![]() NH Audubon’s “Backyard Winter Bird Survey” will occur on February 12-13, 2022. Conservation actions: Keep cats indoors, maintain shrubs and weedy edges.Threats: Cats loss of shrublands, especially in agricultural landscapes climate change.To help us track New Hampshire’s winter bluebird populations, weĮncourage you to participate in the annual Backyard Winter Bird Survey Most of us dont want to move too far from mum and dad, at least at first, so for our young tree sparrows we need to create new homes near to existing colonies. Key difference being that sparrows and juncos are always around rather Redpolls (and December’s “Bird of the Month,” the Purple Finch), with a Periodic “irruptions” shown by winter finches such as crossbills and The male Spanish sparrow and Italian sparrow are distinguished by their chestnut crowns. In years where there is more foodįarther north, fewer individuals migrate as far south, and the whole The Eurasian tree sparrow is smaller and slenderer with a chestnut crown and a black patch on each cheek. Uncommon in many of our wintering birds, and generally reflects Synchronous ups and downs in the two data sets. There is also the possibility that climateĬhange could be affecting their nesting habitat or breeding success.Īnother interesting pattern shown in this graph is the somewhat Development and forest maturation have probably had a similarĮffect here in the Northeast. Plains (where the species reaches its highest winter densities) hasĮliminated much of the weedy and shrubby habitat needed by winteringīirds. Hypothesis is that intensified agriculture in the Midwest and Great Studied, we don’t have a good explanation for this at present. Survey effort, while those on the Backyard Winter Bird Survey (BWBS) areĪlthough still abundant, American Tree Sparrows have declined by Numbers on the Christmas Bird Count (CBC) are adjusted for hours of Winter population trends for American Tree Sparrow in New Hampshire. Sparrows often roost communally under the snow! Figureġ. Suppresses bird activity at your feeders! Another fun fact: tree The same studyįound that juncos could fast even longer: up to 67 hours (almost 3ĭays!) with an average of 43, so keep this in mind when poor weather ![]() One such studyįound that they can fast for an average of 30 hours. Sparrows in winter, particularly related to metabolism. ![]() There has been a fair bit of study of tree In the winter, however, it can be a familiar sight in weedyįields, shrubby edges, and residential yards with feeders, and sometimes Remote breeding range, the species’ nesting biology is not well Out on the tundra if there are a few taller perches. Shrubby areas of alder, willow, birch, and spruce, as well as farther The swamp sparrow’s bill is dark gray, it has a white throat, a grayish face and lacks white stripes or bars on its wings.Its name, the American Tree Sparrow is a bird of the arctic, where The chipping sparrow’s bill is dark gray, it has a black (not reddish) stripe through the eye and a white stripe above the eye. The field sparrow’s bill is pink, it has a white ring around each eye, and its wing bars are less distinct. The American tree sparrow is the only one with a single, dark spot on its chest and a two-toned bill. American tree sparrows resemble field sparrows, chipping sparrows and swamp sparrows. The tail is fairly long and dark in color. The wings have two thin, white horizontal stripes, or wing bars, across them. There is a large reddish “cap” on the top of the head. The face is gray with a thin, rusty-red line running horizontally from the eye to the back of the head. The bill is two-toned: the top half is dark or gray the bottom half is yellowish. The chest is plain grayish-white color with a distinct dark spot in the center. This sparrow has several distinctive characteristics.
