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Woman, Dog Rescued from Cliff After 4-Day OrdealWAIKATO, New Zealand - Custard the dog's four day ordeal on a ledge above the Waikato River turned to custard for one of her would-be rescuers with firefighters called to haul both man – and later dog – to safety. Richard Gould's first attempt to retrieve neighbour Chele Clarkin's five-year-old golden labrador from a ledge on a cliff above the Waikato ...Published about 7 years ago |
FF Loses Home in Blaze; No Hydrants In the AreaA Lancaster County firefighter lost his home in a fire early Monday. Eric Reisinger said he, his girlfriend, and his father were sleeping when the fire started, possibly in the garage of the house along Elizabeth Road in Washington Boro. He said he awakened to the sounds of tires popping. Everyone escaped the flames, but the house was gone by time ...Published almost 7 years ago |
New Bill Would Cover Cancer Costs to FFs Exposed On the JobHARRISBURG - Firefighters' work is full of risks. Everyone knows that. What's not so widely known is the risks that come later, after they've hung up their helmets. Consider one statistic: A Cincinnati study found male firefighters 100 times more likely than other men to contract testicular cancer. Because of that and other cancer dangers linked to exposure to toxic chemicals, ...Published over 6 years ago |
CA Man Arrested in 1989 NH Fire That Killed FourCONCORD, N.H. — A recently created Cold Case Unit has brought criminal charges against a California man in the 1989 deaths of four family members in a New Hampshire apartment house arson, authorities said. David McLeod was arrested Wednesday in California on four counts of second-degree murder in the deaths of Carl Hina, his 12-year-old daughter, Sara, his wife, Lori, and ...Published about 7 years ago |
Former Ambulance Service President Charged with TheftNORTHCUMBERLAND COUNTY, VA - The former president of an ambulance service in Northumberland County was charged earlier this month with stealing from the organization. Now some in his community say this is becoming far too common. Investigators said Regan Yoder used his position and the borough credit card to buy personal items and now he faces theft charges. Yoder, 32, is ...Published about 7 years ago |
Dog Saves Woman's Life From Animal Shelter FireSAN FRANCISCO - A dozen cats died in a fire that damaged the Berkeley-East Bay Humane Society early today, authorities said, but a woman who lives above the animal shelter is crediting her pit bull mix with waking her up and saving her life. The fire broke out in a dryer at the shelter at 2700 Ninth Street in west Berkeley ...Published about 7 years ago |
Mail Carrier Saves Life On Route for Second TimeAKRON -- Keith McVey has been delivering mail on the same route for 29 years. But he's proved twice now that he's much more than a postal worker. On Saturday, McVey was delivering letters along Carnegie Avenue, when he heard a call for help across the street. A man was trying to wake up his friend who was lying unconscious in ...Published about 7 years ago |
Longtime Chief Retires After 34 Years on the JobNEWINGTON — After 34 years of fighting fires, Newington Fire Chief Roy Greenleaf is hanging up his coat for retirement. His office walls are bare, only a few nails and hooks left as reminders of the memorabilia that once hung there — his three purple hearts, his bronze star and a collection of patches from the various firefighter pipe bands he's ...Published almost 7 years ago |
First Responders to Receive Back Pay in Lump SumBOSTON - Boston firefighters will receive an average lump-sum payment of $29,000 because of retroactive pay increases included in the city's new five-year contract with the firefighters' union, city officials said yesterday. Some firefighters will receive significantly more because of their rank, seniority, and overtime; others will receive less. City officials said the payments, which will be sent to firefighters in ...Published about 7 years ago |
City Urged to Reject New Firefighter AwardBOSTON - The Boston City Council should reject an arbitration award for firefighters because the cost would be "disastrous for the taxpayers,'' a fiscal watchdog agency said in a report yesterday. The analysis by the Boston Finance Commission highlighted what the agency described as "deceptive'' calculations by arbitrator Dana Edward Eischen, who estimated that the award would cost $39.4 million in ...Published about 7 years ago |
Leary Suffers from Burnout As Season 6 of Rescue Me Begins"Rescue Me" needs help. The FX drama about New York firefighters led by Worcester native, series co-creator, executive producer and writer Denis Leary is choking on fumes. After watching the first four episodes of the sixth season back-to-back - an endurance test I don't recommend - it's apparent "Rescue Me" is recycling plots, revisiting Tommy's tired battle with the bottle and ...Published about 7 years ago |
Envelopes Containing White Powder Sent to Fed BuildingsSEATTLE – Envelopes with white powder were found Monday in eight federal buildings in seven different cities across Washington, Idaho and Utah, prompting the evacuation of an IRS building and a U.S. attorney's office, FBI officials said. The FBI is investigating whether the incidents were linked. Special Agent Frederick Gutt said it would be "logical" that they would be. "It is ...Published about 7 years ago |
Seven Injured NJ Firefighters Returning to DutyIRVINGTON — Seven firefighters injured while fighting a three-alarm blaze on Irvington's Grove Street Tuesday evening all returned to duty, fire officials said. Although four firefighters were taken to area hospitals suffering from bruises, sprains and burns, all were released shortly afterward, Irvington Deputy Chief Pat Hand said. "They're all going to be OK," he said. The fire's cause is still ...Published almost 7 years ago |
Firefighter Cleared of Pipe Bomb ChargesBOSTON - Prosecutors this week dropped a reckless-conduct charge against a Salisbury man after what the police initially described as a powerful pipe bomb at his home turned out to be a "tire thumper" used to check the pressure of truck tires, his lawyer said. The misdemeanor charge against Walter Scott Jr., formerly a volunteer fireman, was dropped Tuesday, the day ...Published almost 7 years ago |
FFs Rescue Man's Best Friend From 6th Floor LedgeDENVER - Denver firefighters helped a dog from a sixth-floor ledge of the Denver Dry Lofts building this morning. Phil Champagne, spokesman for the Denver Fire Department, said the person who owned the dog tried several times to get the dog off the ledge without success. However firefighters, who worked their way along the ledge, were able to grab the dog ...Published about 7 years ago |
Firefighter Injured In Blaze that Destroyed Three HomesTROY, PA - Two Troy Hill families lost their homes to fire this morning after a vacant dwelling between them burned to the ground. One Pittsburgh firefighter was injured when he slipped while climbing from a ladder onto the railing a 20-foot-high deck at the rear of one of the properties. The man, who has not yet been identified, may have ...Published about 7 years ago |
Officer Injured After Crashing Into Fire EngineBALTIMORE — A Baltimore police officer has been taken to a trauma center after crashing his police cruiser into a city fire engine. It happened around 10 a.m. in west Baltimore. City fire department spokesman Kevin Cartwright says the fire engine had responded to a report of an injured person. Firefighters were trying to locate that person when the police car ...Published almost 7 years ago |
Some Sobering Fire and Injury Stats About the Fourth of JulySEATTLE, WA - More than 1,000 fireworks-related injuries and fires were reported to the state fire marshal's office in 2009, according to the Washington State Patrol. It found there were 1,236 reports received last year, mostly on July 4. They included 1,036 fires and 200 injuries. Most were caused by children ages 8 to 14, according to the State Patrol. Specifically, ...Published about 7 years ago |
Firefighter Hurt Battling Chatsworth Commercial BlazeA firefighter was injured early Tuesday battling an intense blaze that destroyed most of an import business housed in a commercial building in Chatsworth, officials said. Firefighters responded to an alarm at 12:15 a.m. and arrived to find flames shooting through the roof of Bey-Berk International in the 9600 block of Cozycroft Avenue. By the time co-owner Kurken Berksanlar arrived about ...Published about 6 years ago |
Firefighter Gets Lowered Into Well to Rescue Fallen 6 Year-Old BoySHREWSBURY, MA - A 6-year-old Shrewsbury boy escaped with only cuts and scrapes over the weekend after he fell 20 feet into an abandoned well behind his house, firefighters said. The boy, who had just moved with his family to a house on Barrows Road a few days earlier, found the well Saturday afternoon while exploring his new home with friends, ...Published almost 7 years ago |


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There is a Look and Listen window which displays the earned clues, and once all 3 activities are completed, kids can use these clues to solve the mystery. They are rewarded with fun printable goodies once their "mission" is complete. Each time kids play, they are provided a new set of clues.
