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So, you’ve made it through almost nine months of taking care of your wife through it all: Her mood swings, her stress, her pain. You’ve probably heard nothing but nonstop conversation about the baby – decorating his or her new little room, picking out strollers, what brand of diaper to use, baby showers, etc., ad nauseam. You might think you’re just about ready for a break.  Think again.

When you hit the last week, you better shift into “Go” mode. And fast. Of course, I’m talking about the last scheduled week – don’t forget that no one can tell the hour or the day that the baby will arrive, and as the old saying goes, “Man makes plans and God laughs.”

You’ve got to finish every pregnancy-era project now or you’ll never get them done. Once the baby’s out, it’s the center of your universe – not to mention that the little tyke will double as an air-raid siren at night to keep you awake.

Please bear in mind that this post is written for first-time fathers. There are, of course, many other things you’ll need to take care of if you’ve already got kids. But here are the top 10 last-minute preparation that you absolutely have to have finished by the last week, or you’ll seriously regret it.

  1. Take Leave/Special Liberty/Pass Now.  You should have put this request in a while ago.  But you’re going to need this week off of work to get all of your ducks in a row before the baby pops out.
  2. Finish the Nest.  Some inscrutable switch in your wife is going to pop on in the last week of pregnancy.  She’s going to want to clean out the garage, organize every closet, inventory the pantry – everything she’s ever wanted in a perfect house should be, she’ll want to do.  She probably won’t ask you to do it, but you need to be the one doing it.  She shouldn’t be hauling the bin of Christmas lights to the basement or moving your old CD collection to a new closet; you should.  Don’t ask her why she’s doing all of this – it’s an instinct she’s got, and she doesn’t care whether the baby will be able to tell that the Tupperware isn’t matched up with its lids.  Whatever she wants, do it.
  3. Get your necessities together.  If you’re planning on having a hospital birth, you need to be ready for that.  They should have given you a labor kit, but that won’t have everything you need.  You also need to make sure that the crib is put together, the car seat is assembled and that you’ve purchased all of the diapers, baby clothes, burp cloths and pacifiers you’ll need.
  4. Call your wife’s Mom, sister, best friend, or whomever is her number one gal pal.  Make sure they take her out for a manicure and a pedicure, even if your wife isn’t usually into that.  Get her out of the house, some time with the girls and encourage her to focus on herself for a while.  She’s felt like two people for long enough – she needs time for her.
  5. Take her out on a date.  Before the baby is born, take her out on a romantic date.  A candlelit dinner, a movie, a walk on the waterfront or on the beach.  Take care of her.  Not only is this the last chance you’ll get to have a date for quite some time, she needs to feel rewarded for the hard work she’s put in by growing a baby.
  6. Get the baby’s room ready.  Chances are, she’s already picked out most of what she wants to go in the room.  If you were smart, you were engaged, helpful, and let her make 100% of the decisions.  Now, it’s time to implement.  Finish the wallpaper, get the toys set up, make sure the crib, the motorized swing and everything else baby will need is ready to go.
  7. Exercise with her.  This will mostly consist of walking in the last week – no plans or hardcore abdominal workouts.  But if she’s active, she’s not just chasing away the blues (and cabin fever, for that matter) she’s getting her mind off her discomfort and preparing her body for labor.  Spend time walking around the block, or choose a nearby, easy trail that the two of you can stroll on.
  8. Brush up on your reading.  If you’ve been wise, you’ve been reading books about childbirth and raising a brand new baby.  If books aren’t your style, I think we both know that you’re capable of reading blogs (see what I did there?  Eh?)  Get out and give yourself a primer all over again.  It’ll help you manage your excitement and give you confidence, which will rub off on her, too.
  9. Help her practice her birth techniques.  Go over everything again – the breathing, the methods she’s learned to stay calm, how and when to push, and so forth.  It will help the two of you connect, and will refresh your memory, too, so you can remind her when you’re in labor.  That is, if she gets her hands off your throat long enough for you to speak.  (If you’re not in the know, she’s going to be highly pissed off the entire time she’s giving birth.)
  10. Go back over your list.  Have you forgotten anything the baby will want or need?  If so, start scanning Craigslist and garage sales to fill in the gaps.  Have you made sure she’s taking good care of herself?  Are you taking good care of her?  Does she have her support network nearby and prepared for when the moment comes?
The birth of your first child will be a momentous occasion that you will remember for the rest of your life.  If you’ve done everything right, the day will come and you’ll realize that…you didn’t do everything right, you didn’t do half of what you should have, and you’re completely unprepared for it.  But don’t worry.  This magnificent species of ours has been carrying on for a long time, and parenting is always a process of trial and error.
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Up-and-coming R&B singer Emani 22 has passed away. She was just 22 years old.

