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DSOGaming writes: "Ah, Gamescom. One of the best gaming events in which developers and publishers share their ideas and plans about their upcoming games. Naturally, Crytek is one of them and this time around, the company's CEO, Cevat Yerli, decided to answer some crucial questions for both PC and console gamers."
Games have never melted pc's.
I always remember some idiot dev saying he once got the PS3 to smoke. Covering up the vents will do that for you.
Haven't seen anything in CRYSIS3 that looks that much better then 2.
No i haven't played it, but seen plenty of PC footage.
Are you retarded?
Anyway.. Next gen starts on pc 2013!!
It's not truly "next gen" unless it has Toad Tech!
Yup... my pc is going to explode trying to render that toad
next gen started last year with battlefield.
Your much better off downloading it from the cry-dev website , the youtube algorithm kills the quality a lot:
Link at the bottom of the page , right click + save as = maximum quality :)
Next Gen on the PC started in 2008 with Crysis 1.
From then consoles have been a limiting factor for developers.
@stay static
thanks alot that looks great. +bubs
i always love checking out new tech in game industry even though im not a much of pc gamer. that looked great
actually CPU's and GPU's can do overheat like crap after running at full 100% load after a couple of hours running, which can melt down the motherboard.
BTW, u appear to be just another frostcrap 2 fan.
CRYSIS 3 does looks way better than ANY other game ever released thanks to its use of DirectX 11 and many other superior features which no other game engine can compete with one of them its the amazing tessellation.
I'm happy to hear this. I wish all pc devs would do this.
Starcraft 2 melted PCs.
The game didnt have a locked FPS on the main menu when it first launched causing A large amount of PC's to overheat, destroying their graphics cards.
i remember when the mod for GTA IV icehancer was in its beta stages, there was a warning by the mod creators which they said if you owned a GTX4xx cards it will overheat them and kill them(melt) unless you had an aftermarket cooler O.o
i didnt believed it at first, i tried the mod anyways, the temps on my GTX460 went from 35c to 98c even though i had an aftermarket cooler (artic cooling accelero)
Company of Heroes fried my power supply. Of course it was one of those cheap ones that came with the casing but it taught me not to use cheap non-branded ones anymore.
"Next Gen" actually started with BattleForge. Circa 2009
Unless you count S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat
@ chukamachine - You don't get it do you ? You must be pretty young so I'll bite my tongue.
It's a figure of speech, silly. Obviously Cevat hasn't made it his goal to MURDER PCs...
Anyway, I doubt my machine will even whimper playing another console-centric Crysis. Just make the game good and stop drumming up the elitist hype crap.
"Games have never melted pc's"
Obviously you don't know what you're talking about. He is talking about the previous PC eras, before the 360 launched and MS stopped making games for PC.
We are talking about games like DooM III, Half-Life 2, Star Wars big titles like Jedi Outcast, Max Payne 1, Battlefield 2, Unreal games and more.
The last games that pushed systems to its end that I can think of are Crysis 1 and Oblivion. They were very demanding games -at their launch time- that required latest graphics card, multi-core CPUs and high amount of RAM.
Now, buying the latest graphic tech & intel CPUs is irrelevant because no game push your system to the end unless you play it at crazy resolution, maximize the AA multiplier, and maybe throw in some 3D and you still at 40 frames per seconds. With Crysis 3 latest PC showcase trailer, we have hope and faith in Crytek and I hope newer games showcase that too.
"We're bringing back the 'can it run it' myth" , "Crysis 3 will melt down a lot of PCs"
-Yeah Ok, somehow I doubt that... -But you have to give him credit for this -
Yerli has also admitted "that Crysis 2 PC was compromised by the console versions." -Finally the truth
I respect him for being honest with gamers.. I hope they do something amazing and knock it out the park with Crysis 3
And as soon as the next console gen appears Crytek will go running back. This is the company that is preaching melting PCs but also says free to play is the future.
If you drive to their offices you will see a guy run outside every ten minutes and stick a wet finger in the air.
If we get free to play games looking like Crysis 3, then I won't mind this move. And after Command & Conquer going F2P (and powered by Frostbite 2), I expect to see more triple-A quality games as F2P titles
Give me a reason to upgrade my video card and I'll reignite my passionate love for you, Crytek.
So you want someone to make you spend more money in exchange for a recognition of your love for Crytek?
I on the other hand want to see excellent looking games that can run nearly maxed on older hardware (like Battlefield 3 for instance). I don't want to spend a whole lot of money to enjoy a game.
It's not all about the technology behind a game you know. Art style also matters. I find that even Half Life 2 still looks good.
I haven't touched the insides of my computer since 2009 and I'm looking for a reason to throw some money at it. Is that such a problem for you?
Obviously art direction is important too, but nothing irks me more than seeing a game with good art and crappy technology behind it.
get a gtx680,can run the first crysis at 60 fps and above at max settings.Will easily run this game at 30 fps at least on max settings if there saying is true about it going back to "can it run crysis"
Crysis and the CryEngine 2 was the TRUTH and it beat the crap outta millions (using my Rock Voice) "AND MILLIONS" of GPU's! Crysis made my X1950 Pro about worthless upon release!
Crysis 2 and 3 on the CryEngine 3 is the Next Gen Unreal Engine. Although it renders nicely, everything seems to be made from the same material. That Play-Doh / Plastic look that everything has TO ME is not impressive.
Make no bones about it the CryEngine 3 is a console game engine with DX11 slapped on top of it. Yes it has some nice features, scales well, and you can Slap DX11 on top of it but it's NOT A true PC DX11 Engine!!
I'll take Virtual Reality Engine 3 (Arma 3) Frostbite 2 (Battlefield 3) and the 4A Engine (Metro 2033) over the CryEngine 3 any day of the week but that is just my Graphical preference.
I think Arma 3 is gonna put a hurting on many PC's especially when they release the ACE MOD 3 which gives Arma some very high detailed photo-like graphics.
Crysis 3 not so much! Metro 2033 is still the beast to judge a GPU's power by. Most benchmarks are run with D.O.F. (Depth of Field) turned off cause GPU's can't handle it.
Also the Witcher 2 on Max settings with Uber sampling on is a GPU killer.
Here we go...Crytek running it's mouth as usual
How did Crysis 2 work out....oh yeah you had your head too far up MS arse to notice.
Crysis 1 was badly made THATS why it melted pcs down. not because it looked great. Dont get me wrong it looked great i'm not saying it didn't but the power needed for the graphics? Lets just say after crysis better looking games came out that required a lot less hardware showing it was just terrible coding that made them "melt down" pc's.
not sure if blind, or just trolling.
NO game came close to the beauty of Crysis 1 when it was released.
doesn't have to be near the time of release.
Warhead a crytek game ran better with less hardware than Crysis 1. either the original engine or the first game wasnt not optimized.
Obviously you have never played FSX.
Also note, more (advanced) shaders and effects DO NOT equal a better looking game.
