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November 2006 Journal of Geoscience EducationVolume 54, Number 5
Evaluation of the Impact of the NWC REU Program Compared with Other Undergraduate Research Experiences
Wilson J. Gonzalez-Espada, Arkansas Tech University
Daphne S. LaDue, University of Oklahoma
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Undergraduate research is increasingly valued as a critical component of a good undergraduate science education. Through research, it is expected that students will develop significant knowledge, skills and dispositions. The NSF REU provides such an opportunity for college students. One of the authors recently reported an analysis of applicant characteristics, "best practices" implemented since 2001, and new additions to the program. This paper provides a research-based synthesis on the effectiveness of REU programs in general, summarizes the history of the National Weather Center REU program and its positive impact on students, describes the unique characteristics of the current program, and uses students' written comments to evaluate the program's effectiveness. It was found that REU students were significantly more committed to attend graduate school at the end of the program. No statistically significant difference was found on the students' career plans and interest in becoming research scientists before and after the program. A qualitative analysis provides a context from which the statistical data can be interpreted.
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Analogue Model for the Gravity Sliding of Sediments
David C. P. Peacock, Fugro Robertson Limited
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The gravity-driven sliding of soft sediments is modeled using a simple and reusable experiment. Sand, mud and water are shaken in a sealed plastic bottle. When the sand has partially settled, the bottle is tilted by several degrees and left on a stable surface for several hours, until a layer of mud is deposited above the gently dipping sand surface. Gentle squeezing or tapping of the bottle causes the sand to liquefy and pack more closely. Water is expelled from the sand and becomes trapped beneath, and therefore supports, the mud. The water beneath the mud becomes overpressured because it supports the weight of the mud. Friction between the mud and sand drops to zero, so the mud slides under gravity. Extensional structures develop towards the top of the slope, and buckle folds and thrusts develop in the mud towards the bottom of the slope. The experiment illustrates how earthquakes or storms can trigger liquefaction and overpressuring, and therefore gravity sliding of soft sediments.
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Introducing Geoinformatics for Earth System Science Education
Anupma Prakash, University of Alaska Fairbanks
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Geoinformatics provides an environment for the integration of geospatial data, models and knowledge. An upper undergraduate level introductory geoinformatics course was established at the University of Alaska Fairbanks in 2004, with collaborative efforts of three academic schools, three research institutes, and two data providers. The course consists of distinct but interrelated units on introduction to Earth system science, field data capture, photogrammetry and remote sensing, geographic information systems, database management, cartography, and geo-information visualization. Assessment data from two years for this course reveal that students taking the course could use geoinformatics to address a variety of Earth system science problems. The undergraduate course was retailored and extended to train high school teachers. Parts of the course material were introduced to high school students. Based on assessment data, observations, and experience in teaching the course, the author recommends that spatial concepts should be reinforced from the beginning in elementary schools, and components of geoinformatics should be integrated within the science and geography curricula in secondary school. At the undergraduate level, geoinformatics can be introduced as a specialization within an existing program, or as a program by itself.
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Teaching with Catastrophe: Topographic Map Interpretation and the Physical Geography of the 1949 Mann Gulch, Montana Wildfire
Karl Lillquist, Central Washington University
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Topographic map interpretation is typically taught by "imaginary landscape" or "classic terrain" approaches. This paper details how a "catastrophic approach" involving the August 1949 Mann Gulch, Montana wildfire may be used to teach topographic map interpretation in a university-level Introduction to Physical Geography course. The Mann Gulch wildfire erupted from lightning-struck trees to a blowup that killed twelve smokejumpers and one fire and recreation guard as it burned 3000 acres in ten minutes. Two smokejumpers survived by outrunning the fire and one lived by lying in the ashes of his escape fire. The wildfire and its tragic outcome were the culmination of topography, fuels, weather, and human response to calamity. The mix of topographic map interpretation as well as physical geography questions in multiple-choice, explanation, and calculation formats target key steps taken by the fire crew over a ~2 hour period. This approaches' effectiveness stems from its mental and emotional involvement of students as they holistically analyze the landscape and the firefighter's actions within a very real and dynamic setting. Variations of the exercise have been successfully used in three different courses over the past eight years. Numerous other examples of catastrophe could be used to enhance topographic map interpretation in various geography and geology courses.
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Using Student-Managed Projects to Enhance the Capstone Experience
Enrique Gomezdelcampo, Bowling Green State University
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Capstone courses are the culminating experience for graduating students. Typical capstone courses in the geosciences consist of senior theses or field camps. In this capstone course, the whole class works as one team assessing the environmental impact (EIA) of a real project requested by a client outside the university. The course is divided into thirds, with the last third devoted exclusively to the project. The other two thirds cover the legal aspects and methodology of EIA. The students carry out, organize, supervise, and assess all work related to the project. The course instructor only serves as a consultant to the students. Students' performance on the project constitutes a large part of the final course grade. The students find the course engaging and challenging, and the client many times actually chooses the alternative for the project based on the students' findings. This course provides several pedagogical benefits such as experiential learning, engagement, and development of professional skills.
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Laboratory Apparatus for the Demonstration of Quicksand
Michael J. Nicholl, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Melissa Karnowski, University of Idaho
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The use of quicksand as a convenient plot device in television and movies often leads to misconceptions, even among students taking introductory earth science courses. Because quicksand is a familiar natural phenomenon, exploring the underlying mechanisms provides an exceptional opportunity for student learning. Studying quicksand is facilitated by an easily constructed experimental apparatus and illustrative exercises, both of which are detailed here.
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A Field-Based, Writing Intensive Undergraduate Course on Pacific Northwest Geology
Andrew M. Buddington, Spokane Community College
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At Spokane Community College, a course in Pacific Northwest Geology provides students with a field-based approach to learning about the geology of the Pacific Northwest. This sophomore-level undergraduate course is a writing intensive course and meets the "W" (writing) requirements at Spokane Community College. The students participate in six laboratory field exercises where they document basic outcrop observations then submit three field reports that follow a specific field report format. Students are encouraged to view the reports as professional documents that will be provided to a client or fellow researcher. A final group project involves the creation of a web site virtual geology tour. Upon completion of the course, student field observational skills and technical writing abilities are greatly improved. Because of the high number of field trips involved, this lab science course is popular among both earth science majors and non-majors.
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An Integrative Summer Field Course in Geology and Biology for K-12 Instructors and College and Continuing Education Students at Eastern Washington University and Beyond
Jennifer A. Thomson, Department of Geology, Eastern Washington University
John P. Buchanan, Department of Geology, Eastern Washington University
Suzanne Schwab, Department of Biology, Eastern Washington University
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For the last fifteen years, a small group of faculty members in the departments of geology and biology at Eastern Washington University in Cheney, WA have offered a seven to ten day interdisciplinary summer field course. The course is designed for college students, K-12 instructors, and for those seeking continuing education experiences. We have been successful in attracting students who take the course repeatedly and continue to draw a pool of new students by providing a different route each year within a 1280 km (800 mi) radius of our institution. Our academic expectations are rigorous and include reading assignments, pre-trip questions, field notebooks and journal entries as well as a research paper and follow-up post-trip questions all of which are designed to capitalize on the integration of the two disciplines. This field course is one way in which we get our students out in the field for a trip longer than a day trip or weekend trip to learn about the interaction of geology and biology on both small and large scales in the scenic Pacific Northwest. We suggest that this technique of integration may be applied to field courses at a variety of academic institutions and in any physiographic province provided that three critical aspects in the successful implementation of our approach are met: (1) Two (or more) faculty in different fields that are willing to work together during preparation and execution of the course; (2) A clear primary objective or overarching theme for the course that is well-defined and that lends itself to an integrative approach; and (3) A prominent National Park or significant geographic feature to enhance the interest in the course and to draw enrollments.
