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Potsdam. The ability to create and secure trust on the Internet is the topic that leading scientists and economic experts will be examining on the 22nd and 23rd of March at an international symposium to be held at the Potsdam Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI). Experts from all over the world will be looking at ways in which to intelligently transfer processes of trust building in personal communication to the interaction taking place among computers in the network.
"The recent CeBIT with its principle theme of Managing Trust shows that building and strengthening trust are becoming increasingly important areas in handling the Internet and IT technical systems," said HPI Director, Prof. Christoph Meinel, Head of the Department of Internet Technologies and Systems. Meinel highlighted the opportunity which presents itself in assembling worldwide leading scientists and economic experts for a trust management symposium in Germany.
Among the experts in Potsdam will be, among others, both authors of the book, "Building Web Reputation Systems," Randy Farmer and Bryce Glass. Speakers from the corporate sector include members of the companies IBM, General Electric and SAP. Principle talks will be given by scientists from Hasso Plattner Institute, the Universities of Bayreuth, Oslo, Helsinki, Naples, Kent and Sussex, as well as from other research institutes, for example The Fraunhofer Institute (FOKUS).
For more information see http://www.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/meinel/lehrstuhl/symposia/trust_management_symposium.html.
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Sundance Film Review: 'Misery Loves Comedy'
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Actor Kevin Pollak lines up the stars for his directorial debut, "Misery Loves Comedy," a documentary exploration that cuts loose without ever cutting deep. While Pollak poses some provocative questions behind the camera — including the inquiry that inspires the title, "Do you have to be miserable to be funny?" — his parade of celebrity talking heads only skim the surface of the comedic mind. Packing far more laughs than your average doc, the Tribeca Film acquisition could generate limited theatrical interest but seems a more logical fit for premium cable or digital outlets.
The opportunity to collect amusing anecdotes from the likes of Christopher Guest, Larry David, Martin Short, Steve Coogan and Tom Hanks is as good as any reason to make a film, but Pollak positions this project as if he's up to something more. "Do you think emotionally questionable people are drawn to standup/performing?" Guest reads aloud from Pollak's question list in the opening montage. It's one query among many that "Misery Loves Comedy" flirts with without ever quite answering, or even exploring in a substantial fashion.
Lining up well-known comedians to riff on tragedy as the basis for comedy is a sharp idea, and a documentary doesn't need to become a full-fledged therapy session to tease out the connective tissues. But Pollak proves too distracted by his subjects, or perhaps too inclusive on the invite list, to hone in on a meaningful thesis.
Some of the subjects are clearly willing to take the plunge: Nick Swardson talks frankly about entering rehab as a teenager, Maria Bamford touchingly explains the relief at letting go of the shame over spending time in a psychiatric facility, and Short spins a rueful and witty tale of suffering a minor nervous breakdown over the success of a peer (Bill Murray, if you're into name-checking, as Pollak seems to be).
The subject of addiction comes up time and again, but feels weirdly skewed toward the concept of performance as its own addiction. It's symbolic of the film overall that current "Tonight Show" host Jimmy Fallon spends the most time discussing the highs of making people laugh, without ever saying anything to dispel his happy-go-lucky image.
Ultimately, the pic's biggest selling point — all these famous faces, perfect to list en masse on a poster or VOD cast list — also works against it. There's a haphazard quality to who turns up (Sam Rockwell and William H. Macy are fine actors, but really? And why Jason Reitman exactly?), and a frustrating inconsistency to the quality of the conversations. Freddie Prinze Jr. is open and honest about the suicide of his actor-comedian father, but since he was barely a year old at the time and went down a different path himself, he's a questionable spokesman for the dark side of comedians.
Some participants are barely onscreen (Lisa Kudrow, Whoopi Goldberg, Kevin Smith), and others dominate without adding much in the way of insight. While tech credits are generally pro, the interview with David appears to have been captured on the fly via a low-definition camera, and included simply for name value.
The more faces that appear, the more difficult it is to ignore that we're hearing overwhelmingly from white men, adding to the feeling that the film is basically an excuse to hang out with the old boys' club instead of learning anything revealing about the members. Whatever it might take to get these admittedly very funny people to truly bare their souls, Pollak doesn't appear to have found it.
Sundance Film Review: 'Misery Loves Comedy'
Reviewed at UTA screening room, Los Angeles, Jan. 13, 2015. (In Sundance Film Festival — Special Events.) Running time: 94 MIN.
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Directed by Kevin Pollak. Written by John Varhous, Pollak. Camera (color, HD), Adam McDaid; editors, Rob Legato, Pollak, Dylan King; sound, Brett Brooke, David Hocs, Kahung Chu, Beau Gourley; re-recording mixers, Steve Urban, Karol Urban; associate producer, Robin Garvick, Mickey Cucchiella, Jim Vail, Ryan Eaton; line producer, Joe Roddey.
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Ever wondered if you had an accent? When you hear other people talk and hear their accent it makes you think if other people hear an accent when you talk.
I saw this link-up idea floating around the idea from Juliette and Allie and since it has been awhile since you have all heard my pretty voice, I wanted to participate. Plus, I want to really know if I have an accent.
Excuse the awkward angle, my rambling and any other quirkiness. As I said, it's been awhile.
4. What is it called when you throw toilet paper on a house?
5. What is a bubbly carbonated drink called?
6. What do you call gym shoes?
9. What is the thing you change the TV channel with?
10. What is the bug that when you touch it, it rolls into a ball? How about the one that lights up at night?
11. What do you say to address a group of people?
12. Do you speak any other languages? If so, say something in that language(s).
13. Do you think you have an accent?
14. End by saying any 3 words you want.
Let me hear your accent!
haha I figured I hadn't picked up the southern jersey just yet!
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As public health organizations issue dire warnings about the rising threat of antibiotic-resistant superbugs, a surprising hero may rush in just in time to save the day. A new study has found that cannabidiol (commonly known as CBD) is remarkably effective at killing a wide range of Gram-positive bacteria.