Crytek seems to pride themselves on cramming the most graphical features and effects they possibly can into their engine--as many as they can find or think of--including any of the newest techniques that can be even remotely feasibly run in a realtime game. Mostly, they do this for hype value and bragging rights for their engine. But many of these shaders and effects are either highly unoptimized (partly because they're such new and experimental techniques), or they don't necessarily enhance the visual fidelity of the game by a margin that is worth the penalty in GPU framerate.
Just for example, Crysis 1's SSAO code back in 2007 was probably EXTREMELY unoptimized and power-hungry compared to more recent implementations of SSAO (e.g., compared to the SSAO in Gears 2 (2008) or Uncharted 2 in 2009).
You can crank up the "SSAO Samples" option in Amnesia to ~128x or something ridiculous like that, and it won't yield ANY improvement in quality, yet it will slow down nearly every gaming PC out there to a crawl.
And yet, the game will still run on "consoles". I find it hard to believe with that as a placeholder could bring current gen PC's to it's knees. Unless of course they're admitting it's serverely unoptimized. That or they've introduced stupid graphical shit options like "intense shadows per pixel quality" and "64x MSAA".
Dude. have you even played Crysis 2 in DX11?
It runs great on my i5, and a GTX570.
Its a great rig, but not perfect. and yet i run Crysis 2 maxed out with 50-60 FPS. And it looks amazing.
And if you have seen the Cryengine 3 tech demos (especially the Cryengine 3+ one), you will see that Crytek aint kidding around
i5 with a 570 is a great rig ?? since when lol
You sure Crysis 2 with DX11 + Hi-res textures at ultra settings in 1080p can run anywhere from 40-100+ on my GTX680 + i7 2700k @ 4.2GHz.. My old 570 was around 35-70 fps tops
i5 is a great rig. Did you know that the i7 doesnt make THAT much of a diffrence in terms of gaming?
i7 makes use of Hyper Threating. Which only works on the OS itself. not on games because they only support 4 CPU Cores (most of the time).
And yes, i5 with a 570 is a great rig. You dont have to spend $1000 in order to do good at gaming.
I run BF3 multiplayer with 60FPS solid. maxed out.
@ Vandal, i play with 1440x900 resolution
Yes, I did. I still came away unimpressed. Crysis 1 texture/realitic mods blow the shit out of Crysis 2.
it is a great rig indeed!
I have been running an overclocked i5 @4.0 plus an overclocked 5850 @900/1200 for more than 3 years now. I have been able to play everything maxed out until recent games (in BF3 I get an average of 40 FPS with a combination of high & ultra settings)
@MRMagoo123: you are such an spoiled brat
This is the problem with Crysis 2, Crytek focused more on the advertising and hyping of the titles graphics and as a result, many, including myself, who adored the gameplay of the original, where sorely let down by the linearity and simplified gameplay.
Gamers and fans of Crysis do care about more than graphics you know Crytek...
Well the first time around was poorly optimized code and used theoretical specs for "extreme".
Warhead was much better, and shows how optimization can really change how a game runs.
This is exactly why I don't game on PC. The last time I tried to get into it, I bought one game in a series and was able to run it at full settings, then the next game in the series came out and I could barely run it at minimum settings. No thanks.
Cool story bro. Next time, use high to mid-range components, you'll have 3-5 years of headroom.
can you name the games you bought?
N4G... tell the truth and lose the ability to tell it again in the future. What a cesspool this site is. X-Wing and Tie Fighter are the games I was referring to. That was a long time ago obviously, but it completely turned me away from PC gaming when I couldn't run the next game in that series at all. I have a brand new rig and have no interest in gaming on it. I'm sure that will hurt some feelings, for some damn reason.
As for buying mid to high range components... why? The game itself isn't changed by upgrading the visuals. I've been gaming since before the Atari 2600. Graphics mean very little to me next to gameplay and story. Smooth animations and decent AI are waaay more important than high rez visuals. The current consoles have reached a "good enough" level of graphics, but most of the games themselves could have been done last gen. I want advances in gaming, not graphics. Pile on with the disagrees all you want. I'm not trolling, just giving my opinion.
Duke Nukem 3D and Duke Nukem Forever?
No, but seriously.
I don't know about melting PCs but it sure does look better than any game on consoles.
Heres a tip. Adjustable FOV. That 60/75 crap isnt cutting it.
75/80 is recommended. otherwise you get the Fish eye effect
75 is fine. The <55 degrees you see in console games however, is unacceptable.
IDK, 75 is scraping the bottom if your playing on a computer, but i suppose it depends what size of screen your using. 22" should probably be around 90 at a desk 75 is like a relatively small laptop at a desk.
I tend to play at 90 its pretty good on a 16:10 monitor and its alot easier on the eyes
yeah so i can be amazed by the shiny for about 10 minutes then get severely bored with the gameplay because it will probably suck.
good. Its a win for everybody.
Except for people who like to play fun* games.
Didn't like Crysis1 or 2 so I'm giving 3 a miss, it's all about Far Cry 3 for me, loved the 2nd one
Even though I will not be able to run this beauty, it is great to see this commitment again to the PC platform!
Lets just hope this doesn't mean it's going be an unoptimized piece of shit...
you can make a game pretty as you want, but a dull game is a dull game.
cryis1 was boring, crysis2 was as generic as they come. Crysis3? Not getting my hopes up. More excited for the mods that will come.
I'm really not giving a s*** anymore Crytek, give me fun and varied gameplay.
They can just not optimize it whatsoever. And make the whole world rendered constantly as you play.
And while they're at it, make the game run some hidden benchmark programs in the background.
Tada! Melt PC
I find this statement a piece of you people know what!I the hell do we want melting graphics,not every people can affort gtx680....and them the game will run like...on a 580,or even on a 660 just because this idiots want to melt peoples eyes with graphics,leaving the other stuff that make a good game off.If i have to upgrade to a gtx 680 or a 780 i will do gladly ,but i feel sorry of those that cant do it and are going to end up playing this game like crap.
Its a pity that all Crytek really cares about every release is "can it run it". Crysis looks great but its an average FPS.


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That wasn't true for the members of the Virginia Commonwealth University track & field program who stayed focused on their training and it showed as the Rams looked strong in their first meet back, the Bucknell Heptagonal Indoor Invitational.
"It was a good opener for our program," Head Coach Jon Riley said. "The meet provided a great opportunity to knock off the rust coming off the Christmas break. From top to bottom, I'm very pleased with the effort we put forward today."
As a group, the Black & Gold posted 29 top-10 finishes, 16 on the women's side and 13 on the men's. In more impressive was the 11 top-three finishes by the Rams.
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In just her first college meet, Aduma leaped 18' 7" to not only win the event, but claim a personal best and earn a spot in the ECACs indoor meet in March. Hayes carried over the momentum from her outstanding freshman year and posted a time of 7.66 to win the 60m and also qualify for the ECACs.
Seniors Donnie Seward, Jeffrey Hernandez and Axel Mostrag teamed with sophomore Dominic Costanzo (pictured, left) to take home the win in the 4x400, blistering the track for a time of 3:21.49.
