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A brief update on our strategies in light of recent equity market volatility:
- Defensive position - At market close Friday August 21, in response to the increase in volatility, our indicator switched to defensive positioning. As a result, on Monday August 24, we positioned our Pilot accounts to bias toward treasuries, and we positioned our Mariner tactical hedged equity strategy to market neutral.
- Opportunity - While we don't like to see the investing community suffer losses, these are the times a purely systematic approach that takes the emotion out of the investment decision can outperform.
- Where is the bottom? - Because our system takes a daily view of the market and makes a prediction of the risk of investing for the following day, we don't focus on calling a bottom. When our daily indicator calls for more offensive positioning our system will adjust accordingly.
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Birding in Las Piedras – Tambopata Puerto Maldonado 10 days / 9 nights
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Peru Birds Tambopata Puerto Maldonado las Piedras 10days:
Bird Day 1: Cusco Puerto Maldonado
After we accommodate in our hotel we will travel towards "La Pastora" where we will look for: White throated jacamar, Purus jacamar, Black banded Crake, Black Billed Seed finch, Gray Hawk, Horned Screamer, Buff Breasted Wren and some other species of birs.
Bird Day 2: Puerto Maldonado – Las Piedras
In the morning we will birding near the town lloking for Red Breasted Black Bird, Southern Lapwing, White Tailed Kite, Point Tailed Palmcreeper. In the afternoon we will travel to Las Piedras; along the way we will stop in order to find the following birds: Brazilian Teal, White tailed Hawk, Red Breasted Black Bird. Pied lapwing, and Least Grebe. We will spend the night at Tambopata Expedition lodge in Las Piedras.
Bird Day 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8: Tambopata Expedition Lodge
In the area of Tambopata Expedition Lodge we have several trails, on these trails we can see species like: Black Faced Cotinga. Red bellied Piedtanager. Long crested Pygmy Tyrant. Musician Wren, Pale winged Trumpeter.
Close to the Lodge we also have a Macaw Clay Lick were we can see several species of parrots, parakeets and Macaws.
On the 6day we will visit an Oxbow lake called Soledad where we can observe species like: Agami Heron, Sungrebe, Azure Gallinule, Band Tailed Antbird. king Fisher, parrots, Macaws, Flycatchers, woodpeckers, Hawks, Toucans, Tanagers, among others; at the Oxbow lake we can also have the chance to see a family of Giant Otters as well as groups of monkeys.
Bird Day 9: Tambopata Expedition Lodge – Puerto Maldonado
Today we will travel back to Puerto Maldonado, in the way we can pbserve bird species like: Long Crested Pygmy Tyrant, Rufous twistwing, Southern Caracara, Pearly kite among other bird species.
Bird Day 10: Puerto Maldonado – Cusco/Lima
This morning we will visit La Cachuela, in the area we will have the chance to see species like: Little Tinamou, White Faced Whistling Duck and other species of birds. After birding we will head to the Airport where our services end.
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Listen up, folks: The industry needs a makeover
First of all, let me say that though I possess strong opinions concerning how we as an industry have addressed issues in the past, I am not attempting to be antagonistic in any way, shape or form. I have good friends on the boards of AAHomecare and the Florida Association of Medical Equipment Services. I want to express my gratitude to all of these people, who have been fighting on my and the industry's behalf.
But listen up folks, the industry needs a makeover. If we are going to bring about real change, we need to be united. We need to police ourselves and work together. That isn't the situation now, and it's hurting us.
Take competitive bidding. The President calls for legislation that would be detrimental to our industry and then we (the HME industry) go to the Hill with the message that the legislation would be detrimental to us and beneficiaries, and we don't want it. Great, but where's the data to support that argument? We want AAHomecare to lobby legislatators and make our problems go away, but we don't give the association much amunition to work with. As providers, we choose not to share our financial performance and other "confidential" information that can be used for benchmarking because it's "proprietary," and someone might get an advantage on us. Give me a break! We all know what's going on. There are no real secrets in this industry.
So what gives? Could it be that we don't have a real handle on our businesses? That maybe we aren't sharing information because we aren't savvy enough business people to track the right things?
Could be. However, combine that "confidential information" with independent reports detailing the detrimental effects of BBA '97 and other data that supports the cost-saving benefits of home care, and you've got something. I believe the sky's the limit if we can go to Congress and CMS and prove to them that we are saving them money by caring for the patient in the home and that as an industry, we are united against fraud.
We might also take a different approach in our lobbying efforts. We can never back down from our efforts in Washington, but we may want to concentrate much more on AARP. These are the folks that vote, and they are also the ones with the financial backing to assist us in assisting them.
Now, where do you think all this detrimental legislation begins? When you open up the trade publications and see some of the national companies touting 18%-20% profits per quarter, it's pretty easy to guess. We all deserve to be profitable, and we must have the ability to service beneficiaries properly, but when a governmental program sees that participants are making double-digit profits, they frown heavily.
In turn, lawmakers introduce legislation designed to bring those profits down to single-digit numbers. This kind of thinking is status quo in Washington, and many times, on the state level as well.
We need to do something, even if the nationals, who are ever concerned about their stock prices, prefer the status quo and are willing to do everything in their power to preserve it. That will only hurt the industry.
When I speak to those who have been involved in NAMES and AAHomecare, they seem to be at times war-torn. We have been fighting a good fight and experiencing some minor victories but overall not making a tremendous amount of progress.
The feeling I get is that we might not ever see a real victory in the legislative fight - unless we we come up with a counter proposal to competitive bidding, IR, AWP reductions, CPI freezes and surety bonds.
Just as HME providers haven't shared information because we may not have a good handle on things, I think CMS, the House of Representatives and Congress are the same way. They do not have the answers either. They have bigger fish to fry. They are attempting to find the finances to run the governmental programs at any cost without being creative.
Let's give them some help. As an industry, we need to decide if we want across-the-board cuts, an IR initiative, competitive bidding, or if we want to offer an alternative.
We have to unite as an industry and gather information and develop a plan to demonstrate that we provide a valuable service to beneficiaries. That we are more than mere equipment jockeys. That we add quality of life to those we serve. That we do it cost effectively, and that we provide care where the beneficiaries want to be - in the home. Together we can make it happen. HME


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Lloyd Daniel Cousins, 41, and Samuel Paul Simpson, 56, were arrested for burglary, felony, and misdemeanor trespassing. A 64-year-old man was arrested for misdemeanor trespassing, and a 60-year-old woman will be later summoned to court for burglary and trespassing.
According to sheriff's spokeswoman Trish Carter, deputies responded to a possible burglary in progress in the 4000 block of Chino Drive and arrived to see five people on the property. Deputies talked to a witness who said he contacted the property owner, who said no one should be on the property. The owner told deputies that someone had already stolen a single axle camper trailer from his property a few days before and said he would press charges on everyone on his property.
Deputies saw a green trailer hooked up to a black Dodge truck and took all four suspects into custody.
Deputies spoke with each of the suspects. The 64-year-old man reportedly said he gave Cousins a ride to the property to clean it. The woman reportedly said Cousins told her that she and Simpson could have the trailer. Cousins allegedly said he was hired through a newspaper ad as a subcontractor to clean the property, but said he couldn't remember which newspaper.
The woman was released at the scene. The three men were transported and booked into the Mohave County jail without incident. The Dodge truck was towed from the scene.


