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How do these four species exist in the same forest without conflict? Well, sometimes there is conflict, but these species differ in some ways. For example their diet and use of the forest is not identical, allowing each species to live together.
Howler monkeys predominantly consume leaves. They even regularly include mature leaves as a part of their diet, which is uncommon due to the high fiber content of mature leaves and relatively low abundance of readily accessible calories. Leaves aren't generally a desirable food item in tropical forests. Just think about fighting over lettuce: not a food item you'd fight over at the grocery store for. That said, you don't see howler monkeys fighting over leaves.
Spider monkeys specialize in the upper parts of the forest, including emergent trees and the upper canopy. They usually travel and forage high in the trees. Spider monkeys are frugivorous, preferring to consume ripe fruits if possible. Over 80% of their diet is composed of fruits. Spider monkeys consume fruit in the emergent level of the forest, where other primates may rarely visit, if ever. Ripe fruits are a desirable food item (I'm guessing you're likely to fight over a juicy peach than a piece of spinach), but spider monkeys are relatively large primates and, from what I saw, they typically dominate the other primate groups they encounter. Spider monkeys can also consume non-fruit items when needed/available, such as immature leaves, flowers, seeds, and even small insects.
Squirrel monkeys are also frugivorous but insects also compose a decent portion of their diet. These monkeys can use all levels of the forest but are mainly found in the lower canopy and understory, thus not overlapping with spider monkeys. They also seem to prefer secondary forest and river edge forests. When fruit is less abundant during the dry season, they increasingly depend on insects and other animal prey.
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Finally, capuchins occur in many types of forests (mangrove, dry deciduous, humid subtropical forests along with forests that have been degraded). Like squirrel monkeys, they can also be considered frugivores and insectivores. Their diverse diet includes fruits, seeds, flowers, frogs, and even small mammals. These intelligent monkeys, arguably the most intelligent monkey of Central and South America, are extractive foragers, meaning they can manipulate their environment to obtain foods that are embedded, sometimes using tools to obtain these food items. Examples of capuchin extractive foraging include pounding seed pods against the ground to open them, using sticks to probe for insects, and using specifically shaped rocks to crack open palm nuts.
How these four species of primates interact is not entirely understood. There is still much to be learned about interspecific competition, or competition between different species for the same resources, in Costa Rican primates.
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- Date Filed: 12-17-2014
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Defendant appealed a conviction for first degree disorderly conduct, ORS 166.023(1). Defendant responded to a friend's Myspace comment which said "I live down the street from Barlow [High School]. I'm bored let's shoot it up." Defendant's response encouraged the act and he offered to assist in the school shooting. Another Myspace patron noticed the interaction and reported it to the police. ORS 166.023(1) states: "A person commits the crime of disorderly conduct in the first degree if, with intent to cause public inconvenience, annoyance or alarm, or knowingly creating a risk thereof, the person initiates or circulates a report, knowing it to be false:" and stating that the catastrophe will be located at a school. The Court determined that Defendant did not violate the statute because by responding to a message on Myspace he did not initiate or circulate the report and his mental state did not rise to the level of knowing. Conviction for first-degree disorderly conduct reversed; otherwise affirmed.

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Discussion in 'HTC Droid Incredible' started by angus, May 26, 2010.
I just got my new Droid incredible yesterday how do I remove the music that came on it.
Just go to the song you want removed and long press on it. A menu will pop up to delete it.
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As I was waking up the morning of Nov 1, the All Souls Day, my Spirit guides and teachers sent a new download of my old Gypsy music to my Third Ear. I took it as a sign that I needed to (re)record it on my new Clavinova. But first, to help you put it in a proper context, here's a brief introduction video to my Gypsy soul heritage…
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Consider this a second part of the Introduction to a Gypsy soul. There is a wonderful scene from a 2009 French movie "Le Concert" that says is all almost without any words (see Le concert Le Tzigane – YouTube).
The blonde (Mélanie Laurent character) in this masterful 80-second scene is a world-renowned violinist. She is about to give a concert in Paris with an ensemble she believes is the Bolshoi Theater orchestra from Moscow.
