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To the consummate birder, travel equals opportunity. Any trip, be it for business, pleasure, or obligation, opens the door to the possibility of new birds. Some will be ones you've never seen while others just haven't been seen for a while. In either instance, the consummate birder acts swiftly and decisively to maximize the birding benefits of travel.
Because I seek to follow the Tao of the Consummate Birder, my eyes lit up when I was invited to speak at ScienceOnline09. Apart from the obvious honor involved, along with the inevitable excitement of pressing the flesh (professionally, of course) with so many science bloggers I enjoy online relationships with, my mind turned to the potential lifers within easy distance of Research Triangle Park. Mentally cataloguing the options by rarity, aesthetics, and potential discomfort/peril (you do that too, don't you?) I arrived at a terrific target bird: Red-cockaded Woodpecker.
The Red-cockaded Woodpecker (Picoides borealis) is an endangered, nonmigratory, highly localized little tree-tapper disributed throughout the southeastern United States. Similar in appearance to Ladder-backed Woodpecker, this characterful colony nester travels in modest packs and flashes a bold white cheek, stippled black, white, and gray plumage, and a tiny little red facial spot or streak that somehow translates to a cockade. Considering this pleasing picid's rarity, any birder would be lucky to lay eyes on it.
Coincidentally, the Triangle is home to another rare bird, my friend Nathan Swick of The Drinking Bird and Nature Blog Network. While Nate and I collaborate on the NBN blog, we've never met in person so this trip to North Carolina was the ideal opportunity. Plus — and this is a big bonus — Nate had a cinch spot for Red-cockaded Woodpecker! As Captain Jean Luc Picard would say, "Make it so!"
My first day in North Carolina was devoted to ScienceOnline09 and my workshop on blog carnivals, which went very well, thanks for asking. That night found me hobnobbing with the world's finest marine bloggers, an experience I recommend highly. As I was only staying one night and wanted to experience more of this remarkable science blogging conference, our only window for birding was narrow indeed. Yet, to the consummate birder, time asleep is time better spent birding. This surely explains why Nate and I rendevouzed for a precipitously pre-dawn run to the alluring Longleaf Pine habitat of Weymouth Woods-Sandhills Nature Preserve, about an hour away in Southern Pines.
Pine Warbler
Our plan, brilliant on paper, was to pull in to the Weymouth Woods parking lot, pop out to spot multiple Red-cockaded Woodpeckers, perhaps spy a Bachman's Sparrow or two, and cruise back to Sigma Xi for the 9:00AM ScienceOnline09 workshop on nature blogging. I really wanted to get back for the workshop! Unfortunately, as so many battle plans do, ours fell apart almost instantly upon contact with the enemy, or more accurately lack of contact. We heard nothing from our target birds.
While we reviewed bird calls en route to Weymouth Woods, Nate astutely noted how so many of the birds in this habitat, such as Brown-headed Nuthatch and our woodpeckers, share similarly squeaky calls. Yet the only squeaks coming out of the pines came from, what else, Pine Siskins. Another very welcome species that wasn't much of a surprise considering the conifer cover was burnished gold Pine Warbler. The feeders at Weymouth Woods sustained Chipping Sparrows, Eastern Towhees, Dark-eyed Juncos, and White-breasted Nuthatches. But the only woodpecker we spied was a sapsucker, Yellow-bellied to be precise.
In the dim dawn light, things started to heat up. American Goldfinch and Brown-headed Nuthatches came and went in the bushy canopy of longleaf pines. Carolina Chickadees cruised onto the scene. Tiny birds barraged the scrub and firegrass. Our quarry, however, remained silent… too silent.
All too soon, it was time to head back to the conference. Nate and I couldn't let a bunch of science bloggers, no matter how talented, talk nature blogs without being on hand to represent our community, could we? Could we? It was at that moment that the true Tao of Blogging, different from the way of the Consummate Birder yet inextricably linked, struck me like a bolt from the blue. For those who are moved to blog about their passions, sometimes the blog must come first and sometimes the passion must come first. Confident that any one of you nature bloggers would have done the same in our hiking shoes, we slogged on in search of our woodpecker!
Now, if you've been following my adventures, such as they are, for any length of time, you know that I've stalked a few birds in my day. Whether it was Golden-cheeked Warbler in the Texas Hill Country or California Gnatcatcher along the Pacific Coast, the narrative tends to follow the same beats. I search and search and search. The bird eludes me. I run out of time. The bird turns up at the last possible moment, often right at the spot I began. Guess how this tale ends?
As we trudged bone-chilled and weary back to the car, we heard a promising squeak, one possessing a subtle qualitative difference from the squeaks of nuthatches or siskins. We hustled back to the feeders but saw only the same array of avians we spotted earlier. Then just as rain started to fall more vocalizations erupted, the kind of conversations that herald a wave of gregarious woodpeckers with red cockades. In no time at all, Nate (who is an outstanding birder who I had no intention at all of publicly ridiculing if we failed to find our target species) spotted a trio of woodpeckers working the bark on a dead tree. Those white cheeks looked good. That glaucous plumage looked good. The cockades… well, I couldn't make them out in the dim, drizzly conditions, but I didn't need to. We had tracked down Red-cockaded Woodpecker!
A bad photo of a great woodpecker!
With no time to bask in the afterglow, we hightailed it back to the conference. Unfortunately, we got back too late for the nature blogging workshop and anyway, we were in need of breakfast. After that, the conference pretty much got away from me, which I regret tremendously. On the other hand, I did rack up some sweet road birds like Bald Eagle, Red-shouldered Hawk, American Kestrel, and both Black and Turkey Vultures. Even the most consummate birder can't get it all done at once. But by following the Tao (and Nate) the most important tasks were executed with aplomb, most especially a successful stakeout of the Red-cockaded Woodpecker.
Man, I'm glad we found those birds, my reputation as a birder and blogger was definitely on the line! The last few times I've looked for them they've been similarly non-forthcoming. My mojo must be broken or something.
And, for what it's worth, for all the times I've spotted them, I've never seen the cockade.
Congrats to both, Mike for successfully stalking and Nate for providing the view – stressful aspects of birding from both ends! Mike, we missed you in Rochester. It was a great but non-mojo filled lakeshore trip, no Snowies or Harlequins. One phenomenal look at a Peregrine made up for that. One of these days I'll blog about it . . . .
Thank you for your post.I do not know much about wood peckers,thaugh i had posted pictures of kerala wood peckers in my blog.
i reached you from bird snipping and linked you.
Sounds like a great time- Weymouth Woods Sandhills Nature Preserve looks incredible. And yes we are all thankful for your dedication and passion for the 10,000 birds blog.. It truly is a wonderful thing- thanks to you and your team.
