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KATRINA: The Failures of Success
The backstory: Barriers and hubris, piled ever higher.
By Craig E. Colten
Standing on St. Claude Avenue in New Orleans' Bywater neighborhood, a completely familiar place, on September 5, 2005, produced an utterly foreign experience. The levees that New Orleans relied on had failed on August 29, and the city swarmed with recently arrived National Guard units and Coast Guard choppers churning through the muggy air overhead. The city that care forgot had just become the object of global caring.
Even though much of New Orleans (including the Bywater) is a bit decrepit, I had never seen the city in such disarray. Street lights and fallen oak trees littered the median and every car along the curb had a window broken out and its trunk popped. Abandoned city buses, parked at odd angles, mocked the failed evacuation effort. Two empty schools had all their windows thrown open to permit ventilation for the evacuees who had huddled there in the dark during the perilous days before we arrived. Toward Lake Pontchartrain, water stood up to a meter deep in the streets. Facing south toward the Mississippi River, the streets were largely dry.
St. Claude Avenue and the Bywater had endured high winds and rising water as Hurricane Katrina pounded ashore the preceding Monday, but its residents…
A blow by blow account.
By John Mcquaid
In mid-August 2005, a small tropical disturbance (a migratory cluster of powerful thunderstorms) formed over the Atlantic Ocean east of the Lesser Antilles. At the start, there was nothing much to distinguish it from three other such disturbances then hovering over the south Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico. Even after it strengthened over the Bahamas and was christened Hurricane Katrina, it remained an unremarkable storm, a Category 1 on the Saffir-Simpson hurricane scale, with sustained winds of only 129 kilometers per hour (kph). Katrina struck the Florida coast between Miami and Fort Lauderdale on Thursday, August 25, causing 11 deaths but relatively minor damage.
But after traversing the Florida peninsula and entering the Gulf, Hurricane Katrina underwent a startling transformation. Over land, the storm had weakened to tropical storm strength. But Katrina soon moved over the Gulf loop current, a flow of warm water that acts as a heating element for hurricanes. In the space of a few hours on August 26, Katrina bulked up into a Category 3 hurricane. By Saturday, it had grown into a giant Category 5 storm, with top winds a furious 269 kph. Its clouds covered most of the Gulf of Mexico.
Hurricane Katrina was poised to become one of the biggest natural disasters, and the single costliest one, in American history—and to deliver…
It takes more than guns and bombs.
By Michael Renner, with Zoë Chafe
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, a joke circulated to the effect that had the people of New Orleans wanted the federal government to come to their rescue right away, they should have blamed the storm on Al Qaeda.
Sometimes it takes sarcasm to make a point. An administration that has masterfully exploited post-9/11 security fears to justify many of its actions proved itself downright uninterested in undertaking adequate measures to protect the Gulf coast population against the very real threat posed by Hurricane Katrina.
In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, the Bush administration embraced a muscular security policy with relish—as manifested in its invasion of Iraq and sharply escalating military expenditures. But the administration resolutely turned its back on a broader understanding of security that has slowly gained currency in academic and policymaking circles. It has become quite clear that in many circumstances weapons are simply inappropriate tools. They possess awesome destructive power, but can do little or nothing to protect us from environmental breakdown, rising competition for resources, a resurgence of infectious diseases, growing wealth disparities, and demographic pressures—non-military threats that may be every bit as lethal as the actions of a determined enemy.
Several factors, including ecosystem destruction, population growth, and the economic marginalization of poor people, have in combination set the stage for…
Grave enough, but next time might be worse.
By Julian Cheatle
The Patriot Act of 2001 contains the U.S. government's most recent definition of critical infrastructure: "Systems and assets, whether physical or virtual, so vital to the United States that the incapacity or destruction of such systems and assets would have a debilitating impact on security, national economic security, national public health or safety, or any combination of those matters."
By this measure, New Orleans and nearby areas along the Gulf coast easily qualify as locations of critical infrastructure—a fact reflected in the toll of damage done by Hurricane Katrina in August 2005, estimated at nearly $100 billion by the U.S. government and even more by others. That is a substantial amount of damage, roughly equal to the GDP of New Zealand or the combined GDPs of the 69 poorest countries in the world. Adding to this toll were the economic costs incurred indirectly from lost oil production in the Gulf of Mexico, and trade and consumption losses from the complete or partial closures of seven major ports on the coast.
In New Orleans, situated strategically at the junction of one of the world's major inland waterways, the Mississippi River, and the international shipping lanes of the Gulf of Mexico, the environment has long been right for…
Climate change is raising sea levels, and the stakes, for all coastal cities.
By John Young
New Orleans is a sort of American Venice, built on a watery site ideal for commerce and surrounded by a
huge delta assembled over millennia by the Mississippi River. Levees intended to contain the river's floods have coincidentally eliminated the annual silt deposits; as a result, along with the effects of oil and gas extraction, the area is subsiding. In New Orleans the problem has been compounded by groundwater use and the immediate pumping of rainwater after storms. Without rainwater's slow percolation into the soil, aquifers are never recharged, and the land compacts still further, especially under heavy structures.
The coastal parishes of Louisiana are sinking, on average, about 11 millimeters each year. At the same time, global sea level has been slowly rising over the last century, at 1.0–2.5 millimeters per year. The two trends have consigned half a million hectares of South Louisiana to the sea since 1932; the ongoing rate is about one and a half football fields every hour. Much of the lost land was coastal wetlands, which historically protected New Orleans by slowing and soaking up storm surges (the sudden rises in sea level that occur as hurricanes come ashore). The remaining wetlands are increasingly fragile, fragmented by canals built for navigation and access to the area's oil and gas.
All these factors make New Orleans particularly vulnerable to hurricanes, but within a few decades many more lowlying coastal areas around the world may…
Let the city go; we need a working Mississippi River delta more.
By George M. Woodwell
Katrina thundered into New Orleans on energy accumulated from a superheated Gulf of Mexico. The superheating was no surprise. It has been building for the last century as we have accelerated the accumulation of heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere and steadily watched and measured the consequences. The process continues as we compete to burn the last of the easily accessible oil in the world, struggle to find the least obnoxious ways of burning massive quantities of coal, and transform the last of the primary forest into agricultural land or to other purposes, releasing at each step more heat-trapping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
Meanwhile, the polar regions have warmed differentially, glaciers have melted and contributed to a rise in sea level, and storms have grown in size and strength as energy has accumulated in the atmosphere. As though conspiring to flood New Orleans, we have pumped water and oil out from under the Mississippi Delta, and New Orleans has sunk. To protect New Orleans and other lowlands along the Mississippi River, we have built extensive dikes to keep the water that drains from half a continent in ever-narrower channels. The dikes confine the flow, and the level of the river rises further above the city in times of flood. Safety requires still higher dikes. The once-extensive marshes of the Delta that served as a buffer against storm surges and floodwater have been cut again and again for access to oil, and have eroded away. These and other changes have made…
New Orleans embodies qualities America can't afford to lose.
