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@CoMF and Raptor.
The reason for restricting magazine capacity is that with a 32 round extended clip you can more or less wipe out a room without reloading, at least if the person has to reload there is a chance that he or she will be less focused on target acquisition and less aware of his or her surroundings at that time.
With guns shows and illegal guns, I meant "guns later used in illegal activities" numbers are available from ATF.
The problem with "punishment" is that it's after the fact, if someone shows a lack of judgment and harms someone due to carelessness with a firearm it does little to aid the person who was harmed or the family of that person.
The argument that you can limit the kind of arms or the capability of arms is not slippery slope in any way; it's already been tried in courts in the case of multiple amendments to restrict certain things. The famous "fire in a crowded theater" for instance is an example of curtailment of free speech. If the amendment was followed 100% then Bradley Manning's actions are covered by the first amendment.
The first amendment does in no way protect the right to all kinds of expression, just like the second does not have to include someone having an M16.
I support more training, because I was responsible for training the recruits at the range while I was an active competitive shooter. Not only does it help a person who wants a weapon for self-defense actually being able to effectively use this weapon in that situation it also helps build respect for the destructive capabilities of a firearm. As I've said before the benefit of knife violence over gun violence is that there are no innocent bystanders in a stabbing.
The ability to legally sell privately owned firearms to individuals needs to be removed or the seller face criminal prosecution as an accessory if that weapon is used to commit a crime.
Personally, I currently own 4 firearms, 12 gauge, 308, .22 and an over/under, in order to get those weapons in my country I had to:
A: Qualify as a hunter.
B: Have a clean rap-sheet.
C: No medical disqualifiers, you can't get a firearms license here if you have epilepsy for instance.
They all have to be kept locked up in a safe, with the firing pins in a different approved location, and the police has the right to come inspect my weapons safe at any time. I have no problem with this. However, if the US wants to be in the good company of such pinnacles of civilization as South Africa, Columbia and Zimbabwe by all means.
Why not just come clean and admit that you DO NOT believe in private gun ownership and be done with it.
Hi Raptor,
I'm not against private gun ownership. I find some of the restrictions on gun ownership about as absurd as Texas trying to limit freedom of speech to the daytime, and with a maximum of 30 minutes of speech in any 24-hour period.
What I find very questionable is the "extraordinary protection" of immunity from prosecution & liability broadly included in many versions of "make my day" laws that extent well beyond the limited "Castle Doctrine", which itself is often extended much too much.
The case of "People v. Guenther, 740 P. 2d 971 - Colo: Supreme Court 1987" includes a "wisdom alert":
"There is a constitutionally significant difference in kind between requiring a defendant, on the one hand, to bear the burden of proving a claim of pretrial entitlement to immunity from prosecution and, on the other, to carry the burden of proof at trial on an affirmative defense to criminal charges. Section 18-1-704.5(3) creates a benefit to a defendant far greater than an affirmative defense. If the statute is found to apply to the facts of the case, it will completely prohibit any further prosecution of charges for which, but for the statute, the defendant would otherwise be required to stand trial. Although the wisdom of such legislation is not for us to decide, it cannot be disputed that the immunity created by section 18-1-704.5(3) is an extraordinary protection which, so far as we know, has no analogue in Colorado statutory or decisional law."
Part/Section IV, B: http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case? ... i=scholarr
And, with large summed liability possibilities also often neutralized under "make my day" laws, the "extraordinary protection" tends to grant financial protection insurance as an incentive to manipulating & staging scenarios with even true accidents as active defenses instead of just accidents.
As with swimming pools, I wonder if the dangers of guns often outweigh the benefits of having them, but as for collecting guns as works of art, I dislike more artworks of Thomas Kinkade to a greater degree, whether if lead containing paints are used or not.
The "extraordinary protections", to extraordinary levels of stupidity, of "make my day" laws applying to all weapons, especially tend to make the stupidities taint the very legal right to bear arms, at least in the often ultimately controlling popular public perceptions.
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Firstly, to the best of my knowledge there is no such thing as a "32 round extended clip." I do, however, know that there are magazines with a capacity of 30 rounds or more. Before you dismiss this as mere semantics, please bear in mind that while "magazines" and "clips" both serve the same purpose (i.e. reloading a firearm), they do not operate in the same fashion; ergo, misapplying the term "clip" to a magazine demonstrates a lack of firearms knowledge.
Secondly, the latter portion of the above paragraph is begging the question and demonstrates further naiveté regarding firearms. Using the revolver as an example, one would assume that a swing out cylinder which typically holds only 5 or 6 rounds would be far "slower" to reload than inserting a magazine into an autoloading pistol holding twice as many rounds or more. In reality, the individual skill of the shooter and whether they're inserting the rounds individually or using a speedloader or moonclip are the only factors determining the speed at which it's reloaded.
This is no lie. While Jerry Miculek is admittedly an extreme example, the following video demonstrates what a revolver is capable of in skilled hands:
I would also like to point out that the potential number of rounds one can fire is limited only by the number of speedloaders or moonclips carried one one's person, and they are not much bulkier than your typical staggered column pistol magazine nor are they any more difficult to use.
Not true. This is precisely why we have civil and criminal courts. Furthermore, until we have omniscient law enforcement personnel or "precogs" a-la Minority Report, expecting the justice system to do anything other than punish crimes or torts after the fact is wishful thinking at best.
actions are covered by the first amendment.
Incorrect. Yelling "fire" in a crowded movie theater merely proves that free speech does not entail "freedom from consequences." Citing one very prominent example, Justice Alito elaborated in his dissenting opinion on the controversial Snyder v. Phelps decision that while the activities of the WBC were indeed protected by the First Amendment, the First Amendment did not grant them immunity from IIED torts.
Insofar as Bradley Manning is concerned, while the First Amendment may not have protected him in light of Supreme Court decisions regarding government employees, I nonetheless view him more as a whistleblower than a "traitor" since no American soldiers were harmed or killed as a result of his actions.
Here in the United States, similar reasoning has been used as justification for curtailing the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Amendments under the pretense of "fighting terrorism." Would you let out a hue and cry if your own government placed "reasonable restrictions" upon your rights to protection against unreasonable search and seizure, due process, or a trial by a jury of your peers? Would you feel diminished if someone patronizingly told you that your objections were absurd and that such restrictions were "for the betterment of society" or "the greater good"? The point I am trying to make is that civil rights are not a "buffet" where we get to pick and choose the ones we like and ignore the ones we find unpalatable, and that the Bill of Rights enshrined within our Constitution was intended to be a "package deal" meant to be enjoyed in its entirety.
While I too am an ardent supporter of training for anyone who wishes to own a firearm, negligent discharges occur far too frequently amongst law enforcement personnel for me to be convinced that mandatory training will signifigantly reduce the number of gun related criminal negligence and tort claims.
Did you know that in the United States, it is already against the law in many jurisdictions to knowingly sell a firearm to a criminal? Rather than forbid all private sales, why not give private sellers an incentive to perform a background check on a potential buyer? FFL holders already conduct them for consignment sales and charge a nominal fee for the service, so it would not be unreasonable to do the same for P2P sales. If a seller doesn't have a background check performed before the sale, they do not receive immunity from criminal prosecution or civil liability should the firearm be used in a crime.
