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BAFTA nominees announced at Dare ProtoPlay
Picture shows BAFTA-nominated teams at Dare to be Digital 2016: top left Bluedoor Games, top right Ludico, and front Team Rebound, with Abertay University lecturers Lynn Parker (front left) and Dr William Huber (front right).
The three teams nominated for the BAFTA Ones to Watch Award have been announced at Scotland's biggest computer games festival today (Sunday 7 August).
Over the last four days, around 13,000 people have flocked to Dare ProtoPlay in Dundee's Caird Hall and City Square. Organised by Abertay University, it is the finale of Dare to be Digital – the University's world-renowned games design competition. This year has seen 16 student teams from countries including Belgium, Brazil, France, India and the USA travel to Dundee to showcase their creations.
The winners are Among the Stones by Bluedoor Games, a creative puzzle platformer that follows a young adventurer around a mysterious island; Pentagrab by Ludico, a 2D arcade game where up to four players control mischievous cultists sacrificing items in pursuit of points; and Rebound by Team Rebound, a multiplayer sci-fi dodgeball game described by the creators as 'an out of control mess of crazed rebounding action.'
The three winning teams become the exclusive nominees for the BAFTA Ones to Watch Award, a prize which can only be won by entering Abertay University's Dare to be Digital.
Lukasz Gomula from Bluedoor Games said: 'It's amazing and surprising. We thought we might win something but not the BAFTA nomination. Taking part in Dare to be Digital has been fantastic, especially meeting the teams from around the world.'
Andrew Fullarton from Ludico said: 'We did not expect this to be honest. The BAFTA nomination is the best prize we could have won. This is going to take us places.'
Andrew Graham from Team Rebound said: 'We were just happy to be one of the finalist teams at Dare to be Digital. We genuinely didn't expect to get the One to Watch nomination. I'm excited for the future now.'
Glaze by Crowbar Games won the Channel 4 Award. The team will receive £25,000 of support to start a business and complete their game, which will then be published by the broadcaster.
Ludico's game Pentagrab also picked up the Audience Award sponsored by Sony Playstation, for the most popular game of Dare ProtoPlay. It was chosen by members of the public who were asked to vote for their favourite game throughout the four-day festival.
The team members of Bluedoor Games. Ludico and Crowbar Games are all games design students at Abertay University. Team Rebound is made up of students from Glasgow Caledonian University.
Professor Gregor White, Head of Abertay's School of Arts, Media and Computer Games, commented:
'The standard of the entries to Dare to be Digital this year was outstanding, giving the judges a particularly hard task in choosing the three winners.
'However, Among the Stones, Pentagrab and Rebound are excellent games and deserve their nominations for the BAFTA Ones to Watch Award.
'Dare to be Digital is an internationally-renowned competition and this year's competitors have come to Dundee from all around the globe; that all three winning games are from Scotland is testament to the high standard of games design education at our universities.'
'We expect that all of this year's Dare to be Digital contestants, wherever they have joined us in Dundee from, will go on to make even more creative, captivating and inspiring games as they take their first steps into the industry.'
The BAFTA Ones to Watch winners will be announced at the British Academy Games Awards early in 2017.
The judging panel for the BAFTA Ones to Watch Award at Dare ProtoPlay 2016 was made up representatives from the following companies:
Guerilla Tea
Ninja Kiwi
Storm Cloud Games
Tag Games
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This may be the fastest flu ever?Thursday, July 14, 2016
Just updating that tonight I won't be posting a Broke Girls Guide post because
1. I'm dying from the flu and;
2. I am lazy & haven't pre wrote it.
You know how when you get the flu you kind of transition into it slowly? You all of a sudden feel like shit at the end of the day, that turns into a slight sore throat with a head cold for 1-2 days, you start to get a mild cough and nose starts running, then you are in your death bed for 2-3 days with a tap nose and your throat feels like it is being sliced with knives every time you cough. Yeah, you know what I'm talking about.
That has not happened to be. It's been the quickest & most dramatic flu ever. I got home from uni yesterday with a sore throat, then in the afternoon I was dying, literally dying. Harley slept. This morning I have woken up with the craziest head cold/ sore throat/ no appetite/ cough/ running nose/ can't go on.
I can't tell if it's a good thing that I'm getting through the flu so 'fast' or if it's just going to fuck me up real bad.
I'm going with the second one.
Although, my head feels so swollen that I can't think straight, so know knows really!
I will post a BGG asap. I promise.
But until then, stay warm, keep your tooties covered and drink some green stuff.

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On September 19, 1991 a couple hiking along an Alpine ridge stumbled upon a frozen, intact corpse melting out of a glacier. He was dubbed "the Iceman," and the realization that he was actually 5,000 years old set off a whirlwind of political, scientific, and media activity that made him an overnight sensation. In this remarkable and dramatic book, Brenda Fowler takes readers through the bizarre odyssey that began in the Stone Age and continued for years after the Iceman was unearthed. In a new afterword Fowler looks back on the ten years since the discovery and shows that the Iceman continues to inspire controversy and wonder.