By Andrei Codrescu
The world's greatest cities shouldn't exist. Venice has been sinking for centuries. San Francisco straddles the San Andreas fault. New York is an irresistible multicultural target for haters of diversity and tolerance. Paris and Prague can be transformed into piles of cobblestones and barricades by revolutionary mobs. New Orleans is a bowl set amid barely contained waters in a fetid swamp.
One can make a rational argument against cities, to arrive in the end at the ultimate rational argument: cities shouldn't exist. From inadvisable geography to undesirable sociology, from the vicissitudes of nature to the ill-will of men, large concentrations of buildings and people do not make rational sense. The only sense that cities used to make was economic, but since the decentralization of economies by communication technology, even that argument no longer holds.
And yet, we love cities like Venice and New Orleans precisely for all the reasons they shouldn't exist. In fact, the more reasons we can make against their existence, the more we love them. Love diminishes in direct proportion to their reasonableness, so that perfectly unreasonable cities like New Orleans are considerably more lovable than safe cities that lie sprawling with all their strip malls showing on rock-solid plains made of dense comforts such as good schools, easy insurance, tamed rivers, and clean air. The majority of our citizens…
Author Kim Stanley Robinson muses about truth, fiction, and climate change.
Interview With Erik Assadourian
Science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson, author of the Mars trilogy and The Years of Rice and Salt, is in the midst of writing a three-part series of novels about the near future—a time in which abrupt climate change has arrived, and the ocean current that regulates temperatures in eastern North America and Western Europe has started to break down. Forty Signs of Rain and Fifty Degrees Below, the first two novels in the trilogy, have already appeared; the third is expected to be released this fall.
Unlike the sensationalist film The Day After Tomorrow, in which the Earth's climate changes radically within a few weeks, Robinson's story more plausibly unfolds over several years. It follows the lives of several "foot soldiers" in the ensuing battle to adapt to a changing world: a scientist at the National Science Foundation, a staff person for a U.S. senator, and a group of Tibetans who have founded a new nation on a low-lying island off the coast of India. These characters work together to create a political environment supportive of making the dramatic changes necessary to prevent…
Poor and black = low, wet, and maybe dead.
By Eric Mann
The night before Hurricane Katrina struck, New Orleans was a city of almost 500,000 people, two thirds of whom were African-American (black). It was typical of many U.S. urban centers today, after years of government-is-the-problem governance: its schools and social services were falling apart. More than 142,000 people were living in poverty, of whom 84 percent were black, and most of whom still labored from sunup to sundown without making a living wage. Many blacks were unemployed; more than 13 percent officially, and a far higher share if one counted those permanently "discouraged." (The national average was 4.9 percent in August 2005, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics). In New Orleans, "poor" and "black" were virtually synonymous.
For those who worked and who could not find work alike, there was the constant threat of incarceration, often for the most minor of infractions. Louisiana is the prison capital of the United States, with the highest state per-capita incarceration rates: 173,000 people locked up out of a population of 4.5 million people. Blacks account for 32 percent of Louisiana's population but 75 percent of the prisoners.
The most flood-vulnerable area of the city, the Lower 9th Ward, was 98 percent black. Other neighborhoods below sea level included Eastern Orleans (over 80 percent black), and the lowlands of Mid-City, Bywater, and Gentilly, all with high percentages of…
Oil and water, not mixing: fossil fuel addictions spread high-seas trouble.
By Mike Tidwell
When the malevolent waters of Hurricane Katrina destroyed most of New Orleans, Americans across the country began asking two basic questions. How in the world did this disaster happen? And, Can the same thing happen where I live? Surprisingly, in all the coverage since the storm, the media have answered the first question largely incorrectly and the second question not at all.
The main reason Katrina became a mega-disaster was not because of flawed hurricane levees and poor evacuation plans. These were just symptoms of a larger disease. Katrina destroyed New Orleans because, over the past 100 years, the Gulf of Mexico moved about one meter higher in relation to the city. The land itself, thanks to human activities, sank about two-thirds of a meter in relation to the Gulf while the Gulf waters rose— again because of human actions—about 30 centimeters.
That one-meter rise over the last 100 years wiped out a staggering 400,000 hectares of coastal wetlands and barrier islands between New Orleans and the Gulf. A land mass larger than Rhode Island simply turned to water. The result, by August 29, 2005, was to create a watery flight path for Katrina to slam into New Orleans, like a plane into the World Trade Center. The old landforms that had traditionally slowed down the surge tides of past hurricanes in Louisiana—the marsh grasses, the coastal islands—were almost all gone. Without them, only a fantastic…


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Jay Koenigsberg needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 164 designs submitted by 67 freelance designers.
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A winner was selected from 3 designs submitted by 2 freelance designers.
Looking for various renderings of the building. Will gladly e-mail you the complete details and pictures.
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Brick walls, white inside, vines growing on outer walls.
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Modern yet basic, clean
Hi there and thanks a lot for taking a look at my contest!
What I am looking for are various illustrations to show our future assembly plant that we are planning. I have prepared a word document describing what it will look like, but you can really use your imagination as to how you would like it to appear.
Please e-mail both me (firstname.lastname@example.com) and Ben (email@example.com) and we will send you the word document as soon as possible. We both will be traveling a little bit during the holidays, but will try to be as responsive as possible with providing the word doc and any questions.
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BILLUND, Denmark — Brent Waller spent his childhood crafting plastic-brick versions of characters from TV shows and movies like "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" and "Batman." At age 35, the Australian Lego fan has gotten so good at playing with the toys that the company will start selling his models.
BILLUND, Denmark — Brent Waller spent his childhood crafting plastic-brick versions of characters from TV shows and movies like "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" and "Batman." At age 35, the Australian Lego fan has gotten so good at playing with the toys that the company will start selling his models.
Waller's creation — which includes a miniature of the Cadillac ambulance from "Ghostbusters," the 1984 comedy starring Bill Murray — will hit shelves in June and sell for $49.99 in the United States. His set is one of six to come from a Lego crowdsourcing website where consumers can propose designs.
"It's any Lego fan's dream to have an official set they created," said Waller, a video game developer in Brisbane. "It's literally a childhood dream come true."
With the help of Internet and social media, crowdsourcing is helping companies from McDonald's to Samsung Electronics boost innovation by tapping the knowledge and experience of customers to create new products. Lego, the world's second-biggest toymaker, has run its initiative since 2008 with help from a Japanese crowdsourcing website called Cuusoo System.
"Both children and adults these days are getting used to being, and expecting to be, more involved," Chief Marketing Officer Mads Nipper said in a toy-stuffed meeting room at Lego's headquarters in Billund. Lego Cuusoo — roughly "my Lego wish" in Japanese — is for finding ideas the company's 180 designers might not have come up with on their own.
Lego last month announced its full-year sales gained 10 percent to $4.7 billion, outpacing U.S. rivals Mattel and Hasbro. In 2012, the Danish company had 6.3 percent of the global toy and game market and 63 percent of the market for construction toys, researcher Euromonitor International estimates.