Costanzo and Seward weren't done as the duo finished second and third in the 400-meter dash with times of 50.27 and 50.30, respectively. It was a personal best for Costanzo.
On the women's side, senior Quina Fortune joined in the ECAC-qualifying parade with a time of 7.67 in the 60-meter dash, just behind her teammate Hayes. Junior Rachel Montague (pictured, right) claimed third-place in the 60-meter hurdles, while her classmate Nicole Walters ran a personal best (5:02.11) to grab third-place in the mile run.
For the men, senior Antonio Norvell started his final year in the Black & Gold on the right rack with a second-place finish in the 200-meter, while sophomore Alex Hinton took home third-place in the 500-meter run for the Rams.
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There are several varieties of insulin, ranging from the short-acting to the long-acting insulin, and many more. The truth is that all insulin is not the same. Even though all of them help in regulating the blood sugar (blood glucose) levels, each of them has a specific role they play in the process.
Different individuals need certain insulin or combinations of insulin to meet their specific needs. Your doctor is in the best position to prescribe the type of insulin you need.
However, by learning more about how the different types of insulin work, it becomes easier for you to monitor your response to insulin. This will help you work with your doctor to adjust your treatment plan and hence, help you better control your diabetes.What is insulin and How Does it Work?
Insulin is a hormone produced by the pancreas and plays a critical role in our day to day lives. When you eat, the food is broken down and converted into simple sugar (glucose) that moves into your bloodstream.
For the sugars to effectively move from the blood into the cells where they are being used to generate energy, insulins are required.
Without insulin, it becomes very difficult for the sugar to enter into the cells and are thus kept in the bloodstream.
When there is an excess of these sugars in the blood because they couldn't gain entrance into the cells, they tend to increase the sugar levels in the blood. This is the major issue being faced by people living with diabetes.
Conventionally, insulin was only being used in treating type 1 diabetes where the body is unable to produce enough insulin.
But today, insulin is also being used as an excellent therapy for type 2 diabetes patients as well. This set of people are being faced with a situation where the body is unable to use the insulin it produces effectively.
When insulin is being prescribed, you must inject it into your bloodstream because the acid in the stomach will digest and render it useless if it were swallowed like pills.
Even though early injections used insulin from pigs and cows, modern medicine has now developed synthetic (laboratory-produced) insulin that acts the same way as insulin made in the human pancreas. Today, biosynthetic insulin is used almost exclusively.Different Types of Insulin
There are different types of Insulin which are used for treating diabetes. They include:
#1: Rapid-Acting Insulin
Rapid-acting insulin is usually taken just after or before meals for controlling blood sugar spikes. It often begins to work in 10 to 15 minutes, peaks in about 1 hour, and lasts for about 3 to 5 hours.
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In this app, I will borrow from the default Backbone.js example: Todos. Todos is a simple to-do list, which uses the browser's local storage to save data.
I will adapt it to be hosted by the Parse.com proxy that I showed in my previous post. Instead of storing locally, the app will put push to Parse.com. Want to play with it? I have hosted everything on Heroku:
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The example given with Backbone.js uses the "localstorage" override for Backbone.sync. We want to use the default REST version Backbone.sync so we remove it. We also want to use the base prototypes to adapt Parse.com to Backbone.
The example uses a vanilla Backbone.Model. Instead, change it to Backbone.ParseModel and give it the location of the data.
The example uses a Backbone.Collection. Instead, change it to Backbone.ParseCollection and give it the location of the data.
Also, since we aren't using local storage, remove the localStore details.
That is all you need to do in order to modify the app. Everything else is exactly the same. You do, however, need to create an App at Parse.com.
Use the Application ID and Master Key and edit the config.coffee file:
Add items to your list.
See them show up in your data store.
That was insanely easy. You just need to tell you models and collections to go to the server instead of local storage, configure the proxy and run it. This solution installs well on Heroku as you can see. This app wasn't built with any type of user models, so everyone in the world gets to share Todos in this example… that can also be done with Parse.com, but I that is a different post ☺.
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Let`s be honest, online part shops/webstores have gotten extremely competitive in the last few years, so in order to compete with the biggest names and websites in the industry, we`ve made it our mission to offer the best and most competitive pricing possible to our customers. However, in order to do so, we had to create two separate pricing structures... One for our In store customers(Retail) & one for our Web customers.
While browsing through our webstore, you will notice 2 prices listed for most items, the price that`s crossed out is the manufacturer`s suggested retail price, and the price displayed in RED is for our WEB customers only. IN STORE or PHONE-IN customers will normally be charged on average 10% over the listed WEB Price.
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Take note that one of the reasons we can offer a better price for our web customers is because we have multiple warehouses that are spread across Canada and the United States, so when you place your order online with us, we will generally have the items drop shipped directly from any one of our warehouses to your doorstep.
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Plymouth keeps Trinity's offense at bayBy ROGER BROWN
New Hampshire Union Leader
September 28. 2013 11:14PM
MANCHESTER - It was perhaps the biggest play in Saturday's Division II game between Trinity of Manchester and Plymouth, and it came early in the third quarter.
Trinity was trailing by 14 and faced a fourth-and-two situation from its own 11-yard line. Trinity elected to go for the first down, but the Plymouth defense held and handed the ball to its offense deep in Pioneer territory.
Three plays later Plymouth quarterback Collin Sullivan scored from 4 yards away to help the Bobcats build a 21-point lead en route to a 35-14 triumph.
Plymouth halfback Jared Kuehl carried the ball 25 times for 182 yards and three touchdowns, two of which came in the fourth quarter. He scored on a 3-yard run with 3:52 to play and on an 11-yard run with 3:36 left. Silas Murray capped the Plymouth scoring with his fifth point-after kick.
The victory raised Plymouth's record to 4-0. Trinity, which had scored at least 30 points in each of its three previous games, dropped to 3-1.
Trinity's touchdowns came on Carmen Giampetruzzi's 1-yard quarterback sneak with 10:39 left in the fourth quarter, and Saikou Bah's 44-yard run with 2:00 to play. Bah also added the two-point conversion following his touchdown.
Giampetruzzi's TD was set up by a Plymouth fumble that gave the Pioneers possession on the Plymouth 29-yard line.
Plymouth led 7-0 after one quarter, 14-0 at halftime and 21-0 entering the third.
Plymouth's first-half touchdowns came on Kuehl's 9-yard run on Plymouth's first possession, and a 23-yard pass from Sullivan to tight end Kyle Reisert with 3.2 seconds left in the half.
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Shia LaBeouf: Kiss Kiss with Karolyn Pho!
Shia LaBeouf shares a smooch with his girlfriend, stylist Karolyn Pho, on Tuesday (May 3) in Studio City, Calif.
The couple grabbed lunch at Sweet Butter Cafe before stopping by Aaron Brothers and The Ivy furniture store.
Shia, 24, and Karolyn also cooled down with some smoothies from Jamba Juice.
