With this plugin is very easy to put comments in a page created with getsimple.
It is a beta version but I think that works good.
Include comments in pages. If you want it is possible to hide the system comment in a page and to use like contact page.
From Admin > pages, settings system.
CSS system. CSS file is in /plugins/pages_comments/pc.css.
Works with fancy url on and off.
There are 4 models of forms with its css in /plugins/pages_comments/templateform/ . The enable form has to be called like pcform.php and the css pcform.css. Rename the form that more you like it.
Send email to notify using standar function or class phpmailer.
Join to plugin frontend user plugin is possible have system of comment with user registered.
Shows recent comments in settings.
Customize the tittle of form for each page.
Moderated comments if you want.
System rating for comments: allows 1 vote each 24 hours and for each comment.
Integrate with News Manager Plugin.
Integrate with GS Blog: to do, doesn't work.
Integrate with social media:to do, doesn't work.
Report inappropiate comments:to do, doesn't work.
Notify of update of comment: to do, doesn't work.
1. ADD COMMENTS TO PAGES CREATED BY GETSIMPLE from Admin > Pages.
*Button 'Add Comments to Pages', there we see all the pages that don't have the comments system included. Click in 'Add' and later edit the options to choose if you want captcha, emoticons, etc.
It is possible NOT to have comment in a page, choosing the option of 'No' to the comments; thus this page could be a contact form.
In case that a page has marked 'Members only' in his configuration from Admin > Edit page, only this page will be seen if the user is logged in.
For more information go to Readme, or in his correspondent post.
b) To have pages created.
Comments are created in data/other/pages_comments, 1 file for page: name_of_page.log.
If a page changes the url, too is changed the log of comments, and the url in data/other/pages_comments/pc_manager.xml.
Here, we can to see the last comments of all pages. From here, you can to remove a comment.
In comments, you can put emoticons. The emoticons are in /plugins/pages_comments/img_emots . If you want add more emoticons, only you have to paste *.gif in this folder. If you want delete some emoticons, only you have to delete it from folder.
Comments, to see comments of each page. If a page has comments, will appear number of comments; click in one you can see, remove, moderate the comments, and create a backup of comments log.
Preview system comments from Page. Click in '#', you can preview page + comments.
Delete system comments from Page. Click in 'x', you can remove only system comments, or page + comments of this page.
It NEVER remove the page of 'PAGES'.
to add the system comments, click in Add.
Is possible works joint Frontend user plugin. Of this way you can have a system of users that can write comments if they are logged.
Will see the list of backup of logs (comments). These backups are created in View Comments (number of comments if there are comments).
Every time that a log is created, the name of backup is: name of log + date + time.bak. It is possible recover this log, and remove it. When a log is recovered, always is done a copy of current log.
The backups are saved in data/other/news_comments/news_comments_bak.
Post date format: there 5 formats to date publication in comments.
Receive notification by email: 3 options, never, to use standar function, or to use class phpmailer.
If you need to use class phpmailer then you must complete the file /pages_comments/check.php with correct data in lines +- 249 to 273, and comment or uncomment the lines that need.
Default values to system comments.
Works with Front end user: yes or no.
If user can delete comments if main comment has replies.
Number of comments for recents posts.
I'm sorry for my english. Regards.


Loose powder is considered to be an essential and indispensable product in your makeup vanity. I am quite a fan of loose illuminating powder or translucent ones and would love to choose them instead of dozens of foundations or compacts. Moreover, these translucent powders are very forgiving. In case you invested quite an amount on a wrong shade of foundation, it hurts pretty much. Whereas in case of loose powders, there's a faint chance that you will go wrong with the shade. I had a pretty bad track record with Lakme as every time I end up picking a wrong shade. However, my first ever loose powder was the Lakme Rose Powder which I have been using forever. Let's find out about the product in detail.
Lakme presents the classic face powder with rose fragrance & sunscreen for soft, warm, peachy shades.
Talc, Zinc Stearate, Cyclopentasiloxane, Titanium Dioxide, Aluminium Hydroxide, Stearic Acid, Perfume, Rosa Damascena Extract, May contain CI 77492, CI 77499, CI 12085, Phenoxy Ethanol, Butyl Paraben, Ethyl Paraben, Methyl Paraben, Propyl Paraben.
Use a fluffy, Kabuki or stippling brush and load it with the powder. Apply with light movements, focusing first on the central panels of your face, then moving towards the edges of your face.
Let's start with the packaging. Lakme Rose Powder comes in a round plastic jar with a maroon screw cap with the brand name engraved on top in shining gold. There is a separator inside with mesh to control the flow of the product in addition to a sponge provided. Even though the packaging is of a typical loose powder, it isn't quite impressive for the eyes and comes out as a pretty mediocre one. Nonetheless, it is travel friendly and light weight.
This product has only two shades – soft pink and warm pink. The soft pink is for the fair skin tones while the other one is for wheatish to dusky ones. I have been using the warm version as I have an orange under tone and the color suits me close enough. The fewer choice of shades sometimes puts the product at a disadvantage. Coming to the product, it is a light peach-pink colored powder, super-fine milled which gives my skin a smooth and matte look. It does make some pretty difference to the pores but not in a major way. The powder, surprisingly, works best with stippling or kabuki brushes than sponges. The coverage is light to medium coverage on top of any light foundation or BB/CC cream and settles down as a matte finish. It works wonderfully on top of a concealer for hiding the dark circles as well. You would only require a tiny amount which goes a long way and works pretty good for all the skin tones. The days when my oily lids give me trouble, I simply apply a layer of the powder before my eye makeup. One of the best thing about the powder is that it slightly brightens up the face and absorbs oil for quite a long time. The product also doesn't accentuate dry or flaky skin or any wrinkles on the face.
It has sunscreen although there is no specific written over it. Therefore, I guess the power is not quite a strong one. As a setting powder, it works miraculously well keeping my skin fresh as a daisy for around 4+ hours. Speaking of the ingredients list, it is quite disappointing to have parabens but now-a-days almost all the products has it and thus complaining much doesn't help. Overall, it is quite a nice product for daily basis that comes with an inexpensive price tag.
Super fine milled loose powder.
Gives a smooth, satin and matte finish.
Minimizes the pores to a certain extent.
Gives a light-medium coverage imparting a glow to the skin.
Doesn't accentuate dry skin or wrinkled skin.
Keeps the skin oil free for 4+ hours.
The sponge is pretty useless.
For a daily use loose mattifying powder, this works pretty well. Except for the boring packaging, there's nothing I can complain about. The product works better than any compact in the similar price range and hence I would definitely recommend it.
Lovely clicks and its been a while that I used Lakme. With so many brands coming up, this brand is nowhere in my vanity these days. Hope to get this variant soon!
Thanks. :) this product is kind of an 'old-is-gold' to me. Works very well!


Sporting Kansas City will resume their MLS regular season campaign on Sunday, hosting the defending MLS Supporters' Shield champion New York Red Bulls in a nationally televised showdown on FS1 and FOX Deportes. Kickoff is set for 6 p.m. CT with radio broadcasts on Sports Radio 810 WHB, SiriusXM FC (English) and ESPN Deportes KC 1480 AM (Spanish).
Tickets for the marquee matchup are on sale at SeatGeek.com, and there are more than a few reasons fans will want to be at Children's Mercy Park on Sunday. Let's jump into everything you need to know about the Sporting Sustainability match.
Fans can visit SeatGeek.com for an exclusive package that includes a ticket to Sunday's match and a custom Sporting Sustainability organic T-shirt made entirely of recycled material.
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We want YOU to bring your gently used soccer gear to @cmpark THIS SUNDAY!!
Sporting on Thursday unveiled its new Parley jersey, a kit created with Parley Ocean Plastic made from recycled waste from beaches and coastal communities before it reaches the ocean. The Parley jerseys will be on sale at all SportingStyle locations inside the stadium, and fans who purchase the kit will receive a reusable shopping bag made of recycled materials while supplies last. Supporters can also buy the new, limited-time Sporting Sustainability scarf of the match.
Sporting players will showcase the new look on the field, wearing the Parley jersey during warmups and the pre-game walkout. Next Saturday, April 20, Sporting will wear the Parley jerseys for their away match at the San Jose Earthquakes before donating the game-worn kits to The Victory Project for an online auction.
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Sporting's hospitality team has backed the Sporting Sustainability cause by purchasing BioHiTech—a cost-effective technology solution for low-volume food waste generators—and sourcing biodegradable vessels for food and beverage concessions, such as the new beer growler. At select concessions in the stadium, fans can get their own beer growler for $2 off with the purchase of any Anheuser-Busch beer.
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1559: "Driving"
Dr What
Postby Dr What » Mon Aug 03, 2015 5:33 am UTC
title="Sadly, it probably won't even have enough gas to make it to the first border crossing."