A: Qualify as a hunter.
In my experience, hunters are typically held to a lower standard than individuals who use firearms for self defense, and this causes me no small of amount of dismay.
Reasonable. We have similar laws in the United States.
I would like to refer you to Section 9 of the Bill of Rights enumerated in your own Constitution:
Equality includes the full and equal enjoyment of all rights and freedoms. To promote the achievement of equality, legislative and other measures designed to protect or advance persons, or categories of persons, disadvantaged by unfair discrimination may be taken.
The state may not unfairly discriminate directly or indirectly against anyone on one or more grounds, including race, gender, sex, pregnancy, marital status, ethnic or social origin, colour, sexual orientation, age, disability, religion, conscience, belief, culture, language and birth.
No person may unfairly discriminate directly or indirectly against anyone on one or more grounds in terms of subsection (3). National legislation must be enacted to prevent or prohibit unfair discrimination.
Discrimination on one or more of the grounds listed in subsection (3) is unfair unless it is established that the discrimination is fair.
[Emphasis Mine]
In light of this, could you please explain to us how this particular discrimination against the disabled as it relates to the legal ownership of firearms is "fair"?
Are you implying that the police have the right to search your home without probable cause?
Also, what would you do if you needed to use those firearms to defend yourself?
Furthermore, do you not realize that laws which mandate decommissioning create victimless crimes in the event that they are not followed, and that the prosecution of such crimes inevitably results in a waste of public resources?
If, by "civilization," you mean discrimination against the disabled and being subject to arbitrary search and seizure without probable cause, you can keep it.
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This is just an update to my previous post. I just think about the family who let their boy walk to the store because they thought he was in a safe community.
http://news.yahoo.com/fbi-justice-depar ... -news.html
http://news.yahoo.com/fbi-justice-depar ... -news.html
Hi Catarina,
Mother Jone's website gives two outstanding views of contrary interpretations of Florida's self-defense and "stand your ground" laws:
In championing the law, former NRA president and longtime Florida gun lobbyist Marion Hammer said: "Through time, in this country, what I like to call bleeding-heart criminal coddlers want you to give a criminal an even break, so that when you're attacked, you're supposed to turn around and run, rather than standing your ground and protecting yourself and your family and your property."
The state attorney in Tallahassee, Willie Meggs, was beside himself. "Basically this law has put us in the posture that our citizens can go out into the streets and have a gun fight and the dead person is buried and the survivor of the gun fight is immune from prosecution".
http://motherjones.com/politics/2012/03 ... -explained
The Jone's cited newspaper article "Five years since Florida enacted 'stand-your-ground' law, justifiable homicides are up", gives many statistics/cases that inspired many comments very much like those here
http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafe ... 128317.ece
Other states with extended & unsound "stand-your-ground" laws have ocassionaly reeled in extreme stretches:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHshsgps ... ure=relmfu
Another case that referenced the previously cited old Federal case, is (where Miranda Rights became the pivotal issue following disasterous confusions):
A very recent New York Times' article cite possible moves of Florida legislators considering changing the absurd law:
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2012/03/ ... ml?_r=1&hp
With the "Make My Day" laws combined with the "Stand Your Ground" laws, Gun-Rights supporters may have also inadvertently inflicted a nearly fatal shot on the more recent & wide interpretations of the Second Amendment.
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Yeah, prosecutors across the state opposed the law in 2005, but unlike in Minnesota it was still signed by the governor (Bush).
The Martin case is big news today but there is also a case of a black man shooting a white man that is currently being evaluated for it's "stand your ground" claim by a judge. Google Trevor Dooley. He's as nutty as Zimmerman.
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/0 ... round-law/
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I have been too busy being the Aspie mother of a special needs child on most of these related issues. However, my mind naturally looks for patterns, and I fear the Trayon Martin story which offends my sense of the rule of law (and as horrific as I find it as a US citizen and mother) may actually be some sort of rallying point for another agenda. Perhaps those with a larger picture of the issues have more insight.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alton-lu/ ... 80869.html
http://news.yahoo.com/could-peacetime-m ... 00976.html
"He was black and obviously a threat"
"I felt Jehova witnesses were a threat to my tranquility"
"He is a democrat, makes me feel threatened".
"I felt threatened by her, that's why I killed her just after we had sex".
Hi Vexcalibur,
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Hi ruveyn,
In Self-Defense of honest to goodness, with your comments including pus-&-blisters elsewhere, is this a view of just a hill version of the Sermon on the Mount, as also sung by Cohen in "Democracy"?
"....from the staggering account
of the Sermon on the Mount
which I don't pretend to understand at all........"
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The reason for restricting magazine capacity is that with a 32 round extended clip you can more or less wipe out a room without reloading, at least if the person has to reload there is a chance that he or she will be less focused on target acquisition and less aware of his or her surroundings at that time.
Shooters that do not have access to larger capacity magazines tend to switch to multiple firearms of a larger caliber.
"Gun control is like trying to reduce drunk driving by making it tougher for sober people to own cars."
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"He was black and obviously a threat"
"I felt Jehova witnesses were a threat to my tranquility"
"He is a democrat, makes me feel threatened".
"I felt threatened by her, that's why I killed her just after we had sex".
Hi Vexcalibur,
Flood practicalities with technicalities for:
I am not sure what is the point you are trying to make with that double quote (or if there is a point at all). But I suspect you are being incapable of correctly understanding my post made in the other thread and somehow buy it as an endorsement or some lame idea. I was just saying, when killing people is legal, it is not murder, that does not necessarily mean I'd agree that it is an ethical homicide. In fact, I was criticizing the concept.
"He was black and obviously a threat"
"I felt Jehova witnesses were a threat to my tranquility"
"He is a democrat, makes me feel threatened".
"I felt threatened by her, that's why I killed her just after we had sex".
Hi Vexcalibur,
Flood practicalities with technicalities for:
I am not sure what is the point you are trying to make with that double quote (or if there is a point at all). But I suspect you are being incapable of correctly understanding my post made in the other thread and somehow buy it as an endorsement or some lame idea. I was just saying, when killing people is legal, it is not murder, that does not necessarily mean I'd agree that it is an ethical homicide. In fact, I was criticizing the concept.
Hi Vexcalibur,
In the sense of what can be experienced, murder can be legal. That includes the "practical" instances in reality being technically denied using abstract codifications of less than real rules. For instance, I have often heard that Cain murdered Abel, and, at times, "thou shall not kill" as restricted to "thou shall not murder", as if all other homicides are A-OK (I've also heard "thou" is singular, and as a group, A-OK again!!).
The other thread about much the same as here of the modified Castle Doctrine, but in Florida, has cited court cases with the same type of paradox noted by some judges, and the problems of "immunity" from being prosecuted for crimes, such as murder in self-defense, versus crimes justifiable in self-defense, again, such as murder in self-defense, and, versus, justifiable acts that would otherwise be crimes but for beliefs of justifiable acts of self-defense, including justifiable homicide, instead of "justifiable murder" or immunity from prosecution for the act of murder in self-defense. The labeling quandary being dismissed as "harmless error" involving previous actions, actions resulting in a dead person, seems much more than any "harmless error".