Over the weekend, Shia showed off his fit physique while making a pit stop at a gas station.
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Just a few days after the iPad became publicly available, Apple has rocked the world again with their iPhone OS 4.0 announcement yesterday. iPhone, and now iPad, users got what they wanted as the new OS is packed with new and interesting features. But the OS announcement isn't what rocked the world.
New Licensing Restrictions
Apple also made some changes to their developer agreement. In short, Apple does not seem to appreciate development frameworks that allow developers to create iPhone applications using an intermediary framework. It's pretty clear they want developers using Apple tools.
As far as I'm aware, John Gruber broke the news on this one, and provides a great overview. While this spells trouble for Adobe's new Flash-to-iPhone compiler, Adobe is not the only organization looking to make iPhone development easier. There are an abundance of other vendors and products for whom this change to the developer agreement may spell trouble for.
The language in the new agreement reads:
If I interpret this correctly (and it seems pretty clear), it appears that developers must use C, C++ or Objective-C to develop the application. And Apple will easily be able to recognize if a third-party framework was used, since many embed the framework and container into the application to serve as an intermediary component between the application and iPhone OS.
Market Impact
In an upcoming Burton Group market profile on mobile application development platforms, we make a point to talk about the burgeoning vendor market that is emerging to address the challenge of creating cross platform rich mobile applications. These changes to the developer agreement sends a crushing blow to this burgeoning market.
If you're an iPhone developer out there who currently uses Objective-C, you're jumping for joy today. Your stock just went up. If you're a consumer, with the plethora of high quality applications already available in the App Store, it's likely the impact is negligible. If you're an enterprise hoping to leverage a vendor solution to develop cross-platform mobile applications, make sure you do your homework in evaluating their products. Some, possibly many, already violate the new terms of the Apple iPhone OS 4 developer agreement, meaning the applications you develop using their solutions will be rejected by Apple once iPhone OS 4 is available.


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Book Bag is a Tween Book Group for ages 9-12 at the Central Library.
We are currently reading
Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Summer 2014
- June One Dog and His Boy by Eva Ibbotson
- July The Secret Zoo by Bryan Chick
- August Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Winter/Spring 2014
- January Time Stops For No Mouse by Michael Hoeye
- February 11 Birthdays by Wendy Mass
- March Jim Ugly by Sid Fleischman
- April The Emerald Atlas by John Stephens
- May Small As An Elephant by Jennifer Richard Jacobson
Fall 2013
- September Star in the Storm by Joan Hiatt Harlow
- October The Magic Thief by Sarah Prineas
- November How To Steal A Dog: A Novel by Barbara O'Connor
- December Bird in a Box by Andrea Davis Pinkney
Other books we have read:
100 Cupboards by N. D. Wilson
Conch Bearer by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Dog Friday by Hilary McKay
Down The Mysterly River by Bill Willingham
Half Magic by Edward Eager
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Jeremy Fink And The Meaning Of Life by Wendy Mass
The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: The Mysterious Howling by Maryrose Wood
The Kneebone Boy by Ellen Potter
The London Eye Mystery by Siobhan Dowd
The Magician's Elephant by Kate DiCamillo
A Murder For Her Majesty by Beth Hilgartner
Night of the Howling Dogs by Graham Salisbury
Savvy by Ingrid Law
The Seer of Shadows by Avi
Theodosia and the Serpents of Chaos by R. L. La Fevers
The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke
The Unsinkable Walker Bean by Aaron Renier
Walls Within Walls by Maureen Sherry
The White Giraffe by Lauren St. John


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When radar was first developed, it was heralded as a wonder that could do anything. Need to file your back taxes? Radar. Need to save a roast? Radar. Need to find the position and velocity of an aircraft that's miles away? Well, that one actually is radar, but you get the idea.
This miracle technology didn't even lose its super powers in films such as "Radar Secret Service," whose reference my boss, Lab Director John Breeden II, insisted I include in this article.
But in reality, a basic radar setup works pretty much the same way as our regular mortal human eyes do. Electromagnetic energy of some wavelength bounces off an object and back into the receiver, at which point the image is processed. The only difference is that radar devices work in a different frequency than visible light – down in the microwave/radio end of the spectrum.
And since the vast majority of these electromagnetic waves — 99.4 percent — are blocked by solid matter, radar generally has as much trouble seeing through walls as our eyes do.
Now, researchers at The Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Lincoln Laboratory have developed a phased array of radar transmitters and receivers that can emit waves with enough power to go through a concrete wall, bounce off of the target inside, and go back through wall with enough strength left to be detected by the receivers.
Their system also is able to differentiate between the waves that are doing that and the ones that are simply bouncing off of the wall in the first place, making the wall effectively invisible to it.
But that isn't the impressive part, they claim. In order to get the array to accomplish this, they had to get the system to be able to analyze signals much more quickly and much closer to real time.
Larger-scale conventional radar doesn't have to update nearly as frequently because the objects tend to be farther away — think of the periodic blips on those low-res flight-control screens in the movies. But at distances of 20 to 60 feet, rapid processing is vital, as the situation inside the wall you are looking though can literally change in the blink of an eye.
Research team members demonstrated the radar at 20 feet, which they said is a practical distance for an urban combat situation, MIT News reported. The system provides a real-time picture of movement behind via a 10.8-frames/sec video in which people would be depicted as red blobs on the screen.
In a video with the MIT News report, researcher Gregory Charvat said their goal is "to aid the urban warfighter, to increase his situational awareness," but it's not hard to imagine other uses, such as surveillance or in some kind of standoff/hostage type situation.
Now if we can just get radar to help me file my back taxes, I'll be set. But either way, this is a huge step forward in a new application of a 70-year-old technology.
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I guess we should invest in lead based paint again!!
We've had the capability to track people on the other side of walls in realtime and with better resolution for decades, using infrared. This is nice research, but isn't useful "to aid the urban warfighter".
Interesting article. Thanks! The only question left: would you like your organs medium-rare or well-done! ; )
Thank you Greg Crowe for such nice article. Brief, informative, and pleasant to read.
Though the intent always starts out noble, you know if something can be abused, it will be (especially here). Lead lined? Heck, how about relocation?
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For those of you who love animal stories, this DVD from our collection is a must see! Hachi, starring Richard Gere, Joan Allen, and Sarah Roemer, chronicles the life of an extraordinary dog named Hachiko. No one really knows where Hachi came from, but the small Akita puppy shows up at a train station one evening as Professor Parker Wilson (played by Gere) comes home from work. Though the professor's efforts to find Hachi a new home prove in vain, his wife and daughter watch the bond between man and dog grow and agree that Hachi should stay. As he grows, Hachi becomes so attached to his master that he walks him to the train station each morning and awaits his return there each afternoon.
