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Longer Walks in Winter
Winter has arrived, and it's time to get friendly with the season. Enduring the cold can certainly become the focus of a long winter walk, but there is much more. The contrasts abound: body heat and cold air, chill breezes and warm sunlight, white snow and dark tree trunks, soft snow and hard ice, the quiet of the forest and the crunch of snow under foot. A stand of snowy pines is a sight to enjoy, especially when the low sun shines through the branches. When the moon is bright above a wide, snowy path, the Earth shimmers before the walker. When the winter ground is exposed, the observer can see the raw edge of life awaiting its chance to burst forth in spring. Getting friendly with winter is also a remedy for cabin fever, a chance to feel the sun on your face and all the trees, rocks, and snows that are still out.
I have been outside on many winter days of around 20 to 40 degrees Fahrenheit, and I will say that all you really need to enjoy them are a few layers of clothing and the knowledge of how to get back to your warm shelter. But enjoying longer walks in winter, for example a day of hiking, requires a bit more preparation. I am going to discuss some equipment that works for me. The perfect kit for you will require some trial and error to find what makes you most comfortable. Bring extra layers out with you and leave room in your backpack.
If your winters are as wet as those in the northeastern US, you really will benefit from some waterproof boots. Stores with good selections of hiking and camping equipment are good places to find them, especially when sales are on. Boots should have a waterproof liner, be rugged and designed for movement, and might or might not have insulation depending on the user. I usually do winter hikes in leather hiking boots or backpacking boots that have waterproof lining, but are not insulated. I do have some insulated hiking boots, but they come out on days that are colder than usual for around here. In my youth I hiked through much snow in Gore-tex lined combat boots.
I wear merino wool socks in winter. I have had good results from Smartwool socks, but there are other good brands out there I haven't tried much.
After the footwear, I would say that base layers are the next most important clothing to consider. A base layer consists of long underpants and a long sleeve shirt, and it is supposed to go against your skin in order to pull sweat away from the skin. They also provide some insulation. I usually wear polyester midweight thermals on hikes. I have had good results with EMS, REI, and Polarmax branded base layers. I also got a Smartwool baselayer pant and I find it to be very comfortable and effective. Base layers should be made of material that dries quickly, so cotton should definitely be avoided.
The item I would consider next would be the overcoat or shell jacket or whatever you call the thing that goes on your torso and keeps the water off of you. I recommend durable water repellant jackets from brands that specialize in active outdoor recreation. They should include a hood and pockets. They should be big enough to wear comfortably over layers, but not too baggy to keep the breeze out. I used to do a lot of hiking in a military field jacket with some extra sprayed-on water repellent when I was into that kind of thing.
Obviously, you should be wearing pants out there. For many trips, hiking pants or military pants that are not all cotton will do fine. Sometimes waterproof pants are good to have. It's pretty common to fall in the snow at least once on a snowshoe trip, and you might want to slide down a nice slope or sit down without getting soaked. There are a few kinds of waterproof pants out there. You could wear the thin nylon rain pants over your other pants, but they don't usually breathe too well. A woven water repellent material might be better. I would probably go light on the insulation here, because legs can get really warm from exertion and you can add a layer of light fleece pants or thicker thermals for colder trips.
For torso insulation, I usually like to wear a fleece or commando sweater between my base layer and my shell. They seem to balance warmth and breathability well, and they are comfortable to sweat in. For times when I won't be getting as warm, like a leisurely walk, a slow night hike, or a careful descent, I have a puffy zip-up layer. If it's really cold I will wear both. For leisurely walks, I might be wearing a flannel shirt. Despite what you may have read on the internet, it is possible to wear cotton in the woods and walk out alive. However, is better to go with other fabrics because cotton dries very slowly and insulates poorly.
Hats and gloves might be considered accessories, but I would consider them necessities for winter hikes. A simple knit hat will do the job, as will a fleece hat, a wool cap, or anything else that is warm but not too heavy. A knit ski mask is one of my oldest pieces of gear that I use with some regularity, usually folded up as a cap until the wind kicks up. I like to bring light water repellent gloves for ascents and heavier gloves for descents, but I often just go with whatever gloves are in my pockets. A scarf or neck gaiter might be nice to have as well. I sometimes wear sunglasses if it's a really bright day.
Water repellent gaiters that cover the area where your boots meet your pants can do a great job of keeping snow out, provided you take a little time to buckle them properly for your size. This can make a long walk in the snow much more comfortable.
So that's clothing. There is a lot of it, because it is serving as your shelter for a day when other people are inside a solid structure with modern heating. My list goes pretty well with the theory of three types of layers: base, insulation, and shell. I do find that for many activities, the base and shell provide a good amount of insulation.
There are other things that you or your hiking party should have. Water is essential. The air will be dry and you will be exerting yourself. Water should be carried in bottles, not hydration bladders, as a narrow hose will freeze more readily than a bottle neck. Food can make a huge difference. Water and food are the fuel that will keep you walking upright and will allow your body to generate heat. You need to fuel the fire.
Bring navigational equipment, emergency supplies, and small wilderness tools. Winter days are short and winter nights are cold, so bring a light, preferably one that you can wear on your head. They can be found at outdoor recreation stores, and sometimes home improvement stores carry cheap models. If you are exploring an area big enough to get lost in you should have a map and compass and know how to use them. Smartphones can often use their GPS function even without cell network coverage, but that won't help you if you haven't downloaded the maps, there are no features on the map that can guide you, your battery drains, or you have no idea where you are in the first place.
An emergency kit is a good thing to carry. It should include an emergency blanket and fire starting tools. Your party should have at least one first aid kit that includes bandages, moleskin for blisters, tweezers, antibiotic ointment, antiseptic wipes, medicines, gauze, and medical tape. It's even better if there are people trained in first aid who can make use of a larger kit. A knife or multi-tool is a good thing to carry in the outdoors as well. I like to keep some water purification chemicals in my hiking kit too. I also carry some paracord and a miniature roll of duct tape in my kit. I don't think I would actually lash together a shelter unless I was planning to stay a while, but paracord is something I have always carried so I'll keep doing it. Some chemical hand warmers are a good thing to have, if only to help other hikers enjoy the day as much as you would like. All of this plus extra clothing should go in a backpack that is comfortable enough to enjoy carrying and will not fall apart on the trip. Most backpacks are not waterproof so you may want to line it with a waterproof bag or pack your gear in freezer bags.
So how do you actually walk when the forest is covered in snow and ice? There are ways. If it's just a little snow, you can be patient and plod your way through it. If there is ice, micro-spikes will help you keep your grip. If the hill is steep and icy, consider going heavy duty and strapping on crampons. If you can't walk without sinking into snow, it's time to consider snowshoes. If you want to go far or get a workout, cross-country skiing is an option.
If you want to get out, be active, and get the feel of a place, you don't need much beyond the right attitude. But if you want to go farther and have a better experience, some planning and preparation will take you a long way. Winter can be dangerous, but a person in the right mindset can be friendly with winter.


