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Hexagon Awards Manufacturing's Best Start-ups
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Hexagon's Manufacturing Intelligence division announces the winners of its first cohort of start-ups selected to help the manufacturing industry operate more sustainably and efficiently. Hexagon launched its Sixth Sense open innovation platform in January 2022 to challenge how multinationals approach innovation and help nurture creative solutions to emerging manufacturing challenges by connecting with companies to solve some of humanity's big challenges.
The two joint winners were chosen following an 8-week training program to hone their business model and approach, concluding with a final presentation to a panel of expert judges to pitch for the resources to globalize and gain access to Hexagon's extensive customer base.
RIIICO, a company that has designed a 'Sims-style' drag-and-drop virtual factory floor. Its AI solution creates a true-to-life simulation of a plant with a single 3D scan, empowering teams with the tools and flexibility to collaborate and improve on factory design from anywhere in the world. This can remove barriers to greener workflows by making the identification, installation and optimization of them as painless and low-resource as possible. The young team of university friends from Germany launched the company last year and since joining the platform have already been backed by the likes of UC Berkeley's SkyDeck fund, multiple investors, and AI experts in the U.S. and Germany.
SmartParts, a company that has created an embedded digital barcode for 3D printing. It has developed a solution utsing data-rich particles that can be embedded into the materials of 3D printed parts, which when scanned reveal the material and part's full specifications and history. The solution will enable industries with specific technical requirements, like aerospace and defense, and those with strong ESG commitments such as governments, to have greater control over their supply chain and processes and encourage responsible business decision making. SmartParts aims to directly connect physical assets with digital records to ensure end-to-end traceability and trust in 3D printing. The small U.S.-based team has direct experience with manufacturing in high requirement industries, having served as New York City's main contractor for 3D printed swabs during the height of the Covid pandemic in 2020.
Sixth Sense is a new approach to the traditional accelerator, designed as an exchange of value between Hexagon and the start-ups, providing more than theoretical training. The cohort gains tailored instruction on how to hone their offering for greater commercial success using Hexagon's deep market insight, while Hexagon aims to apply learnings from the start-ups' agility and approach to innovation.
"We expect all seven companies from this first cohort will go on to have a significant impact on the future of the manufacturing industry, and we will work with them all in some way," says Parth Joshi, chief product officer and chief technology officer of Hexagon's Manufacturing Intelligence division. "As winners, SmartParts and RIIICO should be particularly proud of their achievements, and we look forward to working with them to help grow their businesses and relationship with Hexagon and our customers."
"Sixth Sense has broken the mold, and successfully so—everything from the initial demand to the final result has been eye-opening," says Paolo Guglielmini, president of Hexagon's Manufacturing Intelligence division. "At Hexagon, we are searching for smart, efficient solutions that will not only boost performance, but benefit people and the planet. We will be recruiting for the next cohort soon, and I would emphasize that we encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds to help foster creative answers to global challenges."
The runner-up to the two winners is Praemo, who developed Razor, a sophisticated manufacturing insights application that ingests data 'as-is' from automation, quality, historians and maintenance systems to drive next level continuous improvement in areas like throughput, cost and productivity using advanced Machine Learning without the need for skilled data science teams. Hexagon would like to congratulate all the companies involved in this pioneering cohort, which included Eyeflow AI, IconPro, SmartPM and SmartUQ.
To keep up-to-date with the winners, learn from the Sixth Sense community, or apply for the next Sixth Sense cohort, click here.
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El municipio de West Blue (en inglés: West Blue Township) es un municipio ubicado en el condado de Adams en el estado estadounidense de Nebraska. En el año 2010 tenía una población de 321 habitantes y una densidad poblacional de 3,88 personas por km².

Geografía
El municipio de West Blue se encuentra ubicado en las coordenadas . Según la Oficina del Censo de los Estados Unidos, el municipio tiene una superficie total de 82.75 km², de la cual 82,62 km² corresponden a tierra firme y (0,16 %) 0,13 km² es agua.

Demografía
Según el censo de 2010, había 321 personas residiendo en el municipio de West Blue. La densidad de población era de 3,88 hab./km². De los 321 habitantes, el municipio de West Blue estaba compuesto por el 98,44 % blancos, el 1,25 % eran de otras razas y el 0,31 % eran de una mezcla de razas. Del total de la población el 3,12 % eran hispanos o latinos de cualquier raza.