A preferences screen gives players a few options from this screen, they can change the difficulty level and volume, for example. The program uses JumpStart's Adaptive Learning Technology which means the program adapts automatically to a child's performance. When kids are displaying mastery of skills, the program will move on to a higher level, and will not advance if a child is struggling. The preferences screen allows a parent or child to adjust the levels manually if so desired.
Although children found the activities to be fun at the outset, they were not hugely enthused about returning to them. They enjoyed watching the music videos the songs are very catchy and upbeat.
Technically Speaking
Minimum requirements are Windows 95/98, a Pentium 90, 16 Mb RAM, and 4X CD ROM. Mac users require a Power PC 120 MHz with 16 Mb with 15 Mb RAM available, System 7.5.3 or higher, and at least 4X CD ROM.
The game features gorgeous cartoon-style graphics.
The game features gorgeous cartoon-style graphics.
Skills Covered
phonics, letter sounds, upper- and lowercase matching, rhyming words, music appreciation
Educational Value
This program's educational value lies mainly in reinforcing skills -- there is not a whole lot of teaching going on.
Entertainment Value
The characters and songs are wonderfully entertaining. Many kids will love the idea of collecting clues and ultimately solving a mystery.
Children should have no problem navigating this program it features clear and explicit instructions as well as obvious navigational icons and arrows. Adaptive Learning Technology minimizes frustration by automatically adjusting the difficulty levels according to a child's performance.
As this is a value-priced program, there is less content than a typical JumpStart program. Each time a child plays, there is a new set of clues, which helps to boost the replay value of the game.
Dollar Value
The suggested retail price is only $10 US. Considering parents will spend at least that much on a children's video, most parents will find this program to be worth the outlay.

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Paul Hogan might be back with a new film, but he's no longer the one the kids will pay to see. Does it bother him? Not a jot. Karl Quinn talks to a humbler, happier sort of Hogan.
It's the Thursday before Easter and the currawongs are serenading the setting sun on Albury's main drag, Dean Street.
But outside the Cinema Centre, the birdsong is drowned out by the noise of the few hundred people who have lined the plastic barricades for a chance to be part of the world premiere screening of Strange Bedfellows, filmed in nearby Yackandandah.
They don't get too many world premieres in Albury, and while the red carpet is a bit short and maybe a touch tatty, and while the town's two stretch limos are forced to do endless circuits between the cinema and the Country Comfort Hotel 800 metres away to deliver the VIPs, there's no doubting the locals' enthusiasm for tonight's event.
Fourteen-year-old Verity Sathasivam, a
Melbourne girl who used to live in Albury and has
come back for the school holidays, is here with her
mates to see the celebrities.
The girls are bursting with excitement when ex- Neighbours starlets Jacinta Stapleton and Madeleine West emerge from their limos. "Jacinta, oh my God, I love your necklace." "Madeleine, you look so beautiful."
But with the 1500 paying customers for the premiere long seated inside the cinema, the real stars of the night are still to come. "It's really exciting to see the stars," says Verity.
So, who's the biggest star of this film? They respond as one: "Michael Caton. Definitely."
A few minutes later, Caton arrives, and the screaming is worthy of a Guy Sebastian gig. Over and over they chant, "Michael, we love The Castle."
Caton works the crowd, then slowly makes his way into the cinema, inching his way along the mudstained strip of red carpet.
Linda found it pretty tough here early. She wasn't used to that kind of scrutiny so we went to LA and disappeared.
Finally, the evening's last guest arrives. Paul Hogan. He steps out of his limo � his actor wife Linda Kozlowski, looking glamorous in black, at his elbow � waves at the crowd and begins signing autographs. He works his way from the back, like a seasoned pro.
He's giving plenty of attention to those in the crowd like Dorothy Elsbury and Sharelle Baily, women of a certain age who remember him from his TV days on Channel Nine, from those ads (for Winfield at home, for Fosters in the UK, for the Australian Tourism Commission in America), and from his Crocodile Dundee period in the '80s, when he became the unofficial embodiment of all things Australian.
And they're loving it. Down at the front, Verity Sathasivam squints at the shortish man with thinning blonde hair and asks, "Who is that?"
That's Paul Hogan, I tell her. "Oh."
Paul Hogan doesn't need to work. He hasn't needed to work since 1986, when Crocodile Dundee was unleashed on the world. Budgeted at $A8.8 million (which made it, at the time, just about the most expensive Australian feature ever), the film ended up grossing $US328 million worldwide.
Strange Bedfellows is the first film Hogan, 64, has made since his third Croc instalment, Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles, was released in 2001.
Then, there was a flurry of speculation that his decision to revive Dundee after 12 years in hibernation was a sign of desperation.
"I kept reading about my sagging career," says Hogan in a conference room in the Country Comfort a couple of hours before the premiere, "and I kept saying, 'Guys, I don't have a career'. I had a career on television, and I thoroughly loved every minute of it, and I did it until I was sick of it, and then I had a go at a movie and it was a huge success and I virtually retired after Crocodile Dundee. Now I'll only ever do stuff I want to."
He did Croc 3, he says, because he liked the script and because he thought it would be fun. Like everything he's done since Crocodile Dundee 2 in 1989 (which made $US240 million), it was written off in Australia as a bomb.
"It still did about $A90 million worldwide," Hogan says, "which was very nice for all of us, thank you very much.
Compared to the other two it was a miserable failure; compared to anything else coming out of Australia, it was a huge success. I never expected it to be like the other two. It was just something I wanted to do."
He so wanted to do Strange Bedfellows � a small-scale comedy about two men in a tiny country town who pretend to be gay to reap the benefits of a new tax loophole � that he committed to it within 10 days of writer-director Dean Murphy sending the script to his agent in America.
Thirty-three-year-old Murphy says Hogan was always the performer he had imagined in the role of schemer Vince Hopgood, "but we never thought we'd have much chance of getting him. We always had in the back of our minds, 'Once Paul says no, who will we use for the role?' "
In the film, Hogan's divorced country cinema owner has been left with a huge tax burden and next to no income thanks to a dodgy tax-avoidance scheme set up by his ex-wife's accountant.
The first person he tells about his problem is his best mate Ralph (Michael Caton), a mechanic who's not exactly flush himself. As luck would have it, the next day's paper carries a front-page story about a new law granting same-sex couples equal tax status to married couples.
All Vince and Ralph have to do is fill in the form, send it to Canberra and count their blessings. No one in Yackandandah, population 652, need ever know.
Except, of course, that's not how things work out. Before long, the town gossip has got hold of the scandalous news that Vince and Ralph are very good mates indeed.
Worse yet, Vince and Ralph are told to expect a visit from a tax inspector, to verify the status of their relationship. Cue a crash-course in gay behaviour, with mincing lessons from a too-camp-to-be-true hairdresser called Eric (Glynn Nicholas) and the obligatory trip to Sydney to see how it's really done.
Despite the somewhat hackneyed premise, Strange Bedfellows is a warm, engaging and gentle comedy with a discreet agenda.
"There's a message of tolerance in it, and that's what I liked: it's humour without malice," says Hogan. "The only people who are going to get offended by this are the extreme right-wing homosexuals and the extreme right-wing poofter-bashers. For normal people, everyone else in-between, it's just a hoot."
Just that phrase, "poofter-bashers", seems to say so much about Hogan. The casually derogative wording in a statement of support. It's the sort of thing the Paul Hogan of the early 1970s would have said, the sort of thing Mick Dundee might have said 15 years later, the sort of thing the real Paul Hogan says today.