"They will continue to grow, whether or not it will be at the same double-digit growth we have seen is up for debate, but they are well positioned to do very well," said Robert Porter, an analyst with Euromonitor in London. The recent acquisition of Mega Brands by Mattel suggests that competition may intensify for construction toys, he said.
Any Lego Cuusoo project that gets more than 10,000 votes is evaluated by designers, marketing specialists and business executives to ensure it meets requirements like playability, safety and fit with the Lego brand.
Users need to be 18 to submit a project and 13 to cast a vote on the website. Lego reviews projects three times a year, with the next session planned for May. So far this round, a plastic-brick bird, an Apple store, and a train inspired by the writer Jules Verne have topped the 10,000-vote mark.
Popular submissions from earlier rounds that didn't make it to stores include a set inspired by My Little Pony — a brand owned by Hasbro — and a project based on zombie comedy "Shaun of the Dead," which was deemed inappropriate for Lego's 6- to-11-year-old target audience.
Successful entries include a miniature version of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Mars rover Curiosity for $29.99, created by a NASA engineer who worked on the actual vehicle. A set based on the Minecraft video game got 10,000 votes in just 48 hours. Lego has followed up the first Minecraft set with two more and is working on others. The initial set sells for $34.99 in Lego's online store, where purchases are limited to two per order due to what the site calls "overwhelming demand."
"What makes an epic Lego Cuusoo product is when you take Lego and pair it with some other kind of community or some very strong idea," said Peter Espersen, who oversees the company's efforts to work with consumers on new designs.
Lego Cuusoo got off to a slow start as it was available only in Japan for the first three years and few people were familiar with the idea of crowdsourcing, Espersen said.
When Minecraft took off, he said, "it told us, oh my goodness; there is something here, something exciting."
Waller, who grew up in a small town an hour's drive west of Brisbane, submitted designs for houses, robots and Batman's Batmobile before succeeding with his "Ghostbusters" idea. The set, produced by Lego under license from Sony Pictures, will coincide with the movie's 30th anniversary.
"As a child I didn't really have any action figures or anything like that," he said. "So I would recreate whatever TV show or movie I was into at the time in Lego form."
While fans have given mixed reviews to some previous crowdsourced sets, like the DeLorean sportscar-cum-time machine from the movie "Back to the Future," the upcoming "Ghostbusters" creation has gotten good reviews from fellow Lego fans online.
The DeLorean "was horrible I never bothered with it," user Shaun O'Brien wrote on Facebook on Feb. 16. The "Ghostbusters" set, by contrast, "I will get for sure. Might even get 2 and make a bit bigger."
Fans whose models are used by Lego receive 1 percent of net revenue. While the company doesn't disclose sales for individual sets, Espersen said he is "fairly optimistic" about Waller's "Ghostbusters" set.
The set's sales might not matter much, according to Porter. Crowdsourcing initiatives help companies better engage with consumers and keep loyal fans coming back, regardless of how much they actually boost revenue, he said.
"Even if ideas don't take off," Porter said, "it's still very good for marketing, PR and building consumer engagement."


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Related Video: Carpal Tunnel Release
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Carpal tunnel syndrome is a nerve disorder of the hand. It is caused by compression of the median nerve. The median nerve gets squeezed inside a narrow passage in the wrist called the carpal tunnel. This nerve provides feeling to the thumb, index and middle fingers, and half the ring finger.
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Carpal tunnel syndrome is created by pressure on the median nerve. This pressure is caused by the carpal tunnel becoming narrower. The narrowing can be caused by many factors, including:
- Swelling of tissue in the carpal tunnel due to injury or fluid changes in your body
- Hereditary narrow carpal tunnel
- Tumors (rare)
Risk Factors
Women and older adults are at greater risk for carpal tunnel syndrome.
Factors that may increase your risk of carpal tunnel syndrome include:
- Obesity
- Excessive alcohol consumption
- Smoking
Activities with repetitive hand motions:
- Certain sports
- Sewing
- Playing musical instruments
- Typing
- Assembly tasks
Water retention from:
- Heart failure
- Kidney problems
Wrist injury:
- Burns
- Broken bones
- Compression or crush injuries
- Arthritis
- Diabetes
- Raynaud disease and phenomenon , which impairs blood flow in the hands
Hormone-related conditions, which may include:
- Pregnancy
- Breastfeeding
- Menopause
- Hypothyroidism
- Cushing disease
- Excess growth hormone
Medications, which may include:
- Birth control pills
- Cortisone pills or shots
- Some high blood pressure medications
Carpal tunnel syndrome causes symptoms in one or both hands or wrists. Symptoms may include:
- Tingling, burning, or numbness, especially in your thumb and index or middle fingers
Pain or numbness that worsens with:
- Wrist, hand, or finger movement
- Sleep—symptoms may wake you
Hand stiffness or cramping that gets better after:
- Shaking your hand
- Waking up in the morning
Weakness or clumsiness of your hand:
- Loss of grip strength
- Difficulty making a fist
- Frequently dropping things
- Pain that moves up your arm
You will be asked about your symptoms and medical history. A physical exam of your arms, wrists, and hands will be done. The exam will include tests of strength, sensation, and signs of nerve irritation or damage.
Other tests may include:
- Electrodiagnostic exam —Measures and records the speed of electrical conduction in your median nerve to see if the nerve impulse in the hand is delayed
- MRI scan —A test that uses magnetic waves to make pictures of structures inside your body, in this case the neck
- X-ray —A test that uses radiation to take a picture of structures inside your body, especially bones
- Ultrasound—A test that uses sound waves to measure the width of your median nerve (may be used as a screening test or to guide injections)
It is important to correct whatever is causing the carpal tunnel syndrome. Sometimes making simple changes in the workplace or home may help relieve symptoms.
Treatment may also include:
Rest, Ice, Elevation, and Exercises
- Rest your wrist by keeping it straight and decreasing activities that worsen pain.
- Gently apply ice packs to the area.
- Elevate the hand above your heart to reduce swelling.
- Do exercises as directed by a healthcare provider.
A Wrist Splint
A splint will prevent extreme movements of the wrist. It is most effective when worn at night. It can help avoid waking up at night with symptoms.
The doctor may advise:
- Over-the-counter pain relievers such as aspirin and ibuprofen
- Injection of cortisone into the carpal tunnel
Surgery may be needed if symptoms are severe, or continue after trying other treatments. The most common procedure is the carpal tunnel release .
You may reduce your chances of getting carpal tunnel syndrome by:
- Minimizing repetitive hand movements when possible.
- Alternating between activities or tasks to reduce the strain on your body.
- Keeping your wrists straight when you are using them. Let your arms and shoulders share the stress.
- Using your whole hand or both hands to pick up an item.
- Avoiding holding an object the same way for a long time.
Following ergonomic practices in an office. Adjust your desk, chair, and keyboard so you are in the best possible position:
- Back straight
- Feet flat on the floor or resting on a footrest
- Knees level with or slightly lower than your hips
- Shoulders in a neutral position, not forward or back
- Elbows bent at a 90-degree angle
- Forearms parallel to the floor and wrists straight
Take breaks at least every hour to:
- Rest or shake your hands
- Massage your palms and backs of your hands
- Get regular aerobic exercise such as walking or swimming.