Antibiotics have saved millions of lives since their widespread use began many decades ago. Infections that were once a death sentence were easily treated with the medications.
Unfortunately, many antibiotics are now becoming ineffective because bacteria have become resistant to the drugs – they have mutated into "superbugs" that are becoming nearly impossible to treat.
Thankfully, CBD may offer a solution.
Before we talk about the antibiotic properties of CBD, here's a brief overview of the substance and how it works.
What is CBD and how does it work?
Cannabidiol, or CBD, is a non-intoxicating natural medicine that is derived from the Cannabis sativa plant.
CBD is a fascinating compound that has tremendous therapeutic value. It is one of over 100 compounds found in Cannabis sativa plants that belong to a class of ingredients called cannabinoids.
Cannabinoids are a diverse set of chemical compounds that bind to special receptors in the human body that make up what is known as the endocannabinoid system.
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Dr. Edith Vane, scholar of English literature, is contentedly ensconced at the University of Inivea. Her dissertation on African-Canadian pioneer housewife memoirist Beulah Crump-Withers is about to be published, and her job's finally safe, if she only can fill out her AAO properly. She's a little anxious, but a new floral blouse and her therapist's repeated assurance that she is the architect of her own life should fix that. All should be well, really. Except for her broken washing machine, her fickle new girlfriend, her missing friend Coral, her backstabbing fellow professors, a cutthroat new dean – and the fact that the sentient and malevolent Crawley Hall has decided it wants them all out, and the hall and its hellish hares will stop at nothing to get rid of them.
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What another amazing turnout on Sunday for the third event of our Super Sprint Triathlon Series .
It was pleasing to see women outnumber men on the start line, a real positive for our club! We again had a number of new members participate for the first time (welcome), as well as have some familiar faces make a reappearance (welcome back).
A big thank you to RD James Geddes and his early morning helpers Phill & Jack Hatty for their efforts. A big thank you to rego regulars Gayle Viney and Alan Barrett and also to Billy Lynch & Stef Puszka who are getting rave reviews for their post race refreshment spread!
Thanks also to those who jumped in and assisted on the day. We have brilliant volunteers we all appreciate their contribution to our events.
If you haven't yet helped out, check the roster here for a vacancy and email your preferred date & position. If everyone goes on roster just once a year, all our positions will be covered.
While we were making our way around beautiful East Point, Hannah Johnston, Jac Crofton and Corinne Fabian were battling the famous lava fields on the Big Island of Hawaii. Our hats off to our latest members to compete at Ironman World Championships and experience that magic Ali'i Drive finish line, awesome efforts all round!
1. Our juniors are looking forward to their swim bike run event this weekend at Lake Alexander.
2. Distances and formats to suit age & ability.
3. Start time 7:30am. Be early for registration and set up.
1. Entry for this event closes midday Friday 23 October 2015 to allow volunteers to confirm handicap start times for all participants and organise start groups. No late entry.
2. If you did not participate in one of the recent Super Sprint Series of events which will be used to calculate handicaps, don't worry, you can still enter. A start group will be allocated.
3. Unfortunately we have had a few people turning up late to registration. Please note check in closes at 6:45am.
4. Our registration volunteers are usually participants themselves so it is inconsiderate to expect them to cater to latecomers.
5. For those stragglers strolling in, no on time registration will = no race. Set your alarms five minutes earlier please.
1. Darwin City Council want your thoughts on community play space.
2. Did you ride to work for Ride2Work Day? You probably racked on our club racks if you attended the breakfast in town.
3. The Northern Territory Government is calling on us to share our views to help build a road map for the future of sport and recreation in the NT via "A shout out to Territorians".
4. On my tri dream list is a facility that has a swim basin (perhaps shared with rowing) surrounded by a crit track (share with cycling) and a run track and I'll be letting them know that. What's yours?
5. To give your views (and we would love you to use this chance to have NTG consider triathlon) please complete the online survey here .
6. We have John Thyne participating at Melbourne Marathon this weekend & Clare McVeity and Gary Wall lining up for the Half Marathon. Good luck!
7. Did you know you have a chance to win a Challenge Roth spot at Challenge Shepparton (15 Nov 15)?
8. Not familiar with Challenge Roth? Check out this video.
9. Our club is registered under the Ironman Triathlon Club program so do add Darwin Triathlon Club to your registration when you enter an Ironman or 70.3 event.
10. Thanks Emma Winterflood for retrieving one of our club signs inadvertently left on the bike course.
11. With all eyes turning to athlete tracking at Kona and the super effort being put in by Jac, Hannah & Corinne, people started to ask who, what, where & when and I was approached for some Kona "facts".
As a bit of a club history buff and as records were very sketchy when I joined all those years ago, I've keep track of results since and also researched (as far as I'm able) historical info. I've had lots of interesting chats with Alan Stancombe, Ernie Koch, Brian Gallagher & Anthony Beven (to name a few) about club history and some members have also loaned me items of interest so I could copy and add to my personal collection.
So since posting some info to our Facebook page at the weekend, I've checked further and come up with what I believe to be a list of our members who have competed at Kona.
You can view that list here.
Do keep in mind this list is of those who were DTC members at the time of competing. The pre 2000 results may or may not be complete. I would love to hear from anyone with any further info on Kona results. If you believe any result is incorrect please email so a correction can be made. Enjoy!
12. Huge congrats again to Hannah, Jac and Corinne on their results at the weekend and for conquering those Kona lava fields so well. We are all immensely proud & impressed, that you all - firstly qualified, secondly that you made it to the start line (a real feat in itself) and thirdly that you all proudly represented our club so well. Enjoy your recovery!
13. Lastly, it has been announced that IM Australia & IM 70.3 Port Macquarie will both be held on same date - 1 May 2016.
I think from that smile, it is fair to say Corinne was super excited & happy to reach the finish chute at Hawaii!