As he lights up another Winfield Blue (he used to get his smokes free, but hasn't done for decades, he says, since his ads were banned in the early '80s on account of his appeal to children), the lines between the public and private Hogan fade as confusingly as the lines on his face have in recent years.
Hogan used to be at pains to stress that he was not Hoges, the smart-arse ocker in football shorts, sleeveless shirt, long socks and work boots. In 1985, he told The Australian: "Hoges is not me. He's not too far from me. He lives a few streets away from me, but he does not live with me."
Today, Hogan says that when he made his television debut on the talent quest New Faces in 1971 the character he presented to the nation "was me at 17, a know-all philosopher � it was just my lopsided opinion, it wasn't an acting performance."
But that know-all philosopher connected with Australia in a way no one could have predicted. He went on the show, he has always said, not to win but to dump on the judges, whom he and everyone he knew considered to be cruel, pompous and just too bloody plummy. He gave them what for and Australia loved it.
Looking back now, it seems obvious that what was going on was something far bigger than a simple turning of the tables on a couple of judges.
This was a brute assertion of the new Australian identity, no longer in thrall to the motherland, no longer afraid to speak up for itself or in its own accent.
Hogan's hero, Hoges as he came to be known, was both genuine and caricature. Even to Hogan. "When I saw myself on television, I thought, 'I don't talk like that', the broad Australian accent."
But of course, he did.
Hoges, like Hogan, had little education (Hogan left school at 14) but plenty of smarts (he reportedly has an IQ of 140, and does the daily Target � the nine-letter word � in The Age for fun.
"If you don't get it in the first 30 seconds," he told his Strange Bedfellows cast-mate Glynn Nicholas, "you won't get it at all.")
His emergence in the early 1970s, through his spots for Mike Willesee's A Current Affair, his "Anyhow..." ad campaign for Winfield and eventually his own comedy sketch series, coincided with a general upsurge in Australian cultural expression.
John Gorton's Liberals and then Gough Whitlam's Labor government poured money into the arts like never before, in a concerted bid to give shape and form to a nascent Australian identity of which we could be proud.
But Hogan's version of Australianness, while playing well with the masses, was not exactly what they had in mind. It was just a bit too, well, Australian.
Writing in The Herald in April 1973, Noel Hawken derided what he called "Hoganism" as "the abandonment of qualifications, and nuances in speech, of any attempt to carry complex meanings".
As Hogan's career began to look distinctly less flash-in-the-pan, so the character of Hoges became less important to his comedy. Hogan and his producer partner John Cornell (who reluctantly played his sidekick Strop for a couple of years) began to focus increasingly on the world around them.
The Paul Hogan Show and the various Hogan Reports did much to establish the Australian sketch-comedy fixation on TV itself: the likes of Tony Barber, George "Fungus" Negus and World Series Cricket all came in for a gentle serve. Even Hogan's old boss Mike Willesee � who had written in 1974 that "maybe Hogan has his finger on the national ego" � copped a serve. But by the late '70s, Hogan was becoming tired. He was writing the shows mostly on his own (he estimates he turned out 600 sketches in 12 years of television) and he needed to slow down. "I went to Kerry Packer and I said, 'I can't do six funny shows, and I don't want to do shows that are full of padding; this isn�t working for me'. And he said, 'Make what you can, son, and we'll put it on'. On a handshake.
"Kerry's a big bombastic sort of guy," Hogan continues, "and he frightens people � he's Kerry Packer � but I'd seen the other side of him and I quite liked him. And he's a great colourful character. Thank God for the Kerry Packers of the world, they sort of make life interesting."
In 1981, Hogan turned out just one hour-long show for Packer. But he was already entering the next phase of his career.
JP Productions, the company he ran with Cornell, had packaged 26 half-hour episodes of edited highlights from the Australian shows for the American market, and sold it for $1 million. In 1982, the same programs were sold to the UK. Channel 4, Britain�s first new TV station in 18 years, began broadcasting on November 3, with Hogan's show holding down the prime-time slot at 8.30pm.
Byron Bay and Bangalow, values "that small-community thing", where "you can go into a shop and they know how many sugars you have in your coffee or what kind of bread you want and you get to know the gas station and the postie and the bank".
He also likes being near his old mate Cornell, owner of the biggest pub in Byron Bay and a man he still refers to as "my partner" despite the fact they haven't made a film together since 1990's Almost An Angel.
In some ways, Hogan's decision to make Strange Bedfellows is emblematic of his return to Australia, and of his place in it these days. No longer the star, he's a team player now.
He still registers with the people who remember him from the old days, but he's no longer the one the kids will pay to see. His character in the film is still cocky, but this time he doesn't get away with it. It's Michael Caton's Ralph � a simple man, a dag, but lovable as all-get-out; an extension of his character in The Castle and those beer ads on TV � who represents the version of Australianness we favour these days. Humbler, gentler, less strident.
Standing outside the cinema in Albury, two couples in their early 30s have more reason than most to care about the success or otherwise of Strange Bedfellows. Peter Moore (he works in computer software) and his wife Michelle (a personal assistant) have invested $20,000 in the movie; so, too, have their friends Shaun (a builder) and Danielle (also a PA) Taylor.
It's a significant sum for the couples, who must be, says Peter, "the only people in Sydney who have invested in something other than property in the past 12 months".
Their hopes for the film are reasonably high. "We're hoping it'll be the next Castle," says Danielle.
Not the next Crocodile Dundee?
"That'd be better," says Shaun. "We heard the test screenings went really well," says Peter. "I've only seen one review so far � I don't know if they paid for it or not � but one of the quotes in it was 'If you want a reason to like Paul Hogan again, this is it'. I think people do intrinsically want to like Paul Hogan, they want to feel proud of him; it's just the whole plastic surgery and defecting to America thing."
Do you reckon he's had plastic surgery then?
Peter: "Blind Freddy, mate. Blind Freddy."
Though it makes little difference to him financially, Hogan would like Strange Bedfellows to be a hit, too. He wants it for everyone who worked on the film, and because he thinks it's genuinely good.
"I've waited 30 years for someone to send me a script that was funny, that I didn't have to make funny myself, and this was it."
He wants people to see it because he's never tired of the joy of making people laugh. "It's sharing a joke," he says. "When you hear a good joke, you can't wait to tell someone else. You don't hear a good joke and say, 'Oh, gee, that was funny; I'll never tell anyone else that'.
Strangers are always greeting him with an "Onya Hoges", he says, and sure enough, at the post-premiere party for 1500 paying guests in Albury, there's a burly suited man in his 50s sticking a thumb up and saying "Onya Hoges" seconds after he's walked through the door.
"It means, 'Good on ya'," Hogan says. "'Thank you very much'. It's, 'thanks for the laughs'. Or, 'we grew up watching your show'. That's all good. "You know, if you want your privacy completely, don't get up on stage. Sing in the bathroom. People whinge about it � I know it�s a drag when you have paparazzi with a telephoto lens through the bathroom window or something � but as far as the public goes, well, once you get up onstage, you're going to cop it. Don't complain about it."
He does try to shield his kids from it, though. The five from his first marriage have remained more or less out of the public eye for three decades, though his eldest, Brett (who, he says, grew up thinking his name was Paul Hogansson), has followed his father into the business, co-writing with him Crocodile Dundee 2 and a new screenplay that Hogan is currently hawking to Hollywood.
To date, he's been happy to talk about Chance, but as he gets older, he says, "he'll disappear too. You want your kids to be able to have as much of a normal life as they can without having a sort of a label on them, or being recognised by strangers. My brother, sister, mother � none of them have been paraded, so they can have their own life as who they are".