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Techniques for Mapping Theoretical Shadow Zones for Direct P and S Waves Propagated as Rays from an Earthquake Epicenter
Richard L. Kroll, Kean University
John F. Dobosiewicz, Kean University
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This paper presents results about the effectiveness of different student-centered instructional methods on undergraduate student perceptions of a spatial phenomenon, earthquake P and S wave shadow zones, in introductory geology classes. Textbooks commonly illustrate earthquake P and S wave shadow zones using ray tracing techniques with an epicenter at the North Pole and the shadow zone south of the equator. Shadow zones differ for earthquake locations elsewhere. Shadow zones for earthquakes at locations around the world can be hand plotted using a globe and a map of the Earth. The plotter gains experience in using latitude and longitude for plotting, understanding global geography, translating spherical geographic data to a two-dimensional map, and gains a better understanding of seismic waves and the Earth's interior. The concept also explains how satellite orbits appear on flat maps and the concept of great circle paths. The shadow zone can also be mapped digitally using a Geographic Information System (GIS), such as ArcView GIS with the similar results. Over all, 81.5% of the student participants considered both instructional methods an enhancement to their understanding of the earth's interior, globes, maps and shadow zones. The results suggest that student alternate conceptions of the representation of geospatial data in 2D and 3D can be influenced by both traditional paper exercises and activities that teach with GIS technology.
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Active Learning Strategies for Constructing Knowledge of Viscosity Controls on Lava Flow Emplacement, Textures and Volcanic Hazards
Ben Edwards, Dickinson College
Rachel Teasdale, California State University at Chico
James D. Myers, University of Wyoming
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We present instructions for a series of quantitative experiments designed to help students build their intuitive knowledge of the rheological properties of fluids. The results of the experiments are quantified by students and are used to calculate fluid viscosities using Jeffreys Equation. During the course of the experiments, students test hypotheses about the effects of temperature, dissolved H2O, and the addition of bubbles or solid particles on fluid viscosity. They extend their experimental results to assess the role of viscosity in understanding volcanic hazards due to explosive eruptions and lava flows. Students can use a Dynamic Visual Equation (DVE) for Jeffreys Equation as either a pre-lab introduction to use of the equation or as a tool to calculate viscosities during the lab in place of a spreadsheet or calculator. Informal assessments of student attitudes suggest the experiments heightened student interest and learning.
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Helping Students Make the Transition from Novice Learner of Ground-water Concepts to Expert Using the Plume Busters Software
P. Allen Macfarlane, Kansas Geological Survey
Geoffrey Bohling, Kansas Geological Survey
Kenneth W. Thompson, Emporia State University
Margaret Townsend, Kansas Geological Survey
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Environmental and earth science students are novice learners and lack the experience needed to rise to the level of expert. To address this problem we have developed the prototype Plume Busters software as a capstone educational experience, in which students take on the role of an environmental consultant. Following a pipeline spill, the environmental consultant is hired by the pipeline owner to locate the resulting plume created by the spill and remediate the contaminated aquifer at minimum monetary and time cost. The contamination must be removed from the aquifer before it reaches the river and eventually a downstream public water supply. The software consists of an interactive Java application and accompanying HTML linked pages. The application simulates movement of a plume from a pipeline break through a shallow alluvial aquifer towards the river. The accompanying web pages establish the simulated contamination scenario and provide students with background material on ground-water flow and transport principles. To make the role-play more realistic, the student must consider cost and time when making decisions about siting observation wells and wells for the pump-and-treat remediation system.
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Taiwanese Earth Science Curriculum Guidelines and Their Relationships to the Earth Systems Education of the United States
Chun-Yen Chang, National Taiwan Normal University
Wen-Chi Lee, National Taiwan Normal University
Ting-Kuang Yeh, National Taiwan Normal University
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The purpose of this paper is four fold as follows: (1) to sketch the Taiwanese educational system and Earth science education; (2) to introduce the mandatory Earth science components of SaLTS (Science and Life Technology curriculum Standards) for grade nine and the requisite components of TESCG (Tentative Earth Science Curriculum Guidelines) at the tenth-grade level in Taiwan; (3) to make a critical analysis comparing SaLTS (as well as TESCG) and the Earth Systems Education (ESE) of the Untied States; and finally (4) to provide a framework of school Earth-science curriculum content in the global context from the perspectives of Taiwan.
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Isaac Bashevis Singer
Illustrated by Margot Zemach
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
In a faraway land, on a sunny spring day, the sky was as blue as the sea, and the sea was as blue as they sky, and the earth was green and in love with them both.
This kind of prose always comes as a surprise when I pick up a picture book, a genre in which words are typically chosen for their conciseness. I had assumed - incorrectly - that Margot Zemach was simply adapting an Isaac Bashevis Singer story as a picture book. It didn't occur to me that the Nobel Prize winning author of Enemies, a Love Story and Yentil the Yeshiva Boy was equally well-regarded for his contribution to children's literature, and that he actually wrote picture books.
As far as I can tell, this story springs entirely from Singer's imagination, but it certainly reads like a classic folktale from long ago, beginning with one of my favorite folksy motifs: the wager.
Mazel and Shlimazel - which sounds like something Laverne and Shirley would chant on their way to work - are the names of two spirits, walking unseen through the world of humans, one representing good luck, the other bad luck, and of course they get to arguing about who is more powerful. They decide to test their powers on a young, poor boy.
"What can take you a year to accomplish, I can destroy in one second," boasts Schlimazel.
Mazel, on the other hand, has a full year - an entire year! - to use all of his powers of good luck to turn a poor boy into a great man with riches, with power, with a beautiful princess by his side, the whole deal. Page after page, Singer details all of the great, lucky things which happens to this boy, one triumph begets another, and another, on and on. "Cards and minstrels sand of his deeds. High officials came to him for advice." It seems he could not possibly be more assured of his fortune.
But then, after the lucky year is up, Schlimazel is given exactly one second to destroy absolutely all of it, which he does in an extremely clever and effective manner. I'll leave it to you to find the book and see how he does it.
A part of me kind of wishes that had been the end of the book, that it had ended on such a clever punch line, but it continues on toward a happy ending, in which all is not lost and Mazel is shown to be in the right. Ah well. I kind of wanted Mazel to be taken down a few pegs. I admired Schlimazel's craftiness more than Mazel's altruism.
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Week 6 takeaways: Coaches under fire, Peterson perseveres
MINNEAPOLIS — It's increasingly looking like a matter of when, not if, coach Leslie Frazier will be fired by the Minnesota Vikings.
He has one year left on his contract and Sunday's 35-10 smackdown at the hands of the Carolina Panthers was the ugliest at the Metrodome since a 31-3 loss to Green Bay in 2010, a day before Brad Childress was canned.
Most troubling for a defensive-minded head coach such as Frazier is the disconnect between the way the Vikings practice and the coverage breakdowns that keep occurring on Sundays.
OUT:Matt Schaub's week gets worse
"When you lose, things change," Vikings defensive end Jared Allen said. "When you lose, heads roll. That's just the way it is. Players, coaches ... I don't know who's going to make it to the end of the season."
The impact of coaching on NFL success can't be overstated, and Frazier and his staff — whose Vikings teams have been outscored 108-27 in three games out of the bye since 2011 — aren't the only ones trying to figure out how to regain playoff form.
PHOTOS: Hot seat heat index
The Houston Texans' 38-13 home loss to the St. Louis Rams raised the volume on questions about coach Gary Kubiak, who's an offensive coach with a quarterback that seems to be going the wrong direction .
Like Kubiak, Atlanta Falcons coach Mike Smith hasn't translated regular-season success to the playoffs and has seen Super Bowl hopes sour quickly in 2013. And a fourth 2012 playoff team, coach Mike Shanahan's Washington Redskins, are 1-4 after losing to the Dallas Cowboys.
The common denominator with these coaches: contracts that are believed to expire after the 2014 season.
Firing a coach with a recent track record like Smith's seems unlikely. Even Kubiak and Shanahan don't appear to be in imminent danger. But eating one year of a deal is rarely cost-prohibitive. In a win-now business, few can feel safe.
— Has any team ever started 5-1 with as many issues as the New England Patriots? They remain as hard-up for weapons in the passing game as any team, with tight end Rob Gronkowski still awaiting medical clearance and wide receiver Danny Amendola knocked out (literally) again. Yet quarterback Tom Brady overcame multiple near-misses on Sunday's final drive and hit wide receiver Kembrell Thompkins for the 17-yard winner with five seconds to go — completing a rally against a Saints defense that had the Bears totally flustered a week earlier.
— Kansas City Chiefs players continue to cite the coaching staff as a huge factor in their 6-0 start. And it's not just head coach Andy Reid, who has brought stability to a program that went to hell and back in 2012. Look no further than the secondary, where there's a nice mix of experience (33-year NFL coaching veteran Emmitt Thomas) and youth (first-year coach Al Harris, who retired after the 2011 season). They have players' ears, and that goes a long way.
