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Turtles frequently require anaesthesia to enable veterinary examination and surgery although their unique anatomy and physiology means this can be difficult. A range of methods including injectable and inhalation anaesthetics are currently used but many of these have undesirable side-effects.
Alfaxalone is a steroid that is commonly used in small animal medicine and has also been used successfully in a range of reptiles but investigations into its use in turtles are rare and none exist for Australian species.
Although intravenous injection of anaesthetics provide a faster anaesthesia, it is not always possible to gain access to the veins in reptile patients and under these circumstances intramuscular administration of anaesthetic drugs may be advantageous.
If results are favourable then alfaxalone may become the anaesthetic agent of choice which will benefit animal welfare by increasing the safety of anaesthesia and reducing recovery periods.
To examine the effects of administration of intravenous and intramuscular alfaxalone as a sedative for veterinary procedures for turtles, using the Macquarie River Turtle (Emydura macquarii) as a case study.
Nineteen turtles were randomly assigned to one of two treatment groups. Alfaxalone was injected into either the right jugular vein (intra-venously) or left thigh muscle (intra-muscularly).
Turtles were monitored for heart rate, respiratory rate, cloacal temperature, time to regaining spontaneous movement and response to noxious stimuli.
Intravenous alfaxalone was an effective sedative in all turtles, although they maintained some reflexes during the experiment. This means it must be used in conjunction with pain-relief under circumstances where pain is expected to occur. However, intramuscular alfaxalone did not result in any sedative effects and is currently considered ineffective.
Primary researcher: Franciscus Sheelings (Veterinarian, Healesville Sanctuary)
Participating organisations: Zoos Victoria


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Doctor Who 10th Doctor's Coat
For serious cosplayers
- Officially licensed replica of David Tennant's coat
- High quality wool blend fabric & fully lined with interior pockets
- Suitable for every day wear and evil fighting
While we love Matt Smith, we'll always have a spot in our warm fuzzy secret hearts for David Tennant's Doctor. (And we're jealous of Rose. Incoming really old spoilers from 2008. If you're behind the times, don't read the invisible paragraph below.)
And for those of us trying to imitate the 10th Doctor's style, the perfect coat has always been the most difficult part of the ensemble to replicate.
For cosplayers of the 10th Doctor (or just fans of his unique style), we present this amazing replica, a limited edition costume piece approved by the folks at the BBC. The outer shell of this long men's coat is a luxurious, cinnamon brown, wool blend fabric. The dark blue indigo lining is very lustrous with a subtle herringbone pattern. There are two tangerine colored welt pockets on the inside made up of the same silky fabric. Bottom line, this is one swanky coat. Whether you tell people it was a gift from Janis Joplin... well, that's up to you.
Product Specifications
- Officially licensed replica of the 10th Doctor's long coat
- The perfect piece to complete your David Tennant cosplay ensemble
- A seriously swanky coat with high quality fabrics & sturdy construction
- Luxurious cinnamon brown wool blend fabric
- Fully lined with silky dark blue indigo fabric with subtle herringbone pattern
- Two tangerine colored welt pockets on the inside (same fabric as lining)
- "Cut" in the back allows you free arm movement without the coat riding up
- See the chart below to determine the best size for you (when in doubt, choose the larger size - give yourself room to run from those Daleks!)
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The Primary Industrial Controls Index, measured by Rosslyn, Va.-based NEMA, experienced its largest quarter-to-quarter decline on record, contracting more than 23% in the first quarter of 2009 versus the fourth quarter of 2008. On a year-over-year basis, the index showed a very rapid downward movement, dropping 30.5% compared to the first quarter of 2008. Inflation-adjusted shipments of industrial control equipment have fallen to their lowest level since 1991. Conditions in the broader industrial controls market, as measured by the Primary Industrial Controls and Adjustable Speed Drives index, were also weak, but slightly less so, as this metric slipped 19.6% from the prior quarter and more than 26% on a year-over-year basis.
Demand for industrial controls has mirrored that of other types of capital equipment over the past few quarters, according to NEMA. During the first quarter of 2009, real business spending on equipment and software plummeted nearly 34% on an annual basis — the largest decline in 51 years. Increasingly tight lending standards, slumping profits, declining industrial output, and a deteriorating labor market have caused businesses to slow spending on new construction and expansion plans.
The factory sector is suffering the deepest recession in the post-WWII era. While much has been made of the Detroit automakers' struggles, the manufacturing sector's turmoil extends far beyond autos as producers of industrial and business equipment as well as consumer goods are seeing steep declines in output, according to the organization. The national average capacity utilization rate remains at an all-time low: 65% of operable factory capacity is currently in use for the sector as a whole, with readings in the low 30s for a few particularly hard-hit industries. On a positive note, it appears that the worst of the collapse in manufacturing activity is over; nonetheless, prospects for a speedy recovery are miniscule at this time. Demand for industrial controls and similar capital goods will remain weak for the next several quarters as businesses try to restore profitability by downsizing operations, liquidating inventories, and delaying/canceling investment plans.


