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Daman & Diu Police Recruitment 2016 -Daman & Diu Police Recruitment 2016 for Sub Inspector Posts – Daman & Diu Police Department has published notification for the recruitment of 14 Sub Inspector vacancies . Eligible candidates may apply online from 21-04-2016 to 20-05-2016 till 05.00 PM. Other information like age limit, educational qualification, selection process & how to apply are given below…
Daman & Diu Police Vacancy Details:
Organization Name:Daman & Diu Police Department
Total No.of Posts:14
Name of the Post:Sub Inspector
Educational Qualification: Candidates should possess Graduation from a recognized University with 55% marks, certificate of computer of at least 3 months.
Age Limit:Candidates age should be 30 years. Age relaxation 5 years is applicable to Government Servants & sons/ daughters of deceased Police personnel of Daman & Diu, who died while in service.
Selection Process: Candidates will be selected based on written test.
How to Apply:
Eligible candidates may apply online through the website www.daman.nic.in/from 21-04-2016 to 20-05-2016 till 05.00 PM.
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Air National Guard Conducting Night Training Flights This Week
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Officials with the Wisconsin Air National Guard say their pilots will follow flight paths designed to minimize noise during training flights this week.
Madison residents are being told they may see or hear F-16 fight jets taking off, or landing, until about 9:00 p-m, through Thursday. That training normally is conducted during the daytime, but night operations are part of the overall training program for the pilots and maintenance personnel with the Air Guard.

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My dearest Easy Skanking Chef had an accident resulting in a concussion and hospital stay. I got an email from his boss which was also sent to his family.
I am so torn up about being so far away. This is his second accident in less than a year and I am very worried.
I need to go take care of him, but my trip is not scheduled before the end of August. I am waiting for him to be restored to health so that we can talk about whether or not he needs me to go sooner.
Just watching and praying.
Saturday, June 13, 2009
Long distance trauma
Posted by Sheer Almshouse at 9:56 pm
Labels: accident, easy skanking chef
2 comments:
- Azikiwe said...
He will be O.K. ! ..you don't worry ;-))
- 1:35 am
- Michelle said...
ah gee. :-( It's so hard being apart, but way worse when either of you is unhappy/ill. Hope he's ok now. Hope you're ok now.
- 4:27 am


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The two most popular sightseeing tours in Singapore are the City Tour and of course the incomparable Singapore Flyer - and on both you're guaranteed a real eyeful of the city-state although in wildly differing manners. You can also combine a ride on the Flyer with a day or a Singapore night tour, thus reaping the best of both worlds. Go on a 'bumboat' ride and check out Singapore's riverside or embark on a Round Island Tour or an exotic Night Tour. Finally, follow in the footsteps of Sir Stamford Raffles, Singapore's founder.
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Take time to explore the city's famous landmarks on this half-day tour. Pass by prominent colonial buildings before stopping at Merlion Park, Thian Hock Keng...
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Adrienne Rich wins Tanning poetry prize
Northern California poet Adrienne Rich has been awarded the largest literary award in the U.S., the $100,000 Tanning Prize for excellence in poetry from the Academy of American Poets.
A prolific writer and a resident of Santa Cruz, Rich, through her politically charged poetry, has given voice to a generation of American feminists. In a statement released Wednesday by the Academy, Rich described her desire to find the "relationship between the personal, or lyric, voice and the so-called political."
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An employee of Capital Crossroads Special Improvement District was injured Monday night when her bicycle was struck by a car at the intersection of Third and Broad streets Downtown.
The unidentified woman, in her 20s, appeared to have sustained leg injuries in the incident, which occurred about 10:45 p.m. She was conscious when transported by Columbus fire paramedics to OhioHealth Grant Medical Center.
Police were questioning the driver.
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Tanzania/Côte d'Ivoire: Drogba's Header Sink Taifa Stars
Dar Es Salaam — DIDIER Drogba's clinical finish decided the mouthwatering friendly clash between Ivory Coast and Taifa Stars, that has just endedat the National Stadium in Dar es Salaam, as the Elephants chalked a hard fought 1-0 win.
The Chelsea super striker dived to power home Emmanuel Eboue cross from the right side. Eboue was allowed space and time to cross and Drogba outclassed Stars defender Nadir Haroub, to score one of his typical goals in difficult situation.
Under tight marking, Drogba showed his touch of class, leaping off to head home past helpless goalie Muharami Mohammed, as Haroub was left sprawling on the turf.
Despite the defeat, Stars showed character and the difference between the two teams arguably was the quality, experience and expertise shown by the Ivorian stars.
Taifa Stars started brightly, pressing hard in the first ten opening minutes, creating several scoring chance but somewhat lacked the quality of Drogba upfront.
As the pressure mounted, Ivory Coast switched the tactics and started applying physical game that Stars players failed to match. From then, the West African giants took control of the game, switching play from side to side.
Perhaps the night was long for diminutive Taifa Stars winger Mrisho Ngasa, who missed the most glittering chance of all in the first half.
He raced to a drop ball from the centre of the midfield, went clear ahead of racing Kolo Toure, but his poor decision making saw the Manchester City defender poking off the ball between his legs, as goalie Barry Boubacar was well beaten.
Apart from the goal, Drogba was well marshalled by Stars defenders led by Haroub and Kelvin Yondani.
However, the striker came close in several occasions. He made his first attempt just 11 minutes from the kick off, but Haroub made a timely block to an attacking throw in ball.
The powerful striker shot wide three minutes later, but the real scare for Stars and Tanzania fans came after 25 minutes when Muharami was forced to a full stretch to parry off Drogba's 30 yard set piece.
However, Stars could not stop Drogba six minutes before the break, when the star netted the solitary goal.
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After the break, Bosnian coach Vahid Halilhodzic who started with a full first team squad, made the entire change of his squad and gave his top class players including Drogba a rest. The new squad gave Stars torrid time in the first opening minutes. But Stars retreated and calmed things down.
Stars coach Marcio Maximo also resorted to quick changes, bringing in Abdi Kassim, Stephan Mwasika, Musa Hassan Mgosi and John Boko in place of Nizar Khalfan, Juma Jabu, Kigi Makasi and Jerson Tegete respectively.
The changes gave Stars a bit of momentum. Few minutes before he was substituted, Tegete went close to level the score, when his close shot hit the near post.


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Get a behind-the-scenes look at Jordan Spieth's TV ad with Tony Romo
Now, we're getting a behind-the-scenes look at the ad, with Spieth talking about all the people behind him, even some of those in the commercial.
In the video, we get a look at Spieth hanging out with his posse, including playing ping pong in downtime during the ad shoot.
Also, Romo talks about how Team Spieth helps the golfer: "I think in Jordan's case you see his team, which he references a lot. He knows how important they are to him. And he knows he wouldn't be as successful without him."
