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Commission approves Private lands elk hunt
In its regular April meeting, the Oklahoma Wildlife Conservation Commission voted to approve a private lands elk hunt in southwest Oklahoma for the fall 2000 season.
The hunt will increase hunting opportunities on private lands surrounding the Wichita Mountains National Wildlife Refuge, said Alan Peoples, Chief of Wildlife for the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation while addressing key concerns of landowners in the area.
In a related item, Peoples updated the Commission about the stakeholder meetings that were recently held across the state regarding the Department's comprehensive statewide deer management plan. The Department held meetings in Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Lawton, McAlester and Woodward in which stakeholders voiced their concerns about deer management.
"Our next step is to form a steering committee composed of members who will represent all of the state's various deer stakeholders and regional interests," Peoples said. "Based on the input we got from the stakeholder meetings, the steering committee will meet May 9-11 to try to formulate a comprehensive, statewide deer management plan."
Along the same lines, Peoples announced that the Department will soon name a new upland game biologist to supervise the Department's quail management efforts. In addition, the Department will also hold a series of public meetings to gather public input on quail management.
"The issues are quite a bit different for quail than they are for deer," Peoples said. "Everyone agrees that we want more of them. Hopefully, these meetings will help us determine the best way to achieve that goal."
Addressing concerns of landowners near Ft. Cobb Wildlife Management Area, the Commission also approved establishing a series of controlled hunts at Ft. Cobb Wildlife Management Area for the fall 2000 season. These hunts will be intended to reduce crop depredation by deer on neighboring agricultural land while increasing hunting opportunities for sportsmen.
"We held a controlled hunt at Ft. Cobb State Park last year," Peoples said, "and based on the success of that hunt, we feel it would be appropriate to increase hunting opportunities on the WMA. The controlled hunt will increase opportunities for muzzleloader and modern firearm hunters."
The Commission will hold its next meeting May 1 at 9 a.m. at the Department's headquarters in Oklahoma City.
Department concludes stakeholder meetings
After concluding a series of public stakeholder meetings, the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation is entering the next phase in developing a new statewide deer management plan.
Mandated last fall by the Oklahoma Wildlife Conservation Commission, the process began in February with a series of public stakeholder meetings. The meetings, held in Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Lawton, McAlester and Woodward, were designed to elicit information from stakeholders with interests in managing the state's deer herd. Parties represented included private landowners, ranchers, farmers, sportsmans' groups and the insurance industry, among others. The meetings provided those individuals the opportunity to express personal, corporate and regional concerns about the state's deer resources, as well as concerns about the future management of those resources.
"The meetings were very productive and enlightening," said Alan Peoples, the Department's Chief of Wildlife. "We found some common ground among the various groups, but we also found that there are some significantly different concerns from one region to another. For example, crop depredation is a major concern in the southwest, while deer/vehicle collisions are a big issue in the northwest."
Among the findings from the public meetings, Peoples added, is that many motorists do not report deer collisions to their insurance companies. Therefore, the incidence of deer/vehicle accidents may be underestimated.
"These are all things we have to consider when we sit down to hammer out a new management plan," Peoples said.
Equipped with such a diverse bank of public input, the Department will next form a steering committee composed of individuals representing the interests of the various stakeholders. Once formed, the steering committee will meet May 9-11 to draft a statewide deer management plan.
"It's taken us 30 years to get where we are, so it's going to be quite an undertaking to formulate a brand new plan in just three days," Peoples said. "However, we are confident that the people who will be on the steering committee will fully understand the importance of their mission, and we're confident we'll develop a plan that will serve the best interests of Oklahoma's citizens, as well as the best interests of our state's deer resources."
Department announces private lands elk hunt
Responding to requests from landowners whose property border the Wichita Mountains National Wildlife Refuge, the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation will offer private lands elk hunts for the fall 2000 season.
Approved April 3 by the Oklahoma Wildlife Conservation Commission, the hunts will be held in Caddo, Kiowa and Comanche counties. Either-sex archery hunts will be held Oct. 6-8 and Dec. 15-17. Modern firearms hunts will be held Oct. 6-8 and Dec. 15-17. Modern firearms hunters may take bulls only on Oct. 6-7 and Dec. 15-16. They may take either sex on Oct. 8 and Dec. 17.
"We held a stakeholder meeting recently in southwest Oklahoma, and many of the landowners in the area surrounding the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge had some concerns regarding elk that leave the refuge," said Alan Peoples, Chief of the Department's Wildlife Division. "We feel that allowing a limited harvest of these is a proper way to address their concerns."
Hunters who choose to harvest a bull may only take an animal with at least four points on one side. Landowners may allow as many people to hunt on their property as they feel appropriate. However, hunters must have written permission from the landowner, including a legal description of the property on which they are hunting.
In addition, hunters must have a resident or non-resident Oklahoma hunting license or combination license, as well as a resident or non-resident elk permit. A resident elk permit costs $35.25, and the non-resident permit costs $251. Permits are available at the Department's Southwest Region Office, located at the J.A. Manning State Fish Hatchery, in Medicine Park. For more information, call the Wildlife Division (405/521-6841) or the Southwest Region Office (580/529-2795).
1999 a safe year for Oklahoma hunters
In addition to one of the finest hunting seasons in recent memory, Oklahoma hunters also enjoyed their safest year afield ever in 1999.
Out of more than 310,000 licensed hunters in Oklahoma, only four bona-fide hunting accidents were reported last year. None were fatal. However, four accidents resulted in gunshot wounds. That's a sobering reminder that the margin of error is very slim when handling firearms, said J.D. Peer, hunter education coordinator for the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation, so a hunter can never be too careful.
"For obvious reasons, our hunter education instructors devote a lot of time and energy teaching sportsmen about how to safely handle firearms," Peer said. "Most people take those lessons to heart, but one hunting accident is one too many. The best instruction you can get anywhere is available in our hunter education classes, and I encourage every hunter in Oklahoma to take the course. If you've already passed the course, it never hurts to take it again."
The first accident of 1999 occurred on April 18. A 23-year old Okmulgee County man was walking through the woods with his father when a turkey hunter fired at the younger man, hitting him in the right arm, neck and chin.
On July 2, another 23-year old man who was squirrel hunting in Garfield County raised his .22-cal. rifle to shoot at a squirrel. The rifle barrel hit a tree, causing the hunter to drop the rifle. It discharged upon hitting the ground, and the bullet struck the man in the foot.
On Sept. 1, a dove hunter in Mayes Co., suffered slight injuries when he was shot by one of his hunting partners who fired at a low-flying dove.
The most bizarre incident occurred on Nov. 28, when an Oklahoma Co., deer hunter in a tree stand looked up at some ducks flying past. When he turned back around, an owl hit him in the face, causing severe eye injuries.
The last accident of the year occurred on Dec. 26, when a man and his wife were target shooting in a pasture with a .38-cal. handgun. She handed the revolver back to her husband thinking it was empty, but there was still a live round in the chamber. The gun discharged when he took it from his her, hitting her in the abdomen and exiting out her lower back.
Halfway through the spring turkey season, the Department is hoping 2000 will be accident free. Brush up on your hunter safety skills by taking a hunter education class this year, and bring a youngster with you. If you'd like to volunteer to teach hunter education, call J.D. Peer at 405/522-4572 or 405/521-4636.
Texas meeting focuses on cormorant control
Those interested in commenting on a national management strategy for double-crested cormorants should attend a public meeting May 23 at the Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center in Athens, Texas.
Initiated by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the meeting is designed to identify regional concerns about burgeoning populations of double-crested cormorants. The birds are currently protected under the Migratory Bird Act Treaty, but anglers in many parts of the country are concerned about the impact they have on sport fisheries.
