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Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Sunday, March 28, 2010
Fields of Color
Today we went driving on Hwy 90A towards Gonzales in order to check on the bee yard out there. It's gorgeous along the way! If you haven't seen enough wildflowers, then you need to go out that way. I love how the blue and the red flowers are mixing in this area. Last time we were out that way (a couple of weeks), the Bluebonnets were not even around yet. This time, you can find many fields of blue. And yellow, purple, lavender, violet, white and so on. It's a great spring so far with the bright sunny days after a good dose of rain.
Saturday, March 27, 2010
The Mockingbirds are back!
Now I am sure spring is in full swing because the mockingbirds are back and they are likely to start prepping their nest in our Crepe Myrtle again out front. I love it when they come back each year. Most of the nest is still there but I'm sure we'll start seeing the pair of them rebuilding and stabilizing their nest for a new batch of eggs to come. I love spring!
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Red Wildflowers
The flowers are starting to really pop around here and I can't wait to see how they develop over the next month. The rainy winter should really be just what they need to shine this year. I love looking at all of them! I have not seen these red flowers in such quantity before this year. If you know what they are, please let us know. :-)
Friday, March 19, 2010
It's Spring!
Well, guess who's busy running around the yard being a nuisance? No, not Smokey. The squirrels!!! LOL. This guy has a weird sort of smile, in my opinion. After I snapped this, Mark threw a rock at him and actually hit him! That was sort of funny. Not to worry animal lovers, he was FINE. He just moved and resumed staring at us. Smokey was with us and was not amused whatsoever.
Hope you guys have a wonderful weekend. I hear tomorrow will be wet and chilly! Yay! A good day to snuggle on the couch with a book, knitting or your love. Enjoy!
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Redbud Beauty
Yes, I realize there's a theme going here but who can blame me when there's a million blooming beauties all around town now?? This redbud is right in our front yard but as you drive around town, you will see this along with other gorgeous blooms. Today I even saw my first batch of Bluebonnets along Interstate 10 on the way to San Antonio.
In this shot, the female bee is checking out our redbud and she already has pollen on her hind legs, which she'll take back to a hive. That hive isn't in our backyard so I wonder where she's from. The entire tree is abuzz with bee activity! We have another redbud in the backyard and that's full of bees also.
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Monday, March 15, 2010
More of Spring in Blooms
Another shot of spring for you this week. The peach tree in our backyard bloomed and we were very happy to see bees on the tree! In past years, the bees simply didn't do the job for our little tree, sadly. Maybe this will mean good peaches this year for us. :-) We don't have our hives in the yard anymore (moved to another bee yard), so I'm not sure where this little gal came from this day.
It's been really great weather lately with spring in full swing it seems. Flowers are everywhere and trees are putting out little leaves. I enjoyed our nice winter this year but I am also enjoying the spring. Tonight we are to have some rain and tomorrow will be in the upper 50s but after that...more sunshine! That's great for lifting spirits I think. We could all use a lot of that, right?! Hope you all have a great week.
Monday, March 08, 2010
Spring in Bloom
The past few days have been a bit on the dreary side but last weekend, we did enjoy an absolutely gorgeous day that beckoned us out. So, out we ventured to visit our bees, which was just awesome! And...NO stings! Yay! That makes like seven or eight straight visits without a sting so that is awesome to me. :-)
Isn't this beautiful? It's flowers on bok choy that is growing at My Father's Farm. Normally, they would not get to "flower" since they'd be harvested before that point. We are so lucky and so are our bees - the farmer let these go to flower so they'd have food! And boy, were they enjoying the bok choy. It was really fun to visit there.
Monday, March 01, 2010
Nice Napping Weather
Hi everyone. I hope you had a chance to enjoy the lovely weather of the weekend since we are now cloudy and cold again. What strange weather. This is Smokey's idea of how to work with a beautiful sunny day. He got tired of sitting at the door, hoping Mark would let him in to hang out in the bee house. The next time I looked out the kitchen window, he was napping. He's a riot. But not very bright at times as he chose a terrible spot for a snooze.
I haven't posted lately because I haven't had the heart. Last Friday, we had a big round of layoffs at work and it was very sad. I lost my entire team of trainers and I miss them so. Please send positive thoughts and prayers out to all the families affected by this round of layoffs. It wasn't our first there but it was a very significant one, especially for our IT department. If you are local, you've probably been hearing about the layoffs already. We are all still a bit stunned by all that occurred Friday. :-(
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New grant from the State Plan of R&D&i of Excellence. Our understanding of the causes and consequences of sexual conflict is hampered due to a lack of knowledge on a fundamental question: Does sexual conflict underlies the structure of socio-sexual networks and the ability of individuals to shape their social environment? This project will exploit the integration of experimental evolution protocols and evolutionary thinking with social network theory to address this question.
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Mating often bears large costs to females, especially in species with high levels of sexual conflict over mating rates. Given the direct costs to females associated with multiple mating, which include reductions in lifespan and lifetime reproductive success, past research focused on identifying potential indirect benefits (through increases in offspring fitness) that females may accrue. Far less attention has, however, been devoted to understanding how costs of sexual interactions to females may extend across generations. Hence, little is known about the transgenerational implications of variation in mating rates, or the net consequences of maternal sexual activities across generations. Using the seed beetle, Callosobruchus maculatus, a model system for the study of sexual conflict, we investigate the effects of mating with multiple males versus a single male, and tease apart effects due to sexual harassment and those due to mating per se, over three generations. A multigenerational analysis indicated that females that were exposed to ongoing sexual harassment and who also were permitted to mate with multiple males showed no difference in net fitness compared to females that mated just once without ongoing harassment. Intriguingly, however, females that were continually harassed, but permitted to mate just once, suffered a severe decline in net fitness compared to females that were singly (not harassed) or multiply mated (harassed, but potentially gaining benefits via mating with multiple males). Overall, the enhanced fitness in multiply mated compared to harassed females may indicate that multiple mating confers transgenerational benefits. These benefits may counteract, but do not exceed (i.e., we found no difference between singly and multiply mated females), the large transgenerational costs of harassment. Our study highlights the importance of examining transgenerational effects from an inclusive (looking at both indirect benefits but also costs) perspective, and the need to investigate transgenerational effects across several generations if we are to fully understand the consequences of sexual interactions, sexual conflict evolution, and the interplay of sexual conflict and multi-generational costs and benefits.
Sex ratio allocation has important fitness consequences, and theory predicts that parents should adjust offspring sex ratio in cases where the fitness returns of producing male and female offspring vary. The ability of fathers to bias offspring sex ratios has traditionally been dismissed given the expectation of an equal proportion of X- and Y-chromosome-bearing sperm (CBS) in ejaculates due to segregation of sex chromosomes at meiosis. This expectation has been recently refuted. Here we used Peromyscus leucopus to demonstrate that sex ratio is explained by an exclusive effect of the father, and suggest a likely mechanism by which male-driven sex-ratio bias is attained. We identified a male sperm morphological marker that is associated with the mechanism leading to sex ratio bias; differences among males in the sperm nucleus area (a proxy for the sex chromosome that the sperm contains) explain 22% variation in litter sex ratio. We further show the role played by the sperm nucleus area as a mediator in the relationship between individual genetic variation and sex-ratio bias. Fathers with high levels of genetic variation had ejaculates with a higher proportion of sperm with small nuclei area. This, in turn, led to siring a higher proportion of sons (25% increase in sons per 0.1 decrease in the inbreeding coefficient). Our results reveal a plausible mechanism underlying unexplored male-driven sex-ratio biases. We also discuss why this pattern of paternal bias can be adaptive. This research puts to rest the idea that father contribution to sex ratio variation should be disregarded in vertebrates, and will stimulate research on evolutionary constraints to sex ratios—for example, whether fathers and mothers have divergent, coinciding, or neutral sex allocation interests. Finally, these results offer a potential explanation for those intriguing cases in which there are sex ratio biases, such as in humans.