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![]() Simpson made his mark off the football field as well, lining up endorsements with Chevrolet, RC Cola and most famously Hertz Rent-A-Car - which put Simpson in TV ads where he used his trademark speed to run through an airport. O.J.’s Hertz ads were a racial milestone … to a point. In the final game that season, Simpson looked to break the record against the New York Jets, and author Jeffrey Toobin remembers that even Jets fans were rooting for him: “Everybody loved O.J.”ĥ. “He hated the weather.”) But a new head coach revived his career, leading to a record-breaking 2,000-yard rushing season in 1973. After being drafted first overall by the Buffalo Bills in 1969, Simpson struggled to fit in with a blue-collar fan base and a head coach who tried to force him into being a receiver. ![]() Simpson first gained fame as a college superstar, but his pro-football career started out very rough. talk his way out of a lot of situations.” He even stole his friend Al Cowlings’ girlfriend Marguerite - and later married her! As Cowlings says in a videotaped deposition related to the 1994 murders, “I’ve seen O.J. Childhood friend Joe Bell recalls him and Simpson getting caught shooting dice at school and getting sent to the principal’s office Simpson threw his friends under the bus and escaped without punishment. and his friends would go out looking for trouble - but Simpson always seemed to get away unscathed. While his mom worked the graveyard shift at the hospital, O.J. Made in America flashes all the way back to Simpson’s childhood growing up in the housing projects of San Francisco. could always talk his way out of trouble. ![]() “I don’t know exactly what they’re trying to do.” Later, when Edwards implored him to take a stand along with his fellow black athletes, he declared: “I’m not black. “I’m not too well enlightened on the situation,” he says in a vintage interview. While Muhammad Ali and Jim Brown pushed for political change and African-American leaders proposed a boycott of the 1968 Olympics, O.J. But USC, predominantly white at the time, was mostly insulated from that - and Simpson himself didn’t want to get involved. He was acquitted of the murder charges, but years later was convicted and incarcerated for robbery and kidnapping charges unrelated to the murders.Simpson went to college in the late 1960s, while student protests were bubbling up across the nation. The South Park stabbing spree is a reference to Simpson's having been accused and brought to trial for the stabbing murders of his ex-wife and her friend. Simpson's Funniest Moments" was uploaded to YouTube by Juice Lover. When Mayor Quimby said that Springfield was broke, Moe asked if he meant "really broke or O.J. Lisa then corrected her, saying that he was still on the loose, which frightened her. Marge said that the ongoing scandal with Mayor Quimby was the most exciting one since "The Juice was on the loose". He then posed for the camera with Cartman's severed head impaled on his knife, declaring that he was going to look for the real killer. He appeared in an episode of South Park that Bart and Milhouse watched, going on a stabbing spree where he killed Farty the Crippled Robot, Steve Guttenberg, Callista Flockhart and Eric Cartman. ![]() ![]() The tricky part of the game is that you always have a starting pool of 6 dice, they are D6 with the symbols Clue tokens with the values 1/2/3 Clue, Peril, Horror and Lore. Each task must have its required symbols matched and paid in order to be solved. Not all adventures award you with Elder Signs, most adventures reward you with artifacts, spells, items and things that boost your investigators.Įntering an adventure with an investigator has you roll dice from the common pool (6 green dice), the values on the dice have to match the symbols on one or more "tasks". Each adventure comes with a description of rewards for winning it, penalties for losing it, and potential rewards. These are collected by investigators visiting areas on the map in highlighted "adventures". The goal of the game for the investigators is to collect Elder Signs, each Old One requires a fixed number to be stopped. Add to that - it's challenging as hell! The difficulty level varies between the Great Old One's but you will always have to rely on the synergy between your investigators, use their skills to the max, and be careful about which adventures you play and in what order. It's quite an achievement to keep me interested in a game like this for two straight afternoons, but the game has a lot more depth and tactical choices than it may appear on the outset. As it turns out the digital version of Elder Sign fixed a lot of these issues and is a really enjoyable and to me also a very addictive game with superb production and replay value. I simply find them very abstract, have a cumbersome amount of components and require you to keep all the information in your head while playing without any real aid from such things that a real boardgame offers. It sure is an interesting development, and I can say that if more games that interested me were to be released on tablets (and Android in particular) I would buy them if they supported both single and multiplayer options.Įlder Sign Omens is a digital version of Elder Sign, a card/dice game that I would have never picked up since I don't like games card/dice games. Never thought I would review a tablet game, but it seems like boardgames of great quality are slowly finding their way onto the tablets. ![]() Explosions (I can't wait to get Detonator into the game!).Idee was to have a very powerful remote weapon to the cars driving in front of you to be able to blow them up and overtake them and have a somewhat weak weapon to the cars behind to make sure there is much dynamics in the game in terms of overtaking and making also sure that you just can't blow up everything that is behind you and make it easy to win. Missiles as primary weapon, mines as secondary weapon. ![]() Racing as main element (just because I learned from portals that this sells good).To create fun and keep it simple (KISS principle), I tried to reduce the game to the bare minimum elements: It shall be