatoday.com/news/graphics/pew-religion-08/flash.htm(I tried both keyboarding it here and copying it here from the actual web site but in neither case would it display as a hyperlink.)Here are some things that grab my attention (not that they all necessarily surprise me):1) The states where the greatest portion of the population identifies as "evangelical" … [Read more...]
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Bullfighting to end in Spain's Catalonia, for now
By Alice Tozer
BARCELONA, Spain (Reuters) - Bullfighting fans will shout "Ole" for the last time in Barcelona's Monumental bullring on Sunday before a ban on the sport takes effect across the northeastern Spanish region of Catalonia.
The regional legislature banned the centuries-old tradition -- which pits a sword-wielding matador in a skin-tight shiny suit and red cape against an enraged bull -- last year after Catalans signed a petition against it.
The bullfighting industry is still convinced it has a chance to overturn the ban and bring back the "toros" next season to Catalonia, the only mainland region in Spain that has blocked the sport -- or the art as its fans see it.
"I think the politicians will think twice about the ban and bullfighting will live on. And thank God because Catalonia has plenty of serious bullfighting fans and in a democratic country they should be able to go to a bullfight," said Moises Fraile, 64, owner of El Pilar, the breeder supplying bulls for Sunday's spectacle.
Some 20,000 spectators are expected to fill a sold-out Monumental -- the only bullring still operating in Catalonia -- for Sunday's blockbuster corrida starring celebrated Madrid "torero" Jose Tomas.
Tomas retired in 2002, but came back in 2007 at a bullfight in Monumental, his favorite ring. Since then he has made sporadic appearances and is the only bullfighter who can still sell out Monumental.
"There are several catalysts which could lead to the ban being overturned," said Paco March, bullfighting critic for La Vanguardia, Catalonia's top newspaper.
March said the conservative People's Party -- one of Spain's two main political forces -- is fighting the ban on constitutional grounds and the Catalonia Bullfighting Federation is collecting signatures to petition the Spanish Congress. Continued...


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All that in one day's work JP,as a new beek i'd be real excited to have gotten all the experience.HIve in da brick wall area is amazing-beautiful white combs.Thanks again for sharing da pics JPBut hey,how do u know the difference between Virgin & mated Queens??Seems like a really exeptional scenario :shock:
SO this hive was quite old then since there were a few hatched queen cells,Just to eliminate any doubt here-This hive you took from the brick wall had 3 Queens??that what u saying 1mated and 2 virgins?? :-\Cant imagine why something like that would happen but just wanna get full clarity here
Oooh kool kool,Wow nothing beats da practical experience huh JP.Always read that in situations where there are multiple queen cells-the 1st queen that emerges would walk thru and sting the other queen cells...Guess that's another story by itself or some other scenario