In September 1991, hikers in the Alps discovered a well-preserved frozen corpse; nearby lay a stone ax and swatches of leather and fur. The man turned out to have died in the early Bronze Age, making him an incalculable treasure for students of early human beings. Fowler, who has covered Central Europe for the New York Times, offers a brisk and easy-to-follow narrative, first of the great discovery, then of the personal and political struggles for control of the frozen body, which researchers eventually nicknamed Ötzi. Her tight and compelling account emphasizes the late-20th century people who acted, investigated and argued the science and law surrounding the man from the past. Fowler's journalistic experience serves her well as she introduces each of the characters: local archeologist Konrad Spindler, who first pronounced the corpse 4,000 years old; Reinhold Messner, "the best [mountain] climber who had ever lived"; museum curator Markus Egg; botanist Sigmar Bortenschlager ("a feisty strawberry blond"); and a few dozen others. Each gossipy controversy begot others; each scientific answer led to new questions. Should Ötzi be used to help the local economy, displaying him for tourists? Yes, said the government; no, cried the local priest. The scientists were split on the issue. Was Ötzi missing his genitalia? No (though they had "dried up like a leaf"); so how did the story that he had been castrated come to be circulated so widely? Archeological and present-day whodunits proceed in alternating steps throughout Fowler's attentive narrative; readers with any interest in early humans, in the politics of scientific discovery or in this region of Europe will want to dig in. 16 pages of b&w photos not seen by PW. (Apr.) Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.|


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User:Kaarel/sandbox/Fauna of Europe
Fauna of Europe are all the animals living in Europe and its surrounding seas and islands. Since there is no natural biogeographic boundary in the east and south between Europe and Asia, the term "fauna of Europe" is somewhat elusive. Europe is the western part of the Palearctic ecozone (which in turn is part of the holarctic). Lying within the temperate region, (north of the equator) the wildlife is not as rich as in warmer regions, but nevertheless diverse due to the variety of habitats and the faunal richness of the Eurasia as a whole.
- 1 Origins of European fauna
- 2 Zoogeographic regions
- 3 Invertebrates
- 4 Insects
- 5 Fishes
- 6 Amphibians
- 7 Reptiles
- 8 Birds
- 9 Mammals
- 10 Human impact and conservation
- 11 See also
- 12 External links
- 13 References
Origins of European fauna[edit]
The formation of the European fauna began in the Mesozoic with the splitting of Laurasian supercontinent and was eventually separated from both North America and Asia in the Eocene. During the early Cenozoic, the continents approached their present configuration, Europe experienced periods of land connection to North America via Greenland, resulting in colonization by North American animals. In these times, higher sea levels sometimes fragmented Europe into island subcontinents. As time passed, sea levels fell, with seas retreating from the plains of western Russia, establishing the modern connection to Asia (Priabonian). Asian animal species then colonized Europe in large numbers.
. The cyclic changes of the Pleistocene between cold and warm periods resulted in antagonistic responses within two different groups of organisms: one expanding during the warm periods and retracting during the cold phases and another with opposed responses (the latter group is composed of so-called arctic and alpine species)[1].
Glaciation during the most recent ice age and the presence of man affected the distribution of European fauna. As for the animals, in many parts of Europe most large animals and top predator species have been hunted to extinction. The woolly mammoth was extinct before the end of the Neolithic period. Tree species spread outward from refugia during interglacial periods, but in varied patterns, with different trees dominating in different periods[2]. Insects, on the other hand, shifted their ranges with the climate, maintaining consistency in species for the most part throughout the period (Coope 1994). Their high degree of mobility allowed them to move as the glaciers advanced or retreated, maintaining a constant habitat despite the climatic oscillations. Mammals recolonized at varying rates. Brown bears, for instance, moved quickly from refugia with the receding glaciers, becoming one of the first large mammals to recolonize the land[3]. The last glacial period ended about 10,000 years ago, resulting in the present distribution of ecoregions.
See also List of extinct animals of Europe.
Zoogeographic regions[edit]
Atlantic Ocean[edit]
The north-eastern Atlantic Ocean may be divided into two main biogeographic regions - the Lusitanian (west of British Isles, Bay of Biscay, Iberian coast until Gibraltar), and Northern European Seas (including North sea and Baltic sea)[4]. A clearly distinct area is also the Macaronesian islands region.
The North sea is home to about 230 species of fish. Cod, haddock, whiting, saithe, plaice, sole, mackerel, herring, pouting, sprat, and sandeel are common and target of commercial fishing.[5] Due to the various depths of the North Sea trenches and differences in salinity, temperature, and water movement some fish reside only in small areas of the North Sea (e.g. Blue-mouth redfish, Rabbitfish).[6]. Of crustaceans, Norway lobster, and deep-water prawns and brown shrimp are commercially fished. The coasts provide breeding habitat for dozens of bird species. Tens of millions of birds make use of the North Sea for breeding, feeding, or migratory stopovers every year. Populations of Northern fulmars, Black-legged Kittiwakes, Atlantic puffins, razorbills, and a variety of species of petrels, gannets, seaducks, loons, cormorants, gulls, auks, and terns, and other seabirds make these coasts popular for birdwatching.[5] The Baltic Sea is an ecological island, isolated from other brackish seas by both land and fully marine seas[7]. The low salinity of the Baltic sea has led to the evolution of many slightly divergent species, such as the Baltic Sea herring, which is a smaller variant of the Atlantic herring. The most frequent benthic species are Saduria entomon and Monoporeia affinis, which is originally a freshwater species. A great part of its bottom is anoxic and without animal life.
The Baltic sea and North Sea are also home to a variety of marine mammals (Common seals, grey seals).
