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By: Dr. Jeff Masters , 2:38 PM GMT on October 26, 2007
A surface low pressure system (90L) moved over Puerto Rico this morning, and is now centered just west of the island. The surface low is entangled with an upper-level low pressure system that is bringing about 30 knots of wind shear, so no development is likely today. Long range radar of of Puerto Rico shows isolated bands of heavy rain that are not well-organized. Satellite loops show most of the heavy thunderstorm activity is to the east of the low's center of circulation, and the high wind shear is keeping this thunderstorm activity disorganized. This morning's QuikSCAT pass showed a large, vigorous circulation. Top winds were about 30 mph to the north of the center, and 90L is close to tropical depression status.
Figure 1. Latest satellite rainfall estimate of 90L.
The surface low is separating from the upper level low today, and will move west-southwest at about 10 mph. This will bring heavy rains and the threat of flash flooding and mudslides to Puerto Rico. Heavy rains of 2-4 inches in just two hours hit the Virgin Islands this morning (Figure 1), prompting flash flood warnings there. Heavy rains also hit many of the islands of the northern Lesser Antilles. Rain amounts as high as 3-5 inches are expected today over eastern Puerto Rico. Several mudslides have already been reported on the island.
The action shifts to the Dominican Republic on Saturday and Haiti on Sunday, as 90L tracks just south of the island of Hispaniola. These nations can expect rains of 3-6 inches, which could trigger life-threatening flash floods and mudslides. It is possible 90L could intensify into a tropical depression on Sunday, as wind shear will slowly fall to 20 knots. The Hurricane Hunters are on call to fly Sunday afternoon, if necessary. On Sunday, 90L will be approaching Jamaica, and the ECMWF and NOGAPS models predict that wind shear will drop to 10-20 knots. These models develop 90L into at least a strong tropical storm as it moves slowly into the Western Caribbean. The GFS model keeps wind shear 20-30 knots through the period, and does not develop 90L. The HWRF model also does not develop 90L. The GFDL is not keen on developing the system either, but does suggest that a weak tropical storm may form a week from now. I believe the most reasonable solution is the NOGAPS and ECMWF solution, and 90L will intensify into hurricane in the Western Caribbean late next week. The long-term path of such a storm is very uncertain, with the NOGAPS and ECMWF suggesting a track north into the Gulf of Mexico to threaten the U.S., and the GFDL predicting 90L will get trapped in the Western Caribbean and perform a counter-clockwise loop. If you have travel plans that take you to Jamaica or the Cayman Islands Sunday through Tuesday, or Cancun/Cozumel/Western Cuba Tuesday through Saturday next week, be prepared for the possibility of disruptions.
California's smoke
The worst of the air pollution hazard from California's fires has now passed. The smoke has thinned some, as seen on satellite images (Figure 2). The smoke made it yesterday to Fresno, in California's Central Valley, and is moving northward into Nevada and northwest Arizona today. Most of this smoke is aloft at altitudes of about 15,000 feet, but some mixing down to the surface has occurred, thanks to an upper-level low pressure system. Increases in particulate matter pollution due to smoke are expected to affect Las Vegas this weekend (Figure 1). However, the smoke will be dilute enough to keep pollution levels in the Moderate range--below the federal air quality standard.
Figure 2. Visible satellite image at 11:15 am PDT Thursday October 25, showing thinning smoke over the Pacific Ocean and much of California. Low stratus clouds are visible over the ocean, and these clouds have moved ashore into Los Angeles and San Diego this morning, triggering Dense Fog Advisories. Image credit: NASA and EPA.
Were the California fires worsened by global warming?
Dr. Ricky Rood points out in his latest wunderblog that the California fires were mostly a land-use and land-management issue. In a previous blog, he had this to say about the link between climate change and Western U.S. fires:
We do know that drought and floods, heat waves and cold snaps are all part of nature. Like the problem of urban heat waves, we have an event that already exists, and there should be a change associated with global warming. I have already mentioned that some studies have attributed the pinyon pine die off in the U.S. Southwest to the fact that the temperature in the recent drought years is higher than in previous droughts. Therefore, ground water is reduced; there is more stress on the plants. (And perhaps it is really the warmer nighttime temperatures that matter?)