Emani 22's producer J Maine confirmed the artist's death in an interview with People on Thursday (Oct. 14). "Emani 22 was a wonderful individual that literally brightened up any room she was in," he said.

"I worked on music with her, and helped her put together her last project which was The Color Red," he added. "The way we worked together was effortless, we just understood each other. It hurts so bad to know that the last time I saw her was the last time I'd ever see her again."

Maine added that he considered Emani to be like a little sister. "She will be missed and never forgotten, and I'll always think about the great times we had hanging out."

It's rumored that Emani was killed in a car crash on Sunday (Oct. 10). The Sun reports that Los Angeles authorities are searching for a suspect involved in a hit and run, though it has not been confirmed if the case is linked to Emani's death.

Emani 22, real name Emani Johnson, was a rising singer. She had a growing Instagram account under @lonebrian. Her best known songs are "Feelings" and "Close." Music fans may also recognize her vocals in the Trippie Redd song "Fire Starter."

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"I don’t even know what to say…" she wrote. "This doesn’t even feel real. I used to spend almost every day with you. You taught me so many things. You are my inspiration for many things (hair, nails, style, etc.) ... my big sister ... I’m gonna miss you so much."

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Two of my great loves in life are photography and travel. Through travel I have learned to appreciate other cultures and see the vast beauty that exists throughout the world. I realize how very different people and cultures are, and at the same time feel that, by observing through the lens, appreciating and capturing the beauty, that I somehow become a part of these foreign cultures.

I have always used my photography to document things in my life, to make sure I don’t miss any details that otherwise might later be forgotten. I enjoy sharing my experiences with others through my photography and hope it inspires people to pursue their own adventures.

My earliest memory of photography was in school when I was drawn to advanced SLR cameras and found myself desperately wanting one for Christmas. I had always had point and shoots, but wanted more than “just snapshots”. That year I received my Pentax K-1000 with lenses and flash. I now recall that as “The Best Christmas Ever”. I started going to the library and checking out every photography book I could find, and asking for all their old photography magazines. By the time I signed up for my first official photography class, I knew my way around a SLR fairly well. I remember my photography instructor telling the other students to ask me for help often, I was quite proud to be someone people went to for help and advice. I was also very grateful to finally be in a darkroom, I was very excited to be able to use real equipment, and it inspired me to invest in a darkroom of my own. While still in school, I had an internship with the local paper and I had photos receive recognition and awards in tourist magazines.

After years of experimenting in my darkroom, and many requests from family and friends for my photographs, I was almost convinced to start selling and showing my photos to the public. Then, a cross country trip resulted in thousands of pictures. I could no longer keep these experiences to myself. I decided to finally frame and share my experiences. Once I did, I received a very warm reception. I currently have photos hanging in organic markets, some local art appreciative restaurants and coffee houses, and the Cooperstown Art Gallery. I have been at Harvest Festivals, holiday festivals, The Albany Tree Lighting Ceremony, and have reserved space at The Albany Tulip Festival. I also have work displayed at the Wall Talk Gallery in Northampton, MA; I am in the Middleburgh's Artisan's Gallery Traveling Art Show. I have recently scheduled several Art Night openings at places like Moon and River Cafe, in Schenectady and Ambition coffee house and eatery on Jay Street, Schenectady. People have begun to approach me, and am excited to have already been asked to participate in many projects this spring and summer, from outdoor art exhibitions, to Art Shows, to an offer to be an Art Night band photographer, and an offer to be the official photographer for a tourism project that will reach nationwide audiences.

I hope that my photos truly inspire all who see them to get out and find people, places, and experiences so memorable, that they must be shared.
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I have just started using MCL 2.0b1 and have found several annoyances.
First the *fred-window-position* and *fred-window-size* variables do not
seem to position and size new fred windows.  Also, defpascal functions will
no longer compile.  The most annoying thing is that I still can't get
swapmmumode to work.  Every time I try it, it crashes the machine and gets
a bus error.  I want to be reading and writing directly to 8-24 video cards
and I need 32 bit addressing to do that.  Anyone know the right way to do

Allen Brookes


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Re: Simple scrolling windows for text

In article <59a8c9ddb.000fb61@kirk.engin.umich.edu>, kieras@engin.umich.edu
(David Kieras) wrote:
> I need to be able to create simple windows to write text into, that have scroll bars
> and will automatically scroll so that the last information written into them is visible.
> There is no need for editing functions, but being able to save it as a file would be
> good.  It looked like simply creating a fred window was adequate, but it does not
> scroll automatically, so you can only see the last written information by manually
> scrolling it.  The listener window behaves the right way.  Scanning the documentation,
> and comparing a fred window with a listener window in the inspector doesn't turn up
> anything obvious. Note that the scrolling-windows in "examples" has the same problem.
> Any suggestions?
> Thanks!

