Daniel Maibenco, Columnist
Who knew one alarm clock could start such ruckus?
Of all the things that could cause a 14-year-old student in Irving, Texas to be put in handcuffs and suspended, a homemade clock did the trick. Apparently, Ahmed Mohamed brought his homemade clock to school to show others.
His goal was to show his teacher his engineering aspirations. But the clock appeared bomb-like, so he got arrested and punished. To many, this should be the end of story. An open and shut case. Right?
Wrong. This story is far from over. In fact, it’s just the beginning.
What’s wrong with this case? I’ll start with the police. Yes, they were called to investigate this possible bomb threat. They did their job by accurately determining that Ahmed did not possess a bomb.
Still, they arrested him. Why? They would have sent just as much of a message to Ahmed and the community at large if they would have told him to keep the clock at home. They could have warned and scared him, but at the same time sent a message of understanding.
They could have been seen as a voice of reason and common sense. Instead, they chose to arrest him. By doing so, they helped portray this incident as one of Islamophobia, and the social media is having a field day with it.
MacArthur High School is also at fault. At first, they did nothing wrong by questioning Ahmed and his homemade clock. When a teacher sees something suspicious, they are supposed to say something, not ignore it.
Ahmed and his clock were questioned not due to profiling, but out of genuine concern. It showed that the teachers were worried about the safety of not just Ahmed, but of all the students. But the school made their error in how they reacted to this issue.
Ahmed needed to be told that he made a mistake. His clock does not look innocent and could be perceived as such. Even still, he was treated harshly and with ignorance.
The school reasonably scrutinized his clock, but they also treated him like an assumed wannabe terrorist. That notion is wrong. They were right in trying to punish him, but owe him an apology for letting the situation get out of control.
Ahmed was treated badly and wrongfully detained by police. But this entire incident was not driven by some vendetta against him.
Bringing that clock to school was a gaffe on his part. If he really wanted to show others his homemade clock, he could have talked it up, especially with the teacher. He shouldn’t have just brought his device to class thinking nothing will happen. We live in an age driven by technology and fear of the unknown. Due to that notion, anything can happen.
If he is the tech wiz he is touted to be, he should know that. Ahmed had a good intention, but he was put through the wringer because he could not accurately describe what he had built.
This case is a total mess. No matter who you support here, both sides do have valid points. Ahmed shows that people make mistakes in judgment but do not need to be vilified if there was no bad intention.
On the other hand, the school and police did the right thing by questioning the alarm clock. But no one has the right to demean and belittle anyone due to stereotypes.
Within a week of this incident, Ahmed is receiving universal praise and support while the local police and high school are being scrutinized.
All of the facts deserve to be looked at and acknowledged. This entire controversy was not started by one person. It was started by many. Now, it involves a social media movement and a whirlwind of political commentators.
Some are still accusing the local Texas school of being Islamaphobic. Some accuse Ahmed of lying about the true functionality and origin of his homemade clock. This controversy will not die down and all these claims will be investigated.
Whenever people act without thinking, something bad always happens. If lies and scandals are found out and then proven to be true, it silences the voice of optimism.


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Hitchcock scrimped on things like film stock, shooting in B&W instead of color. It was a financial decision that led to more creative cinematography. Do you know anyone who wants to see a colorized version of “Psycho”? People can still learn a lot about movie making from this film and not a lesson in cinematography or storytelling (which of course they can), but in basic creative decision making. So please, if you are producing “Anaconda 8”, take a moment and try to figure out what it is about giant snakes that people want to see.
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That was ROCKABILLY ROUSTABOUT, performed by Ukulele Hunt's own Woodshed. I've had nothing but Rockabillly on my mind for days.
This has been a pretty big week for me. I have my first ever performance in a bar with the Alice Chalmers and the Stick a Cork in Your Jug band tucked under my skirt; but ever since I’ve emerged from the smoky haze of Locals Only last Friday night, I’ve had nothing but Rockabilly music on my mind.
I am a girl who was pretty much raised on Rockabilly music. From my dad playing his guitar and serenading me with his own version of SHORTENIN' BREAD to countless music shows and Grand Ole Opry visits that frequently highlighted a rockabilly legend or two, I was pretty much brought up on the bounce and rhythm and twang of hillbilly rock and roll. Then there was the time when we were in Jr. High School and my friend Lori and I went to a rockabilly reunion show in South Bend with our mothers. Completely thrilled by the music, I sprung from my seat in the balcony and proceeded to bounce around. My mother, clutching her pocket book in one hand, swiftly pulled me down with the other, giving me a tight lipped nod of disapproval. Our antics were glimpsed from the stage by none other than Mr. Carl Perkins, who threw a look our way and declared: “That’s alright, little darlin’, you just go right ahead and dance!” My mother was powerless against his hillbilly sensibilities, and Carl Perkins became one of my childhood heroes.
I have good reason to be raving about Rockabilly music right now. This week is going to be a big week for rockabilly fans in the Indianapolis area. Thanks to The Blue Stone Folk School, New Orleans-based band, Michael Hurtt and His Haunted Hearts will be playing a one-night only event at the Noble Coffee and Tea Co. in Noblesville. Mike is an old friend of mine, and he is an amazing force. Before the Haunted Hearts came into being, he had another band called The Royal Pendletons. They were sort of a garage/surf-punk band. They made it to Indy once, touring with Sloppypalooza, after the Indianapolis band Sloppy Seconds met Mike's band on tour. It seems my Indy friends in bands have a way of meeting and befriending Mike Hurtt when they go to New Orleans. Vulgar Boatmen’s Dale Lawrence did the same a few years ago. Among other things, Mike has also toured Europe as the bassist with the Panther Burns. But, his love of authentic roots music finally lead him to form The Haunted Hearts. It's been said that the band is single-handedly responsible for resurrecting the original New Orleans brand of hillbilly music. That sort of stuff is music to my ears.
Their album, Come Back to Louisiana was recorded in Memphis, when band members were exiled from their city in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. That’s the sort of stuff that makes a guy like Mike legendary—in New Orleans, where he is a fixture, and everywhere else he happens to go. After Thursday’s show, I am pretty sure he’ll become a legend in Noblesville as well.
COME BACK TO LOUISIANA, Michael Hurtt and His Haunted Hearts
To celebrate this reunion with a long lost friend, and our mutual love of hillbilly/rockabilly music, I’ve decided to devote this blog to Rockabilly Uke. Considering the versatility of the ukulele, it comes as no surprise that Rockabilly is a natural fit, with its simple chord progressions and bouncy rhythm. And, you know that I’m going to tell you that no one does Rockabilly Uke better than my favorite uker, Gus Raucous—GUGUG on YouTube. Here he is giving an Indiana Bushman ukulele a workout with LONEOME TEARS IN MY EYES, originally recorded by the Johnny Burnette Trio.
