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Members of the family Canidae (dog family) exhibit great flexibility in diet and behavior and complex social organization, with much variation both within and between species. Canids are among the most widely distributed carnivores, with at least one species present on every continent except Antarctica, and one or more canid species can be found from sea level to 5000 meters.
Sillero-Zubiri (2009) recognized 35 extant canid species (37 if the Dingo is treated as a distinct species, Canis dingo, rather than a subspecies of the Gray Wolf, Canis lupus dingo, and if the Eastern North American Wolf is treated as a distinct species, Canis lycaon). South America has 11 species, including nine (mainly Pseudalopex [sometimes known as Lycalopex] foxes) endemic to the continent. Africa has 13 species, including eight endemics. Asia has twelve species, including three endemics. Two species, the Golden Jackal (Canis aureus) and Arctic Fox (Alopex lagopus) are native to three continents (Africa/Europe/Asia and North America/Asia/Europe, respectively).
A few canids have extremely small ranges, the most extreme example being Darwin's Fox (Pseudalopex fulvipes): most of the world population of just a few hundred individuals is found on a single island off Chile, although a small number persist on the mainland. Ethiopian Wolves (Canis simensis) occur only in a few isolated pockets of Afro-alpine grasslands and heathlands above the treeline from around 3200 meters to 4500 meters, where they are found mainly in open areas with short vegetation and feed almost exclusively on Afro-alpine rodents such as Ethiopian African Mole Rats (Tachyoryctes macrocephalus) and Arvicanthis and Otomys murine grass rats, which can be very abundant. At the other extreme, the Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes) has the largest natural range of any carnivore (Larivière and Pasitschniak-Arts 1996), encompassing nearly 70 million km2 and extending across the entire northern hemisphere from the Arctic Circle through Canada and the United States and most of Europe and Asia to North Africa; in addition, Red Foxes were introduced to Australia in the 1800s and their range in the United States was extended through several introductions of European Red Foxes starting in the mid-1700s. The Gray Wolf (Canis lupus) has (or had) a similar distribution, occuring widely in North America, Asia, and Europe. Some canid distributions have changed substantially in historical times. For example, the Coyote (Canis latrans) used to be found mainly in arid parts of the western United States, but is now found in every state, province, and country north of Panama, an expansion that was clearly aided by the extirpation of Gray Wolves from most of the United States in the early 1900s. The Red Fox and Dingo are found in Australia and Oceania, but were brought there by humans. Red Foxes are known to coexist in one region or another with 14 other canid species, Golden Jackals with 13 other canids, and Gray Wolves with 11 other canids.
Although canids generally stick to the ground, Northern Gray Foxes (Urocyon cinereoargenteus) are very capable tree climbers and Blanford's Foxes (Vulpes cana) and Arctic Foxes regularly climb cliffs. Some canids have adaptations allowing them to live in extreme environments, e.g., the Arctic (Arctic Foxes) and deserts (several desert foxes). The Fennec (Vulpes zerda), Rüppel's (Vulpes rueppellii), and Pale Foxes (Vulpes pallida) are found in the Sahara and Sahel and Blanford's Fox occurs in the deserts and mountains of western Asia. Sechuran Foxes (Pseudalopex sechurae) live in the coastal desert of Peru and Ecuador. All these desert foxes are nocturnal and spend much of the hot day in burrows. The Fennec Fox is the smallest canid and the only Saharan carnivore that does not need to drink water. It is so specialized to tolerate high ambient temperatures that it begins to shiver when the temperature drops below 20 C; it begins to pant only above 35 C and dramatically increases its breaths per minute to help lower its body temperature. The Fennec Fox also has proportionately enormous ears (accounting for 20% of its body surface!) that facilitate thermoregulation and are perhaps the most obvious of a whole suite of anatomical, physiological, and behavioral adaptations to extremely hot and dry environments. More than 20 species of canids are clearly associated with open habitats including temperate grasslands, shrublands, and montane habitats. Only four South American species—Bush Dog (Speothos venaticus), Short-eared Dog (Atelocynus microtis), Hoary Fox (Pseudalopex vetulus), and Crab-eating Fox (Cerdocyon thous)—are essentially restricted to tropical forest (the first three of these are among the most poorly known of all canids).
Although many canids are highly carnivorous, they are mostly rather opportunistic (especially the foxes) and the typical diets of some species, especially those with smaller body sizes, may include less than 5% protein. Among the larger canids are several species that live in groups and prey on animals that may exceed their own body size: Gray Wolves across much of the Northern Hemisphere, Dholes (Cuon alpinus) in southern Asia, and African Wild Dogs (Lycaon pictus) in Africa. The Maned Wolf (Chrysocyon brachyurus), which lives in South American savannas, is unusual for a large canid in that it feeds mostly on rodents and fruit. The Bat-eared Fox (Otocyon megalotis) of eastern and southern Africa and the Hoary Fox of Brazil are the only canids that feed largely on insects rather than mammals, feeding especially on Syntermes and Cornitermes harvester termites that emerge from undergound colonies to forage on grasses, as well as on other insects such as adult and larval dung beetles (particularly during the rainy season when termites are less active).
The dog is believed to be the first domesticated animal, apparently derived from Gray Wolves at least 10,000-15,000 years ago—possibly far longer ago than this and pre-dating the emergence of agriculture. The Domestic Dog is now generally treated as a subspecies of Gray Wolf, Canis lupus familiaris. Dingo-like feral dogs were apparently associated with hunter-gatherer societies of Africa, Asia, and Europe and later with sedentary agricultural societies. Dingoes were brough from mainland Asia to Australia and various Pacific islands as many as 10,000 years ago, perhaps for food, as guard animals, or for warmth and companionship. The Dingoes of Southeast Asia are often known as Pariah Dogs. On various islands, in particular, introduced Dingos, Red Foxes, and Arctic Foxes have decimated populations of some native birds and mammals.
