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Pride and Peril: Historically Black Colleges and Universities
Why Black Colleges Might Be the Best Bargains
I admit that I have not finished reading this article, its a NYTimes Magazine article so its long. But it is a must read as it discusses the conflict of this century – the maltreatment of women worldwide.
Our Stimulus Spot Check: Summer Wave of Projects Nears Crest
Quote of the Week
"Twenty-four percent (24%) of all PhDs earned each year by African Americans are conferred by twenty four (24) HBCUs; Eighteen (18) of the top twenty-three (23) producers of African Americans who go on to receive science related PhDs are HBCUs; Four (4) of the top ten (10) producers of successful African American medical school applicants are HBCUs. These HBCUs produce twenty percent (20%) more African American applicants than the other six (6) institutions combined; Eight (8) of the top ten (10) producers of African American engineers are HBCUs" from President Obama: Help Our HBCUs
Carper Details Reasons Behind Support of Health Care Changes
The author does make some good points here. For me, the verdict is still out.
Health Care Americans Can Afford
Here is a good story from my new favorite news program Now on PBS
New law promotes plastic-bag recycling
I have to say I am excited about this new Delaware law. I hope more states enact such laws.
Administration Official: "Sebelius Misspoke."
For Class of '13, times are a-changin'
First Hand Account: Health Care Protesters in Colorado
Oldies But Goodies
A look at a US Senator who is unafraid to speak out on the hypocrisy in US Policy – foreign or domestic.
Mujer dominicana de 26 años presenta candiadtura a la alcaldía de Nueva York
Her campaign theme is Millionaires: Your Time is Up.
W.H. objects to Ad Invoking Obama's Kids
I posted the original article discussing these ads the other week, see Links of the Week 7 August 2009. I definitely see why the W.H. objects this, I also see why the children of presidents are off limits, however I can't help but think about the validity of the argument PRCM is making in the ad. I wonder if this would have gone differently if the PRCM tried to obtain some permission form the First Lady's Office to use her children in the ad especially since the girls are not visually present in the ad. The First Lady is supportive of organic foods and attempted to start an organic garden so she could have been more open than in other cases.
This is a New York Times Magazine Article so its LONG, 9 computer pages, but its a good article filled with good information. Valarie Jarrett may be my new political role model.
TheHill.com – 50 Most Beautiful 2009
NOW Celebrates Landmark Confirmation of Sonia Sotomayor to Supreme Court
"Judge Sotomayor will bring more federal judicial experience to the court than any justice in 100 years, and more overall judicial experience than anyone confirmed in the past 70 years…Sixteen years passed between the confirmations of Ginsburg and Sotomayor, and three men were elevated to the high court during that time…NOW calls for every open seat on the Supreme Court to be filled by a woman until there are four, if not five women justices."
President Obama Meet With Delaware Child with Brain Tumor


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Ever wonder where the portrait of George Washington that adorns the dollar bill comes from? Reporter Sean Cole visits a Boston Museum to get the answer.
Mexico's center-left presidential candidate is hoping to broaden his appeal by reaching out to the Mexican business community. Dan Grech looks at how well the strategy is likely to succeed.
A new report concludes MacDonald's fries in much of the US contain considerably more harmful trans fats than Mickey D's popular potatoes in other parts of the world. Ashley Milne-Tyte tells us why.
Three of the largest beef producers in the US have been found guilty of colluding to keep beef prices artificially low to drive smaller competitors out of business. Stacey Vanek Smith reports.

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Saturday, February 28, 2015
Little Ginini & Ginger Ale, ACT, Australia
2015 February: One day climb to Little Ginini & Ginger Ale from Corin Dam, ACT, Australia
Prolog - List of 11 highest named peaks in ACT
I've compiled this list of 11 highest named peaks in ACT. One day, I like to climb them all. Contact me if you wish to do so too. (Data is from Rooftop's map called "Namadgi - ACT South Activities Map" 2011 edition.)
• 01 1913 m Bimberi Peak - photos and write up on this climb are in my blogs:
From east: http://mntviews.blogspot.com.au/2011/01/bimberi-act-australia-east-approach.html
From west: http://mntviews.blogspot.com.au/2009/12/bimberi-act-australia.html
• 02 1856 m Mt Gingera - photos and write up on this climb are in my blog:
• 03 1846 m Mt Murray
• 04 1826 m Mt Kelly - photos and write up on this climb are in my blog:
• 05 1810 m Unnamed peak just east of Mt Scabby - Easting: 668144; Northing: 6041045
1791 m Mt Scabby - Easting: 667725; Northing: 6041140
• 06 1784 m Mt Namadgi - photos and write up on this climb are in my blog:
• ** 1766 m Ginger Ale - this climb (unnamed on paper maps); on ACT/NSW border, between Leura Gap & Blackfellows Gap
Reference: http://www.bonzle.com/c/a?a=p&p=315022&cmd=sp
• 07 1763 m Mt Ginini - photos and write up on this climb are in my blog:
• 08 1740 m Mt Gudgenby
• 09 1738 m Little Ginini - this climb
• 10 1727 m Sentry Box Mountain eastern peak - Easting: 672182; Northing: 6033836
1697 m Sentry Box Mountain western peak - Easting: 671412; Northing: 6033807
Photos and write up on this climb are in my blog:
• 11 1724 m Mt Burbidge - photos and write up on this climb are in my blog:
• ** 1711 m Mt Mavis (unnamed on paper maps) - Easting: 672279; Northing: 6049323 (just north-east of Mt Namadgi; east of Big Creamy Flats)
Today's climb - Little Ginini & Ginger Ale
Continuing my effort to climb the 11 highest peaks in ACT ...
Today's climb is to:
- Little Ginini, 1738 meters, 9th highest named peak in ACT.
- Ginger Ale, 1766 meters, unnamed on paper maps, but known to ACT bushwalking community as Ginger Ale.
And thanks for Adam's company.
• 8626-1N Corin Dam 1:25,000
• Rooftop's "Namadgi - ACT South Activities Map" 2011 edition; 1:50,000
• 8626 Tantangara 1:100,000
The below map is from the Rooftop's Namadgi map. The red arrow near bottom left hand corner points to Ginger Ale.
GPS file
The GPX file of our walk can be download from:
I love my GPS ... About 100 meters from the summit of Ginger Ale, I discovered my camera was missing. After a quick search around, we decided to head for the summit first; afterwards use the GPS to retrace the exact route that we came up the slope. Lo and behold, with Adam's sharp eyes, we found the camera lying on the ground. As we were bushbashing, without a GPS to retrace the exact steps, this blog would not have any pictures !
To Little Ginini:
• Start at Corin Dam carpark.
• Take Stockyard Spur Walking Track.
• At junction of Stockyard Spur Walking Track and Mt Franklin Rd, bushbash westward to Little Ginini summit.