Understanding and forecasting the effects of environmental change on wild populations requires knowledge on a critical question: do populations have the ability to evolve in response to that change? However, our knowledge on how evolution works in wild conditions under different environmental cir- cumstances is extremely limited. We investigated how environmental variation influences the evolutionary potential of phenotypic traits. We used published data to collect or calculate 135 estimates of evolvability of morpho- logical traits of European wild bird populations. We characterized the environmental favourability of each population throughout the species' breed- ing distribution. Our results suggest that the evolutionary potential of morphological traits decreases as environmental favourability becomes high or low. Strong environmental selection pressures and high intra-specific competition may reduce species' evolutionary potential in low- and high- favourability areas, respectively. This suggests that species may be least able to adapt to new climate conditions at their range margins and at the centre. Our results underscore the need to consider the evolutionary potential of populations when studying the drivers of species distributions, particularly when predicting the effects of environmental change. We discuss the utility of integrating evolutionary dynamics into a biogeographical perspective to understand how environmental variation shapes evolutionary patterns. This approach would also produce more reliable predictions about the effect of environmental change on population persistence and therefore on biodiversity.


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Fall 2018
August 29, 2018: Dr. Alex Hall, UCLA. Projections of climate change in California's Sierra Nevada (read Abstract and Bio). Host: Asmeret Berhe.
September 5, 2018: Dr. Leopoldo Mendoza-Espinosa, UABC-Ensenada. Achieving reclaimed water reuse in a drought-prone city in northern Mexico (read Abstract and Bio). Host: Josue Medellín-Azuara.
September 12, 2018: UC Merced Postdoc Showcase: Dr. Bennett Widyolar, Dr. Lauren Schiebehut and Dr. Fernanda Santos (read Abstract and Bio). Host: ES Lead Group.
September 19, 2018: Dr. Richard Luthy, Stanford. Sustainable Urban Water Supply for Semi-arid Cities (read Abstract and Bio). Host: Tom Harmon.
September 26, 2018: Dr. Maya Almaraz. Nitrogen and sustainable food systems (read Abstract and Bio). Host: Rebecca Ryals.
October 3, 2018: No seminar.
October 10, 2018: Dr. Natasha Stavros. Host: Erin Hestir.
October 17, 2018: Dr. Akula Venkatram. Methane emissions from California agriculture. Host: Mark Matsumoto.
October 24, 2018: Dr. Sarah Kurtz. Innovations in solar research. Host: ES Lead Group.
October 31, 2018: Dr. Aric Mine. The role of microbes in Earth's biogeochemical cycles. Host: Sora Kim.
November 7, 2018: Dr. LeRoy Westerling. Wildfire in California. Host: ES Lead Group.
November 14, 2018: Dr. Van Butsic. Environmental impacts of illegal cannabis. Host: Sam Traina.
November 21, 2018: No seminar.
November 28, 2018: Dr. Nigel Quinn. Cyberinfrastructure for real-time water quality decision support in the San Joaquin River Basin.
Spring 2018
The seminar organizer during this semester was Josué Medellín-Azuara (email@example.com).
January 24: Kevin Simonin (SFSU) Genome downsizing drove physiological novelty and the rise of the flowering plants (Host: Stephen Hart)
January 31: Jeremy Wimpey (Applied Trails Research) Outdoor recreation management on Public Lands, balancing resource protection with recreation access (Host: Jeffrey Jenkins)
February 7: Susan Harrison (UC Davis) Winter Drought and Community Change in Californian Grasslands (Host: Jason Sexton)
February 14: Park Williams (Columbia University) The impact of human-caused warming on drought and forest fire in the western US (Host: Leroy Westerling)
February 21: Arnold Dekker (Australian National University) Design Considerations for An Aquatic Ecosystem Earth Observing System (Host: Erin Hestir)
February 28: Barbara Cade-Menun (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada) Phosphorus Forms and Cycling in Soils and Other Environmental Samples (Host: Student Nomination/Stephen Hart)
March 7: Erin Hestir (UC Merced) Remote Sensing for Aquatic Ecosystem Sustainability (Host: ES Seminar Lead Group)
March 14: Jennifer Martiny (UC Irvine) The role of microbial communities in mediating ecosystem to environmental change (Host: Student Nomination/Mike Dawson)
March 21: Mark Rains (USF) Connecting the Dots: Hydrological Connectivity between Vernal Pools and Downgradient Waters (Host: Joshua Viers) – NOTICE: Held in Student Services Building (SSB) 170
March 28: No Seminar (Spring Break)
April 4: Jeffrey Mount (Public Policy Institute of California) Consequences of Groundwater Sustainability in California (Host: Joshua Viers) – NOTICE: Held in Student Services Building (SSB) 170
April 11: Nicola Ulibarri (UC Irvine) Collaborative Governance and Modeling for Managing Water Infrastructure (Host: Marc Beutel)
April 18: David Sandino (CA Department of Water Resources) Understanding the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta: Ecosystem and Water Supply. (Host Marc Beutel)
April 25: John Harte (UC Berkeley) Predicting the Fate of Ecosystems in the Anthropocene (Host: Asmeret Berhe)
May 2: Kurt Schwabe (UC Irvine) (Host: Roger Bales)
Fall 2017
The ES/ESS Seminar Series occurs weekly each semester during the academic year. Unless otherwise noted, all talks are from 12:30 to 2:00 pm in SSB 120. For questions about the seminar series, please contact Josué Medellín-Azuara (firstname.lastname@example.com).
September 6: Katie Ferris (UC Davis) Of Mice and Mimulus: the genetic and phenotypic basis of adaptation to harsh environments (Host: Jay Sexton)
September 13: Fernanda Santos (UC Merced) Impacts of fire on soils and rivers (Host Asmeret Berhe); Dannise Ruiz-Ramos, and Lauren Schiebelhut (UC Merced) Tracking a mass mortality event along the California coast: tracing the genetic consequences of sea star wasting disease. (Host: Michael Dawson).
September 20: William Cooper (UC Irvine) Recent studies of NOM excited states in the photochemical (sunlight) fate of organic compounds and application in the design and optimization of constructed wetlands (Host: Thomas Harmon).
September 27: Ate Visser (Lawrence Livermore National Lab) Tracking Water through the Critical Zone using Isotopic Tracers (Host: Martha Conklin)
October 4: Alvar Escriva-Bou (Public Policy Institute California) Policy Priorities for California's Water Management (Host: Josué Medellín).
