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In the case of the mattress, you will not have to experience all of the things you have had experienced with a spring mattress. A memory foam mattress is denser than other mattresses. Because of this, a memory foam mattress is more supportive, though it is heavier. It comes in between the comfort of a really soft mattress and the stiffness and solidness of a firm one, making it a good compromise. A memory foam mattress of good quality is able to distribute weight evenly, which is like having your weight supported by billions of springs. A memory foam mattress has cells that deform whenever weight is applied. Unlike a spring mattress, which springs always exert pressure against your bodys weight, the cells in the memory foam mattress fully compress and spread their air pressure to the adjoining cells. The pressure is then spread to more cells of the mattress, so the pressure you feel is also reduced. This is responsible for greatly reducing the pressure points. Sleeping on such a mattress significantly reduces the pressure points on your body by up to 80%, therefore leading to good blood circulation. With these particular kind of mattresses, all the tossing and turning which makes you unable to get a good night sleep is greatly reduced. With spring mattresses, there is always fiber or some type of foam that is placed over the springs, but these coils will cause a trampoline effect and tend to bend inward whenever pressure is applied and they do this without conforming to the bodys specific bumps and curves. A spring mattress acts as a shock absorber and this reduces the wear and tear of the mattress. So the fewer coils there are in the mattress, the thicker the springs get. Another thing about spring mattresses is that the foam covering the springs could shrink over time, making springs exert more effort in supporting the weight, thus making them susceptible to losing their shape or getting broken over time.
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I am transcribing a letter from my grandfather, John Percival to his fiancee, Mary Percival, and this sentence caught my eye:
"I know you enjoyed having Frances with you, I know how it is when the Percival family gets together."
It both makes me laugh and puzzles me. The laugh part is because when my branch of the Percival family gets together we are out of control. We laugh, we tease, we tell stories on each other.
The puzzle part is that at this time in his life, my grandfather had his mother, father, and sister. His father's only brother had disappeared in the mid 1890's in Los Angeles, never to be heard from or seen again. His name was Herbert Percival and he was a doctor. His "widow" married Herbert's cousin William Percival, also a doctor. My grandfather's grandparents were long gone. His grandfather, John Percival, died during the civil war in Arkansas. His grandmother, Susan Percival Holt, nee Davidson died in 1886 before my great-grandparents got married. Unless by "Percivals" grandpa meant his father's extended family - the Holts, his grandmother's step-children from her second marriage to Thomas Holt. Or maybe he meant when the Percivals and the Maitlands got together, because the Maitland family was huge!
I had hoped to glean some genealogical information and the only thing my grandfather mentioned was the death of his Uncle Ralph Oliphant, who died in 1919 while grandpa was overseas. He mentions by name his fiancee's sisters and brother in-laws and children as Mr. Jamie (Rankin), Miss Bess (Bowman-Rankin) and James (Rankin, son of Bess & Jamie); Frances (Bowman-Rogers) and Hugh (Rogers).
I can so identify with that line "I know how it is when the Percival family gets together."
Copyright 2010, ACK for Gene Notes
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Blast from the Past or Is That a Family Trait?
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Wasn't she Mary Bowman at the time? Maybe he meant her family (Frances Bowman) was as wacky as his family?ReplyDelete
Well yeah, but you don't remember grandpa at all and I can't imagine him being wacky. He may have been, but he didn't show that side to us kids.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 20, 2010 at 8:59 PM
Grandpa lived with us for a couple of years. Believe me, I never saw a wacky side although as you mentioned before, he did love the Beverly Hillbillies.ReplyDelete
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Transfer news: Chelsea have a bid for Wayne Rooney turned down
Sky sources report that Manchester United have rejected a bid from Chelsea for unsettled striker Wayne Rooney.
Last Updated: 17/07/13 1:39pm
The England forward is apparently "angry and confused" about his status at United, following recent comments made by new manager David Moyes and chief executive Ed Woodward.
And, after Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho spoke last week about how much he admired Rooney as a player, the London club have now placed a firm bid for the 27-year-old.
It is believed the Blues have offered £10m plus either Spanish playmaker Juan Mata or Brazilian defender David Luiz.
However, since taking over at Old Trafford, Moyes has stressed that Rooney is not for sale, and the bid has been swiftly declined.
Rooney is currently being treated for a hamstring injury at United's training ground, having had to fly home from the club's pre-season tour.
Sky Sports News reporter James Cooper said: "Various sources have confirmed that Chelsea have made an opening bid for Wayne Rooney.
"Manchester United told them to go away rather abruptly and told them also that Wayne Rooney is not for sale. That's the mantra the club have been sticking to since this situation began.
"If they want to get rid of the player, they want to make sure that his value is protected and, by saying he is not for sale, it means the games can begin."
Rooney has enjoyed a hugely successful nine-season stint at United but was alarmed by recent public remarks about his role at United from Moyes, who said: "If, for any reason, we had an injury to Robin van Persie, we'll need him.
"I've got to ensure it's not just him and we don't concentrate on him. Manchester United isn't about Wayne, Manchester United is about the team, the club."
Rooney is also unhappy that Woodward has categorically ruled out re-negotiating his contract, which still has two seasons to run.
Speaking last week, United chief executive Woodward said of Rooney's position: "No contract renewals are being discussed. I am not sitting down with any player on an extension and there is no trigger date in the diary.
"Would we be afraid to run a contract down? Of course not."
Former United centre-half Gordon McQueen believes Rooney will now leave Old Trafford, but thinks it would be a big mistake to allow him to join a Premier League rival like Chelsea or Manchester City.
"It would be a big move for Wayne Rooney and one that I hope doesn't happen," McQueen told Sky Sports News. "I hope he stays with Manchester United. Unfortunately it seems to me that the player has got his mind made up that he wants to leave Old Trafford and it looks like to me now that they will probably let him go.
"I think they would prefer him to go to one of the teams in Europe that can afford him - Paris St Germain or Monaco - you certainly wouldn't want him to go to Chelsea or Man City!
"Man Utd did something similar last season and, in my opinion, it won them the league. That was getting a terrific goalscorer from one of their main rivals, Robin van Persie from Arsenal.
"I think it would enhance Chelsea's chances of winning the Premier League if they took Wayne Rooney from Manchester United - just look at the goals he has scored for Man United over the last nine years. They (United) would find that difficult to replace."
Chelsea emerged as favourites to land Rooney after Mourinho confirmed last week that he was a fan of the striker.
Speaking at the start of Chelsea's Far East tour last Friday, Mourinho said of Rooney: "He is a player I like very much but I can say no more than that. Being fast and direct, I like that, but he's a Manchester United player."
Mourinho insisted earlier this week that he was happy with the squad already at his disposal at Stamford Bridge, playing down talk of any departures.
He has Fernando Torres, Demba Ba and Romelu Lukaku as attacking options, and has bolstered his squad with the likes of Andre Schurrle and goalkeeper Mark Schwarzer.
Rooney has been backed into odds on to make the move to Stamford Bridge. Sky Bet have cut the odds on the striker moving to Chelsea from 11/2 to 1/2, while the odds on him remaining at Manchester United have drifted out to 13/8
Sky Bet Football Trader Chris Spicer said: "We were convinced that Rooney would not be allowed to leave after Moyes laid down his initial stance, but his recent comments are somewhat confusing.
"Relations are starting to appear irreparable and we have now installed Chelsea as the favourites for the Premier League at 9/4, which would shorten significantly if they secure Rooney's services."