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Great Fall look…design is summery, but the colours give a fresh take on an Autumn garden. Note the vertical stripes teamed with the the midi skirt to give you a long look.READ MORE
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Advent Devotional: December 13
Be patient, therefore, beloved, until the coming of the Lord. The farmer waits for the precious crop from the earth, being patient with it until it receives the early and the late rains. You also must be patient. Strengthen your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is near. Beloved, do not grumble against one another, so that you may not be judged. See, the Judge is standing at the doors! As an example of suffering and patience, beloved, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.
– James 5: 7-10
Patience is a virtue, virtue is a grace. Both put together make a very pretty face.
Every time I hear the word patience, this poem from an old childhood book unfortunately pops into my head. In my interpretation, to be pretty would be a challenge in that I had three younger brothers and patience was in short supply.
Children's lives are all about waiting… waiting for mom or dad to get off the phone, waiting for a turn, waiting for Christmas morning, waiting for school to be out, waiting for brothers to stop being obnoxious. For children, it seems the waiting never ends and patience is an unattainable goal. Even as adults it can be a challenge to be patient in this fast paced, "me first" world. I confess that when I'm in a traffic jam, or in line behind someone taking an incredibly long time digging for their wallet, being patient doesn't come naturally; I have to be very intentional and very careful with my thoughts and reactions.
James is calling us to be patient "until the coming of the Lord." We're to wait for the Lord as the "farmer waits for the precious crop." What a precious thing to be reunited with our Lord either on earth or in heaven… wait, be patient, beloved.
The scripture has more for us to consider. We can't just wait and be patient; we're to use our time of patience to strengthen our hearts. As we wait in traffic without leaning on the horn, show patience without huffing and puffing in line, learn to get along with our neighbors (or brothers), we are strengthening our hearts. With full hearts we can love each other, serve each other, and speak in the name of the Lord while we wait.
Maybe reflecting Christ's love in this way does make a pretty face.
In Christ,
Kathy McCarron, Director of Children & Family Ministries


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The Andhra meal's centre of attraction is Rice. It all starts with hot rice served on to your plantain leaf and a spoon of ghee is poured on top of that. The ghee will melt instantly and disappear in that 'small heap' of rice. This ghee rice becomes the base for the different variety of powders. Tur dal powder, curry leaf powder, gun powder, etc are mixed with the above base and enjoyed one after the another as per your taste buds' liking. After his search for an authentic Andhra joint turned futile, he pledged to give the Aamchi Mumbai people a taste of Andhra food. That is how Subash Rao quit his 25 years of corporate life and started his work towards achieving his dream . But for someone who had no knowledge about the restaurant business it was a herculean task.
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In the last one week God had some different plans for Kerala. God wanted to give its own Country a new avatar. The whole State of Kerala has gone through a phase where God wanted to once again bring people together, make them help each other, support each other to co-exist. It was like pressing the 'Refresh' button and the whole place goes through an act of churning to give a fresh and new look.
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The typical day for a Tamil person starts early in the morning with reading the newspaper while sipping hot coffee. These are two inseperable things in most of the traditional Tamil families. The aroma of filter coffee in the house makes your morning fresh. Vanakkam, meaning Welcome / Namaste, welcomes you to an overdose of Tamil vegetarain food. This restaurant is opened by five passionate foodies who wanted to give Thaneites the taste of authentic Tamil food.
Rabbito : Annoyed by the exorbitant delivery charges, friends start a new Food Delivery App in the capital city of Kerala
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Suraj , whose passion is to experiment with cooking, decided to quit his 'mundane' corporate job and open his own restaurant. To manage a restaurant all alone is a tough task. Understanding the tall task ahead of Suraj, his wife Shreeja also quit her job to support him in this new venture.


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Dead Man's Wire: The Kiritsis Crisis
Tuesday, February 8, 1977 started like any other cloudy day in a cold Indiana winter. That changed around 9am when Tony Kiritsis walked in to Meridian Mortgage for a meeting with the company's president, Dick Hall.
Once behind a closed door Kiritsis pulled a gun and then wired Hall's neck to a sawed off, double-barreled shotgun.
For the next 63 hours Indianapolis collectively held its breath as the odyssey played itself out live on WIBC and local television stations. Kiritsis shocked onlookers as he paraded his hostage, shotgun to still at his head around the streets of downtown, stole a police car and then holed up at his apartment until Kiritsis's rambling press conference at the end of the siege.
What happened during those three days changed police methods, media coverage and Dick Hall's life.
Dead Man's Wire: The Tony Kiritsis Crisis Audio Documentary.
Dead Man's Wire recounts the events of February 1977 using original audio unearthed from the WIBC archives and brand new interviews with Dick Hall, Tom Cochrun, Paul Page and Lee Giles.
For the first time in 40 years, you'll be able to hear WIBC's original news reports from Crestwood Apartments, listen in on the phone calls between Fred Heckman and Tony Kiritsis, and meet the people who played a key role in the Tony Kiritsis Crisis--and you can do it all from your mobile device or PC.
Kiritsis Timeline
December 19, 1972 — Tony Kiritsis buys a mortgage through Meridian Mortgage, with payment of $170,000 due on March 1, 1977
February 8, 1977
8am • Tony Kiritsis takes Richard Hall hostage, marches him through downtown Indianapolis
8:30am • Kiritsis commandeers police car, makes Hall drive west on Washington St. and out of town
9:35am • Kiritsis & Hall arrive at Crestwood Apartments on Indy's west side
10am • Negotiations begin between Kiritsis and LEOs
9pm • Meridian Mortgage apology broadcast live
February 9, 1977
6am • Kiritsis calls WIBC's Fred Heckman for the first time
9am • FBI behavioral expert Patrick Mulany arrives; negotiations continue
5:30pm • "The 5:30 Crisis": Kiritsis hears a report from WIBC's Doug O'Brien about presence of a SWAT Team, goes on a tirade
Evening/Late Night • Immunity talks begin as a result of The 5:30 Crisis
February 10, 1977
6am • Kiritsis calls WIBC's Fred Heckman to apologize for The 5:30 Crisis
8am • Heckman becomes part of negotiation team at Crestwood Apartments
10pm • Kiritsis and Hall hold a 23-minute, expletive-laden "press conference"
11pm • Hall is released; Kiritsis is arrested and charged with kidnapping, armed robbery, and armed extortion
October 1977 — At trial, Kiritsis found not guilty by reason of insanity and is institutionalized
1978 — Indiana General Assembly revises insanity defense laws as result of Kiritsis trial
1988 — Kiritsis released from mental institution and moves to Speedway, Indiana
January 28, 2005 — Tony Kiritsis dies at age 72
Follow Tony Kiritsis and Dick Hall's journey through downtown Indianapolis by hovering over each of the blue map icons below.
You can hear the reporting of this true story crime story on 93.1 WIBC.
What will you hear?
• An accurate and authentic telling of the Kiritsis Crisis from WIBC audio that has been stored since 1977. • Parts of a WIBC documentary from 1978 called Three Days at Crestwood and new interviews with then WIBC reporters Tom Cochrun and Paul Page, former WISH TV News Director Lee Giles and for the first time in almost 40 years new audio from hostage Dick Hall.
What time will you hear it?