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Following the startling experience of witnessing my husband projectile vomit while alternating between moans of "oh God" and "Jesus Christ" between each heave, I've now had an entire week of a chorus of coughing. All day and all night. No matter what we're doing, no matter where we're going, no matter what time it is, there's the coughing. It's like a Dr. Seuss book.
I like to cough in a boat.
I like to cough with a goat.
I like to cough with you at the grocery store.
I like to cough through the entire episode of The Bachelor.
I like to cough in my underwear.
I like to cough in your hair.
Except instead of freakish gangly furry Seuss-people they're pitiful coughing adorable my-people whose backs I rub in the middle of the night and whose lungs I will to clear and grant a full breath. See, I'm not a complete bitch.
But, back to the cleaning. I rid my office of anything that wasn't worth dusting every
I didn't find anything of too much interest in my purging except my notebook of writing ideas from 2007 where I had scribbled a quote about children being useful and attributed it to one Barack Obama (heard of him?). You'd have thought my pancake was in the shape of his face the way I gasped and blinked hard twice. I had no idea who Barack Obama was in 2007, so it was downright chilling to unknowingly quote the future president.
What am I, some kind of wizard? I wondered.
Then I rushed into the bathroom to interrupt Chris' shower to look! look at what I wrote in 2007! except Chris was all and? and I was like I didn't even know who he was then! But, Chris was unimpressed and dared to suggest that I heard it in the primaries or something and I was, like, it was two thousand and SEVEN, it wasn't during the primaries. But, he just kept rinsing his hair completely oblivious he had just witnessed a miracle. Or at least a well timed quote from the March '07 issue of O magazine as it later turned out. But, still.
Anyway, once I was done with the office I started on Savannah's room and cleared it of all her toys and dolls and moved those to my office/playroom to clear the way for her "big girl stuff" like make up and jewelry. As I explained to Chris, she's at that age now - seven - where she needs her space to keep her pretty things neat and organize her accessories and have a vanity to, you know, be vain and experiment with make up and jewelry and nail polish and feel pretty and girly and it's very important to her feminine development that we give her this space to do this because I think otherwise she'll grow up to be a lesbian. I'm pretty sure that's how it works. Chris wasn't convinced.
So, after cleaning up our crap, I felt much more organized and a little more in control of my life. Despite the fact that as I stood there surveying my tidiness I, of course, thought "Well, this should make it that much easier to pack when we're evicted".
Then I had a glass of wine and settled in to watch a new episode of Jon & Kate Plus 8, which would have been relaxing except it was about them buying an insanely ginormous new house and all I could focus on was the fact that these freaking people were able to buy a ginormous new house because I'm sitting here watching this stupid show about them moving into their ginormous new house like a dumbass instead of working on ways to get my own ginormous new house.
And then that made me feel mad and used. But, also a little clever.
So clever that I ended up finishing off the bottle of wine while Chris and I watched movies (W and The Changeling – both I highly recommend). But then of course Chris has to go and start a fight with me - as he's apt to do whenever I drink - while we were going to bed because he suggested that maybe my throbbing headache might be caused by the three glasses of wine I drank and not my new multi-vitamin.
I blame it on the fact that his boss popped into his office the other day – 36 days before his official last day BUT WHO'S COUNTING – and advised him that they "might be keeping some employees on" and did he "want to be in the mix?".
First of all, what the hell is "The Mix" and second of all, yes, please God, yes.
So, that's where we stand. Chris may be on his way to his new career in making mix tapes and I am bitter that I don't have 7 more kids that I can exploit for profit.


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Former #Packers WR/KR Jeremy Ross cleared waivers today — Wes Hodkiewicz (@WesHod) September 24, 2013
Now that Ross has cleared waivers, he is free to sign with any team.
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Former #Packers WR/KR Jeremy Ross cleared waivers today — Wes Hodkiewicz (@WesHod) September 24, 2013
Now that Ross has cleared waivers, he is free to sign with any team.
I just wish TT would have cut Ross and signed FB John Conner before the game like I said in a previous thread. If they do that then that's one less turnover GB would have had and probably would have won the game.
If they couldn't trust Ross to return all punts and kicks than he should have been cut a lot sooner. Not sure why TT and MM wait till things are so painfully obvious to everyone else before making these kind of moves.
I mean who goes into a game against such a big physical defense without a FB, then proceed to run a dive on a very crucial 4th and 1 into the teeth of said defense without a FB. That is just a straight up lack of common sense.
Right, because this is Madden and players can digest and execute a new team's playbook instantly. And yeah, the absence of a fullback was really hurting the team what with Franklin running for a mere 8 yards a carry, right? Why, if we had a FB on the 4th-and-1 dive then there would've only been 3 guys blowing up Franklin in the backfield instead of 4! You're basically saying we should have signed a guy in order to run one play. Easier solution: call a better play.
You don't need to be a self proclaimed "keyboard GM" or actual GM to realize Ross didnt warrant a roster spot and the 4th and inches call for a 185lbs.back to.run a dive out of a single back formation were idiotic! I like the braintrust, Jamie. I'm a mashed potato Mike and Tinkering Ted fan but believe it or not THEY ARE HUMAN and make mistakes. These being two of them.
They kept Ross for various reasons, largely to give them a viable return threat other than Cobb. Had they known he would have ongoing ball security issues (yes, he had one muffed punt in the playoffs), they would not have kept him on the roster.
