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Crookneck Squash Gemelli Pasta (Vegetarian Pasta Recipe)
It's Meatless Monday and today I'm sharing with you one of baby Aria's favorite pasta dishes. I used gemelli pasta, cut crookneck squash the same size as the pasta and flavored them with tarragon and parsley crème fraîche. The crookneck squash provides a soft texture to the dish and the same-sized pieces make for easy eating, especially for little ones.
I hope your weekend was as adventuresome as ours. We spent the weekend at Half Moon Bay State Beach. It wasn't too hot with the ocean breeze. It was so peaceful and quiet; exactly what we needed! Aria and I wandered along the beaches and on the trails after our picnic. I had prepared my husband Lulu's favorite cucumber tea sandwiches and used the remaining filling to flavor the pasta dish the following day!
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Bell Pepper Stuffed Chicken Rolls
This is my second most favorite chicken recipe (after my poulet rôti, "roasted chicken"). The whole idea is to use dark meat from the chicken thigh, stuff it, pan-sear the meat and finish cooking in the oven. It's as simple as that. First, I used boneless chicken (de-boning the thigh and using the bones for excellent chicken broth) and made sure the skin was still on. Then I proceeded with the tender meat. I used a preserved lemon marinade and let it rest overnight. For the filling, I combined roasted red bell peppers, Manzanilla olives, shallots and cornichons (French gherkins).
To me, cooking is an expression of love. The dish doesn't have to be complicated. Learn your basics and you'll be able to dazzle your friends and family with creative, over-the-top dishes by making a few variants of your favorite recipes.
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Chicken Roulade Stuffed with Morel Mushrooms and Chestnuts
If you're planning on serving poultry on Christmas Eve, you might want to consider this dish. I stuffed chicken with morel mushrooms, caramelized onions and season-friendly roasted chestnuts. I used chicken thighs with the skin on so the meat remained ultra moist and because boning them could be done without difficulty. The whole procedure isn't necessary but it gives the dish an attractive appearance. Once the chicken was cooked, I let it rest for 30 minutes and obtained beautiful slices of chicken roulade.
I'm definitely going to recreate this dish for Christmas, though I'm not sure which poultry I'm going to use. This recipe could be used with duck, pheasant or turkey, but I prefer goose for a holiday feast. You could also use the stuffing of your choice such as sausage, pesto, sun-dried tomatoes, blue cheese, dried cranberries or bread dressing. I can't predict the future but I can tell this is going to be a delicious holiday season!
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Caviar Tower with Beet Carpaccio
I came up with this elegant starter for a dinner party we hosted. I knew I was going to have to spend a lot of time on the main course, so I opted for a dish that was quick and easy to assemble. It's made of four flavorful layers: crème fraîche flavored with beet green pesto, pumpkin seed-crusted Russian rye bread, grilled beet carpaccio and a luxurious caviar topping.
I always make extra pesto that I store for later use. If you're storing frozen pesto cubes as I've suggested in the past, this is a recipe that you can whip up very easily. I also used freshly picked beets from our garden, grilled them on the barbecue and thinly sliced them with a mandoline. If you're looking for a vegetarian alternative to caviar, you could always replace it with roasted red bell pepper red pesto-flavored quinoa caviar. Either way, this first course is as appealing to the eye as it is to the stomach.
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Vegetarian Agar Panna Cotta Recipe
Panna cotta is probably the easiest vegetarian appetizer to prepare once you've figured out how to deal with agar agar. It's all about the liquid to powder ratio. In case you don't know, agar agar is a seaweed substitute for gelatin. I've created several savory and sweet panna cottas in the past using it.
Like other gelatin-based products, panna cotta can be be formed in any shape you want. I shaped the ones I made today in verrine glasses. I layered this panna cotta with red hummus, broccoli florets, baby spinach leaves, morel mushrooms and sugar plum tomatoes. Assembling them is very simple and they can be prepared in advance. Serve this panna cotta with a large salad and a baguette and you've got yourself a delicious, light meal.
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Over recent years, Norman Copenhagen's furniture collection has grown considerably, and it now includes furniture for every room in the house. The design company is now expanding its furniture line with Rope: a stringent modular sofa with clean and softly rounded lines. This design emphasises flexibility and comfort, and it combines traditional upholstery techniques with a personal expression.
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A man abuses and threatens his ex-wife. She tells a judge that she is frightened and that he is armed. The court orders him to stay away from her. Should it also order him to give up his guns?
Of course it should. If a protective order is to mean anything, the court must do all that it reasonably can do to keep a vulnerable person from becoming a homicide statistic.
An article by Michael Luo in The Times on Monday examined the threadbare web of protection for victims of domestic violence in a country overrun with guns. While there is a federal law that forbids most people subject to permanent protective orders to buy or own firearms, it was invoked fewer than 50 times by prosecutors last year. That leaves to the states the job of imposing meaningful laws to separate domestic abusers from their guns.
Most states are failing at that job. While a handful have laws requiring judges to order the surrender of guns when issuing any protection order, even temporary orders, most states do not go nearly that far. When legislators try to tighten the laws, they face the wrath of the National Rifle Association, whose relentless lobbying usually manages to kill or cripple such bills. Even modest "cooling off" laws — allowing sheriffs to confiscate weapons temporarily for the first, most volatile days of a divorce action or separation — have failed.
The N.R.A.'s blind defense of individuals' gun rights has left a catastrophic toll. Stricter laws could help stem killings in domestic-violence cases. But legislatures would have to place prudent safety measures over Second Amendment absolutism. There is evidence that it would work: a study in the journal Injury Prevention in 2010 examined so-called intimate-partner homicides in 46 of the country's largest cities from 1979 to 2003 and found that where state laws restricted gun access to people under domestic-violence restraining orders, the risk of such killings was reduced by 19 percent.
Representative Lois Capps, a California Democrat, recently introduced a bill to toughen the federal law to cover temporary protective orders and current or former "dating partners," not just spouses. Congress should pass it, and states should reinforce it with their own laws, requiring judges to act when a person's safety is at obvious risk from an ex-partner with a gun.


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The cull is unscientific, unethical and wont work .
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Learn to play the exciting game of Squash with expert instruction from top professional player Roy Ollier. This comprehensive DVD covers everything you need to know to play the game and improve your skills. Among the topics covered are: rules and scoring, equipment, warm ups, basic techniques, serves and returns, practice routines, simulated games, game strategy and more. This DVD is a great resource for new players and has more than enough detail to be beneficial for experienced players or coaches. 40 minutes. 2010.
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Take your squash game to the next level with the help of top professional Roy Ollier. This comprehensive DVD reveals the techniques, training methods and playing strategies needed to become a champion. The topics covered include: a variety of serves, return of serve, numerous drills to improve footwork, agility, and stroke mechanics, plus much more. This DVD is an excellent training resource for any serious squash player or coach. 49 minutes. 2010.