February 8th @ 9am
February 10th @ 10pm
February 11th @ 3pm
February 12th @ 10am
Cast of Characters
• Anthony George "Tony" Kiritsis
In 1972, Kiritsis applied for an $110,000 commercial loan from Meridian Mortgage for a 17-acre plot near South Lynhurst Drive and Rockville Road . He refinanced his loan in 1976, and the new loan amount of $130,000 was due in full on March 1, 1977.
In 1972, Kiritsis applied for an $110,000 commercial loan from Meridian Mortgage for a 17-acre plot near South Lynhurst Drive and Rockville Road . He refinanced his loan in 1976, and the new loan amount of $130,000 was due in full on March 1, 1977.
•Richard "Dick" Hall
42-year-old Richard Hall was president of Hall Management Corporation and Hall-Hottel Company, two family-owned and operated businesses that specialized in commercial and residential real estate. He wasn't involved in Meridian Mortgage on a daily basis, and up until February 8, his interactions with Tony Kiritsis were fairly limited.
Today, Hall says that he wasn't scared during the Kiritsis crisis, for no matter what the outcome, he had faith in God and a belief that things would turn out the way they should.
•Fred Heckman, WIBC News Director
For more than three decades, Fred Heckman was WIBC news.
Fred Heckman came to 1070 WIBC-AM in 1957. He served as WIBC's news director for 32 of his 36 years at WIBC and retired in 1993. Fred passed away in Indianapolis in 2001 and is remembered for his dedication to integrity, ethics and strict journalistic standards.
•Pat Mullany, FBI Behavioral Expert
A central figure in the safe resolution of the Kiritsis Crisis was FBI behavioral expert and renowned criminal profiler Patrick Mullany. Mullany's psychological profile of Kiritsis played a key role in the safe release of Dick Hall and arrest of Tony Kiritsis.
Mullany and fellow FBI agent Howard Teten formed the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit in 1972 and pioneered the system of analyzing crime scene evidence for information about a criminal's psychological makeup.
It's a blast from the past: The "Sounds of '77: Tony Kiritsis Playlist" featuring real WIBC audio from February 8 - 10, 1977.


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Movement is a big part of human life and history and there is no reason to stop it. With modern developing techniques and we have found numerous ways to make our life easier and when it comes to moving, we have a huge area of options to choose. Packing your household items for a move to a new place needs a lot of hard work. Especially, when you trying to pack all your stuff in boxes. This process of packing becomes more difficult when you own some precious antiques and artwork. You have to make special preparations when you have delicate items and you have to keep a check and special attention on these items to move them safely and in good conditions to your new place.
You only need to find the best tips and suggestions to pack your precious antiques and artwork to guarantee to keep their sentimental and financial value. When you have planned to move to your new place and you have a house full of antiques, you need a safe place to keep your precious collections secure. Paintings and antiques are the costly items of your house and you should take a good care of them in a proper way. When your art work is hung on the wall they will not face any serious damage but during your move from one place to another, if you don't pack them carefully they can face a serious damage.
There is no shortage of facilities for your fine art collections; you only have to do a good research work. But, if you don't know what to look for and don't do a good research then it will be difficult for you to take care of your precious collection of art and antiques. Art & antique collections are more delicate and if they are damaged they cannot be replaced. Packing your collections correctly can lower the risk of damage. This is the reason that paintings, other art work, and antiques need to be packed and handled with apt care during the time of your move to a new place.
Here are a few things you should look for when planning to move to a new place and want to keep your precious items safe.
- Firstly, you should remove your artwork from the wall very carefully and keep in mind not to remove the canvas from the frame. You should pack your artwork in its original form. Also, you should use a dry and clean soft cloth to remove the dust from the paintings.
- You should also take care about the type of plastic you are using to wrap your artwork. You should use non-acidic plastic wraps to wrap your paintings. If you use the plastic with acidic content, it may have serious reactions and can even ruin your artwork. Some bubble wraps have acidic content in their plastic so you should use quality plastic to wrap and pack your stuff. You can use Glassine paper to pack your items. It is a large size paper same as a wax paper and you can find it easily at any store.
- You have to buy a few stiff cardboard sheets to properly cover your paintings from outside (back & front) to save them from any damage at the time of packing, loading, unloading, and unpacking. You can also use of Styrofoam sheet to cover your L-shaped items to protect their corners. You may need a heated knife to cut this sheet in shapes. You have to cut the pieces properly so they can protect the corners very well. Now your artwork is packed in a single wrap and if you want extra protection then do a double wrapping for your satisfaction.
Here we have a list of some important items that will be required for your precious artwork and antiques.
- Cardboard Glass Box
- Bubble Wrap
- Styrofoam
- String
- Packing Tape
- Stiff Cardboard
- Styrofoam Peanuts
- Packing Paper
- Non-Acidic Plastic Wrap
- Glassine
• Creating a list is also equally important before starting any packing during your moving process. You should make a list of your entire item on the basis of priority. You can pack yourself the simple items in home like clothes and beddings. And, if you have hired a team of professionals for this task then it would be a good idea if you leave that on professionals especially the delicate items like furniture, TV, Refrigerator, and other decorative artworks and antiques. Also, make sure to get your precious items insured before getting the service of moving company.
• It is important to check that you have the right material to pack your belongings. The supply of packing material is depending on the size and type of your items. If you have large paintings and mirrors, you need special packaging and picture boxes that will protect your paintings and mirrors, and other precious art work. You also need cushion corner protectors to protect your artwork in boxes. These protectors will help in preventing the damages to the corners. If you have some sculptures then you need standard material of packing like packing peanuts and bubble wrap. Now when all the things are pack in boxes, don't forget to mark your box as "Delicate".
There are a number of moving companies that specialized in moving the precious and expensive items like paintings, masterpieces, artworks, antiques, and other delicate items. With the help of professional movers you can move your antique statue, imported piano, and art-pieces by your favorite artists, safely without any damage. You only need to find a reliable and reputable moving company that are experienced and specialized in packing and moving such precious and expensive things. For more information on moving your artwork and antiques, visit our page. Here you will get all the information about your moving to your new place whether it is local or interstate. We are specialized in providing every bit of information that you need to search during you moving process.


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Eighth-ranked Central Methodist University scored a pair of unearned runs in the top of the eighth inning to claim a 4-2 win over Bellevue University Wednesday afternoon at the NAIA Softball National Championship Opening Round – Fayette Bracket.
The loss ended the Bruins' 2015 season with a 41-14-1 record. The Eagles (44-8) advanced to the NAIA Softball World Series in Sioux City, Iowa on May 22-28.
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LOC Software, developer of a leading retail management software suite, and Index, the leading retail software provider that created 1-Second EMV, announced the release of Index's true semi-integrated payment solution for LOC's SMS POS platform. The combined solution offers independent grocers the fastest EMV checkout experience in the US, industry-leading payment encryption, and the most powerful tools to unify front end, back office, headquarters, personnel and customers.
The new payment solution has been piloted at several grocery chains throughout the US for several weeks now. One such chain, Nam Dae Mun Farmers Market, based in Greater Atlanta, agrees the combined solutions offer many benefits to their stores. "We really like the added security benefits and speedy transaction time the Index and LOC solutions provide our stores," adds Alice Kim, Finance Director at Nam Dae Mun. Ms. Kim's team also benefits from capturing customer emails at the point-of-sale and offering those customers the option of emailed receipts.
