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SEKRETARIS
Persyaratan :

- Wanita, lebih disukai single, usia maks. 25 th
- Pendidikan min. D 3 Akademi Sekretaris, lebih disukai dari Tarakanita dan
ASMI

- Memiliki penampilan yang menarik
- Mempunyai pengalaman kerja minimal 1 tahun
- Mampu mengetik cepat, menguasai computer dan berbahasa Inggris aktif
- Mampu melaksanakan pekerjaan administrasi
- Mampu bekerja secara mandiri maupun dalam team work dengan sedikit
pengawasan


Bagi yang berminat dan memenuhi persyaratan diatas SEGERA kirimkan lamaran
lengkap paling lambat 30 Desember 2006 ke :


PT. ARTAJASA PEMBAYARAN ELEKTRONIS

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Sekretaris / General Affair

Dapatkan　Informasi　Lowongan Kerja yang terus di update di web blog ini. Anda akan terus di suguhkan berita Lowongan Kerja terkini. Jangan lupa dengan mengunjungi alamat sponsor kami agar informasi web ini dapat terus di update.

Salah satu perusahaan travel agent membutuhkan SEGERA :
SEKRETARIS/GENERAL AFFAIRS :
1.Wanita, usia max.30thn - domisili sekitar Jakpus/Jakbar., 2.Pendidikan lulusan Aksek Tarq atau setaraf. , 3.Pengalaman kerja minimal 3 tahun dan mampu mengoperasikan komputer(Ms.Office, email dan internet). ,4.Mampu bekerja dalam team, mem'brief office boy/driver. , 5.Lancar berbahasa inggris lisan dan tulisan. , 6.Ramah,tanggap & cekatan, siap bekerja "round the clock" saat dibutuhkan., . 7.Dapat mengerjakan tugas-tugas kesekretarisan dan administrasi.
RESEPSIONIS/OPERATOR :
1.Wanita, usia max.28thn - domisili sekitar Jakpus/Jakbar. , 2.Pendidikan lulusan SMU atau setaraf
3.Pengalaman kerja minimal 2 tahun. , 4.Lancar berbahasa inggris lisan. ,
SENIOR TICKETING INTERNASIONAL :
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Lamaran (CV dan foto) ditujukan ke e-mail (General Manager) : jagat2@blg.co.id sebelum tanggal 18 Maret 2006.

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Lowongan Kerja Sekretaris di Kantor Pusat Pertamina
PT. PERTAMINA (PERSERO) membuka kesempatan bagi Sekretaris berpengalaman untuk mengisi posisi jabatan Sekretaris di lingkungan Kantor Pusat Jakarta

I. PERSYARATAN UMUM LAMARAN :

1. Pendidikan terakhir D3 Sekretaris dari Akademi/Perguruan Tinggi Terakreditasi
2. IPK minimal 2,75 skala 4
3. Mempunyai pengalaman kerja sebagai Sekretaris di perusahaan yang mempunyai reputasi baik minimal 3 tahun
4. Batasan usia maksimal 32 tahun (kelahiran tahun 1975)
5. Mampu berbahasa Inggris secara aktif baik lisan dan tulisan.

II. BERKAS LAMARAN TERDIRI DARI :

1. Surat lamaran dan Daftar Riwayat Hidup.
2. Photocopy Ijazah dan transkrip lengkap nilai akademik yang keduanya telah dilegalisir asli oleh pejabat yang berwenang.
3. Surat Pernyataan Diri bebas Narkoba diatas materai Rp. 6.000,-.
4. 1 (satu) buah amplop kosong dengan mencantumkan nama dan alamat pelamar lengkap dengan kode pos (untuk panggilan).

