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What money problems?
It's been well-documented that President Obama is being outspent by his Republican opponents by a considerable margin. So to counter that gap, and make a good PR move in the process, the president and his team got creative— without spending a dime.
On Wednesday, August 29, as Republican nominee Mitt Romney and thousands of his supporters were convening in Tampa, President Obama hopped on reddit.com to answer questions from the general public. For about 30 minutes, the president answered questions about politics, protecting Internet Freedom, funds for the space program and unemployment for recent grads among other topics. The president posted a picture of himself on the computer and posted links for participants to register to vote. Reddit, unlike Twitter, doesn't have a limit on characters, so responses could be well thought-out and in-depth. Much like his 2008 run, when social media was still in its infancy, Obama continues to find unique social ways to interact with his constituency.
Did we mention this move didn't cost a thing?
When you're behind in budget, social media platforms are inexpensive weapons to add to your PR arsenal. It's a great way to compete with the big boys, even if you have half of their budgets to work with. In this case, Obama is taking a "fiscal" approach to campaigning. By simply utilizing Reddit's AMA (Ask me anything) feature, Obama showcased himself at a lower price with the hopes it being just as impactful as a high-priced TV ad.
This move should remind all communicators of the importance of social media. It's cost-efficient, and an easy way to spread information about your brand. When budgeting for promotions, the social media elements should be at or near the top of any business objectives that are written.
As we've documented over the past few weeks, social media has been a huge part of the campaigns for the upcoming presidential election. Both Obama and Romney have made a point to make social networking a high priority as November approaches. Twitter, Facebook and personal Web sites have been an effective, and fast, way for both campaigns to pass their message on to potential voters and have given them opportunities for personal engagement.
As you may recall, it was Obama's employment of social media in the 2008 campaign that many credit for his win over John McCain. The Republicans learned from that defeat and have become much more involved in social media efforts this time around.
Obama's chat generated enormous buzz on the Internet. And yes, it was actually him chatting. From a PR perspective, not only did the Obama team make news in a positive way by openly answering questions, Reddit, which was founded in 2005, maximized on its opportunity by having the most recognizable name in the world use its brand.
A win-win for all involved— at no cost.
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Construction of the eagerly-anticipated National Soccer Development Centre (NSDC) at the University of British Columbia has begun with phase one of the project due to be completed by the time Vancouver Whitecaps FC begin pre-season training in mid-January.
Whitecaps FC ambassador Carl Valentine caught up with facilities manager Ed Georgica at the proposed site of the facility to check on its progress.
As part of phase one, a 4000-sq foot locker room and coaches area will be built, along with a players' lounge and kitchen.
There will also be space for hot and cold tubs, ice machines and a medical room.
The first phase of the project is expected to be finished by January 15.

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DETROIT (AP) — President Barack Obama will help announce expansion of a truck engine plant when he visits a Detroit suburb on Monday.
The president is visiting the area to build support for his plan to avoid the "fiscal cliff," the combination of tax hikes and spending cuts that are to take effect in January unless a budget deal is reached.
A person briefed on the matter says Obama and Detroit Diesel will unveil a $100 million investment at the factory in Redford Township, Mich.
The person says the plant owned by Germany's Daimler AG will be expanded to make transmissions and axles. The person didn't want to be identified in advance of the official announcement. It was unclear how many jobs would be added. More details are expected later on Monday.
Obama is scheduled to tour the 3-million-square-foot plant and speak to workers before returning to Washington in the afternoon.
Detroit Diesel has been in business since 1938. The Redford plant now employs about 2,300 people, according to the company's website.
Obama's visit was planned as he works to get public backing and pressure Republicans to reach a deal on the "fiscal cliff."
The "fiscal cliff" refers to rate increases that would affect every worker who pays federal taxes, as well as spending cuts that would begin to bite defense and domestic programs alike. Economists say the combination carries the risk of a new recession at a time the economy is still struggling to recover from the worst slowdown in decades.
The country faces the fiscal cliff because tax rate cuts put in place during the administration of former President George W. Bush expire at the end of the year. Obama campaigned during his successful run for a second term on keeping the cuts in place for all but the top 2 percent of U.S. earners. Republicans want to find additional government income by cutting back on tax loopholes and deductions while leaving the tax rates unchanged.
The pending across-the-board reductions in government spending, impacting everything from social programs to the military, were put in place last year as an incentive to both parties to find spending reductions. That legislation grew out of the two parties' inability in 2011 to agree to a tax and spending program that would have taken a big bite out of the deficit.
Obama's visit also comes after Republicans in Michigan last week pushed right-to-work legislation through the state House and Senate. An Obama spokesman on Thursday repeated the president's opposition to right-to-work laws as the Michigan Legislature adopted the union-curbing measure.


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Friday, June 8, 2012
Chloe- Safari + Leopard
Top- BCBGeneration bluse gifted from BCBG
Dress- Leopard Chloe Sevigny for Opening Ceremony from Holt Renfrew in Toronto
Watch- Diesel watch gifted from Diesel party in L.A
Bracelets- M.Cohen bracelets from M.Cohen store in L.A
Bag- Louis Vuitton bag from Louis Vuitton bag in L.A
Necklace- Vintage skull necklaces from Hells Kitchen Flea Market in NY
Shoes- Number 7 clogs from Creatures of Comfort in L.A
The Look: Safari + Leopard
Fun fact: How funny is this wall! I'm getting pink spray paint in the face! ahhh! I went to the Diesel dinner party at the store and they used this watch I am wearing as a napkin ring holder! It was such a clever and chic idea! Pin It Now!
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- SHOP STYLE CONQUER said...
cute outfit! love the layers! and these photos are awesome!
- June 8, 2012 at 4:30 AM
- SACRAMENTO said...
Always gorgeous Chloe, ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
have a lovely weekend, my family
- June 8, 2012 at 10:54 AM
- Kimberly said...
really cute outfit love the dress!
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- June 8, 2012 at 1:12 PM
- Andrea said...
gorgeous look..i love the leo!!
- June 8, 2012 at 2:20 PM
- Luna Tiger said...
I love how your outfit play with the wind, perfect fabric for spring !
- June 10, 2012 at 9:43 AM
Simply gorgeous! I love everything about this! You look so fresh and beautiful!!!
- June 10, 2012 at 10:10 PM
One of the quickest ways to add a dash of personality to any outfit is to mix in a pair of Bianca Leopard-Print Platform Pump from Christian Louboutin . But, as popular and fun as they are, leopard prints don't really work with everything. In fact, I can probably name more colors and outfits that leopard print shoes don't work with than I can items they will. The good news is, when you get the right combination, it's a tough one to beat for drama, glamour and sex appeal. Below are a few tips on what to wear with Maggie 140mm Leopard-Toe Pump from Christian Louboutin.