— The Texans fans who cheered quarterback Matt Schaub's injury got what they deserved — a pick-six thrown by T.J. Yates, who got a roaring ovation upon entering. Schaub has been awful the past month. There's little chance of him collecting a $10 million base salary for 2014, when he'll be 33 years old. But rooting for any player to get hurt, much less a seven-year starting quarterback coming off a Pro Bowl season, is exactly what Schaub's teammates said: barbaric, disgusting and classless.
— Panthers quarterback Cam Newton put on a show Sunday while another member of the 2011 QB class, Christian Ponder, watched from the Vikings' sideline as a backup. The other QBs taken in the first five rounds of that draft: Jake Locker (hurt), Blaine Gabbert (hurt), Andy Dalton (struggling this season), Colin Kaepernick (up and down), Ryan Mallett (backup), Ricky Stanzi (backup), T.J. Yates (backup) and Nathan Enderle (out of work). No question, it's the toughest position to scout because of all the variables involved.
— Vikings GM Rick Spielman has met twice with Christian Ponder since the signing of quarterback Josh Freeman. The Vikings gave Ponder 29 starts to even out his play, and it hasn't happened yet. Don't overlook the contract aspect in the big picture: Freeman signed only for one year, Cassel can void his deal after the season and a decision is due on Ponder's fifth-year option, too.
Minnesota Vikings star Adrian Peterson said he never considered sitting out the game, even after the 2-year-old son Peterson went to visit in the hospital Thursday in Sioux Falls, S.D., passed away Friday, the victim of alleged abuse by a man who was dating the boy's mother.
TRAGEDY:Peterson's 2-year-old son dies
This was supposed to be Peterson's therapy, and perhaps it was, even after an embarrassing 35-10 loss to the Carolina Panthers ended his trying week under a hail of boos at the Metrodome and left the Vikings reeling out of their bye week at 1-4.
"It was tough. It's a crazy situation," said Peterson, who was back for Friday's practice and attended Saturday's walk-through and team meetings as usual. "Anytime you lose a child ... it hurts. I can't describe it. But I've got a good supporting cast surrounding me, and I'll be good."
Peterson declined to get into details about the extent of his relationship with the son — "We just got blown out (by 25) points, so let's focus on football and what the Minnesota Vikings can do to get better" — and teammates downplayed the impact of the situation on their play.
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But the topic was unavoidable Sunday, with signs in support of Peterson visible in the crowd of 63,963 and the reigning MVP addressing teammates just before he took the field.
"He said, 'I'm going to give it my all, and I expect you guys to do the same,' " tight end Kyle Rudolph said. "For a guy like that, how can you not?"
Trouble was, the Vikings failed to match their leader.
They committed turnovers, took ill-timed penalties, didn't score a touchdown until the final minute and had one brutal defensive breakdown that resulted in a 79-yard touchdown pass — one of three thrown by Cam Newton, who ran for another as the Panthers' lead rose to 32.
Peterson finished with 10 carries for 62 yards and three catches for 21. His 31-yard run in the third quarter was the Vikings' longest gain on a day they held the ball for less than 24 minutes and seemed overmatched against a Panthers defense that kept blitzing until it was over.
OUTSIDE THE NUMBERS:Analyst's pep talk can't spur Jags
"I thought (Peterson) handled it as well as you can," Vikings coach Leslie Frazier said. "It's a difficult, difficult situation and there are a lot of people trying to support him within the organization, his teammates as well."
Police arrested Joseph Robert Patterson, 27, who was initially charged with aggravated assault and aggravated assault on an infant. Sioux Falls police said additional charges are being considered.
Patterson has a prior domestic abuse record with a different woman and child, having pleaded guilty to simple assault in an incident last year involving an adult female and juvenile male.
Sioux Falls police said Patterson recently started a relationship with the mother of the victim. Patterson appeared in court Friday morning in Canton, S.D. His bond had been set at $750,000 in cash before the boy's death.
Peterson said he prayed for the strength to get through the game. He said he doesn't "ask people to understand my mindset and how I think" in judging his decision to play. He planned to relax Sunday evening with family, have a good meal and then get back to work Monday morning.
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Asked where the team goes from here, Peterson said, "Have some faith, man. In life situations (or) here with football, you've got to continue to believe, man. We've got to get everyone with that same mindset, to believe no matter what the circumstance is.
"We're 1-4. We've got to believe and have the faith that we're going to be able to turn around and accomplish our goals. That's the way I think. We just need to get everyone thinking the same way."
Packers 19: Rookie RB Eddie Lacy looks like the closer the Packers need. He finished with 120 yards on 23 carries.
Ravens 17: Overly aggressive play-calling late in the first half yielded a turnover and three big points for Green Bay.
Bengals 27: Finally, a win that didn't come in spite of QB Andy Dalton, who broke his two-game TD drought by throwing three.
Bills 24: Fresh off the practice squad, QB Thad Lewis gave the Bills a chance. But the defense hemorrhaged 483 yards.
Lions 31: The offense functioned with WR Calvin Johnson hobbled. Next up: Bengals and Cowboys at home.
Browns 17: QB Brandon Weeden's intercepted shovel pass will live in infamy. Time to look harder at alternatives?
Rams 38: The Rams have the talent to play this way. It helps when QB Sam Bradford only needs to throw 16 times.
Texans 13: It might be time to reduce RB Ben Tate's role. He gained 12 yards on 10 carries. Arian Foster gained 141 on 20.
Raiders 7: After scoring their TD, the Raiders' next nine drives netted 54 yards, six punts and three interceptions.
Chiefs 24: It's a good sign the Chiefs can grind and rally on a day QB Alex Smith is less efficient than usual.
Panthers 35: This was the best of QB Cam Newton. Does the same guy show up next week against the Rams?
Vikings 10: The easy interception S Jamarca Sanford dropped could have turned the tide early. Instead, the mistakes crushed them.
Steelers 19: Amazing what happens when the "D" actually generates a takeaway – two even! – and the vertical passing game shows up.
Jets 6: Rookie QB Geno Smith had one of his worst showings, but he's not exactly working with premier threats on the perimeter.
Eagles 31: QB Nick Foles didn't have to use his legs much to keep Chip Kelly's offense moving. How eager are they to go back to Michael Vick?
Buccaneers 20: The buzzards continue to circle embattled coach Greg Schiano. Does he get a win before a pink slip?
Jaguars 19: The good news is they made it a game into the third quarter. The bad news is that's a victory at this point.
Broncos 35: Hard to fault anyone for turning on cruise control. But that won't work next week in Indianapolis.
Titans 13: RB Chris Johnson the past three games: 37 carries, 71 yards. That's bad, right?
Seahawks 20: An 11th straight home win came with a scare. Good thing RB Marshawn Lynch rediscovered "Beast Mode" for a day.
Saints 27: The look on defensive coordinator Rob Ryan's face confirmed the Patriots' final drive – eight plays, 70 yards – will be in his nightmares.
Patriots 30: Credit a defense that forced punts on four of the Saints' first five drives, preventing QB Drew Brees from taking over.
ROB RYAN'S REACTION:See GIF of final moments
Cardinals 20: QB Carson Palmer rebounded from his two early picks – perhaps staving off backup QB Drew Stanton for another week.
49ers 32: Since getting stuffed at Seattle in Week 2, RB Frank Gore is averaging 5.7 yards per carry.
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0 — Receiving yards for Saints tight end Jimmy Graham, who was targeted six times before departing with an ankle injury — ending his streak of 100-yard games at four.
0 — Blackouts through the first six weeks of the season after ESPN and local sponsors bought enough of the remaining tickets for Monday's Chargers-Colts game to ensure it'll be televised locally in San Diego.
3 — Kalil siblings who performed at the Metrodome on Sunday. Matt played left tackle for the Vikings, older brother Ryan played center for the Panthers and sister Danielle sang the national anthem.
4 — Receptions Colts wide receiver Reggie Wayne needs to become the ninth player in NFL history with 1,000 career catches. The Colts would also become the first team to have two players with 1,000 catches — Marvin Harrison ranks third all-time with 1,102.