The new payment interface is fast – real fast – speeding up lines by up to 15% and offering customers an EMV (chip card) experience that's as fast and easy as a magnetic swipe. Security is greatly enhanced too — Index's semi-integrated solution routes payment card data directly from the PIN pad to the processor, fully removing LOC SMS from PCI scope to dramatically reduce compliance burdens. With this semi-integrated architecture, it becomes extremely easy to deploy software and security updates to the PIN pad, so merchants can take advantage of the latest payment and security advancements like contactless EMV and point-to-point encryption (P2PE).
Grocers also benefit from integrated customer engagement features like email capture and digital receipts. When customers checkout, they can enter their email right on the PIN pad to sign up for convenient digital receipts and opt in to marketing communications. Index remembers customer preferences so they'll automatically receive e-receipts upon future visits. Captured emails can also integrate with LOC's targeted offer module, allowing grocers to specifically market to consumers based on shopping trends.
"This integration has been highly anticipated by our teams and our channel because we knew it would be a big hit with our independent grocers," said Francois Labelle, Director of Development at LOC. "Every retailer can benefit from a flexible, future-proof solution that improves security and reduces costs, while speeding up checkout and improving customer engagement."
"We're happy to work with great partners like LOC to bring powerful, comprehensive solutions to their channel and independent grocers," said Moses Mederos, Director of Strategic Partnerships at Index. "Our goal is to equip retailers with fast, secure, reliable and flexible tools so they can spend less time managing their technology and more time with their customers and growing their business."
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The Digital Design Weekend at the Victoria and Albert Museum which took place last Saturday and Sunday was a resounding success, with over 9,000 visitors to the exhibits over the course of the weekend. The weekend brought together academics, practitioners, designers, creative industries, curators, and more, who all presented their work in a variety of … Continue reading
The Latin(o) American Digital Art Project, led by Claire Taylor, welcomes this month Ailsa Peate to the research team. Ailsa is currently a doctoral student at the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Liverpool, working under Claire's supervision. Ailsa will be working as postgraduate Research Assistant for the Latin(o) American Digital Art … Continue reading
Tickets for the Digital Design Weekend at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London are now available on Event Brite. Now in its fifth year, the V&A Digital Design Weekend brings together artists, designers, engineers and scientists celebrating the intersections of art, design and technology. The Latin(o) American Digital Art Project, led by Claire Taylor, are participating … Continue reading


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The Bad-for-You Ingredient That's Great for Your Hair
Okay, so everyone keeps going on about how terrible sugar is for us. While it tastes so good (seriously a tub of Ben & Jerry's Cookie Dough is like kryptonite to my healthy diet), it isn't great for your skin, your waistline or your health. But sugar isn't all bad. It's great for your hair. Keep scrolling to find out why…
Sugar adds texture but doesn't dry out your tresses like salt does. Instead, it moisturises the hair so the result is the texture of a salt spray but minus the dryness and lack of shine. Result. While sugar sprays are pretty new to us, hairstylists have been using them for years to add texture and retain softness in drier and thicker hair types (anyone with fine hair may still prefer the volumising benefits of a good old salt spray).
This sugar spray does exactly what a sugar spray should: It imparts texture without sacrificing shine and the hair still feels soft. It smells subtly like fruit, so it helps to refresh day old-hair too.
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text: My Nokia 920 that I bought from Telecom about two months has suddenly developed a faulty headset jack. It only plays music through my headphones on one side (before anyone asks I have tried it with a different pair to get the same result) Obviously it is under warranty still so I'm going to be taking it back for repair. The question is, how can I make my phone as secure as possible so the repairer cant get into my details. E.g people hub, email accounts etc. It might be a broad question but any tips on how to lock down these sorts of tiles/accounts would be great.


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According to our database1, James Arthur Kohl authored at least 32 papers between 1990 and 2008.
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Time-Critical Distributed Visualization with Fault Tolerance.
Proceedings of the Eurographics Symposium on Parallel Graphics and Visualization, 2008
Debugging high-performance component-based applications.
Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 2007
The Neutron Science TeraGrid Gateway: a TeraGrid science gateway to support the Spallation Neutron Source.
Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 2007
A Java-based science portal for neutron scattering experiments.
Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Principles and Practice of Programming in Java, 2007
Data redistribution and remote method invocation for coupled components.
J. Parallel Distrib. Comput., 2006
Cumulvs: Interacting with High-Performance Scientific Simulations, for Visualization, Steering and Fault Tolerance.
A Component Architecture for High-Performance Scientific Computing.
Distributed Data Management for Large Volume Visualization.
Proceedings of the 16th IEEE Visualization Conference, 2005
Data Redistribution and Remote Method Invocation in Parallel Component Architectures.
Proceedings of the 19th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2005), 2005
Coupled Fusion Simulation Using the Common Component Architecture.
Proceedings of the Computational Science, 2005
Visibility Culling for Time-Varying Volume Rendering Using Temporal Occlusion Coherence.
Proceedings of the 15th IEEE Visualization 2004 Conference, 2004
Immersive and 3D viewers for CUMULVS: VTK/CAVE[tm] and AVS/Express.
Future Generation Comp. Syst., 2003
Visibility Culling Using Plenoptic Opacity Functions for Large Data Visualization.
Proceedings of the 14th IEEE Visualization 2003 Conference, 2003
The CCA core specification in a distributed memory SPMD framework.
Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 2002
Communication Infrastructure in High-Performance Component-Based Scientific Computing.
Proceedings of the Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface, 9th European PVM/MPI Users' Group Meeting, Linz, Austria, September 29, 2002
Integrating CUMULVS into AVS/Express.
Proceedings of the Computational Science - ICCS 2002, 2002
An Architecture for a Multi-threaded Harness Kernel.
Proceedings of the Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface, 2001
CUMULVS Viewers for the ImmersaDesk.
Proceedings of the Computational Science - ICCS 2001, 2001
Harness: Adaptable Virtual Machine Environment for Heterogeneous Clusters.
Parallel Processing Letters, 1999
HARNESS: a next generation distributed virtual machine.
Future Generation Comp. Syst., 1999
Dynamic Visualization and Steering Using PVM and MPI.
Proceedings of the Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface, 1998
HARNESS: Heterogeneous Adaptable Reconfigurable NEtworked SystemS.
Proceedings of the Seventh IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing, 1998
CUMULVS: Extending a Generic Steering and Visualization Middleware for Application Fault-Tolerance.
Proceedings of the Thirty-First Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 1998
Cumulvs: Providing Fault Toler. Ance, Visualization, and Steer Ing of Parallel Applications.
Beyond PVM 3.4: What We've Learned, What's New, and Why.
Proceedings of the Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface, 1997
CUMULVS: Collaborative Infrastructure for Developing Distributed Simulations.
Proceedings of the Eighth SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing, 1997
Early Experiences With Distributed Supercomputing On I-Way: First Principles Materials Science and Parallel Acoustic Wave Propagation.
The PVM 3.4 Tracing Facility and XPVM 1.1.
Proceedings of the 29th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-29), 1996
The IMPROV Meta-Tool Design Methodology for Visualization of Parallel Programs.
Proceedings of the MASCOTS '93, 1993
A software engineering, visualization methodology for parallel processing systems.
Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference, 1992
Use of PARADISE: A Meta-Tool for Visualizing Parallel Systems.