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Freshman Victoria Lippert was named the co- Ivy League Rookie of the Week as announced by the league office this morning. This is the fourth rookie of week selection and third in a row. The newcomer from San Diego, Calif., posted her third double-double of the season to lead the women's basketball team to a 68-60 win over Yale and keep the Crimson in the Ivy League title race.
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- TWAN Director Receives Lennart Nilsson Award : Babak Tafreshi of The World at Night shares the 2009 Lennart Nilsson Award with the NASA's Cassini Imaging Director Carolyn Porco.
- Three Million Views and Counting : The World at Night website reaches 3 million views and 1 million unique visitors from 197 countries and territories since its launch in the 2008 New Year eve.
- TWAN on PBS NewsHour : NewsHour, a long-standing and respected PBS program, has given coverage to TWAN. This includes feature videos available to view online.
- The Sky of the Earth by Serge Brunier : French TWAN photographer, Serge Brunier, has released his yearlong unique effort to picture the whole night sky from both hemispheres as seen from some of the darkest and most transparent observing locations on the planet.
- The World at Night in collaboration with Dark Skies Awareness project, organize the International Year of Astronomy 2009 Earth and Sky Photo Contest on the importance of dark skies. It is open to anyone of any age, anywhere in the world. More
There are new stunning photos and time-lapse videos on TWAN website, featuring starry nights of the planet's landmarks from across the world.
- Scorpion and Lava by Wally Pacholka
- Aurora or Airglow? by Wally Pacholka
- Bryce Canyon Galactic Scene by Wally Pacholka
- Autumn Sky in Starry Nights Festival by Wally Pacholka
- Aurora Over Yellowknife by Yuichi Takasaka
- Amazing Aurora Display (time-lapse video) by Yuichi Takasaka
- Yellowknife Aurora Dance (time-lapse video) by Yuichi Takasaka
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- Night with Moais, by Stephane Guisard
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Midnight Sun from North Cape by by Juan Carlos Casado
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- Equinox Sunset by Tamas Ladanyi
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First-class beach sports center opens in Moscow
After hosting last year's FIVB World Cup Olympic final, the venue was re-shaped thanks to the support of the FIVB and is set to play host to this year's FIVB Moscow Grand Slam in August. Moreover, the facilities that are available there at Vodniy stadium are hosting this weekend the first stop of the Russian Beach Volleyball Championship.
"We eventually could fulfill our dream to create a venue for all beach sports" said the Honorary President of the Russian Volleyball Federation Valentin Zhukov while addressing the media. "All beach sports can finally profit of a first-class facility here in Moscow but our plans are to expand that concept and personally I have already had talks with the local authorities in the Republic of Tatarstan as well as in the regions of Samara and Volgograd to set up something similar there as well. Additional training centers for beach sports will be built in the near future and we hope that this will help the development of such disciplines across Russia" he continued.
"This coming August the world's best beach volleyball athletes will compete here for the Moscow Grand Slam where FIVB ranking points and prize money will be at stake" added Tournament Director Ilya Volodarskiy. "I hope that the audience will not decrease after we decided to move the tournament from Poklonnaya Gora to the Vodniy stadium. Actually we are working on a very good program to entertain the audience and let them enjoy a Beach Volleyball festival here on the shores of the Khimki reservoir" he stressed. "By opening this center all beach sports have found their home here in Moscow".
Zhukov said that projects and negotiations are ongoing to possibly establish an association that will bring together all beach sports in Russia. The "Dinamo" center is supposed to host competitions in beach volleyball, beach soccer, beach rugby, as well as beach tennis and beach handball.
The press conference was attended also by Alexander Likholetov – a multiple national champion – who is set to headline the first stop of the Russian Championship running this weekend in Moscow.


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What if Jeremy/Sandy's taxi driver didn't share information with Amani & Marcus's taxi driver and Ernie & Cindy's taxi driver about their intended destination on their way to the Panama Pit Stop?
What if Kristen/Darren use their EP in TAR Canada?
If Peggy & Claire miraculously beat Shola & Doyin in the volleyball Fast Forward and got a record-setting 1st place, what would happen to the Gutsy Grannies in the next leg? Will they get to Africa and still be in the race or even possibly win?
No way they will win. But it will be awesome if the gutsy grannies got around to Africa!
Tara "I can't do it, the gutsy grannies are catching me"Wil "Hurry the f**k up Tara"*Gutsy Grannies drive by on mopeds and beat Tara to the finish line* Very realistic scenario
@Polish question, Dustin & Kandice win. @Portugal question, they were bunched from the train ride.
What if Carol/Brandi beat Brent/Caite to the Uturn? Do they Uturn or keep racing and what's the outcome?In season 19 what if Jennifer doesn't fail so epically on the RB? (personally liked that team)What if Kent/Vyxsin read the clue correctly in Switzerland?What if Brad/Victoria pass Tammy/Victor out in Romania because the latter are lost? Who wins? Who's a finalist?Just thought I'd get us all talking again
TAR 16: Carol & Brandy u-turn Brent & Caite, but detectives will most likely be eliminated. Dan & Jordan will finish 4th, and cowboys will win. Here's my question: If the cowboys won TAR 16, who'd replace them in TAR:UB?
QuoteTAR 16: Carol & Brandy u-turn Brent & Caite, but detectives will most likely be eliminated. Dan & Jordan will finish 4th, and cowboys will win. Here's my question: If the cowboys won TAR 16, who'd replace them in TAR:UB?Toni and Dallas. They barely not survived the last cut. And because the producers wanted Zev and Justin (EW) more with a similar lose the passport storyline. Sorry, just don't like it that early boot teams get a chance of redemption.
Also a question, how did every team check in within the 37 minute penalty of Heather/Eve's mishap? If they had survived could they have gone much further?
What if a season started off with a NEL followed by another NEL O_O
I hope GlobeTrotters go home
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Eye-level electronic viewfinder. Fast, accurate autofocus. Silent operation. Expansion port. Excellent high ISO performance.
Expensive. No built-in flash. Very limited lens selection. Few physical controls.
Bottom Line
The Nikon V1 is priced like a high-end mirrorless camera and delivers solid performance, but doesn't offer the level of controls or lens options that demanding photographers require.
The Nikon V1 ($899.95 direct with 10-30mm lens) is an odd bird. Positioned as a more-robust version of the entry-level J1 ($649.95, 3.5 stars), the V1 is, on the exterior, basically the same camera with the addition of an electronic viewfinder and an accessory port, and the subtraction of the pop-up flash. The 10-megapixel V1 is priced like a higher-end mirrorless camera—its costs the same as the Olympus PEN E-P3 ($899.99, 4 stars)—but doesn't offer the level of physical control that more demanding photographers are after. If you're a fan of the 1 system and are set on a camera with an EVF, the V1 is your only option—but there are better compact interchangeable lens cameras out there for less money, including our Editors' Choice Sony Alpha NEX-C3 ($649.99, 4.5 stars).