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new <wbr>Permission<wbr>Service(sessionService: SessionService): PermissionService

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query(type: PermissionType, session?: SessionPort): Promise<PermissionState>

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Query current state of permission

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Default value session: SessionPort = this.sessionService.manager

Returns Promise<PermissionState>

A Promise that resolves to the current state of the permission

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revoke(type: PermissionType): Promise<PermissionState>

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Revoke permissions

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Q: How do I transfer data from a text box to a label in JavaScript I'm doing a project for school in which I need to transfer data from a text-box into label 'data'? how do i do so? this is my code, the work for this project was done over a previous lab for that class, so the codes under the listeners are not for this lab. I just need help with "EDlistener". I tried but get "java:89: error: unreachable statement", please keep in my mind while answering, that I'm only just a beginner. Thanks.
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;

public class panelFinal extends JPanel
{

private JLabel label2;
private JLabel labelData, labelMean,   LabelStan;  //field
private JTextField box; //field
private JCheckBox click;
private int dataNumber;
private String dataStr[] = new String [50];
private int data1[] = new int [50];
private int data2[] = new int [51];
private String dataString;

public panelFinal()
{
  setLayout (null);

  JButton EnterData = new JButton ("Enter Data");
  EnterData.addActionListener (new EDListener());
  EnterData.setBounds(10,10,100,40);
  add(EnterData);

  JButton Statistics = new JButton ("Statistics");
  Statistics.addActionListener (new SListener ());
  Statistics.setBounds(120,10,100,40);
  add(Statistics);

  JButton Graphdata = new JButton ("Graph data");
  Graphdata.addActionListener (new GListener ());
  Graphdata.setBounds(230,10,100,40);
  add(Graphdata);

  JButton quit = new JButton ("Quit");
  quit.addActionListener (new quitListener ());
  quit.setBounds(340,10,100,40);
  add(quit);

  box = new JTextField ("", 60);
  box.setHorizontalAlignment (SwingConstants.LEFT);
  box.setBounds(10,55,450,22);
  add(box);

  labelData = new JLabel ("Data:");
  labelData.setHorizontalAlignment (SwingConstants.LEFT);
  labelData.setForeground(Color.blue);
  labelData.setFont(new Font("Serif", Font.BOLD, 20));
  labelData.setBounds(10,80,200,20);
  add(labelData);

  labelMean = new JLabel ("Mean:");
  labelMean.setHorizontalAlignment (SwingConstants.LEFT);
  labelMean.setForeground(Color.blue);
  labelMean.setFont(new Font("Serif", Font.BOLD, 20));
  labelMean.setBounds(10,115,200,20);
  add(labelMean);

  LabelStan = new JLabel ("Standard Deviation:");
  LabelStan.setHorizontalAlignment (SwingConstants.LEFT);
  LabelStan.setForeground(Color.blue);
  LabelStan.setFont(new Font("Serif", Font.BOLD, 20));
  LabelStan.setBounds(10,145,200,20);
  add(LabelStan);

}
private class EDListener implements ActionListener
{
  public void actionPerformed (ActionEvent e)
  {
     String test;
     test = box.getText();

     if ( test.equals("") );
     return;

    String dataString = "Data:";
     dataStr = box.getText().split("\\a");
     dataNumber = dataStr.length;

     for (int i=0; i<=dataNumber-1; i++)
     {
        data1[i] = Integer.parseInt(dataStr[i]);

        if (data1[i] < 50)
           data1[i] = 50;

        dataString =  dataString + dataStr[i];
        if (i != dataNumber-1)
           dataString = dataString + ", ";
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     labelData.setText(dataString);
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A: You can use the getText() method on the textfield to get the text as a string, and setText(String) on the label to set it.