Proceedings of the Fifth International Parallel Processing Symposium, Proceedings, Anaheim, California, USA, April 30, 1991
A Tool to Aid in the Design, Implementation, and Understanding of Matrix Algorithms for Parallel Processors.
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4 July 2011 by Luke McCormick
An ancient Angkor 'puzzle' temple has been reopened to the public after a 50-year renovation project.
The restoration of the 11th-century Baphuon monument, one of the country's largest after Angkor Wat, involved dismantling 300,000 sandstone blocks and painstakingly piecing them back together - a task described as the world's biggest puzzle.
The reopening of the temple was celebrated with a high-profile ceremony attended by Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni and French Prime Minister Francois Fillon.
"The work at Baphuon has been exceptional," Fillon said at the inauguration event in the north-western tourist hub of Siem Reap, while King Sihamoni expressed his people's "profound gratitude to France" for funding the £9-million project.
Work to save the temple originally got underway in the 1960s but was interrupted by Cambodia's civil war.
The project originally got underway in the 1960s, when Baphuon - once among Angkor's finest monuments - was on the brink of collapse, but work was interrupted by Cambodia's civil war.
A French-led team of archaeologists decided the only way to save the temple was to dismantle it.
All of the monument's stone blocks were laid out in the surrounding jungle and painted with a number to match an entry on a master plan so the tower could be rebuilt.
During the civil war the records needed to reconstruct the tower were destroyed by the Khmer Rouge, a hardline communist regime that took power in 1975.
Reconstruction work was only restarted in 1995 when the area was deemed safe.
Pascal Royere, who has been overseeing the project, said the early years had been the hardest.
"We were facing a three-dimensional puzzle, a 300,000-piece puzzle to which we had lost the picture. And that was the main difficulty of this project," Mr Royere told AFP news agency.
"There is no mortar that fills the cracks which means that each stone has its own place. You will not find two blocks that have the same dimensions."
Our correspondent says that some pieces - more than 10,000 - are left over, and dot the forest floor surrounding the temple.
It is thought more than 10,000 pieces are left over and now dot the jungle surrounding the temple.
The Angkor region was the seat of the medieval Khmer empire.


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Managing Editor
The Washington State Fire Commissioners Association awarded Spokane County Fire District 8's leadership and management team with first place in Washington state for the Management Excellence Award Program for category "A" class fire departments during their fall conference in Yakima on Oct. 28.
Spokane County Fire District 8 participated against fire departments with budgets greater than $4 million and received first place in the state of Washington.
The Management Excellence Award is based on multiple criteria including:
An independent selection committee reviews and compares the criteria to other similarly sized organizations in Washington state and selects the winner.
The purpose of the Management Excellence Award Program is the following:
"We are very humbled and honored to have been chosen for this award. It just reinforces my belief that we have a great organization providing exceptional emergency services and value to the public," said Fire Chief Tony Nielsen.
SCFD8 provides a full range of services that include fire suppression, emergency medical services, fire prevention, education and investigation, and associated support and maintenance services to 20,694 citizens in a 110-square-mile area in south Spokane County. SCFD8 members responded to 2,776 incidents in 2015 from the district's four fire stations located in the Moran Prairie, Valleyford, Ponderosa and Saltese areas. Each station is staffed 24 hours a day with a combination of career, part-time and volunteer and resident volunteer personnel.


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Wednesday, 17 January 2018
Wonderful Wednesday #74
Well how are you doing? It has been so so long since I have spoken on this space. Everything seems to have crashed towards me at a million miles an hour. I really just think life needs a pause button sometimes. So that we can just collect all our thoughts together, catch up and wallow in the good moments. We've had so much to contend with... lots of cricket wins, Christmas and meeting someone new who has put a massive smile on my face to name a few.
But here we are and it's business as usual, I will be recounting all the things this week that have made me smile:
1. Day on the moors. Having lived in Devon for a year and half now I can't believe this weekend was my first visit to the moors. I spent the whole car journey with my face pressed up to the glass, in awe of the stunning views. We wrapped up warm and walked, stepped over rocks and took in the vastness of the landscape. After all this excitement a picnic and an ice cream were in order. Even the sun made an appearance and I can't wait for my next visit to Dartmoor.
2. Submitting the essay. Finally! This one was a killer. I'm talking days spent solidly in the library and not being sure if I'd ever fins what I wanted to say. But the relief when it was done was great. I rewarded myself with a burger and an evening with friends.
3. Dance. Just the freedom of being able to move my body into beautiful shapes that have meaning. The creative process of dance really excites me. I haven't danced for years and this university module has me all sorts of excited. My body is aching, but my mind is flying.
4. Cricket training. This week was the first training back after Christmas and I really enjoyed it. I like being back and focusing on improving myself. I feel like I am becoming more aware of how I can improve and what I need to do. This awareness is new and I kind of like how aware I am of the capabilities of my body and how I can shape these.
5. Flowers. Everytime I walk past the kitchen table I smile. There sit my bunch of flowers. I was given them the moment I stepped off the train into Plymouth and they never fail to brighten my day.
6. Blue Skies. In between these massive downpours we've been having there have been some beautiful blue skies. The kind of clear, crisp skies that leave chilly fingers, but bright bright days. In winter I find these blue days are just what I need to cut through the grey, dim days.
7. Cake. Today I baked a cake for the first time since I've been at university and it was bloody brilliant. Filled with jam and cream and covered in chocolate fudge icing, it was magnificent and just as tasty!
So that's all for this week. I promise I won't leave it so long next time, because I've missed bringing together the lovely bits of the week. For more wonderfulness head over to see these lovely ladies: Sally, Jo, Helen, Michelle, Sarah, Cat, Sam, El , Kerri, Mimmi, Martina , Peta, Kelly and Emma. Or find us on twitter and instagram with #wonderfulwednesday.
Kate xx
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Oh Kate it's so lovely to be reading one of your posts again. What a beautiful list of happiness. I adore the moors and haven't been for years, I must must must visit next time I'm back in Cornwall!ReplyDelete
Being given flowers is so special isn't it :) I hope you have the best week, well done for handing in that essay!! It sounds like a bloomin' tough one!
Sending lots of love your way,
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Poisonous snakes can be found in most parts of the world, but how can you tell the difference between venomous and non-venomous snakes? They don't exactly come equipped with warnings signs – or do they? If you know what to look for, you can identify a poisonous snake out the wild and know whether it's time to run for cover, or breathe a sigh of relief. We're going to look at venomous snakes around the world and give you tips on how to identify these creatures.
Table of Contents
- 4 Types of Venomous Snakes in the United States
- How to Identify a Venomous Snake
- 1. Consider Color Patterns
- 2. Look at the Head Shape
- 3. Does it Have a Rattle?
- 4. Does the Snake Have a Heat Pit?
- 5. Be on the Lookout for Mimics
- 6. Look at the Eyes
- 7. Look for a Heat-Sensing Pit Between the Eyes and Nostrils
- 8. Notice the Underside Scales on the Tip of the Tail
- 9. Look at the Bottom of the Tail
- 10. Watch Water Snakes Swim
- 11. Examine the Bite Marks in Case of a Snake Attack
- Knowing the Exceptions
- Venomous Snakes from Other Countries
- Summary
4 Types of Venomous Snakes in the United States
There are four types of venomous snakes in the United States: cottonmouths, copperheads, rattlesnakes and coral snakes. Each has its own unique appearance and characteristics.