Glad you guys were able to track down the Red-cockaded Woodpeckers – what great birds! And something about their threatened/endangered status makes it all the more satisfying when you do see them. Like the Ruby-crowned Kinglets eponymous crown, it is rare to see the cockade – the bird has to be pretty excited over something, and you've got to look fast!
Really nice post!
We were worried when we didn't see you at the conference Sunday morning, though you might have been carried off by bears. Glad you found your woodpecker!
It was fantastic to meet you this weekend and glad you chose to sit down with the marine bloggers for dinner! It was our pleasure to entertain you. While we would have benefitted from your experience a the Nature Blogging session, I completely understand the predicament and would have done the same! Grrlscientist made sure birds were at the top of the list. Looking forward to next years and hope you can make it again.
Heh, I was wondering where you went on Sunday! I'm really glad you had dinner at the marine table – it was great to meet & geek out with you!
Great story, Mike! And now I'm afraid you've given me the bug… I'm gonna have to head up to the Texas piney woods pretty soon on a quest for red-cockaded woodpeckers.
Hmmm…maybe I am lucky, as far as birding goes anyway. I live right outside of Ft. Bragg, NC and I usually find a few in my back yard every summer. I just spotted my first one for this year. Last summer I even had one looking for lunch on the side of my house. When I tried to shoo it away because I did not want a hole in my roof overhang, the fella just ignored me and started pecking on the house once more. I know that Bragg is a safe-haven for the birds and they are beautiful to watch.
I wanted to let someone know that I spotted a tagged red cockaded woodpecker in my yard. It was around 6:00 PM in Newport, North Carolina on March 10th. The bird had a bright yellow tag on its left leg.
I don't know who is tracking this bird. I'm hoping you might know who to contact.
Thanks this is soo great for helping me with my school project thank you!!!
This is so very educating and well told. I would love to read more of your work. But for now I only need this one for my school project. Thanks to you it is going to be amazing!!
My husband and I saw a pair of Red-cockades this morning and I was delighted to find this site. We are not well versed birdwathers and ,at first ,thought they were an unusual type of finch. When the male began tapping on the black oak we realized they were wood peckers. The red on either side of the males head then became visable. I immediately investigated and was thrilled to find that the sightings are somewhat rare. We live on a small peninisula in Poquoson ,Virgina and have a 100 year old pine tree in our yard. I certainly hope that they have chosen this tree as their nesting sight. Thank you for this informative website. We are fortunate to have a number of exciting birds in our area and it is so nice to know what we are actually seeing.
Sighting of red cockaded woodpecker, 7/72018
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Farm tractor rollovers a deadly problem
Tractor rollovers are the single deadliest type of injury incident on farms and it is reported that of the 4.7 million tractors in the U.S. today alone, one-half of them are without rollover protection for the operator. A tractor can turn over suddenly and if it is not equipped with a 'Rollover Protection Structure' (ROPS) and a seatbelt, there is a good chance the tractor could crush the driver.
ROPS are compartment structures (usually cabs or frames) intended to protect equipment operators from injuries caused by vehicle overturns.
Retrofitting older tractors with a ROPS creates a protective zone around the operator when a rollover occurs. When used with a seatbelt, which is recommended, the ROPS will prevent the operators from being thrown from the protective zone and crushed from an overturning tractor, or from equipment mounted or hooked to the tractor.
One of the most common causes of death and serious injury on farms is related to the heavy equipment required to run a farm.
A high number of farming fatalities are due to tractor turnovers. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the ag industry has the highest rate of occupational fatalities, about 32 per 100,000 employed people or eight times the national average. Federal officials note that the elimination of overturn fatalities could result in more than $100 million in annual savings.
There are three types of ROPS frames available -- a two-post frame; a four-post frame and an enclosed ROPS cab. There are even foldable ROPS available for those tractors that are housed in smaller spaces. The cost runs around $765. Many programs have been developed to not only help farmers find ROPS, but also provide rebates to offset some of the cost.
National Ag Safety Database figures show that the use of ROPS and a seat belt is estimated to be 99 percent effective in preventing death or serious injury in the event of a tractor rollover.
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Get Miserable EP
The story behind Ghost Thrower is that when rising Boston post-hardcore act Therefore I Am abruptly called it quits, guitarist Travis Alexander was desolate. He had no band, no job, no home, and was dealing with a close family member's passing away. Factor in Shipwreck A.D.'s Nick Webster and Bravo Fucking Bravo's Robbie Rose in the lineup (two bands with their own acts of progressive aggression), and you have a recipe for some cathartic, forward-thinking tunes. The result is Ghost Thrower's proper debut, the aptly titled Get Miserable EP.
Hard-charging, hook-laden post-hardcore that plays like a punkier Fear Before or a more straightforward La Dispute, Get Miserable is quick and dirty—forward-thinking, but not flashy. Guitars rumble, charge and flail deliberately while Alexander's over-arching shout spouts calloused desperation. The first four tracks are fast, catchy and expectedly depressing, while closer "Prima And Sinatra" lumbers with a wounded, nasal emotion and lush, gray outlook alluding to Thursday ca. Full Collapse or War All The Time.
While Alexander can certainly come off self-loathing ("I've been beaten alive/I've been beaten to death by life/Now I want to die"), his brutal honesty and candidness are largely alluring traits on this EP. Even respective references to both The Twilight Zone's New Year's Eve marathon and living in the shadow of success by "the New York fucking Yankees" help paint a complete picture of his emotional isolation. Musically, it's backed by simply catchy and complexly orchestrated cuts that help qualify Ghost Thrower's debut as a bona fide success.
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Personally I've always appreciated the emphasis on Populi versus Dei especially considering tumultuous, fractious and socialist history of Europe. But what it expresses best is the materialistic notion that perfection, i.e. God, is possible from the voice of the people and that truth resides in each and everyone of us. So this is my food for thoughts blog article about software technology. If you found article on this blog useful, click on any ad so that I can have a drink on you.