(Berkas lamaran yang tidak lengkap tidak akan diproses)

III. BERKAS LAMARAN DITUJUKAN PADA :

Tim Rekrutmen

PO BOX 3700 JKP 10037

IV. CARA PENGIRIMAN SURAT LAMARAN :

1. Berkas lamaran harus dikirimkan melalui pos (pengiriman secara langsung tidak dilayani).
2. Format lamaran ditujukan kepada Vice President Sumber Daya Manusia Direktorat Umum & SDM PT. PERTAMINA (PERSERO)
3. Surat lamaran yang dikirim ke PT. PERTAMINA (PERSERO) sebelum pengumuman ini dianggap tidak pernah ada.
4. Setiap pelamar hanya diperkenankan mengirimkan satu surat lamaran
5. Lamaran ditutup pada tanggal 18 Agustus 2007 sesuai cap pos tanggal pengiriman.

V. PROSES SELEKSI LAMARAN :

1. Pelamar yang akan dipanggil mengikuti tes hanya yang lolos short listing berdasarkan kandidat terbaik, kelengkapan berkas lamaran serta memenuhi syarat dan pertimbangan lainnya
2. Test terdiri dari : Bahasa Inggris , Test Kemampuan Umum, Test Kepribadian, Wawancara, Pemeriksaan Kesehatan dan test lainnya sesuai kebutuhan.
3. Test dilakukan di Jakarta

Keputusan untuk memanggil pelamar dan penentuan hasil seleksi merupakan hak PT. PERTAMINA (PERSERO) serta tidak dapat diganggu gugat. Dalam proses penerimaan pekerja ini PT. PERTAMINA (PERSERO) tidak melayani surat menyurat dan tidak dipungut biaya apapun (hati-hati dengan penipuan)

Untuk lebih jelas dapat menghubungi PERTAMINA CONTACT CENTER:
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Remember to sign your letter if you are going to send it by post.

Proofreading
After you have finished writing the letter, read it over and over again to make sure there is no spelling or grammatical mistakes. Don't just rely on the spellcheck programme installed in the computer. Sometimes a word is not misspelled, but it is used wrong. In such cases, spellcheck programmes may not be able to detect them. Even one single mistake in the letter will give a bad impression to the employer. Don't lose a mark because of that.

Design
Use quality white A4 paper to print your letter. Give enough space between the paragraphs so that the recipient can read your letter comfortably. Remember that every job has specific requirements, and it is essential to tailor the cover letter to every job you apply for. Don't make it a “standard” letter by just changing the company name and position you are applying for and then sending it out every time. In addition, keep a copy of the letter for future reference. You may find this helpful when you are later granted an interview for that position.

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Career Resources Accounting Talents in High Demand
In accounting industry, demand for qualified candidates remains strong within multinational, listed and larger Hong Kong companies. The continued increase in reporting requirements locally and internationally means candidates with internal control (especially SOX) and strong systems implementation experience are increasingly sought after while mandarin language skills are now also in very high demand.

A number of large corporations, especially in the manufacturing and property sectors, have relocated part of their finance function to the PRC, creating new roles for finance managers/controllers. Candidates at all levels willing to travel to the PRC and regionally are particularly attractive. [ more ]

Lifelong Learning in Accounting
Lifelong learning not only helps job seekers upgrade industry knowledge, but also widens one's career scope and future developments.

Up the Career Ladder
Amy Lam, Finance Director of Jardine Airport Services Limited, is a high-flyer who has pursued lifelong learning throughout her career. She has successfully climbed up the career ladder in the accounting industry from an accounting assistant to a senior management position. [ more ]

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Mr Big - GREEN TINTED SIXTIED MIND

She just woke up, but she's still tired
Is that the telephone ringing?
The curtains can't hold back the light
That's reaching into her dreams
Down in her heart
If it had fingers, it'd be tearing it apart

You be lookin' groovy
In a sixties movie
Maybe tell the press you died
Little legend baby
Try your very best to hide
A green-tinted sixties mind


She keeps some memories locked away
But they are always escaping
neclgect won't make them fade away
They're reaching into her dreams
Down in her heart
Don't need fingers to be tearing it apart


Gotta face the day
There is no other way
To clear the fog inside your mind
Fill it up with dreams
But all that you can seem to find
A green-tinted sixties mind


Hangin' out with Janis
Movin' to Atlantis
Could've made it if you tried
What's the point of force
It's easy as a horse to ride
A green-tinted sixties mind


You be looking groovy
In a sixties movie
Maybe tell the press you died
Little legend baby
Try your very best to hide
A green-tinted sixties mind
-U can't hide-

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Versions of RealNetworks' RealPlayer have been labeled "badware" by the organization StopBadware.org.