You only have to redefine stream-tyo to check whether the window should be
scrolled. Try something like:

(defclass *show-window* (Fred-Window)

(Defmethod Einfuege-Cursor-Sichtbar-P ((Ich *show-window*))
  "insertion point visible"
  (> (fred-vpos ich (buffer-position (fred-buffer ich))) 0))

(Defmethod Stream-Tyo ((Ich *show-window*) Zeichen)
  (Apply #'Call-Next-Method Ich (List Zeichen))
  (When (Eql (Stream-Column ich) 0)
    (Unless (Einfuege-Cursor-Sichtbar-P Ich)
      (Sichtbare-Position-Fuer-Cursor-Setzen Ich))
    (Fred-Update Ich)))

(Defmethod Sichtbare-Position-Fuer-Cursor-Setzen ((Ich *show-window*))
  (Let ((Alte_Position_Oben (Buffer-Position (Fred-Display-Start-Mark
        (Cursor_Position (Buffer-Position (Fred-Buffer Ich))))
    (Declare (Ignore Alte_Position_Oben))
    (Set-Mark (Fred-Display-Start-Mark Ich) Cursor_Position)))

; Example

(Let ((Fenster (Make-Instance ' *show-window*)))
  (Dotimes (X 40)
    (print `(,x test ,(* 2 x) this is a nasty test message ,x) fenster))

Karsten Poeck


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Re: Symbolics/Intellicorp Announcement

Sorry if this came through twice.
(!@#*!@*# vax's pretending to be unix !#$^@*#^)

Subject:  Symbolics/Intellicorp Announcement

        Date: Tue, 14 Mar 89 18:23 EST
        From: barmar@Think.COM (Barry Margolin)

        Does KEE do anything hardware specific that makes it less than trivial
        to port it to Ivory?  ...                                   what's the
        significance of the XL400 side of the agreement?
    KEE is a large complex product.  It would be silly for a company like
    Intellicorp to simply compile KEE for the MacIvory or XL400, and then ship
    it to customers without doing any performance tuning or software QA.  For a
    product like KEE, the job of porting it to a new platform like the XL400 is
    has a large component of testing and QA.
    See below.
        Date: Tue, 14 Mar 89 17:38 EST
        From: MILLER@vax.cam.nbs.gov (Bruce)
        I hate to be a killjoy but I keep hearing `You only have to recompile.'
    You do only have to recompile to get a working version on the XL400 or
    MacIvory.  However, it is naive to presume that the performance of any
    complex software product is going to be the same on an Ivory-based machine
    as it is on a 36xx, and naive to presume that an embedded system is going
    to have the same performance as an unembedded system.
    Some things on an Ivory-based platform will run faster than on the 3600,
    some things might run slower; code which has been carefully optimized for
    the 3600 might prove to be slower than one wants on the Ivory.  After all,
    the architectures are quite different.
Excellent reply, Scott.  However, my point was that in the past the
tone has been something like `You only have to recompile.  Oh... you *might*
want to tune a bit.'  I have always assumed that, in the end, I would be doing more
than just a bit of tuning.  But the implication of the annoucement ---
that this tuning is of a magnitude that warrants a joint development agreement ---
and certainly the tone of the reply seems to be `... If you are at all concerned
with performance you almost  certainly will want to tune a lot.'
>From the technical point of view, this doesn't surprise me (or even bother me)
all that much; but from the business point of view it seems to be a slight
change of tune. No?

This leads me to the following tangent; I know that defsystem, et.al., is
supposed to help keep track of BIN & IBIN files.  Now I wonder: Will it help
us much in keeping track of separately tuned sources?

I should point out that much our work involves a number of relatively small
(1-2 dozen files) systems used for research that are generally developed by
one person and used on only a handfull of sites/machines.   Performance usually
is an issue.  I couldn't live without defsystem, but a lot of its power is a
bit heavy; obviously designed for really large systems with many developers.


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Symbolics vs the Domain system

Has anyone found a good solution for the following problem?
A user on a Symbolics is accessing some random INTERNET host to retrieve
some files -- but the nameserver for that host doesn't have HINFO or WKS
records -- sooo things like show directory will only list the filenames
(not the dates).  This often makes it difficult to tell if the file you
want is newer than the version you have.

Often the user knows what the remote system type is but it appears that
there is no way to tell Genera.  For example, if the WKS records are not
present the user is prompted for the protocol to use, but if the HINFO
record is not present you are not prompted for the machine type.

The answer does not appear to be to requre the remote hosts to have WKS
and HINFO records (see the message below). If anyone has any suggestions
on how to deal with this type of problem I'd love to hear them.

P.S. this is a response to a message I sent on tcp-ip in which I mentioned
that Genera appeared to use the WKS and HINFO records.