text: Four United Nations agencies marked today the 23rd anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear accident by launching a $2.5 million programme designed to meet the priority information needs of affected communities in Belarus, the Russian Federation, and Ukraine. Funded by the UN Trust Fund for Human Security, this three-year initiative aims to translate the latest scientific information on the consequences of the accident into sound practical advice for residents of the affected territories. The project is a joint effort by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the United Nations Children´s Fund (UNICEF), and the World Health Organization (WHO). "People need sound information to make good decisions," said Helen Clark, the UNDP Administrator and UN Coordinator of International Cooperation on Chernobyl. "Translating science into accurate, practical advice will help people live safely and productively in Chernobyl-affected areas, ease their fears, and contribute to bringing this region back to normal." Providing scientifically sound information for Chernobyl-affected communities is a shared priority for UN work on Chernobyl. Supported by a 2007 UN General Assembly resolution, the project, known as the International Chernobyl Research and Information Network (ICRIN), is part of a larger effort to help local communities "return to normal" in the course of the decade that ends in 2016. The project will draw on the work of the UN Chernobyl Forum, a joint undertaking by eight UN agencies and the Governments of Belarus, Russia and Ukraine that in 2005 issued authoritative scientific findings on the accident´s consequences for health and the environment. Dissemination of these findings in plain language accessible to non-specialists should help dispel widespread misconceptions and fight the stigma that still afflicts the region. Activities planned under the ICRIN project include the dissemination of information, through education and training for teachers, medical professionals, community leaders, and the media; providing local residents with practical advice on health risks and healthy lifestyles; the creation of Internet-equipped information centers in rural areas; and small-scale community infrastructure projects aimed at improving living conditions and promoting self-reliance. In a statement released to mark the Chernobyl anniversary, UNDP Goodwill Ambassador Maria Sharapova appealed to young people to seize their chance to shape the future. "Whatever obstacles you may have faced, you need to persevere in pursuing your dreams," Sharapova said. The accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant on 26 April 1986 was the worst in the history of the nuclear power industry. Explosions at the reactor released radioactive material that contaminated vast territories and prompted the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of people. After two decades, however, as the findings of the UN Chernobyl Forum have shown, a return to normal life is a realistic prospect for people living in the affected region. IAEA is the world´s center of cooperation in the nuclear field. The Agency works with its Member States and multiple partners worldwide to promote safe, secure and peaceful nuclear technologies. UNICEF is the driving force that helps build a world where the rights of every child are realized. We work in 190 countries through country programmes and National Committees. UNDP is the UN´s global development network, advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life. The organization is on the ground in 166 countries. WHO is the directing and coordinating authority for health within the United Nations system. It is responsible for providing leadership on global health matters, shaping the health research agenda, setting norms and standards, articulating evidence-based policy options, providing technical support to countries and monitoring and assessing health trends.


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Now that Egyptian President Morsi's comments about Jews being "descendants of apes and pigs" have been picked up by the mainstream media, particularly the New York Times, perhaps they might want to follow up on the meeting of US senators with Morsi in Cairo, as reported by The Times of Israel:
At first, the Egyptian president defended himself by saying he did not harbor negative feelings about Judaism or Jewish people.
He then launched a diatribe about Israeli policies against the Palestinians, Senator Chris Coons (D-DE) told Foreign Policy. "He was attempting to explain himself … then he said, 'Well, I think we all know that the media in the United States has made a big deal of this and we know the media of the United States is controlled by certain forces and they don't view me favorably,'" Coons told the magazine's The Cable blog.
Asked if Morsi specifically named the Jews as the forces that control the American media, Coons replied that all the senators believed the implication was obvious. "He did not say [the Jews], but I watched as the other senators physically recoiled, as did I," Coons said. "I thought it was impossible to draw any other conclusion."
So let's get this straight. According to Morsi, the Jews distorted his anti-Semitic comments.
You just couldn't make this up. But will the mainstream media report it?
In case you haven't seen them, here are Morsi's comments from 2010:
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IT Worker Loses Dream Job Over...A Bacon Sandwich?
Hunt says that he was in a meeting at a Manchester office of the Reed recruitment company to discuss an eight-month contract worth 32,000 pounds (or $50,000) to work with the British National Health Service, or NHS. And during the meeting, Hunt offered to pick up "bacon sandwiches," which as the Examiner points out, is "standard English breakfast fare." He didn't know that a colleague in the meeting, Sharika Sacranie, 29, was an observant Muslim, forbidden from eating pig products.
Hunt says that he didn't intend to offend anyone. "I'd never met [Sacranie] before," he told the Daily Mail, adding "we got on fine." But after the meeting, Hunt says that he received the call telling him that his services were no longer needed due to his "racist" remark -- an allegation that Hunt disputes. "There was no slur at her because I'd already met all the contractors on site before and one of them had actually told me they had really good bacon sandwiches."
Hunt added that Sacranie herself chose not to address the incident both when it happened and during a follow-up phone-call about the hiring process that took place before he was told that he was being let go. He said the job loss was a blow; he's been out of work for two months. Finally, Hunt claims to be bewildered that Reed had the power to terminate his employment. The "agency was just a middle man. How can it rescind an offer that was made to me by the NHS?" he asked the Daily Mail.
But according to John Spitzler, the president and principal recruiter for the Perimeter Consulting Group, an Atlanta-based executive search firm, it is common practice for search firms to rescind job offers. But in an interview with AOL Jobs, he said that the decision is usually the result of a criminal or other background check. "It's unusual for the choice to be made as a result of a cross-cultural insult, unintenteded or not," he said.
Both the NHS and Sacranie have turned down media requests for comment. The Reed staffing firm, however, did release a statement defending the decision and suggesting that Hunt made additional "inappropriate" comments during a phone call:
Both side are in agreement about the charge that Hunt had a strong reaction to the news. In recounting to the Daily Mail the conversation he had with the Reed manager, he said that he "got so exasperated that [he] told him to 'sod off' and put the phone down.'"
Due to inappropriate comments made to members of our staff during the recruitment process before Mr Hunt started his new role, we do not feel we can represent this candidate further. ... A senior manager from the Reed team spoke to Mr Hunt via telephone ... [d]uring that conversation, Mr Hunt made further inappropriate comments. At this point it became clear to the senior manager that Reed could no longer represent Mr Hunt.
Either way, Hunt's fall from grace is in keeping with a trend in Europe of workers running into problems for how they've handled religious matters in the office. Seven years ago, British Airways suspended clerk Nadia Eweida for refusing to take off her cross, saying that she wasn't in compliance with the airline's uniform code. Earlier this year, however, the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France, ruled that the airline discriminated against her, and said Eweida had the right to wear a symbol of her faith.
This story was updated on Thursday, June 27, at 4:30 p.m. EDT with quotes from John Spitzler.
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Posted by: Till Schönborn« on: April 02, 2014, 10:07:17 »
I have the amd a10-4600m with the 7660g 2gb. In the comparison it showed skyrim on this setup on medium getting 29fps at 1366x720.However I can play it on high with 55-60fps easily. I'm very confused. Perhaps they have several texture mods they forgot to disable? I've only hit the sub 30fps line when trying to play on ultra. This seems Intel biased.
you can verify all our benchmarks using the guides and videos provided in the game checks.
Skyrim: http://www.notebookcheck.net/The-Elder-Scrolls-V-Skyrim-Benchmarks.66057.0.html


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text: This course is designed to provide a full overview of computer networking. We'll cover everything from the fundamentals of modern networking technologies and protocols to an overview of the cloud to practical applications and network troubleshooting. We'll wrap up by covering how this information might show up in a job interview and giving you a few tips for troubleshooting on the spot. By the end of this course, you'll be able to: ● describe computer networks in terms of a five-layer model. ● understand all of the standard protocols involved with TCP/IP communications. ● grasp powerful network troubleshooting tools and techniques. ● learn network services like DNS and DHCP that help make computer networks run. ● understand cloud computing, everything as a service, and cloud storage.