Solar-powered drone could make it without the stone. But only in summer I guess.
piratejohn
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Re: 1559: "Driving"
Postby piratejohn » Mon Aug 03, 2015 5:35 am UTC
Dang, BHG is one strong SOB!!!
Postby Eutychus » Mon Aug 03, 2015 5:50 am UTC
Nice to see the return of Black Hat Guy.
But if the car requires the weight of a small adult in the passenger seat to operate, how come it's been "left running" when there's nobody in it?
Be very careful about rectilinear assumptions. Raptors could be hiding there - ucim
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Postby Neil_Boekend » Mon Aug 03, 2015 5:53 am UTC
There is a difference between staying on (ready to go) and actually driving away. Also, leaving the keys in the ignition would have been enough.
Mikeski wrote: A "What If" update is never late. Nor is it early. It is posted precisely when it should be.
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Joined: Mon Aug 01, 2011 3:46 pm UTC
Postby keithl » Mon Aug 03, 2015 7:06 am UTC
Google's self-driving cars are nothing. Microsoft has developed the self-flattening pedestrian.
Eoink
Postby Eoink » Mon Aug 03, 2015 8:00 am UTC
Eutychus wrote: Nice to see the return of Black Hat Guy.
I took it that it wouldn't move until there was a driver in the driver's seat.
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Postby Diadem » Mon Aug 03, 2015 8:40 am UTC
Wouldn't you WANT your self-driving car to be able to drive without anyone in it though?
I'd love to be able to get out in the middle of a city and tell my car "Find some place to park and pick me up again at 6". That would be awesome.
It's one of those irregular verbs, isn't it? I have an independent mind, you are an eccentric, he is round the twist
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Shoaler
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Postby Shoaler » Mon Aug 03, 2015 9:22 am UTC
GTA 2020 CE
Postby petz » Mon Aug 03, 2015 9:35 am UTC
Diadem wrote: I'd love to be able to get out in the middle of a city and tell my car "Find some place to park and pick me up again at 6". That would be awesome.
And at 6 you find out, that it drove 200km to another city and back to find a parking spot.
miniyou
Joined: Tue Nov 06, 2012 10:18 am UTC
Postby miniyou » Mon Aug 03, 2015 10:03 am UTC
Diadem wrote: Wouldn't you WANT your self-driving car to be able to drive without anyone in it though?
Kind of like this? fastcompany [dot] com/3030911/most-innovative-companies/heres-an-early-look-at-volvos-self-parking-driverless-car-due-to-h
Granted, it's only made for parking lots (for example outside malls) but I guess that for legal reasons.
(Not cool enough to post links )
NeatNit
Postby NeatNit » Mon Aug 03, 2015 10:27 am UTC
What's the *SLAM* for?
The Moomin
Postby The Moomin » Mon Aug 03, 2015 10:32 am UTC
NeatNit wrote: What's the *SLAM* for?
I assumed it was the noise of shutting the car door?
Hopefully the self drive car can help future HITCHbots escape America and their destroying the helpless ways.
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The cats are alive because I'm alive.
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Postby Echo244 » Mon Aug 03, 2015 12:00 pm UTC
...and Black Hat Guy wouldn't even need his rock...
Unstoppable force of nature. That means she/her/hers.
Has committed an act of treason.
Whizbang
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Postby Whizbang » Mon Aug 03, 2015 1:05 pm UTC
petz wrote:
You're right. There is no way that the programmers of a self-driving car could prevent this.
HARDCORE PORNOGRAPHY
Postby rmsgrey » Mon Aug 03, 2015 1:23 pm UTC
Whizbang wrote:
The question is not whether they could, but how long it'll take them to figure out that they should...
Mahnarch
Postby Mahnarch » Mon Aug 03, 2015 1:42 pm UTC
And, at mile 115 it gets a flat tire and pulls over for service.
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Postby Copper Bezel » Mon Aug 03, 2015 1:43 pm UTC
Sure, but there's no way that would happen, for ostensible safety concerns. Or rather, I think the point at which it did, it would be part of a ride sharing service, and you wouldn't actually own the car anyway, or need to "park" it....
So much depends upon a red wheel barrow (>= XXII) but it is not going to be installed.
she / her / her
Postby Diadem » Mon Aug 03, 2015 2:55 pm UTC
Copper Bezel wrote:
Sure, but there's no way that would happen, for ostensible safety concerns.
Why? If my car can drive safely when I'm in it, it can drive safely when I'm not in it. It's not like it'll suddenly decide to go joyriding now that there's no human oversight. And governments have no reason to ban this. In fact they'd probably push for it hard. If all cars did this the quality of life in major cities would go up by a lot.
Postby speising » Mon Aug 03, 2015 3:02 pm UTC
The quality of the driver's life would already go up if there was a guiding system to the nearest parking lot, which is technically already possible for quite a while.
So... shall we just merge these threads now, or what?
Darkstand
Postby Darkstand » Mon Aug 03, 2015 3:54 pm UTC
Soooo.... is this a thing that has actually happened yet? Inquiring minds want to know.
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Postby Spleen » Mon Aug 03, 2015 4:50 pm UTC
What amazes me is that he actually managed to find a rock that wasn't utterly too stoned out for the breathalyzer?
The giant cephalopod on your kitchen table.
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Location: A few different places->NYC->LA->NYC. He/Him/His please.
Postby dimochka » Mon Aug 03, 2015 5:33 pm UTC
Not necessarily true. With technology that essentially exists today, a sensor in your car keys or phone would guide the car to park within an X mile radius from where the passenger is. Sure, we can't have the car roam the streets by itself yet (partially due to legality / safety), but in order to set this radius all you need is a GPS locator and measure the distance between the phone and the car.
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dimochka wrote:
Why would you need a separate sensor to geofence the car? Presumably it knows where it is when you tell it to go park, so it can limit itself to car parks within range. Of course, determining which car parks are within range gets tricky when you have inconvenient geographic features in the way - the straight-line distance and the driving distance are very rarely the same, and can be very, very different - parking on the wrong side of the Grand Canyon would involve quite a lot of driving...
Carteeg_Struve
Postby Carteeg_Struve » Mon Aug 03, 2015 5:54 pm UTC
I'd like to say "Ah, Black Hat. Where have you been?" but at this point I'm beginning to suspect that he's Guilfoyle from Silicon Valley during his weekends off... when his hat is being washed.
And if they aren't the same person, I want a crossover showdown dammit.
cryptoengineer
Postby cryptoengineer » Mon Aug 03, 2015 6:08 pm UTC
My desired user stories for a self driving car (SDC) include:
"Drop my 10 year old off at school, then come back."
"Pick up my kid from school" (requires some mechanism to mutually identify the car and kid to each other)
"Take me home safely after an evening at a bar"
"Drop me off at the front door of the mall, then park. When I summon you from my phone, come to it"
"Drop me off at the airport, then go home. I'll text you the flight I'm coming back on; be there to pick
me up."
A lot of this could be done with an SDC that was basically a cheap taxi - I don't own it and have no continued
relation with it. But not all. I live out in the country, and might not want to wait long for one to arrive. I might
also want to leave my stuff in the car over periods longer than one ride.
At first, auto-parking will present certain (entirely manageable) difficulties. But as more and more people use self-driving technology, there will spring up more and more locations dedicated to parking self-driving cars (paid for either as a subscription service or, preferably, the city/state).After all, a mile is too far for you to park your car and walk to a building, but not very far at all for a self-driving car to park while you are busy. A simple app on your phone can be used from the elevator to call the car and it will be there when you get outside, or shortly after (depending on distance, traffic, and how early you call the car). As an added bonus, since people no longer need their cars as close as conveniently possible to their destinations, all those curb-side parking spots will be freed and become, instead, pickup and drop-off zones. Gone will be the days of circling a block looking for a convenient and close parking spot.
Also, before long, community vehicles will become a wide-spread thing, at least for city dwellers. Why buy a car when a simple call/text can have one come pick you up and deliver you to your destination at any time? More rural communities will likely continue to see car owners, however, as needing a car quickly for short trips will often make calling and waiting for a car a hassle.
gimmespamnow
Postby gimmespamnow » Mon Aug 03, 2015 6:36 pm UTC
rmsgrey wrote:
I'm assuming the car could be programmed to figure out the Grand Canyon problem, (cause there are problems like that in every city near a mountain/river/freeway overpass/railroad track/etc.) All that said, I can think of a perfectly logical reason why you actually may want the car to drive to the other side of the grand canyon without you in it, and the people who would desire this feature have disposable incomes and would probably be the early adopters of self driving cars: if you want to hike down one side of the grand canyon and hike out the other side or if you are rafting down the river; you can pay a bunch of money for someone to give you a ride back to your car or for someone to drive your car around but: being able to tell your car to meet you someplace else in a few days would be an awesome feature...