October 11: Benjamin Sullivan (University of Nevada, Reno) Biogeochemistry of Tropical Forests (Host: Steve Hart)
October 18: John Battles (UC Berkeley) Consequences of 100+ million dead trees: Has the Sierran conifer forest reached a tipping point? (Host: Emily Moran)
October 25: Shazeen Attari (Indiana University) Misperceptions of water use and water systems (Host: Jessica Blois)
November 1: Neslihan Taş (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab) Deep look into deep permafrost: Impact of warming on microbial functions. (Host: Teamraat Ghezzahei)
November 8: Anne Hansen (Instituto Mexicano de Tecnología del Agua) Development of strategies to evaluate methods of controlling eutrophication in water bodies (Host: Marc Beutel)
November 15: Fernando Rosario-Ortiz (University of Colorado Boulder) Assessing the Impact of Wildfires on Water Quality (Host: Asmeret Asefaw Berhe)
November 22: No seminar (Thanksgiving break)
November 29: Mark Marvin-DiPasquale (USGS) Mercury Cycling in a West Coast Watershed: Historic and Contemporary Tales from the San Francisco Bay-Delta (Host: Student nomination/Peggy O'Day)
Spring 2017
January 25: Mengqiang (Mike) Zhu (University of Wyoming) Phosphorus Biogeochemical Transformation and Effects of Aeolian Dust Deposition during Long-term Soil Development in Semi-arid Ecosystems (Host: Stephen Hart)
February 1: Benjamin Sullivan (University of Nevada, Reno) Biogeochemistry of Tropical Forests (Host: Stephen Hart)
February 8: Jeremy Wimpey (Penn State University and Applied Trails Research) Outdoor recreation management on Public Lands, balancing resource protection with recreation access (Host: Jeffrey Jenkins).
February 15: Binayak Mohanty (Texas A&M) Soil Moisture Remote Sensing Across Space and Time – Scale Up and Scale Down (Host: Teamrat Ghezzehei)
February 22: Steven Sadro (UC Davis) Title: Exploring the climate sensitivity of Sierra Nevada lakes and the consequences of warming for ecosystem function (Host: Marc Beutel).
March 1: Jon Keeley (U.S. Geological Survey) Different future fire regimes in climate-limited vs. ignition-limited ecosystems (Host: Emily Moran)
March 8: Javier Ceja-Navarro (Lawrence Berkeley Lab) Arthropod-Microbiome Interactions and their Role in the Host's Success to Environmental Adaptation (Host: LeRoy Westerling)
March 15: Hoori Ajami (UC Riverside) Towards Improved Hydrologic Prediction using Integrated Land Surface-Groundwater Models (Host: UC Water)
March 22: Joe Wagenbrenner (U.S. Forest Service) Watershed impacts of wildfire and post-fire management (Host: Roger Bales)
April 5: Gara Villalba (UC Merced) Simulation of Carbonyl Sulfide (COS) to better understand the urban biosphere signal (Host: Elliott Campbell)
April 12: Scott Anderson (Northern Arizona University) Vegetation transitions along coastal California, from the last glaciation to the Euro-American period (Host: Stephen Hart)
April 19: Seema Sheth (UC Berkeley) Title TBD (Host: Jason Sexton)
April 26: Kurt Schwabe (UC Riverside) Title TBD (Host: UC Water)
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Spring 2016
Fall 2015
- August 26: Introduction; Environmental Systems Faculty Research Summaries, Part 1
- September 2: Environmental Systems Faculty Research Summaries, Part 2
- September 9: Dr. Susan Mazer (UC Santa Barbara) Plant Adaptation - Host: Jay Sexton The evolution of mating system, life history, and physiological performance in annual wildflowers: genetic correlations and the evolution of risky mating behavior in a changing climate.
- September 16: Dr. Mike Beman (UC Merced) Aquatic Microbial Ecology 'Oceans of Ocean Data'
- September 23: Dr. Sarah Bisbing (California Polytechic State University) Forest Ecology and Genetics - Host: Steve Hart Shaping a species: landscape influence on range-wide patterns of genetic structure
- September 30: Dr. Calla Schmidt (University of San Francisco) Hydrology, N-cycling, Groundwater - Host: Nate Bogie Isotopes to the rescue: understanding nitrogen cycling in surface water and groundwater
- October 7: Dr. Robert Graham (UC Riverside) Soil Weathering and Origins - Host: Roger Bales A soil climosequence in the White Mountains, eastern California
- October 14: Dr. William Walton (UC Riverside) Wetlands and Mosquito Biology - Host: Andrea Joyce Do Top-Down Effects Bottom-Out in Constructed Wetlands?
- October 21: Dr. Michael Dettinger (UC San Diego/US Geological Survey) Hydroclimatology - Host: Leroy Westerling Large Storms, Drought, and the Sierra Nevada Environment
- October 28: Emilio Camacho (CA Energy Commission) - Host: Robyn Lukens Climate, Energy, Innovation and the Future of California
- November 4: Dr. Susan Hubbard (Director of Earth Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab) Geophysics - Host: Teamrat Ghezzehei Identification and quantification of ecosystem functional zones using geophysical methods.
- November 11: Veterans Day – no seminar
- November 18: Dr. Carolin Frank (UC Merced) Endosymbiotic Bacteria From cells to ecosystems: above ground bacterial endophytes in conifers
- November 25: Day before Thanksgiving – no seminar
- December 2: Dr. Andrew Latimer (UC Davis) Plant Ecology and Evolution - Host: Erin Babich "Responses of plant populations to climate gradients in Mediteranean-climate regions"
- December 9: Dr. Alex Sessions (California Institute of Technology) Stable Isotopes - Host: Marilyn Fogel Isotope 'clumps' help unravel the sources of arctic methane
Spring 2015
- January 21: UC Merced Faculty Seminars
- January 28: UC Merced Faculty Seminars: Dr. Jason Sexton, Dr. Emily Moran, Dr. Mike Behman, Dr. Jessicca Blois
- February 4: Dr. Stephen Kaffka (UC Davis) Bio-Energy in California, with an emphasis on Ag-derived bio-mass
- February 11 : Rebecca Milczarek, PhD (USDA) Microwave Research in Food Processing: Commodities, Co-Products, and Consumer Products
February 18: Sarah Brown, PhD. (UC Merced) Reconstructing the evolutionary history of the domestic dog: From village dogs to ancient DNA - Faculty Host: Jessica Blois
February 25: Frank Davis (UC Santa Barbara) Changing windows of opportunity for tree seedling establishment under 21st Century climate change - Faculty Host: Emily Moran
March 4: Steve Shackleton (UC Merced Parks and Protected Area Management) - Parks and universities: A global community of practice for a flourishing and peaceful planet Faculty Host: Roland Winston
March 11: Dr. Michael Isaacson (UC Santa Cruz) The US-Denmark Program on Renewable Energy: In Practice - Faculty Host: Roland Winston
March 18: Steve Horne, Consultant - Concentrating Photovoltaics Faculty Host: Roland Winston
March 25: SPRING BREAK
- April 1: David Sandino (CA. Dept. of Water Resources) Understanding California's Sustainable Groundwater Management Act of 2014: Will It Keep the Well from Running Dry? Faculty Host: Jessica Blois
- April 8: Joe Hereford, PhD (UC Davis) Climatic adaptation among California populations of the C3-C4 intermediate Mollugo verticillata. Faculty Host: Jason Sexton
- April 15: Heather Poiry, Kim McFarlane, P.E., Helen Tan (Gallo) Water Reduction Efforts at E. & J. Gallo Winery - Faculty Host: Roland Winston
- April 22: Jacob Fleck, (US Geological Survey) Mercury in California: A look at the past and hope for the future
Faculty Host: Peggy O'Day
- April 29: Caroline Masiello, Ph.D. (Rice University) Biochar, water, and microbes: Tracking the mechanisms behind biochar's environmental effects - Faculty Host: Asmeret Asefaw Berhe
- May 6: Adam Moule (UC Davis) Probing the morphology of bulk heterojunction films using electron microscopy Faculty Host: Roland Winston


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The West Potomac prom was delayed last Saturday night because of a bomb threat. According to Arlington County police, the Hilton Hotel received a call indicating that there was a bomb in the hotel at around 9 p.m. on Saturday, May 31, just as the prom was set to begin.