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Aam Aadmi Party''s Statement on Arrest of Pawan Bansal''s Nephew for Receiving Bribe of 90 Lakhs
The arrest of Mr. Pawan Bansal''s nephew by the CBI for receiving a bribe of 90 lakhs from a member of Railway Board shows the rot that has set in the railway ministry. Mr Bansal''s statement that his nephew had taken this bribe without his knowledge or consent is uncredible and unbelievable. Mr Mahesh Kumar who was made a member by Bansal would not pay 90 lakhs to his nephew without being certain about his work (favorable appointment as per media report) getting done by Railway Minister Mr Bansal. Mr Bansal must immediately be sacked by Prime Minister and should be proactively investigated by the CBI. It is also essential that all recent posting at critical position in the railways and large contracts given by the railways during Mr Bansal''s tenure must be examined and investigated. Any delay in sacking Mr. Bansal would show the complicity of his political bosses in this corruption.
The tumbling out of skeletons and scams from the cupboard of this government and the continuous inaction of the Prime Minister on such matters including the non-investigation of charges against 15 cabinet ministers that we had issued in May last year reminds us of the story of Ali Baba and 40 thieves. The inaction of Prime Minister is making him increasingly looking like Ali Baba presiding over a cabinet of 40 scamsters.
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Winter Leagues Recap: Johnson Throws Three Hitless Innings
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In Winter League action from last night, Starling Marte went 1-for-4, with his fourth triple of the DWL season. He also reached on an error in the second, but was thrown out stealing for his first caught stealing in nine attempts. Marte has tripled in three of the last six games.
Anderson Hernandez went 1-for-3, with a walk and his first home run of the DWL season. He now has a .737 OPS through 39 games.
Felix Pie went 0-for-4, with an RBI and a strikeout. He has a .242/.362/.339 line through 35 games.
Alex Valdez went 2-for-4, with two singles and two RBI's. He now has a .311 average and 18 RBI's in 30 games.
Kris Johnson, making his second appearance of the DWL season, threw three hitless innings of relief. He walked one and struck out two batters. Johnson allowed the tying r...
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By Paul Kennedy
Remember when the Tampa Bay Rowdies orchestrated an entire marketing campaign around -- and introduced soccer as -- a "kick in the grass," helping turn Tampa into a soccer hotbed before the NFL or MLB or NHL came to town.
That was the mid-1970s, different times perhaps.
The Portland Thorns of the new NWSL introduced a T-shirt saying "Feelin' Thorny?" but the hot-selling item was removed from sale in the Adidas Timbers Team Store at Jeld-Wen Field and online after criticism that the T-shirt was offensive popped up on Facebook.
"A great majority of fans find it funny and in the spirit it was created," said Mike Golub, chief operating officer of the Portland Timbers who also serves in the same capacity for the Thorns, told the Oregonian.
Golub told the Oregonian that the T-shirt, whose slogan was was thought up by a female employee, was vetted by club employees, but it was removed for sale within a day of the posting of the Facebook page "Discontinue Portland Thorns "Feelin' Thorny?"
It goes to show Facebook can kill a marketing campaign, just like it can make a marketing campaign.
The Thorns don't look like they'll be hurting, though. They have already sold 6,500 season tickets and are on the way toward becoming the most successful women's pro club launch ever.
GOAL.COM PARTNERS WITH SPORTING NEWS. Perform Group -- which owns among other properties the international soccer web site Goal.com -- and Sporting News are partnering to form a new sports media venture in U.S. and Canadian markets.
The announcement came a day after a report that Sporting News was laying off a dozen reporters and editors, including Brian Straus, who wrote the long article with the (anonymous) criticisms of U.S. national team players about their coach, Jurgen Klinsmann.
A Goal.com editor tweeted on Thursday that his site would be taking over Sporting News' soccer section.
MEDIA NOTES. The Houston Dynamo added writer Tom Dart and anchor/reporters Sebastian Salazar and Sara Eckert to its digital media platforms.
Dart, who will be a featured writer at www.HoustonDynamo.com. spent 12 years at The Times of London before moving to Houston in 2011.
Salazar and Eckert will host and report for Dynamo TV, the club's official YouTube channel.
ORLANDO EXPANSION. USL PRO's Orlando City tweeted that it wants to be announced as an MLS expansion by the end of the year.
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Not accustomed to playing key league matches this early in the season, the Bellarmine Prep volleyball team used its height and experience to get past Gig Harbor 25-15, 25-17, 25-22 in its league opener at home on Sept. 6.
"This is pretty new for us," said Bellarmine head coach Jody DeGroot. "We've always started our (league) season at the end of September. So both teams have only had a few weeks to put our team together."
The Lions charged out of the gate, forcing the Tides into errors and getting a block from senior captain Katherine Joyce on the way to an 8-0 lead. Junior Lindsay Schelbert later made it 15-5 with a nice kill, but Gig Harbor charged back to make it 17-13 thanks to kills by Courtney Jost and Summer Adams.
Bellarmine sophomore Claire Martin responded with two key blocks and combined with junior Emily Newberry to give the Lions some big plays up front, along with some imposing height.
"They bring a different kind of energy to our team," DeGroot said. "Everyone says you can't coach height. When you have this tall girl and they're able to make some of those plays that some of the other ones can't really do, they all kind of own it. It just brings that momentum and energy that you need sometimes."
Reigning Narrows 4A MVP Courtney Schwan took over early in the second set, getting three early kills and a block, and Joyce later helped give the Lions a 15-9 lead with her third kill in the previous seven points. Schwan later added two straight aces in the set to make it 19-13, and the Lions maintained a five-point cushion the rest of the way.
"I think what really helped us is we have a lot of energy and we have a good team bond," said senior setter and co-captain Katy DeGroot, who finished with 29 assists. "We were able to trust each other and connect with each other."
The Tides stayed with the Lions all the way through the third set, taking a 14-11 lead even with Joyce, Schwan and Newberry consistently coming up with big plays up front.
Jost gave the Tides a 21-20 lead with an ace, but Schwan – who finished with a team-high 16 kills along with 16 digs – responded with a kill and an ace of her own, and Joyce followed four points later with a kill to finish off the match.
"Even if we had the height and didn't get along it wouldn't work out, but the fact that we work so well together is what makes it so special," said Joyce, who finished with 12 kills.
The Lions were also buoyed by the play of seniors Kelsie May and Rachel Gill, along with sophomore outside hitter Reghan Pukis and junior defensive specialist Julia Wright. Having claimed a big non-league win against SPSL South contender Puyallup on Sept. 5, the Lions are showing great potential early but know there is still room to improve.
"We have plenty to work on, but we're starting in a good place," Jody DeGroot said. "I hope we build on it from here.