StopBadware claims RealPlayer 10.5 fails to "accurately and completely disclose the fact that it installs advertising software on" a user's computer. It also claims RealPlayer 11 is badware because it "does not disclose the fact that it installs Rhapsody Player Engine software, and fails to remove this software when RealPlayer is uninstalled."

Ryan Luckin, spokesperson for RealNetworks, insists that both versions of RealPlayer are not badware, but acknowledges mistakes and user misconceptions exist in both products. He says changes will be made to both version of RealPlayer in response to the StopBadware.org classification. "Neither versions of RealPlayer put users at risk. They aren't malware or install third-party programs on your PC," Luckin says.

According to StopBadware.org's definition of badware it is "malicious software that tracks your moves online and feeds that information back to shady marketing groups so that they can ambush you with targeted ads."

According to Luckin in RealPlayer 10.5 StopBadware.org takes issue with the Message Center feature that pops up messages from the system tray. Messages typically displayed are ones that advertise available RealNetworks' content to listen to or watch and the availability of software updates to the program itself. The Message Center feature is on by default when RealPlayer 10.5 is installed. Luckin says future version of RealPlayer will prompt the user first to activate Message Center. Luckin says the feature shouldn't be considered advertising because no third-party ads are displayed in Message Center alerts.

The issue with RealPlayer 11 is when you uninstall the program it doesn't completely remove all aspects of the program - namely the software (Rhapsody Player Engine software) to view content encoded using the Rhapsody format. Luckin concedes StopBadware.com's point and acknowledges the Rhapsody ActiveX control is left behind when un-installing RealPlayer 11.

Luckin says RealNetworks now agrees with StopBadware.org that all aspects of the program should be removed. "That was a mistake, and we are going to correct it," Luckin says. He was unable to say when and how RealNetworks would change the un-install behavior of RealPlayer 11.

StopBadware.org is a nonprofit consumer organization that is sponsored by Google, Lenovo, PayPal, VeriSign, and Sun Microsystems. Earlier this month RealNetworks faced allegations by security experts its RealPlayer software had a critical flaw and left users vulnerable to hackers.

http://blogs.pcworld.com/staffblog/archives/006421.html

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There’s something poignant about a final wave goodbye. We’ve all experienced them — perhaps holding back the tears at the airport or bus station, or seeing someone off as they slip away in a hospital bed. The heartbreak is tempered with fond memories, yet those same fond memories can intensify the heartbreak.

Conversely, we hear of the demise of various species often now, yet for most of us, it falls into a part of our mind relegated for things that are either not relevant to us, or to that area in our brain where we store thoughts we don’t know how to deal with, or that we decide are not our problem. There’s no heartbreak, no tears, no wave goodbye. We’re detached, separate, unfeeling.

Today the BBC ran an article on the Panamanian Golden Frog (technically it’s a toad, but let’s not split hairs). It’s an amazing piece of footage of the final wave goodbye (literally and figuratively) of a beautiful creature few ever came to know. Watch the clip.

http://www.celsias.com/2008/02/02/golden-frog-waves-goodbye-then-goes-extinct-in-the-wild/

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Mr. Sampson, I Presume?

It was about five years ago. I was returning from Pakistan and standing in the immigration line at JFK, completely exhausted after a 20-hour flight. When my turn came up at the counter, the INS agent looked at my papers, typed a few things into his computer, and then asked me to follow him to a large room at the side of the immigration hall. I was informed that I was being detained. Two agents handcuffed me and led me to another smaller room. When I asked what I had done. They said things like, "Oh, you know what you've done. We know who you are."