The cited "I felt threatened by her, that's why I killed her just after we had sex", is technically similar to "First, the Third District noted that the numerous injuries to the victim (which included a stab wound to the back that punctured her lung) and the relatively minor injury to Martinez (a 1/4-inch cut to his pinky finger) were inconsistent with a theory of self-defense," with practicality seemingly given more weight in both instances, over the technicality of a genuine perceived "threat".
Didn't Peter Singer kill practical ethics?
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Here you'll find a few pointers for both neophyte and tenured herbalists practicing in rural areas based on my own experience. Seeing as my community is a tiny village in the mountains of New Mexico, I have neither office nor herb store nearby so I am my own walking dispensatory and workspace most of the time. There's lots of old-fashioned house calls and short followups in the general store here, and my work as an herbalist mingles and blends with everything else I do within the community rather than being a nine-to-five thing. I'm sure some of this applies to an urban practice as well, but I can only speak from what I know, so my tips are firmly situated from a country person's perspective.
Be a Part of the Community.
I'm a fringe-dweller and loner by nature (and really, I'm kind of odd from anyone's point of view) but I make an effort to get to know my neighbors and the local people. And despite differences (be they political, class, ethnicity etc.) I try to find some common ground. Around here, much of that's based on being self-reliant, low-income and hard-working, which is something I really like and value about rural NM. The benefit of this is that people trust me with their kids and grandmas in a way they rarely grant to outsiders or city-slickers. They're not afraid to tell me about their health woes or emotional ups and downs, and will often share more with me than with their doctor or spouse. And sometimes they tell me about how their great grandpa used herbs or the plants their abuela used for healing, sharing a bit of precious, nearly lost story and information of the land and people here.
Cultivate Mutual Respect
I try to be aware and sensitive to their cultural affinities and in return, ask them to treat me with respect even if they don't like what they think they know about my religious views, parenting style, carnivorous eating habits or weird hippy clothes. I'm here to help people, and hopefully they're here to be helped. It's that simple.
At all costs, avoid politics! Raising the client's blood pressure by arguing the merits or downfalls of the president, gun laws, abortion or immigration is not helpful to the healing process or respectful of their trust in you as their herbalist. And I say that as a very outspoken and opinionated woman (just ask anyone, heh). I'm not quiet about my views, I just save them for outside the intimacy and vulnerability of the practitioner/client relationship.
Consider Trade, Sliding Scale, Payment Plans and Donations.
Taking trade and donations are definitely not the way to make big bucks (but hell, if you were out for the bling, you probably wouldn't have become an herbalist anyway, right?) but it does make your work accessible to many people who might not otherwise be able to afford an herbalist's services. Being willing to take payments over time and using a sliding scale can also be very helpful, and may make a consultation more feasible to someone even if you ask for a set fee.
In order to prevent a client from becoming dependent on purchasing my medicines for their health maintenance, I try to teach each person how to gather and make their own medicines (yet another reason to use common, local plants), if they show even the slightest hint of interest. If they won't or can't make their own, I'm open to trade in the form of garden space, fresh eggs, handmade knives, garden grown veggies, chickens (no, really), wild meat, local honey, mechanic work, guns, and other useful things in addition to or instead of payment or donation.
And remember, accepting donations or even working for free doesn't mean you're devaluing or allowing other people to devalue your work and help. A gift isn't worthless just because it didn't cost the person any money. I've found that if my clients aren't grateful and respectful of my gifts, I probably don't need to be working with them. Respect yourself and your work at all times.
Focus on Local, Common Plants.
I know damn well that if I recommend that my clients go buy some proprietary herb extract or tea, chances are slim to none that they'll ever do it. Same with local students, if I suggest they buy some Ginseng and Goldenseal from an herb farm, it's never going to happen. These people can't afford expensive plants from other places for the most part, nor would they know one end of a health food or herb store from another (and the closest one is at least two hours away). They may look at me like I'm loco for suggesting they pull those sticky buds off Cottonwood trees or eat the Mallow that's taking over their garden, but they'll know exactly what I'm talking about and how to go about it. If I were in an urban environment, I would likely have to change this around to suit local needs, but this is what works here.
People around here really like the words "free" and "cheap" and the idea that they can get food and medicine from their backyards and local riversides is appealing to them. So I mostly teach about local, very common, easily recognizable plants. Clients and students appreciate this and feel like they have something special on their own land, as indeed they do.
Simple Preparations.
People often get scared by the ideas of ratios and math when it comes to making tinctures, so I'm more likely to teach how to create simple teas, infusions and decoctions for both internal and external uses. Just about everyone drinks tea and/or coffee, which makes it easy to explain water based herbal preparations. For those who are more self-motivated and interested in the process, I'll teach them the simpler-style proportions for tinctures and infused oils.
Stay in Familiar Settings & Maintain Focus.
I try to do my plant walks on well-known, well-liked local people's land so that a variety of people feel welcome and on familiar territory. Once a group has had a good experience I'm more likely to do walk on wilder public land with them. Same goes for workshops, either at a local person's home or at a well-known and easily accessed public place. Consultations usually take place in the local café, their home or on a bench outside the corner store. I try to keep things relaxed but focused, and refuse to compete with casual chatter or screaming children. I know from experience that distractions will keep the client from benefiting from or being able to integrate what I give them, so I'd rather wait until they have time to give it their full attention.
Work with Local Doctors and Health Care Practitioners.
Life as the village herbalist is a whole lot easier with a close alliance with the local general practitioner, chiropractor and other health care professionals. I'm especially blessed that our village doctor is a Seventh Day Adventist and so exceptionally open to alternative treatments. Even if your client base is only as broad as your immediate family, you'll still likely be sharing them with a doctor or dentist. The more you can cooperate with them, the easier your life will be. It's no fun at all for a client to feel like her doctor and herbalist are playing tug of war with her health by constantly negating each other's advice and recommendations. Of course, I'm unlikely to ever encourage the use of statins in any case and they're probably not going to understand my paleo/primal dietary guidelines but nevertheless, I try my damnedest work with and not against the doctors.
Be Human and Be a Role Model (At The Same Time)
It's entirely too common for alternative health practitioners to try to project an image of purity and holiness, complete with self-righteous dietary rants and broad condemnation of other people's lifestyles. A word to the wise: get over yourself. There's no point in trying to be perfect for your community, they prefer you human and relatable — someone they can talk to without fearing judgment and vilification. Save the fire and brimstone for the local preacher, he's probably better at it anyway.
The balance to being human for the herbalist is being a role model. They're not really different, after all, just two sides of the same coin. The reality is that people will watch you. They want to see your humanness but they'll trust your help more if you can take your own advice. If you stress nutritional measures in your consultations, be prepared to answer questions about your own diet and have people be annoyingly interested in your plate when you're in the local café. In the city, it may be possible to maintain some kind of professional anonymity, but in a village with a population of 300, not so much. I'm not saying you have to be the perfect model of health and moderation, or even that you have to give up your two pack a day habit. Just that the more you can consistently come from a place of authenticity and down to earth wholeness, the more the medicine will peek out from your own face and come tumbling out of your mouth. It's not JUST the plants after all, you personally are a big part of the healing your clients will receive from your work. So go ahead and get comfortable with that now, and settle in for the long haul.