The Gypsy in the scene is a member of the rag-tag group of musicians that showed up for the rehearsal hours late and half drunk and unruly. The blonde violinist is clearly disgusted with both the rabble on the stage behind her and with the Gypsy violinist.
Watch carefully how Mélanie Laurent's facial expression changes as the Gypsy morphs from a "mere" restaurant entertainer to a virtuoso violinist who plays Ravel's extremely difficult "Tzigane" with such ease and bravura that he astonishes and softens the famous classical violinist. Her expression changes from derision to curiosity to admiration in less than a minute. Great filmography, too.
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That's the Gypsy musical spirit. I suggest you keep that scene in mind as you listen to some of the violin passages in my own "Gypsy Music Variations." Like this Gypsy at the Parisian concert, I am playing everything by ear. Everything is blended together in this production just as I heard it in my Third Ear when I received these downloads from the Spirit realm three and a half years ago.
Like this Gypsy, I have not looked at single musical note or a single sheet of music before creating and playing this 11-minute set of Gypsy Variations. In fact, I still have no idea what some of the individual components are. Nor who exactly wrote what. I know some of it is Liszt, some Brahms, some are folk songs. I just know that the beginning and the ending are my original pieces.
Originally, I called them "Dance of the Planets" as they came to me in early May 201o, upon completion of my planetary network at the Rainbow Shower in Maui (see Dance of the Planets, Gypsies – Altzar).
A little over a year later, the same music helped me discern my incarnation as Franz Liszt (Gypsies, Liszt and I, July 2011). That's when I made my second recording of the Gypsy music (see Dance of Planets, Stars and Gypsies, July 2011).
One final point. There are no rules in Gypsy music. It's all heart. The rhythm changes unpredictably, just like the heartbeat we see our loved one, for example. There is no rhyme or reason for what I did, when I did it or how I did it. I just followed my heart. And the music flowed, both imperfect and perfect at the same time. That's the Gypsy spirit for you.
What you're about to sample may taste like the musical equivalent of a Hungarian goulash, a Russian borscht or an Irish stew. If you try to figure out what went into, you may miss the larger point – its TASTE. To help the musical connoisseurs along, I have identified the various instruments I used in major passages. But you will get more out of this music if you just let your right brain process it.
And now, with that as a preamble, here is the 2013 rendition of my Gypsy Music Variations, recorded this weekend on my Yamaha Clavinova 609.
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Last weekend, I tried making a little romance game for a game jam. Surprisingly, the hardest part in the design was avoiding all sorts of gender politics minefields that I didn't realize were there. I guess there are so few games centered around romances, that I didn't understand that it's really easy to make an insensitive romance model. There are so many games centered on violence that the minefields in those games are well known: make sure your game isn't exclusively about white people killing non-white people and throw in a token mix of genders and you're generally pretty safe. With romance games, these sorts of politics haven't been worked out yet.
Even figuring out something as basic as terminology was really difficult. I wanted to make a regency romance game, with Darcys and Elizabeth Bennets, who you are trying to get married. So the two types of characters in the romance simulation would most easily be named men and women. Of course, a computer simulation doesn't really care about genders, and given my proximity to San Francisco, there's no reason that my simulation shouldn't support the option of men-men, women-women, men-women, women-men, ?-? pairings. But what terms should I use for the two types of characters then? One way to get around this problem would be to only have one type of character, but I was making a tower defence game where the "attacking" characters are distinct from the "defence" characters. I decided to call the "attacking" characters suitors. But what would an appropriate term for the "defence" characters be? After much digging online, I couldn't find anything good. Terms like defendant, target, or wooed just seemed too adversarial or awkward. It's weird that I couldn't find a nice simple term to express the object of one's affections. Finally, after an hour of searching, I just gave up and decided to move on.