"Issues concerning double-crested cormorants are of great interest in Oklahoma, especially to our state's anglers," said Kim Erickson, Chief of Fisheries for the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation. "We encourage anyone with an interest in this matter to attend the meeting in Athens, and to share their thoughts with the Fish and Wildlife Service. We'll be following these developments closely, and we hope the USFWS will develop a management plan that resolves these issues."
With the input from the public meetings, the USFWS will compile a draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) evaluating cormorant status, as well as their known and perceived impacts on other resources. The EIS will also include potential management strategies while evaluating the possible administrative, logistical, and socio-economic impacts of various management strategies. Potential management alternatives range from continuing present policies to implementing large-scale population control measures on breeding grounds, wintering grounds, and migration areas in the United States.
When the USFWS publishes the draft EIS, the public will be able to comment on it, as well.
The resurgence of double-crested cormorant populations over the last three decades has led to increasing concern about the birds' impact on commercial and recreational fishery resources. Cormorants and other water birds such as pelicans and herons can have adverse impacts on fish populations at fish farms, hatcheries, and sites where hatchery-reared fish are released. Because cormorants are protected by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, their nests and eggs cannot be disturbed, and birds cannot be captured or killed unless a depredation permit is obtained from the USFWS.
In-depth information on cormorant-related issues is available on the Internet at www.fws.gov/r9mbmo/issues/cormorant/cormorant.html. Comments may be submitted electronically to firstname.lastname@example.com, or by mail to Chief, Office of Migratory Bird Management, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 4401 N. Fairfax Fr., Room 634, Arlington, VA 22203.
Bluebird Society schedules meeting
Anyone interested in learning how to attract bluebirds and other cavity-nesting birds should attend the annual spring meeting of the Oklahoma Bluebird Society at 10 a.m. Saturday, May 13.
Participants will discuss the latest information on attracting bluebirds, as well as the Society's participation in the national Transcontinental Bluebird Trail, said Society President Charlotte Jernigan. The guest speaker will be Doug LeVasseur, president of the North American Bluebird Society.
The meeting will be held in the Hulbert Community Center, 14 miles east of Wagoner on Highway 51, next to the Hulbert Bank. A box lunch will cost $5.
To attend, please RSVP with Charlotte Jernigan, 918/485-5974.
Stonecipher reappointed to Wildlife Commission
Harland Stonecipher of Centrahoma was recently re-appointed to a second term on the Oklahoma Wildlife Conservation Commission by Gov. Frank Keating.
The Senate confirmed his appointment unanimously.
Stonecipher represents Oklahoma's Wildlife Conservation District 4, which includes Creek, Okfuskee, Seminole, Pottawatomie, Pontotoc, Hughes, Johnston and Coal counties.
"It gives me great honor to have this opportunity to serve the sportsmen and sportswomen of Oklahoma," Stonecipher said. "The conservation of Oklahoma's wildlife resources comes with great responsibility, and I am pleased that the Governor has confidence to entrust me with another term on this great Commission.
"A Senate staff member who attended the confirmation hearing commented that she had never seen so many people show up on behalf of a nominee," he added. "It's encouraging to have that level of support."
Stonecipher has served as a member of the Commission, the governing board for the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation, since 1993. He currently serves as vice-chairman of the Commission.
An avid sportsman and hunting dog enthusiast, Stonecipher is also the founder and president of Pre-Paid Legal Services, Inc., a company that is listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
In addition to his passion for the outdoors, Stonecipher brings dynamic leadership and valuable experience to the Commission. He is keenly aware of the challenges facing the Department, and he said he is eager to continue working to ensure and maintain the integrity of the state's wildlife resources.
"I'm very concerned about our quail population in the state of Oklahoma and across the United States," Stonecipher said. "In the next eight years, I hope I can bring something positive to that particular situation."
Plan focuses on prairie dogs
With the help of landowners and a broad cross-section of interested parties, the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation is working to manage the state's black-tailed prairie dog populations without federal intervention.
The plan is part of an 11-state initiative to keep the black-tailed prairie dog from being federally listed as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act, said Ron Suttles, the Department's Natural Resources Coordinator. Forming partnerships with private landowners, state and federal government agencies, researchers and agricultural groups is crucial for developing and implementing the plan, he added, and so far, the public has been supportive.
"Right now, the important thing is that the black-tailed prairie dog has not been listed as a threatened or endangered species under the Endangered Species Act," Suttles said. "The 11 states that are involved in this process are highly committed to keep that from happening, and we are confident we can develop Oklahoma's management plan and meet our obligations for the prairie dog in a way that includes the interests of landowners and other stakeholders."
The prairie dog issue surfaced in 1998, when a group called the Biodiversity Legal Foundation filed a petition with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to extend protection to the black-tailed prairie dog under the Endangered Species Act. The petition claimed that prairie dog populations had declined 98 percent from "historic levels," and that federal protection was necessary to save the animals from possible extinction.
In response, the 11 states directly affected by the petition, including Oklahoma, formed an Interstate Working Group. The group is patterned after similar groups that are working on related prairie species, such as the swift fox and lesser prairie chicken. The members of the Interstate Working Group are holding public stakeholder meetings in their respective states to identify and address public, private, state and regional concerns about the mammals. In Oklahoma, the Wildlife Department has held meetings in Oklahoma City and Guymon to discuss prairie dog management.
After gathering public input, each member state will develop an individual state management plan intended to conserve black-tailed prairie dog populations while preventing the need to list the species as threatened or endangered under the Endangered Species Act. The goal of the Oklahoma management plan will be to maintain the viability of the species while ensuring the protection of private property rights.
"The states that were impacted by the listing proposal took a proactive approach by responding at the state level instead of waiting for action at the federal level," Suttles said. "There was universal concern about a federal listing among the landowners and other stakeholder groups that attended the meetings.
"Most of them were supportive of what we are trying to do," he added. "Since almost all of Oklahoma's prairie dogs live on private land, private landowners are the key to keeping the prairie dog off the Endangered Species List."
Controlled Hunts deadline approaching
If you're planning to participate in the 2000 Controlled Hunts, you still have time to complete your application before the May 5 deadline.
Controlled Hunts application booklets are available at area sporting goods dealers, and all the information needed to apply are contained within. Applications must be postmarked by May 5, 2000.
For the first time, you can also apply over the Internet. Applying online is easy and trouble-free. The computer won't accept incomplete applications or applications that are filled out improperly, so you can rest easy knowing your electronic application will be accepted and processed.
To apply for the Controlled Hunts online, go to the Department's website at www.wildlifedepartment.com. Click on the Controlled Hunts Application link and follow the instructions.


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Won't win converts, but it's Perry's best yet.
Grae's currently on vacation in an exotic land until the end of April. Subbing for her is fellow MDC writer Alonso Duralde. Follow him on Twitter at @ADuralde.
Who's In It: Loretta Devine, Tyler Perry, Shad "Bow Wow" Moss, Isaiah Mustafa, Cassi Davis, Shannon Kane, Lauren London
The Basics: Shirley (Devine) discovers that she doesn't have long to live, so she wants to get her family together for dinner so she can tell them all the bad news. But getting this brood to spend time in each other's company is next to impossible, since they've got their own problems: Tammy (Natalie Desselle Reid) fights with her husband and lets her kids run wild, uptight Realtor Kimberly (Kane) is equally brittle with Shirley and with her good-natured husband Calvin (Mustafa), and former drug dealer Byron (Moss) is trying to go straight despite pressure from his baby's mother Sabrina (Teyana Taylor) and his greedy girlfriend Renee (London). Can Madea (Perry) teach these fools to act right?