     From: steve@umiacs.UMD.EDU
	To quote scripture (RFC 1123, section 2.2):
	     An application SHOULD NOT rely on the ability to locate a WKS
	   record containing an accurate listing of all services at a
	   particular host address, since the WKS RR type is not often used
	   by Internet sites.  To confirm that a service is present, simply
	   attempt to use it.
	The Symbolics implementation is wrong.  (I still put in WKS records, and
     make some attempt to keep them up-to-date, but that's more for human use --
     "gee, what services does this bogus host over here support" -- than for
     program use.)
	Although not explicitly forbidden by the Hosts Requirements RFCs, I think
     that the use of HINFO records to determine machine and operating system type
     falls into the same category as above.  I also still put in HINFO records,
     again as an aid to other system admins who might be trying to figure out
     why one of my machines is pelting them with packets, or otherwise causing
     them problems.  ("Jeez, that's a Brand X machine, no wonder those mail
     headers look so hopeless...")
	No doubt I will neither be the first nor the last to point this out.


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Falco columbarius
Minnesota Seasonal Status:

A regular breeding resident and migrant; increasingly overwinters in the state. The Merlin was uncommon during the Minnesota Breeding Bird Atlas (MNBBA).

North American Breeding Distribution and Relative Abundance:

A Holarctic species breeding across the entire northern Nearctic and Palearctic regions. In North America the species is found across all the Canadian provinces and Alaska to the tree limit and has a year-round distribution in the prairie parklands of the northern Great Plains in the United States and in the Canadian Prairie provinces. Its breeding distribution is expanding southward into all of the northeastern and midwestern states. The Merlin is sparsely distributed throughout its range (Figure 1).

Conservation Concern:
Conservation Status Score 7

Assigned a Continental Concern Score of 7/20 by Partners in Flight.

Life History

A short- to long-distance migrant; rare in Minnesota during winter. Most individuals from Minnesota are thought to migrate across the western and coastal areas of the United States, Mexico, the Caribbean, and Central America, and as far south as Ecuador in South America.

Predator of small to medium-sized birds, usually captured on the wing or off perches.

Site usually high in a coniferous tree within forested or open habitats of riparian areas of lakes and rivers and in urban areas; rarely on the ground, on a cliff, or in a cavity. Does not build its own nest but uses old crow, raven, or hawk nests.

Merlin Merlin. Falco columbarius
© David Brislance
Figure 1.

Breeding distribution and relative abundance of the Merlin in North America based on the federal Breeding Bird Survey, 2011–2015 (Sauer et al. 2017).

Minnesota Breeding Bird Distribution*

Three subspecies of the Merlin are recognized. The Minnesota race is the “Boreal Merlin” (Falco columbarius columbarius). The two others are the dark-colored “Black Merlin” (F. c. suckleyi), found in the Pacific Northwest; and the light-colored “Prairie Merlin” (F. c. richardsonii), from the northern prairies (Warkentin et al. 2005).

Though Roberts (1932) observed this species “not over a half a dozen times during fifty years,” he lectured on the identification of the Merlin as follows: “When a student has thoroughly learned the difference in appearance and flight between the Sparrow Hawk and the Sharp-shinned Hawk, between a Falcon with long, narrow wings, and an Accipiter with short, rounded wings, he will be able, if a good opportunity offers, to identify a Pigeon Hawk.” The Merlin was formerly known as the Pigeon Hawk because its flight had a resemblance to that of a pigeon.

Roberts (1932, 1936) labeled the species as “mainly a migrant, spring and fall,” but he acknowledged there were several summer records, evidence that it “breeds infrequently in the extreme northern part of the state.” He noted observations of Merlins that indicated nesting in many areas, specifically at Leech Lake and in Cook, Itasca, Marshall, and St. Louis Counties. He reported that nests had been found in adjacent North Dakota in 1893, and in Grinnell, Iowa. In Iowa, Bailey (1918) also reported this observation, as well as 1 found in Marion, Iowa, in 1908.

As of 1932, Roberts (1932) had never reported a positive nesting of this species in Minnesota, but by the time the 1936 version of his treatise was published, 3 nests had been located in northern Cook County. One nest with 4 young was found on Gunflint Lake, and another with 3 young and 1 egg on Saganaga Lake. The third observation was thought suspicious; a nest was reportedly found on Lake Winchell, where “mice” were being brought to the nest. Merlins are known to feed primarily on birds, large insects, and bats. Small mammals are rarely reported as prey, although they have been in Sweden when small rodents are at high density (Warkentin et al. 2005). Four nests were also found on the north shore of Saganaga Lake, all with young, but these were located in Canada.