The hotel, which is located at 2299 Jefferson Davis Highway in Crystal City, was evacuated by Arlington County police and a canine unit from the Federal Protective Police searched the premises. After a thorough search, when nothing was found, police allowed guests and prom guests back into the building and the prom began. The prom was extended to 2 a.m. instead of 1 a.m. because of the delay.
"I think the Hilton handled the matter just fine, said Henry Johnson, West Potomac's principal. "They evacuated the entire building and brought in the dogs. We were outside approximately 30-45 minutes. Fortunately, it was at the beginning of our prom so not many students were affected."
Johnson added, "We were not told anything about the bomb scare, so I don't know who it came from. There were so many people in the hotel that it is hard to determine who may have called it in.
"The prom was very nice and the students had a great time, despite this little setback."


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A team at the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center found high levels of a protein, which affects the body's processing of fat.
They believe its presence in breast milk could influence a person's "fatness" later in life.
The findings were presented at the annual meeting of the Paediatric Academic Societies in San Francisco.
Researchers say this is the first step in understanding the relationship between breast milk and metabolism.
Dr Lisa Martin and colleagues found high levels of the protein adiponectin.
Fat regulation
Adiponectin is secreted by fat cells and affects how the body processes sugars and fatty substances in the blood.
Low levels of this protein have been linked to obesity, type 2 diabetes, insulin resistance and coronary artery disease.
However high levels of adiponectin have been linked to lower rates of disease.
Dr Martin said: "Exposures early in life, during the period of extreme growth and development, may have an impact on adult disease."
They also discovered the presence of another protein in breast milk, called leptin, which also helps to regulate body fat.
However the levels of adiponectin were more significant than leptin.
But Dr Martin added it is still yet to be seen whether adiponectin has any 'biological significance'.
Not surprising
Dr Ian Campbell, Chair of the National Obesity Forum told BBC News Online: "We know there is a clear link between breast feeding and a reduced risk of obesity, but we are not sure why."
He said the risk appears to be lowered further the longer a child is breast-fed.
"There is an accumulative effect, the longer they are breast-fed the better it is.
Dr Campbell added that breast feeding also enhances immunity.
Rosemary Dodds, policy research officer for the National Childbirth Trust, told BBC News Online: "This study is interesting because it looks at the mechanism behind why breast-feeding may reduce the risk of obesity."
She said although the Trust is keen to promote breast-feeding, the decision is a very personal one.
"We support women to make a decision that's best for them" she said.


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Feminism is a range of movements and ideologies that share a common goal: to define, establish, and achieve equal political, economic, cultural, personal, and social rights for women. This includes seeking to establish equal opportunities for women in education and employment.
In this day and age Feminism is a dirty word, a funny episode in a TV series (Remember when Howard went topless in the SU in Fresh Meat) and something to be ignored. In my everyday life co-workers and friends light heartedly mock me for my left wing, feminist ways but surely everyone should be a feminist?
If you put "feminist" into google this is what comes up:
"the advocacy of women's rights on the grounds of political, social, and economic equality to men"
Equality is the most important part of that message for me. I feel like in recent years things have gone backwards or I've started noticing it more perhaps. Breastfeeding has become a major issue in recent years with mothers being either shamed for not doing it or hidden away in the corner of a public place covered by a table cloth. Then theres nudity. Nipples are still censored on social media channels, yet a topless picture of a man isn't.
Women are sexualised to the point where are bodies are no longer our own. There have been times recently where because I know I am a slim, healthy person I've chosen not to wear a particular item of clothing in case it was considered too sexy or inappropriate. Page 3 both ended and then sadly returned.
Then theres career prospects. I have only ever worked for Male Management/bosses. Men are still paid more than women. Children are considered a luxury in many jobs. Women are still asked how they "juggle" a career and children. I've never heard this question asked of a man.
In parliament you will struggle to see a split of male and female MPs which reflects the population, 51% of the UK being female. The main political leaders who are female are ignored, sidelined and criticised for being too aggressive when they act no differently from the men.
Not so long ago a woman was describing a man she knew, telling me that he had been the "man of the house" since he was fourteen. The whole concept of "man of the house" is so dated now I was blown away. The term itself refers to a time where women couldn't vote, own property or work. I do all those things. Although I have a live in boyfriend, we are equal (if anything I own the house, so no male superiority there). Another friend recently kept referring to her "blonde moments" which I had to smile, swallow down and ignore. Not only are we victims but we self perpetuate gender stereotypes too.
None of the issues here are okay. We shouldn't celebrate equality or diversity, it should come as standard. Im not 100% sure of what this post is meant to achieve but I think more people need to be open about standing up for equal rights and making sure that feminism is no longer a dirty word with negative connotations. I am a twenty six year old woman, who occasionally shaves her legs, most of the time I don't, wears make up, wears a bra, likes dresses and skirts and
who demands to be paid the same as her male counter parts, votes, owns property and doesn't need a "man of the house".
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"They examined her and said, You just had a baby.' She said, No I didn't.' They said, Yes you did,"' Monteiro said.
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Rated G
Copyright 1964 Toho Company Ltd.
Reviewed by
Andrew Borntreger
on 9 October 2007
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A huge meteorite lands in the mountains and mystifies scientists with its erratic magnetic properties. Meanwhile, the princess of a small nation is mysteriously spared death when her plane explodes in mid-air. When the dazed girl pops back into the story, she is suffering from amnesia and believes that she is a Martian. She also predicts that Godzilla and Rodan will begin to cause destruction once again, but the real problem is a monster from outer space called Ghidorah. Eventually, the meteorite swells up (they don't often do that) and cracks open, releasing Ghidorah. Somewhere else in Japan, Godzilla and Rodan appear and begin quarreling. Mothra intervenes in the spat and begs the other two Earth monsters to help it defend mankind from the three-headed space monster. It takes some fast talking by the huge caterpillar, but the others eventually agree and the fight is on.
You know, the last time we saw Mothra, there were two huge larva. Did one die or did the larger of the two eat its sibling?
Watching this, it becomes obvious Toho was experimenting with the mechanics of kaiju fighting. Rodan pecks Godzilla on the head a lot, while Mothra climbs aboard the giant pteradon to act like some sort of web-shooting powerup during the final battle with Ghidora, but the scaled destruction looks great. The new monster, Ghidorah, is one of my favorites. Imagine a three-headed, electricity-spewing Pit Bull with wings. Got it? Good, now inject the crazy thing with amphetamines and set it loose on Tokyo.