A number of canid species face serious threats to their populations. Gray Wolves, African Wild Dogs, Coyotes, and Dingoes have often been actively persecuted by humans as a result of their predation of livestock (and, to a lesser degree, because of the perception that they pose a direct danger to humans). Some smaller canids—notably the Arctic Fox and some South American foxes—have historically been hunted extensively for the fur trade, although this pressure has declined with the decline of the fur trade. Some species that have been subjected to intense hunting pressure—such as Dingoes, Coyotes, Culpeos (Pseudalopex culpaeus), and Red Foxes—have nevertheless thrived. Today, many canid species seem to be maintaining stable populations and some have even expanded. Coyotes, for example, are now more common and widespread than ever and Golden Jackals have expanded into Western Europe. Gray Wolves are slowly recovering in some portions of their once far greater range. However, nearly a dozen canid species are considered threatened or endangered, some largely because they are naturally rare, with limited geographic distributions, but mostly because of human activities that have led to habitat loss, persecution, and disease, although they have so far been spared the fate of the Falkland Islands Wolf (Dusicyon australis), which was eradicated by humans in the 19th century. Among the most vulnerable species are the narrowly distributed Darwin's Fox in southern Chile, the Island Fox (Urocyon littoralis) on the Channel Islands off southern California (U.S.A.), and the Red Wolf (Canis rufus) of the southeastern U.S.A. (the taxonomic status of the Red Wolf remains controversial). The Red Wolf was extinct in the wild by 1980; introduction efforts have been fairly successful, but many individuals are killed by cars each year and genetic dilution by hybridization with Coyotes poses a serious threat to the persistence of the species. Other endangered or threatened canids include the African Wild Dog (formerly found across much of sub-Saharan Africa, excluding rainforests, but now occurring only in small scattered populations), the Dhole, and the Ethiopian Wolf, among others. Some species are very poorly known so their status is difficult to assess. Sillero-Zubiri (2009) suggests that the failure of attempts to locate and survey populations of some of these species (notably, Bush Dog and Short-eared Dog and Saharan Pale, Ruppell's, and Fennec Foxes) do not bode well for the status of these species.
Human impacts on canid populations may be direct (e.g., hunting of Indian Foxes, Vulpes bengalensis) or indirect (e.g., the local extinction in the Negev Desert in Israel of Rüppell's Fox, which was abundant into the 1960s, possibly as a result of Red Fox populations increasing in association with increased agriculture). Although around half the species of canids are known to have had some use in traditional medicine, demand for body parts or organs for traditional medicine does not appear to pose a major conservation concern (as it does for many other types of animals) since harvesting for medicinal uses is not believed to currently pose a significant threat to any endangered canid (Alves et al. 2010). Rabies, canine distemper, anthrax, and other pathogens have all taken a severe toll on various canid populations (notably Island Foxes, Ethiopian Wolves, and African Wild Dogs) and in some cases these may have been transmitted from domestic dogs. Management efforts for the long-term conservation of several canids, such as the African Wild Dog and Ethiopian Wolf, have shown evidence of some success, but the remaining challenges are great.
(Sillero-Zubiri 2009 and references therein)


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The 61st Epsilon Sigma Alpha Oregon State Convention was held in Sun River April 20-22. Nine members from local chapter Delta Kappa and one guest attended the convention.
Delta Kappa was honored for its 45 years of service to ESA. When awards were presented, Delta Kappa took third place in Rushing and third place for Outstanding Chapter.
Debbie Sanguras received a gift for being Delta Kappa's Outstanding Member. Sanguras will also be next year's State Chaplain.
At the Sunday Memorial Service, Charlotte DeHart gave a presentation for deceased member Pennie Wiley.
With convention over, Delta Kappa is staying busy, working on a local St. Jude Research Hospital Radiothon June 7-8. A tag sale will be held May 16 and the annual Home Tour is set for September.
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The London club find themselves 11 points behind leaders Manchester United with 15 games to go in the season; but Cahill thinks the Blues still have a lot to play for this season.
Cahill told reporters: "We've just got to keep looking upwards, make sure we're in the Champions League spots for next season. We're still involved in both cups and we want to go as far as we possibly can in the Europa League.
"We just want to keep winning games. A lot of teams this season have slipped up here and there so we need to win as many as possible in the last four months of the season.
"We do still look at what City and United are doing. It's been frustrating because there have been many times this season when we've almost got ourselves back in there and then we just let it slip.
"But we're more than capable of putting a run together and winning nine out of 10 games. That's what we need to aim for us and see where that takes us."
The England defender is also confident Chelsea can overturn their two-goal deficit in the Capital One Cup semi-final against Swansea.
|Chelsea are 25/1 with bet365 to recover and win this season's Premier League
The European champions go to Wales on Wednesday having to attack from the off and the 27-year-old believes they showed glimpses of their attacking prowess during the first half against Arsenal on Sunday.
He added: "Swansea will probably have enjoyed watching us having to work so hard [as Arsenal rallied in the second half] but they will also have seen just what we can do in the first half.
"We possess the players and the class to massively hurt teams. But consistency is the key for us. Sometimes we've had a few results this season which we would expect to win but haven't.
"In the first half against Arsenal we showed what we can do, created six or seven great chances and the game could have been dead and buried.
"The Swansea tie is not beyond us. We've done it before in the Champions League but it's going to be tough. I've been to Swansea three or four times and it's always a hard place to go.
"They're really well organised and they play some good football. The key for us is to score the first goal. If we do that I'm sure it will be a nervy night for them. That's what we aim to do.
"We have to think of it like a European tie. They are an attacking team but we need two goals and we have to go at them and try to hurt them.
"The first goal will be massively important and it's one of the biggest games of the season for us."