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The 10.4-ounce V1 is slightly larger than the J1, measuring 3 by 4.4 by 1.7 inches (vs. 2.4 by 4.2 by 1.2 inches; 8.3 ounces). Whereas the J1 is available in four colors, the V1 comes only in black, and ships with a matching 10-30mm (27-81mm equivalent) zoom lens. The lens itself is collapsible, and extending it for use is one way to turn the camera on—the other being the On/Off button. The camera's EVF, which is quite crisp, is located in line with the lens mount. To the left of the EVF is the accessory port, in which you can install a flash, GPS unit, or microphone. The camera's 3-inch rear LCD has a 921k-dot resolution—more than twice that of the J1.
Unlike the J1, the V1 has a traditional mechanical shutter in addition to an electronic shutter. If you opt to use the mechanical shutter, the camera will make an audible noise when snapping a photo and you'll be able to synchronize with a strobe at a short 1/250 second shutter speed. Opting for the electronic shutter makes the camera completely silent, but limits flash sync to 1/60 second.
The camera's controls may seem plentiful to point-and-shoot users, but are pretty limited for an interchangeable lens camera of its class. The top of the camera has the Shutter release, an On/Off button, and a Record button for movies. Around back you'll find a programmable Feature button, an up/down lever, the mode dial, and a command dial. Since the lens has no aperture ring, you'll need to use the Up/Down switch to adjust it when shooting in Aperture Priority. The same switch controls the shutter speed when shooting in Shutter Priority mode. One control that is noticeably absent is ISO—you'll need to dive into a menu to adjust it.
Even though the menu is clean in design and extremely responsive, it's unfortunate that ISO—which is one of those settings that is often adjusted in the midst of shooting—doesn't have a dedicated control. There's no way to reprogram the Feature button, which lets you switch between the mechanical and electronic shutters. Personally I find myself switching ISO, or changing between Program, Aperture Priority, Shutter Priority, and Manual shooting modes, more often than I find myself adjusting which shutter the camera uses. Not having button customization in an entry-level camera like the J1 is understandable, but it is disappointing not to see it in what is billed as a higher-end model. Sony lets you customize buttons in all of its NEX cameras, including the mid-range Alpha NEX-5N ($699.99, 4.5 stars), which also supports an optional electronic viewfinder.
There is a mode dial on the back of the V1, but it doesn't house the traditional P, A, S, and M functions—even though it certainly has room for them. The four modes available are Movie, Still, Smart Photo Selector, and Motion Snapshot. Movie and Still are self-explanatory, and the Smart Photo Selector is fairly easy to understand—it snaps 60 JPG shots in rapid succession and the camera's image processor picks the best five, which are saved to your memory card. Motion Snapshot basically takes a still, some video around the still, adds some music, and fades the video into the still image. It's a neat effect, but the only way to offload the file for sharing online is by using Nikon's bundled ViewNX 2 software.
When the 1 system was announced last fall, Nikon showed off quite a few prototype lenses and promised to deliver them to help round out the system's capabilities. As of this writing, no new lenses have been announced, leaving you with only four lenses available—the standard 10-30mm zoom, the 30-110mm ($249.95), the 10mm f/2.8 ($249.95) prime lens, and the 10-100mm ($749.95) power zoom. It's unclear as to when new lenses are coming, so if you want the option of adding new lenses to your gear bag, it's better to consider a more established mirrorless system like Micro Four Thirds.


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See on Scoop.it – SOCIAL MEDIA, what we think about!
The aptly named world wide web has opened up new methods of marketing for businesses both great and small. The benefits of localizing company websites to target foreign markets are now widely recognized (Common Sense Advisory studies suggest an average return of US$25 for every $1 spent on localization) and many businesses now use social media platforms for domestic marketing, but very few appear to be using those platforms to promote their services abroad.
For example, Econsultancy's 2010 Social Media and Online PR Report reported that 83% of marketers were planning to increase their spending on social media this year, yet only 26% had plans to run campaigns in more than one country.
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California voters may have decided that marijuana was not the answer to the state's budget woes but what about gambling?
A group of California casinos say they could raise about $1 billion over the next decade if the state legalized Internet poker.
The problem is California is facing a $25 billion shortfall right now. But with Gov. Jerry Brown cutting costs wherever he can -- see his $20 million cell phone savings earlier this week -- $100 million a year could go a long way.
The proposal has been put into legislation pending in the state Senate. And the group of casinos is so serious about pushing the proposal it has commissioned a study that claims the state would initially make about $82 million a year initially and it would bounce to over $100 million a year within five years.
But is a state that refuses to kick back and relax ready to turn to gambling to cut into its budget troubles?


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*Episode 3 (Romania): There was an intense cab race between Amanda + Kris and Mom + me in Romania on the way to the gym. It was just so intense. Our cab driver drove on subway track!! Couple times there was a train coming up so our cab driver would just got off the track right before the train could hit us! Our cab driver was trying to beat Kris and Amanda's cab, haha. But at same time, we were scared to death. The roads were so disorgainzed, people were driving like nuts!We all were sitting in McDonald's at like 5am in the morning waiting to board on train at like 6am. One of our camera crew shouted that Obama won the election. Entire people in McDonald's just cheered and clapped. It was a cool moment.*Ah, so you were in Romania when Obama won the election, Luke! That must have been a cool moment for all of you!Belle BookP.S. I voted for Obama in the election, so I was thrilled when he won!
Quote from: Belle Book on June 21, 2009, 09:53:18 AM*Episode 3 (Romania): There was an intense cab race between Amanda + Kris and Mom + me in Romania on the way to the gym. It was just so intense. Our cab driver drove on subway track!! Couple times there was a train coming up so our cab driver would just got off the track right before the train could hit us! Our cab driver was trying to beat Kris and Amanda's cab, haha. But at same time, we were scared to death. The roads were so disorgainzed, people were driving like nuts!We all were sitting in McDonald's at like 5am in the morning waiting to board on train at like 6am. One of our camera crew shouted that Obama won the election. Entire people in McDonald's just cheered and clapped. It was a cool moment.*Ah, so you were in Romania when Obama won the election, Luke! That must have been a cool moment for all of you!Belle BookP.S. I voted for Obama in the election, so I was thrilled when he won! I will not talk political here!