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It has come to Conan O'Brien's attention that a Chinese talk show called 'Da Pang' has lifted his show's opening almost frame-for-frame without his permission. While they say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, this has irked O'Brien. And when you see all the weird stuff that happens on 'Da Pang' after the opening you will see why.
So to get revenge on 'Da Pang,' Conan decided to rip them off right back with a parody of wacky Chinese TV shows. And that means lightning bolts, exploding rickshaws and Andy dressed as his "sexy cohost." Actually, Conan might be onto something here, as there just aren't enough exploding rickshaws on American late night television. See all the good stuff that can happen when China and the United States work together?


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At the Nudibranch Safari 2015 two new species for Norway were recorded, and the overall count on the house reef of Gulen Dive Resort was raised to a staggering 72 species.
Posted on Mar 31, 2015 - updated Apr 27, 2015
The Nudibranch Safari was as usual held in Gulen north of Bergen on the Norwegian west coast in March, and expectations were high. Weâve found good numbers of nudibranchs in the past couple years, and had hopes to increase the species count.
A very international crowd had found their way to Gulen Dive Resort this year, and participants flew or drove in from Northern Ireland, Russia, Germany, Denmark, Holland, France, Switzerland and several places in Norway.
For some it was the first time diving in Norwegian waters, while others had been on the Nudibranch Safari several times and knew what it was all about.
Unfortunately we had a little bad luck with the season: February 2015 was the warmest on record for 140 years, and even the winter alltogether had been warmer than usual.
This resulted in a water temperature of approximately 7 degrees Celcius, which is a little warmer than the nudibranchs of Norway prefer.
Undeterred, the participants went searching and looking, and after a bit of a slow start the species count started rising. We did a few more dives by boat and were able to find spots with a higher count of nudibranchs than just in front of the dive resort.
At the end of the safari we counted a total of 46 different species - not at all bad for a year where we thought we had missed the peak...
The most eager participants did up to four dives a day in addition to attending two lectures and checking out their finds in the workshop area. Rumour had it some of them even got time to grab a little something to eat!
Interesting lectures
Each day, Bernard Picton, curator of marine invertebrates at the National Museums of Northern Ireland in Belfast, held several nudibranch lectures.
The participants got to know more about biology, taxonomy, food sources, mating and of course nudibranch identification, and there was also time for a lecture about underwater photography especially with nudibranchs in mind, held by Christian Skauge.
Guests attending the second weekend were also lucky enough to have a special appearance by Dr. Alexander Martynov from the university of Moscow, who attended the Nudibranch Symposium with his wife and colleague Dr. Tanya Korshunova for the second time.
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Bernard Picton also held a very interesting extra lecture about evolution and DNA which opened up a new window into the world of nudibranchs and taught us how DNA is used for identifying and separating species.
Not high numbers - but high species count
In general we found few dorid nudibranch species, which is not uncommon at Gulen. The sponge-eating species always seem to be quite rare, but this year even the one feeding on bryozoans were hard to find.
Aeolids were as usual abundant in terms of different species, but the numbers were not as high as we have seen on previous occations.
In general we found quite a few Flabellina and Eubranchus species, but the Cuthona family seemed harder to spot this year - apart from Cuthona gymnota and Cuthona rubescens which were unusually abundant.
This year we also registered many species just once or twice, but even if numbers were not high they still contributed to a good overall species count.
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Two new species for Norway
Most exciting this year was the find of several strange Doto species. They seem to tolerate a little higher water temperature than many other species, and are usually found larger and more abundant towards May.
After spending hours checking the litterature and scrutinizing the tiny slugs under the microscope, we were with the help of Bernard Picton able to identify not just one but two species never before recorded in Norwegian waters - Doto maculata and Doto dunnei.
Bernard Picton has extensive experience with Doto from his home waters, and he has been involved in describing two species himself, Doto hystrix and Doto hydrallmaniae.
In addition, we still have several animals which need further study and at least one that will perhaps prove to be a new species not yet described by science.
Flabellina variations
Work was also progressing quickly with the Flabellina lineata variations we have been studying the last few years. DNA, microscopy and morphology all point towards two new species, and work is under way to complete the scientific description and a paper for publication.
Although this may still take some time, we're proud and very happy about having participated in discovering a completely new species unknown to science.
At the Nudibranch Safari 2015 we found and identified 46 different species, including two the species already mentioned which were not previously recorded in Norway.
In doing so we were able to bring the total, overall species count of the Nudibranch Safari up from 68 to 72 species, which is an incredible number! The participants also helped progress the work on several other species on which the scientists are working.
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The last workshop on the Nudibranch Safari 2015 took place after easter, with a Swiss group which did an amazing job finding rare species: Cumanotus beaumonti, Janolus hyalinus (for the third time ever!) and Eubranchus rupium all showed up.
Cumanotus beaumonti (above) has been seen a couple times at Gulen before, but turned up at the Nudibranch Safari for the first time in 2015.
It's important to underline that no nudibranch were harmed during the Nudibranch Safari. We take great care to keep the slugs happy, and keep them in a fridge overnight - it has the same temperature as the water.
We got a nice surprise when the skies over Gulen flared up with northern lights, and several of the participants saw this spectacular natural phenomenon for the first time:
A big thank you to all the participants who found their way to Gulen Dive Resort this year. We hope you had a great experience and wish to see you again soon!
Nudibranch Safari 2016
Next year's Nudibranch Safari will be held from March 31 to April 13, 2016. Bernard Picton will be there for the duration of the event, and Dr. Klas Malmberg, Dr. Jussi Evertsen and Dr. Torkild Bakken will also attend.
We also hope Dr. Alexander Martynov and Dr. Tatyana Korshunova from the university in Moscow will accept our invitation for the Nudibranch Symposium.
Please click the link below to read more about next year's event and see which experts will hold lectures when.
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back to realityThursday, April 12, 2007
We had a fabulous time on spring break. Being at my parents home is the idyllic place for us. (me) My mother makes it unbelievably easy for me. Of course, she works too hard and needs a vacation when we leave. When I leave, I feel as if my gravy train (as my sisters refer to it) has come to a screeching halt! We had many wonderful moments, here are a few.
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Oh I love it! What great photos and your mom and you are too cute! I can't wait to see more of the ballerina jaket! I am glad you had a good break, we all need one! Welcome home!ReplyDelete
P.S. I am the first to comment, ninner ninner ninner!
Oh no! Amber beat me, shoot!ReplyDelete
I'm glad you and your family had such a wonderful and relaxing time. I miss my mother so much . . and seeing you with yours just made me very happy. I think I'm going to give her a call right now . . .ReplyDelete
Looks like you all had great fun! Your mum looks so chic in that cardigan. I see you knitting on a boat - you're a lucky girl not to get motion sickness :)ReplyDelete
I have stumbled on your blog and have been waiting to hear about your trip to Vero Beach. My parents live there too! It is so nice to go there for spring break and I so understand how nice it is to stay with your parents. I always come back home feeling restored.ReplyDelete
I'm curious as to what you are knitting on poolside. I didn't take my knitting to the pool/beach as I'm always worried about sunscreen on my hands.
Leslie, you are such a prolific knitter. I'm jealous of your great vacation - I could use some of that right now! :) Congrats on the glasses - I once wanted glasses so bad (why, oh why??) that I "faked" my eye exam, not realizing that I indeed needed glasses, and therefore did not get them. (OK, to my credit, I was 11.) Found out a year later that I had terrible vision and actually needed glasses. Ay.ReplyDelete