It was tricky for his kids, he admits, when their father suddenly went from being the bloke on the bridge to the bloke on the telly. It was tricky for him, too, but it was also the making of him.
"I made the tough transition from Harbour Bridge rigger to TV star overnight. That's the radical jump. If you can handle that one, everything else is sort of easy."
The worst of it, he says, was the brief period when he was still working on the bridge and appearing on TV. "I was poor and famous," he says.
"That was really awful. I thought, 'I'm not going to go on the television again'. Because I was on television, and people would see me and recognise me everywhere, but I was still going to work on the bus and the train.
"It's one thing to wave to the crowd and get into your Rolls-Royce, it's another to sit on the bus, and some bloke beside you goes, 'Saw you last night. Yeah, it wasn't too bad'. Yeah, thank you. I thought, 'This sucks, I don't want to do this any more'."
It's impossible to imagine an Australia in which Paul Hogan had actually chosen not to do it any more. Some of the old sketches may seem horribly clunky, and Crocodile Dundee more outlandish than outback, but how could we have got here without first having been there? In May 1975, John Cornell said, "If we keep working he could end up as the most significant entertainer we have produced in the past 20 years." Who could honestly say he was wrong?
Cornell has often been credited as the mastermind behind Hogan's ascension, but Hogan thinks planning had very little to do with it. He was a punter in his younger years, who lost it all before he had a win ("luckily", he says now).
He was a boxer, too, with a nose broken so many times that he had to have a major bone removed, the result being that he can flatten the flesh against his face to quite hideous effect ("It could have stayed like that, but luckily it didn't," he says. "It would have limited me to character parts").
For a while, he was an organiser for the Federated Ironworkers' Union. It was the only job in his blue-collar career that he enjoyed, that lessened the sense of frustration he felt at a life going nowhere.
But Hogan the reformed punter got lucky. He took a dare, entered a talent contest and well, we all know the rest. Pure luck he says, backed up with a little talent. It's a striking contrast, the way Hogan sees his own career and the way he sees his wife's.
She studied at the prestigious Juilliard acting school in New York, he likes to remind people, did Death of a Salesman on Broadway with Dustin Hoffman.
Then she did Crocodile Dundee and came back for seconds, which is when, they have always said, their romance began. His good luck � stumbling into showbusiness � may have been her bad luck, career-wise at least.
"I contributed," Hogan admits, to the curtailing of what many observers considered a promising career. "(But) she knows how tough it is to make it over there, and I don't think Crocodile Dundee hurt her career. It wasn't like she was typecast. It's just that it either goes or it doesn't, like the millions that don't.
"There'd be something inside her that said she'd never exploited her potential, and that's understandable. But showbusiness is like that. People get up there and accept their awards and make speeches about their gifts and the courage � but acting is just pretending. There are a million other people out there with just as much talent as you've got, but just weren't in the right place at the right time."
Hogan can talk about this with more conviction than most. As he says, "You've still got to be able to deliver the required goods," but he knows he is the epitome of being in the right place at the right time.
"I think everyone's born with a talent for something, and some of them are just lucky enough to find out what it is. You might be the world's greatest violinist, but if you never pick one up, you'll never know.
"I just picked up the violin and got lucky."
Strange Bedfellows opens on Thursday.
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VOLUNTEER @ Brides for a Cause Wedding Dress Sale - San Jose - Jan 31-Feb 3
Brides for a Cause
Thursday, January 31, 2013 at 1:00 PM - Sunday, February 3, 2013 at 5:00 PM (PST)
Event Details
Brides for a Cause is coming to San Jose on January 31-February 3 at the Courtyard Marriott in San Jose/Campbell!
Brides for a Cause is holding a special Charity Wedding Dress Sale on Thursday, Jan. 31 - Sunday, Feb. 3 at the Courtyard Marriott in San Jose/Campbell to help raise funds for Wish Upon A Wedding Northern California Chapter.
We need tons of volunteers to help at the event!
Brides will be able to shop among hundreds of beautiful, discounted name brand and designer wedding dresses up to 75% off the retail prices. We need your help assisting these brides.
Here are some of the responsibilites you'll be assigned to:
- Help set up and tear down the event
- Greet Brides as they enter
- Help brides select gowns
- Help brides in the fitting room try on gowns
- Help put dresses back on the racks
- Check out area (bag gowns, etc)
- What to Wear?
Please wear a pink or black shirt! Jeans, slacks, skirts are all accepted. Wear confortable shoes as you'll be on your feet!
- Multiple Shifts?
Feel free to sign up for multiple shifts and invite your friends, colleagues, family members!
- No experience necessary
You don't need to know anything about wedding dresses, though it's always helpful. We are looking for fun, passionate volunteers who want to help brides find their dream dresses! Everyone is welcome!
*High school groups are best for set up and tear down!*
This charity event supports Wish Upon A Wedding, a national non profit organization that provides weddings and vow renewals for individuals facing terminal illness and other serious life -altering situations.
Please select your shift(s) above and arrive 15 minutes early. Bring your friends and family members! Men are needed too to assist with set up/tear down and returning gowns to the racks during the event.
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"It is he [God] that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers." (Isaiah 40:22a
When was the last time you were outside playing and you spotted a grasshopper or a cricket? Grasshoppers are a little bigger than crickets, but they are still so small that we can actually pick them up and hold them right in the palms of our hands.
Did you know that the Bible compares us to grasshoppers?
Isaiah 40:22 describes the inhabitants of the world (those who live in the world) "as grasshoppers" because they are so small compared to God.
This verse is using a metaphor (a word picture) to help us imagine the really big differences between us and God. Sometimes we get caught up with the things that happen in our lives, and our problems or things that make us happy seem really big. We start to forget that God is bigger than our problems and that God is better than anything or anyone else.
But this verse helps to remind us of what is real in the "big picture." If we could back up from our lives and zoom out, out, out, like we were in a jet plane, or even a space station, and looking back down at Earth, we would be reminded that God's universe is very big, and that we are very tiny compared to it. There are over six billion other people on Earth, each with his own set of talents and wishes and temptations and trials.
God can see the "big picture." When He looks down on us, it is almost like we are a bunch of little grasshoppers hopping and buzzing around, doing our own business, thinking of our own small little lives. He knows each of us individually. He sees us and thinks about us, even when we let other things crowd Him out of our minds and we forget to think of Him.
Isaiah 40:22 reminds us that God is greater than we are! Just imagine yourself as a jumpy little grasshopper that God could cup in the palm of His hand.
Jesus said in John 10:29, "My Father, which gave them to me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand."
"Them" in that verse is the people who have trusted Jesus as their Savior. No one is able to take them out of God's hand! What a wonderful, protective, loving, and mighty God is the God of the Bible! He is greater than any trial or temptation that comes into our lives. He is stronger than wars or hurricanes or death. He is better than any other god we might be tempted to worship. He is mightier than any enemy who might try to scare us.
The next time you see a grasshopper or cricket, let it remind you of the "big picture": If you have asked Jesus to be your Saviour, God holds you in His hand like that. He is a whole lot bigger than you are! God will hold you gently in His hand, and He will never let you go. He loves you too much.
God is truly greater than all of us.
My Response: » Do I forget the "big picture" sometimes and imagine that God is only a small part of my life? » How can I show that I believe God is bigger than my problems? » How can I show that I believe God is better than the things that steal my attention away from Him?
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Psalm 42:2 "My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?"
God does all that He does for His own glory and pleasure. Isaiah 48:11 – For mine own sake, even for mine own sake, will I do it: for how should my name be polluted? and I will not give my glory unto another.
A miracle is an act that can't be done without supernatural power. It can be a remarkable event or thing, but it always arouses people's awe and wonder and bears witness to God. When Jesus healed people and cleansed lepers and cast out demons, those were miracles. (Matthew 4:24) "And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatic, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them."