"Who am I? What have I done?"

"You should know that better than we do, now shouldn't you?"

When I asked to contact a lawyer, I was informed that I hadn't yet been admitted to the United States, and so had no legal standing. No lawyer would be called, nor would I be allowed to call anyone else. They took my cuffs off, fingerprinted me (very difficult because of my sweaty palms), recuffed me, and then left me there.

It was at this point that my knees went a little trembly. I had heard many stories of Pakistanis being held for months without charges under the Patriot Act, and now I had visions of Guantanamo in my head, and I became almost dizzy with the adrenaline rush of fear. I thought that I must have been mistaken for someone else, God knows who, and there would be no chance to clear my name. I sat in that room for a few sweat-drenched hours before a couple of INS officers came in with two police officers from the NYPD. The NYPD officers told me that they had a warrant for my arrest. This immediately came as a huge relief to me, because whatever it was they wanted with me, I would rather be held by the NYPD in New York, than in some INS facility. I felt like whatever it was, I would be able to clear it up.

That's when things started to get weird: The NYPD officers addressed me as Mr. Edward Sampson, as in, "Let's go, Sampson." When I protested that I wasn't Edward Sampson, whoever that might be, they told me that fingerprints don't lie, and I had a full 10-finger match as one (wanted) Edward Sampson. They told me to stop lying and just admit that I really was Edward Sampson. The name sounded vaguely familiar but I couldn't quite place it in my exhausted state. The INS guys removed my cuffs and the NYPD officers replaced them with their own. I was then led out for the perp-walk in front of all the other passengers, coming out by the regular path where people wait for their friends and relatives to come out. People whispered to each other rather excitedly when they saw me being led out, held by each arm by one of the officers, wearing handcuffs and a nice suit I had had tailored while in Pakistan.

It was then that I remembered who Edward Sampson was, and it came to me suddenly: About a decade earlier, my nephew and I had been having a drink at the West End Restaurant and Bar (where Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg used to hang out) near Columbia University (I had just started the Ph.D. program in philosophy there), when four rough-looking characters wandered in. They looked like skinheads, and they sat at the table behind where we were standing at the bar. My nephew had draped his jacket over one of the chairs on which one of these guys was now sitting, and so he tapped the guy on the shoulder to retrieve his jacket. I saw the guy stand up and get in his face, but couldn't hear what was going on. The man then raised his voice and I heard the n-word yelled at my nephew along with a string of curses, after which the man grabbed my nephew's hair with his left hand and drew back his right fist, getting ready to throw a punch.

I hit him first. I had lunged from the side, and my momentum threw both of us to the floor. I didn't know it then, but I was rolling around on the floor of the West End with Edward Sampson.

We were separated by the bouncers of the West End and all six of us were thrown out. Once outside, these guys ganged up on me and managed to throw me to the ground, where I hit my head on the sidewalk. I was momentarily stunned, and had no chance after that. Mr. Sampson pummeled me pretty good. Then the police arrived, and Sampson and crowd quickly walked off. I explained to the police that my nephew had been assaulted, and while trying to protect him, I, too had been beaten up, and that the guys were trying to get away. The police told me that if I insisted on having those guys arrested, they would have to arrest my nephew and me as well, since they hadn't been there to see who started it. I said fine, go ahead and arrest all of us, but I am not going to let these punks get away with this. I figured we would sort it out later in court. And so the four of them were also picked up and all six of us were driven to a precinct where we had our portraits taken, were fingerprinted, etc., before being released on our own recognizance.

After the District Attorney heard the whole story, charges against me and my nephew were eventually dropped, and it was decided that Sampson and his friends would be prosecuted under the hate crimes statute of New York. I was pleased by this, and felt vindicated that I had insisted that the police arrest everyone, rather than just letting these guys walk. Except that those people didn't show up at their hearing, and were never heard from again.

http://www.alternet.org/rights/75208

Labels: Tales of a Pakistani immigrant dealing with racial profiling, the Patriot Act and the INS as he tries to make a life in New York City.