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While the paralympics are in full effect — and as well captured on the emoto platform as the Olympics — the team is busy putting the finishing touches on the last piece of the emoto project: The data sculpture installation in Preston. We will show 17 CNC-milled plates —one for each day of the games— and together with overlay projections, focusing on individual story arcs, these will form an interactive landscape representing all the tweets we collected during the Games. Alongside, we will have a huge wall-mounted, annotated timeline of the Games in tweets. We can't post any images of the exhibits yet, but we are all very excited to see these final pieces come together in a really unique data art piece and experience.
In order to identify the key stories of the games and understand the dramaturgy of the event as a whole, we produced a few more information graphics, focusing on key stories of the Games.
The above heatmap image (interactive version) nicely shows the different textures of individual topics over time: The continuous attention (across the whole emotional spectrum) towards Team GB, the ongoing rivalry of Phelps and Lochte, the punctual, but very strong attention towards Tom Daley and Oscar Pistorius, the "zing-zing" pattern for popular boyband One Direction1, caused by massive retweeting of individual tweets by fans of the band, the rising attention towards Usain Bolt, one of the big winners of the games, as well as the negative comments towards smaller scandals and disqualifications. Unfortunately, the chart also reveals two major server outages on July 28 and Aug 2, causing us to lose the tweets of a good portion of each of the respective nights in tweets. We could have estimated the respective numbers but decided to stay truthful to which data we actually collected and live with the gaps. Hooray for digital media!
And, how could we NOT make a big timeline of the games, with the average sentiment development and selected tweets over time:
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This one is the basis for a BIG wall mounted graph to be seen at Preston as part of WE PLAY expo Sep 7–9, along with the milled data art sculpture — make sure to come by, if you have the chance! (The full team will be around Friday and Saturday, so this is also a chance to meet us in person.)
1 One Direction are a British boy band formed in 2010, they came to fame after appearing and coming third on the X Factor. They are Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne, Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson and took part in the closing ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games which may account for some of their popularity on emoto.


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Non-Qualifiers Feature to become the 4th Annual Prairie Dirt Shootout
The Prairie Dirt Shootout will continue its tradition on the World of Outlaws 24th Annual Prairie Dirt Classic weekend, FALS officials announced today. The $2,000 to win, 25-lap feature will consist of the top 20 Late Model drivers that did not transfer through the consolation races. These weekend events, which are scheduled for Friday, July 26 & Saturday, July 27, will be the third largest purse on the World of Outlaws schedule this season.


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EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (Blugolds.com) – While the UW-Eau Claire volleyball team dropped the first set in the first round of the 2012 WIAC Championship against UW-Stout, the Blugolds came back and won the next three to defeat the Blue Devils 3-1 in the McPhee Physical Education Center tonight.
Eau Claire led a large portion of the first set but late in the set Stout took an 18-17 lead and never looked back. The Blugolds managed to score only three more points after that as they fell 25-20.
The second set was closely contested and the Blue Devils found their way to a 13-10 lead before Eau Claire scored four straight to get up 14-13. The teams then went back and forth for a couple points, but Eau Claire used a 5-0 run to build a 22-16 lead and went on to win 25-21.
The Blugolds led the entire third set, getting up by as many as eight points twice. Eau Claire led at one point 16-8 and finished the set with a 25-17 victory.
In the fourth and final set, the Blugolds got up 6-2 but Stout steadily worked its way back into the set, being down by just two (15-13) midway through the set. But the Blugolds were able to outscore the Blue Devils 10-7 the rest of the way to win 25-20 and take the match 3-1.
Three Blugolds reached double figures in kills, led by Amy Bomgren (Sr.-Woodbury, Minn.) with 16. As a team, the Blugolds recorded 52 kills to 33 for Stout and outhit the Blue Devils .174-.056.
Lauren Sutherland (Jr.-Dayton, Minn./Meadow Creek Christian) had a match-high 30 digs, tied for third most in her career, while two other Blugolds reached double digits.
Emily Neave (Sr.-Salem, Wis./Westosha Central) secured a match-best 44 set assists.
The Blugolds improve to 23-11 on the season while Stout ends its 2012 campaign with a mark of 15-14.
Eau Claire will now face 18th-ranked UW-Whitewater on Friday at 5 p.m. in the semifinals of the WIAC Championship in Stevens Point. Both teams will play again Saturday, the loser in a third-place match at noon and the winner in the title match at 2:30 p.m. The winner of the championship will automatically qualify for the 2012 NCAA Division III Championship.


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Marinepits wrote:Patch O' Pits wrote:Sue wrote:
oh no... not the blocky collars
PS... Have I mentioned how much I LOVE the emoticons here???
Just curious, is there something bad about blocky dog collars??? I was thinking of ordering one?
I love the emotions too!!!!!!!!!!
Nothing bad about the Blocky collars -- Sue is just picking on me because I like the thick collar look and she doesn't!
They are fabulous collars!!!
Sue wrote:Shouldn't have looked.... And I thought Rory's Coach collar was good enough... What was I thinking? She needs variety, every pretty pittie needs variety!!!
Sue wrote:Just hang a bit of chocolate on there for the owner and I'll buy a dozen
pitcess wrote:Sugar is eagerly awaiting her modeling shoot...............................hehe
Maryellen wrote:ok Hoyden, do you make the leashes with the buckle snap not the regular one that most leashes have? i will only use the buckle snap ones like what they use for horses as all 3 of my dogs can unlatch regular leash clasps....
Maryellen wrote:ok, i am going to be looking for a price on a 1 1/2 inch nylon collar. with a matching 6 foot leash with the first buckle choice.. i am thinking the collar to be red, i just dont know what middle color would go good with the red collar and rufus's brindling.... now, if you can do the blue leash/collar matching shown here on the post, with the buckle i need in a 1 1/2 inch collar let me know price wise pm me..