Europe contains several important freshwater ecoregions, including the heavily developed Rivers of Europe, the Rivers of Russia, which flow into the Arctic, Baltic, Black, and Caspian seas. There are about 15,000 European freshwater known animal species[8].
Arctic tundra[edit]
Arctic tundra is the northernmost (and coldest) of European habitats, in northern Scandinavia and northern Russia. Some typical animals include reindeer, arctic fox, brown bear, ermine, lemmings, partridges, snowy owl and many insects. Most tundra animals undergo hibernation during the colder season.
Eighty to ninety per cent of Europe was once covered by forest. It stretched from the Mediterranean Sea to the Arctic Ocean. Though over half of Europe's original forests disappeared through the centuries of deforestation, Europe still has over one quarter of its land area as forest, such as the boreal forests of Scandinavia and Russia, mixed rainforests of the Caucasus and the Cork oak forests in the western Mediterranean. In temperate Europe, mixed forest with both broadleaf and coniferous trees dominate. The cutting down of the pre-agricultural forest habitat has caused major disruptions to the original animal ecosystems, and only few corners of mainland Europe have not been grazed by livestock at some point in time.
The Eurasian Steppe is the term often used to describe the vast steppe ecoregion of Eurasia stretching from the western borders of the steppes of Hungary to the eastern border of the steppes of Mongolia. Most of the Euro-Asian Steppe is included within the region of Central Asia while only a small part of it is included within Eastern Europe (the steppes of western Russia, Ukraine and Pannonian Plain - see Pontic-Caspian steppe). Characteristic are some small mammals (Golden Jackal, voles, European Ground Squirrel, Russian Desman among others).
Alpine regions[edit]
The mountain regions have peculiar fauna relatively little influenced by human activities. The northernmost are the Scandinavian mountains. Pyrenees present many instances of endemism. The Pyrenean Desman is found only in some of the streams of the northern slopes of these mountains, Pyrenean Brook Salamander also lives in streams and lakes located at high altitudes. Among the other peculiarities of the Pyrenean fauna are blind insects in the caverns of Ariège (Anophthalmus, Adelops). The Pyrenean Ibex mysteriously became extinct in 2000; the native Pyrenean Brown Bear was hunted to near-extinction in the 1990s but was re-introduced in 1996. Some common animals of the Alps are Alpine Ibex, Alpine Marmot, Tengmalm's Owl and Ptarmigan. The Apennine Mountains provide habitat to Marsican Brown Bear and the Italian Wolf. The Carpathian Mountains are a range of mountains forming an arc of roughly 1,500 km across Central and Eastern Europe and are inhabited by the largest populations in Europe of brown bears, wolves and lynxes, as well as Chamois and other animals.
Formerly the region was mostly covered with forests and woodlands, but heavy human use has reduced much of the region to the sclerophyll shrublands known as chaparral, matorral, maquis, or garrigue. The loss of native forests had significant impact on biodiversity, with some 90% of the endemic mammalian genera of the Mediterranean becoming extinct after the development of agriculture[9]. Conservation International has designated the Mediterranean basin as one of the world's biodiversity hotspots.
As to the marine fauna, there are strong affinities and relationships between Mediterranean and Atlantic faunas. The deep-water fauna of the Mediterranean ihas no distinctive characteristics and is relatively poor. Both are a result of events after the Messinian salinity crisis[10]. An invasion of Indian Ocean species has begun via the Suez Canal (see Lessepsian migration). Many species, (such as the Mediterranean Monk Seal) are critically endangered.
About 100,000 invertebrate species (including insects) are known from Europe[11]. The marine species richness is greatest in the Mediterranean with 600 sponge species (45% of them endemic), 143 known species of Echinoderms and about 500 species of Cnidarians[12].
There are about 1500 species of non-marine molluscs in Europe. The marine fauna is again richest in the Mediterranean region (2000 marine mollusc species)[13]. Almost 1000 species of oligochaetes.
The myriapod fauna contains 500 Chilopoda and 1500 Diplopoda. Of crustaceans, about 900 species of Maxillopods, 400 Ostracods, 1500 species of Isopods, 500 Amphipods and 30 Decapods (e.g. European crayfish) and many others are present. The number of spider species in Europe counts to 4113[14]. Scorpions are mainly found in southern parts of Europe (Euscorpius, Belisarius, Iurus)[15].
There are about 300 Neuropteran, over 1000 Orthopteran, 150 cockroach and 1000 caddisfly species in Europe. The dipteran fauna cosists of 12,000 species of Brachycera and 7000 species of Nematocera[16]. Among over 20,000 Hymenopterans are 180 species of ants. About 25,000 species of beetles are recorded from Europe (including about 2600 ground beetles, 700 longhorn beetles, 1700 leaf beetles, 200 ladybird beetles, 5000 rove beetles and 5000 weevils).
About 600 species of butterflies and about 8000 species of moths live in Europe. An estimated 18% of all European butterfly species are considered to be vulnerable to or imminently faced with extinction [17].
Europe has 344 fresh-water fish species, about 200 of them endemic. Some 277 fish species have been introduced to Europe, and over one-third of Europe's current fish fauna is composed of introduced species[18], whereas more than a third of Europe's freshwater fish species are at risk of extinction, according to new data released by the World Conservation Union (IUCN). Jawless fishes (Brook lamprey, River lamprey, Sea lamprey), Sharks, Sturgeons eastern Europe, .. The common bony fishes include Herrings (Shads, European sprat, Atlantic herring, European anchovy), Eels (European conger, European eel, Mediterranean moray), Carps (Barbel, Bitterling, Bleak, Roach, Chub, Common Dace, Eurasian minnow, Gudgeons, Rudd, Ruffe, Stone Loach, Spined loach, Tench, Silver- and Carp bream and others - more than 50% of the freshwater fish species belong to this order[19]), Catfishes (Wels catfish and less common Aristotle catfish), the Northern pike[20].
