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The terms of engagement are straightforward for most modern archers: Whitetail bowhunting involves elevated stands and close-quarter ground blinds. This needs no explanation because the advantages are self evident: Resulting shots are typically short-ranged (kind of the point), pressure-filled, and oftentimes somewhat contorted.
By Patrick Meitin
In no other archery pursuit is a hunt-specific bow so obviously indicated. Although a general bow will see you through whitetail season, the open-country speed rig (for, say, desert Coues whitetail) or a "big gun" setup (for elk or moose) simply don't represent the best tools for the average whitetail hunter.
The Whitetail Bow
Short bows are often touted as ideal for whitetail hunting, but I disagree. Sure, they're maneuverable, but short bows are also inherently unstable and more difficult to shoot.
Speed is also an industry obsession of late. There's something about whitetail hunting that rattles my cage like no other game — bugling elk and Cape buffalo included. There's something about going from complete inactivity — sometimes bored witless and borderline hypothermic — to "Oh My Gosh!" in a blink of an eye. This is what makes bow shots at whitetails more challenging than meets the eye.
Because of runaway nerves, stiff muscles and that inevitable surprise factor, I seek forgiveness and silky smoothness in a whitetail rig. Today's shortest and fastest bows simply don't provide that clemency.
A bow's length is relative to draw length and brace height. Those with shorter draw lengths won't experience the same amount of torque a shooter with longer draw length will experience.
Brace height is directly related to forgiveness. The longer the brace, the less time arrows spend on the string, allowing less time to introduce human error, especially following a sloppy, tension-filled release at a trophy buck. Short brace heights accompany fast bow designs, but they are also associated with radical cams that draw roughly. In regard to pure length, middle-ground bow lengths of 35 to 36 inches are a great compromise between maneuverability and stability, although I don't feel handicapped when wielding 38- to 40-inch models because they offer even more stability.
When it's cold and nerves are red-lined, I want a smooth-drawing bow to assure automatic shootability with no distractions. I also drop my normal 70-pound summer draw weight down to about 60 to 65 pounds.
Whitetail Sights
Choosing the ideal bow sight for whitetail hunting can be summed up in two words: KISS and bright. In other words, keep it simple and make it as bright as possible.
Shot opportunities are often quick and fleeting: the cruising deer passing at a deliberate march, or the rutting buck dogging a hot doe. In that brief moment of truth, you don't want confusion via too many pins (most of which you'll never use while hunting anyway).
Consider three pins (like Truglo's Tru-Site Xtreme Compact) as the maximum for a whitetail rig. This will get you out to 40 yards — a safe outer range for most folks. You can use the pin gaps if you're truly (be honest) capable of 60 yards when hunting, say, the edge of a picked cropfield.
In thicker vegetation, a single pin (like Impact Archery's Solo), sighted for 25 yards, held high and low as needed, will see you through 99 percent of likely shot scenarios. Above all, keep it simple. You will be less likely to fall victim to brain hiccups that occur when a big buck knocks you off your mental pins.
The brightness stipulation needs little explanation. Any beginning whitetail hunter knows deer move best at the very edges of legal light, making bright, fiber optic pins a boon. Look for models with spooled (Cobra Boomslang), aperture-wrapped (Copper John Saxon) or extended fibers (Fuse Pilot G-Series) to see you through those dim overcast evenings or mornings beneath heavy forest canopy.
Also consider a new peep system. More specifically, choose a larger peep sight, such as a ¼-inch peep in combination with a round pin guard. The human eye naturally centers circles within circles, like a rifle peep sight. Aligning an extra large (round) peep with a round pin guard aperture — instead of centering a single pin in a smaller peep — allows top notch accuracy without sacrificing low light efficiency.
The Arrow Rest
There were once two approaches to arrow rest design: Total-capture (the revolutionary Whisker Biscuit, for example) and launcher-style drop-away (NAP Quik-Tune). The first offers ultimate control but not necessarily pinpoint accuracy. The second offers unsurpassed accuracy but no foolproof control when hands shake or draw cycles turn rough.
Total-capture rests contact arrows front to rear not only during the draw cycle (a positive), but also after release. This means without rock-steady follow through, arrows are sent off the mark through flinches or crumpled shooting form. Standard drop-away rests offer added accuracy through total fletching clearance but also because arrows spend 25 percent to 50 percent less time on the rest following release. Less time on the rest allows less time for introduced human glitches. Unfortunately, many drop-away designs make it easy to bobble arrows during shaky draw cycles.
Today's bow-hunters have the best of both worlds. The best capture/drop designs hold arrows in place while waiting (even turned upside down), more pointedly during the draw cycle. After the release, cradling forks, arms or brushes provide 100 percent fletching clearance and added accuracy forgiveness. One of the best designs around is Quality Archery Designs' Ultra Rest and similar Rip Cord Code Red. Other unique designs include NAP's Apache, MidAtlantic's Tri-Van and Trophy Taker's SmackDown FC.
Whitetail Arrows
Contrary to popular convention, I assign blazing arrow velocity a low priority while bowhunting whitetails … unless its the neurotic little Coues deer which I've hunted extensively. Seeking speed at all costs is typically a tradeoff in shot silence. Besides, today's "slow" bows are still much faster than anything we shot happily just five years ago.
Aside from low brace height and radical, rough-drawing cams — which erode forgiveness — speed is derived by subtracting arrow/broadhead weight (or increasing draw weight). Lighter arrows don't allow bows to work most efficiency, spelling excess and wasted energy manifested in vibration and bow noise.
Shot noise equals deer "jumping the string" at mid- to long distances. Just so we're clear on my position, you cannot beat a wound-up whitetail to the punch by shooting faster arrows. Sound travels at about 1,128 feet per second (sea level, 70 degrees F), which is three to four times faster than today's hottest compounds. A whitetail's reaction time is measured in milliseconds.
Heavier arrows absorb more energy, becoming more efficient (penetrating deeper on dreaded bone hits), but more pointedly to our discussion here, are quieter after release. Less noise equals less string jumping. In bowhunting whitetails, intimacy breeds immediacy.
Another selling point of heavier arrows directly related to whitetail hunting is less likelihood of deflection. Most whitetails live in brushy areas, and heavy arrows better stay the course after contacting leaves and light twigs than lighter projectiles.
When I say "heavy," I'm thinking in terms of arrow shafts weighing 10 to 12 grains per inch (gpi) in standard deflections used by average archers (29-inch draw at around 65 pounds of draw weight). Easton's Axis and Axis Full Metal Jacket, Beman's Classic, Trophy Ridge's Crush, Carbon Tech's Rhino or Carbon Express' Arimid KV or PileDriver all make perfect examples. These arrows also assure added dependability following punishing hits.
What's more, while 100-grain broadheads have become an industry touchstone, 125-grain models (or heavier, such as Steel Force's indestructible 145-grain Phathead) still deserve a firm place in the whitetail hunter's arsenal. Placing a heavier head up front adds additional weight for silence, for sure, but also boosts front-of-center (FOC) balance, creating a more stable arrow following a nerve-induced sloppy release, and an arrow also less prone to radical deflection following contact with in-flight obstacles. What this might look like on paper is a 12 percent to 14 percent FOC instead of a less stable single-digit percentile; or, for example, a paper airplane wearing a paper clip on its nose as opposed to one without.
You can determine FOC by first finding the balance point of your finished arrow — point installed — and marking it. Next, find the measured center of the shaft between the cutoff point and nock throat and mark that. Measure the distance between these marks and divide by arrow length — cutoff to nock throat. Move the decimal point two spaces right to convert to a percentage.
On the subject of broadhead design: Use what appeals to your sensibilities, but keep in mind: Deployable-blade broadheads — while providing easier tuning and wider cutting diameters — also require more energy to assure ample penetration. Wide cutting diameters (more than 1¼ to 1½ inches) and steeper cutting-edge attack angles require additional push for complete pass-throughs.
Two holes are always better than one, especially when shooting from an elevated position that leaves a single entrance wound high on the animal to spill little trailing blood. Pressed for an ideal, I choose fixed-blade heads with 13/16-inch cutting diameters (standard Muzzys) or efficient mechanical designs not requiring blades to swing 180 degrees (Rage). But that's just me.
Whitetail Silence
Modern innovation renders compound bows quieter each year. But in bow-hunting whitetails there's no such thing as "too quiet," even if your bow is factory-equipped with string suppressors, onboard vibration dampeners and specially-lined limb pockets. Aftermarket anti-vibration/silencing gear actually lives up to advertising hype and should be liberally added to your whitetail rig.
