text: 1909. Facing nearly due west from ridge northeast of Como Lake. Light selection cut in open ponderosa pine. Ground cover is comprised of perennial grasses and forbs, including basalmroot. A few low-growing bitterbrush plants can be seen in the vicinity of horses and in distance on left. A group of willows can be seen behind horsemen at left center. Photo 87357/U.S. Forest Service hide caption toggle caption Photo 87357/U.S. Forest Service The Picture Show Our Changing Forests: An 88-Year Time Lapse August 23, 2012 For the past century, the Forest Service has been sending photographers out to the same 13 points in Bitterroot National Forest in Montana every decade or so. The resulting photo series shows just how dynamic our forests really are.

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Do we finally have the right technologies for knowledge work? Wikis, blogs, group-messaging software and the like can make a corporate intranet into a constantly changing structure built by distributed, autonomous peers — a collaborative platform that reflects the way work really gets done.
By the fall of 2005, the European investment bank Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein (DrKW) had just completed a rollout of three new communication technologies to most of its employees. The tools — which included blogs, wikis and messaging software for groups and individuals1 — caught on first among IT staffers, who soon realized that the initial wiki environment lacked a feature called presence display. That is, it didn't offer a way to tell if another employee was at his or her computer. At 10:44 London time on Oct. 11, 2005, an IT employee posted to his blog:
... it's about squeezing as much as we can out of what we have in place now ... The [presence display] idea for example can be achieved with ease [in the wiki] by simply adding the link below to an image tag ... It's a bit rough round the edges and the icon could be much better but does do what you want.
At 11:48, a colleague posted a comment on the same blog:
Cool, I have then taken your [link] and (pretty nastily) hacked presence display into [the wiki]. I'll let Myrto [Lazopoulou, head of user-centered design at DrKW] know ... and ask her to look into perhaps getting her team [to see] whether we can do this better ...
Within 64 minutes and without any project definition or planning, a presence display solution had been spontaneously taken from concept to implementation, then submitted to the person formally responsible.
Why are these new technologies particularly noteworthy? After all, companies already have plenty of communication media — e-mail, instant messaging, intranets, telephones, software for document sharing and knowledge management and so on. As the vignette above suggests, the new technologies are significant because they can potentially knit together an enterprise and facilitate knowledge work in ways that were simply not possible previously. To see how, we need to first understand the shortcomings of the technologies currently used by knowledge workers, then examine how the newly available technologies address these drawbacks. We'll then return to the DrKW case to see how to accelerate their use within an enterprise, and highlight the challenges of doing so.


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Johnytuono wrote:Hi
I know how to link to an external webpage via a html hotspot link but I want the linked website to open in a smaller box rather than full screen. There probably is a simple way but I'm fairly new to this so any help would be appreciated.
Johnytuono wrote:Sorry....ptp 1.8
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With the second option.... Copy the html code above and past it into dreamweaver or if you do not have any software use the Text Editor where it should give you an option to save as a html page.. Name is something like iframe.html.. Then make sure you build your tour in the same folder as that file... The graphic below will show you where to add the url.. If you you know the full url address where you will host your Tour, then provide the full url.. But it will still work this way as long as you save the iframe html file in the same folder as your Tour.. What you are doing here, is controlling the size of the browser, by putting a web site into a box frame called an iframe.. You can control the size your end using the iframe..
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Did you test whether it works?
Johnytuono wrote:Hi
Well I just tried the second method, and whilst the frame window is the specified width/height, it is still part of the full screen (ie the rest of the page is white whilst the 'window' is in the top left hand corner. Any ideas please?
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MOVIE REVIEW- V for Vienna: A romantic spooky illusion
Magicians creep me out, okay? Maybe it's a guy thing: if I can't be in control, I want to at least understand how things work.
In the movies, it's safe to attribute anything that appears magical (except a good story) to CGI, but The Illusionist is too magical on too many levels to be dismissed as mere trickery.
This is the movie Paul Giamatti should have made with M. Night Shyamalan instead of Lady in the Water. It gives the actor a chance to stretch and would have preserved the filmmaker's reputation for spinning a good yarn and catching viewers off guard.
Instead, it affirms the promise Neil Burger showed four years ago with the microbudgeted Interview with the Assassin. Burger directs from his own screenplay, based on Steven Millhauser's short story "Eisenheim the Illusionist."
Though it's a bit less accessible, I wouldn't hesitate to recommend this movie to anyone who liked V for Vendetta. The Illusionist takes place a century or so earlier in Vienna and distributes the basic elements– politics, action, and romance, all with a veneer of theatricality– differently. Both feature a Chief Inspector character– Stephen Rea in V, Giamatti in I– whose allegiance may shift as he becomes enlightened.
The emphasis in The Illusionist is on romance. After arresting Eisenheim the Illusionist (Edward Norton) in the middle of a performance, Chief Inspector Uhl relates the backstory, some of it backlegend, of this son of a cabinetmaker who performs amazing tricks on stage.
As a teenager, Eisenheim carried on a forbidden friendship with Sophie, a girl of noble birth. When they were separated, he traveled the world, returning to Vienna 15 years later a star. Word of his fame reaches Crown Prince Leopold (Rufus Sewell), who attends a performance with his intended, Duchess Sophie von Teschen (Jessica Biel). Yes, that Sophie, all grown up.
So the stage is set for an unusual love triangle. Behind the scenes, Leopold– known to be rough on women– is planning to marry Sophie to cement his alliance with Hungary, through which he intends to usurp his father's throne.
The Chief Inspector (and it's amazing how Giamatti, the quintessential American, transforms himself into a turn-of-the-last-century Austrian) is essentially the Prince's hatchet man; yet as the son of a butcher, he forms a bond with Eisenheim because the gold ceiling will keep both of them from ever transcending their working-class origins. Besides, the Chief Inspector is "a bit of an amateur conjurer" who wants to know how Eisenheim does his less obvious tricks.
After a shift in dynamics, Eisenheim's show changes. Like Harry Houdini, he becomes obsessed with the afterlife and making contact across the barrier of death. He brings spirits onto the stage, visible and audible yet not material. It's as if he invented the hologram half a century before Dennis Gabor.
The final "reveal" is presented in a manner that will have even the MTV generation buying the DVD to catch details they missed.
Filmed in Prague, The Illusionist has a candle-lit palette (many of the lights are electric but dim), and its images are often fuzzy around the edges, enhancing the period look. Sewell's villain may be a bit caricatured, but there's nothing anachronistic about any of the performances.
As for Neil Burger, I'll wager he's just one or two very good films away from making a great one.


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Alan Furst, a New York Times bestselling author whose archive resides at the Harry Ransom Center, recently published his latest novel Midnight in Europe.
Furst is widely recognized for his historical espionage novels set in the World War II era. His 2008 novel, The Spies of Warsaw, was adapted into a miniseries starring David Tenant and Janet Montgomery that premiered on the BBC in 2013. His works have been translated into 18 languages, and in 2011 he received the Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award.
Midnight in Europe is set in the outskirts of wartime Paris in 1938. Cristián Ferrar, a Spanish émigré and lawyer at an international law firm risks his life in a mission to help supply weapons to the Republic's army. He is joined in his efforts by a motley crew of idealists, gangsters, arms traders, aristocrats, and spies, all compelled by different reasons to fight for righteous principles and democracy.
To celebrate the release of Midnight in Europe, the Ransom Center will be giving away a signed copy of Furst's 2008 novel Spies of the Balkans. To be eligible to win, tweet a link to this blog post and mention @ransomcenter. If you're not on Twitter, send an email to firstname.lastname@example.com with "Alan Furst" in the subject line. By entering via email, you are also opting-in to receive the Ransom Center's monthly email newsletter. All tweets and emails must be sent by Thursday, June 26, at midnight CST, and winner will be drawn and notified on Friday.
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While the Lighthouse meeting was going on, the Islanders took part in an up-tempo 60-minute practice at Iceworks before boarding their chartered aircraft from Farmingdale to Pittsburgh. The lines have remained the same: Comeau-Bailey-Okposo, Bergenheim-Nielsen-Hunter, Sim-McAmmond-Guerin, Tambellini-Hilbert-Jackman. Scott Gordon was back with the team today after missing yesterday for what the Islanders termed "personal reasons." There is nothing to read into that.
