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Marvel's Avengers Assemble For Endgame!
I don't know about you, but we're in full Avengers Endgame mania here and I can't wait for everyone to see it! It's seriously the most epic superhero movie to ever be put on the big screen. I won't get too much into it, but my spoiler free review will be on the site tomorrow. In the meantime, I wanted to take today to share the amazing experience I had recently at the press event for the film. I will also share some tidbits the cast and filmmakers shared during the event. In attendance were Robert Downey Jr. ("Tony Stark / Iron-Man"), Chris Evans ("Steve Rogers / Captain America"), Chris Hemsworth ("Thor"), Scarlett Johansson ("Natasha Romanoff / Black Widow"), Mark Ruffalo ("Bruce Banner / The Hulk"), Jeremy Renner ("Clint Baron / Hawkeye"), Brie Larson ("Carol Danvers / Captain Marvel"), Don Cheadle ("James Rhodes / War Machine"), Paul Rudd ("Scott Lang / Ant-Man"), Karen Gillan ("Nebula"), Danai Gurira ("Okoye"), Directors Anthony & Joe Russo, and Producer Kevin Feige.
Along with the cast all the main casts costumes were on display. It was a sight to see so many costumes lined side by side. It felt like it could keep going and going!
They had an amazing group of products on display…
And some props like the Infinity Gauntlet. It's such an honor to be here and see all these amazing costumes that we may never see on the big screen again. It's been an amazing journey to cover these films.
The press Q&A was moderated by Jon Favreau! The man who started it all with Iron Man!
The cast was reveled when a black curtain dropped down. As a joke, it was at first only a few of the remaining Avengers who didn't vanish in the snap.
The rest of the Avengers then came out and Jon started the Q&A.
Jon Favreau started by asking Robert Downey Jr. what he would like the fans to call this film Avengers End Game? Would he prefer them call it Infinity War 2, Avengers 4, or perhaps Iron Man 22?
ROBERT DOWNEY JR.:
Well, there's time for that yet. Again, I've been just feeling like I'm kind of an oddball manny who I've been offered the opportunity to usher in this large experience. I look around and we are close and growing closer by the moment. So it's just great to here.
Jon then chatted with Kevin Feige about the films.
JON FAVREAU:
11 years ago, you could not have predicted the 22 films you've produced in the Marvel Cinematic Universe would be so wildly successful and popular. When did you actually begin to realize that you had something big on your hands?
KEVIN FEIGE:
Well, big is relative, But we hired a great director to do the first film in the MCU. Then we hired a great actor and we had fun making that first movie as you recall. It was sort of the success of it, the bar for success was pretty low. It felt high at the time. But it was not that high. It was comparative to other Marvel films that had been out in that general area, which is what we wanted to compete with. But as we were making the movie and as we were looking at dailies and as we were looking at effects tests coming in, we realized that this was really going to be special and even perhaps more special than we thought. And in that opening weekend, and in response to the trailer frankly with you coming out at Hall H at Comic-Con for the first time, showing that trailer. There started to be a much bigger sort of wind behind our back. Combined with Mr. Sam Jackson's cameo that we secretly did on that Saturday at Playa. And then secretly leaked the next day. And the response to that, people picked up that that meant this interconnected universe which everybody knew from the books, but had never been done in the movies.
He then asked the Russo Brothers how does the surprise ending of Avengers Infinity War affect the tone of end game and the aftermath of Thanos' destruction?
ANTHONY RUSSO:
So the ending of Infinity War is look, Joe and I have mentioned this before. One of our favorite story telling adages is write yourself into a corner. And what we take that to mean is put yourself in a place on a narrative level where you have no idea how you could possibly move forward from here. And that's a very exciting place to be. And it forces you to come up with some really creative ways forward. And we've tried to do that with the endings of every single Marvel movie we've done and never more so of course than Infinity War. We are very committed to the ending of that movie. We think that stories lose their meaning and relevancy and resonance unless there are real stakes. And for us, moving into this new movie into End Game, the story is very much about, how do these characters, how do these heroes deal with loss, resounding loss. That's what they've experienced in Infinity War. That was a unique experience for all of them and how does a person move forward from that moment, how does a hero move forward from that moment? Our road into this story is how is everybody on an individual level dealing with that experience and then how do they collectively deal with it.
JOE RUSSO:
This is I think a really unique experiment in movies, this grand mosaic. Depending on how you count it up, 11 franchises that have been interwoven into one big narrative. And I think a lot of people have invested a lot of heart and soul into the characters. When we take these movies around the world, it's really heartwarming to see people come up to you and say hey. I started watching this with my classmates when I was ten years old. Now we're all 21 and we're all going to go see this together. Or my parents have taken me to every movie or my grandfather has taken me to every film. It's a real sense of community and sharing in these stories and believing in them. And I think with End Game, we get the opportunity to think to finish off one of the grandest experiments in movie history and bring it to, as Kevin said, an epic conclusion. So what we're hoping for is that people feel satisfied with the conclusion.
He then moved on to my favorite Chris Hemsworth. The strongest and hottest Avenger in my opinion. He asked him what has made Thor such an entertaining and beloved character through his own franchise and in the Avengers as well. And what do you like best about playing him?
CHRIS HEMSWORTH:
Well, just to echo something you were saying before Anthony about the first time that the Marvel Universe came into my universe back in Australia, I was sitting there. And I would have been just straight out of high school and watching Iron Man 1 and thinking the same thing. Thinking oh my God, imagine, I wish I could be a part of that world. And then a few years on, getting cast in it, as Thor and having the opportunity to embark on this thing, and at the time I thought, was this film even going to make it past DVD? Or make to the cinemas? Or was I going to be recast and all those sort of questions. And look, I think the answer to the question, what made is so special for me was just the different people I was able to work with. From Kenneth Brannagh to that first film, was really sort of completely in his hands. And he was basically willing to do whatever it takes and wherever he needed me to go for the character. And then through the films with each director and in each different cast member, I would learn something different from them. And by the time about Ragnarok, I felt like I finally had enough sort of confidence to go okay. What is it that I could possibly bring to this? And then have this great collaboration with Taika. We really decided to do something different to see how we could make it unexpected and unique. And then I had been calling Joe and Anthony and saying look, I've got this new version of Thor that we've just shot. I want to continue that version. I don't want to do the old version. And he said we've got an even newer version for you. And it was. And then as was this film here and it's just about the people that's made it so special and I think unique each time with any of our characters. Everybody you get to interact with and the fact that we're all willing to be open to what new possibilities lie ahead of these franchises and these characters. And it's been a pretty remarkable journey.
Chris Evans was asked what it has meant to him to play Captain America and what do he likes best about Cap in this film?
CHRIS EVANS:
I can't really talk about that. Well, I guess I can give broad strokes. I think just the completion of the arc. That's safe to say, right? This movie does kind of provide kind of an ending to a lot of the characters. And he's been through so much. I don't know. There's been so many wonderful elements of working on this movie. And I'll echo what Chris said. Just truly, not to seem like a safe answer or something, but really honestly, the friendships and connections I've made over these ten years now, it truly has become a family.
Jon then chatted with Scarlett about her character. He asked what was the best part of playing a character in this universe?
SCARLETT JOHANNSON:
I mean, initially, the character, and actually, I was talking with Danai about this yesterday. We spent the whole day together analyzing this whole journey. But the character really started as a sort of sexy secretary with a skill set on the side.
Posing as.
Posing as. Thank you. And we didn't know. Or I certainly didn't know how the audience would react to the character, my interpretation of the character. And obviously a very beloved character for a long time. And I feel then the next time that we saw her in Avengers, she was sort of one of the boys for better or worse. And that made sense then. And as I think the fans and the audiences have really pushed, certainly Marvel, but pushed all the studios and filmmakers to really throw up on the screen what represents what's going on in the zeitgeist and wanting to see diverse films and casts that represents their own aspirations and how they feel. I feel the character has sort of grown in reaction to that. And the movies have really grown in reaction to that kind of fan encouragement. And honestly, I have to say it's so, I remember when Lizzie signed on. Colby was there. We were all clinging to each other. I felt like I had been in this testosterone fest for such a long time. It was so nice to see other female cast members. And then with Brie coming on and Karen and Danai. And you know, it's really, I feel like I'm in just this, I'm amongst so many wonderful actors, so many strong actors, and it's just grown beyond my wildest dreams. I could never have imagined where this would take us. And all of us. It's been quite a journey.
He asked Karen Gillan "What excited here about bringing back Nebula for Avengers End Game?".
KAREN GILLAN:
Well, I think it's maybe safe to say that she suffers from some daddy issues. Because her dad is Thanos, so who wouldn't? And I think I'm excited for her to finally face the source of this abuse. This has sort of been building through multiple movies through the Guardians movies. And she's talked about how she wants to inflict revenge. And so we all know about that. So I would like to see her try and face that. I don't know if she will. Maybe she won't. I'm not saying anything. I just got really nervous I gave something away. So I'm going to stop.
He next chatted about Captain Marvel!
Brie Larson. Everyone is waiting to see Captain Marvel in action with the Avengers. Did working with them on this film connect you to the bigger MCU picture? And how did that feel?