One day, however, tragedy strikes and the professor does not return home on the train. Though the professor's family tries to explain to Hachi that the professor won't ever be coming home, Hachi continues to wait for his master's return at the station each day--for nine years! This truly inspiring story is family-friendly and shows the beauty of a dog's loyal and undying devotion for his master. If you are particularly tender-hearted, make sure to keep a box of tissues handy, as this movie may tug on your heartstrings!
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1987—Pub. L. 100–203, title X, § 10512(f)(1), Dec. 22, 1987, 101 Stat. 1330–449, redesignated subchapter D as E.
1976—Pub. L. 94–455, title XXI, § 2128(d)(1), Oct. 4, 1976, 90 Stat. 1921, inserted "and Importers" in subchapter heading.
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What book is currently on your nightstand? One Year Devotional Bible, The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd and State of Wonder: A Novel by Ann Patchett
One thing that is going great in education in your state: I believe we have just secured adequate level funding for k-12 education for the next fiscal year.
One thing you wish could be improved in education in your state: Many things, but mostly to give all children the most positive and rich education in all subjects. Science is and has been short-changed for many, many years.
Your favorite teacher (and why): My favorite teacher ever was Mrs. Weaver in the fourth grade. She challenged us in all subjects, and she also held us accountable for our actions. She also wrote me an apology one day and for that it showed me her humility and even now as a 45-year-old I respect her for simply being humble.
Secret indulgence: Oh my, I love any kind of good tea, thanks to Starbucks! I also love clothes and anything associated with fashion! And I love to run!
Biggest wish for your kids: To love God, serve God, and be the best human by making a difference everyday in another human's life!
Most rewarding/challenging stage of parenthood thus far (and why): The most rewarding part of parenthood thus far has been when my children were between the ages of 0-4. All the new experiences and milestones were so huge! Plus, they are so sweet and innocent and loved their parents so much at that age. The most challenging is the teen years, for sure, because now you are not the only influence on your kids. The amount of trouble kids can face is scary—even when blessed with good kids. I still catch myself worrying about the choices they are making, and what choices they are being influenced to make.
Favorite family tradition: We always go to the beach for Thanksgiving. It is a great time to relax before the Christmas Season begins.
Favorite family activities: The Hildenbrands all play tennis competitively and we all like to ski and go to new places.
Favorite weeknight family dinner: My children love to have roast and mashed potatoes, and most recently they love grilled rosemary chicken breast on ciabatta bread with bacon and Gouda cheese, and roasted rosemary potatoes on the side.


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Staten Island, NY – Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, commented today on Planned Parenthood's filing of a lawsuit to prevent the enforcement of Nebraska's new law requiring that a woman receive pre-abortion counseling to guard against possible coercion or risks to her health.
"The flip side of 'choice' is that women have a right not to be coerced into abortion by boyfriends, parents, employers, or anyone else," said Fr. Pavone. "Planned Parenthood, however, doesn't care about rights that interfere with its profit margins. It's suing the state of Nebraska so that it can keep performing abortions as quickly as possible, regardless of who really wants them."
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Snow, as any New Englander knows, is a great facilitator to sports and play. It's the stuff that gives us snow angels, snowmen, sledding, skiing and snowshoeing.
Snow, as any New Englander knows, is a great facilitator to sports and play. It's the stuff that gives us snow angels, snowmen, sledding, skiing and snowshoeing.
Or, if you prefer, snow is the inducer of deep hibernation and resting for the season to come. Whatever way you look at it, snow falling is a beautiful sight and one that we northerners adore (all the more if timed right.)
I am not tethered to weather reports though. I prefer to be open to surprises and I detest being disappointed when the predictions fall short. As a result, I'm often the last to know about an impending storm; so be it if it's against my Girl Scout code. It seems silly when people panic over snow. Actually, I'm rebelling against an upbringing where the weather report determined everything. Suffice it to say that snow is part of the New England experience that must be endured and hopefully enjoyed.
Beyond the pleasures and visual appeal the snow brings, there are real benefits for our plants. By insulating the ground, snow inhibits vast changes in the soil temperature and also maintains soil moisture. Great fluctuations of late — of freezing and thawing — can hurt roots and even fall-planted bulbs, causing them to expand and contract or to essentially to press the start switch in their growth cycle. Too many ups and downs in temperature can be calamitous. So, the snow serves to balance the temperature like natural mulch blanketing the bare ground, preventing frost heaves. Mind you, lots of plants need cold to happen in order to go forward and bloom, so maintaining cold beneath the ground is essential, and snow helps.
Another common idea is Yankeedom holds that snow has nutritive benefits for our plants. This "poor man's fertilizer" deposits nitrogen into the soil. When the soil thaws, the nitrogen will be absorbed into the plants. Somewhere between two and 12 pounds of nitrogen are deposited per acre as a result of precipitation (snow or rain). Much of this nitrogen comes from emissions, and the rest of the atmospheric nitrogen fixation is derived from lightning, which is an essential building block for agriculture.
Hopefully these benefits will prove themselves as we turn our eyes to spring and our flowers. My procrastination seems to have worked in my favor regarding bulbs. Each year I seem to take longer to plant them. Whereas most people plant their bulbs in the fall as schedules suggest, I wait timing it as close to a snowfall as possible to ensure that the ground will seal them in, against squirrel theft and the mentioned frost heaves. This year, my plan went like clockwork. I installed them in mid-December and the next day we had a big snow. Mind you I had not known it was going to snow, so it felt more miraculous when it did, Nature's gesture of tucking them in did not go unnoticed. Snow has that aura — it's protective, comforting and peaceful, whether you're a bulb, a human or Punxsutawney Phil.
By the time this piece is published, we'll know the dictate of the famous groundhog. I'm betting on six more weeks of winter and more hibernation time. It doesn't seem like we've really had a proper winter yet, so I'm inclined to stay bundled up a bit longer.
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SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — A 2-year-old boy shot dead while playing in the front yard of a South Bend home with his 7-year-old sister may have been struck by a bullet from a gunfight between two rival groups that began about a block away, police said.
An argument began between the two groups around 6 p.m. Wednesday about a block from where the 2-year-old was playing, and escalated into shots being fire, police said. One group began running west toward the boy and the other group continued shooting.
Police say no one has been arrested and no suspects were in custody Thursday in the shooting of John Swoeveland Jr. Autopsy results released Thursday showed the boy died of a gunshot wound to the chest and ruled the death a homicide.
Donnie Price said his 26-year-old daughter, Lola, who has a history of seizures, was outside playing with the two children when the shooting occurred, about a half-mile south of the University of Notre Dame. He said he was inside when he heard the 7-year-old girl yelling and his first thought was his daughter was having a seizure. That's when he saw the boy on the ground.
Lola Price said she thought the bullet came from a passing car.
"It was just a flash. It happened real quickly," she said. "It scared me."
Donnie Price said the boy's parents at first thought he had been hit by a car. The front yard is small and a sidewalk separates it from the street.
"The mom, when she saw the blood along the edge of the Pampers when she pulled his shirt up, that's when she saw the gunshot wound," Price said.
