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Father blames Ebonyi community for son's death
byJames Eze
Bartholomew Eneh, the father of Tochukwu, one of the students abducted and killed by unknown persons in Okposi on Sunday has accused youths of the community of being responsible for the killing of his son and his classmate, Chukwuemeka Ugwu.
Mr. Eneh spoke to reporters in Abakaliki, the Ebonyi State capital.
The accusation came just as the police found the copses of the two students, who were Junior Secondary school students of Federal Government College Okposi, Ohaozara local government area, near a river in the community.
The students where allegedly abducted on May 12 while returning to school from the town where they went to have a haircut preparatory to going home the next day, Friday the 14th.
Mr. Eneh said he called the school when his son failed to return on the day he was supposed to return and that was when the guardian told him that they were looking for him.
He said since then I have been to Okposi twice and to Abakaliki twice.
"I am happy that the governor, Dave Umahi, gave the CP an order to properly investigate the matter. And since then she has been up and doing. Yesterday (Sunday) she was there with a team of security men from Police, Army and DSS. In fact the whole town was on fire when we came in.
"While we where holding meetings, the CP got information that the bodies were in the river and we went there and their bodies were recovered."
He said initial reports from medical doctors in the team revealed that the bodies were dumped in the river the same day they were abducted and accused the community youth of being responsible because the new principal refused settling them.
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"The old principal was the one who struck the deal with the villagers and some workers in the school were also benefiting as they used the opportunity to siphon money from the school authorities," Mr. Eneh said.
"But the new principal refused to be giving them money and these workers went and created the impression that the school was fighting the community. The group then threatened to punish the school in return.
"I believe the two boys were a victim of the problem and were just caught in the crossfire of the crisis between the community and the school.
"We will bury my son tomorrow (today)."
He called for justice for his son's killers to assuage the pains of the affected parents.
The Chairman of the Local Government, Justice Ogbonna, debunked the accusation levelled against the community.
According to him the school since inception has had peace with the community and the community would not now start having problems with the school.
Meanwhile, the Ebonyi State Police Command said that it had recovered the bodies of the two students
The command's spokesman, George Okafor, an assistant superintendent of police, in a statement said the report on the disappearance of the students was reported May 14.
"The CP led other senior police officials with the command's Special Anti Robbery Squad (SARS) team for an on-the spot assessment and rescue of the students," he said.
The statement noted that in the course of interaction with community leaders, youth and other stakeholders, it was found that two bodies were discovered at a bamboo groove in Ata River, about half a kilometre from the college premises.
"In response to the information, the command recovered the decomposing corpses of the two missing students whose parents were there to identify.
It noted that the corpses had been evacuated and deposited in a morgue awaiting autopsy.
"The command is appealing to all citizens to assist in providing relevant and timely information that would nip all forms of criminality in the bud," he said.
The statement assured citizens of the state of adequate protection of their lives and properties at all times.
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Politics|Donald Trump's Barrage of Heated Rhetoric Has Little Precedent
Donald Trump's Barrage of Heated Rhetoric Has Little Precedent
If you ask the candidate, anyone or anything other than himself is to blame for his standing in the polls. The New York Times gives Hillary Clinton an 89 percent chance of winning the election.CreditCreditStephen Crowley/The New York Times
By Jonathan Martin
WASHINGTON — There is a long tradition of presidential candidates ratcheting up their language when they are trailing in the closing weeks of an election.
But in the same fashion Donald J. Trump has broken with other political traditions, he is taking a longstanding rite of fall to new heights — or perhaps new lows.
On Thursday and Friday alone, Mr. Trump unleashed a barrage of near-apocalyptic warnings about the potential destruction of the country, broad accusations about the illegitimacy of American democracy, and crude innuendo about his opponent that is almost without precedent in modern presidential history.
He warned that Hillary Clinton was conspiring with financiers to destroy American sovereignty, claimed the fate of civilization depended on his victory and ridiculed the appearance of the one of the women accusing him of sexual harassment, while also deriding Mrs. Clinton's looks and saying she ought to be in prison. He also said the presidential election amounted to "a big ugly lie."
While delighting his partisans, Mr. Trump's rhetorical shooting spree has enraged Democrats and unnerved many Republicans, who believe he is acting out a political death wish.
Here are some of Mr. Trump's own words and how they compare to the attacks wielded by some previous presidential candidates — language that was, at the time, considered inflammatory or controversial but which now seems quaint by comparison:
"Hillary Clinton meets in secret with international banks to plot the destruction of U.S. sovereignty in order to enrich these global financial powers, her special interest friends and her donors."
— Mr. Trump at a rally on Thursday in West Palm Beach, Fla.
Mr. Trump veers dangerously close to the territory of "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion," a fabricated anti-Semitic text, in discussing the WikiLeaks hacks that revealed some of Mrs. Clinton's speeches to financial institutions.
There is a long history in American politics of suggesting one's opponent will do the bidding of a special interest, or highlighting nefarious connections. When Senator John McCain was trying to gain ground on Senator Barack Obama in 2008, he aired a television ad highlighting Mr. Obama's ties to the 1960s radical William Ayers and said on the campaign trail that "Mr. Obama's political career was launched in Mr. Ayers' living room."
But despite entreaties from supporters, including his own running mate, Sarah Palin, Mr. McCain refused to go a step further and hold Mr. Obama accountable for the inflammatory comments of his onetime pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr.
"Honestly, she should be locked up. She should be. Should be locked up."
— Mr. Trump, in West Palm Beach
Lusty, partisan crowds goading candidates into harsh attacks is another standby of White House campaigns. That is what happened when the Florida crowd began chanting "lock her up, lock her up," a signature Republican line in this campaign relating to Mrs. Clinton's handling of emails as secretary of state. Though Mr. Trump had previously declined to use the phrase, saying instead that he would beat her at the polls, on Thursday he gave supporters what they wanted.
Mr. McCain faced a similar moment in 2008 when confronted with a questioner at an October rally who said she could not trust Mr. Obama because he was an "Arab."
Mr. McCain shut down the questioner and the assertion.
"No, ma'am, he's a decent family man, citizen who I just happen to have disagreements with on fundamental issues," he said.
Even when past candidates have played to the gallery, it was far more tame.
President George Bush, struggling against Bill Clinton in 1992, raised eyebrows when he vented about the Democratic ticket of Bill Clinton and Al Gore. "My dog Millie knows more about foreign affairs than these two bozos," Mr. Bush said.
Soon after, he offered a statement of regret. "I thought it was funny at the time, and everybody laughed," he said.
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"She walks in front of me, she walks in front of me, you know. And when she walked in front of me, believe me I wasn't impressed."
— Mr. Trump at a rally on Friday in Greensboro, N.C.
Mr. Trump could not resist offering his assessment of Mrs. Clinton's looks, using their encounter in the second debate as his point of reference.
He is not the only candidate to give in to temptation and ridicule one's rival. Senator John Kerry in 2004 won laughs from a Democratic audience for mocking President George W. Bush's halting speaking style and malaprops. But it was over a policy issue.
"He keeps trying to say, 'Well, we're-not-we-don't-no-we-don't-you-know, we don't want somebody who wants to leave,'" Mr. Kerry said, making sport of how Mr. Bush sought to characterize the senator's position on Iraq as though the president were Elmer Fudd (as a New York Times correspondent put it at the time).
And Mrs. Clinton herself has tried out a few lines about Mr. Trump's comb-over.
But commenting unfavorably, seemingly on the posterior of the first female major-party presidential nominee — while fending off accusations of sexual harassment and misogyny — is something entirely new.
"Reporters at The New York Times are not journalists. They're corporate lobbyists for Carlos Slim and Hillary Clinton."
— Mr. Trump on Friday in Greensboro
Mr. Trump escalated his assault on The Times, noting that Mr. Slim, a Mexican telecommunications billionaire and the largest individual holder of New York Times Company common shares, has contributed to the Clinton Foundation.
Republican critiques of the media generally — and The Times specifically — are as much a recurring feature of struggling presidential campaigns as invocations of Harry Truman's improbable 1948 comeback against Thomas E. Dewey.
"We are not going to let the media steal this election," Senator Robert J. Dole told supporters in the closing days of the 1996 race. "The country belongs to the people, not The New York Times."
But Mr. Dole made no mention of the ownership of The Times, nor did he highlight the ethnicity of any of its investors. Mr. Trump on Friday twice noted that Mr. Slim is Mexican.
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"Believe me: She would not be my first choice, that I can tell you."
Facing accusations from a growing number of women that he made unwanted sexual advances, Mr. Trump has called them "horrible," publicity-seeking liars.
On Friday, he went further and suggested that he could not have forced himself on one of them, Jessica Leeds, because she was not attractive enough to merit his advances.
And that is where the historical comparisons come to an abrupt end.
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Barrington Area Conservation Trust offices have moved to Barrington's White House, the new community and cultural center in the heart of downtown Barrington.
Located in Suite 201 at 145 W. Main Street, BACT is neighbors with Let It Be Us and Barrington Children's Charities. The historic house boasts a lovely third floor ballroom that may be rented for events and special celebrations. First floor parlors are also available to rent and several events have been planned for the public. For more information click here or visit the Events page on the Barrington White House website.