Whizbang wrote: Also, before long, community vehicles will become a wide-spread thing, at least for city dwellers. Why buy a car when a simple call/text can have one come pick you up and deliver you to your destination at any time? More rural communities will likely continue to see car owners, however, as needing a car quickly for short trips will often make calling and waiting for a car a hassle.
I live in a city where it is possible to rent cars, one way, by the minute, with a smartphone app. Sometimes you have to walk a few blocks to pick one up since they don't drive themselves, (if you want a taxi I have an app for that too,) but that time is already here... So why do I own a car? Simple answer: Girls. If you say "I don't own a car" to most middle class woman in my city, they assume you have too many drunk driving arrests, (nope, they won't let you rent those cars if you have any,) or are really poor, or something else is "wrong" with you. (It is only slightly better than saying "I live with my mom.") Of course, I don't want to date "most" women, but still, it is just easier to be able to say "yes, I own a car" then explain why that isn't actually a big deal, on the first date.
gimmespamnow wrote:
Well, sure, there is a social element to it. Right now, NOT owning a car is unusual. But as more and more people see the economical advantages of foregoing ownership, it will become less of a Big Deal. There is also an element of "I need my independence" or "I don't want the government tracking my moves" or "I don't trust these robot cars" or any number of other objections. My feeling is that these objections will be slowly overridden for the majority as the convenience of it wins them over.
gimmespamnow wrote: I'm assuming the car could be programmed to figure out the Grand Canyon problem, (cause there are problems like that in every city near a mountain/river/freeway overpass/railroad track/etc.) All that said, I can think of a perfectly logical reason why you actually may want the car to drive to the other side of the grand canyon without you in it, and the people who would desire this feature have disposable incomes and would probably be the early adopters of self driving cars: if you want to hike down one side of the grand canyon and hike out the other side or if you are rafting down the river; you can pay a bunch of money for someone to give you a ride back to your car or for someone to drive your car around but: being able to tell your car to meet you someplace else in a few days would be an awesome feature...
The trouble is not that the problems of self-driving cars are insurmountable (or even particularly difficult to solve, on a case-by-case basis) but that it's hard to find all of them (and unless you're very careful and very clever, every problem you solve is an opportunity for other problems to be created when the solutions to two different problems interact in unforeseen ways)
Postby keithl » Mon Aug 03, 2015 7:49 pm UTC
gimmespamnow wrote: So why do I own a car? Simple answer: Girls. If you say "I don't own a car" to most middle class woman in my city, they assume you have too many drunk driving arrests, (nope, they won't let you rent those cars if you have any,) or are really poor, or something else is "wrong" with you. (It is only slightly better than saying "I live with my mom.")
Ah, an entrepreneurial opportunity! Howzabout I buy a luxury car, and sell gentlemen like you $50 shares in it? I keep it in the garage of a fancy apartment building, and nobody gets to drive it. "Owners" can truthfully claim "I prefer to use shared cars for environmental reasons, so I keep my Mercedes parked in my reserved spot at 101 RitzyDigs Place." Eco-points AND wealth points!
The "girls" will find out eventually, but if they are impressed by such status symbols, they aren't keepers. You should only give your heart to intelligent women who read XKCD, and value your witty postings.
Where can we get self-driving romantic relationships? There have been a lot more accidents caused by "dating while drunk" rather than "driving while drunk."
keithl wrote: Where can we get self-driving romantic relationships? There have been a lot more accidents caused by "dating while drunk" rather than "driving while drunk."
I'm thinking literally as simple as fuel costs. Sure if you're at work for 9 hours the car can go park itself 3 hours away, but I'm not sure you'd want the mileage and fuel increase.
Parking routines would definitely be limited by driving time. Staight-line distances would be meaningless. There would likely be a formula used that preferred closer parking spaces and had a hard limit at certain distances away, after which it turns around and re-searches the same area for a valid parking space. It would never be more than a few minutes' drive time away from you (assuming a default behavior of "park nearby". You could potentially give it different instructions). Of course, it could spend the entire 9 hours just circling around looking for a parking space, but I imagine the algorithm produced after field testing would be robust enough to find at least one valid spot within a reasonable amount of time. In fact, I am sure current self driving cars are capable of this, or very close if not.
Whizbang wrote: Parking routines would definitely be limited by driving time. Staight-line distances would be meaningless. There would likely be a formula used that preferred closer parking spaces and had a hard limit at certain distances away, after which it turns around and re-searches the same area for a valid parking space. It would never be more than a few minutes' drive time away from you (assuming a default behavior of "park nearby". You could potentially give it different instructions). Of course, it could spend the entire 9 hours just circling around looking for a parking space, but I imagine the algorithm produced after field testing would be robust enough to find at least one valid spot within a reasonable amount of time. In fact, I am sure current self driving cars are capable of this, or very close if not.
Sometimes there literally isn't a legal parking space nearby...
There could potentially be a solution in double-parking. After all, these things are automated. If a car gets a signal to pick someone up, but is blocked by other self driving cars, it could transmit a "I need to leave now" signal to nearby cars, which would then move out of the way, then shuffle back into the available parking space. But, with the constant comings and goings of people, I imagine in nearly all situations a spot can be found within a reasonable amount of time. And like I said, as these things become more common, it would be in everyone's interests for there to be designated parking areas/garages that are strategically located throughout urban areas for self-driving cars to go and park without cluttering up roads. Businesses will no longer need large parking lots. Instead, the cars will go to nearby garages that can hold many cars.
It could do what a human does: park illegally and drive away when a cop shows up.
ctdonath
Postby ctdonath » Mon Aug 03, 2015 9:05 pm UTC
Whizbang wrote: If a car gets a signal to pick someone up, but is blocked by other self driving cars, it could transmit a "I need to leave now" signal to nearby cars, which would then move out of the way, then shuffle back into the available parking space.
The image of a parking lot stuffed full of self-driving cars, no discernible aisles, with waves of vehicles shifting in their minuscule given spaces as they shuffle out of each other's way as individual vehicles come & go.
Woah.

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Creating and Defining Marine Protected Areas
Most Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) in California are the result of the Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA) that was passed by the California State Legislature in 1999 and serve to protect the diversity and abundance of California's marine life, habitats, and ecosystems.
In California they can be classified into four different categories: State Marine Reserve (SMR), State Marine Conservation Area (SCMA), State Marine Park (SMP), or State Marine Recreational Management Areas (MMAs). While SMRs, like the Catalina Island Marine Science Center and Life Refuge, are no-take and no-use areas, SCMAs aim to conserve specific habitats and animal species, SMPs are limited take reserves, and MMAs limit the recreational use of an area.
Those who were responsible for the designation of MPAs included the California Department of Fish and Game (DFG), Blue Ribbon Task Force, Science Advisory Team, Regional stakeholder groups, and California citizens.
According to the State of California, a well-designed MPA should encompass both intertidal and offshore areas and span at least 3-6 miles offshore, although 6-12.5 miles is ideal. Habitat types should be replicated at least 3-5 times in each MPA and one MPA should be no more than 31-62 miles away from another. MPAs with these criteria may result in increases in population numbers and "spillover" events to non-protected areas. In addition, successful MPAs have higher abundances of harvested species than non-harvested species when compared to non-protected regions. Larger individuals of the harvested species should also be much more abundant in an effective MPA, and lead to a lower abundance of prey-sized species.
Many marine fish populations have shown signs of decline, due to anthropogenic influences such as overfishing and habitat loss. In order to develop ecologically resilient habitats, and please multiple demographics with different goals, MPA placement and design must be thoroughly thought-out and use the best available science for maximizing protection relative to management goals.
To learn more about MPAs in California, please visit the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.
Importance of Fish Movements and Habitat Use in Designing MPAs
Many marine animals move frequently on daily, monthly, or even yearly schedules, and the methods used to detect their fine-scale movements are time-consuming and expensive.
Fish movement studies are imperative to quantifying the success of currently designated MPAs and to designing future MPAs. Early knowledge of fish movements and dispersal came from fishery catch data and tag-recapture studies, which are often misused or misrepresented. More recent studies include remote sensing techniques such as acoustic and satellite telemetry have significantly improved our understanding of space and habitat use of tagged marine animals. For measuring movements of reef associated fishes, acoustic telemetry is most commonly used. Acoustic transmitters are used for both active, short-term, fine-scale movement tracking and passive, long-term, multi-individual monitoring; however, often at a much more coarse spatial scale.
Active tracking transmitters that have battery lives up to 61 days, where researchers will follow home ranging individuals for 24-hour increments over several months. Active tracking studies, which gather fine-scale spatial information can help to determine habitat uses, habitat preferences, and the sizes and locations of home ranges for various fish. Coded transmitters with battery lives up to several years are used for passive tracking and can be detected by underwater arrays of stationary omni-directional acoustic receivers (Fig. 1). These studies are useful for determining the site fidelity and seasonality of fish populations.