Original Sims LimbSaver silencers, and other brands that followed (BowJax), work wonders on bows not already wearing them out of the box. Active stabilizers, like Doinker or PSE/Vibracheck products, actually pull unwanted vibrations and noise from bow risers and are worth the added weight. Also look to cable slides and accessories (bow sights especially, but also some arrow rests) as sources of deer-spooking buzzes, and add adhesive-backed or slide-on silencers as needed.
No bow should enter the field without adhesive-backed arrow-shelf padding or string silencers, choosing Cat Whiskers (Rancho Safari), String Leeches (Sims) or yarn puffs (E.W. Bateman) as needed. I find even string suppressor-equipped bows can be made quieter by adding string silencers.
When bowhunting for whitetails, we normally don't need to shoot far, but we must shoot straight under the sometimes extremely demanding conditions of cold accompanied by muscles grown stiff with inactivity. Whitetails are also demanding — wound tightly and always ready to skedaddle. Assuring your bow is whitetail-ready means assembling a rig that meets these unique demands.
— Patrick Meitin is an expert archer and an accomplished big-game bowhunter. He lives in northern Idaho.


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[WARNING: The following story contains spoilers about Thursday's Season 3 finale of How to Get Away with Murder. Read at your own risk.] Count Karla Souza as another How to Get Away with Murder star who did not predict who killed Wes (Alfred Enoch).… Read more

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NEW YORK (AP) — One of the pleasures of hearing opera in concert form is the chance to encounter lesser-known works performed by young singers still on their way to becoming stars.
Monday night's presentation by the Opera Orchestra of New York offered just such an opportunity, as tenor Michael Fabiano thrilled the crowd at Avery Fisher Hall with a breakout performance in the role of Oronte in Verdi's "I Lombardi."
Fabiano, 28, has developed a successful career in lyric roles since winning the Metropolitan Opera auditions six years ago (a competition depicted in the documentary "The Audition"). But his New York appearances had been limited until now to one minor and one supporting role at the Met.
That's likely to change, and soon. From his first number, the aria "La mia letizia infondere," Fabiano filled the house with vibrant, exciting sound, showing deep feeling for Italianate style and paying scrupulous attention to dynamic nuances. His upper register, though still not his strongest suit, sounded far more secure than a few years ago. For his final appearance, Fabiano sang a solo standing in a second-tier box next to the stage as an angel looking down on Earth, and the effect was, well, heavenly.
Most of all, he communicated a joy and an urgency in his singing that brought his character to life, even out of costume in front of an open score.
Those qualities were in shorter supply in the performance of his co-star, soprano Angela Meade as the heroine Giselda. As usual, this prodigiously talented singer showed off a voice of rare fullness and ease, along with awesome technical mastery. Yet too often there was something missing — a certain blandness or lack of involvement. On a couple of occasions when she caught fire and let loose, the results were thrilling and suggested her full potential.
"I Lombardi," Verdi's fourth opera, is full of wonderful music, much of it pointing ahead to his later masterworks, but it's hobbled by a ridiculous plot involving revenge, patricide and the First Crusade. The role of Oronte, however — relatively brief but packed with gorgeous melodies — has long attracted great tenors. Previous OONY performances featured Jose Carreras and Carlo Bergonzi, and it was one of the last new roles Luciano Pavarotti took on during his Met career.
There's a second important role for a tenor in the opera, and Noah Baetge sang it with rich sound and clarion high notes. As the villain who repents, Kevin Short displayed an imposing bass voice. Members of the New York Choral Society performed the many choruses with fervor.
Erica Kiesewetter, the orchestra's concertmaster, drew warm applause for the extended violin solo that introduces Oronte's death scene. Eve Queler, founder of the OONY, conducted with deep affection for and understanding of this youthful score by a budding genius.


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The time is right to start thinking about the baseball season. That's what we get to do this week, the NFL calendar sadly complete, the NHL schedule still in a lower gear. We get to think about spring training and the baseball season.
The time is right to start thinking about the baseball season. That's what we get to do this week, the NFL calendar sadly complete, the NHL schedule still in a lower gear. We get to think about spring training and the baseball season.
The Joe Paterno story is back in the news, his family digging in hard to save his name. Alex Rodriguez and steroids have made their way to the back pages once again. All of it preceded by Lance Armstrong coming clean and Manti Te'o centering one of the weirdest stories we've ever heard.
Now we are digging in, but not like the Paternos. We are digging in for winter's doldrums, the weekend snow and ice that covered driveways Monday morning, so we can have our baseball season.
Many folks are deeper into the game than me. The new-stat peeps often make me cringe. The baseball poets tend to spend an exceptional amount of time still selling their sport as America's game.
It is not, of course, football being more popular in every poll around. But that is OK, too. It's not a contest. It's a dichotomy. Baseball will forever have at least one edge on football arriving amid the scorching sun of training camp in late July, when shorts, shorelines and sun rule the month.
Baseball beckons as we curse the perils of winter — first the panicky, ratings-driven forecasts — and a long February slowed by the sporting void. You want an underrated decision? Find the person(s) responsible for choosing spring training's opening dates.
Pitchers and catchers report for the Yankees and Mets on Tuesday. Perfect.
There will be ample time to decipher the rosters. We will spend the spring wondering if the Mets plan to run out that outfield on opening day. We will wonder if the Wilpons plan to show their commitment by spending more than dimes and nickels.
We will use pieces of the spring wondering if the Yanks have reached a crossroads of an aging roster. We will wonder if Andy Pettitte and Mariano Rivera and Derek Jeter and Mark Teixeira have another run in them instead of symbolizing the past.
There will be time for all of that, plenty of time. But for now, we smile warmly at the thought of kid pitchers mowing down visiting lineups at Citi Field. For now, we shake our heads in amazement at a certain 38-year-old shortstop on schedule to start another hardball season four months after breaking his left ankle. We shouldn't be surprised, of course, that Derek Jeter ran for the first time on Monday, that he's on track for opening day. He said he would make it back. That should be enough.
Spring training has arrived. On Monday, a Tweet came in from @CC_Sabathia — "Tampa bound!'' — showing the full breadth of spring training. It's not just the fans and the media itching for the start of baseball and all its wonder. It's the millionaires themselves, their wallets lined but their goals unfulfilled.
Now we get a respite from the chilly air and lukewarm sports calendar. A toast to spring training.
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The Cortez Journal encourages people to submit announcements about upcoming events for the Community Calendar. Send announcements to firstname.lastname@example.com. Items submitted at least two weeks in advance will have a better chance of getting published; items submitted several days before the event might not get published. For more information, call the Journal at 565-8527.
Harlem Ambassadors basketball show
Get ready for dazzling ball-handling tricks, high flying slam dunks and hilarious family comedy. Join the Harlem Ambassadors basketball show on Wednesday, March 13 at 7 p.m. as they take on the Montezuma Mavericks at the Montezuma-Cortez High School gym. Purchase tickets in advance for $7 for students and seniors or $10 for adults, at the Cortez Cultural Center, 25 N. Market St. and at M-CHS. Tickets will also be available at the door for $2 more. Admission free for age 5 and under. All proceeds benefit the Cortez Cultural Center, 565-1151.
Montezuma Valley Farm Hub seminar series
The Montezuma Valley Farm Hub presents High Desert Homesteading practical skills in raising food for small farmers, rural landowners and backyard enthusiasts. The first of eight courses, "It's Not Dirt, It's Soil - Soil Science, Organic Matter, and Compost," is scheduled for Wednesday, March 13 from 7 to 9 p.m. at Let It Grow Nursery, 90 North Mildred Road. The cost of each class is $15. You can take one, two or all or purchase a seven class seminar card for $85. Purchase your tickets at Let It Grow. Refreshments and educational materials are included. Contact Rosie Carter at 565-4170 or Nina Williams at 560-1443 for more information.
Horsemen to hold monthly meeting
The Four Corners Back Country Horsemen will hold their monthly meeting on Thursday, March 14 at the La Plata County Fairgrounds in Durango. Social time will begin at 6:30 p.m. and the meeting will start at 7. Guests are always encouraged to attend.
This is an important meeting to attend if you'll be volunteering to work at the Tack Sale in April. There will be an ice cream social starting at 6:30.
To learn more, go to: www.4cbch.org or call Bob Volger, chapter president, at 970-883-4004 or email@example.com
Core essence course
Learn how to connect to and work with your 5th dimensional energy field through your core essence. Join Carla Fox at the Cultural Center 25 N. Market, March 14 7 p.m. $10 at the door For more information call the center at 565-1151 or Carla at 565-2624
Supper Bowl and Cupcake Bar benefit
Come out Friday, March 15 from 5-7 p.m. for a build-your-own "Supper" Bowl of chili, baked potato, and salad for $3 a bowl. All proceeds will benefit American Cancer Society - Relay for Life coming up July 19, 2013.
