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What is a Cataract?
A cataract is a clouding of the normally clear, transparent lens of the eye. A cataract is not a tumor or growth of new tissue over or in the eye. Rather it is a fogging and loss of clarity of the lens itself. The lens is located in the eye just behind the iris and the pupil.
Light entering the eye is focused by the lens onto the retina. When a cataract forms, the lens is no longer able to focus the light clearly. Therefore, your vision becomes cloudy. An early cataract may cause few problems with vision. If the cataract gets worse, sight can be partially or completely lost until the cataract is removed.
How Fast Does A Cataract Grow?
Certain types of cataracts progress quite rapidly and cause cloudy vision within a few months. Fortunately, these are relatively uncommon. Most cataracts develop gradually and do not require surgery for many months or years. In some instances, surgery is not required.
What Are the Causes of Cataracts?
There are many types of cataracts. Most are caused by chemical changes in the lens that partially result from the normal process of aging. These cataracts can rarely occur as early as age 30.
There is now evidence that prolonged exposure to ultraviolet light can contribute to cataract formation. Ultraviolet light is a normal, invisible component of sunlight. Most exposure to ultraviolet light occurs when outdoors between 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m., particularly in the summer season. Exposure to ultraviolet light can be reduced by wearing a hat with a brim and glasses that filter out ultraviolet light.
Other causes of cataracts include eye injuries and certain infections or diseases, such as diabetes. There is new preliminary information that suggests that mild forms of vitamin deficiencies can contribute to cataract formation. For this reason, it may be prudent to take one multivitamin per day. There is no evidence that taking large doses of vitamins provides any benefit. In rare instances, children can develop cataracts. If these are present at birth, they are called congenital cataracts.
What Are the Symptoms Of Cataracts?
The most common symptom of a cataract is cloudy or blurred vision. Some people notice a haziness or cloudiness of their vision, as if their glasses are constantly in need of cleaning. Double vision can occur as the cataract is forming. Glare or sensitivity to bright lights is another common complaint; at night, there may be haloes around lights or scattering of the light from the headlights of oncoming cars.
Some cataracts first affect reading or other types of close work. Other types of cataracts initially interfere with driving or seeing at a distance. Sometimes changing the glasses is helpful in restoring good vision. However, as the cataract worsens, stronger glasses may no longer improve sight.
When Should A Cataract Be Removed?
The appropriate time for cataract surgery depends upon the severity of your cataract and the degree to which it interferes with your normal daily activities. Selecting the right time for cataract surgery is a personal decision. If you are very active and use your eyes extensively for detailed work, you might benefit from cataract removal at an earlier stage than someone with less critical visual needs.
How Are Cataracts Treated?
At present the only treatment for a cataract is surgery to remove it. Many other remedies for cataracts have been attempted. These have included medications, eye drops, vitamins, changes in diet, and resting the eyes. Unfortunately, none of these has proven successful in dissolving or clearing cataracts.
Fortunately, there have been tremendous advances in cataract surgery in the past several years. The chances for recovering good vision after surgery are now excellent, although severe complications can occur in 1-3% of patients. Due to recent advances, cataract surgery now causes remarkably little discomfort and inconvenience.
How Are Cataracts Removed?
Are Stitches (Sutures) Required For Cataract Surgery?
One of the most exciting advances in cataract surgery is the ability to remove the cataract and implant an intraocular lens through a small incision. New techniques for making incisions have, in many instances, eliminated the need for sutures following cataract surgery. For some individuals, this type of incision is preferable. However, for other individuals, other types of incisions, ones that require sutures, will provide a better result for them. We, therefore, select the type of incision that is best suited for each patient's condition.
What Is A Secondary Cataract?
Following cataract surgery, we deliberately leave the back membrane of the lens in place to support the intraocular lens and protect against complications. In over 50% of eyes, this membrane eventually becomes cloudy. This cloudiness usually develops 1-5 years after surgery. This clouding of the membrane is called a "secondary cataract." The symptoms of this are often similar to those that occurred with the original cataract.
If a secondary cataract develops, we can make a small opening in the middle of this membrane using the YAG laser. This can be done quickly and painlessly without requiring an incision in the eye. The membrane almost never grows back after laser treatment. The only exception is in children, in whom the membrane often regrows one or more times. This laser procedure is also what many people confuse with laser cataract surgery.
Will I Have An Intraocular Lens Inserted During My Operation?
Removing the cataract is only the first step in recovering good vision. Since the cataractous lens has now been removed, we must provide an additional lens in order to help the eye focus light clearly. Following cataract surgery, there are three methods by which clear vision can be restored.
Intraocular Lens Implant (IOL): Our preferred way to restore vision for nearly all of our patients after cataract removal is to insert an intraocular lens implant into the eye at the time of surgery. This clear implant is placed in the eye behind the iris and pupil in the same position as the natural lens, and it stays in the eye permanently.
Implanting an intraocular lens adds little additional risk to the surgery. Patients who have certain unusual eye conditions might not be good candidates for intraocular lens implantation. We will discuss this with you when planning your surgery.
It is possible to implant an intraocular lens in an eye that has had previous cataract surgery. This can be especially beneficial to those who are having difficulty using cataract glasses or contact lenses. Not all patients are good candidates for this surgery. However, secondary lens implantation can be a very rewarding operation for those who have become frustrated with cataract glasses or contact lenses.
Contact Lenses: A contact lens can restore good vision following cataract surgery, and there have been many advances in lens design and materials in recent years. Contact lenses do not cause the visual distortions that occur with cataract glasses. Unfortunately, there are several disadvantages with contact lenses. The major one is that one must learn to insert and remove the contact lens every day. In addition, some people are not able to adapt to wearing a contact lens on the eye. Another disadvantage is that a contact lens can be easily damaged or lost, and improper care or use may cause eye infections. Only rarely do we recommend the use of contact lenses to correct vision after cataract surgery.
Cataract Glasses: These are thick, heavy glasses that cause a number of significant visual distortions, although the central vision is generally excellent. Only rarely do we recommend the use of cataract glasses to correct vision after cataract surgery.
Are There Different Types Of Intraocular Lenses?
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There are countless varieties of intraocular lenses. All lenses contain a clear central portion for focusing the light (called the "optic") and some type of flexible arms for supporting the lens inside the eye. The optic of the lens acts just as your natural lens once did, except that it cannot adjust its focus. As a result, you may need to wear regular bifocal glasses following surgery in order to get the best possible vision, especially for reading.
Recent advances in intraocular lens designs and surgical techniques have permitted us to implant lenses through small incisions. These incisions are so small that almost no astigmatism is created, and depending on the particular circumstances, sutures may not even be required to close the incision. Depending upon the condition of your eye, you may or may not be a candidate for one of these types of implants.
In the past, lens implants were monofocal or "one size fits all". Monofocal lenses provide only one focal point: either near vision for reading, or far vision for seeing distance. Monofocal lens patients will need to wear glasses following cataract surgery either for distance or near or both.