I'm told that Richard Park (ribs) has every intention of returning to the Islanders' lineup sooner than the four weeks the team projected for him. Would not surprise me.
sleep 5We received several emails and Comments from readers looking for us to weigh in on the Rangers' hiring of John Tortorella, presumably so they can too(!). I didn't have much interest because the Rangers are not my beat. I wrote a few paragraphs about Tom Renney last week because it was relevant to my background as a longtime PR director and relevant to how the NHL teams and personnel handle media relations.
Since many of you were not readers during Point Blank's first incarnation, I've dug up a story I wrote about Tortorella when he was part of the Islanders' interview process. Unlike what I've seen written, Tortorella did not tell the Islanders he was taking a year off. He was not offered the position and the two sides ended their discussions amicably. Joel Quenneville did tell the Islanders he was taking a year off and took the Chicago position a week into the season. To coach Kane and company on the rise, no one can blame him for taking that job. Coach Q should have just given the Islanders a more honest excuse.
Here's my story on Tortorella. As you can tell, I think he'll do a fine job over time for the Blueshirts. And contrary to a lot of opinions, he will get along spectacularly with Larry Brooks.
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A John Tortorella story: It's the 2004 Stanley Cup Playoffs and the Lightning fire a shot before their first round series with the Islanders even begins. Lightning management has boxed the Islanders out of their chosen hotel in Tampa Bay for Games 1 and 2. Sniping on both sides in the media begins, and when the Islanders – a big underdog – earn a split in the two games it looks like the series is going to be a nasty one.
When the Lightning arrive on Long Island, they learn that payback is a bitch. Among other things, it's about 110 degrees in the visiting team locker room at the Coliseum. They also find their room not stocked with many of the usual amenities, like soap.
I'm in the Coliseum hallway talking to my PR colleague with the Lightning. A very sweaty John Tortorella approaches. "This (crap) has to stop," the Tampa Bay head coach says. "Any chance Mike Milbury is around? Can you see if he'll talk to me so we can settle this like gentlemen"?
I go to Mike's office and tell him Tortorella comes in peace and wants a truce. The Islanders GM is impressed. "Walk him down here."
Tortorella pleads, "This is getting stupid, Mike. You're a coach at heart, like me. C'mon, for everyone's sake let's put this behind us and act like pros." Tortorella apologizes for any nonsense that went down in Tampa Bay.
Milbury apologizes as well, the two shake hands and within minutes the Lightning room is cooled. When I see Mike later he says, "That was impressive. He's going to be a great coach in this league."
It would be a stretch to call Tortorella's move genius, just because his Lightning won the next three games to clinch the series and went on to win the Stanley Cup. But I was blown away by the coach's take-charge attitude. Most coaches in this game would never march into the office of an opposing GM. Time will tell if he and the Islanders are a fit. What I do know is the next team that gets him will be very fortunate.
More than 170 readers have spoken so far, and verdict is split between keeping Brendan Witt an Islander past March 4 and trading him in a package that would include at least a first round pick. Read the story to see the trade scenarios offered and all of the fan reaction.
With the one-comment-only rule in the poll, it was nice hearing from so many different people who weren't shy to join in. May have to do that more often.
There is no news on Brendan's status. Conversations continue, and this could go all the way up to the deadline. I find the poll a fascinating study. I really believe if I posted the Witt poll after the Islanders dropped a few in a row - as opposed to the temporary feel-good vibes of the post-Campoli/Comrie 4-0 win over New Jersey - the results would probably be different. (Okay, I also quoted Brendan earlier yesterday about how much he loves the fans and the Island...that might have had an impact on voting). All you have to do is look at the Comments a few weeks ago to see what I mean. Thanks to everyone who has participated so far.
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Parents cheat 85% of childcare centres: survey
Parents have cheated 85 per cent of childcare centres nationally by ''centre hopping'' without paying their bills, even though they still claim the 50 per cent federal government childcare subsidy.
A survey of 700 childcare operators by industry website CareforKids found two-thirds of centres used debt collectors to chase parents. One centre reported it was $600,000 out of pocket.
Childcare centres want parents who do not pay their bills to be blacklisted, and are calling on the federal government to pay the childcare rebate direct to the centres to eliminate potential fraud.
Australian Childcare Alliance president Gwynn Bridge said bad debts were growing as childcare became unaffordable.
''The debts are really increasing,'' Ms Bridge said. ''It seems families aren't coping financially. It's right across Australia.''
Childcare fees have risen 7 per cent a year in the past decade, more than double the rate of inflation. Fees are now up to $170 a day in some Sydney suburbs.
''The cost of childcare has gone up substantially,'' CareforKids founder Roxanne Elliott said. ''Parents are looking to see what they can do, and they're being quite unscrupulous about it.''
Australian childcare is among the least affordable in the world, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, with gross fees for a two-year-old in full-time care equal to half the average wage. Only the Netherlands and Ireland are more expensive, while childcare is most affordable in Sweden, accounting for just 5 per cent of the average wage.
The federal government will spend $6.5 billion on childcare this financial year, including $2.4 billion on the childcare rebate and $2.6 billion on childcare benefits.
Assistant Minister for Education Sussan Ley said she was ''very sympathetic'' to the industry's concerns about bad debts.
''There's no doubt families are doing it tough at the moment, and it doesn't help that childcare fees skyrocketed 50 per cent under Labor, but there's no excuse for parents deliberately ducking their bills,'' Ms Ley said.
Operators said centre hopping forced services to put up fees for other parents, and was unsettling for the children who were moved from centre to centre. To stamp out the practice, they are calling for a debt register of parents who skip centres without paying their bills.
''Something desperately needs to be done, because in no other industry can you walk away without paying,'' said one respondent. ''It's not fair these people are able to rort the system and get away with it.''
But experts said a name-and-shame register would probably contravene privacy laws, and there was too much potential for it to be abused.
The industry wants the government to pay the childcare rebate, which covers the cost of 50 per cent of fees up to $7500, directly to the services instead of to the parents.
Sixty per cent of parents receive the childcare rebate directly, with the balance opting for the payment to go straight to the services.
''Make it compulsory for the childcare rebate to be assigned to the centre involved, so the parents' debt is legitimately offset by CCR and the temptation for parents to pocket the CCR and leave the debt unpaid is removed,'' another centre operator said in the survey.
The national convener of Australian Community Children's Services, Prue Warrilow, agreed, saying: ''If the government changes nothing else, pay the childcare rebate directly to services, so at least the services get some money.''
Another suggestion is for centres to ask enrolling parents for a verification from their previous centre that they have no outstanding debts.
Ms Warrilow blamed poor management by the centres for allowing parents to run up large debts, and said centre-hopping was more likely to hit smaller operators, who did not have the credit control systems of the big chains.
''No parent should be able to get behind on fees,'' she said. ''Most centres invoice in advance. I suspect there might be some poor management practices in there.''
Parents whose children attend Bunny Cottage childcare at Bexley must pay their fees by direct debit. Owner Sharon Graham introduced the direct-debit policy after ''many years of bad debts'', with some families running up thousands of dollars in unpaid fees.
Ms Graham said outsourcing the collection of fees to EziPay took the pressure off her as centre director.
''Having to be the money collector as well as the educator was a really difficult juggle,'' she said. ''Outsourcing has made a huge difference in the time I spend chasing fees, and it's more transparent for families.''
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Dear Dr. Michelle,
I want to give my family a healthful diet but I am not sure of what is good nutrition. I am very confused about the subject of Fat. I just do not understand which fats I should be giving my family to eat. What is unsaturated fat, what is saturated fat, and what is trans-fat? Do you think that we should all be on a low fat diet? Could you please explain?
Concerned MomDear Mom,
High fat diets and lack of exercise have been shown to be contributing factors to the obesity epidemic in the U.S. About ten years ago, the experts started recommending that Americans try to eat a diet that is very limited in all fats. They thought that this would cause us to eat fewer calories in total. High sugar, low fat snack products were made by many manufacturers in an effort to capture the snack food market. The results were terrible! While restricting their fat intake, people starting eating more and more sugar and starch. The obesity epidemic got much worse! The experts recently changed their advice. They now differentiate different kinds of starches and fats. They now recommend that we eat a traditional balanced diet which includes starches, sugars and fat in reasonable amounts—but only the good ones.