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Home /NEWS/Ed-infra startup Teachmint launches in 25 countries; set to go live in more soon
Ed-infra startup Teachmint launches in 25 countries; set to go live in more soon
Teachmint, education infrastructure startup and the creator of India's largest teaching platform, today announced the launch of its teaching platform in 25 countries across South-East Asia and the Middle East in countries like Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, UAE, Saudi Arabia among others. With this, Teachmint aims to empower educators across all these countries to become future-ready powered by Teachmint's proprietary, mobile-first classroom technology. This also makes Teachmint the only Indian education-SaaS company to expand internationally at this scale.
Available on both Google Play Store and App Store, Teachmint's teaching platform has also been localized in languages like Arabic, Thai, Indonesian Bahasa and Vietnamese to better meet the needs of educators in the region, with more languages to follow soon. The platform has witnessed significant adoption so far from over 100,000 users in just a few weeks. The company plans to exponentially increase this in the next few months with the rollout of several classroom features which further boost digital and hybrid learning infrastructure.
Commenting on this development, Mihir Gupta, CEO & Co-Founder, Teachmint said, "Since inception, we have been solving a universal problem statement in education with our innovation in teaching-learning infrastructure. Expanding to international markets has been a natural extension for our product. We have been receiving a lot of inbound requests from teachers and other stakeholders in these geographies, and it delights me to share that we are now ready to revolutionize their teaching journey."
Teachmint has also witnessed an increasing trend of cross-border tutoring, and their international expansion offers this opportunity to 1+ million Teachmint teachers in India by enabling them to expand their student base to international markets and vice versa for teachers of other geographies.
"The significance of mobile as a more affordable form of technology for millions of children is potentially changing the face of education. Over the past year, a majority of our teachers in India have expanded their classrooms to at least some students outside of their immediate city. With our international expansion, we are thrilled to open up newer possibilities and enable teachers to create truly global classrooms," added Mihir.
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Can Backpacks Save Our Birds?
August 5, 2013 by Aries Munandi
Cornell birders who are trying to track migrating birds to see how their paths have changed through global warming are working on a solution to a big problem. How do you power the tiny sensors needed on the birds to make precise tracking possible? Their solution – Use the movement of the wings to produce the electric current to run the sensors. (Cornell University)
So you want to know where birds go to escape the powerful winds such as those that ravaged the Atlantic seaboard during superstorm Sandy? Curious about how tiny hummingbirds fly all the way across the Gulf of Mexico every year as they return to their nesting area? Puzzled about how migrating birds will survive global climate change that could destroy their precious wetlands?
Find out by putting backpacks on some of the birds, backpacks crammed full of sensors that will record their every move and transmit all that data back to scientists who could learn a lot about flying critters that many claim are modern dinosaurs.
Is it really possible to put what amounts to a portable lab on the back of a songbird, or even an eagle? Scientists and engineers in numerous labs are betting they can do just that, and the data they expect to collect could revolutionize our thinking about our fine feathered friends.
"This is going to be hugely useful," ornithologist Andrew Farnsworth of Cornell University said in a telephone interview. "We'll see some real novel things birds are doing that we didn't think they were doing." Much of the technology is already available, and Farnsworth wants to see backpacks that can track "where the bird is over the course of its journey from wherever it originates to its destination." He wants details, and he wants them as close to real time as possible.
That's a tall order, but across the campus one of his colleagues, Michael Shafer of Cornell's Intelligent Machine Systems Laboratory, is working on a key problem that has to be resolved before Farnsworth's dreams can come true. The sensors that can collect the data, the microcontrollers that can log it and transmit it back to the lab, are already available.
But energy is the hog that could kill the bird.
"You can't put a nine-volt battery on a bird," since the battery would weigh more than a lot of birds, Shafer said. The solution, he said in a telephone interview, is to make the bird supply its own electricity. To see if that's possible, Shafer recruited a pigeon to see if he could build a backpack loaded with instruments that wouldn't cause the bird to flip over on its back and crash to the ground. He knew the package could weigh no more than 4 percent of the weight of the bird.
That was the easy part. The pigeon hardly noticed that it had a hitchhiker on its back.
So he equipped it with a piezoelectric device that can convert mechanical energy into electric energy. As the pigeon flies, its body moves conversely to the motion of the wings. When the wings go up, the body moves slightly down, and when they go down, the body moves slightly up.
That was more than enough to cause a man-made crystal to produce a current in a process first demonstrated in 1880 by the famous Curie brothers, Pierre and Jacques. The amount of acceleration, or movement, of the pigeon's body in response to the flapping wings was "kind of shocking" to Shafer and his colleagues.
What's remarkable about this is the entire device was built in the Cornell lab with "off the shelf stuff," he added, "but we made a lot of modifications to suit our needs."
He's confident that a custom made device would perform much better, and he thinks it's possible that even hummingbirds could be outfitted with backpacks, although the larger the bird, the easier the task. What hummingbirds lack in mass, however, they may make up for with the incredibly rapid movement of their wings.
However, there's still no such thing as free energy, and the real challenge will be to ensure the device serves its purpose without creating an unacceptable burden for the bird. Lots of similar efforts have failed for that very reason.
The Department of Defense, for instance, had hoped to create small piezoelectric devices that could convert a soldier's boots to electric generators to power all the gizmos that modern soldiers carry. It worked, but unfortunately, those boots had to keep on walking.
