Archive | April, 2011

Are Two Different Bird Niches Capable Of Nesting Two Feet Above Each Other?

or the past two years I’ve had a robin’s nest in a small Colorado Spruce in my front yard. This winter I noticed that there had been two nests all along, one around two feet above the other. I have always seen the Robins guarding the tree from march until migration time, even until now. But today I have been watching a mourning dove flying debris it has collected from my yard in and flying out the tree. The Robin standing on the ground near by, watching. I would rather have robins for pest control reasons. Is it possible they can nest so close with each other?
-I am having a hard time finding the perfect category for this question.

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Pitching A Story I’m Passionate About Writing. Should I Insist On Getting Paid?

I work for a media group, i.e. my newsroom is in charge of several publications. There’s a newspaper that’s considered the newsroom’s primary publication, as well as several others. I work for one of the minor magazines in that media group, whose market is pretty much still being tested. However, I’m gaining the major newspaper’s editors’ attention with my works as a reporter, and colleagues in my newsroom have expressed their appreciation for my writings.
Recently there’s been this documentary project on a subject I’m really passionate about, and in any case I’d like to write about it and have it published. Due to the segmentation of my magazine, this story cannot run there. That’s why I’m pitching to the newspaper. So really, in my heart, I’d do it for the love of it rather than for the money.
However, I’ve also been told that as a professional you need to be consistent in treating your pieces as a business commodity that deserves to be paid for.
A few copy editors from the major newspaper have written for my magazine and gotten paid extra as freelancers for their published pieces. However, I’ve also heard of reporters and copy editors from other magazines getting paid nothing for writing for the newspaper.
Now, I can understand if I get paid nothing if I had been using material from the same reportage to write different stories for different publications, because of course the point of having a convergent media group is to share resources. However, if writing the story for the newspaper would mean that I’ll have to moonlight on top of my magazine job and do an exclusive reportage that doesn’t run in my magazine, then I think I deserve to get paid as a freelancer. Especially that other people within the group have been treated as such.
Anyway, this story that I’m pitching… I really, really would love to do it and have it published on a media with considerable national exposure. It could be a precious milestone in my career even if I don’t get paid for it. Plus the people I’d be interviewing for this happen to be people I want to connect and keep in touch with. I’ve even been offered an exclusive interview arrangement which I don’t think other media have access to.
But then I also fear that if I easily agree to do this for free, the newspaper editor may think that I value my work too cheaply, and so the media group can take advantage of me in that way. I think selling one’s hard work cheap is a sign of weakness, and I certainly don’t want to come across as weak. I know that I’m an excellent writer, I work hard and drive extra miles to make my pieces happen, and I’m passionate about what I do… but I always push for my rights. Among my colleagues in the minor magazine, I’m the most adamant about getting my reportage costs reimbursed and contesting editors’ decisions that I don’t agree with, but I gain this confidence because my excellence and consistency give me bargaining power.
So here I am, a minor magazine reporter, pitching a story for the major newspaper. It’s a story I’m passionate about reporting, it cannot run in my magazine, so I’m pitching it to a media where the story is better suited.
What are my rights before the newspaper editors, and how should I assert them? Should I insist on getting paid, or can doing a first cross-publication story for free give me better advantages in the long run?
If the newspaper decides not to pay me, and accepting that does not benefit me in any way, should I pitch it to another newspaper / magazine that isn’t affiliated with my media group instead? If yes, then how do I get my pitch noticed and accepted on short notice by editors I don’t know personally?

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Will I Ever Make Friends? Help!?

So I’ve been in a relationship technically for 4 years. Two years with a real jerk starting at age 15, then another two years with a great guy starting at 17 and lasting until a few weeks ago at age 19. Most of our relationship was long distance (2hrs) because we go to different universities. So the only new “friend” I made at college was my roommate. We were both always gone on the weekends seeing our boyfriends and weren’t very social because we both didn’t need to be at the time. Bf’s were our life.
Well my most recent Ex thought it would be best to break up because I was the only girlfriend he had ever had and so I don’t really blame him. The sucky part is that we still care for each other and didn’t end on bad terms.
ANYWAYS, HERE IS THE QUESTION:
I feel like a new student at my University because I don’t know anyone, and it’s the end of the school year pretty much. I am a sophomore and will be a junior next fall. I have like one or two close friends from High school who I can confide in for now, but will it be hard to find a group of girlfriends to hang out with? I am getting anxious and nervous about my future now and if I will be a loner for the rest of my life. Did anyone transfer from a Comm. College to a University and feel the same way? I feel like everyone already has their niche that they built during freshman year in the dorms.