Multifocal premium lifestyle lenses are now available. Multifocal lenses provide a full range of vision and greatly reduce your dependency on glasses. Premium lifestyle lens implants currently available at Associated Ophthalmologists include: Acrysof Restor (multifocal) and Acrysof Toric (astigmatism correcting).
Please feel free to ask us any questions you might have about these various lenses.
There have been remarkable advances in cataract surgery in the past several years. We have gone from the time when people needed to lie still in bed for six weeks to an era in which outstanding vision is usually restored, often within a week or two. We look forward to discussing any of these matters further with you.


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The seeds of love take time to flourish and grow, and two Catholic couples are seeing their flower of love grow on the same timetable. Both couples met on CatholicMatch in 2011, and both were, or will be married in 2013.
It was July of 2011 that Aimee and Tony connected. Forty-year-old Aimee lived in Cincinnati, and her searched turned up a man two years older, and living in relatively nearby Indianapolis, less than a two-hour drive away. After a couple weeks of online chats, they decided to get together for their first date, and Aimee immediately sensed something special in the works.
Tony and Aimee begin with the common ground of faith and commitment to family, and their interests complement each other in a way that the relationship has opened new worlds to both of them. "He has introduced me to the world of sporting events and I have introduced him to the joy of theatre," Aimee told CatholicMatch. "We have a lot of fun together."
Aimee also noted that the fun is not confined to going to events, but can be through something as a simple as a quiet evening in each other's presence. The couple is blessed with the capacity to enjoy each other in activities big and small, all woven around the firm foundation of faith.
After dating for a year and a half, Tony proposed marriage and Aimee said yes. They were married this past March.
Our other story comes from a suburb of New Orleans, and is also a testament to love growing through suffering. Louis and Melanie (shown in the photo above) met at a time when 46-year-old Louis had lost his job and been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.
Melanie, nine years younger, had the wisdom to see in Louis the true working of God in her life. She saw beyond the difficulties he encountered, even when the "difficulty" was an incurable disease.
"It was love at first sight," she said. "He's been the gift of God for me." After meeting for the first time in December 2011, they will marry later this year.
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So... tonight I learned that Christianity Today reviewed Through a Screen Darkly three weeks ago, and I didn't know about it until today! How did I miss that? Kind of strange, considering I write for them. But, well... wow! Cool!Many thanks to Eric Miller for this generous, surprising review. Here are a couple of excerpts... … [Read more...]
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Layoffs Make Hachette Easier Prey for AmazonBy
Negotiating with Amazon, as numerous companies in a wide variety of fields can attest, can be a treacherous dance. One misstep, and you're likely to hobble away needing stitches.
Amazon.com has proven over the years to have an uncanny knack for sensing the vulnerabilities in negotiating partners or actively helping exacerbate them. (Classic Amazon: At the very moment it was negotiating with Quidsi, the parent company of Diapers.com, Amazon launched Amazon Mom, a service designed to brutally undercut Quidsi's business. As my colleague Brad Stone wrote: "Quidsi could now taste its own blood.") Either way, the result is typically the same: Amazon gets what it wants.
None of which bodes well for the Hachette Book Group.
For the past several weeks, Hachette has been locked in a high-profile negotiating dispute with Amazon. So far, both companies have remained mum on the specific demands underlying the rancor, which is believed to involve the pricing of e-books.
In recent days, even as Hachette cleaned Amazon's clock on the public relations front—thanks to the likes of Stephen Colbert, John Green, James Patterson, Malcolm Gladwell, and J.K. Rowling—you couldn't help but sense some vulnerability of Hachette's would soon be exposed.
On Thursday, Hachette announced that the publisher was letting go of 3 percent of its U.S. workforce. The job cuts are not a direct result of the current standoff with Amazon, the French company pointed out, but rather were part of a "cost-savings initiative" designed to improve its "resilience to a changing marketplace." In simpler terms, business is lousy. Last month, Hachette's parent company, Lagardère, revealed that global sales in the first quarter had slipped 6 percent, in part, due to weakness in its divisions in English-speaking countries.
Maybe it was just a coincidence. Maybe Amazon was totally surprised yesterday by the news of Hachette's financial delicacy, in the same way that lions sometimes just happen to chase down a vulnerable member of the zebra herd.
In any case, with additional e-book negotiations on the horizon ahead, the rest of the Big Five publishers in the U.S. are now carefully watching as Amazon tangles with the smallest member of their pack first. As they take notes, they may feel twinges of regret about many things. The recent moves to get bigger and stronger through consolidation will probably not be one of them.


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COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The 2011 NCAA Fencing
Championships came to a close on Sunday and several Ivy League
student-athletes figured prominently in the women's
championship bouts, led by 2011 foil National Champion
Alexandra Kiefer of Harvard. In the team
standings, Princeton led the Ivies with a fourth place showing,
followed by sixth place Harvard, seventh place Columbia and eighth
place Penn.
With a 15-7 win in the championship bout over Princeton's Eve Levin, Kiefer became the eighth Ivy League student-athlete to claim the women's foil national title. Kiefer was the second seed after pool play, while Levin was the fourth seed. In the semifinals, Levin downed top-seeded Doris Willette of Penn State, 15-12. Keifer took out Evgeniya Kirpicheva of St. John's, 15-12, in the other semifinal bout. For their top-four finishes, both Keifer and Levin were awarded first team All-American honors. Princeton's Hyun-Kyung Yuh finished sixth to be named a second team All American.
In women's sabre, Eliza Stone of Princeton and Caroline Vloka of Harvard made it to the direct elimination portion of the championship race, as Stone totaled 20 wins on the weekend and Vloka 19. Top-seeded Stone took down fourth-seeded Eileen Hassett of Notre Dame in one semifinal bout, 15-14. In the other semifinal, Duke's Rebecca Ward bested Vloka in a rematch of last season's championship bout, 15-11. In the final, Ward proved victorious over Stone, 15-12. With their top-four finishes, Stone and Ward earned first team All-American honors. Finishing with 12 wins apiece, Diamond Wheeler of Princeton, Samantha Roberts of Columbia and
Loweye Diedro, also of Columbia, earned third team All-America honors in women's sabre.
In epee, Harvard's Noam Mills finished atop the field following pool play with 21 victories to advance to the semifinals as the top seed. In the semis, Mills downed Margherita Guzzi Vincenti of Penn State, 15-8. But in the championship bout, Mills was edged by Courtney Hurley of Notre Dame, 8-7. Also finishing in the epee top-12 to earn All-America status were Penn's Amrit Bhinder, Columbia's Lydia Kopecky and Princeton's Hannah Safford.