There have also been papers which make a compelling argument that wild fires in the western U.S. are increasing in intensity and duration. In the paper of Westerling et al. (Science, 2006), the conclusion is drawn that this is directly related to snow melt occurring earlier in the year, a hotter and drier forest, and hence, a longer burning season. Plus they isolate the impact to be at mid-elevations in the Rockies, and hence, relatively free of land-use changes. While many newspapers reported that this work showed an increase of wild fires due to climate change, I quote directly from their paper: "Whether the changes observed in western hydroclimate and wildfire are the result of greenhouse gas-induced global warming or only an unusual natural fluctuation is beyond the scope of this work".
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The Pequot Lakes Patriots girls' basketball team defeated the Deer River Warriors 82-35 in non-conference girls' basketball action on Saturday, Jan. 19.
The Patriots, 11-6 overall, are scheduled to play at Detroit Lakes in a Mid-State Conference matchup on Thursday, Jan. 24.
Against Deer River, the Patriots dominated early, jumping to a 53-8 halftime lead. Vanessa Lane scored 22 points and Kayla Miller added 21 to lead Pequot Lakes, which shot 66 percent from the field. Jessica Kreitz added 11 points for the Patriots.
Deer River 8 27 — 35
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Kelsey Fairbanks 3, Tayler Goggleye, Donna Velishek 7, Gina Schimek 2, Caitlin Fairbanks 4, Tali Plate 8, Angelina Villeneuve 2, Maggie Swanson 5, Kristen Vickerman 2, Kayla Root 2. FT 10-15 (67 percent).
Hayley Wiebolt 6, Kelsey Hart 4, Vanessa Lane 22, Emilee Buell 6, Morgan Lohmiller 4, Laura Squires 2, Katie White 6, Kayla Miller 21, Jessica Kreitz 11. FG 38-58 (66 percent), FT 6-9 (67 percent).
Staples-Motley 81, Patriots 58
On Thursday, Jan. 17, the Cardinals had too much depth and too much outside shooting success with eighth three-point baskets. Kelly Pearson scored a game-high 25 points and reached 1,000 career points as S-M, ranked No. 9 in Class AA,
S-M improved to 6-0 in the conference while the Patriots fell to 3-1 in the Mid-State.
"(S-M's) depth wore us out in the second half," said Pequot Lakes coach Jon Dale. "We caught up a few times, but (S-M) would hit a three to start a run. They're a good team, and their depth was the difference."
The teams exchanged leads early before a 6-0 run by the Cardinals gave them a 22-17 advantage. Katie White nailed a three-point basket for Pequot Lakes, but S-M went on a 12-0 run. The half ended with the Cardinals owning a 38-26 cushion.
The Patriots got back into the game early in the second half after a pair of baskets by each Lane and Kreitz. S-M went on another run to assume a 46-38 lead following a three-point basket by Kyann Nyhus. Pequot Lakes chipped away at the lead and cut the deficit to 46-43 after baskets by Miller and Kreitz. But Jasmine McGillivray made a three-point shot to start a 15-0 run and push the lead to 61-43.
The Patriots cut the deficit to 16 points, but the Cardinals ended the game with three-pointers by Mikayla Wing and McGillivray. Lane netted a team-high 19 points while Miller notched 16 and Kreitz had 13.
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Hayley Wiebolt 1, Brittny Bzdok 2, Vanessa Lane 19, Katie White 7, Kayla Miller 16, Jessica Kreitz 13. FG 24-47 (51 percent), FT 5-10 (50 percent). 3-point 1-9 (11 percent).