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Fevzi Tuncay est un footballeur turc né le  à Muğla. Il évoluait au poste de gardien de but.

Biographie

International, il reçoit 1 cape en équipe de Turquie en 2000. Il fait partie de l'équipe turque lors de l'Euro 2000.

Carrière
 1994 :  Muğlaspor
 1995-2002 :  Beşiktaş JK
 2002 :  Gaziantepspor
 2002-2003 :  Samsunspor
 2003-2006 :  Malatyaspor
 2006-2007 :  Manisaspor
 2007 :  Malatyaspor
 2008 :  Fethiyespor
 2008 :  Malatyaspor
 2009-2010 :  Diyarbakırspor
 2010 :  Kocaelispor
 2010-2011 :  Giresunspor
 2011-2012 :  TKİ Tavşanlı Linyitspor

Palmarès
Avec Beşiktaş :
 Vainqueur de la Coupe de Turquie en 1998

Références

Liens externes

Footballeur international turc
Gardien de but au football
Gardien de but du Beşiktaş JK
Joueur du Gaziantepspor
Joueur du Samsunspor
Joueur du Malatyaspor
Joueur du Manisaspor
Joueur du Diyarbakırspor
Joueur du Kocaelispor
Naissance en septembre 1977
Naissance à Muğla

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Hi I love your talk on Transcendence, thank you.
You mention words that Guru Dev used, Could you please write them in "English"? It sounds to me like you are saying Nivad tatyum, but I don't want to say it incorrectly.


to give support to someone (something) so they can achieve a desired result.
I need some temporary employees to help carry me through the extra work at tax time.
Listening to calming music helped carry me through studying for my final exams.
My girlfriends really helped carry me through my divorce.
I need some coffee too help carry me through this afternoon's meeting.
My wife just mailed a huge care package of snacks to help carry our son through final exams.
The members of our church really helped carry us through with home cooked meals and emotional support when my husband was being treated for cancer.
Here's $1,000 to help carry you through the next month until you start your job.
The fans cheering from the side of the road really helped carry me through the last six miles of the race when I wanted to give up.
The audience would love to know what helped carry you through after your surgery and during the year you went through rehab?
Your turn to use the idiom "carry someone through"


THEATER ON THE EDGE is holding an open casting call for the rest of its season. Shows to-be-announced. All auditions are by appointment. They will be held 5 to 8 p.m. Sunday, De. 16 and 7 to 9 p.m. Monday, Dec. 17. Actors can also email a video submission to info@TheaterOnTheEdge.org by the end of the day, Monday, December 17th. Auditions will be three minutes long and should include: two short contrasting contemporary monologues 90 seconds each; or one contemporary dramatic monologue two minutes in length. Theater On The Edge is at 5542 Hansel Avenue, Orlando.The rehearsal process at Theater On The Edge is extensive and will last between 6-8 weeks, with rehearsals 4-5 times per week. Non-Equity, non-paid. To schedule an audition appointment, email info@TheaterOnTheEdge.org and include your preferred audition day and time.
Video auditions should include your full name, email address and best contact phone number.
HENEGAR CENTER will hold auditions for "RED" 6 p.m. Sunday Dec. 2 and 7 p.m. Monday Dec. 3. The show is scheduled to run Feb. 8 to 17, 2019 in the Henegar's 2nd floor Studio Theatre. For general information on auditioning for the Henegar, click here. The Henegar is at 625 E. New Haven Ave., Melbourne, FL. Call 321-723-8698 or visit Henegar.org.
TITUSVILLE PLAYHOUSE will hold auditions for "MAN OF LA MANCHA" at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Dec. 10 and Tuesday, Dec. 11. Sign up begins 6 p.m. The show is scheduled to run Feb. 22 to March 17, 2019. For more information on characters, etc., click here. Titusville Playhouse is at 301 Julia St., Titusville. Call 321-268-1125 or visit TitusvillePlayhouse.com.


Dates for the 2015 ET4Online Symposium: April 22-24, 2015. Starting in 2013, the Symposium has been held on spring dates rather than mid-summer. Mark April 22-24 on your 2015 calendar for the upcoming ET4Online Symposium in Dallas.
Symposium attendance at the 2014 symposium located in Dallas, TX attracted over 700 onsite and 1000 virtual attendees from over 500 institutions, 47 states & territories, and 23 countries representing college level faculty and administrators, instructional technology professionals and instructional designers.
First prize: a school gift pack, including a school license (multiple classrooms) for all games, 4 of each poster, 100 stickers and 20 postcards.
Second prize: a class gift pack, including a classroom license for all games, 1 of each poster, 50 stickers, 10 postcards.
Download the OLC Conference mobile app from the Program page. This will provide you full session descriptions. The printed Schedule-at-a-Glance that you will be provided onsite does not include session descriptions.
Join in the conversation – follow the ET4Online Symposium Social networking. Join us on Facebook, Twitter (@OLCToday and #et4online) and Linkedin.
Watch the Virtual Conference Training video. The training session will provide important information on how to access the live and on-demand streamed sessions, presentations, and supplemental materials. A complete review of how to test your system and access the webcast seamlessly will be covered in the training session.
Look for a separate email with Virtual Conference Access instructions. Read that email thoroughly and bookmark it for future reference.