Price used his cellphone to record the scene moments later. The video shows the boy's mother shouting as she knees over her child. It also shows other people yelling. An emergency worker lifts the boy's lifeless body and carries it to an ambulance.
The temperatures Wednesday evening were in the mid-50s on one of the first relatively warm days after a cold winter that saw the northern Indiana city receive more than 100 inches of snow. The street has signs at regular intervals warning drivers to "Watch for children" and children were also at a playground nearby behind the Perley Primary Fine Arts Academy.
Neighbors say they consider the neighborhood safe. Sheila King Martinez said her three children, ages 6 to 10, were at the playground across the street from their home. She said she didn't know about the gunfight until police came and roped the area off, but said the shooting has her worried.
"We're just going to have to figure out something to do with the kids," she said.
At the home of the shooting Thursday, the only sign of what happened were some marks on the ground left by police. A child's small blue chair, a riding vehicle and swing sat next to the dilapidated two-story blue home, which had a couch sitting on the curb in front of it. The police report listed the home as the address for the family, but the boy's uncle, Travis Debaillie, said the family was visiting an aunt's home at the time of the shooting.
A person answering the door at the home Thursday declined comment.


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Public prayer: Supreme Court's ruling not likely to change NH waysBy RYAN O'CONNOR
Union Leader Correspondent
May 11. 2014 8:16PM
Officials in New Hampshire say a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on prayer at public meetings is unlikely to change the way boards conduct business.
The U.S. Supreme Court, in a 5-4 ruling last week, upheld prayer at public meetings.
The ruling stemmed from a case in New York state. It determined prayer in such a setting is not unconstitutional unless it intimidates, coerces or otherwise attempts to convert those with conflicting beliefs.
In New Hampshire, moments of silence seem to be favored over public prayer at town and school meetings.
"I have numerous times been part of meetings with moments of silence, mostly to honor someone whose life was lost, such as a town employee or volunteer, or when there has been a major event such as September 11 or the Boston Marathon bombings," said Sullivan County Manager Jessie Levine, the former Bedford town manager. "I cannot, however, ever recall a prayer or invocation at a public meeting."
Auburn Town Administrator Bill Herman said in 30 years in municipal government, he's experienced many moments of silence, but has yet to hear a prayer during a meeting.
"Generally, my belief is that local government is not a place for politics or prayer," he said. "Not everyone shares the same beliefs and philosophies, and local government in New Hampshire is designed and intended to be inclusive of the community as a whole. Prayer is a deeply personal function for individuals and I think is best left in that mode."
Others, however, say that expressions of faith are appropriate.
"I personally have no objections to prayer at local government meetings, as long as the prayer remains non-denominational so as not to exclude any specific religion," Hooksett School Board member John Lyscars.
"I would not have a problem with prayers at meetings, but in Hooksett we have never had official prayers offered at general meetings," said school board member, Jim Sullivan, who also chairs Hooksett Town Council. "Town memorial services, veteran gatherings, etc., would be, of course, a different situation. There are national-level prayers offered at congressional meetings and the President's inauguration, so there is a place for it, again depending on the occasion."
Will either of Hooksett's boards consider embracing prayer at meetings?
"I wouldn't think so. Maybe we should pray for a high school solution," he joked, alluding to an ongoing debate in Hooksett.
Sen. Andy Sanborn, R-Bedford, said he doesn't want to see the government undermine the ruling.
"I support the court's ruling, (so) I would be disappointed to see the government attempt to limit people's free speech," Sanborn said.
Michele Dillon, professor of sociology at the University of New Hampshire, said the constitutional idea of "religious neutrality" remains difficult to put into practice.
"Given the cultural importance of religion in everyday life in the U.S., one can understand why local communities and citizens want to have symbolic religious expressions during formal events, such as inaugurations and meetings, even though the specific religious content typically excludes certain religions and/or non-believers," she said.
Dillon noted the timing of the Supreme Court's decision is ironic.
"More Americans today are identifying as having no religion — three times as many today are religiously unaffiliated compared to as recently as the late 1990s (an increase from 7 percent to 20 percent)," she said.
Some officials believe a board or committee's policy should be set by those charged with upholding the will of the people.
"Like any policy decisions made by the governing body, there is a public process for supporting or decrying the decision," Levine said.
"Just like a governing body decides how the public participates at its meeting, the governing body can decide what else is appropriate for the meeting."


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Officials Need Help Finding Fire Source On Lake Chelan
MANSON, Wash. (AP) — Fire officials are asking for help in determining who might have started a grassland fire on the north shore of Lake Chelan. Investigators say the fire was human caused and they are asking people in the area to report any suspicious activity. As of Sunday, the fire burning on both private and Forest Service land was about 15 percent contained.


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BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) -- For an out-of-conference coach, Oklahoma State's Travis Ford has probably seen more of Virginia Tech and Erick Green in the last three years than anyone in the country. After Saturday afternoon, Ford will be pleased never to see them again.
Green scored 28 points and hit eight critical free throws in the final 76 seconds as Virginia Tech continued its surprising start under new coach James Johnson, beating the No. 15 Cowboys (5-1) for the fourth time in the past three seasons.
"He's one of the best guards in the country, one of the best point guards in the county, bar none," Ford said of Green, who did all his scoring and grabbed seven rebounds in just 26 minutes after drawing two fouls in the first three minutes.
The Hokies, picked to finish 10th in the ACC, are off to their first 7-0 start since the 1982-83 season, and their victory was their first nonconference triumph against a ranked team since they beat Virginia in December 1995 at Roanoke Coliseum.
"I think people were sleeping on us because of the coaching change and because of the players that left," Green, thee Hokies' lone senior, said. "But I hope that we've shown people we can play with anybody and that we're a great team.
"We've got to keep it going. Consistency is the key," Green said.
Robert Brown added 18 points and Jarell Eddie had 15 with 12 rebounds for the Hokies, who outrebounded the taller, more athletic Cowboys 41-31 and scored 22 points off their 13 offensive rebounds. The victory finished a week that started with a 95-79 blowout of Iowa in the ACC-Big Ten Challenge, a game that many viewed as their first real test of the year.
"Coach Johnson told us that we could do anything we wanted if we put our mind to it as a team, and everyone is putting their minds to one game at a time and winning that game," Brown, a sophomore guard, said. "We've done it so far."
Le'Bryan Nash and Marcus Smart scored 18 each to lead the Cowboys (5-1).
Smart hadn't played in those earlier losses, but heard all about them this week.
"We were pretty amped up knowing that they beat us in those two meetings last season, and we knew they were going to be pumped up, especially with us in the top 15," Smart said. "We knew we were going to have to come and play."
The game was close throughout, especially after Tech saw an eight-point led cut to 69-66 on Markel Brown's deep 3-pointer from the top of the key with 2:22 remaining. Then Green took over, and the Hokies were in good hands.
Brown missed the front end of a one-and-one for Virginia Tech, but as Oklahoma was setting up its offense, Green stole the ball and was fouled driving toward the basket. He made both, pushing the Hokies' lead to 71-66. Nash made 1 of 2 at the other end, and Green was fouled again with 53.8 seconds left. He made both again, and the lead climbed to 73-67.