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Phylum Arthropoda includes animals that have been successful in colonizing terrestrial, aquatic, and aerial habitats. The phylum is further classified into five subphyla: Trilobitomorpha (trilobites), Hexapoda (insects and relatives), Myriapoda (millipedes, centipedes, and relatives), Crustacea (crabs, lobsters, crayfish, isopods, barnacles, and some zooplankton), and Chelicerata (horseshoe crabs, arachnids, scorpions, and daddy longlegs). Trilobites are an extinct group of arthropods found from the Cambrian period (540–490 million years ago) until they became extinct in the Permian (300–251 million years ago) that are probably most closely related to the Chelicerata. The 17,000 described species have been identified from fossils ( [link] ).
The Hexapoda have six legs (three pairs) as their name suggests. Hexapod segments are fused into a head, thorax, and abdomen ( [link] ). The thorax bears the wings and three pairs of legs. The insects we encounter on a daily basis—such as ants, cockroaches, butterflies, and bees—are examples of Hexapoda.
Subphylum Myriapoda includes arthropods with legs that may vary in number from 10 to 750. This subphylum includes 13,000 species; the most commonly found examples are millipedes and centipedes. All myriapods are terrestrial animals and prefer a humid environment ( [link] ).
Crustaceans, such as shrimp, lobsters, crabs, and crayfish, are the dominant aquatic arthropods. A few crustaceans are terrestrial species like the pill bugs or sow bugs. The number of described crustacean species stands at about 47,000. "Number of Living Species in Australia and the World," A.D. Chapman, Australia Biodiversity Information Services, last modified August 26, 2010, http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/publications/other/species-numbers/2009/03-exec-summary.html.
Although the basic body plan in crustaceans is similar to the Hexapoda—head, thorax, and abdomen—the head and thorax may be fused in some species to form a cephalothorax , which is covered by a plate called the carapace ( [link] ). The exoskeleton of many species is also infused with calcium carbonate, which makes it even stronger than in other arthropods. Crustaceans have an open circulatory system in which blood is pumped into the hemocoel by the dorsal heart. Most crustaceans typically have separate sexes, but some, like barnacles, may be hermaphroditic. Serial hermaphroditism, in which the gonad can switch from producing sperm to ova, is also found in some crustacean species. Larval stages are seen in the early development of many crustaceans. Most crustaceans are carnivorous, but detritivores and filter feeders are also common.
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1.) Harpoon? Made of awesome. Disturbingly practical, too, and fairly low-tech, comparatively speaking. I loved that so much.
2.) I have no idea how to even do this. My numbers? May not be sufficient.
The John Hour was amazing, beginning to end. Did not fail in pace, did not fail in characterization, did not fail, more importantly, in showing how far Atlantis has come from idealism to practicality. John's compliment on the harpoon? Very John. Kolya's extraorindary soldier thing? Damn *straight*. When Kolya offered the trade, I knew they wouldn't take it, but I didn't completely expect the way Elizabeth thought about it. Of course the team would, left to their own devices, shoved Landon right through the wormhole with a bow and pre-cuffed. But Elizabeth, even in these grey times? Huh. Did not expect the writers to go there.
I loved the fact that Carson made it clear that he thought the trade was likely. Not saying don't do it. But saying, do it soon.
I loved Ronon very close to flat out blind rage. That was so hot.
I love John's absolute faith he's getting out of there. The contrast to last year's Epiphany is a marked change in how John sees himself and his team. I love that. I love him believing every second that they're coming for him. They're just delayed. Just--so much love. Just wanted to crawl in that cell and promise him anything he wanted for that. He believes. Fed on three times and believes.
The first time, I honestly could not breathe. I bet John couldnt' either. Kolya won no points with looking regretful. I'm sorry, but he still ordered it. Interesting note--this is the first time since Gaul we've seen a survival after this much feeding. John got, what, a total of four hits and was still *alive*? I wonder if it's the Ancient in him or the Iratus? Inquiring minds wnat to know.
Of course he's going to say don't trade. Of *course* he is. John says stupid shit. And it was the right stupid shit, dammit, which is why I locked my teeth over yeling at Weir "SELL THE BASTARD. I DON'T LIKE HIM. LET LANDON DIE." In capslock, even. I loved John and teh Wraith chatting, both before and after John found out his prisonmate was a Wraith. Mostly because his attitude didn't change that much. John's default setting really *is* finding help wherever its available and using it to the best of his abiliites. And it says a lot about him that he was fed on three times and lounging in his cell at the ripe age of freaking *eighty* and still managed to talk the Wraith into doing what he wanted. It takes some serious cajones to negotiate with a Wraith when you're hitting your geriatric and believe you can pull it off.
So after every feeding, back to the cell, where Wraith *watched* him, that was--interesing. Mostly because I really doubt the Wraith, outside their worshippers, interact all that much with their food source. A Wraith kept semi-starved for years, brought down to the level of human, talking to a human. This is our first decent exposure to a Wraith since Michael, and Michael whine and pouted too much for me to really give a shit. This one though--the description of Wraith hunger, his conversation with Sheppard--trusting him. That was--I dont' even have words.
Okay, back to a few numbers.
3.) Rodney getting very--excitable--when he saw John tied to the chair? Fantastic. Talking *over* Elizabeth? Also fantastic. Just barreling through, screw the small talk. Rodney in the conference room--we can't send Landon through! Then thinks, and says, hopefully--can we? Later, Rodney doing his soldier speech--I've said it before, I'll say it again. He's a soldier. They send Marines, uberwarriors Ronon and Teyla, and *Rodney* (and Carson, yes, but he had a handgun, not a P-90). We've established the team does everything together now. And I love that. I just love that.
4.) I like Landon without the mustache.
5.) Okay, going back to John.
John's absolute faith in his team continued as the Wraith leaned into the window, looking at his *strongest foodsource ever* slowly dying but still utterly determined to get out. He does have a lot to go back for. I love John's ability to pretty much get anyone to do anything. The way they came out of hte cells parallel--a glance--"Ready?" "Ready." "Let's do this.". John--who is like eighty at this point and enjoying early geriatric years, and limping, and only two hours from being lifesucked--beats the ever living shit out of two bouncy Genii soliders. My God. Took them *down* like the dogs they were, got their weapons, threw a knife oh dear God I'm not getting over that in the near future. Just--turned his head, pulled hte knife, threw it. Right into the heart of the third Genii. Which gives John a better kill ratio than the Wraith. It makes me happy. I mean by happy, orgasmic. Then he reluctantly gets a gun, turns with a second one, and hands over the keys so the Wraith can be free.
Their trek out was fun--John and the Wraith worked well together, almost disturbingly well. That they have a shitty sense of direction was funny. That they *bickered* was just--too much. Bonding with Wraith. That's an all new place to be, John.
Okay, skipping to.