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Science Fair Project Ideas for Kids, Middle & High School Students ⋅
Different Kinds of Microscopes & Their Uses
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Various Types of Microscopes in Biology
By Melissa Harr
While most people picture the compound model from lab class when they think of microscopes, many types of microscopes are actually available. These useful devices are employed by researchers, medical technicians and students on a daily basis; the type they select depends on their resources and needs. Some microscopes provide greater resolution with lower magnification and vice versa, and they range in cost from tens to thousands of dollars.
Simple Microscope
The simple microscope is generally considered to be the first microscope. It was created in the 17th century by Antony van Leeuwenhoek, who combined a convex lens with a holder for specimens. Magnifying between 200 and 300 times, it was essentially a magnifying glass. While this microscope was simple, it was still powerful enough to provide van Leeuwenhoek information about biological specimens, including the difference in shapes between red blood cells. Today, simple microscopes are not used often because the introduction of a second lens led to the more powerful compound microscope.
Compound Microscope
With two lenses, the compound microscope offers better magnification than a simple microscope; the second lens magnifies the image of the first. Compound microscopes are bright field microscopes, meaning that the specimen is lit from underneath, and they can be binocular or monocular. These devices provide a magnification of 1,000 times, which is considered to be high, although the resolution is low. This high magnification, however, allows users to take a close look at objects too small to be seen with the naked eye, including individual cells. Specimens are usually small and have some degree of transparency. Because compound microscopes are relatively inexpensive yet useful, they are used everywhere from research labs to high school biology classrooms.
The stereo microscope, also called a dissecting microscope, provides magnification of up to 300 times. These binocular microscopes are used to look at opaque objects or objects that are too large to be viewed with a compound microscope, since they do not require a slide preparation. Although their magnification is relatively low, they are still useful. They provide a close-up, 3-D view of objects' surface textures, and they allow the operator to manipulate the object during viewing. Stereo microscopes are used in biological and medical science applications as well as in the electronics industry, such as by those who make circuit boards or watches.
Confocal Microscope
Unlike stereo and compound microscopes, which use regular light for image formation, the confocal microscope uses a laser light to scan samples that have been dyed. These samples are prepared on slides and inserted; then, with the aid of a dichromatic mirror, the device produces a magnified image on a computer screen. Operators can create 3-D images, as well, by assembling multiple scans. Like the compound microscope, these microscopes offer a high degree of magnification, but their resolution is much better. They are commonly used in cell biology and medical applications.
The scanning electron microscope, or SEM, uses electrons rather than light for image formation. Samples are scanned in vacuum or near-vacuum conditions, so they must be specially prepared by first undergoing dehydration and then being coated with a thin layer of a conducive material, such as gold. After the item is prepared and placed in the chamber, the SEM produces a 3-D, black-and-white image on a computer screen. Offering ample control over the amount of magnification, SEMs are used by researchers in the physical, medical and biological sciences to examine a range of specimens from insects to bones.
Like the scanning electron microscope, the transmission electron microscope (TEM) uses electrons in creating a magnified image, and samples are scanned in a vacuum so they must be specially prepared. Unlike the SEM, however, the TEM uses a slide preparation to obtain a 2-D view of specimens, so it's more suited for viewing objects with some degree of transparency. A TEM offers a high degree of both magnification and resolution, making it useful in the physical and biological sciences, metallurgy, nanotechnology and forensic analysis.
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My fusion lite is not staying connected to my blue tooth is there a way to keep it connected all the time?
Mine constantly disconnect from my phone too. I've tried on both Nexus 5 and LG G3 and still disconnect from both several times a day. The only way I can fix is to reboot the phone. I'm thinking of returning it for this reason.
I bought mine when i was on vacation in the US last week so not sure if its possible for to return it or exchange it.


Uberconference allows screen sharing and voice conferences, and in their free plan you even get access to call recording and up to ten participants on the call. A great, simple way to get into conferencing.
Running a teleconference through Powwownow costs nothing except the cost of the call. You can hold meetings with up to 50 people from any device, record and playback calls, share your screen - and the system is dead easy to use.
Skype is included with Office 365 and is compatible with Mac and Linux devices. Once installed, you can hold free voice, video and group chats across the internet, send instant messages or make low cost national and international telephone calls. Skype is good for informal communication and brief, unscheduled meetings.
Twiddla reckons it's a "web-based meeting playground". Sounds like fun. You can create online meetings quickly and easily, share screens with each other, mark up websites graphics and photos and grab snaps of what you create.
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Q: How to manage puppet control repo branches? We have a control repo platformX which has 3 branches: dev, test and model.
The control repo consists of the following files/dirs which get modified each time we introduce a new module:

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*hieradata

*Puppetfile: points to the module directory

*site dir: contains the roles & profiles modules invocations

A simple workflow

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*Work on module and test locally

*Push module to remote repo

*Branch out from dev to say feature_1  and update the files and directories above

*Test on a single host with the environment feature_1

*Merge feature_1 with dev
Problems Faced
Now I have the dev branch with the new module. Whats the best way to update test and model? Keep in mind that I cannot merge dev with test and then test with model because:

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*There maybe changes in dev that is not ready to be applied in test or modelyet

*I could inadvertently introduce something I shouldn't because I initially branched from dev.

I could branch from test, update heiradata, Puppetfile and roles & profiles to introduce the changes to test but this seems cumbersome because I have to repeat this again for model which inevitably can lead to human errors.
I'm sure others have faced this problem and have a sound solution - care to share your thoughts?