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Do you have an interest in the power of the mind and the mind/body/Soul connection? Perhaps you're wondering what hypnosis or SRT can do for you, or whether it can help you reach your goals and lead a happier, more fulfilling and peaceful life. Read on and be inspired to tap into your unlimited potential.
Hypnotherapy is a safe and effective tool to help you to achieve lasting change and experience genuine personal growth. You have within you the answers, and the resources necessary to create the life you desire.
By accessing the power of your subconscious mind you get to the cause behind the effect, enabling you to free yourself from limiting and negative patterns that are undermining your happiness.
Hypnosis is a natural, yet altered state of mind in which the barrier between the conscious and subconscious mind is relaxed. Brainwaves in hypnosis are the same as those in meditation. The hypnotic trance has been used as a therapeutic tool for thousands of years, by almost every culture. You experience this state every time you day-dream, read an engrossing book, lose yourself in artistic expression or drift off to sleep.
If you were to compare your mind to a computer, the subconscious would be where the software is stored. This is where your emotions, memories and beliefs are found. The techniques used in hypnotherapy help you to release old, unwanted programming and stuck emotions and introduce positive ideas that lead to your desired results.
The Autonomic Nervous System, which controls our involuntary physiological systems, is governed by the subconscious as well, which is why hypnotherapy is such an effective adjunct to your physician's care in accelerating healing and pain control.
Because it works! There are over 11,000 studies published in medical and psychological journals demonstrating the effectiveness of hypnotherapy for conditions such as phobias, weight loss, smoking cessation, pain relief, accelerated healing, anxiety relief and much more. Click on the link below to see what the Mayo Clinic has to say about the benefits of hypnosis.
A survey of psychotherapy literature by Alfred A. Barrios, Ph.D. revealed the following recovery rates:
Psychoanalysis: 38% recovery after 600 sessions.
Behavior Therapy: 72% recovery after 22 sessions.
Hypnotherapy: 93% recovery after 6 sessions.
-Source Alfred A. Barrios, PhD
"One session with Aleah is like 20 years of therapy! She helped me through the death of a husband, a broken neck, and a new relationship."
- Suzy Grais
"I recently had hypnotherapy with Aleah Ames to address a familial tremor and some personal issues. As someone who has worked in the mental health field for over ten years, I was most impressed with her professionalism, integrity, and gentle, empathic approach. And with only two sessions I'm thrilled to report my tremor has subsided almost completely (without medication), and I'm happier than I've been in years! I would recommend her to anyone."
- Sharon Carboni, MSW
"I'd been having trouble getting a full night's rest for the past three and a half years. It was by going into hypnosis with Aleah that I was able to discover that what was keeping me from sleeping deeply was a well-intentioned part of my subconscious that had been disturbed while between REM states three and a half years ago.
Aleah guided me through healing this part and by the next morning I had a full night's sleep and have been sleeping deeply ever since. I was amazed at how quickly the results were and am convinced that what hypnotherapy did for me was something traditional therapy or medication could never have accomplished completely."
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Aleah is dedicated, talented and very caring. She has at heart the well being of her client. Her enthusiasm is communicative. I highly recommend her."
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"Each session I have with Aleah results in heart healing and my feeling more clarity of purpose. She is a consummate healer who is clear, focused and centered. In her presence I feel respected and held in the highest esteem. She exemplifies kindness, generosity of spirit and authentic presence.
Aleah tailors her sessions to your specific needs. I notice the benefits immediately. I recommend working with Aleah to anyone who wants to grow, heal or move to the next level on their path."
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". . . a growing body of research supports [hypnotherapy] as an effective tool in the treatment of a variety of problems, from anxiety to chronic pain."
—Newsweek, September 2004
". . . no longer regarded as mere hocus-pocus, it's been shown as an effective means of helping people quit smoking, shed pounds, reduce stress, and end phobias."
—Jane Pauley Show, September 2004
"18 studies showed that clients who learned self-hypnosis lost twice as much weight as those who didn't."
—O Magazine, August 2004
". . . new findings are leading major hospitals to try hypnosis to help relieve pain and speed recovery on a variety of illnesses."
—Wall Street Journal, October 2003
"[Hypnotherapy] can also be applied to improving study habits, stress reduction and raising self-esteem. To those in search of better physical or mental health, it's equally important that hypnotism is becoming increasingly accepted by the medical establishment and is certified by the American Psychiatric Association."
—Forbes, October 2005
Hypnotherapy is not the practice of medicine, psychology or psychiatry, and is not in any way intended to be a replacement for diagnosis or treatment of any complaint or ailment. Persons with an ailment or physical complaint are to see their physician first for treatment, and make use of hypnosis and hypnotherapy as an adjunct to medical treatment. Persons with mental disabilities or mental illnesses should seek psychiatric care. Hypnosis and hypnotherapy employ and teach skills for self-improvement; therefore their effectiveness depends on the client and no guarantee can be made regarding the results of their use. The contents of this website are for educational purposes only.
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One half of the duo, Pusha T, has confirmed that the group is not disbanding although he and Malice will come out with solo albums this year.
Hip-hop duo Clipse has assured fans the band is not splitting up after unveiling plans to release solo albums later this year. Rapper Pusha T recently announced he and his brother Malice would each be hitting the studio alone to work on separate projects. He said, "2010 new Clipse music... (and) solo projects by myself, Pusha, and Malice."
But Pusha T insists pursuing their individual music goals will not spell the end of Clipse - they are just trying to expand their label, Re-Up Gang Records. He tells Vibe magazine, "We got Re-Up Gang Records, so we're trying to exercise every aspect of putting music out there."
"The Clipse will definitely be putting more music out. But it only makes sense for us to do solo projects and build a catalog with solo records by ourselves."
And the star hopes to display a different side of his personality that fans have yet to see: "I think I've grown with every Clipse album, but there's an emotional side of Pusha that people need to see. I want people to get a little more in tune with my thought process."
Clipse's last album, "Til the Casket Drops", was released last December.