Treats will be available from the Cupcake Bar for a donation. Complimentary coffee and assorted teas will be provided. A silent auction will be held with bids closing at 7:05. This fundraiser is under the direction of Team God's Kidz and will be held in the lower level of First Baptist Church, 100 North Market Street in Cortez, across from the Cortez Cultural Center and Ertel Funeral Home. For more information contact team captain, Donna Pharo at 565-3193.
Spring Hoedown multi-band fundraiser
The Spring Hoedown fundraiser is set for Saturday, March 16 from 5:30 to 11 p.m. at the Mancos Opera House. This event benefits Montezuma School to Farm Project and Pay It Forward Fund. There will be musical performances by Robbie Overfield and the Breaks, Hello Dollface, Caruta Roma, as well as square dancing and line-dancing. There will also be a silent auction, and food, beer and wine will be available for purchase. Admission is $20 for adults; ages 17 and under are free. Tickets are available at Maria's Bookstore (Durango), Zuma Natural Foods (Mancos), Dolores Food Market, Spruce Tree Espresso (Cortez), or at the door. For more information, contact Tami Graham at 759-9716.
4H Western Swing
Come dance with the 4H Western Swing on March 16 from 7 to 11 p.m. at the Montezuma County Annex building on 103 N. Chestnut. DJ Mr. Soul will be providing the entertainment and refreshments will be available for purchase. The cost is $5 for singles and $8 for couples. Tickets will be available at the door. Contact Sherry at 529-6174 or Vonnie at 749-9682 for more information.
Bake sale fundraiser
There will be a St. Margaret Mary Youth Bake Sale on Sunday, March 17 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Cortez City Market. Funds will go to sending youth to Steubenville of the Rockies in Denver and to World Youth Day in Brazil this summer.
Call for Mentors
The Piñon Project will be at the Mancos Public Library on Wednesday, March 20, from 9:30 a.m. to noon to talk about its mentoring program. The program matches at-risk youth with an adult volunteer who serves as a one-on-one mentor, friend and advocate. The Piñon Project's Mentoring Program is the only program of this type in the area. People interested in learning more, or becoming a mentor, should come to the meeting or call the Piñon Project at 564-1195.
Wonder Women film
In celebration of Women's History Month, Community Cinema at the Mancos Public Library, located at 211 W. First St., will host a screening of Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines. This film traces the fascinating evolution and legacy of Wonder Woman, from the birth of the comic book superheroine in the 1940s to the blockbusters of today, the film looks at how popular representations of powerful women often reflect in society's anxieties about women's liberation. Thursday, March 21 at 7 p.m. in the MPL meeting room. Free and open to the public. For more information call the library at 533-7600.
Presentation: 'Lincoln's Legacy of Equality and Liberty'
On Saturday, March 23, Montezuma County Court Judge Jennilynn Everett will present "Lincoln's Legacy of Equality and Liberty." The program was developed by the Colorado Bar Association and is sponsored by the League of Women Voters of Montezuma County. It will be held at 9 a.m. at the Ponderosa Restaurant, 108 S. 8th, Dolores. The presentation is open to the public. For more information, contact Betty Janes at 533-1051 or email@example.com.
Leave No Trace training
Dolores River Boating Advocates will host a "Leave No Trace" awareness workshop for whitewater boaters on Saturday, March 23 at 4Corners Riversports in Durango from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Learn how to minimize impacts to the rivers. Rick Ryan, former BLM Dolores River ranger, will lead the training. Cost is $10, which includes lunch and all materials. Space is limited, register by calling 799-1475 or email email@example.com.
Messianic Passover Seder
Passover Seder will be held on Monday, March 25 at 6 p.m. at 15325 Rd. 22 (north of Cortez, near Road S, off Highway 491). As celebrated in homes throughout the world, the Passover Seder is rich with historical meaning and traditions, as well as with Messianic symbolism. Passover is a holy convocation, a calling together for a sacred assembly. The observance will last about three hours and includes reading together through the Haggadah, eating the symbolic elements, drinking the cups, partaking of a meal of traditional foods, partaking of the Lord's Supper, all with music and worship and in order. An optional $10 donation would be appreciated. Please RSVP to one of the following by March 20: Mike and Paulette Gasner, 882-7696; Ron and Carolyn Lucus, 565-2430; Jeanette Conacher, 560-1651; Pat Grant, 560-2848; or Jean Oliver, 565-0747.
Bingo in Dolores
Dolores Rotary Bingo will be held Tuesday, March 26 at 6:30 p.m. Dinner (chili and soups, drink and dessert for $5) Bingo begins at 7 p.m. Help support the Dolores Operation Graduation by playing Bingo.
Easter party for children
All children in kindergarten through fourth grade are invited to attend an Easter party from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday, March 30, at the Montezuma Valley Presbyterian Church, 350 S. Washington St., Cortez, directly across the street from Manaugh School.
This activity is being organized by the "Fellowshipping Fun Loving Outreaching Christian" committee and the Youth Group of the church. Numerous games and activities are being planned for the children to enjoy. A raffle will be held for a number of items, including a large vinyl bunny. Refreshments will be available for parents who accompany their children.
For more information, contact the church at 565-7024 or Jack Robbins at 882-1444.
Driver safety course offered by AARP
AARP will sponsored a driver safety course Tuesday, April 2 from 12:30 to 5 p.m. at the Calvin Denton Room in the Empire Electric Building.
This course is authorized by the state of Colorado and is designed to meet the needs of older drivers. Completion of this course can qualify you for a discount on your automobile insurance.
The course is available to all motorists whether or not they are members of AARP. A $12 fee for AARP members and a $14 fee for nonmembers is to be paid by check, (no cash or credit card) which covers materials. Please bring your driver's license and your AARP membership number (if you have one).
Register with Scott and Judy Aeschlimann at 565-3872. Leave name and phone number on the answering machine if no one is available. The class number is limited.
Two on Tap coming to Cortez
Southwest Colorado Concerts presents Two on Tap performing a concert of song and tap dance, on Tuesday, April 2 at 7 p.m. in the Montezuma-Cortez High School auditorium. Two On Tap marks the creative collaboration of two celebrated Broadway musical theatre performers Melissa Giattino and Ron DeStefano. Tickets will be on sale at the door; single-concert tickets are $20 for adults and $5 for youth, 18 years old and under. Season tickets for the four-concert 2013-2014 season will also be on sale, $45 for adults and $10 for youth 18 years old and younger. If you are not a current season ticket holder and purchase a season ticket for the 2013-2014 season at this concert, you will get into Two On Tap for free. For more information contact Paul Bostrom at 565-9127 or Joyce Stevenson at 565-4757
Computer classes at Cortez library
The Cortez Public Library, 202 N. Park St., and the Unlimited Learning Center will offer computer classes in April.
On Thursday April, 11 at 1 p.m.: Basic Internet Searching. Subjects covered will include: World Wide Web, URLs, Links, Web Browsers, Toolbars on Web Browsers, Address Bar, Simple Searching Tips and Techniques.
Staff from the Southwest Colorado Workforce Center will be teaching a computer class on finding a job on Friday, April 12, at 1 p.m.
On Thursday, April 25 at 1 p.m. the Cortez Public Library will present "Getting an Email with Gmail."
All classes at the library must be signed up for ahead of time. Sign up by calling 565-8117 or by stopping by the library. To find out more about the classes at the Unlimited Learning Center call 565-1601.
9Health Fair coming to Mancos
The 2013 9Health Fair, sponsored locally by the Mancos Valley Loins Club, will be held April 13 at the Mancos Middle School from 7 a.m. to noon. Don't miss this opportunity for low-cost and free health care screenings for individuals over the age of 18.
Participants can review screening options, register and pre-pay for their screenings online at www.9healthfair.org. There will be a separate entry for the pre-pay participants; watch for signs.
Volunteers are needed during the fair and for setup and clean up. If you are interested in helping with the 9Health Fair, non-medical volunteers can contact Val Hobson at 533-7874 and medical volunteers can contact Deana Yeomans at 533-7985.


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jjacobi necesitaba un nuevo diseño de banner publicitario y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 29 diseños de 12 diseñadores freelance.
We want One (1) 1086 x 359 Banner, advertising kaazing.com (a real-time Web streaming solution). Check out the site to get an idea for application colors, theme, etc. The banner need to illustrate speed and scalability.
