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[BluffMagazine]

Another Tournament Tracker report, another week ElkY wins a five-figure buy-in event. This week’s Tournament Tracker catches up with tournament results from events in Madrid, Las Vegas, Atlantic City, and Michigan as action winds down in advance of the World Series of Poker just over a week away. The last Tournament Tracker featured Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier [...]

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[Carl Culture]

Self-Portrait, Inspired by Kathleen by Brian Betteridge



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[Big Gay Al]

A Brown Treecreeper (Climacteris picumnus), photographed yesterday in Greater Bendigo National Park.

EXIF: Canon EOS 50D : 1/40 sec : f/5.6 : 400 mm : ISO 400


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[Big Gay Al]

The long-tailed field mouse (Apodemus sylvaticus) is commonly found in the woods, hedgerows and scrub throughout the countryside in Britain and Ireland. It also ranges to Scandinavia to the north, to Ukraine to the east and to the south in north western Africa and on many Mediterranean islands.

It is the cousin to the yellow-necked mouse, but the long-tailed field mouse is smaller and darker. Cats, weasels, stoats, foxes, owls and moles will make a meal of the mouse if they can, but the long-tailed field mouse is a great jumper and climber and not easy to catch. If it is caught by the tip of its tail, it will immediately shed the end of its tail and make its escape. The shed tip may never grow back. On the IUCN Red List of threatened Species it is classified LC (least concern).

Also called the wood mouse, it is mainly nocturnal and will eat a varied omnivorous diet including seeds and nuts when they are plentiful and small insects, snails, spiders and larvae mainly in the spring along with roots, berries and other fruit. It lives underground in burrow systems and has chambers for nesting and storing food. Its nests consist of balls of dry grass, leaves and moss. Sometimes it uses vacated bird’s nests to store food. It lives mainly outdoors in grassland and cultivated fields, but it will live inside a building during an especially harsh winter.

It has a breeding season from February to October which consists of a free-for-all competition between males and females. This results in multiple paternity litters. After 25 or 26 days the litters are born and usually contain five young. They are independent at three weeks and sexually active at two months.

The long-tailed field mouse is larger than a common house mouse measuring 8.1 cm (3.9 inches) to 10.3 cm (4 inches) nose to tail. The tail is 7.1 cm (2.8 inches) to 9. 3 cm (3.6 inches) long. They weigh between 13 grams (.46 ounces) and 27 grams (.95 ounces).

The long tailed field mouse does not hibernate, but it does greatly reduce its physiological activity during sever winter seasons. At night when they are most active they sometimes mark their food hiding places with conspicuous objects such as a bright leaf or large twig. They use these signs as landmarks while they are foraging for food. Basically, they are organized food gatherers, but have scramble competition for copulation.

Picture of the long-tailed field mouse by Rasbak, licensed under GNU Free Documentation License.


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[Carl Culture]

About Shawn:

Shawn Smith was born in 1972 in Dallas. He received a BFA in printmaking from Washington University in St. Louis and, in 1995 and an MFA in sculpture from the California College of the Arts in San Francisco in 2005.

His work has been exhibited in galleries across the United States including Austin Museum of Art, Galveston Art Center, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and Southern Exposure. In 2006 he was commissioned to create a monumental public sculpture in San Francisco.

Smith has undertaken residencies at Kala Art Institute in Berkeley and Cite Internationale des Arts in Paris. In 1996, he received a Clare Hart DeGolyer grant from the Dallas Museum of Art, and next year his work will be included in 40 Under 40: Craft Futures at the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Renwick Gallery.








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[NASA]

Why does the Crab Nebula flare?




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[Big Gay Al]

We've been wanting a little girl for a long time, and Lexie came along to answer those dreams. Found wandering in the rain, Lexie became someone's loss and our gain when she was never claimed and we welcomed her into our family. A sweet and feisty girl, she loves having three brothers to pick on, especially our boxer, Lucky, who loves her to bits even though she's always nipping at his ears when he's napping. Although she's a bit of a hand and leg chomper, known to put holes in the sleeves of your sweaters during play time, she's also a little doll who sleeps by your feet, tickles your neck with kisses and licks your toes to say hello. Even if she thinks she's a vegetarian and will eat anything she finds in the garden--the more disgusting, the better--she's also our little girl who'll hide behind you from the passing cars, stick her head between your legs to get your attention, give you her paw when you ask and let you hold her just about any way, because she's happy as long as she's with you.

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[Big Gay Al]

Fubá
Marilena says: Fubá's is Polenta's brother. He is so adorable. He is also available for adoption through our adoption organization resGatinhos in Sao Paolo, Brazil.
Courtesy of: Marilena / resGatinhos


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[Kenan Thompson]

Governor Cuomo announced Friday the Summer Jobs Express program to encourage business leaders to hire 16,500 youths between the ages of 14 and 21 for summer employment in high-need areas of the state. Summer Jobs Express will provide $21 million in funding...(read more)

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[Adolf Hitler]

Forum: Stormfront en FrançaisPosted By: revisionPost Time: 05-23-2011 at 07:43 AM

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