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Studio 180 Theatre Celebrates 10 Years With a Reading of THE LARAMIE PROJECT, 2/25
Ten years ago, Studio 180 burst onto the Toronto theatre scene with the Canadian premiere of THE LARAMIE PROJECT, a groundbreaking play in the form of a theatrical docudrama that perfectly defined the kind of theatre the founders of Studio 180 wanted to create: socially relevant, thought-provoking, and committed to community engagement. That was the very beginning of the company that is now considered one of the city's most vibrant and dynamic.
On Monday February 25, 2013, over 50 artists from Studio 180 productions, past and present, will gather to celebrate Studio 180's 10th birthday by performing a staged reading of THE LARAMIE PROJECT? for one night only at the Panasonic Theatre, the same venue where on the other nights of the week Studio 180 will be performing a revival of its acclaimed and popular production of CLYBOURNE PARK (playing February 12 to March 2).
About THE LARAMIE PROJECT
In an internationally reported event, openly gay University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard was kidnapped, beaten and left to die, tied to a fence on the outskirts of Laramie, Wyoming, in October 1998. Five weeks later, Moisés Kaufman and fellow members of the Tectonic Theater Project went to Laramie, and over the course of the next year conducted more than 200 interviews with people of the town. From these interviews they wrote THE LARAMIE PROJECT, a chronicle of the life of the town of Laramie in the year after the murder.
The play premiered in New York in 2000, playing to rave reviews and impassioned audiences. Time Magazine called it "one of the ten best plays of the year," and it has since become one of the most performed plays in North America. Studio 180 was honoured to present its Canadian professional premiere in 2003, and is now thrilled to be performing the show again 10 years later.
BY Moisés Kaufman & ?MEMBERS OF THE Tectonic Theater Project
DIRECTED BY JOEL GREENBERG & Mark McGrinder
FEATURING: ?DOROTHY ATABONG • DANIEL BENNETT • Richard Binsley • JOHN BOURGEOIS • BRENLEY CHARKOW • MARK CRAWFORD • PAUL DUNN • AUDREY DWYER • PAUL ESSIEMBRE • NEIL FOSTER • DAVID FOX • KESTA GRAHAM • Jessica GreenBERG • DEBORAH GROVER • MARTIN HAPPER • SARITE HARRIS • Daren A. Herbert • MARVIN HINZ • SHARI HOLLETT • RYAN HOLLYMAN • Jeff Irving • SAM KALILIEH • Ryan Kelly • Andrew Kushnir • ALISON LAWRENCE • ANTHONY LEMKE • JEFF LILLICO • George Masswohl • Mark McGrinder • BRENDAN MCMURTRY-HOWLETT • Tracy Michailidis • Jason Mitchell • KARIM MORGAN • SARAH ORENSTEIN • KIMWUN PEREHINEC • ALEX POCH-GOLDIN • MARIA RICOSSA • Dylan Roberts • KAREN ROBINSON • PAIGE ROBSON-CRAMER • JORDY ROLFE • MICHAEL RUBENFELD • Amy Rutherford • JONATHAN SIENEN • ANDRÉ SILLS • David Storch • Michael Therriault • JENNIFER VILLAVERDE • NIGEL SHAWN WILLIAMS • Jonathan Wilson
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This is far from a familiar appearance for these rivals.
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Since the change, the Tar Heels threatened Duke in Cameron Indoor Stadium before toppling Virginia and Georgia Tech.
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�I feel they�re a totally different team, especially with the lineup they have,� N.C. State forward Richard Howell said. �It definitely changes the game when you take a post and put a guard in there, especially with P.J. who stretches the floor. But it definitely helps us (interior players) at the offensive end.
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BUFFALO, N.Y. — "Ready for President @BarackObama's visit to @UBCommunity this week! A historic event in the making!"
Those are just a couple of the hundreds of comments that have appeared on Twitter as the University at Buffalo prepares to host President Barack Obama, who is scheduled to address the nation from the UB campus this Thursday.
On Aug. 16 and over the weekend, following the White House's announcement of Obama's visit, UB students, faculty, staff and alumni took to social media to spread the word and welcome the president. On campus this Saturday, students settling in for the start of the academic year were elated to learn that the semester would begin with such a monumental event.
"The excitement's definitely spread. I've had friends who aren't back at school text me from all over asking me to get them tickets," said Jori Breslawski, an international studies student from Brockport, N.Y.
"It's really exciting, and I bet it's going to be really inspiring," said mathematics student Min Jung Shin, who is from Long Island. "It's a good way to start the year off. I can't wait for him to visit and hear what he has to say."
The president's address to the nation from UB is expected to focus on issues important to America's middle class, including the rising cost of higher education.
UB is a fitting venue for a discussion on such matters as a major public research university that has been recognized for offering a quality education at an affordable price. The nonprofit, nonpartisan New America Foundation highlighted UB's innovative approaches to controlling costs and expanding student access in a report on "next-generation universities" that the public policy institute released earlier this year. In addition, Kiplinger's Personal Finance ranked UB 33rd in the magazine's 2013 list of the 100 Best Values in Public Colleges.
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Information on the exact timing, location and topic of President Obama's speech at UB will be forthcoming from White House, as well as details about the availability of tickets for the event.
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More than 1,000 people around the world have liked, shared or commented on posts announcing Obama's visit on UB's official Facebook page since Friday. Some social media users aired criticisms of the president, but many others expressed pride in the fact that UB was selected as the forum for such an important event.
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"Pres. Obama to speak at my alma mater, the University at Buffalo, this coming Thursday!" an alumna said on Twitter. "A very proud day for UB!"
Breslawski, the international studies student from Brockport, echoed the thoughts of many members of the UB community in saying she was impressed that the university would be hosting such a notable guest.
The university's annual Distinguished Speakers Series regularly draws luminaries to campus, with presenters including past presidents and cabinet members. This year's headliner will be Hillary Rodham Clinton, former U.S. Secretary of State.
But Obama's visit will mark the first time that a sitting U.S. president has spoken at UB since 1853, when UB Chancellor Millard Fillmore was serving as U.S. president.
"I'm really excited to see him in person because I've never heard him speak before," Breslawski said of Obama's forthcoming address. "And I was already really excited about Hillary coming, and so the fact that Obama is coming, too, last minute like this, is really exciting."