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The Robot Ocean Network
By Oscar Schofield, Scott Glenn, Mark Moline
Automated underwater vehicles go where people cannot, filling in crucial details about weather, ecosystems, and Earth's changing climate.
Automated underwater vehicles go where people cannot, filling in crucial details about weather, ecosystems, and Earth's changing climate.
In the frigid waters off Antarctica, a team of our colleagues deploy a waterborne robot and conduct final wireless checks on the system's internal engines and onboard sensors, before sending the device on its way to explore the ocean conditions in an undersea canyon over a month-long expedition. The autonomous robot's mission will be monitored and adjusted on the fly by scientists and their students remotely located in the United States; the data it returns will become part of our overall picture of conditions in the Southern Ocean.
Ocean robots—more formally known as autonomous underwater vehicles, or AUVs—are improving our understanding of how the world's ocean works and expanding our ability to conduct science at sea even under the most hostile conditions. Such research is essential, now more than ever. The ocean drives the planet's climate and chemistry, supports ecosystems of unprecedented diversity, and harbors abundant natural resources. This richness has lead to centuries of exploration, yet despite a glorious history of discovery and adventure, the ocean remains relatively unknown. Many basic and fundamental questions remain: How biologically productive are the oceans? What processes dominate mixing between water layers? What is its total biodiversity? How does it influence the Earth's atmosphere? How is it changing and what are the consequences for human society?
The last question is particularly pressing, as many observations suggest that significant change is occurring right now. These shifts reflect both natural cycles and, increasingly, human activity, on a local and global scale. Local effects include alterations in circulation, increased introduction of nutrients and pollutants to the sea, the global transport of invasive species, and altered food web dynamics due to the overexploitation of commercially valuable fish species. Regional- and global-scale changes include altered physical (temperature, salinity, sea-level height), chemical (oxygen, pH, nutrients), and biological properties (fishing out of top predators).
Addressing the many unknowns about the ocean requires knowledge of its physics, geology, chemistry, and biology. On the most basic level, one has to be able to track the movement of water and its constituents over time to understand physical transport processes. But this fundamental first step remains a difficult problem given the three- dimensional structure of the ocean and the limited sampling capabilities of traditional oceanographic tools. About 71 percent of the world is covered by the ocean, with a volume of about 1.3 billion cubic kilometers. Only about 5 percent of that expanse has been explored. A further complication is the broad scale of ocean mixing—spatially, from centimeters to thousands of kilometers, and temporally, from minutes to decades. These processes are all modified by the interactions of currents with coastal boundaries and the seafloor.
If the problem of monitoring mixing can be solved, then focus can shift to the biological and chemical transformations that occur within the water. Factors that remain unknown include the amount of inorganic carbon being incorporated into organic carbon, and how quickly that organic matter is being transformed back into inorganic compounds—processes that are driven by marine food webs. Many of these transformation processes reflect the "history" of the water mass: where it has been and when it was last mixed away from the ocean surface. Because of the vast domain of the ocean, our ability to sample the relevant spatial and temporal scales has been limited.
Oceanographers usually collect data from ships during cruises that last days to a few months at most. The modern era of ship-based expeditionary research, launched just over a century ago, has resulted in major advances in our knowledge of the global ocean. But most ships do not travel much faster than a bicycle and they face harsh, often dangerous conditions. The high price of ships also limits how many are available for research. A moderately large modern research vessel may run about $50,000 a day even before the costs of the science. Ocean exploration requires transit to remote locations, a significant time investment. Once on site, wind and waves will influence when work can be safely conducted.
For example, one of us (Schofield) routinely works along the western Antarctic Peninsula. The travel time from New Jersey to the beginning of experimental work can take upward of a week: two days of air and land travel, one to two days of port operations, and four days of ship travel. During the writing of this article, Schofield was at sea offshore of Antarctica, where ship operations were halted for several days due to heavy winds, waves, and icy decks. All three of us have on multiple occasions experienced the "robust" work atmosphere— such as broken bones and lacerations—associated with working aboard ships. Despite these difficulties, ships are the central tool for oceanography, providing the best platform to put humans in the field to explore. But researchers realized decades ago that they needed to expand the ways they could collect data at sea.
Satellites provide a useful sampling tool to complement ships and can provide global estimates of surface temperature, salinity, sea surface height, and plant biomass. Their spatial resolution, however, is relatively low (kilometers to hundreds of kilometers), and they often cannot collect data in cloudy weather. Additionally, they are incapable of probing the ocean interior. Ocean moorings (a vertical array of instruments anchored to the seafloor) can provide a time series of measurements at single points, but their high cost (ranging from $200,000 to millions each) limits their numbers.
Twenty-three years ago, those challenges inspired oceanographer Henry "Hank" Stommel to propose a globally distributed network of mobile sensors capable of giving a clearer look, on multiple time and space scales, at the processes going on in the world's ocean. His futuristic vision is finally becoming a reality. Thousands of robots are today moving through the world's ocean and communicating data back to shore. They provide crucial information on everything from basic processes— such as the ocean's temperature and salinity—to specific processes like storm dynamics and climate change.
The most vital component of the rapidly growing ocean sensor network is the AUV. These devices come in various types, carry a wide variety of sensors, and can operate for months at a time with little human guidance, even under harsh conditions.
Underwater robotics has made major advances over the past decade. Key technological gains include an affordable global telecommunication network that provides sufficient bandwidth to download data and remotely control AUVs from anywhere on the planet, the miniaturization of electronics and development of compact sensors, improved batteries, and the maturation of platforms capable of conducting a wide range of missions.
The AUVs being used in the ocean today generally come in three flavors: profiling floats, buoyancy-driven gliders, and propeller vehicles. In the first category, the international Argo program has deployed more than 3,500 relatively inexpensive profiling floats (costing about $15,000 each) throughout the ocean, creating the world's most extensive autonomous ocean network. These 1.3-meter-long platforms decrease their buoyancy by pumping in water, sinking themselves to a specified depth (often more than 1,000 meters), where they remain for about 10 days, drifting with the currents. The floats then increase their buoyancy by pumping out water, and rise to the surface. During the descent and ascent, onboard sensors collect vertical profiles of ocean properties (such as temperature, salinity, and a handful of ocean color and fluorescence measurements). New chemical sensors to measure pH and nutrients are also available. Data are transferred back to shore via a global satellite phone call. After transferring the data, the floats repeat the cycle.
Profiling floats are incapable of independent horizontal travel, leaving their movements at the mercy of the currents, but they are extremely efficient. A single battery pack can keep a float operating for four to six years. The combined data from large numbers of floats provides great scientific value, offering a comprehensive picture of conditions in the upper 1,000 meters of the ocean around the globe. When these data are combined with global satellite measurements of sea-surface height and temperature, they allow scientists to observe for the first time climate-related ocean variability in temperature, salinity, and circulation over global scales.
Cousin to the profiling floats are the buoyancy-driven gliders, which were highlighted in Stommel's original vision of a networked ocean. Several different types exist, but generally they are 1 to 2 meters long and maneuver up and down through the water column at a forward speed of 20 to 30 centimeters per second in a sawtooth-shaped gliding trajectory. They operate by means of a buoyancy change similar to that for floats, but wings redirect the vertical sinking motion due to gravity into forward movement. A tailfin rudder provides steering as the glider descends and ascends its way through the ocean, which makes these devices more controllable than the floats. They are more expensive, however, costing around $125,000. Therefore, they are often deployed for specific scientific missions.