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Diabetes Here & Now: Diabetes Management in the Hospitalized Patient - Part 2 of 3
- Date: July 11, 2014
- Time: 9:00 am to 11:30 am
- Location: Methodist Estabrook Cancer Center Auditorium, 8303 Dodge Street, Omaha, NE 68114
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Purpose Statement: The purpose of this program is to explore best practices of diabetes care for patients in acute care.
Participants will be able to:
- Review how the various medicines for diabetes work.
- Recognize important contra-indications to and drug interactions with diabetes medications
- Describe how other illnesses, diagnoses, and medications can affect diabetes
- Examine insulin action profiles and how insulin is dosed.
- Discuss current standards of care for diabetes management in the hospital.
- State what patients need to know about their diabetes medications
- Identify key strategies for transitioning patients onto their home medication regimen upon discharge from the hospital.
- Explore medical management options in diabetes care using a case study approach.
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Claire Baker, MD, FACE is an endocrinologist in private practice in Omaha, NE.
Helen Jackson, MSN, APRN-CNS, GCNS-BC is a clinical nurse specialist at Methodist Hospital.
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Quarterback Joe Flacco led the Baltimore Ravens to one of the tensest Super Bowl wins in recent memory, then said: "We don't make it easy."
Flacco was named MVP for his performance, as he threw for 287 yards, including three touchdowns, in the Ravens' 34-31 win over the San Francisco 49ers.
But it could have been so much easier for the Ravens, who were leading 28-6 before a 34-minute stoppage caused by a power outage, after which the 49ers were rejuvenated and almost pulled off the greatest comeback in Super League history.
"It's unbelievable," Flacco said. "I tell you what, we don't make it easy.
"But that's the way the city of Baltimore is, that's the way we are. We did this for them back home."
Flacco held off contract talks until the end of the season - a decision which now looks set to pay off handsomely, with a Super Bowl ring and an MVP award on his CV.
"[Ravens majority owner] Steve Bisciotti told me that if this happens then I can go and pound on his desk and really stick it to him - and I said that's exactly what I'm gonna do," Flacco told NFL.com.
Flacco insisted he would be staying in Baltimore.
He said: "There's no about it, I'm going to lead this team into the future, but this is a team. We get the misconception in Baltimore that this is a bunch of individuals playing for the victory.
"There is not a closer-knit group of guys that I've ever been around.
"Ray Lewis is the best team-mate you can ever imagine. It's sad he's known for the opposite of that, when that couldn't be further from the truth."
Flacco was pleased to see the Ravens hit top form at exactly the right time.
"When you're a little kid and you're out in the schoolyard, you dream of being a Super Bowl champion one day, and we made it happen," Flacco said.
"When we're put on the big stage and we need to win games, we're a good football team, so that's what happens - we usually win them.
"We were able to put a good string together at the end and come together at the right time."
One sub-plot to the game was the battle between the Harbaugh brothers - Baltimore coach John and his San Francisco counterpart Jim.
Triumphant John consoled his little brother after the game finished and afterwards said: "It was really hard. The end of the game was the hardest thing I've ever experienced."
Asked what he said to his brother, John added: "I told him I loved him and he told me 'congratulations'.
"He's the best coach in football, there's no question in my mind. What he's accomplished in the last two years has been phenomenal, and I'm so proud of him."
The Ravens coach also praised the way the 49ers handled the half-hour stoppage caused by a power outage, which proved to be a turning point in the game - albeit not a decisive one.
"I thought the Niners handled it really well," he told ESPN. "The Niners came out of that an flipped the momentum of the football game. For a young team to handle the adversity that way is pretty incredible."
He also paid tribute to his own players, saying: "I'm just so proud of the players, every one of them. It's a team victory - and our coaches, man. Our coaches were phenomenal."
We want to handle this with class and grace.
San Francisco coach Jim Harbaugh was left upset at what he saw as a missed call on the 49ers' final offensive play.
Harbaugh felt Ravens cornerback Jimmy Smith interfered with Michael Crabtree as he attempted to catch Colin Kaepernick's pass for a potentially match-winning TD.
"No question in my mind there was a pass interference and a hold on Michael Crabtree on that last one," Harbaugh said on NFL.com.
But he conceded his side had not been at their best.
"We want to handle this with class and grace," he said. "We had several opportunities in the game. Didn't play our best game. Ravens made a lot of plays. Our guys battled back to get back in it. We competed and battled to win."
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It's late November, and with the fantasy playoffs closing in, getting a win has never been more important -- until next week when it will be even more important. To help you out, we'll be posting the official statuses of this morning's injured stars as soon as they are made available, which is usually about 11:30 a.m. Eastern. There aren't a lot of names to watch this morning outside of one BIG name: Adrian Peterson . We'll have the latest on him and everyone else playing in the early games.
-- Steelers WR Emmanuel Sanders is active. He left last week's game because of a foot injury, but he'll be full-go versus the Browns. With Joe Haden locking down Antonio Brown, secondary receivers have succeeded recently versus Cleveland. Sanders is a sneaky-good WR3.
-- Adrian Peterson is indeed active for today's game against the Packers. I know the big numbers haven't been there, and he's not 100 percent healthy, but you should start him without hesitation. Vikings WR Greg Jennings is also active. Despite the storyline of him going up against his former team in Green Bay, I want no part of him.
-- Jaguars WR Mike Brown is inactive due to shoulder injury. Ace Sanders will start in his place, but he is only a WR4 at best.
-- Lions RB Joique Bell and WR Nate Burleson are both active. Bell is a low-end flex unless Reggie Bush fumbles again. Burleson is a risky start in his first game since Week 3 and coming back from a broken forearm, but one with ample upside. With Darrelle Revis fixated on Calvin Johnson, Burleson could be open often. He is a sleeper WR3.
-- One note in a late game: ESPN's Adam Schefter said this morning that Giants WR Hakeem Nicks "might not be looking good" to play because of his abdomen injury. That could mean a big uptick in targets for Rueben Randle.
-- Chargers WR Keenan Allen is active. He left last week's game due to a knee injury, but he wasn't limited during the practice week and is a low-end WR2 versus the Chiefs.
-- Jets WR Santonio Holmes is active. He is a shot-in-the-dark WR3 against the Ravens.
-- Ravens WR Marlon Brown is active despite a knee injury. He has a chance to get deep on a Jets pass defense that has been getting burned often lately. But he is a low-end WR3.
-- Chargers WR Eddie Royal is active, per usual, despite being listed as questionable with his toe injury. No thanks. Wide receiver Vincent Brown is also active and is also a last-ditch option.
-- Rams RB Daryl Richardson is a heathy scratch for today's game versus the Bears. Benny Cunningham and Isaiah Pead will back up clear RB1 Zac Stacy.
-- Jaguars WR Cecil Shorts is active despite a groin injury. He was listed as probable and could have a big game against the Texans one week after he ranted about not getting enough targets. I believe in the "squeaky wheel gets the grease" theory with WRs.
-- Dolphins WR Mike Wallace is active despite a hamstring injury. There are a bunch of reasons not to play him, the Panthers' tough pass defense just being the latest.
-- Texans RB Ben Tate is nurising a handful of maladies, but he's active against the Jaguars and is a low-end RB1. The Jags have allowed the eighth-most fantasy points to running backs this year.
Players who have been ruled out for Week 12 include: Denarius Moore, Darren McFadden, Jordan Reed, Aaron Rodgers, and Jay Cutler.
Fantasy Analysis:
-- Moore and McFadden are out for the Raiders, and neither practiced at all this week. Moore has a shoulder injury, and McFadden will miss his third consecutive game because of a hamstring strain. That clears the way for Rashad Jennings to get another start, and he is actually a must-start against the Titans' shoddy run defense. Without Moore, Rod Streater will likely lead in targets, but no receiver is a great play here. Tennessee has allowed the fewest fantasy points to wide receivers.
-- Reed is out after he suffered a concussion in Week 11. He hasn't even been cleared to practice yet. Logan Paulsen and Fred Davis will fill in for him, but they shouldn't be on your radar against the 49ers unless you are truly desperate.
-- Scott Tolzien will get another start for the Packers as there apparently isn't a set timetable for when Rodgers will return from his fractured collarbone. At this point, he's not looking like a good bet to suit up in four days versus the Lions. Tolzien is a quality sleeper as a QB2 today. The matchup against the Vikings is very exploitable.
-- Cutler remains out due to his high-ankle sprain and groin injury. Josh McCown will make his fourth consecutive start and has played well enough to be considered as a low-end QB1 today versus the Rams.