Romance Statistics
Since I was building a tower defence romance, the romances needed to be represented numerically so they could be simulated instead of using a hand-crafted narrative that might be possible in a work of interactive fiction. Now in a traditional tower defence, the units have various stats like hit points, attack power, defence power, etc. But what are appropriate stats for a romance? Some stats like social station or income level are considered politically incorrect today, but they can be included in an ironic sort of way. But if you look at a novel like Jane Eyre, beauty and looks do influence romances, so that should be modeled in the simulation somehow. But is it really politically correct to have a game that gives advantages to the good-looking in romances? On the other hand, people would object if someone made a Jane Eyre game where she were depicted as beautiful instead of as plain. After much brainstorming, I figured out that I could use "fashion" as a statistic instead of "looks." Although fashion can be used to model the difference between a plain Jane Eyre and a handsome Emma Woodhouse, it's considered palatable to modern sensibilities because "fashion" is something that can potentially be changed whereas "looks" are considered as more innate.
Romance Model: 1+1=2
After coming up with a few basic stats for the characters in the game, I then had to come up with a model for how romances would work in the simulation. In real-life, romances are quite complicated. Since my tower defence game was intended as a silly little casual game, I wanted to find as simple a romance model as possible.
So suppose you have two characters attending a music concert.
Character A has a music rating of 5.
Character B has a music rating of 3.
How much should the love between A and B increase during the concert?
A*B: Initially, I was thinking of multiplying the two numbers together. The most obvious interpretation of this romance model is that A's interest in music is 5/5, and B's music ability is 3/5. Multiplying 5/5 by 3/5 gives you the amount that B's music ability is able to satisfy A's interest in music. Although the math is symmetric, the interpretation is not. It seems like B exists solely to satisfy the interests of A. I didn't want people to come away with the idea that the "wooed" existed solely to catch the interests of the "suitors."
A+B: Adding the numbers does result in a stretched, but plausible interpretation that's also symmetric. Love between the two characters increases by A+B because their enjoyment of the music concert is dictated by their combined backgrounds in music. By sharing this enjoyable experience, their love for each other increases. The problem with this model is that it results in weird characters statistics as the game progresses. As players get deeper into the game, the game should get harder. You want to make it harder for characters to fall in love as the game progresses to increase the challenge. Characters fall in love slower if their stats are lower. So as players go deeper into the game, they will end up encountering lamer and lamer characters, which doesn't seem right. The characters should get more interesting and have higher statistics as the game progresses not have lower statistics and become less interesting.
-abs(A-B): Taking the negative delta of the two numbers results in a symmetric interpretation that doesn't require characters in later levels to have lower statistics. The interpretation of this approach is that two people who share a similar interest and background in music will fall in love. People who have a disparity in their interests will not. This works, but I was worried that this interpretation might be too complicated for casual gameplayers to understand.
Overall, this whole game ended up being complicated in a way that is more annoying than fun for me. Perhaps my underlying approach to modelling romances in fundamentally wrong. Perhaps I should have gone for a like/dislike model instead like Miss Management. Ugh. Very frustrating.


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As most of you know our home was burnt to the ground lets see - almost 2 years ago. 18 months actually. So the story I am about to tell you well you may find it funny. Was a bit too much after everything we have been through in the past month.
I went out and lit the BBQ, so we could cook some steak. We had friends over that night. Shanda looks out, after a while and says something to the effect of look at the BBQ! So look out and there are flames coming out of the BBQ - underneath the BBQ. It is a stainless steal BBQ with two doors that open to a propane tank. The whole underneath where the propane tank is, was on fire! Shanda said something to the effect of needing a fire extinguisher... so I thought yes we have one! Ran up to our master bathroom where it has been sitting on the counter since we bought it 6 months ago. Can't find it... scan the bathroom don't see it. I then run to look underneath the bed, where we have a second story ladder we bought too. Fo some reason I start to open the package.... yes I am not thinking clearly all of my calmness by now is gone in an emergency - I am panicking! While I am doing absolutley nothing to help the situation Liz who is staying with us,( while her and her husband are waiting to move back into there home) runs down stairs and calmly says to Derrick, "we need you upstairs" not wanting to panick him. He says, "what?" again, " we need you upstairs", "what?", Liz then says, " Fire!" Poor Derrick looks out and sees the BBQ and all the flames and comes running up stairs. Passes me in the bedroom I am still looking at the ladder, he grabs the fire extinguisher and starts to put out the fire. I finally put down the ladder and go down stairs and call 911. We don't know at this point if the hose broke, or what is happening so we are scared the propane tank is going to blow... on the phone with 911 I pretty much am no help to them all's I can say is the grill is on fire... where says the operater? on the deck. "is it close to your house?" yes! oh my God it can't burn down again, what? says the operator? the house. it has burned down already. By this point Derrick had got the fire out, and had bravely gone back to turn off the propane. I say to the operator, it is out it is out! She says well I can cancel the firetruck then.... I said yes. She then asked me for our name, not thinking I just said, " they know who we are, they have been here a few times!" I then told her my husband had been airlifted less then month ago to Harborview... oh my God was all she could say. Hung up with her - and a few minutes later we got a knock on the door the fire dept was here... I am sure our neighbors love us! Think we are the biggest weirdos ever! Walk out side and down the driveway with them and explain the situation.... no problem. Then they ask how the chaplain is (Derrick ofcourse!) so I tell them that he was healed and the look on the fireman's face - well is priceless. One is a believer in God you can tell and is smiling ear to ear the other one - has a look of complete disbelief on his face but is happy to hear none the less. So there is our BBQ story. Thankful we had the fire extinguisher!! Glad that Derrick was home to help! Thank God.