BRIE LARSON:
I came at just the most magical time I think. To come exactly at this ten year anniversary and really my first introduction to everyone was the ten year photo, which was a really remarkable and special day. And super surreal and also like not allowed to talk about it. So the whole thing has always felt like a dream. And this film will always be personally dear to me because it was my first time playing Captain Marvel. We shot this first. So I had to stumble and try to figure out who this character was with no script for this and no script for Captain Marvel either. And perform for the first time in front of legends. But it was incredible! I think the other part of it is the set feels like a bunch of kids. Just like what I was doing over summer break. Making movies in my garage. There is still this sense of wonder and play and encouragement. And of course this film deals with some heavy subject matters. So you're bouncing in between things that feel very deep and serious. And then we're going off and playing boggle. Which I am very good at. Just to be clear. And so it's nothing. There is no other word I can describe it as other than surreal. And I'm super excited for this to come out. Mostly just so that I can talk about it. I want to be able to talk about my experience. Which I haven't been able to do for a very long time.
Jon Favreau touched on the touchy subject of the War Machine recasting!
Don Cheadle. Rhodey has been there since the beginning. What do you like best about playing him and suiting up as War Machine?
DON CHEADLE:
Well, you were there from the beginning obviously. And Rhodey obviously started, I think it's fair to say, as a lighter toned. In a visual, sort of bigger than life than I am in real life. But as the character sort of darkened and things became more compact, the narrative, I think we've seen a real growth of this character. He's gone through his trials and tribulations obviously over the course of these films and come out the other side now and has his legs under him, no pun intended, literally, and is able to really be a part of this team and really contribute at a high level, it's been a lot of fun to see where he's come from and to see where he's gone and see what else happens next. But kind of to echo what Brie said, we've had a great time this whole time. Being together and having the Downey lunches that we have, that he's put together and to get to know these people. I've always known their work, But to get to know them as individuals and get to be friends and to come back, to get to keep coming back to these relationships again and seeing where everybody is and people that have kids and kids going on to college and people having kids and relationships starting and ending. It's rare to have that kind of an experience over the course of ten years with the same group of people. So it's really nice.
Those are just some of the great moments from the Q&A from the press event. I'm so happy to have been able to see the potential final time these actors will all be in the same room together. It really did feel like I was in the room with all my heroes for the last time. I almost cried!
I hope you enjoyed this inside look at the Avengers Endgame press day!
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Well folks, this is what we have been waiting for for a whole year! Less than 2 hours until we pull out of town and head for the hills! This also begins "the shortest week" of the year.
We just finished the longest week and the longest day but now everything except the frozen things and the last minute packing is done and then unhook the electrical cord from the trailer and hit the road!
It's gonna be a wonderful week according to the weatherman and I sure hope the rain from yesterday and last night hit the ground up where we are camping otherwise it will be a dusty bugger. Much similar to the year the old Dry Dog came dragging the Old Muskrat back into camp with a broken toy….DUSTY!
Wish us luck! And to all of you heading out for a similar hunt, GOOD LUCK to you!
Late Afternoon Showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm. Cloudy, with a steady temperature around 59. West northwest wind around 9 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%.
Tonight Scattered showers and thunderstorms. Cloudy, with a low around 31. West southwest wind 3 to 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%.
Tuesday A chance of showers, with thunderstorms also possible after noon. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 62. North northwest wind 3 to 7 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%.
Tuesday Night A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before midnight. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 28. Northwest wind around 6 mph becoming calm after midnight.
Wednesday A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after noon. Mostly sunny, with a high near 66. Light south wind.
Wednesday Night Partly cloudy, with a low around 30.
Thursday Sunny, with a high near 71.
Thursday Night Mostly clear, with a low around 32.
Friday Sunny, with a high near 70.
Friday Night Mostly clear, with a low around 31.
Saturday Night Mostly clear, with a low around 35.
Sunday Sunny, with a high near 75.
We leave for our muzz hunt tomorrow morning and today has been coined "The Longest Day", will it be? It appears to be quite a busy day with lots of last minute stuff that needs to be done. And so, let me start your day with the report from our Forward Observers.
Tracker and Bones headed off and placed their camp in the area where the rest of us will be crowding around them. They spent Friday and Saturday nights. Some of you have heard the report from Bones about the number of yellow jackets in the area. We are used to them and they are gathering for their annual attack on the Pasole.
Her report was very encouraging as was the one I posted about yesterday via the text message I received the night before (Thanks Slicker and the Misses for that text!).
Some of you received her email with the pictures attached, but for those of you who didn't that is why I am posting her report up here.
She and Tracker saw a "very good buck" according to Tracker when they were on one of their treks. No pictures were taken, but for Tracker to say it was a good buck, then you know it was at least a 4 point.
The rest of them were a bit smaller as you will see in the following pictures.
My kind of buck with my kind of shot presented…posed picture.
And so, there you have the report from the Forward Observers. These three bucks escaped the bow hunters and are now waiting for the Willow Creek Free Trappers to descend down upon their turf and package them up for the ride back to home! RUN BAMBI RUN!
Today marks probably the last day to get all out things in order for the muzz deer hunt. But then it's Sunday and some have other callings in life. As for me, all my stuff is still sitting in various piles here and there and only need to be hauled out and piled into the truck for the ride up to camp.
We only had an hour or so to check things out, but we did see 10 head, all does and fawns, but we know that somewhere close by are the bucks. See you Tuesday.
WOW! A good report even though no bucks were seen. I know that behind every tree just out of sight were the bucks snickering with one cloven hoof held tightly against their lips…"I can see you, but you can't see me"….a quote from Gattlin I might add.
With the very smoky situation to the atmosphere around here lately there would not have been any way to see the quakie leaves slowly turning their autumn yellow color and so with todays clear morning sky, of course the sudden view of a stand of quakies up on Baldy would stand out contrasted against the surrounding oak in red. Great observation Magpie and thanks for that report. Everything is two weeks ahead of normal and we can expect to have falling aspen leaves before next weekend.
Do I sense more excitement this year than in the past? I think not. It's been a very long week for us all and pretty soon we will find ourselves faced with Tuesday morning and the trip up and over the crest of the famous Wasatch Front, to our camp destination! Who is excited is ME! 63 years old and as giddy as a school kid.
If it wasn't Sunday, I'd mow the lawn today.
Just to get you excited.
The weather has been moved up a day. Now they are calling for 30% chance of rain on Sunday, lows in the low 30's and a 50% chance of rain on Monday through Monday night with lows in the upper 20's.
Still sounds like snow over Monte!
As the time slowly ticks away toward the beginning of the muzz deer hunt 2012 I look to my left and see my wife staring off into the distance with no expression at all on her face. I just finished telling her about my conversation with Magpie about something doing with the upcoming hunt.
She does not acknowledge I have said anything. Suddenly I realize what is happening. It's "the other side of the longest week" coin. Her side.
Oh yes, it's real. There is more to this hunt than just my not being able to put all things into the trailer or the back of the truck. To not be able to load the beer and ice into the cooler before Tuesday morning at 7 a.m. To have to store a large bag of food in the freezer until it's time to leave.
The rifle leaning against the trim of the door. The stack of things in the garage that must be skirted around to get to the car. The bag of clothes with the zipper open, on top of the bedroom dresser. The boxes and bags in the sun room, next to the door. The lists on the counter in the kitchen. The long extension cord stretched across the lawn from the outside plug to the trailer. Everywhere you look is a reminder of the upcoming event.
The conversations each night as we relax from the days scurrying around. Me trying to accomplish "one more thing" on the list. Something that needs to be in the trailer and I won't need between now and then. Her, trying her best to stay out of my way and not have to listen to my age old story of "what if I forget something".
She is longing for the 8 a.m. hour of Tuesday to get here. It's a very long week indeed, but she has had to listen to this for at least two months while I prepared the camp trailer for my honored guests. The remodel of the trailer has long been finished and yet I have another task that I think will improve upon it. She stopped me from doing that last week and now, does she wish she hadn't? I would be busy outside with that and not constantly pacing up and down the stairs, to the bedroom, into the closet and out to the garage or sun room. Shuffle, shuffle, shuffle.
Well, my dear, only 4 more days, and it will be on day four, that at 8 a.m. I will give you a loving kiss goodbye and jump into the truck for the long drive to camp. Only 4 more days. Hell, it was 4 days ago and it was only Monday of the longest week! What is happening? Still 4 days to go! Oh my God!
Alright lady hunters out there! Just for you I found a website dedicated to the female hunters. They have a shampoo, conditioner, body wash etc. that is purported to take all scent away. The site is pretty well done and they have some cool shirts and clothing.
Here we go folks! Bring your raincoat and warm gloves!
Monday nights forecast for Randolph….30% chance of rain and lows in the low 30's. Tuesday, 50% chance of rain and lows in the upper 20's!
Sounds like snow to me!