To say it was a mistake to keep him now, because he had further issues other than the one time, is hindsight 20/20 and just an unfair assessment of that roster decision.
To say just out Franklin in as KR must have missed how terrible/uncomfortable he looked in TC and the preseason.
To say that John Conner would have been our savior this...well that's just dumb beyond all levels of comprehension. His savior ass is still on the street.
Point is, stop complaining and talking about stuff that you have no real knowledge of, or that you are using your perfect hindsight vision for.
Viable return threat? Were you sure you were watching No. 10?
They don't play the games in secret. Putting aside the egregious flubs in Chicago & SF, he had two nice runbacks last year. But this year Ross was seen on national TV dropping the ball and plodding out of the end zone in cement boots then getting tackled behind the 20. There was no upside to his game this year. None whatsoever. He showed poor judgement and an inability/refusal to learn from his errors from just about day one. And he was slow. S-L-0-W. This was visible to all, not just GMs or NFL coaches.
$1,000,000 you will have keyboard ready to blast MM for putting Franklin in on KR if he tanks...and will use the, "didn't they see how bad he was in the preseason" angle.
Do you folks not see that you want it both ways? That's such a naive way of looking at things. The real world doesn't exist in a vacuum as you all seem to think.
Isn't the point, you keep someone who has talent. Yes Cobb is a poor choice to run back kicks but he was good at it. Ross had no talent.
He was a body. He caught one pass for 8 years in his entire career with the pack. He had no speed and poor hands. So how did he even get noticed by the pack?
Cheap late round pick. Key word on cheap.
There is no hindsight, my post about Ross and Conner was before the game so bite me. John Conner may or may not have made a bit of difference in that game but cutting Ross sure would have.
It doesn't take a genius or even someone with average intelligence to see that Ross offered little to nothing in the return game through the first 2 games. And BTW the muff against San Fran wasn't Ross's only gaffe as a return guy in his time here.
My knowledge is vast buddy. You'd be wise to remember that...
i rewatched the game tonight, as painful as it was...and i think the most frustrating thing is that we were better than the Bengals...but our mistakes were bigger than their's were on Sunday. we lost because of: 1) the Ross fumble (we should have been winning 30-7 at one point) and 2) the 4th and inches fumble. What also didn't help us: 1) Clay getting hurt...dude was playing lights out (that diving play to cause the fumble was ridic)...and the defense looked great (outside from the first series) the first half (we then let them score to make the score 30-21) 2) Rogers' first INT was Jones's fault. Jones was tired from the previous play and stopped running his route. Jones needs to let Rodgers know when he's tired so #12 can go elsewhere with the ball...he has plenty of options normally... 3) Rodgers got frustrated and forced his 2nd INT 4) The Tramon personal foul was not a great call, but also a stupid move by #38 ---- all in all, we eliminate the 2 huge mistakes - the KR fumble and the 4th and inches fumble, we win 30-20. Also - Jordy is incredible, and Franklin was ballin'. go lions this weekend...hate the bears and i live in chicago. bleh.
Packers are trying to find some returners.
Wow, selective memory much fellas??
It wasn't long ago (i.e. late last season) that Ross was consistently breaking long KR and PR. He definitely showed a lot of ability in the return game. That doesn't just go away when you are evaluating a player...though obviously neither does the muff against SF.
I guarantee 95%+ of you were complaining about Cobb remaining in on PR when Ross showed his stuff last season. Now that Ross couldn't hack it...he was always garbage. Of course.
You AAAALL know better than those in charge...our resident Monday morning QBs, second guess extraordinaires.
IMO Ross lost his edge after that muff in SF. Our decision makers valued his talent enough, as well as the health of Cobb, and believed he would get passed it. He didn't, and they cut him. They used sound reasoning. I just don't see what the big 'THEY NEVER SHOULD HAVE KEPT HIM' is all about. That's a very convenient viewpoint IMO.
They didn't trust Ross even before this last fumble. You know how I can tell? They still put Cobb back there in crucial situations. They also looked at Joe McKnight who is a return specialist after TC.
All preseason and through the first 2 games Ross was completely average looking and at times made real dumb or bad decisions.
How long do you keep a guy like that...until it costs you games I guess. I didn't need to see him fumble again before I determined he was expendable but I guess that's the power of foresight.
'IMO Ross lost his edge after that muff in SF.'
I completely agree.
He looked like a completely different player until that muff... After that he never was able to get past that and seemed to question himself, which made him hesitant which made him a step slow. Basically he just lost his confidence.
I liked his ability he showed last year, until that 49ers game.
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The Belgic Confession (1561)
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Is Our Civilization Christian?