Amazing racers!By INA R. HERNANDOJune 22, 2009, 9:52amHow does a mother support her handicapped sons lifelong dream?By running a race all over the world with him!Margie Adams always believed that her hearing-impaired son could go on The Amazing Race (TAR), the worlds most popular reality show. It was just a matter of time and it came during the recent TAR Season 14 where Margie and Luke finished third in the mad dash across nine countries and three continents.He is really a big fan of The Amazing Race since Season 1 and he always wanted to go on the show ever since he was a teenager, the 50-year old mother tells Manila Bulletin in an exclusive interview.Lukes condition was not at all a factor and Marge knew very well what her son is capable of doing and that is a lot!The only thing that we had to figure out was the communication when we were driving the car, she shares.For Luke, the original goal was make it to the Final Three. Margie would have been contented in not being the first team to get the boot.Margie may seem fragile but she admits that she could be controlling and competitive at times. But these very qualities are probably some of the reasons why she was able to overcome the difficulties of having a child with a disability. After the race, Margie is now back to her old job as a clinical research associate.Luke, on the other hand, just got a job in upstate New York where he will get to work with college students. His main goal in joining the race was to be a role-model for deaf people everywhere while proving that the deaf can do just about anything and to never think otherwise.The Amazing Race season 14 was aired on Studio 23, which will also air the next season. On this exclusive feature on Students and Campuses Bulletin (SCB), the mother and son tandem from Denver, Colorado share their passion as advocates for deaf people, their experiences in coping with a disability, and how The Amazing Race has changed their lives forever.LEARNING WITH HER CHILDSCB: What exactly was the doctors diagnosis on Luke? What was the cause of his hearing impairment?Margie: Luke was diagnosed with a severe hearing loss on his first birthday. He was born with a bilateral ear infection. He also had surgery to put tubes in his ears to help them drain. He did pretty well with the hearing aids and started attending a pre-school for hearing- impaired children but when he was 2 1/2 years old, he had meningitis and lost the little residual hearing he had, He was then diagnosed with profound/total hearing loss.SCB: How did you feel when you heard about this?Margie: I knew Luke could not hear from birth. He never looked around when there was a loud noise or looked for me when he heard my voice. Luke has an older sister and so I knew his reaction to sound was different from her reaction to sound as a baby. I went for almost a year telling Lukes doctor that I thought he could not hear so when we finally had a diagnosis and could take some action I was actually relieved.SCB: What difficulties did you go through as a mom?Margie: The hardest thing was to hear other people make fun of him and call him stupid because of how he sounded. I really tried to educate people that just because Luke does not sound or communicate the same way hearing people do, he was stupid because he is not.SCB: Whats the biggest adjustment that you had to go through?Margie: Learning sign language and be more patient. When I communicate with sign I have to stop what ever I am doing to sign, I did not have to do that when communicating with my daughter.SCB: How did you learn sign language?Margie: I started Luke in a pre-school program when he was just a little older than I and I learned sign right along with him. I also took classes but I learned Signing Exact English (SEE) and later found out that the majority of deaf people communicate with American Sign Language (ASL) so I had to then learn ASL. I actually sign a mix of ASL and SEE with Luke.SCB: Did Luke try hearing aids or other treatment options so he could hear?Margie: Luke had hearing aids from one to five years old and then he got a Cochlear implant that allowed him to hear environmental sounds but not really speech. He went to speech therapy at least two days a week until he was 14.SCB: Did you encounter difficulties in looking for a school for him? How was the set up like?Margie: Lukes father was in the army so we moved around a lot when Luke was growing up. Mainstream was always difficult. Luke did well academically but there were always so few deaf kids at his school that he sometimes felt isolated. He went to deaf school in Hawaii when he was eight and did 2 1/2 years there and did great. Then back to mainstream for two years and in 7th grade, he went to Colorado School For the Deaf and Blind and finished High School there.SCB: Whats the best thing about having a deaf child that many people do not realize?Margie: Having a deaf child exposed me to a whole new culture and gave me the opportunity to meet some fantastic deaf people that I would have probably not met.SCB: What advice can you can give to parents who have kids with disabilities?Margie: Talk to other parents with children that have similar disabilities, see what resources are out there, advocate for you child to get them the best help/education that is available. Allow your child to have language as early as possible, whether it is signing or oral communication, it is so important to communicate with your child.SCB: What was the reaction of the other teams when they learned that Luke was deaf?Margie: It was a mixed of reactions. Some teams were excited to have a deaf person on the race. Some teams initially thought that we would be a weak team and eliminated early because of Lukes deafness. Some teams felt awkward to be around Luke because they were not sure how to communicate with him.GLAD TO BE DEAFSCB: How hard was it growing up knowing that you were different?Luke: It wasnt really that hard. I actually like the idea of being different. I love being deaf. Sign language is just so such beautiful and I love every aspect of deaf culture. Im glad that Im deaf!SCB: What were the problems that you encountered especially when you were in school?Luke: The kids sometime would just bully me because I am just different from them. Just need to teach kids how to treat me like I am normal, not different from others.SCB: What made you decide to go to college? What was your course and why did you choose to take it?Luke: I wanted to get a college degree like everyone else. I studied in Criminal Justice, I want to fight for the rights for deaf people. You will be so surprised with how many limited rights there are for deaf people.SCB: What was your very first ambition?Luke: To be a honor roll student in school when I was a little kid and I did it!SCB: Whats the hardest part of being deaf aside from not being to hear?Luke: A lot of limited job opportunities which a lot of jobs required to be able to hear, so its a little hard to overcome that obstacle in job field.SCB: Any advice to people, especially to kids, who have disabilities?Luke: Dont let anybody stop you just only because of your disability. Push yourself forward. Achieve your goals no matter what people say.SCB: How do you think your participation in TAR changed the publics perception on people with disabilities in general?Luke: We hope that people understand deaf culture much better. There is a big misconception that almost every deaf person could talk and read lips really well. But, in our case, that isnt true. There are actually a lot of deaf people who could not read lips or talk well, like Luke does.http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/207671/amazing-racers
I don't think I ever thought Luke couldn't do anything because he was deaf. I saw Heather Whitestone become Miss America despite being profoundly deaf, so I knew that deaf people could do a lot. I'm glad Margie & Luke made it to the Final 3.So Luke couldn't hear from birth due to an infection? That's unfortunate. I'm glad that he's done so well with his life now.Belle Book
Just want to drop a line in to say hello to everybody!
Hello Luke and hope you have a fabulous weekend and 4th of July I'd like you to meet RealityFreakWill or "Will" he is not a fan of The Amazing Race but thanks to you he did watch your season because you have things in common such as he is deaf as well and also a heck of a guy
Quote from: puddin on July 03, 2009, 07:30:16 PMHello Luke and hope you have a fabulous weekend and 4th of July I'd like you to meet RealityFreakWill or "Will" he is not a fan of The Amazing Race but thanks to you he did watch your season because you have things in common such as he is deaf as well and also a heck of a guy Puddin, he already knows. I sent him a PM a month ago I think or a few weeks ago introducing myself to him and he responded with a very nice message back to me. He told me he is a fan of BB and may pop in here on the BB threads.
they're such good racers and are not bottom feeders.