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an imposing police force stifles demonstrations by opponents of Kaïs Saïed
More than 1,000 people defied the ban on demonstrations in Tunis on Friday to protest against the seizure of power by President Kaïs Saïed since his July 25, 2021 coup. The gatherings were violently dispersed by the police, with the use tear gas and water cannons.
Darkness falls on Avenue Bourguiba on the evening of January 14, and the main artery of the Tunisian capital slowly comes back to life. The cafes are reopening and a few pedestrians are crowding between the metal barriers and the dozens of police vans positioned right next to this high place of the Tunisian revolution.
In his palace in Carthage, President Kaïs Saïed can breathe: the opponents who wanted to denounce the autocratic drift of his regime have not succeeded in mobilizing enough people to overwhelm the imposing security apparatus.
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More than a thousand demonstrators were dispersed in the middle of the afternoon by police using tear gas and water cannons.
A small group of determined demonstrators, however, remained mobilized at the start of the evening, kept away from Avenue Bourguiba by a police roadblock.
"We will wait here until all our comrades are released!", told France 24 Khelil Ezzaouia, the president of the social-democratic party Ettakatol. Seven demonstrators were arrested here by the police during the demonstration, and one of them was still detained at the end of the day.
Khelil Ezzaouia, the president of the social-democratic party Ettakatol, waits in front of a police roadblock for the release of one of his comrades arrested earlier during the demonstration on January 14, 2022. © Mehdi Chebil, France 24
"We demonstrated to mark the symbolism of January 14 [jour de la chute de l'ancien dictateur Ben Ali en 2011], a date that Kaïs Saïed wants to erase by rewriting history […]. We also wanted to mark our opposition to his tendency to personal power, nepotism, and disconcerting autism – the president does not even listen to the parties that support him," adds the politician.
Ban on demonstrations for health reasons
The former Minister of Social Affairs believes that the mobilization of opponents has suffered from the ban on all gatherings announced two days earlier, for health reasons.
"It was a pretext to prevent the demonstrations of January 14. Look in the cafes, you will see people smoking hookah while they watch the CAN… The authorities also wanted to scare people with this important deployment policeman", explains Khelil Ezzaouia.
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A few hundred meters away, supporters of the Islamo-conservative Ennahda party also mobilized. The two groups did not demonstrate together, Ettakatol rejecting any return to the former parliament suspended by Kaïs Saïed in July 2021.
"We were more than 3,000 people before the police sent us water cannons to prevent us from moving forward. We hoped that there would be even more people and that we could go and celebrate the revolution on the avenue Bourguiba", confides to France 24 Sarra Hamdaoui, an activist of the Ennahda party. "Kaïs Saïed is even worse than Ben Ali. He suspended parliament, dismissed all the other political parties and no dialogue is possible with him", adds the young woman, who lost her job in international freight because of the Covid-19 crisis.
Sarra Hamdaoui, an activist of the Islamo-conservative Ennahda party who participated in the demonstration of January 14, 2022 against Kaïs Saïed. © Mehdi Chebil, France 24
The relatively weak mobilization of January 14 did not surprise Romdhane Ben Amor, the spokesperson for the Tunisian Forum for Economic and Social Rights (FTDES).
"This date is primarily an opportunity for political parties to mobilize their activists in the street, but young people are not very interested in it", deciphers the human rights activist.
"The worst in Tunisia is yet to come"
A respite that does not mean, however, that President Kaïs Saïed is off the hook. More than 1,000 social movements shook the country in December, according to the FDTES, while economic indicators – GDP, unemployment, debt, inflation – continue to deteriorate.
"The worst is yet to come according to the roadmap of negotiations with the IMF which leaked on the iwatch site, with very unpopular measures such as the freezing of hiring and salaries in the public service", fears Romdhane Ben Amor.
This document stamped "confidential" clearly indicates that the Tunisian government is aware of the resistance that this austerity cure could provoke.
"This situation is going to go from bad to worse and I believe that dark days await us", told France 24 Saïda Ounissi, Ennahda MP and former Minister of Employment and Vocational Training, who participated in the demonstration of this January 14.
"We were already, since 2011, in a very complicated situation […], but the country still managed to reassure, to sell the idea that it was necessary to be particularly patient with Tunisia, because it was a democracy under construction", advances the political leader. "Today, this patience is exhausted on the part of all our partners and our creditors", she concludes.
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Coelotrochus tiaratus, whose common names include tiara top shell, brown top shell, mititi, and mitimiti is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.