Fig. 1: Receiver arrays are strategically placed within the Catalina Island Marine Science Center Marine Life Refuge at around 10 m depth and can detected coded transmitters that are up to 150 m away. The detection range depends on oceanographic and environmental conditions and the general movement of the tagged individual (faster moving animals are less likely to be picked up by the receiver). By overlapping detection ranges, these arrays can provide an accurate representation of long-term animal movements and site fidelity (Lowe et al. unpubl. Data).
Since very little was known about the movements and habitat associations of California fishes, a habitat association model was developed to predict space use of nearshore fishes based on their affinity for complex substrata (e.g., rocky habitats). Species with lower affinities for complex substrata such as sand/mud are expected to require or use more space, and those that have no affinity for complex substrata were predicted to be nomadic (Fig. 2) (Lowe and Bray 2006).
Fig. 2: Lowe and Bray (2006) show that populations with a high affinity for complex substratum, such as reef habitats, should occupy a smaller home range, while those that are associated with the open ocean are expected to occupy larger areas.
The Catalina Island Marine Science Center Marine Life Refuge
Several previous Shark Lab studies have used acoustic telemetry tracking to quantify movements and site fidelity of four important food and game fishes to an existing marine protected area in southern California. Ocean whitefish (Caulolatilus princeps), kelp bass (Paralabrax clathratus), barred sandbass (Paralabraz nebulifer), and California sheephead (Semicossyphus pulcher) were all tracked using both active and passive telemetry in Big Fisherman's Cove, which is part of the Catalina Island Marine Science Center Marine Life Refuge (CMLR) (Figs. 3, 4).
Fig. 3: The Catalina Island Marine Science Center Marine Life Reserve was established as a scientific reserve in 1988 and is located on the northern face of Catalina Island and has an area of 0.13 km2.
Fig. 4: The benthic habitats surrounding Catalina Island are diverse, and include sand, bedrock, boulders, volcanic rock, sediment covered bedrock, mud, and volcanic rock. Benthic habitats maps such as this one are derived from multibeam sonar data (CSUMB Seafloor Mapping Lab). The # symbols indicate positions of a kelp bass tracked over the course of 1 month in Big Fisherman's Cove at Catalina Island. The black polygon represents the minimum convex polygon which is one metric used to estimate home range area.
Some Study Results: An Overview
The benthic foraging species (e.g., ocean whitefish and California sheephead) in the refuge had larger home ranges and spent more time outside of the marine reserve than ambush predators (kelp bass and barred sand bass)(Figs. 5, 6). The ocean whitefish, California sheephead, and barred sandbass also showed diel (day-to-night) habitat shifts and some of the sheephead showed seasonal shifts in their home ranges. All species also showed a high degree of site fidelity, as they were still detected in the same home range area after one year (Fig. 7). In addition, all species apart from the kelp bass were highly associated with the soft-sediment and rocky ecotone (edge) habitat, which shows that the benthic composition of the MPA is important to the protection of these groups (Fig. 8). Based on these habitat use results managers can use this type of information to design tight or loose reserve boundaries that can either enhance protection or facilitate fisheries (Fig. 9).
Fig. 5: Ocean whitefish had the largest home range size (20,439 ± 23,492 m2), followed by California sheephead (15,134 ± 26,007 m2), kelp bass (3,349 ± 2,238 m2) and barred sand bass (10,003 ± 3,819 m2). Ocean whitefish and California sheephead are foraging species, while the kelp bass and the barred sand bass are ambush predators.
Fig. 6: Ocean whitefish spent the most time outside of the reserve area, followed by California sheephead, barred sandbass, and kelp bass.
Fig. 7: Most of those monitored were detected in the reserve up to one year after they were originally tagged, suggesting that each group has a high degree of site fidelity. Those that were no longer detected could have been caught by poachers, were eaten by predators or left the reserve to establish new home ranges elsewhere.
Fig. 8: The daytime habitat ranges of each studied species straddled the ecotone between sand/mud and rock habitats. While kelp bass spent most of their time over rocky substrata, the other three groups were more closely associated with sand/mud. Most detections for the kelp bass were approximately 12 m into the rocky substrate away from the ecotone edge, while barred sandbass and ocean whitefish were detected most often 10-12 m into the sand-mud habitat from the edge. Alternatively, the California sheephead were most closely associated with the ecotone edge, which matches the distribution patterns of their prey. The dashed yellow line suggests that designing an MPA that extended 60 meters into the sand/mud habitat from the ecotone could thoroughly protect each of these species.
Fig. 9: Tight MPA boundaries include the entire home range of individuals within a population and offer greater protection, while leaky boundaries include only a portion of the home range and allow for partial protection. Knowing how marine organisms use habitat and how they move relative to those habitats are essential for designing effect MPAs.
Kelp bass are generally found around nearshore, rocky reef habitats that extend from Baja, California to Monterey Bay. They are known to be diurnally active, with a high degree of site fidelity. Interestingly, previous studies suggest that juveniles move much more often than adults, and thus, have a lower degree of site fidelity until they reach maturity.
In this study, Dr. Lowe and his graduate students actively tracked kelp bass in the CLMR to characterize their movements and habitat use patterns (Lowe et al. 2003):
Study duration: March 1999 – August 2001
12 adults actively tracked for 24-hour periods over 1 month
4 adults passively monitored for up to 4 months
While the home range of the tagged adult kelp bass varied among individuals, each remained within the confines of the MPA. The average home range size was 3,349 ± 2,238 m2, which only comprises 2.9 ± 3.0% of the total reserve area (Fig. 10). Because this small MPA has a diameter that is at least one order of magnitude larger than any one kelp bass' home range, it is likely effective for the protection of this population.
Fig. 10: A shaded-relief map of the bottom topography of the Catalina reserve area from Lowe et al. (2003). The red dashed line represents the reserve boundary and the colored polygons represent the 95% KUD (home ranges) of the 12 actively tracked kelp bass. All home ranges are within the reserve boundaries and make up only a small portion (2.9 ± 3.0%) of the total reserve area.
The largest of the tagged individuals showed diel movement patterns in which they opted for shaded areas during the day, and moved to cobble, rocky shores at night. The kelp bass were detected on either side of the ecotone, but showed no uniform association with the ecotone edge (Fig 11). Additionally, they used mud/sand geological habitats and kelp biotic habitats most of the time, but showed a preference for rock boulder substrata (Fig. 12). The mud/sand and kelp habitats probably provide more foraging and recruitment opportunities to the population.
Fig. 11: While other fish species within the refuge show a high association with the ecotone edge, kelp bass showed no distinct relationship with this bathymetric feature. Those detected along the wall of the reserve were most often over rocky substrata, while those in the cove were most often detected over sand/mud.
Fig. 12: Lowe et al. (2003) calculated habitat selection indices and found that kelp bass within the CMLR preferred rock boulder habitats over other habitats, like mud/sand, rock wall, and steep rock rubble.
California Sheephead
California sheephead are carnivorous, temperate fish that tend to be associated with rocky-reefs and kelp beds. Sheephead are a protogynous hermaphrodites, and sex change is affect by social factors, which poses a particular problem for management efforts to size selection by fishers.
'This tracking study was part of Darin Topping's Master's thesis research and included both active and passive tracking of male and female CA sheephead in Big Fisherman's Cove (Topping et al. 2005, Topping et al. 2006).
Study duration:
March 2001 – August 2002
16 adults actively tracked for 24-hour periods up to five months
June 2000 – February 2002
16 adults passively monitored for one year
California sheephead home ranges varied with reef shape, but were an average of 15,134 ± 26,007 m2, which constitutes 11.16 ± 20% of the total reserve area (Fig. 13). Those tagged in the Cove had smaller, elliptical shaped home ranges, and those along the outside wall had larger, elongate shapes. Since individuals traveled beyond the confines of CMLR, we suggest that the population could be 100% protected if the refuge area extended at least 40 meters more offshore.
Fig. 13: A shaded-relief map of the bottom topography of the Catalina reserve area from Topping et al. (2005). The red dashed line represents the reserve boundary and the colored polygons represent the 95% KUD (home ranges) of the 16 actively tracked sheephead. All home ranges are much smaller than the reserve and contained within the reserve, but vary in size and shape based on the location of the tracked individuals.
Similar to kelp bass, California sheephead are strictly diurnal and did not move more than one meter during the night. During the day, the sheephead used mud/sand and kelp habitats most often, but showed a preference for boulder habitats and a positive association with the sand-rock ecotone (Figs. 8, 14). Interestingly, the larger animals tracked within the Cove used mud/sand habitats more often, but larger individuals tracked along the outside wall used rocky reef areas more often.
Fig. 14: California sheephead tracked by Topping et al. (2005) used mud/sand geological habitats more often than any individual rocky reef habitat. They were also highly associated with kelp biotic habitats, which may provide a more complex area for increased foraging opportunities.