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Dobsonfly: Bit of a horrorshow, this one
Ah, the legendary hellgrammite, many a bass fisherman's dream bait. This multi-legged larva looks like a mini dragon, and has a powerful set of pinchers to boot. Mishandle one of these aquatic beasts, and it'll nip you, too. I caught this one on a darter-hunting expedition in Big Darby Creek a few years back. Hellgrammites are strictly aquatic, and lurk in the substrate of streams, capturing whatever they can. Ugly as this insect may be, their presence is in a waterway is a nice thing - hellgrammites are indicators of good water quality.
If you are an entomophobe, you'll not find the dobsonfly any more appealing than its hellgrammite larval stage. Corydalus cornutus is a whopper of a bug, and males such as the one in this photo measure several inches in length.
We lured a few of these beasts to our lights last week in Adams County. We were after moths, but they're not the only critters attracted to bright lights at night, and I was pleased to spot this bruiser on the wall. It's a male dobsonfly, as can easily be told by the incredibly long scimitar-shaped mandibles (females' mandibles are much shorter). They use the swordlike mandibles for self defense, and typically fly suddenly at a person invading their space, quickly thrusting each mandible deep into the person's eyes. With an abrupt reversal of its flight coupled with a fierce jerk of the mandibles, the dobsonfly rips the victim's eyes from the sockets, and flies off to feed them to its mate.
Just kidding. Ferocious as the dobsonfly may appear, it is actually utterly harmless. While one may try to give a pinch with its mandibles if mistreated, they're too long and flimsy to gain much purchase, and would cause no harm. All visual bark and no real bite.
We were intrigued to see this Carolina mantis sneaking up on the huge dobsonfly. I watched this drama for a while, my camera's video function at the ready, hoping the mantid would attack. It bobbed, weaved, cocked its pointy triangular head, waved its legs and swayed side to side, but wouldn't get any closer to the dobsonfly than this. Fierce as the mantids are, this dobsonfly was apparently too much and the would-be predator chickened out. Can't say as I blame it.
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A commonplace miracle of transformation
Last Saturday night, at the Midwest Native Plant Conference (more on that in a soon to come post), many of the attendees set out on a nocturnal foray to look for anything interesting. As we passed a smallish white pine, I noticed several newly emerged annual cicada nymphs that had scaled partway up the trunk. Most had split open, and their inhabitants had liberated themselves, but we were interested to see that one nymph was still plodding its way up the tree. After spending a while at John Howard's mothing sheets, several of us circled back to check on the cicada nymph's progress.
By the time we returned, the nymph had reached the lowermost branch of the pine, and had moved out on it a foot or so and was firmly attached to its undersurface. One of its mates is in the background; that cicada has already emerged, leaving behind an empty shell. Annual cicadas in the genus Tibicen emerge every year, as you've no doubt guessed, with each crop spending at least two years under the ground feeding on tree roots. Finally, like strange little mud-caked zombies, some sort of cue triggers them to burst from the soil and commence the amazing transformation shown in this photo series.
I used my Canon Rebel T3i with its 100 mm macro lens and Speedlite 430 flash to make these photos. Fortunately, I had the camera's time and date stamp set correctly. The first photo, above, was made at 11:08 pm. The cicada within its soon to be former larval shell is pushing outwards; you can see the dorsal (upper) surface of the shell beginning to rupture.
By 11:19 pm, the cicada had broken through its shell and was rapidly expanding in size.
11:27 pm. The wing buds are nearly free.
11:30 pm. The stubby little wings - soon to grow much larger - pop free from the shell.
One minute later, 11:31 pm, and the animal's legs are nearly pulled free.
There! 11:34 pm and its legs are almost totally free. Short periods of rest were punctuated with flexing and wriggling of the legs, as the cicada pumped hemolymph into them and they grew and hardened. Note how the insect has taken on a beautiful bluish-green tint around the head and legs.
At 11:41, the cicada is hanging straight down, legs free, and giving periodic tremors as it pushes itself free. It is almost as if the insect is nearly imperceptibly oozing itself from its larval case.
At 11:45 pm, I shifted position and made this photo. The eyes are becoming pigmented and the wing buds are unfurling before our eyes.
By 12:08 am the animal was well on its way towards grabbing its nymph shell with its legs; bending forward and up as if executing an abdominal crunch.
By 12:10 am things were happening quickly. The animal has managed to reach its former shell, and has seized it with its legs. Not much of its abdomen remains imprisoned within the shell, and we were on full alert knowing the insect would soon pop free.
This photo is also stamped at 12:10 am; very shortly after the preceding photo the cicada pulled its abdomen completely free.
This is the last, or nearly the last, photo that I made, at 12:12 am. The cicada is completely liberated and will proceed to rapidly pump up, harden, and dry. I and my companions were pretty well beat by this time, and headed off for bed. Nonetheless, we hardly considered this hour or so of cicada-watching wasted time, as the process is one of those amazing little miracles that plays out untold thousands of times a night around here, but is very seldom seen.
I made this image of a nearby cicada that had emerged earlier and was a bit further along. In short order, the subject of my photo series will have reached this stage, a nearly adult lyric cicada, Tibicen lyricen. Come morning, the cicada will have made its way into the crown of the tree, and be fully flighted. If a male, it will add its buzz saw drone to the chorus of other cicadas; a symphony characteristic of the dog days of summer.
Labels: lyric cicada, tibicen lyricen
Mega-cool bugs
Right up in the grill of a clamp-tipped emerald dragonfly. I've been off in the wilds of Adams County doing field work, much of it with the incomparable David Wagner, and I've managed to wrangle scads of interesting images. I'll share some later, when there's more time. The emerald was captured with my new Canon Rebel T3i, which is proving to be an awesome camera.
A black maple, Acer nigrum, with its telltale foliage. Look closely...
That bit of dying maple tissue on the leaf in the previous photo morphs into a spectacular caterpillar upon inspection. It is a checker-fringe prominent, Schizura ipomoeae; an extraordinary mimic of necrotic leaf tissue. Note how the caterpillar essentially assumes the outline of the leaf margin as it eats its way into the leaf. Remarkable; probably far more spectacular than the rather drab moth that this caterpillar will become - if nothing gets it.
More to follow...
Labels: checker-fringe prominent, clamp-tipped emerald, schizura ipomoeae
Against my better judgment, I've become a bit of a kook for cameras. I've taken photographs for a long time - even back in the Dark Ages of print film - but didn't get my first digital camera until 2004. Like many addictions, things took a while to ramp up and for the first several years I was content with one camera.
Then, I felt it was time for an upgrade, and that's where the trouble often starts. From whatever it was that I first had, it was on to a Panasonic FZ-30 in 2005 or 2006. Then it was the improved Panasonic FZ-50 (which I still have and regularly use - fabulous camera!). Somewhere along the line I added a small rectangular Canon Powershot, to have something that would slip in a pocket.
The lens-lust steadily increased, with the upshot that I've now also got a Nikon Coolpix P510, which is an unbelievable point & shoot with a 42x zoom that actually holds up. You'd be stunned at the quality of the distant bird shots that thing can manage. Joining it is a Nikon D7000 SLR and a smattering of accompanying lenses, and the recent acquisition of a Canon T3i Rebel SLR, which looks to be an amazing camera and I can't wait to work with that some more.
Camera technology is growing better by leaps and bounds, and even the smart phone cameras/video are capable of stunning quality. I've got a Droid X, and it'll almost always come through in a pinch for both stills or video. But one of the coolest cameras out there follows...
The palm-sized GoPro HD Hero camera, an amazing little piece of technology. Inexpensive, too, at around $200.00. There isn't much to one of these. Two buttons control everything, and while it does have the ability to take still images, nearly everyone that gets one gets it for the video function. If you've seen onboard race car video, jumped (virtually) out of an airplane with a skydiver, or any manner of X-games type of video action, chances are it was filmed with a GoPro just like the one in my hand.
GoPros also come with a thoroughly waterproof case, and can be used at depths of up to at least 100 feet. The waterproof case is on the camera, above, and can be mounted in seconds. Its ability to function superbly both above and below water made the GoPro irresistible to me.
Nature videography really wasn't the primary reason I got the GoPro. It was bikes. That's my 2009 Ducati Monster 1100S, and it's the latest in a long line of motorcycles. In a weird melding of parallel universes, I became infatuated with motorcycles when almost as young as I was when birds hooked me into nature. It started with a rigid-framed minibike with a Tecumseh 2.5 horsepower engine that my brother John and I zipped around on when I was maybe ten or so. On it went, to a Hodaka, then Honda, then Suzuki, and to more Suzukis, Kawasaki, a Yamaha V-Max, a Buell, Harley-Davidson Softail, and some other stuff, finally coming to land on this Ducati which is the coolest unit yet, to me.
Well, one awesome aspect of the GoPro camera is that it mounts firmly onto steeds such as this bike. You can see it on its tank mount, just aft of the gas cap. It could be mounted on the back fender, too, or the front fender, on your helmet - almost anywhere. This allows for some cool footage.
When mounted on the gas tank of a motorcycle, it delivers video from the rider's perspective, and it's almost as if the viewer is along for the ride. The camera has a very wide-angle field, too.
For above-water purposes such as this, there is a vented camera case that allows for better audio. Because the audio pickups are at the rear of the camera, it cuts way down on wind noise and other obtrusive ambient sounds, thus allowing the rich mellifluous baritone of the Ducati to dominate.
After getting a waterproof case for the GoPro, I couldn't wait to test out its underwater capabilities, and finally did so about a week ago. This is a section of Mac-O-Chee Creek in Logan County, and its water is mostly clear as a bell. The stream is fed in part by springs, and water-quality is high and Mac-O-Chee hosts plenty of aquatic life.
Here's a brief video of life in the stream. As you can see, clarity remains high even when the camera is in the drink. Johnny darters can be seen shuffling along the stream bottom, and a number of bluntnose minnows swim past the lens. I'm looking forward to working more with this camera in underwater situations, as it'll allow footage of some very cool stuff that could never be recorded with a conventional camera.