• Climb back down to Mt Franklin Rd.
To Ginger Ale:
• Continue on Mt Franklin Rd to the point of closest approach between Mt Franklin Rd and Ginger Ale summit.
• Then get off the road and bushbash westward towards Ginger Ale summit.
Return leg:
• Retrace steps back to Corin Dam carpark.
On the return leg, Adam's foot is not well. Luckily, we meet a guy who has just finished repairing a section of the Mt Franklin Rd and is about to go home. He kindly offers to drive us to the helicopter pad at Stockyard Spur Walking Track ... that is as far as his 4-wheel-drive ute can go. It saves us about 8 km of walking and probably saves Adam's foot as well !
Timeline & Distance
07:08 0.0 km Start at Corin Dam carpark
09:36 6.4 km at junction of Stockyard Spur Walking Track & Mt Franklin Rd
09:45 6.4 km Bushbash up Little Ginini slope
10:09 7.1 km at Little Ginini summit
10:33 7.1 km Leave Little Ginini Summit
10:43 7.4 km at NSW/ACT border marker O57
10:51 7.4 km Leave NSW/ACT border marker O57
11:08 7.9 km at Mt Franklin Rd
11:29 9.4 km at juntion of Mt Franklin Rd & trail to Mt Gingera
11:31 9.4 km Leave juntion of Mt Franklin Rd & trail to Mt Gingera
12:42 14.8 km at Mt Franklin Rd and ready to bushbash up Ginger Ale slope
13:29 15.7 km Discover my camera is missing on Ginger Ale slope
13:32 15.7 km Retrace steps down slope to find camera
13:37 15.8 km Give up finding camera
13:40 15.9 km Return to the spot where we started to retrace steps to find camera
13:43 16.0 km at Ginger Ale summit
13:51 16.0 km Leave Ginger Ale summit
14:00 16.2 km Adam finds my camera lying on the ground
14:23 17.2 km at Mt Franklin Rd
15:02 20.4 km Meet road repairer
15:15 20.5 km Get lift in road repairer's ute
15:24 24.6 km at junction of Mt Franklin Rd & Stockyard Spur Walking Track
15:43 28.7 km Drop off road repair's ute at Stockyard Spur Walking Track helicopter pad
Quick lunch - because Adam has a dinner date in Canberra at 19:00.
15:49 28.7 km Start walking
17:00 31.0 km Finish at Corin Dam carpark
Total: 9 hr 52 min; 31.0 km Distance is from Google Earth. (My Garmin GPS gives 33.5 km)
Of which 28 min; 8.2 km is in road repairer's ute.
1) The start of our walk, which is the start of the Stockyard Spur Walking Track, is here at Corin Dam.
The morning is misty. It will eventually clear to a sunny day.
2) On the Stockyard Spur Walking Track, looking down at Corin Dam
3) The Stockyard Spur Walking Track is steep, especially near the beginning.
4) After the initial steep climb, and pass the helicopter pad, the track becomes a fire trail. It is still misty. but it will soon clear to a sunny day.
5) Someone had built this cute little stone arch on the trail.
6) Red mushrooms ~~~
Wonder what type of mushroom is it? I saw them in Kosciuszko National Park too.
7) A termite mound
There is not much of a view on the Stockyard Spur Walking Track ... too many trees. But if you climb one of the many rocky outcrops near the track, you are likely to get a good view of the surrounding area.
8) Here is a nice view from one of the rocky outcrops. The 3 red arrows point to, from left to right:
• Mt Gingera, 1856 m, 2nd highest peak in ACT. I climbed it in 2013 January. Photos and write up on the trip are in my blog http://mntviews.blogspot.com.au/2013/01/mt-gingera-mt-ginini-act-australia.html
• Little Ginini 1738 m, 9th highest named peak in ACT ... we'll soon be at its summit.
• Mt Ginini, 1763 m, 7th highest named peak in ACT. I climbed in 2013 January, together with Mt Gingera.
9) We are still on the Stockyard Spur Walking Track, and close to Mt Franklin Rd. Little Ginini is in front.
10) A sign post at the junction of Stockyard Spur Walking Track and Mt Franklin Rd ~~~
Directly behind this sign post is the slope up Little Ginini. It is here that we start to bushbash up the slope.
11) We are bushbashing up Little Ginini. Unlike Mt Kelly, it is light scrub here, quite easy to get through.
12) A wombat hole
13) Little yellow flowers are abound everywhere, not just here on the slope of Little Ginini.
14) These two yellow flowers maybe of different species ???
15) Podolepis jaceoides ???
16) Xerochrysum bracteatum (??? not sure) commonly known as Golden Everlasting or Strawflower
17) This one is Senecio linearifolius (Fireweed Groundsel)
18) The top of Little Ginini is very flat. We think this is the summit, 1738 m, 9th highest named peak in ACT. (If you reckon the summit is not here, let me know.)
19) Adam and I at the summit of Little Ginini
20) Around the summit of Little Ginini - quite a pleasant setting
21) Coming down from the summit, we pass a cairn marking the NSW/ACT border - where Adam is standing right now. (Next photo has a close up view of the cairn.)
22) The cairn is NSW/ACT border marker O57. (Reference: John Evan's web page: http://www.johnevans.id.au/wp/other-resources/act-border-markers/3681-2/ ... when in there, search for O57, then click on the picture icon.)
The mountain in the background is Mt Gingera, 1856 m, 2nd highest mountain in ACT. (This photo is taken by Adam.)
23) Adam and I take a selfie here with the border marker behind us.
24) We climbed down from Little Ginini and are now on Mt Franklin Rd to Ginger Ale ... Don't even think about it, ordinary folks like us are not allowed to drive on this road.
Here, the mountain in front is Mt Gingera.
25) At the turn off to Mt Gingera (from Mt Franklin Rd) is this blue stone on top of a post. Both Adam and I have already climbed Gingera, so we keep going on Mt Franklin Rd to Ginger Ale.
26) At a creek at where photo #25 was taken is this chubby lizard.
27) A chubby green caterpillar on Mt Franklin Rd ~~~
Why is it crawling on the road and exposed to predators?
By the way, what looks like the head on the left is actually the tail. The real head is on the right.
28) On Mt Franklin Rd looking towards south-south-east ~~~
The 4 red arrows from left to right point to:
- Mt Kelly, 1826 m, 4th highest peak in ACT. I climbed it in 2015 January. Photos and write up on the trip are in my blog: http://mntviews.blogspot.com.au/2015/01/kelly-burbidge-nsw-australia.html
- Mt Scabby 1791 m, 5th highest peak in ACT.
- Bimberi Peak, 1913 m, highest mountain in ACT. I've climbed it a few times.
- Ginger Ale, 1766 m (behind the tree branches) ... we are heading there.
29) Zooming onto the left side of the previous photo ~~~
The red arrows from left to right point to:
- Mt Namagi, 1784 m, would love to climb it one day.