Here are the basic guidelines:
The diet should be full of unprocessed foods. Vegetables and fruits, nuts and legumes such as peanuts and beans, and whole grains are all good. The starches should be high fiber grains and legumes and vegetables. The sugars should be mostly the ones already found in the food such as fruits and sweet potatoes. Added sugars are OK but not in excess. It is important to know that growing children need plenty of fats in their diets because growth requires a lot of calories and fat has double the amount of calories found in proteins and carbohydrates. Because toddlers don't eat a lot at a meal they need a higher percentage of fat in their diets to get enough caloric energy to grow on.
The fats should be mostly unsaturated fats such as avocado, canola oil, olive oil, nut oils (not palm oil). Oils found in fish are also usually unsaturated. Most vegetable oils such as corn oil, are OK, but not as beneficial as the unsaturated oils. Peanut oil is OK but there is a problem with processed peanut butter. In commercial peanut butters, the peanut protein is used, but the peanut oil is extracted and replaced with trans-fats which makes the product creamier and keeps it from separating. For this reason, natural style peanut butter which has to be mixed and refrigerated is a much better choice.
The fats naturally found in meats, poultry and dairy products are saturated fats. They should be restricted by eating mostly leaner cuts and low fat milk products. Moderate amounts of these are OK in a healthy diet. The fats found in most packaged treats and snacks are often "bad fats." These are trans-fats. They were invented by chemists about 100 years ago. The first one was Crisco. This adulterated vegetable oil is used commercially. It makes food taste better and last longer on the shelf.
Most margarines, cookies and crackers, chips and fried foods like French fries and even fish sticks usually have trans-fats. They are listed on the labels as "partially hydrogenated soy or vegetable oil," "vegetable shortening" and trans fatty acids. Trans-fats are known to cause heart disease by increasing LDL (bad cholesterol) and decreasing HDL (good cholesterol). Since the American population is so used to eating packaged products and fast foods, the experts think trans-fats may be making people both fat and sick. There is no amount of trans-fat that is good. Many state and local governments are passing laws to eliminate trans-fats from restaurant foods.
The Bottom Line
The bottom line is that we should all be eating mostly plain foods that are not processed as fast or snack foods. It has always been my feeling that if we restrict candy, cake and chips and eat them only on special occasions we would all consume a better diet and we would enjoy the junk more as part of a birthday party treat!
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Central American River Turtle or 'Hicatee'
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Photos: Juvenile Hicatees hatched at the Hicatee Conservation and Research Center at BFREE in Belize
Regarded as one of the Top 25 most endangered turtles in the world, the Central American River Turtle, or 'Hicatee' as it's locally known, is at great risk of extinction – mainly due to the unsustainable harvest of its meat by local communities throughout its range in Mexico, Belize and Guatemala. Populations have been wiped out from many areas of Mexico and Guatemala, and the species' last remaining stronghold is in Belize. However, even in Belize, the species has been in rapid decline and can no longer be found in many areas where it was once common just a few years earlier. The Hicatee is an important species, not only because of its ecological role within its environment, but also because it is truly a living fossil - the only surviving species of an ancient lineage of turtles that dates back more than 65 million years to the Cretaceous!
In 2010, the Turtle Survival Alliance (TSA) along with the Belize Foundation for Research and Environmental Education (BFREE) held a conservation workshop to develop conservation strategies to protect this species. From this workshop, the Hicatee Conservation Network was born, a coalition of organizations and agencies whose primary focus is to protect the Hicatee through education and outreach, legislation and enforcement, and scientific research.
The Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens (JZG) currently maintains the only three individuals of this species in the United States and is committed to its protection and conservation in the wild. In the spring of 2016, JZG sponsored a second Hicatee conservation workshop in Belize which brought together all organizations and individuals involved with the conservation and research of this species to review the status of the Hicatee in the wild, evaluate current conservation efforts, and develop further strategies for its protection. JZG is currently strengthening its conservation support by assisting with the development of a new, interactive educational display for the Hicatee at the Belize Zoo, as well as the production of a wildlife documentary on the plight of the Hicatee that will be shown in schools throughout Belize. Additionally, studies on the behavior and reproduction of the species at JZG are contributing valuable scientific information to what is currently known about this unique and important species.


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97th Congress, 1981–1982
This resolution was introduced on December 7, 1981, in a previous session of Congress, but was not enacted.
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Freshman Haley Davis capped a seven-run, fifth inning by the Crimson to seal a win over Cornell on Saturday afternoon (photo courtesy Gil Talbot).
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Freshman Haley Davis' first career home run was a walk-off grand slam that ended an 11-2 contest against Cornell in five innings, as the Harvard softball used the run-rule to split a doubleheader with an Ivy League rival for the second time in as many days. The Crimson (11-17, 4-4 Ivy) fell in a 10-7 battle with the Big Red (14-16, 4-4 Ivy) earlier in the day.
Junior Kasey Lange equaled Davis' team-leading four RBI with a 3-for-6 performance at the plate and scored three runs, as well as drawing two intentional walks. Senior Stephanie Regan and junior Shelbi Olson led the Crimson with four hits. Regan went 4-for-8 with four runs scored and three RBI, while Olson posted a .667 average (4-for-6), scored three times and drove in a pair of runs.
Freshman Jamie Halula (4-4) picked up the win for Harvard. The Key Biscayne, Fla. native struck out three batters, walked one and gave up two runs on eight hits in five innings of work. Morgan Groom (4-8) shouldered the loss for the Crimson in the first contest. After 5.2 innings, Groom struck out two batters, walked five and allowed six earned runs on eight hits. Sophomore Gabrielle Ruiz tossed 1.1 innings of relief in game one, but gave up three runs and walked two Big Red hitters.
The Crimson tagged Alyson Onyon (10-9) for nine runs in the second meeting, but shared responsibility of the grand slam with teammate Sammy Roth, who was making a relief appearance in the fifth inning of game two. Roth (3-3) had earned the win in game one after throwing 2.2 innings of ball with a pair of strikeouts, two walk and four hits allowed.
Harvard gave up a run off a pair of doubles in the first inning of game two, but used one of Regan's walks, sac bunt and single to left from Lange to even the game in the bottom half, 1-1.
The Crimson were briefly at a disadvantage again in the third when a single and single up the middle scored another run for the Big Red, 2-1, but Harvard claimed the lead with two runs in the bottom half of the frame, 3-2. Olson singled up the middle and stole second, before coming around when Lantz' shot to second base was mishandled. Sophomore Emily Gusse then singled through the left side to bring around Davis, who had drawn a walk to get on after Olson.
Harvard added to its lead with another run in the fourth, 4-2. Freshman Alyssa Siegmann led off with a walk and was advanced on a sac bunt and infield ground out, before scoring as Olson singled to short.
Seven runs in the fifth sealed the win for the Crimson, 11-2. Lantz started things off with a single and then stole second. Gusse put runners on the corners with chip shot to center and was subbed out for senior Jessica Ferri. Hume then knocked a pitch back up the middle for an RBI, 5-2, and Siegmann advanced her teammate on a sac bunt. Sophomore Katherine Appelbe landed a bunt single, before Regan drove a ball to center to plate two more runs, 7-2. After Olson reached on a fielder's choice and moved to second on a run-down, Lange drew an intentional walk to load the bases and Davis clobbered the ball to right-center in walk-off fashion.
In game one, the Crimson gave up early walks and hit-by-pitches to provide the Big Red runners to work with, as they scored three runs off a pair of singles and a walk in the first inning.
Both sides posted two runs in the third. Cornell drew a leadoff walk and registered a double for the first run, 4-0, before a wild pitch and sac fly stretch its lead to five, 5-0. Regan got the Crimson started with a single and moved around on an infield groundout and single up the middle by Lange, 5-1. Lantz grounded out to advance her teammate, before Gusse charged a ball up the middle to give Harvard its second run, 5-2.
The Crimson tied the game in the fourth inning, 5-5. Regan hit a two-out single through the left side and Olson drew a walk to get runners on. Back-to-back doubles from Lange and Lantz evened the score at five.
Harvard took the lead with two runs in the fifth, 7-5. Siegmann delivered a pinch-hit single and Hume followed with a hit to center, before Appelbe dropped a bunt single. Regan's infield fly advanced the runs, 6-5, and Olson singled to second to add to the advantage, 7-5.