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Using Calculus Techniques Can Anyone Help Me With The Problem And Show Me How?

OHaganBooks.com is now offering a wide range of online books. Demand for The Secret Loves
of John Q, a romance novel by Margo Dufon that flopped after two weeks on the market, is
given by
q = −2 p2 + 5 p + 6 (0 ≤ p ≤ 3.3)
copies sold per week when the price is p dollars. Taking into account storage and shipping, it
costs OHaganBooks.com
C = 3q
dollars to sell q copies of The Secret Loves of John Q in a week. Please help me determine the
price OHaganBooks should charge to obtain the largest weekly revenue and determine the
largest weekly revenue. At this price, is the cost increasing or decreasing? What does this tell
you about the profit?
I am also interested in determining the price to charge for the maximum weekly profit. What is
the maximum weekly profit? Please explain any difference in the price that gives the maximum
revenue and the price that gives the maximum profit.
I would like your typed report, 2 – 3 pages in length, in two weeks. Include in the report all of
the necessary details so I fully understand your solutions. In addition to answering my questions,
you must show all of your calculations and include an explanation of how you arrived at your
answers. You must use calculus techniques and convince me that you have found the maximum
revenue and maximum profit. Your solution needs to be clear, variables need to be defined and
any equations used should be clearly explained.

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What Should Be The Sentence For These Two Muslim Arabs Who Killed Three Children And Their Parents In Itamar?

Two Palestinian Arabs, Hakim Maazan Niad Awad, an 18-year-old high school student, and Amjad Mahmud Fauzi Awad, 19, both from the West Bank village of Awarta, located 2 kilometers south of the settlement of Itamar were arrested in recent days for the brutal slaying of five members of the Fogel family in their Itamar home last month, the IDF and Shin Bet said on Sunday following the lifting of a media ban on the investigation.
The suspects have confessed to the stabbings and re-enacted the murders, security forces said on Sunday. According to Army Radio, they did not express remorse for their crimes.
Both men are affiliated with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PLFP) terror group and received significant assistance from family members and friends after the attack, security forces added.
The suspects planned the stabbings days ahead of time. On the night of March 11, after unsuccessful attempts to obtain firearms from a local PFLP representative in their village, the two set out toward Itamar on foot, armed with knives, a wirecutter and masks to cover their faces.
After walking one kilometer, they cut the wire fence that surrounds Itamar, climbed through a forest and over a hilltop, and reached a row of homes.
The suspects at first entered a home adjacent to the Fogel residence, but found that nobody was home. They stole an M-16 rifle from the home, ammunition and body armor, before walking on.
“They saw children sleeping in the home, and entered the Fogel family residence,” the IDF said.
Immediately after entering the home, the youths set their knives on two young brothers sleeping in their beds, 4-year-old Elad and 11-year-old Yoav.
They then entered the parents’ bedroom, where they launched a knife attack on Ehud and Ruth Fogel. The parents fought back, attempting to fend off the attackers, but died of their stab wounds during the struggle.
The two then left the house. One of the suspects returned and stabbed the three-month-old baby Hadas after she began crying to death in her crib.
According to Israel Radio, Amjad said that he was unaware that there were two other children in the house, and that if he had known, he would have stabbed them as well.
After completing the slaughter, the suspects walked back to the village and told Hakim’s uncle, PFLP member Salah Adin Awad, what they had done.
Salah hid their firearms and instructed them to burn their clothes, which were covered in blood.
The youths then resumed their daily life, while Salah sent the weapons to a friend in Ramallah, Jad Avid, who hid the guns in his home.
What would you do with them?

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I’m In A Closeted Relationship..?

So, I’m dating this girl. (Same sex relationship.)
Here’s the basics of it:
We’re both teenagers.
We met online.
She lives in New York, I live in Ohio.
We’ve been dating for two years.
We’re in love.
We’re both -secretly- bisexual.
Only our immediate best friends know about us.
But, lately I’ve been depressed about that last part. I want to be like all other couples; be “In a Relationship With- on Facebook, be able to write “I love you.” on her wall, be able to call her when she’s with her friends. I also want people to know that she’s not on the market, that she’s mine.
But, for some reason neither of us have ever talked about making it public. Only in the case of “What if I moved there?” But, we both know that won’t happen until I turn 18. And, that’s a long time from now.
Basically, I’m depressed because I’m living a completely secret life and when all my other friends talk about their relationship at the lunch table, I have nothing to say. Because all in all, she’s my little secret.
So, i guess my question is, how would I go about fixing this depression issue?

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