A glider's navigation system includes an onboard GPS receiver coupled with an attitude sensor, a depth sensor, and an altimeter. The vehicle uses this equipment to perform dead reckoning navigation, where current position is calculated using a previously determined position, and that position is then updated based on known or estimated speeds over elapsed time and course. Scientists can also use a buoyancy-driven glider's altimeter and depth sensor to program the location of sampling in the water column. At predetermined intervals, the vehicle sits on the surface and raises an antenna out of the water to retrieve its position via GPS, transmit data to shore, and check for any changes to the mission.
Because their motion is driven by buoyancy, the gliders' power consumption is low. They can coast for up to year on battery power. These robots are also modular: Researchers can attach sensors customized to one particular science mission, and then remotely reprogram what the sensors are searching for in near real time, based on collected data.
The most advanced, but also the most expensive, underwater robots are the propeller-driven AUVs. Costs can range from $50,000 to $5 million, depending on the size and depth rating of the AUV. They are powered by batteries or fuel cells, and can operate in water as deep as 6,000 meters. Like gliders on the surface, propeller AUVs receive a GPS fix and relay data and mission information to shore via satellite. While they are underwater, propeller AUVs navigate by various means. They can operate inside a network of acoustic beacons, by their position relative to a surface reference ship, or by an inertial navigation system, which measures the vehicle's acceleration with an accelerometer and orientation with a gyroscope. Travel speed is determined using Doppler velocity technology, which measures an acoustic shift in the sound waves that the vehicle bounces off the seafloor or other fixed objects. A pressure sensor measures vertical position.
Propeller-driven AUVs, unlike gliders, can move against most currents at 5 to 10 kilometers per hour, so they can systematically measure a particular line, area, or volume. This ability is particularly important for surveys of the ocean bottom and for operations near the coastline in areas with heavy traffic of ships and small crafts.
Most AUVs in use today are powered by rechargeable batteries (such as lithium ion ones similar to those in laptop computers). Their endurance depends on the size of the vehicle as well as its power consumption, but typically ranges from 6 to 75 hours of operation under a single charge, with travel distances of 70 to 400 kilometers over that period. The sensor cargo they carry also depends on the size of the vehicle and its battery capacity.
Because of the additional power of propeller AUVs compared to gliders, they can run numerous sensor suites, and they remain the primary autonomous platform for sensor development. Hundreds of different propeller AUVs have been designed over the past 20 or so years, ranging in size from 0.5 to 7 meters in length and 0.15 to 1 meter in diameter. Most of these vehicles have been developed for military applications, with a few operated within the academic community. By the end of this decade, it is likely that propeller AUVs will be a standard tool used by most oceanographic laboratories and government agencies responsible for mapping and monitoring marine systems.
Together, the three types of ocean robots deployed throughout the world's ocean are bringing into scientific reach processes that are not accessible using ships or satellites. For example, these robots can study the ocean's response to, and feedback from, large storms such as hurricanes and typhoons. All three of us live in the mid-Atlantic region of the United States and have experienced Hurricanes Irene and Sandy, so we are all too familiar with storm aftermath in our local communities.
Hurricane Irene, a category-1 storm offshore, moved rapidly northward along the U.S. East Coast in August 2011, resulting in torrential rains and significant flooding on inland waterways. Hurricane Sandy, a much larger category-2 storm offshore, made an uncharacteristic left turn and approached perpendicular to the coast in October 2012, causing significant damage to coastal communities. The U.S. National Hurricane Center ranks Sandy as the second-costliest hurricane ever in this country, producing over $60 billion of damage; Irene comes in eighth place, with at least $15 billion in damages.
Path forecasts by the U.S. National Hurricane Center for Irene and Sandy were extremely accurate even several days in advance, enabling evacuations that saved many lives. Hurricane intensity forecasts were less precise. The force of Irene was significantly overpredicted, and the rapid acceleration and strengthening of Sandy just before landfall was underpredicted. A more accurate forecast for Sandy would have triggered more effective preparations, which might have reduced the amount of damage.
The cause of the discrepancy between track forecasts and intensity forecasts remains an open research question. Global atmospheric model development over the past 20 years has successfully reduced forecast hurricane track errors by factors of two to three. The predictive skill of hurricane intensity forecasts has remained flat, however.
One possible reason is that more information is required about the interactions between the ocean and the atmosphere during storms, because the heat content of the upper ocean provides fuel for hurricanes. The expanding array of robotic ocean-observing technologies is providing a means for us to study storm interactions in the coastal ocean just before landfall, accessing information in ways not possible using traditional oceanographic sampling.
During the summer, the surface waters of the mid-Atlantic are divided into a thin, warm upper layer (10 to 20 meters deep and 24 to 26 degrees Celsius) overlying much colder bottom water (8 to 10 degrees). Gliders were navigating the ocean waters beneath both Hurricanes Irene and Sandy, collecting hydrographic profiles. Data taken during Irene suggest that as the leading edge of the storm approached the coast, the hurricane-induced increase in the flow of water onto the shore was compensated by an offshore flow below the thermocline (the region of maximum temperature change in the water column) in a downwelling flow created by high winds. This phenomenon minimized the potential storm surge. Simultaneously, storm-induced mixing of the water layers broadened the thermocline and cooled the ocean surface ahead of Irene by up to 8 degrees in a few hours, shortly before the eye of the storm passed over. This cold bottom water potentially weakened the storm as it came ashore. When data from a glider that measured the colder surface water were retrospectively input into the storm forecast models, that adjustment eliminated the overprediction of Irene's intensity.
In contrast to Irene, Hurricane Sandy arrived in the late fall, after seasonal cooling had already decreased the ocean surface temperatures by 8 degrees. As the storm came ashore, it induced mixing of cold water from the bottom to the surface—just as Hurricane Irene did—but because of the seasonal declines in temperature, the surface water temperature dropped by only around 1 degree. Such a small change did little to reduce the intensity of Hurricane Sandy as it approached the New Jersey and New York coastlines.
Robotic platforms have thus demonstrated their potential to sample storms and possibly aid future forecasts of hurricane intensity. The gliders operate effectively under rough ocean conditions that are not safe for people, and the mobility of gliders allows their positions to be adjusted as the storm moves. Their long deployment lifetime means these robots can be in place well before the storm's arrival until well after conditions calm down. Real-time data from the gliders should improve hurricane intensity forecast models and potentially help coastal communities proactively mitigate storm damage.
As complex as hurricane forecasting may be, it pales in comparison to interpreting changes in ocean physics on a global scale, and then connecting those changes with local effects such as sea ice coverage or species decline.
Many questions oceanographers face are so complex that they require the combined data of several robotic platforms that span the range of spatial and temporal scales of marine ecosystems. Linking global changes to local effects has been difficult to impossible using conventional strategies.
One setting that illustrates the importance of bridging these scales is the western Antarctic Peninsula, which is undergoing one of the most dramatic climate-induced changes on Earth. This region has experienced a winter atmospheric warming trend during the past half-century that is about 5.4 times the global average (more than 6 degrees Celsius since 1951). The intensification of westerly winds and changing regional atmospheric circulation, some of which likely reflects the effect of human activity, has contributed to increasing transportation of warm offshore circumpolar deep wateronto the continental shelf of the peninsula.
This water derives from the deep offshore waters of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, the largest ocean current on Earth, and is the primary heat source in the peninsula. The altered positions of this current are implicated in amplifying atmospheric warming and accelerating glacier retreat in the region. Monitoring and tracking the dynamics of the warm offshore deep current require a sustained global presence in the sea, which is now being accomplished via the Argo network of autonomous floats. Data from Argo suggest that the Antarctic Circumpolar Current has exhibited warming trends for decades.