The Crimson allowed the Big Red to tie the game in the top of the sixth, 7-7, and gave up three runs in the seventh to fall in the first contest, 10-7.
Harvard will be back in action on Tuesday, April 9, when it hosts Boston University at 4 p.m. on Soldiers Field.


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Paragon titles; "Joseph" cast list
Tracy Shaffer, left, and Stephen Day
Paragon Theatre isn't entirely settled on where it might be next year (possibly right where it is now, at Crossroads Theatre, and then again, maybe not), but it it has announced its four titles for 2010 (dates also to be determined):
"Long Day's Journey Into Night"
By Eugene O'Neill, directed by Jarrad Holbrook
1957 masterpiece following a fateful 1912 day at the seaside Connecticut home of the Tyrones – the autobiographical representations of O'Neill, his brother and their parents.
Paragon is teaming with Buntport Theater, which is creating a new companion piece to go with Paragon's "Long Day's Journey." The two plays will complement each other, but can be seen in either order. Buntport's yet unnamed production will be performed Jan. 29-March 6, 2010.
"The Sound of a Voice"
By David Henry Hwang, directed by Warren Sherrill
A beautiful woman lives in an isolated house in the woods. When a samurai appears, she offers him food and shelter, and when he decides to stay, they become lovers. Told through metaphors of Japanese literature.
"The Real Thing"
By Tom Stoppard, directed by Wendy Franz
A couple seems troubled, but nothing one sees on the stage is real – and some things are less real than others.
By Tracy Shaffer, directed by Michael Stricker
An artist's life is shattered by the self-destructive model she hires. Yet in the chaos, she finds the truth of her creativity. Developed through Paragon's Trench new-play program.
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Arvada Center cast's "Joseph":
"Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat," Nov. 24-Dec. 27 at 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., 720-898-7200 or arvadacenter.org
Piper Arpan * Wife
Chelley Canales * Wife
Patric Case * Asher/ u-s Pharaoh
Rob Costigan * Napthali/ Baker
Stephen Day * Jacob/ Potiphar
Ben Dicke * Simeon/ Butler/ u-s Reuben
Zak Edwards * Issachar/ u-s Levi
Nick Henderson Zebulon
Kitty Skillman Hilsabeck * Wife/ Dance Captain
Jessica Hindsley Wife
Rikki James Judah
David B. Johnson * Joseph
Megan Koumis * Wife/ u-s Narrator
Jill Nacke * Wife
Mercedes Perez * Mrs. Potiphar
Sarah Rex * Narrator
Rob Reynolds * Levi
Matthew J. Schneider * Reuben
Michelle Sergeeff * Wife
Justin Stapp * Benjamin
Ryan Turner Gad
Aaron Umstead * Dan/ u-s Joseph
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I can't be entirely sure, but I think bike design just took a turn for the Gundam. For the Ridley Scott? For...?
I mean, look at those lines! Either Gundam and the Alien took hold of Edward Kim and Benny Cemoli when they came up with the INgSOC concept or there's some serious Akira fandom going on in that shop.
Practical? Who the fuck cares? This is one knee-shaking, loin-quaking two-wheeler we have on our hands here. It's a concept, sure, but in theory would be a combination pedal-power/electric hybrid that all but ditches the "diamond frame" design used by bike manufacturers for the past 100 years. That carbon fiber is integrated into the frame is no real surprise, right? Smartphone integration and safety lights are built in. Duh.
The bike exists on the computer screen for now, but the two designers are looking into a prototype build, courtesy Steven Mora and the Digital Fabrications Laboratory at the University of New Mexico. [Exquisite Thesis via Inhabitat via Gizmag]
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Alan Chartock: James Taylor or bust for Democrats
James Taylor is a hero. He is a thoughtful, decent guy. He's faced some tough devils in his life and conquered them. He understands a great deal about politics and has been known to sit in his driveway listening to public radio.
He has done some very impressive things. His appearance in "A Christmas Carol" at the Colonial a year ago was an extraordinary gift to our community, considering the fact that the guy can fill the largest stadiums.
When I decided to use this column to advance JT's candidacy for John Kerry's U.S. Senate seat in Massachusetts, I knew that the chances of his running were pretty slim, but I had my reasons.
I am convinced that unless the Democrats think outside the box, they may well lose this election. After all, Republican Scott Brown became a senator only because he ran in a special election where relatively few voters showed up, giving the Republicans a huge advantage. Republicans exercise the franchise in far greater numbers than Democrats do.
It stands to reason that the more money you have, the more likely it is that you will do what you must to protect what you have. Brown also won because, well, Republicans win in Massachusetts. People get sick of the political class and they vote for moderates like Bill Weld. We know that the Democrats often lose these elections because the party puts up career politicians.
From what I know of Ed Markey, he is a decent man who entered politics as a reformer, having been treated badly by the good old boys in the state Legislature. That got me thinking about non-career politicians who could catch the public imagination.
I thought of JT because while so many musicians have had one gold record after another and then disappear from the scene, James has had incredible staying power.
I thought of him because of the crowds that show up every year to see him at Tanglewood, causing traffic backups all the way to Springfield. I thought of him because so many of us have had tough times and he is a shining example of personal redemption.
Not for a second was I naïve enough to believe that Taylor would do it. After all, his organization is an industry and if he were to run for the Senate seat, a lot of people would be out of luck. He would have had to spend all his time sitting in an office or visiting fire houses and eating a lot of food he shouldn't be putting in his body.
He would have had to humor some people who are really nuts. But I do know Taylor to be the kind of man who truly believes in democracy.
I really didn't care that some people would pooh-pooh the idea.
On the off-chance that he actually decided to run, I knew that he could win. But in the end, kindness is a long suit to JT and so it was with my mouth open that I read Clarence Fanto's piece on JT playing at the Obama inauguration.
When Clarence got around to asking him about running for Senate, James could have just acted as if it was never a serious idea.
Instead, he said that he spent a week "very seriously considering" whether to seek the Democratic nomination for the soon-to-be-vacated Kerry seat. Then, said Taylor, who didn't have to, "It was a hugely generous, very gratifying thing that Alan suggested that I might be considered as a candidate." He added, "I did take it seriously for a while and then talked to friends about it, but ultimately I decided that I'm doing what I was meant to do."
Finally he said, "There is something to be said for the breath of fresh air to have a citizen serving in Congress."
What a genuinely nice, smart, giving human being. He is so special.
Alan Chartock, a Great Barrington resident, is president and CEO of WAMC Northeast Public Radio and a professor emeritus of communications at SUNY-Albany.
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UBS Completes the Sale of USD $15 Billion of U.S. Real Estate Related Assets to BlackRock
UBS has continued its commitment to Asian golf, announcing contract extensions for its two flagship tournaments that will take partnerships in key markets Hong Kong and Japan into 2009.
UBS announced today that it has closed on the sale of approximately USD $15 billion of primarily Subprime and Alt-A US residential mortgage-backed securities to a newly created distressed asset fund that will be managed by BlackRock, the global investment management firm.
Marcel Rohner, Group Chief Executive Officer of UBS said, "Risk reduction remains a critical part of our ongoing financial restructuring and this sale is a big step towards further reducing our positions in this asset class. We continue to manage our legacy risks in a flexible and creative way in the best interests of our shareholders."
Jerker Johansson, Chairman and CEO of UBS Investment Bank said, "BlackRock proved to be an ideal partner for this venture. Through BlackRock Solutions they were able to provide leading analytic, structuring and advisory services."
UBS sold positions with a nominal value of approximately USD $22 billion to the new fund for an aggregate sale price of approximately USD $15 billion. Based on UBS categorizations, the vast majority of the positions are Subprime and Alt-A in roughly equal parts and the remainder is Prime. The fund purchased the securities using approximately USD $3.75 billion in equity raised by BlackRock from investors and a multi-year collateralized term loan of approximately USD $11.25 billion provided by UBS.
The transaction has closed, and further terms were not disclosed.
The UBS Hong Kong Open, played annually in November, and the UBS Japan Golf Tour Championship, to be contested in early July, are considered among the finest tournaments in Asia Pacific golf. UBS has been supporting both events since 2005.
The agreements, which were due to conclude at the end of 2008, have been extended by an additional year and will bring continued sponsorship opportunities for brand, business and employee benefit.