2011 Ivy League All-Americans
Men's Epee (5)
First Team: Jonathan Yergler (Princeton)
First Team: Peter Cohen (Yale)
Second Team: Mike Raynis (Harvard)
Third Team: Alen Hadzic (Columbia)
Third Team: Jacob Wischnia (Penn)
Men's Foil (4)
Second Team: Nathaniel Botwinick (Yale)
Second Team: Alexander Mills (Princeton)
Third Team: Alexander Pensler (Columbia)
Third Team: Vidur Kapur (Penn)
Men's Sabre (2)
First Team: Evan Prochniak (Penn)
Third Team: Valentin Staller (Harvard)
Women's Epee (4)
First Team: Noam Mills (Harvard)
Second Team: Amrit Bhinder (Penn)
Second Team: Lydia Kopecky (Columbia)
Third Team: Hannah Safford (Princeton)
Women's Foil (3)
First Team: Alexandra Kiefer (Harvard)
First Team: Eve Levin (Princeton)
Second Team: Hyun-Kyung Yuh (Princeton)
Women's Sabre (5)
First Team: Eliza Stone (Princeton)
First Team: Caroline Vloka (Harvard)
Third Team: Diamond Wheeler (Princeton)
Third Team: Samantha Roberts (Columbia)
Third Team: Loweye Diedro (Columbia)
Final Standings
1. Notre Dame, 174
2. Pennsylvania State, 168
3. St. John's University, 155
4. Princeton, 150
5. Ohio State, 148
6. Harvard, 137
7. Columbia, 94
8. Penn, 91
9. Duke, 74
10. Stanford, 72
11. Northwestern, 52
12. Yale, 50
13. Brown, 39
13. Temple, 39
13. Air Force, 39
16. Sacred Heart, 27
17. Cornell, 19
18. Vassar College, 18
20. Brandeis, 15
21. Wayne State, 11
23. Boston College, 9
25. Detroit Mercy, 8
25. Drew, 8
27. Cleveland State, 7
27. U.C. San Diego, 7
29. Hunter College, 6
30. Cal Tech, 3
Harvard's Alexandra Kiefer Claims Foil Title at the 2011 NCAA Fencing Championships
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The 2011 NCAA Fencing
Championships came to a close on Sunday and several Ivy League
student-athletes figured prominently in the women's
championship bouts, led by 2011 foil National Champion
Alexandra Kiefer of Harvard. In the team
standings, Princeton led the Ivies with a fourth place showing,
followed by sixth place Harvard, seventh place Columbia and eighth
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Hey everyone, I will be in Oahu for my honeymoon for a few days before we jump on a cruise ship. I noticed you guys have a gtg on Friday nights. This still going on? Maybe we will try to swing by. Is there anything else going on in Oahu? Where are some places that a "tourist" should stay away from? Any good places to checkout? Any insight would be awesome. We are staying in the Wakiki area (one of the resorts on the beach.)
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School Choice, New York-Style? For Some More Than Others
The application process for admission to middle school dominated the school year for our family. There were open houses, a districtwide school fair and, for families applying to gifted and talented programs known as "citywides," assessments and interviews to sort children.
We took five school tours, which required that parents take time off from work. Our son missed five half-days of school and endured listening to principals talk in packed auditoriums about their school's data, including acceptance rates to competitive high schools.
This is school choice, New York City-style.
Nationally, the words "school choice" are associated with school vouchers and charter schools. The central argument for school choice in this context is that parents have a right to opt out of the regular public school system if schools fail children.
Whatever the argument for school choice elsewhere, in New York City public schools it plays out very differently. Instead of providing better education for all children, choice in New York City ensures a two-tiered system powered by demographics and ZIP codes more than anything else.
With few exceptions, the opportunity gap directs where kids go to school. This claim is backed up by a recent study by the Schott Foundation for Public Education, which found that poor and minority students have fewer opportunities to attend the "best" public schools because of where they live. (Editor's Note: the Schott study did not include charter schools.)
This year 11 percent of children accepted to gifted and talented programs are black, though blacks make up 30 percent of the student body.
In December 2011, Chancellor Dennis M. Walcott told members of the audience at a public forum in Brooklyn that the city's families have more choices now than ever before, evidenced by the new school application that allows parents to list up to 12 choices.
The reality is that in our district, which encompasses five neighborhoods that vary widely in terms of race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status, the "top" middle schools have many more white and middle-class children attending them than do other schools.
Factoring in our son's state test scores and report card grades, we selected three schools to which he was eligible to apply. The chart below presents demographic information and grade-level rates of children who attend these three schools. It also includes three other schools in our district to which we did not apply, although we were eligible. (Much of the data for the chart came from InsideSchools.org; the information about applications in 2010 came from a middle school flier given to all District 15 parents.)
A close look at the chart demonstrates the ways these six schools are similar and/or different from one another.
One school provides free lunch to 93.1 percent of children. Another provides free lunch to 24.4 percent of children.
One school has a student body that is 85 percent Hispanic. Another school has a student body that is 1 percent Asian.
The number of applicants for seats varies, with one school selecting 80 children out of more than 1,000 applicants in 2010.
There was a chance that our son would not get into the schools we listed first, second or even third on the middle school application. Yet, the stress on our family aside, we are at the top of the pile in this process.
We live in an upper-middle-class enclave and have access, because of our ZIP code, to an elementary school led by an exemplary principal who hires strong, experienced teachers. Because of the resources made available to our son, he performs competently on state tests, as do nearly all of the children in his elementary school.
School choice for families in our neighborhood means that they can choose schools with a majority of children who score similarly to their own children on state tests and who are not majority poor, black, Hispanic or immigrant.
Lower-performing children, many of them poor, black, Hispanic and immigrant, however, were not eligible to apply to the schools my son did because they did not score "3" or above on state tests and/or in academic subjects in fourth grade.
These kids will attend schools that in some cases have 11 percent of children at grade level in reading and writing. In some cases these schools are majority black or Hispanic. They have high teacher turnover.
So do their families have school choice in the way that we did?
Importantly, many New York City parents cannot make their child's middle school application process a full-time or second job like many of my peers have. Many parents face getting fired for taking time off from work. Many parents do not have the resources and time to prepare children for entrance exams and auditions. And many children attend schools that do not prepare them, either.
Across the last decade, New York City has mandated school choice at the middle school level. "Zone" schools, which offered a seat to all middle school kids in their neighborhoods, no longer exist.
But even before the era of mandatory choice in New York City, high-achieving kids were able to opt out of their zone school for a gifted and talented program. So, before choice was mandated, some families had choice.
Proponents of choice argue that it introduces competition to the system, pushing weaker schools to improve. However, the "better" middle schools are able to choose well-prepared students in the first place. And, in many cases, these kids perform well because of the advantages they have had since birth, including attending preschool, having parents who read to them and taking part in enrichment activities outside of school that wealthier parents pay for.
We waited nervously for the letter assigning our son to his middle school to arrive. We worried we did not order our choice application correctly. Should our second choice really have been our first choice?
We worried that our son's commute home from middle school would not be safe. We worried that he would not get personal attention in a large school on our choice list. But, at the end of the day, we knew he will have many advantages by attending one of the schools we were able to choose — and that most of the middle school children across our district and the city will not have those kinds of choices.