"We had a few misses, but at the end, when it counted, everyone hit them," Green said.
He finished the game having made 51 of his last 53 from the line.
Green played only nine minutes in the first half after drawing two quick fouls, but still scored 10 points in his time. He also scored the Hokies' first 10 points of the second half on a pair of 3-pointers, two free throws and a long fadeaway.
"Even the guys told me they were going to feed off me and that I was going to have a big second half," Green said. "I had a challenge in front of me and wanted to show people that I could play with the best. Hopefully, I showed people that."
Jarell Eddie's 3-pointer gave Virginia Tech a 49-46 lead with 15 minutes left. Forte scored for Oklahoma State, and Robert Brown, answered, putting back his own miss. Smart's drive cut the Hokies' lead to 51-50 with 13:17 to go, but the Cowboys didn't score against for 5:05 as the Hokies reeled off seven straight.
The Cowboys used a 9-2 run featuring five points by Smart to close to 60-59, but after the Hokies' Robert Brown and the Cowboys' Kamari Murphy traded baskets, Virginia Tech scored seven of the next nine.
The Cowboys led 36-32 at a first half in which both teams took turns going on short scoring bursts.
The biggest of those was an early 10-0 run by Oklahoma State that gave it a 12-7 lead. The score remained close until 3-pointers by Smart and Forte around an inside basket by Michael Cobbins gave the Cowboys a 34-26 lead. Virginia scored six of the last eight points in the half to get within four at the break.
The last three meetings were in preseason tournaments in 2010 and 2011, and a scheduled game Dec. 31, 2011 in Stillwater.


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Nomascus leucogenys
|Scope: Global
Language: English
|Scientific Name:
|Nomascus leucogenys (Ogilby, 1840)
Common Name(s):
|Taxonomic Notes:
|This taxon was formerly considered a subspecies of N. concolor. N. siki has been included in this species by some authorities.
|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Critically Endangered A2cd+3cd ver 3.1
|Year Published:
|Date Assessed:
|Bleisch, B., Geissmann,T., Manh Ha, N., Rawson, B. & Timmins, R.J.
|Mittermeier, R.A. & Rylands, A.B. (Primate Red List Authority)
Listed as Critically Endangered as there is reason to believe the species has declined by at least 80% over the past 45 years (three generations) due primarily to hunting and habitat loss. Over the coming 45 years, this decline is likely to reach similar proportions for the same reasons.
|Previously published Red List assessments:
|Range Description:
|This species occurs in Viet Nam, Lao PDR and China. In Viet Nam, it occurs west and south of the Black River; it has been extirpated from several areas from which it was previously recorded and is now only known from a few localities in the north-west and north-central parts of this country (Geissmann et al. 2000). In Lao PDR, it occurs in the northern parts, east of the Mekong River, except for a small area in northwestern Lao PDR on the east bank of the Mekong at about 20°17'-20°25'N, where it was replaced by N. concolor (Geissmann et al. 2000). In the 1980s, a very small population still occurred in Xishuangbanna in southernmost Yunnan province, China, just across the border from Viet Nam (Hu et al. 1989, 1990), but the species might no longer survive there (W. Bleisch pers. comm. 2006). It was formerly sympatric with N. concolor in Luchin, Yunnan (China), and possibly also in the Ma River region in Viet Nam (Dao Van Tien 1983; Ma and Wang 1988; Geissmann et al. 2000). There may be an apparent overlap or interdigitation between the ranges of N. leucogenys and N. siki between about 19 and 20°N (Groves 2001).
|Countries occurrence:
Native:Lao People's Democratic Republic; Viet Nam
Possibly extinct:China (Yunnan - Native)
|Additional data:
|Range Map:
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|There have been no records of this species from China since 1990 despite survey work, and it might now be extinct in that country (W. Bleisch pers. comm. 2006). In Lao PDR, population numbers of this species are highest due to the larger areas of remaining natural habitat, though increased hunting since 1990 to support the wildlife trade threatens these animals. Relative to N. siki and N. gabriellae, densities and numbers of this species in equivalent forest blocks are significantly lower due to higher exploitation. Forest fragmentation is also much higher in the range of N. leucogenys than in the ranges of the other two gibbon species (Duckworth et al. 1999). In Viet Nam, the forest habitat for this species is particularly fragmented, and the data from two provinces (Lai Chau and Son La) suggest that gibbons here cannot be sustained on the remaining forest patches (Geissmann et al. 2000). In Pu Huong Nature Reserve, the number of groups remaining is less than 10, while in Pu Hoat Nature Reserve fewer than three groups survive (Nguyen Man Ha et al. 2005). In a status survey report, Geissmann et al. (2003) recorded 27 sites at which this species should have occurred, but it was only confirmed surviving at four, and may survive in a further three. Even protected areas that are known to have suitable remaining habitat, such as Cuc Phuong National Park, no longer hold any surviving gibbon populations (Geissmann et al. 2000).
|Current Population Trend:
|Additional data:
|Habitat and Ecology:
|This species is found in tall primary and heavily degraded evergreen and semi-evergreen forest. In northeastern Viet Nam and northern Lao PDR, the animals live in the lowland, in a subtropical climate with a short and not very cold winter without frost, at elevations of 200-600 m (Dao Van Tien 1983). In Yunnan province, China, the species was observed at altitudes of 700-1,000 m (Hu et al. 1989). In Lao PDR, gibbons are found from the Mekong plains up to at least 1,650 m in Phou Louey National Biodiversity Conservation Area (Duckworth et al. 1999).
Gibbons are strictly arboreal and mainly frugivorous (Geissmann et al. 2000), but there is very little field data on the behavioral ecology of N. leucogenys. Dao Van Tien (1983) studied the content of the stomach of six wild-shot crested gibbons (genus Nomascus) from Viet Nam, including three N. leucogenys, and found 90-100% fruits, associated with some leaves and insects. This data cannot be directly compared to field observations, which usually measure the time spent eating various food items (Geissmann et al. 2000). Food composition in Xishuangbanna (southern Yunnan) included fruits (39%), leaves (36%), and flowers (5%) (Hu et al. 1989). During the rainy season (May-October), when many fruits are available, gibbons travel less, whereas in the dry season (November-April), the gibbons eat more leaves and travel for longer distances (Hu et al. 1989). Average group size in Yunnan province, China, was 3.78 (range 3-5, n = 9) (Hu et al. 1989). In anecdotal reports, group sizes of three gibbon groups from Thanh Hoa and Nghe An provinces (southern part of north Viet Nam) were specified as 3, 3, and 4 individuals, respectively (Nguyen Manh Ha et al. 2005).
|Major Threat(s):
|Nomascus leucogenys has suffered from deforestation through agricultural encroachment into mountainous areas and fuel-wood and timber extraction from remaining forests, especially in China and Viet Nam. Hunting for food, traditional "medicines", and their cultural value is a major threat across the range, and is likely to have been the primary cause for the decline of the species in all three countries, including the presumed extinction of this species in China (Duckworth et al. 1999; Geissmann et al. 2000).
|Conservation Actions:
This species is listed in CITES Appendix I. It is legally protected in Viet Nam (Appendix 1B of Decree 32, 2006), though enforcement against forest encroachment and poaching is not adequate in most cases. In China it is protected by wildlife protection law (issued in 1989) (L. Yongcheng pers. comm.). It occurs in a mixture of protected areas and national parks throughout its range. In Viet Nam it is present in Pu Huong Nature Reserve and Ben En National Park. In Lao PDR, it is present in Nam Et and Phou Loey, Nam Xam, Phou Khao Khoay, Phou Panang, Nam Kading, and Phou Dene Din National Protected Areas, and also in Santong Training and Model Forest. In China, it was previously reported in Xishuangbanna National Nature Reserve, but only in the two sections bordering Lao PDR.