Said Kathryn Shih, Head of Wealth Management, Asia Pacific: "Being one of the leading professional golf tournaments in Asia and one of the most important events in Hong Kong, the UBS Hong Kong Open has been an integral part of our business here for the last three years.
"The unique entertainment opportunities and the quality of the tournament have made it one of the 'must-attend' events in Hong Kong, which makes it an excellent tool to attract our very best clients and prospects as well as strengthen our brand.
"Overall, we entertained around 3,800 clients across the three years and generated HKD98 million, which is about USD13 million of media value, something that figures to only increase as we celebrate the tournament's 50th year in November," said Shih.
Added Susumu Omori, President of UBS Securities Japan Ltd: "For our business, success comes through building long-term commitments with local partners that share our values. For that reason, I am delighted that we have reached agreement to extend our partnership with the Japan Golf Tour.
"The UBS Japan Golf Tour Championship provides both outstanding opportunities to engage our clients in unique ways and also to expand our brand recognition. Just as importantly, it highlights our commitment to the Japan market, something that is further reinforced by the extension of this partnership," added Omori.
Oliver Bertschinger, Head of Sponsorship, UBS Asia Pacific, explained that, although contrary to its normal long-term sponsorship approach, the bank was seeking only one-year extensions.
"UBS has been reviewing our global sponsorship strategy since late 2007, with the aim of having a new strategy in place for 2009 onwards. Globally, all contract extensions due in 2008 are therefore limited to one year only.
"So, although one-year extensions are not our normal practice, within the current restrictions these extensions are clear testimony to the outstanding success of the UBS Hong Kong Open and the UBS Japan Golf Tour Championship for our business and brand in two of our most important Asia Pacific markets and, indeed, pan-regionally," said Bertschinger.
In Hong Kong, 2007 was a great success from all perspectives, from a record number of clients entertained, outstanding media value and television coverage, as well as record public attendance.
The event - the third oldest national Open in Asia - will celebrate its 50th year in November, a remarkable landmark for golf in this region and the backbone for plans for even greater spectacle in 2008 and beyond.
Meanwhile, in Japan, UBS's partnership with the Japan Golf Tour Organisation, custodians of the tournament, has delivered outstanding benefits in Japan's 'players championship'.
Record ratings last year on national free-to-air broadcaster NHK delivered the UBS brand to millions of viewers across Japan, coverage that only stands to grow in 2008 with the expected participation of young superstar Ryo Ishikawa, who has dramatically increased the already high interest in Japanese men's golf.


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BI projects require open mind, deft touch
Most organizations sit on a gold mine of business intelligence. Extracting it requires knowing how analytics projects differ from day-to-day IT work.
- Niel Nickolaisen, O.C. Tanner Co.
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If the myriad CIO surveys performed recently are to be believed, analytics projects are one of the CIO's top current priorities. I have found that one key to ensuring such business intelligence projects start and end well is remembering that analytics projects differ greatly from other types of IT projects. How are they different? Let me count the ways:
1. Analytics projects can be highly nuanced.
Other IT projects -- accounting or production planning, for example -- follow a fairly well-understood process. Analytics projects, on the other hand, reflect the way humans make decisions. And because humans make decisions in a nearly infinite number of ways, analytics projects often do not follow a prescribed path.
Instead of mapping business rules, transactions and workflows, analytics projects require that we stay in very close contact with our project stakeholders so the project can track to the meanderings of their human minds.
2. Analytics projects might evolve in unanticipated ways.
Both the nuanced nature of human decision making and our successful analytics projects argue for projects that are designed to evolve and adapt to change. This means that there likely is no such thing as a "Big Bang" analytics project. These projects work best when we use Agile methods and create and get feedback on rapid prototypes, plan multiple project iterations, and make frequent go/no-go decisions.
For example, one of our departments was adamant about the end state of an analytics project. They knew exactly what they needed, and they wanted it in one major release. When I talked with them about breaking the project into adaptable phases, they told me, "No need, we know how to make the decisions; we just need you to get us the data."
Not wanting to give in to a doing a Big Bang analytics project, I issued a challenge: Let's take an Agile approach to the project, then decide whether it worked. If the Agile approach was inferior, I would buy the project sponsor and her staff a lunch. With that gauntlet thrown down, the sponsor and I agreed on a first phase that supported what her team felt would be the most obvious benefit of the project.
For the next few weeks, as we worked on the first phase and the sponsor started playing with an early version of our product, she and her team recognized they were gaining insights into cause-effect relationships they had not anticipated. As we starting planning for the next phase, their requirements changed completely. No longer did they want to gather data about product returns. Instead, lack of inventory, or stockouts, became the driving factor for the next phase. When the project ended (successfully, I might add) the end state in no way resembled what the team had thought of originally. Rather, it had evolved along with their thinking and decision making.
3. Effective analytics projects incorporate external data.
IT projects typically focus on information that is inside the organization: accounts and amounts, items, inventories, sales orders, customer contacts. In order to lead effectively to improved decision making, however, analytics projects must gather information from outside the enterprise as well. Because we might not control or even know how to get to this data, our planning should include experiments and tasks to find it.
Suppose our analytics project is designed to improve decisions about our product lifecycle management. We can better manage these lifecycles if we have such internal information as sales transactions, inventory records, product-line goals, pricing and discount history, success criteria, and marketing campaign results. Internal information alone, however, might not lead to better lifecycle management. It also might be worthwhile to factor in external information: competitive products, product alternatives, product placement, macroeconomic data, weather, school calendars -- pretty much anything that might affect a product's potential success.
Once we understand which external information might improve our decision making, we can determine how critical and how available it is -- as well as how much we are willing to pay for it.
4. Analytics projects focus on cause-effect relationships.
Three underlying beliefs drive my approach to analytics projects. First, such projects should improve decision making demonstrably. Second, better decision making comes from establishing cause-effect relationships accurately. Third, establishing accurate cause-effect relationships is extremely difficult and fraught with risk.
Why "fraught with risk"? We often think that correlation is the same as cause. Having an excellent correlation does not mean that there is a cause-effect relationship.
More on analytics projects
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What is your predictive BI analytics IQ?
Business intelligence, analytics help CIO challenge collective wisdom
We can make business intelligence incredibly powerful if we establish cause. The foundation of improved decision making is establishing cause. But how do we do that? For starters, we can think through these (hopefully obvious) cause-effect relationships. But before we commit to these relationships, we should test our assumptions to see whether they exist. Will reducing call-center queue times increase sales? Try it and see. Will longer testing cycles improve product quality? Try them and see.
Analytics projects also require IT leadership that is both credible and consultative: credible about delivering phased, high-impact projects; credible about changing the role of IT to deliver business value through analytics; consultative about the power that quality analytics can unleash; consultative about taking a different approach to BI projects.
Niel Nickolaisen is CIO at Western Governors University in Salt Lake City. He is a frequent speaker, presenter and writer on IT's dual role enabling strategy and delivering operational excellence. Write to him at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Education is a vital part of society, and journals are an important way of disseminating information and best practises. A journal dedicated to astronomy education in Latin America is at the forefront of this effort. Aiming to reverse an apparent trend toward scientific illiteracy while enhancing debate within the science communication field, the Latin-American Journal of Astronomy Education is valuable reading material for many.
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Yes, I did a little thrifting on the mainland a few weeks back, and even brought home some treasures. My friend Carol showed me the NorthShore stops, and she sure knows how to pick them! Check out what she found here. I looove her antique lantern lamp… it was definitely a score!
But guess what? I found a pretty sweet lamp, too! If you're into Murano glass, then you'll see what I mean. I wrote about vintage Murano pieces here.
Anyway, let's take a look. And please ignore the missing shade!
Murano glass was popular into the 70's, but this lamp, I believe is circa 1950s, though I'm not totally sure. And from the colours in the glass, this may be a Sommerso piece – certainly has that flair!
Sommerso (lit. "submerged" in Italian), or "sunken glasses", is a form of artistic Murano glass that has layers of contrasting colors (typically two), which are formed by dipping the object in molten glass; the outermost layer, or casing, is often clear. Sommerso was developed in Murano during the late thirties and was made popular by Seguso d'Arte in the fifties. This process is a popular technique for vases, and is sometimes used for sculptures. [Source: Wikipedia]
The clear base is definitely cut glass – there are no seams.
And the base is actually one of the reasons I think this may be a 50s piece – the older pieces didn't usually have this kind of base…
The craftsmanship and quality of the glasswork is incredible.