Here's the original ad if you've somehow missed it.
And as a bonus, here's Spieth's recent SportsCenter ad.


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Despatch - ITW EAE
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ESBL in Urine
ESBL is an abbreviation for 'Extended-Spectrum Beta Lactamase'. It is a type of bacteria that is resistant to the effects of antibiotics and causes varied infections that are primarily acquired in hospitals. Hence the detection of ESBL in urine is considered a dangerous condition.
ESBL bacteria are dissimilar from other kinds of superbugs. This is due to the fact that ESBL does not denote one particular type of bacteria. For instance, MRSA specifically refers to the strains of S. aureus that are resistant to methicillin. ESBL on the other hand, represents a specific enzyme that destroys the effects of antibiotics and which can be produced by bacteria.
The History of ESBL
Penicillin antibiotics were known to be the first antibiotics, known to be effective against a variety of diseases. In order to counter the effects of penicillin, varied types of bacteria started creating beta lactamase. It is an enzyme that protects the bacteria against attack by penicillin-based antibiotics.
Researchers then discovered other types of antibiotics which were able to kill and destroy the pathogens which could create the beta lactamase enzyme. ESBL or extended-spectrum beta lactamase is a modification acquired by bacteria to meet the challenge of the newer antibiotics. The ESBL enzyme can overcome the effects of both penicillin-type antibiotics as well as cephalosporin antibiotics.
Why is ESBL in urine a threatening condition?
ESBL bacteria are no different from other kinds of bacteria. The only reason they are clubbed in a different category is because of their immunity to varied antibiotics. Other than this fact, ESBL bacteria are the same and cause the similar effects as most other species of bacteria. These cause analogous diseases which are no more severe or milder than the diseases resulting from infections by non-ESBL bacteria of the same kind.
The resistance of ESBL bacteria to certain antibiotics can make treatment a lot more difficult and complex. It may result in hospitalization for longer duration, elevated healthcare costs, and higher death rates.
The ESBL enzyme detected in urine or blood can be produced by several bacterial species, including gram negative as well as gram positive bacteria. Klebsiella and E.coli are the most prevalent species of ESBL bacteria. Both these types of bacteria can be found in blood infections and surgical area infections. These are also the most common cause of UTIs or urinary tract infections, which can be diagnosed by the presence of ESBL in urine.
Diagnosis and treatment of ESBL in urine
The diagnosis of ESBL bacteria involves collection of urine or feces sample and culture testing it in a laboratory. Doctors can also take a swab of a wound or the rectum.
It may also be noted that as ESBL bacteria are primarily hospital-acquired, patients may be tested for ESBL on or before hospital admission. People, who are diagnosed with ESBL in urine, or in other samples, are then placed in isolation so as to prevent its spread.
The diagnosis and treatment of ESBL pathogens can be quite complicated. As per the CDC, certain types of ESBL microorganisms cannot be identified through the typical laboratory procedures as they can result in false-positive diagnosis.
After the successful and correct diagnosis of ESBL in urine, the pathogens need to be checked for sensitivity to antibiotics. Varied strains of ESBL can be resistant to different antibiotics. Hence, each ESBL sample is checked in a laboratory for its vulnerability to specific antibiotics. This process is referred to as a 'sensitivity test'. This test allows doctors to start treatment of ESBL in urine with the right antibiotics. It is however important to note that antibiotics that destroy ESBL bacteria in a lab may not produce the same results in a human body since it is more intricate as opposed to a Petri dish.
Prevention of ESBL in urine
As treatment of ESBL in urine is complex, the best option is to prevent its spread. The lack of any transmission route from a patient to a healthy person or others will eventually result in elimination of that particular ESBL bacterial strain.
ESBL bacteria are transmitted via contact, mostly through contaminated hands of healthcare providers. It can also transfer directly from a patient to another, or to or by visitors. Fortunately, it is quite easy to prevent the transmission of this pathogen. Studies have shown that washing your hands with an antimicrobial soap can eliminate the bacteria by 98 to 100 percent.
Individuals affected by ESBL infections may be given a private room. The patient may or may not be placed in isolation. Doctors, nurses, and other healthcare workers have to wear gloves and wash their hands after handling such patients. They can also wear plastic gowns to guard their own apparels. Medical equipment like thermometers, stethoscopes, etc; are either disposable or kept exclusive for ESBL-affected individuals to prevent the migration of bacteria.
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The Nineties was the decade of the Queen's 'annus horribilis, the divorces of her children Charles, Anne and Andrew, and of Princess Diana's death. The Mail's Royal Watcher MAUREEN MESSENT reports.
THE Queen's belief that Diana would settle into quiet near-anonymity after her separation from Charles was announced was the greatest miscalculation of her life.
The Prince and Princess of Wales had caused months of outrage with pictures of them ignoring each other and avoiding even catching one another's attention.
Typical of Diana was the photograph of her sitting alone at the Taj Mahal, great monument to love, when Charles was at another engagement in India.
In their last tour together, to Korea, they were christened "The Glums" because each looked discontented and bored.
So Prime Minister John Major's news to the Commons they were to separate might have come as relief in terms of damage limitation.
Divorce was not on the cards. The Queen expected the couple to remain single but separated.
Earlier that year, the Yorks had split amid certain public mirth – we could never take this podgy pair as serious Royals.
The Queen came unstuck over Diana. Far from agreeing to fade quietly from view, she became the nation's beautiful and tender-hearted "wronged woman". Charles, our future king, was dismissed as mad for letting her go.
Whenever he planned a key speech or outing, Diana would be on the town, too. Newspaper editors recall a well-spoken woman 'phoning to tell them that "The Princess of Wales will… such and such" – always at the same time as Charles had planned to be working.
Diana, more beautiful than ever, slightly tanned, tall and slim, drew the most photographers.
The next day, she'd be on the front pages, while Charles got a few paragraphs tucked away inside.
He'd been jealous of her as his new bride. Now he was incandescent at her upstaging him.
Later, in November 1992, the Queen stood in the rain and watched Windsor Castle burn – a workman had left a blow-lamp near a curtain that caught fire.
"My annus horribilis" was how a truly-dismayed Elizabeth described that eventful, almost unbelievable, time.
She had been publicly scolded a couple of years before for paying too little tax.
Her sister, divorced and lonely, kept hilarious court in her Kensington Palace home: admission here was a bottle of The Old Grouse, Margaret's chosen tipple.
Then Margaret's feet were badly scalded at her Mustique home, in the Caribbean, and we saw little of her in public again – just brief wheelchair airings to celebrate the Queen Mother's birthdays.
And now, even this once-indomitable Scots woman was looking tottery on swollen ankles.
The Queen must have thought she was facing a secundus annus horribilis after the BBC's Panorama in November 1995.