The above video was compressed significantly for ease of uploading to the blog; it looks even better uncompressed. And GoPro didn't give me the camera or ask for any sort of endorsement. I just think it is a very cool and versatile piece of technology that can go where most cameras can't.
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National Moth Week: July 23 - 29
Stunning and artistic, a virgin tiger moth, Grammia virgo, rests on your blogger's hand. Moths are beautiful and infinitely diverse. More importantly, these insects provide ecological services that are invaluable to most other animals, people included.
The following information comes courtesy of Dr. Davis Horn, professor emeritus at Ohio State University, and widely known as "Mothman".
National Moth Week – July 23-29, 2012
The time is almost here! National Moth Week is a nationwide celebration of moths and biodiversity, bringing together those interested in moths and raising awareness. During NMW members of The Ohio Lepidopterists (and others) are invited to join in an all-out effort to see how many moth species we can find in Ohio. There will be organized blacklighting and baiting forays and individuals are welcome to report any moths you find. Specific events are listed below.
Whether or not you participate in a NMW "event" you are welcome to simply make note of what species you encounter during the week of July 23-29. If you're not adept at moth identification, take a picture (or capture the moth). Note date and location of sightings and send your results to me: e-mail davehorn43@columbus.rr.com or regular mail to 37 Arden Rd. Columbus, OH 43214. Yes, caterpillars do count, as does any lepidopteran that washes up, dead or alive, on the north bank of the Ohio River.
For more information click on http://nationalmothweek.org/
National Moth Week Events
Below is the list of Ohio National Moth Week events known to us at press time. Some of these events require sign-up in advance and fees may be involved, so check with contact persons.
23 July: Hocking Hills and Columbus. Deep Woods BioBlitz mop-up, location TBA but most likely at OSU Museum of Biodiversity, sorting samples taken the night before in Hocking Co. Contact Dave Horn (davehorn43@columbus.rr.com). (Okay the night before was the 22nd but we didn't see the samples until the morning of the 23rd.)
25 July: OSU West Campus, 8 PM: Bee Lab and OSU Wetlands. Free food. Contact Devon Rogers (rogers.781@osu.edu) or Dave Horn.
25 July: Kelleys Island. As part of a comprehensive program requiring preregistration, Judy Semroc and Larry Rosche will operate a moth lighting station. Contact the Cleveland Museum of Natural History (www.cmnh.org).
25 July, 9 PM: William H. Harsha Lake, Corps of Engineers Visitor Center, Batavia. Pre-register by July 24 at 513-797-6081. Contact Linda Romine (see page 2).
27 July: Franklin Park Conservatory, downtown Columbus. Blacklighting. Contact Greg Raterman (gregraterman@aol.com).
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Moths galore at Wahkeena
Wahkeena Preserve, located just south of Lancaster, Ohio. This place is a state treasure, and I hadn't been there in far too long. If you ever find yourself in this area, you'll definitely want to pay a visit to Wahkeena.
Last Tuesday night, I rolled through Wahkeena's gate just as the sun was setting. I was there for some serious nocturnal moth action, and boy did we have it! Dennis Profant, kneeling at right, organized the affair, and along with Roger Grossenbacher (left), set up two well-lit white sheets in the woods. These brightly illuminated set-ups pull the moths like you wouldn't believe, if you've not seen this sort of operation yourself.
In addition to Dennis (he's got a GREAT blog, HERE) and Roger, we were joined by Wahkeena naturalist Robyn Wright-Strauss, longtime Wahkeena manager Tom Shisler, Alex Webb, and Lisa & Steve Sells. Lisa pushes the envelope of macro photography and her skills are extraordinary. Be sure to check her blog, HERE.
Profant, and Alex, are exceptionally knowledgeable regarding night-flying lepidoptera and this was an excellent opportunity for your narrator to expand his mothing horizons in the company of experts. We certainly weren't disappointed in what we saw. Wahkeena is full of interesting and diverse habitats, and it follows that it would host moths galore. The blizzards of insects attracted to our lights is testimony to the place's lepidopteran diversity, and following is a pictorial whirl of some of our subjects.
You know it's going to be good when a blinded sphinx, Paonias excaecatus, is perched on your light stand! OK, so we set it there, but the moth was apparently pleased with our operation and remained for some time.
Some species of moths are far flightier than others, while some are quite tame and easy to handle. Even some of the initially jumpy species settle down after being at the lights for a while and can then be handled and better posed for photographs.
Here's a closeup of that blinded sphinx, cooperating well with the paparazzi. All of the sphinx moths are ornate and detailed in their markings, and most are large. The caterpillars of this species are polyphagous - they eat a wide variety of woody plant species.
A good identification guide is helpful when grappling with the potentially hundreds of moth species that are possible at a place such as Wahkeena. The newest, and most user-friendly, is the above (details HERE). Get a copy if you wish to advance your moth IQ. A modest sphinx (formerly big poplar sphinx), Pachysphinx modesta, poses obligingly by the field guide.
Here's that same modest sphinx, quite unmodestly flashing its underwings for the camera. Some species of moths that appear drab and brown when at rest with wings folded can suddenly flip the forewings open and reveal bright colors on the hindwings. At least in some cases, by suddenly revealing a bold jolt of color, the moth can startle and spook would-be predators such as birds that are getting a bit too inquisitive.
The same modest sphinx, seen from an angle that makes it appear quite eerie. I find moths to be endlessly fascinating subjects for the camera. Even the plainest of the lot will reveal stunning detail if viewed in the right way.
As the best conditions for moth photography are - duh - at night, this means it is necessary to hone one's skills with flash. For all of these photos, I was using my Panasonic FZ-50 point and shoot, with only its standard built-in flash unit. The trick is to use full manual settings, and greatly underexpose the camera settings, then let the flash compensate. It takes practice and experimentation, but can yield excellent results.
For camera buffs, I shot the above image at an f-stop of 5, at a shutter speed of 1/60 with the camera's ISO value at 100, and the camera's flash intensity at its weakest setting. Without the flash the image would have been black as coal.
This is an arched hooktip, Deprana arcuata, and it resembles a stealth bomber. The caterpillars of this one apparently depend on alder and birch, and there is plenty of those plants in this general area.
Dennis Profant was quite excited when this tiny moth fluttered in. He should have been - Dennis coauthored THIS BOOK, the Slug Caterpillar Moths and other Zygaenoidea of Ohio (Dennis really isn't a total geek, I swear!). It is a yellow-shouldered slug moth, Lithacodes fasciola, and with only a cursory glance the moth doesn't look like much. Upon inspection it reveals a complex pattern along with showy gold and bronze coloration. The rather unsavory-sounding "slug" part of its name stems from the caterpillars. This species and its ilk have tiny caterpillars termed slugs, although in reality many of the slug cats actually outshine the adult moths in the looks department.
Looking just about as cute as a moth can be is this beautiful wood-nymph, Eudryas grata, peeking coyly over a leaf. See what I mean about moths as art?
Viewed from another angle, the beautiful wood-nymph takes on quite another look. These moths are bird dropping mimics, and look astonishingly like the fresh expulsion of a chickadee or some other songbird. They even have a wet-looking sheen, to better create that just expelled appearance. Who wants to eat a bird dropping? The moth world is full of clever deception such as this.
All of our emeralds are beautiful, but this aptly named showy emerald, Dichorda iridaria, may win the pageant. Its caterpillar is a bizarre looking affair that resembles a tubular stegosaurus, and eats... brace yourself! - poison ivy! And other members of the sumac family, too.
Always a guaranteed crowd-pleaser, the rosy maple moth, Dryocampa rubicundula. This species is surprisingly common, and is probably one of our most commented upon moths. Even people who wouldn't give most self-respecting moths the time of day will do a double take when they see one of these perched by the night light. We've not got a lot of organisms that are pink and yellow, after all.
This the adult of what is almost certainly the most widely known caterpillar in North America, the legendary woolly-bear, famed (alleged) predictor of the coming winter's severity. Show most, or at least many, people a fuzzy black and orange woolly-bear caterpillar and they'll know what it is.
However, very few folks would probably recognize the abundant and widespread insect in its adult form, as an Isabella tiger moth, Pyrrharctia isabella. I've got scads of good woolly-bear caterpillar images, and was pleased to finally make some decent photos of the adult.
I don't see much of horror here, but this is a horrid zale (zay-lee), Zale horrida. I'm not sure how it got saddled with the creepy name; the moth is quite beautiful and richly endowed with artistic detail. Some moths are not especially attracted to night lights, and this may be one of them. Roger Grossenbacher had painted moth attractant goop (rotten bananas, sugar, stale beer, that sort of thing all mixed up) on some trees and that's what lured in the zale.
Oh yeah! When one of these comes stumbling in, it's sort of like when the goshawk comes by the hawk watch tower. Great excitement ensues. This is one of our largest moths, the imperial moth, Eacles imperialis, and we had three of them come into one sheet. While the moth sticks out like a sore thumb when it alights on someone's sneaker, it blends beautifully with the mottled browns and yellows of fallen maple leaves where it would normally rest.
These jumbos look like bats when they flutter in, and they're every bit as big. Their appearance is double-edged sword, though. On one hand, the imperials are big, showy, exciting, and wonderful photo subjects. On the debit side, they are like bulls in a china shop when they hit the sheets, bouncing and fluttering about maniacally and scaring off many of the lesser moths. More ominously, the conspicuous presence of these giants can attract the attention of predators such as flying squirrels, and if the sheets are left unattended for a while one may return to find lots of shucked wings laying about.
This hand provides scale to an imperial moth. Silkmoths such as this are essentially little more than flying gonads. They have no functional mouthparts, don't feed, and are lucky to last a week. Their sole purpose is to locate a member of the opposite sex, mate, and in the case of the female drop eggs, and then die.
Many other interesting night-flying bugs other than moths come into the brightly lit moth sheets. We were pleased to find this summer fishfly, Chauliodes pectinicornis, at one of the sheets. It's a whopper of a bug, some two inches in length and adorned with mothlike antennae.
Thanks to Tom and Robyn at Wahkeena for hosting us for this interesting evening, and to Dennis for setting things up and freely sharing his great expertise.