Jaelin Beachy 13, Mackenzie Holst 4, Mikayla Wing 16, Kaitlin Spar 6, Kelly Pearson 25, Brooke Wolhowe 2, Kyann Nyhus 3, Jasmine McGillivray 12. FG 23-39 (percent). FT 11-12 (percent). 3-point 8-25 (32 percent).
Patriots 60, W-DC 52
This win over visiting the Wadena-Deer Creek Wolverines on Tuesday, Jan. 15, was revenge for Pequot Lakes, who had lost to W-DC 58-47 in the third-place game of the holiday tournament last month in Walker.
On Jan. 15, Emily Miron's rebound basket gave the Wolverines a 16-11 lead before Pequot Lakes rallied with a 9-0 run that was sparked by a three-point basket by Lane.
The Patriots eventually led 27-20 at intermission, and got the first four points of the second half. In the second half, the teams traded baskets but Pequot Lakes maintained a 49-39 lead with 6:10 left. The Wolverines rallied behind five points from Miron and a pair of free throws from Caitlin Volkmann to cut the deficit to three points.
The Patriots led 53-48 with 1:24 left, but added insurance points when Kreitz broke loose for a layup and added a free throw with 1:02 left. The hosts sealed the victory by making four of six free throws in the final minute.
Miller finished with a team-high 20 points while Kreitz scored 15 points and grabbed 11 rebounds. Wiebolt finished with 11 points and Lane pulled down 10 rebounds.
Emily Miron's 28 points and Caitlin Volkmann's 21 accounted for all but three of the Wolverines' points.
Wadena-DC 20 32 — 52
Pequot Lakes 27 33 — 60
Hope Theisen 2, Sydney Schissel 1, Caitlin Volkmann 21, Emily Miron 28. FT 8-14 (percent).
Haley Wiebolt 11, Brittny Bzdok 4, Vanessa Lane 6, Katie White 4, Kayla Miller 20, Jessica Kreitz 15. FG 23-55 (42 percent), FT 11-18 (61 percent). 3-point 3-11 (27 percent).


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Recently watched a "Law and Order" episode that was very thought-provoking. They always disavow that their episodes are directly related to "real" people ... but this one certainly did seem to do so.
The DA decided to prosecute a case about waterboarding interrogations (it also cited other methods of physical abuse such as hanging people by their wrists, as was done to McCain in Viet Nam). It revolved around a detainee who died from the interrogation methods. The suit filed by the DA cited as co-conspirators several members of the Bush administration, including Cheyney.
Nobody wanted the DA to tread on this ground, but he went ahead anyhow. The show explored the varied emotions of those involved in the prosecution. Keep in mind the show's setting is NYC, and those staff members had watched the Towers burn on 9/11.
The Fed govt also wielded their power to prevent the local DA from moving forward. The political implication cited was that a sitting administration would not allow the trial to proceed, because it would set a precedent for allowing prior administrations to be held legally liable in civilian courts; and, obviously, that also meant that a present administration would then have the same exposure under a new administration. A new twist to an old adage: "The enemy of my enemy is also my enemy"?
The episode carried through the legal arguments of both the prosecution and the defense ... a thought-provoking summary of the reasoning behind both sides of the argument. The episode ended: the jury had just returned to the courtroom with its verdict, but the verdict was never heard, because at that moment, a Federal marshall entered the courtroom with an order from a Federal court that ended the trial. That Federal court order ended the trial, period, so that the jury's verdict could not even be heard, even though it had already been decided.
When we have discussed this issue of these interrogation methods in the past, they have centered on the waterboarding. Whether other injurious methods are also involved has never been approached. Are things done that go beyond waterboarding? If so, will we ever know?
I really feel non-partisan about this. As we have all often mentioned, both political parties (and their adherents) have plenty of dirty laundry in their closets. It is not more right for one or the other party to ignore the laws of the country ... yet, it appears that both parties do that more often than we may know.