When a traveller from the Old World approaches America for the first time and
sees against the horizon the fantastic towers and spires of Manhattan Island
he feels that he is indeed entering a new world. And all or much that he sees
in his first twenty-four hours bears out this impression. No doubt we know well
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and technological power, bat those of us who have our homes in the country, far
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ancient foundations. So it is not until we see the cities and the urban civilization^ of the New World that we realize visually and experimentally what the new
civilization means in terms of human life, One's first impression of New York
is that it is a city of giants, constructed by superhuman powers for superhuman
ends, and the masses who swarm in the crowded thoroughfares seem to be out of
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vast array of material power, one has the same sense of disproportion. For the
Churches of New York are dike the Churches of the old world - only perhaps a little
smaller - and they are dwarfed by the vast towers and temples of business under
which they stand. And the same is true of the language of illuminated signs
which make the nights of New York so brilliant. It does not exist to convey any-
spiritual message, but simply to proclaim the qualities of commercial products.
This whole mighty display of power exists only to serve the material needs of the
common man and for the profit of the business corporations that minister to these
This is so familiar to us that we take it for granted as the normal modern way of
life, but viewed in the perspective of history, it is a very surprising thing. The
Egyptians built pyramids which were far greater then the skyscrapers of New York,
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NORMAN, Okla. (AP) The NCAA has declared receiver Jalen Saunders eligible to play for No. 13 Oklahoma this season, just in time for the Sooners' rivalry game Saturday against No. 15 Texas.
Coach Bob Stoops announced Wednesday that Saunders' eligibility appeal had been approved by the NCAA. He transferred from Fresno State during the offseason and initially was ruled ineligible this season under NCAA transfer guidelines.
Saunders caught 50 passes for 1,065 yards last season and led the Western Athletic Conference with 12 touchdown catches.
Stoops says he's hopeful Saunders will be ready to play Saturday against the Longhorns.


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Marine kills 2, himself at base in Virginia
Authorities, called to the scene of a shooting, found one Marine dead, and later the bodies of the suspected gunman and a woman.
A Marine shot and killed two fellow Marines at a barracks near Washington, D.C., late Thursday and early Friday then took his own life, according to the commander of Marine Corps Base Quantico.
All three, including a male and a female victim, were active duty Marines assigned to the Officer Candidate School, according to Col. David Maxwell, the base commander.
"This is truly a tragic loss again for the Marine Corps, which has had a number of tragic losses in the last couple of weeks," he said.
The shooting came four days after seven Marines were killed when a mortar exploded during a training exercise Monday night at a training facility and Army munitions depot in Nevada.
Maxwell said local authorities and military police, responding around 10:30 p.m. to reports of a gunshot, found a male Marine dead at Taylor Hall, a dorm-like section of the school.
They later found a second victim dead, along with the body of the suspected shooter, who died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Maxwell denied initial reports that the suspected gunman had barricaded himself inside the barracks in a standoff. "This was not a standoff," he said.
The shooter killed two adults inside a residence and then shot himself later Thursday night.
Their identities were being withheld until after next of kin were notified. The investigation of the shooting is being conducted by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service.
The OCS is where Marines go to earn commission as second lieutenants.
The base, which is about 37 miles south of Washington, is also home to the FBI's training academy.
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel "was saddened to learn of the shootings at Marine Corps Base Quantico," Pentagon spokesman George Little said in a statement. "This tragedy, as well as the tragedy in Nevada earlier this week, took the lives of Marines who volunteered to serve their nation. His heart and his prayers are with them and their families. He believes that the legendary strength of the United States Marine Corps will ensure that they are forever remembered."
Contributing: Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, Associated Press


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Welcome MM!! You can see the forums used to be more active.
Although I currently have mobility issues, I've always been an old school "cache in the woods" guy. That's the way it was when I started in 2003. I even pre-date the first Lamp Post Cache in my area by almost 2 years. That's just in my area, it wasn't the first one ever, of course. I religiously ignore them. I've done like 4 in my whole life, a couple in parks, and a couple highway rest stops.


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Liverpool's Chinatown through the lens: Winners
4 June 2010 by David
With China Through the lens of John Thomson 1868 – 1872 closing at Merseyside Maritime Museum this Sunday, our Liverpool's Chinatown Through the lens Flickr competition has now also come to an end and it is time to reveal the winners.
We had a really interesting range of entries and exhibition curator and competition judge Betty Yao found it difficult to choose the winner from nearly 200 photos. However after much deliberation Betty chose three images, which have all also been blogged about over the course of the competition, with the overall winner being 'Chinese New Year – People' by Lee Carus, an image she says she 'returned again and again to' because '…there is so much there – capturing the people, the colours'. Congratulations to Lee, who wins a banquet meal for two at Yuet Ben.
The two lucky runners-up are Graham Morgan, whose enigmatic shot Betty praised 'for capturing the moment', and Mark McGowan, whose Chinese arch photo reminded her of two atmospheric images from the exhibition; of the pagoda reflected on the lake, and the hazy shot of a man standing by the River Min.
Congratulations to all our entrants, and one final reminder to visit the Maritime Museum this weekend for your last chance to see John Thomson's fascinating images.
Liverpool's Chinatown through the lens: People
12 May 2010 by David
Complex and complicated are not quite the same thing, a distinction which I think is captured in this week's highlight from our Liverpool's Chinatown through the lens Flickr competition, by Flickr user Lee Carus; the scene is busy with detail but not over-crowded, and carefully shot – the photographer waited patiently for some time before snapping this image.
