Does anyone know what kind of bird it belongs to? I'm in DeLand, Florida. I thought maybe an osprey or an eagle. Either way, I see these lying around every once in a while. I've found a couple at home in Winter Haven too.
Thank you!!
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Changing the sugars attached to a hormone produced in the pituitary gland increased fertility levels in mice nearly 50 percent, a research group at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has found. The change appears to alter a reproductive "thermostat," unveiling part of an intricate regulatory system that may one day be used to enhance human fertility.
New observations from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter indicate that the crust and upper mantle of Mars are stiffer and colder than previously thought. The findings suggest any liquid water that might exist below the planet's surface and any possible organisms living in that water, would be located deeper than scientists had suspected.
Studies of how cancer cells spread have led to a surprising discovery about the creation of cells with adult stem-cell characteristics, offering potentially major implications for regenerative medicine and for cancer treatment.
A world-renowned team of experts in biomechanics and physiology from six universities, led by Professor Hugh Herr of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab, refute scientific claims that the prostheses worn by Oscar Pistorius, a 21-year-old South African bilateral amputee track athlete, provide him with an unfair advantage in the 400-meter race.
Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have shown, in unprecedented detail, how a small molecule is able to selectively take apart abnormally folded protein fibers connected to Alzheimer's disease and prion diseases. The findings appear online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Finding a way to dismantle misfolded proteins has implications for new treatments for a host of neurodegenerative diseases.
Both the new and the old printers are used by multiple people – there are now 80 people printing to four printers. The old printers would print a cover sheet with your job, providing the name of the job and, more importantly, your name. Few people run to pick up every job, especially when they're printing multiple things in one session. One would simply flip through the accumulated print jobs to find ones own.
As an ecological move, this feature was disabled for the new printers; they didn't want to produce a waste sheet with every job, which of course might be only one sheet by itself. The ideological advantages of this soon were overwhelmed by the practical disadvantages; no one could find their own printouts, people were walking away with other's printing; it was harder to tell the beginning and ends of various documents. So the IT people re-enabled the cover sheet feature.
Here is the amusing part. Every print job sent to the new printers generates a cover sheet, with the name of the job, the name of the owner of the job, and a date stamp. And every cover sheet is routed to a different output tray than the print job.
Let me repeat that. Every time you print something, the printer generates a cover sheet identifying it as yours. Then it separates it from your job and sends it to another tray.
I'm not actually sure they could have made it do that if they tried. We are, apparently, the victims of a clever and insidious machine jape. The cybernetic revolution may have started, and it may have started here.
And we still have no idea whom to route each print job to.
A new study reveals the genetic identity of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the version responsible for sexual transmission, in unprecedented detail. Scientists found that among billions of HIV variants only a few lead to sexual transmission.
Cancer, nervous system disorders such as Parkinson’s disease, cardiovascular disorders and old age have one thing in common: Both in afflicted tissue and in aging cells, scientists have observed oxidative changes in important biomolecules. These are caused by reactive oxygen molecules, including the notorious “free radicals” that are formed as a by-product of cellular respiration and attack cellular proteins, nucleic and fatty acids.
An obese oddball of a star has left astronomers wondering how it could have formed. Found with the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico, the star is a pulsar – a compact, rapidly spinning star – called J1903+0327. It lies 20,000 light-years away spinning at a rate of 465 revolutions per second – the fifth fastest-spinning pulsar known in our Galaxy.
Smaller primates expend no more energy climbing than they do walking, Duke University researchers have found. This surprising discovery may explain the evolutionary edge that encouraged the tiny ancestors of modern humans, apes and monkeys to climb into the trees about 65 million years ago and stay there.
I messed up my ham roll-ups that are supposed to be for the afternoon barbecue at work, but oh well. Maybe I'll buy some more ham and do some more rolls during my lunch hour.
It's time to dry the hair and get dressed.
I might even buy a coffee on my way to work today. Because I can.
- Music:Miles - Blue In Green
One of my favorite lamps evar died a painful death tonight and I need to get two matching shades to replace it. Problem is it is a bit unusual and a bit of a collectors item if you're into say goofy reality shows on MTV. I need a rather large frosted white glass globe shade with a circle opening at the bottom with a lip for attaching it to the lip.
They're originally from Crate & Barrel so I'm going to hit up CB2 for a similar looking shade, but I really think this is something that a professional will want to look at and get measurements for.
The lamps are these exactly
Don't let the picture fool you, they are tall (sayyy up to
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justkissme's knee...hence the death!) and the globes are huge...I don't have exact measurements yet.. but halp!!!Even if the big payrolls win out later, we'll always have this day to look back on. And this one, when the Royals last had a winning record. If they sweep the series this weekend, they would have a winning record again, too...
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