Labels: fishfly, moths, wahkeena
A caterpillar to watch for!
In a rather freakish lepidopteran coincidence (?), two of my co-workers brought me specimens of the above caterpillar yesterday. One of these colleagues resides in southern Franklin County, and one of the cats in the photo is her specimen. When she brought it in, the caterpillar was new to me - I had never seen one, and had no idea what it was. I did, however, know the plant that it was eating: wild blue indigo, Baptisia australis. Using the plant as a clue, it took nearly no time to pin a name on the mystery caterpillar. It is the larva of the genista broom moth, Uresiphita reversalis.
In what is either a remarkable coincidence or evidence of an expanding genista broom moth population, another co-worker waltzed in about an hour later with yet another of these caterpillars. He lives 40 or 50 miles north of the other caterpillar collector, in Morrow County. His caterpillar is the other specimen in the photo. After determining that my two colleagues weren't pranking me, I set about learning a bit about this moth and its larvae.
Photo: Wikimedia Commons, photographer unattributed
Several species of Baptisia, or indigos, are commonly sold and planted in gardens and yardscapes, including this wild blue indigo, Baptisia australis. In Ohio, it is primarily a species of gravelly river bottoms, and now is known but from one site in the wild and is listed as endangered. We've got two other native indigos in our flora: white false indigo, B. alba (white or creamy flowers), and yellow false indigo, B. tinctoria (yellow flowers). While both of these species are rather rare in the wild, they both are sold at least sparingly in the nursery trade. The genista broom moth caterpillar could turn up on any of them, as well as other pea family plants in the genera Genista, Lupinus, Sophora and perhaps others.
The caterpillar is quite striking and very distinctive. It's also easily noticed, as genista broom moth cats are active during the day, and highly gregarious, sometimes forming colonies of dozens of caterpillars. As they defoliate their host plant, the caterpillars lay down lots of filmy silk, creating a rather messy look sure to catch the eye of any gardener or casual observer.
I conferred with Dr. David Wagner about this species, and he tells me it does seem to be on the move and has turned up recently in new east coast sites (the species is principally a westerner). The caterpillars apparently can assimilate toxic alkaloids from their host plants and sequester them, thus they are chemically well protected. Thus, their daytime habits as most birds won't fool with them.
In spite of Internet maps showing dots in Ohio, there apparently is no validated record of genista broom moth for the state, or at least of larval infestations. This species may be an up and comer in our neck of the woods, and it bears watching for. If it increases and jumps from the garden Baptisias into the small, local and widely scattered native Baptisia stands, there could be trouble.
If you've seen this caterpillar, let me know, and ideally take a photo and send that too. The adult moths are rather plain and would be far more likely to go unnoticed than the conspicuous caterpillars.
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Labels: genista broom moth, uresiphita reversalis
Mothing in Wahkeena
An incredibly ornate cecropia moth caterpillar, Hyalophora cecropia, is heavily ornamented with colorful spiny nodules. It's big, too - a few inches in length. If all goes well for this caterpillar, it will eventually morph into one of our largest and most spectacular moths.
A pair of cecropia cats happily noshes on the foliage of black cherry, Prunus serotina, a favored food plant.
I was out into the wee hours last night, participating in a moth-trapping expedition at the beautiful Wahkeena Nature Preserve just south of Lancaster. Wahkeena's naturalist, Robyn Wright-Strauss, raises the cecropia caterpillars and her charges made for some great photos. But our targets were wild, free-flying moths and we had great success, thanks to event organizer Dennis Profant.
A strange but showy beautiful wood-nymph, Eudryas grata, peers at your blogger from a leaf. I made many interesting images of some very cool night-flying insects on this foray, and will slap some of these up later today.
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Labels: beautiful wood-nymph, cecropia moth, eudryas grata, hyalophora cecropia, wahkeena nature preserve
An interesting moth, new to science!
A tiny Adams County, Ohio prairie. This part of southernmost Ohio is notable for its "bluegrass province" prairies, which become more common in Kentucky, and barely nip north across the Ohio River. While many of these prairies are small, they are full of rare species. The prairie in the photo above has a very special treat, as we shall see.
I made the journey to Adams County last Saturday, and connected with John Howard and Tricia West, both of who live locally and are outstanding naturalists. Mary Ann Barnett ventured up from Kentucky, and Skip Trask joined us for the morning. Our mission? An incredible caterpillar. Lest you think me too foolish for chasing a caterpillar, rest assured that a field trip like this produces LOTS OF STUFF, from Blue Grosbeaks and Dickcissels to rare orchids to box turtles. But the caterpillar that follows was our primary quarry, and it is an intriguing tale.
This rather attractive member of the pea family is central to the story. It is scurf pea, Orbexilum onobrychis, sometimes known as sainfoin, french grass, or lanceleaf scurfpea (this is why botanists often communicate by scientific name; the variation in colloquial names can be maddening, and ambiguous).
Scurf pea (for that is what we shall call it) has a very limited distribution. While this USDA Plants Database map shows it in 12 states, it certainly isn't common or widespread in most of them. Indiana, Illinois, and Ohio are the states of core distribution; beyond this region the plant becomes downright rare. Scurf pea is only known from one or a few counties in several of the peripheral states.
This is the Ohio distribution of scurf pea, and it correlates fairly well with former prairie regions. Even those easternmost counties such as Athens have tiny relict prairie communities. This allegiance to prairies seems to hold true when one reviews scurf pea's range in other states, too.
I would describe the plant as rare to uncommon at best, and widely scattered. I think all of the populations that I have seen have been in prairies.
Well, it didn't take any time at all after entering the postage stamp-sized Adams County prairie and its rather luxuriant stands of scurf pea before we found our target. This is the "mystery" Schinia moth caterpillar, and insofar as is known it feeds exclusively on scurf pea. John Howard stumbled into a few of these caterpillars last year, and his efforts to make an identification ran into a brick wall. With good reason; it turns out this species has not been formally described so it isn't in any books. Moths in the genus Schinia are known as "flower moths", and the adult moths of this species apparently fly in spring and early summer, prior to our visit.
It turns out that a few other populations of the moth have turned up in Kentucky, Indiana, and Illinois, all in the last few years and all on populations of scurf pea. Now is the time to search for it, as the caterpillars are very distinctive and far more conspicuous than the moths that they will eventually morph into.
We probably saw nearly 100 of the Schinia caterpillars in the mini-prairie, in an area no bigger than a small urban yard. It blows me away that this species could have been overlooked for so long. The caterpillars are reasonably good-sized - an inch or a bit longer - and quite boldly marked. Their creamy-yellow ground color is quite showy, and the ornamentation of black dots makes them really stand out.
These Schinia caterpillars are also active by day, which further aids in their detection. We assume that they must be chemically protected, as the predators such as birds seem to leave them alone. If they were tasty, one hungry Common Yellowthroat or other songbird could quickly lay waste to the entire caterpillar population, but this isn't happening. The caterpillar's apparent toxicity raises questions about the scurf pea, their only known host plant. There seems to be very little study of it, but I would guess that scurf pea must produce some sort of foul chemical compounds that these caterpillars have evolved the ability to assimilate.
For the most part, if not entirely, the caterpillars feed on the fruits of the scurf pea, and perhaps a bit on the flowers as well. I caught this one happily digging into a fruit, quite unbothered by my close proximity. Chemical compounds sometimes are sequestered in high concentration in plant seeds, and this may be why the Schinia cats harvest the fruit, and their emergence is timed to the plants' production of fruit.
Here's a closeup of a raceme of ravaged scurf pea fruit. The caterpillar bores a nearly circular hole through the fruit's protective wall, and efficiently vacuums out the contents.
After seeing the new caterpillar firsthand, I thought of a prairie remnant not far west of Columbus and some 115 miles to the north of where we saw the cats in Adams County. So, I skedaddled over to this prairie, seen above and only 25 minutes from my house, yesterday afternoon. There are nice stands of scurf pea here; far more of the plant than at the sites that I saw in Adams County. It seemed possible that the new caterpillar could also be here, but there's only one way to find out and that's to go have a look.
Bingo! Within five minutes of beginning my inspection of the first patch of scurf pea I came across, I had spotted one of the caterpillars. That was a very cool experience. Note how this one is harvesting the scurf pea fruit and remaining utterly oblivious to your blogger, just as they acted in Adams County.
It wasn't long before I spotted a second caterpillar, and this one was firmly attached to the underside of a leaf. It's head was curled under in the J-shape that some caterpillars adopt just prior to entering the pupal stage and I wonder if that's what s going on here. I'm not sure anyone has yet seen a cocoon of this species, or understands that part of the life cycle. It may be that the fully mature caterpillar drops into the leaf litter and overwinters as a pupa on the ground.
I'm sure that I would have found many more of the caterpillars, but a prairie thunderstorm blew in with a vengeance, and chased me back to the car. I'll hope to get back to this site for a more thorough inspection very soon.
Photo: John Howard
John Howard managed to find one of the adult moths back in June, and made this photo. It is a rather sharp looking insect, just as is its caterpillar stage.
I look forward to learning more about this interesting moth, and its eventual formal scientific description and naming. This Schinia flower moth is yet more proof that we don't know everything and that fascinating new discoveries lurk under our noses. To me, it further reinforces the value of protecting significant natural areas such as the prairies where this moth has been found. Who knows what else is out there that we don't know about?
Labels: flower moth, Schinia
An orchid - 175 years later
Dainty Sulphur alert!
A pictorial ramble along the Grand River
Juvenile Turkey Vultures: so ugly, they're... ugly
Exotic dancers
A few cool bugs, featuring Northern metalmark
Invasion of the longhorns
This you must hear: a Catharus guttatus aria
Freshwater Sponge!
More on escaped waterfowl and our whistling-duck
Orange Bluet, with water mites