5 — Consecutive games in which a Texans quarterback has thrown a pick-six after backup T.J. Yates tossed one to Rams linebacker Alec Ogletree.
79 — Years since two teams in the same division started 6-0 before the Chiefs and Broncos did it Sunday. The Lions and Bears, then in the Western Division, each started 10-0 in 1934.
210 — Career wins (including postseason) as a head coach for the Patriots' Bill Belichick, surpassing Chuck Knoll for fifth all-time.
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Indianapolis at San Diego,
8:40 p.m. ET, ESPN
The Chargers are 0-3 this season against AFC foes, and the Colts might be the most talented team they've seen yet. Indianapolis quarterback Andrew Luck lit up one of the NFL's best pass defenses in last week's win vs. the Seattle Seahawks. This week, he gets to face one of the worst.
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A cold front moves over Chicago overnight that will send temperatures plunging, with below-zero possible early next week.
But no major precipitation is expected soon, meaning a lack-of-snow record will get longer.
As of early today, National Weather Service meteorologist Gino Izzi said the last time we had gone this far into the season without a 1-inch calendar day of snowfall was Jan. 17, 1899 -- so we set a record.
Additionally, it's been 327 days and counting since we've had a 1-inch snow cover on the ground. That record was officially broken in early January, according to Izzi.
The relatively mild temperatures we've seen in recent days will end as a blustery cold front moves in on strong winds overnight, with highs struggling to reach 18 on Sunday. The weather service says the front will pass through the area from northwest to southeast from 8 p.m. to midnight, with temperatures possibly dropping as much as 10 degrees in an hour as it passes.
With wind speeds from 15 to 55 mph, the resulting wind chill will combine with the low temperature for below-zero readings in some places after midnight, the agency said.
Monday will only reach a high of about 10 and could see a low about 1 below zero. There is a chance of snow flurries Monday, the weather service said, although it is not yet known if there's a chance to break the 1-inch level.
Tuesday will remain frigid, but temperatures are expected to begin moderating Wednesday into the 20s and we could reach just above freezing for a high on Thursday.
Authorities warn people to take extra care in the extreme cold, watch out for frostbite on any exposed skin areas while outside and to check on neighbors or family who might need help. In Chicago, heating help is available by calling 311.
The Illinois Tollway will launch its Zero Weather Road Patrols this weekend to assist drivers stranded in their cars during times of extreme cold.
The tollway anticipates activating Zero Patrols overnight Saturday and into the day Monday, until the temperature and/or wind chill rises above zero, according to a tollway release.
The 24-hour service dedicates hourly patrols in search of motorists stranded in disabled vehicles or in response to calls that come in to *999 motorist assistance, Illinois Tollway dispatch or Illinois State Police District 15.
For the latest radar, conditions and forecasts, go to The Chicago Weather Center.


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It's not everyday I find myself bushcrafting in the middle of the Gower Forest in South Wales but there I was – with nothing but two chunks of wood – attempting to start a fire the way prehistoric men did. This full-day Wilderness Survival Course conducted by Dryad Bushcrafting is aimed at teaching me and my travel mates basic skills and techniques of bushcrafting. So what is bushcrafting? Andrew Price, the young founder and head instructor of the outfitter, tells us, "Our aim is to teach people how to live in the outdoors and use our environment to sustain our lives. It does not require supernatural abilities, all you need is a practical understanding of the basic principles of bushcraft. This will enable you to adapt confidently to any environment."
Dryad Bushcraft was started a few years ago with funding from the Welsh assembly sustainable development fund. Activities include fire lighting, fungi forage, primitive and modern traps and tracking techniques and many other subjects.
Man vs. Wild
Earlier that morning, we had driven towards Swansea, Southwest Wales to get to Gower. This particular part of Southwest Wales was designated Britain's first area of outstanding natural beauty (AONB) on the 9th of May 1956. We started our day off with a stop at the Gower Heritage Center and a Neolithic period burial ground. After catching a glimpse into the rural Welsh lifestyle, we headed out into the woods, geared for some 'Man vs Wild' action. Foraging through the thick foliage of the Gower Woods, we chance upon raspberries, meadowsweets and willow plants. Rick, our instructor, plucks a thorny leaf and chucks it into his mouth. Surprisingly, his tongue remains unscath. As we thread through the forest, Rick explains the use of each plant and how some can serve as medication or just to fill our stomachs.
Making Fire From Scratch
After a series of explanations and demonstrations, we are presented with our first task: making fire with two sticks of wood. With my knee pressed against a slab of wood, I summon up strength to rub another slice of wood against it like a saw. Teamwork plays an important factor here, as our team of three emerge as the winner with our combined efforts. "Bushcraft is not a spectator sport. The emphasis is on hands-on practice and working together as a team. As you can see, team work makes every single thing you do easier and more enjoyable." Andrew explains the aim of his bushcraft courses.
Next, we are tasked to build our own makeshift shelter using natural elements in our environment. Logs of wood and short branches are gathered and the construction begins. As a group, we discuss the basic structure of our shelter and how we would stack the logs together. Soon we are piling up wood, dried leaves and hay.
At the end of the day, we have adapted to the natural environment and become modern-day survivors. Perhaps I wouldn't have won without the help of my team members, but I sure have learned a ton of essential knowledge in this adventure. This post originally appeared on WildJunket Travel Blog. This experience was made possibly by Visit Britain but all opinions are my own. IMAGES VIA: Nellie Huang


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from the urls-we-dig-up deptFor centuries, people didn't have convenient refrigeration for storing food for long periods of time. Nowadays, we take refrigerators for granted and keep things in them even when it's not necessary. Here are just a few cool examples of ways to avoid eating spoiled food.
- There's a prototype for a sustainable portable refrigerator for small volume containers that doesn't require electricity. It still needs to be heated up in some way for the thermodynamics of it to work, but it's an interesting self-contained device for remote locations... or for camping trips? [url]
- Some nicely-designed containers could help folks store food without refrigeration while still keeping food fresh. Storing eggs at room temperature seems really strange to most Americans. [url]
- Mohammed Bah Abba won a Rolex Award for re-discovering a pot-in-pot refrigeration device (aka a zeer) that can keep food cool by taking advantage of evaporative cooling. A zeer costs about $1 to make and is just a couple of nested clay pots with wet sand between them. [url]
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Lending a virtual hand: First of its kind emotional health website wins award for using technology to reach campus community
Submitted by Communications and Marketing
A Kansas State University counseling services' website was recently recognized for its dedication to students' emotional health.
The University Life Cafe, https://www.universitylifecafe.org/, the first website of its kind in the nation, was honored with an Outstanding Work Award from the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education's Cooperative for Educational Technologies, known as WCET. The award will be presented at the annual conference, Oct. 26-29 in Denver.
The award recognizes outstanding technology projects that promote student success in higher education. University Life Cafe was chosen for its dedication to providing information, resources and a creative outlet for all of the university's campuses and its global community of distance students.
Barbara Pearson, director of University Life Cafe, said the website meets an urgent need in the campus community.
"This engaging, community-based approach for university counseling services empowers the campus and larger community to recognize signs of risk for suicide and other mental health issues," she said. "It provides a safe venue for students to express themselves and reach out to trained counseling staff."
The site was originally developed with a three-year grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. It has grown to feature The Brew, a student space with a variety of multimedia to promote expressiveness, and The Bookshelf, which offers wellness resources.
All content is contributed entirely by K-State students, faculty and staff, reaching approximately 23,500 students and 4,000 faculty and staff. Google Analytics reported that there have been site visits from 147 countries.
Pearson said an important part of University Life Cafe's success has been its student advisory board.
"We worked with students from the very beginning," she said. "Students and faculty were at the very core of the creative process."
Suicide is the second leading cause of death for college students; for every 100,000 students, approximately seven commit suicide, according to the American Psychological Association. A recent study by the American
College Health Association found that 9.8 percent have seriously considered committing suicide and 50 percent have engaged in suicidal ideation.
Pearson said that in the past, suicide prevention strove to identify at-risk students and to intervene in sufficient time to prevent tragedy, but as more studies have been done, professional counselors have turned more toward a community approach.
"By educating and empowering the larger community to recognize signs of risk for suicide, it was hoped that this greater emotional resilience would pervade the student, faculty, staff and larger community in order to provide greater protections for all," she said.