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The shell grows to a length of 18 mm. The depressed conical shell is very deeply false-umbilicate and rather thin. The spire has convex outlines;. The apex is acute, and lemon yellow when eroded. The 5 to 5½ whorls are nearly planulate, but the upper margin of each whorl is prominent and projecting beyond the periphery of the preceding. The body whorl is carinated at the periphery. The sculpture above consists of spiral lirae, about 5 to 8 on each whorl, cut into close oblique beads. The interstices are obliquely finely striate, one or two of the broader ones usually with a central riblet. The color of the shell is whitish or yellowish, finely tessellated or articulated with reddish brown The tessellations are formed by the disintegration of narrow radiating stripes, which are on the base frequently continuous. The base of the shell is nearly flat, with seven or eight concentric close fine lines, which are crenulated in a peculiarly irregular manner by distinct short oblique impressed marks. The interstices are finely radiately striate. The subrhomboidal aperture is smooth within. The columella is oblique, nearly straight, with an obsolete, scarcely perceptible fold above, inserted upon the side of the umbilicus, not in its center. The smooth umbilical area is white or yellow. The false-umbilicus is deep and narrow, but partly filled by a white callus, not tapering to a point. Specimens from rocky shores are often eroded and encrusted with coralline algae, while those from shell, gravel, or cobble substrata are usually clean. Primarily a grazer of hard surfaces, most abundant among beds of bivalves. Also occurs in tidal channels at the mouths of harbours, where it grazes over empty shells of pipis.