a simple to learn racing game that can get adopted by nearly everyone within a minute or two and shall bring the player just nothing but fun. The game has been created with a publishing option to game portals in mind. Simple, adrenaline-pumping racing with lots of explosions and fun supported by awesome hard rock music! You race against 7 other cars in 5 laps around short tracks, pick up missiles and mines to blow your opponents away and try to be the first at the finish line. Hard Rock Racing is a fast-paced and action driven racing game taking place in a 3D city. Note: This first thread post will be updated from time to time so keep an eye too and not only the very latest posts. I will blog in this thread about the progress and would love to get feedback on the game. Hard Rock Racing is my entry for the Unity Awards 2009. UPDATE: FINAL GAME LAUNCHED ON SHOCKWAVE.COM They go to Van Horn, where Arthur takes up a position on the lighthouse to be a sniper, while Sadie makes her way to Milton's base, with Arthur covering her. Upon hearing about this, most of the gang brush it off, leaving only two gang members, Arthur and Sadie Adler, to go after Milton themselves. While the Van der Linde gang are robbing a train, Agent Milton and the Pinkertons manage to capture Abigail and take her to Van Horn where she is to be put on a boat and tried for murder. He berates the two for their lack of progress, although Milton's insists that they are "very close", but this is disregarded by Cornwall. ![]() The two Pinkerton agents Milton and Ross are seen in Annesburg, coming out of meeting with their financial backer, Leviticus Cornwall. Despite Milton's best efforts, the assault is repelled, although the gang is once again forced to relocate. ![]() The gang manage to hide in an abandoned apartment, before five of them (Dutch, Arthur, Micah, Bill and Javier) escape to Guarma.Ī short while after the five return from Guarma and reunite with the rest of the gang in Lakay, Milton leads Pinkertons to attack the gang at the camp. They manage to escape onto the rooftops, although John Marston is arrested and Lenny Summers is killed by two Pinkertons during the escape. During the shootout, the gang realise that it is unwinnable, and that they need to escape. Realising that Hosea had not and would not agree to his deal, Milton kills Hosea with a shot to the chest, initiating a shootout between Pinkertons and the Van der Linde gang. Hosea Matthews is captured while orchestrating a distraction, and held hostage by Agent Milton outside of Lemoyne National Bank. Later, the Pinkertons find out about the Saint Denis bank robbery. Flustered, Milton warns them that he will be back with fifty men, and the gang are forced to relocate. Milton and Ross offer the whole gang their freedom in exchange for turning over Dutch, although the gang refuse and warn the pair to leave. The Pinkertons eventually manage to trace the gang to Clemens Point. He captures Arthur, with the hope of leading Dutch van der Linde to him, although this plan is foiled when Arthur manages to escape. Milton also reveals that he killed Mac Callander, before leaving with Ross.Īt some point, the outlaw Colm O'Driscoll does a deal with the Pinkertons, which involves him handing over the Van der Linde gang. They offer him a deal where, in exchange for turning Dutch in, he will be spared execution. Īfter one of Leviticus Cornwall's trains was robbed by the Van der Linde gang, the businessman commissioned the Pinkerton National Detective Agency to hunt them down and apprehend Dutch van der Linde.Įvents of Red Dead Redemption 2 Horseshoe Overlook ChapterĪ high-ranking Pinkerton, Agent Milton and his subordinate, Agent Ross, encounter Arthur Morgan on the bank of a river. The agency subsequently locked the city down to search for the stolen $150,000. It is known that Pinkertons were present during the boat robbery conducted by the Van der Linde gang in Blackwater and resulting shootout in 1899, in which they were possibly responsible for killing gang members Davey Callander and Jenny Kirk. In the West, they have their sights set on breaking up outlaw gangs. government and private companies for security and detective work, founded by Allan Pinkerton in 1850. ![]() The Pinkertons are private agents often hired by the U.S. ![]() The superego: I shouldn’t act on my attraction because it could harm the person or go against my moral values. ![]() The id: I want to express my attraction to the person and be intimate with them.The ego: I can eat a small piece of cake as a treat, but I will balance it out by eating healthy for the rest of the day.The superego: I shouldn’t eat the cake because it’s unhealthy and goes against my diet.The id: I want to eat the cake because it looks delicious and I feel hungry.Here are some common examples of the id, ego, and superego in action: Read More: What Is a Type A Personality? Examples of the Id, Ego, and Superego Having poor ego strength means that you might give in to your impulses more frequently, while having too much might mean an inability to adapt and compromise. In every situation, the ego serves as the mediator trying to strike a balance between the demands of the id, the superego, and reality.Įgo strength is what Freud called the ego’s ability to manage these competing forces effectively. In other cases, it might be the superego that takes the lead. Sometimes the demands of the id might take precedence. These forces are also dynamic and always shifting. Instead, they overlap and interact in various ways to influence how people think, feel, and behave. The id, ego, and superego don’t function separately and independently. If the superego had its way, you would live up to the high idealistic standards without ever giving into the urges and demands of the primal id. The goal of the superego is to suppress the primitive urges of the id. In other words, it is what we believe we should be doing, how we feel that we should behave, and how we think we should treat others. The ego ideal: This is the idealized self that an individual aspires to. ![]() Doing things that go against the conscience can trigger negative consequences such as being punished or experiencing a sense of guilt.