1. Cottonmouths
Cottonmouths are sometimes referred to as water moccasins, and they're commonly found in the southeastern United States. This species of pit viper can deliver a painful and sometimes deadly bite. These snakes are the only semi-aquatic pit vipers on the planet, and they're commonly found near lakes, streams, marshes and other bodies of water. Cottonmouths are very strong swimmers and may even enter the sea.
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Appearance and Behavior
The cottonmouth snake is the largest species in the Agkistrodon species. Adults average around 31 inches in length, but some may exceed 71 inches in the eastern United States.
Cottonmouths have a very distinct appearance, which makes them relatively easy to identify in the wild.
- They have broad heads with thin necks.
- Their snouts have a blunt profile.
- The top rim of the head extends slightly further than the mouth.
As far as coloring goes, most cottonmouth are almost entirely black in color with the exception of facial and head markings.
They may also have the following background colors:
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- Gray
- Brown
- Tan
- Yellow-olive
Most of these snakes have 10-17 crossbands that are either black or dark brown in color with black edges. Their dorsal markings tend to fade with age.
Juveniles have yellowish tails, subadults have greenish colored tails and adults have black tails.
Cottonmouths are often confused with copperhead snakes (another venomous snake), but there are some distinct differences between the two:
- Cottonmouths have dark, broad stripes along the sides of their heads that extend from the eyes.
- Copperheads have a dark, thin line that divide the scales along the jaw from darker color on the rest of the head.
Just like any other snake, the cottonmouth snake will coil and posture when it goes on the defensive. While they have a reputation for being aggressive, these snakes would prefer not to bite humans and only do so when they feel threatened.
Geographic Location
Cottonmouths are generally found in the southeastern United States from the Great Dismal Swamp in Virginia down to the Florida peninsula. They can also be found in Arkansas, southern Georgia, Oklahoma and eastern Texas.
So, if you're living on the west coast and you happen to find a snake that has similar characteristics, you can be fairly certain that you're not dealing with a cottonmouth snake.
2. Rattlesnakes
The rattlesnake is one of the most well-known poisonous snakes in North America, and they account for the majority of snakebite injuries in this region. Just like their name suggests, these snakes make a rattling noise when they feel threatened. A bite from a rattlesnake can be dangerous, but they're rarely fatal – as long as you get prompt medical attention.
Appearance and Behavior
There are 29 species of rattlesnakes, and they all vary in appearance. As adults, they can be relatively large in size. The eastern diamondback is the longest rattlesnake, and can grow to be an impressive eight feet long. The twin-spotted rattlesnake is the smallest species and only grows to be about 12 inches long. Most species are between two and four feet long.
Rattlesnakes can vary greatly in weight. The eastern diamondback is the heaviest species and can weigh up to ten pounds. The lightest species is Crotalus willardi, which only weighs three to four ounces.
Just like other pit vipers, these snakes have heat-sensing pits on their faces, which allows them to locate and follow their prey. They also have vertical pupils, like cat eyes.
Rattlesnakes have hemotoxic venom, which prevents blood from clotting and causes necrosis. They feed on small animals, such as rodents and birds.
Geographic Location
Rattlesnakes can be found all throughout the Americas, from Canada to central Argentina. These predators can live in a wide range of habitats.
3. Copperheads
Copperheads are one of the most common venomous snake in North America, and they're also the most aggressive. Thankfully, their venom is mild, so their bites are rarely fatal to humans.
Still, they are snakes to be respected and feared. Their venom may not be potent, but you still don't want to be bit by one.
Appearance and Behavior
Just like their name suggests, copperheads have copper-colored heads. This venomous species is medium-sized and grows to be between two and three feet in length.
Females are usually longer than males, but males may have longer tails.
Copperheads have distinct patterns on their bodies. These snakes have reddish-brown or chestnut-colored dorsal crossbands that look like saddlebags, hourglasses or dumbbells.
While other venomous snakes may have similar patterns, the copperhead is the only species to have hourglass-shaped crossbands.
These snakes have white, yellow or light brown bellies with black, gray or brown spots or smudges. Their bodies are muscular and thick, and their scales are keeled. Their heads are shaped like an arrow and very distinct from their thin necks.
Copperheads have vertical pupils like cats' eyes , and their irises may be tan, orange or reddish-brown.
Geographic Location
Copperhead snakes can be found in the eastern United States as well as Texas and some parts of the Midwest.
4. Coral snakes
Coral snakes are a type of elapid snake, and there are two groups of these snakes: New World and Old World. There are 16 species of the Old World coral snake and more than 65 species of the New World coral snake. Not all species of the coral snake are venomous.
New World coral snakes are dangerous, and have one of the most potent venoms among all snakes in North America. Thankfully, very few bites have been recorded in history because these snakes are reclusive and tend to hang out in places where humans don't go.
Appearance and Behavior
Coral snakes have distinct black, red and yellow/white banding. They're relatively small in size. Most species in North America average three feet in length, but snakes up to five feet long have also been found.
The coral snake is not an aggressive species and will almost always try to flee. They only bite as a last resort, and their short fangs can't penetrate thick clothing.
But if a coral snake does bite you, you need to seek medical attention immediately. Their venom is a powerful neurotoxin that will paralyze your respiratory muscles in just a few hours. Large amounts of antivenom and mechanical respiration are required to save a victim's life.
One simple way to tell the difference between a venomous and non-venomous coral snake in the U.S. is to look at its colors.
There's a famous coral snake rhyme that basically teaches us:
- A red-yellow-black coral snake means it's probably venomous.
- Red and black means it's probably a harmless snake.
These generalizations don't apply to Old World coral snakes or New World coral snakes in South and Central America. Coral snakes eat other small snakes and lizards as well as frogs.
Geographic Location
Coral snakes tend to live in places sparsely populated by humans. They prefer the jungle or heavily forested areas, and they spend most of their time burrowed under the ground or underneath leaf piles.
Species of Old World coral snakes can be found in the following parts of the world:
- India
- Malaysia
- Singapore
- Thailand
- Indonesia
- Sri Lanka
- Cambodia
- Bangladesh
- Vietnam
- Laos
- Taiwan
- Nepal
- Myanmar
- China
- Ryukyu Islands
- Philippines
Species of the New World coral snake can be found in the following parts of the world:
- Mexico
- United States
- Sinaloa
- Nicaragua
- Panama
- Costa Rica
- Argentina
- Brazil
- Uruguay
- Columbia
- Ecuador
- Peru
- Bolivia
- Honduras
- Venezuela
How to Identify a Venomous Snake
Knowing the four venomous snakes in the United States is helpful – if you live there, or are traveling there. But if you're in any other part of the world, you may not know what to look or what types of snakes are poisonous.
Venomous snakes are different in their own ways, but do share some general characterisitics that can help you decide whether you're face-to-face with a deadly foe.
1. Consider Color Patterns
Many creatures in nature have what we call "warning colors" to let us know that they are dangerous. This same theory applies to poisonous snakes. Many species have bright colors that warn us to stay away.
The deadly coral snake, for example, has red and yellow bands, which are two colors we associate with danger or caution. The copperhead snake is copper or red in color.
Of course, there are exceptions to this rule, and some brightly-colored snakes are absolutely harmless. But generally speaking, snakes of one color are not venomous.