The increased presence and changing nature of the deep-water circulation has implications for the local food web. The Western Antarctic Peninsula is home to large breeding colonies of the Antarctic Adélie penguin (Pygoscelis adeliae), which live in large, localized colonies along the peninsula even though food resources are abundantly available along the entire inner continental shelf. This concentration of the population has raised a persistent question: What turns specific locations into penguin "hot spots?"
The locations of the Adélie colonies appear to be associated with deep seafloor submarine canyons, which are found throughout the continental shelf of the peninsula. This colocation has led to a hypothesis that unique physical and biological processes induced by these canyons produce regions of generally enhanced prey availability. The canyons were also hypothesized to provide recurrent locations for polynyas (areas of open water surrounded by sea ice), giving penguins year-round access to open water for foraging. But linking the regional physical and ecological dynamics to test the canyon hypothesis had been impossible, because brutal environmental conditions limited spatial and temporal sampling by ships.
Robotic AUVs now offer expanding capabilities for observing those conditions. As part of our research, for the past five years we have been using a combination of gliders and propeller AUVs to link the transport of the warm offshore circumpolar deep water to the ecology of the penguins in the colonies. Gliders surveying the larger scale of the continental shelf have documented intrusions of deep, warm water upwelling within the canyons near the breeding penguin colonies. These intrusions of warm water appear to be ephemeral features with an average lifetime of seven days, which is why earlier, infrequent ship-based studies did not effectively document them. Associated with this uplift of circumpolar deep water along the slope of the coastal canyon, the gliders found enhanced concentrations of phytoplankton, providing evidence of a productive food web hot spot capable of supporting the penguin colonies.
Many questions are so complex that they require the combined data of several robotic platforms.
Satellite radio tagging is being used to characterize the foraging dynamics of the Adélie penguin, and has shown the majority of their foraging activity was centered at the slope of the canyon. These more localized foraging patterns were used to guide sampling of the physical and biological properties with a propeller AUV, because strong coastal currents hindered buoyancy-driven gliders. The propeller AUV data were used to generate high-resolution maps, which revealed that penguin foraging was associated with schools of Antarctic krill. The krill in turn were presumably grazing on the phytoplankton at the shelf-slope front.
It took the integration of all three classes of robotic systems (profilers, gliders, and propeller AUVs) to link the dynamics of the outer shelf to the coastal ecology of the penguins. But in the end, that combination of techniques turned out to be just what was needed to settle a long-standing mystery of penguin biogeography. Better understanding of these processes is critical to determining why these penguin populations are exhibiting dramatic declines in number—for example, the colonies located near Palmer Station in Antarctica have declined from about 16,000 to about 2,000 individuals over the past 30 years. Ongoing and future robotic deployment will help address how climate-induced local changes in these deep-sea canyons might underlie the observed declines in the penguin populations, which themselves are serving as a barometer for climate change.
The pace of innovation for ocean technology is accelerating, guaranteeing that the next-generation robotic systems and sensors will make current crusty oceanographers green with envy. Some of that future direction is evident in recent advances such as AUVs with onboard data analysis, so they can make smart decisions at sea by analyzing their own data. Improved sampling will also be achieved by developing methods to coordinate the efforts of multiple AUVs, either by communicating directly among themselves or by downloading commands sent from shore.
These technical advances will dramatically improve our ability to explore the ocean. But the largest effect of these systems is likely to be a cultural shift stemming from real-time, open-access data. Ocean science has historically been limited to a small number of individuals who have access to the ships that can carry them out to sea, but the realization of Hank Stommel's dream now allows anyone with interest to become involved. This outcome will democratize the ocean sciences and ultimately increase overall ocean literacy, relevant for 71 percent of this planet.
This cultural shift in oceanography comes at a critical time, given that observations suggest that climate change is altering ocean ecosystems. Examining past large-scale changes in the ocean has revealed global scale alterations in the biota of Earth, suggesting life is more intimately linked to the state of the world's ocean than we knew. The greater our awareness of these intricate connections, the better chance we have of coping with a changing ocean planet.
Update from the authors about the May 2014 catastrophic failure of the robot Nereus:
"The Nereus, one of the few systems capable of deep ocean exploration, likely suffered an implosion during its mission. The Nereus was exploring the deep Kermadec Trench and was working under extremely high pressures, highlighting the difficult operating conditions of the ocean. The technical challenges of working in these regions are numerous and will continue to be a focus of leading technologists around the world. It should be highlighted that there was no loss of human life, exemplifying the important role these robotic technologies play in safe ocean exploration. So despite a setback, we remain undaunted and argue for the accelerated development of new platforms that will help us understand the status and trajectory of this ocean planet. Finally, as field-going oceanographers, we often become emotionally attached to our tools; given this, we tip our caps and toast Nereus's heroic death at sea."
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LONDON -- Brandeis graduate Tim Morehouse, Class of 2000, had a tremendous performance in the individual sabre fencing competition at the London Olympics , reaching the quarterfinals with a pair of upsets and finishing in eighth place after entering the tournament as the 27th seed. In team competition, the 2008 silver medalists were unable to repeat their performance, placing eighth overall.
Seeded eighth headed into the tournament, the U.S. faced top-seeded Russia in the opening round on August 3. Though the Americans had won two of their three bouts against the Russians in the individual tournament, the Russians prevailed in the team competition, 45-33. Morehouse faced Veniamin Reshetnikov in the third round with the U.S. trailing, 10-5. Despite having won the showdown between them in individual action, Morehouse suffered a 5-2 loss in team. After Morehouse fell in Round 6 to the second-seeded individual, Aleksei Yakimenko, by a 5-3 score, the U.S. was down 30-17 with three bouts to go. Though the American edged their opponents, 16-15, including 5-5 between Morehouse and Nikolay Kovalev down the stretch, it was far too little too late. The Russians went on to finish in fourth place, getting upset by Romania, 45-43, in the semifinals and falling to Italy in the bronze-medal match, 45-39.
In the consolation bracket, the U.S. met China, who fell to finalist Romania in the opening round. The Chinese defeated the Americans by a 45-28 score. Morehouse lost all three bouts, 5-3, 5-4 and 5-1.
In the seventh-place match between the U.S. and Belarus, the U.S. stayed close, and on two occasions Morehouse had them within one point of the European squad. He tied his first bout with Aliaksei Likhacheuski, 5-5, and edged Aliaksandr Buikevich, 6-5, to get the Americans with 35-30 at the end of Round Six. Unfortunately, Belarus was victorious in each of the three final bouts, with Dmitri Lapkes avenging a 15-13 loss in the individual tournament with a 5-3 win over Morehouse, helping Belarus to a 45-35 victory.
The individual competition was held on July 29, Morehouse's 34th birthday. After receiving a first-round bye, Morehouse opened against sixth-seeded Veniamin Reshetnikov of Russia. Morehouse got off to a quick start and maintained his early lead, opening up an 8-5 lead after the first period. In the second period, the former Judge was nearly unstoppable, scoring seven of the eight touches to take a 15-6 victory and advance to the Round of 16.
"In 08 [when he lost in the opening round], in my first match I got a big lead and then I got ahead of myself, so here I got a big lead and I thought that I want to try and win this. I just wanted to go out and fight and remember that there's no embarrassment no matter what happens and if the victory was there, I'll take it," Morehouse told USFencing.org.