Distribution
This marine shell occurs off New Zealand and the Chatham Islands subtidally down to 30m, in a range of habitats.

References

 Gray, J.E. (1835). Catalogue of shells collected on the east coast of New Zealand, by the Rev. W. Yate. Appendix, pp 307–310 in: Yate, W., An account of New Zealand; and of the formation and progress of the Church Missionary Society's mission in the northern island. Seeley & Burnside, London.
 Powell, A.W.B. 1979: New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells. Collins, Auckland 500p (p. 58)
 Marshall, B.A., 1998. A review of the Recent Trochini of New Zealand (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Trochidae). Moll. Res.1, 19:73-106
 Maxwell, P.A. (2009). Cenozoic Mollusca. Pp 232-254 in Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch.

External links
 To World Register of Marine Species

 Quoy J.R.C. & Gaimard J.P. (1832-1835). Voyage de découvertes de l'"Astrolabe" exécuté par ordre du Roi, pendant les années 1826-1829, sous le commandement de M. J. Dumont d'Urville. Zoologie. 1: i-l, 1-264; 2(1): 1-321 [1832; 2(2): 321-686 [1833]; 3(1): 1-366 [1834]; 3(2): 367-954 [1835]; Atlas (Mollusques): pls 1-93 [1833]. Paris: Tastu]
 Cossmann, M. (1918). Essais de paléoconchologie comparée. Onzième livraison. Paris: published by the author. 388 pp., 11 plates
 Philippi, R. A. (1846). Diagnoses testaceorum quorundam novorum. Zeitschrift für Malakozoologie. 3: 97-106
 Hutton, F.W. (1883). Description of some new Tertiary shells from Wanganui. Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 1882: 410-411
 Bruce A. Marshall, Molluscan and brachiopod taxa introduced by F. W. Hutton in The New Zealand journal of science; Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Volume 25, Issue 4, 1995

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Merothrips floridensis – gatunek wciornastka z podrzędu pokładełkowych i rodziny Merothripidae.

Gatunek ten opisany został przez J. R. Watsona w 1927 roku.