Quote from: bryan_pasa on July 04, 2009, 06:30:09 AMthey're such good racers and are not bottom feeders.Thank you!!! :-)Will and I have spoken to each other couple times. It's nice to see there's a deaf poster on RFF! I just want to write a quick hi as my mom and I are getting ready for Cara's big night!! Jaime, Mike, and Victor are here as well (Tammy, you are dearly missed!) They're doing really great!
I have just started watching this season ( I am from Sydney, Australia, so we are a bit behind) and I love Luke and Margie. They are the best team to date. I am so happy you guys made it so far!!ps. omg, is this really Luke on the forum? If it is, I'll give a shout out. "Luke, you are super cute!"
Welcome to the forum wazza!
Hey guys!! Hope all are well with you guys! I see that you guys are having fun trying to spoil new race! I just saw Neobie's question: Luke, I'm interested too in what happened after the faux-Pit Stop in Beijing! You guys disappeared for six, seven hours there? What're you up to nowadays? Back to school?Good catch! We didn't search for a gnome right away. We had to stay in some little restaurant place to sleep for few hours. We were told that we had to get up before the dawn breaks so we only slept for like 4 hours? It was SO cold inside! There were no windows at all! Way to suffer! One thing that I was little pissed that we all (teams) were released at same time to look for gnomes. No order at all. That's why Jaime + Cara, Tammy + Victor, and my mom + I were all fired up about Jen and Kisha caught a big break that the leg was TBC and didn't get eliminated for being in last place after swim challenge. We all agreed that whoever gets to U-Turn will u-turn Jen and Kisha right away in order to eliminate them. That's the reason that I was so intense while doing make-up detour task is that I knew there was U-Turn coming up and I knew that Jen and Kisha were going to u-turn my mom and me if nobody else gets there before them - I tried to hurry up and screwed up so bad on the makeup application, haha. I was so relieved when we found U-Turn. We wandered around for two hours then it took Jaime + Cara and Jen + Kisha four hours to find it. I loved how Jaime and Cara went like, "Margie and Luke went down that street and they never came back. I wonder what happened to them." That was hilarious of how we disappeared mysteriously. Anyway, Im just enjoying the ride and traveling around for a little bit then hopefully going on one of trips that my mom and I won on the show this fall!!
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Players of the Week - No. 8
Steffensen was the key player in the 3-1 road win over No. 16 Trinity Christian (Ill.) on Oct. 19. Facing a 1-0 halftime deficit, the freshman forward scored the tying goal in the 71st minute, had game-winning assist to Kelly Creager in the 80th minute and netted a security goal in the 87th minute. Steffensen scored four goals and assisted on two others as Judson toppled Holy Cross (Ind.) 10-1 on Oct. 22. The 19th-ranked Eagles are on a 10 match winning streak and have gone unbeaten in their last 15 contests.
The London, Ontario, native, ranks 10th nationally in game-winning goals per game with 0.36 and 11th in total game winning goals with five.
McMullin, who hails from Plano, Texas, registered her fifth and sixth shutout wins of the season as the Hillcats defeated a pair of Sooner Athletic Conference foes. The sophomore keeper made seven saves to hand Science & Arts (Okla.) its first blanking in 14 matches played this season, 1-0, on Oct. 18. McMullin then denied Mid-America Christian (Okla.) six times to earn Rogers State its third-straight win, 4-0, on Oct. 21.
The next Players of the Week announcement will be on Nov. 1.
Offensive Nominees: Dana Hemmingsen, Park (Mo.); Ashton Bergh, MidAmerica Nazarene (Kan.); Jessica Watton, Texas Wesleyan; Kelsey O'leary, Daemen (N.Y.); Aline Bez Tamiosso, Shorter (Ga.); Theresa Crane, Ottawa (Kan.); Jessica Carlson, Hastings (Neb.); Samantha Cook, Marian (Ind.); Abby Fannin, Tennessee Wesleyan; Lanie Reece, Cincinnati Christian (Ohio); Jen Kuipers, Cornerstone (Mich.); Audrey Sullivan, Corban (Ore.); Jordyn Thompson, Grand View (Iowa); Blerta Rashica, Oklahoma City; Hanna Jonsson, Lindsey Wilson (Ky.); Helen Lynskey, Northwood (Fla.); Haley Jensen, Carroll (Mont.); Libby Storie, Oklahoma Wesleyan; Hannah Langseth, Jamestown (N.D.); Mor Efraim, Martin Methodist (Tenn.); Jacque Cassell, William Jessup (Calif.); Lindsey Holman-Kelley, Vanguard (Calif.).
Defensive Nominees: Tori Verdieck, McPherson (Kan.); Ellen Ghirardi, Park (Mo.); Amanda Martino, Siena Heights (Mich.); Caitlin Stier, Bellevue (Neb.); Becca Skillman, MidAmerica Nazarene (Kan.); Brittany Orr, Concordia (Ore.); Kelsi Maciejewski, Daemen (N.Y.); Alyssa Mora, Our Lady of the Lake (Texas); Emily Warren, Union (Tenn.); Jennifer Lerner, Hastings (Neb.); Deanna Dawson, Tennessee Wesleyan; Kayla Pitman, Grand View (Iowa); Brandie Hagerman, Campbellsville (Ky.); Lyndsay Figgins, Asbury (Ky.); Matilda Ojaniemi, Northwood (Fla.); Brooklyn Morgan, Spring Arbor (Mich.); Erin Volz, Carroll (Mont.); Devin Johnston, Olivet Nazarene (Ill.); Lorna Brownlie, Mobile (Ala.); Madi White, Point Loma Nazarene (Calif.); Mallory Todd, Menlo (Calif.).
2011 Composite Award Winners (Offensive; Defensive)
Week 1: Caroline Mellard, Montreat (N.C.), Mor Efraim, Martin Methodist (Tenn.)
Week 2: Caitlin Stier, Bellevue (Neb.), Brooke Martin, LSU Shreveport
Week 3: Sara Hoffman, Judson (Ill.), Alyssa D'Egidio, Avila (Mo.)
Week 4: Jaime Tomaszewski, Aquinas (Mich.); Chelsea Gregg, Madonna (Mich.)
Week 5: Jackie Acevedo, Southern Nazarene (Okla.); Erica Wessels, Point Loma Nazarene (Calif.)
Week 6: Florence Dadson, Robert Morris (Ill.); Aubree Gallego, Texas Wesleyan
Week 7: Kelsey Christner, Grace (Ind.); Erin Frushon, Biola (Calif.)