- Cut down on caffeine and smoking . These activities may reduce blood flow to your hands.
This content is reviewed regularly and is updated when new and relevant evidence is made available. This information is neither intended nor implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health provider prior to starting any new treatment or with questions regarding a medical condition.
Edits to original content made by Denver Health.
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Decision : CONF 201 VII.C.14
SOC: Srebarna Nature Reserve (Bulgaria)
VII.14 Srebarna Nature Reserve (Bulgaria)
The Committee recalled that at its nineteenth session it examined a monitoring report prepared by the Secretariat of the Ramsar Convention. This report indicated that the new water control structure allowed for an inflow of water on a small scale and that a colony of the Dalmatian Pelican had been re-established. The report concluded, however, that the integrity of the site had not yet been adequately restored.
As a result, the Committee decided at its nineteenth session to retain the site on the List of World Heritage in Danger and requested the Bulgarian authorities to prepare a status report on their efforts to restore the site, to be presented in three years' time.
The Committee decided to retain this property on the List of World Heritage in Danger pending the threat mitigation status report which the Committee requested the Bulgarian authorities to submit in 1998.
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Create Cron jobs
Cron is a standard Linux feature that lets you schedule tasks, called "Cron Jobs," to run unattended at a specified frequency.
- Log in to your GoDaddy account.
- Click Web Hosting.
- Next to the hosting account you want to use, click Manage.
- Click cPanel Admin.
- in the Advanced section, click Cron Jobs.
- In the Email field you can add your address to receive reports for cron jobs that have failed to run.
- Complete the on-screen fields detailing your Cron Job, and then click Add New Cron Job.
Note: Unless specified within your cron job script, an email will only be sent out if the cron job fails to run.
You can call PHP scripts for Cron Jobs by using the following in the Command field:
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If you're not a 3D modeling and printing expert but you want to create a custom iPhone case, you're not out of luck. Makers are likely familiar with Sculpteo, a 3D printing service. At CES, they're showing off an iPhone app and website called 3DPCase. With it, you can design your own bespoke 3D-printed iPhone case. The app starts you off with 16 different templates which you can modify to suit your own style. You can incorporate photos, 3D-printed text, textures, and patterns. After you've designed the case you want, you can submit your design and you'll see it delivered to you in two to four days for $24 and up. I think this could be a nice gentle introduction to 3D printing and design and perhaps a gateway to more serious tools for the uninitiated.
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What The Buck
Take this guy. Here he was, minding his own business, when someone came along and punched him in the eye!
Poor defenseless little creat.... wait, is that a cupcake cake? Gimme your rifle.
(Why am I suddenly craving roasted almonds?)
So, the next time you're faced with a wrecky deer cake, don't be so quick to judge. They've been through a lot, what with hunters and fires and allergic reactions and earthquakes and killer bee swarms... so can we just vow to leave these vulnerable deer alone??
Thanks, Marisa W., Terri C., Bonnie, cewest84, and Zephyr! If you ever hoof it over to my side of town, give me a rein! You're all I really caribou, and I promise not to leave you stag! (Not really. Please don't call me.)


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Is B.o.b against illuminati or no?
If so, what do you think about that? good or bad?
I concider him being very brave to go against all the hollywood stars these days.
They took Micheal Jackson away because he was speaking the truth.
Lets keep b.o.b from ending up like that too!
Whos for B.o.b never being illuminati!?
Hes good at what he does and he should keep doing it, the right way!
He brings life and truth back into music that everybody can relate,
unlike other sigers/rappers who only sing about sex and alchol!
Tell me what you think of B.o.b's music and what you think of illuminati. (:


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On Sunday, October 26th HiTel FCU celebrated their employee appreciation party in style with a Halloween twist. Staff gathered for a fun-filled morning with games-galore and a breakfast buffet that filled our bellies. There was an omelet and waffle bar in addition to the main buffet. Employees participated in individual and team trivial games including a variety of "minute to win it" games like bite me (bobbing for apples using vampire fangs) and the toilet paper mummy wrap.
All attendees were encouraged to dress up in their best Halloween costumes to liven up the mood – as Halloween is just around the corner. Everyone was able to capture the day with the Oh Snap photo booth kiosk. This was a great day to unite everyone together from all our branches.
Our employees will be continuing their Halloween spirit on Friday, so stop by any of our branch locations!


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With the 2014 college baseball season almost two months away, Cherryville�s Drew Reynolds last week was named preseason All-American by the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association.
With the 2014 college baseball season almost two months away, Cherryville�s Drew Reynolds last week was named preseason All-American by the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association.
A 2010 East Rutherford High graduate who helped the Cavaliers to the N.C. 2A championship his senior year, Reynolds led Cherryville Post 100 to four straight North Carolina American Legion Area IV championships from 2008 to 2011 and was 2010 area player of the year.
As he did in high school and Legion baseball in this area, Reynolds has been a pitching and hitting standout at East Carolina.
A 2013 Louisville Slugger All-American, he�s been a two-time All-Conference USA performer for the Pirates. Reynolds hit .330 with three home runs and 24 RBIs while going 3-0 with 10 saves and a 3.00 ERA in 2012 and hit .322 with 22 RBIs while going 3-2 with 14 saves and a 2.92 ERA last year.
East Carolina and Reynolds open their 2014 season on Feb. 14 when they host James Madison at 3 p.m.
College indoor track
A pair of local products helped their teams to high finishes in the Appalachian State Indoor Track Invitational earlier this month.
Aaron Tribble (Highland Tech 2010) record his third victory in the 400-meter dash with a time of 49.28 seconds to help Western Carolina to a second-place finish in the men�s competition.
And Destinie Sykes (Ashbrook 2013) set a USC Upstate school record in the triple jump (11.12 meters) as the Spartans finished third in the women�s competition.
NFL football
Lamar Holmes (Hunter Huss 2008) and the Atlanta Falcons host the Carolina Panthers on Sunday at 1 p.m. Holmes has played in 15 games (14 starts) for the Falcons (4-11) at offensive tackle.
Brandon Spikes (Crest 2006) and the New England Patriots host the Buffalo Bills on Sunday at 4:25 p.m. Spikes has 85 tackles in 15 games (10 starts) for the Patriots (11-4).
And C.J. Wilson (Lincolnton 2008) is on the Chicago Bears (8-7) practice squad.
Coming up: Jan. 30 � 2014 College baseball preview, Feb. 6 � 2014 College softball preview.
You can reach Richard Walker at 704-869-1841 or by twitter.com/JRWalk22


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Study links drinking too much beer and tea to chronic kidney disease
A new study has shown that drinking too much tea or beer can lead to chronic kidney disease. This is the perfect excuse to start your 2019 resolutions of right! Researchers from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, in Baltimore, examined survey data on drink consumption among 3,003 African-American men and women who all had kidney… Read More »


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Charleston, Ill. – The Tennessee State men's and women's track and field teams each finished fifth at this weekend's Ohio Valley Conference Outdoor Championship.