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text: etd@IISc Collection: http://hdl.handle.net/2005/8 2017-03-21T18:03:30Z 2017-03-21T18:03:30Z The Distribution, Dynamics & Impacts Of Invasive Lantana Camara In A Seasonal Forest Of Mudumalai, Southern India Ramaswami, Geetha http://hdl.handle.net/2005/2516 2016-04-25T07:52:33Z 2016-04-24T18:30:00Z Title: The Distribution, Dynamics & Impacts Of Invasive Lantana Camara In A Seasonal Forest Of Mudumalai, Southern India Authors: Ramaswami, Geetha Abstract: Species that become naturalized in a new geographical range, subsequently multiply and spread, and persist to the detriment of resident communities, are known as alien invasive species. Two aspects of species invasion – spread and ecological impact – were examined using Lantana camara L. (henceforth lantana) as the study system, specifically in the context of a seasonally dry tropical forest ecosystem of the Mudumalai Wildlife Sanctuary and National Park. Lantana is a thicket-forming woody shrub of South and central American origin, which is now widespread across the tropics. The thesis is divided broadly into two parts -the first part examines the influences of environmental factors on the distribution and spread of lantana while the second part focuses on the effects of lantana on the distribution, survival and growth of native woody species. Much of the work presented in this thesis was conducted within a 50 ha permanent plot (the Mudumalai Forest Dynamics Plot, MFDP hereon) in Mudumalai, chiefly because the history of invasion by lantana has been recorded here since 1989. The influence of changing resources on lantana invasion was explored at two scales -small spatial but fine temporal scale in the MFDP and at the level of the landscape. Available data on an 18 year chronosequence of changes in the qualitative density of lantana from the MFDP and field studies between the years 2009 and 2010 were used to determine the environmental correlates of lantana spread in time and space. It was found that biotic factors such as the presence of the shrub Helicteres isora and abiotic factors such as proximity to drainages and the combination of fire and drought promoted the intensification of lantana invasion in time while proximity to streams, higher total annual rainfall and low fire frequency contributed to lantana invasion at the landscape level. The impacts of lantana on the seedlings of native woody species were assessed in 10m x 10m plots within the MFDP. An initial enumeration of 60 such plots revealed that animaldispersed, dry forest habitat preferring species were most affected by the presence of dense lantana. A follow-up study comprising of growth and survival measurements made on 1105 seedlings over two years (2008-2010) further confirmed that dry forest preferring species were most affected by the presence of dense lantana and that this response at the community level was most likely influenced by the most abundantly sampled species in this habitat preference guild – Catunaregam spinosa. In conclusion, while the environmental correlates of lantana most likely promoted its invasion, only certain guilds of native species seemed to be negatively affected by the presence of lantana. 2016-04-24T18:30:00Z Trade-offs And Social Behaviour In The Cellular Slime Moulds Sathe, Santosh http://hdl.handle.net/2005/2351 2014-08-01T07:28:19Z 2014-07-31T18:30:00Z Title: Trade-offs And Social Behaviour In The Cellular Slime Moulds Authors: Sathe, Santosh Abstract: By combining laboratory experiments with field work, I have looked at the following aspects of cellular slime mould (CSM) biology: (a) the genetic structure of social groups (fruiting bodies) in the wild and its relation to the role of large mammals as dispersal agents; (b) social behaviour in clonal, intra-species polyclonal and interspecies social groups and (c) fitness-related trade-offs with respect to life history traits as a possible mechanism for coexistence and cooperative behaviour in CSMs. The major findings of this study are as follows: (a) individuals belonging to different strains of a species, different species and genera occur in close proximity, even on a speck of soil (250µm–1mm) or the same dung pat; (b) social groups formed in the wild by Dictyostelium giganteum and D. purpureum are generally multiclonal; (c) genetically diverse strains can co-aggregate and form chimaeric social groups; (d) in chimaeric social groups, strains differ in their relative sporulation efficiencies; (e) the fact that strains co-exist in spite of this may be attributable in part to trade-offs between various fitness-related traits as can be demonstrated in the case of wild isolates of D. giganteum in pair wise mixes. The Dictyostelids or CSMs are haploid, eukaryotic, soil dwelling social amoebae with an unusual life cycle (Bonner, 1967; Raper, 1984). They exist as single cells in the presence of food (bacteria, yeast, fungal spores). Once the food is exhausted, they enter the social phase of their life cycle. Approximately 102 to 106 amoebae aggregate at a common collection point and form a starvation resistant structure called the fruiting body. In many species a fruiting body is made up of an aerial stalk of dead cells and a ball of viable spores on top. In other CSM species (not part of this study), all amoebae in a fruiting body differentiate into spores and the stalk is an extracellular secretion. The CSM life cycle raises fundamental questions related to the evolution of an extreme form of 'altruism' in the form of reproductive division of labour in social groups. The spore–stalk distinction in the CSMs is analogous to the germ–soma distinction in metazoans, although, the CSMs achieve multicellularity not by repeated divisions of a zygote but via the aggregation of many cells which may or may not be clonally related (Bonner, 1982; Kaushik and Nanjundiah, 2003). Social behaviour in the CSMs offers interesting parallels to what is seen in the social insects (Gadagkar and Bonner, 1994). The origin and maintenance of 'altruism' has been a long-standing issue in sociobiology. Because of their simple life cycle and experimental tractability, the CSMs are ideal for studying the evolutionary origin and maintenance of social behaviour, in particular of 'altruistic' behaviour. By elevating spores above soil level, stalk cells, protect them from noxious compounds and predators present in soil and also facilitate their passive dispersal. In the course of doing so they die. The death of stalk cells appears to be an extreme form of altruism. Knowledge of the genetic structure of social groups and populations including patterns of kinship is essential for modelling the evolution of 'altruism'. Thus, it is important to understand the genetic structure of CSM social groups in the wild. For this, social groups (fruiting bodies) of CSMs were isolated from undisturbed forest soil of the Mudumalai forest reserve in South India. Soil and animal dung samples were brought to the laboratory and quasi-natural social groups were generated by inoculating the samples on non-nutrient agar. The fruiting bodies from various CSM species were formed by these isolates. Since soil and dung samples were not perturbed in any way, the fruiting bodies were formed as they would have in nature. When compared to soil, dung samples contained a higher CSM diversity and more CSM propagules. The presence of CSMs in fresh animal dung makes it likely that they were transported and dispersed over long distances through the gut of these animals. Such dispersal is likely to be preceded by a thorough mixing of spores in the gut. That increases the probability of co-occurrence of different genotypes in a social group. This possibility was confirmed by genetically characterizing spores in social groups of Dictyostelium giganteum and D. purpureum collected from the wild. Random amplification of polymorphic DNA (RAPD), a simple and reliable molecular technique, was used for genotyping spores within a fruiting body. 17 fruiting bodies (8 from animal dung and 9 from soil) were studied. 15 out of 17 (9 out of 11 of D. giganteum and 6 out of 6 D. purpureum) were polyclonal; the minimum number of distinct clones in a single fruiting body was 3 to 7 (animal dung) and 1 to 9 (soil). Therefore in D.giganteum and D. purpureum, chimaeric social groups seem to be the norm. This suggests that other species of CSMs form intra-species chimaeric social groups in wild, though clonal fruiting bodies occur too. The next objective of this thesis was to test whether genetic heterogeneity had functional consequences. That is, when different strains come together in an aggregate, do they contribute equally to the reproductive (spore) and non-reproductive (stalk) pathways? Amoebae of different clones (strains) of D. giganteum or D. purpureum were mixed and developed together and the number of spores formed by each strain was counted. These experiments confirmed that strains of D. giganteum or D. purpureum can aggregate together and form chimaeric fruiting bodies. The ability to mix (measured as the frequency of chimaerism) depended on the strains used and varied from one mix to another. One strain was often found to 'exploit' the other during sporulation, that is, it formed more spores than its expected share. Despite this, strains are found in very close proximity in the soil, which raises an important question: when one strain is more efficient at sporulating than other, how can the two co-exist stably? To investigate what might lie behind the stable co-existence of strains, I studied various fitness-related traits in the life cycle of D. giganteum. They included the rate of cell division, the time taken to go through multicellular development, the efficiency of slug migration through various depths of soil and the probability of differentiation into a spore. Measurements were carried out on strains taken separately and on their pair wise mixes. Five different D. giganteum wild strains (46a3, 46d2, 48.1a1, F5 and F16) were used. All were isolated from the Mudumalai forest (India). 