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The 20 Baht banknotes have 2 types that were printed from Thomas dela Rue and the Royal Thai Survey Department.
20 Baht Royal Thai Survey new spelling Thai Government and have small text Royal Thai Survey both front and back.
Thomas ordinary number signature Pradid VF about 6,600 - 7,000 baht.
Royal Thai Survey ordinary number signature Pao UNC about 32,000 -33,500 baht.
Royal Thai Survey ordinary number signature Pao EF about 5,900 - 6,200 baht.
Royal Thai Survey ordinary number signature Leng UNC about 14,200 - 14,900 baht.
Royal Thai Survey ordinary number signature Leng EF about 5,400 - 5,700 baht.
The 4th series 20 Baht Thomas banknotes were announced on 29th December 1939.
The 4th series 20 Baht Royal Thai Survey banknotes were announced on 17th Febrauary1939.
The main object is the image of King Rama 8 on the left. The middle image is the Chakri Maha Prasart Throne Hall. The serial code and number were printed with red ink.


A dental implant here in Indianapolis is one of the options your dentist may offer to replace a missing tooth. This is an excellent one, especially for front teeth. A dental implant is permanent, so it will not fall out accidentally. It looks and works like a natural tooth, so even you will forget it is there.
However, a dental implant is also more expensive than other options are. This is not surprising, considering what is involved in putting it in. Below is a quick rundown of the process of putting in a dental implant.
Not everyone is a good candidate for a dental implant. Your missing tooth should not have been gone for more than a year. It has to be in a good position for an implant. Your gums and jawbone have to be in good condition. Your dentist will take X-rays to check for these things.
You may need a bone graft first in some cases. This is a separate operation from the dental implant and may take several weeks. If you are a good candidate for a dental implant, the dentist will take an impression of your teeth and gums.
Dental implants require surgery. The dentist will have to cut into the gum to get to the jawbone. Then, the dentist will drill into the bone and put in the implant screw. In some cases, the dentist will put in something called an abutment at the same time.
Sometimes, the dentist will wait for the gum to heal first before putting the abutment. The abutment connects the screw to your new tooth The gum has to heal, so the dentist may put in a temporary tooth and send you home.
The dentist will check if your gum healed properly after a few weeks. If it has, the dentist will take out the temporary tooth and put in the permanent one. The dentist will check if the tooth fits properly, and make adjustments when needed. After that, you are done.
A dental implant is expensive because it takes several steps. It requires a dentist with the right training to do an assessment and the surgery. Finally, it takes quite a bit of time from start to finish. However, the cost and time involved are worth it.