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October-November Special Focus: Energy Efficiency, Buildings, the Electric Grid
Throughout October and November, EETD presents a special series of articles, research highlights, and social media posts addressing some of its recent research on energy efficiency and other buildings-related topics, and the electric grid.
Tightening the envelope of homes should save energy by reducing the loss of heat when the exterior is cold, and the loss of cooled air when it is hot. Until now, it has not been clear for the current housing stock how much potential for energy savings exists in the U.S. stock of homes if all were brought up to codes requiring the tightening of the building envelope.
A research team in the Residential Building Systems group including Jennifer Logue, Brett Singer, Iain Walker and Max Sherman has now estimated the potential energy savings of implementing airtightness improvements or absolute standards, as well as adding mechanical ventilation throughout the U.S. housing stock. Logue, Singer, Walker and Sherman are scientists in the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's (Berkeley Lab) Environmental Energy Technology (EETD).
The study predicts that tightening the envelope of all U.S. homes to the current average level of performance after an energy performance retrofit would reduce the residential sector's site energy demand by 0.72 quadrillion BTUs (0.76 exajoules) annually, or more than 10 percent of the energy required to heat and cools homes. But the study also points to differences in the relative savings of homes depending on what climate zone they are located in, and other factors such as building type. It provides information that can help improve the success of energy efficiency programs designed to save energy through weatherization and air sealing of homes.
Codes require adding mechanical ventilation to well sealed buildings to ensure that buildings have adequate air circulation, but this has the effect of slightly increasing the overall energy use of buildings. ASHRAE 62.2 required whole house mechanical ventilation in order to provide sufficient fresh air for occupant health. The standard also allows for credits that reduce the required mechanical ventilation if the home is sufficiently leaky (i.e. natural airflow through the home through cracks is sufficient to provide ventilation) The study found that, for the existing housing stock, adding ventilation to homes that are not leaky enough to provide sufficient ventilation would only increase annual site energy use in the stock by 0.05-0.07 quads.
The U.S. has about 113 million homes, and in total, they represent about 23 percent of energy use. Heating and cooling these homes requires about 5 quadrillion BTUs, or half of the residential sector's total energy use. Reducing the waste of heating and cooling energy could save quite a bit of energy and money, and various voluntary building codes, such as IECC building tightness standard, Canada's R2000 Standard and the Passive House Standard, are designed to provide guidance on expectable levels of building leakiness.
The results of the research are useful to policymakers—it points the way to optimizing the effectiveness of programs for improving the energy performance of homes and reducing energy costs by tailoring a program's approaches to factors such as the climate zone, household income, and a home's physical parameters. "It gives policymakers a wedge to improve programs by comparing incremental benefits of increasing air sealing effectiveness (or reaching more stringent air tightness targets) against the costs of achieving these higher levels of home performance" says Logue.
The research team developed a computer model to calculate the change in energy demand for each home in a national sample of more than 50,000 virtual homes developed using data from the Department of Energy's 2009 Residential Energy Consumption Survey. The sample's virtual homes model a variety of home types found in each climate zone of each state in the U.S. According to the RECS, the U.S. housing stock contains 63.2% detached houses, 24.8% multi-family homes, 5.9% attached homes, and 6.1% mobile homes.
Using this cohort of U.S. homes, they estimated the energy impact of tightening building envelopes and adding mechanical ventilation for a typical meteorological year. The research uses the ASHRAE 62.2 standard as the basis for adding ventilation to homes—all homes were assumed to have been provided with specified required levels of ventilation. Once all homes complied with ASHRAE 62.2, the research team studied the energy saving impacts of upgrading to a variety of different existing national and international standards on building envelope tightness.
In the first scenario, the study calculates how much energy would be required to bring all homes in the U.S. to only the ASHRAE 62.2 standard, providing sufficient ventilation for good indoor air quality. Four other scenarios provide estimates of energy savings resulting from bringing U.S. homes up to the 62.2 standard plus a tightness standard or constraint. For example, another scenario examines the result of improving the envelope airtightness of all homes at levels currently achieved by The Department of Energy's Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP) and non-WAP energy efficiency programs while complying with ASHRAE 62.2. The WAP is DOE's program aimed at improving the energy efficiency of low-income homeowners, and is significant as one of the largest federal programs to improve home energy performance in the U.S.
Another "advanced" scenario assumes the tightening of envelopes as necessary to ensure that each house reaches the current 90th percentile tightness for homes with similar key characteristics while complying with ASHRAE 62.2.
Other scenarios looked at the energy savings from a combination of ASHRAE 62.2 and three major international standards: IECC 2012 (International Energy Conservation Code), Canada's R2000, and the Passive House standard.
"Our study found that the annual energy impact of bringing the entire current stock of homes into compliance with ASHRAE 62.2 is relatively small; it would increase the annual site energy demand of the residential sector by less than one percent," says Logue.
The research also predicts that the average tightening would reduce the residential sector's site energy demand by 0.72 quadrillion BTUs (0.76 exajoules) annually, compared to the roughly 5 quadrillion BTUs annual energy use for heating and cooling all U.S. homes.
"We also estimated that using advanced methods of air sealing to get all homes to the of the tightest 10% would double the energy savings of tightening at current average improvement levels—representing about $22 billion in savings," she adds.
The researchers found that increasing the effectiveness of Weatherization Assistance Program and non-WAP retrofits to ensure that all homes reach 90th percentile air-tightness levels for homes of similar age and construction could double the energy impact of air sealing in these programs.
The value of this study to managers of energy efficiency programs at states, municipalities and utilities, Logue believes, is that it provides a considerable amount of data about how much savings can result from tightening the envelopes of homes by climate zone, and home characteristics. It provides tools to weigh the costs of these programs vs. their benefits according to such factors as where the homes are located, and what level of tightening is achieved.
This research was funded by the Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.
The paper, "Energy impacts of envelope tightening and mechanical ventilation for the U.S. residential sector," was written by Jennifer Logue, Max Sherman, Iain Walker, and Brett Singer of the Residential Building Systems Group.