The Pentagon decided the soldiers spent more energy moving their feet than they got back from the device, and the program was abandoned.
The sensors used to monitor birds are very energy efficient, partly because of their simplicity. It's possible to determine a bird's latitude simply by knowing the length of the day, sunrise to sunset. The big energy drain is transmission of the data back to the scientists, but there are ways to limit that as well.
In less than a second a microcontroller can transmit an enormous amount of data, so it doesn't have to be on very often, Shafer said.
Farnsworth, the ornithologist, remains confident that these devices will soon be common, and very useful, especially when climate change could pose major problems for migrating birds.
Of course, birds plan their lives around seasonal climate change, moving from one area to another to take advantage of different resources. That's why many of them migrate.
But one huge question remains, according to Farnsworth. How quickly can they adapt to change on a global scale, and what can be done to help them? Maybe the answer lies in a backpack.
Source: Abcnews.go.com
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Turning out lights in Detroit for migrating birds
March 7, 2013 by Aries Munandi
If we're lucky, we can catch a glimpse of a migrating bird or two as they pick their way north, but most pass over without us ever knowing.
Credit NPS.gov
The Cornell Lab of Ornithology describes it this way in their Round Robin blog:
An invisible river of animals, rivaling any scene from the Serengeti but consisting of half-ounce birds that pass quietly overhead, in the dark.
Michigan gets it fair share of birds passing overhead in the dark.
We're part of the Atlantic and Mississippi flyways, and while no one knows exactly how birds do it, researchers do know birds use light to help them migrate.
In today's Detroit News we hear how General Motors is encouraging its workers to turn off the lights in the Renaissance Center.
Lights from buildings can confuse the birds and throw them off-course.
The number of deaths caused by nighttime building collisions is in the tens of millions according to the American Bird Conservancy.
The News reports GM has been recognized by the Detroit Audubon Society for its efforts:
GM encourages employees to turn off their lights at night during spring and fall migrations, from March to May and August to October…
GM has been part of the Safe Passage Great Lakes program for seven years, Kelsey said. This is its first award.
We often don't think of these migrating birds because we can't see them.
You can see a video of migratory birds caught in city lights in Chicago. It was put together by Chicago Bird Collision Monitors, a volunteer bird rescue group.
And in the Round Robin Blog, Cornell Lab scientist Andrew Farnsworth was on hand to count migratory birds as they passed through the shafts of light beamed into the sky over New York:
Credit Greg Chow / Creative Commons
In all he saw at least 2,000 birds and heard the faint chip notes of many more. He identified 28 species passing overhead and at times flying through the beams of light, where the rush of bodies looked like flurries of snow, he said.
Some make it over a city, some don't.
These birds didn't make it in Toronto:
Credit Kenneth Herdy / FLAP
If you want to do something to cut down on nighttime bird-building collisions, Chicago Bird Collision Monitors has these tips:
At minimum – Extinguish or dim display lighting, including spotlighting, decorative, advertising and rooftop lighting, on buildings over forty (40) stories from 11:00 p.m. until sunrise during designated spring and fall migration periods
What's desired – Install efficient shield lighting for all exterior lighting fixtures, including decorative, advertising, and security lighting. Light focused downward, eliminating direct upward light and reducing spill light
And the best practice – Eliminate display lighting, including spotlighting, decorative, advertising, and rooftop lighting
sources : michiganradio.org
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INDIVIDUAL FINCH FORECASTS
February 20, 2013 by Ronggo
PINE GROSBEAK ( map ): A good flight is expected into southern Ontario because the mountain‐ash berry crop is variable in the boreal forest. Many berries are hard with low moisture content because of the drought. The European mountain-ash and ornamental crabapple crops are poor to fair in southern Ontario so these crops won't last long. Grosbeaks will be attracted to the usually abundant buckthorn berries and to bird feeders offering black oil sunflower seeds. The Ontario breeding population of this grosbeak is stable.
PURPLE FINCH ( map ): Most Purple Finches will migrate south of Ontario this fall because both coniferous and deciduous hardwood seed crops are very low this year in the Northeast. Purple Finch numbers dropped significantly in recent decades as spruce budworm outbreaks subsided and currently a moderate population decline continues in the province.
RED CROSSBILL ( map ): Red Crossbills comprise at least 10 "types" in North America. Each type probably represents a separate or newly evolving species. Most types are normally impossible to identify in the field without recordings of their flight calls. Matt Young of The Cornell Lab of Ornithology reports that there is currently a large early irruption of Type 3 Red Crossbills (smallest billed type) from the west into eastern North America. Recordings can be made with a cell phone and sent to Matt to be identified (may6 AT cornell.edu). Every recording adds an important piece to the puzzle, especially when accompanied by notes on behaviour and ecology, including tree species used for foraging and nesting. Matt emphasizes that the conservation of call types depends on understanding their complex distributions and ecological requirements.
WHITE-WINGED CROSSBILL ( map ): With very poor spruce cone crops in the Northeast, most White-winged Crossbills will likely stay this winter in the Hudson Bay Lowlands, northwestern Ontario and western Canada where spruce cone crops are generally very good. They will be virtually absent from traditional hotspots such as Algonquin Park where spruce crops are very low. Wandering birds may show up throughout the Northeast.