There live 75 species of amphibians in Europe, 56 of them endemic[18]. Amphibian fauna is richest in southern Europe. Several Ranids (Common frog, Moor frog, Marsh frog, Pool frog, Agile Frog), Bufonids (Common toad, Natterjack Toad, European Green Toad), Hylids (European tree frog, Mediterranean Tree Frog) and a few Pelobatids (Common Spadefoot), Midwife toads and Bombinatorids (Yellow-bellied toad, European Fire-bellied Toad) Discoglossids (e.g. Common Midwife Toad, 10 Mediterranean species) live in Europe[21]. For a complete list, see List of European amphibians.
The European snakes include Colubrids (Grass snakes, Smooth snake, Western whip snake, Aesculapian Snake), many Viperids (European adder, Blunt-nosed viper, Lataste's viper, Ursini's viper, Asp viper) and some Typhlopids (Typhlops) and Boas (Javelin Sand Boa). Some widespread lizards include the Sand Lizard, European green lizard, Viviparous lizard, Wall lizard, Iberian wall lizard, Italian Wall Lizard and others. The Gekkos are confined to southern Europe (Moorish gecko, Mediterranean House Gecko)
Among the seven species of native turtles, the most widespread are the European pond terrapin, Marginated Tortoise and Greek Tortoise. See also List of European reptiles.
The list of European birds is about 800 species long[16] (445 of them breeding in Europe[22]). One bird family, the accentors (Prunellidae) is endemic to the Palaearctic region. The Holarctic has four other endemic bird families: the divers or loons (Gaviidae), grouse (Tetraoninae), auks (Alcidae), and waxwings (Bombycillidae). Besides these, European fauna contains 9 species of geese, (Anser, Branta), many ducks (Mallard, Common Teal, Tufted Duck), Ciconiiformes (White Stork, Black Stork, Bittern, Little Bittern, Little Egret, Grey Heron, Purple Heron, Night Heron), birds of prey (widespread Osprey, White-tailed Eagle, Golden Eagle, Short-toed Eagle, Lesser Spotted Eagle, Buzzards, Goshawk, Sparrowhawk, Red Kite, Black Kite, Marsh Harrier, Hen Harrier, Peregrine Falcon, Common Kestrel and Eurasian Hobby, Merlin; Lesser Kestrel, Imperial Eagle, Booted Eagle and Vultures in southern Europe). The Owls include Tawny Owl, Eagle Owl, Barn Owl, Little Owl, Short-eared Owl, Long-eared Owl. The more common European Woodpeckers are Great Spotted Woodpecker, Middle Spotted Woodpecker, Grey-headed Woodpecker, Green Woodpecker and Black Woodpecker. Some typical European shorebirds are the the Oystercatcher, many species of Plovers, Woodcock, Common Snipe, Jack Snipe, Eurasian Curlew, Common Sandpiper, Redshank and Lapwing.
About half of the European birds are passerines of the songbirds suborder. The more common of these include Larks (Skylark, Crested Lark, Woodlark), Swallows (Barn Swallow, Sand Martin, House Martin), Motacillidae (Tree Pipit, Meadow Pipit, White Wagtail, Yellow Wagtail), Shrikes (Red-backed Shrike, Great Grey Shrike), Golden Oriole, European Starling, Crows (Magpie, Jackdaw, Hooded Crow, Rook, Eurasian Jay), White-throated Dipper, Dunnock, Winter Wren, Eurasian Nuthatch, Goldcrest, several Warblers (Reed Warbler, Sedge Warbler, Great Reed-warbler, Icterine Warbler, Cetti's Warbler, Garden Warbler, Blackcap, Whitethroat, Chiffchaff), Old World flycatchers (Pied Flycatcher, Spotted Flycatcher, Northern Wheatear, Whinchat, European Stonechat), Finches (Chaffinch, Goldfinch, Siskin, Eurasian Bullfinch, Greenfinch, Common Crossbill, Linnet), Sparrows (House Sparrow, Tree Sparrow), Buntings, (Corn Bunting, Ortolan Bunting, Reed Bunting, Yellowhammer), Tits (Great Tit, Blue Tit, Coal Tit)[23]
Of the 589 species of birds (excluding seabirds) that breed in the Palearctic, 40% spend the winter elsewhere. Of those species that leave for the winter, 98% travel south to Africa [24].
See also: List of European birds, Endemic birds of the Western Palearctic.
European mammal fauna consists of 270 species, 78 of them endemic to Europe[18] (15% of them are threatened with extinction and 27% have been identified as declining[25]). There are no endemic mammal orders in the region.