In the next round, Morehouse faced Dmitri Lapkes of Belarus, the tournament's 11th seed. For the second match in a row, Morehouse was ahead 8-5 after the first period. He held the three-point advantage to 12-9, but Lapkes scored four of the next five touches to knot thematch at 13-13. Morehouse rebounded to claim the last two touches and advance.
In the quarterfinals, Morehouse met Italy's Diego Occhiuzi, the 14th seed. After the American scored the first two touches of the match, he found the shoe was on the other foot at the end of the first period, falling behind by the same 8-5 score by which he led his first two matches. Morehouse was never able to recover, and though he got within 12-8 at one point, Occhuizi went on to take the 15-9 victory. Occhuizi went on to reach the podium and take the silver medal after falling to Hungarian Aron Szilagyi in the gold-medal match.
"My goal was to try and win the tournament and give it everything I had and I did that out there … I had two great matches today which I'm really happy about. Tactically, I think I got a little too much into his game and dancing around and talking to the refs, but that's on me in terms of focus and concentrating, but he's a great fencer" Morehouse told USFencing.org. "Overall, it's a solid day for me. Not quite what I wanted, but I'll take away any lessons I can from this experience."
In addition to Morehouse's terrific run, teammate Daryl Homer also reached the quarterfinals with a pair of upsets, including second-seed Aleksei Yakimenko of Russia, a three-time European champion, in the opening round. The U.S. men placed two sabre fencers among the final eight for the first time since 1948, according to US Fencing.
Morehouse - a 2009 Brandeis Athletic Hall of Fame inductee and the 2000 NCAA Sabre Fencer of the Year - will have an opportunity to earn his second career Olympic medal in the team competition. On Friday August 3, the eighth-seeded Americans face top-seeded Russia at 11:30 a.m. London time/6:30 a.m. Eastern. Morehouse and the US sabre squad were surprise silver-medalists in Beijing in 2008.
"We were underdogs there, we'll be underdogs here, but it's the same thing. We're gonna fight as hard as we can and, at the end of the day, we just want to make our country proud. I think I did that and Daryl did that as well," Morehouse said. "I know in big spots I'm generally going to fence well and I don't know that that's going to guarantee I'm going to win, but … I think people know we can fence and it's on us to perform. It's the Olympics and you've gotta take your shots."
ADDITIONAL LINKS: Video highlights http://www.nbcolympics.com/video/fencing/piste-3-mens-individual-sabre-r64-through-qf.html
Men's sabre photo album: http://www.nbcolympics.com/photos/fencing/day-two-mens-individual-sabre.html
Tournament Recap: http://www.nbcolympics.com/news-blogs/fencing/upsets-headline-mens-individual-sabre-tournament.html
USFencing.org Recap: http://usfencing.org/news/2012/07/29/daryl-homer-and-tim-morehouse-place-sixth-and-eighth-in-mens-saber-at-the-olympic-games/50226
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel warned the military to brace for more belt-tightening on Wednesday as he conducts a review that could cut the number of generals, pare back the civilian workforce and stem the spiraling cost of new weapons.
Hagel, in his first major policy speech as Pentagon chief, told students at the National Defense University that the United States could not allow its current budget crisis to force it to retreat from the world. But he underscored the limits of U.S. military power.
"We need to challenge all past assumptions, and we need to put everything on the table," Hagel said. "Any serious effort to reform and reshape our defense enterprise must confront the principal drivers of growth in the department's base budget - namely acquisitions, personnel costs and overhead."
Hagel's remarks come as the Pentagon is struggling to deal with a $41 billion budget cut that went into effect on March 1, part of a $500 billion reduction that could slice defense spending by $50 billion a year for the next decade.
His comments marked a shift in tone at the Pentagon, which for months harbored hope that Congress and the White House would rescue it from spending reductions beyond a $487 billion cut approved in 2011.
"The speech ... represented a bit of a turning point for the Pentagon because he acknowledged that further cuts in defense spending are likely, if not inevitable, and that DoD should begin preparing for them," said Todd Harrison, a defense analyst at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments think tank.
Hagel, a Vietnam veteran who took office in late February, faced pointed questions from his audience.
One woman asked why the department was moving ahead with a decision to put civilian employees on unpaid leave later this year, essentially slashing their pay by 20 percent for 14 weeks as part of its effort to cut spending.
"In case your advisers haven't told you, it is affecting morale," she said.
Questioned about how soon defense personnel might face reductions in benefits, Hagel said the military would fulfill commitments it had made so far. But he also said the Pentagon would ask for higher fees on some benefits like healthcare, a move Congress has rejected in the past.
He emphasized that the system ultimately would have to change.
"If you play this out over a 10-, 20-year period, we're not going to be able to sustain the current personnel costs and retirement benefits. There will be no money in the budget for anything else," he said.
"I'm sorry. I wish it was otherwise," Hagel said. "But that's a fact of life and the longer we defer these things, the worse it's going to be for all of us."
He said the department had to come to grips with factors that are driving up long-term costs, like a big bureaucracy, high personnel costs and unwieldy weapons-development programs.
"In many respects, the biggest long-term fiscal challenge facing the department is not the flat or declining top-line budget, it is the growing imbalance in where the money is being spent internally," Hagel said.
He expressed concern that the military was looking at "systems that are vastly more expensive and technologically risky than what was promised or budgeted for" as it attempts to modernize weapons.
While recognizing the sacrifices of troops and their families over nearly a dozen years of war, Hagel said "fiscal realities demand" the Pentagon take another look at the number and mix of military and civilian personnel it employs.
"Despite good efforts and intentions, it is still not clear that every option has been exercised or considered to pare back the world's largest back-office," Hagel said, referring to the Pentagon's bureaucracy.
He said the military's hierarchies needed re-examination as well.
"Today the operational forces of the military - measured in battalions, ships and aircraft wings - have shrunk dramatically since the Cold War era," he said. "Yet the three- and four-star command and support structures sitting atop these smaller fighting forces have stayed intact, with minor exceptions, and in some cases they are actually increasing in size and rank."
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Wetlands take care of water
All life on the planet depends on water. In designating 2013 as the UN International Year of Water Cooperation, the United Nations General Assembly recognizes that water is critical for sustainable development and for human health and well-being. This recognition is not new - Leonardo da Vinci captured the importance of the issue when he proclaimed that 'Water is the driving force of all nature'.
Water fundamentally connects. From source to sea and through the never ending water cycle, water connects all corners of planet Earth. The Ramsar Convention recognises that wetlands occupy a key position in this interconnectivity and that the wise use of wetlands is essential for the delivery of sustainable water management.
On 2 February, we celebrate World Wetlands Day 2013 under the theme Wetlands and Water Management. UNESCO's International Hydrological Programme (IHP) is proud to celebrate this day in partnership with Ramsar and in celebration of the International Year of Water Cooperation. Both IHP and Ramsar have always had the nexus of water, people and wetlands at its core. Wetlands constitute a resource of great socio-economic, cultural and scientific value, and their loss would be irreparable.
Wetlands deliver essential ecosystem services, or the benefits people obtain from nature, including acting as regulators and providers of water. Thus water management and the "wise use of wetlands" are inextricably linked. The key objective of World Wetlands Day 2013 is to raise people's awareness of the interdependence between water and wetlands, to highlight ways to ensure the equitable sharing of water between different stakeholder groups and to understand that without wetlands there will be no water.