Does war really wipe out our belief in human rights and rule of law, even when the particular human is obviously reprehensible? Even the worst murderers in our society, totally reprehensible humans, will get a trial in our courts before punishment is inflicted. Our laws don't make distinctions WRT whether the criminal is a citizen or not. The laws are supposed to be applied equally to citizens or non-citizens. Even the Nazi war criminals got trials. Even Sadaam Hussein got a trial.
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text: Thanks to all for the great advice, we are through ob, ff, singles, single t, and working on doubles. I realize she is still young and wont be anywhere near perfect at this age. I guess she just does not realize that dead bird means look straight. And i guess i was trying to give her a perfect line with my hand.


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Updated on 19 February 2013
Sweden's Umea University conducts ground breaking ecological research by feeding sleeping pills to perch fish
Singapore: A new study conducted by researchers at Umea University, Sweden, has examined how perch behaved when exposed to oxazepam, a drug commonly used to treat anxiety disorders in humans.
The study, which has been published online in the journal Science, revealed that the fish become antisocial, and wander away from the safety of the group and devours food more quickly than its peers. The findings add to the mounting evidence that minuscule amounts of drugs in rivers and streams can alter the biology and behavior of fish and other marine animals.
The research team used minute concentrations of two parts-per-billion of the anti-anxiety drug oxazepam, similar to concentrations found in real waters. The team put young wild European perch into an aquarium, exposed them to these highly diluted drugs and then carefully measured feeding, schooling, movement and hiding behavior. They found that drug-exposed fish moved more, fed more aggressively, hid less and tended to school less than unexposed fish. On average, the drugged fish were more than twice as active as the others.
Dr Tomas Brodin, an ecologist and lead author of the article, said that, "Normally, perch are shy and hunt in schools. This is a known strategy for survival and growth. But those who swam in oxazepam became considerably bolder. They lost interest in hanging out with the group."
He also said that the fish with no drugs in their system remained timid and "didn't come out at all" while those on oxazepam did. "We think it's working through stress relief on the fish. It removes the fear of being eaten." The researchers said that the behavior of the fish coupled with the tendency to scarf down food faster than normal could alter the composition of the species and lead to ecological changes in the real world.
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THe sad truth is that RP was the ONLY candidate to submit not only a balanced budget for 2013 but one that actually reduced the deficit.
He also voted against our expanded rolls in A;stan and Iraq, against Medicare Plan B, No Kid Left Behind. He was for the tax cuts.


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Joan Kathleen Flad
Joan Kathleen Flad, 68, of Madison, WI., passed away after a valiant struggle on Tuesday, January 22, 2013. Joan was born on July 30, 1944 to Thomas H. & Eileen (Crowley) Flad, the third of eight children. Joan died peacefully surrounded by her loving family. As always, she kept her great wit and dry sense of humor to the end. Joan had great love and strong support for the UW Badgers, Green Bay Packers and the Edgewood Community. Joan will be greatly missed by her family, loved ones and her fellow workers and customers at Micron Business Systems, which she was a part of for 30 years.
She is survived by her seven siblings, Joe (Kathy) Flad of Oostburg, WI., Mary (Frank) Balistreri of Bloomington, MN., Rita (David) McCaffrey of Chicago, IL., Steve (Mary) Flad of Winona, MN., Charles (Pam) Flad of Sun Prairie, WI., Pauline (Rick) Gullick of Vail, AZ., Patty Flad of Denver, CO.
Joan was preceded in death by her parents, Thomas & Eileen Flad.
The family extends a deep and heartfelt thank you to the wonderful staff at the UW Dialysis West Clinic, the Carbone Caner Center and Agrace Hospice Care for their outstanding support and guidance.
A Mass of Christian burial will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Monday, January 28, 2013 at Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church, 2131 Rowley Ave., Madison, WI. Visitation will be held from 10:00 a.m. until the time of Mass on Monday at the church. A private burial will take place at Resurrection Cemetery. In lieu of flowers memorials can be sent to Edgewood High School, University of Wisconsin Dialysis Clinic, or Carbone Cancer Center.