46a3 and 46d2 came from soil within 10 cm of each other, 48.1a1 from soil about 200m away from 46a3; and F5 and F16 from the same fruiting body (Kaushik et al., 2006; Sathe et al., 2010). Members of a pair differed significantly in the measured fitness-related traits. For example, in the case of 48.1a1 and 46d2, 48.a1 grew faster than 46d2 both individually and in a mix. After starvation, 48.1a1 formed fruiting bodies faster than 46d2; a mix of the two developed at the rate of the faster member, implying that the slower one (46d2) gained from the association with 48.1a1. During slug migration, slugs formed by 48.1a1 came up through a higher depth of soil than 46d2 slugs and did so earlier. Chimaeric slugs were like the more efficient member, 48.1a1, in terms of the maximum depth of soil that was covered, but like the less efficient member, 46d2, in terms of the time taken for slugs to be seen on the soil surface. 48.1a1 seems to have an advantage over 46d2 in all these respects. However, during sporulation in chimaeras, 48.1a1 formed relatively fewer spores than 46d2. Similar trade-offs were seen in all mixes. F5 and F16 displayed an unexpected feature during sporulation; the spore-forming efficiency of either strain depended on its proportion in the initial mix in a frequency-dependent manner that was consistent with a stable equilibrium. Thus, trade-offs between different fitness-related traits contribute to the co-existence of strains. Next, I studied interactions between members of different CSM species. Several species of CSMs were isolated from the same environment (Sathe et al., 2010); a question of interest was to see if amoebae of different species came together to form a chimaeric multicellular body. Five strains (two D. purpureum and three D. giganteum) were used in this study. Amoebae of D. giganteum and D. purpureum co-aggregated. However, there were factors that caused amoebae of the two species to sort out thereafter. The extent of segregation differed between strains, a characteristic that inter-species mixes share with intra-species mixes. In conclusion, the ability of cellular slime moulds to form multiclonal social groups in the wild suggests that one should look to factors in addition to close relatedness to understand the evolution of CSM social behaviour. The existence of fitness-related trade-offs between different traits indicates that individual-level selection can also contribute to the maintenance of chimaeric social groups. 2014-07-31T18:30:00Z Divided They Stay : Species Coexistence In A Community Of Mutualists And Exploiters Ghara, Mahua http://hdl.handle.net/2005/1875 2012-12-14T07:02:51Z 2012-12-13T18:30:00Z Title: Divided They Stay : Species Coexistence In A Community Of Mutualists And Exploiters Authors: Ghara, Mahua Abstract: The fig–fig wasp interaction is a classic example of obligate mutualism and coevolution. It is also a nursery pollination mutualism and supports a diversity of exploiter/parasite/non-pollinating fig wasp species. Mutualists and exploiters comprise the fig wasp community. All the wasp community members are obligately dependent on the fig syconium (a globular closed structure comprising of hundreds to thousands of uniovulate florets) for completing their life cycle. The fig florets can be sessile (without a stalk) or pedicellate (stalked) and can support a community comprising 3–30 wasp species. Fig wasps can access the floral resources for oviposition directly by entering into the syconium (internal oviposition) or by penetration of the syconium surface (external oviposition). Most studies on the fig–fig wasp interaction have investigated the stability of the interaction, pollination biology, pollen dispersal, co-evolution or the effect of exploiters on this mutualism. However, studies dealing with community ecology and species coexistence mechanisms in these communities are rare. Factors contributing to coexistence of mutualists and exploiters in a fig wasp community were studied using a reasonably speciose fig wasp community associated with Ficus racemosa in south India. The wasp community of Ficus racemosa comprises a single species of pollinator and six species of exploiters; together they represent three genera of fig wasp species. The community members show differences in their feeding habit; they could be 1) gallers (feed on floral tissue after pollination and/or after inducing abnormal tissue development of the floret that is also called the gall), 2) inquilines (feed on gall tissue but cannot induce galling; survive by feeding on gall tissue and starving the host larva to death), or 3) parasitoids (lay eggs in or on developing offspring of a galler or inquiline species; develop by feeding on host tissue). Resource partitioning across temporal and spatial axes on this fig wasp community have been quantified. Ovipositor traits of each community member were also investigated since variation in ovipositor traits might facilitate resource partitioning. Finally, the role of life-history traits in species coexistence in this community was also explored. Temporal resource partitioning among members of the fig wasp community was studied (1) across the resource phenology, i.e. over the development phases of the fig syconium, and (2) on a diel scale. The seven members of the wasp community were found to partition their oviposition periods across fig syconium development phenology; some species used very young syconia (soft and smaller in size) for oviposition whereas others used mature (hard and bigger in size) syconia for oviposition. The first species to colonise the syconia were gallers and these were followed by parasitoids in a definite oviposition sequence. Pollinators arrived concurrently with an exploiter galler species and had the shortest oviposition window in terms of days. Although fig wasps are known to be largely diurnal, night oviposition in several fig wasp species was documented for the first time. Wasp species showed a peak in their activity period across the diel cycle and phenology. This is probably the first study to simultaneously investigate temporal partitioning across the syconium phenology as well as the diel scale in a fig wasp community. Partitioning of syconium space was investigated by quantifying the quality (type of floret—sessile or pedicellate) of floral resources. The number of individuals of each species developing in a syconium was quantified along with host accessibility during oviposition by each wasp species. The association between community members developing within a syconium was also tested. The differential occupancy of florets by each species based on their distance from the base of the syconium was evaluated. For the first time the relative distribution of males and females of the entire fig wasp community was quantified. The wasp community members used similar types of florets for oviposition. Seeds were found mostly in sessile florets and wasps were present in large numbers in pedicellate florets. Except for one wasp species, all others occurred uniformly within the syconium with respect to the distance from the base of the syconium. Species distribution models revealed higher prediction ability for the location of mutualists (seed and pollinator) within the syconium compared to exploiters. Within a syconium, all species pairs exhibited positive associations indicating either an absence of or low competitive exclusion. Some florets were modified by their gall occupants such that they were longer in length indicating the possibility of creation of an enemy-free zone by the gall occupant. Yet, most florets were accessible to ovipositing wasps based on ovipositor lengths and flexibility. The probability of finding a male decreased with increase in floret length when all wasp species were grouped together; however, this trend did not hold true when males and females of species were tested individually. Based on these results, the fig wasps of F. racemosa could be grouped into—(1) Early-arriving galler species which used immature florets, inducing large galls that protruded into the cavity, and with fewer individuals per syconium, (2) Galler species arriving concurrently with the pollinator, inducing galls that were morphologically indistinguishable from those of the pollinator, and with many individuals developing per fig syconium, and (3) Parasitoids and/or inquilines of the galler species, with variable abundance per syconium. Thus, these results show that the wasp species do not clearly partition floral resources between syconia and within syconium but they can modify their oviposition sites and also differ in the proportion of florets within a syconium used for oviposition. Oviposition sites of the fig wasps can be reached only by using their ovipositor. The resources for oviposition are hidden and hence might require tools for resource location and utilisation. The frequency and diversity of sensilla on the ovipositor, as well as ovipositor structure (morphology and sclerotisation of the tip) was documented for the entire wasp community. The internally-ovipositing pollinator had the simplest ovipositor, negligible sclerotisation and only one type of sensillum on its ovipositor; the externally ovipositing exploiter species had teeth on their ovipositors, sclerotisation and various types of ovipositor sensilla. Ovipositor sclerotisation and lateness of arrival for oviposition in syconium development were positively correlated. Ovipositor teeth height increased from gallers to parasitoids. Presence of different types of sensilla was noted which included mechano- and chemosensilla, as well as combined mechano-chemosensilla. Chemosensilla were most concentrated at ovipositor tips while mechanoreceptors were more widely distributed. Ovipositor traits of one putative parasitoid/inquiline species differed from those of its syntopic galler congeners and clustered with those of parasitoids within a different wasp subfamily. Thus ovipositor tools show lability based on adaptive necessity, and are not constrained by phylogeny. Life-history traits such as fecundity, pre-adult and adult lifespan were studied for each wasp member of the community. Trade-offs in life-history traits were also investigated. Interspecific variation in life-history traits was observed. Gallers were pro-ovigenic (all eggs were mature upon adult emergence) whereas parasitoids were synovigenic (eggs matured progressively during adult lifespan). Initial egg load was correlated with body size for some species, and there was a trade-off between egg number and egg size across all species. Although all species completed their development and left the syconium concurrently, they differed in their adult and preadult lifespans. Providing sucrose solutions increased parasitoid lifespan but had no effect on the longevity of some galler species. While feeding regimes and body size affected longevity in most species, an interaction effect between these variables was detected for only one species. Life-history traits of wasp species exhibited a continuum in relation to their arrival sequence at syconia for oviposition during syconium development, and therefore reflected their ecology. The largest number of eggs, smallest egg sizes, and shortest longevities were characteristic of the earliest-arriving galling wasps at the smallest, immature syconia; the converse characterised the later-arriving parasitoids at the larger, already exploited syconia. Thus life-history is an important correlate of community resource partitioning and can be used to understand community structure. The comparative approach revealed constraints and flexibility in trait evolution. This is probably the first comprehensive study of life-history traits in a fig wasp community. 