Tickets for Thursday's program are free and open to the public, but tickets are required for entrance. One ticket per person will be distributed on a first-come, first-serve basis while supplies last, starting at 5 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 20, in the Alumni Arena Box Office on the UB North Campus.
Obama will speak in Alumni Arena on Thursday. Doors will open to the public at 9 a.m. All attendees will go through airport-like security and should bring as few personal items as possible. No bags, sharp objects, umbrellas, liquids or signs will be allowed in Alumni Arena. Cameras are permitted.
For more information, go to http://www.buffalo.edu/home/feature_story/obama-speech.html.
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Car manufacturer Volvo has teamed up with the Imperial College in London in an attempt to solve one of the biggest problems currently facing electric cars: the size and weight of their batteries. Though it's still a ways off, one potential solution could see future Volvos with batteries actual built into the body panels.
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Paolo Di Canio's Swindon dished out another harsh Football League lesson to new boys Crawley Town on a night when none of the teams starting in the top six in npower League Two managed to win.
Following their 6-0 humiliation at leaders Morecambe on Saturday, Crawley were undone by a late Mehdi Kerrouche double as Di Canio's men - leading through Alan Connell's 28th-minute effort - cruised to a 3-0 win.
Morecambe stay top of the table on goal difference after a 1-1 draw at Macclesfield, for whom Ben Tomlinson opened the scoring in the first minute. Danny Carlton's 16th-minute equaliser was enough for a point.
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Shrewsbury slipped to a 1-0 defeat from an early Chris Zebroski goal at Bristol Rovers but sit fourth in the table above Cheltenham and Torquay, who shared the spoils 2-2 at Plainmoor.
Port Vale were the biggest beneficiaries of the slip-ups above them, leaping to third in the table thanks to Tom Pope's dramatic injury-time header which edged a five-goal thriller against Bradford. Vale twice led through two first-half goals from Robert Taylor, only for Jamie Devitt and Ritchie Jones to level for the struggling Bantams before Pope's late intervention grabbed a 3-2 win.
At the bottom life does not get any easier for crisis club Plymouth, who remain with a solitary point from their eight games to date after Izale McLeod and Daniel Leach gave Barnet a 2-0 win at Underhill.
Second-bottom Hereford also continue to flounder after they were beaten 2-0 by improving Aldershot at Edgar Street. Michael Rankine opened the scoring on 19 minutes and Peter Vincenti made sure of the win eight minutes from time.
Mark Phillips headed home a Ryan Hall corner three minutes from time to earn 10-man Southend a hard-fought 1-0 win at home to Gillingham. The Shrimpers had Bilel Mohsni sent off on 66 and 10-man Northampton did an equally impressive job at AFC Wimbledon. Adebayo Akinfenwa put the Cobblers ahead and despite Nick McKoy's 45th-minute red card, Michael Jacobs' second-half double wrapped up a 3-0 win.
Burton Albion jumped into the play-off places with Justin Richards scoring the only goal of the game at home to Crewe, while Robert Hall scored in the first half for Oxford in a 1-0 win at Dagenham and Redbridge.
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Ramsey Badawi, UC Davis associate professor of biomedical engineering, has won a groundbreaking grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to address whether tumors can be detected when they are two to three times smaller than those detectable using current imaging methods.
The three-year NCI grant, $574,000 in the first year, is part of the "Provocative Questions" project. This is a new and uniquely structured initiative that funds research tackling one of 24 questions, which, if answered, could lead to significant advances. The questions, which had before been asked but were later abandoned because of a lack of ways to address them, emerged from discussions among veteran cancer researchers and scientists in various fields.
Badawi's project, "Enabling Technologies for Ultra-High Sensitivity PET Scanners" was chosen from among more than 700 grant applications submitted to the NCI. Only 57 grants, totaling $22 million, were awarded.
Badawi, who holds an endowed chair in molecular imaging in the Department of Radiology, has been working for many years to enhance the capabilities of existing imaging technologies such as positron emission tomography (PET). In his UC Davis Medical Center laboratory in Sacramento, for example, he has collaborated with other UC Davis scientists to build a specialized combined PET/CT scanner, which can detect small breast tumors and be used to evaluate the effectiveness of chemotherapy.
Badawi's laboratory already has simulated a highly sensitive, giant (2-meter long) PET scanner using software; the NCI grant will allow the team to develop the technologies to support building the actual device. Badawi's lab will collaborate with the Simon Cherry and Jinyi Qi labs in the UC Davis Department of Biomedical Engineering, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of Pennsylvania to accomplish the tasks required.
"We need the fancy detectors, fast reconstruction techniques to deal with data and fast and high-capacity electronics," he said. "The grant will allow us to have all of this technology in place so that we can then build the final system." The Badawi lab is planning to adapt algorithms similar to those used by Google and Facebook for fast Internet searches to create medical images from data acquired by the giant scanner.
Unlike other types of imaging, PET can accurately measure physiological functions such as blood flow, oxygen use and glucose metabolism. It can determine how well organs are functioning, help monitor the efficacy of drugs and distinguish benign from malignant tumors.
Still, PET is limited in that current commercial scanners can only reliably detect cancers that are larger than about one cubic centimeter in size. A major increase in detection sensitivity would provide a radical change in how imaging could be used in clinical practice, according to the NCI.
In addition to aiding in the detection and treatment of cancer, Badawi said the technology could be transformative for understanding many diseases and could be used in a variety of clinical applications.
"This scanner will be 50 times more sensitive than the one we have now," said Badawi of his design. "That would mean, for example, we could do really fast scans of children, possibly obviating the need for certain levels of anesthesia."
Since the scanner will be able to record a 3D high-definition "movie" of how drugs track through the entire body, Badawi also envisions use of the device to determine whether a new drug agent reaches its target, how long it stays in the blood stream or affects a certain organ, bone marrow or the vascular system, for example.
"Hopefully, this is allow us to rule out drugs that otherwise would have had to go through expensive clinical trials," he said. "And it will allow us to identify drugs that are more likely to be successful."
A further benefit of the device would be reducing radiation exposure. "With this device, radiation exposure could be reduced to levels where multiple studies of healthy volunteers could be performed with minimal risk," said Badawi. "This could open up a wide range of basic science studies that are impossible to conceive of today. It could change the entire field".
Badawi's project is supported by grant number 1R01 CA170874-01 from the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health.
UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center is the only National Cancer Institute-designated center serving the Central Valley and inland Northern California, a region of more than 6 million people. Its specialists provide compassionate, comprehensive care for more than 9,000 adults and children every year, and access to more than 150 clinical trials at any given time. Its innovative research program engages more than 280 scientists at UC Davis, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Jackson Laboratory (JAX West), whose scientific partnerships advance discovery of new tools to diagnose and treat cancer. Through the Cancer Care Network, UC Davis collaborates with a number of hospitals and clinical centers throughout the Central Valley and Northern California regions to offer the latest cancer care. Its community-based outreach and education programs address disparities in cancer outcomes across diverse populations. For more information, visit cancer.ucdavis.edu.