Most showed a high degree of site fidelity, but some (e.g. sheephead #6) showed site expansions in January 2002, and between December 2001 and March 2002 (Fig. 15). These seasonal home range shifts suggest that small reserves like the CLMR may be too small to effectively protect this population of sheephead.
Fig. 15: Topping et al. (2006) found that one acoustically monitored California sheephead (#6) was a) very mobile in September 2001 and was detected at various locations, but b) used two regions (Inner Pipes, 3 Caves) exclusively in February of the following year, and c) was detected most near the Pier in May 2002. This suggests that the sheephead may have undergone translocation from its original home range.
Ocean Whitefish
Recreational anglers that target rockfish unintentionally catch ocean whitefish, which may have led to the declining population. Whitefish habitats span from British Columbia to Peru, and their primary food source is interstitial (sand-dwelling) invertebrates. Larval production is hypothesized to occur in the far south Mexican waters, and recruits peak between November and February in southern Californian waters at 15-60 meter depths.
Lyall Bellquist did this tracking study as part of his Master's thesis research (Bellquist et al. 2008).
Study duration: November 2003 – June 2006
17 adults actively tracked for 24-hr periods over 1-2 months
The ocean whitefish in this study were diurnally active, with individuals selecting deep, sand habitats during the day, but opted for shallow, bedrock slopes at night. The whitefish tracked exhibited an average home range of 20,439 ± 23,492 m2, but home range shapes were defined by the ecotone and surrounding benthic environment. Those near the outside wall had elliptical home ranges, while those near the cove had more circular shaped home ranges. Additionally, those that were tracked in areas with high-densities of other ocean whitefish had significantly larger home ranges (Fig. 16).
Fig. 16: Bellquist et al. (2008) found a relationship between the density of ocean whitefish in a particular area and their respective home ranges. Those in regions with higher densities exhibited larger home ranges. This may be indicative of density dependent effects, ultimately resulting in spillover of ocean white with increased conspecific density.
Ocean whitefish are a highly mobile species and traveled an average 3,781 ± 1,215 m/day. Acoustic monitoring also showed seasonality changes in home ranges, as whitefish were detected at much lower rates in June 2004 and November 2004. Due to the high mobility and seasonality of the species, the CMLR may be less effective for protecting individuals within this population.
Barred Sandbass
The barred sandbass is known to be an aggregate spawner and is among the top ten most recreationally caught species in Southern California. Members of this species tend to aggregate on the sandy sides of sand-reef ecosystems within three meters of the seafloor.
This study was part of Tom Mason's Master's thesis research. He actively and passively tracked barred sand bass in Big Fisherman's Cove at Catalina (Mason and Lowe, 2010).
Study duration: Summers of 2005, 2006
6 adults actively tracked for 24-hour periods
8 adults passively monitored for one year
The average home range for the species was 10,003 ± 3,819 m2, most of which was composed of mud habitats (60 ± 15%). The sand bass that were tagged showed diel movement patterns in which they preferred soft-sediment habitats at night and nearby reef areas during the day. Like the ocean whitefish, the sand bass also exhibited a positive edge response between the rocky and soft-sediment ecotone (Fig. 17). MPAs that are located in areas with high edge density can therefore be very effective in protecting species with a positive edge response.
Fig. 17: According to Mason and Lowe (2010), barred sand bass showed an association with the sand/mud-rock ecotone edge, as many spent the majority of daylight hours within 15 meters of the edge, but made visits to nearby rocky areas. However, at night individuals shifted further out over sand/mud habitats.
Only half of those tagged showed year-round site fidelity, which could correspond to instances of both resident and transient spawners in the population. Therefore, the current refuge area may be effective for the year-round protection of some individuals (resident spawners) and the seasonal protection of others (transient spawners).


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4Observances
June 27 is the 178th day of the year (179th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 187 days remaining until the end of the year.
678 – Pope Agatho is elected.
1358 – The Republic of Dubrovnik is founded.
1497 – Cornish rebels Michael An Gof and Thomas Flamank are executed at Tyburn, London, England.
1556 – The thirteen Stratford martyrs are burned at the stake near London for their Protestant beliefs.
1709 – Peter the Great defeats Charles XII of Sweden at the Battle of Poltava.
1715 – In a war with Venice, 40,000 Ottoman soldiers land in the Peloponnese, present-day Greece.
1743 – War of the Austrian Succession: Battle of Dettingen - on the battlefield in Bavaria, King George II of Great Britain leads his troops into battle. It is the last time that a British monarch would command troops on the field.
1759 – General James Wolfe starts siege of Quebec.
1760 – Cherokee warriors defeat British forces at the Battle of Echoee near present-day Otto, North Carolina during the Anglo-Cherokee War.
1806 – The British capture Buenos Aires.
1844 – Joseph Smith, Jr and his brother Hyrum murdered in Carthage Jail, Carthage, Illinois.
1864 – Battle of Kennesaw Mountain in the American Civil War.
1867 – The Bank of California opens its doors
1893 – Crash of the New York Stock Exchange.
1898 – First solo circumnavigation of the globe completed by Joshua Slocum from Briar Island Nova Scotia.
1899 – A. E. J. Collins scores 628 not-out, a record score in cricket.
1905 – Mutiny on the battleship Potemkin.
1927 – Prime Minister of Japan Tanaka Giichi leads a conference to discuss Japan's plans for China.
1941 – Romanian government forces, supporting Nazi Germany, launch a violent pogrom against the Jewish population of the city of Iasi, Romania; 13,266 are subsequently murdered.
1945 – Under Secretary of the Navy Ralph Bard sends memo to Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson urging that the United States give "preliminary warning" to Japan before using the atomic bomb on a Japanese target.
1946 – The Parliament of Canada establishes the definition (meaning) of Canadian citizenship.
1950 – The United States decides to send troops to fight in the Korean War.
1953 – Joseph Laniel becomes Prime Minister of France.
1954 – World's first nuclear power station opens in Obninsk, near Moscow.
1954 – Guatemalan President Jacobo Arbenz is removed from power with US assistance.
1957 – Hurricane Audrey kills 500 people in Louisiana and Texas.
1963 – John F. Kennedy visits his ancestral home in County Wexford, Republic of Ireland.
1966 – The military seizes power in Argentina.
1967 – World's first ATM installed in Enfield, London.
1972 – ATARI is established by Nolan Bushnell.
1973 – President of Uruguay Juan Maria Bordaberry dissolves parliament and establishes a dictatorship.
1974 – US President Richard Nixon visits the U.S.S.R.
1976 – Air France Flight 139 is captured by Palestinian militants and diverted to Entebbe Airport in Uganda.
1977 – France grants independence to Djibouti.
1977 – Joseph Ratzinger (later Pope Benedict XVI) becomes a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
1979 – Muhammad Ali announces his retirement from boxing.
1980 – A commercial DC-9 (Itavia Flight 870) is apparently shot down.
1982 – Space Shuttle Columbia is launched from the Kennedy Space Center on the final research and development flight mission, STS-4.
1984 – Pierre Elliott Trudeau wins the Albert Einstein Peace Prize.
1984 – UEFA Euro 1984: France defeats Spain 2-0 to win the tournament.
1985 – Route 66 ceases to be an official highway.
1986 – International Court of Justice finds against the United States in its judgement in the Nicaragua v. United States.
1988 – In Atlantic City, New Jersey, Mike Tyson becomes Boxing Heavyweight Champion of the World, defeating Michael Spinks.
1991 – Slovenia, which declared independent two days previously, is invaded by Yugoslavia troops, tanks, and aircraft.
1995 – Jodi Huisentruit, an anchorwoman in Mason City, Iowa disappears, presumably abducted.
1998 – 130 people are killed in an earthquake in southwestern Turkey.
2001 – International Court of Justice finds against the United States in its judgement in the LaGrand Case.
2006 – 2006 FIFA World Cup: Brazil's Ronaldo becomes the highest goalscorer in FIFA World Cup history, with 15 goals.
2007 – Gordon Brown becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, succeeding Tony Blair.
2008 – In a highly scrutinised election, Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe claims a landslide victory, after opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai had withdrawn, citing violence against MDC supporters.
2010 – Iceland legalizes same-sex marriage.
2010 – 2010 FIFA World Cup: Two controversial decisions in Second Round matches prompt discussions about technology in football. Frank Lampard's goal for England against Germany is not given despite crossing the line, and an offside goal by Argentina's Carlos Tévez against Mexico is given.
2013 – Kevin Rudd becomes Prime Minister of Australia for a second time, replacing Julia Gillard.
2013 – NASA launches the Interface Region Imaging Spectograph, a space probe to observe the Sun.
2014 – Jean-Claude Juncker is chosen to become President of the European Commission.