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I have been seeing more big gobblers late this summer than I've ever seen at this time of year. I've seen them singly and in groups of 3 or 4 quite often. These are big, heavy birds with long thick beards. It's just been uncommon to see so many at this time of year. I've even seen a couple in full strut!
Doris and I went to a shoot at Rend Lake Shooting Complex in Ina, IL last weekend and as we turned off the highway into the complex, we saw 4 very large birds with long beards.
Now, if we can just find them in October.


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dj_ultima_the_great wrote:(Actually, my hair is getting to the point where it is really difficult to keep under the hairnet, but I'm going to keep letting it grow until it is impossible to manage. Fuck this job, I shouldn't have to be changing my appearance just to make them happy.)
Right on, sister. I already told work I'll keep it in a ponytail or whathaveyou, but I'm not cutting it.


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Stagecoach homicide timeline
- May 29, 2013: Sheriff's Office: Husband says wife killed their son before turning gun on herself
- May 29, 2013: Friends remember Asher Lesyshen-Kirlan as a charismatic, energetic boy
- May 30, 2013: Court documents: Lisa Lesyshen confesses to killing her son
- May 30, 2013: Soda Creek Elementary to hold meeting for parents Thursday to address grief in wake of student's death
- May 31, 2013: Arrest warrant alleges premeditated plan by Lisa Marie Lesyshen to kill her only child
- June 3, 2013: Hundreds of mourners gather at Steamboat's Howelsen Hill to remember Asher Lesyshen-Kirlan
- June 4, 2013: Routt County murder suspect recovering from gunshot wound to neck area
- June 11, 2013: Routt County Sheriff's Office making arrangements for paralyzed murder suspect
- July 5, 2013: Attorneys say officials violated Lesyshen's right to counsel
- July 10, 2013: Judge to drive to Denver to advise Lesyshen of charges in murder case
- July 12, 2013: Routt County woman charged with murder denied bail
- Aug. 18, 2013: Examining domestic violence in Routt County
- Aug. 28, 2013: Routt County woman charged with killing son makes court appearance by video
- Oct. 11, 2013: Preliminary hearing scheduled for Routt County woman accused of killing son
- Nov. 13, 2013: Lisa Lesyshen bound over for trial on 1st-degree murder charges
- Dec. 11, 2013: Insanity plea being considered by Lesyshen's attorney
- Dec. 17, 2013: DA will not seek death penalty in Lesyshen case
- Feb. 5, 2014: Lesyshen arraignment rescheduled for Feb. 20 in Denver
Steamboat Springs The attorneys representing the Routt County woman accused of killing her 9-year-old son are accusing local officials of violating her right to confidential communications with her attorneys.
As punishment, public defenders M. Scott Troxell and Kiyomi Bolick want the three officials to each pay Lisa Lesyshen $1,000. In a motion filed June 27 with the 14th Judicial District, the three officials named are District Attorney Brett Barkey, Chief Deputy District Attorney Rusty Prindle and Undersheriff Ray Birch. A judge has not ruled on the motion.
Barkey wrote in an email Friday that his office planned to file a formal response opposing the motion.
Lesyshen has been charged with first-degree murder. She is accused of shooting her only son, Asher Lesyshen-Kirlan, five times in the early hours of May 29 before shooting herself in the neck area. According to court documents, Lesyshen told her husband, Michael Kirlan, that she shot their only child because she wanted to hurt Kirlan. The couple lived together at their Stagecoach home but were in the process of separating. Kirlan awoke to the sound of gunshots that night but was not injured himself.
Since the incident, Lesyshen reportedly has been paralyzed and receiving treatment at Denver Health Medical Center. After being taken into the custody of the Routt County Sheriff's Office on May 31, she has been under constant guard. First, Sheriff's Office deputies were guarding her. Then, to save money, the Sheriff's Office hired a private security company.
In the motion, Lesyshen's attorneys wrote that they were able to visit privately with Lesyshen on several occasions, but that became "more difficult" after the private security company was hired. The public defenders learned about revised visitation procedures June 20.