COMMON REDPOLL ( map ): There should be a good southward flight because the white birch seed crop is poor to fair across the north. Watch for redpolls on birches and in weedy fields and at bird feeders offering nyger (preferred) and black oil sunflower seeds. Check flocks for the rare "Greater" Common Redpoll (subspecies rostrata) from the High Arctic. It is reliably identified by its larger size, darker and browner colour, longer/thicker bill and longer tail in direct comparison to "Southern" Common Redpolls (nominate flammea subspecies). Note: The notion of a "biennial periodicity" that redpolls irrupt south every second winter is not supported by records in Atlantic Canada (Erskine and McManus 2003). The authors concluded that "irregular abundance but near-annual occurrence" of redpolls in the Atlantic Provinces is a better explanation than a two year cycle. Similarly redpolls were recorded on 32 of 38 Christmas Bird Counts in Algonquin Park (Lat. 45.5 N), Ontario.
HOARY REDPOLL ( map ): Check redpoll flocks for Hoary Redpolls. There are two subspecies. Most Hoaries seen in southern Canada and northern United States are "Southern" Hoary Redpolls (subspecies exilipes). "Hornemann's" Hoary Redpoll (nominate subspecies hornemanni) from the High Arctic was previously regarded as a great rarity in southern Canada and the northern United States. In recent decades a number have been confirmed by photographs. Hornemann's is most reliably identified by its larger size in direct comparison to flammea Common Redpoll or exilipes Hoary Redpoll. Caution: White birds loom larger than life among darker birds and size illusions are frequent.
PINE SISKIN ( map ): Some siskins currently in the Northeast should move south this fall and winter because cone crops are poor. However, siskins are an opportunistic nomad wandering east and west continent-wide in search of cone crops. Most siskins will probably winter in northwestern Ontario and western Canada where cone crops are generally very good. Major southward irruptions occur when cone crops fail across most of North America.
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'Get Off My Lawn:' Song Sparrows Escalate Territorial Threats
Territorial song sparrows use increasingly threatening signals to ward off trespassing rivals. First an early warning that matches the intruder's song, then wing waving — a bird's version of "flipping the bird" — as the dispute heats up, and finally, if all other signals have failed, attack.
This hierarchical warning scheme, discovered by researchers at the University of Washington, adds nuance to a communication system that has been long-used as a model to study how people use and learn language
"This is one of the most complicated communication systems outside of human language," said lead author Çağlar Akçay, who did the study as a UW graduate student. He is now a postdoctoral researcher at Cornell University.
"Here we find that if a sparrow matches the intruder's song as the intruder invades his territory, this almost always predicts that he will eventually attack the intruder," Akçay said.
The study, published online this month in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, is the first evidence that song-matching is used as an early warning signal. Previous studies had hinted, but had not clearly established, that song-matching is a threat signal.
"We succeeded here because we recognized that song-matching is an early warning signal," said co-author Michael Beecher, a UW professor of psychology. "We designed our experiment to simulate an escalating intrusion by another song sparrow, so that our subject would begin with low-level threat signals before switching to higher-level threat signals."
A male song sparrow (Melospiza melodia) will defend his territory against any male song sparrow that intrudes. He has a repertoire of eight to 10 songs that he uses to attract mates, post his territory, communicate with neighbors, and, as in the newest study, threaten an intruder.
The researchers recorded songs from 48 sparrows living in Discovery Park in Seattle. To feign an intruder, they perched a stuffed song sparrow in a bush or tree and played the recorded song.
The song was first played just outside of the sparrow's territory. Believing the song to come from a hidden aggressor close to their home turf, the provoked bird sang and approached the speaker.
The song was then played from a different speaker placed 20 meters (60 feet) inside his boundary, which simulated movement by the rival into the territory. At the same time, the researchers uncovered the stuffed sparrow just above the speaker, with its beak posed as if it was singing.
It was enough to fool the live birds. Many of the sparrows responded first by matching the intruder's song. When the simulated intruder moved into the territory and persisted in singing, the defending sparrow progressed to higher-level warnings including soft songs and wing waves.
Soft song is not lullaby-like, but is perceived as menacing by enemies. Wing waving, a vigorous vibrating of one wing at a time, likewise looks harmless enough, but it too is an assertive signal.
When the stuffed bird did not react to those higher-level warning signals, the live bird attacked (see video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wgmqNvofW0).
"Birds generally do all this signaling," Akçay said, "because it's usually beneficial to avoid getting into a fight if it can be avoided. There are less costly ways to persuade an aggressor to back down."
Most of the sparrows in the study, 31out of 48, eventually attacked. Birds who had song-matched were the mostly likely to attack.
Not all birds showed the same pattern of signaling. A few "bluffers" matched the trespasser's song without following through with an attack. Some others — labeled "under-signalers" by the researchers — attacked without giving warning signals.
The researchers are studying these behavioral subtypes now, and have collected evidence that these birds, like humans, have personalities that shape their behavior in distinctive ways.
"These kinds of field studies provide context for laboratory research that uses bird song learning as an animal model for exploring the brain mechanisms of learning," Beecher said. "Using bird song as a model system without understanding its natural social context would be like studying the neural basis of language without any idea of what humans use their language for."
Other co-authors are Mari Tom, a recent UW graduate, and Elizabeth Campbell, a research technician at the UW. The National Science Foundation funded the study.
Source http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130211090928.htm
Posted in General.	Tagged birding community, Cornell University, news, North America, Reference
New Bird Species Discovered in 'Cloud Forest' of Peru
February 4, 2013 by Ronggo
A colorful, fruit-eating bird with a black mask, pale belly and scarlet breast — never before described by science — has been discovered and named by Cornell University graduates following an expedition to the remote Peruvian Andes.
The Sira Barbet, Capito fitzpatricki, is described in a paper published in the July 2012 issue of The Auk, the official publication of the American Ornithologists' Union.