Everyone knows that Rockabilly hit its peak around 1958, thanks to Elvis and Sun Records. The music had broad-reaching impact, even influencing the Beatles early music. The current Rockabilly revival started waaay back when I was a kid in the 1980s, thanks to Brian Setzer and the Stray Cats. And I think there’s nothing better than a little Stray Cats tune played on a uke.
Here's a uker who calls himself AcousticMonster playing Buddy Holly’s THAT'LL BE THE DAY on ukulele. Ignore the fact that he's playing in linen closet, and that he is an excessive talker. I nearly axed this clip because of all the chatter, but he does a darn good job with the song.
The best gift that Rockabilly brings is spontaneity. It’s the kind of music that just comes over a person every now and then, and it’s always wise to have a uke on hand for such emergencies. This guy and his dog named Elvis are making quite a work of Carl Perkin’s Blue Suede Shoes.
While peeking around for some good examples of Rockabilly ukulele players, I stumbled on Danny Ducktail. He’s a great performer—and he really demonstrates how well suited the ukulele is to Rockabilly music.
I like Danny so much, I couldn’t choose just one song. Here’s I’M GONE:
Just to keep your enthusiasm piqued till Thursday, here’s one more great Haunted Hearts Clip.
I CAN'T GET HER STARTED
WHAT: Michael Hurtt and His Haunted Hearts with Special Guests Patchwork
WHERE: The Noble Coffee and Tea Co., 933 Logan Street, Noblesville
WHEN: Thursday, September 2, 7-9 PM
HOW MUCH? Ten bucks. Students $5.
PS They serve beer.
WHAT ELSE: PATHCWORK STRING BAND, features Miss Holly Smith, who also plays fiddle with Alice Chalmers and the Stick a Cork in Your Jug Band, will be opening for the Haunted Hearts. That's just another reason for you to be there.
Don’t miss the next uke meet up this Saturday at the Sam Ash store in Castleton. Bring your uke and a song. If you don’t have a uke but want to see what it’s all about, come anyway. The fun starts at 10AM and goes till noon. I will see you there.


- 6/7/10, "Mexico's drug cartels: is Canada next? They're already the greatest organized crime threat to the US," Macleans, K. Engelhart
- on to Chicago, where they bunker down in middle-class suburbs. From there, shipments are split up and parcelled out—increasingly to cells in places like New York, New Jersey, Washington, B.C. and Ontario.
“What we’re seeing is a rise in Mexican drug trafﬁcking organizations [DTOs],” Rusty Payne of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency told Maclean’s, “in more and more places where you wouldn’t expect it.”
- In 2009, the Department of Justice declared Mexican cartels to be the
- “greatest organized crime threat to the United States.”
Today, they have a presence in 230 U.S. cities (up from 50 in 2006), from Little Rock, Ark., to Anchorage, Alaska.
Back in El Paso, a popular ﬁrst stop on the interstate, O’Rourke is waiting for the U.S. troops to arrive. It’s not certain when that will happen, but the day will undoubtedly be celebrated by the border-state governors and senators who have, for years, been demanding a heightened military response to the cartels. But O’Rourke sounds weary. After just ﬁve years in ofﬁce, the 37-year-old already has a tendency to sound fatalistic: “You just can’t build a fence high enough.”
- In 2006, the Mexican government declared war on the cartels. Days after winning the presidency, the stern-faced, Harvard-educated Felipe Calderón took a historic first stand—brushing aside Mexico’s corrupt police, and dispatching some 45,000 soldiers to Mexican streets.
He also opened his doors to U.S. military commanders, who George W. Bush eagerly allowed to step in and train Mexican forces.
- Meant to quell the bloodshed, the militarization only fanned it.
- “Almost to the day, the violence skyrocketed,” says Walter McKay, a former Vancouver drug cop and now director of the Center for Professional Certification of Police Agencies in Mexico City.
- Today, “it’s spreading like a cancer.”
It wasn’t like this when Colombia was king. In the 1990s, Bogotá’s Cali and Medellín gangs were the main U.S. suppliers. The Mexicans were just the middlemen: paid a ﬁxed amount by Colombian growers—up to $2,000 per kilo of cocaine—to shuttle drugs into the U.S. But in the late ’90s, Mexican drug families began pushing for more control. Soon, they came to a “payment-in-product” arrangement, which replaced the ﬁxed fee with a chunk of Colombian cocaine that they could trafﬁc independently.
- What held the arrangement together, explains McKay, was that it was effectively state-sponsored. Government turned a blind eye to the cartels, he says; they, in turn, were able to operate a disciplined territorial system, with low-level drug families controlling trafﬁc in small squares of land, parcelled out by the cartels.
There was no need for violence, adds Bruce Bagley, chair of the department of international studies at the University of Miami:
- territory was respected, and “you could do business as long as
- you didn’t kill anybody in the street.”
Around that time, president Bill Clinton—channelling Richard Nixon, who was the ﬁrst to use the term “war on drugs” in 1971—turned his attention to choking off Colombian production, committing $1.3 billion in 2000. In a way, it worked; soon, the major Colombian cartels were decapitated. But the “war” did not stop coca production in Bogotá—and Colombian cocaine remained available to the Mexican cartels.
- But that same year, Mexicans went to the polls and, for the ﬁrst time since the 1910 revolution, elected the opposition.
- The state-supported drug trade collapsed,
- and the already power-hungry cartels leapt to ﬁll the void.
The situation in Mexico worsened, McKay says: the cartels swelled, then started ﬁghting amongst themselves. Some formed paramilitary wings, made up of thugs armed with U.S. semi-automatics.
- For the ﬁrst time, the cartels stopped being “cartels” at all; they were now competitive parties in a free and lucrative market.
Jack Killorin, who coordinates law enforcement for Atlanta’s High Intensity Drug Trafﬁcking Area (HIDTA), makes a compelling case for a new crime thriller—“Metro Atlanta Vice,” as he playfully calls it. “Miami Vice?” he laughs. “Those days are gone.”
- In the last few years, Atlanta has become a lead trafﬁcking hub for Mexico’s valuable wares.
Killorin’s drama would likely be set in the middle-class suburb of Gwinnett County, which district attorney Danny Porter describes as the unlikely new epicentre of the U.S. drug trade: “Miles and miles of identical subdivisions interspersed with industrial parks.” It’s about access, Killorin says.
- The cartels have come to Atlanta for the same reason that UPS is headquartered there: highways branch out from the city “like the spokes of a wheel radiating out to the U.S.”
It starts, says Killorin, when “multi-hundred-kilo loads” are moved directly from Mexico to Atlanta—often hidden among legitimate shipments. The loads are “poly-drug”: meth, cocaine, heroin and marijuana, packaged together. But U.S.-bound cocaine is often still champion. Once the drugs arrive in Atlanta, the loads are split among mid-level Mexican distributors, who then pass the goods along in smaller and smaller parcels.
- But at the street level, the Mexicans make an abrupt exit.
“They don’t control it on the streets,” says Killorin. Instead, “they sell wholesale loads to other criminal organizations who are not necessarily ethnically tied to them.”