Samice zwykle bezskrzydłe, rzadziej w pełni uskrzydlone. Ciało jasnobrązowe z ciemniejszą głową. Czułki ośmioczłonowe, przy czym trzeci i czwarty człon z podłużno-owalnym sensorium. Na ciemieniu jedna para długich szczecin ocznych. Przedplecze w obrysie trapezowate, w tylnej części z liniami rzeźby; opatrzone parą długich szczecin tylnokątowych. Trichobotria na dziesiątym tergicie odwłoka większe niż przetchlinki na ósmym.

Samce bezskrzydłe. Na ciemieniu duże pola gruczołowe. U większych osobników przednie odnóża powiększone i opatrzone guzkiem na wewnętrznym wierzchołku goleni.

M. floridensis podobny jest do M. morgani, który różni się od niego zakrzywionymi liniami rzeźby na środkowej części przedplecza.

Gatunek grzybożerny, rozmnażający się w ściółce, a rzadziej w opadłych gałęziach.

Wciornastek ten wykazany został z Florydy, Georgii, Wirginii, Karoliny Północnej, New Jersey, Nowego Jorku, Kalifornii, Kentucky, Bermudów, Trynidadu, Panamy, Kolumbii, Brazylii, Azorów, Francji, Japonii, Hawajów, Nowej Zelandii oraz Australii .

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NS Finally came out today, as you probably know. The Supreme Court cases considered how law should deal with the claim of a niqab (don't know what that is? check here) wearing woman who was to testify as a complainant in a sexual assault trial that wearing the niqab was a religious right – when the accused claimed the wearing of the veil contravened his fair trial rights.
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Second, commentary. There's not much deep commentary today, but there are quick thoughts and helpful summaries.
My colleague Ben Berger on CTV notes Abella's foregrounding of #gendered #violence.
My colleage Faisal Bhabha, who appeared for one of the interveners who supported N.S., here in the Globe and Mail.
Poli Sci Prof Emmett Macfarlane in Macleans here.
So long as the decision to wear the niqab is made freely, it ought to be respected from a rights perspective. And in weighing so heavily the risks to a fair trial over not just the latitude given to religious freedom, but also the deleterious and societal effects of providing insufficient protection for them, the majority has handed trial courts a messy confluence of rules likely to do more harm than good.
Ruthann Robson of CUNY law putting Canadians to shame with her quick off the mark blog post here.
There is much quick commentary available – especially on Twitter – all very canadian and clean.
@blberger LeBel J (concur) in NS: no niqab b/c it "removes the witness" from acts of communication. Worry is literal "removal" of complainants, no?


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Oxfam International created the infographic that exposes an inconceivable reality: Just 10 main corporations manufacture the majority of what we purchase at the market.
"What we did is we took certain issues … [and] we saw the kind of impacts they had on the ground," Chris Jochnick of Oxfam told NPR. "We released reports about those issues and those impacts and how they're tied to the 10 largest food and beverage companies. And then we pushed the companies to begin to address them."
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(22 Dec 2020) Recently Elsevier announced that it has signed the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) and that it is going to make the reference lists of articles openly available in Crossref. Ludo Waltman, one of the founders of the Initiative for Open Abstracts (I4OA), former Editor-in-Chief of Elsevier's Journal of Informetrics, shares…
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More than 624 million citations now available on COCI
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The Crossref Open Citation Index (COCI)
Open Access, Research Support July 14, 2018
(12 July 2018) A citation index is a bibliographic index recording citations between publications, allowing the user to establish which later documents cite earlier documents. Several citation indexes are already available, some of which are freely accessible but not downloadable (e.g. Google Scholar), while others can be accessed only by paying significant access fees (e.g.…
Understanding the implications of Open Citations – how far along are we?
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(22 January 2018) The academic discovery space seems to be buzzing again. This space has become relatively stable after the introduction and maturity of Web Scale Discovery between 2009-2013, but things seem to be hotting up once again, writes Aaron Tay. With the recent interest in integrating discovery of open access, as well as linked…
OUP joins I4OC
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(11 July 2017) Launched back in April, the Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC) has a bold ambition: for 100% of citation data to be freely available for re-use. And so far this collaboration between publishers, researchers and other stakeholders is proving to be well on the way to achieving that goal. For users to be…
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Russia's second largest bank, VTB has posted a 3Q 2008 Net Loss of $363 million under IFRS.
The bottom line was a sharp turnaround from the $547 million Net profit made in 3Q 2007, with 3Q provision charges rising to $788 million, compared with $592 million for 1H 2008.
The 3Q figures made for a 9M 2008 Net Profit of $316 million, down 70% from the $1.051 Billion posted over 9M 2007.
The slump came despite total loans increasing 40% to 84.5 Billion over the first 9 months of the year, with customer deposits up more than 41% to $52.6 Billion, and Core income rising 83.8% year on year to $3.8 Billion.
The bank attributes the slump to a sharp deterioration in the operating environment, and a major slowdown in the Russian economy during 3Q 2008, creating 'exceptional' market conditions. VTB is implementing a series of measures to reduce costs, including deferral of a move to new administrative headquarters, cuts in administrative expenses and personnel cuts.
Despite the results VTB says it is well placed to weather what it sees as a continued difficult operating environment in the first half of 2009.
Speaking to RT Business about cutting costs VTB CFO, Nikolay Tsekholmsky indicated it wouldn't necessarily involve slashing employees.