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Why PetSmart, Inc. Stock Jumped Today
Although we don't believe in timing the market or panicking over market movements, we do like to keep an eye on big changes -- just in case they're material to our investing thesis.
What: Shares of PetSmart, were looking clever today, climbing as much as 15%, and finishing up 12.5% after JANA partners disclosed a stake in the pet-supply retailer.
So what: The activist hedge fund revealed in an SEC filing that it had accumulated a 9.9% stake in the company, making it PetSmart's largest shareholder, and said it aimed to push for a sale. In a statement, PetSmart management said it "welcomes open communications with its shareholders and values constructive input toward the goal of enhancing shareholder value." Jana Partners said it expected to hold a meeting with PetSmart management and its board about a sale.
Now what: The prospects of a sale generally help lift a stock, especially a troubled one like PetSmart. The retailer posted negative comps in its most recent quarterly report, at -0.6%, its first drop in seven years, and it lowered its sales outlook for the year in the same report. Jana has a history of successfully driving sales of similar stocks, as it was behind the recent sale of Safeway to Cerebrus Capital Management. In the time between Jana's investment and the sale, Safeway's shares gained more than 50%. It's too early to say if Jana will be able to lead PetSmart to being acquired this time around, but at the very least, its proposition is likely to put a floor on the stock.
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My daughter and I were exploring our yard the other day, which presented the perfect opportunity to introduce her to one of the coolest, cuddliest caterpillars of all…
The wonderful Woolly Bear Caterpillar (Pyrrharctia isabella) is a common sight once October rolls around in temperate regions of the United States east of the Mississippi. The wooly bear, known also as the woolly worm, fuzzy bear, banded woolly bear, and black-ended bear, is reputed to signal the severity of the coming winter to those who understand the riddle of its bands. This caterpillar is black on both ends with a middle band a birder could only describe as rufous. Woolly bears overwinter under leaf litter in a sort of hibernation. Come spring, they eat lots of foliage in preparation for the big push to their adult phase.
Superstition assures us that the amount of rich rust-colored fuzz adorning a particular fuzzy bear is inversely proportional to the length and intemperance of the season ahead. The broader the bear's black bands, the worse the winter.
Of course, reasonable folk realize that this caterpillar is no Cassandra at all. The breadth of a woolly bear's bands tells us more about the previous season than the approaching one, as its rufous band narrows as the bug gets bigger, which happens when food is bountiful. Other factors such as age also affect the fuzz factor. A woolly bear won't give you a clue regarding the coming cold. What you might get instead, assuming the larva reaches maturity, is a lovely Isabella Tiger Moth.
Isabella Tiger Moth © Steve Jurvetson
Most woolly bears are not as extravagantly tufted as other caterpillars can be, but this showy specimen spotted in Rocky Mountain National Park makes an admirable exception:
Thanks for the posting. Our family has found a few in the yard in Connecicut. They are now pets. I know they winter as Woolly Bears, but what can I feed them? We've got apple trees maple and oak, and various grasses, but winter is approaching and all I'll have are pine needles.
Thanks for any help.
Ann Marie, Alex & Alana
I just found a wooly bear outside my porch. I think it was finding some shelter.. I made a house for it. It about 2/3's of a foot long and about 3 inches tall. Is this okay? It has leaves, grass, soil on the bottom, and a sticks that go vertical that poke out the top from the plastic lid. The lid has about 20 holes, all small. And my wooly bear is very healthy. I've been spraying it once everday, not just the wooly bear, but the grass and the leaves right before I go to sleep. Then in the afternoon the next day, I put fresh materials into its house. Winter is coming and I'm afraid of what will happen when there is no more grass to get from out side. Help! Email me please. firstname.lastname@example.com
My son who is 5 and I would like to keep one of these caterpillars for the winter and have similar trees as the poster above in upstate new york. Which leaves do they prefer? I plan to keep the jar in the basement as I understand they hibernate in in temperatures just above freezing? Another article I read said a covered porch which would be much much colder than our basement. so:
1) which leaves
2) where to keep
Thanks so much!!
i found this article on how to raise them:
That's a great article! Thanks!
Last weekend we witnessed dozens of wooly worms all crawling in the same direction like sea turtles heading to the water. I picked one up and turned it around and it turned itself around and headed out with the others. I never saw so many at one time nor witnessed a wooly worm migration before. Is this normal behavior?
Where do they go during the winter? I have always wondered that.
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My 5 year old daughter wanted to keep a woolly bear caterpillar for t he winter. I Goggled it and found a web site explaining how to keep it for the winter. We followed the directions adding leaves and grass every couple of days. We even added a piece of bark for it to sit on. Well now the caterpillar is not moving. We don't know if it's dead or gone to sleep(hibernated). How can we tell. My daughter loved taking it out of it's cup and holding it every couple of days. But now we are just unsure of what to do… Can someone please help.
Having the same trouble here – not moving – is he dead or hibernating? Help!!!!
i am asking our resident woolly bear expert (in cleveland) for the answer to this question, emily. stay tuned !
I just found a wooly bear in my garage. It is winter right now and I didn't want him to freeze because it is frigid outside. I know they hibernate, but I was still worried about blizzards and I do not want him to die. I put him in a large aquarium with the last fresh leaves I can find and many twigs. He also has a large rock inside the aquarium, which he really likes to play on. He sometimes tries to get out, but eventually he warms up. It has leaves, grass, and many twigs, and rocks. The lid has tons of holes so air is fine for him. He likes to crawl, but he seems very sleepy. He likes to sleep in the corner of the aquarium (So I nicknamed him Sleepy). He is in my bedroom on a dresser not too close to the window. He seems pretty happy and content, but why is he so sleepy? Is it because they hibernate? Should I just leave him alone and let him sleep… Or should he be more active? I'm afraid that there will be no more fresh leaves, and he refuses to eat the fresh ones I already have. He will climb on them, but I don't know why he will not stop and nibble. Maybe he isn't hungry? Please reply to me when you can, because I am getting a bit worried!
he is likely sleepy because he wants to hibernate. he also won't eat much as hibernation comes on. if he is eating, he needs fresh leaves every day.
i didn't hear back from the weather man (i think he's on vacation). here are some articles i found. you should get your answers here:
I have a woolly carterpillar in my garage-basement, and it is still alive but I would like to feed it and keep it comfortable until I can put it out in the spring. Any suggestions? Please hurry, as it is very sluggish and barely moving at all.