2016 – UEFA Euro 2016: Iceland defeats England 2-1 in a surprise result in the second round of the tournament.
2017 – Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon delays a plan for a second independence referendum.
2017 – A vote in the German Bundestag on same-sex marriage is set for June 30 after Chancellor Angela Merkel changes her official position on the issue.
2017 – Armin Laschet takes over from Hannelore Kraft as Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany's most-populous state.
2017 – A second Ransomware cyber attack in just over six weeks affects the world's computers, with Russia, Poland and Ukraine among the most-affected countries.
2018 – 2018 FIFA World Cup: Germany is knocked out of the FIFA World Cup at the first stage for the first time in 80 years, after a 2-0 defeat to South Korea; it is the fourth time in five FIFA World Cups that the previous champion goes out at the group stage.
2018 – United States Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy announces his retirement.
1040 – King Ladislaus I of Hungary (d. 1095)
1350 – Manuel II Palaiologus, Eastern Roman Emperor (d. 1425)
1462 – King Louis XII of France (d. 1515)
1550 – King Charles IX of France (d. 1574)
1682 – King Charles XII of Sweden (d. 1718) (June 17 in Swedish calendar)
1717 – Louis Guillaume Le Monnier, French botanist (d. 1799)
1740 – John Latham, English physician, naturalist and author (d. 1837)
1805 – Napoléon Coste, French composer and guitarist (d. 1883)
1806 – Augustus De Morgan, English mathematician (d. 1871)
1821 – August Conradi, German organist and composer (d. 1873)
1821 – Samuel Washington Woodhouse, American surgeon, explorer and naturalist (d. 1904)
1828 – Bryan O'Loghlen, Irish-Australian politician, 13th Premier of Victoria (d. 1905)
1838 – Paul Mauser, German weapon designer (d. 1914)
1838 – Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, Indian journalist, author and poet (d. 1894)
1838 – Eugenia Washington, American historian (d. 1900)
1839 – George Mary Searle, American astronomer and clergyman (d. 1918)
1840 – Ingram Bywater, British classical philologist (d. 1914)
1846 – Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish nationalist political leader (d. 1891)
1850 – Lafcadio Hearn, writer (d. 1904)
1869 – Hans Spemann, German doctor and zoologist, won the 1935 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1941)
1869 – Emma Goldman, Lithuanian-American anarchist, feminist, free love advocate (d. 1940)
1870 – Frank Rattray Lillie, zoologist, embryologist (d. 1947)
1880 – Helen Keller, American writer and spokeswoman for the deaf and blind (d. 1968)
1882 – Eduard Spranger, philosopher, psychologist and educator (d. 1963)
1884 – Gaston Bachelard, French philosopher and poet (d. 1962)
1885 – Guilhermina Suggia, Portuguese cellist (d. 1950)
1885 – Pierre Montet, French Egyptologist (d. 1966)
1888 – Antoinette Perry, American actress and director (d. 1946)
1890 – Roberto Urdaneta, 44th President of Colombia (d. 1972)
1891 – Vladimir Petlyakov, Russian aircraft designer (d. 1942)
1892 – Paul Colin, French illustrator (d. 1985)
1893 – Ivan Belov, Soviet military (d. 1938)
1899 – Juan Trippe, American airline entrepreneur (d. 1981)
1904 – Alberta Vaughn, American actress (d. 1992)
1905 – Armand Mondou, French Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1976)
1906 – Catherine Cookson, British writer (d. 1998)
1906 – Vernon Watkins, Welsh-American poet (d. 1967)
1907 – John McIntire, American actor (d. 1991)
1908 – Joao Guimaraes Rosa, Brazilian writer (d. 1967)
1909 – Billy Curtis, American actor (d. 1988)
1910 – Pierre Joubert, French artist (d. 2002)
1913 – Willie Mosconi, professional billiards player (d. 1993)
1914 – Robert Aickman, English writer (d. 1981)
1914 – Giorgio Almirante, Italian journalist and politician (d. 1988)
1915 – Grace Lee Boggs, American writer, activist and feminist (d. 2015)
1918 – Adolph Kiefer, American swimmer (d. 2017)
1921 – Muriel Pavlow, English actress
1925 – Michael Dummett, English philosopher (d. 2011)
1925 – Jerome Felder, AKA Doc Pomus, American musician, composer (d. 1991)
1927 – Otto Herbert Hajek, German sculptor (d. 2005)
1928 – Rudy Perpich, American politician (d. 1995)
1930 – Ross Perot, American billionaire and politician (d. 2019)
1930 – Tommy Kono, American weightlifter (d. 2016)
1931 – Martinus J. G. Veltman, Dutch physicist
1931 – Magali Noel, French actress and singer (d. 2015)
1932 – Anna Moffo, American soprano (d. 2006)
1934 – Alberto Bevilacqua, Italian writer, poet and journalist (d. 2013)
1935 – Laurent Terzieff, French actor (d. 2010)
1938 – Bruce Babbitt, American politician
1938 – Yevgeniy Ivchenko, Soviet race walker
1940 – Ian Lang, Baron Lang of Monkton, Scottish politician
1941 – Krzysztof Kieslowski, Polish movie director (d. 1996)
1942 – Bruce Johnston, American musician (The Beach Boys)
1942 – Danny Schechter, American television producer, moviemaker, blogger and media critic (d. 2015)
1949 – Rafael Chirbes, Spanish writer (d. 2015)
1949 – Vera Wang, American fashion designer
1951 – Mary McAleese, former President of Ireland
1951 – Julia Duffy, American actress
1951 – Ulf Andersson, Swedish chess player
1952 – Madan Kumar Bhandari, Nepalese politician (d. 1993)
1952 – Mary Rosenblum, American author (d. 2018)
1955 – Isabelle Adjani, French actress
1956 – Sultan bin Salman Al Saud, Saudi Arabian prince and astronaut
1957 – Gabriella Dorio, Italian middle-distance runner
1958 – Lisa Germano, American musician
1958 – Magnus Lindberg, Finnish pianist and composer
1959 – Clint Boon, musician best known for playing keyboards in the band Inspiral Carpets
1960 – David Cholmondeley, British aristocrat
1960 – Craig Hodges, American basketball player
1961 – Tim Whitnall, British voice actor
1961 – Meera Syal, British actress, comedienne and writer
1962 – Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Hong Kong actor
1962 – Michael Ball, British singer and actor
1962 – Carrie Gracie, British journalist and news presenter, former BBC News China editor
1962 – Sunanda Pushkar, Indian-Canadian businesswoman (d. 2014)
1962 – Ollanta Humala, 94th President of Peru
1963 – Wendy Alexander, Scottish politician
1963 – Jay Karnes, American actor
1964 – Stephan Brenninkmeijer, Dutch director, producer and screenwriter
1964 – Chuck Person, American basketball player and coach
1964 – Taimak, American martial arts actor and stuntman
1965 – Simon Sebag Montefiore, English journalist, historian and author
1965 – Ange Postecoglou, Australian footballer and coach
1966 – J. J. Abrams, American television writer and producer
1966 – Aigars Kalvitis, former Prime Minister of Latvia
1969 – Alessandro Esseno, Italian composer and pianist
1969 – Viktor Petrenko, Ukrainian figure skater
1970 – John Eales, Australian rugby player
1970 – Jim Edmonds, American baseball player
1970 – Vitamin C, pop singer
1971 – Jo Frost, English nanny and television personality
1971 – Dipendra of Nepal (d. 2001)
1971 – Régine Cavagnoud, French skier (d. 2001)
1972 – Dmytro Tymchuk, Ukrainian politician, military expert and blogger (d. 2019)
1974 – Christian Kane, American actor and singer
1974 – Christopher O'Neill, British-American businessman and husband of Princess Madeleine of Sweden
1975 – Tobey Maguire, American actor
1976 – Nekima Levy-Pounds, American lawyer, professor, activist and writer
1977 – Raúl, Spanish footballer
1977 – Arkadiusz Radomski, Polish footballer
1978 – Anna Kumble, British singer
1978 – Courtney Ford, American actress
1978 – Marc Terenzi, American singer
1979 – Fabrizio Miccoli, Italian footballer
1980 – Kevin Pietersen, South African-born English cricketer
1980 – Takahiro Futagawa, Japanese footballer
1981 – Andrew Embley, Australian footballer
1981 – Cléber Santana, Brazilian footballer (d. 2016)
1983 – Alsou, Russian singer
1984 – José Holebas, German-born Greek footballer
1984 – Gökhan Inler, Swiss footballer
1984 – Khloe Kardashian, American reality television personality
1985 – Svetlana Kuznetsova, Russian tennis player
1985 – James Hook, Welsh rugby player