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It's baseball season again and as many SQLTeamer's have probably discovered over the years, I'm a huge fan of the game. Living in Boston, of course my team of preference is the Red Sox which in itself can be quite a rollercoster ride. Howerver, before I digress too much (and I could go on for days about those guys), my point is that if you are a fan of the game and have any interest in statistics, and if you like working with SQL you've got to check out this link:
You can download an Access database (easily converted to SQL Server, of course) with all of the baseball stats you can imagine since about 1900. It's great to put together all kinds of analysis like "total career home runs by a player's birth state" or "who averages more RBI's per abat -- righty's or lefty's?". These guys have done a great job putting together almost everything imaginable, and it's not too big of a download. All star appearances, post season stats, gold gloves -- it's quite impressive and pretty well normalized.
It's also a great way to learn how to write SQL statements and learn the finer points of joins, criteria, expressions, GROUP BY's and HAVING clauses. The best way to lean this stuff is to work with interesting data and for most baseball fans it doesn't get much better than this!
Anyway, check it out!
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China Faults Oversight in Blast at Auto-Parts Plant
Work-Safety Agency Identifies Executive as Suspect; Also Blames Local Authorities
SHANGHAI—China partly blamed inadequate supervision by local authorities for a blast that killed at least 75 people at a company that supplies parts for cars from General Motors Co. and other auto makers, the official Xinhua News Agency reported on Monday.
An investigation showed the blast was caused by excess level of dust that exploded after exposure to a heat source, Xinhua said in a post on its microblog account. More than 180 other workers were injured after the explosion on Saturday at Kunshan Zhongrong Metal Production...


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Astrosysteme Austria sees its task in making the latest technologies of astrophotography available and affordable for the amateur.
Uncompromising quality levels and suitability for the practical use are the centre of our attention. Hence, in the course of the last two years the basis of a product line was developed which claims the name reference class.
Astrophotography has experienced an unheard of quantum leap by the digital age of CCD-technology. These CCD-cameras as well as the new digital reflex cameras and also the versatile possibilities of picture processing make completely new demands on optics and mechanics.
Astrosysteme Austria has made it its objective to render exactly these components, optical devices, fully automatic mountings and tracking systems, applicable for the latest requirements in astrophotography. We are especially proud of our Astrographs with fast focal ratio and their wide corrected fields as well as the new mounts with direct drive.
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Famous or obscure, our rivers are priceless
I have never visited the Louisiana Gulf Coast or Alaska's Valdez Bay, but like you, I carry indelible mental images of spewing pipelines and oil-soaked seabirds from the environmental disasters that happened there.
Now the images are hitting closer to home. The Yellowstone River runs the length of my home state of Montana like a femoral artery. My wife and I honeymooned at its headwaters and have explored its lower reaches as well. The muscular, cantankerous Yellowstone is the longest undammed river in the Lower 48 states, storied with the lives of the Sioux and Crow, explorers like Lewis and Clark and the early fur trappers.
It is also where a modern tragedy is now unfolding. The Yellowstone River has taken its place as the site of a high-profile oil spill, alongside the Exxon Valdez and Deepwater disasters. It started with a La Niña weather pattern that dumped historic amounts of snow over Montana all winter and well into the spring. When warm weather finally came, nearly every stream in the state flooded, isolating entire towns.
Near the refinery town of Billings, Exxon maintains the Silvertip pipeline, which crosses under the bed of the Yellowstone. Details are sketchy, but high water and scouring debris evidently proved too much for the pipe. On July 1, it burst, spewing an estimated 1,000 barrels of oil -- 42,000 gallons -- and sweeping it miles downstream.
I have a hard time imagining that much oil, but I know that even a single empty quart container of motor oil does not belong in the Yellowstone. Authorities scrambled into position, with Exxon officials downplaying the spill and promising prompt cleanup, while Montana's Gov. Brian Schweitzer eagerly stepped into the role of states' rights watchdog in his inimitable style.
"There ain't nobody gonna blow smoke up the south side of this north-facing governor," Schweitzer said, swearing to be all over Exxon "like stink on a skunk" and "poke them with a sharp stick" until the cleanup is complete.
It's going to take more than sharp words to correct the underlying problem. It's going to take political leaders with courage and a memory longer than a 30-second sound bite.
Five years ago, President Bush declared that the United States was addicted to oil. It's an apt analogy. Addicts destroy their work and families, and ultimately their lives to feed their vices. We Americans destroy our precious rivers, our national security and our health to feed our petroleum addiction. Yet we've been astonishingly reluctant to deal with it. To attract national attention, for example, an oil spill has to take place on a huge scale or damage a famous river like the Yellowstone. But smaller disasters occur all around us, every day.
CBS News recently tallied up all the reported oil company accidents in 2010 in the United States, not including the Deepwater disaster in the Gulf. It counted 6,500 spills, fires and explosions, or about 18 every day. Added up, the spilled oil, grease and industrial wastewater totaled 34 million gallons -- about three times the capacity of the Exxon Valdez tanker ship -- in 2010 alone.
Is there a small-scale, slow motion mess unfolding near you? Almost certainly yes. I'm as guilty as anyone, with my Ford pickup and its thirsty dual tanks. I know it's time for me to put more miles on my mountain bike and fewer on the pickup. Individual action is important, but it's not enough to make the change we need. We need the corporations and government officials who wield the real power to plan for a safer future.
The fact is: You cannot spill clean energy. Solar, wind and other innovative and valid sources of energy all have their drawbacks, but massive water and air pollution is not among them.
Will we repeat our mistakes? We will soon find out. The TransCanada Company is seeking permission to build the Keystone XL Pipeline to send Alberta crude to the refineries of the Gulf Coast. This massive new pipeline will cross the Yellowstone and Missouri rivers in Montana, as well as many other water sources along its course. Already, TransCanada is making rosy predictions about the safety of the pipeline, predictions exposed as unrealistically optimistic by an independent review by a University of Nebraska engineer.
We've all seen this kind of behavior before whenever addicts hit bottom: emptied bank accounts and broken lives. Most of all, we've heard promises: Things will be different next time. But those promises are always broken. Right now, the floodwaters are still too high to know what the final toll on the Yellowstone will be. But the images of crude oil in this splendid river are making me, for one, sober up.