UDAIRI RANGE COMPLEX, Kuwait - Thanks to new sniping tactics picked up by Marine scout snipers in Kuwait, insurgents caught in their scopes are guaranteed to have a bad day.

The Scout Sniper Platoon and Reconnaissance Marines with Battalion Landing Team 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit, attended a ten-day training package Jan. 20-30 headed by National Sniper Champion Todd Hodnett who taught the Marines how to improve their lethality with new shooting formulas, shooting positions and techniques.

"Training with Todd Hodnett has taken our capabilities to a level that I didn't think was possible as a scout sniper," said Cpl. Ryan Lindner, a scout sniper with Scout Sniper Platoon and Napa Valley, Calif., native.

"Todd has really revolutionary tactics about shooting (around, over and within buildings.)"

During the training, the snipers where able to effectively engage targets that were behind buildings and many Marines hit targets at distances that they never attempted before.

One particular technique learned on the ranges was shooting loopholes. This technique makes the shooter virtually invisible from enemy detection by allowing him to shoot through a two-inch hole in a wall while 20 to 30-feet away from the hole.

"I've done stuff out here that I've never even heard of before," Cpl. Scott Koppenhafer, a scout sniper with Scout Sniper Platoon, said about the training.

"It directly correlates to everything we would do in combat."

1st Lt. Frank Edwards, Scout Sniper Platoon commander, said the Marines have been using personal digital assistants or PDAs to expand their capabilities.

"PDAs are relatively new to the Marine Corps and very new to our platoon," said the Olney, Md., native.

"It's a quicker, more efficient way for our guys to do math calculations such as atmospheric pressure, wind speed and target range so they can make their adjustments faster."

Using the hand-held devices was a new experience for many of the Marines.

"This is the first time I've worked with them," said Koppenhafer, a Mancos, and Colo., native.

"It used to take a week on the range going through boxes and boxes of ammo to build up data for your rifles. The PDA cancels that out. What used to take a week, now takes an hour."

In addition to learning advanced formulas and using modern technology to gain the upper hand, the Marines prepared themselves for the unexpected by shooting with different ammo and storing the results in their PDAs.

"If a sniper is in a firefight and has to switch to different ammo, he already has the data in his PDA," said Edwards.

As time changes, so too do the tactics and technological advances available to snipers. Learning what they are and how to employ them will keep Marine scout snipers at the top of the food chain, said Lindner.

"Taking what Todd has taught us enlarges everything we can do," said Lindner.

"We can engage targets a lot faster, farther and with a lot more accuracy. It will make us that much more of a combat multiplier out on the battlefield."

http://www.military.com/features/0,15240,161182,00.html

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Automagically ping blog search engines

I wanted to automatically ping Technorati, Icerocket, and Google Blog Search, that means with no intervention the blog search engines should be pinged. I was alright with a delay of 15 minutes.

So I went about exploiting the XML-RPC services provided by the blog search engines. I came up with this python script. I set up a cron job to invoke the script every 15 minutes. See bellow for the source.

#!/usr/bin/python

import xmlrpclib
import urllib2
import os

from hashlib import md5

feed_url = '[Yorur feed url]'
blog_url = '[Your blog url]'
blog_name = '[Your blog name]'
hash_file_path = os.path.expanduser("~/.blogger/")

def main():
   req = urllib2.Request(feed_url)
   response = urllib2.urlopen(req)
   feed = response.read()
   hash_file_name = hash_file_path + md5(blog_url).hexdigest()

   if os.path.exists(hash_file_name):
       hash_file = open(hash_file_name, "r+")
       last_digest = hash_file.read(os.path.getsize(hash_file_name))
   else:
       hash_file = open(hash_file_name, "w")
       last_digest = ''

   curr_digest = md5(feed).hexdigest()

   if curr_digest != last_digest:
       ping = Ping(blog_name, blog_url)
       responses = ping.ping_all(['icerocket','technorati','google'])
       hash_file.write(curr_digest)