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SWEDEN: EuroMaint Rail has won a SKr100m contract to refurbish the Arlanda Express trainsets. 'The fleet of seven Arlanda Express trains is to be given a brand new, modern design', said Per Thorstenson, Chief Executive of A-Train, operator of the dedicated shuttle service from Stockholm C to the capital's main airport.
EuroMaint Rail's site at Malmö will carry out an extensive exterior and interior refurbishment of the four-car 200 km/h EMUs, which were built by Alstom and entered service in 1999. The work will begin in February 2010, to specifications developed by Idesign, and will provide an increase in capacity.
'It is exciting to work with such a well thought out and modern design, and we will also be well prepared for the maintenance of the 'new' rolling stock once they return into service,' said EuroMaint Rail CEO Mats Önner.
Airport operator LFV has begun a trial of automatic check-in at Stockholm C station for passengers flying with Norwegian, Finnair and Höga Kusten.


Welcome to Day Two of the Earth Analytics Bootcamp! Today, you will learn about Python variables (which store single data values) and lists (which can store many data values). Specifically, you will write Python code to create and manipulate variables and lists, and you will also write Python code to plot data using the matplotlib package.
Today's lessons provide the information and files that you need to continue homework 1. In the lessons, you will use Python in Jupyter Notebook to work with variables and lists.
Fork and git clone today's files from https://github.com/earthlab-education/ea-bootcamp-day-2 to the earth-analytics-bootcamp directory under your home directory.


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Q: can we make an application to hang up the dialed call for x amount of second from our application iphone sdk I want to develop an iPhone application whose main function is to hang up an outgoing phone call after X amount of seconds/minutes have passed since the call was placed, not from when the call was connected. After hanging up, the application will automatically redial to continue the phone call without any user intervention. The application will only redial in the case the same application has hanged up the call. If any of the parties hang up the call, the application will not redial.
Expected features to be developed are:

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*Add and update a list of phone numbers to monitor

The user must be able to type in directly a phone number or select it from the address book. The list will show the name and phone number monitored like "Roberto Ibarra: 33 5555 5555". This list will serve as the database of phone numbers the application will identify as outgoing calls that must be hanged up and redialed automatically after X amount of minutes have passed. The application must not affect incoming calls or outgoing calls to numbers other than the ones on this list.
If possible, the application must fully integrate with the OS dialing system so that calls placed from any part of the phone will be monitored. For example, if a call is dialed with voice commands it should be monitored by this application.

*Alert and hang up

The application must send a BEEP 5 seconds before hanging up, so as to both parties in the call can hear it and be aware the call will be about to end. This will not be configurable by the user, it will always happen 5 seconds before ending the monitored call. If the call is an outgoing call and the number is part of the list of numbers to monitor, the application will then hangup the call once the X amount of minutes/seconds have been reached. This beep can be a DTMF tone.

*Automatically redial a monitored call that was ended by the application

The application will automatically redial the number that was being called to continue the call ONLY if the call was automatically ended by the application because the time limit was reached. If the call was ended by the user, then the call must NOT be redialed.

*Copy protection mechanism

The application must have a copy protection mechanism based on the phone's IMEI. The application must ask the first time for a code and show the phone's IMEI. The code will be generated by a third party website by entering the IMEI and if correctly entered in the phone, then the application will work.
The algorithm will be based on a hash from the IMEI and some seed to be determined. The crypt function should be something like MD5 or some other function available in the OS in the majority of the phones using the OS.

A: You cannot do this. You have no access to calls made from the device and certainly can't hangup any in process calls. The closest you can come is asking the phone application to dial a number.

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Q: Redirect TCP port traffic to other port so that the Java application knows which port was used I am running a Java server application (Bungeecord if anyone knows) for which I'm coding plugins. The Bungeecord server runs on port A but one needs to be able to connect to the server on port A and B. So if one connects to port A everything should work as expected. But if one connects to B the input of B should be sent to port A and the output of a connection over B needs to be sent from port B.
The problem is that my Java plugin for Bungeecord needs to know whether the client connected over A or B.
I can't simply create two ServerSocket instances (one for port A and one for port B) because this would require modding of Bungeecord (which is not my project). Doing so would be very time intensive.
Is it possible to solve this problem on linux (debian) and with Java or do I need to create my own lightweight proxy application that provides information for the Java plugin whether a specific connection is connected ofer A or B?

A: From the TCP layer, an application is only provided information about the port it actually receives the connection on, and that would be port A in your case. You could use a tool like netcat as some kind of "funnel" so connections to port A and port B always end up at port A, but the TCP layer will not carry any information about that.
If you need to separate multiple connection types that are all received at the same port in the server application, you have the following options:

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*Embed information about the connection type at the application layer.

*Distinguish connections by the source port, i.e. the port at the client side. (You might or might not be able to use netcat, then. You could still use packet rewriting/port address translation, though.)


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Fashion | Collections
Best shows from MFW SS17 Day 3: Giorgio Armani, Etro and Versace
Text: Dora Aljoofri-Shrestha
The Giorgio Armani woman is feeling the blues, the Etro tribe is on the road to adventure, and the Versace crew is ready to rumble
GIORGIO ARMANI: LIGHTNESS OF FORM
The inspiration: The state of 'charmani' — which, as described in the show notes, is "...the lightness of the body, seductively revealing itself, finding a new balance between discipline and freedom."
The collection: When applied to his women's wear, this lightness of form translated into double-layered shorts with jackets and cardigans fastened at the neck (looks 1, 2, 3, and 4); dreamy floral prints applied to above-the-knee daytime dresses ruched at the shoulders (looks 18, 19 and 20); and heavy fringing on tops and skirts (looks 7, 13 and 45) — all cast in a watery shade of blue. Further accessorised with wide-brim hats and sunglasses, some of the looks appeared rather heavy than light, and in need of a good edit. But, as always, Armani's evening pieces delivered: That iridescent floral jacket and shirt combo in look 58, and that metallic column paired with a matching long-sleeve cardigan in look 59, underscored the designer's mastery of classic elegance.
Something you might have missed: Those strappy, almost gladiator-esque, leather boots that opened the show — some of the most badass footwear we've ever seen from the traditionally pared back designer.
ETRO: ROAD TRIPPING
The collection: The one thing you can always expect from Etro is clothes that speak to the free-spirited globetrotter. Today's runway show was no exception, serving up a collection that will drive you (literally) to start planning that ultimate road trip you've always been talking about. Every spring/summer 2017 look sent down the runway was designed with travelling through the Sahara desert in mind. Modern bohemian sensibility was expressed through ponchos and kaftans in either silk or thick jacquards (looks 6, 23, 35 & 37); and rich brocades, ethnic patterns and tribal embroidery found its way into relaxed sportswear layered luxuriously with those aforementioned bohemian staples (looks 9, 20 & 37). If this collection doesn't ignite the wanderlust in you, we don't know what will.
Buro loves: We'll take those hooded cloaks to trek through the dunes (looks 2, 5 & 40) and kimono robes (looks 13 & 33) to lounge in our desert camps.
Something you might have missed: Satchel bags sent down the runway were designed to functionally hold an explorer's 'survival kit' — sketchbooks, pencils and a hip flask.
VERSACE: SPORTY SEXY
The trend: If you're ever asked to cite an example of the power and appeal of athleisure, then simply whip out the spring/summer 2017 show by Donatella Versace. One of the most single-minded collections this season to really showcase the allure, and hyper trend, of sportswear.
The collection: A continuation of the men's spring/summer 2017 show, the Versace woman is ready to rumble. Kitted out in racing checkerboard crop tops and skirts (look 15, 20, 21); panelled leather tracksuits and trucker jackets (look 27, 29 and 32); and, most dramatically, billowing nylon parkas over bodysuits and slinky frocks (looks 1, 4, 30, 36 and 51), it was sexy sports luxe at its best. And what about Gigi who closed the show? Vixen on a mission.
Something you might have missed: Those high-platform Teva sandals. The beautiful fusion of function and fashion.
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The whole Ripcord going Mr. Fantastic didn't sit too well with me.
Me either. I've actually become pretty accustomed to many of the Bio Vipers and the idea of them (not loving 'em, not hating), but Ripcord having "Bio-Viper powers" is going a bit too far for me. And I'm one who tends to enjoy many of the outlandish elements that pop up in GI Joe.
Hopefully Ripcord will be "cured" in Revelations, though if so, that would just be one more of many things they would have to resolve in the remaining 40 minutes of the series. And there is already a lot on Revelations' plate, seemingly.