1985 – Nico Rosberg, Finnish-German racing driver
1986 – LaShawn Merritt, American sprinter
1986 – Sam Claflin, English actor
1987 – Ed Westwick, English actor
1988 – Célia Sasic, German footballer
1988 – Matthew Spiranovic, Australian footballer
1988 – Alanna Masterton, American actress
1989 – Matthew Lewis, English actor
1990 – Taylor Phinney, American cyclist
1991 – Madylin Sweeten, American actress
1992 – Sohee, South Korean singer, dancer and actress
1999 – Chandler Riggs, American actor
363 – Emperor Julian (b. 313)
1149 – Raymond of Poitiers, Prince of Antioch (b. 1099)
1458 – Alfonso V of Aragon (b. 1396)
1462 – Eudes II, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1118)
1497 – Michael An Gof, Cornish rebel
1497 – Thomas Flamank, Cornish rebel
1574 – Giorgio Vasari, Italian artist (b. 1511)
1648 – Arngrimur Jonsson, Icelandic academic (b. 1568)
1655 – Eleonore Gonzaga, wife of Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1598)
1794 – Wenzel Anton Graf Kaunitz, Austrian statesman (b. 1711)
1794 – Philippe de Noailles, duc de Mouchy, French nobleman (b. 1715)
1794 – Anne d'Arpajon, comtesse de Noailles, French noblewoman (b. 1729)
1823 – Pierre Antoine Delalande, French explorer and naturalist (b. 1787)
1829 – James Smithson, founder of the Smithsonian Institute
1831 – Sophie Germain, French mathematician (b. 1776)
1839 – Ranjit Singh, founder of the Sikh Empire (b. 1780)
1844 – Hyrum Smith, American religious leader (b. 1800)
1844 – Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1805)
1852 – Lemuel H. Arnold, American politician, Governor of Rhode Island (b. 1792)
1878 – Sarah Helen Whitman, American poet (b. 1803)
1907 – Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz, American educator (b. 1822)
1916 – Stefan Luchian, Romanian painter (b. 1868)
1917 – Karl Allmenroder, German World War I ace (b. 1896)
1934 – Francesco Buhagiar, 2nd Prime Minister of Malta (b. 1876)
1935 – Eugene Augustin Lauste, French inventor (b. 1857)
1944 – Milan Hodza, Slovakian politician (b. 1878)
1946 – Juan Antonio Ríos, President of Chile (b. 1888)
1952 – Elmo Lincoln, actor (b. 1889)
1957 – Hermann Buhl, Austrian mountaineer (b. 1924)
1957 – Malcolm Lowry, novelist (b. 1909)
1959 – Giovanni Pastrone, Italian filmmaker (b. 1883)
1960 – Lottie Dod, English athlete (b. 1871)
1961 – Hélène Dutrieu, French pilot (b. 1877)
1970 – Daniel Kinsey, American hurdler (b. 1902)
1986 – George Nepia, New Zealand rugby player (b. 1905)
1989 – Alfred Jules Ayer, British philosopher (b. 1910)
1991 – Molly Geertsema, Dutch politician (b. 1918)
1996 – Albert R. Broccoli, American movie producer (b. 1909)
1998 – Kerim Tekin, Turkish singer
1999 – Georgios Papadopoulos, Greek military leader (b. 1919)
2000 – Pierre Pflimlin, French politician, Prime Minister of France (b. 1907)
2001 – Jack Lemmon, American actor and movie director (b. 1925)
2001 – Tove Jansson, Finnish writer of the Moomin books (b. 1914)
2002 – John Entwistle, English musician, bass player for The Who (b. 1944)
2003 – David Newman, American director, producer and screenwriter (b. 1937)
2004 – Darrell Russell, NHRA drag racer (b. 1968)
2004 – Fred Ramdat Misier, President of Suriname (b. 1926)
2005 – Shelby Foote, American historian and author (b. 1917)
2007 – Patrick Allotey, Ghanaian footballer (b. 1979)
2011 – Elaine Stewart, American actress (b. 1930)
2013 – Alain Mimoun, French runner (b. 1921)
2013 – Stefano Borgonovo, Italian footballer (b. 1964)
2014 – Leslie Manigat, 43rd President of Haiti (b. 1930)
2014 – Bobby Womack, American musician (b. 1944)
2014 – Rachid Solh, Prime Minister of Lebanon (b. 1926)
2014 – Rex Whitehead, Australian cricket umpire (b. 1948)
2014 – Tymon Mabaleka, Zimbabwean footballer and music producer (b. 1950)
2015 – Chris Squire, English bass guitarist (Yes) (b. 1948)
2015 – Zvi Elpeleg, Polish-Israeli diplomat (b. 1926)
2016 – Bud Spencer, Italian swimmer and actor (b. 1929)
2016 – Simon Ramo, American engineer, business leader and author (b. 1913)
2016 – Alvin Toffler, American writer and futurist (b. 1928)
2016 – Elmer Cravalho, American politician (b. 1926)
2016 – Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen, Danish composer (b. 1932)
2016 – Harry Halbreich, Belgian musicologist (b. 1931)
2016 – Mack Rice, American songwriter and singer (b. 1933)
2017 – Geri Allen, American jazz pianist and composer (b. 1957)
2017 – Piotr Bikont, Polish journalist, critic and author (b. 1955)
2017 – Michael Bond, English author (Paddington Bear) (b. 1926)
2017 – Michael Nyqvist, Swedish actor (b. 1960)
2017 – Suh Yun-bok, South Korean athlete (b. 1923)
2017 – Ric Suggitt, Canadian rugby coach (b. 1958)
2017 – Peter L. Berger, Austrian-American sociologist (b. 1929)
2017 – Anthony Young, American baseball player (b. 1966)
2017 – Toytown, English eventing horse (b. 1992)
2017 – Better Talk Now, American racehorse (b. 1999)
2018 – Harlan Ellison, American science fiction writer (b. 1934)
2018 – Joe Jackson, American talent manager, patriarch of the Jackson family (b. 1928)
2018 – Steve Soto, American punk guitarist (b. 1963)
2018 – Vladimir Andreyevich Uspensky, Russian mathematician and writer (b. 1930)
2018 – Paola Paternoster, Italian discus and javelin thrower (b. 1935)
2018 – Steven Hilliard Stern, Canadian-American director and screenwriter (b. 1937)
2018 – Steve Ditko, American comic book artist and writer (b. 1927)
2019 – Gualberto Castro, Mexican singer, actor and television personality (b. 1934)
2019 – David Golomb, Israeli politician (b. 1933)
2019 – Justin Raimondo, American author (b. 1951)
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Chelsea 1-2 Paris Saint-Germain: Guus Hiddink hopes Diego Costa and Eden Hazard injuries are not serious
By George Flood
Updated March 9, 2016 22:52 GMT
Diego Costa limped off at Stamford Bridge just minutes before PSG\'s decisive second goal Getty
Guus Hiddink hopes that the injuries sustained by Diego Costa and Eden Hazard during Chelsea's Champions League last-16 second-leg defeat to Paris Saint-Germain do not keep the duo sidelined for any significant length of time. Both players were forced to come off in the second half at Stamford Bridge as close-range efforts from Adrien Rabiot and Zlatan Ibrahimovic sent the runaway Ligue 1 leaders through to the last eight 4-2 on aggregate.
Costa missed the 1-1 Premier League draw against Stoke City on 5 March due to a minor tendon injury, but impressed after returning to the starting lineup. The Spanish international's left-footed strike after 26 minutes gave Chelsea real hope of avenging their extra-time defeat to PSG at the same stage last season, although his subsequent withdrawal seemed to deflate the home side and they conceded a decisive second goal just minutes later.
As if that was not quite bad enough, Hiddink was also forced to substitute Hazard before full-time. The attacking midfielder was seen to be limping shortly after the break, but attempted to play on before signalling to the bench that he too could not continue. Such a double injury blow will come as a huge concern ahead of the FA Cup quarter-final clash with Everton at Goodison Park this weekend, a match that represents Chelsea's final chance to salvage any silverware from a hugely difficult campaign.
Guus says Diego Costa was desperate to play today and his injury will be assessed tomorrow. #CHEPSG
— Chelsea FC (@ChelseaFC) March 9, 2016
Twitter/@ChelseaFC
When asked to confirm if the issues sustained by Costa and Hazard were short or longer term, Hiddink told BT Sport: "We'll see tomorrow. I hope it will not be long-term for Diego. But I must pay my respect to him because he desperately wanted to play. It would have been better even if he would not have started but he wanted to play in this very good game."
Pressed to establish exactly what was troubling Costa, the manager added: "Yes, it's a little bit on his tendon. In his hip, in the upper leg.
"He [Costa] made a beautiful goal, but we knew he was not totally fit. He desperately wanted to play. I must respect that he did what he could and he was not fully fit."