- Mt Burbidge, 1724 m, 10th highest named peak in ACT. I climb it in 2015 January.
- Mt Kelly, 1826 m, 4th highest peak in ACT. I climbed it in 2015 January together with Mt Burbidge.
30) On Mt Franklin Rd heading towards Ginger Ale which is the mountain in front
31) On Mt Franklin Rd with a good view towards Ginger Ale
32) At the point of closest approach of Mt Franklin Rd to Ginger Ale summit, we get off the road and bushbash westward towards the summit.
33) These small light purple coloured flowers are everywhere, not just here on the slope of Ginger Ale. These two probably belong to different species.
34) Acripeza reticulata (Mountain Katydid), also known as Mountain Grasshopper ~~~
This one is a female (male Mountain Katydid is very skinny).
When it spreads its wings, its body has colourful red, black and blue bands. The right pic is its rear and you can see the blue bands on its body.
(PS: Two weeks later, when climbing Gungartan in Kosciuszko National Park, A female Mountain Katydid opens its wings and allows me to I snap a photo of its beautiful coloured body ... please see photo #11 in my blog http://mntviews.blogspot.com.au/2015/03/gungartan-kerries-ridge-nsw-australia.html .)
35) At Ginger Ale summit with Adam
36) From the summit towards the north is this view of Mt Gingera.
37) We've climbed down from Ginger Ale and are retracing Mt Franklin Rd back to our car at Corin Dam.
This spot on the Mt Franklin Rd is under repairs. Adam's foot is not well and as the guy fixing the road is just finishing work for the day, he offers to take us in his ute back to Stockyard Spur Walking Track.
38) This is the good Samaritan. He drops us off at the helicopter pad at Stockyard Spur Walking Track ... this is as far as his ute can go. He saves us about 8 km of walking; and probably saves Adam's foot as well !
39) Not far from where we were dropped off, Adam finds this Eastern Brown Snake (Pseudonaja textilis). Wikipedia says it is the world's second most venomous land snake.
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With your Miami City Sightseeing hop-on, hop-off ticket, hop on and hop off as many times as you like at any of the designated stops and see the major attractions in Miami. You can lounge at the beach and cool off in the Biscayne Bay, people-watch at South Beach where the oddballs and artists as well as celebrities come out to play or visit the museums and zoos in the area.
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The notion of taking old wilderness and turning it inside out has hit the Dutch – and hit hard. Flavoland is a province in the Netherlands that owes its existence to a few biologists only a short while back. If you turn back time a century or two, Flavoland was buried under an inlet of the North Sea. However, the 1930s brought massive change, especially since the move towards damming many outlets was made and steps were slowly being taken to make that happen. In that time period, a series of dams were constructed which turned the inlet into a freshwater lake. Fast forward twenty years and another massive drainage project was undertaken that enable Flavoland to emerge from its watery depths.
Born from the bottom of the outlets, the soil is fertile and rich and is considered to have some of Europe's richest farmlands. The fields there have a constant crop of potatoes, barley and sugar beets. Even the cities that have erupted from the sides of this new province were built from scratch. Almere and Lelystad lie on two sides of a wilderness that was created from the Earth.
The reserve is known as Oostvaardersplaasen, a rather tough word for many English speaking visitors to pronounce, and the reserve occupies over 15,000 acres of flat land. Why we say its creation is thanks to biologists because fifty odd years back when the drainage project was well underway, biologists went to the Dutch government and convinced them that a new landscape could be created instead of converting the area into a region for Industries to develop.
The Biologists had the idea to recreate a Paleolithic landscape and fill the newly emerged land with animals similar to what used to roam the land millennia ago. As most of the animals from then did not exist, substitutes were brought in like Heck Cattle which replaced the extinct aurochs and the red deer imported from Scotland and also the horses, brought in from Poland. A situation a bit like Noah's Ark, the animals reproduced prolifically and soon the area resembled the plains of Africa where herds by the numbers would graze and roam.
To experience this landscape, visitors would be required to shell out up to forty five dollars to go on a guided safari. The mating season which falls in autumn proves to be an important season and draws in many tourists. Many people feel that converting potential farmlands that are needed for crop production are taken out of the running to be 'rewilded'.
Although many people played their part in transforming the marshy land into a Nature Reserve, one man is in particular credited for the vast changes brought about in the Oostvaardersplassen. Frans Vera has worked for many branches within the Dutch government and is know with a private foundation. In the late 70s, fresh out of university and unemployed, he wrote an article about the region arguing that it should be turned into a nature reserve and soon found employment with the Dutch Forestry Agency.
Even though back then, nature was seen as something to be managed – so a large reserve was seen as a bit of a liability, with constant plantings, pruning and mowing to be required for its upkeep. It was Vera who came up with the idea of using grazers to keep the check on the growth of grass. He received some funding to procure the animals and brought in Heck Cattle, red deer and more. With a flourishing landscape of natural rich flora and fauna, other species of animals started trickling in like foxes and muskrats.
Birds like herons, buzzards, kingfishers amongst others also turned up and soon this place was transformed into a living landscape of natural beauty that was teeming with life. This is the legacy the Dutch wish to leave for future generations – a world teeming with life, and nature that coexists with civilization.


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Hays County Sherriff's Office on lookout for shooting suspect
The Hays County Sheriff's Office is on the lookout for a shooting suspect who they say is considered armed and dangerous. The shooting happened on March 8th at around 4:23 p.m. in the 28000 block of Ranch Road 12 in Dripping Springs.
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Psoriasis is a common chronic inflammatory disease of the skin. We sought to use bacterial community abundance data to assess the feasibility of developing multivariate molecular signatures for differentiation of cutaneous psoriatic lesions, clinically unaffected contralateral skin from psoriatic patients, and similar cutaneous loci in matched healthy control subjects. Using 16S rRNA high-throughput DNA sequencing, we assayed the cutaneous microbiome for 51 such matched specimen triplets including subjects of both genders, different age groups, ethnicities and multiple body sites. None of the subjects had recently received relevant treatments or antibiotics. We found that molecular signatures for the diagnosis of psoriasis result in significant accuracy ranging from 0.75 to 0.89 AUC, depending on the classification task. We also found a significant effect of DNA sequencing and downstream analysis protocols on the accuracy of molecular signatures. Our results demonstrate that it is feasible to develop accurate molecular signatures for the diagnosis of psoriasis from microbiomic data.