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The 60th anniversary of the truce that ended the Korean War was observed over the weekend in the U.S. and on the Korean Peninsula.
In Pyongyang, overlooking a sea of spectators mobilized in Kim Il Sung Square to cheer and wave flags, leader Kim Jong Un saluted his troops from a review stand. He was flanked by senior military officials, the chests of their uniforms laden with medals.
In Washington, President Barack Obama observed the day with a speech at the Korean War Veterans Memorial on the National Mall, saying the anniversary marks the end of the war and the beginning of a long and prosperous peace.
"Here today, we can say with confidence, that war was no tie, Korea was a victory," with 50 million South Koreans living in freedom and "a vibrant democracy" in stark contrast to dire conditions in the North, Obama said.
Here is a gallery of images of Korean War anniversary observances.
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At just 12 years old, Elijah Earnheart weighs 297 pounds, and stands at 6-feet-1 inches tall. His weight exceeds the Mesquite, TX's Pee Wee Football Association weight limit of 135 pounds for seventh-graders. Last Sunday, at the league's official weigh-in, Earnheart was turned away from the scale and therefore the team by the president of the peewee football association, Ronnie Henderson, because he predicted that Earnheart's weight would not make the cut, ABC News reports.
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Elijah is a self-described "gentle giant" and aspires to play professional football. His mother, Cindy Earnheart, is speaking out against the association and calling them discriminatory. "They would not even let him weigh in on the scales like every single boy out there," she said. "He might be the size of a grown man but he's 12 years old and he has feelings, too."
Plus: Cholesterol Levels Down in US Kids, Obesity Rates Still High
Henderson is concerned about the safety of the other pee wee football players. "We've got little boys that play against him that are 85, 95 and 100 pounds," Henderson said. "We have to look out for all the kids, not just him." Three other players were also turned away.
Plus: Boy Scouts Uphold Ban on Gay Members
Before the weigh-in, Elijah had already spent three weeks practicing with the team and special-ordered a helmet, shoulder pads, pants and jersey to accommodate his size. The team's coach, Marc Wright, said that there was an exception to the weight rule that would allow children who weigh more than 135 pounds to play on the offensive or defensive line only. However, Henderson contends that this exception only applies to sixth-graders, who are allowed to weigh up to 160 pounds.
Elijah's mother disagrees with the league's rules. "Isn't bigger better in football? Football is a contact sport. If you don't want your son tackled, get him off the field."
Does Elijah deserve to make the team? Would you allow your child to play football against a child the size of an adult? Leave a comment.


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Jerry Yang Resigns from Yahoo
After 17 years, it comes down to this. In a surprising move, Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang resigned from his position on the search company's board of directors – and from all other positions within the company. This resignation is effective immediately.
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The world will go on after December 21, 2012, despite what some might claim. Noted archaeoastronomer E. C. Krupp explains the cause of Maya mania in a free download.
The end of the world is coming. Or so 1 in 10 people might tell you, according to an international poll conducted by Ipsos Global Public Affairs. In fact, 1 in 7 people worldwide believe the world will end during their lifetime, and it seems most of these people are buying into the much-publicized calamity that ancient Maya calendars supposedly predict for December 21, 2012. The hysteria seems to be hitting some parts of the world harder than others.
In reality, of course, the world is in very little danger of ending on December 21st or any other day soon. But even if you already know this, chances are, you know someone else who doesn't.
Here's what you can tell them: December 21, 2012, really is a big flip-the-page date in the ancient Maya calendar — but they didn't believe the world would end then. And all the planetary and galactic lineups that doom-mongers are trying to associate with that date are flat-out wrong.
Back in 2009, when the movie "2012" came out, we did our part at Sky & Telescope to counter the hysteria. Noted archaeoastronomer E. C. Krupp explained all the details and history of the Maya mania in the November 2009 issue of Sky & Telescope. Download Krupp's article (PDF) and share with friends, family, and whoever else might need to hear it.
In the same issue, S&T editor-in-chief Robert Naeye wrote about cosmic disasters that actually could happen — but aren't likely to anytime soon. It makes for a fun read if you're tired of hearing about fake Maya prophecies. Download Naeye's article (PDF) and share it wisely.


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Executive Summary:
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 or Microsoft SQL Server 2000 database administrators sometimes come across the problem of hitting the 900-bytes limit for unique constraints. To work around the 900-byte limit, Microsoft SQL Server 2005 or Microsoft SQL Server 2000 database administrators can create an additional computed column that gives the checksum value of the string column. Because Checksum is an int data type, a unique index for the computed column can be created
I created a function, dbo.occurrences, that calculates how many times a substring appears in a source string. Rather than looping through the source string and checking whether the substring still exists in the part of the string that hasn't been scanned yet, dbo.occurrences performs a simple arithmetic calculation. The number of occurrences of a substring within a string is expressed by the formula
Occur (s,sub ) =
\{ len(s) – len (replace(s,sub,'') \}
/ len(sub) \{len(sub) 0\}
This formula calculates the number of occurrences of a string within a string by first replacing each substring inside the source string with an empty string. Next, the formula finds the difference between the length of the original source string and the length of the resulting string after you perform the replacement operation just described. Finally, the difference is divided by the length of the substring, providing the substring isn't empty. Listing 1 shows how dbo.occurrences implements this formula.
To use dbo.occurrences, you pass in a source string and a substring as varchar(max) parameters. For example, if you want to see how many times the letter i is in the string Eli Leiba is the king, you use the call
select dbo.occurrences
('Eli Leiba is the king','i')
which produces the result of 4. If you want to see how many times the substring ll is in the string Hello tell me hello, you use the call
select dbo.occurrences
('Hello tell me hello', 'll')
which produces the result of 3. If you try other pairs of source strings and substrings, you'll realize that this simple calculation does the job!
The Occurrences.sql file contains the dbo.occurrences function. You can download Occurrences.sql from SQL Server Magazine's Web site. (Go to www .sqlmag.com, enter 96786 in the InstantDoc ID text box, then click the 96786.zip hotlink.) I tested this function on SQL Server 2005, SP1. To make it work on SQL Server 2000, you need to use varchar(8000) instead of varchar(max) for the two parameters' type.
—Eli Leiba, Senior Application DBA, Israel Electric Company


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GPSOLO January/February 2008
The Chair's Corner
The Client Is the Enemy
So, did the title of this column catch your eye and make you read further, seeking some form of eloquence? If so, I guess I fooled another one. I first heard the statement, "The Client Is the Enemy," many years ago, when I was just learning how to be a lawyer. One of my mentors used to say it continually. I could never quite understand what he meant—after all, the client is the one who makes a law practice possible. Eventually, I learned that his meaning was multifaceted.