The new species was discovered during a 2008 expedition led by Michael G. Harvey, Glenn Seeholzer and Ben Winger, young ornithologists who had recently graduated from Cornell at the time. They were accompanied by co-author Daniel Cáceres, a graduate of the Universidad Nacional de San Agustín in Arequipa, Peru, and local Ashéninka guides. The team discovered the barbet on a ridge of montane cloud forest in the Cerros del Sira range in the eastern Andes. Steep ridges and deep river gorges in the Andes produce many isolated habitats and microclimates that give rise to uniquely evolved species.
Though clearly a sister species of the Scarlet-banded Barbet, the Sira Barbet is readily distinguished by differences in color on the bird's flanks, lower back and thighs, and a wider, darker scarlet breast band. By comparing mitochondrial DNA sequences of the new barbet to DNA sequences of its close relatives in the genus Capito, the team secured genetic evidence that this is a new species in the barbet family. The genetic work was done by co-author Jason Weckstein at The Field Museum in Chicago.
The team chose the scientific name of the new species Capito fitzpatricki in honor of Cornell Lab of Ornithology executive director John W. Fitzpatrick, who discovered and named seven new bird species in Peru during the 1970s and '80s.
"Fitz has inspired generations of young ornithologists in scientific discovery and conservation," said Winger. "He was behind us all the way when we presented our plan for this expedition."
The 2008 expedition was made possible by funding from a special gift to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and donations to the Lab's student World Series of Birding team, Rawlings Cornell Presidential Research Scholars, National Geographic Young Explorers' Grant, and the Explorers Club
Posted in General.	Tagged Capito fitzpatricki, Cornell University, new bird species, news, Peru, Scarlet-banded Barbet, Sira Barbet, South America
Tracking the Flight of Birds, With Tiny Backpacks
Birds are famous for airborne speed and endurance. Some have been clocked flying 60 miles per hour or more. Others make annual migrations from Alaska to New Zealand, nonstop. But for scientists, tracking birds as they perform those feats has been an intractable problem. Now researchers think they have cracked it with a novel device — a tiny bird backpack that contains sophisticated sensors and weighs less than a dime.
The new technology has opened up vast new possibilities for bird researchers. Already, it is yielding surprising findings — for example, that some birds fly even faster than previously thought. But its real importance, biologists say, is the opportunity to unlock mysteries of bird migration that could help preserve species threatened by habitat loss and climate change.
"We knew that purple martins went to Brazil and wood thrush went to Central America," said Bridget J. M. Stutchbury, a biologist at York University in Toronto, who with colleagues fitted birds from the species with the sensors and mapped their migrations last year. "But the details of how an individual gets there, what routes they take, how fast they fly, how often they stop to rest — these are the kinds of details we have never been able to have."
The research, reported Friday in the journal Science, involved 34 birds, but only 7 were recovered with their sensors. Still, the work "is an important step," said David W. Winkler, an ornithologist at the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, where he said researchers were developing similar techniques. "This represents a whole new level of accuracy," Dr. Winkler said.
The tracking system relies on instruments called solar geolocators that collect and store data on where the birds are in relation to the sun. Researchers remove the sensors, download the information and calculate where the birds were, and when they were there.
"If the bird were on a hillside you'd get a slightly wrong time," Dr. Stutchbury said. "If it were a cloudy day you would get a slightly wrong time. But these devices are accurate enough, within 5 or 10 kilometers," about 3 to 6 miles.
Bird migration is a subject of fascination for scientists and the public alike. Jacques Perrin's 2003 film, "Winged Migration," which used remote control gliders and ultralight aircraft to follow birds as they traveled the globe, attracted a large cult following. But while much is known about where birds nest and where they spend the winter, figuring out how they get from point A to point B has been a challenge that, over all, researchers have been unable to meet, especially for small species like songbirds.
Researchers have tried banding birds' legs, tracking flocks with radar and even using satellites, all to little avail. The new system was developed by engineers at the British Antarctic Survey for use tracking wandering albatrosses, birds that inhabit the waters around Antarctica.
But the wandering albatross is about the size of a large dog, Dr. Stutchbury said. For her research, she needed instruments small enough and light enough for a tiny songbird. Then, at a 2006 conference, the British researchers said they had miniaturized their sensors to 1.5 grams. "That for me was a magic number," she said. "I could put it on a large songbird."
The instruments Dr. Stutchbury uses actually weigh even less and sit on a bird's back, just where the hips are. Each sensor is about the size of the nail on a person's pinkie. "There's a little loop that goes around each leg," she said. "It would be like you wearing a backpack."
In the summer of 2007, the researchers used nets to trap birds in Pennsylvania and apply the sensors. They made sure the birds were flying, eating, caring for young and otherwise acting normally. Then they sat back and waited for the birds to head south — and then return. On April 25 last year, the first bird with a geolocator returned to Pennsylvania. "It seemed almost a miracle," Dr. Stutchbury said.
Analyzing the sensor data, the researchers found that their birds flew two to six times faster going north than south — up to about 370 miles in a day, which she said was much faster than had been thought. A female martin flew almost 5,000 miles in 13 days, including 4 stopover days.
For these birds, the Yucatan Peninsula was an important stopover point, Dr. Stutchbury said. Identifying important migratory stopovers will be an important benefit of the technology, she and other experts said.
She said she and her colleagues had tried not to draw too many conclusions because they had data from only seven birds. Still, she said, "that's seven more than anybody else."
Last summer, she and her colleagues applied sensors to dozens of more birds. The work is important, she said, because songbird species are already in steep decline and climate change may threaten crucial habitat.
Posted in General.	Tagged bird research, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Cornell University, news, North America, Reference