Ben Long is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News (hcn.org). He is the senior program director for Resource Media in Kalispell, Montana.
Note: the opinions expressed in this column are those of the writer and do not necessarily reflect those of High Country News, its board or staff. If you'd like to share an opinion piece of your own, please write Betsy Marston at [email protected].


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I'm a bit of a sound nut, and as such all my auditory enjoyment must be equalized to exacting specifications. I just got a new CD from my favorite band, but the speakers in my car just don't cut the mustard when it comes to playing back stuff on my iPod/iPad.
Thankfully Apple has a built-in way around this, and thanks to the wonders of touch-screen technology, it's easier than ever to EQ your tunes!
So, go into your music player and fire up a song – any song will do, but keep in mind that each EQ setting in the next step is built specifically for different kinds of music.
Before you lies a multitude of sound equalization options!
Like beat poetry? Give the Spoken Word setting a try! That new gangsta rap song too bassy? Give it a cut with the Bass Reducer EQ setting.
And the best part? Because you're already playing a song, the changes are in real time!
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From the Bride... So, I must first start off by saying that none of what you see here would exist without the help of our amazing friends, family, and photographers! I know everyone says this, but I truly mean it. See, we planned this wedding in a month, four weeks to be exact. Joey and I have always done things a tad bit different, so after changing the date several times, we finally decided to just stick with our 6 month anniversary which also happened to be 28 days away. Yep, that's right…28 days! I was also in school full time and working a part time job, so it was just absolutely amazing when everything came together perfectly. To those who helped us out, I can never thank you enough!
The overall theme of our wedding was meant to be an eclectic gathering of all things "Joey and Jordyn"; even our location had significance. The Creek was the land where Joey's grandparents and mom grew up and coincidently it was also where we had our first date. It was the perfect spot for us and allowed for much creative freedom. Joey and I have always been collectors, pickers, and lovers of all things with history. It really only made sense that we include things that we had found together or items that had been passed down within our families in our wedding ceremony. Everything about our wedding was very personal and each little detail represented a part of who we were as individuals and as a whole.
To add to that concept, Joey and I made the decision to get ready together on our wedding day. We threw tradition out the window and decided to do what sounded best to us. Besides deciding to spend the rest of our lives together, choosing to be together on the morning of our wedding was one of the best decisions we made. It allowed us to focus on what was truly most important that day, each other. And to top if off, our photographers, Chelsea and Mack spent the morning with us capturing every moment we spent together. They also traveled along with us for the rest of the time before the ceremony, making sure to capture memories of us in our favorite places that meant so much to us. I can't think of any better way we would have wanted to spend the hours before our wedding.
Another aspect, which made our wedding even more significant, is the fact that Joey and I fashioned our ideas and dreams with our own hands. With the help of family and friends, we cleared out the whole creek area, built our own archway, laid out the stones beneath it, covered and set up hay bales, arranged our décor, wrapped numerous flowers with burlap, hung mason jars with twine, and so much more. Our flowers were mums, purchased from Walmart and my bouquet was created by one of my best friends with baby's breath from Central Market.
It's amazing to me looking back on our wedding and realizing how "handmade" it was, how every tiny piece and process that took place is streaked with love and devotion from our closest family and friends. I would say that it turned out to be a gorgeous wedding, but what made it most beautiful to me was the significance within every portion of the event. It was the perfect manifestation of everything we were as a couple and everything we wanted in a ceremony, our pasts, histories, and families all colliding together to create a new chapter.
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i just thought about it and i figured out you can mess around with who you want to mate with. when ur tama is old enough to mate, just set the time to either 9:59 am, 2:59 pm, or 6:59 pm. then the matchmaker will show as schedueld with a different mate most of the time. when it says LOVE? just select no to keep on doing this again and again.
Choose ur mate
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Does who your tama mate with really change the outcome of what your baby will be like?
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I have found even with the same time you can get a variety of tamagotchis, if you switch times it is still the same tamagotchis, dependent on luck level.


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How's Your Job? Which Professions Are Prospering
2012 was a good year to be a credit analyst, sheet metal worker or tour guide.
Those fields saw their unemployment rates drop by at least six percentage points between 2011 and 2012, according to figures released Friday by the Department of Labor.
The agency's Bureau of Labor Statistics tracks the average annual jobless rates for more than 500 occupational categories.
The data for 2012 mirrors the general direction of a slowly improving labor market, with nearly 300 professions showing higher employment and only around 170 recording losses. (See a chart of unemployment rates by occupation, here.)
Some professions – clergy (1.2% unemployed), accountants (4.2%), and dental hygienists (2.8%) – showed no movement up or down. Other occupations had too few people (fish and game warden, anyone?) to even register in the statistical galaxy.
Among the relative bright spots are production occupations – primarily in manufacturing – which collectively posted a gain of 313,000 jobs, and saw unemployment drop from 11.2% in 2011 to 9.3% in 2012.
The new data confirms a trend that the sector – while enduring a long-term decline due to globalization and technological change – is seeing a mini-renaissance. The unemployment rate for machinists, for example, is 5.9%, well below the national jobless rate of 7.8%. Other production occupations such as welding, soldering and brazing workers, with an unemployment rate that dropped from 13.3% to 11%, are still struggling.
"2012 in general was quite frankly a so-so year in manufacturing," said Bradley Holcomb, chair of the Institute for Supply Management's Manufacturing Business Survey Committee.
"It started off in fairly good shape but leveled off and went sideways for the last seven months with a lot of overall concern about Europe, China and the fiscal cliff," he added.