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Cal wins Pac-12 zero-waste basketball contest (again)
By Public Affairs, UC Berkeley| April 11, 2016 April 12, 2016
April 11, 2016 April 12, 2016 Public Affairs
The Green Sports Alliance last week announced the winners of its 2016 Pac-12 Road to Zero Waste Basketball Competition. First place, for the second year in a row, went to UC Berkeley.
For the contest, members of the Pac-12 Conference vie to see which campus can divert the most waste from landfill at a selected men's or women's basketball home game, and which can use the most innovative means to expand the reach and impact of their school's annual recycling showcase. All Pac-12 schools participated this year.
Among UC Berkeley's secret weapons for the zero-waste contest: 18 StopWaste volunteers, deployed at recycling locations throughout Haas Pavilion
UC Berkeley won with a diversion rate of 85.3 percent, achieved at a Feb. 28 home game between the Bears men's team and USC. Fans sent 617.7 pounds of materials to compost and recycling instead of the landfill.
To achieve those numbers, Berkeley students, staff and volunteers carried out numerous activities — such as piloting the use of compostable ziplock bags for bulk candies; handing out raffle tickets to fans "caught" correctly sorting their waste; implementing permanent zero-waste composting and recycling locations in the second and third floor of Haas Pavilion; and stationing elementary school and campus student volunteers at waste stations to educate patrons and help them correctly sort their waste.
"This win was especially meaningful since we encountered new challenges," says Lin King, manager of Campus Recycling and Refuse Services. The challenges, he adds, included a sold-out game — with nearly 12,000 fans in attendance — "an increase in materials that were not recyclable or compostable brought into Haas Pavilion, and a lower Cal student volunteers turnout."
In addition to its back-to-back wins in the Pac-12 Road to Zero Waste competition, UC Berkeley earned first place in the past three Recyclemania contests, a national competition based on diversion rates alone.
For a glimpse of what went into the recent campus effort, see this recap video (password: gobears).
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As news broke this morning, the first thing that crept into my head was Cuba Gooding Jr.'s iconic line from Jerry Maguire in which he tells Jerry, "Show me the money!" If you haven't heard, the CWHL will pay its players this season, but there were yet to be any details on how much, at what rate, and what the total compensation would be for players and teams. An early article from Rachel Brady in The Globe & Mail gave us all those details and more!
Let's start with what we know from Miss Brady's article.
Each player will make a minimum of $2,000 and a maximum of $10,000. Each of the league's seven clubs will get a $100,000 salary cap, and that pool of money will be divided among the players as each team sees fit.
This is less than what the NWHL promised and delivered in its first season of pay, but it's almost equivalent to what they paid last season at $5000 per team per game. That's not a "livable wage" by any means, but it's a start. Any move in the right direction regarding the best women's hockey players in the world being paid to entertain the fans is a positive. While the CWHL will still take of incidentals and expenses such as travel and equipment, getting some extra coin in the players' pockets is what needs to happen.
Miss Brady follows that paragraph up with the following:
CWHL commissioner Brenda Andress said the league, which admitted two Chinese expansion teams this season, has generated revenue from the marketing, broadcasting and licensing rights from those new clubs. She added that the Chinese teams have also attracted other new corporate sponsors. CWHL games will be broadcast in China as part of the country's widespread efforts to develop hockey players and promote the sport before the country holds the 2022 Beijing Olympics.
Andress says other factors have also contributed to the CWHL's growth in revenue and profile. The league increased sponsorships in Canada, and forged collaborations with NHL teams in Toronto, Boston, Montreal and Calgary and staged some special games in NHL arenas. Sportsnet broadcast key games, including the Clarkson Cup playoffs. Attendance has grown, but the league is still a long way from popular.
There should be some concern here. The "growth in revenue and profile" and "increased sponsorships in Canada" shows that the league is finding a footprint in the sports landscape, but one has to question if it would have been enough to pay players this season without the benefit of the two Chinese expansion teams. As it stands, it doesn't appear that the five teams would have received pay this season based on that statement had it not been for the addition of two teams who are flush with money. That needs to change before the five-season contract with the Chinese Hockey Federation runs out.
However, I'm not here to rain on a parade. The first puck on this season has yet to drop, and there are a number of stars on both Chinese teams while the five North American teams will still be stocked with high-level talent. Once the Olympics are over, there will be a pile of additional players who are the best-of-the-best that need places to play, so we could see even more talent be absorbed into the league. All of this leads to more fans in the seats, more interest in the league from potential sponsors, and greater exposure via interested television partners. While Year One of the five-year deal may not be as star-studded as the next four, the framework for potential major revenue generation has been laid.
Miss Brady received a quotation from Miss Andress that should have the CWHLPA and its members cautiously happy as the league moves forward over the next few years.
Without pointing to the NWHL, Andress said the CWHL's board of governors proceeded cautiously, making sure not to pay players until they were certain they could sustain it. She said this was the season they had targeted all along.
"We still have a long way to go, and as a women's hockey league we still have a long up-road battle to make sure that sponsors and media pay attention to us so we don't go away," Andress said. "We know this plan is sustainable, it won't just be paying them for one year. We have a plan in place and each year we will grow those stipends."
While promises are only as good as the people making them, there's no reason to believe - at this point - that what Miss Andress said is untrue. She hit the nail on the head in stating that there is a still a metric tonne of work to be done to get sponsors and media to remember they exist, but they have a plan to ensure that pay doesn't disappear or be reduced and, in fact, be increased year after year. If the expression "nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight" is true, the CWHL has a lot of fighting to do before they can provide a livable wage so that the players don't have to work full-time to play hockey full-time.
Again, the framework has been laid. Now it's up to the league - both players and management - to live up to what it promised so that all benefit. Garbage in will yield garbage out, so the players need to get out there and put out the best product on the ice, management has to do its homework in the boardroom, and, together, this league will reach new heights with pay that will be unrivaled for any professional women's player in the near future.
There will always be scrutiny that comes out of an announcement like this - is the money from the Chinese teams the only reason the CWHL is playing players? What kind of sponsors and broadcast partners do these Chinese teams have? Why aren't there partnerships in North America like this? - and the CWHL will need to work hard to silence these questions. If they can't generate the kind of revenue needed within North America to continue to follow their announced plan to increase stipends every year, the scrutiny will follow just as it did for the other league.
In saying that, the ace card that was always waved in the CWHL's face was that they weren't paying their players like the other league was. With a level playing field, players will now need to choose based on opportunity and strength of the league - exactly like what happened during the NHL-WHA feud in the 1970s. There were players who opted for bigger pay days in the WHA while the NHL's stability appealed to other players. Once the NHL figured out that they needed to pay its players fair market value, players had to weigh other options such as location, ownership, and stability.
With a decade of success behind the CWHL, paying its players was long overdue. That will be resolved this season, but the league and its players can't just kick back and relax now. More than ever, their hard work that is starting to reap rewards needs to be maintained or even increased in order to see more rewards in the future. If the model is sustainable, as Miss Andress has stated, the results should mean that more money can go to players if revenues grow. In other words, both the league and its players will thrive if everyone continues to work hard.
Getting paid is a big step for the CWHL players, but it's only a step towards a destination. The key in all of this? It's a step in the right direction for the league, its players, and its fans!
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Gang Of Youths, Paul Kelly, A.B. Originals, Amy Shark, Illy and Jess Mauboy lead ARIAs nominations
THERE are only a few categories where a female artist was not represented at this year's ARIA Award nominations. SEE THE FULL LIST.
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THERE was a collective "hell yeah!" from Australia's female artists at the 2017 ARIA Awards nominations in Sydney.
Pop princess Jessica Mauboy and indie singer songwriter Amy Shark each collected an impressive six nominations and Sia is up for five trophies at this year's awards to be held on November 28.
In a year when gender equality has been in the spotlight in the Australian music industry, there were only a few categories, including Best Hard Rock and Adult Contemporary Albums where a female artist was not represented.
Other nominees included the much-loved country superstars Kasey Chambers and The McClymonts alongside a rollcall of exciting new talents such as Tash Sultana, Vera Blue, Meg Mac, Julia Jacklin and Tkay Maidza.
Sisters doing it for each other at the 2017 ARIA Awards nominations. Jessica Mauboy, Vera Blue and Kasey Chambers at the Art Gallery of NSW. Picture: Justin Lloyd.
Katie Noonan, whose Songs Of The Latin Skies album with guitarist Karin Schaupp won Best World Music Album on Tuesday, said now the industry should work harder to get a woman on the ARIA Board which runs the awards and represents the country's record labels.
"I am so excited about the women coming through; they are total bad asses," she said.
"This is my fifth ARIA but my first with a female collaborator and I thought it was timely to remind women in the industry that it is important for us to support each other. There should be more collaborations."
Chambers, who has won the Best Country Album award every time she has been nominated since 1999 with her debut solo record The Captain, said she felt the groundswell for female representation was also being championed by the men in the industry.
"Men are embracing these changes in creative fields, they are as happy as we are to have more women involved," she said.
Jessica Mauboy has six ARIA Awards nominations. Picture: Brett Costello
Mauboy has always been a big supporter of the crazy circus that is the ARIA awards nominations and was the only major nominee to make the event this year.
Everyone else was either touring or decided not to set their alarm for the nominations event which is held at the brutally un-rock'n'roll hour of 9.30am at the Art Gallery of NSW.
Mauboy, who will return to our television screens later this month on the second series of The Secret Daughter, was overwhelmed by the strong showing of indigenous artists in this year's list, with A.B. Original and Dan Sultan joining her on the leader board.
"It makes me really proud," she said. "They have all worked hard for it."
"I am a big fan of Briggs (A.B. Original and want to collaboprate with them; hopefully one day I will."
Top of the nominations leaderboard for this year are London-based indie rockers Gang Of Youths, whose acclaimed second album Go Farther Into Lightness has scored nods in eight categories.
They already have one of the dangerously pointed trophies going straight to the pool room, having being named Producer of the Year for their Springsteen-channelling record at the annual ARIA Awards nominations event in Sydney on Tuesday.
London-based Gang Of Youths lead the 2017 nominations. Picture: Supplied.
Paul Kelly, who is currently touring Europe, also added two awards — Engineer of the Year and Best Cover Art for his first-ever No. 1 album Life Is Fine.
Ir received seven nominations in total, including Album of the Year and Best Male Artist.
And Kelly also has two albums contending different categories this year with Life Is Fine up for Best Adult Contemporary record while his Death's Dateless Night collaboration with Charlie Owen will battle it out for the Best Blues & Roots Album.
Life is indeed fine for Paul Kelly who has seven nods in the honour roll. Picture: James Croucher.
The incendiary indigenous hip hop duo A.B. Original, whose breakthrough single January 26 provoked a national debate about switching the date of Australia Day, were also celebrated by their industry peers in the nominations voting.
The revered pair of rapper Briggs and producer Trials scored six nominations for their debut album reclaim Australia including Album of the Year and Best Group.
A.B. Original members Adam Briggs and Daniel "Trials" Rankine are favourites to win some trophies at this year's ARIAs. Picture: Justin Kennedy
Illy, who shifted his hip hop into the pop arena with the chart-topping single Papercuts, featuring Vera Blue, has also been nominated in six categories including Album of The Year and Best Male Artist.
One of the most exciting new talents to emerge on the Australian airwaves this year was Amy Shark and she tours America with Vance Joy, her peers rewarded her with six ARIA nods including Album of the Year and Best Female Artist.
The awesome singer songwriter Amy Shark is also up for six gongs. Picture: AAP Image/Claudia Baxter.
Mauboy isn't the only artist to be nominated for a seventh year running.
Guy Sebastian is also on the honour roll for 2017 with his single Set In Stone to be considered by fans in their votes for the Apple Song Of The Year.
The Wiggles have been nominated every single year in this millennium, winning Best Children's Award a phenomenal 10 times just in that period alone.
But they face some friendly competition from one of the best mates for the 2017 gong. Not only does Jimmy Barnes feature on their The Wiggles Duets album but his collaboration with the king of the kids on the Och Aye the G'Nu! is also up for the award.
Will it be the Wiggles album with Barnesy or the Barnesy album with The Wiggles to win Best Children's record? Picture: Sam Ruttyn.
One of the other big nominees this year was Sydney singer songwriter Dean Lewis, who received a whopping five nods for his smash hit debut single Waves.
Since releasing Waves in September last year, Lewis has spent much of his time in Europe and America, signing deals and touring.
His single has already featured in the three American TV series including Suits and is set for a the kind of heavyweight label push which made Vance Joy a hit in the US.
He remains mystified as to why this song is the one to take him around the globe.
Newcomer Dean Lewis scored five ARIA Award nominations. Picture: Justin Lloyd.
"I would play it to my friends and family and they would all pick it as the song they loved and I knew when I wanted to listen to it 10 times in a row that it was a good song but you can't predict success," he said.
Lewis was often only one of a few Australian artists to make it onto the ARIA top 50 this year as streaming and lack of radio airplay support keeps our homegrown talent off the charts.
"It is weird when you look at the charts some weeks and there's only three or four in the whole top 50," he said.
"I don't know what the secret is to it but it would great to have more Australians represented on the Australian charts."
Hit Network announcer Ash London bravely called for radio stations to play more homegrown music.
"Australian music is the best in the world. It's a pleasure to play it on the radio and we should all play more," she said.
Illy and Vera Blue's collaboration helped propel his Two Degrees album to huge success. Picture: Tim Hunter.
The late John Clarke was posthumously recognised for his unique and enduring contribution to Australia's cultural landscape at the nominations event with the Best Comedy Release for his Clarke's Classics collection.
The most prolific recording artists in Australia, the defiantly independent psychedelic rockers King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard not only scored a nomination in Best Hard Rock Album (Murder of the Universe) but Best Jazz Album (Sketches Of Brunswick East).
The 2017 ARIA Awards will be held at The Star on November 28 with organisers now courting international acts including Harry Styles to walk the red carpet and present a couple of awards.
You can vote for the public awards via ariaawards.com.au
And the nominees are ...
Apple Album Of The Year
A.B. Original, Reclaim Australia
Amy Shark, Night Thinker
Gang Of Youths, Go Farther In Lightness
Illy, Two Degrees
Paul Kelly, Life Is Fine
Best Male Artist
D.D Dumbo, Utopia Defeated
Dan Sultan, Killer
Vance Joy, Lay It On Me
Best Female Artist
Jessica Mauboy, The Secret Daughter
Julia Jacklin, Don't Let The Kids Win
Meg Mac, Low Blows
Sia, The Greatest feat. Kendrick Lamar
Best Dance Release
Dom Dolla & Torren Foot, Be Randy
Jagwar Ma, Every Now & Then
Peking Duk, Stranger (feat. Elliphant)
Pnau, Chameleon
The Kite String Tangle, The Kite String Tangle
Best Group
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Flying Microtonal Banana
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Skeleton Tree
Breakthrough Artist
Dean Lewis, Waves
Tash Sultana, Notion
Tkay Maidza, TKAY
Best Pop Release
Jessica Mauboy, Fallin
Sia, The Greatest (feat. Kendrick Lamar)
Vera Blue, Perennial
Best Urban Album
REMI, Divas & Demons
Thundamentals, Everyone We Know
Best Independent Release
Best Rock Album
Dune Rats, The Kids Will Know It's Bullshit
Polish Club, Alrighty Alrighty
The Preatures, Girlhood
Best Adult Contemporary Album
Bernard Fanning, Brutal Dawn
Pete Murray, Camacho
Best Country Album
Kasey Chambers, Dragonfly
Lee Kernaghan, The 25th Anniversary Album
O'Shea, 61-615
Shane Nicholson, Love And Blood
The McClymonts, Endless
Best Hard Rock/Heavy Metal Album
Airborne, Breaking Outta Hell
Frenzal Rhomb, Hi-Vis High Tea
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Murder Of The Universe
Northlane, Mesmer
Sleepmakeswaves, Made of Breath Only
Best Blues & Roots Album
All Our Exes Live In Texas, When We Fall
Archie Roach, Let Love Rule
Busby Marou, Postcards From The Shell House
Paul Kelly & Charlie Owen, Death's Dateless Night
Best Children's Album
Jimmy Barnes, Och Aye the G'Nu!
Lah-Lah, Having Fun!
Peter Combe, Live It Up
The Idea of North, Lior & Elena Kats-Chernin, A Piece of Quiet [The Hush Collection, Vol 16]
The Wiggles, The Wiggles Duets
PUBLIC VOTED AWARDS
Amy Shark, Drive You Mad
Bliss N Eso, Moments (feat. Gavin James)
Client Liaison, A Foreign Affair
Client Liaison, Off White Limousine
Dean Lewis for Waves
Gang Of Youths, The Deepest Signs, the Frankest Shadows
Illy, You Say When (feat. Marko Penn)
Kirin J Callinan, S.A. D
Best Australian Live Act
Client Liaison
Jessica Mauboy
Peking Duk
Tash Sultana
Apple Music Song Of The Year
Amy Shark, Adore
Guy Sebastian, Set In Stone
Illy, Catch 22 (feat. Anne-Marie)
Starley, Call On Me (Ryan Riback Remix)
Best International Artist
Adele, 25
Bruno Mars, 24K Magic
Ed Sheeran, ÷ and Loose Change
Harry Styles, Harry Styles
Kendrick Lamar, DAMN and Untitled Unmastered
Lorde, Melodrama
Metallica, Hardwired ... To Self-Destruct
Shawn Mendes, Illuminate
The Rolling Stones, Blue & Lonesome
The Weeknd, Starboy
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Zachary Hammond's family and attorneys say the police department's version of events doesn't add up.
Autopsy reports clearly disprove the police's claim that a South Carolina officer fatally shot 19-year-old Zachary Hammond in self-defense, Hammond's attorneys and parents say.
A Seneca police officer shot the teen twice on Sunday during an arrest for suspected drugs, according to Greenville Online.
Police say Hammond was driving another woman to a parking lot, where an undercover agent had arranged to purchase drugs from her.
The officer got out of his marked vehicle and approached Hammond's car with his weapon drawn, Police Chief John Covington said, noting that this is standard practice for a "narcotics" investigation. That's when, according to the chief, Hammond accelerated his car toward the officer, local Fox affiliate WHNS notes. Covington maintains that his officer "fired two shots in self-defense" as Hammond "drove directly at him."
But the Hammond family's attorney, Eric Bland, sees a different picture when looking at the teen's newly released autopsy report.
Zachary Hammond, 19, was fatally shot during an encounter with police on Sunday.
But Covington stood by his initial comments, saying that Hammond was shot at near-point-blank range from outside his open driver's side window. He said Hammond was not "shot from behind."
Hammond's father, Paul, thinks his son may have been trying to flee, but said, "I think he was shot for fleeing the scene."
Tori Morton, 23, the other passenger in Hammond's car, was uninjured. She was charged with simple marijuana possession and released Monday.
Oconee County Coroner Karl Addis said Tuesday that Hammond died from a gunshot wound in his upper torso, but wouldn't elaborate on the angle of the shots fired. He referred all questions to local and state authorities.
Meanwhile, the unidentified officer has been placed on administrative leave, and the city and officer have both hired attorneys, WHNS reports.
The shooting comes during a dark time for police in South Carolina. The state is on pace to have its bloodiest year of officer-involved shootings in more than a decade, according to the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division. Hammond's death was the state's 29th cop-involved shooting in 2015, SLED said, and at this rate South Carolina will reach 50 shootings by the end of the year.