Psoriasis is a chronic inflammatory disease of unknown cause. Few studies of the microbiota in psoriatic patients have used molecular methods for the detection of bacterial and fungal taxa1,2,3. Such studies have involved relatively small numbers of subjects, and relatively low depths of coverage. Similarly, no studies have developed multivariate molecular signatures of psoriasis from high-throughput molecular data from the skin and assessed their accuracy. By "multivariate molecular signature" or "molecular signature" of psoriasis, we mean a multivariate computational or mathematical model that can either classify or diagnose psoriasis from molecular data. Studies that have generated high-throughput molecular data from the psoriatic skin lesions focus primarily on differential gene expression4,5,6. Outside of the domain of psoriasis, there have been few efforts to develop and assess multivariate molecular signatures using microbiomic data for clinical tasks. Most related efforts involved classification of body sites or subject/population identification7,8,9.
As part of the Human Microbiome Project of the National Institutes of Health, we sought to assess feasibility and compare methodologies for developing molecular signatures of psoriasis using microbiomic data from the skin. Because the cutaneous microbiota is complex10,11, and its composition is site-specific12,13, we matched lesional skin with unaffected contralateral skin from the same subject. Likewise, the samples from demographically matched healthy controls were collected at standardized sites where psoriasis lesions commonly appear. The experimental specimen matching and sample collection protocols were designed to measure predictive microbial markers that are common across body-sites regardless of the inter-site variability. Each site may have additional specific markers which may not be detected by the current design. We used this set of specimens to obtain high-throughput sequencing of the 16S rRNA gene for both the V1–V3 and the V3–V5 loci14. Using resulting microbiomic data, we then developed and evaluated multivariate molecular signatures of psoriasis aimed at the separation of cutaneous psoriatic lesions, the clinically uninvolved contralateral skin, and the similar skin loci in matched healthy control subjects. The availability of two different datasets, based on the V1–V3 and the V3–V5 16S rRNA gene loci, enabled us to study the effect of the DNA sequencing protocol on the classification accuracy of molecular signatures. Similarly, we experimented with 37 protocols for downstream analysis by using various methods for selecting features/taxa (taxonomic features) for inclusion in the molecular signatures. This approach allowed us to study the effects of downstream analysis protocols on the classification accuracy of molecular signatures.
Using the high-throughput 16S rRNA gene survey data from the V3–V5 locus, we developed and evaluated molecular signatures of psoriasis for four binary classification tasks aimed at separating psoriasis lesions (PL: psoriatic plaque), psoriasis normal (PN: contralateral area of clinically uninvolved skin), and healthy control (CC) samples: (i) PN vs. CC, (ii) PL vs. CC, (iii) PL vs. PN, and (iv) CC vs. PL and PN.
The resulting classification accuracy (AUC) and the number of taxa participating in molecular signatures derived from the data from the V3–V5 locus are shown in Table 1, Panel A. Using very few taxa (2–4) it is possible to separate classes of samples with high and statistically significant classification accuracy. Of the four classification tasks, separation of CC vs. PL and PN yields the highest classification accuracy (AUC = 0.894), while separation of PN vs. PL has lower (AUC = 0.754) but still statistically significant classification accuracy (Table 1, Panel A, Columns 1 and 2). The number of taxa in the constructed molecular signatures is provided in Table 1, Panel A, Columns 3 and 4. Detailed information on (a) the features/taxa selected by GLL in all data as well as (b) the 20 most frequently selected features/taxa by GLL in the training sets during cross-validation is provided in Supplementary File 1. The file reports individual AUC's of the features as well as p-values from Fisher's Z-test; both AUC and p-values were computed on all data samples. In addition, the file reports frequency of selection for the 20 most frequently selected features/taxa (the maximum frequency is 500 because this is the number of training sets in which GLL was applied). Supplementary File 3 provides a list of the 50 most univariately discriminative taxonomic features for each classification task along with their individual AUC's and mean relative abundances per group. Features in this list that have also been selected by GLL in all data are highlighted with yellow.
We also investigated the effect of using a survey of microbiota from a different region (V1–V3) of the 16S rRNA gene on classification accuracy of molecular signatures by repeating the same experiment described above. We focused on the same four binary classification tasks (PN vs. CC, PL vs. CC, PL vs. PN, and CC vs. PL and PN) and followed a nested cross-validation design to select features/taxa and build molecular signatures.
The resulting classification accuracy (AUC) and the number of taxa participating in the molecular signatures are shown in Table 1, Panel B. Detailed information on features/taxa selected by GLL is provided in Supplementary File 2. Information about the 50 most univariately discriminative taxonomic features for each classification task is provided in Supplementary File 4. Only the separation of PL from CC has statistically significant accuracy. The observation that other classification tasks do not yield statistically significant accuracies indicates that the V1–V3 locus, unlike V3–V5, captures less information about the different skin types. Although the V1–V3 based survey can still be useful for diagnostic purposes, the ability to distinguish between the unaffected skin types (normal vs. control) or the skin within the affected individuals (normal vs. lesion) has been lost compared to V3–V5. The general reason for differences in performance is because amplification of V1–V3 and V3–V5 regions provides different surveys of the variability of 16S rRNA gene in the communities.
Table S1 in Supplementary Information describes all downstream analysis protocols evaluated using the 16S rRNA data both from the V1–V3 and the V3–V5 loci for all four binary classification tasks (PN vs. CC, PL vs. CC, PL vs. PN, and CC vs. PL and PN). Each protocol differs from the others by using a different feature/taxa selection method.
The resulting classification accuracy (AUC) and the number of features/taxa participating in molecular signatures is shown for results averaged over all four classification tasks (Figure 1) and for individual results for each classification task (Figure 2) for data from the V3–V5 locus. Detailed results and statistical comparison are given in Table S2 (for classification accuracy) and Table S3 (for number of selected features/taxa) in Supplementary Information. With respect to classification accuracy, there are 8 methods (including GLL) that yield molecular signatures with statistically significant classification accuracies for all 4 tasks (GLL, UAF-KW1, UAF-SN1, UAF-T1, UAF-T2, RFVS1, RFVS2, LARS-EN1). The GLL feature/taxa selection method outperforms 34 of the 36 comparator methods on average over four classification tasks. While there are 2 methods (RFVS1 and RFVS2) that yield slightly higher classification accuracy than GLL, the differences in accuracy are not statistically significant. With respect to the number of selected features/taxa, GLL selects fewer features/taxa than 24 of the 36 comparator methods (including RFVS1 and RFVS2) on average over the four classification tasks. There are 12 methods that select fewer features than GLL (6 of these 12 methods select significantly fewer features), however there is no single method that both selects fewer features and yields higher classification accuracy than GLL. Combined with the previous observation that there is no method that yields significantly higher classification accuracy than GLL regardless of the number of features, we conclude that GLL is the optimal method for the development of molecular signatures from this data.
Detailed results and statistical comparison for data using the V1–V3 locus are given in Table S4 (for classification accuracy) and Table S5 (for number of selected features/taxa) in Supplementary Information. None of the other comparator methods yield molecular signatures with statistically significant classification accuracies for all 4 tasks. Therefore, we did not perform comparison between methods using the data from the V1–V3 locus.