What's The Deal: Let's take it as a given that this new Tyler Perry comedy contains everything you find in most every other Tyler Perry movie -- cruel career women, saintly mothers, good men who are forced to put their foot down to keep their ladies in line, lowbrow humor, and generous helpings of JesusJesusJesus. Within those parameters, Madea's Big Happy Family is probably Perry's best film to date. You may find Madea's ideas about child-rearing (no rod is spared) and marriage (husbands need to remind their wives who's the boss) reprehensible, but she's hilarious, and Perry's cross-dressing performance makes up for many of the film's weaknesses. The female characters are all saints or shrews, but at least Teyana Taylor makes her overbearingly obnoxious character so exaggeratedly awful that she gives an inspired comic performance. (You'll hear the way she says "By-rooooooooooooon" in your nightmares.)
Don't You Want To Smell Like Him?: Old Spice spokesmodel Mustafa is perfectly fine in the underwritten role of the Realtor's patient and loving husband, and if you're a fan of the authoritative announcer-voice he brings to his deodorant commercials, you'll get more of it here.
Madea's A Role Model Now, Apparently: In interviews, Perry has said that Madea has cleaned up her act somewhat since she's so popular with kids. That means she now carries a hammer in her purse instead of a gun, and she's apparently stopped smoking pot as well, leaving all the weed-related jokes to Aunt Bam (Davis). Madea's still got a colorful past, however, since she admits that she "put the H-O in 'ho'" in a mostly pointless subplot in which it emerges that Mr. Brown (David Mann) might not be the father of Madea's daughter Cora (Tamela J. Mann) after all.
Let Her Be Less Divine: Loretta Devine is a brilliantly talented comic actress, but she gets cast over and over (see: First Sunday, Dirty Laundry, This Christmas, Lottery Ticket) as a sweet-natured church lady. Here's hoping the upcoming Jumping the Broom gives her something a little meatier to play.
The stupidest movie I've ever seen. It was my first and last perry movie
"Popular with kids"? What?
Some parts of the movie was just over done and exagerated, to where it made the movie boring! Becuz it was far to unrealistic! And then there were the heart felt and melancholy realistic parts of the movie as well. And just becuz we laugh doesn't necessarily make it a good movie. Some parts are just dumb and crazy!
You obviously don't get to the cinema very often. That movie was TERRIBLE
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Nothing mediocre about this medium.
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Valley of the Dolls with Firepower?
Just shy of a landslide.
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As you may have read in previous posts, I'm looking for a compact camera with the capacility of shooting HD video. My current video camera does not support HD (it's 7 years old), it is huge compared to modern standards and it's video only (I don't consider it's 1.2MP photo function useful in any way).
So the purchase of a camera such as the Panasonic GF1 seemed an obvious choice. I'm totally satisfied with my Nikon D700 and not 'in the market' for a to be released successor that will definitely be capable of shooting HD video.
Two news recent news items made me think twice: Petapixel (and other sites) published an article about cine lenses for DSLR's by Carl Zeiss, with interchangeable Canon and Nikon mounts.
House director Greg Yaitanes announced on Twitter that the final episode of the season was shot entirely on a Canon 5D mark II.
Recent video samples I've seen demonstrate what modern DSLR's are capable of. So I'm in doubt now. Shall I join the crowds desperately looking forward to the D700s, D800, D900 or whatever the successor of the D700 will be named?


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MOSCOW (AP) — Russia's defense minister has praised veterans of the Soviet war in Afghanistan as "true patriots" as the nation on Saturday marked the 25th anniversary of the Soviet withdrawal.
Sergei Shoigu said in a statement marking the anniversary that Soviet soldiers' heroism in the war was part "of the best combat traditions of the Motherland." He added that the experience has proven useful for counter-terrorism and peacekeeping duties.
The Soviet invasion began on Dec. 25, 1979 and ended when the last units withdrew on Feb. 15, 1989. On Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's initiative, the Soviet parliament in 1989 declared the Afghan war a mistake. According to Shoigu, more than 14,000 Soviet soldiers died and about 50,000 were wounded.
The government of Soviet-backed Najibullah fell in April 1992 after Moscow withdrew support following the 1991 Soviet collapse.
Franz Klintsevich, the chairman of the Afghan Veterans Union, has urged the government to revise the Soviet parliament's condemnation of the war.
But Col.-Gen. (Ret.) Boris Gromov, who served as the commander of the Soviet troops in Afghanistan and led their withdrawal in 1989 and currently serves as a lawmaker, dismissed the request as "stupid," according to the Interfax news agency.
Deputy Defense Minister Nikolai Pankov also that revising the assessment of the war would be "inappropriate" now.


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Former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords and her husband, Mark Kelly, will kick off a nationwide tour to push for expanded background checks for gun sales.
The "Rights and Responsibilities" tour will stretch from Nevada to Alaska to Maine July 1-7.
"I've been around guns my whole life, and I know that as an American, my right to own a firearm goes hand in hand with my obligation to be a responsible gun owner and to do my part to make sure guns don't fall into the hands of criminals or dangerously mentally ill people," Kelly said. "Gabby and I are excited to hit the road this summer and meet so many of the great Americans who are standing with us to fight for common-sense solutions to prevent gun violence and protect our rights."
The Democratic-controlled Senate rejected a slew of gun control proposals – expanding background checks, renewing an assault weapons ban and limiting the size of ammunition clips – in April.
Giffords and Kelly will begin the tour in Nevada before making stops in Alaska, Maine, New Hampshire, North Carolina, North Dakota and Ohio.


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The following is from the CFTC...
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) revoked the registrations of Chicago Trading Managers LLC (CT Managers). CT Managers had been registered with the CFTC as a Commodity Pool Operator and Commodity Trading Advisor.
On December 27, 2013, CFTC Judgment Officer Philip V. McGuire issued a Decision against CT Managers, finding that it was statutorily disqualified from CFTC registration based on a default judgment and permanent injunction Order entered by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on May 15, 2013 (see CFTC News Release 6589-13, May 16, 2013). That injunction prohibits CT Managers from, among other things, committing further fraud; entering into any regulated commodity contract transactions for any account in which it has a direct or indirect interest; controlling or directing the trading of any regulated commodity contract account; and soliciting or receiving or accepting any funds for the purpose of purchasing or selling any regulated commodity contract.
Additionally, the default judgment found that on at least 10 occasions CT Managers issued, or caused to be issued, statements to pool participants that fraudulently inflated the net asset value for pools and found that CT Managers, by engaging in that conduct, committed fraud in violation of the Commodity Exchange Act.
Additionally, the default judgment ordered CT Managers to pay a civil monetary penalty of $1.4 million jointly and severally with another Defendant.
The CFTC thanks the National Futures Association for its assistance.
CFTC Division of Enforcement staff members responsible for this case are Lenel Hickson and Manal M. Sultan.


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Edward Welch holds a Ph.D. in neuropsychology from the University of Utah, and has wielded his expertise in counseling to write a stack of books focusing on subjects such as depression, fear and addiction. On September 4 and 5 Dr. Welch will be at Geneva College to speak to the Geneva community and guests.
On September 4, Dr. Welch will be in the Geneva Student Center′s Skye Lounge, offering a 7 p.m. lecture on Compassionate Counseling. On September 5, he will present a speech titled "When People are Big and God is Small" in Chapel. Both lectures are free.
Welch has a Master of Divinity degree from Biblical Theological Seminary in addition to his Ph.D., and employs both in order to offer Christian advice on various disorders. His books include: When People Are Big and God is Small; Addictions: A Banquet in the Grave; Blame it on the Brain; Depression-A Stubborn Darkness; Running Scared; Crossroads: A Step-by-Step Guide Away From Addiction; and When I Am Afraid: A Step-by-Step Guide Away from Fear and Anxiety.