We need a banner that illustrates the architecture of our solution in a layman terms. The banner is expected to cater towards Financials and others caring about performance and simplicity.
One(1) 1086 x 359 Banner, advertising Kaazing's solution (a real-time Web streaming solution). Check out the http://www.kaazing.com site to get an idea for colors, theme, etc.
Our solution supports all major browsers on the market AND can connect to any TCP-based system on the backend (see architecture diagram - http://www.kaazing.com/content/imag…ecture.png. This is functional image and not so sexy or cool, but this an important part to our solution and incorporating it into the banner is critical. However, we think you can do a much better job in making it look cool, fast, and illustrative.
Logo EPS files for use with design (if you need them):
- We want a flash animation
- We like subtle and 3D animations
- We our architecture shown in a simple and cool way
- We want room for a tagline/slogan and a small blurb beside or above or wherever you make space.
- We want buttons for Free trial and Take a Tour
- You can use "Take Complete Control of your Web architecture" as tagline and the following "Extend the reach of your real-time systems to the Web"
- We don't like rainbows ;)
- We too much stuff - simpler is better


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EFOLD (Jan96) xanadu.xronos EFOLD (Jan96) NAME efold -- Creates folded lightcurves and plots up to 4 simultaneous time series. For multi-time series, ratio and sum are also calculated. USAGE efold nser file(s)+options window sepoch dper nphase nbint nintfm plot plotdev plotdnum outfile DESCRIPTION This task calculates folded lightcurves, plots and outputs the results (in a FITS file). Up to 4 simultaneous time series can be input (See FILELIST and INPUT FILE OPTIONS) and ratios and sums are calculated (for more that 2 input series). The input file format is FITS using the BINTABLE extension. Both binned data format and event format are input. Time, Phase, Intensity and Exposure windows (See WINDOW) allow for data screening. Input data can be divided into Intervals and Frames (See GENERAL XRONOS TERMINOLOGY). In folding applications the newbin time corresponds to the time duration of a phase bin in the folded light curve, internally calculated after input a number of phase bins. Folded lightcurves from different intervals can be averaged in one or more frame. The standard plot output is normalised counts/sec versus phase, but for multiple time series the hardness and colour-colour diagrams are available where appropriate. The plotting is performed through PLT, and further plot manipulation or data fitting can be done from the PLT prompt (See also PLOT). The analysis results are written, if specified, into a FITS file (See OUTPUT file). The error bars are calculated after averaging folded lightcurves from different intervals in a frame, either using the standard deviation of the mean values of each phase bin or propagating the error in each phase. The first method is used if the number of intervals is higher than the value set for the "errorbars" parameter (default =5). Different normalizations can be used for the folded lightcurve by changing the parameter "normalization" (See normalization). normalizationS The "normalization" paramater has the following meanings (and values) : * =0 folded light curve are normalised to counts/s * =1 (d/f) folded light curves are normalised by dividing by the average source intensity in the frame (normalised intensity) If other values than those listed above are used, they are treated as =0. Note the hardness ratios are not affected by the normalization flag. GENERAL XRONOS TERMINOLOGY Within XRONOS tasks, BINS and NEWBINS control the binning used in the analysis, INTERVALS the subdivision of the time series and FRAME the grouping of the output results: BINS : these are the time bins of the time series being analysed. More than one input file can have different bin durations, e.g. two consecutive time series, one with 0.5 s bins and the other with 2 s bins. The original bin time is the value stored in the input file in the keyword TIMEDEL. If the data are stored in each row as an array with 1CTYPn = 'TIME', the original bin is set to the value stored in the keyword 1CDLTn (where n is the column number). NEWBINS : these correspond to the time resolution at which the analysis is carried out. Note that: (i) newbins cannot be shorter than the longest bin duration of the time series being analysed; (ii) in many XRONOS applications (e.g. powspec, autocor, crosscorr) the newbin duration is forced to be an integer multiple of the longest bin duration. INTERVAL : an interval is defined by the number of newbins over which the analysis is carried out. Note that in applications using FFT algorithms (e.g. powspec, autocor and crosscor set in fast mode) the number of newbins in an interval is a power of 2. FRAME : a frame consists of the average of the results of the analysis of one or more contiguous intervals. Note that in 'lcurve', 'efsearch' and 'lcstats' a frame consists always of one interval. WINDOWS If any window is required during the analysis, a window file containing the relevant windows must be created with the application XRONWIN, before running a XRONOS task. There are 4 different types of windows : * Time Windows : consist of up to 1000 time intervals * Phase Windows : consist of an Epoch, a Period and up to 10 phase intervals * Intensity Windows : consist of up to 10 intensity in bin, newbin and interval * Exposure Windows : consist of up to 1 exposure in bin, newbin and interval Intensity and Exposure Windows can be specified independently for: (i) Bins , (ii) New Bins , (iii) Intervals. When dealing with more than one time series, Intensity and Exposure Windows must be specified separately for each series. Time and Phase windows are applied to Bins. Intensity and Exposure windows are applied first to Bins, then Newbins and finally to Intervals as specified. For time and phase windows, only those bins whose center time is within the start and stop of a time window or phase window (for a specified epoch and period) are accepted. Intensity windows must be ordered with increasing intensity and if set for newbins can be used in conjunction with "Special Newbin Windows" (see below). Exposure Windows consist of a minimum and a maximum exposure level. Units are such that 1 means 100% exposure. The Newbin Exposure is obtained by propagating the bin exposures to each newbin. For example, if in a 30 s newbin the total exposure (due to the sum of the individual exposure of the bins contributing to the given newbin) is 18 s then its exposure is 60%. The Interval Exposure is the ratio of accepted to expected newbins: for example, if a 128 newbin long interval contains only 32 accepted newbins, then its exposure is 25%. Many XRONOS application use some default exposure windows, which are designed to avoid analysing data sets which are too inhomogeneous with respect to their statistical properties. The minimum default Exposure windows in an Interval is set to 0.0 in the lcurve, efold and efsearch and to 0.5 (i.e. 50% exposure ) in all the other tasks. Note that exposures can be higher than 100% (e.g. if the newbin time is not a multiple of the bin time, then "beats" are generated which might bring the exposure of a newbin to values >100%; or if two or more input files for the same time series overlap in part, some of the newbins will be more than 100% exposed). IMPORTANT NOTE WHEN TIME WINDOWS ARE SET IN THE WINDOW FILE: The time used within XRONOS tasks is Truncated Julian Days (TJD= JD-2440000.5) if either (1) the keyword MJDREF is present in the header or (2) if the TIMESYS value is one of the following strings MJD or JD or TJD. If (2), the time values are expected to be stored as JD, MJD or TJD in the header keywords and in the TIME column in which case the MJDREF keyword is not used (it should not be present). When Time windows are set using XRONWIN, they must be compatible with the values in header of the timing keywords and/or the values in the TIME column. An additional window type called "Special Newbin Window" can be set directly from the parameter file. Special Newbin Windows are used to exclude the parts of a light curve which immediately follow or precede a burst or a background event which has been rejected by intensity windows in newbins. The Special Window operates on newbins in conjunction with intensity windows (in newbins) and are specified by changing to positive values the parameters 'spwinbefore' and 'spwindowafter'. Their use is the following: if e.g. spwinbefore is set =10, all newbins, whose center time is within 10 second before the center time of a newbin rejected by intensity windows, will also be rejected; if e.g. spwindowafter is set =20, all newbins, whose center time is within 20 second after the center time of a newbin rejected by intensity windows, will also be rejected. FILELIST and INPUT FILE OPTIONS To input multiple files for each time series, a file containing the list of files is needed (Filelist). The Filelist is input in the program as '@Filelist'. The format of this file list is ascii and contains one filename+options per line. Files from different times series are separated by '///' mark. Below is an example of the Filelist containing 2 files for 3 different times series. file1_ser1 file2_ser1 /// file1_ser2 file2_ser2 /// file1_ser3 file2_ser3 The Input File Options (up to 10) can be specified for each file in the same input string. They consist of 2 characters followed by a numerical constant (up to 8 character long). There are two groups of options. The first allows data selection within a FITS extension. The available options within this group are : frN= start reading input file from row number N (first row) lrN= stop reading input file from row number N (last row) vxN= use column number N as x-axis (i.e. time axis, default name is TIME) vyN= use column number N as y-axis (default names are COUNT or RATE) vsN= use column number N as error for y-axis (default name is ERROR) veN= use column number N as exposure (default name FRACEXP). If the input file is an event list, exposure is by default calculated using the GTI extension. In this case, N=0 turns off the usage of the GTI extension for the exposure calculation, and N > 0 specifies the GTI extension to use. feN= select data (either binned or events) from channel number N (First Energy). For an event list channel selection is made using the column named 'PHA' leN= select data (either binned or events) to channel number N (Last Energy). For event list the default column channel name searched is 'PHA'. The option 'vcN' allows the choice of a channel column name different from 'PHA' (es. 