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Q: Pandas: Change between two dataframes I am trying to find a way to achieve the below: df1 and df2 are 2 example dataframes between which I neeed to find the difference. They have the same columns, but row data can change based on new names added, old removed or data of existing set changed.
df1:
  Col1 Col2  Col3 Col4    Col5
0     1  ABC    94  xxx   apple
1     1  DEF    24  xxx   apple
2     2  ABC    40  yyy  banana
3     3  ABC    74  zzz    pear
4     3  DEF    43  zzz    pear

df2:
   Col1 Col2  Col3 Col4       Col5
0     1  ABC    71  xxx      apple
1     2  PQR    65  yyy     banana
2     3  ABC    86  zzz       pear
3     3  DEF    53  zzz       pear
4     4  PQR    26  mmm  pineapple

output:
   Col1 Col2  Col3 Col4       Col5
0     1  ABC   -23  xxx      apple
1     1  DEF   -24  xxx      apple
2     2  ABC   -40  yyy     banana
3     2  PQR    65  yyy     banana
4     3  ABC    12  zzz       pear
5     3  DEF    10  zzz       pear
6     4  PQR    26  mmm  pineapple

I have tried this and the stackoverflow links that it mentions, but I need the change to only be applicable to specific columns only and append new rows with a new key (Col1 in my example) altogether
Thanks vm for taking a look!

A: If the identifiers are columns C1, C2, C4 and C5, you can set them as index and use .sub:
idx = ['Col1', 'Col2', 'Col4', 'Col5']

df2.set_index(idx).sub(df1.set_index(idx), fill_value=0)
Out[16]:
                          Col3
Col1 Col2 Col4 Col5
1    ABC  xxx  apple     -23.0
     DEF  xxx  apple     -24.0
2    ABC  yyy  banana    -40.0
     PQR  yyy  banana     65.0
3    ABC  zzz  pear       12.0
     DEF  zzz  pear       10.0
4    PQR  mmm  pineapple  26.0

You can call reset_index at the end, too:
df2.set_index(idx).sub(df1.set_index(idx), fill_value=0).reset_index()
Out[17]:
   Col1 Col2 Col4       Col5  Col3
0     1  ABC  xxx      apple -23.0
1     1  DEF  xxx      apple -24.0
2     2  ABC  yyy     banana -40.0
3     2  PQR  yyy     banana  65.0
4     3  ABC  zzz       pear  12.0
5     3  DEF  zzz       pear  10.0
6     4  PQR  mmm  pineapple  26.0

A: As per my understanding you are doing df2-df1 on Col3, you can try
df2.set_index(['Col1', 'Col2', 'Col4', 'Col5']).sub(df1.set_index(['Col1', 'Col2', 'Col4', 'Col5']), fill_value=0).reset_index()