Did you know Murano pieces are hand blown? Can you see the tiny air bubbles inside?
There is a beautiful layering of wear that comes with its age…
Tiny little surface scratches and rubs that add to its grace.
And the burnished brass of its ornate neck has a patina that only time can create.
I think this was a pretty great find.
And now I'm on the search for a shade. And I'm thinking a gold foil drum might work just fine. Vintage would be nice, but they're not easy to come by.
What do you think? What would you envision for the shade?
I'm pretty excited by this find. It's not every day a vintage piece like this comes along… and I just happen to love green!
Something to keep in mind about Murano pieces – they are one-of-a-kind pieces. They are not mass produced, and there are no two exactly alike. There may be similar pieces, as in a pair of lamps, but because they are hand blown, there will be slight variations. That's one of the reasons Murano pieces are so valuable. Sadly, there are a lot of knock-offs touting themselves as the real deal… [For more on Murano Glass, click here.]
Now I know I'm a little late to the party, but I'm taking my Murano find over to Junkin Joes Linky Party! You know the one, right?
Hosted by the fabulous Andrea from The Cottage Market!
Thank you for letting me party with you 🙂
And thank you for stopping by! I'm dying to hear what you think about this thrifty find.
Photography by Sheila Zeller


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Just updated to iOS 6 but getting the iTunes error "There is no SIM card installed in the iPhone you are attempting to activate"? Here's how to fix it.
This is a rather weird issue because you already have your SIM card inserted but iTunes is saying otherwise. What's even more weird is that you have an iPhone 3GS which is already factory unlocked but won't activate normally (or if you have an AT&T iPhone, and need to unlock it, click here).
If you have baseband 6.15.00 installed before, for whatever reason iTunes won't let you activate your iPhone on iOS 6. Apple may have quietly put a this restriction in place. In case you missed the news, you can now downgrade from iPad baseband 6.15.00 to 5.13.04.
Try the following fix:
1. Download redsn0w 0.9.14b2 that can downgrade iPad baseband to 5.13.04 for Windows or Mac. Download original firmware iOS 5.1.1 for iPhone 3GS from here.
2. Launch redsn0w. Go to Extras > Select IPSW button in redsn0w to point to the original firmware you just downloaded.
3. Do a controlled shutdown of your iPhone ("slide to power off").
4. Return to the first screen and click 'Jailbreak'. Check the 'Downgrade from iPad baseband' checkbox, uncheck Cydia and click Next.
5. Redsn0w will start doing the downgrade and you will see 'Flashing Baseband' screen on your iPhone with the Pawnapple icon. DO NOT INTERRUPT your iPhone while baseband flashing is in progress.
6. When done, your iPhone will reboot itself and the baseband should have been downgraded to 5.13.04. Try to connect to iTunes once more and see if it would activate.
If you don't have an official unlock, you may want to consider using this tutorial.
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A couple weeks ago, our account team decided to bust me away from my desk for lunch and we headed down to Smashburger in NKY.
One coworker swears by the sweet potato fries and they were tasty!
She also went for the Small Smash - which as you can tell is about half the size of a regular Smash.
While it was a couple of weeks ago that I went - I do remember I really liked everything. They were telling me that the regular Smash is a BIG burger and they were right. This was a big and tasty burger. The fried pickles were pretty good but a little under-done.
Why Should You Go? If you liked FatBurger - you'd probably like Smashburger. It's also similar to Five Guys...I did like the "unique" factor they throw at you with some of their toppings (avocado, multi-grain bun, buffalo sauce).


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it sounds dramatic (and embarrassingly cliche), but after not leaving the apartment for 5 days except to drive to the doc, it felt like i was seeing the sun for the first time. we drove to starbucks & i sat in the sun for all of 5 minutes before begging him to take me back. and a sip of that coffee made me want to puke.
all in all, probably overambitious. but robbie was so sweet to remind me what it feels like be a part of the real world...and to wear non-pajama clothing.


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It's been quite a week.
In this lead up to the UN climate conference in Doha which starts Monday, there was news almost every day about soaring CO2 emissions and the threat of catastrophic climate change.
On Monday, the World Bank issued an exceptional plea for governments not to give up on the fight against dangerous climate change. Its report "Turn Down the Heat: Why a 4°C Warmer World Must be Avoided", painted a dismal picture of what our world could turn into, during one lifetime, if current trends of atmospheric pollution continue. The world won't be a nice place to live.
The main reason the global climate is currently headed for 4°C of warming is because of coal burning. Massive expansion in the use of coal has caused more than two thirds of the increases in global CO2 emissions in recent years.
Coal use could get much worse. On Tuesday, the World Resources Institute revealed something staggering: the coal industry is planning a total of 1,200 new coal-fired power plants globally. If all of them are built, the CO2 emissions of these dirty power plants would equal US emissions. All those new coal plants would make it impossible to keep global warming below catastrophic thresholds.
Then Wednesday, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) confirmed that we're indeed slipping further away from where our emissions should be by 2020, if we are to stay below the dangerous level of 2°C of more warming or more.
In Doha, world governments are to continue the process they say might lead to a new climate pact by 2015. While that would help, the WRI report drives home a key point: the fate of the climate will be decided on the national and local level.
There is one simple conclusion: the majority of the proposed coal-fired power plants cannot go ahead.
Governments should be stopping them. If they don't, then by 2015, the new coal plants could lock in more than 2°C warming.
Stopping the coal industry's plan is not as daunting as it sounds.
Renewable energy is showing the way. The installation of renewable energy, mainly wind and solar, hit 31% of new power added to global electricity grids in 2011.
Tripling the installation of renewable energy from last year's level, plus much more energy efficiency, could push new coal out of the market.
Denmark is showing posturing governments the path. It is moving to a 100% renewable energy system and will reach its goal of 200 MW of solar this year, eight years ahead of schedule.
Resistance to coal is also picking up. In the US, local movements, with support from Greenpeace, Sierra Club and others, have already prevented or closed down hundreds of coal-fired power plants.
The same has happened in Germany, Poland and other European countries. No new coal plant proposals have started construction after 2007. Even China, the biggest coal user, says it will limit its coal expansion.
So those 1,200 coal plants now being planned: they can be stopped. It's not yet over for the climate.
Our neocon like fear mongering of climate crisis from Human CO2 MUST stop now!
Not one IPCC warning is NOT peppered in "maybes" so how co...
Our neocon like fear mongering of climate crisis from Human CO2 MUST stop now!
Not one IPCC warning is NOT peppered in "maybes" so how could we be "near the point of no return from unstoppable warming" as the saintly world of science says. Science gave us pesticides as well don't forget.
Find us one empirical science paper that isn't peppered in "could be" and "maybe" and "likely" and "potentially" etc. and find us an empirical science paper that says we "WILL" experience a CLIMATE CRISIS not just "might" experience a CLIMATE CRISIS. Just one!
When science says the worst crisis imaginable "WILL" happen, only then will the believers return.
*In all of the debates Obama hadn't planned to mention climate change once.
*Obama has not mentioned the crisis in the last two State of the Unions addresses.
*Occupywallstreet does not even mention CO2 in its list of demands because of the bank-funded carbon trading stock markets run by corporations.
*Julian Assange is of course a climate change denier.
*Canada killed Y2Kyoto with a freely elected climate change denying prime minister and nobody cared, especially the millions of scientists warning us of unstoppable warming (a comet hit).
Meanwhile, the entire world of SCIENCE, lazy copy and paste news editors and obedient journalists, had condemned our kids to the greenhouse gas ovens of an exaggerated "crisis" and had allowed bank-funded and corporate-run "CARBON TRADING STOCK MARKETS" to trump 3rd world fresh water relief, starvation rescue and 3rd world education for just over 26 years of insane attempts at climate CONTROL.
You remaining doomers wanted this misery to be real. Why?
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In Rachel Carson's day scientists were the enemy because if it wasn't for them poisoning our planet in the first place with chemicals, ...
In Rachel Carson's day scientists were the enemy because if it wasn't for them poisoning our planet in the first place with chemicals, stewardship wouldn't have gotten off the ground.
We must demand that science says a crisis "WILL" happen YES or NO, not maybe or could be or likely.......
We can't love a planet with fear. Shame on all of us for 26 years of needless CO2 panic. Who's the neocon again?