'PI'). vcN= use column number N for channel selection (valid only for event lists). rtN= use extension N of the FITS file to read the data. The first extension is N=1 (the primary array is irrelevant). To specify the extension the following also can be used: filename[N] or filename+N. of = The MJDREF keyword is not used. The time is calculated using the TIME column and the TIMEZERO keyword. The second group of options performs algebraic operations on individual input files. They are applied in the same order in which are specified. For event files they are applied after the data are binned. The available options within this group are: stX = Shift all Time in input file by X days ssX = Shift all times in input file by X Seconds muX= multiply data and errors by X (MUltiply) mdX= multiply data by X (Multiply Data) meX= multiply errors by X (Multiply Errors maX= as muX but exposure is divided by X diX= divide data and errors by X (DIvide) ddX= divide data by X (Divide Data) deX= divide errors by X (Divide Errors) daX= as diX but exposure is multiplied by X aaX= add data and errors with X (Add All) adX= add data with X (Add Data) aeX= add errors with X (Add Errors) saX= subtract data and errors with X (Subtract All) sdX= subtract data with X (Subtract Data) seX= subtract errors with X (Subtract Errors) qaX= add to data the square of data muliplied by X and add to errors the product of data and error multiplied by X qdX= as above but for data only qeX= as above but for error only Below is an example of the Filelist containing 2 files for 3 different times series where the different options are applied to the input files for different time series. file1_ser1 aa4 add to data and error 4 file2_ser1 aa4 " " " " /// file1_ser2 rt2 aa2 read 2nd extension; add to data and error 2 file2_ser2 rt2 aa2 " " " " " " " /// file1_ser3 rt2 vy4 vs5 read 2nd extension; use column 4 and 5 for Y-axis and Error file2_ser3 rt2 vy4 vs5 " " " " " " " " " " PLOT The array of results from each XRONOS task can be plotted. The PLT routine (See also the QDP/PLT manual) provides the interactive plotting and fitting functions. The plotting function is available for the following tasks : autocor, crosscor, efold, efsearch, lcurve, powspec and timeskew. For programs that handle simultaneously more than one time series, e.g. lcurve and efold, different types of analysis result can be plotted depending on the number of input time series. For two input time series, three different plots are provided (1) the sum of the intensities of the two input series on the X-axis and on the Y-axis the count ratio (ser2/ser1) of the two input series (Hardness-plot); (2) Time (or Phase) on the X-axis and the intensity on the Y-axis for the two input time series; (3) As (2) but also the ratio is plotted. For three or four input time series two different plots are available: (1) Colour-Colour diagram that shows the ratio of ser3/ser2 or ser4/ser3 on the Y-axis (for 3 or 4 input series respectively) and ser2/ser1 (always) on the X-axis; (2) Time (or Phase) on the X-axis and the intensity on the Y-axis for the 3 (or 4) input time series. The choice of the plot type is done by setting the parameter "plotnum".Note that in the 'efold' plot with Phase on the X-axis,the Y-axis can be either count/s or count/s normalised by average source intensity. Note that for the multicolor tasks all the arrays calculated by lcurve or efold are available in 'PLT>'. A color ratio plot versus time or phase can be obtained as follows. At the prompt: Two plotting styles available: Colour-Colour [1] ; Intensity vs Time (or Phase)[ # of series (3 or 4)]; Enter PLOT style number (default=1)[] enter the number of time series. On the screen the plot has as many panels as many input series, showing the counts for each series on the Y-axis and time or phase on the X-axis.At the 'PLT>' prompt type 'info' which gives the list of arrays available. For example for 3 input series the 'info' command gives : PLT> info Scales: Grp Wind Label XData Min XData Max YData Min YData Max 1 -1 Time (s) : 3496. , 8646. : 3496. , 8646. 2 2 Ser 1 : 3496. , 8646. : 331.8 , 466.4 3 3 Ser 2 : 3496. , 8646. : 415.9 , 613.8 4 4 Ser 3 : 3496. , 8646. : 747.7 , 1080. 5 -1 Ser 2/Ser : 3496. , 8646. : 1.222 , 1.325 6 -1 Ser 3/Ser : 3496. , 8646. : 1.755 , 1.819 7 -1 Ser 1+2+3 : 3496. , 8646. : 1495. , 2160. 8 -1 : 3496. , 8646. : 1.000 , 1.000 PLT> To plot the ratios (array number 5 and 6) versus time together with the three input lightcurves use the following commands: PLT> color 1 on 5 6 PLT> plot ver PLT> plot The final plot will contain 5 panels. The first three are the input series the last two the ratios. A number of commands can be entered from the 'PLT>' prompt to allow plot customisation (e.g. Add/remove labels; Plot data with various combinations of lines, markers, and error bars; Change text fonts; Change X-axis and/or Y-axis; Change number of plotted panels; Define and Fit models to data). Useful QDP Commands are: PLT> r x xlow xhigh * Rescale X axis PLT> r y ylow yhigh * Rescale Y axis PLT> r xlow xhigh ylow yhigh * Rescale both PLT> log x * X axis is plot in logarithmic scale PLT> log y * Y axis is plot in logarithmic scale PLT> log off * Turn off the logarithmic axes (both X and Y) PLT> dev /xxx * Change the current plot device PLT> mo ? * List available model PLT> mo cons linr * Define model= constant plus linear plt> fit * Fit the defined model PLT> hardcopy filename * Hardcopy of the current plot (postscript) PLT> exit * EXit: to exit from the PLT subroutine type: The QDP/PLT software is provided and maintained by Allyn Tennant (Marshall Space Flight Center). The PLT software uses the PGPLOT Graphics Subroutine Library for plotting, written by T.J. Pearson (California Institute of Technology). OUTPUT The analysis results are output in a FITS file. Two different FITS layouts are available (see parameter outfiletype). The first stores one interval (or frame) of interval results per FITS table row, and the output file will have a single extension. The second stores one interval (or frame) per FITS extension, and the output file will have as many extensions as the number of intervals (or frames). The output file contains, besides the array of results, a number of statistical variables (and errors if appropriate) associated with each interval (or frame) for each time series. These are: 1- average count/s in frame (in a frame this is the average of the averages in intervals); 2- fractional exposure in frame (from average of fractional exposures in intervals, the latter is the ratio of good newbins to the total number of expected newbins/interval); 3-variance in frame (average of variances in intervals); 4- expected variance in frame (average of the expected variances in intervals, the latter is calculated from the error bars of the newbins); 5- 3rd moment in frame (average of 3rd moments in intervals); 6- minimum count/s in frame; 7- maximun count/s in frame; 8- excess variance in frame (average of excess variances in intervals, the latter is calculated as variance-expected variance); 9- chi-square in frame (average of chi-squares in intervals); 10-rms fractional variation in frame (average of rms fractional variation in intervals, the latter is calculated as the square root of the excess variance divided by the average. The output for 'efold' task consists of phase and counts/s vectors (with associated error columns) There are as many count/s vectors as there are of time series analysed (therefore up to 4). For 2 input series the additional columns contain the ratio (ser2/ser1) and the sum (ser1+ser2) of the input series and their errors. For 3 input series the additional columns contain two ratios (ser2/ser1 and ser3/ser2) and the sum (ser1+ser2+ser3) and their errors. For 4 input series the additional columns contain two ratios (ser2/ser1 and ser4/ser3) and the sum (ser1+ser2+ser3+ser4) and their errors. The output also contains a fractional exposure column (currently is filled with values different from 1 only for 1 input series) PARAMETERS nser (Number of time series) [integer] Number of input time series simultaneously processed. IMPORTANT NOTE: This parameter, the values of which range between 1 and 4, can be set by the user only in the "lcurve" and "efold" tasks (it is a query parameter in these two cases). In the other tasks "nser" is a non query parameter, and should not be changed from the default setting. cfile1 (filename(s) first series+options) [string] Input filename(s) for the first time series + options. The valid input files are in FITS format using the BINTABLE extension. Xronos tasks read for each time series many consecutive input files (up to 50). Additional flexibility is provided by Input File Options which are used to perform algebraic operations on individual input files (either on the 'times' or on the 'count' or 'count/s' values). The Input file Options are also used to select columns and rows within a FITS file. If the first character of the input string is '@', the rest of the string is taken to be a filename containing the list of input files (Filelist). The Filelist can contain filenames for more than one series. See description of "FILELIST and INPUT FILE OPTIONS". cfile2 (filename(s) second series) [string] As PARAMETER file1 (See description of "Filelist format and Input File Options"). cfile3 (filename(s) third series) [string] As PARAMETER file1 (See description of "Filelist format and Input File Options"). cfile4 (filename(s) fourth series) [string] SEE PARAMETER file1 (See description of "Filelist format and Input File Options"). window (name of window file) [string] Filename of the xronos window file. The window file is an ASCII file and by default a standard window file is used, where only exposure windows are