6.) The Kiss of Life
I got it in Smallville, I get it here. After the Wraith sucked John's life away, he sucks down two Genii soldiers (I am clapping at this point) and gives it right back, which was just--disturbingly hot. I'm pretty sure I lost a year off my life doing a short compare/contrast, Chaya versus Wraith, in the ways John manages to have not-sex with alien beings that could, if you squint or if you, you know, not even squint, just pay attention, seem to get a kick out of getting pretty intimate with the untouchable one. It's for worshippers, and for brothers, says the Wraith, and considering the hives we've seen are all male and one female queen--um. Yes. You call it that, Wraith. I'll be over here, thinking John is freaking alien-bait.
After the sharing of essence--seriously, it's Chaya all over again, just less Ancient--John lets his Wraith go. On a planet with darts overhead, waiting for him to wake up, waiting to look into his face, waiting to see what he does, what he is, why he did this. Leaving only after the Wraith has found his feet again. All bets are off, they say, but I'm not sure that's as true as either one of them want to believe.
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nymphaea1 says here that it was the Everyone Loves John episode, and God knows, it is. Kolya, with his ruthlessnesss and his reluctant respect for the soldier that John is, beneath the dorkiness and superficial charm, what John is to the bottom of his feet, what maybe even John forgets. Kolya never forgets the attack on Atlantis, never forgets that John took five of his men's lives personally and a few dozen more shutting down the gate, never forgets the shot John took over Weir's shoulder. And I don't think he forgot John in that hole in the ground with the gun to his face, and the way John pulled back. Not for Kolya. But because he's a soldier, and Kolya was no longer a threat.
I think he forgot that John knows how to sacrifice, though. *thoughtful* And so does Atlantis. They're learning.
But yes, everyone loves John. Evne freaking Wraith, half-mad from loneliness and isolation and starvation, who sucks the life from his body but still can't quite get around this guy, his only food source, who's dying in his cell and still wants to make a deal. A guy he follows through Genii halls, listens to his silent orders, collapses with outside beneath the stars, finally free but not really free of Sheppard. John Sheppard, he calls him, and that means something on a show where names never seem as casual as they should be. We talk about Rodney calling Sheppard John, about Ronon and Teyla both going by their first name--but the Wraith don't use the names for their cattle. Except for John. And when the Genii come, he leans over, taking all but a drop of John's life--for the power it gives him to kill those Genii, but--okay. Yes. But. Also? John couldn't take them now. The part of me that's watching this Wraith with John, the way they talk, they chat--he reaches out and protects John the way John protected him. Took him out of the fight, took the Genii and their lives with a smile, and goes back to Sheppard, who stares up at him with no surprise, not really, and gives it all back. With a touch that's not death, slow and strange and amazing, special, saved for the most devout of worshippers--and doesn't that make all kinds of scary sense--and Brothers.
Brother and *named* John, who keeps his promises.
Now I wnat to know more about Wraith culture. I want to know more about the Wraith's earlier comment about how much alike they are. And I want John to wake up and still feel that, the shocked pain of first contact and last contact, when his life was drained away to the final seconds--and that perfect moment when the Wraith gave it all back, and how he did it, and why.
There's a very good chance they'll be more later. There's so much here I dont' feel I've even scraped the *surface*.
Also, loved cjandre's question in chat:
cjandre: hey - did you notice again, the berating of himself in thrid person when he thinks he's made a mistake?
cjandre: "great john, you screwed up again.... " yada yada
cjandre: but really - what does that say about his up bringing?
cjandre: who's voice is he hearing in his head when he does that?
Three guesses. If you don't get it on the first? What show are you watching?


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How to Accrue Prepaid Salary
As a small business owner, when you make a financial transaction, you record it as an entry in the company's accounting journal. An accrued expense is one that the company has been incurring but has not yet been recorded in the journal as an actual transaction, such as salaries paid on the first of the month for work done over the previous month. Adjusting entries are done at the end of the accounting period to allocate such expenses to the time frame that they actually apply. Salaries must be accrued in order for you to make adjusting entries.
Determine the accounting period that applies to your business. For example, you may prepare your financial statements monthly, quarterly or annually. Accrued salary expenses are based on the respective accounting period.
Calculate salaries earned by employees before the end of the accounting period but that will be paid out after the period ends. For example, your monthly accounting period ends on the last day of each month. You have five salaried employees who earn $600 weekly. This amounts to $2,400 per employee monthly, which equals $12,000 monthly for all five workers.
Enter salary accruals as adjusting entries in the accounting journal. Specifically, record salary accruals of $12,000 for the month as a debit under the accounting period date, such as Jan. 31. Then, enter salary payable as a credit and note the time frame for when salaries will actually be paid out, such as Feb. 1.
- Accrued payroll also includes wages, commissions, bonuses, and employee payroll taxes and benefits that have been earned but have not yet been paid or recorded as an actual transaction in the appropriate company accounts, which are housed by the general ledger. If applicable, you may include these items in your calculation when making adjusting entries for payroll accruals.
- If the pay period end date and payday for salaried employees fall on the accounting date, such as the last day of the month, you do not have to accrue salaries. Simply enter salary expense as a debit and payables such as taxes and insurance as a credit in the accounting journal under the respective accounting date.
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Bank of America Says It's Ready to Exit TARP
BofA, which repaid $45 billion in TARP funds in December 2009, needed to raise $3 billion in capital and record the gains by the end of this year. Regulators intend that money to help build the bank's equity, giving it a stronger footing after it leaves the TARP.
If Bank of America, the biggest U.S. bank, fails to satisfy the Federal Reserve Board that it has added enough cash to its books through asset sales, it will have to issue additional common shares, diluting its per-share earnings.
The remainder of the $3 billion is expected to derive from tax gains related to holding a smaller slice of BlackRock, the sources added. Another option, as the bank mentioned in its third-quarter filing, would be to issue stock to certain employees in lieu of year-end cash awards.


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The internet knows no bounds and this applies to all users – adults and children alike. There are plenty of websites that are great for businesses or for adult use, but what about the offerings for kids? Just like toys, trends on the web change for kids, and what is hot now may be very different than what your child was playing just a few months ago.
Role Playing
One of the largest trends in مانجا العرب is the huge number of role playing games. Children have the opportunity to plan scaled down versions of MMORPG classics like World of Warcraft and Star Wars. Kids develop a character and then take that character through a series of activities or missions. There are a large variety of these games for both girls and boys, with some overlap, but not much.
These games are actually rather good, assuming they are not playing anything too violent. The thinking and strategy involved in many of them is educational, and working with others in teams or guilds can help problem solving and build collaboration skills.
Coloring Pages
Coloring books are rather blasé. The way to color in 2007 is online. Websites such as The Doll Palace offer many coloring pages created from the dolls available on the website and that have been uploaded by other users. These coloring pages range from simple application of predetermined colors to a more complex color palette that allows your little artist to be as creative and detailed as she would like. Once the coloring pages are complete, they can be saved, shared or printed out to be proudly displayed on the refrigerator.