In the course of a long interview with Jonathon Dimbleby, purportedly to portray Charles as a deep thinker with innovative views on Planet Earth, the Prince undid his good work in five seconds flat.
He told the world he had been "faithful to the Princess until his marriage had irretrievably broken down".
All was lost. Here was the future King revealing he was an adulterer.
Suddenly it was the media's open day.
All the rumours of Camilla were spilled.
Her then husband, the Army's Col Andrew Parker-Bowles was revealed as "the man who laid down his wife for his country" – and Camilla, shopping in a Cotswold Tesco, was reported to have been pelted with bread rolls.
There is, in fact, little basis in that yarn. That it became credible points to the nation's shock.
Once again, the Queen must have known of the liaison: Diana was quick to point out that Charles would bawl, mid-domestic spat, "Do you expect me to be the only Prince of Wales without a mistress"?
Interestingly, Diana, knowing her estranged husband's interview was to be broadcast, donned black velvet to stun at London's Serpentine Gallery that night.
It was Panorama which once again dealt the House of Windsor a cruel blow.
As she was interviewed by Martin Bashir on her separation, Diana not only said that there "was three of us in our marriage", but added her fears on Charles's fitness to be King.
The Queen exploded. She wrote to both her son and daughter-in-law insisting they must divorce. Which they did.
The BBC felt Royal wrath, too. No more was it to have the sole right to produce the Queen's Christmas Message. From then on, this would be rotated between the BBC, ITV and these days, Sky.
An ice age developed between Buckingham Palace and the BBC. Never since have they received preferential treatment.
The rest is almost history.
After gaining a tarnished reputation for chasing men, Diana was killed in a Paris car crash with her then-lover Dodi Fayed.
News was broken to Prince Charles, then summering at Balmoral. It came in the smallest of hours and he woke the Queen and Prince Philip who decided to let Wills and Harry sleep until morning.
A few hours later brought not just mourning but a huge slap on the Royal wrist for the Queen.
Why, the shocked nation wanted to know, weren't prayers said for Diana at the Sunday service attended by the Royals in Scotland?
To this day, we don't know.
Maybe in the sadness of that morning, seeing Diana's two stunned sons, everyone forgot to tell the Church of Scotland Minister to include special prayers.
Maybe just an oversight. But once again the Queen emerged looking small-minded – an unfair conclusion.
Then came another row. Why was there no flag flying at half-mast over Buckingham Palace?
Suddenly the damp-eyed British scented another royal snub to Diana. It was another misunderstanding reflecting the Queen in a poor light.
The Royal Standard flies only when the Queen is there – and she was in Scotland.
These small misunderstandings on the public's part grew and grew as the barricade of floral tributes became a mini-mountain outside Kensington Palace, Diana's home.
This outcry against the perceived hard-heartedness of the Queen were the birth pangs of the House of Windsor's need to be reborn into the late 20th century.
The Royal Family had, indeed, lost its way, and its autocracy had no place in modern Britain.
The people wanted the Royals to scream and cry with grief, to make an unholy show of themselves, in fact, because that was what the Great British public were doing.
But that's not the royal way. They are restrained at death and the obsequies. Many of us are the same. The hysterics were distasteful.
As Prince Charles and Diana's sister flew the body back to England from Paris, the nation split.
On the one side of the divide was the beautifully kind but misunderstood Diana, on the other a Queen who, in the week following Diana's death, was seen as the Cruella of the tragedy, uncaring and aloof.
Later the Queen's household was to explain she had stayed in Balmoral to comfort Wills and Harry.
Still not good enough, said the public. And the Queen wasn't helped by the tearful Tony Blair assuming grief's mantle to gulp: "She was the People's Princess."
Phony? Totally. Capturing the mood? Completely.
When the Queen returned to London, she and Philip walked with the boys to look at the mountain of flowers still growing.
Every step must have been a penance. Never had she encountered mass disapproval like this before.
The final insult came when Diana's brother, the 9th Earl Spencer, mentioned in his funeral ovation that she had been ill-used by the Royals.
Rich hypocrisy from the man who had refused her a country retreat at Althorp, their ancestral home, because "this would disturb the estate as people came to gawp".
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Many jobs in New York go unfilled because employers are unable to find highly skilled workers. IBM Vice President of Corporate Citizenship and Corporate Affairs and President, IBM International Foundation Stanley S. Litow and SUNY Chancellor Nancy Zimpher will discuss the importance of public-private partnerships and high education standards to ensure that students will be able to compete in college and the work world upon graduation from high school, during one of several panel discussions at The Business Council of New York State Annual Meeting.
The discussion, "The Role of Business in Education," will take place on September 18 at 10 a.m. at The Sagamore Resort in Bolton Landing, NY.
Businesses in New York state are projected to create one million jobs that require more education than a high school diploma, but less than a four-year college degree, between 2008 and 2018, according to data compiled by Jobs for the Future and The Business Council.
Referred to by the Brookings Institute as "the hidden STEM economy," middle-skill jobs will make up 39 percent — the largest portion— of all jobs in New York state by 2018. Jobs requiring a four-year college degree will comprise 34 percent of the workforce while low-skill jobs, those requiring a high school diploma or less, will make up the remaining 27 percent of the workforce.
The data also shows that this gap will continue to widen as the supply of recent graduates prepared for these jobs is projected to decline by 2025.
"The business community recognizes the urgency in closing the middle skills gap, and that jobs in the STEM field play a major role in driving the state's economy. This data shows that New York's growing STEM economy will be stifled if we do not find innovative new ways to help schools better prepare graduates to fill good paying middle-skill jobs," said Heather C. Briccetti, Esq., president and CEO of The Business Council.
For more information on The Business Council's Annual Meeting please visit: http://www.bcnys.org/whatsnew/events/annualmeeting.htm


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Revista Brasileira de Zoologia
Print version ISSN 0101-8175
Rev. Bras. Zool. vol.23 no.1 Curitiba Mar. 2006
Shyness and boldness in greater rheas Rhea americana Linnaeus (Rheiformes, Rheidae): the effects of antipredator training on the personality of the birds
Timidez e coragem em emas Rhea americana Linnaeus (Rheiformes, Rheidae): os efeitos do treinamento anti-predação na personalidade das aves
Cristiano S. de Azevedo; Robert J. Young
Pós-graduação em Zoologia de Vertebrados, Conservation, Ecology and Animal Behaviour Group, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais. Avenida Dom José Gaspar 500, Prédio 41, Coração Eucarístico, 30535-610 Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brasil. E-mail: email@example.com; email@example.com
The shy-bold continuum is an axis of behavioural variation for some species, but the consequences of shyness and boldness in antipredatory behaviour is unknown. Bold animals have the tendency to be predated first after release in comparison to shy animals, who naturally avoid the predators. Antipredatory training has been used to enhance the defence behaviours of naive animals by various researchers around the world. For greater rheas, Rhea americana (Linnaeus, 1758), this kind of study is pioneer. In this study we have investigated if there are relationships between personality and performance of greater rheas in antipredatory training. We also investigated if the training procedures influenced the behaviour of the birds when presented to novel objects. Fifteen zoo-borne greater rheas were studied and 16 personality tests were run, being eight before the application of antipredator training, and eight after the training. We presented to the birds four novel objects (ball, box, bag and person) and recorded their behaviour and the distance of the birds in relation to the objects. Results showed that the birds behave boldly before training and shyly after it. The antipredator training modified significantly the behaviour of the rheas, making them more careful about novel situations. Personalities affected the behaviour of the birds during antipredator training. The study of the animal personalities can be an useful tool in reintroduction programs since it helps to choose the animals with the highest chance of survival to reintroduce.