There are usually a few of these catapillars in MA where I live. It seems one came into where I live twice for shelter/hibernation. I decided to take care of it for a while and feed it lettuce, brocolli, carrots, pepper and corn. I gave it drops of water occasionally for moisture. Without fully knowing what to do, it appeared that was the right thing to do since I knew that catapillars eat vegetable matter. I found out it eats clover and grass; needs twigs to to climb and pupate.
I have been taking care of this type of Caterpillar for a couple of days now, me and my brother found it on our porch in the snow. We have a home for it, but don't know what to feed it, and if it should be kept in a room with a colder temperature. It is not moving and I would like to know if that is normal, and what I should do to make sure this little guy is taken care of. Thanks!
sonney, take a look at the comment just above yours (by alan j on jan 31) and my comment on dec 19th (where i list 4 links).
I just found a Wolly Caterpillar out on the sidewalk. Is this a bit early or can we just say it has all to do with the warm weather in WI
Its probably best if, like all other things in nature, that you look at its beauty, smile and wish it well, but leave it alone so it can live its life without inturuption.
Woolly bear caterpillars have an anti-freeze in their cells that keep the cells from freezing and rupturing during hibernation. I believe their heart and breathing cease as well. But when winter's over and things begin heating back up, they thaw out and continue on their quests to become moths. In more frigid climates, the period in which the caterpillars can feed is so short that they don't have enough time to consume enough energy to fuel the metamorphosis. There have been cases wherein it's taken 14 winter for a caterpillar to finally be able to metamorphose.
Wooly bears were believed by farmers to tell how long and how cold winter is going to be, for instance if there is lots of brown it will be a long winter if theres lots of black then it will be a short winter but very cold. I think its cool becuase for the past few years whenever you see them the way of judging by there fuzz has worked out pretty accuratley
During the last several weeks wooly bear caterpillars have been crossing the roads in our area.
In almost every case the caterpillars have been crossing at 90 degrees to the road which would indicate some navigation skill, otherwise the caterpillar would be heading in random directions over the expanse of pavement (as I assume the road appears from one millimeter above the surface).
Are you aware of this and what could the navigation system be?
I bought a mum this October and one day discovered that a portion of the flowers on my plant had been eaten. I looked a little closer and there was a wooly bear caterpillar. So I left him be to eat and do what a wooly bear caterpillar does. Now my mum has died and I am afraid to throw it away because of the caterpillar. I cannot find him anywhere in the plant. What should I do? I want the caterpillar to be okay, but I also want to get rid of the dead mum in my living room. Thanks!
I was walking my dog and on the path back home, i scared about 5 birds trying to pry mr WB out of his winter hideout.
Being relentless as the birds are, i had to save mr wb from his almost unfortunate doom. I do know they love greens, what would be the best fresh greens i could get him until his habitat grows? or should i remove him from safe spot outside it's trying to warm late winter… warming fast so he's in the refrigerator now.
I remember having one found him late fall my mother told me he has to be put outside or keep him in the freezer until spring.
The last photo (the brown caterpillar with the white hairs) is not a banded woolly bear caterpillar (Pyrrharctia isabella) which turns into an Isabella Tiger Moth. Instead it is the caterpillar of the Spotted Tussock Moth (Lophocampa maculata).
As far as I understand these 2 are in the same family (Arctiidae) but are in different genus and species.
I am pretty sure about this but of course could be corrected.
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Rep. Tim Huelskamp, R-Kan., does not appreciate freeloaders. The Big First representative in the U.S. House indicated as much when casting his vote Thursday to reduce Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program spending by $4 billion a year.
"... You can no longer sit on your couch -- or ride a surfboard like Jason Greenslate -- and expect the federal taxpayer to feed you," Huelskamp said in a press release.
If you watch Fox News, you might already be familiar with Greenslate. If not, it's easy enough to find the video online showing the self-proclaimed beach bum proudly flaunting his lifestyle. He spends his days sleeping in late, drinking alcohol, surfing in La Jolla, Calif., hanging out with his friends -- and using his SNAP card to purchase lobster and sushi in the gourmet section of a grocery store. The college-educated aspiring rock star drives a nice automobile, spends the night at various friends' homes and doesn't appear to work at all.
Somehow he manages to pull it all off on $200 per month in food stamps. Or at least that's what the Fox report suggests.
Setting aside the believability factor, Greenslate has become the symbol of what's wrong with the welfare system. And it's working, as far as Huelskamp and others are concerned. By a 217-210 tally, the House passed the Nutrition Reform and Work Opportunity Act of 2013 this week.
The resolution is the food stamp portion of the farm bill, which has yet to garner enough votes to pass. House Republicans separated the two earlier in the summer in order for the farm assistance program to pass while being able to reduce the $80 billion annual food assistance program.
We believe the SNAP program has problems. It also is a huge expense, with participation growing 83 percent since 2008.
But we don't believe the surfer boy Greenslate personifies the typical food-stamp recipient. It defies reality to accept such a lavish lifestyle can be afforded with $200 a month.
Huelskamp and others in the entitlement-slash-and-burn faction need to step back and truly assess what's going on in the country. The Great Recession was at its peak in 2008. The unemployment rate has barely nudged down to 7.3 percent. Jobs are disappearing in the U.S. at an alarming rate.
And, yes, there likely are a portion of those receiving government assistance who game the system. Should we expect anything different when one in seven Americans are eligible for the entitlement? When examples are readily available of corporate welfare cheats who make fortunes by gaming that system?
It is not enough to highlight one freeloader to justify such a massive cut in SNAP. This heartless approach undoubtedly will be rejected in the U.S. Senate.
We've got large problems facing the country that require rational debate and thoughtful solutions. Symbolic legislation doesn't do anything to resolve issues.
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National Signing Day, the day when high school football players can sign with the school of their choice, was over two months ago – Feb. 1.
I know it's been some time since those ace recruits inked, but as they say, there's football season, football recruiting and then spring football.
Well, we're in spring football, so here's a little football recruiting news. This might be a tad old, but then you might have missed it, too.
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BUFORD – Friday, April 13th was Hannah Knight's lucky day.
Knight, a two-sport standout at Buford High School, solidified her future, signing a scholarship to play softball at Spartanburg Methodist College in Spartanburg.
Knight, on St. Patrick's Day, visited SMC and the trip to the Upstate campus made it easy to decide where she wanted to attend college and play.
During her visit, Knight worked out with the Lady Pioneers' team.
The Indian Land High boys soccer team stayed unbeaten in region play with a 4-1 win over Buford at Warriors Stadium on Tuesday night.
The sixth-ranked Warriors built a 3-0 halftime lead on the way to their 11th win in 14 matches this season.
Andrew Jackson and Buford notched key region wins Tuesday to aid their postseason baseball hopes.
AJ blanked Indian Land and Buford rallied to down Central of Pageland.
The Lancaster High Lady Bruins improved to 4-3 in region play with back-to-back road games this week.