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A Look Back at the... Pioneer-Tribune Archives
50 Years Ago November 14, 1963
• Manistique High School debaters have been invited to participate in the "Top Teams Tournament" at Central Michigan University in Mt. Pleasant on Dec. 7. They will be the only school debaters from the Upper Peninsula among the dozen teams invited. The tournament is devised to give some of the best teams from various areas of the state an opportunity to meet in the geographical center of the state, and offers the chance for critique from university judges and the chance to try out new ideas and cases in debating. Schools participating are selected by a committee that considers the ability of the coaches, past records, and the indication of excellence for this year. The board of education approved participation in the event at their meeting Tuesday night, at an estimated cost of $136. Principal Marvin Frederickson is debate coach.
• The State Savings Bank of Manistique has completed payment of $25,000 stock dividend to its shareholders, and has also sold 1,000 new shares of stock, it was announced this week. These transactions increase the capital stock account from $150,000 to $200,000, President H. Keith Bundy said, and the surplus account from $150,000 to $175,000, making the total capital structure and reserves of the bank in excess of $600,000.
• An 800-pound whiteface steer became a casualty because of some nearsighted hunter last weekend. State Police and Conservation officers are investigating the shooting of the animal sometime Friday night, in its pasture near Garden. The animal, owned by Rev. I.N. Pollmateer, was valued at $200.
• Reports from the deer hunters: Billy Hentschell shot a spike horn opening day of the season, hunting near Thunder Lake. His companion, Jim Bonner, also was successful, getting a good sized doe. Ed Jorgenson filled his license opening day with a spike horn shot near Thunder Lake. Paul Perry, hunting near Isabella, filled his license with a 10 point buck Tuesday. Ken Jones filled his license with a 120 pound spike horn opening day. Sylvester Leny shot a 12 point, 225 pound buck while hunting near Lake Michigan by Gulliver. Joel Peterson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Victor Peterson was successful Monday when he shot a spike horn in the south town area. He has been hunting with Rodney Weber.
35 Years Ago November 16, 1978
• The city's Department of Public safety reminded area residents that Manistique's new curfew law became effective at midnight Wednesday. The law prohibits children under the age of 17 to be in public in the city between 11 p.m. and 6 a.m. unless they meet certain specific exceptions.
• The old bell in the Congregational Church in Garden tolled Sunday for the first time in 12 years. It was raised and rung again in memory of the late Ella Wozniak, who died three months ago. One of her dearest wishes was to restore the old church bell to its belfry atop the church. This was brought about by her husband Tom and her son David.
• The City of Manistique will hold a public hearing Monday, Nov. 27, on the proposed abandonment of the alley behind the First National Bank building. The bank is requesting that the alley be abandoned in order to permit the construction of a new bank facility, which is scheduled to be completed in about a year.
• Pete and Boyd Widdis of Manistique were among 63 people who started out in the recent Press On Regardless Road Rally held in the Copper Country. They drove their 510 Datsun over the 604 mile course to come in 18th in field of 28 who finished the race. The road rally was held with two kinds of courses; the first was the "special stages" where the roads were blocked off and contestants were allowed to travel as fast as possible; the second was the transit sections, when participants had to use the regular road system and proceed at normal traffic speeds. The Widdis Datsun was equipped with a beefed-up suspension system, a roll bar, extra lights and skid plates to protect the engine from rocks.
20 Years Ago November 18, 1993
• Drug use among teenagers is down in the Manistique area, but is still well above national averages for most categories studied. Alcohol is the most used drug in the area according to the survey conducted by the Manistique Area Schools and given to eighth, tenth and twelfth graders. In the eighth grade, 82 percent of the students have tried alcohol, 48 percent in the last month. The percentage of tenth graders ever using alcohol was 91 percent, 66 percent in the last month. The percentage of twelfth graders who ever used alcohol was 94 percent, 71 percent said they have tried alcohol in the last month. The numbers are high, but are down slightly from the levels in a survey taken in 1990.
• The Manistique Girls Varsity Basketball Team was represented well on the All-Mid-Peninsula Conference basketball team, with Alison Malloch named as a first-team player and Sue Fleck and Renae Kennedy making the secondteam.
• Big Bay de Noc High School recently defeated Bark River Harris High School 170-135, on WMNU-TV's Upper Peninsula High School Bowl. Representing Big Bay de Noc were Jack Avery, Travis Gauthier, Jim Thill and Tony Ranguette. Alternates were Sid Lucas and Lee Thennes. They are coached by Joanne Annelin
10 Years Ago November 13, 2003
• Donations made in memory of a former Manistique Public safety Department officer have helped equip that department's newest ambulance. A total of $1,600 was contributed by friends and family of David Neville, a former city officer who died Aug. 29. The money was used to buy important pieces of equipment for the new transfer ambulance, which was bought last summer for approximately $93,000.
• .Quick facts about Michigan's 2003 deer hunting season: 775,000 - The number of hunters buying at last one license. 10 million - The total number of days spent by hunters in the field during all seasons. 107 to 108 million - The estimated size of Michigan's deer herd. 480,000 - The estimated 2003 deer harvest. $500 million - The impact of hunting on Michigan's economy, based on estimates of the amount of money hunters will spend.
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Recently, The Record published several articles on valley fever, its effect on a person's health, the high cost of treatment and the length of time in diagnosis of the disease. Late diagnosis causes permanent damage to all organs, bones and muscle tissue.
Recently, The Record published several articles on valley fever, its effect on a person's health, the high cost of treatment and the length of time in diagnosis of the disease. Late diagnosis causes permanent damage to all organs, bones and muscle tissue.
I had valley fever in 1993. It took 4 1/2 months to diagnose. Many old timers told me early on, "You have valley fever." I told doctors to maybe test for this.
After several more months of expensive and sometimes painful tests, doctors concluded indeed it was valley fever. The delay has left me with permanent health problems.
I find it shocking to see after almost 20 years, doctors still follow an unacceptable plan in recognizing the disease. If you have flulike symptoms that last long after conventional treatment, and you live or visited areas that are high risk for valley fever, demand to be tested as soon as possible.