   hash_file.close()

class Ping:
   def __init__(self, blog_name, blog_url):
       self.blog_name = blog_name
       self.blog_url = blog_url

   def ping_all(self, down_stream_services):
       responses = []

       for down_stream_service in down_stream_services:
           method = eval('self._' + down_stream_service)
           responses.append(method.__call__())

       return responses

   def _icerocket(self):
       server = xmlrpclib.ServerProxy('http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080')
       response = server.ping(self.blog_name, self.blog_url)
       # print "Icerocket response : " + str(response)
       return response

   def _technorati(self):
       server = xmlrpclib.ServerProxy('http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping')
       response = server.weblogUpdates.ping(self.blog_name, self.blog_url)
       # print "Technorati response : " + str(response)
       return response

   def _google(self):
       server = xmlrpclib.ServerProxy('http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2')
       response = server.weblogUpdates.ping(self.blog_name, self.blog_url)
       # print "Google blog search response : " + str(response)
       return response

main()

When ever the script is invoked it will get the post feed content, and create a md5 hash of it and then compare the hash against the last known hash, if they differ ping the given list of service.

This is very convenient if you have someplace to run the cron job. Even your own machine is sufficient if you can keep your machine on for at least 15 minutes after the blog post is made.

To run the script you need to python 2.4 to later and the python package hashlib. Hope you will find this useful.

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Developer makes desktop VR application for PS Eye

Posted Feb 1st 2008 8:00AM by Andrew Yoon
Filed under: Community

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Intel and Micron develop "world's fastest" NAND -- kiss SSD random write lag goodbye

Posted Feb 1st 2008 3:01AM by Thomas Ricker
Filed under: Storage

Labels: Intel and Micron develop "world's fastest" NAND

Squealing and Blinking: An Analog Artificial Neural Network as Art

[ Artificial Intelligence, Link Posts ]
Posted on: January 31, 2008 11:05 AM, by Chris Chatham

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How animals gauge the weather

Posted: Friday, February 01, 2008 8:25 AM by Alan Boyle

Groundhogs have their day in the sun on Saturday, when Punxsutawney Phil, Grady, Jimmy, Sir Walter Wally and other furry rodents across the country are dragged out to judge whether there will be six more weeks of wintry weather. If the weather is sunny enough on Feb. 2 for the groundhogs to see their shadow, they supposedly pop back down into their lairs and wait out the prolonged chill.

Is there anything to the purported predictive power of Groundhog Day? Not much.

But is there anything at all to the idea that animals can "predict" the weather? You bet.

First, about those groundhogs: When you look back at the historical record, the Groundhog Day story appears to be a blend of several weather-related folktales. Long before the days of Doppler radar, Europeans put great stock in Feb. 2, or Candlemas Day on the church calendar, as a weather indicator at the halfway point between the winter solstice and the spring equinox.

Clear weather on Candlemas was seen as a harbinger of snowy weather to come, while cloudy weather held the promise that things would get better in the weeks ahead. Some have speculated that there was a shred of meteorological truth behind the folktale: Clear skies in early February could be associated with persistent masses of cold, dry air that would prolong low temperatures, while cloudy skies could hint at wetter, more temperate days ahead.

The Germans added animal lore to their Candlemas story, saying that if the weather was sunny enough to scare a badger back into its hole, there were more wintry days to come. When German immigrants came to America (and settled in places like Punxsutawney, Pa.), the groundhog took the place of the badger.

Whether we're talking about badgers or groundhogs, the correlation between sunshine on Feb. 2 and extended cold weather appears to be shaky. A Canadian study found that shadow-fearing groundhogs would have a 37 percent accuracy rate at predicting late-winter weather anomalies, or just slightly above chance.

The science of hibernation
Some folks have wondered whether there might yet be something scientific behind the groundhog tale. After all, the groundhog is a hibernating species that occasionally rouses itself during the winter, and perhaps the creature can sense something that tells it whether to wake up for the warm weather or go back into its torpor in early February.