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I read an article on CNN this morning that said the frequency of negative posts made by bloggers regarding gas prices is up. Well, dur. A full tank of gas has more than doubled in an extremely short time, of course there's going to be a lot of negativity about it. The article then proceeds to break down by demograph who is upset about said gas prices. It's impacted everyone, fresh out of college grad and Fifty-something alike; obviously the younger crowd is hit harder, as we have to cut costs in critical places to eat the higher prices. I find it amusing that the government proposed 100 dollar rebate vouchers for gas. Big deal, I blow through that in a week and a half in my Accord, which gets very good gas mileage. Decide whether the vastly inflated price is justified under free market, or regulate it--either way, Americans will cope without a useless government rebate. The optimist in me wonders if a mass boycott of gas for several days would have any affect at all on prices. I bet it would.
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Did Grandmas make humans live longer? Read up on the latest.
October 25, 2012
The Biggest Problem with Long-Distance Grandparents
October 23, 2012
After such a big build up and a cookie-filled, totally indulgent visit, we should have predicted that the grandparents' going home may not go over so well. One night, my parents just went back to the hotel rather than to our house to tuck in the wee ones, and our 5 year old bawled for 20 minutes. But when they left the state, she really surprised us. Our normally mellow, tantrum-lite child had about 3 major breakdowns in one day.
Margaret Mead, the anthropologist, researched families and communities, including inter-generational relationships. She authored the popular quote: 'Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.' My suspicion is that my daughter simply is trying to be a full human being, and is struggling when her grandparents are not around. I truly believe that she is complete when surrounded by her whole family, including both sets of grandparents, and that their departure is much more than less ice cream. I think there is a biological need that takes over, and she feels less 'whole' as a person when her family is limited to two busy parents and a nasty older sister.
That being said, we will do our best to keep our kids and grandparents in touch between visits. But I do wish we lived near all of her grandparents, and I know she does too.
Want to help grandparents stay healthy? Just call them.
October 10, 2012
The article then explored why seniors are experiencing social isolation by conducting a survey. The two top reasons by far were "Family and friends live too far away" (48% of respondents) and "Family and friends are too busy" (42%). I was surprised that so many seniors felt disconnected from their families, especially given all the technologies available today.
However, it made me wonder if the problem somehow had it's roots in the response 'Family and friends too busy.' When I think about all the activities I do with my kids, both during the week and the weekend, it really is challenging to find time to make a call or set up Facetime or Skype. One possible way to help seniors and their families become more connected is to focus on asynchronous communication. For example, DoubleScoop, Facebook, and even plain old email don't require both grandparents and their families to be available at the same time. This might in part explain the growth of seniors using Facebook. For grandparents with grandkids too young for Facebook or email, DoubleScoop and BloggleBeans are fun, new ways to connect them when they have a free moment.