There live about 25 species Insectivores in Europe (West European Hedgehog, Southern White-breasted Hedgehog, Common Shrew, Eurasian Pygmy Shrew, European Mole, Blind Mole, Eurasian Water Shrew). Of the 35 European bats, the most widespread are the Greater Horseshoe Bat, Lesser horseshoe bat, Mediterranean Horseshoe Bat, Greater Mouse-Eared Bat, Lesser Mouse-eared Bat, Bechstein's Bat, Natterer's bat, Whiskered bat, Daubenton's bat, Brown long-eared bat, Grey long-eared bat, Barbastelle, Serotine bat, Parti-coloured bat, Common Pipistrelle, Nathusius' Pipistrelle, Lesser Noctule and Common Noctule. The rodents include several voles (Common Vole, Field Vole, European Pine Vole etc.), Harvest Mice, Hazel Dormouse, Garden dormouse, Edible dormouse, Red Squirrel, Striped Field Mouse, Wood mouse, Yellow-necked Mouse, Black Rat, Brown Rat, House Mouse, Water Vole, Cricetus. The European Beaver was hunted almost to extinction, but is now being re-introduced throughout Europe. The three European Lagomorphs are the European Rabbit, Mountain Hare and European Hare.
Widespread and locally common ungulates are Boar, Moose, Roe deer, Red Deer, Reindeer, Wisent, Chamois and Argali. Today the larger carnivores (wolves and bears) are endangered. The brown bear lives primarily in the Balkan peninsula, Scandinavia, and Russia; a small number also persist in other countries across Europe (Austria, Pyrenees etc.). In addition, wolverine and polar bears may be found in Scandinavia. The wolf, the second largest predator in Europe after the bear, can be found primarily in Eastern Europe and in the Balkans, with a handful of packs in pockets of Western Europe (Scandinavia, Spain, etc.). Other important European carnivores are Eurasian lynx, European wild cat, foxes (especially the red fox), jackal, Stoat, Eurasian otter, European Mink, Eurasian Badger and different species of martens. The only Primate species (besides humans) is the possibly introduced Barbary Macaque[26]. See also List of European mammals.
Human impact and conservation[edit]
Having lived side-by-side with agricultural peoples for millennia, Europe's animals have been profoundly affected by the presence and activities of man. The main causes of biodiversity loss are changes in natural habitats due to intensive agricultural production, construction and extractive industries, over exploitation of habitats and invasions and introductions of alien species.
With the exception of Fennoscandia and northern Russia, few areas of untouched wilderness are currently found in Europe, except for various national parks. There are over 26,000 protected areas in the European Union covering a total area of around 850.000 km2 (more than 20% of total EU territory; see also Natura 2000)[27]. 15% of the Alps are protected in parks and reserves, as well as many areas in the Carpathians (Retezat National Park). The coasts of the North Sea are home to nature reserves including the Ythan Estuary, Fowlsheugh Nature Preserve, and Farne Islands in the UK and The Wadden Sea National Parks in Germany. Białowieża Forest is the only remaining part of the immense forest which once spread across the European Plain. The Danube delta is the second largest delta in Europe, (after the Volga delta) and the best preserved on the continent. The Camargue Nature Reserve is another important delta nature reserve. Doñana National Park is a national park and wildlife refuge in southwestern Spain.
Biodiversity is protected in Europe through the Bern Convention, which has been signed by the European Community as well as non-European states. The European Union has adopted the ambitious target of halting the loss of biodiversity by 2010[28].
See also[edit]
External links[edit]
- European Commission's DG Environment [1]
- Fauna Europaea[2]
- The European Register of Marine Species[3]
- European Limnofauna[4]
- ^ Z.S.Varga, T.Schmitt, Types of oreal and oreotundral disjunctions in the western Palearctic. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2008, 93, 415–430
- ^ Taberlet, P.; R. Cheddadi 2002. Quaternary Refugia and Persistence of Biodiversity (In Science's Compass; Perspectives). Science, New Series 297:5589:2009-2010
- ^ Sommer, R. S.; N. Benecke. 2005. The recolonization of Europe by brown bears Ursus arctos Linnaeus, 1758 after the Last Glacial Maximum. Mammal Review 35:2:156-164
- ^ M.D.Spalding et al., Marine Ecoregions of the World: A Bioregionalization of Coastal and Shelf Areas, BioScience Vol.57 No.7, 2007
- ^ a b "OSPAR Quality Status Report for the Greater North Sea" (PDF), OSPAR, 2000, retrieved 2007-12-21
- ^ "Factors affecting the distribution Of North Sea fish" (PDF), International council for the Exploration of the Sea ICES, retrieved 2007-12-9 Check date values in:
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Emily Watson on 'The Book Thief', Hitting Geoffrey Rush and the Fun of Being Unpleasant
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Emily Watson is a multi-award winning actress who has played a variety of complex and iconic roles, but the thing she finds the most fun about Rosa Hubermann, the character she plays in her latest film, The Book Thief, is that she's so unpleasant. In the film adaptation of Markus Zusak's bestseller, Rosa is the stern wife of Hans Hubermann (Geoffrey Rush), a German couple who take in a foster child, Leisel Meminger (Sophie Nèlisse) at the start of World War II. However, once the family begins sheltering Max Vandenburg (Ben Schnetzer), a Jewish man, her frosty exterior melts to reveal a woman who will — in Watson's own words — "fight like a tiger" to protect the people she loves.
In our interview with Watson, ahead of The Book Thief's November 8 release, we talked about he first impressions of the story, why she felt so free to be terrible to Geoffrey Rush, and the joy she finds in playing such a "vile" character.
I'm actually a really big fan of the novel, and I thought the film did a great job translating it to screen, so I was wondering what was your introduction to the story? Had you read the novel beforehand, or did it start with the script?