Clients don't understand what lawyers do, and we generally do a poor job of educating them. As a result, we are often misunderstood, and clients believe the stereotype that we are interested only in ourselves and the almighty dollar. Of course, we lawyers then recall the many instances when clients caused their own cases to be worse—making more work for us—when they genuinely believed they were being helpful. But if you try telling your clients that they screwed up, forcing you to spend more time and thus money to resolve the case, well, chances are you will not have those clients much longer. And they will remember you as the one who caused all their problems.
These disagreements are caused by poor communication. When we explain complex issues to clients, we sometimes speak in code. Clients don't have a clue what we're taking about, but they fool us into thinking they do, nodding in agreement as if they were bobblehead dolls. Further, we tend to look at these cases as inventory and expect that clients will understand the mazes that we navigate. They do not. Finally, we sometimes trivialize cases without regard to the financial and emotional toll they take, further fueling client angst. When the client pushes back, we tend to react as my mentor prophesied: The client is now the enemy.
To win the client back from the enemy camp, we need to simplify the information and the method of delivery of that information to the client. The articles contained in this issue of GPSolo magazine are invaluable in that regard. Read them and share them with others. If you follow their advice, you'll provide your clients the care they need—which in the future will benefit you in spades.
The Client Is King
There comes a time when the restatement of the obvious is necessary. This is one of those times. I have been banging the drum all year regarding the mission to simplify your practice, your profession, and, overall, your life. You can only do that if you have the resources to develop the strategies to make you more efficient and effective. Where do those resources come from? Our clients. Not only is that elementary, it is often overlooked. Perhaps even more elementary (and overlooked) is that the care and feeding of those clients results in a return on that investment many fold.
Sometimes we lawyers just don't get it, but our success is dependent on our clients. The point is articulated most aptly in the title of our lead article: "The Client Matters." We need to remind ourselves of that fact. We are not engaged in an academic exercise on some fine legal issue (at least on most days). I consider myself and my office to be pretty typical of law practices across this land. My staff and I sometimes scratch our heads in disbelief over the actions or inactions of clients. We can be outright hostile to clients who commit some boneheaded act or are otherwise asleep at the switch. However, I remind my staff that behind every lawyer there is a client, and without clients, we would cease to exist. Not uncommonly, clients need lawyers precisely because of their failure to listen or failure to use common sense. Thank God for client stupidity.
Communicate or Perish
That being said, when clients come to us to extract them from some thorny problem, we need to communicate with them regarding their case. Although they didn't seem terribly interested in the consequences of their actions when they committed them, you better believe that once their case has been turned over to you and they begin to get billed for your services, they are going to ask you what's going on. "Client Communication and Contact" is an article that you need to read and remove and save. I have been practicing now for 22 years, and I still do not have a viable system for keeping clients informed about their cases. This article has finally placed me on the road to a sound reporting procedure.
I was thrilled to see that someone actually agreed to write the article, "Yikes! How to Deliver Bad News and Disclose Mistakes"—that duty is always troubling for lawyers, who tend to agonize over the task and push it aside. I once tried to institute a Queen of Hearts Day in my law firm, when we would all swap one or two of our "dog" cases for another lawyer's "dog" case. Not only could a new lawyer take a fresh look at the case, but the agony of the case I had been handling could be eliminated with that fresh look. My belief was that it would help ferret out those ticking time bombs that can turn into malpractice claims. Sadly, that idea was shot down, but this article is a reasonable substitute.
Billing As Positive Client Communication
Despite conventional wisdom, the billing of your clients is not the antithesis of care and feeding. We all should be paid fair compensation for our hard work. "Billing 101" not only will help you make the client feel good about paying the bill, but it also will foster additional work. If anything else, it will help you realize you should never discount from your timesheet, but only from the final bill.
Additional Simplification Tools
Topics such as the handling of client files when your firm splits up, customer service essentials, the dos and don'ts of maintaining social contacts with clients, the pros and cons of offering non-legal advice to start-ups, the ethical hazards of solo and small firm practice, and how to prepare clients for depositions, trials, and other adversarial proceedings complete the set of tools in this issue of GPSolo to help you simplify your practice. Failure to utilize these tools will only make things more difficult. That, in turn, will force you to take your eye off the ball of efficient management of your practice and the benchmark of our profession: helping clients.


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I still love my G1, and I got a pleasant surprise recently. I was out at dinner with my wife, and we needed to look something up. So we decided to race, her with her Blackberry Curve (and Verizon), me with my Tmobile G1. The kids were excited, and so I turned it on and saw a note about an update. I clicked "OK", not really thinking about it since I get these messages all the time from apps I have installed on there. Just as my finger was pressing the screen, I read "Android" in the message and couldn't stop myself.
I hate OS updates, especially when I'm trying to do something else. So I sat there, waiting about 10 minutes while it downloaded the update and then restarted my phone. It applied the update as well, so the restart was about 5 minutes more. There were some cool images on the phone as it applied the updates, so at least there was something to look at.
The update finished, I popped a browser, looked up my item (losing horribly in the race) and went on with my evening. The next day, I was riding in the car with Kendall next to me, and I got a message from someone. Normally when I respond, I pop open the keyboard and type my response. This time, I clicked the screen to highlight the text box and was about to open the keyboard when a virtual keyboard popped on screen.
That was cool. I'd never seen it, and with Kendall leaning on my arm, I didn't have to move. I one thumbed a message out, making a few mistakes, but not many, and sent it. All without opening the phone. Since then there are a few times when I've used the virtual keyboard, since it's easy to do, works well, and provides feedback about which item you've pressed. It's not quit as quick as the physical keyboard, but it works well one handed and I don't have to open the screen.
The other interesting thing I noticed was during a phone call. Where I live the voice mail system never connects automatically. When I call, it assumes I need to leave a message and I have to his ***, then enter my phone number and password. However the interaction between the ***, the message to enter a phone number, and then the message for the password, is slow. You can't jump the gun and you have to wait. However when I wait, my phone always goes dark and I have to hit the menu button to bring the virtual dialpad back up to make the entries (or open the device).
This time, I hit *** and then listened for the system. When it responded I was set to hit "Menu", but all of a sudden noticed a padlock icon on the screen with a "double tap to unlock" message on it. A quick double tap and I was entering info again. It doesn't sound like much, but it's a much easier, and simpler way to handle this, and it really made me appreciate the OS.
Little things like that are why I really like Android and this phone. I'm not sure I'd always want to be stuck with the virtual keyboard, but it's nice to have that option.


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Success in School is a Family Affair
Christian County Extension Specialist Renette Wardlow gives advice for student success.
Teachers have children in the classroom for about seven hours a day, but what happens during the other 17 hours can make or break your child's success in school.