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IMBUE combines various influences from alternative rock, groove, wave and trip-hop, to deliver a powerful and intriguing blend of Electronic Rock. The strength of IMBUE lies on its multiple facets: the catchy song writing, the inventive textural guitar work, the hypnotic trip-hop dance beat and most of all, the deeply emotional vocals that depict an intense personal experience. IMBUE's sound is truly cutting-edge, standing at the crest of some of the most interesting musical styles and transcending each one to give it a fresh new perspective.


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NL Cottles Island Lumber expects operations to resume this week
By: CBC News
Cottles Island Lumber, the central Newfoundland lumber company whose premises were partially destroyed by fire earlier this month, says production is expected to start up again this week.
The main warehouse for the Notre Dame Bay plan was destroyed in a fire that was determined not to be arson.
Cottles Island Lumber fire not arson, company says
Operations halted at Cottles Island Lumber after warehouse fire
"It was bad. That building was completely destroyed and pretty much everything in it," said company spokesperson Deborah Bourden.
However, she added that while the fire was devastating, an interim operation is nearly ready to allow the lumber company to resume work.
'We have some very excited people cheering as the flat beds came in with new interim boiler, new interim forklifts, so it was a very exciting time, actually.'- Deborah Bourden
"Our interim plan is ticking along quite nicely and we plan to be back in production hopefully by the end of this week, which is I think quite outstanding," said Bourden.
"I know for us we are minimizing the impact on every front and the fact that we'll be back producing this week — considering the fire is only two weeks tomorrow — is a little bit short of extraordinary."
The rebuild process is expected to take several months, Bourden said, but equipment has been arriving on-site since the fire to allow the workers to get back to their regular jobs, rather than helping in the clean-up.
Interim equipment on site
Bourden said the workers have been enthusiastic in helping to clean up the warehouse after the blaze, and even the insurance adjusters have commented on the "amazing spirit" at the site, which isn't common after this kind of incident.
"We have some very excited people cheering as the flatbeds came in with new interim boiler, new interim forklifts, so it was a very exciting time, actually," she said.
"People are very happy to see that things are moving forward and definitely, as we know it's a family business. The Philpotts are very excited to know that in a very quick time things are going from very devastating to very, very positive again."
The interim operations could resume as early as Wednesday or at least later this week, Bourden said, and the company will continue repairs at the destroyed site.


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What is the difference between tee time and tea time?
A "tee time" is a scheduled time for a golfer or group of golfers to begin their game on a golf course. It refers to the time when the golfer is allowed to start playing and is usually reserved in advance. Tee times are used to control the flow of play on the golf course and to prevent crowding on the tee boxes.
On the other hand, "tea time" is a term used to refer to a time of day when tea is traditionally consumed, usually in the afternoon. The tradition of afternoon tea began in the early 19th century in England and is still a common practice today in many cultures around the world. During tea time, people often sit down and enjoy a cup of tea and some light refreshments such as sandwiches, cakes, and pastries. Tea time is typically a more relaxed and social occasion and is not exclusively related to the sport of golf.
In summary, "tee time" refers to a scheduled time for a golfer to begin their game on a golf course and "tea time" refers to the tradition of consuming tea in the afternoon, usually along with some light refreshments.
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Over the past two years I have been working closely with the Oshkosh Corporation shooting the ARFF Striker vehicles for their Airport Products Division. I initially started working with them a number of years ago on a single shoot for their airport snow removal products, but it wasn't until their marketing team contacted me last year to upgrade the appeal of the imagery that I started shooting for them on a regular basis. These images are generally used for a delivery photo that is given to the purchasing client, but they also find their way to marketing materials and trade show displays. Typically we are given a very small window to shoot these trucks after they are completed and ready for delivery. One of the goals with the shots is to showcase them in a "real world" location and/or scenario. Due to this small window, we end up shooting these early in the morning before they are loaded onto a flatbed and shipped out to their final destination. The customer acceptance team will drive the Striker to a location near the Airport Products manufacturing facility and I spend about 5-10 minutes getting the shots I need. These are generally completed trucks, but occasionally due to time constraints we need to utilize our retouching skills to "finish" them aesthetically (See the Metro-Washington video below).
Below are just a few of the completed shots, featuring various Strikers from around the U.S.


Will they stay or will they go? With the Brexit debate droning on and on, all that is clear among many members of Parliament in Westminster is that they just don't know – even though it has been more than two years since a narrow majority of voters (51.9% to 48.1%) opted to leave the EU in a special referendum. So, with the March 29 deadline clock ticking ever more loudly, Prime Minister Theresa May is off to Brussels yet again to resume negotiations and try to reach settlement terms for a UK-EU divorce she didn't favor in the first place.
As the politics plays out on both side of the English Channel and beyond, the food industry is preparing for the worst in the event the UK crashes out of the customs union without a tariff deal, thus leaving importers and exporters to trade under WTO rules. Frozen food companies have been stockpiling inventory for some time now, and at this point available cold storage space in Britain is reportedly all but impossible to find. Indeed, it's so bad that Greencore is even considering airlifting certain ingredients to the United Kingdom needed to make sandwiches – as long as its retail supermarket buyers chip in to help pay for the freight. Good luck with that!
It's hard to imagine that folks in the UK will not be able to make sandwiches, with or without produce from the continent – even if it means eating BLTs without the lettuce for a while. Then again, a scarcity of cucumbers could spiral into a national crisis.
"We have begun stocking up on a small amount of certain products in the event of a no-deal, such as frozen prawns and tomato paste," a Greencore spokesman told The Sun newspaper in an article published on January 29.
Last time I checked, much of the frozen prawn tonnage consumed in Europe and the UK does not originate in EU, but rather is imported from suppliers in Asia and South America. In other words, it's sourced from countries where WTO rules already apply.
In the lead up to Brexit, Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England-based Apetito, a major supplier of frozen and refrigerated food to the health and social care sector in the United Kingdom and subsidiary of Rheine, Germany-headquartered Apetito AG, has invested £5 million in planning and preparation ahead of what could be a "no-deal" Brexit scenario, as previously reported by FrozenFoodBiz.com. It has significantly increased stocks of "high risk" raw materials and finished goods to make value-added products that range from cottage pie and roast chicken to curries, fish dishes and vegetarian items.
Meanwhile, some member of the British political class insist that their counterparts on the continent will make concessions in the end, since they regard the UK as a "treasure island" market for its manufacturers of cars, chocolate, champagne and other desirable products. Others, particularly those in the Remain faction, are not so sure that Jean-Claude Juncker of Luxembourg and like minded members of the European Commission from Germany, France and elsewhere will be keen on granting favorable terms to a departing member of the club.
A number of the UK's leading retail grocery chain and foodservice executives, concerned that a "significant disruption" in the nation's food distribution and manufacturing sectors is on the cards should a hard no-deal Brexit come about, have urged members of Parliament to "urgently find a solution" for what they believe is an unnecessary problem. In a jointly signed letter from the British Retail Consortium, chief executives of Sainsbury's, Marks & Spencer, Asda, Waitrose, KFC, McDonald's and other companies have warned that their prices would likely rise without a deal, since nearly one-third of food eaten by Brits is supplied by EU countries whose exports would be subject to tariffs.
"This complex, 'just in time' supply chain will be significantly disrupted in the event of no deal. Even if the UK government does not undertake checks on products at the border, there will still be major disruption at Calais as the French government has said it will enforce sanitary and customs checks on exports from the EU, which will lead to long delays; Government data suggest freight trade between Calais and Dover may reduce by 87% against current levels as a result. For consumers, this will reduce the availability and shelf life of many products in our stores.
"As prudent businesses we are stockpiling where possible, but all frozen and chilled storage is already being used and there is very little general warehousing space available in the UK. Even if there were more space it is impossible to stockpile fresh produce, such as salad leaves and fresh fruit. Retailers typically store no more than two weeks' inventory and it becomes difficult to restock stores if the supply chain is disrupted. We are also attempting to find alternative supply routes but there are limited options and not enough ferries, so this could only replace a fraction of the current capacity.
"We are extremely concerned that our customers will be among the first to experience the realities of a no-deal Brexit. We anticipate significant risks to maintaining the choice, quality and durability of food that our customers have come to expect in our stores, and there will be inevitable pressure on food prices from higher transport costs, currency devaluation and tariffs."
Meanwhile, based on results of a survey conducted by the KMPG auditing organization, many British firms are "praying for an extension" of Article 50 of the Treaty of Lisbon which gives EU member states the right to quit unilaterally and outlines the procedure for doing so. But this will just delay the inevitable, won't it? Or will it give anti-Brexiteers time to mount a second referendum effort. Assuming this eventually happens, and the Remainers win, then what? Will Britain's fate ultimately be decided in a two out of three final ballot?
It was easy to say "I do, I do" way back when. Now, with apparently half of the country saying "I don't, I don't" want to finalize the divorce, those with cold feet will still have enough to eat, though it could cost more to get into the door. One supposes that Brexiteers would tell their Remainer countrymen that freedom is not free.