The script was, I'm ashamed to say, my first introduction, and I thought it was an amazing script, and then I read the book and I thought it was an amazing book. But I think it's quite a successful extrapolation — Geoffrey was talking about it earlier, that it was a very difficult thing to find a film language because you can't have — you know, Death narrating everything is brilliant, but it's a literary device, but I think that's what's really unique about the book is that it's a view of this, it's an indifferent. Death is indifferent to who's dying, in a way, and Death is a beneficent presence.
You said that it was really exciting to play a character who was so unpleasant. She's also very understated and really quiet about her emotions. Was that part of the challenge, and was that also exciting for you?
I think she's someone who's very disappointed and very angry. I guess in a good Protestant way she keeps her lip buttoned, but she's pretty vile. And then she gets to the point where the real events, the huge events going on around them start to break her open, in a way, and actually she has something that's he loves, which is a home full of needy children who need her and she loves them and they're under threat and she will fight like a tiger to protect them. She's probably never felt more alive and she's a person with great love in her heart, somewhere, but finds it very difficult to express.
Was it intimidating to play such a beloved character or are you at the point in your career where nothing scares you?
No, I think it's like flying an airplane. If you don't have the fear, don't do it. In a way, though, that the "beloved character," you can't be intimidated by that, you've just got to try and go with it as much as you can, but in a sense you have to bring yourself to it too. I mean, it was good fun, just deciding I need to look as much like a s**t bag as I possibly can, I need to look fat, I need to scrape my hair back and they put really ugly, aging makeup and gray, scraped back, dirty hair and after about a week I just kind of got used to it, really, and being nasty was really good fun as well.
There are a lot of newcomers and relative newcomers in the cast. What was it like working with them?
I mean, Sophie and Ben, are both beautiful young actors, and Ben particularly was in his last year at drama school, so he knew a lot about the theory of acting and was sort of wide-eyed with astonishment to be in the room with us and doing it an just asking questions all the time. Really, really lovely young man. And Sophie as well, I remember her after the first day of rehearsal just looking at us really curiously, and Brian [Percival, the director] asking her, you know, "Are you okay?" and she said "I didn't really know you could go into things as deeply as this." Because we sat and talked and talked and talked about everything, you know, about the family and the history and what was going on in Germany, and Geoffrey and I both love to talk. And she was sort of, "Okay, I get it." And she really was like a sponge, soaking it up.
And you've worked with Geoffrey before, did that help you build the relationship between Hans and Rosa?
Yeah, we've had real fun together before. Doing The Life and Death of Peter Sellers was a hoot, and then we did press, we went to Cannes, we had a laugh, we had a hoot, so we had that. We knew each other and we knew we had shared a sense of humor, so actually it sort of gave me license to be really, really mean to him and just get on with it in a way. We didn't have to be sensitive.
I wanted to ask a little bit about the accent you use in the film. It's a bit rare to have an American produced film with characters actually using German accents.
Uh, in The Reader, they did. If you actually look, a lot of really good movies of this period, they do, really. Yeah, we had dialect coaches, we had a lot of coaching and lessons, but also we were surrounded by Germans, so that made it easier. But also, it's the inflection that helps with the character.
This is a pretty intense experience, but the film has some lighter moments as well. Were there any scenes that were a lot of fun to film?
I liked filming the scene where I hit Geoffrey round the head, when I'm feeding [Max] soup and he throws up. That was a really lovely demonstration of the relationship between actors on the set, because Ben was sitting there, and he was doing his very best sort of absolutely immersion in the total "I've just arrived in a strange house, and I'm feeling very ill and I'm going to be sick", and Geoffrey and I kind of looked at each other and said, "Okay. If you show that you're going to be sick, it's going to spoil the gag. It's a gag. So don't." and then, of course Geoffrey is the comic actor, so it was sort of "Okay, Geoffrey. How many spoons do I give him? One spoon, two spoons, or three spoons before he gags? What's the right comic [timing]?" So, yeah, we had the master comedian sort of turning his hat, and it was really lovely. And then, just getting up and hitting him, just [thwack], that was the best. I don't know which one they used in the film, I can't remember, but one was a really resounding thwap, and the entire crew were on the floor laughing. That was good fun.
And were there any you found particularly difficult?
Going to the school and telling [Liesel] that Max was going to live, that sort of final cracking of Rosa [where she] does something utterly emotional and impulsive and dangerous, but full of love. In a way, it was a great release to be able to do it like that, but it takes a lot of concentration, I guess, to get to the right place for that.


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Heavy rain in the area on October 30th resulted in very high levels on Barton Creek with peaks of 20,000 cfs at Highway 71 and about 19,000 at the 360 bridge. Here's a video of what it looked like at Lost Creek Boulevard.
Yesterday I took a walk along the creek from about Twin Falls to the Violet Crown trail and saw a lot of evidence of high water. There were lots of trees down including at least one large pecan in the grove just downstream from the Mopac bridge. Here are a few photos.
On my way I checked on the progress of the Mopac pedestrian bridge. It looks like all the columns are up and they should start on the deck anytime. The projected finish date is March of 2016.
After my walk along the creek I continued up the new Violet Crown Trail to the trail head on 290. The new trail markers are installed and make it easy to follow the route. This is a great addition to Austin's evolving trail system.
Right now the creek is flowing all the way to the lake, the water is clear, and the trails are mostly dry. A great time to see the creek at it's best.