Attitude can make all the difference, a University of Missouri Extension human development specialist says.
"Parents need to be very involved in their children's education, starting with a good positive attitude about education," Renette Wardlow said. "Often times, parents who had a bad attitude about the entire school environment tend to carry that over to their children. Just stay positive about it. Keep those negative comments to yourself."
Demonstrate the value of learning by reading to your children, having books available for them and modeling persistence and hard work. "Children often mirror what their parents say and do," Wardlow said. "And we all know that often times young children will say what's on their mind, or repeat what they had heard in the past. So we have to watch what we say and do."
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Hydrophis platurus
|Scope: Global
Language: English
|Scientific Name:
|Hydrophis platurus (Linnaeus, 1766)
Common Name(s):
Anguis platura Linnaeus, 1766
Pelamis platura (Linnaeus, 1766)
Pelamis platurus (Linnaeus, 1766) [orth. error]
|Taxonomic Notes:
|Previously known as Pelamis platura. Sanders et al. (2012), in a phylogeny of the hydrophines, showed that Pelamis was nested within Hydrophis, necessitating the transfer of P. platurus to Hydrophis. The placement within Hydrophis was confirmed by Rezaie-Atagholipour et al. (2016).
|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Least Concern ver 3.1
|Year Published:
|Date Assessed:
|Guinea, M., Lukoschek, V., Cogger, H., Rasmussen, A., Murphy, J., Lane, A., Sanders, K. Lobo, A., Gatus, J., Limpus, C., Milton, D., Courtney, T., Read, M., Fletcher, E., Marsh, D., White, M.-D., Heatwole, H., Alcala, A., Voris, H. & Karns, D.
|Livingstone, S.R., Elfes, C.T., Polidoro, B.A. & Carpenter, K.E. (Global Marine Species Assessment Coordinating Team)
This is the most widely distributed sea snake species. There are some threats, but none thought to be major and the population is most likely stable. This species is listed as Least Concern.
|Previously published Red List assessments:
|Range Description:
|This species is very widespread in the tropical parts of the Pacific and Indian Oceans between the 18-20º C isotherms (Dunson and Ehlert 1971, Graham et al. 1971). It is known from the coasts of eastern Africa, north to the Arabian Gulf, east along the Asian coast of the Indian Ocean to the Pacific Ocean, northward to Japan and eastward to the western coasts of the Americas (Heatwole 1999).
Currents occasionally carry the snakes into temperate waters, but these are almost certainly far from their breeding and feeding waters.
|Countries occurrence:
Native:American Samoa; Australia; Bahrain; Bangladesh; Cambodia; China; Christmas Island; Cocos (Keeling) Islands; Colombia; Costa Rica; Djibouti; Ecuador (Ecuador (mainland), Galápagos); El Salvador; Eritrea; Fiji; French Polynesia; Guatemala; Honduras; India (Andaman Is., Nicobar Is.); Indonesia; Iran, Islamic Republic of; Iraq; Japan; Kenya; Kiribati; Korea, Democratic People's Republic of; Korea, Republic of; Kuwait; Madagascar; Malaysia; Mauritius; Mayotte; Mexico; Micronesia, Federated States of ; Mozambique; Myanmar; Nauru; New Caledonia; Niue; Oman; Pakistan; Palau; Panama; Papua New Guinea; Philippines; Pitcairn; Qatar; Réunion; Samoa; Seychelles; Singapore; Solomon Islands; Somalia; South Africa; Sri Lanka; Taiwan, Province of China; Tanzania, United Republic of; Thailand; Tokelau; Tonga; Tuvalu; United Arab Emirates; United States (Hawaiian Is.); United States Minor Outlying Islands (Howland-Baker Is., Johnston I., US Line Is.); Vanuatu; Viet Nam; Wallis and Futuna; Yemen
|FAO Marine Fishing Areas:
Indian Ocean – western; Indian Ocean – eastern; Pacific – southeast; Pacific – western central; Pacific – eastern central; Pacific – northwest; Pacific – southwest
|Additional data:
|Range Map:
|Click here to open the map viewer and explore range.
|Although there is no specific population information about the species, it is thought to be stable.
This is a fairly common species throughout the waters of the Indian sub-continent, occasionally washed ashore during rough weather, which is probably due to its pelagic habits. For the same reason, it is also rarely encountered as bycatch in fishing operations (A. Lobo pers. comm.).
Kropach (1975) marked 961 individuals of this species in the Bay of Panama over a one year period. None were recaptured during the period. About a year later, one was recaptured in the Bay of Panama and three were collected off the coast of Mexico.
Estimating population size for this species is difficult, as the range is very broad over several oceans. In addition, the distribution pattern of Hydrophis platurus is very clumped. Visual surveys from boats are probably the most suitable technique for estimating population size. The unique habits and colouration of H. platurus mean that it is unlikely to be confused with other species (Marsh et al. 1993).
|Current Population Trend:
|Additional data:
|Habitat and Ecology:
|The species is the most pelagic of the sea snakes, occurring in the open ocean well away from coasts and reefs. However, a small individual (total length = 230 mm) found in a mangrove swamp (Minton 1966) suggests that the species may occasionally occur in inter-tidal habitats. This species eats only fish (Klawe 1963) that mistakenly seek shelter beneath the motionless snake that resembles drifting wood. Consequently they forage to a depth of only about 2 m (Kropach 1975). This species is usually found in the 0-10 m range of the water column (Cogger 2007). This is the only marine snake not associated with the benthic community (Marsh et al. 1993).
In the open ocean, the snakes often occur in large numbers in association with long lines of debris. These "slicks" form in calm seas and consist variously of debris, foam and scum brought together by converging water currents. In some areas, such as the Gulf of Panama in the eastern Pacific Ocean, the slicks can vary in width from 1 to 300 m and stretch for many kilometres. Several thousand snakes may be associated with a single slick. It is not clear whether the snakes actively swim to the slicks or whether they are carried into them passively (Kropach 1971, 1975). The only obvious activity that is performed by the snakes in the slicks is feeding and knotting. Other activities that might benefit from large aggregations, such as mating, have not been observed. Females are significantly larger than males (Kropach 1975).
The minimum snout-vent length at birth is about 22 cm and sexual maturity is reached as a length of 50 cm and 62.5 cm for males and females respectively (Marsh et al. 1993).
|Congregatory (and dispersive)
|Major Threat(s):
|There are no known major threats to this species. Minor threats may include bycatch in squid fisheries (M. Guinea pers. comm. 2009), ghost fishing nets, and pollution, including oil spills.
|Conservation Actions:
There are no species-specific conservation measures in place.