The Tigerbelles scored a total of 92 points and were 53.5 points behind champion Eastern Illinois. The Panthers also won the men's side with 222.5 points while the Flying Tigers managed 68.
Reigning OVC Female Athlete of the Year Ashontae Jackson was the only TSU individual to take home a title as the sophomore won the long jump with a leap of 6.08 meters. Teammate Clairwin Dameus came in second with a 5.85 meter hop.
Dameus and Jackson later paired with fellow Tigerbelles Quanisha Sales and Diera Taylor to win the 4x100m and 10 points with a final of 45.95. Then, Jackson, Sales, Taylor and Gabrielle Todd placed second in the 4x400m after completing the event in 3:45.74.
In addition to her performances in the relays, Sales also finished second in the 100m dash (11.91) and fourth in the 400m (24.79).
Ja'Lyn Burr and Angel Davis rounded out the scoring for the Tigerbelles as Burr recorded a second-place finish in the triple jump (11.87m) and Davis came in third in the discus throw (40.32).
For the Flying Tigers, Michael Johnson placed third in the 400m after a run of 48.80 seconds. He then teamed with Osafa Hippolyte, Jamill Jackson and Emmanuel Thornton to earn five points with a fourth place finish in the 4x400 (3:22.51).
Earlier in the day, Thornton recorded a third-place finish in the 400m hurdles with a final of 53.99. He missed out on first by just tenths of a second.
In the high jump, Sean Jenkins finished third with a leap of 2.03 meters. Fellow Flying Tiger Shaquille Cragwall was just behind Jenkins, finishing fourth by clearing 1.93m.
Royce Dates, who was just named the OVC's Male Co-Field Athlete of the Year, had a hop of 7.43 meters in the long jump, which placed him third in the event.
TSU will next travel to Atlanta, Ga., for the Georgia Tech Invitational on May 10-11. The meet will be the final opportunity for members of the teams to qualify for the NCAA Preliminaries.


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Home Grown Juice
Georg Schürer lives in a suburb of Freiburg, a 900-year-old city perched on the fringe of Germany's Black Forest. Herr Schürer's house, sturdy and comfortable, is fairly indistinguishable from the others surrounding it in the Vauban community. The three-story townhouse has large south-facing, tripleglazed windows, a small garden, a shed—and solar panels covering the entire southern exposure of the roof.
While Freiburg is held to be the warmest city in Germany, the country is hardly famed for its sunniness. Yet the solar panels on Schürer's roof are not all that unusual, thanks to a German energy policy called "feed-in tariffs" (FITs). FITs have democratized energy policy, allowing both ordinary homeowners and corporations to invest directly in renewables. The United States also has policies to promote renewables, but they have largely favored utilities, shutting out the little guy.
Though some German solar power plants, scattered from Saarbrücken to Saxony, are the size of football fields, the average solar installation in 2006 only had around 20 panels, each the size of a small tabletop. Clearly, Germany's leadership in solar energy stems not just from large utility plants but from the roofs of ordinary homeowners like Georg Schürer.


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QUINCY, Mass. — Interrupting a decades-long decline, total fire deaths rose to 4,045 last year, an increase of 13.3% from the previous year, according to a report released from the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA).
In all, 3,420 fire deaths occurred in the home, an increase of 18.1%, according to the report, titled "Fire Loss in the U.S." During 2000, the home accounted for 85% of all fire fatalities.
Nationwide, there was a fire death every 130 minutes. By contrast, when comparable data collection began in 1977, there was a fire death every 71 minutes. Overall, fire deaths have been on the decline for 25 years, thanks to advances including fire detection and alarm equipment, sprinkler systems, safer products, increased public awareness and knowledge of fire-safe behavior.
"If America is to return to the long-term trend of declining fire losses, we need action at local, state and regional levels," said Meri-K Appy, NFPA's vice president for public education. "Through our model codes and standards, model safety curricula for schools and sponsorship of Fire Prevention Week, NFPA has shown — and will continue to show — where we have the greatest need for action and the greatest opportunities for improving safety with small changes in our behavior and design practices."
Meanwhile, fire injuries rose to 22,350, an increase of 2.2% from the previous year, but still the second lowest reported fire injury toll of the past quarter-century.


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Traders and investors are anxiously waiting for the stock markets to reopen so that they can make their post-Hurricane trades.
History tells us that markets usually rally in the wake of hurricanes.
"On balance, there's a lot of short-term turmoil," said Lee to CNBC's Maria Bartiromo. "It's the end of the month. We've already got a lot of anxiety out there. And we're in the middle of earnings season."
Lee thinks Hurricane Katrina is one example of a costly storm that was followed by a comeback.
"But on the other hand, if we look at markets in 2005, there was an initial sell-off, but markets really started gaining traction as people started to see past the short-term effects and started to see the lift coming from spending."
This point is controversial, as many people find it unpalatable to believe that destruction of property is a good thing, even if it spurs spending.
Following up, Bartiromo then asked if we should expect stocks to fall on Wednesday or the next time markets open because of the various short-term selling pressures.
"If you do see something like that, then investors have to ask themselves, 'Is this a short-term effect, or is this changing the thesis?'" Lee responded. "I would actually view that as a pretty good entry point."
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- Publisher: Chillingo Ltd , Chillingo
- Release Date: Oct 11, 2012
Summary: Every cloud has a silver lining…Play as a smiling cloud as you float over the world in this one-of-a-kind rain 'em up! Use rain to grow forests and douse fires, and use a bolt of lightning to zap enemies intent on ruining Kumo Lumo's world. Featuring a unique artistic style and delightfully simple gameplay, you won't be able to get enough of Kumo Lumo!Press Love Lumo"Have you been on cloud nine? Well, that's probably where you'll end up as soon as you get hooked on Kumo Lumo." — AppAdvice• A TRULY DIFFERENT EXPERIENCEKumo Lumo marries unique artwork with a completely new genre—the rain 'em up!• CLOUD POWERUse torrents of rain as well as devastating lightning bolts on the environment and those who inhabit it.• TOTALLY ACCESSIBLEA blast for gamers of every age, Kumo lumo delivers great gameplay for everyone.• UNIVERSALKumo Lumo looks and plays great on all devices. For more information or support, please visit www.chillingo.com
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i have some questions about QCAD 3 features.
I would like to connect QCAD to a web application using web services (soap).
It's possible to use the scripting language to call remote web services? It's possible to connect to a dbms (mysql) and use queries?
For example i would like to retrive a list of names from a CRM software and use them as "on-demand" labels for some areas (i'm using the cad in order to project and expo area).
If possible i would like to:
- get a list of names form my crm using a web service
- display the names in a popup, the user can select a name an connect it to an element
- connect the names (using and id) to a specific object of my project (maybe an area code)
today i tried to find a function like "search" in order to find a specific label in my project (a code for an expo area ex. D34). I can't find a "search" button in the user interface..


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Oh how we love the smell of new products in the morning. Un-boxing all of these products makes it seem like Christmas morning all over again.