Geneva College is a comprehensive Christian college of the arts, sciences and professional studies. Founded in the tradition of the Reformed Christian faith, Geneva prepares students to serve Christ in all areas of society: work, family and the church. Geneva College′s philosophy of education is based on the Foundational Concepts of Christian Higher Education. Geneva is a founding member of the Council for Christian Colleges & Universities (CCCU).
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A Florianthology: An Exhibition on the Art and Poetry of Douglas Florian - Opening Reception
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The unique collage-work, witty wordplay and educational rhymes of this award-winning children's book author have inspired and entertained countless children. This exhibit features original art work and poetry from the illustrator and author's career as well as insight into his artistic process. Featuring original artwork and poetry from his award-winning books Mammalabilia, Insectlopedia, Dinothesaurus, Poetrees and more.
A Florianthology exhibit on view through Saturday, April 21, 2012
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This Positive Life: An Interview With Ron Crowder
August 24, 2010
Welcome to This Positive Life Video Series! We have with us, Ron Crowder, Executive Director of Street Works in Nashville, Tennessee. When Ron tested positive in jail back in 1991, he wasn't surprised. Being an injection drug user who was sharing needles, he knew he was at risk. Yet, being diagnosed in a time when AZT was the only medication available, Ron, 57, never lost hope nor has he allowed an AIDS diagnosis to stop him from giving back and educating Nashville's African-American community about HIV.
Tell me when you first found out you were HIV positive.
I found out I was HIV positive in 1991.
1991 was the dark years.
Yes. I was actually in jail, and I had had some teeth removed. The dental hygienist in the jail dropped one of the instruments and it pricked her on the leg, so they asked everyone who had saw the dentist that day in jail to take an HIV test. So, that's how I found out.
What did you know about HIV when you found out?
Actually, not a whole lot. You know, everybody who had HIV was going to lose a whole lot of weight; that was my knowledge of it at that time.
Did you start praying? Did you get religious?
Well, no. I've always been, sort of grown up in the Church, so my thing was, you know, hey, it is what it is. You know, I knew the risk. I knew I was an injection drug user. So I kind of reserved myself to pretty much prepare myself to die, at that point. I just didn't want to die in jail. I had just gotten a new eight-year sentence, so once I found out I was HIV positive I positioned the Court for a suspended sentence, and got it, after only four months into the eight-month sentence. I think they was kind of like, OK. They didn't want to deal with anybody HIV positive at that point.
What jail was this? Where was this?
Nashville, Tennessee.
Could you tell us what you were in jail for?
Yes. It was either worthless checks, or . . . no. It was drug possession for resale. Possession.
I see. So you got out of jail, and then what did you do?
Well, I got out of jail, and I started back shooting drugs, for only a very short period of time. And then I went into treatment.
"The fact that I knew I was HIV positive and sharing needles; that's what consciously I wanted to clean myself up with. Because I didn't want anyone else to get infected as a result of me sharing needles."
So you were sharing needles, basically.
Yes, I was. Yes, I was. And the fact that I knew I was HIV positive and sharing needles; that's what consciously I wanted to clean myself up with. Because I didn't want anyone else to get infected as a result of me sharing needles.
Did you get treatment? Did you get whatever was available?
I did.
AZT at that point. Because, at the time, I had heard somebody say, you know, it was better to take something than not to take anything. But I had very, very low knowledge of the disease itself. A year or so later after then I started doing the work. I started educating myself. And that's what made me found the agency. Because there wasn't a whole lot of education, particularly to the people who was becoming infected the way I did -- you know, out on the streets, injecting drugs, or doing all kind of risky behavior. Particularly in communities of color -- we didn't have a lot of education. All we knew, mostly about HIV at that point was, it was gay, white men.
Can you tell us how you think you got infected?
Oh, I know how I got infected -- by sharing needles.
Did you know the people were positive afterwards? Is that how you found out?
No, I never. I could never. Because I shared needles with so many different people, because I was an IV drug user, there was no way I could pinpoint who, in fact, actually infected me.
And there was no needle exchange back then.
And there is not really any. The state has still maintained that needle exchange doesn't work.
Needle exchange wasn't really popular nowhere in the country then.
So what miraculous journey did you take to survive?
Actually, I'm a pretty open person, and I was pretty open with my status from the word go. [phone ringing] So I guess it was just an act of God that kept me healthy all these years. Over the years, the people that I did shoot dope with, just about all of them are dead.
"I've taken plenty of vitamins. I used to swim a couple of miles a day. I used to get up and do a thousand push-ups every morning. I've done everything humanly imaginable . . . eat a lot of fruit . . . I've done everything. I've done juices. I've done herbs. I've done everything that I thought would keep me living."
Did you do anything different? Did you take vitamins? Did you work out? Did you juice?
I've done all of the above. I've taken plenty of vitamins. I used to swim a couple of miles a day. I used to get up and do a thousand push-ups every morning. I've done everything humanly imaginable . . . eat a lot of fruit . . . I've done everything. I've done juices. I've done herbs. I've done everything that I thought would keep me living.
I see. So, your drive to live: do you think that's part of how you survived?
Oh, yes. Oh, yes. I think that anybody give up the . . . and also, I think that the fact that I have been so open. I think the stress of people trying to keep HIV a secret, particularly minorities . . .. Minorities has not done well with the fact of an HIV diagnosis. They don't want anyone to know. They take it to their grave. And I think that what has helped me is, I've always, from the word, from the jump, from when I first got the diagnosis, I went public.
What bad things happened to you, as a result of going public?
Nothing. Not to my knowledge. Not a thing.
You don't think people avoid you?
No. No. If they did, they didn't do it in such a way that I was aware of it. So, no. I'm just an open person.
So you think the people who are fearful of telling others, they might not understand what actually happens when you tell people? They just . . . you know. Or maybe you live in a weird kind of world where people are really nice, and accepting, and tolerant. And most people aren't that lucky.
I think that the fact that I don't care what people think about me; I think those who judge don't matter, and those who matter don't judge . . .. And I've always lived with that concept in mind, and moved forward, you know? When I first got the diagnosis, I was, like, OK; I'm going to be dead in a few years, so I may as well max out all my credit cards and run up all the credit, and just leave it. And here it is, what? Almost 20 years later . . . and I'm in a whole lot of credit card debt.
Do you still owe money from back then?
No. It's a joke. It's a joke.
Tell me when you started getting . . . I guess the first question that's really important is, what was your CD4 count when you were diagnosed?
Actually, my CD4 count has always been around 500. Always. And it's still around 500 or 600.
You're still very active.
"I think people have this notion that your life is going to dramatically change because you're HIV positive. And I don't know if I'm extremely lucky, or I'm extremely unusual, or what. But life has been . . . hey, the same for me."
Very active. I work 12, 14 hours every day. Recently married.
Let's talk about that. Tell me how you found love, being HIV positive. Do you find it's a particular challenge?
It wasn't for me. Again, I think people have this notion that your life is going to dramatically change because you're HIV positive. And I don't know if I'm extremely lucky, or I'm extremely unusual, or what. But life has been . . . hey, the same for me. I've always had a girlfriend. I've always just lived life as it comes, you know? And once I tell the female partner that I'm HIV positive, and educate them, it doesn't seem to be that big of an issue.
Have you mostly dated negative women?
Yeah I always dated them. Well, I had one woman, my first . . . I don't guess it was my first, but early on; in '95, I was engaged to a woman who was positive, and she died in '95. But she took it to her grave. Even her children didn't know.
I guess '95 was just before the treatment came.