set. To modify the standard file or create a new file used the script XRONWIN. epochfo (format for epoch) [integer] Specify format for the input epoch of phase zero. There are three possible formats for "epochfo": (1) days ; (2) integer days and second (dd ss) ; and (3) days hours minute second and millisecond (dd hh mm ss ms). The "epochfo" default format is set to days (1). sepoch (Epoch value) [string] Value for epoch used as phase zero in the folding. The default value is the integer day of the start time. perfo (period format) [integer] Specify format for the input period. The period can be input either as fractional days ("perfo"=1) or in seconds ("perfo"= 2). The default value is set to seconds (2). dper (period value) [double] Value for the period used in the folding. In 'efsearch' the input period represents the centre of the range of the trial periods. dpdot (period derivative) [double] Period derivative. nphase (number of phases per period) [integer] Number of phases in the folded light curve(s). Typing 'INDEF' forces the task to use the default value (see parameter "nbdf"). NOTE: By pressing return "nphase" is set to the value found in the parameter file used in a previous run. nbint (number of points per interval) [integer] The number of newbins per interval used in the analysis. The "nbint" together with the NEWBIN duration determines the length in time of an interval and therefore the total number of intervals within the start and stop time over which the analysis will be carried out. Typing 'INDEF' forces the task to use the default value (see parameter "nbdf"). NOTE: By pressing return "nbint" is set to the value found in the parameter file used in a previous run. nintfm (number of intervals per frame) [integer] The results of the analysis from individual intervals can be averaged to produce a frame. The "nintfm" is used to specify the number of intervals averaged in a frame. Typing 'INDEF' forces the task to use the default value (all intervals will be use in one frame). NOTE: By pressing return "nintfm" is set to the value found in the parameter file used in a previous run. outfile (output filename) [string] Name of the output file. If only the root is given, the program adds an extension of 3 characters, '.fXX', where f stands for FITS and XX is a suffix which identifies the program that creates the output. The XX values are : 'ac' (autocor), 'cc' (crosscor), 'ef (efold), 'es' (efsearch), 'lc' (lcurve), 'ps' (powspec), 'ts' (timeskew). Typing '-' forces the program to generate a default value for the output filename (see outfileroot parameter). By typing blank characters at the prompt no output file will be created. outfileroot (default value) [string] This parameter used in conjunction with "outfile" generates a default output filename. If the value of "outfileroot" is 'default' and "outfile" is '-', the output filename will have the same root name of the first input file of the fits series with a '.fXX' extension (see outfile for XX values). outfiletype (Type of FITS layout) [integer] Define the FITS structure for the output file. Two types are available. The first type (outfiletype=1) has 1 interval of results per FITS table row. The output file will have only one extension. Each row of the results column contains an array of values with a size equal to the number of points per interval (or frame) and a number of rows equal to the valid number of intervals analysed. The second type (outfiletype=2) has 1 interval of results per FITS extension. The output file will have as many extension as the number of intervals (or frames) analysed. The column containing the results has a single element value in each row and the number of rows is equal to the number of points in the interval. The default value of "outfiletype" is 2 (one interval per FITS extension). plot (if plot) [boolean] Flag specifying whether or not the results of the analysis are plotted via PLT (default = yes). NOTE: After plotting the results the XRONOS task is left in the interactive plotting/fitting mode (PLT> prompt) use command `exit` to return and finish the XRONOS task. If the "plot" parameter is set = no, the other queries regarding the plotting are disabled ("plotdev", "plotfile", "plotdum"). plotfile (.pco file) [string] Name of the Plt COmmands file. For each task an appropriate default Plt COmmand file is automatically loaded by the program setting the parameter "plotfile" as '-'. The user can insert additional commands using his own '.pco' file at this level ( or within the PLT> prompt).The user commands are appended to the default command file and therefore executed last. The default '.pco' files are stored in the directory defined by the parameter 'dpath'. plotfile (.pco file) [string] Name of the Plt COmmands file. For each task an appropriate default Plt COmmand file is automatically loaded by the program setting the parameter "plotfile" as '-'. The user can insert his own '.pco' file at this level (or within the PLT> prompt) but it is recommended to look at the plot produced by the default '.pco' file beforehand. The default '.pco' files are stored in the directory defined by the parameter 'dpath'. plotdnum (No. of plots) [integer] The parameter sets the number of subplots which will appear on the plotting device. For more than 1 input series, two different plots are provided which are differentiated by the number of final subplot. The first has TIME or PHASE (default plot) on the X-axis and as many Y-axis as the number of input time series (lightcurve or folded lightcurve). The parameter "plotdnum", in this case, should be set equal to the total number of timeseries (e.g. 1 or 2 or 3 or 4). The second plot type is available only for 2 or more time series and gives either Hardness versus total Intensity (2 series) or Colour-Colour diagram (3 or 4 series). To obtain this type of plot, the parameter "plotnum" should be set equal 1 regardless of the time series number. tchat (terminal chattiness) [integer] Set terminal chattiness: (0-4) only little information is output in running XRONOS task ; chattiness 5 is the default value; (6-7) more details on input files, windows, intervals statistics, etc.; (<8) mostly for debugging purposes. lchat (log file chattiness) [integer] Set log file and chattiness in the log file: = 0 the log file is not written; for all other values, information is written in the log file. The chattiness levels are the same as for the terminal. logname (log filename) [string] Name for the log file. The default name is xronos.log. clobber [boolean] Flag specifying whether or not a pre-existing file with the same name as that requested for an output file in the current task will be overwritten. Default value = yes. (dpath = XRDEFAULTS) [string] This string parameter gives the path to the Xronos 'defaults' directory, which contains the default '.pco' file (used for plotting) and the defaults window file 'default_win.wi'. Ordinarily, the user may leave this parameter set to the string 'XRDEFAULTS', which causes Xronos to use the environment variable XRDEFAULTS to locate these files. XRDEFAULTS is set by the mkftools script to point to the appropriate directory for the current distribution of Xronos (for FTOOLS v3.6 this is /ftools/xronos/defaults/). If the user wishes to modify these files, he or she may make and edit copies, and change the XRDEFAULTS variable appropriately using setenv, but the original files should not be changed. gapfill (running mean gap filling) [integer] Replace gaps in input series with running mean. If =0 (the default) data gaps are not filled. If =n newbin data gaps in input series are filled in with running mean values calculated over n newbins. Note that a gap newbin is filled in only if the corresponding running mean is calculated over n/4 points at least (this means that in order to bridge a gap of m newbins n must be >1.35m). This global parameter is ignored in epoch folding applications (efold and efsearch). forcestart (flag for start time) [boolean] If = yes the first interval will be forced to start at the time of the first time window otherwise (=no default) the center time of the first qualified newbin is used as the start time. errorbars (Error bar Evaluation) [integer] This parameter defines the way in which the error bars of the analysis results are calculated. If the number of the intervals per frame ("nintfm") is higher than "errorbars" value (default=5), the error bars are evaluated by using the standard deviation of the average (based on the measured scatter). Otherwise the error bars are evaluated by propagating the theoretical error bars through an averaging process. Note that for several XRONOS applications (e.g. `autocor`, `crosscor`) only the former way of evaluating error bars is available. For example, if "errorbars" is 5 in the application `powspec`: (a) if a frame contains the average of 5 or fewer power spectra, then the error bars in the average power spectrum will be calculated by propagating through the average the theoretical error bars associated with each power spectrum (in turn obtained from the relevant chi-square distribution); (b) if a frame contains the average of 6 or more power spectra, then the error bars in the average power spectrum will be calculated by evaluating the standard deviation of the average power for each frequency. By adjusting the value of "errorbars" it is possible, e.g. to evaluate error bars as in (a), also in the case in which a large number of intervals per frame has been specified. Values < 5 are not recommended (at least 5-6 measures are necessary to reliably evaluate the standard deviation of the average from the scatter around it). NOTE: not applicable for 'lcurve', 'lcstats' and 'efsearch'. exposure (flag for analysis of exposure profile) [boolean] If =yes the exposure profile(s) (i.e. newbin values are set =1, gaps and rejected newbins are set =0) is/are analysed (instead of the input series). Default value is = no. normalization (type of normalization) [integer] Flag to specify the type of normalization to apply to the results. This parameter is only relevant for the following tasks: powspec, autocor, efold, crosscor, timeskew). The standard normalization corresponds to a value of 1 (the default) in all XRONOS applications. Other normalization