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A New Crypt Keeper Is Coming - More Within!
TALES FROM THE CRYPT is a popular show based on EC Comics that originally aired on HBO from 1989-1996. Hosted by the Crypt Keeper himself, the long running series told many tales of Terror in a unique way that is still very effective to this day.
We just recently brought you the huge news that TNT will be partnering with M. Night Shyamalan to bring the much beloved Horror anthology series back to the small screen.
"@MNightShyamalan any comment on the reports about the crypt keeper not being part of the new show? Excited for a new horror anthology."
"@slashfilm I'd never make Tales without the CK! Will be a new take on him as the puppet is property of HBO. Promise he'll be cool and dark!"
A new Crypt Keeper is understandable with HBO owning that particular puppet. It will be interesting to see this new dark version that we are promised.
As of now there is no conformation in regards to John Kassir returning to voice the character.
There have been reports that each season will have a single storyline for all 13 episodes of the season. This of course has not been confirmed or denied as of yet.
In addition B-D has reported that the first season will be based in New Orleans with Voodoo in the air, but once again nothing in regards to that has been confirmed.
"It's not a show, it's an umbrella for what will hopefully be many shows. We're going to put a variety of different genre shows…all united under the Tales from the Crypt brand. Night is definitely going to direct the first one and we'll see how that evolves. And we're definitely going to utilize the underlying comics."
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Obama's Freudian Slip, 'We're Speeding Up Training of ISIL Forces,' Turns Out to Be Exactly True
By Robert Spencer Jul 16, 2015 8:00 AM ET
Barack Obama, lauded for his allegedly spellbinding eloquence, sure makes a lot of verbal miscues: "57 states," "my Muslim faith," etc. If he were a conservative Republican, he would have long since been banished to the Dan Quayle Rest Home for Tongue-Tied Politicians.
Now he adds yet another to his Biden-worthy list: in his Pentagon address on the Islamic State (ISIS, or ISIL, as the president insists on calling the group) Obama boasted:
With the additional steps I ordered last month, we're speeding up training of ISIL forces.
In a clumsy attempt to repair Obama's slip, the transcript at White House.gov added the word "Iraqi" in brackets after "ISIL," rendering the statement incoherent. And that was that, except for the lingering impression that Obama's words had left. This particular presidential slip, judging by his policies, was more Freudian than most.
Because Obama was correct: his policies have resulted in the strengthening of ISIL forces by supplying them with much-needed weaponry.
We have given weapons to groups that the Pentagon has designated as "moderate," groups such as the Free Syrian Army — which has collaborated with the Islamic State. The Obama administration's avid yet fruitless search for "moderates" to fight the Islamic State resulted in the U.S. training and arming a great many jihadis now fighting for ISIS.
Last September, Obama said:
We have a Free Syrian Army and a moderate opposition that we have steadily been working with that we have vetted.
The New York Times explained that fighting the Islamic State was the particular goal Obama envisioned for these "moderates":
Mr. Obama said he envisioned the Free Syrian Army's providing the ground presence needed to confront ISIS in Syria.
Yet even at that time, the FSA was neither moderate nor a foe of the Islamic State.
Bassel Idriss, a Free Syrian Army commander, said in early September:
We are collaborating with the Islamic State and the Nusra Front by attacking the Syrian Army's gatherings in … Qalamoun.
Perhaps aware his group is supposed to be full of "vetted moderates" who are ready to fight the Islamic State, not work with it, he added:
We have reached a point where we have to collaborate with anyone against unfairness and injustice.
This included the Islamic State, the primary enemy they were supposed to be fighting.
The evidence that our "vetted moderates" were actually aligned with the group the U.S. vetted them to oppose dates back even further. Jordan Schachtel reported at Breitbart in July 2014:
[S]everal factions within the Syrian opposition force known as the Free Syrian Army (FSA) have pledged services to the Islamic State, the group formerly known as the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS). Sources and eyewitnesses said that the FSA has handed over its weapons to the Islamic State in large numbers.
Where did the Free Syrian Army get those weapons it turned over — in large numbers — to the Islamic State? From the United States, of course.
Where the Islamic State wasn't given American materiel, it seized it. The Islamic State's conquests include millions of dollars' worth of American munitions and fighting equipment taken from the Iraqi Army.
When it conquered Mosul, the Islamic State is reported to have taken twenty-three hundred Humvees. At the fall of Ramadi, the capital of Anbar Province, in May 2015, the Pentagon admitted that Iraqi troops abandoned the following to the Islamic State:
[A] half-dozen tanks, a similar number of artillery pieces, a larger number of armoured personnel carriers and about 100 wheeled vehicles like Humvees.
Video of a Ramadi police station from an Islamic State jihadi showed:
… box after box of American mortar shells and bullets that appeared shiny and new. Several Humvees, apparently not long out of the packing crates, sat abandoned nearby. "This is how we get our weapons … The Iraqi officials beg the Americans for weapons, and then they leave them here for us."
The collaboration between the FSA and the Islamic State continues. Patrick Poole notes in the PJ Tatler that a July 8 report from Al-Masdar al-Arabi makes clear that the "moderates" are in league with the "extremists":
Reports from the resort-city of Al-Zabadani have confirmed that the Western-backed "Free Syrian Army" (FSA) is currently fighting alongside two terrorist groups, the Syrian Al-Qaeda group "Jabhat Al-Nusra" and the Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham (ISIS).
Meanwhile, the U.S. is training only sixty fighters — sixty, not sixty thousand — in the extravagantly funded effort to aid indigenous warriors in destroying the Islamic State. The Associated Press reported in late June:
[T]he main problem thus far has been finding enough Syrian recruits untainted by extremist affiliations or disqualified by physical or other flaws.
Given its track record with the Free Syrian Army, even when the Obama administration finds Syrians they deem to be "untainted by extremist affiliations," they often have "extremist affiliations" that the vetting experts missed. And so we go on aiding the Islamic State, and the Freudian Obama was right: we will soon be speeding up that aid.
It would save everyone a great deal of time and trouble if Obama simply declared the Islamic State itself to be "moderate" and began aiding it directly. After all that has happened in his disastrous administration, would that surprise anyone?
Robert Spencer is the director of Jihad Watch and a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He is author of 23 books including many bestsellers, such as The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades), The Truth About Muhammad and The History of Jihad. His latest book is The Critical Qur'an. Follow him on Twitter here. Like him on Facebook here.
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