- In Atlanta, for example, the cartels deal through the primarily African-American Crips, and a slew of local Caucasian gangs.
This holds true across the country, says the University of Miami’s Bagley: “The Mexicans are equal-opportunity employers.” In its 2010 “National Drug Threat Assessment,” the U.S. National Drug Intelligence Center (a branch of the Justice Department) noted that “mid-level and retail drug distribution” is carried out “by more than 900,000 criminal active gang members representing approximately 20,000 street gangs in more than 2,500 cities.”
- This is all a departure from the days of the Colombian cartels, which controlled sales from the soil to the street.
It’s largely the expansive buffet of local gangs that has allowed Chicago to debut as the key supplier of Mexican drugs to the Midwest.
- “Here in Chicago,” says Will Taylor, a DEA special agent, “we have about 75 active gangs, with a membership of around 100,000.” Chicago’s Mexican cartels “often use Asian gangs and Polish gangs. But [they’ll] use all different types.”
- The unique success of the Mexican cartels, says Taylor, has been to build “a relationship, a partnership,” with each of them.
The careful networking with outside gangs is one way the Mexican cartels have succeeded in doing what the Colombians could not: lie low.
- Another is the way that Mexican retailers keep their ﬂash factor to a minimum.
“They assimilate into the neighborhoods,” Chicago’s Taylor says. “Their kids go to school. These people blend in!” The Colombians preferred a more “high-visibility lifestyle: ﬂashy cars and Rolexes and Armani suits,” says Killorin. “With that comes a lot of exposure. As a result, they got the crap kicked out of them. The Mexicans went to school on that.” ...
All this, says Elizabeth Kempshall, an Arizona DEA agent, has coincided with a “dramatic increase” in drug ﬂow through her state; 800,000 lb. of drugs were seized there in 2005, she says, but the ﬁgure has now more than doubled.
Violence within the cartels might be contained, but the cartels themselves are not. More than anything, it is their afﬁnity for movement—particularly the northbound kind—that has law enforcement on edge. In 2007, the “National Drug Threat Assessment” noted that Mexican DTOs “dominate the illicit drug trade in every area except the Northeast.”
- Now, the 2010 report highlights how they have expanded to the “New York/New Jersey, and New England Regions”—
- largely by dealing through Dominican gangs.
Jay Fallon of the New England HIDTA has been watching the “growing inﬂuence of Mexican DTOs.” He says “there is nowhere in the country that has a greater heroin abuse problem” than New England; some of the biggest heroin busts he has overseen in the last few years took place in notoriously posh Connecticut. Perhaps the newness of the cartels’ presence in the region explains Fallon’s eagerness to grasp at small blessings: like the fact that his states are generally “end points” on the drug trail, and not distribution hubs. That is, except for the drugs ﬂowing up through New England and into Canada. “I’m quite certain that happens,” Fallon mumbles.
- Pat Fogarty, superintendent of the RCMP’s combined forces special enforcement unit, is also certain that Mexican cartels have made their way above the Canada-U.S. border. It started about a decade ago, he says, when Canadian demand for cocaine took off. But the process has become more streamlined: “We have a completely new infrastructure that supports the movement of cocaine, ecstasy, marijuana, you name it.”
Much of that happens along the stretch of border that divides Detroit from Windsor, Ont. It’s “the busiest border crossing for vehicular trafﬁc in North America,” says Sgt. Brett Corey of the Windsor police; 28 per cent of Canada-U.S. trade—more than $113 billion per year—crosses the Detroit-Windsor tunnel or Ambassador Bridge. So Corey isn’t surprised that “we’re seeing a lot of crack cocaine coming across the border” too. Some of the drugs stay in Windsor, but a lot “makes its way across the 401 corridor to Toronto or to Montreal.” The drug ﬂow itself is hardly new, but the pace in Windsor has picked up, “because you have safety in numbers with the 9,000 trucks that cross every day,” Fogarty says. He adds that dealers trafﬁc Mexican drugs to Toronto via Windsor often in trucks loaded with produce.
- Fogarty likely knows better than anyone the extent to which the cartels have spread into Canada. Last year, he was widely quoted as saying that gang violence in B.C. was “directly related to this Mexican war”; as military strikes against the cartels in Mexico dried up North American cocaine supplies, local gangs in Vancouver fought to control what was left. A year later, Fogarty tells Maclean’s that where Canada’s cartel connection was once an indirect one, embodied by “prominent local people [who] have made contact with cartel members,” the cartels have since crossed north. “I’ve dealt with Mexican cartel types up here,” he says. “They do exist.”
And they’re not just here as sellers; they’re buyers, too. “You have to see this as a north-south trade,” Fogarty says. As a representative of the New York state DEA told Maclean’s: “marijuana comes down and cocaine heads up.” Fogarty says Canadian drug dealers and the cartels have worked out an elaborate “credit system” whereby drugs, rather than money, change hands. “The sophistication is getting better and better and better.”...
- And in the meantime, it hardly seems like the cartels are in their death throes. Since 2006, they have indeed taken a beating—but their response has simply been to fragment,
- with the result that the number of major cartels operating in the U.S. is larger than before....
Tom Crowley, a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) agent in Dallas, works to seize U.S. guns being trafﬁcked into Mexico. In recent years, he’s been troubled by what he’s seeing: “an increase in the amount of weapons and the military capability of those weapons.” Crowley says it’s much more likely now
- that cartel members dealing in the U.S. are well-armed.
“You see more military-type weapons and explosives,” agrees Tom Mangan of Phoenix’s ATF: “grenades, grenade launchers, machine guns, fully automatics—a whole plethora.”
- For Mangan, this is all a sign that the cartels are bracing for all-out war. “That’s where us in law enforcement on the border, we recognize that it’s like a narco insurgency.”
New boots on the ground won’t make a difference—because “the cartels aren’t afraid.”"


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From cult commune to urban Hackney is a big and scary step, even through rose-tinted glasses… Eighteen months ago, Rose and her little brother Rudder escaped from a strict religious sect with their mum. Now they live in a cramped, smelly one-bed flat above a kebab shop. It’s not exactly paradise. And yet it kind of is. Finally: no more rules about clothes, books, films and music. Rudder gorges on once-taboo Harry Potter and dances to Simon and Garfunkel. Rose swaps her frumpy ankle skirts for cute fairy dresses, and glitter, and her new boyfriend Kye. Still, there’s loads of scary stuff in their new life that they have no idea how to handle. And then things go horribly wrong. Must Rose go back to a life she hates, to save the people she loves?
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Places To Go To
Within the pages of this site we will be taking a mental tour of Seattle and surrounding areas together. I invite you to go to my “Things To See” page also found on this site. There you will find more interesting aspects of the Seattle area.
Food And Other Things At The Water Front
Have you ever walked the water front? Alaskan Way is a great place to walk. You’ll find shops and out door eating places. You’ve got to stop by Ivar’s walk-up Sea Food stand. It’s like a little bit of the ocean sea food dining experience, right at your finger tips.