Decades later, Green and Janssen (1975) identified the Merlin as a summer resident “in the northeastern and north-central regions and adjacent counties in the northwestern region.” They suggested it was a very scarce species, except along the Canadian border and possibly in Kittson and Roseau Counties. They reported confirmed nesting in Cook, Lake, and St. Louis Counties. Years later, Johnson (1982) echoed the same distribution described by Green and Janssen. His summary included (1) 8 confirmed nesting records from 1935 to 1981 from Cook, Lake, and St. Louis Counties, including 1 record from Minnesota Point in Duluth in 1952; (2) 33 summer observations from 1922 to 1981, and 35 records between 1952 and 1979 of “reported nesting” and “defending adults seen” from the same 3 counties; and (3) summer observations from Cass, Lake of the Woods, Kittson, Roseau, Morrison, Becker, Beltrami, Carlton, Itasca, Hennepin, Otter Tail, Marshall, and Stearns Counties. Possible nesting was also suggested for Agassiz National Wildlife Refuge in Marshall County and for Wadena County.

Janssen, in 1987, summarized a breeding distribution of the Merlin similar to that described by Johnson (1982). He reported confirmed nesting in 3 counties since 1970, from northern Cook, Lake, and St. Louis. Hertzel and Janssen (1998) added a confirmed nesting in Lake of the Woods County since 1970.

The Minnesota Biological Survey recorded 49 breeding season locations for the Merlin (Minnesota Department of Natural Resources 2017). Most were located in northern Lake and St. Louis Counties, but locations were identified as far south as Carlton and Aitkin Counties, west to southern Beltrami County, and in the northwest, where there were single locations in Kittson and Roseau Counties.

The MNBBA reported 401 records of the Merlin and greatly expanded the potential breeding range of the species in Minnesota (Figure 2). Records were located as far southeast as Winona County, southwest to Meeker County, and west to Wilkin and Polk Counties. A total of 56 blocks had confirmed nesting records, and 71 had probable nesting records (Figure 3; Table 1). A total of 6.1% (291/4,743) of the blocks covered included some evidence of Merlins, while 6.5% (153/2,337) of priority blocks included Merlins. Confirmed nesting was identified in 20 counties, ranging as far south as Dakota County and northwest to Marshall, Polk, and Roseau Counties.

Hatch (1892), Roberts (1932, 1936), and Robbins (1991) in Wisconsin all suggest that the Merlin was a rare species in Minnesota and Wisconsin in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Hatch (1892) stated, “I have never yet seen a specimen of them alive, much as I have been on the alert for them.” Cadman et al. (2007) cited earlier accounts that said that in the early 1900s Merlins were considered an abundant breeder along western James Bay in Ontario, and in the mid-1930s, a regular breeder across central and northern Ontario.

In his detailed summary on the status of the Merlin, Evans (1982) documented that the “Prairie or Richardson’s” subspecies suffered the most serious population declines during the DDT era in the mid-1900s. He also stated that the “Boreal or Taiga” Merlins also declined to some extent but suggested they had stabilized by the early 1980s. Unfortunately, they are still being exposed to organochlorine compounds during migration and in overwintering areas, which is enough to affect reproductive success (Farmer et al. 2008).

Warkentin et al. (2005) emphasized that many data sets indicated Merlins had recovered from the widespread population declines of the 1960s and suggested either stable or increasing populations from the 1960s through the early 2000s. Merlins have made a remarkable recovery and expansion in their North American population through their use of urbanized landscapes. In Minnesota, Merlins have substantially increased over the past 100 to 150 years, especially through their colonization and use of old crow nests in urban areas. Similar increases have been reported in Michigan, Ontario, and Wisconsin. For instance, Ontario found a 100% increase in the probability of observation of the species from its first atlas (1981–1985) to its second atlas (2001–2005) (Cadman et al. 2007).

*Note that the definition of confirmed nesting of a species is different for Breeding Bird Atlas projects, including the definition used by the Minnesota Breeding Bird Atlas, compared with a more restrictive definition used by the Minnesota Ornithologists’ Union. For details see the Data Methods Section.

Figure 2.

Breeding distribution of the Merlin in Minnesota based on the Breeding Bird Atlas (2009 – 2013).

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Figure 3.

Summary statistics of observations by breeding status category for the Merlin in Minnesota based on all blocks (each 5 km x 5 km) surveyed during the Breeding Bird Atlas (2009-2013).

Breeding statusBlocks (%)Priority Blocks (%)
Confirmed56 (1.2%)25 (1.1%)
Probable71 (1.5%)27 (1.2%)
Possible152 (3.2%)96 (4.1%)
Observed12 (0.3%)5 (0.2%)
Total291 (6.1%)153 (6.5%)
Table 1.

Summary statistics for the Merlin observations by breeding status category for all blocks and priority blocks (each 5 km x 5 km) surveyed during the Minnesota Breeding Bird Atlas (2009-2013).