The original analysis of the V1–V3 dataset (Alekseyenko AV, Perez-Perez GI, D'Souza A, Strober B, Gao Z, Bihan M, Li K, Methé BA, Blaser MJ: Population differentiation of the cutaneous microbiota in psoriasis, forthcoming) consisted of ecological analysis, which identified increasing intra-group (Unifrac) beta-diversity in the psoriasis specimens (diversity CC < PN < PL). The PL and PN specimens also showed decreased taxonomic richness and distribution evenness (Shannon index) compared with the CC (Control samples). These differences could be explained by the combined increased abundance of the four major skin-associated genera (Corynebacterium, Propionibacterium, Staphylococcus, and Streptococcus). The univariate analysis using the AUC determined that the three genera Cupriavidus, Methylobacterium, and Schlegelella statistically significantly (at 5% alpha-level) classify the groups of specimens. Interestingly, these genera also often participate in the multivariate molecular signatures of psoriasis constructed in the present study (detailed comparison is provided in Table S6 in Supplementary Information). Finally, based on partitioning around medoids clustering, the ecological study identified two distinct cutaneotypes: (1) Proteobacteria-associated, and (2) Firmicutes- and Actinobacteria-associated. Cutaneotype 2 was enriched in PL specimens compared to CC (OR 3.52 [1.44–8.98], p < 0.01).
A useful theoretical property of the GLL method is that under broad distributional assumptions, it provably discovers the local pathway membership around the response variable of interest15. Specifically, this means that under sufficient assumptions of the method15, which are commonly accepted and used in causal discovery research16, GLL will output from observational data the set of direct causes, direct effects, and (optionally, depending on the version of GLL) direct causes of direct effects of the response variable (in this study, the response variable is a binary indicator of the phenotype). This theory has been tested in both biological and non-biological fields; see for example15,17,18. The output of non-causal feature selection methods, which are comparator methods used in this study, cannot in general be interpreted causally and often results in associated variables that do not have a causal relation with the phenotype; they can merely be passengers15,17,19. Nevertheless, we consider the current work to be an initial step in the discovery process. To causally validate and interpret the findings, several considerations must be addressed: the genetic composition and immune status of the host, prior exposure and entrance routes of potential pathogens, pathogenetic mechanisms of implicated taxa, and functional assessment of the impact of microbial community composition on the observed phenotype.
In conclusion, this work demonstrates that it is possible to develop accurate molecular signatures for the diagnosis of psoriasis from microbiomic data. We have shown that the accuracy of molecular signatures depends on the DNA sequencing and downstream analysis protocols. Using the 16S rRNA data from the V3–V5 locus leads to accurate and statistically significant molecular signatures, whereas data from the V1–V3 locus carries limited diagnostic signal. With respect to the downstream analysis protocol, our results suggest that the Markov boundary-based Generalized Local Learning (GLL) method works well for this type of data, returning molecular signatures based on very few (2–4) features/taxa with statistically optimal classification accuracy. Furthermore, the features/taxa selected by GLL have putative causal interpretation. This warrants their further study and quantifying their effect on phenotype. The approach presented in this study was designed as a general-purpose downstream analysis methodology and as such may facilitate the design and development of microbiomic molecular signatures of other diseases in addition to psoriasis.
We obtained informed written consent (using the model consent forms for the HMP demonstration projects) and enrolled a total of 199 subjects (75 patients with psoriasis and 124 healthy controls) under New York University School of Medicine IRB #08-709 between June 2008 and September 2011. Psoriatic patients were diagnosed at an academic dermatology practice, and psoriasis was clinically classified based on characteristic morphologic features of the individual skin lesions and their cutaneous distribution. Among the patients with psoriasis, 57 (76%) had not been exposed to antibiotics or received a relevant clinical treatment for at least one month before skin samples were obtained, and of these, a total of 54 patients were studied. Among the healthy controls, 112 (90.3%) had not been exposed to antibiotics or received any relevant treatment for at least one month before skin samples were obtained.
For the 54 subjects with psoriasis, we sought control subjects of the same gender and ethnicity, and of similar age (±5 years), for whom a cutaneous specimen was obtained in a region proximate to the psoriasis lesion. In total, we obtained matching control specimens from 37 (29.8%) subjects. One or more sites from each of these controls were matched to the 54 subjects with psoriasis. A control subject could be matched to more than one patient, since we also matched for cutaneous site. However, each control cutaneous site was uniquely mapped to only one triplet, thus there was no duplication of specimens in the analysis.
In the patients with psoriasis, we sampled a typical psoriatic plaque (designated as Psoriasis, lesion), and as a reference site, the contralateral area of clinically uninvolved skin (designated as Psoriasis, normal). We also sampled skin from matched healthy (control) individuals at locations that approximated the location of the psoriatic lesion. We accomplished this by obtaining 4 skin swabs from each control person, from scalp (posterior-temporal, above the ear crease), elbow (inner aspect), lower lateral abdomen, and knee. The selected sampling sites reflect common general locations on the head, torso, and extremities where psoriatic lesions arise in patients2. Both the lesions and the control specimens were predominantly obtained from dry and oily cutaneous sites12, reflecting the distribution of psoriatic lesions in general1.
Methods for specimen processing are described elsewhere20. In brief, a 2 by 2-cm area of the cutaneous surface at each of the locations was sampled by swabbing the skin with a cotton pledget that had been soaked in sterile 0.15 M NaCl with 0.1% Tween 20 (Fisher Scientific, Fair Lawn NJ). DNA was extracted from the swab suspensions in a PCR-free clean room by using the DNeasy blood and tissue kit (Qiagen, Chatsworth CA); glass beads (0.5 to 1 mm) were added to the specimens and vortex-mixed at maximum speed for 40 s, followed by DNA extraction, using the manufacturer's protocol for genomic DNA isolation from Gram-positive bacteria, and samples were eluted in 100 μl AE buffer (DNeasy Blood and Tissue kit; Qiagen). To eliminate bacterial or DNA contamination, lysozyme (Sigma-Aldrich, St. Louis MO) was passed through a microcentrifuge filter (molecular mass threshold, 30,000 Da; Amicon, Bedford MA) at 18,514 × g for 20 min before adding to the enzymatic lysis buffer.