Anime is another popular internet offering. Anime style cartoons and the accompanying manga is gaining popularity with children at a very rapid pace. Unfortunately, anime and manga are not yet entirely mainstreamed on television or in the bookstore (although they are getting that way.) Kids who enjoy reading the Japanese style cartoons or watching the Japanese style artwork can find plenty online. Parents should help screen the series their child is reading or watching as both anime and manga are very mainstream in Japan – including with adult audiences.
Thinking Games
Games that involve no thought just shooting or the like still exist online, but kids of today appreciate a greater challenge. Games that involve thinking through problems or even math and science are becoming more popular. Creating roller coasters or complex lines that animated characters can ride are growing in popularity and the greater the challenge, the more the child is learning from their choice of entertainment.
With all things online, it is important for parents to sit down with their child to see what sort of websites they prefer to visit. While there may be questionable content on the internet, the online world as a whole is not a dangerous place. Just like anything else, parents must give their children the right amount of guidance and instruction to allow them room to grow and learn while keeping them safe.


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Cabin Resort
The Last of Us Remastered Grounded Walkthrough Part 24: Cabin Resort No Damage All Collectibles
Ride like the wind! You will have to fight off a few guys who jump onto your horse, but keep riding forward to get away from the house you are using as a base.
Eventually, you will end up back on foot. Sorry horsie. Run into the cabin ahead of you, and loot the bedrooms here. When you move into the front of the cabin, you start to hear Hunters searching for you.
Time to drop into stealth mode. Make good use of the arrows in this front room for a ranged stealth kill. Take out the guards right outside the house, then sneak out the door. There are guards all over the camp here, so watch where you go.
Firefly Pendant 26: Head over to the gazebo here to snag a collectable Firefly Pendant, then move through the cabins.
There's some loot here as well as plenty of cover. There seems to be a decent group of guys by the restrooms, so watch out for that hotspot. You eventually need to make it to the stairs at the far end of the area. Once up here, you will have to inch your way across the broken walkway to the left, then continue forward down the cliffside trail.
You drop down a bit of a drop, then crawl through a pipe. You come into a clearing, so head upstairs.
Comic 11: Negentropy
On the park bench is a collectable Comic to grab.
Now crawl through the second pipe ahead of you. It's blocked! Head back out and grab the dumpster behind the cage. Pull it out, and then head back through the pipe.
You come up on the main resort building. You can see the exit off in the distance, but don't start running for it yet. Hunters start coming out now, looking for you. Take them out, then climb on a box to drop down into the main building. You aren't alone in here, so make sure to stay as stealthy as possible.
This is a big building, but you are limited to only the downstairs. Make your way through the lobby until you get to the front entrance. Head out the door with the Exit sign above it.
Well, THAT didn't go according to plan. You're back as Joel now, so walk out of the basement you are in. Head outside and down the road. Sadly, you cannot loot any of these houses. Head forward until you stumble across some Hunters.
Take a few out, and they retreat to the back yard. Head into the back yard and into the house to find some supplies. Hop out the living room window and out to the street, and you get stopped. Watch what happens here, because it is INTENSE.
You are now back as Ellie outside in a blizzard. Run forward away from the man shooting at you. You see a door ahead of you. Blocked. Now try the door next to the gate. You're inside again. Move the cart in your way to crawl under the boards into the next room. You're now in the front of a pet store. You can hear Hunters outside, so stay behind cover.
Eventually, one enemy will enter the store. Take him out to get his gun. Make your way across the street, not down the street where everyone is heading.
Once in an alley, keep going down until you see a lot of mail trucks. Take out a few guards here, then head up the stairs. Move forward and you'll see a barrel with a fire in it. Directly to the left is a small hole you can crouch through. Head through here, and around to a pick-up truck. There may be another Hunter here, so watch out.
Continue forward through the slashed open fence. Stay along the left side of the street here until you get to an alley. There are two ways into the building here, so head in whichever way will not get you noticed by the two Hunters inside. Take them out silently, then head out the arcade's front door. There are plenty more guards outside, so make sure to move from cover to cover.
If you get spotted, run back to the gate blocking the end of the street, and hide. The Hunters cannot see very well through the snow. Eventually as you move forward down the street, you'll spot a building with a burning trash can here. Move past this to a street on the left. Follow the street now, until you get to another gate blocking the way. Jump up onto a dumpster, and then through the cracked open window.
You are now in a kitchen of some sort. It doesn't look like anyone is here or in the restaurant either. Make your way to the front door, and head outside. Ohhhh boy, our friend is back. You need to hide from him, and sneak up on him to get the keys back.
Also, as an added difficulty, he does not go down in one hit. After the first hit you land, he breaks out the machete, so now if you get hit once, you are dead. Keep after him, but without him seeing. Watch out for the smashed plates on the ground, as he will hear if you step on them. Once you land three hits, you both go down.
Artifact 76: Lake Resort Map
Joel will automatically have this in his possession at this point.
Now you are Joel again, and back outside. You come up on a gas station/garage on the right. Head inside, and hear about four Hunters coming for you. Take them out, then continue down the road outside. There's another building you can go into straight forward.
It looks like a motel. Move through the bedrooms here, until you get to the back of the motel.
Training Manual 11: Smoke Shaping
Hop out of a bathroom window and look to your left for a Shiv Door. Inside is a Training Manual and some other loot.
Now head back out. Watch out for the Hunter who is on the lookout. You can sneak into the semi trailer he is standing on without him noticing. Move past him and out the other side of the trailer. Move through the camp here until you find an alley with a burning barrel.
Continue forward, and Joel will automatically slip inside a building.
Artifact 77: Ellie's Backpack
He'll find Ellie's backpack in here that is automatically added to your possession after the cutscene.
Artifact 78: Meat Ledger
To the right of the shelf is another artifact on another shelf.
Continue forward now, being super stealthy. Move through the rest of the butcher shop and see some horrors that weren't meant to be seen. Go out the front door to see the restaurant on fire. As Ellie again, inch forward to get to the machete. Keep going after getting kicked. Be prepared to hit Triangle.
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Do you ever feel like you're still a little rusty when it comes to setting up and shooting still life?
I have created this PDF e-guide to help you by walking you through setting up your props, arranging them, and/or re-arranging them for your final image.
This e-guide is free to download for your personal use and includes:
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Letters, row 3 - ਚ ਛ ਜ ਝ ਞ . . .
Chachaa is one of a group of four letters that all have the same starting form: ਜ (), ਦ (), ਢ () and ਚ ().
Looking at them in order shows how they are related, like so...
>After drawing the initial loop...
>...continue the line straight down and add another line to the right*>.
>...continue the line down and then to the right.
>...continue the line down, to the right and then loop it.
>...continue the line down, to the right and then loop it up the the initial curve.
*>This is not the same way as the method you have learned previously but it is logical and easy to do.