Wow. So you're just out there. You're just not afraid to tell people things.
And so you meet lots of people.
I do. I do. And I think that is what has helped me, that and working. I never even considered going on disability. I never tried it. I've always worked. And I just . . .. Life just kept going as the old one.
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Mets drop Fishers with late surge
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New Hampshire's Andy Fermin celebrates his grand slam in the third inning against Binghamton at Northeast Delta Dental Stadium, on Friday, in Manchester. (Thomas Roy/Union Leader)
Binghamton scored four runs in the top of the eighth inning to erase a 6-4 deficit to post an 8-6 win over the New Hampshire Fisher Cats at Northeast Delta Dental Stadium Friday night.
The teams meet again tonight at 5:35 p.m. Matt Boyd is scheduled to start for New Hampshire (15-24) against Rainy Lara.
Chase Bradford worked a quiet ninth inning to earn the save for the Mets (21-16). Fisher Cats pitcher Dustin Antolin blew the save and dropped to 0-2 with the loss.
Brian Burgamy had the big hit in the eighth for Binghamton, stroking a double that scored three runs. Kevin Plawecki would later single to score Burgamy for the 8-6 lead.
The Mets led 4-0 after the top of the third inning, but New Hampshire exploded for six runs in the bottom of the third to build a 6-4 lead.
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ExxonMobil has further confirmed the potential of the Stabroek block offshore Guyana with a fifth oil discovery in the Turbot-1 well.
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ExxonMobil affiliate Esso Exploration and Production Guyana started drilling the well on 14 August, and encountered a 75ft (23m) reservoir of high-quality, oil-bearing sandstone in the primary objective, ExxonMobil reported today (5 October).
Turbot-1 lies in the southeastern portion of the Stabroek Block, approximately 30mi (50km) to the southeast of the Liza phase one project.
Drilled by the Stena Carron drillship in 5912ft (1802m) of water, the well was safely drilled to 18,445ft (5,622m) on 29 September. Stena Carron will next drill the Ranger prospect, and ExxonMobil plans to drill an additional well on the Turbot discovery next year.
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ExxonMobil's previous discoveries on the Stabroek block include Liza, Payara, Snoek and Liza Deep.
Earlier this year, ExxonMobil and partner Hess made the final investment decision for $4.4 billion first phase development of the Liza field offshore Guyana. SBM Offshore has awarded Keppel Shipyard the contract to convert a very large crude carrier into a floating production, storage, and offloading vessel that will be deployed at the Liza field in the Stabroek block.
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The Turbot-1 well indicates that deepwater can still be attractive, said Pablo Medina, Wood Mackenzie's senior analyst, Latin America Upstream, in a 5 October statement. After today's announcement, ExxonMobil's Liza and Payara complex might approach the 2 billion barrel mark in commercial reserves.
This discovery also puts Guyana on the map as the country currently does not produce any oil. Wood Mackenzie expects around 350,000-400,000 b/d of oil production by 2026, making Guyana one of top oil producers in Latin America, said Medina.
"ExxonMobil's Latin America footprint has increased significantly with its recent streak of discoveries in Guyana and its aggressive bidding in Brazil's latest licensing round," Medina added.
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This morning, I read a blog post about women in computer science which was quite compelling. It reminded me, of course, of another article about women in CS, and I began thinking about about what my own opinion is on the subject. Sexism in CS and similarly technical fields is certainly a problem. But why? And how have I encountered it?
It struck me that I am incredibly lucky to be a student at MIT, where I have never actually encountered blatant sexism. No one has ever groped me, or told me I was incompetent because I was a woman (nor have I ever felt that was the case). I was elected SIPB Chair, but it was not that people thought I was sexy or that I slept with anyone, but that I was the right person for the job. When I ask more experienced hackers technical questions, they don't try to dumb it down or tell me that I won't understand – they explain it the same way they would to anyone else. Really, I couldn't ask for a better environment.
However, it still didn't feel quite like sexism (or something like it) it was entirely absent. After thinking a while longer, I realized what the problem was:
The tech environment walks a fine line between being elitist and being a meritocracy, and often manages to slip back into elitism.
It's not so much a problem of sexism as it is a problem of general attitude. Becoming good at dealing with computers takes a lot of hands-on experience. There aren't any classes that will teach you how to debug NetworkManager or how to reconfigure your X configuration so that gdm doesn't fail. So those of us who like figuring out the answers to such problems have only a handful of options: 1) learn everything using Google, 2) learn everything by asking an expert, 3) both 1 and 2, or 4) give up. Sometimes, if the problem is specialized enough, 2 and 4 are really the only options. Unfortunately, it is often the case when asking an experienced hacker that they will give a harsh, unhelpful, and/or elitist response. Here's an example.
Person A: I need to reinstall this computer with Debian, but I don't have a CD or DVD burner or any flash media. I'm not sure if I have any other options. Could you help me?
Person B: I don't have time. Just use PXE.
A (thinking): PXE, what's that? I guess I'll Google it. Hmm, well, Wikipedia says it's a way of booting your computer over the network. I guess sort of like a livecd, except over the network? That's kind of cool. How do I do it? This site seems to give some links. Looks like the Debian link is broken, so I'll use the Red Hat link and see if I can just change the relevant things. [an hour passes]
A (frustrated): This isn't working. How am I supposed to install my computer over the internet if I have to install stuff to the computer to begin with? I don't understand how this works!
B: … what the hell are you doing? You just choose the "netboot" option in your BIOS, like you would choose to boot from CD-ROM or hard drive, etc.
Do you see what Person B did wrong, here? Person A was asking for help, and clearly does not know about netbooting (or they wouldn't have asked). Person B assumes they know what PXE is and that they know how to use it, or at least that they can figure it out for themselves. Unfortunately, the documentation on PXE is unhelpful and misleading and never mentions needing to change a setting in your BIOS. Person A tried to figure it out themselves using the vague information given to them by Person B, but only managed to waste an hour and become even more confused! Furthermore, when Person A comes back for more help, Person B acts like they are an idiot for being ignorant and confused, and treats them with disdain. It would have been so much nicer, faster, and easier for Person B to simply say in the first place "try using the netboot option in your BIOS to boot into the installer over the internet".
In my experience, the sort of attitude taken by Person B, either intentionally or unintentionally, is the most formidable obstacle facing new tech-oriented people. In particular, I have noticed that men tend to be better at muscling their way through this "barrier of newbie shame". Many studies have shown that women tend to be less confident and less assertive than men, and when the environment is such that you have to be assertive and confident in order to get anywhere, it is no wonder that many choose to give up and choose a different path. Being ignorant does not make you dumb, but many people in CS act like it does.
There is no reason why the tech environment should be so elitist. I heartily agree that it must retain a degree of meritocracy: you need to earn your respect as a hacker. However, everyone has to start somewhere; no one is born with awesome hacking abilities, and not everybody is as able to figure out how things work without a few pointers. Wouldn't it be so much better to have more skilled people in computer science, to fix even more bugs and create even more brilliant pieces of software? I believe that if we could tone down the elitism, such a world would become a reality.
Unfortunately, it's not as easy as just recognizing what the problem is. Being elitist is not always a conscious or deliberate action (most people are not so much of an ass to say "I won't be helpful because I am better than you") – it is usually just the easy way out. Becoming a hacker in an elitist environment makes it all too simple to just assume that that is the correct way of doing things. It is easy to fall into the mindset of "I had to deal with and stand up to that sort of bullshit when I was new, so why shouldn't everyone else?". It is easy to find yourself too busy to really help, so you just brush them off with a short, unhelpful answer or tell them to RTFM. It is easy to forget that you were once the confused, ignorant newbie who didn't have the background that you now do.