Breeding Habitat

Merlins primarily use shorelines of lakes, rivers, and bogs; forest openings; and islands of larger lakes, especially those with large evergreen trees with suitable nest sites (Johnson 1982; Warkentin et al. 2005). Evans (1982) noted the use of coniferous trees near open areas, such as forest edges, bogs, and lakes, and that nesting near water appears to be common. More recently, urban and suburban woodlots or forested areas with large evergreen trees, food, and nest sites have proven to be suitable nesting areas (Figure 4).

Figure 4.

Typical breeding habitat of the Merlin in an urban setting (© Lee A. Pfannmuller).

Population Abundance

Overall, Merlins are still a sparsely distributed species in Minnesota and globally. Population estimates by Partners in Flight (2017) were 1.1 to 1.3 million individuals in North America and 9,000 in Minnesota.

Trend estimates from the federal Breeding Bird Survey (BBS) for the Merlin were unreliable for Minnesota but also for every region, state, and province. The trend estimate with the highest mean number of detections was from all routes completed in Canada, but it was also unreliable. However, at minimum, the Canadian trend illustrated the increase in the population of the species that has been documented by many other data sets. The Canadian trend indicated a nonsignificant increase of 2.64% per year from 1966 to 2015 (Figure 5). Partners in Flight (Rosenberg et al. 2016) estimated that Merlin populations have increased by more than 200% from 1970 to 2014!

Migration counts at Hawk Ridge, in Duluth, Minnesota, also increased significantly from 1974 to 2016 by 7.22% per year, although the recent counts from 2006 to 2016 are stable (Figure 6). The increase in the number of migrants since the mid-1980s is especially striking and corresponds with the BBS data.

Figure 5.

Breeding population trend for the Merlin in Canada for 1966–2015 based on the federal Breeding Bird Survey (Sauer et al 2017).

Figure 6.

Fall migration counts of the Merlin  at Hawk Ridge, Duluth, Minnesota, as calculated by the Raptor Population Index from 1974 to 2016.

The Merlin has had a highly variable population history over the past 100 to 150 years, but currently its population is very healthy, at least compared with its past. The Continental Concern Score for this species is very low, at 7/20 (Rosenberg et al. 2016). The primary reason for its low score is its wide distribution and increasing population.

Roberts, based on his early experiences with this species, would be surprised at the Merlin’s current distribution and perhaps cautious. He warned that “if it were common it would be, despite its small size, a serious menace to bird-life, both wild and domesticated.” Current evidence suggests this worry is unwarranted. The species preys on birds, primarily on the most common species, including many exotic House Sparrows, within its home range (Warkentin et al. 2005). Warkentin et al. listed no domesticated organisms in their summary of the Merlin diet. In contrast, Chartier et al. (2013) was concerned with population declines in migratory passerines and the availability of adequate food supplies, which might affect the nest productivity of Merlins.

Overall, the Merlin is considered to be stable and not currently at risk. In the past, shooting was a problem and may continue to be. Warkentin et al. (2005) reported that shooting Merlins was still known in Alberta and Saskatchewan. This threat continues in some of its wintering grounds in Central and South America. The Merlin was added to the United States and Mexico Migratory Bird Treaty in 1972 (Evans 1982).

Causes of mortality are unclear. Warkentin et al. (2005) reported that of 88 Merlin deaths in Saskatoon, 43% were from collisions, 7% from shooting, 2% from poisoning, 2% from cat predation, 1% from weather, and 45% unknown. Information on mortality during migration due to collisions with windows, towers, or wind turbines is largely unknown. The greatest threat to Merlins may be from climate change. Lantham et al. (2015) and the National Audubon Society (2015), in their review of bird species susceptible to climate change, predicted a 97% loss of the species’ current summer range over the next 80 years. They labeled the Merlin as “climate endangered” but acknowledged that even in the face of climate change, the species’ salvation may be its recent success in cities, towns, and urbanized landscapes.

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  • Cadman, Michael D., Donald A. Sutherland, Gregor G. Beck, Denis Lepage, and Andrew R. Couturier, eds. 2007. The Atlas of the Breeding Birds of Ontario, 2001–2005. Toronto: Bird Studies Canada, Environment Canada, Ontario Field Ornithologists, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, and Ontario Nature.

  • Chartier, Allen T., Jennifer J. Baldy, and John M. Brenneman, eds. 2013. Michigan Breeding Bird Atlas II. Kalamazoo, MI: Kalamazoo Nature Center.

  • Evans, David L. 1982. Status Report on Twelve Raptors. Special Scientific Report – Wildlife 238. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service.

  • Farmer, Christopher J., Laurie J. Goodrich, Ernesto Ruelas Inzunza, and Jeff P. Smith. 2008. “Conservation Status of North America’s Birds of Prey.” In State of North America’s Birds of Prey. Series in Ornithology, No. 3, edited by Keith L. Bildstein, Jeff P. Smith, Ernesto Ruelas Inzunza, and Richard R. Veit, 303–420. Cambridge, MA: Nuttall Ornithological Club and American Ornithologists’ Union.