Be sure and stop in at McCormick’s Restaurant. Seems that if you are “Irish”, it’s the place to go to. And yes, at certain times of the year, “everyone is Irish”, like it or not. 🙂
Puyallup is another place that you’ll enjoy the fair in September. (pronounced as : pew al up)
The Water Fall At Snoqualmie (snow qual me)
The Snoqualmie Falls in Fall City is a must, to go to. Did you know that it is far taller than Niagara Falls? The best time to go to the overhanging look-out, to see the falls is in the early spring when tremendous amounts of water are flowing. The melting snows from the Cascade Mountains flow into the Snoqualmie River. You’ll love the brisk feeling you get from the spray. Be sure and take a few pictures. Don’t forget to stop in at the Snoqualmie Falls Lodge and grab a bite to eat. The food is fantastic!
There are so many more places to go that it would take many, many pages to share with you. That is what you’ll find within these blog pages.
Updates For Your Enjoyment And Education
I invite you back to see the updates and the really cool places to go to in Seattle. Be sure and save this site in your Favorites or Bookmarks so you can continue your tour of Seattle Watching.

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Caruso Affiliated on Thursday said that it has signed an agreement to buy a 48-acre Carlsbad strawberry farm for a potential retail and entertainment center that would be its first project in San Diego County.
The Los Angeles shopping center developer led by billionaire Rick Caruso said that north county parcel is now owned by San Diego Gas & Electric Co. and sits directly east of Interstate 5.
The City of Carlsbad’s general development plan has the land designated for tourist/recreation commercial uses. Caruso Affiliated said it would work closely with the city and utility, which has tried to develop the property for several years, to explore options. It also will work with the existing farming operation, Carlsbad Strawberry Co. Inc., to ensure that a nearby lagoon and other adjacent protected open space would not be adversely affected.
“This land is a rare space with overwhelming potential, and we will work to ensure our plans reflect the community’s desires as we create a welcoming gathering place for all of Carlsbad,” Caruso said in a statement.
Financial terms were not announced.
Caruso Affiliated's Los Angeles County projects include the Grove and Americana at Brand shopping centers. It also hopes to start redevelopment of the historic Miramar resort in Santa Barbara County next year.

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Wrong sperm used
Another mix-up in the IVF laboratory, this
time in Singapore. A Singaporean Chinese woman and a Caucasian man recently discovered
that their IVF baby had a different blood type from either of them. A test
confirmed that the baby shared the mother’s DNA, but not the father’s. Dr Cheng
Li Chang, the medical director of Thomson Fertility Centre, apologised,
although he stressed that said the centre’s operating procedures “meet all
regulatory requirements, and are of the highest international standards”.
This is the first case of its kind to have
surfaced in Singapore, but it is impossible to know whether how common it is.
Similar cases in other cases have only come to light because the child looks
quite different from the parents. The couple say that they will keep the child.
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Photoalignment is a well-established technique for surface alignment of the liquid crystal director. Previously, chrome masks were necessary for patterned photoalignment but were difficult to use, costly, and inflexible. To extend the capabilities of photoalignment we built an automated maskless multi-domain photoalignment device based on a DMD (digital multimirror device) projection system. The device is capable of creating arbitrary photoalignment patterns with micron-sized features. Pancharatnam-Berry phase (PB-phase) is a geometric phase that arises from cyclic change of polarization state. By varying the azimuthal anchoring angle in a hybrid-aligned liquid crystal cell we can control the spatial variation of the PB-phase shift. Using our automated photoalignment device to align the liquid crystal arbitrary wave front manipulations are possible. The PB-phase shift effect is maximized when the cell is tuned to have a half-wave retardation and disappears at full-wave retardation, so the cell can be switched on and off by applying a voltage. Two wavefront controlled devices developed using this technique will be discussed: A switchable liquid crystal phase shift mask for creating sub-diffraction sized photolithographic features, and a transparent diffractive display that utilizes a switchable liquid crystal diffraction grating. Advisors/Committee Members: Yokoyama, Hiroshi (Committee Chair).


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Leadership destabilisation has a habit of becoming self-fulfilling. The more people in a party diss the boss the lower he drops in the polls.
The lower he drops in the polls the more people in his party diss him. Rudd seems to be in a death spiral this long weekend. Crusty old party elders such as Graham Richardson and Keith De Lacy are joining the pack of baying wolves.
Rudd’s about as popular as Tim Cahill in his camp this morning.
But as Matthew Franklin and Samantha Maiden quote a Labor source in this morning’s Australian: “Nothing will happen unless Julia acts. And there is no sign she will. She is being a very loyal deputy.”
Phil Coorey in the SMH says senior Labor ministers are rallying around their boss in the hope they can prop him up long enough to get through the election.
But there remains deep concern inside Labor that the row over the mining tax is preventing the government from talking about its key messages and there has been growing internal pressure on Mr Rudd to shut it down.
It is understood the Prime Minister has heeded the message and resolved over the weekend to personally negotiate with the miners from now on with a view to reaching a settlement.
Doesn’t that sound a bit familiar? On Wednesday June 2nd the Australian splashed with: “PM takes control of mining talks”. It’s not clear what the difference is between “personally negotiate” and “takes control of mining talks”, but I guess he’s giving it another go.
Regardless, Rudd better hope it works. In the Daily Telegraph Simon Benson and Andrew Clennell say Gillard would have the numbers in the caucus if she were to make a move.
MPs were asked by The Daily Telegraph over the past week if they would support Ms Gillard in a leadership bid before the election.
The majority, which appears to now represent a growing sentiment in the caucus, said they would, claiming they could see no way up from the Government’s poor standing in the electorate.
Glenn Milne reckons she’d romp it home in a contest with Tony Abbott.
Meanwhile where’s Abbott? He’s under the radar this weekend, no doubt enjoing a run in the Sydney sun and watching the death spiral intensify with a certain level of glee
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What is the most expensive nose in the world?
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The regulator today said a more detailed investigation of household bills would now be postponed until next year's major review.
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► Hyundai’s oh-so-sensible new mini tested
► Roomy, refined, affordable, comfortable…
► …but not the most memorable of cars
I don’t think it would be unfair to describe the new Hyundai i20 as an anonymous-looking car. Inoffensive and contemporary (slightly Germanic, in fact) certainly, just not that memorable. I only mention this because the first time I went to drive the 1.4-litre petrol i20 tested here I accidentally walked straight past it in the car park. And then did the exact same thing the following day.
The 2015 i20 looks bolder than the car it replaces but it still has an uncanny ability to transform, chameleon-like, into an invisible background element of any car park or street tableau it’s placed in.
Once you’ve managed to locate it and climb in, it’s a similar story on the inside. There’s nothing wrong with the i20’s interior, but airy, spacious and logically laid out as it is, it’s just a bit flavourless.
What does the Hyundai i20 have going for it, then?