2012-12-13T18:30:00Z Phylogeny And Biogeography Of Hemidactylus Oken, 1817 Geckos Of The Indian Subcontinent Bansal, Rohini http://hdl.handle.net/2005/1936 2013-02-25T09:38:19Z 2013-02-24T18:30:00Z Title: Phylogeny And Biogeography Of Hemidactylus Oken, 1817 Geckos Of The Indian Subcontinent Authors: Bansal, Rohini Abstract: Geckos of the genus Hemidactylus Oken, 1817 are one of the most widely distributed and species-rich groups of gekkonids. With approximately 90 species, the genus Hemidactylus accounts for 10% of the total number of species in the family Gekkonidae (Carranza and Arnold, 2006). They are found in a range of ecological conditions from wet tropical forest to arid deserts. Their wide distribution is believed to have been facilitated not only naturally, but also through human mediated transport. Indian subcontinent houses 31 species of these geckos, 23 of which are endemic to the subcontinent. The aim of this study was to understand the phylogeny and biogeography of Hemidactylus geckos of the Indian subcontinent. In order to arrive at the conclusions regarding the biogeographic history of this widely distributed taxon on the Indian subcontinent, an integrative approach was followed. First the phylogenetic reconstruction of Indian species was undertaken. The ancestral areas of distribution were reconstructed on the phylogeny and the divergence dates of the species were also estimated. Finally, the biogeographic events were inferred in accordance with the geological events with respect to the divergent times for these radiations. Results indicated that Hemidactylus geckos of the Indian subcontinent belong to three geographical clades: Southeast Asian clade, West-Asian arid clade and a 'unique Indian radiation' which consisted majority of the species distributed in India that are largely confined to the Indian subcontinent. Additionally, the three widely distributed, commensal species (H. brookii, H. frenatus and H. flaviviridis) were nested within the Indian radiation suggesting their Indian origin. It was also seen that the endemic Hemidactylus geckos of Sri Lanka have been derived from India through multiple independent dispersal events spread across the Oligocene-Miocene. These dispersals were both geo dispersal as well as transmarine dispersal events. However, the species distributed both in India and Sri Lanka appear to have undergone recent dispersals into Sri Lanka and probably back into India, primarily through human agency. Thus, it was inferred that the Indian subcontinent has served as an important arena for diversification among the Hemidactylus geckos and their spread. In addition, it was discovered that H. anamallensis, a species endemic to Southern Western Ghats of peninsular India was probably genetically distinct from Hemidactylus, indicating that it could not be Hemidactylus at all. Thus, the phylogenetic position of H. anamallensis within the subfamily Gekkoninae was also investigated and its genetic distinctiveness from that of Hemidactylus was also tested. Results showed that H. anamallensis lineage was indeed distinct from Hemidactylus group, as well as from other closely related genera (Cyrtodactylus and Geckoella) in both nuclear and mitochondrial markers. Divergence estimates supported a scenario wherein H. anamallensis dispersed across marine barrier to the drifting peninsular Indian plate in the late Cretaceous, whereas Hemidactylus arrived on the peninsular India after the Indian plate collided with the Eurasian plate. Based on these molecular evidence and biogeographical scenario it was proposed that genus Dravidogecko should be resurrected. 2013-02-24T18:30:00Z


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Local Christian broadcasting station KPLE-TV has plans to grow and expand its coverage area to reach more viewers in Central Texas.
KPLE currently reaches a 40-mile radius from its studio on Elms Road in Killeen. Catherine Mason, general manager, hopes to expand at least another 10 to 20 miles.
KPLE first went on the air in 1993.
"We have been on for 20 years pumping out Christian broadcasting," she said. "It's strictly faith-based programs."
Mason worked for PBS in Killeen in the 1970s and '80s, handling special projects and children's programming. A lack of local Christian programming inspired her to start KPLE.
"I was mad because I couldn't get Christian broadcasting in my home, and so I just found out how to create the station," she said. "I never had the desire to before, but it's a God thing, and we took it step by step to get what we have today."
FCC construction permit
Steve Coffino, chief engineer, said the station received its Federal Communications Commission construction permit for the expansion project about a month ago. They have three years to complete construction.
"We want to expand to the maximum power allowed by the FCC for low-powered stations," he said.
The station currently puts out 9.3 kilowatts of effective radiated power."When we replace the antenna, then we will be at 15 kW, which is the maximum we are allowed to do," Coffino said. "So we are raising money to replace the antenna."
Stronger signal
The expansion will allow viewers as far north as McGregor and as far south as Georgetown to pick up the KPLE signal.
"People who are on the edge of our signal may be able to pick us up some times of the day or the picture may freeze from the weak signal, but this expansion will give them a strong signal," Coffino said.
KPLE is working on expansion plans with a consulting engineer from Virginia. The cost of the project is estimated to be about $30,000. Fundraisers have helped fund the upgrades and expansion.
Coffino said their goal is to spread the gospel as far as possible. "If we can get to Austin, then we would love to be able to do that, but we would have to have a taller tower," he said.
Mason tried once before to expand KPLE's broadcast signal but encountered interference from another station. However, that station has since moved from the area, she said.
Valerie Cocke, creative services director who has been with KPLE for 12 years, is excited about the expansion.
"It's going to be great," she said. "We are a nonprofit community service station, so the more we can reach, the better off everyone is. We do think about what is good for our community."
KPLE is on cable channel 45 and digital channel 31. The station includes a variety of Christian programming and has hosted shows that teach viewers about parenting and abortion, Cocke said. She also has plans for a program to help veterans deal with post-traumatic stress disorder.
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Killeen's 50th annual Christmas parade will follow a new collection of events this year.
The city's first Holiday Hoopla will include a movie, performances for children and a guest-appearance by Santa Claus all before the parade kicks off at 4:30 p.m. Following the parade, an actor from the NickToons series "NFL Rush Zone" will perform.
"We're trying to draw Killeen residents to come to downtown to see what's going on and enjoy a free afternoon and evening," said Leslie Hinkle, director of community development in the city and project manager at the Killeen Arts and Activities Center. "I think it will be a really jovial atmosphere."
Starting at 1 p.m., the KAAC Performing Arts Center will screen "A Christmas Story" for residents, free of charge.
At 2 p.m., Merry Market Days at the Green Avenue Farmers Market kicks off. About two dozen food and arts and crafts vendors will be set up at the market. The Ellison High School choir will perform at 2:30 p.m., and a local guitarist will take the stage at 3:30 p.m.
From 2:30 to 4 p.m., Santa will be available at Clements Auditorium, in the KAAC, for photos and Christmas wishes.
The parade starts at 4:30 p.m. through downtown Killeen, following a new route due to construction.
After the parade is complete, around 7 p.m., two performances for children are planned at the KAAC: an educational performance from Veggie Pals, a group out of Houston that promotes the fight against childhood obesity; and a performance by Malachi Cohen, a NickToons actor who voices the character ISH from the show "NFL Rush Zone."
"ISH's dad is in the military, so that's kind of the tie to Killeen-Fort Hood," Hinkle said.
In the past, the parade alone has drawn between 3,000 and 5,000 people.
"Come early, the parade route is totally changed this year. It's really going to be a hub of activity," Hinkle said. "We've never done a whole-day event surrounding the parade."


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Flogging Molly coming to Milwaukee
Celtic punk band Flogging Molly will perform at the Eagles Ballroom on Aug. 5, on the back of the new album, "Speed of Darkness."
Written over a three-month stay in Detroit, the album focuses on the U.S. economic collapse and the struggles average Americans face in dealing with it.
The band is known for its crowd-rocking live performances and energetic audiences.
Tickets are on sale now and are available through Ticketmaster or The Rave's box office.
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