No sea snake species is currently listed by CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora).
|Amended reason:
|This species was originally assessed under the genus Pelamis, but it is now transferred to Hydrophis, hence the need for this amended assessment. The species' name in the text has also been updated.
|Guinea, M., Lukoschek, V., Cogger, H., Rasmussen, A., Murphy, J., Lane, A., Sanders, K. Lobo, A., Gatus, J., Limpus, C., Milton, D., Courtney, T., Read, M., Fletcher, E., Marsh, D., White, M.-D., Heatwole, H., Alcala, A., Voris, H. & Karns, D. 2017. Hydrophis platurus (amended version of 2010 assessment). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017: e.T176738A115883818. . Downloaded on 26 September 2018.
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Study: Children's use of e-cigarettes increasing
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More kids still smoke traditional cigarettes than the new electronic ones, and it's not clear how dangerous e-cigarettes are.
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NORTH MYRTLE BEACH, SC. – On the final day of the Spartan's five day spring break road trip, York dropped both contests. The Spartans fell to Malone in the first game 17-13, then fell to Lycoming in the second game 4-3.
In the first game of the day, Morgan Levine (Oakland, N.J. / Indian Hills) took the mound for Spartans. Malone charged out to an early 2-0 lead in the top of the first behind a Holstrager homerun. The Spartans were unfazed and put two runners on with a Ashley Chenoweth (Fredericksburg, Va. / Stafford) single and a Ashley Chenoweth (Fredericksburg, Va. / Stafford) walk. Carleigh Ruleman (Owings, Md. / Northern) stepped up to the plate for the Spartans. Ruleman took the ball to the fence for a homerun to knock in three runs and gave York a 3-2 lead.
Malone tacked on three runs in the top of the second, forcing York to respond in the bottom of the second. Alyssa Molino (Montgomery, Pa. / Montgomery) started the Spartan attack with a double, and was able to score with Mackenzie Ewell (Hamilton, N.J. / Steinert) off wild pitches. The Spartans were able to work their bats to force errors and wild pitches to total seven runs in the game. This was the second time in as many days that the Spartans had an inning with seven runs. After the second inning the Spartans had a 10-5 advantage.
The Pioneers were able to tack on a run in the third, while limiting the Spartan offense to a Sara Thacker (Ijamsville, Md. / Urbana) single. In the top of the fourth Malone put together a six run inning, which gave the Pioneers the 12-10 lead.
The Spartans responded in the top of the fifth with a Thacker double to send Katie Maloney (Aston, Pa. / Sun Valley) home. Thacker then scored off a wild pitch to even the score at 12. Malone tacked on a run in the sixth and then was able to put together a three run seventh inning. The Spartans worked to cut the deficit in the bottom of the seventh, but fell just short. Lauren Lum (Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif. / Trabuco Hills) was able to get the RBI by sending Ruleman home.
The 13 runs that the Spartans scored was their highest offensive output of the year. Levine went for the full seven innings allowing 12 runs, while Coyle earned the win for the Pioneers by allowing 13 runs. To go with Ruleman's homerun, Molino had two doubles and Thacker tacked on her own double.
In the second game of the day, Jennifer Taff (Germantown, Md. / Clarksburg) took the mound for the Spartans. In the top of the second, Lycoming struck first with a Weaver double. Lycoming was able to add another run in the top of the fourth. The Spartans were held scoreless until the bottom of the fourth. The inning was started with a Thacker walk and a Ruleman single to left field. Natalie Fritz (Fayetteville, Pa. / Chambersburg) sent the ball flying through the field to send Thacker home. Lum then was able to get an RBI by sending Ruleman home with a ground out to second. Ewell ended the scoring for York with a single to right to send Fritz home. York ended their three run inning with a 3-2 lead.
Lycoming came back in the top of the sixth with two runs to take the 4-3 win. Lycoming scored two runners off an error to right field. The game ended with only one more hit for York.
Taff had the loss for the day with three strikeouts and only allowing six hits. Kristi Weaver had the win for Lycoming. York had one extra base hit with Natalie Fritz. The Spartans return to action on March 13, at Susquehanna University for a double header.
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We're giving hugs and slugs today, starting with a round of hugs for a trio of Republicans who started their new terms the right way.
Sure, the governor made the biggest headlines for kicking off his first day in office by sucking up millions of dollars in special-interest money and granting perks to those who cut the biggest checks.
But some other newly elected pols bypassed the lobbyists' largesse and trite slogans and really did get to work.
Orange County Mayor Teresa Jacobs and congressional freshmen Sandy Adams and Dan Webster among them.
Jacobs hadn't even been sworn into office 24 hours before she was talking about stronger ethics reform, trimming unnecessary bureaucracy and scaling back toll increases.
And up in Washington, while some members of Congress were busy feting themselves and collecting donations for their next campaign, Webster opted for an informal meet-and-greet in his office. Adams actually started looking for legislation to sponsor. What a novel idea.
Slogans are easy. Actions mean a lot more.
A hug also to Attorney General Pam Bondi for immediately vowing to make open government a top priority — and backing up that talk by hiring one of the state's best-known open-record experts, Pat Gleason.
A slug to Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd, who, after donating a bunch of public property to churches, said: "I don't see atheists doing a dad-gum thing for this community." Sheriff, I'm a lifelong Christian, former Sunday-school teacher and guy who spends a good deal of space in this column praising faith-based philanthropy. With all that said, I also feel qualified to say this: You sound like an ignoramus. (And I mean that in the most Godly way possible.) Do you have some sort of superhuman atheist-detection skills? Are you really unaware that atheists volunteer in soup kitchens, help battered children and even … wait for it … serve in law enforcement? Sheriff, you're free to bluster all you want for the TV cameras you so love. But stereotypes without facts don't make anyone look good.
A hug to U.S. Sens. Bill Nelson and Marco Rubio for behaving like distinguished gentlemen during Rubio's swearing-in. Not only were both polite, but Democrat Nelson walked Republican Rubio down the aisle. (No, not in a way that would alienate some of Rubio's supporters.)
Loser of the week. Perhaps you saw that The Florida Bar has asked the Supreme Court to discipline spotlight-seeking finger-wagger John Stemberger for going on TV to misrepresent his role in the case of runaway teenager Rifqa Bary — and for making unsubstantiated claims about terrorists supposedly connected to the case. Stemberger called the charges baseless, saying: "Muslims have become the new protected class, and the institutions of society are bending over backwards to accommodate them." You know, the Bar doesn't usually pursue complaints to protect Muslims. It tries to protect the public from unethical attorneys.