2. Look at the Head Shape
Poisonous snakes usually have triangular heads, while non-venomous snakes usually have round heads. The triangular shape is caused by the venom glands. Some harmless snakes can flatten their heads as a defensive mechanism, which can make their heads look triangular. And some species of coral snakes may have rounded heads because their venom glands are less noticeable.
3. Does it Have a Rattle?
Rattlesnakes account for most snakebite injuries in North America, so if you happen to be in that neck of the woods, be on the lookout for a rattle at the end of the tail.
But don't rely on the rattle alone when trying to identify a rattlesnake. These snakes develop their rattles as they shed their skin, and add on a new row of rattles with each shed. Younger poisonous snakes don't have rattles, but they can be just as dangerous.
Sometimes, the rattle can wear away over time, so an older poisonous snake may not have a rattle either.
4. Does the Snake Have a Heat Pit?
Many venomous species of snakes belong to the pit viper family, which means they have heat-sensing pits on their heads. These pits help them detect and follow prey by sensing heat.
Not all venomous snakes are pit vipers, however. The coral snake doesn't belong to this family and doesn't have a heat-sensing pit. But it's still a highly dangerous snake with a potentially fatal bite.
5. Be on the Lookout for Mimics
Some harmless species of snakes will mimic the patterns of venmous snakes to keep predators away. This smart tactic can help the species survive, but can also cause more humans to kill these non-venomous snakes. Non-venomous king and milk snakes look a lot like coral snakes. Rat snakes look like rattlesnakes.
The safe option is to treat every snake like it's a venomous snake. Don't try to handle it or get too close. Don't kill snakes either unless in self-defense. Killing non-venomous snakes just allows the venomous snake population and the rodent population to grow.
6. Look at the Eyes
Many species of venomous snakes have vertical pupils that look like cat eyes. Round pupils are most commonly seen in non-venomous snakes.
7. Look for a Heat-Sensing Pit Between the Eyes and Nostrils
The heat sensing pit we talked about earlier can be found between the eyes and nostrils of a snake.
Remember, non-venomous snakes will not have these pits.
8. Notice the Underside Scales on the Tip of the Tail
The scales on the underside of the snake's tail can help you tell whether the snake is venomous or harmless. Most species of venomous snakes have a single row of scales under the tail, whle non-venomous snakes usually have two.
9. Look at the Bottom of the Tail
If you can see the bottom of the snake's tail, you may be able to tell whether it's poisonous. Do not pick up the snake under any circumstances. With poisonous snakes, the bottom of the tail looks the same as the rest of the underbelly. If the snake has a diamond shape (or cross) pattern under its tail, it's probably harmless. You probably won't be able to check the bottom of the snake's tail (not safely) unless it's dead or hanging from a tree.
10. Watch Water Snakes Swim
There are both venomous and non-venomous species of water snakes. Only the venomous kind swims with its entire body visible on the water.
11. Examine the Bite Marks in Case of a Snake Attack
If you do happen to get bit by a snake, the bite marks may be able to tell you whether it was a venomous species.
A ragged bite mark usually indicates that the snake doesn't have fangs, which means it's not venomous.
But if you have two closely-set bite marks, it means the snake has fangs and is venomous.
Knowing the Exceptions
Just like anything else in life, there are exceptions to the venomous snake rules above.
Head Shapes Aren't Always a Tell-Tale Sign
Most venomous snakes have triangular heads, but not all do. The coral snake has a round-shaped head, but is highly venomous and potentially deadly if the bite isn't treated immediately. Also, some snakes may flatten their heads, which makes them look triangular, but they're non-venomous.
Colorful Snakes are Sometimes Non-Venomous
Many species of venomous snakes are colorful, but there are some that are just black or brown. Other colorful species are completely harmless. The scarlet king snake, the scarlet snake, the red milk snake and the corn snake are all brightly colored but non-venomous. Some poisonous water snakes are almost entirely black.
Venomous Snakes Sometimes Have Round Pupils
Average venomous snakes have vertical pupils that look similar to a cat's eye. But there are some venomous creatures that have round pupils, such as the inland taipan, the black mamba and the cobra.
Venomous Snakes from Other Countries
So far, we've focused mainly on venomous snakes in North America, but there are deadly species in other parts of the world, too. Let's take a closer look at venomous snakes in other countries.
1. Snakes in the UK
The Dangerous Adder
The adder, or common viper, is common in the UK, but is mostly found in the southern region of the nation.
These snakes have distinctive X- or V-shaped markings on their heads. They also have vertical pupils and zigzag stripes on their backs.
The adder's dark patches range from blue to gray and black. Its background color is usually gray, but can also be red or brown.
Adder bites aren't usually fatal, but they do require immediate medical attention. Thankfully, these snakes aren't aggressive unless they're disturbed or threatened.
2. Snakes in India
India is home to a few species of venomous snakes, including:
The Common Cobra
Associated with snake charmers and snakes in a basket, the cobra is a dangerous snake. If you're unlucky enough to get bitten by one, you'll need to seek medical attention immediately.
The cobra's potent venom is responsible for many deaths in India each year.
Cobras vary in size, from three to six feet in length. They have broad heads and can spread their hoods as a warning sign to stay away. Their colors can vary greatly depending on which part of India you're in.
Cobras in northern India are usually black or dark brown, while cobras in southern India are usually brown or yellow.
While these creatures are usually shy and would prefer not to bite, the cobra can strike repeatedly and with extreme precision.
Common Krait
The krait snake is a large snake that can grow between four and six feet long. Like many other venomous snakes, the krait's head is slightly broader than its neck. It has a depressed head with round snout. Its eyes are entirely black and small in size.
The krait's color pattern is one of its most distinctive features. This snake's body is black with white bands, and its scales are hexagonal.
Kraits prefer to hunt at night, and this is when they're most aggressive. But if you happen to catch one out during the day, they tend to be more docile.
Russel's Viper
The Russel's viper snake is highly venomous and will whistle like a pressure cooker as a warning before it strikes. If you happen to get bit by one of these snakes, you'll need to seek medical attention right away.
Russel's vipers have triangular heads with two triangular spots. Its eyes have vertical pupils, and its tongue is dark purple.
The snake's body has three rows of eye-shaped spots that are either black or brown in color.
Saw-Scaled Viper
One of the most common vipers in India, the saw-scaled viper varies in size (15″ to 30″ long) and comes in a variety of colors, from gray to red or dark brown.
These snakes are extremely aggressive if they're provoked, so stay far away if you see one. When they feel threatened, these snakes will make a saw-like sound by rubbing their scales together.
This species has one the quickest strikes in the world.
3. Snakes in Australia
Australia is home to some of the deadliest snakes in the world. Two of the most dangerous include:
Fierce Snake
Also known as the Taipan, the Fierce snake is known as the most deadly snake on the planet. It has the most potent venom of any snake species, but here's a surprising fact: there are no recorded deaths by this snake.
The Fierce snake can grow to be more than six feet long, and its color can vary from light straw to dark brown. Its color grows darker in the winter and lighter in the summer. The head of this snake can look black.
The Fierce snake can be found in the black soil plains near Queensland.
Eastern Brown Snake
The eastern brown snake causes the most snakebite deaths in Australia. These snakes would rather slither away than attack, but they will stand their ground if provoked.
This species of snake can grow to be six feet long, and can vary in color from dark brown to tan or gray. They have slender bellies with dark orange spots.
Not surprisingly, the eastern brown snake is found in eastern Australia. They live in woodland, grasslands and pastures.