Key words: Aves; naive birds; novel objects; personality test; reintroduction.
O contínuo timidez-coragem é um eixo de variação comportamental para algumas espécies, mas as conseqüências da timidez e coragem no comportamento anti-predação não são conhecidas. Animais corajosos tendem a ser predados primeiramente após a reintrodução em comparação com os animais tímidos, que naturalmente evitam os predadores. O treinamento anti-predação tem sido usado para aumentar os comportamentos defensivos de animais nascidos em cativeiro por vários pesquisadores ao redor do mundo. Para emas, Rhea americana (Linnaeus, 1758), este tipo de estudo é pioneiro. Neste estudo, foi investigado se existe relação entre a personalidade e a performance das emas no treinamento anti-predação. Também foi investigado se o treinamento influencia o comportamento das aves quando apresentadas a novos objetos. Foram estudadas 15 emas nascidas em cativeiro, através de 16 testes de personalidade, sendo oito antes da aplicação do treinamento anti-predação e oito após sua aplicação. Foram apresentados às emas quatro novos objetos (bola, caixa, saco e pessoa) e anotados os comportamentos exibidos e a distância das aves em relação aos objetos. O treinamento anti-predação modificou significativamente o comportamento das emas, tornando-as mais cuidadosas em relação à novas situações. A personalidade afetou o comportamento das aves durante o treinamento anti-predação. O estudo da personalidade dos animais pode ser uma ferramenta útil em programas de reintrodução, uma vez que ajuda na escolha de qual animal tem maior chance de sobrevivência ao ser solto.
Palavras chave: Aves cativas; objetos novos; reintrodução; teste de personalidade.
Behavioural differences attributed to personality traits have been demonstrated to many species, like octopus (MATHER & ANDERSSON 1993), fishes (WILSON et al. 1993, COLEMAN & WILSON 1998), birds (GREENBERG 1989, VERBEEK et al. 1999) and mammals (LOWE & BRADSHAW 2001, SVARTBERG 2002, SVARTBERG & FORKMAN 2002). These differences are classified in a shy-bold continuum, defined as the tendency of an animal to approach to an object and situation not familiar to it and to take risks (KAGAN et al. 1988, WILSON et al. 1994). In general, shy individuals react to unknown objects or situations becoming quiet and vigilant; bold individuals act normally or become active, exploring the new situation (WILSON et al. 1993).
Animal personalities can be decisive in the capacity of a captive animal to survive after the release into the wild. BREMNER-HARRISON et al. (2004), studying swift-foxes Vulpes velox (Say, 1823) in the United States, discovered that the bold animals presented mortality rates significantly higher than the shy ones, and that the bold individuals die faster after the release if compared to the shy individuals.
According to COLEMAN & WILSON (1998), individual differences which are adaptative in the context of predator avoidance may be or not adaptative in other contexts, like in intraspecific social interactions. Each important situation that affect the survival and the reproduction potentially requires a different adaptative response, favoured by natural selection; therefore, it would be more adaptative to a shy-bold continuum exist to some situations but not to others. If these responses are naturally selected, it seems that this continuum are partially inheritable. In fact, today, this characteristic seems to be unquestionable (WILSON et al. 1994).
With the genetic component of the shy-bold continuum being inherited from father to sons, personality studies may be of great importance for the selection of animals more inclined to learn about predators, who can become models to naive conspecifics (SNEDDON 2003). Bold individuals who learn faster can be candidates to models for the social transmission of their abilities, meanwhile, training shy individuals are also important, since in the case of predator recognition, bold are not an advantageous skill. The ideal situation, therefore, would be the reproduction of individuals with a great capacity of learning and not so bold, occupying not the extremes of the shy-bold continuum but the intermediary positions that allow the right responses in front of the predators. Once the amount of money involved in animal reintroduction projects are enormous (KLEIMAN 1996), this kind of investigation would avoid unnecessary expenditure with the training of animals whose the chance of survival after the release into the wild are low.
Greater rhea Rhea americana Linnaeus, 1857 (Rheiformes, Rheidae, Aves) is the largest South American bird. It lives in the open fields and cerrado and open-grass regions of Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay and southern Bolivia (DEL HOYO et al. 1992). Despite the species be classified in the category of lower-risk by IUCN (2004), natural populations are declining, being the intensive hunt, habitat loss, egg destruction by agricultural machinery, burnings and predation, the main reasons for that (DANI 1993). Predators of greater rhea are bush dog, Speothos venaticus Lund, 1842; maned-wolf, Chrysocyon brachyurus Illiger, 1811; jaguar, Panthera onca Linnaeus, 1758; feral dogs, Canis familiaris Linnaeus, 1758; tegu lizard, Tupinambis teguixin Linnaeus, 1758; and some birds of prey (SICK 1997).
In the Brazilian State of Minas Gerais, the species is classified as threatened (MACHADO et al. 1998). Reintroduction efforts have been made to contour this situation, but with no success due mainly to the predation of the individuals (Ângela Faggioli, BH Zoo Biologist, pers. comm.).
Our goal in this study was to evaluate personality traits of captive-born greater rheas and to correlate the personalities of the birds with the responses showed during antipredator training session.
Animals, housing and maintenance
Fifteen greater rheas (eight males and seven females), all bred at Belo Horizonte Zoo (BH Zoo), were studied. Rheas were caught and handled regularly prior to the experiments.
Eight birds were housed in enclosures 15 m long and 15 m wide (four birds per enclosure _ trained groups) and seven birds were housed in a enclosure 28 m length and 16 m wide (untrained group). All rheas received food and water ad libitum and were marked (plastic coloured leg. bands and leg. tattoos) for identification.