The longer you wait, the more permanent damage you will have, and in some cases, death. Hopefully, The Record's articles will wake these doctors up!
Craig T. Roley
I'm confused. In response to an Oct. 7 letter regarding Dallas Braden's behavior and reactions at a community meeting and Record editor Mike Klocke's Sept. 30 column, the letter writer refers to Saul Lewinsky. Who is this person?
I've heard and read work by Saul Alinsky, author of "Rules for Radicals." Alinsky was an American community organizer whose organizing skills were focused on improving living conditions of poor communities throughout North America.
Although I don't approve of Braden's method of protest, I do think that high-profile citizens can move communities to action. If elected officials fail to protect the citizenry, then perhaps the citizenry has to organize to protest loud and clear that "enough is enough."
What every community needs is solid, rational, unselfish leadership. We need leaders who are not swayed by ego, profit and greed, but by what is right and just for all members. To sacrifice basic services and education to enhance a city's physical image is, in my mind, immoral and unacceptable. Stockton is suffering the consequences of these actions.
Linda Whittock
� NOTE: The letter writer was referring to Saul Alinsky.
Kudos to San Joaquin Delta College Police Sgt. Mario Vasquez for stopping and preventing a would-be crime on a recent afternoon outside one of the campus buildings. No one would have suspected that the man would have been the suspect if it had not been for Vasquez. The suspect was the spitting image of a regular Delta College student. Thanks to Vasquez's quick thinking and 22 years of experience patrolling, he knew the young man was different. He was wearing a long black coat on a 95 degree day, carrying no backpack, and claimed to be signing up for classes when school had started a month earlier.
Like many teens my age, I will be going to college next year. The action of Vasquez encourages other officers to be aware of such crimes that are common around campuses these days. It also makes students keep a look out for such people.
In the interest of student community safety, you and I can request that the campus police department host a personal safety presentation and seminars periodically to educate students and faculty on safety issues and precautions.
We can also help ourselves by traveling in groups, being aware of our surroundings and keeping a lookout for one another.
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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A tunnel collapsed in a coal mine in Afghanistan's north, killing at least 24 workers and leaving three others missing, officials said Sunday. Some 14 area residents trying to aid in the rescue were overcome by fumes and had to get treatment.
Workplace safety standards are poor in Afghanistan as in many developing nations, and such accidents are common. But concern about such standards is likely to grow in the coming years as the government tries to develop a wealth of mineral resources in the country — a challenging goal as it battles a Taliban insurgency.
The mine tunnel collapse occurred Saturday around 2 p.m. in Ruyi Du Ab district of Samangan province, a remote area where the insurgency does not have a significant presence yet. Aminullah, a police official who like many Afghans goes by one name, says more than 1,000 villagers in the area rushed to the scene, using their hands, shovels and other tools to try to dig out the workers.
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Eric and his wife Candace serve on the Senior Leadership for Bethel Church, where they are the Senior Leaders over the local church, Bethel Redding. He is a sixth generation minister and the author of two books, Momentum and Christ In You. Eric and Candace have a passion to see transformation take place in the lives of people, cities, and nations. Together, they have two beautiful daughters that make them extremely proud parents.


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Private texts show FBI officials exchanged insults about Trump last yearBy Joseph Tanfani
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December 13. 2017 12:46AM
WASHINGTON — Two FBI agents involved in the Russia investigation exchanged a series of insults about Donald Trump in private texts during the campaign last year, calling him an "idiot" and "awful," according to documents released to Congress by the Justice Department on Tuesday night.
Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III removed one of the agents, Peter Strzok, from the investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, as soon as the texts surfaced in July during an inspector general investigation. Strzok also was involved in the FBI investigation into Hillary Clinton's emails that concluded last year.
In a March 2016 exchange of texts with FBI lawyer Lisa Page, Strzok wrote: "Omg he's an idiot," according to messages obtained by the Los Angeles Times.
"He's awful," Page replied.
"America will get what the voting public deserves," Strzok said.
"That's what I'm afraid of," Page replied.
The texts were sent to several congressional committees late Tuesday, including the House Judiciary Committee. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is scheduled to testify before the committee Wednesday morning and is likely to face questions about them.
Republicans in Congress have been pressing the Justice Department to release the agents' texts, saying they suspect bias in the FBI's inquiries on Clinton and Russia interference.
The pair apparently were exchanging texts during a Republican presidential debate in March 2016. "Also did you hear (Trump) make a comment about the size of his d_earlier? This man can not be president," Page wrote.
After Page remarked that she had seen a Bernie Sanders bumper sticker, Strzok said: "He's an idiot like Trump. Figure they cancel each other out."
About a week after the election, they expressed horror at reports that then-Sen. Jeff Sessions was a leading candidate for the job of attorney general.
"Which is the f-ed uppedness of it ... .Sessions for AG," Strzok wrote.
"Good god," Page wrote back.


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Sean McFarland's landscape photographs are equal parts theater and documentary. McFarland combines and layers images and mediums to create scenes that are at once convincing and impossible. Sometimes the photographs are taken from nature in such a way that the subject is not immediately recognizable, and other times McFarland creates the set in his studio. He works with various photographic processes, including Polaroid, cyanotypes, and photograms, in combination with digital manipulation; for other works, he uses impromptu filters, like chipped ballistics glass, to create abstract effects. McFarland sometimes creates graphite drawings based on his photographs, and includes the photograph's borders in his re-renderings. He identifies most strongly with photographic experimenters James Casebere and Thomas Demand.
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"La Jolla Shores Tomorrow contested this project on grounds that property owners and developers must respect bulk and scale limits, height limitations and reasonable setbacks," he said. "After considerable negotiation, the owner of the property submitted a letter to the city of San Diego terminating his project application."
Whittemore thanked LJST president Dick McCormack for his leadership in helping resolve the dispute and independent consultant Phil Merten for his assistance in the case.