In addition, I think that many people become rough and abrasive because they are all too often asked to fix things themselves as opposed to giving advice. Every tech person is all too familiar with friends, relatives, and acquaintances asking them to fix computers or install software, and most tech people I know hate it. It is especially frustrating when people who are nominally technically competent ask you to do things for them. The urge to say "no, go figure it out yourself!" is extremely strong, and it is easy to lump favor-seekers into the same category as advice-seekers. But it is important to make the distinction, and to actually be helpful when someone asks for advice.
So, how can we fix this problem? Recognizing that it is a problem is a first step, but it is not enough. Changing things will not be quick or easy, either. But, there are a few things we can try:
- If you are too busy to help, politely say so and apologize that you don't have the time. Don't give vague or cryptic answers.
- Don't assume that they have the same background of knowledge that you do, because they probably don't. Try to explain things at their level. That doesn't mean "dumb it down", but "make sure to include relevant pieces of knowledge that you have but they don't".
- Point them towards documentation which you know is helpful, instead of just throwing terminology around.
- Be polite, even if they are asking what seems like a dumb question or asking you to do something for them. You can say "no, that's not my job" or "no, I don't have time right now" without being rude and abrasive.
From now on, I will try to point out this phenomenon of elitism to people I know in CS, and encourage them to be more conscientious of their interactions with aspiring hackers. I hope that you will, too! I'd also love to hear any other opinions on this matter. Have you encountered this elitist environment elsewhere? How have you dealt with it?


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Wilson Chandler scored 23 points in place of an injured Danilo Gallinari, and Ty Lawson added 22 in the Denver Nuggets' 119-108 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers on Monday night.
Gallinari, the Nuggets' leading scorer, sat out with a bruised left thigh. He wasn't needed as the Nuggets won their ninth straight game at home, snapped the Lakers' four-game winning streak and took the season series from their long-time nemesis 3-1.
The Lakers, who were shut out on the offensive glass in the first half, wanted to slow down the Nuggets but Denver outscored Los Angeles 33-3 in fast-break points.
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Chandler started in his place and Corey Brewer got extended minutes, too, finishing with 16 points.
Kobe Bryant led the Lakers with 29 points, and Dwight Howard added 15 points and 14 boards but missed 11 of his last 12 free throws.
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A flustered Bryant picked up a technical foul on his way to the locker room.
The Nuggets stretched their lead to 18 points in the third quarter before the Lakers cut it to 95-83 heading into the final 12 minutes.
Karl also praised Bryant's teammates, saying the Lakers, no matter their record, still represent a measuring stick for his young lineup.


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Funny Thing Happened at the Cemetery
My cemetery visit routine is to spend some time at my family's gravesite and then wander around a bit. Almost every time I go, I notice the gravestone of someone familiar, that I hadn't spotted before. The parent of an old friend. A former classmate. A neighbor. Someone I went to church with. On Sunday, I spotted the grave of Mrs. Farmer. I couldn't believe I hadn't noticed it before. She went to my church and was a friend of my parents. I loved going to her house with them. She old, even when I was very young. She called me Rosebud, maybe because I was lovely, maybe because she couldn't always remember my name. Either way, she made me feel special. She let my sister and I go crazy dressing up in old clothes in her basement. She was mysterious and eccentric . She had a real fur rug in her living room. I forget what animal it had belonged to, but remember it's softness. No one, I mean no one, knew exactly how old she was. When she died, my mom called to tell me. Mrs. Farmer had been in a nursing home for years. Even then, my mom speculated about her age, which was not included in her obituary. She had her pegged at mid nineties, but really hated not knowing for sure.
Spotting that gravestone was a real bonus for me. I hadn't thought of her in years. The best part of all was that the place on her gravestone before her name, where a birth year normally would be, was blank. Only the year of her death, 1997, was engraved after her name. I laughed so hard. My first instinct was to call my mom, she would love this. It was a lovely split second of forgetting that she was gone.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is darting off to Southeast Asia to showcase a foreign policy achievement and reinforce the U.S. role as a counterweight to China.
Obama leaves Saturday for a four-day trip to Thailand, Myanmar and Cambodia, his first trip abroad since June and his fourth to Asia, where he has been eager to expand the U.S. footprint. It's a brief break from dicey fiscal negotiations and a national security sex scandal that are competing with the glow of his re-election.
Freed from the constraints of campaigning, Obama is quickly re-establishing his foreign policy credentials by being the first U.S. president to visit Myanmar, also known as Burma, which was internationally shunned for decades and is now hailed for its steps toward democratization.
Obama is also attending the East Asia Summit in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, eager to secure the U.S.'s place as a major player in a region that long has operated under China's influence. The trip underscores Obama's goal of establishing the United States as an Asian-Pacific power, a worldview defined by 21st-century geopolitics but also by Obama's personal identity as America's first Pacific president. Obama was born in Hawaii.
The White House sees the trip in historic terms, in no small part because of the breakthrough with Myanmar, but also because of its broader strategic significance.
"Continuing to fill in our pivot to Asia will be a critical part of this president's second term and ultimately his foreign policy legacy," said deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes.
In choosing this time to travel — the East Asia Summit was scheduled some time ago — Obama is taking advantage of his electoral success, and his international counterparts are bound to be in a congratulatory mood.
But Obama also heads out at a sensitive time for the U.S. economy. Only six weeks remain before automatic tax increases and deep spending cuts kick in that could set back the economy if Obama and congressional Republicans don't find agreement on a deficit reduction plan.
Stephen Hadley, national security adviser to President George W. Bush, cautioned that failure by Washington to resolve the so-called fiscal cliff could signal to emerging economies that the democratic system is flawed.
"That's why countries are flirting with this notion that maybe China has it right: State capitalism plus keeping your people in line," he recently told the World Affairs Councils of America. "That is very destructive."
But China also has problems with corruption and a sluggish economy.
"Burma is sending a powerful signal that people are rejecting the notion that an authoritarian model is the key to development," Rhodes said.
Still, the precarious nature of the budget negotiations is not lost on Asian countries and Obama will likely find himself on the sidelines offering reassurances to other leaders that the U.S. will not plunge over a fiscal cliff.
"Some, particularly allies, will worry about the impact on defense spending at a time when Chinese power is rising," said Michael Green, a former Asia adviser to Bush who now is a senior vice president at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a foreign policy think tank.
Telegraphing Obama's response to that concern, White House national security adviser Tom Donilon conceded that "after a decade of war ... there will be reductions in the U.S. defense budget."
But, he added: "Guided by our new defense strategy, our defense spending program will continue to support our key priorities, including our presence and missions in Asia."
No doubt, Obama also will be dogged by personnel matters back home. His CIA director, David Petraeus, abruptly resigned after acknowledging an extramarital affair. The identity of the next spy chief is no minor matter to the Chinese, but also to Asian allies.
During the brief stop Monday in Myanmar, Obama will meet with opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and President Thein Sein, and deliver an address in which he will call for continued political reforms in the country.
Myanmar's democratization has led to rare bipartisanship in the U.S. capital. Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, who has had a longstanding interest in the Asian country, commended Obama for scheduling the trip.
"I think it's an important step for him to take," McConnell said.
In Cambodia, also a first visit for a sitting U.S. president, Obama will participate in the East Asia Summit, which includes the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations and eight other nations: the United States, China, Japan, South Korea, India, Russia, Australia and New Zealand.
Obama will hold separate one-on-one meetings with outgoing Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda.
Those meetings come amid territorial disputes in the region, including rival claims by China, the Philippines and Vietnam to South China Sea islands and disputed East China Sea islands controlled by Japan.
The trip is not without controversy.