Week 8:Jenna Steffensen, Judson (Ill.); Chelsea McMullin, Rogers State (Okla.)


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Report: Oakley sues McIlroy over Nike deal
Rory McIlroy's reported new deal with Nike isn't going to be a completely smooth transition.
One of McIlroy's previous sponsors, Oakley, has sued the world No. 1, and Nike, for breach of contract, according to an ESPN report.
McIlroy promoted golf clothes manufactured by Oakley, which also makes sunglasses.
McIlroy was signed with Oakley through Dec. 31.
According to a lawsuit filed last week in federal court in Santa Ana, Calif., Oakley tried to use its "right of first refusal" to match the Nike offer, but McIlroy and his agent, Conor Ridge, ignored the counteroffer, thereby breaching the Oakley-McIlroy contract, ESPN reported.
McIlroy announced this year that he would be leaving longtime equipment sponsor Titleist, but he has not commented on whether he has signed with Nike. That deal with Nike is reported to be $200 million.
ESPN's report says Oakley claims the damage that has resulted from McIlroy's refusal to renew "irreparable" and entitles the company to an injunction that would stop Nike and McIlroy from concluding or implementing their contract. Oakley also says it has spent $300,000 for a photo shoot on products McIlroy would have endorsed in 2013.
McIlroy's management company, Horizon Sports Management, which he signed with in 2011 after bolting International Sports Management after four years, told ESPN.com: "McIlroy has fulfilled all of his obligations to Oakley, and the claims in the lawsuit are entirely baseless."


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Program Overview
Background Information on the Transforming Course Design Initiative
Several CSU campuses have initiated course redesign projects, and others are being planned or in progress. Examples of the goals, structure and timeline for these projects are available on the CSU Transforming Course Design website. There is a growing body of success stories of comprehensive course redesign, to improve student learning while simultaneously addressing the issue of instructional costs, in most cases with the support of academic technologies. Examples of improved student learning include reducing unsuccessful course grades and course repeats. Examples of addressing instructional costs include reducing student and faculty time needed to achieve desired learning outcomes. The most successful projects have addressed instructional challenges in high impact courses by maximizing student engagement, emphasizing active learning and using technology to enable increased amounts of high-quality contact between faculty and students. These exemplars display a high level of commitment from administrators and departments, an effective level of academic technology infrastructure, faculty development support, and appropriate assessment of outcomes.
Goals: The focus of the Transforming Course Design initiative is to support CSU campus efforts in this area, to optimize the impact of those efforts, and to insure that "the whole is greater than the sum of the parts". Within this overall goal to facilitate the design and implementation of CSU campus projects in transforming course design, the initiative has the following subgoals:
- Leverage existing campus and system wide programs for improving student learning, facilitating graduation, and supporting outcomes assessment, faculty development and academic technologies.
- Enhance communication and information exchange across our CSU campuses, and with internal & external experts and initiatives.
- Support capability development and coordination in the knowledge domains which are critical to successful campus course redesign initiatives.
- Foster collaborations across CSU campuses to share resources and effort, including scholarly communities to engage faculty with their discipline colleagues.
- Identify aspects of our policies, structure and facilities which may have impacts on the success of these transformation initiatives.
Activities: In addition to support for campus projects related to the initiative, the Transforming Course Design team will be engaged in the following activities in the next few months:
- Developing a plan for system wide programs that serve the needs of campuses at various stages of readiness in planning and implementation of related projects.
- Initiating a "CSU community of practice" in Transforming Course Design, through the establishment of an inventory of existing and planned projects, processes and resources on CSU campuses; developing further contacts amongst related CSU campus initiatives; and supporting CSU campus projects through the provision of advice and training, and liaison with internal and external expertise.
- Enhancing
the existing CSU Academic Transformation website and developing other
web-based resources and facilities to support campus and systemwide
course design projects. The websites will provide campuses with
information, guidelines and tools for understanding the strategies for
transforming course design, implementing exemplary practices in
transforming course design, and scaling course design approaches.
Categories for Proposals in Support of the Transforming Course Design initiative
While we expect proposals to support either Demonstration, Capability Development or Collaboration as described below, we will also welcome proposals which cross these categories or address the CSU Transforming Course Design goals in Other ways see category 4 below?. In all categories, the intent of this RFP is to support efforts with broad impacts beyond a specific course design instance, either within a campus or across multiple CSU campuses. Supported projects will contribute to enhanced campus readiness, capability and partnerships to achieve the goals of individual campus projects in transforming course design – e.g., improved student learning, student success, facilitating graduation.
1. Demonstration: Demonstration projects are intended to enable campuses to support initial course design projects which address both student success and instructional costs. For example, requests could include time from the CSU Transforming Course Design team or other experts to advise on campus projects and supplement campus capabilities, or financial support to match campus funds to allow Demonstration project participants to learn from other CSU campus projects or through external workshops and conferences. A request could also focus on scaling up a promising initial campus project to become a compelling demonstration of transforming course design.
2. Capability Development: Capability Development projects are intended to extend initial and ongoing campus projects by augmenting the knowledge and processes available for the campus. For example, requests could include support for training or resources to establish campus processes or to upgrade capabilities in assessment, faculty development or academic technology, in order to meet clearly defined needs arising from campus projects related to the CSU Transforming Course Design initiative.
3. Collaboration: Collaboration projects are intended to support shared developments across CSU campuses. For example, requests could include financial support to augment existing campus projects in order to provide resources of value across the CSU, and support for inter-campus collaboration to extend the impacts of individual campus efforts.
4. Other: Proposals which fall outside these categories are also welcome, provided they address the goals of the CSU Transforming Course Design initiative as outlined on the attached Background Information page. For example, requests could include:
- collection and dissemination of exemplary policy resources to address intellectual property and copyright issues,
- approaches to extend existing methods in cost-effective ways to upper level or smaller enrolment courses;
- integration of transforming course design projects with other initiatives in accessibility, information literacy, etc.;
- model projects to engage campus Academic Senates, student groups, etc. with CSU Transforming Course Design efforts.


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Archibald and Sarah Waddell Hutton are pleased to announce the marriage of their son Francis Osborne Hutton to Mary Donaldson, son of William and Catherine Scott Donaldson. Francis and Mary were married 7 January 1862 in Frontenac Township, Ontario.
I have previously written of Mary's brother, Joseph Russell Donaldson, who is my third great grandfather. My cousin, Mark, stumbled upon these pictures so I thought I would make them available.
Francis and Mary had eight children which I will list what I know below.
William Osborne Hutton born 29 March 1863 in Pittsburgh, Frontenac, Ontario and died 27 June 1930 in Lethbridge, Alberta. He married Mary Christine Gillis (1870-1958) 1 June 1893 in Fort MacLeod, Alberta.
