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Protection of the Mt. Charleston Blue Butterfly under Endangered Species Act - http://www.fws.gov/cno...

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"The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) has determined that the Mt. Charleston blue butterfly (Plebejus shasta charlestonensis) (formerly in the genus Icaricia) warrants protection under the Endangered Species Act, but that adding the subspecies to the Federal Lists of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants is precluded by the need to complete other listing actions of a higher priority. The Service’s decision will be published in the Federal Register on Tuesday, March 8, 2011. In making this determination, the Service completed a comprehensive review, known as a 12-month finding, and found that the best scientific and commercial data available indicates the Mt. Charleston blue butterfly is warranted for listing as a threatened or endangered species throughout its range. However, the Service is precluded from beginning work immediately on a listing proposal because its limited resources must be devoted to other, higher priority actions. The Mt. Charleston blue butterfly will be added to the list of candidate species eligible for Endangered Species Act protection. The Service will continue to work closely with the U.S. Forest Service and other entities to promote cooperative conservation efforts including surveys, life history studies, habitat protection, and restoration activities." - Jenny H - -

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A Visual Tour of Everest | The Outside Blog - http://outside-blog.away.com/blog...

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"I often write about Everest but it takes a lot of words and sometimes, as they say, a picture is worth a thousand words. So here are two "pictures" you might find interesting. The first is a short animation I created a while back showing the typical Everest south side expedition schedule. There is no sound, just watch the moving ball! The "ZZZZ's" indicate nights climbers sleep at each camp and the rest is pretty self explanatory. But for those new to Everest, the reason for so many trips up and down the mountain is to condition the body to the reduced oxygen levels. This is often called "climb high, sleep low" and is the primary reason an Everest (or any big mountain) takes multiple weeks. To illustrate the point, if we all flew to Base Camp and started climbing without some acclimatization time, most, if not all of us, would become extremely sick or even die. So with no more words, here goes:" - Jenny H - -

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Nuts! Bacteria Prompt Peanut Butter, Hazelnut Recalls : Shots - Health Blog : NPR - http://www.npr.org/blogs...

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Done, I think. Registering on their site so I could leave the comment was one of the most painful processes I've gone through online in a long time. - Jenny H - -

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How will this affect your diet, Jenny? - Jenny H - -

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*yawn* Uh-oh...

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Yeah, yeah; don't remind me. - Jenny H - -

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Stop it! - Jenny H - -

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I'm broken.

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Not really. I try to fight him sometimes, but most of the time I just like to laugh so I let him win. - Jenny H - -

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No, I let my inner 12 year old take over my brain. - Jenny H - -

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Tad's thread has inspired a new round of giggling.

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I am giggling so hard right now....you just don't know.

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Kristin, I am a 12 year old boy on the inside. - Jenny H - -

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Ya'll, shaddup! It didn't happen. Ever. - Jenny H - -

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New Beetle Species, Named for National Geographic, Sheds Light on Island Evolution - NatGeo News Watch - http://blogs.nationalgeographic.com/blogs...

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"Thanks to the study of DNA sequence divergence, we could establish an origin for this group in the Middle Miocene, some 15 million years ago, and DNA sequences from gut contents also provided us with the clue about the diet of these insects using innovative methods. Interestingly, their food could be appointed to plant groups not yet discovered in the island! Our immediate plans involve studying in detail the diversity of this group of beetles, the Chrysomelidae, exploiting the information and detail offered by DNA sequence data and phylogenetic methods. Our first campaign, thanks to CRE support, furnished hundreds of specimens which will be the basis for a sound assessment of biodiversity for this group and enhance species discovery, as in the case of Arsipoda." - Jenny H - -

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I have a bias towards blood-thirsty carnivores, but I am learning to love butterflies. ;) - Jenny H - -

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First Listen: The Dodos, 'No Color' : NPR - http://www.npr.org/2011...

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"Is there a rootsy folk-rock band — or any rock band, period, this side of Rush — that's more reliant on drumming than The Dodos? Multi-instrumentalists Meric Long and Logan Kroeber build their best songs around percussion to startling effect: "Good" and "Don't Try and Hide It," from the new No Color, pound and clatter with such precision and clarity, the whomp of the drums might as well get a lead-vocal credit." - Jenny H - -

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This was really good! - Jenny H - -

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I think it's pretty clear that when Steven Perez and I break bread together, orange juice and hot dogs will be off the menu.