ਛ () is pretty much, just a fast version of the Gurbani version of the letter. The corners are lost, giving it a nice smooth look.
However, it is possible to confuse ਛ () with ਡ ().
Taking a closer look, , just try to keep the loop bigger and the curve on the left, just above the loop, rounder.
For ਜ (), see ਚ above.
This is one of those letters that is cut fdown heavily and slightly redesigned (in so far that the pointed feature on the left, in the middle is missing). If you look at it, you can see how the loop at the top is formed and the loop at the bottom is there, allowing the letter an unambiguous appearance. Note that this is one of those letters that does need the bar across the top.
This is another letter that needs the bar across the top.
Normally, you would think of ਵ () as being a potential source of confusion with this letter but in this case, it is drawn quite differently and therefore, there is no issue.
Looking closely at them, , you can see why.


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I'm pretty interested in all things cloud, BYOD, MDM, etc as a mobility specialist as I've been working in the mobility workspace for a number of years now. So this page will start to be filled up with links and articles (that I've either read or written).
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Fashion Guest Blogger: ME
If you do not know know who Freckles in April is, you should.
You should also take a little cyber job over there.
I like to look good .
I like to feel good.
And for me, they go hand in hand.
So sit down, get something yummy to eat and read.
Then be sure to leave a feedback
(caution: please be kind. My self-esteem is fragile)
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The Czech Republic through the end of 2017 had drawn down only 3 per cent of the nearly 850 million euros worth of subsidies allocated to the country from 2014 to 2020 towards implementing energy-savings schemes.
According to a new Supreme Audit Office (NKÚ) report, the lengthy approval process is a major factor in the country's failure to make sufficient use of the available EU funds.
The country has set itself a goal of saving 51 petajoules worth of energy by 2020. Of that amount, 20 petajoules should be guaranteed through European funding. However, not even 1 per cent of the target was achieved by the end of 2017, according to the NKÚ report.
Due to prolonged drought, the Czech Republic faces an increased risk of brush fires, especially in Central Bohemia and in the northern Bohemian regions of Ústí nad Labem and Česká Lípa.
The Czech Hydrometeorological Institute (ČHMÚ) issued a warning on Monday banning people to refrain from making campfires in central Bohemia, noting that more fires ignite from negligence than from natural causes such as lightning strikes. Prague City Hall later also issued a ban on making fires until the heightened danger passes.
April and May were the hottest in the past 58 years while June was the fifth warmest in nearly six decades. The average temperature for July is also expected to be above average. Over the weekend, fires broke out on forested land in Kokořín, a protected wildlife zone in central Bohemia, and in a remote area a few kilometres away.
The Czech Ministry of Defence plans to have dozens of specialists in cyber warfare trained by the end of this year, iHned.cz reported on Monday. They will receive instruction in how to protect websites from hackers from the Czech-Israeli owned firm CyberGym Europe, the news website said.
A company representative said it was able to draw on Israeli know-how in the cyber warfare field.
Numbers of some bird species have greatly declined in the Czech Republic since the country joined the European Union, iDnes.cz reported, citing a Charles University study. The researchers behind the report say that EU agricultural subsidies have led to a change in farming methods and subsequently caused the crested lark, meadow pipit and other birds to become increasingly rare.
Agricultural output has jumped by around one-quarter per hectare since 2004, when the Czechs joined the EU. In the same period the population of field birds has declined by around one-third.
The owner of the Transgas building in central Prague, described by some historians as an exceptional example of Brutalist architecture, has requested permission to demolish the structure.
Prague 2 district authorities now have three weeks to respond to the request from the owner, the international property developer HB Reavis.
A group of architects and preservationists had lobbied to have the Transgas building, which is situated above Wenceslas Square and built in the 1970s, classified a cultural heritage site.
The percentage of Czechs with a university education has increased significantly over the past 10 years, data published on Monday by the statistical office (ČSÚ) shows. Last year, roughly 20 per cent of Czechs had a university degree, up from 12.1 per cent in 2007. However, the figure still lags behind the European Union average, which is about 6.4 percentage points higher.
The most educated population lives in Prague, where nearly four out of 10 adults hold a university degree. The regions with the lowest percentage of degree-holders are Karlovy Vary and Ústí nad Labem, according to the data, which was drawn from the most recent Labour Force Survey.
Inhabitants of the Great Moravian fortified settlement in Mikulčice, which dates back to the 8th century, cultivated cannabis and poppies, as well as peaches, pears and nuts, new research has found.
A team from the Archaeological Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic specialising in archaeobotany has said a surprising number of ancient vineyards have been uncovered in the region. Some varieties of grapes cultivated by the ancient Slavs have yet to be classified and may have gone extinct or been hybrids, a researcher told the Czech News Agency.
The Great Moravian fortified settlement is linked to the medieval Christian missionaries SS Cyril and Methodius, who created a special script for Slavs and translated basic Christian texts into Old Slavonic.
Tuesday should be sunny in Prague and central Bohemia, with light cloud cover expected mainly in Moravia. Daytime temperatures are expected to climb to 31 degrees Celsius. On Wednesday, showers and even thunderstorms are likely in both Vysočina and Moravia.


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Mattera Wears Sneaks, Skinny Tie to Own Wedding
Conservative radio host Jason Mattera did not, in the end, wear a wife beater tank on his wedding day. Instead, he wore a skinny tie and what look like black sneakers with a thick white sole.
Last week Mattera tweeted the photo (right) of himself and his wife HGTV host Kendra Todd on their wedding day. "My beautiful bride Kendra Todd," he wrote.
Mattera told us last month that the two got engaged in April at the National Cathedral and would have their wedding in Miami.
Mattera's fashion choice raised some eyebrows… "What is he Elvis Costello??" a reporter asked.


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The Good and Bad of Labels
Democrat. Republican. Christian. Muslim. Atheist. Gay. Straight. Transgender. Environmentalist. Polluter. Pro-choice. Pro-life. Black. White. Capitalist. Communist. And on and on.
I've been thinking lately about how we so naturally place labels on things and people and how they affect our Living, Breathing Story. Neurologically speaking, that labeling is a good thing—it allows our brains to make sense of the world so we can more easily navigate through it. Imagine if every time you saw a maple tree or a cell phone or a stop light—or anything else, for that matter—you had to stop and decide what it did, how it would affect you, what it meant to you, and what it was called. You would spend your life in utter confusion and chaos. Thankfully, your brain is very good at naming and categorizing things.
But these names and categories don't exist in a vacuum. They all have emotional associations connected to them. While this further helps you function more easily in the world, it also leads to many potential problems in interactions with other human beings, each of whom has his or her own associations with the labels (see how confusing this can get?) .
The words at the top of this post are simple words we invented to describe people—but each one is also loaded with a host of mental, emotional, and physical responses. We all have our own positive or negative reactions to them (remember that "negative" and "positive" are relative terms, depending totally on the perception of each individual), and so we react accordingly. And not always for the better.