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October 2, 2012
Scrapbooking does not come naturally to me. My family scrapbook growing up was a big drawer under the TV where we dumped the occasional photos we felt were worth keeping. A couple of moves and the photos were duly placed into a new drawer somewhere else. Perhaps a photo would be removed from time to time at a milestone birthday or graduation. But usually not. Not to paint too dim a picture, our best photos were tastefully framed and placed somewhere in the house to enjoy. I suppose if you put them all in a row, we would have a timeline.
So, not surprisingly, when I had my own family, I started out with a large drawer in my coffee table where I placed any photos I remembered to print. I finally did organize quite a few into various scrapbooks when there was a wildfire near our house and it seemed easier to haul a couple of books than 1000 loose pictures. But soon after, the drawer filled up again.
Then we got a new coffee table. And there were no empty drawers in our house. Another round of shoving photos into some photo albums came to pass. And then things got really ugly. My husband and I each got iPhones, our 8-year old took possession of an old digital camera, we got a new digital camera, and my husband and I each got new computers, one Mac and one PC. Within 3 months, I had 1000s of photos on 6 different devices, nothing was getting printed, every memory card was full, and about 1% of all the photos were worth looking at again.
The solution? No idea. But for now the digital cameras are off limits, since we aren't completely sure where the download cables are, and we have reactivated an account at an online photo-printer to encourage us to print and 'scrapbook' more. Facebook and its timeline are beyond my skill set. Of course we are using DoubleScoop with the grandparents and uncle so at least their photos are all in one place, rather than in separate emails. If you have any great ideas to help with organizing photos, please share them.
Four Story Ideas for Grandparents to Share with Grandkids
September 27, 2012
1. A Day in School. Tell your grandchild about a day in school at about the same age. Details are key: What did you wear? What was in your lunchbox? Was another kid mean to you? Did you take classes after school?
2. Halloween. Describe how you spent Halloween when you were a kid. What was your favorite costume? How much candy did you get? What was your favorite, and least favorite, treat?
3. Weekend fun. Share how you spend weekends as a kid. Was it mostly sports, or family outings? Was there a special meal or tradition that you had? What did you look forward to?
4. Grandparents. What were YOUR grandparents like? What are some of your favorite memories? When did you see them? What did you do together?
Do you have any other ideas? Please share them!
Grandparents, the Iliad, and the Gift of Storytelling
September 25, 2012
The story of the Iliad was likely passed on orally before Homer wrote it down in the 8th century BC. I like to imagine young people listening to the events being narrated by an older person, perhaps a parent or grandparent, over several days, and then learning to tell the story themselves. In this case, the Iliad was most likely studied, memorized and recited, and all in verse.
I believe oral traditions play an important role for children. There is value to learning to listen, and to remember and recite both the main story, as well as the details that bring a story to life. I could probably summarize the Iliad on Twitter in about 12 tweets. But that isn't the point. The details of stories are what make it interesting and memorable. Also, the motivations of the characters Achilles, Agamemnon and Hector drive the conflicts, and teach moral lessons about greed, jealousy and holding grudges.
Grandparents can help kids appreciate stories, and become storytellers themselves. A grandparent's life is itself a story, or a series of stories, with details that give a picture of life through time. And while many technologies focus on abbreviating stories, there are plenty that can allow a child and a grandparent to share richer, more detailed accounts. (Yes, DoubleScoop would work well here). A grandparent can play an active role helping to build a tradition of storytelling in a child's life, and help a child gain the skills of storytelling – active listening, tracking plots, adding compelling details, and understanding people and their motivations. On top of all that, a child can learn about their family history, and strengthen their relationship with their grandparents.
Four reasons I wish my grandmother was coming to a family wedding
September 20, 2012
2. She'll miss another grandchild getting married. When she died, only one out of nine grandkids (me) had married. While she would not want anyone to rush into marriage, I think she would have enjoyed a couple more weddings than she did.
3. I won't really have anyone to show pictures of my kids to. While my cousins and uncle will certainly look at a snapshot or two, it's not the same total enthusiasm. (Of course, if she had been there, somehow the kids would have tagged along.)
4. I can't call her the next day to talk about the event. This has been the worst part about her dying, and I finally understand what it is to really miss someone. Something just clicks, and I find myself reaching for the phone, and I remember she's not here anymore.
I do know, however, that she would be happy for her family to be getting together to celebrate this milestone.