Shocking as this might seem, longtime Wellesley resident Michael Urban did not choose to set his first book, an action/adventure novel called Drake's Coffin, in our wild and wooly town. Rather, the self-published and now award-winning book is set in exotic locales such as Panama and Cape Ann, Mass. Drake's Coffin follows the recent discovery of treasure stolen from the Spanish by English adventurer Sir Francis Drake and buried in the jungles of Panama hundreds of years ago.
Urban recently was named a finalist in action/adventure by the Next Generation Indie Book Awards, and he picked up his silver medal earlier this month in New York City.
Urban sought out a publisher for a short while, grew frustrated with the process and decided to go the ebook/self published route after reading up on the changing nature of the book business. "I wrote, published, converted to ebook formats and created the cover on my own," he said, calling the process "extremely fascinating, at times frustrating, but ultimately a great learning experience." Writing was the easy part, he says.
He's hoping to get local book groups and book sellers to bite on his novel, perhaps once the paperback edition is available in the next few weeks.
Urban's next book, Ironsides Peril, is a terrorist thriller set in Boston, and should be ready this year. He's attending the ThrillerFest in NYC in July and might poke around for an agent there.
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k.d. lang: Ingénue: 25th Anniversary Edition (Nonesuch Records)
Ingénue: 25th Anniversary Edition
Nonesuch Records
By 1992, mainstream success was all but promised for Canadian country crooner k.d. lang. For nearly a decade, she'd made a name for herself; she first came to the world's notice with her band The Reclines. She had released her solo debut, Shadowland, a gorgeous, lushly produced album of country ballads produced by the country legend Owen Bradley, which came on the heels of a Grammy-award winning duet with the late Roy Orbison on his song "Crying." In 1989, Absolute Torch and Twang, her third album with The Reclines, earned her a Grammy for Best Female Vocal Performance.
So when Ingénue arrived, expectations were high; thankfully, lang didn't disappoint. The ten-song album offered lang exploring more contemporary, mainstream pop sounds; sure, the country twang was still there on album openers "Save Me" and "The Mind Of Love," but the feel is subdued. Instead, she was more interested in exploring contemporary pop production with torch song flare, which resulted in wonderful numbers "Outside Myself" and "Tears of Love's Recall." The big, over-the-top "Ballad of Hollow Soul" is one of lang's finest performances, as is the light and breezy "Miss Chatelaine," an upbeat jazz-pop number that feels as if it was performed in a Parisian nightclub circa 1948.
But the album's highlight is "Constant Craving;" closing the album might seem a peculiar location for the album's lead single; unlike the rest of the album, it's a straightforward contemporary pop number, and would become her most successful number to date. Furthermore, it would help define the sound for 90s female pop crossovers such as Melissa Etheridge, Shawn Colvin to Paula Cole—and in fact, it's not hard to hear it in Cole's own hit song, "Where Have All The Cowboys Gone?" "Constant Craving" would take her to number two on the pop charts, would earn her heavy rotation on MTV, would help make Ingénue a double-platinum success, and gave her the crossover that she so rightly deserved.
While Ingénue is a solid album that still delights a quarter century later, this deluxe edition of the album disappoints slightly. Instead of demos, b-sides, or unreleased numbers, the bonus disc offered here is merely drawn from her superb MTV Unplugged performance, which featured her fronting a full orchestra. Frustratingly, it's not even the full performance; instead, we're offered just the Ingénue tracks she performed that evening. Thus, this reissue feels skimpy in terms of the album it is representing; at the very least, the entire performance would have been nice to have, as her versions of "Black Coffee" and "Crying" are superb and worthy of inclusion, even if they weren't taken from Ingénue. (Her MTV Unplugged performance is deserving of release, as it was one of the series' finest concerts; watch it here in its entirety.)
Still, a minor quibble. lang's subsequent career hasn't reached the same mainstream success as it did with Ingénue, but perhaps that's to be expected after hitting such a grand slam of an album. Her follow-ups have been equally delightful, helping to give lang a discography full of delightful, diverse, and critically acclaimed works.
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