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Constitutional Torts and the New Mexico Torts Claims Act
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Constitutional Torts and the New Mexico Torts Claims Act
Kovnat, Ruth
Two observations proceed from the recognition that the same conduct may be the basis for both a tort action and a civil rights action against the government. First, state efforts to protect their treasuries are undermined to the extent that federal law gives a right to damages for constitutional deprivations. Second, some confusion about the nature of the federal civil rights action is inevitable. In fact, a prominent feature of section 1983 litigation is the relationship between the federal remedy for constitutional deprivations and state law remedies that redress tortuous conduct. That relationship is the general subject of this article.
University of New Mexico School of Law
13 N.M. L. Rev. 1 (1983)
- Kovnat, Ruth L. [7]


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City plans elections; Taylor bows out
Nick Todaro, [email protected]
Ennis is preparing for another city commission election this May, but one of the longtime veterans on the board has announced he's bowing out of the coming race.
The formal election date is planned for May 11, with early voting commencing April 29 and running through May 7 at Ennis City Hall. Commission seats up for polling include Ward 2, Ward 4 and the mayor pro-tem seat, as well as the city marshal. Those positions are two-year terms.
Mayor Pro-Tem Bob Taylor, who has served the city on the commission for nearly two decades, will end his term of service as a commissioner this May.
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Went to Walmart tonight to get .45 ACP for a week end plinking. I normally get Winchester White box 100 round box, but they were out so I asked for 4 boxes of the Federal, 50 round box. They had about 8-10 boxes, the scanners said "Do not sell" so I got Remington. The clerk tried for several minutes to get the Feds to scan, even called a super, but no go. I wonder if they were part of the recall and the computer was informed before they could be pulled from the shelf?
Ya think?


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The brightest light ever built could change the way we see the world
June 28, 2017, 4:51 p.m. by Christian Cotroneo
It's brighter than a billion suns.
The invisible becomes visible with schlieren imaging
June 27, 2017, 9:16 a.m. by Noel Kirkpatrick
There's a whole whirlwind of activity around this match that you've never seen before.
The real reason why eggs come in so many shapes and sizes may be childishly simple
June 26, 2017, 11:17 a.m. by Christian Cotroneo
A childhood conundrum finally answered by science.
Your memories can now be selectively erased
June 25, 2017, 8:20 p.m. by Bryan Nelson
The world in "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" could soon be a reality.
Chimps return favors, even if it costs them
June 23, 2017, 7:23 a.m. by Russell McLendon
Two new studies look at altruism and selflessness in chimps, which forgo rewards and risk injury to help unrelated chimps.
Kepler's conjecture: Why it took 400 years to prove what your grocer already knows
June 21, 2017, 10:36 p.m. by Bryan Nelson
The most efficient way of stacking fruit is actually one of the most difficult math problems in history.
This is art for your nose
June 21, 2017, 1:13 p.m. by Matt Hickman
Imagine an art installation focused on unique urban odors.
Sometimes, it's just too hot to fly
June 20, 2017, 3:32 p.m. by Noel Kirkpatrick
And it's not because the planes will melt.
How cats took over the world
June 20, 2017, 10:45 a.m. by Russell McLendon
A new DNA study suggests domestic cats are descendants of felines that traveled with ancient farmers and mariners — including Vikings.
Brains operate in as many as 11 dimensions, new study finds
June 19, 2017, 8:32 p.m. by Bryan Nelson
Our brains are multi-dimensional and way more complex than previously realized.
Quantum entanglement transmitted through space
June 19, 2017, 3:45 a.m. by Bryan Nelson
Remarkable achievement could usher in a 'space entanglement race.'
NASA to create colorful clouds for science
June 14, 2017, 9:14 a.m. by Noel Kirkpatrick
There's no better way to study the ionosphere than red and blue clouds.
Pit bull on 'death row' at shelter gets new life as police dog
What gray hair says about your health
Little girl feeds crows; in return, they bring her gifts
12 plants that repel unwanted insects
How to survive when your college kid comes home for the summer
In praise of 'scruffy hospitality'
Why are my plants turning yellow?
A closer look at yellowing leaves on plants can help gardeners get to the root of the problem.
7 surprising facts about dragonflies
Like did you know they can fly backward, have almost 360-degree vision and they're ferocious?
What is the best way to get rid of poison ivy?
The simplest and best answer is 'very carefully.'
Top 10 vegetables to grow in your garden
These nutritional powerhouses can flourish in your yard or in containers.
Good bug, bad bug: How can you tell the difference?
Most bugs are harmless, but here's how to tell the good from the bad — plus organic solutions.
Got moles? Read this
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'Sabres right winger Miroslav Satan arrived in New Jersey at about 12:30 yesterday afternoon to conclude a whirlwind weekend. Satan played in the Sabres' 3-2 victory over the Ottawa Senators Friday night in Buffalo and then flew on the Sabres owner's private jet to Utah, driving the final leg to Salt Lake City so he could play for Slovakia in an Olympic qualifying game against Germany. Satan left Utah at 5 a.m. mountain time (7 a.m. eastern) and made the trip back to the East Coast to rejoin the Sabres.'
Gionta fills in admirably
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Healthy Homestyle Cooking
by Evelyn Tribole
No current Talk conversations about this book.
Just alright, I guess I just like the extra fat. :)
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Coborn's DBC Foods Gets State Grant For Workers
ST. CLOUD – DBC Foods — a division of Coborn's Incorporated — has been awarded a $215,000 state grant.
The money through the Dislocated Worker Program will help 60 employees find new jobs, and update their job skills.
Coborn's announced in May that it was closing the meat and deli manufacturing facility in St. Cloud. The last day of production was July 8th.