Access to a clean and adequate supply of water is a basic requirement for human survival. We constantly underestimate the role of wetlands as basic water management elements within the supply and regulation process upon which humanity depends. Impacts from changes in land use, water diversions, and infrastructure development continue to drive the degradation and loss of wetlands. Without the appropriate management of wetlands there is no water of the right quality and quantity, where and when it is needed. Managing water requires appropriate governance arrangements. Increasingly this requires that decisions regarding water management move from the margins of government to the centre of society.
We are all water managers, not just the water companies or government regulators. Every time we turn on a tap or buy food we are responsible for a small element of the much larger water management cycle. At the most basic level, each human body on the planet contains more than 60% water.
How do we ensure access to precious water resources for a growing population whilst ensuring the future protection of the very ecosystems upon which we depend? This is where recognition of the fundamental ecological functions of wetlands as regulators of water regimes comes into its own. Wetlands are the earth's natural water infrastructure, providing a clean source and store of freshwater. Their loss and degradation directly intensifies water supply issues and compromises human well-being. Just as water scarcity and security are not issues confined to the water sector but are really societal issues, the role of wetlands in ensuring the security of water supply is also a matter of societal choice. Governments and individual citizens can affect future decisions.
Wetlands are 'water providers', processing and purifying water. They are also 'water users': they need a certain amount of water input if they are to continue to supply the water output, not to mention the many other services and products they provide for humans. Their role in water cycles is integral to water resource management from the level of a local pond right up to trans-national river basins. Just as we are all water managers, we all need to take responsibility for the wise use of wetlands in order to keep humankind supplied with water.
What can we do?
Local actions to recycle, reuse and conserve water are the basis of sustainable water management and should not be underestimated. Local stakeholders have a direct role to play in the delivery of broader water management initiatives, through domestic initiatives such as rainwater harvesting and water-friendly garden design or simply reducing water usage or enhancing local wetlands. Similarly stakeholders are encouraged to ensure that their experiences and concerns are integrated into water management decision-making. Grass roots advocacy and action can make a difference!
Consumers can reduce the amount of water through direct action - by applying a water-saving showerhead, shutting off the tap during teeth brushing, by not disposing of medicines, paints or other pollutants down the sink etc. They can also support the protection and restoration of wetland ecosystems.
But consumers also have an indirect water footprint and this is usually much larger than the direct one. To reduce their indirect water footprint consumers are faced with two basic options. The first option is to move from purchasing products with a large water footprint to an alternative product with a smaller water footprint. A second option is to continue with the same consumption pattern but to select a product that has a relatively low water footprint or that has its footprint in an area that does not have high water scarcity.
Such choices require access to information and it is important that consumers challenge manufacturers and ask for product transparency from businesses and governments alike. Only when information is available on the impacts of products on the water cycle system will consumers be able to make conscious choices about what they buy.
At the global level, The Ramsar Convention has called for local to national governments to recognise wetlands as the primary sources from which humans derive water and that they are a major and critical component of the water cycle that keeps us supplied with water.
The Convention and UNESCO have a very close partnership. They cooperate through UNESCO's World Heritage Convention, the Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Programme and in recent years with the International Hydrological Programme (IHP). UNESCO-IHP through its networks and partners actively contributes to the implementation of the Ramsar Convention in particular by identifying and inventorying transboundary aquifers and groundwater dependent ecosystems that are vital for the conservation and wise use of wetlands and their resources.
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2 miles away from Santander airport you can find Vistapark, a quiet family-run guesthouse situated in Astillero, 4 miles away from Santander and very close to some of the most beautiful sandy beaches and beautiful cliffs on the north Spanish coast.
Within 200 metres you can find all kind of amenities such as shops, sports and transport facilities (bus and train). You can also find banks, cafes and restaurants, two of them on the ground floor of the building.
We offer single, double, twin-bedded, triple rooms and even a family private appartment for five people. All rooms have TV, wi-fi, fridge and central heating and there is a hairdrier in all our bathrooms. You will find a welcome tray in your room for a hot drink or continental breakfast. The building is provided with a lift. there is free wi-fi access to the Internet.Some of our rooms have a wonderful view of the bay, the port and even Santander.
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Parking is not nightmarish as it is in town, and it is free all over the area. If you come by car or have rented one at the airport, take the exit number 6 on the motorway Santander-Bilbao. turn right when you got off motorway and go to first circle. there take the last exit. keep driving alond that street, again the las exit at the next small roundabout and then take the second on the right. we are at number one, just the first building on the left. ( +43 24' 5.05', -3 49' 8.68'). You can also enter 5 Tomás Breton street.
We are at a stone's throw away from Santander centre by train. It only takes 10 minutes. there are two railway stations opposite the bus terminal. the train to Astillero (La Cantabrica or Lierganes train) leaves from FEVE railway station, which is the one on your left. There are trains every 15-20 minutes. Once in Astillero, the 5th stop, go out of the station, turn left and walk up that street. The property is in the middle of the street, on your right. You can see a sign on the corner of the building, on the fifth floor. We do not recommend out guests to take the bus as it takes much longer and it is more expensive.
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The Transplant Institute at Research Medical Center offers a nationally-recognized kidney transplant program and the area's only simultaneous pancreas/kidney transplant procedure.
The Transplant Institute serves the entire Region, including the Kansas City area, Joplin, Springfield, St. Joseph, Wichita and Topeka. In 2012 the Transplant Institute earned the Medal of Honor for Organ Donation from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Over the past 30 years, The Transplant Institute at Research Medical Center has earned a reputation for technical excellence, advanced research and excellent patient outcomes. We have performed more than 1,000 transplants under the leadership of Daniel Murillo, MD, who has served as medical director of the kidney and kidney/pancreas transplant programs at Research Medical Center since 2003.
We maintain a dedicated transplant unit and offer a living donor transplant coordinator. We also actively participate in multi-center drug studies and the Midwest Transplant Network.
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Barnes making habit of inside-the-park homers
SAN FRANCISCO -- Even with the excitement and elation he produced Saturday, Rockies outfielder Brandon Barnes would love a run-of-the-mill home run.
"I'd really like to hit one out so I can just jog -- that would be easier," Barnes said. "I always make it hard on myself."View Full Game Coverage
SAN FRANCISCO -- Even with the excitement and elation he produced Saturday, Rockies outfielder Brandon Barnes would love a run-of-the-mill home run.
"I'd really like to hit one out so I can just jog -- that would be easier," Barnes said. "I always make it hard on myself."View Full Game Coverage
Barnes' two-out, two-run, inside-the-park homer in the ninth inning off the Giants' Sergio Romo gave the Rockies a 5-4 victory Saturday at AT&T Park. As exciting as it was, it was an instant replay of sorts for Barnes, who achieved the feat June 5 at home against the D-backs.
Barnes does not have an over-the-fence homer this season.
The first inside-the-park homer came off the D-backs' Brad Ziegler in a 12-7 victory, so Barnes received plenty of clubhouse ribbing about not having the strength to lift the ball over the wall. But after Barnes' dramatic play Saturday, when his liner bounced past Giants center fielder Angel Pagan and Barnes picked up third-base coach Stu Cole's aggressive sign to go all the way, there was no need for humor.
"I think we were too ecstatic to say anything," teammate Troy Tulowitzki said.
Circling the bases is a fitting signature play for Barnes, 28, who joined the Rockies in an offseason trade with the Astros. He wasn't a certainty to make the team in Spring Training, but he has been invaluable as a sometime starter (.306 with a .348 on-base percentage in 58 games) and pinch-hitter (a Majors-leading 10 pinch-hits this season).