Putting K-State at the forefront of this approach to counseling, the University Life Cafe was developed to reach out to the community. Pearson said since the website's launch in 2009, at least one K-State student has used it to express emotional distress, resulting in a successful protective intervention by trained campus staff.
She added that virtual learning environments that involve life-critical issues require an understanding of the domain field, potential site users and carefully thought-out strategies.
"The site's effective practices of harnessing interactive technologies to create a virtual community of support to promote emotional health and well-being align with WCET's position to help member institutions learn about important issues facing on-campus and distance learning students in higher education," Pearson said.
University Life Cafe is now financially sustained by K-State's counseling services.


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Barfield cautions that "things are becoming more and more complicated" because analyzing structured data is a different task from analyzing unstructured data. Also, you often need to make a correlation between the two types of data: For example, reconciling structured activity logs with less structured help-desk logs or security incident reports. Security officers need a way to quickly identify patterns and build and deploy new security models.
One such tool to help organize this new security paradigm is the open source Apache UIMA project; Unstructured Information Management applications are software systems that analyze large volumes of unstructured information in order to discover knowledge that is relevant to the user. IBM developed UIMA to help make its Watson artificial intelligence platform a reality.
Another IBM tool that helps determine what data is relevant for a fraud investigation is the Intelligent Investigation Manager, a bundle of techniques that optimizes fraud investigation and analysis by dynamically coordinating and reporting on cases and analyzing and visualizing fraud within structured and unstructured data across silos. The component that bridges the gap between structured and unstructured data is Content Analytics with Enterprise Search:
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It's done.
This, too.
Brevity is the soul of wit.
It's done.
This, too.
Brevity is the soul of wit.
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We are too, coach. We are too.
best news yet to come, Kirby Smart's gonna be the new outside linebackers coach y'all, I heard from a VERY, VERY, reliable source.
That just shows to go you; I'm more closely aligned with the Bulldog powers than you and will bet the farm (my source was there when he and Richt spoke for the first time) that Kirby will be the D-backfield coach part time and ST coordinator part time. They are stil haggling over travel money.
Arthur Blank is going to give Kirby a 4.67% piece of Falcons ownership to coach special teams at UGA. Kirby is holding out for better pay for his film study staff.
What a great way to start the week.
I am not so sure. My productivity was zilcho today 🙂
So does he also coach Special Teams?
No but I believe he is also going to coach DBs so we will have an extra opening
^^^that is not confirmed though and I have no inside sources 😉
Wilson at DL
Olivadotti at LB – can he coach both ILB and OLB or are we going back to 3-4?
Pruitt at DB
We are a 3-4 base now.
Pruitt runs a variation of the 3-4 that, like Granthm's often has a four man front. From what I have read, we shouldn't have a body-type issue to deal with like we did the first year of the CTG 3-4. What I am most excited about is the blitz packages he used at FSU. We brought heat a lot but it was poorly disguised/timed. Of course you would expect that when you often were not aligned completely before the snap.
I have a tingle down my leg larger than the tingle Chris Matthews felt when Obama was elected.
That's good right there. 🙂
If it lasts for longer than four hours, be sure to consult a physician.
That too:)
Is everybody happy????
I'm happy…..defense, recruiting, a teacher and someone who's been there and done that…a four time MNC coach…I'm just all a thither on this one and I hope I'm not being just a bandwagon cheerleader. Welcome, coach Pruitt!!
No, became impotent at that very same moment Comrade Matthews was "awakening".
If it lasts for more than four hours…don't call a doctor, call a hooker…
If you like your tingle, you can keep your tingle..
Good….I have not had a tingle in a long, long time.
This is at least partially a result of CMR's ethics and faith…this kind of thing is a reward for being that kind of a person.. There is always that classy element that wants to be part of something really decent…like the UGA football program. Georgia is doing things right. This is a good day for us all!
If you are talking karma then ok but I don't God gives a damn about who the DC at UGA.
I don't even think uglydawg was attributing this to any ultimate, supernatural cause, though FWIW, I don't think he would have been wrong to do so.
Ooohh, even this atheist thinks you're goin' to Hell for that one, Wanna!
You never know… Romans 8:28: "And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose."
"This is at least partially a result of CMR's ethics and faith"
While there is no doubt about CMR's ethics and faith, the other part of it was that we had more money in our weapons arsenal than FSU had in theirs:
"As part of the university's contract negotiations with Fisher, Wilcox said FSU already has built in an overall salary increase for the Seminoles' nine assistant coaches. It will then be up to Fisher to decide which assistants receive raises and how much.
Wilcox said the overall increase will be 17 percent.
FSU's highest-paid assistant right now is defensive coordinator Jeremy Pruitt at $500,000, and offensive line coach Rick Trickett is next at $455,000. The Seminoles' nine assistants make a combined $2.86 million each year under their current contracts, so that pool will increase by about $486,000 to nearly $3.35 million.
"Within Jimbo's contract, we built in a certain percentage increase for assistant coaches that he will basically be able to determine," Wilcox told the Democrat on Thursday. "And then, generally, we might still have one or two assistant coaches who will get offers elsewhere, and then you may have to go back and look at, 'Did we have enough in the pool to make sure that we keep that coach?'
"And if we don't, we'll need to go back and look at what we need to do to make sure that coach is happy and stays."
B-b-but, he is a 4-3 guy and our players only can play 3-4. Pruitt had better know more than me if he's going to turn this around!
All kidding aside, I hope we reward Wilson for the first improvement in our D-line in 3 years. They did well vs the run- you know- the problem that Todd Damn worked on after every friggin' game.
Our players couldn't play much of anything this year, might as well have been playing Joe Lee Dunn's crazy 5-1-5 scheme or whatever it was he used to run.
Pruitt was in a 3-4 at Bama and ran the same at FSU.
I watched Kirby play DB during my college years. We don't want that…
Do as I say, not as I do.
I remember him as being a guy who was usually in excellent position and showed good form, but lacked the speed to cover and the muscle to tackle. I bet he still has nightmares about Jamal Lewis.
He wasn't bad his last year or two.
He had two interceptions against UF in '97. That game/weekend was probably the most fun I've ever had.
I don't think CMR ever started in college. He was a backup QB.
They say he was hell on wheels at flag football at Valdosta State, though. 🙂
Now what do they do with the additional coaching vacancy?
This article is from 2010 when he was hired by Saban. It's as tasty a cup of kool-aid as I've ever had. http://blog.al.com/tide-source/2010/06/outspoken_persistent_intense_t.html
Mmmmm, yummy.
While our job is far from finished….the Ol' Boys at Sports and Grits are taking a bit of a victory lap. Consider this – Martinez sucks, no S&G, Martinez keeps job. S&G hits the scene and no more Martinez or Van Halanger. Then we got a little lazy and Richt reciprocated. Then we got to hating again and got Grantham out…..then yesterday we shamed the program into making this hire. You are welcome Dawgs!
Let me get this straight. We get rid of a coach that basically sucked and everyone wanted to leave. We get $400k from Louisville. Then we hire one of the hottest D coordinators from the national championship Seminoles for the same $ as said sucky coordinator. Throw in a good recruiter and more inroads into talent rich Florida and I'll sign on the dotted line right now.
Amazed that McGarity opened the coffers to pay for a real live DC. My faith hath been restored.
It's the same amount CTG would have made, but there's a net gain w/ Louavuhl's buyout. I'm sure McGarity is just as tickled as the rest of us.
He's getting paid the same as our previous DC…
Jimbo Fisher has lost 9 assistant coaches since he took over as HC in 2010. Back in February, Billy Napier quit after just 3 weeks as Tight Ends's coach and had to pay FSU $75k to walk away. Maybe Jimbo is kinda of an ass?
This is the day that a National Championship was conceived… See y'all in Big D.
How's this for brevity: "SUCK IT KIRBY!"
I hope he and Kiffykins have fun and perhaps we will see them in the ATL.
Congratulations, CMR on a great hire in CJP, GO DAWGS, I haven't been this excited about the DAWGS in a long time!
According to Rivals, we have only 16 recruits at this point, only two of whom were recruited by lakatos or grantham. FSU has 29 commits with Pruitt responsible for 6. This includes the #3 and #8 LBs (our current and only lb recruit is #19). Recruiting aside, I'm very, very excited about Pruitt. GATA
An insight into the mind of 18-21-year-olds: Supposedly the players are jacked up about the fact that CJP can bench 395.