value flags are described for each application (See normalization). NOTE: not applicable for 'lcurve' and 'efsearch'. simultaneous (flag for simultaneity) [boolean] If =yes a strict simultaneity is forced between the input series in applications which use more then one series (i.e. if the n-th newbin of a series is a gap or is rejected, then the n-th newbin of all other series will be also rejected). This flag is ignored in the efold applications. Default value is = no. spwinbefore (special window start) [double] Special newbin window : number of seconds before. If a value > 0 is used , e.g. 10.0, then all the newbins within 10.0 seconds before a newbin rejected by an intensity window will also be rejected. The default (=0) is not to apply this type of special newbin window. spwinafter (special window stop) [double] Special newbin window : number of seconds after. If a value >0 is used , e.g. 10.0, then all the newbins within 10.0 seconds after a newbin rejected by an intensity window will also be rejected. The default (=0) is not to apply this type of special newbin window. rescale (rescaling for results) [double] Rescaling factor applied to result variables and errors. The rescaling is applied just before writing the output file (this to avoid affecting the statistical variables for the frame). Default value for "rescale" is set to 1. offset (additive constant for results) [double] Additive constant summed to result variables. Result error bars are left unchanged. The additive constant is added just before writing the output file (this is to avoid affecting the statistical variables for the frame). Note that if a rescaling factor is also specified (different from 1), then the results are first multiplied by the rescaling factor. Default value for "rescale" is set to 0. flatexpo (Flag uses a flat exposure in event file) [boolean] This parameter sets the exposure in each bin of the folded lightcurve to be constant (=1) when dealing with event file. For an event file the exposure in each folded bin is calculated using the GTI extension to account for the data gap in the data. If the period used in the folding is very short compared to the gaps, this calculation slows down the program since calculates the exposure for each "nbint". For fast periods since the number of bins effected by the gap is quite reduced, it is possible to speed the calculation by setting the "flatexpo=yes". This flag is only valid for input event files for the efold and efsearch task. fast (Flag for fast algorithm) [boolean] This parameter sets the type of algorithm used for the Fourier transform. IMPORTANT NOTE: This parameter can be set by the user only in the `powspec`, `autocor` and `crosscor` tasks (it is a query parameter in these tasks). In all the other tasks "fast" is a non-query parameter, and should not be changed from the default setting. ipow2 (Flag if power of 2) [integer] Internal Flag used to decide if the current task must used with a power of 2 of number of points (ipow2=1) per interval or not (ipow2=0). IMPORTANT NOTE: This parameter should not be changed by the user. iavgreb (Flag if average interval) [integer] Internal Flag used to decide if the current task allows the averaging of intervals in frame and/or the rebinning of the analysis results. If "iavgreb" is set to -1 the results in an interval can not be either averaged or rebinned, if set to -2, the results in an interval can be averaged but not rebinned. IMPORTANT NOTE: This parameter should not be changed by the user. nbdf (Default No. Bins) [integer] Set an internal default value for the number of newbins per Interval. This value is used to calculate the default newbin integration time to have one interval with nbdf points. Different "ndbf" values have been set for different XRONOS task. IMPORTANT NOTE: With caution this parameter can be changed by the user. EXAMPLES 1. For a single file data (1 time series) of length 5000 seconds, calculate the folded lightcurve using a period of 37 seconds and 10 phase bins using 1352 data points (this will correspond to one interval per frame). Make a plot and output the results. > efold nser=1 cfile1="myfile.lc" window="-" sepoch=INDEF dper=37 nphase=10 nbint=1352 nintfm=INDEF plot=yes plotdev="/xw" plotdnum=1 outfile="-" 2. As above but using only 300 points per interval and average all the intervals in one frame. > efold nser=1 cfile1="myfile.lc" window="-" sepoch=INDEF dper=37 nphase=10 nbint=300 nintfm=INDEF plot=yes plotdev="/xw" plotdnum=1 outfile="-" 3. 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Saturday, January 9, 2010
Healthier granola
Sorry, again and again, that I haven't been posting much. Work is hard, and I shut my finger in the car door and fractured it, so I have to wear this silly little splint for four to five weeks. Don't worry, it doesn't hurt too badly. And it's my left hand, which isn't my dominant hand, but typing is hard!
Anyway, now that that's out of the way, go make this. This recipe is another variation of the NY Times olive oil granola recipe I posted about last year, which is so incredible. I added in some flaxseed, a bunch of chia seeds, sunflower seeds, and cut down the sugar a little. It's still pretty gooey with the honey replacing the maple syrup in the original recipe, but I like it like that.
I added flaxseed for fiber, chia for omegas/protein/essential fatty acids/more fiber, making this granola a little healthier. Plus I cut down on the sugar a little bit. That's healthy, right?
I had to literally drag myself away from the pan to take these pictures, and then to eat dinner. I'm fighting right now to stay on the couch long enough to type this post before I run back and shove the rest into my mouth.
Granola (version II)
3 c GF oats
1 c raw sunflower seeds
1 c raw pumpkin seeds (pepitas)
1 c unsweetened coconut
2 T ground flaxseed
3/4 c honey
1/4 c brown sugar
1/2 c olive oil
1 t sugar
1 t cinnamon
1 1/4 to 1 1/2 c dried fruit (I used chopped apricots and currants)
1/4 c chia seed
Preheat the oven to 300. Stir together everything except the fruit, spread out on a cookie sheet, and bake for about 30 minutes, stirring every 10. I've found that the 45 in the original recipe is too long and I end up with over-cooked granola, and it's terribly sad. After the granola is cooked, stir in the fruit and chia while the granola is still hot, so they gets a bit of the granola coating. Let cool further, and store in an air tight container.
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I've been making granola with maple syrup using an Ellie Kreiger recipe. The great thing is it's made with only 1 1/2 tsp oil because it's made in an ActiFry (a new kitchen appliance I got for Christmas). I like some of the added ingredients you have and will try out some new combinations. Next up -- GF granola bars!ReplyDelete
I would be so bummed about the finger - sorry! This sounds so tasty.ReplyDelete
YUM this looks great! Beautiful picture too.ReplyDelete
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Port Arthur Mayor Bobbie Prince remains mystified as to how a draft of the Mercer Report, which involved an outside agency out of Atlanta, Georgia that conducted a performance and management reveiw of the city, ended up with a local media outlet before even she had a chance to look at it.
"I'm upset about it," Prince said from her office on Monday afternoon. "I havent't even seen a piece of paper related to it, but the media has it? That's disgusting I think."
There were rumblings on internet message boards related to Port Arthur politics that the city had the Mercer Group, which is also conducting the city's city manager search, to go back and amend some of the information in the report to reflect better on the city. Prince said that is false.
"Oh gosh no," she said, "that's how these (evaluations) work, they are drafts," she said.
Outgoing City Manager Steve Fitzgibbons who found out about the leaked document on the internet, said "if you find out who leaked the document, let me know," agreeing with the Mayor that there are always more than one draft when it comes to long, comprehensive studies like the Mercer Report.
Both Prince and Fitzgibbons were hoping to have already had the completed version by now, however one of the team members of the Mercer Group had some health issues which has lead to the delay of the final report being released.
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42 U.S. Code § 300u–5 - Centers for research and demonstration of health promotion and disease prevention
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The Secretary shall make grants or enter into contracts with academic health centers for the establishment, maintenance, and operation of centers for research and demonstration with respect to health promotion and disease prevention. Centers established, maintained, or operated under this section shall undertake research and demonstration projects in health promotion, disease prevention, and improved methods of appraising health hazards and risk factors, and shall serve as demonstration sites for the use of new and innovative research in public health techniques to prevent chronic diseases.
(b) Location; types of research and projects
Each center established, maintained, or operated under this section shall—
(1) be located in an academic health center with—
(A) a multidisciplinary faculty with expertise in public health and which has working relationships with relevant groups in such fields as medicine, psychology, nursing, social work, education and business;
(C) a core faculty in epidemiology, biostatistics, social sciences, behavioral and environmental health sciences, and health administration;
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(A) health promotion and disease prevention research, including retrospective studies and longitudinal prospective studies in population groups and communities;
(B) demonstration projects for the delivery of services relating to health promotion and disease prevention to defined population groups using, as appropriate, community outreach and organization techniques and other methods of educating and motivating communities; and
(C) evaluation studies on the efficacy of demonstration projects conducted under subparagraph (B) of this paragraph.