Recommended conservation measures include prevention of hunting and wildlife trade; minimization of habitat disturbance; and research and field surveys throughout the range, specifically tape recordings, genetic analysis and photographic recordings to help better define the distribution area of the taxon relative to N. siki. This is among the most common species of crested gibbon (genus Nomascus) maintained in zoos (Varsik 2000; Gibbon Network 2006; Moisson and Baudier 2005).
|Bleisch, B., Geissmann,T., Manh Ha, N., Rawson, B. & Timmins, R.J. 2008. Nomascus leucogenys. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2008: e.T39895A10272040. . Downloaded on 16 October 2018.
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HANG TIME HEADQUARTERS — No one needs reminding of the importance of the 2013-14 NBA season for superstars like Derrick Rose, Kobe Bryant, Rajon Rondo, Russell Westbrook and others who are battling their way back from injuries that sidelined them for all or part of last season.
We watch their every move anyway, so when those stars do return, it'll be an all-eyes-on-them proposition for certain. But for others, guys who have languished in the shadows the past couple of seasons for one reason or another, this season presents an opportunity for redemption as well.
Opportunity abounds for another group of players who comprise Hang Time's Redeem Team this season, guys who need to leave a mark on 2013-14 in the worst way. Now is the time for these veterans to reclaim their positions in the league, to either resurrect or flat-out save their careers:
Eric Gordon, New Orleans Pelicans
Now that he's been cleared to crank up his conditioning and do whatever it takes to get into game shape, Gordon is potentially on the road back to the budding young star we saw during his third season in the league with the Los Angeles Clippers (when Gordon averaged 22.2 points and 4.4 assists in 56 games). The injury issues will follow him until he puts together a couple of seasons where he plays as close to 82 regular-season games as possible. But the game moves on without once promising young stars all the time. And Gordon is in the danger zone at this stage of his career. He's on a team loaded with young talent (All-Star Jrue Holiday, Tyreke Evans and Austin Rivers) at the same position. He's in a now-or-probably-not-here predicament, given his salary and the circumstances.
Greg Oden, Miami Heat
The fact that Oden has come this far in his comeback bid is a victory of sorts for the former No. 1 pick, whose arrival in the league had fans in Portland dreaming of contending for championships one day with a player who promised to be one of the best big men of his generation. Oden has the luxury of not having to rush back for a Heat team that has managed just fine without him the past three seasons. His is more of a personal pilgrimage from being completely out of the league to having a chance to contribute on a team aiming for a three-peat. "My main goal is to be back on the court playing," Oden told the Sun Sentinel. "But every little thing is just a little step closer to what I want to do. In my head, I'm smiling. I'm back in the routine I'm back out here working out in front of fans." Whatever the Heat squeeze out of Oden, who is one one-year deal for the veteran's minimum, is a bonus for all involved.
Andrew Bynum, Cleveland Cavaliers
No player on this list has more to gain from a big 2013-14 season than Bynum, who just a couple of seasons ago served the other big man in the argument about who would serve as the challenger to Dwight Howard as the best in the business. Bynum's stock fell so hard and so fast last season in Philadelphia, when he watched a disastrous season unfold from the sidelines after the Sixers scrapped a playoff team to acquire him and build around him for the future. The Cavs have other issues, obviously, mainly finding out what they have in the No. 1 pick in the June Draft, Anthony Bennett, who has shown some positive flashes in the preseason. Perhaps the greatest motivation for Bynum this seasons will come from another No. 1 pick, Kyrie Irving, who has designs on rising up the ranks this season himself.
Al Harrington, Washington Wizards
Maybe you've forgotten just how valuable a piece Harrington has been to playoff outfits throughout his career. He did it in Indiana, Golden State and Denver and the Wizards are hoping he can use some of the lessons he's learned the past 15 seasons to help John Wall, Bradley Beal and the rest of an up and coming crew move into the playoff mix. Wizards owner Ted Leonsis has mentioned Harrington repeatedly as not only a player who will counted on to provide veteran leadership but also a symbolic figure, a vet with an eye toward reclaiming his career and doing it in a place (Washington) that others view as a team and franchise on the rise. With a fleet of young bigs working hard to get better and injury issues (namely Emeka Okafor), having a stretch-4 with Harrington's versatility and history will be crucial for the Wizards early on this season.
Andrea Bargnani, New York Knicks
The marriage between this former No. 1 pick (the third player of such ilk on this list) and the city of Toronto broke down early on and was beyond repair by the time the Knicks traded for him over the summer. This second honeymoon in New York won't obviously won't last seven years. The Knicks need Bargnani to find his niche now and be a factor on a team with playoff expectations he never experienced with the Raptors. Bargnani's teammates recognize his skill set and Knicks coach Mike Woodson knows that he has to find ways to exploit Bargnani's strengths and hide his weaknesses. With his shot and size, and the constantly increasing value for floor spacers in today's game, Bargnani will surely get several more shots if things don't work out with the Knicks. But if he's ready to stop being a punch line, he needs to pounce on the opportunity staring him in the face right now.


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It is a glorious day today, sun is shining and I'm on the front page of the Nokia Ovi store! Get up and get your phones out and support me with some comments and ranking for my Backstage Fashion Model Application. Download it and follow along with me on my next adventures! I'm off to China for a job on Saturday so stay tuned to your mobiles for some backstage action. No idea what will happen--off the plane and into action! Hopefully there will be wifi along the way in Narita Airport and Detroit (doubtful) but all my roomates and friends are waiting for me on the other end (you should see my luggage coming back from the states with tons of healthfood products to stave off the smog).
Entering an app in the Ovi store is no small feat--I have to say it's the least friendly of the 3 platforms out there. I am very grateful to my friends Robin and Flash at mippin, without whom I would never have gotten approved (so many settings in that store! To be expected since there are so many devices in so many countries). I'm very excited to see what this will do for me in terms of visibility, I think the Ovi store is still male dominated so I"m not sure how many downloads I will get from the guys and I'm not sure how many women there are in Ovi.