Samples were prepared for amplification and sequencing at the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) Joint Technology Center (JTC)14. Genomic DNA sample concentrations were normalized. The V1–V3 region of the 16S rRNA gene was amplified using forward primer attached to the Roche B adapter for 454-library construction and reverse primer attached to the Roche A adapter and a 10-nt barcode [5′-A-adapter-N (10) + 16S primer-3]. A barcoded primer design was completed using a set of algorithms developed at the JCVI. PCR reactions were completed as follows (per reaction): 2 μl of gDNA, 1× final concentration of Accuprime PCR Buffer II (Invitrogen, Carlsbad CA, USA), 200 nM forward and reverse primers, 0.75 U of Accuprime TaqDNA polymerase high fidelity (Invitrogen), and nuclease-free water to bring the final volume to 20 μl. PCR cycling conditions consisted of an initial denaturation of 2 min at 95°C, 30 cycles of 20 s at 95°C, 30 s at 50°C, and 5 min at 72°C. A negative control (water blank) reaction was examined after 35 cycles. Samples then were quantified, cleaned, and sequenced on the Roche 454-FLX (454 Life Sciences, Branford CT, USA) as described21, and a read processing pipeline consisting of a set of modular scripts designed at the JCVI were employed for deconvolution, trimming, and quality filtering, as described previously21. Finally, we included in our analysis only samples with more than 2,000 reads (the median number of reads per sample was 8,621). The sequencing effort was statistically similar across clinical skin types. The above protocol was repeated to obtain sequencing data from the V3–V5 locus of the 16S rRNA gene.
As a result, we obtained two 16S rRNA datasets (one for the V1–V3 locus and another one for the V3–V5 locus) with the number of evaluable samples for each class given in Table 2. The number of samples in the dataset for the V3–V5 locus was smaller than for the V1–V3 locus primarily because of the lower sequencing quality and yield at the former locus, however as shown in the Results section the number of samples was sufficient to obtain molecular signatures and evaluate their statistical significance. The passing sequences were analyzed using the RDP classifier executed at a bootstrap confidence cut-off of 80%22 and were normalized. This criterion resulted in processed datasets with 791 and 660 taxonomic features (relative taxonomic abundance at phylum, class, order, family, and genus levels) for the V1–V3 and the V3–V5 loci, respectively. These datasets were used for development of molecular signatures and assessment of their classification accuracy with the methods described in the following subsection.
The features/taxa for inclusion in molecular signatures were selected by several feature selection methods. We used Generalized Local Learning (GLL), a supervised multivariate method, as a key technique for feature selection in this study15,19. Under broad distributional assumptions, the taxa selected by GLL are theoretically guaranteed to achieve both maximal classification accuracy and maximal parsimony for the dataset at hand15,19. In addition, because the GLL method is based on Markov Boundary theory (a branch of formal causal graph induction), under broad distributional assumptions, it returns the local pathway members around the response variable of interest. GLL was executed with a default setup: Fisher's Z-test was used for assessing conditional independence at a 5% alpha level, and the max-k parameter, which represents the maximum size of the conditioning sets, was set to 3. In addition to GLL, we applied 36 comparator methods/variants that have been successful in other types of genomic data, as well as recent applications to microbiomics7,23. The reasons for such an extensive range of methods is to shed light on relative strengths and weaknesses of state-of-the-art methods for microbiomic molecular signature development, and to ensure that we obtain as highly predictive and as compact signatures as possible from our data. In brief, these methods include: support vector machine-based recursive feature elimination (SVM-RFE)24; univariate methods based on various statistical tests (Kruskal-Wallis non-parametric one-way ANOVA test, signal-to-noise ratio, ratio of between-group to within-group sum of squares, two-sample t-test, and χ2-test23,25,26,27, denoted as UAF-KW, UAF-S2N, UAF-BW, UAF-T, and UAF-X2, respectively); minimum redundancy and maximum relevancy methods (MRMR)28,29; random forest-based variable selection (RFVS)30; least angle regression elastic net (LARS-EN)31; soft independent modeling of class analogy (SIMCA)32; principal component and sparse principal component analysis-based methods (PCA and SPCA)33; threshold gradient descent regularization (TGDR)34; and using all features/taxa in the dataset without feature selection (ALL). All feature/taxa selection methods and details about their variants are listed in Table S1.
Once the features/taxa were selected, molecular signatures were developed using the support vector machine (SVM) supervised classification algorithm35. We chose to use SVM classifiers because they have high utility in many genomic datasets23, and have outstanding empirical performance in microbiomic data (see36 and chapter 6 of 23). Furthermore, several theoretical considerations warrant application of SVMs to microbiomic data: SVMs perform well in data with limited sample size, are relatively insensitive to high dimensionality of the data, prevent overfitting by using regularization techniques, and can learn both simple and complex decision functions35,37,38. SVMs were applied with a polynomial kernel; the degree of the kernel (d) and penalty parameter (C) were optimized by nested cross-validation over values d = (1,2,3) and C = (0.01, 0.1, 1, 10, 100) as detailed below. We used the libSVM version 3.12 implementation of SVMs39.
For estimation of classification accuracy and optimization of classifier hyper-parameters, we used nested five-fold cross-validation repeated 100 times with different splits of the data into five folds40,41. This protocol proceeded as follows. First, all samples in the data were randomly split into five non-overlapping and approximately equal parts (folds) such that each fold retained a similar proportion of samples from two classes. Next, four of five folds (80% of the data; "original training set") were used for feature/taxa selection and development of the molecular signature, and the remaining fold (20% of the data; "original testing set") was used for estimation of classification accuracy of the molecular signature. The molecular signature was developed and evaluated five times so that each of the five folds could play the role of the original testing set, and its complement could play the role of the original training set. Then the entire process was repeated 100 times with different splits of the data into five folds. The resulting classification accuracy estimate was the mean over five different testing sets from each of 100 different data splits into folds. Since the methodologies for feature/taxa selection and development of molecular signature have parameters that require tuning, each of the original training sets (consisting of four folds) was further split into a smaller training set with three folds and a validation set with one fold, and a four-fold cross-validation protocol was used to estimate accuracy of each parameter configuration and select the one with the best average accuracy for application to the original training set. This protocol avoids overfitting and yields unbiased estimates since the testing set is not used for development of the molecular signature (i.e., no "information leak" occurs from the response variable back to the model selection, feature selection, and classifier fitting procedures).
As a metric of classification accuracy, we used the area under the ROC curve (AUC)42,43. This metric has greater statistical power to detect signal than the commonly used proportion of misclassifications and is insensitive to the ratio of cases to controls44. The ROC curve is the plot of sensitivity versus one minus the specificity for a range of classification threshold values. AUC ranges from 0 to 1, with an AUC equal to 0 indicating the classifier opposite to the perfect, 0.5 indicating a random (i.e., uninformative) classifier, ~0.70–0.75 indicating a mediocre classifier, ~0.80–0.85 indicating a very good classifier, ~0.90 or better indicating an excellent classifier, and 1 indicating perfect classification42,43.
Statistical comparison/testing of results was conducted using two types of permutation tests following the theory developed by Good45. The first test assessed whether a molecular signature had statistically significant classification accuracy and tested the null hypothesis of AUC = 0.5. This test was implemented with 1,000 permutations of the response variable, as described46. The second test assessed whether a molecular signature obtained with the GLL methodology was significantly better or worse than a molecular signature obtained with a different feature/taxa selection method. This test was implemented with 10,000 permutations, as described47. Since both statistical tests assessed a large number of comparisons, we performed adjustment for multiple comparisons using methods to control false-discovery48,49. We used a 5% alpha-level adjusted for multiple comparisons to establish statistical significance.