First on the block is a great new kit, the Seeeduino Stalker – Waterproof Solar Kit. This is one stalker you won't mind having around! This kit is a self sustaining, waterproof project kit for all of your logging needs. This kit will battle the elements to keep your project up and running, logging any kind of data you can think of. Just add in your favorite wireless -Bee series module and you'll be logging and communicating in no time.
Next we've got 2 great new joysticks just in. The Medium Robot Controller Joystick – 2D is a solid joystick with your normal 2 potentiometer setup. Solid controls and response make it great for any robot controller. However if you need a little more control out of your controller, try the Medium Robot Controller Joystick -3D. This joystick has a third potentiometer hidden within it – just twist the joystick and you've got another degree of control. Use your extra control to turn your robots arms, it's head and even other people's heads! And as if that wasn't enough, both joysticks come pre-wired. Each potentiometer has been lovingly soldered to a female 3 pin connector, and is ready to hook up to your project via pin-headers.
We also have three new products in our "You don't need to rip apart your perfectly good video game controllers to get cool parts" line. The Grove – Thumb Joystick gives you the potentiometer/push button combination found in Playstation 3 controllers, on a neat and tidy board with a grove compatible connector. The NunChuck Breakout Board is a solid breakout board for your Wii NunChuck – no more needing to cut apart your NunChuck cables or worrying about loose connections. Third in line, is the incredible WiiCamera Board. This board will allow your arduino project to easily interface with the onboard Wii Camera module. The camera senses up too four points of light, then returns the XY position of the light, as well as the light's brightness.
Two new contenders for 'Arduino Shield of the Year have just arrived. First is the Arduino Motor Shield Rev3 – the perfect shield for controlling motors from your arduino. This shield has two control channels that will run two separate DC motors, or combine to control on bipolar stepper motor. Second, we have the Grove – Mega Shield. This shield is designed for the Mega family and will get you up and running with the Google ADK.
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text: Consider this your first look at the upcoming film Serena, based on the 2009 PEN/Faulkner Award-winning novel by Ron Rash. Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper play Serena and George Pemberton, a couple who travel from Boston to the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina to become timber moguls. As Coming Soon reports, "Serena soon shows herself to be the equal of any man: overseeing crews, hunting rattle-snakes, even saving a man's life in the wilderness. Together, this king and queen rule their dominion, killing or vanquishing all who stand in the way of their ambitions. But when Serena learns that she can never bear a child…" Dun dun dun! The New York Times called the book "a gothic tale of greed, corruption, and revenge with a ruthless, powerful, and unforgettable woman at its heart." Yup, sign me up. Click image to enlarge for '30s hair and makeup gorgeousness.


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I am going to be closing up Green Tinted Goggles and moving my twink blogging back to my main site, now called Cynwise's Warcraft Manual. I'll be moving the GTG archives over there and closing comments here. I hope you'll join me over there at http://cynwise.wordpress.com/.
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I must say that I am a large (in heart, not physically) fan of UTIOG. They're a cross between a little Bee Gees, a little Maroon 5 (no groaning, please) and a little Jamiroquai with a sensibility of 70s disco-pop (a bit).
Personally, my favorite tracks on their latest CD are:
- Got Nothing
- Stay Illogical
- Mama's Room
- Meaningless Love
UTIOG - Under the Influence of Giants
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Ticket prices vary by the number of seats/regions/rows. Most places near the table or seats with high visibility will bid a little higher, while prices far away from Taiwan will be a bit lower.
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Extreme Electrical Work- Electricians in Antarctica
How electricians battle bitter cold while doing extreme electrical work in Antarctica
Carol Fey, Freelance Writer | Oct 21, 2011
When asked to remember the most extreme job they've ever worked on, most electricians can quickly recall the details like it was yesterday — telling war stories of battling extreme temperatures or weather, maneuvering in confined spaces to complete intricate electrical work, or conquering the challenges of hazardous locations. What most electricians can't say is they've worked in the coldest, windiest, driest, and highest environment on earth. Danny Warrick found himself in this seemingly alien world several years ago when he was transported directly from his life as an electrical contractor in Florida to South Pole Station in Antarctica.
Antarctica Adventure
Electrician Phil Troska waits with a cooler of water for a ride to South Pole's Dark Sector where construction crews work on several projects, including the South Pole Telescope, IceCube Lab, and the Dark Sector Lab. The sled is used in the summer to haul people and tools between the Dark Sector and the elevated station. (Photo by Brien Barnett, courtesy of the National Science Foundation)
After owning his own electrical contracting business for many years, Warrick learned about the opportunities for working as an electrician in Antarctica from a newspaper travel article. After applying for a four- to six-month seasonal job with a contractor for the United States Antarctic Program (USAP), managed by the National Science Foundation (NSF), he turned his contracting business over to his son. Like many first timers, Warrick took the job mostly to experience Antarctica. At first, he was delighted with his assignment — wiring the deep space telescope building at South Pole Station. "It was an honor, but it was just too cold down there," he says. "Temperatures of -50°F or -80°F with wind chill are just too much to work outside, but sometimes we had to do it anyway."
Add to that the challenge of getting enough oxygen to breathe at a mile and a half above sea level, and this climate proved to be almost too severe. Hooked on Antarctica nonetheless, Warrick spent his next season at McMurdo Station, which has much milder weather. "If the wind's not blowing, -10°F isn't that bad," he says.
McMurdo Station, like South Pole Station and Palmer Station, has a mission to support NSF scientific investigations; however, ordinary life must be supported there as well. During the summer months — October to February — more than 1,000 people live at McMurdo Station, many of whom are scientists. In addition, more than half of the population is made up of support personnel, such as equipment operators, janitors, cooks, and electricians. Depending on the season and special projects, the number of licensed electricians can vary from five to 20. For these adventurous electricians, the pay is decent but not extraordinary. However, all expenses are paid, including cold weather clothing and travel. In this land of extremes, electricians do everything from maintaining the miles of electric heat systems that keep water and sewage pipelines from freezing at McMurdo Station to wiring the building that houses the deep space telescope at South Pole Station — not to mention repairing a lot of light fixtures along the way.
Self Sufficiency
Because McMurdo Station is located on the coast, its climate is not as extreme as the interior of the continent. Nevertheless, a crisis is easy to come by, considering the remoteness of this land — the nearest civilization (New Zealand) is a 5-hour flight away. As a result, the station must be completely self-sufficient, including generating its own electrical power, which is accomplished via a power plant featuring four on-site generators. The power distribution system is 120/240 VAC. Heat coming off the generators is collected in a glycol system, which is distributed as supplemental heat throughout the station.
Because of the remoteness of the station, a critical condition can arise out of the simplest error in judgment. Electrician Roxann Hoganson realized this first-hand one night when she got an emergency call. "Our whole crew was called out at 11:30, because a dump truck pulled down the power lines that fed half the station," she says. "We helped the linemen kill the power and remove the lines from the road. Luckily, most everyone was sleeping and didn't even know what had happened."