Well, here’s the thing. On first acquaintance, it’s easy to write the i20 off as a car from the white-goods school of automotive design: practical, easy to live with, long-warrantied and aimed squarely at people who aren’t particularly interested in cars. Before long, however, its no-nonsense attitude begins to appeal.
Unlike what seems to be the majority of current mainstream hatchbacks, the seats aren’t shaped like they’ve been pinched from a BTCC car but they’re extremely comfortable. Probably not a coincidence. Also bucking the trend, the pedals are positioned properly, you can actually do a blindspot check because you can see over your shoulder, the instrument panel’s legible and the dashboard’s not festooned with graphics competing for your attention.
In the same way that a simple plastic lemon squeezer is probably more rewarding to use in the long run than a fancy Philippe Starck one because it doesn’t mess about and just does the job well, the i20’s a straightforward, down-to-earth hatchback that’s good at what it does.
Talk me through the Hyundai i20 range
Four engines: two petrols, two diesels. We’re testing the larger petrol option, a naturally aspirated 1368cc four-pot with 99bhp and 99lb ft. (The other’s a 83bhp 1.2 and a new 118bhp 1.0-litre turbo joins the range soon.) Hyundai claims 51.4mpg combined.
A five-door only, it’s bigger than the previous i20 hatchback and genuinely roomy inside for the class, which includes the usual Fiesta, Clio, Corsa, Fabia and Swift suspects.
What’s the 1.4 petrol Hyundai i20 like to drive?
Unremarkable, but fine. The engine’s incredibly quiet on tickover and once you get going there’s a curious damped quality to the power delivery, as if every input from your right foot has to be approved by a computer sub-committee before it reaches the engine. Performance is entirely in keeping with the i20’s straight-down-the-middle vibe: brisk enough not to feel sluggish without ever feeling outright quick.
Both engine and gearchange are silky-smooth, and so is the ride quality. Opposite of the interior plastics, which are deliberately rough with a uniformed, unvarying texture across nearly every surface that makes you feel a bit like you’re sitting inside a milk carton.
The plastics feel like they’ll last forever but I’m not so sure of the rest of the cabin. Prod the carpet that covers the transmission tunnel in front of the rear seats, for example, and it deforms as if it’s clad around some kind of loose cardboard underneath rather than solid trim.
There’s no fancy touchscreen in the i20’s dash to distract you, so Hyundai’s got around that by adding a smartphone cradle with attachments for different-sized phones so drivers can be distracted by that instead.
A white good? Perhaps, but a very good one. The only thing the new Hyundai i20 is lacking is a healthy dash of character and individuality. In a class that’s packed with extroverts, that could leave the i20 a wallflower at the supermini party. The sharper-suited three-door Hyundai i20 Coupe due later in 2015 may inject a little much-needed pizzazz into the range, however.


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Neuvirth claims he received “apology” from Web site about Ovechkin, Holtby comments
“They told me they made their mistake and they called me and called my agent and apologized, so it’s good,” Neuvirth said.
Neuvirth told CSNWashington.com’s Chuck Gormley that he cannot recall what he actually said about his teammates and former coach.
“I don’t remember,” Neuvirth said. “I know I talked about the boys in a good way and how good they are in the locker room and we have a great team and a great group of guys and they changed it. Like I said, they made their mistake, it’s over now and I don’t even think about it anymore.”
The website, Russian Machine Never Breaks, that translated the original report stands by its translation.


Brexiters have one objective: to be able to say on the morning of Saturday 30 March 2019 that the UK is out of the European Union.
“…the choice we face now is not between this Brexit and that Brexit; if we don’t back Theresa May we will have no Brexit.” Jeremy Hunt, Health Secretary, 3 December 2017
All the while the UK is in the EU, Brexit risks being cancelled. Either because talks with the rest of the EU collapse, a general election, another referendum or a change of prime minister.
The best prospects of Brexit happening is for Brexiters to back the PM. And for Mrs May, the best prospects of making Brexit happen is to agree to the EU’s Brexit process.
Once the UK is out of the EU, the Brexiters’ mission is accomplished, because the UK is then a third country and out of the EU. For those who voted to remain, the narrative then changes from one of stopping Brexit to one of rejoining the EU.
For remain voters it’s currently easier to stop Brexit than to subsequently campaign to rejoin the EU. A point not lost on Brexiters.
But the Brexit contradictions continue.
Having discharged the referendum mandate on 29 March 2019, Mrs May’s problems really begin. Her government faces a new deadline of 31 December 2020. That gives her and her ministers 21 months to fully implement her version of a hard Brexit. A task without peacetime parallel for a government that has already been consumed by the ongoing fallout from a referendum for the preceding three years.
For remain supporters, the campaign then begins for the UK to rejoin the EU. For having discharged the referendum result on 29 March 2019, political parties or anyone else will be free to adopt “rejoin the EU” policies.
The UK can re-apply to join the EU, but the process could be lengthy. Having been through a troublesome Brexit process, would all the EU member states really be willing to re-admit the UK?
Perhaps a permanent version of the forthcoming transition period would be easier. It would certainly be easier for the UK government with its track record of capitulation and indecision.


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20,000 kinds of bees live on Earth in every continent except Antarctica. Humans have collected honey from bees as early as 6000 B.C. Native bees are a valuable resource in Northern California. In California alone, there are 1600 species of bees.
When some people see bees, they run. Others don’t notice them sucking the nectar from the flowers in their own backyard. Most people in the Western hemisphere have pronounced entomophobia, a fear of insects. A tiny creature buzzing seems to send normal folk into a tizzy and reach for a can of toxic bug spray.
All bees are either solitary or social. Solitary bees do not produce honey or beeswax.
A group of social bees is called a colony, which lives in an advanced insect society called a hive. They make honey, store water and care for their young in the hive. Honeybees are one kind of social bees, highly organized, hardworking, and intelligent. Only 15% of bees are social.
The number of beekeepers in the world in 2019 were 90.11 million, in the US, 212,000.
In 2021, number of registered beekeepers in California is 3875. There are 2 million managed bee colonies in California.
For those who keep bees, the craft is challenging and diverse enough to provide growth and enjoyment for a lifetime.
Beekeepers are not your average citizens. Their passion for the well-being of their non-human fuzzy friends sets them apart. They have an intuitive understanding of their bees, can sense their moods, and predict their behavior. The communication between a beekeeper and his/her bees is magical.
Meet Matt and Rokas of Bolinas, CA. Bolinas is a small coastal community of less than 1500 people, 13 miles Northwest of San Francisco, CA. Rokus is the head Bee Whisperer and original owner/founder of the Bay Area Bee Company. Matt is a resident of Bolinas for the past twelve years.
Matt has always been interested in talking to people. Matt learns that Rokus is a local beekeeper who is struggling to keep his business and dreams about someone helping him out by investing in his company.
Thus started the partnership between the two Bay Area residents.