What about the labels we assign to ourselves? You know, like "too old/fat/dumb," or "not good/smart/accomplished enough." And on and on. You'll notice that those labels are all negative or limiting in some way. Of course, we have positive labels for ourselves, too, but because our brain has a natural negativity bias, it's oh-so-easy to fall into its clutches and tilt towards the negative. As you well know, that kind of self-labeling doesn't exactly leave us feeling good about ourselves or eager to explore new situations.
Our labels originate from many sources: family, teachers, religion, society, culture, history, to name only a few. In reality, most of them are false. But when we believe them, they solidify within our Living, Breathing Story to become our self-image.
In Mark Matousek's brilliant new book, Writing to Awaken: A Journey of Truth, Transformation, & Self-Discovery, he writes eloquently about self-image, that "portrait we carry in our head, representing the person we imagine ourselves to be…It's a distorted, subjective view made up of stories, beliefs, emotions, desires, biases, and insecurities that have little factual basis. As an inside job, self-image is entirely personal and subjective. While it may evolve over time, self-image tends to glue into place like a photograph fixed on a moving object, concealing the truth of who we are." (My italics.)
"How does self-image become so entrenched?" asks Matousek. "Through the imposition of narrative labels. Putting names to thinks solidifies them in our minds."
And then, when we believe a label, when we "settle upon a story," says Dr. Lewis Mehl-Madrona, "we must live it as if it were true. We must perform it by living it. By enacting the story, by living as if it were true, we make it so. We make it true." (Narrative Medicine: The Use of History and Story in the Healing Process)
In other words, we invent these labels—these little stories—and then when we believe them, we live them.
But there's good news! Since we invented them in the first place, we can re-invent them or what they mean. Or create new labels altogether. Remember that it's not always healthy to believe everything you think.
I invite you to try some journaling to experience labeling for yourself. Please be as honest as you can. Your journal is private, so no one else will see what you write.
• Look at the words at the top of this post. It's likely you will have some strong reactions to some of them (and it's okay to admit that). Choose one that describes you and write about yourself in that context. Then choose one you believe is its opposite, and write about your beliefs regarding someone described by that word. Do this for several word pairs.
Now change your focus. Choose one of the "opposite" words you chose earlier and write about yourself in that context. Do this for several word pairs.
What did you discover? Do you think your beliefs are true? If so, why?
• Consider the labels or names you apply to yourself. Write down five of them. Where did they come from? Do you believe them? Live them? How? For the ones that don't serve you well, what would you like to replace them with? (Even if you don't yet believe you can replace them with something more positive, write anyway. Give yourself permission.) How do you feel emotionally and physically when you compare the two versions of yourself?
What did you discover? Do you think your beliefs are true? If so, why?


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So here's the reworked version of the Richter Scales "Bubble" without an image by Lane Hartwell hidden cleverly inside. My opinion, if you care, is that she shouldn't put her stuff on Flickr if she doesn't want it to be ganked. And, as Scoble wrote:
"I think it really is lame to take pictures of people (who don't get a cut of the profits) at parties, without being commissioned, and then send in invoices for that work when it gets used in a parody video."


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If you know you are HIV-positive and you deliberately have sex with someone without informing them of that fact, have you committed a crime?
In Canada, the answer is yes, based on the 2009 conviction of Johnson Aziga on two counts of murder, and several of aggravated assault. The back story is that Aziga was diagnosed with HIV in 1996, and was advised to tell his sexual partners about the infection and to practice safe sex. He did neither and by 2003, when he was arrested and charged, he had infected seven women. In several cases, he actually lied about his status to continue to have unprotected sex.
Two of them later died of AIDS-related cancers and the court was told at the time that they did not seek treatment for HIV because they did not know they had been exposed. They were, of course, the women Aziga is convicted of murdering. Five other women were infected and are under treatment, and four others did not acquire the virus.
OK. Old story. The news is that prosecutors want Aziga declared a dangerous offender, a status in Canada that allows officials to keep him in jail after his sentence expires. At a hearing this week, he admitted some of the facts of the case but denied there was any proof it was he who infected the seven women and said the conviction only occurred because the jury was racist.
The question for the Ontario Superior Court is whether he is a danger to do it again. If so, he can declared a dangerous offender and essentially locked up for good.
I'm glad I'm not making that decision.
But one thing that should, I think, weigh heavily in the judge's ruling is that Aziga is now under treatment and his viral load is undetectable. As long as that remains true, he is highly unlikely to transmit the virus, as we learned recently from the HPTN 052 trial.
On the other hand, that study compared outcomes in so-called discordant couples where in one arm the HIV-positive partner was treated immediately while in the other therapy waited until it was indicated, either by the appearance of an AIDS-defining condition or an immune system that met guidelines for anti-HIV drugs.
But ... and this is a big but ... all the couples in the trial were counseled about safe sex and given condoms, elements that are undoubtedly important in preventing HIV transmission. (The 96% reduction in risk was on top of whatever role was played by safe sex, which would have been presumably the same in each arm of the trial.)
Will Johnson Aziga adhere to safe sex practices if he is released and starts have sex again? Who knows? I'm glad I don't have to peer into that particular crystal ball. But regardless, as long as he is on treatment, he should be much less of a threat.
If you know you are HIV-positive and you deliberately have sex with someone without informing them of that fact, have you committed a crime?


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What's the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the name 'Samsonite'? That's right, me too – your mind goes straight to premium luggage, with products ranging from large suitcases to small toiletries bags and briefcases. Known for durability, innovation, and style, Samsonite has become a house-hold name for its lifestyle baggage.
A chunk of Samsonite's production takes place at Nashik, a city in the northwestern region of Maharashtra, India. Any global brand worth its weight always needs to put an emphasis on its corporate social responsibility (CSR) to evaluate the effect of its policies and actions on society and the environment. Samsonite carries out an annual tree plantation drive, where the company has adopted and maintains 125 acres of land at Igatpuri, a town and Hill Station municipal council in Nashik District, located in the Western Ghats. Following a scenic trek, people visit the 'Khambale Vanrai' project to plant trees, and this year I decided to go green and join the plantation project, making the two and a half hour drive up from Mumbai. In all, over ten thousand trees have been planted, and I have to take my hat off to the management at Samsonite for organizing such a beautiful initiative. Tree planting not only counteracts deforestation, but tackles social, political, environmental, and economic issues, ranging from global warming to food security, and I'm glad I was given the opportunity to help make this world a cleaner place thanks to Samsonite.
It's a solid investment – trees, whether in urban or forest settings, provide some of the most valuable eco-system services in the world, so make sure you #DoYourBit as a global welfare ambassador. Happy planting!
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Mizuno Prospect Select Fastpitch is Gender Engineered and designed specifically for the female player. The full grain leather shell provides great durability and Mizuno's innovative easy close technologies make catching easy!