Adelie penguins at Arthur Harbor, near Palmer Station. (Photo by Sean Bonnette, courtesy of the National Science Foundation)
Despite getting accustomed to emergencies like this, acclimation to McMurdo Station was easy for Hoganson, who began her extreme electrician career endeavor at the beginning of summer one October, when the weather resembled her native Minnesota in January (ranging from -10°F to +10°F). According to Hoganson, there's a misconception about Antarctica — that it's always really cold and dark, and everyone lives in tents. In reality, there is full daylight around the clock at McMurdo during the summer season, and everyone live in dormitories, except for scientists conducting research out in the field. In fact, the temperatures commonly reach above freezing in December and January — the height of summer. Surprisingly enough, this warmer weather presents just as much of a problem as the cold, notes fellow electrician James Pierce. "During the winter, snow blows in between the exterior and interior walls of the buildings," he explains. "When the weather warms, it melts the snow. The water finds the path of least resistance, which is usually our electrical conduit. I have had emergency calls for water pouring from a fluorescent light fixture."
Heat-Trace Upgrade
In addition to a self-contained power plant, McMurdo Station has its own water and sewage plants with many miles of piping. Water is pulled from beneath 15 feet of sea ice and piped to a water plant where it is desalinated by reverse osmosis. It is then minimally treated — it's naturally some of the cleanest water on earth — and distributed throughout the station. Wastewater and sewage are piped to the treatment plant where the sewage is dried, compacted, and shipped to California for disposal.
Nine miles of electric heat, called "heat trace," runs the full length of the pipeline. A few years ago, serious problems had been created by the fact that the original system was 20 years old and failing. In response, a special 18-month project was launched in order for electricians to analyze and overhaul the entire system. The heat-trace upgrade project consisted of 22 people, including electricians, plumbers, insulators, and general assistants.
According to Project Manager Mike St. Jean, the old heat-trace system was not energy efficient and posed a danger to the safety of the community. When electrical lines broke, the only way to identify breaks was to have a USAP employee walk the pipelines daily, looking for small red lights set periodically along the pipeline. This task presented quite a challenge due to blowing and drifting snow.
Because much of the piping, though above ground, was buried in several feet of ice and snow, there was a lot of chipping and shoveling to be done. Then, there was also inspecting and analyzing the current state of the system to determine how much conduit and pipe needed to be replaced, the source of existing power, and the best location for the new control panels. Although many sections of pipe had to be replaced, the real challenge was the complete electrical rewiring that took place. Insulated wire was run through a ¾-inch conduit, which was placed inside 4 inches of rigid insulation, creating a 9-inch pipe. Miles of these pipes were laid throughout the station, mounted at about knee level so that much of the blowing snow would not be trapped, creating unnecessary buildup.
An electrician works on the heat-trace project at McMurdo Station. (Photo by Danny Warrick)
One of the most exciting features of the new heat-trace system is the direct digital control (DDC) component, which allows remote monitoring of every line. Rather than having a person walk the line on-site in Antarctica, the system can be monitored and controlled by DDC and energy engineers in the United States. According to St. Jean, the new system is 40% more efficient, which saves
approximately $300,000 a year in energy costs.
Just can't get enough. As was the case on the heat-trace upgrade project, electricians working in Antarctica sustain harsh conditions to get the job done — 9 hours a day, six days a week is the norm. Nevertheless, people go back season after season and year after year. More than 1,000 individuals can be found at McMurdo during the endless daylight of "summer," followed by a couple hundred who "winter over" to endure the ongoing days of darkness and bitter cold. There's no doubt that at least a handful of the committed few will continue to be electricians, inspiring new generations of electrical workers to answer this call for career opportunities and adventure in this land of extremes.
Fey has worked in Antarctica for two seasons as a heating mechanic/emergency communications operator. You can reach her at firstname.lastname@example.com. The United States Antarctic Program is managed by the National Science Foundation.
To learn more, visit: www.usap.gov.
SIDEBAR: Antarctica Fun Facts
Stats. Nearly twice the size of Australia, Antarctica is the fifth largest continent in the world — and the highest, driest, coldest, windiest, and emptiest place on earth. An ice sheet covers approximately 98% of Antarctica's 5 million square miles. At its thickest point, the ice sheet is 3 miles deep. This ice makes up approximately 90% of all of the world's ice (by volume) and accounts for 70% of all the world's fresh water. The area of sea ice around Antarctica varies from 1 million sq miles (4 million sq km) in summer to 7.7 million sq miles (20 million sq km) in winter.
Climate conditions. The coldest temperature recorded in the interior is -129°F, yet on the coast in the summer season, temperatures can reach into the 50s. The mean annual temperature at South Pole Station is -56°F. During the austral summer, temperatures at McMurdo Station may reach as high as 50°F, while at South Pole Station the summer temperature may reach 0°F. Palmer Station has a milder climate, with summer temperatures reaching as high as 55°F. Winds have been recorded as high as 199 mph in Antarctica, though much of the time they are moderate. While the continent is known for ferocious storms, there is little snowfall. Annual coastal precipitation is 8 inches, and the interior gets even less. The average elevation of Antarctica is 1.5 miles above sea level.
Daylight and darkness. Much of the area below 66.5° south enjoys one long day and one long night each year, with weeks of sunrise and sunset in between. There are spectacular displays of aurora australis (southern lights) during the winter darkness.
Ownership. No nation owns Antarctica. The Antarctic Treaty, signed by 45 countries, reserves the area south of 60° south as a zone for the peaceful conduct of research. Treaty nations coordinate and cooperate to maximize research results and minimize logistics requirements.
Science. Antarctica provides excellent conditions for scientific research on such topics as global warming, ozone changes, climatology, earth sciences, glaciology, astronomy, UV radiation, oceanic circulation, marine ecosystems, and meteorite studies. Although many penguins and abundant sea life thrive along the coast, there is little life on the continent. There are no indigenous peoples.
History. The existence of Antarctica was only hypothesis, until it is was first sighted in 1820-21. No one set foot on the continent until 1895. The South Pole was first reached in 1911 and established as a year-round research station in 1956. Antarctica's history is packed full of extraordinary stories of heroism and survival.
SIDEBAR: Survival Guide to Electrical Work in Antarctica
Following are some tips from electricians in the field at McMurdo Station.
SIDEBAR: Parts Predicament
Besides the weather, a never-ending challenge when working in Antarctica is getting parts — sometimes even the most basic components or devices. There is no parts supplier down the street. In fact, the supply ship arrives just once a year — in February, after the icebreaker ship creates a passage through the frozen ocean. Under these extreme circumstances, for a part to be on the ship, it has to be ordered a year or more in advance. After someone places it on the requisition list, a purchaser must order the part. Then, the supplier ships the part to California, where it is warehoused, awaiting the loading of the annual ship. The vessel must make the long trip, the last part of which is through icy, stormy seas. Once the ship arrives, often covered with ice, the entire station devotes itself to "offload activities" for days.
"When parts are unavailable, we get creative," says Roxann Hoganson, electrician. "One year we ran out of ¾-inch locknuts, so we removed them from defective fixtures that were on the way to recycling. Other times, the work is put off for another year."