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Invasive Plants and Birds: Research Shows Native Plants Are Better for Nutrition
Posted on September 17, 2016 by Howard Meyerson
When given a choice, the Swainson's Thrush and other migrating bird species will pick native plants to feed on over non-native plants. Photo: Josh Haas.
By Howard Meyerson
Kay Charter isn't shy about letting people know that native plants are preferred when it comes to providing nutrition for birds. She and her husband, Jim, restored 30 acres of prairie on their 44-acre Omena bird preserve, Charter Sanctuary. The couple created it to provide a landscape where bird conservation was a top priority.
"The most important thing is removing non-native plants," notes Charter, executive director for Saving Birds Thru Habitat, a conservation and education nonprofit that promotes protecting, enhancing and restoring habitat for birds. "You don't have to buy a bunch of plants. We did that here, though, spent thousands of [grant] dollars on native plants—and converted 30 acres to prairie by planting native grass and forbs [flowering plants] . . . and planted shrubs like elderberry and service berry around a wetland, and other trees and shrubs."
Native plant species have larger insect populations, Charter said. Insects are crucial because they provide the protein young birds need to grow. Charter recognized that fact some years ago, and she ardently promotes Dr. Doug Tallamy's work.
Common elderberry is among the native fruiting plants that migrating birds will choose to eat in fall.
Tallamy is a strong proponent for biodiversity. He is professor and chair of entomology and wildlife ecology at the University of Delaware, and author of Bringing Nature Home. He is known for his research into bug life and abundance in native and non-native plant habitats.
Insects and native plants evolve together, Tallamy says. They adapt to the chemicals in plants that plants use to protect themselves. The result is caterpillars and other insects can consume those plants and thrive without harm, while invasive plants remain inedible and have fewer insects and less food for birds. Tallamy writes:
"We used to think this was good. Kill all insects before they eat our plants! But an insect that cannot eat part of a leaf cannot fulfill its role in the food web. We have planted Kousa dogwood, a species from China that supports no insect herbivores, instead of our native flowering dogwood (Cornus florida) that supports 117 species of moths and butterflies alone. In hundreds of thousands of acres we have planted goldenraintree from China instead of one of our beautiful oaks and lost the chance to grow 532 species of caterpillars, all of them nutritious bird food.
"My research has shown that alien ornamentals support 29 times less biodiversity than do native ornamentals. Our studies have shown that even modest increases in the native plant cover on suburban properties significantly increase the number and species of breeding birds, including birds of conservation concern."
More songbirds
Though not a panacea, Charter's restoration work at the sanctuary has resulted in some success. Nesting birds are more abundant, but species like the Bobolink and Meadowlark continue to decline.
"Last year we made a list (of nesting birds) and found more than 150 pairs comprised of 44 different species," Charter said. "When I first came here we didn't have a whole lot of nesting birds. The prairie has not affected the upland species as we hoped. The grassland species are still declining.
"We're working on a management plan for the sanctuary and have decided to force more rapid succession by planting shrubs and trees. Early succession forests are used by so many birds. Mostly we focus on songbirds here and they don't eat plants. They eat insects. A few will eat seeds and berries at certain times, but the big food source is insects."
Clear preferences
Dr. Jen Owen, associate professor at Michigan State University's Department of Fisheries and Wildlife and Large Animal Clinical Sciences, says birds prefer native plant species when they have a choice. Those were the findings of a 2012 study that examined the food preferences of migrating birds.
The two-year research project, conducted by Yushi Ouchi, a graduate student in her program, examined what birds ate and how healthy they were. They were netted on two adjacent tracts of land in Rose Lake Wildlife Research Area. One was dominated by native plants such as spicebush, common winterberry, American highbush cranberry, and common elderberry. The other was dominated by exotic plants such as autumn olive, Japanese honeysuckle, European buckthorn, and multifloral rose. Besides tallying where the birds were netted and conducting fecal studies to learn just what they ate, a number of Swainson's Thrushes and Catbirds were fitted with radio-tags and tracked to see where they spent time.
"Fruit is incredibly abundant in fall so a lot of birds may switch to eating primarily fruit for energetic benefits," Owen said. "They don't have to expend a lot of energy to [find] it. Studies have found that invasive plant fruits are high in sugar but not high in lipids [fat], and [migrating] birds are trying to fatten up. Some will double their body mass for migration. What we found is overwhelmingly, no matter which habitat they were caught in, they spend most of their time in native habitat. By collecting fecal samples we could identify what they were eating. The most common fruit consumed was the common spicebush."
Why they prefer spicebush is a question yet unanswered. What is known is that spicebush is high in lipid content, "a very efficient fruit to be eating," Owen said. Exotic plants have lower lipid content but can have more antioxidants.
Other study findings include that Catbirds foraging in native plant terrain had better immune functions. They were also less stressed. Owen said that wasn't so with Swainson's Thrushes. Their results trended in the same direction but were not statistically significant.
Study birds also ate disproportionately low amounts of autumn olive. The exotic plant was only 5 percent of their diet though it was available on 65 percent of the habitat. Buckthorn was 30 percent of the diet and made up 20 percent of the non-native habitat. Where there was choice, the birds ate buckthorn.
In native plant terrain where spicebush was 25 percent of the habitat, it was 65 percent of the diet for catbirds and Swanson's Thrushes.
"It is the quality of the fruit that drives the selection," Owen said.
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bobnarlyne says:
Wonderful work. We're birders but you guys are BIRDERS!
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Balocchi e profumi è un film del 1953 diretto da Natale Montillo e F.M. De Bernardi.

Il titolo del film riprende l'omonima canzone molto popolare in quel periodo.

Trama
Clara Florani è stata abbandonata dal marito, Lorenzo, partito senza dar notizie di sé; è madre di una bimba, Corallina. Un giorno Clara incontra in treno il gioielliere Raimondo Muzzi, che s'innamora di lei e cerca di convincerla a rifarsi al suo fianco una vita. Intanto il marito, Lorenzo, che essendosi innamorato di una bella avventuriera, l'ha seguita in Spagna, viene da questa messo alla porta e attraversa una grave crisi, durante la quale sfiora il suicidio. La sera in cui Clara ha deciso di cedere alle insistenze di Raimondo e di uscire con lui, Corallina la rincorre fin sulla porta di casa mentre imperversa un terribile temporale. Tornando indietro in preda a tristi presentimenti, Clara trova la bimba svenuta in un rigagnolo. Corallina muore, la madre impazzisce. Lorenzo ritorna e tra le sue braccia Clara riacquista la ragione, mentre dal cielo Corallina sorride felice.