Homeowners insurance in Japan must be either very expensive or filled with bizarre "limited liability" clauses.
Things I Learned From This Movie:
NEOs can be detrimental to hydroelectric power facilities.
Some societies waited until the 20th Century to discover Elizabethan fashion.
That which does not kill us cures amnesia.
Godzilla invented soccer.
Stuff To Watch For:
15 mins - Elephantiasis of the meteorite!
42 mins - A vacant-eyed girl listlessly reading incomprehensible poetry while sitting in a fireplace. That is so 1960's.
51 mins - The politicians should be happy that it is not an election year.
75 mins - He has a rifle equipped with a scope; you have a pistol. Time to start running.
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Reply #1.
Posted on October 12, 2007, 10:32:39 AM by
In Re the second mothra - in the recently released Japanese language version the Fairies say that one of the young mothra's has died - it's not specified from what - perhaps injuries suffered at the hands of Godzilla or just special effects budgets.
God I am such a geek.
Ghidrah: The Three-Headed Monster (Capsule Review)
Reply #2.
Posted on October 13, 2007, 01:40:39 AM by
nice review. the question about the second larva is one that has puzzled fans for years. one does take a pretty good beating in the previous movie.
however, the "real" reason is that they needed two for GODZILLA VS THE THING, and only one for this movie. since all the original Godzilla movies don't have a strict continuity, most of the time they didn't bother with such things in the script. the screenwriters never figured that obsessed fans would think about such things!
great movie though!
Re: Ghidorah: The Three-Headed Monster (Capsule Review)
Reply #3.
Posted on October 14, 2007, 01:03:08 AM by
Good review did the film justice. But I dislike the little stab at the pit bulls. They get enough bad rep as is.
Re: Ghidorah: The Three-Headed Monster (Capsule Review)
Reply #4.
Posted on November 24, 2007, 08:03:56 PM by
Quote from: daveblackeye15 on October 14, 2007, 01:03:08 AM
Good review did the film justice. But I dislike the little stab at the pit bulls. They get enough bad rep as is.
Unfortunately, the Pit Bull breed itself has been damaged by the image fostered of them as aggressive dogs. People have been breeding Pit Bulls for aggressiveness and that poisons the breed as a whole. There is a reason that descriptions of traits desirable in a breed include temperament. Unless the process is halted and reversed, Pit Bulls might become a breed that should disappear.
Re: Ghidorah: The Three-Headed Monster (Capsule Review)
Reply #5.
Posted on May 18, 2008, 03:49:26 PM by George
Well well,here it is,billed as the 1964,(in Japan,it wasn't released here until the following year),blockbuster Monster of all Monster movies,Ghidrah-The 3 Headed Monster!.
Yep three heads alright,so he, they,whatever could go head to head to head with the already established 3 Toho biggies Rodan,Mothra,and I say (The alleged King of the Monsters),Godzilla,the reason I say that is he's never fought Gamera yet,but that's a different story for another time.
Anyway,a meteor crashes to Earth and at the same our old friend from the Dogara movie,Yosuke Natsuki,is still on the job and assigned to protect the love Saleina Soulna,Akiko Wakabayshi,who just happened to be killed by her gangster boss on the afore mentioned Dogara. From a band of killers that want to take over her small country in Himalayas.
While on the way she (our princess,who just happens to look like the Rhoda Morgensterinson of Japan),looks out the window and has a ufo encounter,they tramsforum her into a Martian who predicts the comming doom in the form of The 3 Headed menace.
By now our killers know it's really her so send there top assassin to get her with alittle help from the Japanese Mob,one of whom just happens to be,Susumu Kurobe,(no not our Hayatta!!,please in the name of Ultraman,say it ain't so!).
If things couldn't get they do,first Rodan appears at the crater of MT.Aceoff,then despite our Martian girls warning not to go on this Carnival Cruse,they do anyway and our set on fire by Godzilla!.
Earlier in our movie we had to sit through the What are doing now show,featuring those two tiny fairies explaining to the children that one of the old gray geese died,I mean one of the Mothras who fought Godzilla earlier this year died,oh that Mothra song again!?,at least it was only once in this show,thank God,this time an off screen beauty queen told what it meant,way far away on the other side of the dark green sea,and please send it there to it's watery grave,for good!.
Shindo sister,Youriko Hoshi,who's still a reporter,meets the Martina and the Fairies,the same time the killers do,fortunately Shindos there too and so they take for the doctors office,run by none other than the original discoverer of Godzilla,Takashi Shimura!.
While all this is happening the meteorite breaks open and out comes Ghidrah!,and believe he,they,whatever aren't here to spread a little sunshine our way!.
The monster goes for Tokyo and make a shambles of the city.
The Military and government make a desperate appeal for help from the fairies to send Mothra to try to convince Godzilla and Rodan to help "Save The Earth",anyone remember that song from aips last monster movie Godzillla vs. The Smog Monster?.
It seems they are all destine to meet in the mountainous area,Monsters,Killers.Our Hero,The Princess,and so they do!.
The fight between the 4 monsters was fair,but before then Godzilla and Rodan played alittle volleyball,Mothra finally convinces them to join him to stop Ghidrah,they don't kill him,he they,well you know,have had enough and just leave planet Earth.
Oh you just know he'll be back again someday,as for Shindo and the Princess,things looked pertty bad,high powered rifle vs. small handgun,until a rather embarrassing moment during the monster fight caused more falling rocks to fall the killers direction,oh and I forgot to mention the princess regained her memory after taking a plunge off the ledge,since it was trees and rocks all the way down,I'm giving her a perfect score of 10!.
All in all one of the early classics in the Godzilla Toho entry,with the promise of more Ghidrah movies to come.
Re: Ghidorah: The Three-Headed Monster (Capsule Review)
Reply #6.
Posted on December 21, 2010, 01:24:12 PM by George
It appears that Sony got Ghidrah-The 3 Headed Monster right,all the way through!.
Ghidrah is the complete version we all saw way back when TV was worth watching.
A rarity for Sony to have a complete version of anything,and after all these years of international versions,like Godzilla against the Sea Monster and Godzilla and Son,and lee us not forget the ruined Godzilla vs. The Smog Monster,all they had to do was put the girl singing the Save The Earth song in English on there about 3 times I believe,and Sony couldn't even do that!,and no matter what else,despite Sony finally getting an AIP version of Godzilla vs. The Thing,they seemed predestine to have at least one scene,even though this time it's just a little one,missing from the movie.
Re: Ghidorah: The Three-Headed Monster (Capsule Review)
Reply #7.
Posted on January 02, 2011, 09:05:35 PM by
Umaril The Unfeathered
Quote from: Andrew on October 09, 2007, 06:00:35 PM
Mothra asks Godzilla and Rodan to please, please help it stop the new monster from outer space, before Ghidorah destroys mankind.
Click here to go to the Review
You make a great point about Toho experimenting with monster fighting, Andrew.
Look at the films that came afterward, but in that same general time:
Frankenstein Conquers The World
was a very physical film that saw Koji Furuhata (Frankenstein) taking his lumps and bumps as he was mauled by the master himself, Haruo Nakajima (Baragon.)