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/*Costa Mesa Police*/ say on the night of November 11, 2007, Ongamsing-Jenkins was working as a supervisor at the /*Rite Aid*/ at 2300 Harbor Boulevard in Costa Mesa, when she claimed two armed men walked into the store and ordered her and another employee to give them the cash from a store register and a safe.
The two men stole about $5,500. The robbery was captured on surveillance tape, but the two suspects could not be identified.
On June 20, 2009, while working as a floor supervisor at the Ride Aid at 24829 Del Prado in Dana Point, Ongamsing-Jenkins claimed a man robbed her of $20,000 in store deposits outside a Bank of America in Dana Point.
The robbers were never found. Investigators later discovered text messages on her cell phone indicating that Ongamsing-Jenkins planned the Dana Point robbery. She later confessed to officers that she set up both the 2007 and 2009 holdups.
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Friday, 24 August 2012
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Love this Beverly, such a clever use of those wonderful stamps, and these tricky (for me!) colours. Great job!ReplyDelete
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What a stunning card, Beverley, great use of the stamps with the colors! thanks for sharing your card with us this week at the colourQ.ReplyDelete
What a fabulous CAS card! So bold! I love what you did with the sketch! Thanks for playing at Freshly Made Sketches!ReplyDelete
Beverly your card is so gorgeous. Wonderful Copic colouring. Thanks so much for sharing with us this week at the colourQ!ReplyDelete
Wow! What a fabulous card! Brilliant colours and colouring! Very stunning! Thanks for joining us this week at Freshly Made Sketches!ReplyDelete
I love the way you've interpreted this sketch! The pattern is so unusual and your colour gradients are wonderful! Also, how great to use orange - the pattern is quite graphic and the orange is really warm, it's a gorgeous interplay!ReplyDelete
Absolutely stunning! WReplyDelete
Very stylish and classy, perfect to use ombre coloringReplyDelete
What a great design. Thanks for joining us at the ColourQ this week.ReplyDelete
This is just awesome .... love your take on the combination of sketches .... great job!ReplyDelete
Thanks for joining us this week at Freshly Made Sketches!!!
great take on the two challenges, thank you for joining us at the colourQ ; )ReplyDelete
Gorgeous card Beverly! Congrats on earning a spot as a colourQ Courtier & so happy you could play with us!!!ReplyDelete
Hey Beverley! Thanks for linking this up to the Repetition Challenge in the Moxie Fab World! I'm so glad you joined in on all the fun! :)ReplyDelete


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Lizzie Borden, Zombie Hunter by CA Verstraete
Lizzie Borden, Zombie Hunter by CA Verstraete
Published by Imajin Books on 13th September 2016
232 pages
Reviewed by Yvonne Davies
We have all heard of Lizzie Borden, the young girl who whacked her parents with an axe and the subsequent trial, but did we know why she did it. Well we do now.
Trying to keep the reason for their deaths a secret, she gets involved with a secret society and with the help of her lawyer John Fremont and his colleagues, she learns how to battle the walking dead and becomes a one woman fighting machine.
The author had definitely done her research on the Lizzie Borden as each chapter opened up with an excerpt of either the trial or a quote of a newspaper article. This made the story more believable. Whilst the trial is mentioned, the majority of the story takes place after the event and we see Lizzie and her sister Emma try to get the bottom of their father's involvement in the whole thing.
Lizzie was a strong willed girl and I was surprised that she was the younger sister, as she was always making sure that Emma was ok. Whilst she was a suspect in her parent's murder, I liked how she took charge of her life, learning how to fight and even starting a love interest with John. Even when she was shunned from people she still held her head up high.
Battling zombies is dirty work and this book does not shy away from this fact. Full of action, blood and gore, made this a well written exciting story. The twist at the end was unexpected but not a complete surprise and the way the book ended gives scope for further books.
If you like history meets fantasy than this is a great book to read. Move over Elizabeth Bennett, there is a new zombie hunter in town.


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This data set contains measurements of the orientation and deformation of the crystal c-axes (fabric) of ice core samples collected from the Siple Dome Ice Core A, Antarctica (81°S, 148°W) between 22.764 m and 992.385 m in depth. The instrument used for the measurements consists of a fiber-optic white light source, one fixed black-and-white video camera, and four rotation stages. The data are in ASCII tab-delimited text format and are available via FTP.
Ice Fabric Characteristics: Siple Dome, A Core, Version 1
NSIDC does not archive these data.
Geographic Coverage
Detailed Data Description
Data are available as ASCII tab-delimited text files.
Data for each thin section of ice are listed in separate files, labeled by the section's depth and cut orientation (V or H).
The first line of a data file is the depth from which the sample was taken and whether the thin section was cut horizontally (H) or vertically (V) to the core axis. Each file contains three columns below the first line of data, titled "Grain #," "theta," and "phi." The "theta" and "phi" columns represent the polar angle and azimuthal angle (c-axis directions, both in decimal degrees), respectively.
Each file name includes the depth of the particular sample in meters (m), followed by a v (vertical cut) or an h (horizontal cut), for example, "804.595v.txt."
The file sizes range from approximately 1 to 50 KB.
The data volume is 750 KB.
Siple Dome, Antarctica (81°S, 148°W)
Parameter Description
Ice fabric refers to the direction of the c-axes of an assemblage of ice crystals. The c-axis for one grain is specified by a polar and azimuthal angle or, equivalently, a point on a hemisphere of unit radius.
Sample Data Record
Following are the first several lines of "804.595v.txt." The first line of the data file is the depth from which the sample was taken and whether the thin section was cut horizontally (H) or vertically (V) to the core axis. Each file contains three columns below the first line of data, titled "Grain #," "theta," and "phi." The "theta" and "phi" columns represent the polar angle and azimuthal angle (c-axis directions, both in decimal degrees), respectively.
Grain #
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Data Acquisition and Processing
Ice has a hexagonal crystal structure consisting of stacks of basal planes of molecules arranged in hexagons. The crystal orientation is specified by the direction of a c-axis (perpendicular to the basal planes) and a 6-fold degenerate a-axis (in the basal plane). Ice is optically and acoustically uniaxial, so optical and acoustic techniques can only determine the direction of the c-axis. Hence, for most purposes, the fabric refers to the direction of the c-axes of an assemblage. The c-axis for one grain is specified by a polar and azimuthal angle or, equivalently, a point on a hemisphere of unit radius. The fabric is typically represented on a Schmidt plot, which maps each crystal c-axis direction from a point on the hemisphere to a circle, using an equal-area projection. The distribution of crystal axes is also often characterized using other average measures that indicate how random or concentrated the fabric is, or how the axes are distributed about the vertical axis.
For each orientation of the section, the fabric instrument acquires a sequence of 20 images as the polarizers rotate by 5º increments. Each image is an average of 10 video frames. The image resolution is 576 by 576 pixels. The field of view is 100 by 100 mm. The image sequences are acquired for nine different angular settings of the table/sample given by: 0/0, 45/0, 45/45, 45/90, 45/135, 45/180, 45/225, 45/270, and 45/315. A computer takes 16 minutes to image and rotate all of the stages. The nine image sequences (60 MB) are stored on mass-storage media and analyzed whenever convenient, by specifying the grains or grain regions.