Produzione
Il film è ascrivibile al filone dei melodrammi sentimentali, comunemente detto strappalacrime, allora in voga tra il pubblico italiano, in seguito ribattezzato dalla critica con il termine neorealismo d'appendice.

Distribuzione

Accoglienza
Incasso accertato sino a tutto il 31 marzo 1959: 272.792.481 lire dell'epoca.

Bibliografia
Almanacco Bompiani del cinema italiano 1945/1955 a cura di Gianni Rondolino

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New PNNL report shows utilities not ready to capitalize on energy storage benefits
From Sandbox to Business Planning: Grid energy storage technology can provide utilities and their customers with a broad stream of benefits. However, PNNL's study suggests utilities will have to update their resource planning models to accurately capture and quantify the value of those benefits.
Most people don't really think about their electricity except when they pay their bill, or when the power goes out. Utility companies think about it all the time.
Utilities need to make sure they can provide continuous electricity to their customers at an affordable rate, while also managing their bottom line. This means planning for a mix of energy resources that maximize reliability and flexibility while minimizing costs and risks.
A recent assessment by PNNL energy experts evaluated how and to what extent utilities included energy storage technologies, particularly grid-scale batteries, in their integrated resource planning (IRP) process. In these periodic analyses, utilities forecast future needs and then model the costs and benefits of various resource types to build an optimal portfolio of resources for meeting those needs.
A new PNNL assessment showed that as utilities analyzed more energy storage services in their integrated resource plan, they were more likely to select batteries in their preferred portfolio.
The PNNL assessment, prepared for the Department of Energy's Office of Electricity, showed that while some utilities took steps to improve their models—and identified cost-effective storage investments as a result—most utilities were still unsure how to model the costs and benefits of energy storage. The assessment also showed that many utilities still consider grid-scale batteries a research project, not a resource option.
In their report, "Energy Storage in Integrated Resource Plans", the team concluded that two primary factors kept utilities from accurately assessing the value of energy storage batteries in resource planning: lack of both reliable cost data and established industry modeling and planning practices. Jeremy Twitchell, a PNNL energy analyst and one of the report's authors, said he's not that surprised by the findings.
"It's complicated," said Twitchell. "The technology and policy around new energy technologies are changing so rapidly, utilities have a hard time nailing down concrete values for their planning forecasts."
Traditional utility resource planning models are not designed to evaluate the unique flexibility and grid service benefits that energy storage can provide. This means that energy storage technologies will be undervalued unless utilities update their modeling practices to account for those benefits.
Changing the resource modeling process is expensive and time consuming, and some utilities have more resources than others. But, Twitchell said, utilities that considered energy storage in their resource planning found that in some cases, it's the least cost way to meet customer and business needs.
"There's a narrative out there that energy storage technologies need to come down further in costs and that we need to understand them better before they can be a viable resource option," Twitchell said. "But research shows that storage has reached that point of inflection."
As more systems appear across the grid, their operating characteristics, construction timeframes, and costs evolve. That information sheds light on long-term costs, cycling requirements, methods for optimized operations, system siting, and component lifespans.
But in the meantime, utilities may be missing out.
By the Numbers: Batteries versus Pumped Storage
To take industry's pulse related to energy storage as part of their energy mix, the team reviewed 21 recent IRPs from a cross section of utilities representing a range of service territories, sizes, and ownership structures. While some plans considered compressed air energy storage, batteries and pumped storage hydro (PSH) were the most widely analyzed forms of energy storage. Based on the prevalence of these two technologies, the team's report focused on battery and PSH resources. The two technologies vary widely in their maturity.
Pumped storage generates electricity by moving water through reservoirs at different elevations. It is the dominant form of electric energy storage in the United States, accounting for about 170 gigawatts, or 97 percent, of bulk energy storage. Most of the pumped storage fleet was constructed over 30 years ago and is owned by public and private utilities. Costs and performance characteristics are established and relatively stable.
By contrast, grid-scale batteries provide about two gigawatts, or one percent, of the country's energy storage capacity. Even so, they have emerged over the past decade as a scalable, flexible option for balancing energy from intermittent energy resources, like wind and solar, as well as other distributed resources. But energy storage is fundamentally different than traditional grid resources. Storage both takes energy from and returns energy to the grid, and it can respond to grid signals in seconds. In addition, energy storage batteries provide a range of grid services that aren't yet included in traditional resource planning models.
As illuminated by the team's report, traditional utility planning models aren't designed to recognize the grid flexibility benefits of energy storage. Merely plugging storage into standard planning models results in an apples-to-oranges comparison that fails to account for many benefits of energy storage. And even among utilities that did model the benefits of energy storage, it wasn't always clear how they did so.
Additional key findings from the assessment include:
Despite the relative stability of pumped storage, the IRP analyses included batteries more frequently than PSH. Utilities generally identified three primary factors—siting flexibility, construction time, and environmental permitting concerns—as barriers to including or selecting PSH.
Of the 15 utilities that included battery storage in their IRP, four selected it in their preferred portfolio, while two selected it in their alternate portfolio. These scenarios indicate that battery storage is expected to be or may be a part of the utility's future investment plans, respectively.
For the 10 utilities that included PSH as a resource option, two selected it as a preferred option as part of existing facility expansions. One utility selected a new PSH resource in an alternate portfolio.
Twelve utilities have plans for an energy storage pilot project to better understand the technology.
None of the 12 utilities that included two or fewer energy storage services selected storage, while one of the four utilities (25 percent) that included three or four services selected storage, and three of the five utilities (60 percent) that included six or more services selected storage.
A New Planning Paradigm
The report showed that as utilities include more energy storage benefits in the planning process, they are more likely to select energy storage as part of their portfolio. As this transition occurs, planning practices will shift from the current paradigm, which ensures grid reliability by building reserve generation resources with sizable reserve margins, to a new paradigm that supports grid reliability by optimizing grid services.
"In traditional planning practice, utilities oversize the system to account for uncertainty," said Twitchell. "With energy storage, they can optimize instead of oversize."
In addition to Twitchell, the PNNL authors included Alan Cooke and Rebecca O'Neil. The team plans to conduct a follow-up project to identify emerging best practices and planning standards from the utilities that developed processes for modeling storage.