BAY AREA BEE COMPANY
The company has hives in the South Bay, East Bay, Marin County, San Francisco, Sonoma and Napa. On islands and rooftops, ranch, and farmlands, and even in people’s backyards.
Bay Area Bee Company, a small company with a diverse group of people from all over the world, helps the bee population of the Bay Area in Northern California.
Bay Area Bee Company honey represents the flora of each individual location.
Honey is collected in small batches from the hives. It is delicious, unblended, aromatic, flavorful and well worth the cost compared to the generic blended varieties of honey. Bay Area Bee Company’s raw honey, pollen and honeycomb can be found in Sprouts, Trader Joe’s, Rainbow grocery, Berkeley Natural. Bi-Rite, Good Earth, El Cerrito Natural and many others.
AMAZING LOCAL HONEY
There are various health benefits of consuming raw, unfiltered, unheated, unprocessed honey raised within 50-mile radius of your home:
- Local, raw honey is known to be a powerful antioxidant. It contains bee pollen and propolis, substances produced by bees that have been used medicinally since ancient times.
- Local honey = Natural anti-allergy shot.
Quercetin, a component of honey reduces inflammation and pollen allergy symptoms by stabilizing the cell membranes that release histamine which triggers allergic reactions. Raw, local honey boosts the immune system and builds immunity to allergens.
- Promotes restful sleep – A spoonful of honey at bedtime regulates your blood sugar at night which results in a good night with sweet dreams.
- Restorative drink – A little honey in warm water first thing in the morning along Turmeric and Neem capsules cleanses the system. I can personally vouch for this potent energy generating combination that my entire family relies on for a great boost to the start of each day.
- Skin soother, healing salve – Honey with milk can be applied to a mild sunburn to ease the pain and prevent skin from peeling. Applied topically, honey is a natural antiseptic. Honey has wound healing components – sugar, hydrogen peroxide and propolis. Propolis kills bacteria, hydrogen peroxide disinfects. Sugar absorbs water and creates an environment where bacteria cannot survive. As honey dries, it forms a natural bandage.
- Cough suppressant Honey relieves minor coughs, colds, and sore throats.
All the honeybees in nature are girls. Women bees guard the entrance to the hive, care for the young and the queen, feed the larvae, remove waste, collect the honey, and clean the nest. Larvae are fed Royal Jelly the first three days. Then they are fed bee bread which is a mixture of pollen coated with honey.
The queen bee goes out of the hive once in a lifetime and mates with multiple male drones.
There is no other creature in the animal kingdom with a splendid work ethic like the bees. Every honeybee in the colony has a specific job. The female worker bees feed and groom the queen and care for the young. They build the hive and make honey. They forage for food, collect pollen and nectar, and guard the hive. Drone bees are male, and they mate with the queen bee so she can lay eggs in the cells of the hive and populate the next generation of bees. Honeybees fill the comb cells with honey, pollen and eggs.
The hair on a bee’s leg forms a basket that is used to collect pollen from the flowers. The pollen from the stamens of the flower is then carried by the bees to the hives, coated with honey and used as food(protein) for the bees.
Bees collect nectar from the flowers and make honey out of it. In addition, honeybees make royal jelly, bee pollen, beeswax, propolis and bee venom that are harvested.
- During the spring and summer, bees make honey from nectar and a little magic in their stomachs, which will feed them through fall and winter.
- Beeswax is made from honeycomb of the honeybees. It is the purest, most natural form of wax. Honeybees secrete the beeswax from the underside of their abdomens. Beeswax can be melted and used in candles, cosmetics, shoe polish, and surfboard wax.
- Bee bread is edible grade pollen coated in honey. It is high in protein and known to strengthen the immune system.
- Royal Jelly, rich in proteins and fatty acids, is produced by the mouth glands of young nurse bees and is food fed to queen bee larvae.
- Propolis or tree resin is used as a bee glue to reinforce the hives. Propolis is known to fight bacteria, viruses, and fungi.
- Bee venom is used to treat nerve pain and multiple sclerosis.
A BEE, C, DANCE
Honeybees communicate through dances called “waggle” and by producing a chemical called pheromone. Scientists think it’s a way of communicating to the other bees where the best nectar is.
GIFTED AND TALENTED
Honeybees can recognize human faces.
They have 170 odor receptors in the pits of their antennae.
The queen bee has control over laying male or female eggs.
They can calculate the shortest route between nectar sources.
All of us should reflect on the everyday cleaning products we use that touch water.
When you wash something and throw the soapy water out, and the bees drink that water, they should not die. If we start thinking about, “Would I want to drink this product that I am using?”, we will pick gentler, environmentally safe alternatives like Simple Green Cleaner, Bronners soap, and Healthy Home and Planet Cleaning Products by Grove Collaborative, rather than chemicals that pollute and kill the flora and fauna of our sacred planet.
Bees get their carbohydrates from the honey they make.
There are simple (bad) carbs and complex (good) carbs. Honey is a good, clean carb.
A piece of a chocolate cake consumed at night will initially spike the blood sugar and then crash at 3 am. When sugar levels tank, sleep is disturbed. Honey (good carb) regulates the blood sugar level. 1 tsp of honey at bedtime, will keep sugar level consistent all night.
A bite of honey v/s a bite of chocolate cake, both carbs, behave dramatically different inside the human body in terms of health benefits and potential problems respectively.
Bees are vegetarian. Their protein comes totally from pollen. Pollen is a superfood. You could eat only pollen, a little honey and drink water for a year and survive. You could have a shot of pollen every morning instead of breakfast.
Pollen gets stuck to the legs of the honeybees by accident. The bees fly from one tree/bush/flower to another, and they pollinate. The fruit trees need to be pollinated. They cannot do it themselves.
In general, pollen is very healthy except when we spray it with fertilizer. Since it gets stuck to the legs of the bees, it finds its way back to the hive. Then, they take a little bit of honey and wrap the pollen with it. This is called pollen bread. Pollen by itself spoils. Since honey never does, the pollen is preserved.
WHAT IS HONEY, HONEY?
Honey is the nectar of all trees and flowers around us. Nectar that is found in the wild will go bad over time if not refrigerated. Bees have a little magic in their honey stomachs that preserve the honey and make it antibacterial and antifungal. That’s why honey never rots, only darkens with age.
- Honeybees collect nectar from flowers with their tongues and store it in their honey stomachs.
- Honeybees fly back to the hive and transfer the honey to another honeybee using their mouths.
- Honeybees make spit bubbles with the nectar until it turns into honey, stored in the wax, honeycomb, hexagonal cells, and sealed with a wax lid to keep it fresh.
The amount of bee labor and flight time that goes into making a 16 oz jar is staggering. Tens of thousands of bees, flying 11,200 miles, foraging nectar from 4.5 million flowers.