Awesome news. My thoughts are:
#1 – We are rolling the dice a bit (relative lack of experience, and hired from the ACC), but that's what we needed to do given the D treading water for two years.
#2 – CMR/B-M just got the defending National Champ's DC to come to Athens (with an assist from Friend?) in less than 48 hours. For a reasonable (in this day and age) salary. This instills some extra faith in CMR/B-M.
#3 – It re-enforces the belief that UGA can do better than Grantham/average D. If CJP doesn't pan out, hopefully we remember that. We recruit top-10 talent, we should reward them with top-10 caliber coaches.
#4 – This doesn't fix ST or depth at DB. Perhaps another shoe to drop on the assistant coach front, and of course any effect to recruiting.
Harrah's has Dawgs today at 55-1 down from 60-1 yesterday. I took that action!
FSU the fav at 5-2, then Bama & Oregon.
'Til I came to you, from Free Shoes U, through some miracle of fate…
From what I've been reading, I really like this guy. Seems like a nice guy but able to motivate his players. Scheme sounds a lot like grantham but he has proven he can teach it to college players. Didn't realize until now this was year 1 for fsu in the 3-4, stoops was 4-3. Guess they adjusted all right .
Why all the hate on KS after this? He has not wronged Georgia by not coming back to coach there. Pretty good situation where he is – can't blame him. Pruitt was a great coach at Bama and the players really liked him. FSU hired him away and now UGA did too. Makes me sad since I am BAMA fan and I have to admit that we thoroughly enjoyed Grantham being the DC 🙂
Everyone doesn't hate him, as you could see from the comments over the past few days there are many who wanted him. Others, like me, feel he played us when we needed a DC three years ago. He gave all indications that he wanted to come home but then sold out for the higher money at Alabama. Loyalty isn't something you put up for bid so he burned some bridges there. I think Smart would have been better off coming to UGA, or going somewhere different, and proving his worth away from Saban. There are many who don't know if it is "live, or is it Memorex?". Those questions are legit because of Saban's domineering style. I think everyone would wish him well once he goes somewhere other than the SEC. If he stays in the SEC, he becomes a target, just like Agent Muschamp.
I'd say much of the "hatin" on Kirby is the usual internet garbage that leads some guys to post things about supermodels like "I wouldn't fuck her" or "what a dog".
If Kirby had been hired, the same internet Adonis would be crowing that their source "close to the program" had told them this was in the works.
The best part of the whole situation is that it happened so quickly. This completely exposes a LOT of windbags who claim to be insiders with behind-the-scenes information to be complete frauds. Oh, so you're saying we're making a run at Kirby Smart first and we're now just waiting for the details to be worked out? No. It took 41 hours to get our man from Florida State, and I guarantee you that there was no time wasted on other candidates if we got a coach hired that quickly. If it had taken longer, the idiots could hem and haw about how what they said didn't turn out for one reason or another. This way, no, buddy. You're clearly just making stuff up for purposes of self aggrandizement.


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Eighty-two year-old Árpád Herczeg introduces himself as Árpi, and adds, in Hebrew, "But in Israel, I am Meir."
Árpi is unusual; not only because he worked for the UN in the USSR; not only because for some of that time, he was stationed in Mongolia; but because, the Intergeneration program through which he recently visited Israel, usually only offers their Taglit-Birthright style trip to Hungarian Jews who have never been to the Jewish state, and Árpi lived here from 1945 to 1950.
Intergeneration, now in its sixth year, was established by The Jewish Agency for Israel together with the American Joint Distribution Committee, and now operates with additional cooperation from the Claims Conference and a generous gift from the United Jewish Federation of Tidewater. The program is unique, because, in addition to bringing young adults to Israel, it also brings Holocaust survivors who have never visited Israel.
As they age, many survivors wish to remember more and connect others to their stories. When they do discuss the Holocaust they are often disheartened since they perceive the second generation as uninterested. However, they find an ability to profoundly impact the identities of the younger generations. Engaging with third-generation youths both empowers them and facilitates personal healing. By providing a joint Israeli experience for survivors and members of the third generation, Intergeneration fosters a deep sense of shared destiny between two generations decades removed.
Andrea Szőnyi, the program coordinator, says that despite Hungarian Jewry's complex history entangled in the Holocaust and Soviet Communism, the younger generation "is starting to find its own way and clarify its identity," and is seeking out programs like Intergeneration which both honors the past and looks to the future.
Árpi represents living history, which is vital to the foundation of Jewish peoplehood.
During World War II, his family was dispersed—his father shot, and he, himself, was taken to a concentration camp across the border in Austria.
In May 1945, Árpi returned to an empty place that was no longer home. So, at age 13, he came to British-Mandate Palestine.
As he had no papers, his first address in his new country would be the Atlit detainee camp. He later went to the Ben Shemen Youth Village, where he learned Hebrew, met David Ben Gurion, and heard the declaration of The State of Israel. Árpi joined the Hagana Leumi in fighting to defend Israel's newly created independence.
He returned to Budapest in 1950 after discovering that his mother had survived Dachau. He gained two degrees, built a career and a family. And, until the Intergeneration trip, never came back to Israel.
Árpi's Intergeneration group spent eight days travelling around Israel, from north to south—including Tel Aviv, the Dead Sea and a kibbutz on the Kinneret settled by Hungarians. A difficult and moving day was spent at Yad Vashem and the Western Wall.
The journey, in fact, started eight months earlier. After an intensive selection process, the group began to meet in February. They gathered once a month to share their stories. The younger participants were required to research and present an aspect of Israel that interested them. Later, each participant was paired with an elderly Holocaust survivor.
Árpi paired with Balázs Várnai, a 32 year-old architect who chose to come on the Intergeneration trip because he is making decisions regarding his future, and felt that in order to do so, he needed to understand his ancestral past.
What touched Balázs most about the program was the way in which the survivors "opened their stories" to the younger participants. Sometimes, these were stories the survivors had never told, and they were being heard by members of a younger generation, some of whom had never known their own grandparents.
Before they left Budapest, the participants were asked if there was anything they feared about their upcoming trip. In fact, one survivor said she feared that she would see something that would make her regret not having come many, many years ago to help build Israel.
Árpi could describe to the group how Israel had been built by those who chose to make their homes here. The tour culminated in Jaffa, his last address in Israel in 1950. He was visibly awed by how much Israel had developed in the intervening years, describing the ration of quinine they were given with each meal to prevent malaria, and the wild animals which roamed outside their windows. He said that Balázs's generation "could not imagine what Israel looked like then"—a desert of uncultivated terrains.
As a result of the process enabled by the Intergeneration Program, Fruzsi and Mate, two participants who met on the program, have decided to be a part of the development of the country. They made Aliyah and start a degree in Holocaust Studies at the University of Haifa.
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Two people were injured, one of them critically, in a car crash on the Bay Bridge that shut down the westbound span for nearly two hours and continued to delay traffic well into the evening, Maryland Transportation Authority officials said.
The crash happened about 4 p.m. near the 33-mile mark near the Anne Arundel side of the bridge, MdTA said, when a Chevy Astro minivan and a Dodge pickup truck pulling a 38-foot box trailer collided nearly head-on. The driver of the Astro, a man, was flown to Maryland Shock Trauma Center with injuries that were initially expected to be life-threatening, but his condition has since been upgraded and he is expected to survive.
A passenger in the pickup truck was taken to Anne Arundel Medical Center with non-life-threatening injuries, and no one else in that vehicle was injured, MdTA officials said.
As of 5:45 p.m., two of the three lanes had reopened, and all lanes were reopened before 7 p.m., though traffic delays remained.


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As ranks of Mexico's missing swell, families clamor for help
MEXICO CITY — Gangsters may have claimed the lives of Maria Concepcion Vizarretea's three older brothers, but she doesn't know for sure, and her private agony is part of a larger drama that's unfolding across Mexico.
The brothers disappeared after a bus trip from Oaxaca state in Mexico's south to the northern border city of Matamoros to buy construction equipment. Vizarretea fears that they fell victim to violence by drug and criminal syndicates.
