TuneinTokyo
Hank Scorpio
The Mountain from Stone Mountain
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Post by TuneinTokyo on May 14, 2007 22:38:38 GMT -5
So humor me, I'm bored and it's been about three years now. voting ends tomorrow or so.......
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Daveman
Don Corleone
And if this were my career, I'd have to throw myself in front of a train.
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Post by Daveman on May 14, 2007 22:41:39 GMT -5
Yes. Close the poll now.
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TuneinTokyo
Hank Scorpio
The Mountain from Stone Mountain
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Post by TuneinTokyo on May 14, 2007 22:45:07 GMT -5
Not for 233 posts I'm not......Next.
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Daveman
Don Corleone
And if this were my career, I'd have to throw myself in front of a train.
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Post by Daveman on May 14, 2007 22:46:48 GMT -5
Not for 233 posts I'm not......Next. What if I spam the boards and ++ my post count for a few hours? How 'bout then?
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Post by DSR on May 14, 2007 22:49:26 GMT -5
At this point, if you lose your sig and and avy, I'll have no way of recognizing you.
In other words, do it.
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TuneinTokyo
Hank Scorpio
The Mountain from Stone Mountain
Posts: 6,431
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Post by TuneinTokyo on May 14, 2007 22:56:18 GMT -5
At this point, if you lose your sig and and avy, I'll have no way of recognizing you. In other words, do it. ;D It's a one way tie so far.......
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Post by dustybabydoll1985 on May 14, 2007 23:01:37 GMT -5
i thought this was a Vader thread. oh well.
go ahead and change it if u really want to, i don't mind.
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lotus
Hans Moleman
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Post by lotus on May 15, 2007 2:28:34 GMT -5
I say thee NAY! [Off Topic] I just found my next sig by the way [/off topic]
Your sig/avatar combo is Among Legendary Sig/Avatar combos on these boards. So I say No. Don't change what is classic.
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Post by Jay T. Jackson: Son of Samuel on May 15, 2007 2:33:26 GMT -5
i thought this was a Vader thread. oh well. So did I. and no Snitsky option? I'll have to go with the next best thing.
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Post by Brandon Walsh is Insane. on May 15, 2007 12:07:39 GMT -5
Monkey Dung. That's what I voted for. So there's your answer.
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Post by Mattification on May 15, 2007 12:10:22 GMT -5
I only voted for Monkey Dung because it said Monkey Dung.
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TuneinTokyo
Hank Scorpio
The Mountain from Stone Mountain
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Post by TuneinTokyo on May 15, 2007 17:59:49 GMT -5
Well folks the time has come, few have spoken many words and while Monkey Dung is a viable option in honor of the fattest dropkick in pro wrestling and the sheer brilliance of the greatest freestyle promo cutter ever I will stay with what I got. Thanks to all for voting. For you a special treat. and here's a special treat www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnnODUvonhgand another from Ultimo Chocula www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbarLeG0TeU&mode=related&search=Thanks again and enjoy!
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Post by gsguy on May 15, 2007 18:01:40 GMT -5
... It is time!
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Post by gsguy on May 15, 2007 18:03:14 GMT -5
(Looks at previous reply)
Or maybe it isn't. Guess you're keeping it.
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TuneinTokyo
Hank Scorpio
The Mountain from Stone Mountain
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Post by TuneinTokyo on May 15, 2007 18:12:31 GMT -5
(Looks at previous reply) Or maybe it isn't. Guess you're keeping it. Ani your tardiness in response sealed a victory for Brody and Blackwell......but just so you all don't feel so left out. Monkey-dung study offers clues about land-use, wildlife ecology CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Fecal matter of red colobus monkeys collected in western Uganda has yielded a wealth of knowledge about human land-use change and wildlife health and conservation. The main lesson, researchers say, is that the intensity of tree removal translates directly to parasite populations and the risk of infection of their hosts. In an effort to glean predictive power out of years of research on the effects of forest fragmentation on various species and ecological processes, researchers looked at nine differently fragmented regions of forests located in what is now agricultural landscape just west of Kibale National Park, in the foothills of the Ruwenzori Mountains. Within these regions, they focused on populations of red colobus (Piliocolobus tephrosceles) monkeys and the presence of strongyle and rhabditoid nematodes. For two years, Thomas R. Gillespie, a professor of pathobiology in the University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine, and Colin A. Chapman, an anthropologist at McGill University in Canada, surveyed the monkeys and determined nematode levels by examining 536 colobus fecal samples. Their study appears in the April issue of the journal Conservation Biology Gillespie is co-director with Illinois pathobiology colleague Tony Goldberg of the Kibale EcoHealth Project, a flagship program of the multidisciplinary U. of I. Earth and Society Initiative on Emerging Disease & Ecosystem Health. Red colobus are one of the most endangered African colobine species. The two groups of nematodes have been documented to infect red colobus and have the capacity to cause gastrointestinal problems that can be fatal. Gillespie and Chapman sorted through nine potential factors, including physical and biological attributes. They concluded that the degradation of the forest and human presence, as measured in stump density, strongly influenced the prevalence of parasitic nematodes. Infection risk, they reported also was higher in the fragment with the highest stump density than in the fragment with the lowest stump density. “Our results provide evidence that an easily measured index such as the number of stumps in a given area can be used to predict the degree to which a fundamental ecological process – host-parasite dynamics – can be altered by human disturbance,” Gillespie said. “We think that this pattern is likely to be common in disturbed areas and may represent an unrecognized threat for the conservation and management of various habitats.” Gillespie, who also holds appointments in the anthropology department and the Program in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Illinois, and Chapman, also a researcher for the Wildlife Conservation Society, were part of a team that last year reported that selective-logging practices in the region had changed the ecological balance for three primate species. The red-tailed guenon, they noted in the Journal of Applied Ecology, is still a primate in decline. They also reported high levels of parasitic infections in the guenons in the heavily logged areas. The parasites being monitored in their studies occur at high frequency in human populations in the logged region, but are absent from colobus species within Kibale National Park, where people and primates interact less frequently, Gillespie said. Physical factors considered in the new study included size, location and landscape of each of the nine fragmented regions, while biological factors in the mix were tree diversity, tree density, stump density and overall colobine density. Colobines are leaf-eaters that live in groups of five to 300 individuals, and they depend on forest cover to survive. The National Center for Environmental Research, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Science Foundation, Ford Foundation and Wildlife Conservation Society supported the research. Permission to conduct the research was given by the Uganda National Council for Science and Technology and the Uganda Wildlife Authority.
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Post by 'Foretold' Joker on May 15, 2007 18:16:12 GMT -5
Go for it, change is good!
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