Antipredator training
Two groups were trained to avoid predators. Antipredator training sessions were based on the methodology of GRIFFIN et al. (2001). We paired two stimuli: a predator model with an aversive stimulus (a simulation of a capture procedure). We trained the rheas in a test yard; this wire-fenced arena was screened with strip of opaque black plastic to isolate the birds visually from their surroundings. A window in one of the long sides of the enclosure allowed the birds to see the predator model, which passed in a corridor adjoining the fence. Just after the predator model appeared in the window, a man carrying a net entered the enclosure and simulated a capture procedure (aversive experience). In the trained group, the appearance of the stimulus; thus reliably predicted the onset of the capture event. Each animal received 15 training sessions, separated equally being the taxidermized jaguar, a chair (control stimulus) and a live dog, from June to September 2003.
The control group was not submitted to antipredator training and the behavioural responses of this group allowed us to evaluate the effectiveness of the training procedures in the elicitation of the correct antipredator behaviours.
Experimental protocol
Personality tests were run before and after antipredator training sessions, for both trained and untrained groups. Tests consisted in the presentation of four novel objects to the rheas and the evaluation of their behavioural responses.
In each enclosure we marked two squares, one inside of the other (Fig. 1), which helped us to evaluate the distance of the birds in relation of the novel object, which was put in the centre of the squares. The marks consisted in wood sticks stringed on the ground. If the bird entered on the bigger square (square two), it would be at 2.60 m distant of the object; if it entered on the smaller square (square one), it would be at 1.30 m distant of the object.
Four novel objects were used: a ball, a bag, a box and a person; none of this objects had been presented to the birds before the tests (excluding the person _ birds were managed regularly by their zoo keepers). The sequence of object presentation was: ball, bag, box and person. Each object was presented to the birds two times before antipredator training and two times after the end of the training sessions, totalling 16 personality tests (eight tests before training, in February 2003, and eight tests after training, in July 2003).
Data collection and statistical analysis
We collected data about the behaviours displayed during the tests and the distance of the birds in relation to the novel objects. Data were collected using scan sampling with instantaneous recording of behaviour every minute. If one bird entered the squares and interact with the object, its number was recorded. Each test lasted 60 minutes and started right after the arrangement of the object inside the squares; tests were run in the morning, being one test per day.
Behaviours displayed by the rheas during the tests were divided into three personality categories: bold (this category comprises the behaviours walking, foraging, inactive, pecking at the object and watching the object), shy (behaviours pacing and alert) and fear (behaviour escaping from the object and not visible). The number of registers of each behaviour was counted and used in the calculation of the boldness scores, according to BREMNER-HARRISON et al. (2004): the total number of fear behaviours was multiplied by zero; the total number of shy behaviours was multiplied by one; and the total number of bold behaviours was multiplied by two. For each group, the totals of the multiplication were summed and the numbers achieved were the boldness score values _ the bigger the value, the bigger the boldness of the group (Tab. I).
Results found during the personality tests were compared to the results found during the antipredator training sessions. Cluster analysis grouped the rheas according to the similarities of the behaviours expressed during antipredator training and was also used in the comparisons with the boldness scores.
Friedman's ANOVA non-parametrical tests were used to evaluate if the differences in the behaviours between the three groups before and after the training sessions were statistically significant. For all statistical analysis, the confidence level was 95% (a = 0.05). All statistical tests were run using MINITAB Statistical Software v.12.
The behaviours escaping from the object, pecking at the object and foraging were excluded from statistical analysis because they were not recorded or seldom recorded. The mean number of behaviours is shown on table II, for each treatment and each object.
Results showed that the groups responded differently to the novel objects; rheas of trained-group one behave shyly before and after the training sessions; trained-group two behave boldly before and shyly after training; control group behave boldly before and after the training sessions, except when the person was the object (rheas behave shyly). For the box, rheas of control group behave boldly before and shyly after the training sessions (Tab. II).
Control group did not show any statistical difference in the behaviours displayed during personality tests before and after antipredator training (Tab. III). Only for the rheas of the trained groups one and two the responses were statistically different. For both groups, differences were found in the categories shy and bold; Tukey test showed that bold behaviours occurred most in the treatment one (before antipredator training) and shy behaviours occurred most in the treatment two (after antipredator training).
Boldness scores, calculated for all groups, are shown in table IV. Results showed that the three groups behave boldly before the antipredator training and shyly after the training sessions.
Rheas of group one entered in the square two (2.60 m from the novel object) more times than in square one (1.30m from the novel object) (34 times for square two; 11 times for square one), before antipredator training (Tab. V). Rheas of group two showed the same pattern: entered more in square two than in square one (Tab. V). Only control group entered more in square one than in square two (29 times in square one; 20 times in square two) before antipredator training (Tab. V). After the training, all groups entered more in square two than in square one. Most of the place recordings occurred for distances higher than 2.60 m from the novel object, for the three groups (Tab. V).
Results for each bird individually are showed on table VI. Rhea six was the bird who approached the objects more times. Rheas four and fifteen approached less times the novel objects. Most of the birds approached the novel objects more times during treatment one (before antipredator training sessions) than during treatment two (after antipredator training sessions).
During antipredator training, rheas of group one behave boldly in relation of the rheas of group two, which behave shyly (Tab. VII) when presented to the jaguar model. When tested with the chair, both groups behave calmly. With the live dog, groups differed in their behavioural responses; group one behave calmly and group two behave vigilantly). Analysing the behaviours of each bird individually, we can note that the responses to the models differed, with birds displaying bold behaviours (ex.: rhea three) and birds displaying shy behaviours (ex.: rhea eight).
Cluster analysis resulted in two major groups: one composed by rheas one and five and the other composed by rheas three and seven. Rheas one and five behave shyly and rheas three and seven behave boldly. The similarity between the behaviours displayed by rheas one and five was 78% approximately and between rheas three and seven was 80% approximately. The bird that behaves more different was rhea eight; this bird displayed shy and fear behaviours with the two predator models (mainly the behaviour running straight) (Fig. 2).
Rheas' personalities affected the behavioural responses during antipredator training since each bird responded differently during the sessions. Antipredator training modified the responses obtained during personality tests, since birds that initially behave boldly became shy after the sessions.
Boldness scores, calculated according to BREMNER-HARRISON et al. (2004), showed that, before antipredator training sessions, rheas were bolder than after. These results were more evident for rheas belonging to trained-group two, and less evident for trained-group one (which behave shyly before and after antipredator training), although this group displayed shy behaviours more intensively after the training sessions. Untrained-group behave boldly in both treatments, with three of the four objects used (only with the person these group behave shyly), confirming that the antipredator training changed the bold levels of the birds, making them more careful to unfamiliar objects.
Bold and shy behaviours of both trained groups differed statistically between the two treatments (before and after antipredator training). This result was not observed for the untrained-group, also confirming the capacity of the training in modify the behaviours of the rheas, that learned to avoid and fear novel situations.
Analysing the number of times that the individuals approached the objects, we realised that rhea six (trained-group two) was more bold than the others, entering the squares 64 times. We found a correlation between the behaviour displayed during personality tests and antipredator training for this bird; it behave calmly in most training sessions (only with the jaguar model this bird displayed vigilance behaviours, such as alert).