The admissions letters arrived on Monday, and our son and almost all of his school friends got their first choice. This is not surprising. With few exceptions, the opportunity gap directs where kids go to school.


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Speaker Install Question
Hi All,
My speakers finally arrived from the US! :D
Now, just a quick question! I know some have installed 3.5" speakers into the dash of a WJ (factory 2.75"), how much work does it involve? And what?
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Depth is going to be the real challenge. The cover on the front of the dash that you remove to install the speakers is just held in place with friction clips. I used a small socket and ratchet to removed the screws that hold in the speaker.
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Just did this the other day,not for those not comfortable with a dremel or die grinder!I used my handy die grinder to hack out one of the speaker screw mounting pads,a bit of the dash that is covered by the trim panel,and a bit of the firewall insulation,all the while trying not to marr the dash panel itself.The driver's side is very tight,more room on the pass. side.I also had to hack off most of the plastic ring on the top side of the new speakers being careful not to nick the cone.Butcher job perhaps,but they fit under the stock cover(barely),don't rattle or buzz, and really improved the sound over the factory grenaded units.:thumbsup:
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Kratom leaves bring about stimulating and sedative effects to the body. It readily depends on the level of dosage. Intake of low dosage would be stimulating while high dosage gives the body a sedative-euphoric-analgesic effect.
You should learn of what the stimulant and sedative levels feel like after taking Kratom. These feelings and the side effects have been described in the remaining parts of this article.
For a starter, you must know that Kratom is a tree popular with people in Southeast Asia. The leaves of the tree are used herbal remedies. They can be chewed or taken as tea to serve as medication to the body. In Western countries, Kratom is commercially sold as an alternative medication for emotional and physical issues.
The feelings experienced after Kratom has been taken is either stimulating or sedating. Here are more details on these.
The stimulating effect of Kratom – The feeling you get when low dosage of kratom leaves or powder is stimulating. You will have your physical energy boosted, sexual energy increased, and your mind becomes more alert. More so, you become more sociable, friendly, and talkative. You also have the ability to do more hard monotonous hard work. The side effect of this level is that the feeling could become edgy rather than pleasant.
The Sedating Effect of Kratom – The feeling you get when high dosage of Kratom is taken is sedating. Yes, you get this sedative-euphoric-analgesic feeling that will make you less sensitive to pain. You will experience a general feeling of comfort and you will feel and look calm. High dosage of Kratom is often provided to relieve pain because of its anesthetic effect. The feeling of "after-glow" is often achieved with the intake of high dose of this wonder herbal drug. The feeling gotten by taking opium or related narcotic is reflected after taking this. The side effect of this level includes nausea and constricted pupil.
Conclusively, the stimulating and sedating effects of Kratom usage are often relished by many who use this substance for recreation. However, care must be taken to ensure that responsible dosage is taken at the right time. The abuse of this substance could be dangerous to the body. Many health issues have been reported by users who abuse the intake of Kratom.


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The title of the episode is pretty self-explanatory. While the focus of the episode was on Landry confessing to his crime against Tyra's attacker, there was still plenty of stuff going on that interested me.
Besides Landry confessing, there was Tami and Julie continuing to go at each other's throats. It could've been easy for the show to bore us to death with these scenes, constantly showing the same thing over and over. However, the writers have been smart in how they show Julie and Tami arguing. There's a sort of ebb and tide to it; just as they start getting along, the tension builds again and they explode. Their argument in this episode may have been their best scene yet. The intensity of it stood out to me and I was psyched to see that the show allowed them to scream over each other, even if we couldn't understand them.
Then there's the Santiago character, who has been a wild card this season. He hasn't exactly contributed anything to the season so far except for when he moved into Buddy Garrity's house. I'm not exactly having high hopes for him, but I have been hoping that the show would at least use him somehow and tonight, my waiting paid off. Watching his nervousness over his first game as handled perfectly. They didn't make him do good right off the bat. He had to earn a few bruises first before he could change the momentum. Seeing him and Buddy talk together and bond a little bit was a great scene as well.
Speaking of characters who haven't contributed as much to the season, Jason Street shows up after he was missing for a couple of episodes. I've always liked Street and I hate it when the show gives him little to do. Luckily, his plot here was some good comic relief and it's nice to see him get a little victory. It also finds him moving out of his parents house and into Herc's apartment.
Besides the Matt and Carlotta relationship, the show is starting to find its feet late in the second season.


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MHS Band Members Selected to All Region BandsJanuary 9th, 2012 by Monticello Schools
Congratulations to the Monticello High School Band members who auditioned on Saturday, January 7th at Monticello Middle School and were selected to be in the Region 3 All Region Bands. Of the 24 MHS Band students that auditioned, all 24 students placed. They are as follows:
Skye Austin, 1st band 1st chair flute
Mallory Jones, 1st band 4th chair flute
Elizabeth Wilson, 1st band 10th chair flute
Sarah Albritton, 2nd band 12th chair flute
Norma Rivera, 1st alternate flute
Sarah Tappe, 2nd alternate flute
Becca Spurlock, 4th alternate flute
Beth Fleming, 1st band 2nd chair clarinet
Hannah Wilkerson, 2nd band 10th chair clarinet
Olivia Wooten, 2nd band 25th chair clarinet
Autumn Webb, 1st band 1st chair alto clarinet
Joshua Williams, 1st band 1st chair bass clarinet
Tysheona Ferrell, 1st band 1st chair contrabass clarinet
Cameron Sadler, 1st band 4th chair alto saxophone
John Bonfanti, 1st band 6th chair trumpet
Matthew Montgomery, 1st band 9th chair trumpet
Josie Kelley, 2nd band 10th chair trumpet
Matt Cater, 2nd band 1st chair french horn
Jeremy Weih, 2nd band 1st chair trombone
Corey Pemberton, 2nd band 2nd chair baritone
Marlon Druilhet, 1st band 7th chair tuba
Amy James, 1st band 4th chair percussion
Rian Meeks, 2nd band 5th chair percussion
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You've had a great week. With the Affordable Care Act upheld and nationwide marriage equality now the law, you must feel like celebrating. But wait! Why not carry this momentum and take another step that would increase the equality and well-being of Americans? I'm talking about an executive order asking government contractors to disclose their political spending. Read more >
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Investors unnerved again by Chinese slowdown and crude price fall
Analysts expect only patchy recovery from pre-election slowdown
Company positive about outlook after half year revenues rise 12%
Estate agent group hit by concerns about lower priced competitors
Property portal hit by launch of rival OnTheMarket but visitor numbers rise
Analysts say new property portal may not be the threat originally expected
Estate agency blames political uncertainty and tighter mortgage lending controls
Housing price boom lifts sector but Liberum plays down fears of potential bubble
Cash-strapped Britons shun the luxury cooker brand, driving sales down 3%
Shareholders in Persimmon are in for a tidy windfall – the housebuilder is returning £1.9bn in surplus cash to investors following a jump in profits
Telford Homes shares have risen 14% as regeneration stimulates demand in east London
Housebuilder Persimmon said today that sales in the summer weeks have held up well and are ahead of its expectations - a further sign that the housing market is starting to recover
Housebuilder Persimmon is in demand ahead of its full year figures next Tuesday, following a couple of analyst upgrades
It all this points to one thing, as far as investors are concerned - and that is another rate reduction when the Bank next meets early in November - if not before
Housebuilders are being hit again on worries about possible refinancing, along with the never-ending gloom associated with the sector
Housebuilders' shares are having something of a relief rally, following the coordinated central bank action to knock 50 basis points off interest rates
With the chaos among the banks - whose shares are being hammered this morning on talk of £50bn of government funding which could dilute existing investors' stakes - there are growing concerns about businesses trying to renegotiate their loan terms.