A third of all food production requires bees to pollinate. There would be no oranges, almonds, strawberries, blueberries, avocados, tomatoes, coffee, and chocolate without bees. Unless the groves are organic, they all use pesticides that are deadly to the bees. Bees are unknowingly pulling nectar out of flowers sprayed with Roundup or other harsh chemicals. They cannot decipher that the flowers have been sprayed with pesticides. They bring it back home and pollute the hive. I wonder if they are getting enough water to dilute the pesticides they picked up.
In Bolinas, all the nectar in the wildflowers, bushes and trees growing wild in Bolinas yields healthy, clean honey.
Honeybees pollinate, making food grow by accident for us, as they go about collecting their own food to bring back home. They are more efficient and successful at pollination than other pollination sources like insects, birds, and wind.
Bees pollinate and help plants make seeds.
- Honeybees can see colors and are most likely to land on purple, blue or yellow flowers. Pollen from the stamens (male part) of a flower stick to their bodies.
- Honeybees suck the nectar from the flower and store it in their honey stomachs.
- Honeybees visit another flower to collect more nectar and pollen. Pollen falls off the honeybee’s body and gets stuck and enters the sticky part of the plant, stigma (female part).
- The stuck pollen then grows a tube to the ovary of the flower where it combines with the egg and starts to become a seed.
- The seed then grows into a new plant.
VARIETIES OF HONEY
There are many varieties of honey with its own color, aroma, and flavor. The color of honey ranges from water white to dark amber. The scent of honey comes from the flowers the bees visit. Light amber honeys have a mild flavor. Darker the honey, the more intense the flavor.
USES OF HONEY
- Remedy for sore throats.
- Useful in healing severe burns when applied to bandages that cover the wound.
- Manuka honey dressings is used to treat surgical wounds, resolve persistent infections, clean, deodorize wounds, and reduce pain and inflammation.
- Calming potion for gastric upsets, cough medicine and as a restorative drink.
- Effective antibiotic, disinfectant, and eye salve.
- In Chinese medicine, used to treat blood disorders.
- Romans believed honey cured pneumonia and maladies of the throat and mouth.
- Relieves edema.
- Powerful source of energy.
- Regulates blood sugar.
- Soothing moisturizer in beauty products.
- Bees are closely related to wasps and ants.
- Bees have five eyes, three simple eyes and two large compound eyes made up of thousands of eye cells, used for detecting movement and patterns.
- Honeybees have long tongues that they use as a straw to suck up the nectar.
- Predators of bees include birds, dragonflies, honey badgers, skunks, bears, opossums, skunks, racoons, and foxes.
- Queen bee can lay up to a million during her lifetime
- Honeybees can’t fly in the cold. In Winter, they keep warm by huddling into a tight ball with the queen at the center.
- Only the female honeybees have a jagged stinger. When they sting a mammal, the stinger pieces their abdomen, and they die. Except the queen whose stinger has a smooth surface who can repeatedly sting without causing herself any harm.
- A honeybee’s internal clock tells it how far they have flown and how far the Sun has moved during its journey, so it can always fine its way back home to the hive.
- One teaspoon of honey is equivalent to the lifetime work of twelve honeybees.
- Honeybees flap their wings in the hive to keep air flowing through the hive, keeping the colony dry.
- Queen honeybees live 1 – 2 years; worker honeybees live 15 – 38 days in summer and 150 – 200 days in winter
WORLD WITHOUT BEES
Pesticides, pollution, parasites, climate change and loss of habitat contribute to the disturbing trend that threatens our vulnerable honeybees.
Annual honeybee colony loss has averaged 40% for over a decade.
Without bees, half the fruits and vegetables in our supermarkets would disappear. We would also lose the animals that eat these plants, and the animals that eat those animals. Bees remind us of the fragility of humanity’s relationship with nature. If bees disappeared, man would have four years more to follow suit.
HOW WE CAN HELP (BEE CONSIDERATE)
- Avoid using herbicides, fungicides and insecticides on your lawn and garden.
If you choose to use Pesticide, please review this very helpful resource by Pesticide Task Force of North American Pollinator Protection Campaign (NAPPC): https://www.pollinator.org/.org/assets/generalFiles/NAPPC.pesticide.broch.Consumer-FINAL-05-27-10.pdf
- Consider supporting local beekeepers. Buy their honey. Pay them the premium price the quality of the product demands.
Consider locally owned, organic, responsible, and sustainable Bay Area Bee Company honey locally available at Trader Joe’s, Sprouts, Bi Rite, and many others. They would make wonderful Christmas gifts this holiday season for neighbors and friends in your community.
- Consider being mindful of all the ways in which you use water and switch to gentler, nontoxic, effective, sustainable, and cruelty-free natural soaps and cleaners like Bronners, Simple Green and Healthy Home and Planet Cleaning Products by Grove Collaborative.
- Consider living more gently on Mother Earth. By being conscious of the products we choose, and the social and environmental impact of the companies that make them. Certified B corporations are companies that are part of a global movement to use business as a force for good.
- Consider switching to compost as a safe alternative for your lawn and garden instead of chemical fertilizers that cause harm.
- Reduce, Recycle and Reuse.
- Consider being vocal with your local lawmakers about how bees need our help.
- Consider planting native, bee-friendly flowers with long flowering seasons. In Fall, plant sunflower, sedum; in summer plant lavender, mint, and cornflower and in spring, plant crocus, snowdrop, and Iris. Some flowers that have a lot of nectar are bluebell, hollyhock, clover, and daisy attract honeybees.
- Plant native flowering trees and shrubs.
- Consider using natural garden products without harsh chemicals that kill bees. Like diluted Neem Oil in water.
- Consider having a honey tasting party. Let everyone taste 5 – 10 different honeys, then see if they can identify the floral source.
- Consider using less plastic, electricity, water, chemicals, and eat more local foods.
Like honey and pollen from your locally owned and operated, Bay Area Bee Company.
If you have allergies, they will disappear. Like Matt’s did.
The protection of the bee species is essential to the health of the world. I ‘beelieve’ that we can achieve any goal if we collectively help each other make lifestyle changes that nurture these amazing creatures.
Let’s do all we can to protect our precious bees, people, and planet and truly bring joy to the world this Christmas 2021, by being considerate to other beings, and living a life that would make Jesus and Mary smile down on humanity.
Books Consulted that contributed to this blog:
- Laura Marsh, Bees, National Geographic Kids, 2016
- Charlotte Milner, The Bee Book, DK Publishing, 2018
- Alex Woolf, Scholastic, You wouldn’t want to live without Bees, Franklin Watts, 2017
- Stephen Buchmann, Honey Bees, Letters from the Hive, Franklin Watts, 2017
- Lily Williams, If Bees disappeared, Roaring Brook Press, 2021
Playlist while compiling this Blog:
- Honey, honey – Abba
- You can do magic – America
- Canaanland – Milk and Honey
- Fields of Gold – Sting
- A Simple Man – Lobo
- Forest Hymn – Deep Forest
- Fireflies – Owl City
- Boyce: 8 Symphonies: Academy of St Martin in the Fields
- Higher Ground – Steven Halpern
- Christmas – Mannheim Steamroller

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NEW BRITAIN, Conn. (AP)—Karon Abraham scored 16 points and Rob Robinson added 14 points to lead Robert Morris to a 69-60 victory over Central Connecticut State on Thursday night.