And finally, a hug to Orlando City Commissioner Tony Ortiz and city officials for trying to clean up the southern side of State Road 436. It's always been a shame that one of the gateways to the city has looked like an armpit. If we can clean up Orange Blossom Trail, we can certainly do something about this congested stretch of road where one of the few things to distract you from run-down shopping centers are the $5-a-gallon gas prices. We can do better, Orlando! (And hey, while we're griping about that stretch of road, how about better timing for the stoplights while you're at it? I think there's been some improvement through the years. But boy, does it steam my clams to sit at one stoplight after another when there's no one else on that road.)
Scott Maxwell, who actually prefers fried oysters to steamed clams, can be reached at email@example.com or 407-420-6141.
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Reynold Reynolds Recreates 1930s Germany in a 7-Screen Film Installation
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Alaska-born filmmaker Reynold Reynolds works primarily in 16 mm and Super 8 mm, which he treats with a deftly dark artistic touch. His works center on themes of decay, consumption, and transformation, provocatively addressing psychologically and physically disturbing themes. One of his film projects, The Lost (2010), constructs an elaborate (if elusive) German town in Weimar Germany, complete with a cast of cabaret dancers, mad scientists, and other markers of the decadent interwar culture on the eve of Nazi takeover. "At the base of this project is the question, 'what would have happened to Germany and the world if the Nazis had never been elected?'" he describes. Reynolds draws heavy influence from philosophy and science, having studied physics before changing his focus to studio art and studying under influential experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage.
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DETROIT (Reuters) - Under pressure from Michigan's state government to turn around Detroit's finances, city officials said on Friday they will lay off hundreds of workers in addition to putting others on unpaid leave to stave off increased state oversight.
Detroit Mayor Dave Bing outlined plans to lay off 400 to 500 employees over the next two to three months in all non-revenue generating departments, including police and fire. He also reiterated plans to put more city workers on unpaid leave.
Bing said financial recovery for Detroit would be unlikely this decade, and he did not rule out the possibility of a state-appointed emergency financial manager or bankruptcy even as he emphasized that he would not support those measures.
"I'm a realist and I know that could in fact happen," Bing told reporters in downtown Detroit. "But I'm also a fighter, so I haven't given up."
Frustrated by the slow pace of reform and worried about the city's long-term viability, Michigan's Treasury Department said this week that it would start a review process that could lead to an appointment of an emergency financial manager to oversee Detroit's finances.
Detroit avoided such an appointment earlier this year by signing a consent agreement that gave the state some oversight. However, Bing and the nine-member city council have been at odds over some of the measures the mayor and state officials believe will lift Detroit out of its fiscal hole.
Bing said he would urge council members on Tuesday to approve several conditions tied to reforms that state officials want in order to release $30 million of bond proceeds for Detroit's near-empty coffers.
One of those conditions is a contract with law firm Miller Canfield to deal with issues related to the consent agreement. The council rejected that contract last month, citing concerns over potential conflicts of interest by the firm and the validity of the contract.
"I've taken things to city council over time and they've not been able to respond as fast as I'd like them to so we can start an implementation plan," Bing said. "What I'm frustrated with is we've not been able to change the trajectory."
Detroit, a city of 700,000, has been hard hit by a steep population decline, years of severe budget deficits, and escalating employee costs, all of which led state officials to begin an intervention process a year ago.
Appointment of an emergency manager to oversee the city's finances would bring Detroit a step closer to a possible bankruptcy filing.
The city's path to fiscal restructuring has been clouded by confusion over state emergency manager laws.
Last month, Michigan voters overturned a 2011 law championed by Republican Governor Rick Snyder that gave emergency managers more power, including the ability to amend unionized labor contracts under certain conditions.
Cities and districts in Michigan with emergency managers now operate under a 1990 state law, which stipulates that an emergency manager is a prerequisite for a municipal bankruptcy.
This week, a proposed law surfaced in the Republican-controlled Michigan House that would give elected officials a range of options to deal with fiscal emergencies, including municipal bankruptcy if approved by the governor or appointment of an emergency manager. The bill has Snyder's backing.
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ESA's smallest satellite series is the subject of a Euronews video report this week.
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LEOMINSTER -- The city's tobacco agent, Joan Hamlett, is starting a campaign encouraging the tri-city area's public housing to go completely smoke-free.
Hamlett is director of the Central Massachusetts Boards of Health Tobacco Control Alliance representing 34 communities.
She is supporting the state Public Housing Department's tobacco-control program's Smoke Free Housing Project.
The idea of smokeless public housing is a hot-button topic in housing authorities around the state, said Peter Proulx, assistant director of the Leominster Housing Authority.
Smokers want their right to light up, but nonsmokers are affected by the secondhand smoke and the agencies that run housing are responsible for cleaning after tenants move.
"The subject as a whole at public housing across the state is a much-discussed subject," Proulx said.
Going smokeless is a slow process because housing authorities can't change the rules without warnings to residents, Hamlett said.
The Leominster Housing Authority has agreements to run housing authorities for Fitchburg, Lunenburg and Sterling.
There are about 958 public-housing units in Leominster and Fitchburg; Gardner has about 332; and Sterling and Lunenburg, combined, have another 94.
Gardner wants to go smokeless by 2016, but the date is fluid, said Gardner Housing Authority Executive Director David Curran.
"It would involve a lot to educate and a slow process of making existing tenants aware and letting new tenants know that is what we are aiming for," he said.
The Leominster Housing Authority will probably discuss the option of going completely smoke-free sometime this year, Proulx said.
It has already forayed into the smokeless world. The LaPierre East apartments on Spruce Street in Leominster went smokeless April 1.
Lunenburg is one of only 24 housing authorities in the state that is already smoking-free as of August, according to the state Public Health Department.
"This summer, (Massachusetts Tobacco Control Program) surveyed the public-housing authorities in Massachusetts and determined that (24 housing authorities representing 50 cities and towns), of 241 identified, had a smoke-free policy," said Public Health Department spokeswoman Anne Roach. "Smoke-free properties provide many health benefits, including removing a major asthma trigger and eliminating exposure to known carcinogens. Secondhand smoke travels between units and cannot be contained in one unit."
The state tobacco-control program supports the implementation of voluntary smoke-free policies in all multiunit housing, but there is no law that requires public multiunit housing to be smoke-free, Roach said.
Public housing authorities in the tri-city area already have limited smoking regulations that don't allow smoking in public areas such as laundry rooms.
"They can smoke within their apartments but not in public areas," Proulx said.
The Day Street senior-housing apartment building in Fitchburg has signs posted telling residents not to smoke directly in front of the building, because the smell drifts into open windows on warm days, said Cheryl Koula, the Fitchburg Housing Authority's program assistant.
The LHA makes accommodations for smokers where it can.
There's a designated smoking area to the side of LaPierre East that resembles a bus stop to protect those who light up.
"We try to do that wherever possible -- have a shelter area outside the buildings," Proulx said.