In addition to Saturday's game-winner, he has two career walk-off hits, both for extra bases -- May 27, 2013, a ground-rule double for the Astros against the Rockies, and a triple to end and win a June 7 game against the Dodgers.
"Barnesie has a tendency to be in the middle of things, dust flying and all that," Rockies manager Walt Weiss said. "He's been a real clutch player for us."
Barnes became the first Rockies player to record an inside-the-park homer twice in a season. Just two others have two in a Rockies uniform -- Ellis Burks (1994 and 1996) and Clint Barmes (2005 and 2009).
The last Major Leaguer with more than one inside-the-park homer in the same season was Tony Gwynn Jr., who in 2010 did it for the Padres on June 13 and July 17.
And Barnes thought merely inviting his father, stepmother and sister to the game from their Anaheim home was a good enough way to celebrate Father's Day weekend.
"They don't get to see me play much," Barnes said. "When we come back to Cali, and we come back to San Francisco and San Diego, it's special. Today I got to start. I just wanted to have fun with it. I had the support of my family."
Thomas Harding is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @harding_at_mlb.


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A central theme of our work is that the most prosperous places are big metros with a vibrant central city. These areas are defined by a high proportion of adults with a four-year degree or more living in the center of town.
In many of the nation's most prosperous regions, the central city has a higher college attainment rate than the suburbs.
Another theme of ours is that because talent is the asset that matters most and is in the shortest supply, increasingly employers are moving to where the talent is rather than the talent moving to where the jobs are.
In Michigan, both are contrary to conventional wisdom. As we continue to be dominated by a 20th century vision of what economic success looks like, which includes the belief that a thriving manufacturing industry is essential to economic well-being, Michiganders — including most political and business leaders — seem to believe it's the suburbs and small town/rural areas that are the economic engines. Central cities, for the most part, are where the poor concentrate. And people, by and large, move to where the jobs are.
Today's reality is far different. More evidence comes from a terrific Wall Street Journal article entitled, "Companies say goodbye to the 'burbs."
The article starts with a chart on the big shift in where the generations are living, with 38 percent of the Millennials living in a central city, compared to 31 percent of Generation X and 24 percent of the baby boomers. It then explores the increasing movement of employers to where young talent is, meaning that moves are being made from the suburbs to the cities.
The Journal reports: "Motorola will join United Continental Holdings Inc., Hillshire Brands Co. — the successor to Sara Lee Corp. — and other corporate giants abandoning vast suburban campuses for urban offices nearer to the young, educated and hyper-connected workers who will lead their businesses into the digital age. Archer Daniels Midland Co. recently said it would move its headquarters from Decatur, Ill., and in the Bay Area, startups like Pinterest Inc. are departing Silicon Valley for San Francisco.
"After decades of big businesses leaving the city for the suburbs, U.S. firms have begun a new era of corporate urbanism. Nearly 200 of the Fortune 500 companies are currently headquartered in the top 50 cities. Many others are staying put in the suburbs but opening high-profile satellite offices in nearby cities …"
Whether it's established companies like Motorola or technology-based startups like Pinterest, this is the kind of investment that is central to every state's economic development strategy. These are the investments everyone wants.
Turns out that to get them, you need central cities that are attractive places for mobile talent to live and work. Unfortunately, that's not exactly the current Michigan economic policy priority. The sooner we learn this new reality, the better off we will be.
Michigan needs Detroit, primarily, to be a talent magnet. The Detroit suburbs need Detroit to be a talent magnet. If it isn't, residents of the Detroit suburbs and Michiganders will be less prosperous. Detroit's success (and to a lesser degree, Grand Rapids' and Lansing's) is in the best interest of all of us. That will require a change in state and regional policy.
Moving toward public investments in our cities rather than the disinvestment of the last decade or more, a preference for higher rather than lower density development, and a transportation policy where transit is at least as high a priority as roads, all will be crucial in the coming years when it comes to formulating urban policy.
Lou Glazer is president of Michigan Future Inc.


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The French League of Youth Hostels (L.F.A.J.) and the International Union of French-Speaking countries Youth Hostels (U.I.A.J.P.F.) are non-profit organisations gathering an important network of Youth Hostels located in France, French overseas and French-speaking countries in Africa and Indian Ocean.
Their goal is to enable people from all over the world to discover new cultures and to meet other travellers, in their Youth Hostels.
Youth Hostels are lively places where one can meet and learn about the others. Alone, in couple, in family or in groups, one can stay at Youth Hostels located by the seaside, in the countryside or in towns. They offer cheap accommodations and welcome individuals, groups (with prior booking), families and couples in dormitories of 8, 6, or 4 beds. They can also offer you individual and double rooms. Most of the rooms have private toilets, wash-hand basins, showers or bathrooms. Some Youth Hostels also offer camping pitches.
To boot, Youth Hostels can also organise - for holidays or short week-ends - various cultural and sports activities, such as theatre, sailing, hiking and riding. In order to stay in a Youth Hostel, you need to get a membership card. You can directly buy it at L.F.A.J. or in any Youth Hostel. Membership cards have a period of validity of 1 year (from the date of purchase) and give access to all Youth Hostels in France or abroad.
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Despite fresh opposition from the National Rifle Association, the Obama administration is assembling proposals to curb gun violence that would include a ban on sales of assault weapons, limits on high-capacity ammunition magazines and universal background checks for gun buyers.
Sketching out details of the plan Thursday, Vice President Joe Biden said he would give President Barack Obama a set of recommendations by next Tuesday. The NRA, one of the pro-gun groups that met with Biden during the day, rejected the effort to limit ammunition and dug in on its opposition to an assault weapons ban, which Obama has previously said he will propose to Congress.
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"The vice president made it clear, made it explicitly clear, that the president had already made up his mind on those issues," NRA president David Keene said following the meeting. "We made it clear that we disagree with them."
Opposition from the well-funded and politically powerful NRA underscores the challenges that await the White House if it seeks congressional approval for limiting guns and ammunition. Obama can use his executive powers to act alone on some gun measures, but his options on the proposals opposed by the NRA are limited without Congress' cooperation.
Obama has pushed reducing gun violence to the top of his domestic agenda following last month's massacre of 20 children and six adults at a Connecticut elementary school. The president put Biden in charge of an administration-wide task force and set a late January deadline for proposals.
"I committed to him I'd have these recommendations to him by Tuesday," Biden said Thursday, during a separate White House meeting with sportsmen and wildlife groups. "It doesn't mean it's the end of the discussion, but the public wants us to act."
The vice president later huddled privately with the NRA and other gun owner groups for more than 90 minutes. Participants in the meeting described it as an open and frank discussion, but one that yielded little movement from either side on long-held positions.
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Richard Feldman, the president of the Independent Firearm Owners Association, said all were in agreement on a need to keep guns out of the hands of criminals and people with mental health issues. But when the conversation turned to broad restrictions on high capacity magazines and assault weapons, Feldman said Biden suggested the president had already made up his mind to seek a ban.
"Is there wiggle room and give?" Feldman said. "I don't know."
White House officials said the vice president didn't expect to win over the NRA and other gun groups on those key issues. But the administration was hoping to soften their opposition in order to rally support from pro-gun lawmakers on Capitol Hill.
Biden's proposals are also expected to include recommendations to address mental health care and violence on television and in movies and video games. Those issues have wide support from gun rights groups and pro-gun lawmakers.
The vice president also met Thursday with representatives from the entertainment industry, including Comcast Corp. and the Motion Picture Association of America. He'll hold talks Friday with the video game industry.