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Hi! The most important uncertainty in scientific projections of climate change is how our greenhouse gas emissions change, and that's the whole po...
Hi! The most important uncertainty in scientific projections of climate change is how our greenhouse gas emissions change, and that's the whole point. No one knows yet for sure if those coal plants are going to be built or if we go for clean&safe energy instead, so no one can say for sure whether the worst impacts of climate change will happen or not. However there is very high certainty that if we continue to burn coal and other dirty fuels, global warming will exceed 2oC before the end of the century. Whether a given amount of emissions causes 4 or 6 degrees of warming is a debate of great academic interest, but since both outcomes would be catastrophic for mankind, we certainly know enough to act now.
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CBS announces fall 2015 slate: "Supergirl" Mondays
CBS unveiled its 2015-16 primetime slate with seven new series joining 22 returning shows with "Supergirl," starring Colorado's Melissa Benoist, leading off Mondays in November. (Stand by for a "Gotham" vs. "Supergirl" showdown in the time period.)
"Person of Interest" is benched for until midseason; CBS abandons comedies on Monday nights for the first time in generations. A two-hour movie finale of "CSI" is set for Sept. 27.
CBS will premiere two comedies: "Angel From Hell," starring Jane Lynch as "a loud, colorful, often inappropriate woman who claims to be a guardian angel"; and "Life in Pieces," starring Dianne Wiest and James Brolin in a dysfunctional family's milestone moments. And three dramas, "Supergirl" based on the DC Comics character, the hospital drama "Code Black" and "Limitless," adapted from the film with Bradley Cooper (who is co-producing and will have a recurring role).
Stephen Colbert will bow on "The Late Show" on Sept. 8.
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Class IV prices for 2013 and 2014 are projected to surpass Class III estimates, largely on higher nonfat dry milk prices.
Along with the record corn crop expected this year, the U.S. also is projected to churn out its highest-ever milk production levels in both 2013 and 2014, based on today's World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report from USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service.
Milk output for next year is estimated at 204.9 billion pounds, up 400 million pounds from September's outlook and an increase of 3.2 billion pounds over 2013's expected production. USDA said producers are expected to increase cow herds in response to improving returns. Growth in milk per cow is also expected to be higher than 2013 as moderating feed costs and improved forage availability support feeding higher quality rations.
U.S. corn growers remain on track for a record-high 14.0 billion-bushel production year, USDA also projected.
USDA lowered its 2013 milk production forecast from September, reflecting slower growth in third-quarter production. It pegged 2013 U.S. milk output at 201.7 billion pounds.
Import forecasts are reduced for both 2013 and 2014 on lower expected milk protein concentrate imports. USDA raised exports for both 2013 and 2014 on stronger sales of fat-containing products and nonfat/skim milk powders.
Price forecasts for cheese, butter, and nonfat dry milk (NDM) are forecast higher on strong domestic and international demand. However, the price of whey is forecast lower, reflecting current prices. For 2014, higher dairy production is expected to pressure cheese, butter and whey prices, but anticipated strength in exports supports a higher NDM price forecast, USDA said.
Pressured by lower whey prices, the Class III milk price is reduced for 2013 to a projected range of $17.90-$18.00 per cwt. For 2014, Class III is forecast lower at $16.85-$17.75 per cwt. on a reduced price forecast for both whey and cheese.
The Class IV price forecast is raised for both years, largely on higher NDM prices, although higher butter prices in 2013 also provide support for the higher forecast. USDA foresees Class IV prices at $18.80-$19.00 for 2013, and at $18.60-$19.60 for 2014.
The All-Milk price is forecast at $19.80 to $19.90 per cwt. for 2013 and $19.30 to $20.20 per cwt. for 2014.
NASS revised the acreage planted to corn this season to 95.3 million acres, down 2% from the previous estimate. Despite the decrease, however, its production estimate remained high due to high forecasted yields. This season's yields are expected to average 160.4 bu. per acre, with corn growers in 18 states forecast to reach record yields this year.
The weather also remains good for harvest so far this year, allowing growers to harvest 73% of the corn crop by Nov. 3, which is 2 percentage points ahead of the 5-year average harvest rate.
NASS also reduced the planted area for soybeans to 76.5 million acres, down 1% from the previous forecast. Just as with corn, however, favorable weather conditions account for higher pod counts compared with the 2012 yield. Soybean yields are expected to average 43.0 bushels per acre, with the final production forecast at 3.26 billion bushels. If realized, this will be the third largest production year on record.
U.S. cotton growers are forecast to produce 13.1 million 480-pound bales this year. This forecast is an increase of 2% from the September report, but is down 24% from last year's production. Cotton yield is expected to average 808 pounds per harvested acre, up 79 pounds from 2012.
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text: Santana Outdoors Report post Posted September 10, 2013 Application deadline for Arizona Game and Fish Commission is Sept. 20 Sept. 9, 2013 The Governor's Office is currently accepting applications for the Arizona Game and Fish Commission. Applications must be received or postmarked no later than 5 p.m. Friday, Sept. 20, 2013. Applications received or postmarked after the deadline will not be considered.Governor Jan Brewer is seeking members who are well-informed and passionate about Arizona wildlife and its long-term conservation.In accordance with Arizona law, no more than three commissioners can be from any one political party and no more than one commissioner can be from any one county. Current commissioners include two Republicans, one Democrat and one Independent, and they are from Coconino, Maricopa, Navajo and Pima counties. Therefore, applicants for this Commission vacancy can be from any political party but only from the following counties: Apache, Cochise, Gila, Graham, Greenlee, La Paz, Mohave, Pinal, Santa Cruz, Yavapai and Yuma.Interested individuals may apply online at http://azgovernor.gov/bc/Application.asp or find more information about the Arizona Game and Fish Commission and its mission at www.azgfd.gov/commission.Individuals also may contact the Governor's Office of Boards and Commissions at (602) 542-2449, or toll free at (800) 253-0883. The post Application deadline for Arizona Game and Fish Commission is Sept. 20 appeared first on Santana Outdoors Blog. View the full article Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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Hellboy Showed his Mortal Side
All of us in the Rays Republic knew this day would rear its ugly head. That we would have to admit to ourselves that sometimes the most golden of arms can have their tarnished and iron pyrite moments. That somehow reality would thrust itself into our belief system that Tampa Bay Rays starter Jeremy Hellickson was in fact a mire mortal.
Maybe it was that unrealistic pinning of the name "Hellboy" that gave us all the Superhero image and hope of an immortal hurling the rock every 5 days. Since the Rays disposed of the word "devil" back in November, 2007, we have all collectively awaited the appearance of a sorcerer on the hill that possessed evil, mean and nasty breaking stuff and held his pitch execution as the weapon of his opponents demise. Maybe the nickname just helps his establish and embellish the tales and legend a bit, making him seem invincible, even in the Spring.
On Saturday, we found out this unique player we have hoisted skyward as an equalizer is human after all. In possibly his worst outing as a professional, Hellboy showed the Rays Republic that he can be hurt. That sometimes the executioner's axe can fall either way. It was a bit painful to visualize as Hellickson endured his vanquish and suffering solo on the mound somehow surrendering hit after hit that transformed into an insurmountable mountain of runs until finally Rays Manager Joe Maddon possibly saw the fire finally extinguished in Hellboy's eyes.
Hellboy faced 22 Twins sluggers and surrendered 11 hits and 10 runs and was removed after facing 3 hitters in the fourth inning. Hellickson basically gave up hits to 50% of the Minnesota Twins line-up and offered up 2 Home Runs to Minnesota Twins DH Justin Morneau. Hellboy today met the arch-rival who could somehow steal his thunder and produced his own. Morneau was the most prolific Hellboy assassin producing a perfect 2-for-2 day with 5 RBI. All this from a hitter that has posted a .154 average this Spring.
Suddenly the magic that Hellboy conjured up with 2 strikes on his adversaries was hindered and missing. Breaking pitches that used to drop magically into the strike zone missed while his blazing fastball seemed mire 10ths of an inch away from their desired locations. Even with his execution flawed on this day, Hellboy only gave away 2 free passes (walks).
People forget that MLB pitchers have bad days, that even with the Sun bright and the temperatures optimal for success, sometimes the magic is not there and loss is on the horizon. In 30 starts during a season, you have to realistically expect turmoil and troublesome outings that defy the usual and showcase flaws, faults and possibly adjustments.