Going smoke-free is a good marketing move not only for public housing but for private landlords as well, Hamlett said.
With the changing social norms about smoking, most landlords would rather switch than fight the smokeless movement, Hamlett said.
"What happens is they end up creating a waiting list for smoke-free properties," she said. "By allowing smoking, you are marketing to 25 percent of the population rather than 75 percent who prefer no smoking."
Hamlett has also received reports of private landlords receiving significant breaks on insurance fees for going smokeless.
Switching to a smokeless facility is more difficult at private housing units that don't have multiple buildings for tenants to relocate if they don't like the smoking rules, said Stephan Hay, director of the nonprofit First Parish Housing of Fitchburg Inc. and manager of Sundial apartment building with 162 units.
"You are limiting the number of tenants," he said. "Being a nonprofit, it's important to us."
Edith Noble, a resident at Sunset Towers on Main Street in Leominster would welcome a smokeless building.
"It's fine with me to have it smokeless since I don't smoke," she said.
Anibar Sepulvida, also lives at Sunset Towers. He quit smoking 20 years ago, but he isn't bothered by the smoke.
Ila Bowen never smoked and has lived at LaPierre East 11 years. She is among those who enjoy the smoke-free environment.
"It's nice not to smell the smoke," Bowen said.
Geno Gentile has lived at the Day Street apartments in Fitchburg for about a year and isn't troubled by smokers in other apartments, but would like the building to stamp out smoking.
"It should be smoke-free," he said. "They have it (smokeless) in prisons."
According to the state Public Health Department's website MakeSmokingHistory.com, a survey showed 92.4 percent of residents in public housing support smoke-free rules. Another 4.5 percent were ambivalent and only 2.5 percent opposed rules on smoking.
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A rotisserie chicken might save you in a pinch, but it can be a little bland. To spice up the supermarket staple, chop it up and toss on flatbread with Tzatziki sauce for an easy chicken souvlaki dinner. To cut, use a sharp chef's knife or poultry shears to divide a rotisserie chicken into serving pieces. Cut each breast crosswise into 2 pieces, keeping the wing attached. Remove each thigh from the body along with as much meat from the backbone as possible, then separate the drumstick from the thigh. Reserve the backbone for making stock.
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Then for lunch tomorrow, use leftover rotisserie chicken in a roast chicken and bread salad. The homemade croutons will be sure to please!


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MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine President Benigno Aquino III promised Friday to reform a corruption-plagued system that allows lawmakers to allocate government funds for projects in their district after an audit found that millions of dollars were misused.
The government audit said last week that $141 million allocated over a three-year period was released to questionable aid groups and ghost projects identified by lawmakers as beneficiaries.
The scandal centered on a powerful businesswoman who allegedly collaborated with lawmakers in channeling some of the funds and went into hiding after she was charged with illegal detention of a whistle-blower.
Critics say the system promotes corruption, with citizens' and pressure groups calling for a protest rally Monday to demand that Aquino abolish the practice.
Aquino, who has made fighting against corruption a centerpiece of his administration, said there was nothing "intrinsically wrong" with the system but it has been abused by "a few greedy individuals."
He vowed to prosecute those responsible for misusing the fund.
"What is wrong — indeed, what has outraged our people — was the collusion among a former president ready to trade favors just to remain in power, legislators, and members of the bureaucracy who were willing to conspire, enabled by a passive and indifferent citizenry," Aquino said.
He was referring to his predecessor, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, who has been detained in a hospital on corruption and election sabotage charges.
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When my new floor mats arrived, I opened the box and had them in my 1996 Audi Cabriolet within five minutes. They fit and look great and were easy to install. I compared them with the original factory floor mats and they were an exact match. The only negative I noticed was that my original floor mats were probably a shade lighter than the black ones I purchased. I'm not sure they make the exact color I needed.


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NAME — John O. Brennan.
AGE-BIRTH DATE — 57; Sept. 22, 1955.
EDUCATION — Bachelor's degree, political science, Fordham University, 1977; master's degree, government, University of Texas at Austin, 1980.
EXPERIENCE — Assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism, 2009-present; president and CEO of The Analysis Corporation, McLean, Va., 2005-08; interim director of the National Counterterrorism Center, 2004-2005; director of the Terrorist Threat Integration Center, 2003-2004; CIA deputy executive director, 2001-2003.
FAMILY — Wife, Katy Pokluda Brennan; three children.
QUOTE — "Unfortunately, sometimes you have to take life to save lives, and that's what we've been able to do to prevent these individual terrorists from carrying out their murderous attacks." — Brennan in 2012 on ABC's "This Week."


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A significant milestone in the development of ESA's Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission was reached last week when the contract to build the payload was signed between ESA and EADS (European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company)-CASA from Spain.
The contract, worth 62 million euros, was signed in Madrid, Spain on 11 June 2004 at the premises of the CDTI (Centre for Development of Industrial Technology). EADS-CASA now heads an industrial consortium of more than 20 companies from all over Europe, and is committed to construct the innovative MIRAS (Microwave Imaging Radiometer using Aperture Synthesis) instrument that will form the core of the SMOS mission.
Scheduled for launch in early 2007, SMOS is the second Earth Explorer Opportunity mission to be implemented as part of ESA's Living Planet Programme. The main aim of the mission is to further the development of climatological, meteorological and hydrological models by observing soil moisture over the Earth's landmasses and sea-surface salinity over the oceans for a period of at least 3 years. At the signing ceremony, Prof. José Achache, ESA's Director of Earth Observation Programmes, stated that, "SMOS will provide a major advancement in our ability to model and understand the global hydrological cycle."
The moisture in soil and the salt in the oceans are intrinsically linked to the Earth's water cycle and climate. Currently, in-situ measurements for soil moisture are sparse, but if we are to better understand the water cycle so that the forecasting of climate, weather and extreme events such as floods can be improved more data are urgently required. The same is true for data on ocean salinity - only a small fraction of the ocean is sampled on any regular basis. However, salinity is an important factor driving the currents in the ocean and in turn ocean circulation plays a crucial role moderating the climate. Therefore, comprehensive data on ocean salinity would greatly improve our knowledge of the conditions that influence global ocean circulation and thus climate.
Not only will this mission further our understanding of the Earth system, but it will also demonstrate a new measuring technique by adopting a completely different approach in the field of remote sensing. SMOS will carry the first-ever polar-orbiting satellite-borne 2-D interferometric radiometer. From an altitude of 763 km, the novel MIRAS instrument has been designed to capture images of microwave radiation emitted from the surface of the Earth at L-band (1.4 GHz).