Dresdner Kleinwort reveals 'near apocalyptic landscape' after visits to Midlands and north of England
It is a sign of the market's buoyant mood that a fairly grudging note from Goldman Sachs on the housebuilders has lifted the sector
Hopes for a suspension of stamp duty and a falling oil price combined to deliver a 2.5% rise in the FTSE 100 today.
A handful of Britain's battered builders are undergoing a bit of a rally for a change. Traders said part of the reason was the government's promise yesterday to help the beleagured housing sector.
Talk of a deal with its bankers pushes Barratt to the top of the FTSE 250, but Carpetright warns of difficult times ahead
There is the smell of slightly singed fingers at property investment group Grainger. It shares had soared by more than a quarter this morning on hopes of a bid from Regis Group, a rival run by entrepreneurs the Gould brothers.
Britain's troubled housebuilders have received a lift after reports that Barratt Developments - which is weighed down with around £1.8bn of debt - was being fully supported by its bankers.
A bit of relief for builder Redrow, despite HBOS's predictions of a 9% fall in house prices. Its shares - which were weak yesterday on talk it might need a rights issue - have risen more than 9% to 150.75p after Citigroup moved its recommendation from sell to buy.
Buy oil, sell housebuilders is the continuing mantra of the markets. With the crude price firm at around $133 a barrel ahead of US data expected to show a drop in inventories, oil and energy shares are in demand.


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Danny Garcia 139.8 vs. Erik Morales 139.2
(WBC/WBA super lightweight championship)
Paul Malignaggi 146.2 vs. Pablo Cesar Cano 148.4*
(WBA welterweight championship)
Hassan N'Dam N'Jikam 159 vs. Peter Quillin 159.2
(WBO middleweight championship)
Randall Bailey 147 vs. Devon Alexander 146.8
(IBF welterweight championship)
* Cano returned an hour later, but still failed to make weight, only getting down to 148.2. Malignaggi-Cano is expected to go ahead as a non-title bout.
** There is still a possibility that the NYSAC may pull the plug on Garcia-Morales due to Morales' failed drug test. As of now the fight is on.
Other weights:
Daniel Jacobs 161.2 vs. Josh Luteran 161.8
Luis Collazo 146.8 vs. Stephen Upsher 148.6
Dmitry Salita 150 vs. Brandon Hoskins 147.2
Eddie Gomes 151 vs. Saul Benitez 149.6
Venue: Barclays Center, Brooklyn, NY
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RE: How to display package contents?
I generally use the Needs statement to load a package. It avoids double
loading and all the error messages that result. Say
Then to obtain information on the routines in the package just use...
On Version 4.1 or later you obtain an active cell listing all the exported
names in the package. If you click on any of the names you obtain the usage
message for the name. (On earlier Mathematica versions you only obtain a
list of the names and you have to use ?name to obtain the usage message.)
Also on Version 4.1 or later the usage messages usually have an active
"More" link. If you click on that it will bring you to the relevant Help
page. (Private packages may not have that feature.)
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I came to Dr. Bustillo because I was dissatisfied with the outcome of my first rhinoplasty. Although I could breathe better, the bridge of my nose was now wider and the bump that I had explicitly said I wanted gone was still there, along with some new asymmetries. It was not a textbook "bad" result, but it did not make me look more attractive, either. At my consultation, Dr. B was calming and professional from the very start, and waited to hear what I wanted to change first before giving me his opinion. (There is nothing worse than going in for one thing and coming out insecure about something else you never even noticed in the first place.) I booked my revision just days later. The night before surgery, Dr. Bustillo calls to check in and address any last minute concerns, and also calls in the evening after the procedure. It is a small gesture that really makes you feel taken care of. On the day of surgery, the team made me feel comfortable and assured me I was in good hands. Boy, were they right!
Even with the cast on, I could already see an improvement- my nose was already more symmetrical! I never even needed the pain pills and it felt like a bad cold. When the cast came off, I watched my mother's reaction -- and it was nothing but genuine smiles and nods. Even at a mere two weeks post-op, I have gotten countless compliments from friends and family members. My result was a natural and conservative one, although it was a marked improvement from how I looked before. Dr. Bustillo's talent lies inherently in his ability to leave the "good parts" of the nose or face alone and only alter what can reasonably be improved upon. He is a highly skilled and meticulous surgeon who possesses expert judgement in the operating room, as he can identify what needs to be changed and do it in just the right amount so you don't look overdone or, in my case the first time around, underdone. This is exactly the quality that you want when going in to have work done. Additionally, the office staff is friendly and organized, and the facility is beautifully appointed. If you are in the market for facial plastic surgery, look no further than Dr. Bustillo.


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The S630 is also a little lacking in overall performance. It starts up in just over 1.5 seconds, and shuts down again in just over two, which is quick enough, but in single-shot mode it is quite slow, with a shot-to-shot time of approximately 3.2 seconds. In continuous shooting mode it isn't much better, shooting a frame every two seconds, accompanied by an alarming hissing whine from the autofocus system, which is automatically set to full-time AF in continuous mode.
Nikon has made a lot of progress with its compact camera AF system over the past year or two. It used to be a major weak point, but the AF in the S630 is very good. It focuses quickly and accurately in almost all lighting conditions, even at long zoom settings in quite low light, although the rather weak AF assist lamp does limit it to a range of around two metres in really dark conditions. The built-in flash is nice and powerful, with an effective range of about five metres and good frame coverage at wide angle.
Image quality is generally very good. Colour reproduction is excellent, and the matrix light metering is usually accurate and reliable, and copes well with most lighting conditions, including strong backlighting. The quality of the 7x zoom lens is also good, with minimal distortion, good corner sharpness and minimal chromatic aberration. However despite the quality of the lens, the 12MP resolution of the sensor and the relatively low compression ratio of the highest quality setting, the images still look slightly soft. I still don't think there's any advantage to 12MP over 10MP.