Boldness scores revealed an antagonism between the behavioural responses showed during antipredator training and personality assessments. According to this index, trained-group one showed more shy than trained-group two, avoiding to approach the novel objects; meanwhile, during antipredator training, it was trained-group one who behave boldly. In the calculation of the boldness score proposed by BREMNER-HARRISON et al. (2004), fear behaviours are multiplied by zero, while bold behaviours are multiplied by two. Maybe these different weights given to the behaviour categories are responsible for this kind of antagonism. Other methods of boldness calculations are found in the literature (WILSON et al. 1993, COLEMAN & WILSON 1998, SVARTBERG 2002, SVARTBERG & FORKMAN 2002, SNEDDON 2003) and, for best standardised the scores, a comparison of the results found using different methods is suggested.
The cluster analysis separated two similar groups with two rheas each: one with rheas one and five (shy) and other with rheas three and seven (bold). The use of these four individuals as models for naive birds might be adequate only if they were mixed, guaranteeing the necessary variation for adaptability (WILSON et al. 1994), since boldness is not a virtue in the case of antipredator adaptations. The differences showed by individuals within a single population are assumed to be nonadaptative around an adaptative mean (COLEMAN & WILSON 1998). It is now becoming clear that this variation can itself be adaptative, since the animals that lives socially can speed their learning processes imitating conspecifics, adapting faster to new situations (KELLEY et al. 2003).
GALEF (1988) showed that the behaviour of some animals can be modified as a result of observing the responses of conspecifics to a stimulus and the social transmission of predator avoidance amplifies the effects of an initial training intervention (CURIO 1988, SUBOSKI et al. 1990) by causing adaptative responses to spread trough a population (GRIFFIN & EVANS 2003). The cultural transmission of the antipredator behaviours has been observed in several species of birds, such as ducks (KLOPFER 1957) and passerine birds (LORENZ 1952, CURIO et al. 1978, VIETH et al. 1980). For ratites, birds that normally live in groups (PERRINS & MIDDLETON 1998), the cultural transmission of antipredator skills is probably very important. The enhancement of antipredator responses due to social training for greater rheas, meanwhile, has to be tested.
The positive effects of antipredator training is confirmed by the fact that the rheas avoided the novel objects much more time after it implementation than before. To avoid novel stimuli when reintroduced in the wild is a great advantage to the birds since it can increase their survival capabilities. Some birds, meanwhile, do not responded in this manner, increasing the numbers of approaching to the objects after the application of the antipredator training. Birds that occupy the bold region of the shy-bold continuum, like rhea one, are not good animals to be reintroduced. The probabilities of these rheas to be killed just after their release into the wild are big enough to not be tried. Birds with this kind of behavioural responses are better thrifty in environmental education programs of zoos.
Once the investments in reintroduction programs are huge, to choose the best animals to release is of great importance. Personality assessments and cluster analysis are tools that can be used in this way. More refined tests, like Principal Components Analysis (PCA) and Discriminant Analysis, can also be used to help in the decisions of which animals are better to be trained and reintroduced and which animals are better to be used in captive reproduction and environmental education programs, but the number of individuals studied needs to be larger than the number of animals studied here.
It is important to evaluate the survival rates of the animals after the releasing into the nature. Only with this kind of study we can truly say if the antipredator training applied to the best individuals increased the survival of the animals and helped in the establishment of new viable population in the wild.
We would like to thank Dr. Andrea Griffin for helped us with the methodologies of the antipredator training used in this research; to BH Zoo for the consent to study their animals; to Ângela Bernadete Faggioli and the staff of Bird Section for their help and suggestions; Dr. Samantha Bremner for her help with the boldness score. This study was undertaken while Cristiano Schetini de Azevedo was in receipt of a postgraduate scholarship from CAPES (Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior). The research conducted in this article conforms with the animal care laws in Brazil and was approved by the Zoo's Ethical Committee.
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New Delhi: The private schools today told
the Delhi High Court that the Right to Education (RTE) Act
allows schools to admit children below four years in age to
pre-school (nursery) classes which is part of the formal
education system.
Appearing for the schools before a division bench of
Acting Chief Justice A K Sikri and Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw,
counsel Sobha said that as per the Act, nursery classes could
be treated as entry level the pre-schools should not be
segregated from the formal education system.
The court was hearing a petition filed by Social Jurists,
an NGO, challenging the government`s December 16, 2012, order
allowing schools to admit children in nursery classes at the
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2010-11 Score Rookie & Traded Hockey Set Case Break
Ever wonder what a 20-set case of 2010 Score Rookie & Traded Hockey would hold? I did, so I recently bought one and finished breaking it today. I knew off the bat that I was going to get 20 of each base card, 20 autographs, 100 gold parallel cards and one #659 Taro Tsujimoto Super SP card. The allure is this is obviously the autographs. Tyler Seguin and Taylor Hall both signed for this set, but in very limited quantities. I was hoping that I'd get lucky and pull one of these guys in my case.
You'll see all the autographs and the Tsujimoto below. The gold cards (not pictured) didn't yield anything better than two Taylor Hall's. I was hoping for a Seguin or two, but that didn't happen.
I was pretty disappointed in the collation of the autographs. I got four of the same player. That's pretty bad for a case that yields 20 autographs.
Even though I didn't hit anything big, this is still a product that you can profit on at its current price point, $10 per set. One word of caution, the autographed card is the top card in every set and the Taylor Hall base card is the last card in every set. These are very susceptible to damaged corners.
2010 Topps Chrome Baseball – 2 Hobby Box Break
I recently cashed out some COMC balance and converted it to Blowout Cards credit. With the credit I purchased 2 hobby boxes of 2010 Topps Chrome Baseball, 2 hobby boxes of 2010 Bowman Chrome Baseball and a 6-box hobby case of 2010 Bowman Platinum Baseball. I'll post all the breaks in the coming days, starting today with the Topps Chrome.
If you've been reading this blog for a while, you'll know that I broke a hobby case of this last year with mixed results. It's a really fun break considering you get two autographs per box and a chance at some cool inserts and color. It can also be frustrating because of the lack of quality control in the Topps products this year and the numerous undesirable autographs in the product.
Anyway, I'll spare you the in-depth breakdown on this one and just give you the hits. The four autographs I got were Tyson Ross, Josh Donaldson, Wilson Ramos and a blue refractor autograph (/199) of Jon Jay. I haven't had much luck with this product, but it's a tough one to pass up at the current price levels.
Retro Break – 2000 Fleer E-X Baseball
It feels funny to say "retro" when referring to a box from 2002, but that's really how it felt opening this box and pulling cards of players from that year. Aramis Ramirez was still on the Pirates!