MIRAS is made up of a central structure and three deployable arms. There are 69 antenna elements, so-called LICEF receivers, which are equally distributed over the central structure and three arms. Each LICEF is an antenna-receiver integrated unit that measures the radiation emitted from the Earth at L-band. The measuring principle takes advantage of the fact that moisture and salinity influence the emissivity of soil and seawater, respectively. From the information gathered, scientists will be able to derive maps of soil moisture and ocean salinity on a global scale.
Now that the contract has been signed to go ahead and build the payload the SMOS mission has taken a significant and exciting step forward in its development.
SMOS is executed in close cooperation with the French Space Agency CNES and the Spanish Agency CDTI.
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Flexner on Finishing: Choosing a Spray Gun
Though a good finish can be achieved with other methods, guns are faster.
By Bob Flexner
Pages: 66-68
From the February 2010 issue #181
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As I've explained many times in Popular Woodworking, you can achieve a near-perfect finish using a rag or brush: You can apply a wipe-on/wipe-off finish such as oil, wiping varnish or gel varnish; you can sand a brushed finish level and cover the sanding scratches with wiping varnish or gel varnish; or you can sand a brushed finish level and rub it to the sheen you want using fine abrasives.
But spray guns have some important advantages over brushing or wiping. The most obvious is application speed; applying a finish with a spray gun is much faster than
brushing or wiping.
Spray guns also allow you to use fast-drying finishes to build a thickness rapidly with minimal dust nibs and make it possible to apply a finish film that is almost perfectly level (no orange peel) and to "tone" the wood.
Toning is spraying a finish with a little colorant (pigment or dye) added to tweak or adjust the color of the wood – whether stained or not. Toning can also be used to create highlights and other decorative effects.
The downsides of spray guns compared to brushes and rags are greater cost, increased waste because of overspray, and considerably more complexity to keep the tool in good operating condition.
So how do you choose a spray gun if you decide you want to take advantage of its benefits?
It's actually quite straightforward. First, you decide on your source of air: compressor or turbine. Second, you choose a spray-gun configuration: siphon-feed, gravity-feed or pressure-feed. Third, you decide on quality – that is, how much you're willing to pay.
And finally you choose a brand. Because competition keeps all manufacturers on the cutting edge of the technology, this is not as complicated as you may think.
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|November 17, 2012, 06:04 PM
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Colt Trooper Question
I own an original version Colt Trooper .357 which has the original grips and is smooth as glass. The interesting thing is the stamp on the barrel. Colt made a little mistake. The barrel is stamped "ROOPER". I emailed Colt several times to find out if they were aware of these and how many were mis-stamped. I never received an answer from them.
Has anyone else heard of or seen one of these? Maybe I have the only "Colt Rooper" in existence, that would be cool.
|November 17, 2012, 06:21 PM
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I used to have an early 4" blue Trooper. It was my first modern handgun. Wish I still had it. t was smooth and accurate. It was a LE trade in with some finish wear, and I used to carry it in a nice Bianchi holster. A great woods gun. I sold it to an Italian guy I was in the service with from Stuebenville Ohio. He got rid of it after nearly shooting a guy in an act of negligence on his part. I hope it has a good home.
Colt Rooper huh? I think that is just cool. It likely does not add any real value to the thing, but it does raise the cool factor a couple of notches in my estimation.
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|November 17, 2012, 07:51 PM
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While factory mis-marks aren't common, they do happen.
The barrel marks are applied with a roll stamping machine that rolls a hardened steel wheel with the stamp engraved on it over the barrel and presses the stamp in.
What can happen is the roll die is damaged and they don't catch it, or the die may have been accidentally lifted off the barrel for about a letter's worth.
I'd guess you have a one of a kind mis-mark Trooper.
This probably doesn't increase the value, and would probably decrease the value unless a collector who collect mis-marks would buy it.
|November 17, 2012, 09:12 PM
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Thanks for the answers. My Dad bought the gun in 1962 and I love it because it was his, shoots well too. Unfortunately the ejector rod tip was lost at some point in history. I have been looking for one, but they seem to be hard to find.
|November 18, 2012, 11:17 AM
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Love it... a Colt ROOPER! The original Colt Trooper was a good revolver. I have always wondered why they went with such a heavy barrel.
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This story comes courtesy of California Watch.
Considered one of the most widely abused and addictive recreational drugs, researchers may be one step closer to knocking down the destructive pull of methamphetamine.
A team of scientists at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla has developed a vaccine that appears to protect against meth intoxication in laboratory animals.
The next step will be to see if it works in people, too.
"This is an early-stage study, but its results are comparable to those for other drug vaccines that have gone to clinical trials," said Michael Taffe, a Scripps researcher with the institute's Committee on the Neurobiology of Addictive Disorders.
The study was released online last week in the journal Biological Psychiatry.
Methamphetamine has become one of the most common and destructive recreational drugs in the country. In the United States, government data estimate that there are currently more than 430,000 users, with more than 41,000 new users this year. And in California, meth accounts for more primary drug abuse treatment admission – 26 percent – than any other drug, including marijuana (21 percent) and alcohol (12 percent). The state's Central Valley is considered to be the hub of nation's meth distribution network.
Earlier this spring, one of the largest U.S. methamphetamine drug busts took place in San Jose, where more than 750 pounds of the drug was seized, with a street value of more than $34 million.
The drug, also known as speed or crank, can cause psychosis, and its stimulatory effects are considered 50 times stronger than cocaine, keeping people awake for days.
Researchers and health officials are actively looking for ways to reduce dependency and keep the drugs out of people's hands. One idea that has been pursued for years is to design a vaccine that could attack the drug as it gets into the body and keep it from going into the brain and the nervous system.
It's an approach that has also been used for other addictions, with vaccines for cocaine and nicotine currently in development.
In pursuit of a similar system for methamphetamine, Taffe and his colleagues at Scripps developed several compounds that they thought might work and gave them to rats to see what would happen.
One of those compounds, MH6, seemed to have an effect.
Rats "high" on meth not only have extremely high levels of energy, but their body temperature increases significantly as well. The compound MH6 blocked those two effects, leading the scientists to believe that the vaccine was preventing methamphetamine from reaching the nervous system.
The researchers also found a healthy antibody response in the rats given MH6, indicating the body was working to fight the drug.
"These are encouraging results that we'd like to follow up with further animal tests, and, we hope, with clinical tests in humans some day," said Michelle Miller, a co-author of the paper and a member of Taffe's lab.
Taffe said while the results are promising, the research is still in its infancy. The vaccine is not as long lasting as the researchers would like – the effects last weeks, not years – and they still have other questions that need to be answered.
Such as, will rats stop craving the drug if on the vaccine?
"It's looking promising," said Taffe, "but we're still pretty early on in the process."
Susanne Rust is an investigative reporter for California Watch and the Center for Investigative Reporting focused on the environment. To read more California Watch stories, click here.