Quite a few different subjects that I have blogged about over the past few weeks appear here – the buildings in Chinatown, the crowds, the flags – but most prominent is the saturation in vivid colour. Practically no two areas use quite the same colour or hue, and the jostling of a brilliant orange jacket to a pearlescent green flag, shimmering gold surrounded by whites, pinks and blues, mirrors the heaving crowds.
Despite the level of detail, the composition is spacious: the cream buildings in the background and the smoke whiting-out the centre is effective in both throwing the more sharply defined foreground figures into relief and receding the background crowds and buildings, a depth enhanced by the stolid black railings to the right leading into the image. Also interesting is the fact that although the crowds are the ostensible subject, those figures in the background left comprise a fairly abstract mass of curves and shapes, the effect being like a painter suggesting a figure or object with a few simple flicks of a paintbrush – they become real as the viewer steps away. See the photo in a large size. Read more…
Liverpool's Chinatown through the lens: Old and Light
Older buildings have often outlived most of the people who set inside them, but their meaning and significance is usually defined by the way they are used by those same people. This week's highlight from our Liverpool's Chinatown through the lens Flickr competition, by Flickr user diaryof70steen, is an attractive composition which, though it consists of two buildings and nothing else, says much about different cultures and communities over time.
Visually the image creates a striking parallel between the vibrancy of the Chinese arch, its curved roofs and intricate patterns, and the stoic grandeur of the Black-E centre, with its magnificent dome and Corinthian columns. With a whited-out sky the many shapes and patterns of the buildings stand out crisply in an almost abstract way.
More than the architecture however, the photo tells of a long history of different Liverpudlian communities. The Black-E – taking its name from its smoke-stained stonework that was cleaned in the 1980s – combines a contemporary arts centre with a community centre (the UK's first community arts project), and is based in the former Great George Street Chapel, which closed in 1967. This in turn had been the centre for a programme of artistic, educational and social welfare activities as well as worship, and was itself the second Chapel on the site, opening in 1841 after the 1811 original was destroyed by fire. It seems appropriate that a building so long the hub of many community activities is captured here next to a great symbol of Liverpool's long-established Chinese community, itself also dating from the 19th century. See the photo in a large size. Read more…
Liverpool's Chinatown through the lens: Masks
21 April 2010 by David
While holiday snaps are often intended to record a static memory of a place and mood – think of all those posed pictures of your family on the beach with fixed smiles – the more artistic photograph can often capture a whole narrative in a single image. I think in this week's highlight from our Liverpool's Chinatown through the lens Flickr competition, by Flickr user Graham Morgan (greybeats), something of both approaches is captured.
More familiar as a writhing, twisting creature, the Chinese dragon here is seen as a massive, still block of colours, occupying the whole right side of the image: the lack of body makes it hard to imagine its full size, and it certainly looks like it is towering menacingly over the people on the left. However what is especially interesting about the dragon and the people are their positions and their masks: all of the figures are to some extent covering their faces and none appear to directly acknowledge the others; instead all are facing different directions in a curious, almost posed manner.
The viewer knows that there are really people inside the dragon, hidden under the costume – similarly the man in the foreground half-covers his face, presumably against smoke and noise, the figure behind is half-masked (or half-unmasked?), and those further back still are almost gone completely behind the smoke; everyone is only half-revealed, as though hovering between two personalities, or emerging from a chrysalis. Though it is Chinese New Year, it seems apt that this reminds me of the Roman god Janus (from whom we get the name January), often depicted with two faces looking in opposite directions: back to the old year and forward to the new. This image captures that idea of uncertain but exciting transition, change and ambiguity. See the photo in a large size. Read more…
Liverpool's Chinatown through the lens: Yellow Flag
Sometimes a minimalist approach can achieve dramatic effects: I think this is the case with this week's highlight from the Liverpool's Chinatown: Through the lens Flickr competition, by Flickr user Abi 🙂, in which a black and white photograph is tinted with a powerful yellow with captivating results.
I don't know if the photographer chose yellow for a particular reason, but the symbolism of the colour in Chinese culture makes it an interesting choice. Yellow represents, amongst many other things, earth, the balance of yin and yang, and stability, making it an apt colour for a photo mostly comprised of shades of two opposites, black and white, and with so volatile a subject as smoking firecrackers.
Visually it is a very arresting colour to use, but though the flag draping dramatically on the left is one of the first things the eye is drawn to, there are spots of the colour discreetly added throughout the rest of the image – a coat or hat, the firecrackers, the sun-like decoration above the doorway – as though the warmth and joy of the colour is seeping into the pores of the photo.
There is more to the image than just this immediate colour element however. The flag and smoke make a neat vertical symmetry which frames the doorway in the background: the crowds and upstairs windows have a similar effect on the horizontal; this makes a complete frame which concentrates the gaze to the partially-obscured doorway, making it a subtle third subject for the viewer after the yellow flag and the firecrackers, which are the main focus of attention for the crowd. See the photo in a large size. Read more…
Liverpool's Chinatown through the lens: Dragon
1 April 2010 by David
Keeping with the black and white theme from last week, this week I've chosen another monochrome masterpiece as a highlight from the Liverpool's Chinatown: Through the lens Flickr competition, by Graham Lloyd.