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President Barack Obama on Tuesday paid his fourth visit to Colorado since September, speaking to a young, fired-up crowd at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Although Obama nominally was there to pressure Congress to keep student loan interest rates low, the visit will live in political history for Yogurtgate, an incident outside a college bar where a surprised student spilled a snack on the president.
Obama told the story at the beginning of his speech.
More hazardously, she spilled yogurt on the Secret Service. The agent just stood there, Obama said.
The student later told NBCs Today that it wasnt yogurt, but a fruit cup, and that she had put it on the ground and a photographer accidentally kicked it, spilling it on Obama.
Meanwhile, Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, slammed Obama for taking the trip on the taxpayers dime.
Our countrys facing some major economic and fiscal challenges, yet heres the president wasting time on a fake fight to try to gain his own re-election, Boehner said.
Ad wars: Spending in the presidential race ramped up in a big way in Colorado.
Priorities USA a pro-Obama SuperPAC and the League of Conservation Voters Action Fund are spending $1 million on ads in Colorado and Nevada that tie Mitt Romney to the oil industry.
On the anti-Obama side, Americans for Prosperity is spending $6 million in eight swing states, including Colorado, to tie Obama to the failed solar company Solyndra.
Gingrich out: Republican Newt Gingrich announced that he will suspend his presidential campaign Tuesday. He had not won a primary since March 6 in his home state of Georgia.
Poll tracker: Obama and Romney are tied in Colorado at 47 percent each, according to a poll by Purple Strategies, a bipartisan political firm.
The poll talked to voters in 12 swing states between April 19 and 23, and the Colorado portion had a margin of error of plus or minus 4.1 percent.
Countdown: 59 days until the primary election. 192 days until the November election.