If you happen to be bitten by one of these snakes, seek medical attention immediately.
Venomous snakes are highly dangerous creatures, but even with snake skin identification, it can be hard to tell whether the snake is poisonous until it's too late. Snake experts recommend leaving any and all snakes you meet in the wild alone. And if you happen to have snakes in your yard or home, it's best not to set a snake trap yourself and leave extermination to the experts.


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|Frances Stark's "Why should you not be able to assemble yourself and write." (Katrin Schilling)
An artist who labels herself
Frances Stark puts words to work, with wit
Frances Stark is obsessed with something akin to the problem we all face every time we set about achieving anything: How to filter out distractions, white noise, and the marginalia of the mind. How to make thoughts cohere.
Currently enjoying her first US museum survey at MIT's List Visual Arts Center, Stark is also obsessed — and here is where she differs from most of us — with how to make art.
Apparently, it's not easy. Or else it's almost ridiculously easy. Part of the fun of Stark's work is that she alternates between confounding and confirming our expectations of how much work is involved in producing a "work'' of art.
I have my reservations about the show, but it is a lot of fun. It is the first major endeavor for the List by its new curator, João Ribas. Setting aside the near-useless "catalog,'' a selection of Stark's writings with only partially legible marginalia by Ribas, it's a smart, sassy, full-throated beginning — altogether auspicious.
From her base in Los Angeles, Stark makes large, airy collages, and finicky, word-obsessed works. She also makes occasional videos (footage of her cats, mainly, with catchy soundtracks — very droll) and sculpture.
She strives, but not too hard (insouciance is integral to her approach) to produce work that transcends the banality of the everyday without, however, succumbing to pomp and self-importance.
The tension between the two — the lucidity, wit, and beauty of art versus the frustrations, false starts, and formlessness of life — makes her work endlessly surprising. Walking from work to work, you're never sure on which side of the fence she, and you, are going to fall.
One hilarious collage, for instance, "Oh god I'm so embarrassed,'' reproduces a fax sent by the artist Sean Landers to his gallery on the eve of an exhibition (sent, mind you, from the fax machine of another gallery). The artist starts out lamenting his inability to think up ideas for the exhibition invitation. Then, as the letter progresses, he is assailed by more serious doubts: " . . . it feels like I've totally lost my ability to make art,'' Landers writes. "Perhaps I'm under too much pressure I don't know . . . I keep wondering if I'm just a charleton [sic] . . . Oh god I'm so embarrassed.''
The faxed letter, though enlarged, is just one part of the collage. There are also winning visuals: a mustache and hat in graphic black, a striped wall, a folded-up umbrella.
Words — as meaningless typography, but also as personal statements, commentary, correspondence, and literature — play a huge part in all Stark's work. Unusually, and refreshingly, she even writes her own wall labels. They're concise but sneakily high-spirited blurbs, often with a helpful clue or two.
Her approach to language runs the gamut of possibilities. There are connections between her various approaches and the urban savvy of the Cubist collagists, the punning of the Dada artists, the poetry of the Surrealists, the irony of Pop, and the more cerebral antics of the Conceptualists.
One set of indecipherable squiggles arranged like columns of text reminded me of Cy Twombly's "Letter of Resignation,'' a similar — though infinitely more heartbreaking — set of crossed-out scrawls. But Stark's squiggles are interrupted at two points by neatly printed text. The first reads "ART AS EXPERIENCE,'' and the second, "HAVING AN EXPERIENCE.''
"Are we?'' we might wonder. "Having an experience?''
I guess so. But who knows how much to value it, or to whom one might recommend it? The work is typical of Stark's existential — not to say postmodern, and slyly comic — approach to the business of art-making.
One large, intricate work shows a female figure from above staring at a piece of paper. "Why should you not be able to assemble yourself and write'' is the poignant title. Poignant, because she is in fact assembled from collaged printed matter.
Another beautifully made collage has the arresting, E.E. Cummings-esque title "And brrrptzzap* the subject (* = scrambled).'' It shows a peacock made out of collaged paper with large letters in place of the usual O-shaped motif of the peacock's feathers.
In Greek mythology, those Os represent the hundred eyes of the all-seeing giant, Argus, transposed to the peacock by the goddess Hera when Argus was slain. The letters that have replaced those Os in Stark's work seem to denote the swarming, scrambled confusions of language, forever threatening the pleasures of seeing.
Stark's work has the kind of open-ended wit that encourages multiple interpretations. It's also alert (and this may be its strongest suit) to the possibility, even the likelihood, of failure.
Failure is a legitimate, even a rather grand, subject for art. (It's interesting to note that MIT Press and London's Whitechapel Gallery have just released a terrific compilation of writings on the theme of failure and its relation to contemporary art and thought.) But Stark's insistence on it — on failure not just in art but in love and life, too — occasionally overwhelms one's inclination to remain interested.
One characteristic work, "Toward a Score for 'Load every rift with ore,' '' includes a literary nod to the poet Keats, who advised Shelley to "curb your magnanimity and be more of an artist, and 'load every rift' of your subject with ore'' — a fond but still rather devastating piece of advice that calls to mind Degas's comment to his friend Whistler: "You behave as if you had no talent.''
What's amusing about Stark is that in her work she is constantly behaving as if she had no talent, or insufficient ore to mine. That's what her work is about, what it enacts, what it demonstrates. But over the course of a whole show, it can become wearying, inducing the same kind of exasperation Degas felt in the presence of Whistler.
Stark sees herself as a writer as well as an artist. Her head is filled with allusions to literature, poetry, films, and philosophy. One of her wall texts claims:
"Ideally you want to find yourself in a position that allows for you to have easy access to everything that has ever crossed your mind.'' The work, a tremendously odd but winning composition, is called "An Unfolding Soft Secretary with Finials.''
Like many of Stark's works, and like the wordplay of Francis Picabia and Marcel Duchamp, it has erotic as well as bookish overtones. Elsewhere in the show, a PowerPoint presentation on a laptop is suggestively called "Structures that Fit My Opening.'' The display of the title is accompanied by canned laughter.
The work combines text, photographs, and soundtrack. The text includes forlorn statements about Stark's "habit of loitering in the gaps between work and life'' and her longing for "ecstatic reciprocal attention-paying.''
Addressing these kinds of issues inevitably involves a certain amount of navel-gazing, which some people may find off-putting. But for the most part, Stark does more than just address them: She deepens them, adding layers of mischief, comedy, and pathos.
Indeed, most of the show's comedy derives from the tension between the narcissism and neediness of the artist and the seemingly insurmountable problem of finding inspiration in the midst of domestic drudgery and child-raising.
Among the works' more suggestive titles are "I went through my bin (again),'' "I must explain (again),'' and "This could become a gimick [sic] or an honest articulation of the workings of the mind.''
The latter is also the show's title. It derives from some marginalia written on Page 20 of "The Voyeur,'' a novel by Alain Robbe-Grillet. The work is a carbon transfer on rice paper. Stark has copied out both the text of Page 20 and the marginalia.
Is the resulting work a gimmick, or "an honest articulation of the workings of the mind''?
Perhaps it's something more? Perhaps it's art.
Sebastian Smee can be reached at email@example.com.
CORRECTION: An earlier version of this review misidentified João Ribas's position. Ribas is the curator at MIT's List Visual Arts Center.


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