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"Two Days in Appalachia" that appeared in Vice earlier this month has sparked controversy about its depiction of people in Eastern Kentucky. Scott Finn of West Virginia Public Broadcasting asks, "Did Vice send photographer Bruce Gilden to Appalachia to make us look like freaks? And how does this feed into existing stereotypes of people here?" (Gilden photo: Harlan, Ky.)
Finn discusses the photo essay on his podcast, The Front Porch, along with guests Rick Wilson of the American Friends Service Committee, Laurie Lin of the Charleston Daily Mail and photographer Roger May of Looking at Appalachia.
"I think he was searching out images that kind of make people look like circus freaks," Finn said. "I think they were photographed in a way to make them look freaky. Is it documentary photography or poverty porn?"
While May said Gilden stayed true to his aggressive photography style of getting up close and personal with gritty, often unattractive photos, he said that style was inappropriate in this situation. May said, "When you consider the history of photographic works in Appalachia, that is not a good fit for the region, in my opinion . . . I take issue with people being used as props."
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The Supreme Court's 1988 Beck decision established two important protections for workers compelled to pay union dues.
- The right to financial information on how the union spends its funds.
- The right to withhold payment of that portion of union dues spent on the union's political, social and ideological goals.
But since the Court's 1988 decision, Beck enforcement has been nearly nonexistent.
- Two attempts in Congress to codify employee rights in federal law have failed.
- A 1992 executive order by President Bush requiring signs at federal contractors' work sites informing employees of their rights was rescinded by President Clinton within a month of assuming office as "distinctly anti-union."
Thus it is not surprising that, according to an April 1996 Luntz Research survey, 78 percent of union members are not aware of their right to receive a dues refund under Beck.
But recent surveys show that employees would likely exercise their Beck rights if they knew them.
- One out of five union members said that they would definitely request a refund in lieu of participating in the AFL-CIO's $35 million political campaign during the 1996 election.
- By 84 percent to 9 percent , union members said union leaders should be required to disclose "exactly how they spend" union dues.
- By 53 percent to 32 percent margin, union households believe labor unions should not be allowed to use members' dues to support political causes and issues of interest to the labor movement.
Source: Robert Hunter, "Compulsory Union Dues In Michigan," Mackinac Center Report, 1997, Mackinac Center For Public Policy, 119 Ashman Street, P.O. Box 568, Midland, Michigan 48640, (517) 631-0900.
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Senior Portrait Shoot: Evan
This weekend I was out on a Senior High School Portrait shoot with a great young man from Burnsville Highschool, Evan. Evan is a huge sports kid, so much of our task would be to capture his athleticism and his masculinity. Continue reading
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These are the first images from the Eagan Art Festival 2011.
These are hand sculptured, hand painted dolls From Joan Rydberg. These were just amazing to me. It was like they were alive. They were so full of life and energy. Great sculpture work Joan, These dolls stole my heart.
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This is a fun shot that gave me an opportunity to work with all the kids. Even the neighbor kids got involved.
The genesis of a picture: This picture originated from a discussion with another flickrite Wans2pics . We were talking about how to do a portrait of a male well. She came up with the idea that it could be an action shot or some shot were the guy was going the thing that he loved. So while this is no longer a portrait, it is a male action shot. There Wanda, the picture is up!!!
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Orchid Show Como Conservatory
Orchid Show Como Conservatory
Yes it is still possible that spring will come again.
Last weekend my wife and I got out the orchid show at the Como Conservatory in St Paul.
It was a wonderful show and I must tell you it was great to get out of the winter cold and into a summery feeling place. There were preparing the conservatory for the Valentines exhibit which I am sure will be incredible. I may have to get out there again to capture some of that beauty.
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Landmark Center St Paul Winter Carnival 2011
Landmark Center St Paul Winter Carnival 2011
The Landmark Center is one of the most recognizable buildings in Minnesota not to mention St Paul, Minnesota. The building has a great history and it is still being used in many interesting ways.
St. Paul's historic Landmark Center, completed in 1902, originally served as the United States Post Office, Court House, and Custom House for the state of Minnesota. It was designed by Willoughby J. Edbrooke, who served as Supervising Architect of the U.S. Treasury Department in 1891-92. Edbrooke designed a body of public architecture, much of which, like this structure, was completed after his death in 1896. Landmark Center stands in beautiful Rice Park, now housing an arts and culture center for St. Paul.
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St Paul Winter Carnival Ice Sculpture
The St Paul Winter Carnival ( www.winter-carnival.com/ ) is an annual event showcasing life in Minnesota and the hearty individuals that live here. It is a great way to get out and enjoy the fresh air and stay sane in the deep Minnesota winters. The ice sculpture event is the event that got me out shooting this particular evening and while I was out I decide to capture the great lights lighting up the night in St. Paul.
This is some of the amazing ice sculpture work. The artistry is amazing.
I love this town!!!
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St Paul Winter Carnival 2011
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New York City Skyline : Reflecting Clouds
New York City Skyline : Reflecting Clouds
This was from our family trip to New York city in the summer of 2010. This was one of those perfect days, perfect temperature, perfect conditions and everyone was in a good mood.
I would highly recommend the trip.
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Photo of the day: Target Field Twins Stadium Memories of Summer
Target Field Twins Stadium Memories of Summer
Take me out to the ball game…
This shot was captured at the Minnesota Twins stadium known as Target Field in Minneapolis Minnesota. This was a great win for Matt Fox's professional Baseball debut.