I purchased this box on eBay for $37 shipped. The allure of pulling some really great low numbered inserts was too hard to resist for that price. The Fleer (Skybox) E-X brand always seems to be most popular with basketball collectors. Low numbered Michael Jordan cards from this brand always sell for big bucks. I decided to roll the dice and hope for something comparable in the baseball line.
I was guaranteed three game used cards out of this box. There aren't any autographed cards in the set. You can also pull a low numbered Essential Credentials Now or Essential Credentials Future card. The first hit I pulled was a Tom Glavine Essential Credentials Future numbered 015/110. The second hit I pulled was a Jose Video Hit & Run bat card. The third hit I pulled was a Behind The Numbers Ivan Rodriguez game worn jersey card. The fourth hit I pulled was a Essential Credentials Now Jason Giambi game used base card numbered 05/46. I also pulled two no-name nEXt Prospect cards numbered to 2499 and 2999 respectively.
The Glavine and Giambi cards would have been really nice hits back in 2002. I still have a feeling there are some player collectors out there that will pay some decent money for these cards. I think I'll mail both off to CheckOutMyCards.com and add them to my account.
All in all, this was a really fun break. The anticipation of pulling the low numbered inserts was great. I'd definitely buy another one of these for the same price to take another crack at some nice rare inserts.
Fun Retail Box Break From Target
It's been a very long time since I've posted. What compelled me to get back on the horse, you ask? It was a box of cards that I bought this morning at Target. Rarely is a retail purchase something to write about but this one inspired me.
Target has full retail boxes (24 packs/5 cards per pack) of 2008 Playoff Absolute Memorabilia Football for $24.99 each. That's right, this is a full box, not a blaster. As I was staring at the 2009 Topps Chrome Football blasters for $19.99 each, I just couldn't justify buying another with this Absolute Memorbilia box and its $24.99 price tag staring me in the face. The box claims to yield at least one jersey or autograph per box on average. Let's see how I did.
This was a really fun break, that's why I'm posting and recommending you go pick up a box. Overall, I got four jersey cards, 7 red spectrum parallels, 2 blue spectrum parallels, 1 Gridiron Force insert, 1 Star Gazing insert and the #101 Brett Favre card (short print?). Here are the jersey details:
Rookie Jersey Collection
Early Doucet
Matt Forte
Dustin Keller
Star Gazing Jersey /250
Limas Sweed
As you'll see from the scan below, I got Colt Brennan and Peyton Manning in the red spectum parallel cards. Could I get $24.99 for all this on eBay? Probably not. Could I squeeze $24.99 out of it on COMC? I bet I can.
All in all, this was a fun box to break and there's potential to get some really good cards. For just $5.00 more than a blaster box I think this is a great purchase. Target also has some new half price blasters on the shelf. I saw 2008 Goudey Baseball and 2008 Upper Deck Series 2 Baseball. There was probably some more stuff too that I didn't notice.
I'll be posting more frequently from here on out. I've got some good stuff coming in the mail soon to break, including a 2009 Bowman Chrome Football case. Check back soon for the results of that and some other breaks.
Marketing Your Items On eBay
I'm always curious to see what the new marketing and sales trends are on eBay. Sellers come up with all sorts of innovative ideas to sell items. eBay also does their share by improving functionality and offering great features like Buy It Now and Make An Offer.
One of the newer trends I've noticed in the trading cards area is the "You Choose" sales style. The seller will offer up a large list of cards, usually from the same set, and allows you to choose a pre-determined number of cards from the list. I've noticed these more and more as I've been working on my 2009 Topps Heritage SP set. The most common type of auction is for the seller to allow you to choose 10 SP cards from their list. Here is an example auction.
The great thing for the seller is that this style of auction tends to yield more money per card than selling them individually or even as a lot of 10. I've picked up SP singles for $1 and picked up a lot of 10 for just over $12. The auction that I linked to above is about to end and it's at just over $36. I've chosen not to go this route as a buyer as my cost per card would be more than I want to pay. But it got me thinking about the possibilities as a seller.
I posted yesterday about CheckOutMyCards.com. I think that's a great site to sell cards that that book for anything over $4 per card in Beckett. The reason I set the $4 minimum book value is because I'm figuring I can get at least $1 for it. It's really not cost effective to sell any cards for less than $1 because of the selling fees.
As we know, there are a lot of cards that book below $4 each. What do we do with all of those? Well, I figured since buyers are responding well to the "You Choose" format for cards from the same set, why not try auctions with cards from different sets?
I've had cards sorted by player and stored away for a while. I picked out all the cards with $4 and higher book value out of those boxes and sent them off to COMC some time ago. So, I started some player auctions today that list all of my cards from a certain player and allow the buyer to choose 10 cards from the list.
I started out with Derek Jeter, Ken Griffey Jr., Cal Ripken Jr. and Nolan Ryan. I set the Buy It Now price at $7.99 and the minimum bid at .99 cents. I'll keep you posted on the results. I put them up for a week so they'll end next Sunday. Hopefully the results will be good and I'll have a viable option for getting rid of a bunch of cards from my childhood that I'd rather not have in my closet. I'd then have more money to buy cards that I do want want to have in my closet.
I'm curious to see what any of you reading think of this format and whether you'd use the same idea. What about the Buy It Now price? Too high? Just right? Click here to view my Ripken auction.
CheckOutMyCards.com is worth a look
Earlier this week, Mario over at Wax Heaven posted about purchasing some cards for his Canseco collection from CheckOutMyCards.com. I joined the site about three months ago and have been meaning to post about it. Mario's post inspired me to do that.
I've purchased and sold cards on CheckOutMyCards.com. I actually started out selling cards on the site before I ever made a purchase. I'd been thinking about it for a while and initially tested it out by sending 10 vintage baseball star cards that weren't in great shape. I was quite pleased when they all sold within a week of being posted on the site. I set the prices a bit higher than what I could get on eBay and had no trouble getting it.
Since then, I have sent over 1,000 cards to be added to my account. I've sold 45% of those cards to date. I price my cards anywhere from 50% – 95% off of Beckett book value.
The beauty of CheckOutMyCards.com is the process of adding your cards to the site. You package up your cards and send them off. That's it. They scan the front and back of your card, look up the book values, add credit to your account when they sell and ship them out. It's so easy. They charge anywhere from 15 cents to 50 cents per card to add them to the site, depending how fast you want them added. Once your cards sell, you can use your credit to purchase other cards or cash out. You can request a check or a Paypal payment. They take 20% off your payout if you choose to cash out. When you consider eBay fees + Paypal fees + your time, this is not a bad deal.
The great part about this site is that you can sell cards that don't traditionally sell on eBay. True collectors seem to be a large part of the purchasers. I've noticed that I'll sell multiples of the same player to the same buyer or multiple cards from the same set. The best part is that there's no rush to sell your cards, they can just sit there until they sell.