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Steven, I won't take any of your box wine, honey. It's alllllll yours! :P - Jenny H - -

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Hey! I liked Tang as kid. Lay off the Tang! *pout* - Jenny H - -

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Y'all are hilarious with the pulp/no pulp thing. For the record, pulp is an abomination and should be stricken from the planet.

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Pulp is the fruit of the devil. You should not have to chew your beverage of any kind. - Jenny H - -

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Cristo is an abomination and should be stricken from the planEt. Right after I squeeze an orange over his head and beat him to a pulp. - Jenny H - -

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No, Pornler, you may not subscribe to my feed. I don't care how good you are in bed.

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8-/ - Jenny H - -

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Just call me 'Cinderella.'

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Are you a spy? - Jenny H - -

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You're only available on DVD and Blu-Ray for a "limited time"? - Jenny H - -

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I am going to bed with a smile on my face. :)

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Not quite, but I'll work on it. - Jenny H - -

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Hope you woke up that way too! :) - Jenny H - -

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St Malo - http://www.flickr.com/photos...

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BDE's France uploads are giving me major wanderlust! - Jenny H - -

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Mark, I would hope so! - Jenny H - -

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"I can't give it up to someone else's touch, because I care too much. Give it up. I can't give it up."

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Could Cornstarch Have Plugged BP's Oil Well? : NPR - http://www.npr.org/2011...

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"The problem, as Katz saw it, was that oil and gas blasting up the well tended to break up the drilling mud into fine particles, and a light mist like that ends up getting shot up the pipe and dumped onto the seafloor. Katz wondered whether there was some kind of fluid that wouldn't immediately be dispersed into tiny particles when it encountered the rapidly flowing oil. "I realized after a while that cornstarch suspension — oobleck, the kids call it — has this wonderful property that if it's not flowing rapidly, it's a liquid that flows pretty well," Katz says. "But if you try to make it flow rapidly, it suddenly turns stiff and it doesn't flow at all." Oobleck versus a stream of bubbling hot oil? Really? Yep." - Jenny H - -

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""The problem with using something like cornstarch and water is getting it where it needs to be," Wereley says. You'd have to pump a lot of it, fast, into the well if it's going to work. And there might be trouble pumping it — remember, oobleck gets stiff when it's put under pressure. "It would tend to create that same reaction when you're trying to pump it down the hole." Wereley calculates that you'd have to pump it so slowly that you couldn't get it down the hole faster than the oil was rushing up. And that's a big problem. A BP spokeswoman told NPR their engineers reviewed the idea and decided it wouldn't work. But Katz still figures it's a good idea worth exploring for the next time an oil well is running completely out of control." - Jenny H - -

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The aftermath.

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This is what my boys did to a plate of fried ice cream. LOL - Jenny H - -

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Taking an actual break for lunch is kinda nice. :)

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JA, I can't read "Fresh air" without hearing Terry Gross say it in my head. LOL. Carl, yes, with pants. I was in public! - Jenny H - -

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Why thanks. :) - Jenny H - -

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Cake: Flying High After A Record Low : NPR - http://www.npr.org/2011...

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Cake is the bizness. - Jenny H - -

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"The new album also features a familiar sound from Cake's catalog: the buzzy percussion instrument called the vibraslap. Descended from an African instrument made out of the jawbone of a large mammal, the vibraslap isn't a natural fit for a rock band — but McCrae has always found ways to incorporate it. "It really can't be heard very well over the usual bombast of rock," he says. "I have to find places where the rock sort of recedes."" - Jenny H - -

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Dang it! What was I thinking with that 6 pm quad latte?! O.O

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I haven't had a quad in a long time. I usually get triple mochas, but haven't had a quad in years. I might get one tomorrow. - Jenny H - -

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Unfortunately? I have one pretty much every day. >.> - Jenny H - -

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YouTube - Tim Minchin - If I Didn't Have You - http://www.youtube.com/watch...

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Yep. - Jenny H - -

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I just purchased tickets for the Arcade Fire concert in April with Local Natives opening! Yay! :D

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Enjoy! - Jenny H - -

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Thank you, Louis. ;)

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There's my girl! I'll sub to you as soon as I'm on a proper computer; my phone won't let me. - Jenny H - -

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she be back :) - Jenny H - -

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My son just called Tool "butt rock." Them's disowning words.

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And now is subjecting me to G n' R. Waaaaah! - Jenny H - -

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And yet thinks AC/DC doesn't qualify as butt rock. Whatevah. - Jenny H - -

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I suppose I should think about getting out of bed soon. *yawn*

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