Taken during a performance at the Black-E Centre, the play of pattern and light captures many interesting details in one frozen moment of dance. The ornate swirling patterns of the dragon's head and back contrast sharply with the even lines of the wooden floor, which, whoosing diagonally across the photo, enhance the sense of frenzy and dynamism seen in the dancing dragons of Chinese New Year.
One tale of Ancient China tells of a solar eclipse, thought to be caused by a huge dragon slowly devouring the sun: only by shouting and causing a commotion did the people scare the dragon away from its meal. The picture reminds the viewer of this idea that dragons are not just creatures from fantasy films and celebrations, but represent something genuinely frightening – the perspective here, looking down on the dragon like spectators viewing a dangerous caged animal, enhances this sense of danger… until the viewer notices the contemporary footwear and the mood suddenly lightens. See the photo in a large size. Read more…
Liverpool's Chinatown through the lens: Through the window
24 March 2010 by David
To complement John Thomson's photographs in the China: Through the lens exhibition, and after the vibrant colours of previous highlights from the Liverpool's Chinatown: Through the lens Flickr competition, this week I've chosen an interesting black and white image by Aidan McManus (adebⓞnd), which has both a geometric beauty of its own and a strong human element.
The structure of the photo is simple, bold and effective: the lines and rectangles give a sense of harmony and balance, as though the viewer has zoomed in on a Piet Mondrian painting. The various shades of grey and black and the two bright white smudges of light give the photo an almost abstract quality, but, despite occupying only a small part of the image, the girl intently and patiently watching the New Year's celebrations below is the actual focal point of the picture.
This human element is further enhanced by the marks scribbled and smeared in the steamed-up glass, the sense of now-absent fingers and hands – save for a solitary artist at the far right – chaotically clearing a view to the street below a reflection of the excited activity of the New Year parade. See the photo in a large size. Read more…
Liverpool's Chinatown through the lens: Anticipation
17 March 2010 by David
After a couple of entries bustling with activity, for this week's highlight from the Liverpool's Chinatown: Through the lens Flickr competition I've chosen an image almost completely devoid of people: this 2009 photo of Liverpool's iconic Chinese arch, added to the pool by Mark McGowan.
Taken just before the Chinese New Year celebrations, there is a sense of expectation and mystery to the image, the sunlight just glinting off the brilliant gold of the arch and the viewer imagining the crowds that will be filling the ghostly streets.
The different architectural styles contrast but compliment each other; there are no absolutely horizontal or vertical lines, but various angular perspectives which draw the eye in different directions. At once the viewer is invited in through the arch by the receding buildings and flags of Nelson Street, but at the same time to the top of the image: neither the square pillars of the arch nor the round pillars of the Black-E Centre to the left are straightforwardly vertical, both tapering up towards the shrouded sun and pulling the viewer's gaze with them. The result is a constant shifting of perspectives, never settling, like an MC Escher print. See the photo in a large size. Read more…
Liverpool's Chinatown through the lens: A meeting of cultures
10 March 2010 by David
For this week's highlight from our Liverpool's Chinatown: Through the lens Flickr competition I've chosen this intriguing image by Alan Cookson, which captures Liverpool's Anglican Cathedral in amongst the vibrant colours of the flags of the Chinese New Year celebrations.
I think this photograph is really interesting both in terms of its themes and its composition. The solid, classical beauty of the Cathedral and the surrounding impressionistic greys and browns in the background contrast strikingly against the vivid, swirling Chinese flags in the foreground, neatly capturing two of the various different cultures which exist side-by-side in Liverpool.
The Cathedral and gold dragon's head are neatly framed in the centre of the image, drawing the eye over and past the crowds, but they are also an integral part of the photo as a whole: though it is a landscape photo the image is made up of a series of vertical elements – a row of flags, the Cathedral tower (331 feet, 1.5 inches tall!) and an onlooker at the right side, these different elements combining seamlessly to give a natural flow to the picture. See the photo in a large size.
Liverpool's Chinatown Through the lens: Dancing dragon
3 March 2010 by David
Our photo competition pool 'Liverpool's Chinatown: Through the lens' has had over 100 photos submitted so far and I'm really excited by the variety and imagination shown in people's photos of the Chinatown area and Chinese culture.
In this first weekly blog highlight from the competition entries I've chosen this view of Nelson Street by Ian Hughes (ihughes22). It's a bustling and eye-catching image, the colours of the flags and the dragon looming powerfully over the massed crowds adding to the sense of drama and excitement of the occasion – especially since the dragon almost looks like he's staring straight out at us! Read more…


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NEWARK, N.J. – A Newark, N.J., information technology training and service company violated a settlement agreement stemming from an age and race discrimination charge when it failed to complete payments that were a condition of the agreement, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.
According to the EEOC, HD Dimension Corp. entered into a conciliation agreement to resolve a discrimination charge and agreed to pay $32,500 to an applicant who, the EEOC found, had been discriminated against because of her age and race. The agreement also required various injunctive provisions including training for HD Dimension employees and management and training for third-party companies who did recruitment for HD Dimension. From October 2009 through February 2010, the company made monthly payments toward satisfying the conciliation agreement, but stopped after paying only $17,500 of the agreed-upon $32,500. HD Dimension never complied with any of the injunctive relief.