All experiments presented in this manuscript were run on the Asclepius Compute Cluster at the Center for Health Informatics and Bioinformatics (CHIBI) at New York University Langone Medical Center (http://www.nyuinformatics.org).
C.F.A., M.J.B., A.V.A., A.S. conceived the research study and designed the methods and experiments. M.H., Z.L., A.V.A., A.S. prepared the data, implemented the methods and conducted experiments. All authors participated in the interpretation of the results. All authors have contributed to, read, and approved the final manuscript.
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This research was supported in part by the grants UH2 AR057506-01S1 from the Human Microbiome Project, 1UL1 RR029893 from the National Center for Research Resources, and R01 LM011179-01A1 from the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health; by the Diane Belfer Program in Human Microbial Ecology; and by the Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Research and Development. The authors thank Dr. Efstratios Efstathiadis and Dr. Eric Peskin for providing high performance computing support.
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TheIowaRepublican.com's Kevin Hall and Democrat strategist Jeff Link sparred Tuesday morning over Congressman Bruce Braley's vote in support of a bill that cuts the pensions of military veterans and wounded warriors.
Hall and Link appear weekly on KCWI-TV's "Great Day" program at 7:30 am. This week, Link was trumpeting Braley's participation in a so-called non-partisan group called "No Labels" when Hall pointed out that Braley is one of the most liberal members of Congress.
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... he might just tell you.
And your life will never be the same again. MWAHAHAHAHAH!
Friday, February 24, 2012
Be careful what you ask your Dad ...
Posted by Snuze at 19:57
Labels: Bang Your Head, people are crazy
6 comments:
- adham said...
Dear snuze (how should i address you?) would you be kind to enable mobile version of your blog?
- February 25, 2012 at 10:39 AM
- adham said...
Btw, what trickery is this?! farts sniffer?!!
- February 25, 2012 at 4:16 PM
- Freddie Kevin said...
Let me think now.
- February 26, 2012 at 6:14 AM
- Snuze said...
Hi, Adham!
I would be delighted to make the blog mobile accessible ... except I don't know how. :p
Let me me work on it, yeah?
Freddie! Have you asked your Dad risque stuff too?? *grin*
- February 27, 2012 at 9:19 AM
- Snuze said...
Hi again, Adham!
I think I got it fixed that you can view the posts from mobile devices. Let me know if you have a problem with it.
Just calling me Snuze is find. However, if we do meet IRL, then you can call me something else. *grin*
Have a nice day!
- February 27, 2012 at 9:24 AM
- adham said...
Yeah! Works like charm. Gracias =)
- February 27, 2012 at 11:07 PM
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The TSA finally releases final numbers for 2014
Published 2:42 pm, Monday, January 26, 2015
The Transportation Security Administration has finally released its official overview of events in 2014, as well as its city rankings, and as predicted Texas ranked high for weapons seizures.
According to the TSA's blog, 2014 was sadly another banner year, noting a 22 percent increase in discoveries over the previous year.
The TSA discovered 2,212 firearms in carry-on luggage in 2014 across 224 airports. According to the TSA, 83 percent of these guns were loaded.
The busiest day for firearms discovery wasn't even in the traditional travel months like January, November, or December. On June 4, 2014 a record 18 firearms were discovered.
Three Texas airports made the top 10 list for cities with the most seizures, with Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport taking the top spot, followed by George Bush Intercontinental Airport at No. 4, and William P. Hobby Airport at No. 6.
The TSA didn't just detail the firearms they found, but also the concealed knives, grenades, military training equipment, and the huge knife they found in a container of enchiladas at a Santa Rosa, CA airport.
Top Ten Cities for TSA Confiscations, 2014
- Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (DFW): 120
- Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL): 109
- Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport (PHX): 78
- George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH): 77
- Denver International Airport (DEN): 70
- William P. Hobby Airport (HOU): 50
- Tampa International Airport (TPA): 49
- Ft. Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport (FLL): 49
- Nashville International Airport (BNA): 48
- Orlando International Airport (MCO): 47
Texas' concealed carry laws could be the reason for all the confiscations, as more and more Texans are opting to carry concealed firearms for protection. It's important, though, for handgun owners to be aware of what is in their luggage at all times to avoid legal troubles.
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Sandboxie Version 4.02:
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( The following has been copied/pasted from http://www.sandboxie.com/index.php?VersionChanges#v_4_02 )
This release is a [major] redesign of the inner ["under the hood"] workings of Sandboxie which improves compatibility with current and future versions of Windows.
For a technical discussion, please see this forum post.
These are the changes to Sandboxie since version 3.76:
Windows 7 Pro SP1 (64-bit), avast! v17 Free, MBAM Pro, Windows Firewall, OpenDNS Family Shield, SpywareBlaster, MVPS HOSTS file, MBAE Premium, MCShield, WinPatrol PLUS, SAS (on-demand scanner), Zemana AntiLogger Free, IE11 & Firefox (both using WOT [IE set to WARN, FF set to BLOCK]), uBlock Origin, CryptoPrevent, Secunia PSI.
[I believe computer-users who sandbox (Sandboxie) are acting prudently.]
Thanks ky.
Just to add that current Sandboxie users can upgrade to 4.02 via the internal updater, which overwrites the previous version. It is suggested that you temporarily disable all security programs' real-time protection first. (AV, anti-malware, perhaps WinPatrol). No re-start required. Remember to re-enable all your security after.
Installation was quick and trouble-free on all my XP and Win7 systems using this method, as it always was with previous Sandboxie program updates for several years now. The alternative method of first uninstalling the old version, then downloading/running the latest installer takes quite a bit longer, but is always prudent.
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Windows 10 Pro (64- Bit): Same protection.
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EMET 4.0 now available for download
"We are pleased to announce that the final release of version 4.0 of the Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit, best known as EMET, is now finally available for download. You can download it from http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39273.
... some of the new features introduced in EMET 4:
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New City Energy Ltd : Recommended Proposals for the Summary Winding-Up of the Company and Notice of Extraordinary General Meeting
17 February 2017
New City Energy Limited ("NCE" or the "Company")
Recommended Proposals for Summary Winding-Up of the Company and Notice of Extraordinary General Meeting
As previously announced on 14 December 2016 the Board of Directors has decided that it would be in the best interests of Shareholders to propose that the Company be wound up and that the Company's surplus assets (after full provision for liquidation costs) be distributed in cash to Shareholders.
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Well, it took me exactly a week to post these pictures, but better late than never! As I mentioned in other posts, last Monday was Remembrance Day so Brent got the day off work. About 20 people from PwC and BDO (two accounting firms on the island) put together a boat tour. It was a half day trip with five stops (lasting from about 1-9pm) - all for $25 a person!