As the numbers of missing and dead mount in Mexico, thousands of families suffer the same uncertainty. Mexico has no centralized system to track and identify those who disappear. Hundreds of bodies pulled from clandestine mass graves remain unidentified for the most part, nameless victims of Mexico's ongoing carnage.
"We need to know who these people are," President Felipe Calderon told a gathering of the country's governors this week. "It is fundamental to know this. It doesn't matter whether they were young people recruited by cartels, abductees murdered by delinquents or victims of clashes between criminal groups or between criminals and the authorities."
The National Human Rights Commission said in April that 5,397 people had been reported missing since Calderon came to office in late 2006 and declared war on crime gangs. That doesn't include hundreds, if not thousands, of foreign migrants who've vanished while passing through Mexico for the United States.
The steady discovery of increasingly horrific mass killings — and the inability of authorities to identify them — has fueled the call to find better ways to track people who disappear. Of 193 bodies pulled from graves found in Tamaulipas state since April, only 17 have been identified. Mass graves in the northern city of Durango have given up some 250 bodies since mid-April. Mexican news media say that only three have been identified.
Under Mexico's federal system, it's the responsibility of the 31 states, the federal district and their individual coroners' offices to identify and dispose of the dead. Many keep registries but they aren't networked into a nationwide system.
"They just don't connect. They don't speak to each other," Dr. Morris Tidball-Binz, an Argentine forensic expert at the International Committee of the Red Cross, said in a telephone call from the humanitarian group's headquarters in Geneva.
Relatives of those who've disappeared say state officials often treat them with scorn as they follow the trails of loved ones across Mexico and inquire about their fates.
"The assumption of authorities in Mexico in general is that people who disappear were involved in criminal activities. It's a presumption of guilt, and one that state officials will openly express to family members of victims when they come to report cases," said Nik Steinberg, a Mexico researcher for Human Rights Watch, a New York-based advocacy group.
Vizarretea, 31, said her brothers were among 10 people from the Oaxaca town of San Pedro Pochutla who traveled to Matamoros, on the border with Texas, last July. They carried cash and were hoping to buy a used backhoe. After one of the men phoned his wife from Matamoros on July 14, they vanished.
Relatives sent a representative to Matamoros but the woman could find no information and returned quickly. Family members made repeated visits to Oaxaca state offices pleading for help.
Five months later, investigators arrived at the Vizarretea home to take saliva swabs and hair samples from her parents for DNA comparisons with bodies dug up in mass graves in Tamaulipas state.
At one point, officials said the men had been located in a prison in Morelos state, but that was false. Then they returned with a corpse, but the body wasn't one of their loved ones, who they now suspect are dead.
"We want to bury them in our town. But it has to be them. Don't bring us some corpse that isn't ours just so that we stop looking," Vizarretea said. "That's what they tried to do two months ago with a corpse that didn't belong to us."
Humanitarian experts said the disappearances were causing tremendous affliction.
"We know from experience worldwide that the suffering that such families go through is not only very deep but can last many, many years," said Tidball-Binz of the ICRC. "They have a right to know, and deserve to know, the whereabouts of their loved ones, and if dead, to recover the remains for proper burial and mourning."
The ICRC has played a backstage role in gathering state coroners and forensic specialists together to devise standards for postmortem data. Preliminary guidelines are being tested in several states, Tidball-Binz said.
Government inaction in identifying bodies and treating disappearances as serious crimes could spark even greater violence, rights monitors warn.
"The more that the state lags in investigating all these disappearances, the more it fosters a climate of lawlessness in which more of these crimes will take place," Steinberg said.
Events in Mexico seem to bear that out. Last August, an Ecuadorean survivor alerted authorities to a ranch where gunmen had executed 72 migrants in San Fernando, Tamaulipas state.
Then in early April, authorities discovered several mass graves around San Fernando that yielded scores of bodies, many of them migrants from other states whom gangsters had pulled off buses.
In mid-April, officials began unearthing the mass graves in Durango.
Early this week, Roman Catholic priest Alejandro Solalinde said witnesses told him that masked gunmen had abducted as many as 80 undocumented migrants, mostly Central American, from a train that was heading from Oaxaca to Veracruz on June 24.
The allegation set off alarms that the abductees might end up in still another mass grave.
Mass graves in Durango may set Mexican record
What's behind Mexican migrant killings still unclear
Headless corpses spark worries on Mexico's southern border
Check out this McClatchy blog: Mexico Unmasked


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Affordability Troubles Grow, Especially for First-Time Buyers
The U.S. housing market faces a challenge at the start of the spring sales season: higher prices.
It is hard to overstate the benefits of rising prices to the economy broadly and to homeowners, banks and home builders specifically after years of declines. Price gains have pulled more Americans from the brink of foreclosure and given home buyers more confidence that they won't get stuck with an asset whose value will decline.


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Have you heard?Recently I told someone that my doctor said I was definitely in "decline" (I have AIDS).
He said, "Can I preach the gospel to your unconverted family and friends at your funeral?" I said, "No" (for many reasons). I also said I wasn't going to have any funeral and plan on being cremated. I commented my family and friends already heard the gospel. I said, "Everybody in America has heard the gospel," and he said he wasn't so sure about that. His doubts notwithstanding, anybody who knows me knows how outspoken I am about my beliefs and how I've written extensively about them in many articles and within my book, Beyond Babylon: Europe's Rise and Fall.
Beyond Babylon fulfills the need to proclaim the gospel and warn the world; it includes the truth about our Hebrew roots and responsibility (the Anglo-Saxon-Celtic peoples are an important part of the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel, the Tribe of Joseph specifically); about God's Sabbath and "Jewish" (biblical) Holy Days versus Satan's counterfeit Sunday and whitewashed pagan holidays like Christmas and Easter that God hates; about Israel's demise and Europe's rise - these are foundational truths.
Have you heard the gospel of the Kingdom of God is that we can be forgiven any sin we confess and forsake, so help us God, receiving the pardon and the power, that the sacrifice of Jesus Christ has got us covered; the good news of the Kingdom of God is that God is a Kingdom-Family into which we may be born again at the resurrection - born again as literal God-Beings! The good news is that the Kingdom-Family of God will be a literal government of God-Beings that will establish justice and righteousness from Jerusalem and save the earth and mankind from complete destruction and annihilation. If you hadn't heard this GOOD NEWS before, you have now!
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Kumi Naidoo and Nuclear Campaigner Yannick Rousselet protest the passage of a train carrying nuclear waste. Image: Pierre Gleizes
Two months after the devastating earthquake and tsunami struck Japan our thoughts are with those who have lost loved ones, those who face an uncertain future and those who are still unable to return home because of the deadly contamination from the still leaking and still precarious nuclear complex at Fukushima. The ongoing Fukushima nuclear catastrophe stands as a stark warning to those who live in the shadow of other nuclear reactors around the world. It stands also as a reminder of the inherent risk of nuclear power: a technology so complex and so dangerous that it will always be prone to the impact of natural disaster, technical failure and human error. Nuclear power is a technology that comes complete with its own disaster scale: the International Nuclear Events Scale or INES. Fukushima having suffered the twin onslaught of earthquake and tsunami registered seven on that scale, the highest possible, yet it is not the worst case scenario. It can't be. There is still much more radioactivity held inside the wrecked reactors than has been leaked into the environment. There is still no guarantee that the reactors have been brought under control. The future for those living in the area remains fraught with danger, uncertainty and risk. One thing is certain, though! No one would build a reactor in a high risk earthquake zone on a coast now. Not after Fukushima. Would they? No one would take the risk? Regulators would not approve it. Citizens would fiercely oppose it. Banks and markets would not be prepared to take the risk; they would not be prepared to pay for it. Would they? Apparently, yes! Two of the world's biggest banks, HSBC and BNP Paribas, are doing just that, they are involved in funding a massive nuclear development at Jaitapur on India's earthquake prone coast in Maharastra State. If completed according to plan, it will be the world's biggest nuclear power facility. Long before the Fukushima disaster, local people expressed their opposition, they have protested the construction and pointed out the inherent dangers and technical threats posed by the planned French European Pressurised Reactors. They pointed out that nowhere in the world has the problem of how to isolate deadly nuclear waste from the environment been solved. Jaitapur is no exception - there is no plan, period. Nor is there any money being set aside to pay for radioactive waste management. Thousands of people have been unjustly arrested in protest. More than 2,400 families will lose their livelihoods if the plans continue, yet only 154 have so far accepted compensation. Despite this and in the face of Fukushima the Indian government is determined to continue, to let the French company Areva build the reactors. It will not listen to reason nor pay attention to the reality of earthquakes in the region: in the last two decades alone it has suffered three earthquakes above 5 points on the Richter scale. In 1993 the region suffered a quake measuring 6.3 which left some 9,000 people dead. I have witnessed first hand the legacy of the nuclear industry. Last month I travelled to Chernobyl and met with local people who – 25 years later - still live with that nuclear disaster every day. I have had the honour of standing alongside the people of the Wendland in Germany who continue to lead a mass movement against a planned nuclear waste storage site that threatens their livelihoods and homes. And along with the rest of the world I have witnessed the most extreme cost of nuclear energy - the disaster at Fukushima and the heart-wrenching consequences for the people affected. Today, I have written to the heads of BNP Paribas and HSBC reminding them of the need to act responsibly and reminding them of the reality surrounding these already questionable nuclear investments. I am urging people everywhere to take a stand against future Fukushima's and join me in warning these banks against the risks of investing in nuclear power. Instead we need banks like HSBC and BNP Paribas to invest in clean and safe renewable energy sources rather than bank on the next Fukushima. No money, no reactors, no danger.