![]() Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 413 square miles (1,070 km 2), of which 399 square miles (1,030 km 2) is land and 15 square miles (39 km 2) (3.6%) is water. Preslar Jr, and more recently by a series of three books by Gary Freeze, called The Catawbans.Īccording to the U.S. ![]() An official history of the Scots-Irish and German settlement was documented in 1954, by Charles J. Scots-Irish and German colonial immigrants first settled in the Catawba River valley in the mid-18th century. They now live along the border of North Carolina, near the city of Rock Hill, South Carolina. The Native Americans who once inhabited the region known as the Catawba people, were considered one of the most powerful Southeastern Siouan-speaking tribes in the Carolina Piedmont. The word "catawba" is rooted in the Choctaw sound kat'a pa, loosely translated as "to divide or separate, to break." However, scholars are fairly certain that this word was imposed from outside. ![]() The county is part of the Hickory–Lenoir–Morganton, NC Metropolitan Statistical Area.Ĭatawba County formed in 1842 from Lincoln County, was named after the Catawba River. Its county seat is Newton, and its largest city is Hickory. As of the 2020 census, the population was 160,610. The examples are for both novice and experienced Agile teams. ![]() To highlight any processes, tools, or people that made completing tasks and meeting deadlines easier To facilitate an activity-based retro for onboarding or general team building To dedicate a shared space to publicly celebrate one another To customize its format for any situation Good and bad experiences with current processes To expedite the top-of-mind discussion points after a Sprint To reflect after a difficult or long Sprint project To record insights and assign action itemsĭeep reflection on individual and team success To understand the stressors and overall team dynamic Sprint retrospective examples describing their main focus and best use case Sprint Retrospective Example Learn more about the Sprint Review meeting!
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![]() I actually only managed to write 5 poems in the 21-day challenge. It all started with a poetry challenge hosted by the lovely BookLeaf Publishing company. It also features a cover I designed myself! ( #digitalcollaging is the best) Check it out here - (on amazon au - and a digital version - ) This (very short) book features 18 poems that I've written over the years - some dating back to my early twenties and some as recent as last year. I did a thing! My SECOND #BOOK is now out! Thank you also to each and every one of you who like, comment and share my work here on this platform! Order your copy NOW I want to say a huge thank you to my friends and family, for supporting my dreams over the last few months and the team at [ BookLeaf Publishing providing me with such an amazing platform that opened so many doors. I can’t wait to hear what you all think about the book and to see your fantastic reactions. This book has poems on the journey of a woman who is set to find validation and love outside but then she begins realising the worth of self love, and the game changes! It feels so good to finally share this huge achievement with you all and to call myself a published author for the 2nd time! The book is available to order on Amazon and has been published by [ BookLeaf Publishing I agree more on your this comment.I did a thing! I wrote a book! If you have been connected with me on LinkedIn for a while, you may already be aware about this. You will need to consider choices that are minimal expense and high effect. The best writing material business thoughts will increment deals and hold faithful clients. A writing material field-tested strategy ought to incorporate how you intend to showcase your business. We can say it's their business strategy or marketing strategy. Maintaining an effective writing material business requires knowing your clients and knowing how to contact them. This is the only reason I don't believe its a scam as much as it is a marketing ploy. I think its a great strategy for their business to grow potentially. It is up to the 30 authors to promote/market/direct others to visit bookleaf bringing more business to them. In addition to that, if they charge as amazon does, the cost of printing and allow the author to set their own price, they are now printing on demand and wasting no money of their own. Why 21 Days’ Writing Challenge By BookLeaf Publishing Became A Sensation ![]() But people place value differently, so this might be just the thing for you. ![]() Rope-a-dope is an expression that comes to mind. I must admit, it's hard not to slag this off, solely based on the "award". Only open for US residents, with separate identical "competitions" for UK, AU and Canada -although the company is based in India?Įveryone gets a participation trophy shipped to them. The author gets 100% of profits paid monthly? They do this for exposure and to make money off the actual printing? (which leads me to think that there won't be any profits to speak of as the cost of printing will eat it all up.) They select the "top 30" out of 50 entrants, so 30 titles gets printed, presumably strictly to order. There seems to be no other criteria for selecting the entrants, so the quality of the poetry might be dubious? The lack of any sort of literary criteria coupled with the entrance fee cinches it. The 21 days competition seems to be a way to drum up some extra customers more than anything else. This seems to be a cheap-ish vanity press, based in India. I would suggest doing some due dilligence before signing up. I had a look at the page, and I must say there are some red flags for me here. This might not be a (complete) scam, If it is real and they acutally make the books, good on everyone. Always try to do your research like Nyki said, be wary and keep your shield high. Then if you scroll to the bottom you will see another example of a writer arguing with a publisher. First a link to information about publishing scams:īook Publishers To Avoid And Watch Out For New Author Scams () Unfortunately most people would rather watch a tv then read a book.īTW, here is a great example. There are approximately 3million books published every year and every book has a less then 1% chance of gathering publicity. In reality they probably will only add it to their own bookstore. It could be that some authors assumed their book will be published and introduced into every barnes and nobles across the country for only $50. They have a 4.5 google review rating of almost 700 reviewers and a corporate identity number. ![]() I was only able to see 1 person complaining about their book not being published although I didn't check their social media. |