A simple mapping algorithm allows each grain region to be tracked through all the sequences. For each grain, a fit to the extinction curve yields an extinction angle for every sequence. These are denoted by αiexp in the equation below, where i indexes the sequence number. The technique for finding the unique c-axis orientation from the extinction angles is as follows.
Every c-axis direction (or point on a Schmidt plot) corresponds to a unique set of extinction angles for the nine sequences. The extinction angles are found by rotating the c-axis in the appropriate way (for each of the nine sequences), and then calculating the azimuthal angle of the rotated c-axis. See Wilen et al. (2003) for an example. Denote these theoretical extinction angles as αith(θc,φc), where θc and φc specify the c-axis direction, and i indexes the sequence number. Define the function:
R2 is close to zero whenever the theoretical and experimental extinction angles are in close agreement. The factor of 2 in the argument of the sine accounts for the 90° degeneracy (adding multiples of 90° to αiexp does not change the value of R2). A minimization of R2 with respect to θc and φc determines the unique c-axis direction.
Processing Steps
The grains to be analyzed are specified in a number of different ways.
1. The grains may be chosen manually from the 0/0 sequence of images by clicking on a region in each grain.
2. A grid may be defined and each region on the grid analyzed. Grid points that fall on grain boundaries or other anomalous regions prove impossible to analyze and are automatically discarded.
3. Images may be analyzed to find grain boundaries, and the grain boundary outlines may be used to automatically pick regions in the center of grains. This works well on very clean sections, but in general, the researcher may need to correct some fraction of the outlines by hand. Either way, the grain boundary outlines may also be used to find textural characteristics of grains.
Error Sources
Many of the vertical sections were not mounted vertically in the instrument for various technical reasons; therefore, the pattern of c-axes is actually rotated from the vertical. The mount orientation of the samples is given in a separate file titled, "sample orientation.doc." This file contains a list of all the samples specified by depth, followed by the tipping angle.
To rotate the c-axes to "vertical," convert the two Euler angles to unit vectors, and rotate the vectors by the tipping angle about the z-axis.
To rotate the c-axes to "horizontal," rotate the vectors about the x-axis by 90°.
Data were taken primarily from the Siple Dome A core. Source cores for each thin section are listed in the "sample orientation.doc" file.
The automated fabric instrument employs a fiber-optic white light source, one fixed black-and-white video camera, and four rotations stages. Two of the rotation stages contain the polarizers, and the other two (table and sample stages) are used to rotate the thin section of ice to specified orientations.
References and Related Publications
Contacts and Acknowledgments
Larry Wilen
Ohio University
Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
Athens, OH 45701
This research was supported by NSF OPP award #0135989, Collaborative Research: Fabric and Texture Characteristics of Micro-Physical Processes in Ice.
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March 2005
Document Revision Date
March 2005
Document Review Date
March 2005
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The justices unanimously found the bans on brothels, communicating for the purposes of prostitution and living off its avails violate the Charter of Rights and Freedoms because they endanger hookers' lives.
"It makes no difference that the conduct of pimps and johns is the immediate source of the harms suffered by prostitutes," Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin wrote in the judgment. "The impugned laws deprive people engaged in risky, but legal, activity of the means to protect themselves against those risks."
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- Salazar: A Political Biography by Filipe Ribeiro de Meneses
A few years ago, Oliveira Salazar was the winner of a popularity contest organized by Portuguese national television (RTP) and considered the "greatest Portuguese" in history. The popularity of the Portuguese dictator on this television show, however, does not match with the amount of scholarship dedicated to his life and to his role in Portuguese history. Until this book by Filipe Ribeiro de Meneses, a Portuguese historian at National University of Ireland at Maynooth, professional historians did not venture to produce a biography of Salazar. Meneses's book is, therefore, a courageous effort and a successful one. The book, as the author acknowledges, reflects the remarkable development, since the 1990s, of the historiography on Salazar's regime - the New State - that allowed us to have a deeper understanding of the politics, society, economy and even the culture of Salazar's Portugal. This scholarship, recognizes Meneses, helped him to contextualize the actions of the dictator in his own time and space.
In the eternal dilemma between structure and agency, the former seems to have the upper hand on Meneses's book, which is something positive. The author pays great attention to the larger contexts - domestic and international - in which Oliveira Salazar thought, decided, and acted throughout the decades. A mere look at the titles of the chapters reveals this concern. Only the first, "From Santa Comba Dão to São Bento," and the last, "Illness, Retirement, and Death" are organized around the personal life of Salazar. All other chapters evoke major international events or contexts such as "The New State in the Age of Totalitarianism," "The Spanish Civil War," "World War II," or "The Postwar World," [End Page 267] or relevant domestic circumstances, such as "A New Opposition" or "Portugal at War: The 1960s,"
Meneses does not dodge away from the ever-controversial debate on the nature of the political system created and maintained by Salazar. He highlights the theoretical difficulties in equating the New State with fascism, closely following the discussions in the fields of history and political science and stressing the "obstacles in twinning the New State with fascism" (162). Among them are "the lack of mass mobilization, the moderate nature of Portuguese nationalism, the careful and ultimately apolitical selection of the narrow elite who ran the country [. . .] the rejection of violence as a means of transforming society," the absence of a "strong party behind the leader." Above all, of course, stands Salazar himself, the only 20th century "great dictator" whose "public prominence rested on academic merit" (162-163).
Meneses prefers, therefore, to follow the interpretation of Portuguese historian Valentim Alexandre, who recently claimed the distinction between fascism, "ultramontanism" and the "various currents of the authoritarian and conservative right" was "very clear when it comes to principles" but could "easily dissolve in political practice" (165). This book seems to prove this assertion: although Meneses stresses the "Christian-Democratic" roots of Salazar's ideological formation, he quickly recognizes that "the subsequent history of the New State consists [. . .] of the pragmatic abandonment of all high-minded ideals, and of much of the Christian-Democratic political ideology that animated its founder" (87).
Although he refuses to label Salazar's regime as fascist, Meneses does not ignore the most dictatorial and aggressive features of the New State. Therefore he reminds the reader of how "power of the State was systematically reinforced" since the early inception of the regime and also of the "centralization of the decision-making power in a few hands" (87). When Salazar became leader of the government, in 1932, there was a gradual disappearance of cabinet meetings, replaced by "bilateral" meetings between him and the ministers. Information was "concentrated in his person" and the members of the government became "mere technicians" (102). The Constitution of 1933, an "instrument of Salazar's will" (108), created a real "dictatorship of the President of the Council of Ministers" (196) and also a "police state" (107), subjecting political and civil rights to "a number of conditions that were shamelessly exploited by the executive...


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