I had great fun with the boys and I was able to witness this wonderful sunset.
As Tim would say, "this is quality of life my boys, quality of life." Thanks Tim and Pat.
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Usually at this time of year, Don Connick starts figuring out what crops to grow on his Saskatchewan farm next spring, and he goes over variables like costs, weather and commodity prices. But this year he's facing a new variable that has ground his planning to a halt – the future of the Canadian Wheat Board.
"There's just this real cloud of uncertainty," Mr. Connick said from his 1,600-acre farm near Gull Lake, in southwestern Saskatchewan. "Even in normal times it's difficult to plan crops. But this adds another great big humungous variable and makes it doubly or triply more difficult."
Late Thursday the federal government received royal assent for Bill C-18, a law that ends the Wheat Board's 76-year monopoly over the sale of wheat and barley grown in Western Canada. In theory, that means farmers will market their own grain next year, either through private companies like U.S. grain giant Bunge Ltd., or a reconstituted Wheat Board that will still operate in some fashion with government backing for five years.
But even that isn't certain because of a series of legal challenges and a recent ruling by a federal court judge who said the government must hold a vote among farmers before dismantling the board. That decision is under appeal, but if the ruling stands it could delay or derail the implementation of the government's new law.
Just how bizarre the world has become for farmers was illustrated Friday in a Winnipeg court. Earlier this week, a group of eight farmer-elected directors of the Wheat Board announced plans to file a motion in Manitoba's provincial court asking for an injunction to block the implementation of Bill C-18 until all the legal issues are resolved. But when the motion came before the court Friday, Bill C-18 had become law and those eight directors had been dismissed. The remaining five directors, all government appointees, promptly moved to withdraw the motion. However, the former directors pressed on as individuals and the case continued.
The bigger issue for farmers is how to sell their grain next year.
On Friday, Ian White, the chief executive of the Wheat Board, said the agency plans to continue offering contracts to farmers for their wheat. "The CWB has been preparing for this change for many months, developing both pool and cash programs for farmers for the upcoming crop year," Mr. White said in a statement. "Amid all the change, one thing remains the same: The CWB will market farmers' grain. We will work to achieve the best prices for farmers and superior service for customers in Canada and around the world."
But private companies also started offering contracts Friday. "Starting today, Viterra is pleased to offer bids to Western Canadian wheat, durum and barley producers," said Mayo Schmidt, CEO of Viterra Inc., a Calgary-based grain handling company.
Farmers will now have to decide which way to go. And they'll have to do it knowing that everything could change again depending on the various lawsuits.
The confusion has left many farmers unclear about who to turn to and whether everything will change again depending on a new court ruling.
Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz was adamant Friday that Bill C-18 is now law and that farmers have a clear choice. They can sell grain themselves, similar to how many now sell canola and other crops, or they can choose to use the Wheat Board, which will be able to broaden its mandate and market other crops.
But just what the Wheat Board will do remains uncertain, and Mr. Ritz said the five government-appointed directors will be meeting soon to reorganize the agency. "Certainly there'll be no wholesale layoff of people at the Wheat Board," he told reporters. "As the appointed directors, the five meet, they will consider what they will need to move forward, and make adjustments accordingly."
Mr. Ritz also dismissed the latest court action by the former farmer-elected directors, saying that with C-18 now law there is no going back. "I think they will find that they no longer represent the Canadian Wheat Board or Western Canadian farmers," he said. Those directors are "now on winter vacation."Report Typo/Error
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Hawaii Electric Light Co. announced Sunday at 11 a.m. that approximately 1,000 customers in Pahala and Naalehu were affected by a power outage.
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MOVIE SYNOPSIS [ General Audiences ] Being a creation directed by Pavel Golovkin, this movie in English (subtitles) was presented in 2015. This film was developed in Russian Federation. You can watch Dark Sky. White Clouds. online on TV cable or theaters with original audio in Russian at different dates. This film premiered in theaters in 2015.
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Robots add efficiencies to large-format machining cell
A new machining cell uses a robot and linear floor slide to give machinists an expanded working area and travel capability. The new cell is ideal for any customer needing to cut 5-axis large format items, say the companies involved, such as models, statues, stairway parts, or car bodies. Kuka Robotics Corp. , global manufacturer of industrial robots, will provide robots for Robotic CNC Solutions' new large format machining cell.
"Combining Kuka's robot, Gudel's linear slide and Robotic CNC Solution's expertise will meet customer demands for large format robotic prototyping and machining," says Kevin Kozuszek, director of marketing for Kuka Robotics Corp. Tom Bentley, president of Programming Plus, says, "Kuka's high performance robots are key to our new cell, which will allow customers to mill more efficiently and more cost effectively."
The new system expands the capabilities of the Kuka robot, allowing it to function as a larger CNC machine would, the companies say. One Kuka robot can mill from one position 2, 3, 4, or more parts stationed around it. It also may load its own parts. The 12-ft Gudel linear slide expands the system's travel and work envelope so that customers can easily machine large format products at a lower cost than traditional 5-axis machine tools.
Robotic CNC Solutions, formally a division of Programming Plus, is a Kuka value-added reseller specializing in services for complex milling processes. Located in New Berlin, WI, the company says it's a leading dealer of Delcam products. The company also offers hands-on training classes at its corporate offices.
—Edited by Mark T. Hoske , Control Engineering editor in chief
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