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Completely empty, over-sized and useless exploitable:
Azfar's Exploitable:
Completely empty, over-sized and useless exploitable:
Azfar's Exploitable:
rainbows make him cry
Randy makes him cry.
can you save the exploit to tinypic?
You may never know my face...
Rate this post dumb.
He does that sometimes for some reason.
oh get out
HA. these are pretty good so far.
Incoming Reference
What about this then?
If it's "abusive" I'll just link it.
Also, I think I just did my first Godwin.
Hah nice.
Bonus points go to anyone who can make it more "Left4Dead-ish".
(User was banned for this post ("Meme Reply" - Greeman))
Meh. I tried adding noise, yellower shirt, and a little more darkness.
Maaaann, I got mah own show naow!
Hello, here is my entry.
Come here, i got some candy for you.
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So, this is another thread that is turning into a slap-a-meme-into-a-picture-in-paint thread.
I'll come up with something and make it later on.
Hooray for plays on words!
I know it's not that good, especially the text. I only just came back to GIMP after having this computer re-formatted. But I still quite like the picture. Feel free to rate disagree if you do.
I think this is better than my other one.


text: Greetings from South Florida to all of you. Recently discovered this forum and duly registered. I've been a gun owner since 1979 and a CCW bearer in FL since 1990. My guns are exclusively for target practice and not for HD since there are no safety issues whatsoever here in South Florida. :anim_lol: I shoot Glocks, Sigs, a Colt XSE and a Beretta from my little old collection. Looking forward to reading a lot and posting too.


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Police raid IRA strongholds in search of stolen cash
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Police raided properties in two Irish Republican Army strongholds of Belfast in search of the 22 million pounds ($55 million) stolen this week from a bank's underground vault.
Among the properties searched was the home of Eddie Copeland, a prominent reputed IRA commander in Ardoyne, a hard-line Catholic enclave of north Belfast.
Police confiscated four mobile phones and his shoes - and even opened presents under his family's Christmas tree.
Scores of officers, many in white forensic overalls, also searched properties in Catholic west Belfast, the primary power base of the IRA-linked Sinn Fein party.
But they didn't report any immediate progress in their hunt for the gang responsible for Monday's raid on the Northern Bank headquarters - the world's biggest all-cash robbery in peacetime.
Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams complained to Britain's Northern Ireland Secretary Paul Murphy about the searches.
"This was clearly an orchestrated event by the securocrats in the British system who are intent on wrecking the peace process," Adams said.
Northern Irish peace talks stalled earlier this month when the top Protestant party rejected IRA disarmament promises.
Outside one search site, in Belfast's Ballymurphy neighbourhood, protesters threw rocks and bottles at officers, injuring five, police said. Two of the injured officers needed hospital treatment, and one was knocked unconscious, police said.
The geography of the raids suggested the IRA - the most sophisticated of Northern Ireland's myriad illegal groups - tops the authorities' list of suspects.
The IRA - which has been observing a ceasefire since 1997 but remains active on several fronts, including criminal rackets - issued a statement on Thursday denying it was involved.
Copeland, 34, who has survived several assassination attempts, declared his innocence at the door of his Ardoyne home as police left without arresting him.
"They deliberately targeted me because they know I'm a republican in the area. It's politically motivated and they're trying to make out republicans were behind this robbery," Copeland said.
He said one of the officers even wisecracked to him: "I bet you thought days like this were over."
Meanwhile, the 45-member detective team trying to track down the robbers circulated its first partial list of serial numbers for businesses to use to identify stolen cash. But the numbers covered just 1.5 million pounds ($3.77 million) worth of the total.
Police urged the public to be wary of accepting any large amounts of Northern Bank brand currency.
Money laundering experts say the robbers will have a hard time using most of their stolen loot, because it's newly minted pound notes bear the Northern Bank's own name. These notes, peculiar to this British territory, cannot be spent in large volumes without attracting particular attention.
And Northern Bank, reflecting growing public anxiety about using any crisp Northern Bank notes in their wallets, announced that anybody wanting to swap notes could come into the bank's 95 branches across Northern Ireland.
In a statement, the bank emphasised it would swap all Northern Bank-branded notes, even "any notes that are the proceeds of the robbery but which have been handled by ordinary members of the public in good faith".
The bank confirmed it also was discussing with police the possibility of withdrawing some or all of its most recently issued note designs in a bid to make it even harder for the thieves to launder the money locally.
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In my work-in-progress, a stand-alone Dragon Blues novella titled Dragon Mama Blues, my dragon-man hero plays blues on a tenor saxophone. This is one of my favorite instruments, yet at one point, I wanted to describe the sound of a saxophone … and my mind blanked out. I couldn't think of anything except perhaps mellow.
So I did what I usually did when I'm stuck. I googled, and there's actually a site that answers that question. The first description was amazing. So vivid and, just like the saxophone itself, it gave me chills. I didn't use it in my book, but I wanted it for this blog, so I emailed the poster for permission. He never replied, so I'm not going to post it. If you're interested, you can read it here.
Instead I'm going to share this brilliant poem by Carl Sandburg, who vividly brings Chicago to life:
by Carl Sandburg
HOG Butcher for the World,
Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat,
Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler;
Stormy, husky, brawling,
City of the Big Shoulders:
They tell me you are wicked and I believe them, for I
have seen your painted women under the gas lamps
luring the farm boys.
And they tell me you are crooked and I answer: Yes, it
is true I have seen the gunman kill and go free to
kill again.
And they tell me you are brutal and my reply is: On the
faces of women and children I have seen the marks
of wanton hunger.
And having answered so I turn once more to those who
sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer
and say to them:
Come and show me another city with lifted head singing
so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning.
Flinging magnetic curses amid the toil of piling job on
job, here is a tall bold slugger set vivid against the
little soft cities;
Fierce as a dog with tongue lapping for action, cunning
as a savage pitted against the wilderness,
Building, breaking, rebuilding,
Under the smoke, dust all over his mouth, laughing with
white teeth,
Under the terrible burden of destiny laughing as a young
man laughs,
Laughing even as an ignorant fighter laughs who has
never lost a battle,
Bragging and laughing that under his wrist is the pulse.
and under his ribs the heart of the people,
Laughing the stormy, husky, brawling laughter of
Youth, half-naked, sweating, proud to be Hog
Butcher, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with
Railroads and Freight Handler to the Nation.
I love that poem! But back to my dilemma, I think I described the saxophone as sexy and sultry. I didn't want to put too much description because it would have slowed the story. Otherwise, I would have tried for something better. But I'm curious. How would you describe the sound of any instrument? Even one word is fine.
If you'd like to describe a tenor sax, here's something that might inspire you. 🙂