Born in 1965 and hailing from South Africa, Kumi Naidoo was Greenpeace's International Executive Director from November 2009 until December 2015.
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no more nuclear mistakes. humanity is collapsing day to day
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What will you greenie weenies do when the lights at your house turn off? Better get that bike out and run a chain to the generator. Rolling blackouts...
What will you greenie weenies do when the lights at your house turn off? Better get that bike out and run a chain to the generator. Rolling blackouts arent much fun in the middle of july. Good luck on your crusade
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The science is useful when it comes with the man in his ascent, but the only research of power drives to make some compromises const...
The science is useful when it comes with the man in his ascent, but the only research of power drives to make some compromises constantly with the favorable conditions to the development of life.
Already, the man agrees to implement technologies at the limit of his capacities of control and incompatible with the requirements of his evolution.
Tomorrow, this same step will lead it to implement techniques able to destroy the terrestrial environnement that I formed for him: where is the interest for the man?
Why not use soft energies that I gave you, those which fall under virtuous cycles, to put them in network for the wellbeing of all? (http://prophetlife.wifeo.com/science.php)
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Reference: Excellent website to learn about nuclear -- www.nuclearreader.info -- concise, to the point, understandable, well-researched and organized....
Reference: Excellent website to learn about nuclear -- www.nuclearreader.info -- concise, to the point, understandable, well-researched and organized. Everything
everyone must understand about nuclear power.
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AP: Detroit Lions fire coach Jim Schwartz
ALLEN PARK, Mich. (AP) — Jim Schwartz was hired to turn around the Detroit Lions.
He did that for three seasons.
The next two years, he failed to keep the Lions going in the right direction and that cost him his job.
The Lions fired Schwartz on Monday, one day after their late-season slide ended with a loss at Minnesota. He had two years and nearly $12 million left on his contract.
Schwartz informed the players of the decision during a team meeting.
"I feel awful for him," Lions center Dominic Raiola said. "I feel like we let him down."
Detroit flopped to a 7-9 record this year after a 6-3 record start put the franchise in a position to win a division title for the first time since 1993.
Schwartz was 29-51 over five seasons, including a 10-6 mark in 2011 that lifted the Lions to their only postseason appearance this century. The former Tennessee Titans defensive coordinator was hired in 2009 when Detroit was coming off the NFL's first 0-16 season.
"From where we were in 2008 to where we are now it's a big difference," quarterback Matthew Stafford said. "We owe a lot of that to him. He's a really smart guy and helped us get to where we are. Obviously, we didn't win as many games as we needed to or as we should have this year."
Schwartz led the Lions to two wins in his first year, six the next and to double digits in victories two years ago for the first time since 1995 to help them end an 11-year postseason drought.
The Lions lost their last eight games last year after a .500 start. They collapsed again this season with four straight losses and six in a seven-game stretch — blowing fourth-quarter leads in each setback — after they took control of the NFC North race. Detroit and the 2000 San Diego Chargers are the only NFL teams since 1940 to lose fourth-quarter leads in seven games in a season, according to STATS.
The Lions took on the personality of their demonstrative and emotionally charged coach and that wasn't always good news for them.
When Detroit ran the ball instead of having turnover-prone Stafford throw late in regulation of its 23-20 overtime loss to the New York Giants in Week 16, the crowd reacted with a loud chorus of boos. Schwartz responded by looking away from the field and screaming something toward the stands.
Schwartz negated a video review and was called for unsportsmanlike conduct by angrily throwing a challenge flag last season when Houston's Justin Forsett scored after two Lions tackled him, leading to a defeat during an eight-game, season-ending slide. The previous year, Schwartz had a heated exchange with San Francisco coach Jim Harbaugh and had to be separated following their postgame handshake.
"The stuff that happened with (Jim) Harbaugh just was an incident," Detroit guard Rob Sims said. "The stuff with the fans just was an incident. That's not an everyday occurrence."
Schwartz was 12-32 in games in November or later for a .273 winning percentage that was the worst for a coach in five-plus straight seasons with a team since Denver's Lou Saban won one-quarter of those late-season games from 1967-1971, according to STATS. His .363 winning percentage overall with the Lions is the worst by an NFL coach in his first five full seasons since John McKay won fewer than 30 percent of his games with the expansion Tampa Bay Buccaneers from 1976-1980.
The Lions gave Schwartz an extension entering the 2012 season, when he had one year left on his four-deal worth about $11 million.
The second contract made him the longest-tenured coach the franchise has had since Wayne Fontes led the Lions from 1988-96.
Bobby Ross, Gary Moeller, Marty Mornhinweg, Steve Mariucci, Dick Jauron — on an interim basis — and Rod Marinelli all had a chance to lead a franchise with only one playoff victory since winning the 1957 NFL title before Schwartz got a shot to be a head coach for the first time at any level.
Schwartz, who is from Baltimore, played linebacker at Georgetown and graduated with a degree in economics. He started his coaching career as a graduate assistant at Maryland in 1989, later had the same position with the Minnesota Golden Gophers and went on to become a secondary coach for North Carolina Central and linebackers coach at Colgate. Schwarz was a college and pro scout for the Cleveland Browns and spent three years on the Baltimore Ravens' staff before moving on and up with the Titans.


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There are two reasons to repeat the process in about a month:
- Think again after reflection and discussion with others.
- Prove your decisions are mostly consistent over time.
Both may prevent future challenges that claim you might have not really known what you were deciding, or that you have since changed your mind.
Can you change your mind? Yes, as long as you possess mental capacity to make end-of-life treatment decisions.
What might change? Your diagnosis; getting older: further reflection on your goals of treatment; a change of relationships; and further direct experience, reading or discussions with others.
Highly recommended: Review and update your decisions about one year later.
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How to Treat Cubans in a Business Situation
If your business has Cuban contacts — either Cuban customers or Cuban business associates, you should familiarize yourself and your business's employees with Cuban cultural practices when it comes to business interactions.
Common greeting: Shaking hands is common for both men and women. Men and women who are friends may kiss on the cheek. Be formal at first and don't use first names unless invited to do so.
Personal space: A bit closer than in the U.S. at 1 to 1 1/2 feet, and touching is common among friends. However, Cubans aren't used to being touched by strangers, including seemingly friendly pats on the back.
Eye contact: Direct.
Approach to time: It's not unusual for Cubans to keep people waiting for an hour or more for a meeting.
Language: Spanish is the official language, although English is widely spoken.
Communication: Fairly direct; not much different from your U.S. interactions, but they may be a bit louder than Americans are used to.
Topics for building rapport: Travel and family.
Negotiations: Cubans tend to try to tire you out with slow and protracted bargaining.
Actions to avoid: Discussions about politics, which can be a minefield.
Tips for businesswomen: Cuba is a very macho country where women aren't commonly seen in positions of power and authority. Proceed slowly and present yourself as representing your company rather than yourself.
If necessary, be prepared to graciously allow a male employee to step in if you sense a great deal of uneasiness.