Human rights groups have argued that Obama's trip to Myanmar is premature and that, in seeking to find allies in the region, Obama has been less attentive to repressive regimes such as that of Cambodia's longtime Prime Minister Hun Sen.
Obama aides acknowledge that Myanmar can still do better and say Obama will raise U.S. concerns about Cambodia's crackdowns on dissidents and civil society groups in the meeting with Hun Sen.


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I've written before about the successes I've had with Ancestry.com's trees and finding photos. I also find that the online trees are a great way to find new sources for my ancestors. Many online trees might contain errors but might also contain links to documents on ancestry or uploaded photos and documents. By using the "shaky leaf" hints, researchers can easily add these items to their own family tree. At the same time, the prior complaints remain the same. Researchers should always use caution before adding any information to their trees, no matter how easy Ancestry.com had made it. There are ways to utilize the information and Ancestry's system without compromising the caliber of your own tree. Here's how I do it:
It all starts with the well advertised "shaking leaf." Although I've criticized the simplicity and, as I see it, misleading aspects, of this system, the leaves are still a good place to start. So, I click on the "Family Trees (1)" link, which will take me to my hints page. I will have to click on "Review Hints" for the families trees again to see the trees that Ancestry.com thinks match my own.
On this page, you'll see the individual from your tree on the right, with each suggested tree on the left. You can review each suggestion to decide if the individual matches your ancestor. If they do, click the checkbox next to the suggestion. This step doesn't change your tree, so don't worry about any "conflicting" highlights that you see. Once you have chosen all the suggestions that match your ancestor, click the orange button to "review selected tree hints."
On this page, you'll see the individual from your tree on the right, with each suggested tree on the left. You can review each suggestion to decide if the individual matches your ancestor. If they do, click the checkbox next to the suggestion. This step doesn't change your tree, so don't worry about any "conflicting" highlights that you see. Once you have chosen all the suggestions that match your ancestor, click the orange button to "review selected tree hints."
On this next page, you'll see a page where all of the information from those other trees has been combined and now wants to connect to your tree. Here's what it looks like:
There's a lot going on in the image above. The most important think to look out for if you want to protect the information in your tree is any information marked "NEW." This only happens when the suggested tree has fields filled in that your tree has empty. This information will automatically be checked and will be added to your tree if you don't do anything. See Sarah Burkhalter for example. With these boxes check, marriage information has been inserted into my tree on the right. However, if you look above Sarah to George and Ann, you can see that I have unchecked the "NEW" information and the field on my tree remain blank. The first thing that I do when looking at this page is to uncheck all "NEW" boxes. I don't want to blindly add this information to my tree. Where did it come from? What are the sources? I have no idea. You can also see that a number of fields are marked "CONFLICTING." Because I already have information in these fields, I would have to manually mark the boxes to have this changed in my tree.
As I continue down the list of family members, I find a listing for two different Johns:
According to Ancestry.com's system, these are two different sons named John. One is already listed in my tree, while another is not and is marked "NEW." If I selected on the 2nd John's check box, he will be added to my tree as a brand new entry. But I have to be careful here, because these two John's are the same person. The have the same birthday and everything, but for some reason Ancestry wants to keep them separate. I never add new people from this view.
So if I'm not adding information from these trees, what's the point of making these connections? Like I said before, I find this system to be a good way to find new sources, document and photos for my family. After connecting these trees to my own, I have gained five new hints for my tree. All of the records on their tree, have now been suggested for my own. Perhaps they've been able to find an elusive 1850 census record that I couldn't find because of a strange spelling. Perhaps they've uploaded a document that they received from a local archive. These records will now be suggested to me - and I haven't even visited their family tree. Again, I cannot take these hints as gospel. I still need to review each hint and decide its validity on my own.
In less than five minutes, Ancestry has helped me collect the records from (in this example) 11 different family trees that reference my ancestors. Instead of having to review each tree individually, I can see their sources all at once. Of course, if these sources prove useful, I should review the tree that it came from, which might contain more information.
Genealogists should utilize all forums of research available to them. If they are cautious, there's a lot of great information to be found.


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You may have heard that 250 more emojis, the little smiley face icons and other symbols you can send in text messages, are coming to a cellphone near you.
The story of the emoji starts in Japan in the mid-1990s. Back then, pagers were all the rage with teenagers.
The ability to send an image of a cartoon heart was one of the special features on Docomo pagers. That's widely believed to be the first instance of an emoji.
"I first used emoji in the late 1990s," says Takehiro Ariga, an editor at the Japanese trend magazine Nikkei Trendy. "I was a high school student, and that was my first mobile phone."
Ariga says emojis caught on like wildfire in Japan because they helped clarify the meaning of text messages and avoid misunderstandings. "It is very natural that people want to communicate in other ways other than normal characters," Ariga says.
Docomo added more and more symbols. But back then, Docomo emojis worked only on Docomo phones. The company's competitors had their own characters. And when texts were exchanged across different devices, users saw "garbage characters."
Enter the Unicode Consortium. The group manages the Unicode Standard, which contains code for displaying characters like letters, math symbols and Chinese pictograms. It's meant to ensure messages sent on phones and computers appear the same on both ends.
"It's intended to cover all characters for all languages that have ever been written down through all of history," says Ken Whistler, a technical director at the Unicode Consortium.
That means everything from the letter A to ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics. So the problems faced by Japanese consumers when their kitten emoji text messages showed up as junk characters on their friends' phones spurred the consortium to add emojis to its Unicode Standard.
"The work on that actually started in 2007 and it took until 2010 when the first big collection of those got added to the standard," Whistler says.
Since then, the collection has been updated. Apple added a Unicode emoji keyboard to iOS 5 in 2011. And the rest is history.
As for the new batch of emojis? There are 250 being rolled out over the summer. Some of the new ones: a "chipmunk," a "man in business suit levitating" and the Hindu religious symbol "Om." There's also one that promises to be universally understood: "Reversed hand with middle finger extended."
Next up in tech something infinitely lighter.
That's right a very brief two eyes, at the earth globe of smiley faces.
SIEGEL: Melissa, please translate into English.
BLOCK: OK Robert, that's emoji speak for a very brief look at the world of Emoji. And for those unfamiliar with emoji, they're those cartoonlike images used on smart phones and the Internet in place of text.
SIEGEL: A heart, winking eye, a cheeseburger - the most familiar one's are yellow smiley faces, all variations.
BLOCK: A winking smile for instance. Emoji are standardized just like every other language on your phone and this month the Unicode Consortium approved some 250 new emoji. Unicode is an international nonprofit that sets the industry standard for computer text and here are some of the new characters, try using these in a sentence Robert.
SIEGEL: A hot pepper, a chipmunk, a camera with a flash.
BLOCK: A passenger ship, an oil drum, a golfer.
SIEGEL: Fork and knife with plates, derelict house building.
BLOCK: And man in business suit levitating.
SIEGEL: As one does so often in a business suit. Now there's also an overt insult included in the new characters, that's something new. It's called reverse hand with middle finger extended.
BLOCK: Aha. But where did emoji come from? For that we'd need to trade in our smart phones for pagers and head back to the 1990s. A Japanese telecom company called DoCoMo was the first to use Emoji. The ability to send an image of a cartoon heart was one of the special features on DoCoMo pagers.
SIEGEL: And Japanese teenagers hearted it. Shigetaka Kurita was working at DoCoMo, is credited with creating the first Emoji in the late 90s. We asked him about his inspiration and he told us...
SHIGETAKA KURITA: (Japanese spoken).
SIEGEL: I designed them myself he says, based on pictograms commonly seen around the city or from Japanese cartoons.
BLOCK: One early user of emoji was Takehiro Ariga, he's now editor of the Japanese trend magazine Nikkei Trendy. He says people loved it because it resolved miscommunication.