"We will now take our commitment and meaningful contributions to members of Congress of both parties who are interested in having an honest conversation about what works — and what does not."
Biden was also meeting Thursday with sportsmen and wildlife organizations, including Ducks Unlimited, the Outdoor Industry Association and the Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, as well as the National Shooting Sports Foundation and the Firearms Import/Export Roundtable.
Wal-Mart, the nation's largest firearms seller, will meet separately with Attorney General Eric Holder Thursday along with other retailers such as Bass Pro Shops and Dick's Sporting Goods.
Biden has also said the administration is weighing executive action in addition to recommending legislation by Congress. Those steps could include making gun-trafficking a felony, getting the Justice Department to prosecute people caught lying on gun background-check forms and ordering federal agencies to send data to the National Gun Background Check Database.
The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence says that about 40 percent of gun sales are made without background checks, often at gun shows and over the Internet.
Representatives from the Brady Campaign joined other victims' groups and gun safety organizations for meetings with Biden on Wednesday. The vice president said the steps the administration is considering could "take thousands of people out of harm's way" and improve the safety of millions more.
"I want to make it clear that we are not going to get caught up in the notion that unless we can do everything, we're going to do nothing," Biden said. "It's critically important we act."
The Newtown shootings pushed gun control to the top of Obama's domestic agenda for the first time during his presidency. He was largely silent on the hot-button political issue after the 2011 shootings in Tucson, Ariz., that killed six people and wounded 12 others, including then-Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, and the Colorado movie theater killing of a dozen people and wounding of many more last July.
The president hopes to announce his administration's next steps to tackle gun violence shortly after he is sworn in for a second term and has pledged to push for new measures in his State of the Union address.


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'Cause I am not up to a more substantial post…
"Noted woman physician" on why women shouldn't have careers. It's the Caitlin Flanagan of 1947.
About that #twowholecakes thing…. (And speaking of cakes, if you missed Fat Satan, you must check that out, too.)
McDonald's Eats A Super-Sized Order Of Its Own Words (via Womanist Musings)
Oh, and I thought of writing a substantial post about this, but… didn't. Women challenge Marks & Spencer bra pricing policy.
Also, we're still #1 at Powell's! Suck it, Stephenie Meyer. ETA: As of 4 p.m. CST, we're back down to number 2. It was a good run, though, especially for International No Diet Day! Thanks again, everyone.


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Linux has been the latest word in alternative operating systems for a few years now; but, there are other options with a history that precedes both Linux and the GNU base. These systems are based on the Berkley Software Distribution, a direct descendant of AT&T's (Bell Labs) UNIX which was rewritten. There are four versions: FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and Dragonfly; but, I will only be concentrating on the first three. Let us begin with a simple set of questions.
1) Is your interest security?
2) Are you using non-standard hardware?
3) Are you a developer?
4) Do you like a challenge or want an easy start?
Give yourself a moment to think these questions through.
I will introduce and describe the options you have, including both the positive and negative of each.
I) FreeBSD.
FreeBSD is the most used of the BSD systems and comes with more support including work from iXSystems and the PC-BSD project. Community support can be seen on the mailing lists,http://www.daemonforums.org , http://forums.freebsd.org, and at local groups in various parts of the world. Development is active as ports to the PS3 and the newer SPARC64 chips are improved. However, for a person without patience or willingness to learn something different, FreeBSD may present a few difficulties:
1) No graphical installer. The option available is to use PC-BSD for such; but, what is the option if one doesn't have this type of hardware? Sysinstall and the newer bsdinstall are ncurses based installation methods. A person would also need to read on how to use gpart and maybe even use a Linux distribution to setup a disk beforehand.
2) Less support for hardware than in Linux or Windows. Your new equipment may not work "out of the box" or may even require configuring by hand.
3) No native support for flash and limited support for Java. There are options such as gnash and the FreeBSD project has its own version of Java. Be noted that it is limited to i386 and amd64 only.
II) OpenBSD
OpenBSD is a security conscious operating system aimed at developers and those who want to follow a strict code base. Support covers more architectures than FreeBSD and the community is based on mailing lists with the only forum support being http://www.daemonforums.org . It is headed by a single person. OpenBSD is a great distribution but a few words of warning for the new user:
1) Follow the install documents exactly. There is no way around this.
2) Refer to the shared examples and manual pages on the system. This cannot be stressed enough.
3) Think before you ask a question and research the mailing lists archives. The different members of the OpenBSD core group, ports, packages, and side projects are developers deeply involved in their work.
III) NetBSD.
NetBSD is a more of a hobbyist operating system with support for more systems than most Linux distributions and the other two BSD systems. It is included as an option for single board and embedded computers. The community is loosely knit. Like OpenBSD, support only exists in mailing lists or http://www.daemonforums.org . There are a few challenges one needs to overcome:
1) Like OpenBSD, you must read the installation documents.
2) Support from the mailing list may not come directly due to the smaller community size.
3) Your hardware may not have current support; so, you may need to build a kernel and userland yourself.
From http://netbsd.org/ab...ml#clean-design :
"NetBSD focuses on clean design and well architected solutions. Because of this NetBSD may support certain 'exciting' features later than other systems, but as time progresses the NetBSD codebase is getting even stronger and easier to manage, while other systems that value features over code quality are finding increasing problems with code management and conflicts."
"NetBSD focuses on clean design and well architected solutions. Because of this NetBSD may support certain 'exciting' features later than other systems, but as time progresses the NetBSD codebase is getting even stronger and easier to manage, while other systems that value features over code quality are finding increasing problems with code management and conflicts."
You may ask, "Why would one want to use such a system when Linux is available?"
1) Both the kernel and the userland or "base" of each system is developed. Linux is a kernel only. The base is GNU,
2) A user has more control of the package installation in FreeBSD. Neither Debian nor Fedora nor the systems based on these two allow you such control.
3) All three BSD systems have lower requirements for the hardware that is supported.
4) The user is not included in the wheel group in FreeBSD. All three allow the root user the ability to include or exclude the user in any group.
5) Licensing. The BSD license is more permissive.
6) Stability. All systems follow strict rules. The permissions are set by the root account.
"Okay, but, it seems difficult already."
Such a statement is only true if one does not follow the above suggestions.
"How do I get this or that to work?"
There are a handful of tutorials and howto's around the web. Support is available at the listed forums and on the mailing lists.
"Some of my hardware doesn't work but it does on Windows and Linux. Why?"
This may be due to the company and their unwillingness to help the BSD distributions. You may want to ask your questions on the mailing lists.
"I don't feel like any of this is for me."
You have the right to choose whatever you want. These are only suggestions from me and my personal opinion based on my experience.
"You've mentioned that FreeBSD has an easier configuration than Linux. What about the advanced options for Debian or Fedora? There is also Arch and Slackware, have you thought of those?"
I am referring to the default building process with ports. I haven't worked with Arch or Slackware as of yet; therefore, please excuse my lack of knowledge on these two distributions.
"Is NetBSD used for anything besides hobbyist projects?"
Yes. Some people use it for a desktop system. Others use it for servers. NetBSD is a good choice for developers of both hardware and software because of the number of architectures it covers.
"How is the performance of a BSD system compared to that of a Linux distribution?"
Hmm. My experience has been that they run faster and smoother. This may be due to the base and kernel being developed as a single "group" in each project. There may be exceptions with Linux that I am not aware of.
"Are there any other forums available for support?"
There is limited support at http://www.linuxquestions.org and http://www.unix.com .


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