War Of The Gargantuas
also had some nasty fighting in it.
It could be said these films were the pilot films for the physical skills Toho was honing in their suit actors, as well as the skills of the puppeteers who were using wire FX in some scenes.
These crafts paid off very well, and were the pinnacle of Toho's mastery in
Destroy All Monsters.
It was rumored that there were over 11 puppeteers behind the scenes at all times in the movie, and not once did they cross their wires at all. Now that's some skill!
As well, Gorosaurus' kick to Ghidorah's back was a georgeous scene.
For their time, (and their budgets) Toho made some very good movies, and from optical FX to suit acting, and miniatures, they were the masters. Their likes shall not be seen again.
Re: Ghidorah: The Three-Headed Monster (Capsule Review)
Reply #8.
Posted on January 03, 2011, 05:45:07 PM by
Umaril The Unfeathered
Quote from: daveblackeye15 on October 14, 2007, 01:03:08 AM
Good review did the film justice. But I dislike the little stab at the pit bulls. They get enough bad rep as is.
Quote from: Andrew on November 24, 2007, 08:03:56 PM
Unfortunately, the Pit Bull breed itself has been damaged by the image fostered of them as aggressive dogs. People have been breeding Pit Bulls for aggressiveness and that poisons the breed as a whole. There is a reason that descriptions of traits desirable in a breed include temperament. Unless the process is halted and reversed, Pit Bulls might become a breed that should disappear.
Not to mention what Michael Vick did to the poor things
Temperament is just as influenced by the owners' treatment of the animal, as the genetics of the breed.
There's an old saying that you can "make a pet of a wild animal,
or make a wild animal of a pet.
" This is a saying that has a lot of weight, as treatment of the animal also detrmines it's overall temperament.
Another thing to watch for is "food aggressiveness." If a dog attacks you while you approach it during mealtime, that's also a very undesirable trait. Of the many things that are to be considered before purchasing a dog, temperament is the most important.
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Today is the first day in the last month that I've actually had time to sit down and write. And initially, I actually found it really difficult, which I was quite surprised about. It wasn't as though I had nothing that I wanted to say- as always, much has been occurring- or as though there wasn't a general theme that I wanted to run with. It was just...severe writer's block.
So, I did what any sensible person does when their brain is failing to engage: I went to the gym (happy happy happy place). And whilst in the gym, I had the REVELATION that.....: I had too much that I wanted to say; too many themes that I wanted to go with. I needed to split things up.
And so, welcome to part 1/2 of this month's blog (why am I only writing once a month at the moment, seriously it PAINS me that I can't update this more). I am planning on writing more frequently again. This is the current plan of life. Whether or not I am able to...who knows (but I will discuss this later on).
ANYWAY. Now that I've finished that awfully rambling terrible intro (getting the writey-ness flowing and stuff), let's kick off with all the things that have been going on this month.
You know how in January, everyone makes resolutions, and pretends they're reborn, and life is going to be amazing and whatever, just because it's a new year? New Year for me is not January. New Year for me, is September. New academic year. Best time of the year. So, my theme for this New Year is....(drum roll please) getting out of my comfort zone. I'd lost direction. Totally. One hundred percent. Of course I'd lost direction- my end goal had been blown out of the water. But still, I'd said I was going to do all of these things, and...I wasn't. I was pretty much stuck in a rut. Which- when I saw my tutor over the Summer- was exactly what he said to avoid. So- no time like the present- here's what I did:
Get Out Of Your Comfort Zone Number 1: Return To Education- In A Totally Different Field
So, as I had mentioned, I have gone back to college. College life for me. And it's wonderful. It's really, really fun. I think I'm finding it so fun because I'm actually doing something that I enjoy; this sounds incredibly stupid and obvious but- for me- I don't think I've ever had that experience before. I've always enjoyed learning (if I'm going off point at all here it's because I've got an NNB in my ear- "I hope you're saying nice things about me"- and I am a notoriously bad bad bad multi-tasker), but I wouldn't say that I ever really actively chose anything I studied; it was a passive process. I was pushed.
Course is fitness instructing and personal training (have I mentioned this? Pretty sure I did. Just repeating myself now. Bloody boy, throwing me off track). And it's great. My time is spent in the gym. My lessons are gym. And lessons that aren't gym are anatomy and physiology (which is basically MEDICINE kind of sort of totally not really, but I can pretend), which I find really cool. I get to lift weights. Which is something I never thought I would do. And- even crazier- I'm actually alright at it, which- to look at me- you wouldn't believe. (Even better, 90% of the people on the course hate cardio, so I am Queen Top Cardio Running Goddess which is always my favourite role in life).
Get Out Of Your Comfort Zone Number 2: Take Away Your Safety Blanket (...Cigarette)
Something else happened in September. Something quite significant that I had been saying I was going to do for a while, but never really meant it until it actually happened. I stopped smoking.
I had wanted to stop. I knew I needed to stop. My occasional cheeky cigarette had climbed to the level of "you're a smoker now Bones, stop pretending" and- the big thing for me- I'd got a cough that I just couldn't quite shift. I knew that I needed to stop before next years marathon, but still none of that seemed to be quite enough motivation for me.
Until we had a thing at work where we all decided to quit smoking. Whoever caved in first had to pay the others £25 each and buy them a bottle of wine. Well, I do like a cheeky competition!
It was harder than I thought it was going to be, in all honesty. I do have a fake non-cigarette (which I need- God, I NEED my fake non-cigarette) so I technically still have nicotine. But I don't smoke. And I have no desire to smoke now. The thought makes me feel quite nauseous. Funnily enough, my cough has disappeared. I can run faster. I feel a lot better. And I have been cigarette-free for 23 days. So it's pretty shocking how quickly you can improve.
Get Out Of Your Comfort Zone Number 3: Be A Really Really Really Ill Mess In Front Of Your NNB
Yeah...so... funny thing. Either it was totally coincidental, or a consequence of quitting smoking is that you end up throwing up constantly for like 36 hours. It was really fun (Not fun. Not fun at all. Test of relationship- how do you deal when I am a vomiting mess?) Not the best look for me. NNB was very good Piglet sorter-outer though. Piglet found the whole thing very confusing. Don't really want to relive this one anymore. So moving swiftly on to:
Get Out Of Your Comfort Zone Number 4: Go Pole Dancing
Amazing. So much fun. Seriously, everyone go pole dancing. Unfortunately, I've literally only had time to go to one class so far (more on this in next post) but seriously, so so so good. Really enjoyed it.
Get Out Of Your Comfort Zone Number 5: Get Back On The Trains
Piglet and I went to a wedding at the end of the month, which involved us being solo (as team Mummy Piglet combo) on trains for quite a while.
Journey down was- as always- bearable. The start was actually really fun. I'd missed it, to be perfectly honest. I'd missed it being the two of us, going off on our own, on stupidly long journeys, and being able to be spontaneous... Return journey was- as always- awful.
Return journey, I was actually asked by a policeman if I had support at home. Please bear in mind, that I had been awake since 5am (after going to bed at 2am following work); had to travel halfway across the country with an 18 month old child, and he was entering a situation where she was crying because she did not want to be in the pushchair but was overtired and needed to sleep (this was at 10pm). Apparently, my lack of removing her from the pushchair and instead telling her she needed to sleep was not appropriate parenting in his book.