Another area where Nikon has made improvements is noise control, and the S630 can produce excellent image quality up to 400 ISO, and usable prints from 800 ISO. Even at 1600 ISO images are OK if you just want them for a website, but 3MP shots at 3200 and 6400 ISO do look a bit grim. Overall though the S630 is capable of producing good photographic results in a wide range of lighting situations.
Although it's a bit expensive for a point-and-shoot automatic, the Nikon CoolPix S630 does offer excellent handling, Nikon's impeccable build quality, a big 7x zoom and very good picture quality. It copes well with most lighting conditions, and is ideal for holiday snaps and social situations. Performance is a bit slow, and it lacks some of the latest features, but it's a nice camera to use and takes good pictures.
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Hi. Can you do a review of Nikon's P90 which has just been released?
so zenereffect what do you think about its competitor the olympus Stylus 7000
small & black, sleek & stylish, lovely curves, easy to use...
very sexy camera baby, yeah!
HOWEVER, it shoots rather mediocre pictures. i was quite let down actually, especially considering it's a Nikon.
a significant number of shots are out-of-focus, even though the AF-assist locked-on to the subject, and despite the fact that vibration reduction and motion detection are both enabled.
also, what you SEE is NOT always what you GET. that is, frame composition does not match-up precisely with what is shown on the LCD preview screen; the resultant image file is often askew, from what was originally displayed on the preview screen. so framing a 'perfect' shot is hit'n miss with this camera. point... and hope for the best.
white balance is not always correct, especially when the flash is activated; there is often a slight greenish hue to flash pictures, kinda like the shot was taken under fluorescent lighting, without WB correction.
image quality (resolution) of the LCD preview screen is nothing to rave about either... but hey, i'm picky about those kinda things.
most important though - picture quality is not exactly stunning or anything, definitely doesn't live up to Nikon's otherwise high standard for great looking pics. the S630 is absolutely not what i was expecting from a Nikon camera... this Coolpix S630 is nice to look at, but it's beauty is only skin-deep. hard to believe that it's got all those megapixels and a Nikkor lens... yet, it takes 'OK' pictures.
OH, and did i mention... i'm disappointed.
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Please help me identify this trim.
Hi Everyone,
I'm remodeling a bathroom and I'd like to use the same type of casing I have throughout my 1930's Cape Cod. The door/window trim is done in two pieces. I've found plenty of the outer type, but I'm having a hard time identifying the flat piece. The piece is 2 3/4" x 1/2", the piece used on the top is all flat and the pieces used on the sides have a slight bevel to the inside edge. Does anybody know what this is called and if it's likely that I'd be able to find it somewhere in the correct size or would I have to pay to have it milled?
Thanks Much,
It was probably made on site with a Tablesaw,+ a Router.......
I agree with Bondo.. Looks like flat stock and a round over bit for the large piece.
Might check a couple of local millworks/lumber yards to see if they stock it but it shouldnt be hard to duplicate with a router table.
Called; Sanitary casing and back banding
Looks like flat stock on the outer most section.
Then you could use 1/4 round for the next section.
Then the window trim is wider flat stock that is closest to the window.
looks to me as if the casing is simple 1x6 clear pine and the outer perimeter is a 1x2 clear with 1/4" quarter round. No need to mill this as you can recreate it very easily. I do have to admit, this is a very nice trim job, just forgot to fill in the nail holes
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Hello. I am bi-racial Black and White with a yellowish complexion. Up until this past year, I've never experienced anything more than a pimple here and there and NEVER hyperpigmentation from them. But now my face is covered in them!
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Baby Names
"Oh yes, my dad named me after Princess Diana..""My name means morning sun in Japanese. What did your parents name you after?""..... >_< "
My life as a Malaysian doctor in the United States.
"Oh yes, my dad named me after Princess Diana..""My name means morning sun in Japanese. What did your parents name you after?""..... >_< "
Whatever name you choose, she will be precious!
The Lin
(Helen's an old lady name in the US, so I never had to share my name with anybody in school!)
Kids or not, we had already decided on the full names of the oldest boy and oldest girl -- both include 2 middle names, one of which is Chinese, to honour our respective parents. Tough luck on them for filling out those SAT bubbles though...
put in a chinese middle name! go through all those tang shi and stuff to find something nice. sorry, i'm all for holding onto our heritage. since she's going to be half chinese, it'll be nice =)
talkin about names....I met a guy who hpnd to be my patient ..n his name was MOHAMAD RIONALDO.... muahahaha ( and he's not even in the m'sian football team! )
another newborn baby...she was named MARIA SHARAKONA ( and mind u, it's a MALAY baby )..inilah makna inovatif dan kreatif ;-)
and recently, in the paeds ward, an infant got admitted for acute bronchiolitis...n her name was
ALIA ROXETTE SHAHIRAH ....n i actually HAD to ask the mother..."r u a fan of ROXETTE ? " n the reply was " NO, but the FATHER is, n he insisted on naming his child after her!! "
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Scott Disick thinks he's Jesus
Not sure if he thought this was funny (it's not), clever (he's not), or cute (he's dumb), but this is the photo that Scott Disick Instagrammed out yesterday.
If you don't know, this is a picture of the famous Da Vinci painting depicting The Last Supper....with the Kardashian's faces photoshopped on it. And, of course, Lord Disick is Jesus.
If you believe in God, please pray to Him to smite Scott Disick and save us all the grief.
Scott did finally realize that he's stupid, and he pulled the picture off of his Instagram account


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Rays Use Long Ball To Hang On For Win
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The Tampa Bay Rays took a game they had well in hand, and made it a nail-biter.
Tampa Bay got three home runs in support of Erik Bedard, but had to hold on to defeat the Baltimore Orioles 5-4 Saturday.
Tampa Bay didn't take long to get on the board, as Desmond Jennings led off the game by blasting a Wei-Yin Chen offering deep into the seats in left for a 1-0 lead.
The Rays added two more an inning later, as Sean Rodriguez singled with one out ahead of Logan Forsythe, who sent a Chen pitch into the bullpens for his first home run as a Ray, extending the lead to 3-0.
Kevin Kiermaier got in the action in the fourth inning, as he followed a Forsythe single wit his fourth home run of the year, pushing the Rays' lead to 5-0 and ending Chen's afternoon after just 3 1/3 innings.
Meanwhile, Bedard was for the most part masterful against his former team, pitching in to the eighth inning for the first time this season. He did not allow a run until the sixth, when Nick Markakis hit a solo homer off Bedard to cut the lead to four.
Tampa Bay's lead all but disappeared in the eighth, as J.J. Hardy led off the inning with a single, and Manny Machado ended Bedard's afternoon with a two-run blast off the left-field foul pole to cut the lead to 5-3.
Joe Maddon turned to Grant Balfour in the eighth, who gave up a one-out single to Delmon Young, followed by a base hit to Markakis. After getting Steve Pearce to pop out for the second out of the inning, Jake McGee was brought it to face Adam Jones, who singled in Young to make it a one-run game.