Nancy Etta Hutton born 6 February 1866 in Pittsburgh and died 27 April 1956 in Lethbridge. She married David James Whitney (1861-1936) 23 May 1886 in Pittsburgh. She remarried after David's death to Newton Parsons in 1940.
Archibald Hutton born 14 February 1868 in Pittsburgh and died 24 May 1946. He married Emma Flora Todd (1878-1953) 9 June 1897 in Joyceville, Frontenac, Ontario.
Francis Henry Hutton born 27 March 1870 in Pittsburgh and died 14 March 1937 in Lethbridge. He married Lillian May Sinclair (1887-1977).
James Alexander Hutton born 30 May 1972 in Pittsburgh and died 5 May 1938. He married Mary Loney (1881-1963) in 1902.
John Albert Hutton born 14 November 1876 in Pittsburgh and died 25 December 1967 in Grand Forks, Yale, British Columbia. He married Sarah Mary McLean 15 September 1909 in Whitmount, Frontenac, Ontario.
Ernest Stafford Hutton born 4 March 1879 in Pittsburgh and died 29 July 1916 in Calgary, Alberta. He married Mabel Rosemont Keeler.
Mary Elizabeth Hutton born 2 February 1883 in Pittsburgh and died 18 May 1968. She married Francis Orton McLean (1884-1956) 30 January 1907.


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Ga. – Junior pitcher Justin Blue (Mulberry, Fla.) of the
Georgia College baseball team (3-0) was named Bobcat Athlete of the
Week for the week ending Feb. 3.
Blue pitched the second game of the doubleheader Saturday night. He dominated the game with his right arm as he tossed all seven innings, picking up a five-hit shutout, scattering five singles. He fanned seven and walked a pair in the 90-pitch outing.
Blue is a transfer from Pasco-Hernando Community College in New Port Richey, Fla. where he played two seasons before his debut game for Georgia College Feb. 2.
The Bobcats are back out on the field Friday, Feb. 8 at 3 p.m., when they travel down to the University of Tampa to take on the Spartans.
The Georgia College Department of Athletics, two-time winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 11 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at www.twitter.com/BobcatSports and www.facebook.com/gcbobcats for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCBobcats.com for more information, and to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GC Athletics Hall of Fame.


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Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: 1. A person who agrees to do something of their own free will without pressure or coercion. 2. A person who works for no pay. 3. A plant that sprouts and grows without being planted by someone.
Notes: Today's Good Word is a repronunciation of the same word that gave us the adjective voluntary, so voluntary serves as the adjective for this noun. It may be used as an adverb with the usual suffix: voluntarily. The noun itself may be used as a verb to indicate the behavior of a volunteer. To volunteer for service is to agree to carry it out without coercion or without pay. The characteristic or habit of volunteering is known as voluntarism, and it is an excellent habit to get into. We couldn't survive without it.
In Play: Quite a few jobs that must be done voluntarily emerge every day: "Speak up louder: how many volunteers do I have to clean up after the office party?" Housework is almost always done voluntarily. "Hey, you kids can volunteer to clean up your rooms or I can resort to the usual methods of coercion." (I would assume this sort of threat to be one of those methods.)
Word History: Today's word comes from Old French voluntaire (Modern French volontaire, Italian volontario, Spanish voluntario, and Portuguese voluntário). These languages inherited their versions from Latin voluntarius "willing, voluntary", the adjective from voluntas "free will". The same root underlies our Good Word voluptuary. That root, vol-, was originally wel-/wol- "wish, want". It emerged in English and other Germanic languages as will, the root of another Good Word, will-nilly. (We are grateful that Ed Bedford volunteered the suggestion of today's Good Word.)
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Well here's something you haven't seen in, oh, about 18 years.
Performing a ritual unobserved since at least 1991, back when the Pentagon imposed a ban on photos of returning war dead, President Obama flew to Dover Air Force Base this morning and saluted the flag-draped caskets of 18 soldiers and DEA agents recently killed in Afghanistan.
The unannounced visit comes as Obama weighs the administration's strategy in Afghanistan.
By appearing with the caskets, Obama is associating himself -- in a very direct and visual manner -- with the war's consequences.
It's a symbolic move from an administration that's expert in media manipulation (why do you think the Associated Press was invited?).
As if to say: Take responsibility. Get out in front. Even as they accuse you of dithering on the Afghan strategy, demonstrate that you're very much aware of war's human cost. You may be cool-headed, but you're not cool to the dedication of our soldiers and their families.
In a way, Obama's appearance is a subtle upbraiding of the previous administration. Though Bush met privately with the families of the war dead, he never attached his face to the war's consequences.
Hence the huge kerfuffle over the casket images in 2004. The official line was we forbade photos to maintain family privacy, but Obama's appearance demonstrates the opposite -- previous administrations didn't want Americans to see the bad news.
But as with every political maneuver -- and Obama's appearance is a political maneuver -- there's always risk.
The risk here is that Obama's joining himself at the hip to an unpopular war that looks like it's worsening.
Of course, he's already inextricably involved, by the virtue and responsibility of his office.
But now he's symbolically attached -- and in the eyes of a public inured in news cycle histrionics, that symbolism is even more powerful.
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Paul is from Port Colborne, Canada.
Sailing runs in Paul's family. His father was a sailor, and Paul himself began sailing in the 1980s. Out on the water he saw the harm being done to the environment in many locales, and began to wonder what he could do to help. When the Greenpeace vessel, MV Beluga, came to Montreal, he raced there to volunteer on board.
Paul is a courageous and peaceful man who is dedicated to his ideals. He has travelled around the world to witness environmental atrocities; from over-fishing on Canada's East coast, to nuclear testing in the South Pacific, to logging in British Columbia and whale slaughter in Antarctica.
Paul is a self-trained blacksmith, and in his spare time he builds, welds and creates art. He is also learning to play the fiddle.
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Carbon Dioxide Emissions from Fossil Fuel Consumption and Cement Manufacture 1751-1995; and an Estimate of their Isotopic Composition and Latitudinal Distribution. The Carbon Cycle.. 2000.
Carbon dioxide emissions from fossil-fuel use, 1751-1950. Tellus. 51B:759-765.. 1999.
Carbon Management Response Curves: Estimates of Temporal Soil Carbon Dynamics. Environmental Management. 33:507-518.. 2004.
The challenge to keep global warming below 2 °C. Nature Climate Change. 3(1):4-6.. 2013.
Cropland carbon fluxes in the United States: increasing geospatial resolution of inventory-based carbon accounting. Ecological Applications. 20:1074-1086.. 2010.
Ecological objectives can be achieved with wood-derived bioenergy. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 13(6):297-299.. 2015.
The First State of the Carbon Cycle Report (SOCCR) The North American Carbon the Global Carbon Cycle.. 2007.