"There's a little bit of truth to that, but with modifications," said Hannah Carey, a professor of veterinary medicine at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Carey specializes in the study of hibernating animals.

"For hibernators like groundhogs and the ground squirrels that we study, they're on a biological clock that tells them when to start [to hibernate] in the fall and when to finish in the spring, regardless of external conditions," she told me. "They do arouse periodically throughout the winter. They do this spontaneously while they're underground, but there are no external signals."

During hibernation, Carey's ground squirrels lower their internal temperature to near the freezing point "Our squirrels right now are hibernating in a walk-in cold room that's really like a refrigerator in your kitchen," she said.

Carey said some Arctic ground squirrels can actually bring their temperature down below freezing, "so they somehow supercool in ways that are not fully understood."

Scientists also have puzzled over what controls a hibernating animal's cycle of torpor and arousal. The arousal periods come more frequently as spring approaches - but sunshine and shadows have nothing directly to do with it, since the animal doesn't leave its burrow. "They don't come outside at all," Carey said.

Temperature could conceivably play a part. "It's possible that later in the spring, the warming of the soil around them is one of many signals that tell them spring is coming," Carey said. But the primary factors appear to be body fat levels and the brain's hard-wired biological clock, she said.

Over the long term, that clock could end up being reset to reflect different climatic conditions. Carey said that may be the reason why ground squirrels tend to wake up for the spring earlier in Ohio (February-March) than in Wisconsin (March-April). But Carey said such differences could be explained by an evolutionary response to environmental factors.

If that hypothesis is correct, it would have implications for future Groundhog Days.

"If the climate changes, and we have fewer extended cold spells, those animals that are spending more time above ground might be doing better when it comes to having babies," Carey explained. "Hibernating animals might be bellwethers for how climate affects animal populations."

Animal predictions
If you look beyond groundhogs, you can find a number of cases where animal folklore contains a grain of scientific truth. An oft-cited example is this saying: "A cow's tail to the west is weather coming at its best; a cow's tail to the east is weather coming at its least."

It turns out that the saying encapsulates animal behavior as well as regional meteorology, at least according to North Carolina's State Climate Office. Animals tend to turn their backs into the wind, so that they have a chance of catching the scent of a predator that's sneaking up behind them. In New England, where the saying is thought to have originated, a west wind is likely to bring fair skies, while the onshore easterly breeze is associated with nasty weather.

Thus, the cow's tail could serve as a weathervane of sorts, indicating which way the wind is blowing and eventually giving rise to the folk saying.

This Web page at NASA does a reality check on other bits of weather folklore, ranging from high-flying geese to oft-biting flies. Crickets are among the most intriguing weather indicators: If you count the number of cricket chirps in 14 seconds, then add 40 to your tally, you supposedly come up with a good approximation of the temperature in Fahrenheit degrees. The Old Farmer's Almanac even provides a formula for Celsius cricket conversion.

In most of these cases, it's not really a case of animals predicting the weather. Instead, animal behavior reflects the meteorological phenomena that in turn give rise to the weather. For example, researchers have found that a cricket's metabolism varies with temperature, leading to the differences in the chirp rate.

That being said, the argument is often made that animals are more finely attuned to natural phenomena than we are. That goes for the weather as well as for tsunamis and earthquakes.

In their studies of seismic activity, a fair number of scientists suspect that animals are more sensitive to the relatively harmless P waves that precede an earthquake's strong S waves by a matter of seconds. Chinese and Japanese researchers have gone even further, looking into claims that animal behavior can be a tip-off well in advance of a large-scale earthquake. The evidence on that score is far from conclusive, however.

If you have further examples of the folklore surrounding natural phenomena, feel free to add them as comments below. In the meantime, here's hoping that Punxsutawney Phil, Sir Walter Wally and the rest of the groundhog gang miss seeing their shadows - after this week's weather, we all could use an excuse to start thinking about spring.

http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/02/01/627079.aspx

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