McGee then struck out Chris Davis, got Hardy to ground to first, then struck out Machado to strike out on a curveball to record his third save.
Tampa Bay can finish up with a series win with a victory in Sunday's finale. Alex Cobb (2-6, 4.10 ERA) will get the start against Miguel Gonzalez (4-5, 4.48 ERA). First pitch is scheduled for 1:35, with coverage on WDAE starting at 11:30 with the Suncoast Hyundai Dealers Inside Pitch.


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Re: Pattern matching
John Leary wrote:
> Greetings
> Can you help me please - there must be a simple solution to this problem,
> but I can't find it.
> From a list of character strings and a list of templates, I need to
> produce a list of all strings that match any of the templates. For example:
> listData={"18K0F3C--" , "2K40GXX--" , "400HGXX--" , "5M00G1F--" , "960KG1D--"}
> listTemplates={"???H?????" , "???K?????"}
> result={"400HGXX--","960KG1D--"}
> In the templates, ? is a wild-card that represents a single character.
> The data strings contain only alpha-numeric characters and hyphens - no
> other characters.
> There are no special requirements for the result: duplication and random
> order are acceptable.
Here's one way to do it: implement a matchTemplatesQ function that
yields true if any of the templates is matched.
Note that matchTemplatesQ depends on listTemplates which is not given as
an argument -- Personally I don't have a problem with polution of the
global namespace, but you'll probably get some followup on this...
matchTemplatesQ[s_String] :=
Or @@ ((MatchQ[Characters[s], Characters[#] /. "?" -> _]) & /@
Select[listData, matchTemplatesQ]
The mystical @@, /@ and ( # )& stuff is just a shorthand for Apply,
Map and Function, which you might want to look up in help.
Hope this helps
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This is a discussion on New guy from South florida is upset about skyrocketing ammo costs. Thoughts,fellas? within the New Members Introduce Yourself forums, part of the Welcome To DefensiveCarry.com category; Hello all, First let me say, cudos to the men who wrote the rules of conduct for this boarde. After reading it...I said to myself ...
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First let me say, cudos to the men who wrote the rules of conduct for this boarde. After reading it...I said to myself "Wow...if we threw out the constitution, and just used the rules posted here for laws for living on the outside, what a much better place it would be. One reason why? People would know their place! Saying that phrase.."knowing your place" used to be a racist comment down south 40 years ago. But now it seems from teenagers in school who think its ok to threaten other students and even teachers, to all the people who randomly walk into your neighborhood with tattoos from their ankles running straight up their neck hoping youll step on their toe, to all the wanna be gang bangers who have no command of the english language at all anymore...to men who think it is ok to reach out and touch a woman they like on the street!!!!.......its time people are taught to know their place, I think. The rules here are a great start. Kudos!
Now..onto the nuts and bolts....how much more can ammo keep rising. Gold, oil, stock prices, everything that seems to go up parabolically,always crashes back down.....except ammo! Why? Well, one guy on another board said that the distributors of ammo dont care what we think because the military is buying most of the ammo it can get its hands on anyway! Christ, I never thought of that. But then , if thats true, where are gangs, criminals, drug cartels and people in foreign countries who want "made in the USA" ammo getting them from?
Would someone like to take a crack at telling me, please......
By the way, this is my first post. You can call me Daytrader. Pleasure to meet you all. I was born and raised in Brooklyn but now reside in Florida last 8 years.
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You want ammo prices to go down, then buy less of it.
A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more peace and content in life than simply being a good husband and father.
I think I know where you're coming from, but let me suggest that including in the first line of your first post the phrase "if you threw out the Consitution" is certain to raise a lot of eyebrows. But thank you for reading the Forum rules as you apparently have, and we look forward to your questions and contributions.
Now about ammo prices. You really need to put that subject into perspective. In 1991 I took my first handgun training course and purchased a case of Winchester .45 ball ammo for $125, plus tax. A decade later I was buying the same stuff for a few bucks less. In 2008 I took a carbine course and needed 5.56 as well as .45 ammo, and guess what - I paid maybe $140 for that same case of .45 ball, a 12% increase in 17 years! Winchester 9mm ball is currently cheaper in bulk than it was a couple of years ago, just $118/500 at the Crossroads gun show (Phoenix) 2 weeks ago, and I actually got a case for $95 at a winter show.
Several things are at work to drive prices, notably commodity prices (copper, tin, lead) and moreso, supply and demand. I track 5.56x45 ammo cost, and last December I could get Federal M193 for around 31 cents a round, but today if you can find it, it's about 40 cents a round. But we're just 11 weeks away from a hotly contested Presidential election, and the hoarding has begun. The ammo retailers are fueling the hype as well. When politics are stable, then they talk about commodity shortages and price increases. When prices are stable, they'll hype the politics and the gun laws. This has been going on since around 1968.
Bottom line, there's nothing magical or mystical going on; just like the stock market, the key is "buy low, sell high." Duh! I recommend keeping an eye on prices at least monthly, buy ahead when you can, and over time your average per-round cost won't seem so bad. Oh, and get into reloading if you shoot a lot.
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I wrote a couple of threads about ammo prices
Welcome aboard Daytrader from the great state of Pennsylvania! Now, you better calm down Daytrader before you have a heart attack.
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Well, we're living in the day of the devalued dollar and that is going to get better any time soon.
So...how high can ammo prices go? The sky is the limit I guess.
So...how much has the U.S. Dollar been devalued? Many years ago a 20 dollar Gold Piece - (at the time having the equal worth of 20 paper dollars) would buy you a nice suit and a nice necktie and a dress shirt & maybe toss in a nice pair of dress shoes and a silk handkerchief.
Today...$20.00 in paper money will barely get you a decent necktie.
But a $25.00 Gold Eagle valued at around $850.00 these days will still get you a decent suit, dress shirt, necktie & shoes.
So that is how much "worth" has been incrementally robbed from our dollar.
Now...back on topic to...WELCOME!
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WICKENBURG, Ariz., Sept. 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Focus Gold Corp. (FGLD) is pleased to announce a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Alix Resources Corp. (ARXRF) which will see the respective companies pool their geological records and relevant resources to push forward the exploration and development time lines for their respective gold projects located in Yavapai county in the Wickenburg area of Arizona.
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I mostly deer hunt but would like to start getting into duck hunting. I have several large ponds on my hunting lease in oklahoma. I see ducks and geese flying around sometimes but they never stop at my ponds. What are some things i can do to create a duck habitat that will get the ducks to fly in??? Should I plant some things etc..
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Trae Golden connected on 7-of-11 field goals, including four 3s, to lead the Vols with 20 points. Golden also recorded four assists and rebounds.
The Vols are playing three games in eight days, all against Top 20 teams: then-No. 13 Florida last Saturday, No. 20 MSU tonight and vs. No. 2 Kentucky on Saturday.
Trae Golden scored 20-plus points for the fourth time this season.
Jeronne Maymon scored in double-figures for the ninth time this season with 13.