"At that time Undersheriff Birch informed Ms. Bolick that a decision had been made to prohibit Ms. Lesyshen's attorneys from visiting with her privately, as he had ordered the private security detail to remain in the room for all visits, both with her medical staff and for any attorney visits," the motion states.
Birch said Friday that he made the decision after consulting with members of the District Attorney's Office. Birch said the security procedure was put in place after doctors wanted to transfer Lesyshen from a secure area at Denver Health back to a non-secure area for treatment.
He said private visitations were not allowed for a nine-day period.
"It was a very unique situation, one that we erred on the side of caution," Birch said.
Birch said private visitations with attorneys once again were allowed when Lesyshen was transferred to the secure area called the Correctional Care Medical Facility. According to the Denver Health website, the 20-bed facility is aimed toward treating inmates and is guarded by Denver County Sheriff's Office deputies.
Birch said that in the next couple of weeks, they would review whether Lesyshen can be moved from the Correctional Care Medical Facility at Denver Health. Even once she is released, Routt County would not be able to meet her medical needs, Birch said.
Once Lesyshen is well enough, the Sheriff's Office is arranging to have her held at the infirmary at the Denver Downtown Detention Center. That would cost $586 per day plus the cost of medications and supplies.
By comparison, it costs $52.50 per day to house a healthy inmate at the Routt County Jail.
Lesyshen still has not been advised by a judge of the charges against her. It is unclear whether some court proceeding could occur via video conference between Denver and the Routt County Justice Center. Birch said it also is possible that Lesyshen would have to be driven to Routt County for court.
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Shake, Rattle and ... Power Up? A New MEMS Device Generates Energy From Small vibrations
|11:25:39 PM, Sunday, September 18, 2011
"Prominent scientists, including Sir David Attenborough and Richard Dawkins, have called on the government to toughen its guidance on the promotion of creationism in classrooms, accusing "religious fundamentalists" of portraying it as scientific theory in publicly funded schools.
Today's wireless-sensor networks can do everything from supervising factory machinery to tracking environmental pollution to measuring the movement of buildings and bridges. Working together, distributed sensors can monitor activity along an oil pipeline or throughout a forest, keeping track of multiple variables at a time.
While uses for wireless sensors are seemingly endless, there is one limiting factor to the technology — power. Even though improvements have brought their energy consumption down, wireless sensors' batteries still need changing periodically. Especially for networks in remote locales, replacing batteries in thousands of sensors is a staggering task.
To get around the power constraint, researchers are harnessing electricity from low-power sources in the environment, such as vibrations from swaying bridges, humming machinery and rumbling foot traffic. Such natural energy sources could do away with the need for batteries, powering wireless sensors indefinitely.
Now researchers at MIT have designed a device the size of a U.S. quarter that harvests energy from low-frequency vibrations, such as those that might be felt along a pipeline or bridge. The tiny energy harvester — known technically as a microelectromechanical system, or MEMS — picks up a wider range of vibrations than current designs, and is able to generate 100 times the power of devices of similar size. The team published its results in the Aug. 23 online edition of Applied Physics Letters.
"There are wireless sensors widely available, but there is no supportive power package," says Sang-Gook Kim, a professor of mechanical engineering at MIT and co-author of the paper. "I think our vibrational-energy harvesters are a solution for that."
Putting the squeeze on
To harvest electricity from environmental vibrations, researchers have typically looked to piezoelectric materials such as quartz and other crystals. Such materials naturally accumulate electric charge in response to mechanical stress (piezo, in Greek, means to squeeze or press). In the past few years, researchers have exploited piezoelectric material, or PZT, at the microscale, engineering MEMS devices that generate small amounts of power..."
Scientists Demand Tougher Guidelines on Teaching of Creationism in Schools
|10:15:30 PM, Sunday, September 18, 2011
"Prominent scientists, including Sir David Attenborough and Richard Dawkins, have called on the government to toughen its guidance on the promotion of creationism in classrooms, accusing "religious fundamentalists" of portraying it as scientific theory in publicly funded schools.