The EEOC filed suit in U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey to enforce the agreement after HD Dimension failed to make any payments for 12 months. The EEOC filed suit after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement through its conciliation process.
The conduct alleged in the original discrimination charge violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex (including sexual harassment or pregnancy) or national origin and protects employees who complain about such offenses from retaliation. The alleged conduct also violates the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), which prohibits discrimination in the workplace based on age.
"When the EEOC enters into conciliation agreements with companies, the process does not end there," said Charles F. Coleman, Jr., a trial attorney in the EEOC's New York office. "We continue to monitor these agreements to ensure that they are carried out and, in this case, it was not, so we had to take forthright action."
Judy Keenan, the EEOC's acting regional attorney in the New York office, said, "The EEOC will absolutely enforce the conciliation agreements it reaches, even if that means filing a lawsuit. The objective of this suit is to obtain full relief under the conciliation agreement and place others on notice that the EEOC will not tolerate this behavior."
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Like something out of a post-apocalyptic drama, or perhaps a zombie movie, gun stores across the country are now routinely boasting empty gun cases and picked-over shelves after politicians began campaigning for ownership restrictions following December's Newtown, Connecticut's deadly shooting massacre. While gun sales began their climb after Obama's reelection, they steeply escalated in the wake of the wake of the massacre, and the heightened gun control debates that ensued. December set a record for the most criminal background checks of the type performed for gun purchases at 2.2 million, a 58.6 percent increase over last year's number.


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ROYERSFORD — On a Spring-Ford football offensive arsenal rife with weapons, Tate Carter is the most versatile one.
And Friday night, the Rams junior showed it — and then some — during a District 1-Class AAAA first-round game that morphed into a veritable shootout at the O.K. Corral.
Carter ran the ball effectively, averaging more than seven yards on his seven carries.
He was even more dangerous catching it, with four receptions for 98 yards and one touchdown.
And to top it off, Carter even threw the pigskin a couple of times, capped by a 21-yard TD pass to Jarred Jones — part of a 31-point, second-half explosion that helped Spring-Ford hold off Garnet Valley, 43-27, for the program's first postseason win in school history.
"Honestly, he can throw the ball farther than anybody in this room," Brubaker said of Carter. "He's as quick as anybody, and he catches the ball well. He just has a lot of different skills. He's like a chess piece we can move around. He does so many things well. We'd be idiots if we didn't try to use him as much as possible."
Virtually all of the seventh-seeded Rams' offensive firepower was on display as they advanced to next Friday's quarterfinal at No. 2 seed Ridley, a 20-17 winner over Downingtown West.
Feature back Jones ran for 154 yards; senior quarterback Hank Coyne threw for 184 yards — going over the 5,000-yard career mark — and three touchdowns; and six different receivers caught passes as Spring-Ford (10-1) won its sixth straight game.
In the other two phases of the game, some of the Rams' more unheralded players made quite a name for themselves with huge contributions.
Like corner Jared Shoemaker, who an interception and forced fumble — each of which were momentum-shifting plays.
Like Jack Haney, who had a third quarter to dream about by first forcing a fumble and then catching a touchdown pass (on his first offensive touch of the season).
And like Jake Leahy (who recovered a fumble), Alec Vagnozzi (who forced a fumble) and Connor Murphy, who saw action late due to injury and made a key pass breakup.
"We preach to our kids that you don't know when your time is going to come," Spring-Ford coach Chad Brubaker said. "And when it does come, you have to be ready to make a play."
The No. 10 seed Jaguars (8-3) certainly had several players who could make plays, most notable the trio of running back Jake Irving, wideout Wellington Zaza and quarterback Ryan Corkery.
Garnet Valley drew first blood thanks to a well-executed 12-play drive capped by Irving's 13-yard TD run on a fourth-and-three play that featured a little game of poker between Jaguars coach Mike Ricci and Brubaker.
The Jaguars were originally set for a 31-yard field goal attempt, but after a timeout and quick personnel change, Irving took a pitch left, shed a couple of tackles behind the line, and scooted down the sideline to make it 7-0 with 4:31 left in the opening period.
Spring-Ford answered with an impressive drive of its own, with Coyne's 24-yard hookup with Carter setting up a Yousef Lundi's three-yard run that cut it to 7-6 with 48 seconds remaining in the first quarter.
Shoemaker stripped Zaza after a completion and Mason Romano recovered the fumble at the Jags' 25. Two plays later, Coyne connected on a 23-yard scoring strike to Gary Hopkins, who made a nifty catch in the back corner of the end zone to put the Rams up 12-7 with 3:54 left in the half.
Garnet Valley appeared to wrest the momentum back on the opening play of the third quarter when Zaza took the kickoff 92 yards, somehow keeping his knee of the ground when the Rams appeared to have him collared just shy of midfield.
But that 14-12 advantage would be the last one the Jaguars would enjoy, thanks to a ballhawking Rams defense and big-play offense.
First, Coyne found Carter out of the slot for what wound up a 48-yard catch-and-run TD that put Spring-Ford up to stay at 20-14 (after a Coyne to Hopkins conversion pass) with 7:58 left in the third.