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La Via Campesinas message to the CFS: Sustainable peasant and family farm agriculture can feed the world!
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- Published on Monday, 11 October 2010 15:28
Press Release - La Via Campesina
(Rome, October 11, 2010) With the number of hungry people in the world at almost 1 billion, it is clear that the current food system blatantly fails in providing healthy and adequate food for all. The recent increase in land grabbing is an integral part of the dominant corporate agribusiness model with large-scale industrial monocultures. This system has caused climate change and allows speculation on food for the benefit of a small minority.
Today the plenary session of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) of the United Nations started in Rome. La Via Campesina, the international peasant movement, wants to take advantage of this occasion to reiterate that sustainable peasant and family farm agriculture can feed the world, as mentioned in our newest publication.
This also means that the solutions reside in changing our food system to a system within the framework of food sovereignty that has sustaibable family farming at its centre.
Small food producers are already feeding a huge amount of people, using smaller plots of land and working in a sustainable way.
More and more actors, such as stated in the IAASTD report recognise that small-scale sustainable farming is the way to find sustainable solutions to this terrible violation of the human right to food.
The CFS should put the right to food at the heart of the global food and agricultural governance and international institutions and governments should be made accountable regarding their efforts to implement this right. The points of view of civil society organisations directly affected by the food crisis should constitute the basis for the development of solutions. La Via Campesina will be present at the CFS to provide a follow-up to the discussions and propose real solutions.
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text: INDIANAPOLIS, April 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- REISA's upcoming Spring Symposium will feature an opening session panel, "Liquidity in Non-Traded REITs: Insights from Industry Leaders," with industry giants American Realty Capital, Cole Real Estate Investments, Inland Real Estate Corporation, and CNL Financial Group. The symposium will take place at the Sheraton Hotel and Marina in San Diego, Calif., April 14-16. "The non-traded REIT industry has generated a tremendous number of headlines in recent months on a number of fronts, particularly as several offerings have or are pursuing liquidity events," said REISA Executive Director John Harrison. "Non-traded REITs are increasingly popular investment vehicles and account for more than $80 billion in assets under management – as these offerings transition from illiquid to liquid investments, they are shaking up the investment real estate world. These industry giants will share their insights on this increasingly important issue to investors and their financial advisors." The panel features Nicholas Schorsch, chairman and CEO of American Realty Capital, Marc Nemer, president and CEO of Cole, Andrew Hyltin, group president, fund management of CNL, and Daniel Goodwin, chairman and CEO of Inland. "We want to explore the challenges these groups face in structure and strategies and what sorts of practices they are looking at for the near future. We want an in depth look here, and we expect these gentlemen are the ones to bring us the latest," said Tony Chereso, president and CEO of FactRight and panel moderator. Two of the panel participants, ARC and Cole, have been involved in ongoing discussions involving Cole's announced plans related to Cole Credit Property Trust III. Liquidity, corporate governance and shareholders rights promise to be popular topics of conversation at the conference. REISA has added rooms and capacity for the event as a result of expanded demand.