These pictures were taken with my Canon PowerShot point and shoot...I was too nervous to take the SLR on the boat! I borrowed a couple shots from others on the boat too. As always, you can click on the images to see them larger.
Our first stop was just a wide open part of the ocean where you could dive for conch. I didn't get in at this point, but Brent did. He borrowed a snorkel mask and retrieved a conch shell for me!
Look at all the shells they found!
The creature inside the shell - see his eyeball at the top corner? The boat driver cut out the conch so we could feed it to the stringrays at Stingray City. He also made some kind of cracker spread with it, which was pretty tasty.
The second stop was Stingray City. This is such a crazy spot. Basically it's a sandbar out in the middle of the ocean. You can't see any land, but it's only about waist deep. It's a big tourist spot - over the years countless boats have come along with pails of cut-up squid meat, which attracts dozens of stingrays to the feeding spot.
I found this history on wikipedia, which I thought was pretty interesting: "It may be that stingrays began gathering in the area decades ago when fisherman returned from an excursion and cleaned their fish in the calm water of the shallows and sandbar area. The fish guts were thrown overboard and the stingrays eventually congregated to feast on the discarded guts. Soon the stingrays associated the sound of a boat engine with food. As this practice turned into a tradition, divers realized that the stingrays could be fed by hand."
Brent was one of the first to jump in. Watch out, Brenty, it's coming right for you!
Look at all those stingrays surrounding Brent and Nate!
These next three pictures are from Mike Edgington. He brought his camera out into the water and got some cool shots. Here's a stingray up close and personal!
Brent holding a stingray
For the record, I did pet a stingray, but opted not to hold one at this point. I was pretty busy concentrating on not audibly freaking out every one brushed against my leg. That and repeatedly turning in circles to make sure none of them snuck up on me.
After I got back on the boat, I took this picture of all the jet skis parked at Stingray City. It's neat that this is just a public spot open to anyone who can get here.
View from boat window
Crowds interacting with the stingray
What boat trip would be complete without cheez-its?
The third stop was Rum Point. This is a beautiful public beach on the north side of the island. It had hammocks, picnic tables, and sun-loungers all along the shore. We didn't stay too long here, but I definitely want to come back and make a day of it.
On the long pier - Brent caught in a yawn smile :)
The fourth stop was Starfish Point. This was an interesting stop too because you anchor to the beach, but there is immediately this crazy drop where the ocean gets really deep. So the boys were all doing jumps off the top of the boat. That's Brent in the front:
So pretty!
Jenn took this picture of us from the top of the boat:
The fifth and final stop was to Kaibo, which is the name of the beach and the restaurant. We ate dinner at the beach bar, which was a great spot to watch the sunset.
After dinner we had a 30 minute ride back. It was very dark, but I liked night riding on the boat. At one point we could see fireworks going off for Georgetown's Heritage Day. They looked so much smaller when viewed from the ocean! All in all, it was a perfect day.
Monday, November 22, 2010
Boat Day and Stingray City
Posted by Katie at 9:29 AM
Labels: Rum Point, Stingray Sandbar
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I love how it looks like Nate is kissing Brent's head in the pic above :)ReplyDelete
Good post. I might just link to it and skip writing another one! haha
man... i am jealous of you. stop making me sin... haha...ReplyDelete
i love that clear water!
Love it! I'm so glad you made it to Stingray City- its such a great memory we have with John (but we went in our own dingy) :)ReplyDelete
Wow! What an amazing day!!! I would give my right toe for a day like that alone with my hubby! :)ReplyDelete
Man, your photos sure make a person want to go to the Caymans!!! Sounds like a great day! Sounds like you are really enjoying this time in your life!!!ReplyDelete
Looks like fun! Such pretty pictures!ReplyDelete
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An animal welfare charity has criticised the plans to open a cat cafe in the Devon town of Totnes.
The plan was put forward by Liz Dyas, a former nurse, who wants to provide an opportunity for people to de-stress in the company of cats.
Cat cafes are already prevalent in Russia, Austria and Japan and there is also one currently being considered in London.
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A spokesperson for the charity said:"Having quite a large number of cats within a confined space with different people coming and going would actually be very, very stressful for cats and the biggest stress in a cat's life is other cats, so we believe this would be poor welfare for the cats."
Ms Dyas would use her six "sociable" cats in the cafe and she said that pet therapy is acknowledged by many people as beneficial and can help to stress and anxiety.
Totnes already has an alternative lifestyle image, and Ms Dyas said that it seemed like the perfect location for her feline therapy cafe.
She also said that the number of customers, who would "obviously be cat lovers", would have to maintain a "quiet environment" and sleeping cats would have to be left undisturbed.
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"It is very likely that some or all of the cats involved will become stressed as a result of being in a confined space with a continually changing group of people."
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OBETZ, Ohio – Every penalty decision in MLS is viewed under a microscope, and with narrow margins often determining the outcomes of games, that's no surprise.
After a penalty was awarded to the Columbus Crew for a foul on forward Dominic Oduro by Djimi Traoré that also resulted in a red card for the Seattle defender in Columbus' 2-1 win over the Sounders last weekend, some questioned the legitimacy of the call.
But days later, Oduro says he's still feeling the effects of the challenge, and was largely held out of training on Tuesday before returning partially on Wednesday.
"Yesterday we did some running on the leg, and it felt good," he said. "Today, I went about three quarters [speed] and it felt good. We'll try and push it 100 percent tomorrow and see how it feels."
Oduro says the kick to his quad resulted in a charley horse – also known as a dead leg – that caused enough pain that he could not continue. "I have no fat on me, so it went straight to my muscle," he noted, chuckling to reporters.
"It's unfortunate that I had to come off, but I just felt I couldn't give 100 percent after that, so it's better for me to come out and let somebody else do the job, and I thought we did quite well," Oduro said, noting that Traoré certainly affected his goalscoring opportunity. "He took me off my balance, and I guess I just tried as much as possible to hit the ball. But he just took me off my balance and it hit the goalie."
The Ghanaian seemed confident that he'd see the field for the Crew's matchup against Toronto FC Saturday (6 pm ET, MLS Live), but Columbus coach Gregg Berhalter wasn't so sure.
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The start against Seattle was Oduro's first of the season after serving a suspension for the first match, and he said he's still working on getting fit enough to play a full 90 minutes.
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"It's been a while since I've played a full 90 minutes, let's face it," he said. "Obviously it's going to take time. And by time, I'm not talking about a month, I'm just talking about one or two games."
But the start did come at forward, where Oduro has often said he prefers to play.
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MILAN, June 1 (Reuters) - AXA wants to renew its bancassurance agreement with Italy's Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena and intends to remain a shareholder of the lender, the Chief Executive of the French insurer said on Thursday.
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