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How to Start a Real Estate Agency from Scratch
A small Brooklyn brokerage, Niche, is a new generation of mom-and-pop shop, challenging industry giants
By Arden Phillips - December 13, 2017
Kris and Zen Avery, center and right, with Mike Sullivan, who they represented in a deal to buy a condo on Bayard Street in Williamsburg (Photo courtesy of Niche Real Estate & Marketing)
The story of real estate sales in Brooklyn lately has been about big Manhattan firms storming the borough and recruiting hundreds of agents. This is the opposite story, about a young couple who bailed out of corporate life and created a new generation of mom-and-pop shop.
This summer Zenon and Kristine Avery launched their Carroll Gardens-based firm, Niche Real Estate & Marketing, with the aim of providing more personalized service than the giant agencies. "We noticed there is a gap in the marketplace," said Kris. But getting started in the shadow of those firms, as well as long-established neighborhood agencies, is fraught with challenges including a lack of major capital and little public awareness of the new brand at first.
Kris and Zen decided, however, that they had several things going for them: industry expertise, complementary skills, and the moment in their lives when sticking around the neighborhood is a plus. (Their first child was born a year ago.) "We wanted to have more flexibility with our schedules and more autonomy over the projects we work on," says Kris. "Also, we wanted to work together more, since we really balance each other as a team."
The couple met three years ago, when they were working on the same real-estate development project. Kris, who studied business at Marymount College, had worked at real-estate companies like Brooklyn's Steiner NYC. Zen, who has a degree in political science from Temple University, comes from a family of real-estate professionals and worked at firms including the luxury-property agency Town Residential. What they discovered about each other was a mutual, nerdy passion for their business. "We love it. We're always talking about real estate," says Kris.
The interior of the condo that Niche Real Estate helped a client buy this summer
After launching their business in May, they made their first deal in August, representing the buyer of a condo in Williamsburg. They recently landed a couple of property-management deals and are helping an overseas client look for a Brooklyn property to buy. As business prospects have multiplied, they've added three associates to the team.
What are their guiding principles as they navigate the tricky journey of being a tiny startup in a big business? The couple shared a few keys:
Know Your Niche: That's where the company name comes from. "People want more face time together and we can offer that type of time and service," says Kris. "Our first client left a big company to come work with us, as he felt neglected by his agent. Also, developers want to feel like you are working in-house and helping them build their own tools to run properties themselves, not just as a consultant. Since we only work with a handful of buyers and developers at one time, we can go above and beyond to really spend time and offer quality services."
Keep It Personal: The Averys make a virtue out of being a mom-and-pop shop with its own flavor. "We design things ourselves," says Kris. One such project was the direct mailing of brochures to the Carroll Gardens community. They stuffed and addressed all the envelopes themselves. In launching their social-media presence, they're mixing photos of real estate with family photos of the couple with their son, also named Zen.
Give Back to the Community: One aspect of Niche that sets it apart is that the firm donates 10% of the net profit from deals to a charity of the client's choice. "We want to help people buy homes while building the community," Kris says. The first charitable donation was to God's Love We Deliver NYC, a non-profit dedicated to nourishing people too sick to shop or cook. Both Zen and Kris have been volunteers for various causes, so this aspect of the business comes across as genuine.
Manage Your Money Well: "As with most startups, you're working with little capital to get started and need to be careful on how you spend marketing money," says Kris. "As a business owner, you always worry about the start-up costs, but we have designed our business so that it's versatile. Property-management services are retainer-based, so it's steady income, whereas our real-estate deals offer more revenue but they're not every month. We manage this carefully as we build our business."
Arden Phillips is a New York-based writer and a graduate of the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, where she received a degree in Television, Radio, and Film.
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Home > Research > Researchers > Dr Ann-Marie Houghton > Publications
Dr Ann-Marie Houghton
Dean for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI), Director of REAP, Teaching Fellow
'DELIVERING CAREERS GUIDANCE IN ENGLISH SECONDARY SCHOOLS: POLICY VERSUS PRACTICE'
Houghton, A-M., Armstrong, J. & Okeke, R. I., 30/03/2021, In: British Journal of Educational Studies. 69, 1, p. 47-63 17 p.
A kind of higher education for adult learners in community settings.
Houghton, A-M. & Preece, J., 2000, Proceedings of the UACE annual conference: lifelong learning, equity and inclusion. Cambridge, p. 168-179 12 p.
Accessing and assessing appropriate widening participation data: an exploration of how data are used and by whom
Holland, N. J., Houghton, A-M., Armstrong, J. E. & Mashiter, C., 06/2017, In: Studies in Continuing Education. 39, 2, p. 214-233 30 p.
An Igglipp or initial guidance learning project : revisiting, revising and reviewing Tough's notion of a learning project.
Houghton, A-M., 07/2003. 6 p.
An ongoing challenge and a chance to diversify university outreach to tackle inequality: A reply to OSullivan OTuama and Kenny
Houghton, A-M., 2/01/2018, In: Global Discourse. 7, 4, p. 539-542 4 p.
Building inclusivity: engagement, community and belonging in the classroom
O'Mahony, J., Thomas, L., Payens, J., Houghton, A-M., Ashad, R., Gunn, V. & Matthew, B., 2013
Research output: Exhibits, objects and web-based outputs › Digital or Visual Products
Confidence, communication and citizenship: enterprising community learning
Houghton, A. M., 1999, Social Change and Active Citizenship in the Learning Society. European Society for Research in the Education of Adults (ESREA)..
Connecting policy and practice in the refugee integration agenda.
Bellis, A., Fraser, L., Houghton, A-M. & Ward, J., 2005. 5 p.
Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN › Other
Disability and transitions from education to work
Piggott, L. A. & Houghton, A., 7/09/2007, In: International Journal of Lifelong Education. 26, 5, p. 573-587 15 p.
Disability effective inclusive policies : DEIP issues of transition, disclosure and identity.
Houghton, A-M., 09/2007, (Unpublished). 0 p.
Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN › Conference paper


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The New 2018 BYD Qin Plugin Hybrid Will Debut at Beijing Auto Show
Auto Shows/ Events, Chinese Cars, Hybrids
The all new 2018 BYD Qin, a sporty plug-in hybrid sedan will make its debut at the Beijing Auto Show in April and will launch on the Chinese car market soon after.
The first gen Quin
The current (first generation) Qin comes in both petrol & electric version. The petrol version is a 1.5 turbocharged unit producing 154hp while the electric version comes with a 218hp motor. The BYD Qin concept was unveiled at the 2012 Beijing Auto Show and went on sale in China by December 2013.
Related: BYD Tang- The 7-seat SUV that will do 0-100 in 4.5 Seconds!
The car is named after China's first empire, the Qin Dynasty. BYD Qin is the successor of the BYD F3DM, the world's first mass-produced plug-in hybrid automobile, which was launched in China in 2008.
The new 2018 Qin will initially launch as a hybrid, whereas the all-electric version will be added to the lineup later. The hybrid drivetrain consists of a 151hp 1.5 turbo petrol engine and an electric motor with a yet unknown output. Top speed is an impressive 200 km/h and 0-100 is under 5.9 seconds! And just like BYD's other speedy hybrids, the new Qin will get a badge showing off its 0-100 time.
Related: BYD Launches the Impressive Song Max MPV
The new Qin gets BYD's new 'Dragon Face' that can also be seen on the Song Max MPV and the upcoming Tang SUV. The overall design language is very clean & professional, thanks to Wolfgang Egger, the former Audi designer who now heads BYD as Director Design and Development.
Audi Group chief designer Wolfgang Egger, now heads BYD as Director Design and Development.
The BYD Qin is yet another example of the massive improvement the Chinese automakers have achieved within a short span of time. Stay tuned to CarSpiritPK for more information on the BYD Qin and the 2018 Beijing Auto Show.
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