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Research Interests
I work on parallelism and functional programming. In my lab, the two main things we work on are:
- Extending the scope of deterministic parallelism. That is, we're asking "how much can you do outside of the IO monad".
- Implementing DSLs for high-performance, high-programmer-productivity parallelism, mostly targeting GPUs and/or stream processing.
Ultimately, I want to see how high-level models of computation can enable performance portability — for example, across today's parallel platforms and tomorrow's radical new parallel architectures. In the past, I have targeted sensor networks as an emerging parallel/distributed platform (Regiment & WaveScope).
Here at Indiana, I am a member of PL Wonks, and the Center for Research in Extreme Scale Technologies, or CREST.


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Put a modern spin on the classic black and white color combination with a bright pop of color. Try combining this contemporary color story with seasonal motifs like snowflakes, for your next holiday cocktail party.
L to R: Tiny Prints Cocktails of Cheer invitation, Drinks, Gift Wrap, Snowflake Cookies, Dessert Table, Yellow Garland, Snowflake Garlands


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Wendy! You've never heard of the SMs??? I'm surprised. Surely you've read of the fabulous Lost Dutchman fortune? Makes for interesting (if a bit nonsensical) reading.
You are so right! The SMs are synonymous with The Lost Dutchman, but I found all his gold back in 89 or so. Don't bother lookin', folks!
Wendy! You've never heard of the SMs??? I'm surprised. Surely you've read of the fabulous Lost Dutchman fortune? Makes for interesting (if a bit nonsensical) reading.
Great Grandpa knew "Dutch Jacob" Walz (the Apaches called him Snowbeard") and from his diary I've located a campsite of his, a Spanish fort and mines worked by both Walz and Miguel Peralta (both veins have pinched out), all are north of the Sup's. There are a few artifacts around (I found an old, Apache style moccasin, broken tools, etc.). I'd pass the locations of these on to others intrested in looking, send me a PM. I know the location of the Apache Holy Land and caves but won't share that information out of respect of their religon, there is nothing of monetary value there. There are a lot of other things hidden in the Sup's: Indian ruins, Church caches, etc. & I know where a machine gun was cached in the late 1960's & who cached it... sorry, not telling that one either!
"He that hath no sword, let him sell his garment & buy one" Jesus - Luke 22:36
Beautiful pictures, Bill.....Thanks for sharing them, you're a lucky man to be near such natural beauty.
When I see mountain vistas like that, I'm reminded of a scene from my favroite movie, "Jeremiah Johnson", when Del Gue (Stefan Gierasch) tells Jeremiah (Robert Redford) that "The Rocky Mountains are the Marrow of the World.....and By God, I was right!"
Thanks again for the pics!
NRA Member.....SWCA Member.....Semi-Retired, But Not Dead Yet.....
Well when you start posting pictures that rival Charlton Heston gun collection, and start using a Registered Magnum as a truck gun, we will know you found it. Actually I hope you DO find it. Life is so much better when good things happen to good people.
I -H-A-T-E- it when gun grabbing Libs get lucky.


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Found my 3rd jeep!!!!
07 Wk Limited 41xxx. 4.7L fully loaded trail rated 4x4. QDII
Is 12.3k worth it? (Through my dealer.)
Or is there something I need to look out for with the 4.7 mechanically? I know alot about the 3.7L, but don't know much about the 4.7.. Thanks. TRANS also?
Re: Found my 3rd jeep!!!!
Re: Found my 3rd jeep!!!!
4.7 has been around for years... its a classic chrysler motor, as in its been around a couple decades. mine has 105k on it and with basic maintenance has been fine. i have a 07.5 laredo, 4.7, qt2.
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all I can say is we have 130 k on the commander with little problems . We had to replace the water pump and evaporator last summer. Other then that she has run like a champ!
Re: Found my 3rd jeep!!!!
well, if i get this one. this baby is getting a SL with trimmed OME coils and 35's. :) my other 2 jeeps are paid off, i may sell my 06.. but i want to keep all 3 haha.
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Love my gen 2 4.7 so far :D knock on wood no problems, go for it, thats not bad for that kind of milage either.
Great engine plenty of power and good low end tourqe, takes well to minor mods, ie. intake exhaust, and tuner.
Re: Found my 3rd jeep!!!!
Well now its a toss up haha. I can get this 07 wk for 12.3 or a 2014 Mazdaspeed 3 for ~19 fully loaded.
So best of both worlds or 2 lifted wk's. Got some thinking to do.
Re: Found my 3rd jeep!!!!
trade in your 06... try to get that 07 4.7L limited for as little as you can.. and buy the mazda..
NOW THATS the best of both worlds. :lol:
seriously though, that 07 limited is a great deal. i love my 08 4.7L. I got mine with 28K on it.. laredo.. for like 17K..which is pretty good.. so 12-13K for a limited with 20K more is a nice price.
if the 06 is paid off and lifted with some nice extras.. maybe just take a few of the goodies.. you would want on the 07 off.. trade them the lifted 06 and see if they give you the stock 07 limited real cheap. then lift that. and try to get the mazda as low as you can afford.
Re: Found my 3rd jeep!!!!
OR like you said pay off the 07 and buy a speed later on. :) that may be nice.
Re: Found my 3rd jeep!!!!
haha.. well i do love XJs.. i guess its just preference.. if i had a really nicely modded 00 XJ.. id go with the mazda and the XJ. (but im partial to XJs) always wanted a 98-01 XJ. maybe someday haha
I will say ...if i had an 00 XJ, a 07 WK 4.7L limited, a 06 WK 3.7L, and the mazda.. that 06 would be the first to go in a heartbeat. i'd want the mazda for DD.. and the weekend warrior would be a really hard choice on the XJ or the WK4.7L id probably go XJ though. i just like em too much :lol:
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