On Saturday Hellboy just reminded all of us he is a developing pitcher, not a defined and machine yet on the mound. Maybe this all happening is a good thing? Hellickson's next start could be against the Pirates or Phillies, but beyond that on the horizon might be a rematch with these Twins and a possible shot at redemption on April 3rd in the Rays Grapefruit finale. Common sense rules that Hellickson will not pitch in that final game, but wouldn't be a great confidence building moment if he came out and tossed some scoreless frames against the same squad that brought him back down to Earth.
Who knows if 2 Springs from now this might be the defining moment of Hellicksons emergence into the MLB top ranks, the low point that propels him upward and onwards. Be honest here with yourself for a moment, during the sophomore seasons of David Price and James Shields, we expected the same magic and brilliance that made us put them on that tall pedestal and think of them in immortal terms after their own rookie campaigns. Maybe this short fall from grace was a good thing.
Hellboy will be fine. Even though he now boasts a horrible 15.30 ERA this Spring, there are positive things to take from this outing to work on, break down and make into a learning experience. This outing should not worry us at all, sure we saw a cog in our pitching machine strip a gear today,but there are positives that will evolve out of this. Hellboy will not lose his rotation slot because of this, he will get a better understanding of his faults and flaws in his craft way in advance of the first series in April.
This outing also prepared all of us for the reality that Hellboy is a developing pitcher who still has kinks and flaws to his game. It also showed us that his immortal and unrealistic expectations were vivid in our collective minds, that his nickname associated with an imaginary Superhero might indeed come with a cost. But most of all through his day of human frailty we saw that Hellboy is adamently determined and prepared for whatever his arch enemies do to him. You can be sure he has always washed this outing from his skin and is already preparing for his next start, possibly showing us why we gave his that immortal status in the first place.


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I, like many scrapbookers and card makers, have tried many adhesives. And when I say "many", I mean I could probably put Humpty Dumpty back together again several times over. I have a serious aversion to glue sticks. That stuff on my fingers, to me, is like nails on a blackboard for some. Double sided tape is enough to drive me insane with the little static-y wax paper pieces every where. Liquid glue, you say? Fahgeddaboudit!!!
Into my life, walks the Scotch ATG 714 gun. A few of my friends online have purchased it and I always thought, "Do I want to get tendinitis from scrapbooking? Look at the sheer size of that thing!" So, I put off buying it and continued to buy all the other adhesives on the market. Until now...
Construction and durability: The size is the first thing my friends notice when they see it. Yes, it is big. Not something to be "tucked away" in your tool bag. I justify the size of it with the reasoning that I won't need to bring extra rolls of tape to a crop and that I need never touch a glue stick again…well, almost never. It's light weight and easy to load. The trigger system keeps tension on the tape so you only need release the trigger and pull to rip the tape. It seems very well built without a lot of bits and pieces that could break.
Ease of use: There was a bit of a learning curve on the application of the tape. I'm a lefty so I had the tendency to lean the gun side ways a bit. This was causing the tape to lift as I was applying it. I'm a smart cookie. I figured it out. I sometimes go back to my Snail adhesive from Stampin' Up! for smaller details as the ATG adhesive transfer tape is a little thicker and is harder to apply in a tight spot.
Cost effectiveness: I bought my ATG 714 gun which takes the ¼" adhesive transfer tape. There is another option. You can also purchase the ATG 700 gun which can be used with a ½"and a ¾"adhesive transfer tape. There is a nifty adapter that can be bought separately for using the ¼" tape with it. I didn't go this route because I rarely ever use ½" or ¾" tapes so I couldn't justify the expense of buying all that tape. The ¼" roll of tape has 36 yards on it so it lasts for a really long time (There is also a roll available which is 72 yards long). The tape needs to be purchased separately and the site that I bought mine from only sold it by the dozen. This is another reason I didn't go with the multi-sized tape ATG gun. I'd like to be able to send my kids to college one day. LOL!
What I like:
-Allows me to apply tape without having to fiddle with little strips of paper and scissors.
-The tape is very effective and sticky.
-In the long run, it'll save me money on buying all kinds of adhesives.
-It's easy to load.
-It makes my friends jealous that I have one and they don't. ;)
What I don't like:
- The size is a bit cumbersome.
- The price is a bit steep for the gun and it would've been nice to have a couple of rolls of tape to come with it.
- I can only find the tape online but that's normal as I live in the Great White North of Canada.
- Now that I'm writing this article, I'm thinkin' maybe I should've went with the ATG 700 with the multiple tape options…sigh.
- As I got to the end of a roll, it gets harder to apply the tape.
What I made with it:
Materials used: Stampin' Up! stamps- Wagon Full of Fun, Wild About You Punches, Mots Chaleureux, Simple Serif Alphabet, All in the Family, Family Wheel- boho blossoms, round tab, window punch Ribbon- purely pomegranate polka dot satin, purely pomegranate double stitch Accessories- jumbo eyelets, flower and filigree brads, Signo white pen, blender pen, flower fusion II felt flowers, and my awesome sewing machine that my Ma gave me. All in and paper is from SU! What can I say? I'm a demo!
Normally, when I make an album that is going to manipulated a lot, I'd use Sticky Strip which is a super-sticky double faced adhesive. Instead, I used the ATG gun and it held great!
I also made these wedding invites for a friend of mine who is getting married this summer. There are 55 of the large invites, 40 of the "mini" invites (for people who will only be coming to the party after the reception), 100 place markers, 15 table markers, and 100 pillow box favors. Believe it or not, to assemble all of these (some of them aren't completed yet...why aren't there 27 hours in a day?) it will only take about 3 rolls of the ATG 1/4" tape. HOLY ADHESIVE SAVINGS, BATMAN!
Supplies used: Paper- SU! whisper white, rose red, pumpkin pie, summer sun cardstocks. Ribbon- SU! satin organza. Eyelets- SU! jumbo pewter eyelets. Punches- SU! 1 1/4" circle and 1 3/8" circle. Sizzix Big Shot Die Cut Machine with Daisies #2 Bigz die. Doodling- black marker of unknown origin.
Where and How Much:
Product Name: Scotch Brand ATG 714
Available at: scrapbook.com, overstock.com and *cropandstick.com
What the team thinks:
Noel: I have an ATG, and love it. I love that the adhesive sticks well to chipboard,my mono adhesive never seems to do the chipboard thing very well. It's much easier to use than it looks... it can be pretty intimidating opening up that package. I ordered my gun, and can get refills fromhttp://framingsupplies.com/3M/3MATGTape.htm. Their shipping is pretty fast, and their prices were great for refills too. It's not the prettiest website ever, but it is well priced. Oh, a side tip... don't forget to put the black "cap" on the side where the empty tape goes. The tape won't stay on right... so if you're noticing a problem check that cap thing. (I know this from personal experience! lol)
Anne: I have it and LOVE it!!! I don't know what I did before I got one of those babies! I love how wide the tape is, how PERMANENT the "permanent" is and I love that I can reload it and forget about it for a while. I also think the cost of refills is very reasonable. I do find that sometimes the "used" tape doesn't roll back onto the "empty" side and it gets kind of jammed. Still very worth it though!
What do you think? Do you have an ATG gun? If yes, do you have one abnormally large bicep because of it? If not, did the sheer size prohibit you? Let me know what's up, homeslice.
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Dongi Yang
TRAINING: I've been working a lot on my cardio and striking. I'm a strong wrestler, so I want to sharpen all my weapons to be a strong fighter.
Thoughts on opponent, Jake Collier? He seems like a tough opponent.
When and why did you start training for fighting? I started training MMA in 2007. I had been wanting to try MMA for a while, so when I finished my mandatory military service, the first thing I did the day I got out was to go and sign up at Korean Top Team and start training.
What ranks and titles have you held? WXF Heavyweight Tournament Champion, Yong Moo Do Heavyweight Champion.
Do you have any heroes? Mike Tyson. When I was younger he was the greatest.
What does it mean for you to fight in the UFC? The UFC is the center of the MMA universe right now, so obviously, I'm really happy to have the opportunity to be here. I plan to make the most of it! I've always said that I wanted to be a world champion, and the UFC is the best organization in the world, so this is the place to do it.
Did you go to college and if so what degree did you earn? Yes. I majored in East Asian Martial Arts.
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