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Green Idea of the Week: This week after spotting a massive dust bunny under my sofa, I thought about how much work would have to be done to make my home photoshoot-worthy. It depressed the hell out of me. I looked around at the excess tables that don't I don't really have a space for, checked out some of my art that was out of rotation, realized I'd had two extra chairs sitting in my dining room that I couldn't even walk around, and that I had USPS boxes stacked under my desk that needed to be stowed away. It seemed a major makeover was in order. Unfortunately, I was in too much of a Hoarders-inspired frenzy to take time out for "before" pictures, but in a nutshell, I rotated art and furniture in and out of different rooms (kids, don't try this at home without some Clariton and a dusting cloth on hand), and felt like I had a whole new interior. My point is, you can completely redecorate and freshen up your home without consuming any more products (besides the aforementioned Clariton). Do you even know what you have stashed away in the nooks and crannies of your home?
That being said, it's probably hypocritical to pick a favorite green product to tempt you with, but I'll tell you why I feel comfortable recommending the STAACH Cain Collection Bench. It's made by two hands with two tools right in New York, and it's made from certified sustainable wood sourced in the U.S.A. The reason I thought of it after reflecting upon my makeover frenzy is that this is a multipurpose piece. You can rotate it in and out of any room in your home. In the living room, it's a coffee or side table that doubles as an extra seat. In the kitchen, you can use it to boost you up to the high shelves. In the bedroom it can serve as a bench at the foot of your bed or as a nightstand. In the bathroom it can hold folded towels next to the bathtub. If you choose black, gray, maple, poplar, or white, it will go with almost any color palette.


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I'm wondering what generic build tools out there include their binary run-times and do not depend on another environment not shipped with them.
For example, ANT requires Java, Rake requires Ruby, etc..
would be great if talking about also target-platform-agnostic tools, where I'd just give whatever command for building, whatever command for testing, etc.. and can then define my artifacts in CI or so.
Would see something like that useful for building .NET projects (say, on both Windows .NET and Mono), and Node JS projects especially. I do not want to install Java and / or Ruby if what I want is a .NET build or a Node JS build.
This is a bit of general awareness question not an exact problem I'm facing, that's why it's here not on StackOverflow.
To explain a bit more, what I'm after is the build script that would run MSBuild for compiling for example ( in .NET, and then maybe several Node/NPM commands in Node, etc..), and then have the rest build/test steps, instead of setting these all in MSBuild (again, in .NET case, also, wondering if there is equivalent story in Node).
My target is being able to have a developer on a vanilla machine to just clone the code without installing any dependencies except the platform the code targets be it .NET/Mono or Node (not even Java, Ruby, or Python) and still be able to build and run tests.


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The Moon Comet front light resembles an office strip light that's been passed through a matter-shrinking device. The result is an extremely powerful and surprisingly tuneable light source capable of 110 lumens in overdrive setting.
Most conventional designs work on the basis of a single diode fitted to single printed circuit board, but the Comet employs COB (chips on board) technology whereby a series of tiny diodes proliferate the same space. On paper at least, these enjoy a lifespan of 25,000 hours whereas the rechargeable lithium polymer batteries are good for five hundred cycles before retirement.
Getting started demands a couple of hours charging via a USB port. Run time is excellent; we've managed one hour twenty seven, two hours thirty three, six hours thirteen respectively in overdrive, high, standard, 50/100% flash and strobe settings. The low battery indicator gives plenty of notice when it's giving out.
The watch-strap style mounting system works well and seems dependable.
Weatherproofing is always something of a compromise but we've had no problems in spite of deliberately leaving the port plug open and riding sans mudguards for several hours along waterlogged roads.
A recessed, rubberised switch is in keeping with the Comet's sleek profile but a little hit n' miss in full-finger gloves, especially on the fly, which is a consideration for winter.
Straddling the gap between see-by and seen-with, it's been possible to navigate unlit sections to around 18 mph thanks to a lovely pure beam in 'overdrive' mode. Drivers acknowledged my approach from approximately six hundred metres, less around town.
Dipping down to 'high' from 'overdrive' conserves power and seems optimal for segregated cycle paths to fourteen mph, pricking driver and pedestrian consciousness from 500 metres, although strobe and 100/50% flashing options catch the eye more easily.
Swapping from steady to flashing means depressing the switch for a few seconds, whereupon single prods select the most appropriate speed.
My only criticism of the Comet is that I'd like a little more side visibility to help at junctions and roundabouts.
Fairly powerful commuter light but side visibility could be better.
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Make and model: Moon Comet Front light
Size tested: n/a
Tell us what the light is for, and who it's aimed at. What do the manufacturers say about it? How does that compare to your own feelings about it?
Frankly it's another cutting edge blinkey designed for city limits/contingency applications-say on the best bike, or as capable sidekick to more powerful, main systems.
Tell us some more about the technical aspects of the light?
Technical details
1 PCE COB high brightness LED
100 lumen output
Internal Li ion battery
USB rechargeable
2 hour USB charge time
Full beam 3 hours
Low beam 7 hours
USB rechargeable
Flashing & constant modes
Low battery indicator
Auto charge cut off
�–�Side visibility
�–�Includes seat post and saddle mount brackets
�–�Horizontal & vertical mounting
Dimensions: 79mm x 22mm x 17mm 32.6g
A super convenient watch-strap type ensuring dependable purchase on all diameters, while allowing the light to be mounted vertically or horizontal.
Generally good and certainly on par with the USB breed.
Tell us how the light performed overall when used for its designed purpose
Moon Comet's specialist technology produces one of the purest beams I've encountered to date. Rubberised switches feel a little odd, yet are easy to use and it's obtrusively charged from USB ports without attracting attention from the office snitch.
Great for desk bound commuters and/or winter training, 100 lumens is adequate for suburban navigation but shared and flashing are equally conspicuous to oncoming traffic. However, peripheral presence needs improvement and the battery indicator is less informative than others in its class.
Tell us what you particularly liked about the light
Quality of output and quirky design.
Tell us what you particularly disliked about the light
Peripherally weak.
Did you enjoy using the light? Yes.
Would you consider buying the light? Yes.
Would you recommend the light to a friend? Yes.
About the tester
Age: 38 Height: 1m 81 Weight: 70 kilos
I usually ride: Rough Stuff Tourer Based around 4130 Univega mtb Frameset My best bike is: 1955 Holdsworth Road Path and several others including cross & traditional road
I've been riding for: Over 20 years I ride: Most days I would class myself as: Experienced
I regularly do the following types of riding: cyclo cross, commuting, touring, fixed/singlespeed, mtb,
Shaun Audane is a freelance writer/product tester with over twenty-eight years riding experience, the last twelve (120,000 miles) spent putting bikes and kit through their paces for a variety of publications. Previous generations of his family worked at manufacturing's sharp end, thus Shaun can weld, has a sound understanding of frame building practice and a preference for steel or titanium framesets.
Citing Richard Ballantine and an Au pair as his earliest cycling influences, he is presently writing a cycling book with particular focus upon women, families and disabled audiences (Having been a registered care manager and coached children at Herne Hill Velodrome in earlier careers)