Bischon/Shih-Tzu Puppy needs new name

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Chinese Shar-Pei is pronounced "Shar-Pay".
Rocco for some reason thinks he has to teach this 10 week old Shar-Pei (Widow) how to fight. Rocco is 9 months old and as you can see not crazy like they say on TV. A dog is only as stupid as his/her owner!

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I walked outside and saw a large moth drying its wings. Looking at the 2 X 4's its wing span is about 6 or more inches accross. I am told by an expert, "one of the giant silkmoths,Possibly the Ceanothus Silkmoth".

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HQ stereo version highly recommended! Link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =KyWJlpIchkE&fmt=18
The Great Purple Hairstreak Butterfly (Altides halesus) is widely distributed in the southern and western United States, but is considered a rare butterfly in most places, and is seldom seen by most people. The larvae feed on various species of Mistletoe. The adult butterflies rarely open their wings, except to take flight, and usually appear dark charcoal/black-colored when at rest with their wings over their backs. The only time to see the amazing spectacle of their irridescent top side is when they first emerge from the chrysalis and expand their wings.

Just like the Morphos of South America, the irridescent scales appear to change color as the light refracts from them at different angles. The freshly emerged adults appear to be bright metallic green for the first few seconds, then change color to a more aqua-blue or purple as the scales change their angle during wing expansion.

The sexes are dimorphic, with the smaller males being a deep metallic blue-green, while the slightly larger females are a less reflective powder blue color.

Description and timeline:
* Eggs - (the little white blobs) shown at a distance for scale, and up close for detail, hatch in about 10 days;
* Hatching - tiny, fuzzy 1st instar larva chewing it's way out of the egg, 30 minutes;
* Larvae - 5 phases, called "instars", with a skin molting in between each, 3-4 weeks total;
* Pre-pupation - the mature larva secures itself to a surface and prepares to pupate (2 days)
* Pupation - the pre-pupa larva molts its skin, becoming a pupa (about 10 minutes);
* Hardening - the pupal shell hardens to semi-rigid shell in a few hours;
* Metamorphosis - the adult develops in the pupal shell (about 2-3 weeks);
* Emergence - the fully developed adult cracks-open the shell and crawls free;
* Wing expansion - the adult pumps fluid into the wing vein structure, expanding them (10 minutes).
* Wing "drying" - the fluid in the wings dries, making them rigid enough to fly with (2-3 hours).

The music is "Newton's Prizm" by Technician, MP3 released online at HTTP://technician.jcmdi.com

Much more butterfly and moth life cycle documentary is available, free to the public at lepidoptera.jcmdi.com.

DVDs and soundtrack CD available at JCMDI.COM

Enjoy!

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Driving the issue home, I beleive some US Americans, were they kindly given a map by Miss SC, will find it difficult to tell right from left.

This clip is from an Australia comedy show. Though, I don't beleive Australians, facing a similiar challenge, would've scored any better.

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*OLD VERSION*
This last version of my LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Rubik's cube solver can solve ANY cube (no matter how shuffled) in 3'30" minutes maximum.
I adopted on PC a fast algorithm to solve the cube.
Anyone who thought this robot was fake must see!

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I walked outside and saw a large moth drying its wings. Looking at the 2 X 4's its wing span is about 6 or more inches accross. I am told by an expert, "one of the giant silkmoths,Possibly the Ceanothus Silkmoth".

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