TAKEHIRO ARIGA: Japanese hate direct communication. So saying my emotion by using emoji or picture is better way to express myself in more gentle, softer way.
SIEGEL: Well fast forward now, more than a decade and emoji are on nearly every phone. Apple added an emoji keyboard to its operating system for the phone in 2011 and the rest as they say is...
BLOCK: symbol for an open book.
SIEGEL: I was going to say history.
BLOCK: This is NPR News.
SIEGEL: This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Robert Siegel. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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My great grandfather, George Murray Turner, was born 27 May 1861 in Coldstream in Scotland. It took me quite a while to figure this out as I was initially off on the wrong trail with respect to name and place. I was looking for George Murray Turner with a birth year about 1862 in Northumberland. I realised I needed to think again after discovering that his mother Barbara Murray did not marry William Robinson Turner until 1864. This set me off on the trail of Barbara's journeys from her birthplace at Alford in Aberdeenshire to her burial at Amble in Northumberland. In the 1861 census 20-year-old Barbara, who must have been heavily pregnant at the time, appears in the household of her father George Murray in Gas Lane, Coldstream. This gave me the clue I needed to search for my great granda as just George Murray in Coldstream records on ScotlandsPeople. The clip from the record shows an illegitimate boy George Murray born in Gas Lane. I wonder if my granny ever knew this about her father. It was never mentioned, so maybe it was the family secret.
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It's been more than 40 years since Donovan Phillips Leitch was riding the wave of "Mellow Yellow" and 11 other top 40 smashes.
"Mellow" was as popular for its psychedelic intangibles as it was for the speculation surrounding its meaning. Whether the track was about smoking banana peels, using a yellow vibrator or something entirely less far-out, the song optimized the Scottish singer-songwriter's ability to make trip-pop for the masses.
Even so, his days of hobnobbing with Joan Baez, Bob Dylan and The Beatles are long gone. What has this folk-pop icon been up to over the last four decades?
Whether the track was about smoking banana peels or something entirely less far-out, "Mellow Yellow" optimized the Scottish singer-songwriter's ability to make trip-pop for the masses.
While he continued to make records during the '70s and early '80s, Donovan's ability to sell them was brought into doubt. The singer-songwriter hardly fit into the punk rock scene and as Donovan's record sales dropped, his live performances became sporadic.
By the '90s, the tide turned back in Donovan's favor with the release of a tribute album on Vancouver's Nettwerk label, and later, a Sony box set. Donovan got the assistance of an unlikely fan: Def Jam Records co-founder Rick Rubin, who financed Donovan's 1996 release, Sutras. It gained its fair share of critical praise.
In 2004, Donovan released Beat Café, his latest disc, but his career has taken an unexpected turn of late with his promotion of Transcendental Meditation.
Donovan tours the country with filmmaker David Lynch promoting the twice-daily meditation practice, which, according to its proponents, has a hodgepodge of positive effects on your noodle. His belief in the technique runs so deep that last year Donovan announced plans to build the Invincible Donovan University in Scotland. The institution of higher learning will instruct its pupils in the art of Transcendental Meditation and promote its use in the world's educational systems.
With all of his transcendental meanderings, Dr. Donovan—who was given an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from the University of Hertfordshire in 2003—doesn't have much time for touring, but he does play a few shows here and there. One of them is in Santa Fe this week.


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Katarina T. Borer, PhD, is a professor in the School of
Kinesiology at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where she has
spent over 35 years teaching and researching the hormonal control of
metabolism, particularily in response to exercise. She has spent 40
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and Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior. In 1991, Borer received
a Fulbright scholarship to the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, where
she studied the expression of IGF-I mRNA in exercising hamsters. She has
been a visiting professor on the kinesiology faculty at the University
of Zagreb in Croatia since 2002. Borer was also awarded the title of
Meritorious Professor in 2010 from the University of Zagreb.
Borer and her husband, Paul Wenger, reside in Ann Arbor. Borer enjoys
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to opera and classical music, and devoting time to her environmental
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C. J. Richard Shi
C.-J. Richard Shi
VLSI and CAD
Silicon Systems Research Laboratory
210 EE/CSE Bldg., Box 352500
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195
Phone: (206) 221-5291
Personal Home Page: http://www.ee.washington.edu/research/mscad/shi/
University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, 1994, Ph.D. in Computer Science
University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, 1991, M. A. Sc. in Electrical Engineering
Fudan University, Shanghai, China, 1987, M.Sc. Electronics Engineering
Fudan University, Shanghai, China, 1985, B.Sc. Electronics Engineering
Richard Shi has been a Professor in Electrical Engineering
since 2004 at the University of Washington, Seattle,
where he joined in 1998. From 1994 to 1998 he worked for
Analogy (now
part of Synopsys), Rockwell Semiconductor Systems
(now Conexant Systems), and the University of Iowa.
He received a prestigious Doctoral Prize from the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada and a Governor-General's Silver Medal in 1995 for his PhD Dissertation in Computer Science.
His primary research interests relate to computer-aided design and test of VLSI circuits and systems with the emphasis on analog and deep-submicron circuit modeling, simulation and optimization. His recent research activities include also VLSI implementation of communication systems, three-dimensional VLSI circuits, and radiation-hardened by design technologies. He has supervised 20 PhD students and post doctoral fellows.
Richard Shi was elected to a Fellow of the IEEE in 2005 for his contributions to computer-aided design of mixed-signal integrated circuits. He has received several awards for his research including NSF CAREER Award (1999), Best Paper Awards from IEEE VLSI Test Symposium (1998), IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (1999), and SRC Technical Conference (2003), and five Best Paper Award Nominations from respectively ASP-DAC (1995), EuroDAC (1996), ASP-DAC (1998), ICCD (2001), and DATE (2005). He also received a T.D. Lee (1957 Nobel Prize Winner) Physics Award, and was a finalist of the Association for Computing Machinary (ACM) Doctoral Dissertation Award. In 2001, he was nominated by EE undergraduate students for the COE Outstanding Educator Award.
Richard Shi is a key contributor to IEEE std 1076.1-1999 language standard for the description and simulation of mixed-signal circuits and mixed-technology systems (VHDL-AMS). He was the founding Chair of IEEE International Behavioral Modeling and Simulation (BMAS) Symposium. He was a Guest Editor and an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-II: Analog and Digital Signal Processing. He is currently serving as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems and IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-II: Express Briefs.
Selected Publications
L. Yang, H. Liu, and C.-J. R. Shi, "Construction and FPGA implementation of low-error-floor multi-rate low-density parity-check code decoders",
G. Shi and C.-J. R. Shi, "Model order reduction by dominant subspace projection: error bounds, subspace approximation and circuit applications," IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems-I: Fundamental Theory and Applications, vol. 51, no. 5, pp. 975-993, May 2005.
Y. Wang, D. Gope, V. Jandhyala, and C.-J. R. Shi, "Generalized Kirchoff's current and voltage law formulation for coupled circuit-electromagnetic simulation with surface integral equations," IEEE Trans. on Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol. 52, no. 7, pp. 1673-1682, July 2004.
X.-D. Tan, C.-J. R. Shi and J.-C. Lee, "Reliability-constrained area optimization of VLSI power/ground networks via sequence of linear programmings," IEEE Trans. on Computer-Aided Design, vol. 22, no. 12, pp. 1678-1684, Dec. 2003.
C.-J. R. Shi and X.-D. Tan,
"Canonical symbolic analysis of large analog circuits with determinant decision diagrams,"
IEEE Trans. on Computer-Aided Design,
vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 1-18, Jan. 2000.


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