I'm thrilled with the site so far and will continue to use it for selling and purchasing cards. In fact, I'm sending off another shipment of 150 cards tomorrow morning. I've also made a couple purchases in the past two weeks. I found some 2009 Topps Heritage SP singles that I needed and I got some 1960 Topps Pittsburgh Pirates cards for my autograph project.
Shameless plug: my cards on checkoutmycards.com
The site has a "make an offer" feature, just like eBay. Feel free to make me offers on any of my cards. The prices are low but can always go lower.


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Sunday, September 4, 2011
Fort Belle Fontaine Park. Saturday Sept. 3, 2011
My love for adventure and extreme fear of snakes collided today as I was walking around Fort Belle Fontaine Park. As soon as I saw the snake I immediately started sweating and instantly had to pee. In my moment of freaking out I remembered that the bag I was carrying had been laying on the ground not too long ago. So, in fear that a snake might have crawled into my bag I quickly removed the bag from my shoulder and dumped the contents onto the ground and waited a good five minutes before I put everything back. After my episode had passed and I was a good 10 yards from the scene I proceeded on with my day and hoped I wouldnt have to encounter another snake for a good long while.
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Why Hamilton Matters
The story of Hamilton's journey from concept to cultural phenomenon, as told by someone who has been in all of the room(s) where it happened. Even in Obama's White House.
A young man stands in the dark, waiting to take his shot. It is May 5, 2009, and Lin-Manuel Miranda is listening at the back of the East Room for his cue. The administration of the newly elected president, Barack Obama, has invited him to the White House to perform a song from In the Heights, his Tony Award–winning Broadway musical. The organizers figured he would be a bright addition to an evening of spoken word, poetry, and hip-hop — so bright, in fact, that they asked him to close the show.
Miranda has accepted the offer, but with a twist. He's nervous that night, standing in the dark, because he's about to perform a song that nobody has heard before, for the fanciest crowd he's ever faced. He can see the president and first lady in the front, silhouetted in the stage light, and the enormous portraits of George and Martha Washington peering at whatever's about to go down.
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Miranda tells the audience he's writing a hip-hop concept album about the life of Alexander Hamilton, which makes the audience laugh, because that's a ludicrous combination of words, and then he starts rapping, which makes them laugh even more, because it really is a funny notion — a young Nuyorican spitting verses about the nation's first Treasury secretary (in the East Room, no less, the chandeliers and gold drapes, George and Martha looking down) — but then Miranda raps faster, and with more conviction, and now nobody is laughing, because they see that he's not joking, that he's very serious, that this fusion of unlike parts is yielding something new and potent, something amazing, and when he's done they leap to their feet, cheering as one, the president leading the way.
Those highly implausible four minutes are a pretty good distillation of what has happened to Miranda's Hamilton idea ever since. The audience's cycle of laughing, then listening intently, then breaking into wild applause has been repeated many millions of times. Hamilton has become the hottest ticket on Broadway, which is just about the least interesting thing about it. Its actors have become celebrities. Its catchphrases have crept into common usage. Its cast album just went gold. Less than a year into its run on Broadway, it has become a once-in-a-generation cultural phenomenon. Questlove, one of the album's executive producers, cites Thriller as a point of comparison for the show's exceptionally broad appeal — a comparison, he acknowledges, that he would call hyperbolic if somebody else had made it.
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1.- Fugue in C# minor from Well Tempered Clavier Book 1.
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Jacqueline Mary du Pré (n. 26 ianuarie 1945, Oxford, Regatul Unit — d. 19 octombrie 1987, Londra, Regatul Unit) a fost o violoncelistă engleză, recunoscută ca una dintre cele mai mari interprete ale lumii la acest instrument.
Din pacate ..violoncelista s-a sfarsit inaintea omului, suferind de scleroza multipla !
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A fost sotia lui Daniel Barenboim.
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Reviews of books by Olga Nunez Miret, D. G. Kaye and Linda Swain Bethea at Sally's Cafe and Bookstore.
Welcome to Friday's edition of the Cafe and Bookstore and the first author with a recent review is Olga Nunez Miret for Escaping Psychiatry.
About Escaping Psychiatry
'Escaping Psychiatry' is a collection of three stories in the psychological thriller genre with the same protagonist, Mary, a psychiatrist and writer. She is trying to develop her literary career but circumstances and friends conspire to keep dragging her back to psychiatry.
In 'Cannon Fodder' Mary has to assess Cain, an African-American man accused of inciting a religious riot when he claimed that he could hear God and God was black. He might not be mad, but Mary is sure he's hiding something.
'Teamwork' sees Mary hoodwinked into offering therapy to Justin, a policeman feeling guilty after his partner and ersatz father was killed on-duty. Before Mary can extricate herself from the case, things get personal.
In 'Memory' Mary goes missing after an…
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Monday, June 25, 2007
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
Cher and Sean
A sweet moment together for the first time as husband and wife.
I know this doesn't seem like a fancy picture, but I really like it. It's totally impromtu and unaware of the camera. You can really see just how happy these two are together.
If I remember correctly, Cher had these made special (as a surprise) for Sean.
Friday, June 15, 2007
Emily and Chris
Friday, June 08, 2007
Taylor & Josh
Clark (my dear hubby) has been my faithful assistant and 'cheap help' now as long as I've been photographing weddings. So many times he'd tell me "I need a camera, I could be taking lots of pictures that your missing." Well, this year I put a camera of his own in his hand. : ) He actually took a camera class in school, but needed refreshing and refining abit. He's watches me and asks lots of questions. I try to teach him a little more with each wedding and he's really been doing a great job. It's really, really helpful to me because his primary job is to just take pictures from different angles and different directions from which I'm shooting. It's also great because the more he's learned, the more he's been able to go off with the groom and the guys to get shots of them that I've been unable to get (as I'm usually with the bride). It's also been great, because while I may be focusing my attention to one thing, he can be shooting what's going on around me that I can't see. Having said that, alot of the slideshows and images I've posted here this year has included images he's taken. Well, the remainder of Taylor and Josh's post is dedicated to him, the great job he's doing and the amazing help he's been to me. I really do appreciate him. All of the following images are images he has taken. The many faces of Josh as he waits anxiously for Taylor to meet him to take pictures.
Look at his expression now as he sees her for the first time. Their first time together.
Josh and Taylor chose to see one another before the ceremony so they could get the most important pictures taken first. It's really great when our couples choose to do this because it gives them time together alone, as well as, gives us good quality time to spend with them to get some great pictures. Taylor was a beautiful bride and Clark captured that well and of course, without any staging or intrusion. ; ) Josh was full of expression, especially when it came to Taylor.
Sweet times during the ceremony that Clark is able to snap while I'm in the back.
Love ya Babe!