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Dean, College of Engineering & Mines - Doug Goering
Ph: 907.474.5059 Fax: 907.474.6141
College of Engineering and Mines
University of Alaska Fairbanks
Duckering Building Room 329
P.O. Box 755905
Fairbanks, Alaska 99775-5905
Dr. Goering's current research interests include computational heat transfer and fluid mechanics, numerical modeling, energy systems, and heat transfer in cold climates. He has worked extensively with numerical simulations of heat transfer in permafrost, natural and forced convection, and phase change processes. He is currently serving as Principal Investigator on several funded projects, one of which is aimed at examining the heat transfer characteristics of a new permafrost-resistant roadbed technology. In order to refine and predict the thermal performance of the new roadway, numerical simulations were carried out using the supercomputing facilities at the Arctic Region Supercomputer Center at UAF. In addition, field studies of the new roadway design have been on-going for the past several years.


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YARMOUTH, Maine—Come this fall, you won't have to flip through the several hundred pages of NFPA 72, the National Fire Alarm and Signaling Code, to find documentation requirements. Now, in the new 2013 edition, you'll find the requirements all laid out for you in one chapter.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Guest lineups for the Sunday TV news shows:
ABC's "This Week" — Reps. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., and Tom Cole, R-Okla.; Seattle Mayor Ed Murray
NBC's "Meet the Press" — Pre-empted by coverage of the French Open.
CBS' "Face the Nation" — Sens. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga.
CNN's "State of the Union" — Secretary of State John Kerry; Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.
"Fox News Sunday" — Former Attorney General Michael Mukasey.


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...reddidit, hibernis forte tumebat aquis:... I'll continue my attempt to translate this piece from Ovid's Fasti. Ex libro II]
hic ubi nunc fora sunt, lintres errare videres,
here where now fora are, you can see small boats sailing,
quaque iacent valles, Maxime Circe, tuae.
Where lies your valley (O) Circus Maximus
Huc ubi venerunt (neque enim procedere possunt
To that place where they came (for they weren't able to go any
longius), ex illis unus et alter ait:
further, one to another said
[I'm not sure what's happening here..is 'they' Romulus an Remus? They are brought to the Circus Maximus? People there are commenting on how similar and good-looking they are? - presumably Ovid has covered their actual rescue elsewhere in the poem?]
"At quam sunt similes! at quam formosus uterque!
"But how they are similar! but how beautiful each one is!
Plus tamen ex illis iste vigoris habet.
Moreover besides of [both of] them that one has strength. [who? Romulus? ]
Si genus arguitur vultu, nisi fallit imago,
If the pedigree is proven in the face, if that which is seen does not lie
nescioquem in vobis suspicor esse deum."
I am beginning to think any such person as you [pl] to be a god." [...there is god in you…]


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Seeing Chris Brown sitting in the front row at the VMAs with a smug look on his hemorrhoid with beaver teeth face made a shitty show even shittier. During the show, I kept waiting for fellow STUNT QUEENS RiRi and Chris Brown to pull another shameless stunt out of their asses by singing "Proud Mary" together o topn a Lamborghini. That didn't happen, but during the commercial break RiRi walked over to Glum Cunt Chris, hugged him, pecked him and then played a quick game of "Douche, Douche, Gross" by patting him on the head before sashaying away.
The Internet screamed last night about RiRi and Fist Brown kissing at the VMAs, so I expected to see a video of him punching her tonsils with his tongue. It was just a peck, but RiRi is still a dumbass. RiRi is really going to put her ear that close to the mouth of an untamed beast who nearly bit it off? If you can't love yourself, at least love your ears!
And let's keep the theme of GROSS going by looking at these pictures of some of the gross ghouls at last night's show. In order: Side Show Nicki, Deena and the rest of the Jersey Shore whores, Ke$hit and the butt baby of Kid Rock and KFed who goes by the name Riff Raff.


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Recommendation for the removal of personal protective equipment after caring for SARS patients
Suche in Medline nach
|26. Mai 2004
Background: During the SARS epidemic the use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for healthcare workers (HCWs) caring for patients has been emphasized as part of the isolation measures to control the nosocomial spread of SARS-CoV, i.e. standard plus contact, droplet and airborne precautions. However, in some instances it was suggested that some occupational infections might have occurred) as HCWs removed their PPE contaminated by the patients' droplets and secretions.
Methods: Since the mid of March, in our National Institute for Infectious Diseases, training courses based on an interactive methodology using cases simulation and role playing, were performed to implement the HCWs' preparedness to manage SARS patients. During these courses we identified the priority order of PPE removal, as a critical issue. In order to find available data on this issue we checked the web.
Results: We found six documents, describing in details the routine procedure for PPE removal, with contrasting recommendations [Tab. 1].
Conclusions: We do not completely agree with the above mentioned protocols. Indeed, in all of them, hands, contaminated through direct contact with the patients' droplets and secretions placed on PPE, can re-contact nose, mouth or eyes mucous-membranes while removing PPE from the face. We believe that careful hand hygiene could prevent the risk of contamination, and that the risk of infection following the contamination of mucous-membranes of the face with unprotected, contaminated hands should be taken into account. Accordingly, as shown in the table, in our National Institute for Infectious Diseases we developed a procedure that recommends to remove most PPE while still wearing mask and eye-wear, and to accurately decontaminate hands before removing protection of face mucous-membranes. This procedure must be applied in the HCW's change area available out-side the patient's isolation room.
Supported by Ministero della Salute Ricerca Finalizzata 2001 and Ricerca Corrente IRCCS
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- Directives to all Ontario acute care hospitals regarding infection control measures for SARS units. Ministry of Health and Long Term Care - Directive 03-05( R). April 24 2003. http://www.homecareontario.ca/docs/sars/
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- WHO Western Pacific Regional Office. Interim guidelines for national SARS preparedness. 2003 WHO, Manila, Philippines. http://www.wpro.who.int/sars/interim_guidelines/interim_guidelines_26May.pdf
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- Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing. Interim Infection Control Guidelines for SARS,16 May 2003. http://www.health.gov.au/sars/guidelines/index.htm
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- Ahuja AT and Wong JKT. Infection control measures. Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong. http://www.droid.cuhk.edu.hk/web/atypical_pneumonia/atypical_pneumonia.htm
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- Ng PC, et al Infection control for SARS in a Hong Kong tertiary neonatal centre. Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed. 2003; 88:F405-9
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- UK Health Protection Agency. Guidance for hospitals on the prevention of spread of SARS http://www.hpa.org.uk/infections/topics_az/SARS/hospguide.htm