ICYMI: While you were sleeping -- 1,000 descend on Texas Capitol | Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc. and Planned Parenthood Action Fund, Inc.
Yesterday evening, as Republicans in the Texas House crammed through a last-minute omnibus bill that would endanger the health and safety of millions of women in the state, over 1,000 supporters of women's health took to the Capitol to make their voice heard loud and clear.
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This bill would have far-reaching consequences and would mean abortion would be virtually banned in the state of Texas. Many women could be forced to resort to dangerous and unsafe measures.
The outpouring of opposition to this bill on social media was huge. Last night, the hashtag #TXlege was trending nationwide. There were more than 120,00 tweets over the weekend. Other hashtags included #standwithTXwomen, #sb5, and #hb60.
And in a sign of solidarity, people from all over the country – including Arizona, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Maryland – sent over 250 pizzas. People also sent numerous boxes of cookies, orders of Red Bull and coffee, and apples and oranges.
In states like Kansas, North Dakota, Mississippi and Arizona – where opponents of women's health have passed dangerous laws that harm women's health and seriously restrict access to abortion – the state has spent hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars defending these out-of-touch bills. In fact, the AP recently reported that recent estimates in Kansas total more than a million dollars.
"Like never before, people in Texas are standing up to demand that politicians respect women's ability to make our own personal medical decisions, and the whole country is watching. This bill would endanger the health and safety of millions of women in Texas. If this passes, abortion would be virtually banned in the state of Texas, and many women could be forced to resort to dangerous and unsafe measures.
In the first few months of 2013, more than 300 provisions to restrict abortion access were introduced in state legislatures across the country, signaling this year would be just as bad as the record-breaking worst years for women's health in 2011 and 2012. Earlier this year, Governor Rick Perry said he wants to make abortion "a thing of the past" in Texas. Senate Bill 5 is part and parcel of that strategy.
For additional information about the situation in Texas, or if you would like to talk to a Planned Parenthood Action Fund spokesperson, please contact the Planned Parenthood Action Fund media office at 212.261.4433.


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The United States and Germany remain the most highly esteemed jurisdictions for patent litigation – as they have been for several years – outperforming another six countries (or 'other') in terms of thoroughness and value for money.
Of those at IP-owning companies, 51% thought that the United States had the most thorough litigation system, compared to second-place Germany (17%) and third-place United Kingdom (8%). This was a more close-run contest among private practitioners, 32% of whom saw the United States as the most thorough – only slightly more than the 30% who opted for Germany and 19% who picked the United Kingdom.
Germany has the edge when it comes to perceived value for money: 40% of corporate respondents and 38% of those at law and attorney firms said that it offered the best value, with the United States coming second on 21% and 32%, respectively. The United Kingdom ranks third highest in this respect too, garnering 10% and 19% of votes.
In terms of having confidence in IP litigation systems, there is a disparity between the answers provided by private practice respondents and by those at IPowning companies. Of the latter, 39% ranked the United States as the system in which they had the most confidence – more than for any other country – only 18% of the former chose the United States, placing it third – after Germany (36%) and, for the first time, the United Kingdom (21%).
Much of the patent community expects to see an increase in litigation in several jurisdiction over the next five years. As might have been predicted, China is the country expected by the largest proportion of respondents to see more lawsuits in 2025: 71% of corporate professionals and 82% of private practitioners believe that this a likely scenario. India is also anticipated to have more patent litigation by 56% of those at IP-owning companies and 46% of those at law and attorney firms. Brazil is predicted to see an increase by 28% and 40%, respectively.
A significant proportion of in-house professionals also expect to see more litigation in five years in Germany (47%) and the United States (41%); but only 24% of private practice respondents are confident that there will be more suits in the United States.
The message is largely positive for the post-Brexit United Kingdom. Of those at IP-owning companies, 85% expect that there will be at least as much litigation as today in five years' time, with 29% expecting to see more. However, 31% or private practitioners expect to see less litigation there in 2025 – a higher proportion than for any other jurisdiction.
Figure 21. Which of the following countries offers the best value for money for IP litigation? (IP owners)
Figure 22. Which of the following countries offers the best value for money for IP litigation? (private practice)
Figure 23. Which of the following countries has the most thorough litigation system? (private practice)
Figure 24. Which of the following countries has the most thorough litigation system? (IP owners)
Figure 25. In which of the following litigation systems do you have the most confidence? (IP owners)
Figure 26. In which of the following litigation systems do you have the most confidence? (private practice)
Table 13. How much litigation would you expect to see in the following jurisdictions in five years' time? (IP owners)
More than at present
The same amount
Less than at present
Brazil 28% 64% 8%
China 71% 24% 4%
France 16% 71% 13%
Germany 47% 47% 6%
India 56% 39% 5%
Indonesia 7% 81% 12%
Japan 19% 69% 11%
Korea 21% 76% 3%
Mexico 11% 79% 11%
Netherlands 24% 71% 6%
Nigeria 6% 82% 12%
United Kingdom 29% 56% 15%
United States 41% 45% 14%
Table 14. How much litigation do you expect there to be in the following jurisdictions in five years' time? (private practice)
Indonesia 22% 66% 11%
Japan 18% 73% 9%
Netherlands 22% 68% 10%
Nigeria 14% 70% 16%
Vietnam 16% 75% 9%
German court establishes legal certainty for appeals against EPO decisions