Then, on the ensuing kickoff, Haney forced a fumble that Leahy recovered to put the Rams back in business. Two plays later, out of a Wildcat look, Carter faked a run, dropped back, and found a wide-open Jones to make it 27-14.
"That TD pass honestly was something we put in before the game," Brubaker admitted. "We put it on the baord and said, 'You might get an opportunity to run this.' It was designed to go to one of the tight ends, but we said, 'Hey, if they don't walk out with Jarred, throw it.'"
"I just wanted to do my part," Carter said. "It doesn't matter if I run it, catch it or throw it. Whatever 'Bru' tells me to do, I just have to do it."
Shoemaker joined the fun with an interception and 47-yard return to set up Coyne's six-yard TD pass to Haney, and all of a sudden the Rams were up 33-14 with 3:29 left in the third.
"We need big plays to get us going," said Shoemaker. "They get us hyped."
Garnet Valley got a one-yard TD run from Corkery to stop the bleeding, but the Rams answered with a drive highlighted by a heavy dose of Jones — whose seven-yard TD run on the first play of the fourth quarter made it 40-21.
The Jaguars kept scratching and clawing, with Irving (23 carries, 186 yards) scoring on a 15-yard run to cut it to 40-27 with 8:43 left.
Spring-Ford, though, got a clutch 27-yard field goal by David Gulati with 5:13 left, and sealed it when the defense forced an fourth-down incompletion by Corkery with a little more than a minute left.
"That's a really good football team, and a tough football team," Brubaker said of the Jaguars. "They kept the pressure on."
"We knew they were a good team," Carter said. "But we know we're a good team, too, and I think we wanted it more."
Robby Varner had two sacks and Zameer McDowell had one for the Rams. ... R.J. Sheldon caught three passes for 46 yards, including a key 31-yarder in the fourth quarter. ... Lundi ran for 39 yards on six carries. ... Spring-Ford outgained Garnet Valley, 441-425.


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"As tax return preparation gets under way, agricultural producers need to take a close look at some tax preparation items," says Ron Haugen, North Dakota State University Extension Service farm economist.
Items to note for 2010 income tax preparation:
• Producers have until March 1, 2011, to file their returns without penalty. If they made an estimated tax payment by Jan. 18, they have until April 18 to file.
• For 2010 only, a deduction for health insurance can be made against self-employment income. Previously, you could take a deduction for family health insurance to adjust total income but not self-employment income.
• The 179 expense election is $500,000. Generally, the 179 expense election allows producers to deduct up to $500,000 of machinery or equipment purchases for the year of the purchase. There is a dollar-for-dollar phase-out for purchases of more than $2 million. It is scheduled to remain at $500,000 for 2011.
• The additional first-year bonus depreciation provision is in effect. It is equal to 50 percent of adjusted basis after 179 expensing. It only applies to new property purchased in 2010 and has a recovery period of 20 years or less. For new qualifying property purchased after Sept. 8, 2010, a 100 percent bonus depreciation is available.
• The standard deduction is $11,400 for those who are married and filing jointly. The deduction is $5,700 for singles.
• The personal exemption amount is $3,650.
• Qualified dividend income is taxed at a 0 percent rate for individuals in the 10 or 15 percent tax brackets and at 15 percent for those in higher tax brackets.
• Long-term capital gains are taxed at a 0 percent rate for individuals in the 10 or 15 percent tax brackets and at 15 percent for those in higher tax brackets.
• The child tax credit is $1,000 for each qualifying child.
• The annual IRA contribution is $5,000 for 2010 or $6,000 for individuals 50 or older.
• The annual gift tax exclusion is $13,000.
• The 2010 Social Security wage base is $106,800.
• The business mileage rate for 2010 is 50 cents per mile.
• There is a new credit for those producers who pay health insurance for their employees. For those who qualify, the credit may be up to 35 percent of employer health insurance premiums paid. This is done on Form 8941, Credit for Small Employer Health Insurance Premiums.
• Crop insurance proceeds, if received in 2010, may be deferred to 2011 if you qualify. You must use cash accounting and show that, under normal business practices, the sale of damaged crops would occur in a future tax year.
• A livestock deferral can be made by those who had a forced sale of livestock because of a weather-related disaster. Two methods can be used. In the first method, income can be deferred to the next year for all types of livestock sold prematurely. In the second method, income from livestock held for draft, breeding or dairy purposes is not taxed if like-kind animals are repurchased within four years (or more depending on weather conditions or disaster declarations) from the end of the tax year in which the animals were sold. Only the gain on the sale of those animals beyond what normally was sold would qualify for postponement.
• Remember that qualifying farmers can elect to compute their current tax liability by averaging, during a three-year period, all or part of the current year elected farm income. This is done on Schedule J. North Dakota farmers who elect to use income averaging (Schedule J) for federal purposes also may use Form ND-1FA, income averaging for North Dakota income tax calculations.
Information on agricultural tax topics can be found in the "Farmers Tax Guide," publication 225. It is available at any IRS office or can be ordered by calling (800) 829-3676. Any questions about these topics should be addressed to your tax professional or the IRS at (800) 829-1040 or http://www.irs.gov.


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