Kenny Hall has 25 points in his last two games, both in his new role coming off the bench.
Trae Golden is shooting 60 percent over the last four games (30-of-50).
STARKVILLE, Miss. - The Vols made a valiant comeback at No. 20 Mississippi State, but fell 62-58 at Humphrey Coliseum on Thursday night. Tennessee cut their deficit to two points in the final seconds, but were unable to complete the rally as the Vols fell to 8-8 overall, 1-1 in the SEC. The Bulldogs picked up their first conference win and moved to 14-3 overall.
Trae Golden led all scorers with 20. Jeronne Maymon netted 13 before fouling out. Kenny Hall added 12 points in his new role, scoring in double-figures for the second game in a row off the bench.
Dee Bost, Renardo Sidney and Arnett Moultrie all scored 13 points for Mississippi State.
A Renaldo Woolridge 3-pointer with 44.2 left in regulation brought the Vols back to within two at 60-58. The Vols played tough defense on the ensuing possession as Skylar McBee stole a Bost pass and gave the Vols the ball with 16 seconds left in regulation. But Bost redeemed himself by stealing the ball from Golden 7.7 seconds left and finished a fastbreak dunk to punctuate the win.
Maymon's putback lay-in with 4:20 left cut the deficit to three, 54-51. But Rodney Hood answered with a jumper to gave the Bulldogs a 56-51 lead. Kenny Hall came right back with a hoop making it 56-53 with 3:20 left.
A Bost 3-pointer with 3:10 left provided a boost for MSU to retake a six-point edge, 59-53. Hall stuffed one home with 1:40 left cutting the Bulldogs' lead to 59-55.
Golden kept the Vols in the game throughout the second half as Tennessee hung around. UT cut the deficit to four on a Jordan McRae lay-up with 7:30 left in the game, making it 51-47 with an 8-2 run.
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By Jennifer Lueck
It is a common misconception that dogs see in blackand white, but dogs do see in color, just not the samerange of colors humans with normal vision see.
How do they know?Scientists have been trying to test the color vision ofanimals since the early 1900's with mixed results. Anexperiment was conducted in 1989 at the University ofCalifornia, Santa Barbara, by Jay Neitz and his colleagues. The test subjects were two Italian Greyhounds, Flip and Gypsy, and Neitz' own dog a toy poodle named Retina. For the trials, the dogs were placed in a box facing a display of three round light panels. A computer randomly selected color combinations. Two of the three lights werealways the same color. The dogs were taught to findthe unique color and touch it with their noses. Everycorrect choice was rewarded with a dog treat droppedin the cup beneath the light they chose. Wrongchoices meant they didn't get a treat. Neitz performedapproximately 4,000 trials with the dogs and chartedthe results. The experiment proved that dogs do see color, but they see a more limited range than humanswith normal color vision. Neitz' results wereconfirmed in 1993 by a researcher using asophisticated optometric instrument that measures theindividual absorption rates of the cones in dogs'retinas
I've known for years that dogs were red-green color blind but I was still amazed by the results. It's easy tothink that red and green are the only colors dogs don'tsee, but red and green are actually components of a many other colors. Without red, purple just looks blueand pink looks light gray. My experiment shows thatlight pink toys show up fine in grass, but are almostcompletely invisible on the carpet! Green and red arevisible on the carpet, but are lost in the grass. On both carpet and grass, blue and yellow toys are the most visible, making them the best color choices for toys.
Before you start to feel bad for your dog because his color vision isn't as good as yours, check out Amy's article on scent to see how much we're missing by having human noses!
Sources:"Color Vision: Almost Reason Enough for Having Eyes." Jay Neitz, Joseph Carroll and Maureen Neitz. Optics and Photonics News, January 2001


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Saturday, January 10, 2009
Think About A Pit Blind For 2009
Pit blinds are no place for a claustrophobic person. There isn't much room in them to move around in, but when properly prepared and placed long before the season opens makes them an ideal set-up for deer hunters who like nice close shots.
I have one near home, and it belongs to my wife. When she hunts this location, the deer are close and it is in an area where deer are plentiful. It's a favorite spot for deer during the early fall.
I've hunted from them a few times, and it's OK but there is something too confining to suit me. It's not that I'm clautrophobic, but I'd rather sit in a tree stand on an elevated or ground coop. Even an open tree stand is better than sitting in something a bit smaller than an open grave.
An open and uncovered pit blind will work, but playing the wind is crucial. There are many ways to make a mistake from an open pit blind, but putting a roof overhead and sides all around it helps cover any hunter movements made while drawing a bow. It also helps prevent human odor from becoming a problem.
My wife's pit blind is located near some trees and a food plot, but the most important thing about her stand is it is located in a spot where deer feel comfortable during the late afternoon and early evening. She has sat there on many occasions and seem up severa; bucks and does in an evening.
The top that I place over these pit blinds doesn't stick up very high above ground, and the door into the pit has a small shooting window. It is perfectly positioned for close-range shots and it offers the ultimate in concealment.
The best time to place a pit blind blind is just as soon as the frost goes out of the ground in the spring. Build the pit just wide enough to allow a hunter to come to full draw without bumping his elbows on the sides or back of the pit.
Most shots are taken while sitting down. Of course, if you want to shoot standing up, it's necessary to dig a deeper pit. Hunters who are accustomed to shooting while sitting can spare themselves the problem of digging another two feet deeper.
Another important thing to remember is to build the top just tall enough to draw a bow without the top limb hitting the ceiling. Keep in mind to bank dirt up around the edges so rain water will roll off the top and drain away. The roof can be slightly slanted and covered with shingles to help shed rain and snow.
One year we had so much rain that a foot of water collected in the bottom of a pit blind. Tall rubber boots were a necessity in that spot. Ideally, the stand could be installed in the top of a hill where natural runoff will go down hill.
Of maximum importance is to properly position the pit so it will provide easy shots at deer. A pit blind is of little importance if a hunter doesn't understand where the deer want to be. Pick a spot 15-20 yards from that location, and dig the pit at precisely the right location.
Try not to position the stand facing dead east or dead west to avoid the morning or evening sun. My wife's pit blind faces almost due south but there is a low hill in front of her, and most of the deer come down that hill through the woods. Even the wariest deer that stands back in the shadows to look for danger, cannot see her even when she draws her bow.
I've never had any problems with animals getting into a pit blind but it's always a smart move to check it out before climbing in for a hunt. A wood floor at the bottom can be covered with a piece of old carpeting to make it silent if a slight change of position is needed.
Pit blinds aren't for everyone but for people who like close shots, they work magic if the hunter can sit still. Sometimes they can provide a shot at a few feet as deer move close while feeding on natural browse.
A pit blind is fine for most people, but they are not my favorite. But, for those people that like them, such buried blinds offer a perfect ground-level shot at a deer, and I've yet to hear of a hunter falling out of one. They are the ideal blind for people who are afraid of height.
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