Policeman looked like he was about 12. Policeman was also a "he". Policeman got my back right up. Took much restraint to be polite to policeman. Much much much restraint.
Nice man at York station who gave me my coffee for free, however ("Seriously, you don't need to pay for the coffee- you look like you could do with it")- he was top top top man.
(Wedding was really beautiful btw. Never wanted to get married before in my life but now I'm basically a half-bridezilla without anyone to marry.)
Of course, normal wonderful perfect Piglet behaviour resumed once we were off trains and back home.
(Oh my god. Revelation. Had a couple of drinks at wedding- but was deffo not drunk. Maybe policeman and coffee man thought I was some kind of raging alcoholic? I wasn't behaving erratically though. Shit. V embarrassing. There you go, Piglet. That's one to laugh at when you're older. "The time Mummy was mistaken for an alcoholic". Bugger. Don't drink people- drinking is bad for you)
Get Out Of Your Comfort Zone Number 6: Stop Being A Fucking Doormat
This one... yeah, I think I'm going to save this one for the next post. I think this is probably a good point to stop. Because there's a lot that I want to say and I don't feel that I'm really going to be able to do it justice tonight.
To summarise:
New me = weight-lifting, fake-cigarette-ing, pole-dancing, vomiting, accidental alcoholic.
...I'm not doing too good so far, am I? See you in 24 hours for part 2!
p.s. Just wanted to give a quick shout-out to KJ; only just seen your message (absolutely made my day!) but I've been a silly busy mess- will reply asap :)


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Analytical target cascading (ATC), a hierarchical, multilevel, multidisciplinary coordination method, has proven to be an effective decomposition approach for large-scale engineering optimization problems. In recent years, augmented Lagrangian relaxation methods have received renewed interest as dual update methods for solving ATC decomposed problems. These problems can be solved using the subgradient optimization algorithm, the application of which includes three schemes for updating dual variables. To address the convergence efficiency disadvantages of the existing dual update schemes, this paper investigates two new schemes, the linear and the proximal cutting plane methods, which are implemented in conjunction with augmented Lagrangian coordination for ATC-decomposed problems. Three nonconvex nonlinear example problems are used to show that these two cutting plane methods can significantly reduce the number of iterations and the number of function evaluations when compared to the traditional subgradient update methods. In addition, these methods are also compared to the method of multipliers and its variants, showing similar performance.
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Artist Robby Cook has created a series of covers featuring well-known Disney Princesses for an imagined publication entitled Wish Magazine.
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LMDE is 100% Debian compatible (uses regular Debian repositories), but includes all of the minty-goodness such as flash, mp3 playback, mintUpdate, that wonderful Mint menu, and other cool stuff out of the box. Firefox is called Firefox, Thunderbird is called Thunderbird, and there is peace in the world.
Oh and it's a rolling release so you are always up-to-date."
'via Blog this'
Currently as of 21 May 2011 LMDE has:
- Linux kernel 2.6.38
- Gnome 2.30
- Firefox 3.6.13
- Thunderbird 3.1.7
- Pidgin 2.7.11
- LibreOffice 3.3.2
Cool stuff:
You can apt-get these out of the box:
- latest virtualbox non-free
- skype
- dropbox
- googleearth
- picasa
- opera
Here is the /etc/apt/sources.list if you are curious (Edit with Update Packs !):
It's fast. Many folks have long said that Ubuntu has been seemingly more and more bloated either by default startup services, default kernel configuration used, or other reasons. LMDE uses the current Debian testing kernel. There are no random default startup services such as scanners, dial-up internet, Evolution components, and others which are default to Ubuntu.
I did make a couple of personal adjustments for my own hardware and taste. Firstly, I wanted the proprietary nvidia driver as well as compiz. Also my Audiophile 2496 card does not play well with pulseaudio, so I wanted to remove pulseaudio.
To install the binary Nvidia drivers:
Then run this to enable the driver:
And of course log out / back in.
To have compiz start automatically, create/edit one file and add a single line:
Then log out / back in.
You can remove pulseaudio as follows:
And then removed this lingering file which kept skype and other apps from just using alsa:
And based on some advice from the Mint forums , install this to make alsa happy:
Of course all of this sort of stuff is totally optional – LMDE is absolutely sweet and ready to go out of the box!
So how is it??
Pretty darn sweet. I can't believe how fast the desktop is. Incredibly faster than Ubuntu which I was running on the same hardware. Windows open and close snappy fast!
I like that Pidgin and Thunderbird are there by default.
Any downsides?
Not that I can think of. It is Debian testing, so this is for persons not afraid of reading the occasional mailing list or bug report if something happens to have trouble with apt or another package. This is obviously not for mission critical servers, or someone who wants something dead-stable as CentOS or Debian stable.
So far LMDE has been 100% excellent for me. I am using it as my full time desktop now after years of Ubuntu.
A few random screenshots
Control Center is logical, clear, and has everything in one place:
The infamous Mint Backup Tool:
Green minty-fresh theme:
Mint's excellent Software Manager front end for apt:
mintUpdate keeps you up to date. Looks like I'm good!
Update: Update Packs!
Clem rolled out Update Packs for LMDE. There is a new icon to click 'Update Pack Info' in the LMDE update manger. This provides info on known issues and things to be aware of in Debian testing. To use Update Packs, you must enable the repo as outlined here:


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A "mud bath" Christmas fair in south London has been forced to close after being branded a "disappointment" and a "joke".
Winterfest was planned to bring magic to Crystal Palace Park from December 8 until January 2.
However, the site mysteriously closed on Tuesday, just six days after opening.
Furious attendees had slammed the festive fair, planned to feature rides, an ice rink and Father Christmas, on social media.
One woman described her disastrous visit to Winterfest on Facebook, calling it a "joke" and claimed the ice rink was melted.
Another woman claimed Santa had been unable to travel to the event due to snow and added that the ice rink was closed "because it was too slippery".
She wrote in an online rant: "Santa's Grotto: Not there today as he lives in Nottingham and couldn't get down due to the snow on the motorway, they haven't booked another Santa for the rest of the time in case this happens again.
"Ice skating: closed today due to the weather, not their fault it's for health and safety reasons it's very slippery, any tickets booked will be refunded. No seating for spectators outside.
"Giant observation wheel: As you may know couldn't be put up due to high winds previously but will be delivered Monday ready for Wednesday.
"Lots of fun fair rides for the kids, yes it's pricey between £1-3 a ride but that's probably what you would pay anywhere at Christmas."
Other parents branded the site a "mud bath" and said they had been unable to manoeuvre young children around the site.
Michael Curran wrote on Facebook: "'It's really poor, popped up there Sunday afternoon, minimum investment!
"Difficult to walk around the place without getting covered in mud! God knows how you would cope with young children or with a buggy!!"
Silvia Oliveira said she was "super disappointed" after arriving at the event to find there was "no Santa's grotto".
Russell Turner described the ice rink as "rutted and bumpy" but added a few hardened festive fans had "attempted to skate".
Adrian Miah wrote: "Honestly it was a joke, we walked miles and miles across the park in the snow to find that the ice rink was melted and there was no Father Christmas!
"There were like two rides and two stalls was an absolute joke!!!"