  • Green, Janet C., and Robert B. Janssen. 1975. Minnesota Birds: Where, When and How Many. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

  • Hatch, Philo L. 1892. First Report: Accompanied with Notes on the Birds of Minnesota. The Geological and Natural History Survey of Minnesota Zoological Series. Minneapolis: Harrison & Smith Printers.

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Wed, 3 Jul 2019 Source: starrfm.com.gh

The leadership of Parliament has said it will give up on plans to build a new chamber if Ghanaians are persistent in their opposition to the project.

According to Majority and Minority leaders of the House, they will first make their case on the need for a new chamber and then make Ghanaians draw their conclusions afterwards.

The construction of the new chamber is expected to begin before the end of 2019.

The Speaker of the House has said Parliament will not tolerate the project it costs beyond $200 million.

Renowned Ghanaian architect, David Frank Adjaye, designed the model and took members of the House through it last Friday.

He told the media that the project will be completed in three years if it begins before the end of the year.

The new chamber will be a multi-purpose building with a chapel, mosque, eatery and a museum.

In a rare appearance on morning TV, the majority leader Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu and Minority leader Haruna Iddrisu who appeared on GHone TV Wednesday morning defended the need for a new House but noted the House will be sensitive to the views of Ghanaians.

“We will try explain to them why we need this edifice but if after that people are still not in favour, we will then have no choice but to shelve it,” the Majority leader told host Serwaa Amihere.

Reacting to public sentiments on whether the new chamber was a priority, the majority leader said it would not be practical to expect all problems in the country to be fixed before provision is made for an important institution like Parliament. He insisted that the new chamber is not for luxury but meant to offer a more conducive environment for Parliamentary work.

Meanwhile, some members of the House have broken ranks over the project.

“I see a number of schools in my constituency where students are still writing on their bellies and it breaks my heart. I see women who go long distances to carry water that those who are privileged to be in the positions we are in will not even use to wash our cars.” “For us to have the privilege we have today, not to prioritise their problems and to think of the comfort of where we will sit and work, I think is a shame,” Tamale North MP Suhuyini wrote on Facebook.

Mr. Suhyini joins two other Minority MPs; Ras Mubarak and Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, to criticise the project.

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Chances Are You Baby-Talk to Your Dog... But Does He Care?

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Dog-speak. We all do it, but a new study shows there's good reason to baby-talk to your dog.

When I walked into the room I heard a woman speaking to someone. She was saying "You are so adorable! Yes you are! You are. You are so sweet that you make sugar seem sour. Don't you? Don't you?" She had pitched her voice quite high and was delivering the words in a melodious rhythm. Before I even turned to look at her, I knew that she was speaking to either a baby or a dog. When I did look in her direction I saw that she was holding a cream-coloured Pomeranian to whom this outpouring of affection was directed. So natural is this impulse to change one's voice and speech patterns when addressing babies, puppies or dogs that she probably didn't even realize that she had veered from "normal" human speech into the specific dialect commonly used for the "babies" in our lives.

In most cultures, when we want to communicate with a dog, there is a special form of language used. We all know that our language changes under different circumstances. For example, there is a formal language we utilize when we are talking to authorities or to an audience. It is more reserved and ceremonial than the language we employ when talking with family and friends. Similarly, there is a special kind of language we use when we are talking to babies and very young children. With babies we use a higher pitched, singsong tone with lots of changes in harmony and many repetitions. Technically, this form of verbal communication should be called infant-directed speech, however researchers typically call this special language reserved for children "Motherese." Though the name comes from the fact that this is usually the language mothers use when they are talking to their offspring, the use of Motherese is certainly not confined to mothers. Virtually all adults, whether male or female, parents or not, tend to use it when they are talking to a very young child. I have even heard a six-year-old girl use the same kind of language when talking to her baby brother, which suggests that this might be an automatic response we humans have when trying to communicate with young helpless things. In any event, research shows that infants seem to like to hear Motherese spoken because they pay more attention to people using it. But does your dog care?

Back in the 1980s, psychologists Kathy Hirsh-Pasek and Rebecca Treiman (then at the University of Pennsylvania) were able to show that the language we use when we are talking to dogs is very similar to Motherese. Technically it should be called dog-directed speech, but instead they playfully labelled this form of language "Doggerel."

The fact that we use the same kind of speech when talking to dogs and children should not be all that surprising. Data has shown that the brains of adult women activate in the same way and in the same places when they are presented with a picture of their dog or a picture of their own children.