The design of any evaluation study conducted under subparagraph (C) shall be established prior to the commencement of the demonstration project under subparagraph (B) for which the evaluation will be conducted.
(c) Equitable geographic distribution of centers; procedures
(1) In making grants and entering into contracts under this section, the Secretary shall provide for an equitable geographical distribution of centers established, maintained, and operated under this section and for the distribution of such centers among areas containing a wide range of population groups which exhibit incidences of diseases which are most amenable to preventive intervention.
(2) The Secretary, through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and in consultation with the Director of the National Institutes of Health, shall establish procedures for the appropriate peer review of applications for grants and contracts under this section by peer review groups composed principally of non-Federal experts.
(d) "Academic health center" defined
(e) Authorization of appropriations
For the purpose of carrying out this section, there are authorized to be appropriated $10,000,000 for fiscal year 1992, and such sums as may be necessary for each of the fiscal years 1993 through 2003.
[1] See References in Text note below.
Source(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title XVII, § 1706, as added Pub. L. 98–551, § 2(d),Oct. 30, 1984, 98 Stat. 2816; amended Pub. L. 100–607, title III, § 312(a)(2),Nov. 4, 1988, 102 Stat. 3113; Pub. L. 102–168, title I, § 102,Nov. 26, 1991, 105 Stat. 1102; Pub. L. 102–531, title III, § 312(d)(12),Oct. 27, 1992, 106 Stat. 3505; Pub. L. 103–183, title VII, § 705(d),Dec. 14, 1993, 107 Stat. 2241; Pub. L. 105–340, title II, § 204,Oct. 31, 1998, 112 Stat. 3195.)
References in Text
Section 292a of this title, referred to in subsec. (d), was in the original a reference to section 701 of act July 1, 1944. Section 701 of that Act was omitted in the general revision of subchapter V of this chapter by Pub. L. 102–408, title I, § 102,Oct. 13, 1992, 106 Stat. 1994. Pub. L. 102–408enacted a new section 701 of act July 1, 1944, relating to statement of purpose, and a new section 702, relating to scope and duration of loan insurance program, which are classified to sections 292 and 292a, respectively, of this title. For provisions relating to definitions, see section 295p of this title.
Prior Provisions
A prior section 300u–5, act July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title XVII, § 1706, as added June 23, 1976, Pub. L. 94–317, title I, § 102, 90 Stat. 700; amended Nov. 10, 1978, Pub. L. 95–626, title V, § 501, 92 Stat. 3592; Jan. 4, 1983, Pub. L. 97–414, § 8(r), 96 Stat. 2062, related to establishment of the Office of Health Promotion, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 98–551, § 2(c),Oct. 30, 1984, 98 Stat. 2816.
1998—Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 105–340substituted "2003" for "1998".
1993—Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 103–183substituted "through 1998" for "through 1996".
1992—Subsec. (c)(2). Pub. L. 102–531, which directed amendment of subsec. (c)(2)(B) by substituting "Centers for Disease Control and Prevention" for "Centers for Disease Control", was executed by making the substitution in subsec. (c)(2) to reflect the probable intent of Congress and the redesignation of subsec. (c)(2)(B) assubsec. (c)(2) by Pub. L. 102–168. See 1991 Amendment note below.
1991—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 102–168, § 102(b), redesignated subpars. (A) and (B) of par. (2) as pars. (1) and (2), respectively, and struck out former par. (1), which read as follows: "During fiscal year 1985, the Secretary shall make grants or enter into contracts for the establishment of three centers under this section. During fiscal year 1986, the Secretary shall make grants and enter into contracts for the establishment of five centers under this section and the maintenance and operation of the three centers established under this section in fiscal year 1985. During fiscal year 1987, the Secretary shall make grants and enter into contracts for the establishment of five centers under this section and the operation and maintenance of the eight centers established under this section in fiscal years 1985 and 1986."
Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 102–168, § 102(a), amended subsec. (e) generally. Prior to amendment, subsec. (e) read as follows: "To carry out this section, there are authorized to be appropriated $3,000,000 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1985, $8,000,000 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1986, $13,000,000 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1987, $6,000,000 for fiscal year 1989, $8,000,000 for fiscal year 1990, and $10,000,000 for fiscal year 1991."
1988—Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 100–607struck out "and" after "1986," and inserted ", $6,000,000 for fiscal year 1989, $8,000,000 for fiscal year 1990, and $10,000,000 for fiscal year 1991" before period at end.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Fiery human rights advocate Samantha Power has famously taken presidents to task for refusing to use military force to stop genocide. But as the U.S. ambassador to the U.N., Power may need to bite her tongue as the Obama administration resists being drawn into Syria.
Those who know her well describe Power, 42, as vociferously passionate about confronting international atrocities, berating those who in her mind sit idly by. In 2008, Power called then-presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton a "monster." A year earlier, she disparaged U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's work in Darfur as "disappointing."
And in an article she wrote in 2001, titled "Bystanders to Genocide," Power hammered those who put politics ahead of peacekeeping in Rwanda — including, she said, Susan Rice, the woman with whom she shared a podium Wednesday as she was nominated as the next U.N. ambassador. Rice was named President Barack Obama's national security adviser at the same ceremony.
"To those who care deeply about America's engagement and indispensable leadership in the world, you will find no stronger advocate for that cause than Samantha," Obama told reporters in announcing the nomination.
Rice has been pilloried by Republicans in Congress during her time as U.N. ambassador for initially saying that the September 2012 attacks against a U.S. diplomatic facility in Benghazi, Libya, likely were spontaneous, which turned out to be wrong. Four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens, were killed in the attack.
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Her self-written book summary was even more blunt: "The United States has never intervened to stop genocide," she wrote.
Most governments have been careful not to label the civil war in Syria, which has killed more than 70,000 people and is not now in its third year, as genocide. Qatar and Turkey, however, have accused Syrian President Bashar Assad of committing war crimes against his people. And rebel fighters who are pleading in vain with the White House for weapons and other military aid have accused the regime of launching a "massive genocide" across the country.
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DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — Iran's foreign minister called Friday for foreign fighters to leave Syria so that its people can decide their future themselves.
Speaking on a panel discussion about the Middle East at the World Economic Forum, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Iran also wants to see an end to foreign support for opponents of President Bashar Assad's government and recognition by all sides that there can be no military solution to the conflict. He said Tehran hoped for a negotiated settlement.
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The 85th Academy Award nominations managed to offer some surprises Thursday morning — industry pundits were buzzing about the omission from the best director competition of Ben Affleck for "Argo" and Kathryn Bigelow for "Zero Dark Thirty" — but fans of fantastic entertainment had reason to cheer.
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While "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey," "Skyfall" and "Django Unchained" all earned multiple nominations in a variety of categories, the final installment in Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy was not recognized, despite the critical acclaim that met the film when it was released in July.
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But the thing is, there are at least 37 options before that one and it's certainly not worth making enemies over a game to do so. That's why we try to keep our cool and not go down that path.
But here's what you can expect: your words are going to be torn apart and taken out of context. You are going to be called a liar.
You need to expect these things because that's what the bad guys do. It's what the good guys are looking for and going to accuse you of doing. It's on you to argue that your words are being twisted. It's on you to prove you are telling the truth.
On behalf of all members of this forum, I beseech you: Don't get discouraged and think we're insulting you. Because it isn't personal.


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Taiwan justice minister resigns
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan's justice minister resigned Friday over allegations he used his influence to quash an attempt by prosecutors to appeal a not guilty verdict against an opposition legislator.
Tseng Yung-fu's announcement late Friday night came after he met Premier Jiang Yi-huah. Jiang accepted Tseng's resignation.
Earlier in the day, the Supreme Prosecutor's Office prosecutors had accused Tseng of intervening to stop a prosecutorial appeal against the not guilty verdict in a breach of trust case against Ker Chien-ming, a prominent opposition lawmaker.
Tseng's resignation is another setback for the beleaguered government of President Ma Ying-jeou. Amid a widespread perception of administrative bungling and personal remoteness, Ma's approval rating has fallen to about 15 percent, its lowest level since Ma took office 5 ½ years ago.
But the direct involvement of Ker in the case will also embarrass the opposition Democratic Progressive Party, which is still struggling to overcome negative fallout from the corruption conviction of former president Chen Shui-bian.
Chen was elected as Taiwan's first president from the DPP in 2000 and served two four-year terms. He was convicted on a variety of graft charges shortly after leaving office and is serving a 20-year prison sentence.


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