Bromley Council, which runs Crystal Palace Park, told the Standard: "We are aware that the organisers have decided not to pursue this event and idverde, our parks and greenspaces management contractor, are in contact with them to discuss this matter further."
A message posted on the event's website read: "Crystal Palace Winterfest has taken the decision to permanently close.
"All bookings and token purchases will be refunded within the next 7 working days."
A spokesman for WinterFest told the Standard: "WinterFest made the decision to close due to the adverse weather conditions and the impact it had on the event as a whole."


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Saturday, September 09, 2006
TRANSCRIPTION - Andy Kaufman, SNL, 1977 Foreign Man ("Two Penguins" :) and Doing the Elvis
Ralph Nader: Ladies and gentlemen, Andy Kaufman.
[Applause and squeals of delight. A spotlight finds Kaufman as he enters, in character as Foreign Man, carrying a suitcase and wearing a pale pink jacket, white shirt, necktie, dark pants and shoes. A band of musicians stands in the background. A microphone stand and a stool await him at home base. He places the suitcase on the stool and opens it, making sure that it is centered on the stool properly, then turns and walks directly to the microphone. He hesitates for a moment, then speaks quietly and awkwardly with an odd, high-pitched accent.]
Foreign Man: There was two penguins on de piece of ice. And they love each other very much. So, eh, one - one day de ice is broken. [By now, the lights have gone down - Foreign Man is now spotlit on a darkened stage] And so the two penguins cry -- they are crying -- because they never to see each other again. So they go away, you know, away from each other. And one day, they-- to see each other. So they get closer and closer. And one of them say: [holds his nose, imitates a penguin incomprehensibly -- but it sounds like he's saying something like:] "Big Boy for dinner." [returns to his "Foreign Man" voice] You know? Because they never see each other again! [looks at audience happily as if expecting them to laugh] Thenk you veddy much. [Applause. Foreign Man bows to the audience.]
Right now, I would like to do some eemitations for you. So, first, I would like to imitate Meester Carter, de President of de United States. [in the same voice] "Hello, I am Meester Carter, de President of de United States." Thenk you veddy much. [Applause. Foreign Man bows to the audience.] Thenk you veddy much.
Now, I would like to imitate, eh, my, eh, Aunt Esther. [in the same voice] "You come into the house right now! Put - put on your coat and - and eat everything is on your plate!" Thenk you veddy much. [Applause. Foreign Man bows to the audience.]
And now, last -- but not to be the least -- I will - would like to imitate the Elvis Presley.
[Scattered applause and cheers as Kaufman steps away from the microphone and turns his back to the audience. We hear the music of "Also Sprach Zarathustra" -- also known as the Theme from "2001: A Space Odyssey" -- which opened most Elvis concerts of the 1970s. Kaufman removes two dark strips from his pants to reveal studded rhinestones running up and down the outer legs. He puts the strips in the open suitcase beside him. He removes his necktie and false shirt front and dumps them in the suitcase. He takes off his pink jacket to reveal that he is wearing a black Elvis-style jumpsuit with a bejeweled vest. He places the jacket in the suitcase and takes out a comb with which he styles his hair. He returns the comb and takes out a hair brush. More grooming. He returns the brush and uses the comb again. Another spotlight has come up and we catch a glimpse of an acoustic guitar standing ready at one side (opposite the suitcase). Kaufman returns the comb to the suitcase, grabs the guitar and straps it on as a heavenly light shines down from above and the 2001 Theme reaches its climax. Kaufman adjusts his wide white collar.
The theme ends and the thundering drumbeat that usually heralded Presley's entrance at 1970s concerts comes crashing in. We see a close-up of the back of Kaufman's head. He starts shaking to the rhythm. He turns his face to the camera -- a classic Elvis sneer on his lips. Applause and laughter. Kaufman is in full Elvis mode as he turns around completely, shaking his legs, waving to the audience (some of whom are shrieking), prowling the stage lasciviously. All trace of Foreign Man has vanished. Elvis bows, poses provocatively with the guitar, approaches the microphone and starts pumping it in time with the music, sneering and making other "Elvis faces" until the music ends. Elvis bows to much applause. When the applause dies down, Elvis pauses and then leans into the microphone.]
Elvis: [imitation of Presley's deep-throated drawl] Thank you very much.
[With a nod of his head, Elvis signals to the band behind him. The pianist plays and Elvis sings his 1956 hit ballad "Love Me" -- words and music by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller -- and the rest of the band joins in.]
Treat me like a fool
Treat me mean and cruel
But love me
Wring my faithful heart
Tear it all apart
But love me
[Hiccups, Elvis-style. The crowd laughs.]
If you ever go
Darling, I'll be, oh, so lonely
I'll be sad and blue
Crying over you, dear only.
[Stutters, Elvis-style. The crowd laughs.]
I would beg and steal
Just to feel your heart
Beating close to mine
[Makes a funky Elvis move. The crowd laughs.]
If you ever go
Darling, I'll be, oh, so lonely
Beggin' on knees
All I ask is please, please love me
Oh yeah
[Cheers and applause. Band finishes song on Elvis' signal. Elvis removes guitar and poses with it, arms outstretched, then places guitar back on its stand, lifts arms and wiggles his hips, and does a few more goofy Elvis poses before speaking into the microphone.]
Elvis: All right, thank you very much. You can all just stare at me while I catch my breath. I'd like to do one of my biggest records for you. Course, all of them are the same size. One of the first songs I ever recorded, back in nineteen ... twenty-seven, I think it was. Went somethin' like this. [leg starts shaking, looks down at leg] Wait a minute, wait a minute. [lip starts twitching] Somethin' wrong with my lip. [lip twitches into a sneer, Elvis suddenly launches into his 1956 hit rocker "Blue Suede Shoes" -- words and music by Carl Perkins.]
Well, it's one for the money
Two for the show
[Elvis takes his microphone off the stand, sets the stand to one side of stage - the crowd claps along to the beat.]
Three to get ready
Now go, cat, go
But don't you
Step on my blue suede shoes
Well, you can do anything
But lay off of my blue suede shoes
Let's go, cats!
[Band plays instrumental break, Elvis dances around the stage, women in crowd shriek]
It's one for the money
Two for the show
Three to get ready
Now go, go, go
But don't you step on my blue suede shoes
Well, you can do anything But lay off of my blue suede shoes
Well, it's a blue blue blue suede shoes
Blue blue blue suede shoes
Blue blue blue suede shoes
Blue blue blue suede shoes
You can do anything
But lay off of my blue suede shoes.
All right!
[Applause. Elvis jumps up and down, windmilling his arm. The band crashes to a halt as he goes down on one knee. Elvis rises, acknowledges the applause, cheers, whistles, returns the microphone to its stand, raises both arms and makes the "I Love You" sign with his hands, then whips off his bejeweled vest, whirls it around his head and tosses it to the crowd. Then he returns the mike stand to center stage, adjusts the mike, licks his lips, slightly out of breath. And, astonishingly, reverts completely to Foreign Man:]
Foreign Man: [hesitantly] Thenk you veddy much. [huge gust of laughter and applause from the startled audience - after a pause, very politely] Could I please have my - my thing back?
[Foreign Man walks to edge of stage and awkwardly tries to retrieve his vest. Someone hands it to him and he backs away nervously, acknowledging the applause as we fade out.]
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