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Author Stewart O'Nan to Deliver Convocation Lecture at Clarkson University
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Author Stewart O'Nan will deliver the Van Sickle Endowed Lecture at Clarkson University's convocation Monday, August 25, at 7 p.m. in Cheel Arena. The event is open to the public, free of charge.
During the summer, Clarkson freshmen read Last Night At The Lobster, a novel by O'Nan, a Connecticut author who has written a number of books, one of which, Snow Angels, was made into a film. O'Nan, once a test engineer with Grumman Aerospace, has written fiction and non-fiction, including a book on the Boston Red Sox, co-authored with Stephen King.
Last Night At The Lobster deals with the ordered closing of a Red Lobster restaurant in Connecticut, four days before Christmas, and the dilemma of its manager who finds staff unwilling to come to work, a snowstorm swirling outside and diners looking for a meal.
Stewart O'Nan was born and raised in Pittsburgh, and in college studied aerospace engineering. He worked for Grumman on Long Island for several years but eventually, as he got more and more interested in writing (and less and less interested in the aviation industry) he returned to school for an M.F.A. at Cornell.
His story collection In The Walled City was awarded the esteemed 1993 Drue Heinz Literature Prize for Short Fiction. Snow Angels won the 1993 Pirates Alley William Faulkner Prize for the Novel. He has also written notable nonfiction, specifically The Circus Fire, his account of a tragic 1944 fire in Hartford, Connecticut. He has taught at Cornell, the University of Central Oklahoma, and Trinity College.
The Kenneth J. and Irla Van Sickle Endowed Lectureship was established in 1992 through generous bequests from the estates of Kenneth and Irla Van Sickle of Shortsville, N.Y. The Van Sickles shared interests in photography, gardening, nature and stamp collecting. During their long and active lives, the Van Sickles were dedicated to hard work, placing great value on education, particularly higher education.
Clarkson University launches leaders into the global economy. One in six alumni already leads as a CEO, VP or equivalent senior executive of a company. Located just outside the Adirondack Park in Potsdam, N.Y., Clarkson is a nationally recognized research university for undergraduates with select graduate programs in signature areas of academic excellence directed toward the world's pressing issues. Through 50 rigorous programs of study in engineering, business, arts, sciences and health sciences, the entire learning-living community spans boundaries across disciplines, nations and cultures to build powers of observation, challenge the status quo, and connect discovery and engineering innovation with enterprise.


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|Welcome to Iyara Resort and Spa, Koh Chang,
Serenity, greenery, spacious and prime natural location are probably best described Iyara Resort and Spa. Our resort has recently been opened.
Located on Klong Prao beach one of the best beach locations on Koh Chang, only 5 minutes drive to the island's centre for shopping,
dining and night time entertainment.
A great place to unwind, an escapade close to nature & listen to the nature water rush through the streams coming from the waterfall nearby. Morning birds singing and beautiful night music, soothing breeze throughout the night.
|We offer 16 quality accommodations in both Superior bungalows with swimming pool view style
and the charm of traditional Thai bungalow that stunning beside to
waterfall a wonderful atmosphere during rainy season you can swim in our newly built outdoor swimming pool surrounded with Iyara fountains.
Superior Bungalow
|Iyara Resort and Spa also offers unique opportunity for those looking for relaxing and activities venues.
Our fully spacious areas are perfect for those planning to Snorkeling, Jungle trekking, elephant riding etc.
|Swimming Pool
|Close to nature water
|Resort restaurant is difference location from hotel to there, but the hotel have a car pick up service round trip for customers free of charge.
They are also can take an a la carte menus at the restaurant as well.?


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Powerball: Kentucky
o The last of 2800 new Altura lottery terminals was installed. The new system included stand-alone ticket checkers at all retail locations, as well as an LCD monitor near the terminal which told players if they'd won a prize and for how much.
o The game Decades of Dollars held its first drawing February 3rd. It replaced Win For Life, and was sold in Kentucky, Georgia and Virginia.
o The first Final Top Prize drawing is held. This program replaced the Ultimate Second Chance drawings. While Final Top Prize still awarded a top prize for a scratch-off ticket after all the tickets had been sold, players won the ability on a ticket to enter the drawing (rather than all non-winning tickets being eligible as had been the case with Ultimate Second Chance).
o The first winner for the Kentucky Lottery 50/50 Split the Pot Raffle is announced. The game split 50% of overall sales as the prize, and was on sale for less than four weeks. The $145,430 prize was claimed by Roger Egnor of Bullitt County.
o A Jefferson County grand jury hands down four indictments against retail clerks as a result of the Integrity Testing Program launched by the KLC. During the investigation, undercover security personnel went to 33 retailers in Louisville and Lexington and presented clerks with tickets that appeared to be high dollar winners. In three of the retail locations, clerks kept the tickets and later presented them for payment.
o FY 2011 sales close at $772.3 million, including $53 million in free tickets. This was $200,000 less than FY10 sales. However, dividends to the Commonwealth rose 2% to $204.8 million.
o The KLC is awarded Level 3 Certification of the World Lottery Association's (WLA's) Responsible Gaming Framework, becoming the first lottery in the United States to achieve both Levels 2 and 3 of certification for responsible play programs, and one of the first two U.S. lottery organizations to achieve Level 3.