• In a divided vote, trustees motioned findings could not be made for a substantial conformance review for an existing coastal development permit at 1456 Nautilus St. because the architectural concept — which changed from a three-level modern flat roof style to a two-level Mediterranean style — is significantly different from its original design.
The applicant's representative, architect Bob Belanger, argued that the footprint size, location of the driveway and position of the development on the site are largely similar to the permitted project, which was previously approved at the city level and does not vary drastically from the original concept. He also said the architectural design fits in more with the neighborhood character, has a smaller floor-area ratio and is lower in height than the previously approved project.
"We feel that what we're proposing better fits in with the neighborhood," he said. "The homes in this area tend to be Spanish style. They have eaves, they have Spanish style roofs, and that's the primary reason that the owner of the property proposed this change."
Trustee Laura Ducharme-Conboy said the aesthetic of the architectural style is irrelevant to the trustees' responsibility to determine substantial conformance.
"Whether we like the new style better than the old style or we don't, that's not what we're here to discuss," she said. "The fact that they're so radically different [means] this is not in substantial conformance … This is going from one style to something completely, radically different."
She and other trustees advised Belanger to apply for a permit amendment, not a substantial conformance review.
"When an applicant has been issued a coastal development permit or site development permit and they come in and propose a major change, the process is to go through a permit amendment, which is a reconsideration of all the issues under the permit amendment," explained trustee Merten.
Some trustees were hesitant to reject a project that is smaller with a similar orientation on the lot and a less intrusive view blockage from Nautilus than the previously approved project. In the end, trustees voted 8-6-1 that the project is not in substantial conformance to the existing permitted project.
• The LJCPA continued its discussion about the community's Capital Improvement Program (CIP) priorities and voted to send a detailed list of project priorities to the city.
Listed parks and recreation priorities included improvements to the Coast Boulevard sidewalk at the Children's Pool, restoration of Scripps Park, enhancement of the South Coast Boulevard Park and walking path along Coast Boulevard, and completion of a parking feasibility study for the restoration of up to six parking spaces on Coast Walk.
Transportation priorities included the completion of all phases of the Torrey Pines Corridor project, the fruition of a plan to create a promenade at the confluence of Prospect Street and Girard Avenue — otherwise known as the "Belvedere Dip" — and the installation of a sidewalk at La Jolla Hermosa Park in Bird Rock.
"The development of a list this year will be a starting point for us to continue this conversation next year and also prioritize as a community which projects we want to fight for that might not be on the city's radar," said LaCava, who spearheaded the community outreach effort to bring awareness about the CIP input process.
• The mayor's office recommended denial of San Diego Canyonlands' proposal to dedicate parkland in La Jolla as dedicated open space, announced LJCPA vice president Joe LaCava.
"The city wanted to preserve its options in the future," LaCava explained. "There is one last window of opportunity. The item will go to full council through the efforts of [District 1 City Councilwoman Sherri] Lightner."
La Jolla sites that are proposed for dedication include a small parcel of isolated hillside slope on Caminito Muirfield and the La Jolla bike path from Beaumont Avenue and Via Del Norte to Nautilus Street and Fay Avenue, totaling approximately 15 acres in the La Jolla planning area.
The City Council will hear the item in mid-November.
• The Children's Pool beautification project is still in need of funding, announced Phyllis Minick, chair of La Jolla Parks and Beaches' beautification committee.
"It will take approximately $250,000 to rebuild the sidewalk, rebuild the benches and the area surrounding the new lifeguard station," she said.
The city has agreed to waive permit fees by coordinating its renovation with the construction of the new Children's Pool lifeguard tower, which is slated to begin next summer, Minick said, urging donors to take action as soon as possible to get the project in the pipeline. To receive a completed grant proposal for recommendation of the beautification effort to a potential donor, contact Minick at firstname.lastname@example.com.
• Site clearance and demolition for the Scripps Institution of Oceanography's Research Support Facilities project is expected to begin in December. The project will replace old, dilapidated storage buildings in Seaweed Canyon, just north of Birch Aquarium.
• La Jolla Shores Association (LJSA) member Tim Lucas announced the advisory group still has two vacancies on the board for anyone interested in helping advise the city on issues related to parks in the La Jolla Shores area.
• City Council District 2 will no longer represent any of La Jolla, announced District 2 City Councilman Kevin Faulconer's representative Katherine Johnston. LJCPA chair Tony Crisafi thanked the councilman for all his support over the years and expressed the planning association's appreciation at the meeting.
• The city's Land Use and Housing Committee will consider an item on the regulation of oversize-vehicle parking at its upcoming meeting on Nov. 28 at 2 p.m. at the City Council chambers. The meeting is open to the public, and anyone is welcome to attend to weigh in on the issue.


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Chris Kuczynski became Assistant Legal Counsel and Director of the ADA Policy Division in February 1997. He oversees the development of agency regulations, enforcement guidance, and technical assistance documents interpreting Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Currently, he is overseeing development of the regulations to implement Title II of the Genetic Information Non-Discrimination Act of 2008, which prohibits employers from using genetic information about applicants and employees in making employment decisions and limits the right of employers to acquire and disclose such information, and regulations implementing provisions of the ADA Amendments Act of 2008. Chris has made hundreds of presentations on the ADA to diverse audiences, including human resources and EEO professionals, supervisors and managers in the public and private sectors, and plaintiff and defense counsel.
From January to October 2003, Chris was a Special Assistant to former EEOC Chair Cari Dominguez, and from October 2003 through April 2004, he was Associate Director of the White House Domestic Policy counsel. Chris was a trial attorney in the Disability Rights Section of the U.S. Department of Justice from July 1993 until February 1997, and was a litigation associate for three years with a major Philadelphia law firm. He has a B.A. in English from Villanova University (from which he received the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences 2007 Alumni Medallion for his work in the field of civil rights), a J.D. from Temple Law School, and an LL.M. from Yale Law School.