A group of 30 scientists have signed a statement saying it is "unacceptable" to teach creationism and intelligent design, whether it happens in science lessons or not. The statement claims two organisations, Truth in Science and Creation Ministries International are "touring the UK and presenting themselves as scientists and their creationist views as science".
"Creationism and intelligent design are not scientific theories, but they are portrayed as scientific theories by some religious fundamentalists who attempt to have their views promoted in publicly funded schools," the scientists say.
"There should be enforceable statutory guidance that they may not be presented as scientific theories in any publicly funded school of whatever type."
The scientists claim organisations such as Truth in Science are encouraging teachers to incorporate intelligent design into their science teaching.
"Truth in Science has sent free resources to all secondary heads of science and to school librarians around the country that seek to undermine the theory of evolution and have intelligent design ideas portrayed as credible scientific viewpoints. Speakers from Creation Ministries International are touring the UK, presenting themselves as scientists and their creationist views as science at a number of schools."
Free schools and academies were not obliged to teach the national curriculum and so were "under no obligation to teach evolution at all," it added.
Truth in Science denied advocating the teaching of creationism in schools. "We wish to highlight the scientific weaknesses of neo-Darwinism and to encourage a more critical approach to the teaching of evolution in schools and universities," it said in a statement.
Creation Ministries International was unavailable for comment..."
Synthetic DNA Added to Yeast Cells, Paving Way for 'Evolution' on Demand
|9:03:47 PM, Sunday, September 18, 2011
"Life forms have been created that carry strands of genetic material designed and built from scratch in the lab, paving the way for on-demand "evolution" of organisms.
Scientists made sections of chromosomes, the long molecules that bear DNA, and transferred them into yeast cells, of the kind normally used in baking.
The cells adopted the new genetic code as part of their normal cellular machinery and, to the scientists' surprise, appeared as healthy as their natural counterparts.
The feat is a big step towards the manufacture of completely synthetic organisms that could be designed to churn out biofuels, vaccines and industrial chemicals, said Jef Boeke, who led the study at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland.
Studies of bugs with synthetic DNA are widely anticipated to shed light on some of the toughest questions in biology, such as what is the minimal suite of genes required for life on Earth.
"We have created a research tool that not only lets us learn more about yeast biology, but also holds out the possibility of someday designing genomes for specific purposes, like making new vaccines or medications," said Jef Boeke, who led the study at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland.
Built into the synthetic chromosomes are genetic sequences that, when triggered by a chemical, dramatically rearrange the organism's genes. The technique, known as genome scrambling, allows scientists to accelerate the evolution of the organisms on demand, by creating thousands of new strains and collecting the best survivors.
The advance was made possible by powerful techniques that have emerged from rapid developments in genetics, computing and synthetic chemistry.
Boeke's work centred on a yeast known as Saccharomyces cerevisiae, one of the most well-understood organisms in the field of genetics. It has 16 chromosomes that together carry around 6000 genes..."
Dark Matter Packs a Punch: Milky Way's Spiral Arms Formed by Intergalactic Collision
|8:46:25 AM, Saturday, September 17, 2011
"The signature spiral arms of the Milky Way galaxy were likely formed by an epic collision between the Milky Way and the Sagittarius Dwarf galaxy, according to a University of Pittsburgh researcher and his collaborators, published today in the prestigious British journal Nature.
Supercomputer simulations by Christopher W. Purcell, postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Physics and Astronomy in Pitt's School of Arts and Sciences, and colleagues report their findings in a paper titled "The Sagittarius Impact as an Architect of Spirality and Outer Rings in the Milky Way."
This paper is the first to identify Sagittarius as the architect of spiral structure in our Milky Way. "It presents a new and somewhat unexpected way of thinking about why the galaxy we live in looks the way it does," says Purcell.