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1. Re: how to clear ssd PasswordITPython May 23, 2011 5:44 AM (in response to keetian)
You mean the SATA password/HDD password in BIOS to enable FDE? If so then you are out of luck, no way to recover it. Your SSD is nothing more than a expensive paperweight at this point. Not even Intel can reset it for you.
Please see this post: http://communities.intel.com/message/120161#120161
2. Re: how to clear ssd Passwordkeetian May 24, 2011 5:59 AM (in response to ITPython)
Do not need data recovery.
have any software like indilinx mptool to re-production?
3. Re: how to clear ssd Password
I have the same problem.
I bought a Thinkpad Edge 13 (AMD) and a SSD 320.
First I installed Linux and the System works well.
Afterwards I actived Passphrase encryption and ATA Password (HDP) in BIOS and can't unlock the drive anymore.
Is that just a mere chance!?
I don't need the data, too - I just want my freshly bought SSD back!!!
4. Re: how to clear ssd Passwordhub Jun 6, 2011 4:10 AM (in response to rolli )
Hey Rolli,
I have the same problem. Did you solve it?
5. Re: how to clear ssd Passwordsage99 Jun 9, 2011 1:34 AM (in response to keetian)
better return your SSD to your point of purchase, from what i know, ssd locked can't be clear unless it was lock using hdat2 then you can try to clear it else a new SSD is the only option


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PITTSBURGH—A black Ohio trucker has settled his federal civil rights lawsuit against a Burger King franchise in northwestern Pennsylvania where he contends a white employee spit on his Whopper Jr. in 2008. Terms of the settlement were not disclosed.
Glenn Goodwin of Cleveland filed the civil rights lawsuit against Fast Food Enterprises (hash)3, which operated the restaurant along Interstate 90 in Fairview.
Burger King's attorneys had argued there's no proof of the spitting or that the worker was motivated by racial prejudice if the spitting occurred. Furthermore, the attorneys wanted the lawsuit thrown out, along with the burger—which a state trooper who arrived to take Goodwin's complaint that night did after examining the burger. The trooper reported finding saliva in the burger but didn't charge anyone because no DNA testing was done to determine if it belonged to a specific employee.
In refusing Burger King's request to dismiss the lawsuit in May, U.S. District Judge Sean McLaughlin in Erie wrote that it would be unfair to dismiss the lawsuit because the trooper, not Goodwin, was responsible for throwing away the burger—which would have been the key piece of evidence for both sides.
McLaughlin also said there was enough evidence to warrant a trial because "a reasonable jury could conclude that Caucasian customers at the Burger King restaurant received satisfactory food service while Plaintiff, the only minority person in the restaurant, did not."
Attorneys for both sides told the Erie Times-News (http://bit.ly/ZofxvT), which first reported the settlement Friday, they couldn't comment.
Goodwin's attorney, Timothy McNair, confirmed that in an email to The Associated Press. "The case is resolved to the satisfaction of all parties. The terms of settlement are confidential. We are unable to comment further," McNair wrote.
Burger King attorney Peter Skeel joined in that statement.
Goodwin, 47, said the incident happened early in the evening of Nov. 11, 2008, when he was on his way home from a freight-hauling job to Erie.
He said a female employee made his sandwich and wrapped it before sliding it down a metal chute so another server could give it to Goodwin. Instead, a male employee grabbed the sandwich and stood with his back to Goodwin while a manager stood by as if he, too, were trying to shield some action, Goodwin said.
Goodwin contends the manager said "nice" as the worker handled the sandwich.
His lawsuit said Goodwin immediately suspected the worker had spit in his food, but Goodwin took it to his truck anyway because he didn't believe anyone would do such a thing.
Goodwin returned to the restaurant and loudly cursed and complained before calling 911. He said he found saliva in his sandwich that seemed "extra wet" and smelled "disgusting," which he later explained in his pretrial deposition was the smell of bad breath.


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She has to look presentable for the public!
Polar bear cub Anori left her birth cave for the first time last week since her birth on Jan. 4 at Germany's Zoo in Wuppertal. Her mother Vilma used a homespun cleaning tool – her tongue! – to get little Anori looking her best.
If Anori's adorable button eyes look at all familiar, that's because she's a half sister to Knut, the polar bear that became a worldwide sensation after getting rejected by his mother. Knut and Anori share the same father, according to CNN.
Vilma and Anori, meanwhile, appear to be enjoying their special time together. Anori is just learning to walk, but she's already adept at playing with her mother.
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|The Phone Tracker is a tool that allows you to track the location of other phones. Now you can follow the movements of a friend, your spouse, your child, or a co-worker from your own iPhone or Android.
The GPS Phone Tracker combines the robust GPS functionality of mobile phones and internet mapping with a secure, permission-based solution that allows people to follow each other.


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BOSTON—A college fraternity in Boston has raised more than twice the money needed to pay for a new pledge's gender transition surgery.
The Phi Alpha Tau fraternity at Emerson College began raising money for sophomore Donnie Collins early this month after his insurance company wouldn't cover his breast removal surgery. Their initial goal was $4,800, but donations had exceeded $17,000 by Wednesday afternoon, more than double the procedure's $8,000 price.
In a note posted this week with a thank-you video on YouTube, Collins said the surgery with a Springfield plastic surgeon would be scheduled this week.
"I don't even know what to say because the words 'thank you' don't do it anymore," Collins, 20, said on the video.
"I know that for me, personally, feeling guilty and feeling like, 'Am I worth all this?' has been huge theme of my existence in general," he said. "You just have to let it go because if people want to help, you have to let them help you."
Extra money donated in the ongoing campaign will go to a group that gives grants for similar surgeries for transgender people.
Phi Alpha Tau treasurer Christian Bergren-Aragon said he thinks a major reason the campaign caught on is because it defies the stereotypes of fraternities, which are often associated in popular culture with hedonism, poor grades and drunken antics.
"(I) don't think a lot of times, the good side of fraternities are shown, and we were able to do that, which is awesome," he said.
Collins, a screenwriting major and Virginia native, pledged just this month with Phi Alpha Tau, which Emerson director of student life Jason Meier described as a progressive, forward-thinking fraternity with many gay men. He said the fraternity is demonstrating values the school emphasizes for fraternities, including caring unconditionally for people and respecting human dignity.
"To see them living it … it's giving a lot of worth and meaning to a lot of these traditional fraternity values that groups say they live by," he said.
Bergren-Aragon said Collins had only been a member of the fraternity for 11 days when they started the campaign, and they didn't tell him about it for a week. The campaign was motivated by two things, he said. First, "Donnie Collins is such a great person; he always puts other people before himself, and I couldn't think of another person who I'd want to raise this money for."
He added, "It was also a good opportunity for our organization to actually demonstrate what we stand for."