Robert Morris (17-9, 12-1 Northeast Conference) opened the second half on a 12-4 run to pull away from Central Connecticut State (9-15, 6-7), which had won four straight.
The Colonials took advantage of two scoring droughts for its 10th win in its past 11 games.
The Blue Devils went without a field goal for 9:30 in the first half as a two-point lead turned into a 12-point deficit.
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Photo of Charles, courtesy of Mark Glenshaw
What a long strange week it's been—and it's only Wednesday. Without going into detail, we have had to cancel plans to attend the wedding of a godchild in New York this weekend, and feeling rather drained about the events leading up to that decision, I am borrowing two bird tales I hope will entertain you until I catch my breath.
The first link is to youtube videos posted by the Owlman of Forest Park, Mark Glenshaw, showing owlets Monica and Dalton, offspring of Monica and Charles, the Great Horned Owls that have been featured so often on this blog (see Charles above). You'll hear Mark's voice on the video link describing the owlets' antics and "allopreening." Watch it here.
The second link is to a live video feed of eagles nesting in a treetop above a fish hatchery in Decorah, Iowa. My dear friend, Charlotte Lyons (mother of the bride alluded to above), who has become a fan of the Forest Park owls from afar, sent me the link. The other evening there were 77,000 people watching the live feed, provided by the Raptor Research Project. One caveat: Only start eavesdropping if you have time to spare—the eagles are mesmerizing. A short ad leads it off. Tune in here.
In the next day or two I hope to be back on track posting news about the neighborhood.
P. S. After reading last evening's post, neighborhood friend Elizabeth Barnes sent the following link to hummingbirds nesting in a rosebush (watch it here). (I have this feed minimized on my laptop right now, and the bird sounds are making our cat very curious.)

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He’s a leader in natural history and provides some of the most compelling documentaries on the topic, so when Sir David Attenborough says coral bleaching is a “grave danger” for Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, you might want to stop and listen.
It’s been 60-odd years since Sir David last visited the Great Barrier Reef, but his latest documentary sees him travels to great depths to find out why the reef is in such distress. What he discovered was that the reef has lost half its coral cover in that time, and he fears the impacts of global warming and coral bleaching.
Sir David visited Lizard Island, Osprey Reef, Raine Island, Heron Island and Lady Elliott Island to film the series, and he says the most severe bleaching had been observed between Cape York and Cooktown on the far northern part of the Great Barrier Reef.
He says this issue is a global one.
“The twin perils brought by climate change, an increase in the temperature of the ocean and in its acidity threaten its very existence,” Sir David said. “If they continue to rise the present rate the reefs will be gone within decades, and that will be a global catastrophe.”
It’s an issue that is well-known, and yet Attenborough has questioned just how much humanity cares.
When Sir David first visited the reef, tourism would have been almost non-existent, but the Great Barrier Reef is now one of the biggest tourism draw cards in the world, with more than . According to the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, the number of visitors for coral viewing activities and scenic flights continues to grow. The Great Barrier Reef is also one of the seven natural wonders.
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Leading epidemiologist Professor Michael Baker and his research team have been recognised for their outstanding contribution to health and medical services.
Professor Baker, of the University of Otago, Wellington, Department of Public Health, and his team received the Health Research Council’s Liley Medal at the Royal Society Te Apārangi Research Honours ceremony at Government House tonight.
The Medal is awarded annually to an individual or research team whose recent research produced a significant breakthrough within the health and medical fields.
The team published two papers which highlight a major development in understanding the causes of acute rheumatic fever and the role of preceding Group A Streptococcal infections.
HRC Chief Executive Professor Sunny Collings says the studies, which involved a “long list of talented and internationally recognised scientists, are among the most rigorous to identify risk factors for rheumatic fever”.
“They provide a very strong base to help guide the goal of eliminating this devastating disease as a global health problem,” Professor Collings says.
Professor Baker was thrilled the team was acknowledged for the quality and impact of the research.
“These two studies were challenging to carry out. They required a massive effort by a large group of researchers and clinicians who worked with communities for more than a decade to plan them, do the field work, and then write up and publish the findings.
The research used two case-control studies – one looking at the risk factors for acute rheumatic fever and the other investigating risk factors for the strep bacterial infections (strep sore throats and strep skin infections) which cause rheumatic fever.
Professor Baker says it was the first time anyone had looked at the causes of rheumatic fever with two studies of this type.
“The rheumatic fever study found that disease risk was strongly associated with living in a crowded household, barriers to seeing a doctor, drinking sugar sweetened drinks, a family history of rheumatic fever, and a preceding history of throat or skin infection,” he says.
“The strep infection study found that strep skin infection was also associated with barriers to seeing a doctor, household crowding and a family history of rheumatic fever, unlike strep sore throat that was only associated with barriers to health care.”
The research identified potential new ways to prevent rheumatic fever, such as focusing on effective treatment of skin infections and encouraging children to drink healthy alternatives to sugar sweetened drinks.
“These findings reinforce the central role that good quality, uncrowded housing has in protecting children during the period when they are vulnerable to rheumatic fever and other infectious diseases. It is also a reminder of the importance of having good access to primary health care.”
Professor Baker notes that New Zealand is one of the only high income countries to still see new cases of rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease.
“It is our most iniquitous disease with rates for young Māori that are 20 times higher than for people of European and other ethnicity, and for Pacific young people 44 times higher (based on crude rheumatic fever rate comparisons for people under 30 years of age for the period 2000–18).
“This is a further reason why we need to eliminate child poverty in Aotearoa New Zealand. Lifting children out of poverty has resulted in rheumatic fever largely disappearing in high income countries across Europe and North America.”
This is the second time Professor Baker has won the Liley Medal – the first was in 2013 for a study identifying the rise in serious infectious diseases in New Zealand and increasing ethnic inequities, also published in the Lancet. This time he is joined for the award by his wider team.
Winning it again is a bittersweet feeling.
“While I appreciate receiving this medal again, I am sad that I am still researching the same serious health problems and inequalities a decade later. Particularly since we have the knowledge to make a real difference here.”
The research team consists of: Professor Baker, Dr Julie Bennett, Associate Professor Nicole Moreland, Professor Deborah Williamson, Associate Professor Jason Gurney, Associate Professor Dianne Sika-Paotonu, Associate Professor Dame Tueila Percival, Associate Professor Matire Harwood, Associate Professor Nigel Wilson, Dr Florina Chan Mow, Dr Jane Oliver, Professor Nevil Pierse, Professor Tony Merriman, Dr Catherine Jackson, Professor Richard Edwards, Professor Murray Thomson, Professor Julian Crane, Ms Jane Zhang, Professor Jonathan Carapetis and Professor Dianna Lennon (deceased).


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