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Is swallowing gum bad for you? Here's what it actually does to your body
By Marissa Miller
Let's be honest — at some point or another, you've swallowed your gum, whether on purpose or by accident. Some of you might've immediately panicked about how that piece of gum could somehow become a sticky, hard wad that'd rot in your gut and destroy your insides. But despite popular mythology, swallowing gum isn't bad for you — although most doctors wouldn't recommend doing it just for the hell of it.
While no one should be going out of their way to swallow gum intentionally, it is OK if it happens — even as frequently as once or twice a day, says Dr. Patricia L. Raymond, gastroenterologist and assistant professor of clinical internal medicine at Eastern Virginia Medical School. "It's sort of like when somebody has inadvertently swallowed a Lego. It passes through," she explains. Whether you'll need medical attention or not all depends on where the gum ends up.
"As long as it ends up in the colon and doesn't get stuck in the outflow of the stomach called the pylorus, or the ileocaecal valve from the small intestine, we won't need to retrieve it," Dr. Raymond says.
And more likely than not, the gum will end up in the proper location. Dr. Marcelo Leal, pediatric gastroenterologist and hepatologist, explains that gum "shouldn't get stuck in your stomach unless there's a reason for it to do so," such as if you swallow an excessive amount without giving your body time to digest or have an unrelated intestinal issue.
Although gum is indigestible, its smooth, malleable texture and small size work well with humans' digestive tracts, so problems are rare. While foreign bodies with sharp edges or hard textures, like toothpicks or peach pits, might cause tears along the intestinal tract or a blockage, gum should go straight through your body, meaning that no, you do not have two decades' worth of it lodged in your colon in one big mass.
"Even if you swallowed three pieces [of gum], they're not going to coalesce into the size of a giant softball," says Dr. Raymond. Dr. Leal adds that you're more likely to get a bezoar — a mass of indigestible material in the digestive tract — from eating "clumps of hair" than from gum.
So if you do happen to swallow a piece, simply let nature take its course, and don't try to expel it yourself through the use of laxatives, cleanses, or enemas. "I would leave it alone," advises Dr. Raymond. "We get into trouble when we start to fiddle with or regulate our bowels." She compares cleaning your insides to composting items at home and then sterilizing them with Lysol. "You need the bacteria in there, the microbes and bugs so we can turn over the next load of compost," she explains. "Why in the world would you sterilize it? It's made to be as unsterile and multifaceted as possible."
Besides, even if you chew your gum without swallowing it, there's a chance it can still negatively impact your digestive system. When you chew gum, you ingest mouthfuls of air, which travel down your colon and can lead to what Dr. Raymond calls aerophasia, a type of non-odorous flatulence. "There's no amount of anti-gas material you can take. You just need to stop chewing all of that gum," she says.
While passing gas is completely normal, the bloating that might accompany it can feel pretty uncomfortable. Additionally, gum contains either simple sugars or artificial sweeteners, which can both alter your gut flora and lead to discomfort and inflammation when consumed in excess.
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Gum can hurt you even if you do everything right — but if you're still worried, drink lots of water, as the liquid should allow the gum to go through your digestive system "without major incident," according to Dr. Vladimir M. Kushnir, a gastroenterologist and associate professor of medicine at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
Water works well for other hard-to-digest items, too, especially foods containing large amounts of fiber like corn kernels or chia seeds. Consuming several servings of these foods quickly without an increase in water intake to flush out the material can cause constipation, since fiber pulls water into the colon in order to produce softer, fuller stools, according to Dr. Kushnir. The fiber in foods alone won't help them pass through your body — upping your fluid intake is what'll make all the difference.
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Both Dr. Kushnir and Dr. Raymond agree the tapioca incident is an outlier, noting that a regular cup of bubble tea contains anywhere from 10 to 15 pearls, so even a couple servings a day won't do any harm. You don't need to avoid having tapioca pearls, nor other possibly hard-to-digest items like seeds, nuts, or gum. Your digestive tract is designed to move things along pretty smoothly — provided that you drink enough water, that is.