Dog-directed speech or Doggerel is certainly not the normal language one would use around other adults. When we are talking to our canine companions our sentences are much shorter. Strangely, we also ask twice as many questions of our dogs than we do of humans, even though we really don't seem to expect any answers. These questions are mostly trivial social exchanges rather than information seeking, such as, "How do you feel today, Lassie?" A lot of these queries are in the form of "tag questions," which is where one makes an observation and then turns it into a question at the very end. An example of this would be saying, "You're hungry, aren't you?" When speaking to our dogs we are also 20 times more likely to repeat ourselves than when we talk with adult humans. These repetitions can be exact copies, partial repetitions, or some form of rephrasing. An example of rephrasing and repeating would be "Lassie you're a good dog. What a good dog you are!"

Recently, a research team headed by Tobey Ben-Aderet of the Psychology Department at Hunter College in New York City asked the obvious question—Does it matter at all to dogs that we are speaking to them in Doggerel rather than in normal speech tones? The report of the team's findings was published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society.

Here's how they set about determining the answer. To get samples of Doggerel, the researchers recorded the voices of women speaking to photographs of dogs. These photographs included a puppy, an adult dog, and an older dog. To get a sample of normal human speech, they had the same women speak to the researcher. In all cases the women repeated a short script which was, "Hi! Hello cutie! Who's a good boy? Come here! Good boy! Yes! Come here, sweetie pie! What a good boy!"

When the researchers analyzed these voice recordings they found that the women used Doggerel when speaking to all of the dogs, regardless of their age. In all instances their voices were pitched higher than in normal human adult-directed speech. The only difference that the investigators could find is that when talking to puppies, the women pitched their voices even a bit higher than they did for the older dogs. In other words, in these women's eyes all dogs were baby-like and so they used baby-talk when speaking to them.

To test whether speaking in Doggerel affected the dog's behaviours, the researchers placed a high quality speaker in the room with the dog. They then played back the recorded clips from the same woman speaking in Doggerel and then using normal speech and videotaped the dog's reactions to the voice coming out of the speaker. Specifically, they looked at things like whether the dog looked at or approached the speaker, or whether he barked or whined when the speech sample was played, and so forth.

What they found was the puppies had the greatest reaction to hearing Doggerel. The overall amount of reaction decreased as the dogs grew older, until, with the oldest dogs in the test group, the reactions to normal speech or Doggerel were about the same. What seemed to be most important in determining the response of the dogs was the pitch of the voice. This was especially true for the puppies whose responses to Doggerel steadily increased as the pitch of the woman's voice became higher and higher.

The data clearly showed that when we use baby-talk with puppies, it catches their attention and gets them more involved. But why didn't Doggerel have more of an effect on the adult dogs? The experimenters suggest that this may be because the voices used in the experiment were from people the dogs were unfamiliar with, hypothesizing that perhaps, as dogs grow older, they become more selective as to whose voices they pay attention to. That means that when they are adults they are more likely to respond to the changes in inflection and tone coming from their owner or familiar voices.

This suggestion fits my own experiences very well. For example, when my dearly loved Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever, Dancer, was in his fifteenth year of life, and had slowed down considerably because of arthritis, one sure way to get him up and moving and his tail wagging was to pitch my voice as high as I comfortably could and speak to him in Doggerel: "Who's a good dog? Dancer's a good dog. You are, aren't you? I could just love you to pieces, couldn't I?" Of course, this conversation would take place in private since there are still some people out in the world who view such verbal interactions with dogs as sheer nonsense, an indication of lower intelligence or the sign of the early onset of dementia. But now we have scientific evidence to show that they are wrong. So go ahead and baby talk to your dog. I'm sure you already do, but now you have good reason to!

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Honestly, the feminist in me is so excited for this movie. It’s the kind of thing that I’ve been waiting for since I had a daughter, when I rewatched all my Disney princess stand-bys and realized just how sad the storylines were. Woman wants to change everything about herself for a prince, woman falls asleep and is rescued by a prince, woman needs a pretty dress to win prince. How had I not seen all that growing up?

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That was it. That was her response. I’m not going to pretend that I wasn’t a little let down. “Did you see she shoots a bow and arrow darlin?” I prompted. My little girl loves Artemis from Young Justice. She’s an archer. “Yea… Let’s watch She-Ra.”

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I realize that I shouldn’t push my daughter to like certain things, especially not movies or television. I should probably take pride in the fact that what I’m sure is an enormously expensive marketing campaign hasn’t swayed my little girl’s opinion. These would all be adult, mature reactions to have to the situation.

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I can’t answer that question. I don’t understand it. But I know that I feel a little ridiculous being so excited for a movie that the actual child of our family couldn’t care less about.

I guess, Brave is a big deal for all the women who realize that they grew up with kind of crummy princesses to look up to. We’re the ones who as adults, keep demanding more progressive characters for young girls. Our kids really don’t understand yet just why complacent princesses rescued by their one true love might set a bad example. To my daughter, whose always been told that girls could rescue themselves, this movie isn’t all that groundbreaking.

Either that, or Disney’s marketing team has really lost its touch.

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