The LHS girls blanked Rock Hill 4-0 on Tuesday after posting an 11-1 win over Gaffney on Monday.
Central captured a three-way Region IV-AA golf match with Buford and Andrew Jackson at the Lancaster Golf Club on Tuesday.
Ben Miller shot a 36 to pace the CHS Eagles, who posted a 168. Matthew Terry tallied a 37 and Austin Terry carded a 44. Trent Hutto had a 51.
York snapped a 1-all tie with an eight-run sixth inning on the way to a 9-5 non-region baseball win over Lancaster at Doomsday Corner on Monday night.
The Bruins, 10-9, rallied late, but couldn't overcome the Cougars' late lead.
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The 2011-12 Lancaster High School Bruins fell short of their goal of a state basketball championship this season, but a stellar 24-4 record could not be overlooked.
The Bruins, led by junior star Sindarius Thornwell, advanced to the Class AAAA Upper State semifinals before falling to Dorman High School for the second straight season.
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The 2011-12 Lancaster County high school girls basketball season was about impressive hoops comebacks.
Andrew Jackson High School junior Bre Wright rebounded from ACL knee surgery to lead the Lady Volunteers to a Class AA playoff berth.
Wright's play was so solid that she led the county in scoring and rebounding.
She averaged 15.3 points and 15.2 rebounds a game for the Lady Vols after joining the team just after the Christmas break.
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KERSHAW – The Andrew Jackson Lady Volunteers, at the midpoint of their 2012 soccer schedule, are 3-4, but there's plenty of hope for the AJ booters this spring.
The Lady Vols capped pre-spring break play with a pair of solid wins to provide them a boost for the rest of the season.
AJ downed county rival and Region IV-AA foe Indian Land High 4-2.
The Lady Vols, unranked at that time, knocked off the third-rated Lady Warriors.
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The existence of green plants is indispensable for the continuation of life, because they provide the balance required by oxygen, water, and nutrients. Other balances are also very important both for humanity and all other living things, for they control Earth's temperature and protect the balance of gasses in the atmosphere. Our Lord endowed Earth with millions of different plant species, each having its won colors and appearances. Besides their usefulness, plants also give comfort, joy, and pleasure to the human spirit.
The fact that different plants sprout from the same soil is a blessing from Allah. For example, look at melons, kiwis, bananas, cherries, tomatoes, grapes, peaches, and beans. When you peel off a banana's dark yellow skin, a light colored and aromatic banana reveals itself. An apple's peel can be red, green, or yellow with a smooth glaze. Inside, the juice has its own particular taste and smell, neither of which scientists can reproduce. So, we may ask ourselves, why do all flowers, trees, vegetables, and fruits have such different colors even though they all come from the same soil? This is proof of Allah's infinite knowledge and unique creation.
Allah clothes all plants with colors and attractive appearances so that they will appeal to the human spirit. Fruits, vegetables, trees, and flowers all have an incomparable variety of colors, esthetic appearance, marvelous patterns, and their own characteristics. For example, the purple-colored violet with its velvet-soft leaves is incomparable. Velvet cloth seeks to imitate its texture, but it can never possess the same quality. No matter what plant we consider, we must conclude that Allah created the best and most beautiful things for human beings.
This generosity is one of His countless graces to human beings, for there is no way that we could ever produce something that He has not created. He created all fruits with unimaginable beauty, taste, and colors, and then wrapped them in the most perfect manner and offered them to us. The different tastes of every fruit and vegetable were created to appeal to us and give us pleasure, for as our Creator, He knows what will give us the most pleasure. Whenever we see a cherry tree with its branches laden with fruit, or smell the aroma of a banana or a strawberry, or see hundreds of grapes growing on a dry branch, we will remember, hopefully, that Allah created them. Out of His generosity and love for humanity, He offers us the best and the most beautiful of everything.
Human beings cannot create such blessings. We can imitate them, but they will not awake in our spirits the deep amazement and excitement produced by the natural ones. Indeed, we are indebted to Allah for all of these pleasant and beautiful things that move the human spirit. Apart from His will and mercy, we could not attain even one of these blessings:
He Who created the heavens and Earth and sends down water for you from the sky by which We make luxuriant gardens grow – you could never make their trees grow. Is there another deity besides Allah? (Surat an-Naml, 60)
Scientists could never make a tree grow nor create a majestic plane tree, a palm tree, a pine tree with its musky smell, or a willow tree with its hanging branches. A human being has neither the strength nor the lifespan to create a tree. But everywhere we go, we see majestic trees, each with its own particular beauty. Some are laden with fruit, and some are remarkably beautiful. Allah created them from nothing, for He created all beauty and every blessing to please human beings.
A very small seed planted in the ground will eventually bring forth a huge tree that will grow 4-5 meters (13-16 feet) high and weigh hundreds of kilos (pounds). In the first stages, its extra internal nutrients are essential; later on, more essential nutrients come from the soil and the sunlight. For example, an apple seed produces a well-designed tree that has its own transport system and roots that process materials in the soil. An intelligent creature, such as a human being, would find it hard even to draw a tree, and even harder to draw its roots and branches. But a seed produces this highly complex living thing, including all its systems, even though it has no independent intelligence, consciousness, or will. So, we cannot say that the seed is responsible for the tree. In reality, each seed contains a high intelligence and all-embracing knowledge given to it by Allah, Who is the only possessor of such knowledge and power.
Those who consider seeds to be no more than insignificant objects might think that they are something like fruit pits or twigs. Plant each of these and see what happens. Only the seeds, provided that their needs are met, will sprout and produce a variety of plants. What makes them different from a splinter of wood? For one thing, seeds contain information about every branch and stem of the plant species to which they belong. They know about every leaf, their number and shapes, their thickness and what color their bark or covering will be; their width and the number of capillaries that will carry nutrients and water, their height and whether they will produce fruit or not; and how the fruit will taste and smell, what shape and color it will have, and everything else.
We are amazed that these little seeds bring forth an infinite number of fruits and vegetables, flowers and trees, all of which benefit us. It is beyond belief that for millions of years, seeds have used their stored knowledge to produce the same item each time, without ever making a mistake. Clearly Allah, Who stores so much incomparable information in a dry splinter of wood and brings forth from it sweet-smelling plants with delicious tastes, is extremely generous.
... and also the things of varying colors He has created for you in the soil. There is certainly a Sign in that for people who pay heed. (Surat an-Nahl, 13)


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We're back from a two week leave due to school vacation weeks. Today's Conversation was about using events, patterns and structures and examining the 5 events that led us to go into teaching. Lisa, Maria and Sheila each shared the 5 things that led them into education. They looked at the events and then looked for the patterns. Taking it further, they asked about the system that is in place that allows for these events to happen or for the pattern to evolve. Of course, there was plenty of conversation.
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