Rapid growth in CO2 emissions after the 2008–2009 global financial crisis. Nature Climate Change. 2(1):2-4.. 2012.
Rapid growth in CO2 emissions after the 2008–2009 global financial crisis. Nature Climate Change. 2(1):2-4.. 2011.
Reduced carbon emission estimates from fossil fuel combustion and cement production in China. Nature. 524(7565):335-338.. 2015.
Uncertainty in gridded CO 2 emissions estimates. Earth's Future. 4(5):225-239.. 2016.


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Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Ford Best in Show - Chicago Auto Show
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Consumer voters proclaimed their favorites in five categories in the Chicago Auto Show's fifth annual "Best of Show" balloting.
In voting conducted over the 10-day public run of the nation's biggest auto show, winners in the contest's five categories were:
•Best All-New Production Vehicle: Ford Focus (29 percent of vote)
•Best Concept Vehicle: Cadillac XTS Platinum (28 percent of vote)
•Best Green Vehicle: Chevrolet Volt (25 percent of vote)
•Best Exhibit: Ford (41 percent of vote)
•"Vehicle I'd most like to have in my driveway:" Ford Shelby GT500
"These are tough competitions that make a win really meaningful for our manufacturers and exhibitors," said show chairman John Phelan. "In a year when our attendance was about level with 2009, we're thrilled that everyone worked so hard to bring their best displays, concepts and production vehicles to a public whose optimism is returning."
Each of the first four winners beat out seven other vehicles. In the fifth category, "Vehicle I'd most like to have in my driveway," voters could choose from any of the nearly 1000 vehicles on the show floor.
According to the results, almost one-third of the voters considered the 2011 Ford Focus the Best All-New Production Vehicle at the 2010 Chicago Auto Show. This is the second year in a row the Blue Oval took the top spot in this category as the Ford Taurus took the honors in 2009.
General Motors also repeated for Best Concept with the Cadillac XTS Platinum taking the honors this year and the Chevrolet Corvette Sting Ray winning last year.
Chevrolet's Volt outpaced the Fisker Karma for the top Green Vehicle at the 2010 Chicago Auto Show. The extended-range electric Volt will go on sale later this year at a price of approximately $40,000.
For the second year in a row, Ford grabbed the honors for Best Exhibit with a commanding 41 percent of the vote. That's not a shock as Ford had more than a half dozen interactive displays throughout its booth.
In the tightest race of all, the 2010 Ford Shelby GT bested every other vehicle on the show floor to become the showgoers' pick for "Vehicle I'd most like to have in my driveway."
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A Fish Story
I got busted for catching a few undersized grouper. You won't believe what happened next.
What do the former employees of Enron and I have in common? According to the Department of Justice, we're both guilty of the same crime. They spent their nights purging documents in order to hide massive financial fraud. I was accused of disposing of several purportedly undersized red grouper into the Florida surf from which I caught them. On Friday, the Supreme Court will determine whether to hear my case, which asks if my conduct and Enron's are really covered under the same law.
In 2007, I was fishing commercially off the coast of Cortez, Fla., in the Gulf of Mexico. A Florida Fish and WildlifeCommissionofficer, cross-deputized by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), boarded my boat to inspect it for safety equipment. Upon boarding the vessel, the officer believed that the fish in my catch were below the 20-inch harvesting minimum for red grouper, as was then required by federal regulations for conservation purposes.
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He spent the next four hours inspecting my more than 3,000-fish catch before ordering me to bring 72 allegedly undersized fish back to shore for further inspection. I was issued a civil citation from the state of Florida. The next day, after my commercial fishing boat returned to port , the Florida officer, along with several federal agents with weapons, examined my vessel's whole catch, finding only 69, not 72, undersized fish.
Nearly three years later, the federal government charged me with the destruction of evidence—yes, fish—to impede a federal investigation. I was subsequently arrested at my home. I have been blacklisted by boat owners who fear federal investigations similar to mine. I am now unable to make a living doing what I love to do.
To this day, I maintain that I committed no crime. I believe the agent originally measured my catch improperly and erratically. Yet even if I had disposed of those three groupers, the federal penalty schedule indicates that I should have incurred a financial penalty beginning at $500 or a restriction on my fishing permit. Instead, the Department of Justice wanted a pound of flesh: They charged me in 2010 with violating the Sarbanes-Oxley Act's " anti-shredding" restrictions. Passed in the wake of the Enron scandal, this provision aims to prevent white-collar criminals from destroying documents and records with the intent of defrauding investors and the general public. The crime carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison.
I was convicted of violating Sarbanes-Oxley by a federal jury trial in 2012. The judge sentenced me to 30 days in prison for my crime, followed by three years of supervised release, DNA collection, financial restrictions, travel restrictions and more.
DOJ's criminal indictment against me is an inappropriate and insulting expansion of federal criminal law. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act was never intended to attack unassuming, hardworking Americans for crimes unrelated to the destruction of records or documents. The legislative history surrounding the law shows that its authors meant it to "close loopholes in the existing criminal laws relating to the destruction or fabrication of evidence and the preservation of financial and audit records." According to the Senate's report on the scandal such loopholes contributed to the Enron fiasco, and thus needed to be closed. Congress hoped Sarbanes-Oxley would impede future criminal infractions on Wall Street, not civil infractions like mine—let alone over something as minor as three fish.


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12.1 Route 10/66
9 Mar - 6 Jun 2012
Route 10/66 stands for the postal code area of Dutch Design Hotel Artemis, but of course also refers to the legendary Route 66 crossing the United States. In the same way the exhibition Route 10/66 crosses this particular part of town which is called Amsterdam NewWest. The exhibition presents work of a large number of artists from this district.
Route 10/66: 10 exhibitors / 66 artists- designers
'New West' is a special part of Amsterdam. Besides the large amount of greenery and beautiful architecture many artists and designers live and work in Amsterdam New-West. Much is happening and created here and we would like to show and enrich this with the project Route 10/66. The work of 66 artists - designers will be exposed on an exhibition wall. This wall serves as a visual overview that shows the rich creativity in Amsterdam New-West. 10 out of the 66 artists - designers get the opportunity to exhibit their work at Dutch Design Hotel Artemis. Route 10/66 is a combined initiative of Stadsdeel Amsterdam Nieuw-West, Dutch Design Hotel Artemis, Hélène Bergmans Design and Brigit Vermeulen.
Dutch Design Hotel Artemis: exhibition is an unique concept where each three months the ground floor of the hotel is changed to a surprisingly different setting. Each exhibition has its own theme. Artemis provides a platform for both beginning and established artists and designers to show their work to an all round public. Beside the art, guests can enjoy tasty food and drinks in restaurant 'De Stijl'.


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- Pour chilled cottage cheese mixture over vegetables; mix well. Chill at least 30 minutes before serving.


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