"Cosmologically speaking, it demonstrates the idea that relatively small impacts like this can have a dramatic impact on the structure of galaxies throughout the universe," he adds. This idea had been assumed theoretically, but never demonstrated.
Purcell's collaborators include University of California High-Performance AstroComputing Center (UC-HIPACC)-affiliates James S. Bullock, Erik J. Tollerud, and Miguel Rocha, all at the University of California at Irvine. The fifth coauthor is Sukanya Chakrabarti at Florida Atlantic University.
In the field of cosmology, supercomputer simulations are the only laboratories for scientific experimentation. With supercomputers, astronomers can recreate a small-scale simulation or model of distant, violent events that occurred over billions of years, and observe that model in sped-up time, in order to make predictions that can be tested by actual observations of the universe..."
Synthetic Lint Ends Up In Oceans
|8:31:29 AM, Saturday, September 17, 2011
"Every time a garment made from polyester or other synthetic fabric goes through the wash, it sheds tiny plastic fibers. Thousands of them. It turns out that these fibers end up fouling coastal environments throughout the globe, a global research team finds.
Itsy bitsy plastic pellets, such as those used for their abrasive qualities in products like skin cleansers and paint removers, also turn up in coastal sand, a separate study reports. Like polyester lint, these micropellets also go down the drain, through water treatment plants and into coastal waters.
The mass that microplastic bits contribute to marine pollution is small, concedes Mark Browne of University College Dublin, who led the fiber study. But that doesn't mean their impact is benign, he adds.
Browne's group sampled shoreline habitats at 18 sites on six continents. Plastic fibers polluted every one, with sites nearest urban centers hosting the most. At any site, microplastic fibers constituted more than 65 percent of the plastic pieces, by number (with the exception of sand-size pellets, which this study ignored).
Since earlier work had uncovered plastic fibers at land sites treated with sewage, the researchers sampled outflows from sewage-treatment plants. These waters also hosted acrylic and polyester fibers anywhere from 1 millimeter down to 10 micrometers in diameter.
This suggested that laundry might be a source. So over the next year, the researchers laundered individual garments and blankets in washing machines, running several empty cycles to clean out residual fibers between each wash. These tests "demonstrated that a single garment can produce greater than 1,900 fibres per wash," the researchers report online September 6 in Environmental Science & Technology. Fleece fabrics shed the most.
What really makes microplastics potentially dangerous is the contaminants they ferry, argues Anthony Andrady of North Carolina State University in Raleigh, a materials scientist and polymers specialist not connected with the new study. "In the ocean, plastics act like a sponge," he explains, absorbing and concentrating fat-soluble pollutants.
Indeed, in a study in the November 2010 Marine Pollution Bulletin, researchers in Portugal reported finding pollutant-tainted microplastic pellets..."
Strange Vent-Fellows: Chemosynthetic Shrimp, Tubeworms Together for First Time at Hydrothermal Vent
|8:12:40 AM, Saturday, September 17, 2011
"Ocean explorers on NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer observed two species of marine life scientists believe have never before been seen together at a hydrothermal vent -- chemosynthetic shrimp and tubeworms. They also observed the first known live tubeworms ever seen at a hydrothermal vent in Atlantic waters. The discoveries were made August 5-15 during an expedition to the Mid-Cayman Rise south of Grand Cayman Island in the Caribbean.
"On the very first ROV, or remotely-operated vehicle, dive, we observed abundant shrimp of a species different in appearance from other Mid-Atlantic Ridge species," said Professor Paul Tyler, Ph.D., a marine biologist from the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom who was aboard Okeanos Explorer. "These shrimp had characteristics previously seen only on shrimp containing chemosynthetic bacteria, and we identified them as such."
"During the ROV's second dive, we were witness to the first discovery of a live hydrothermal tubeworm in the Atlantic," said expedition Science Lead Chris German, Ph.D., chief scientist for the National Deep Submergence Facility at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts. "I will take that home as my personal key discovery moment for the cruise."
The two discoveries blended into what German described as an even more remarkable discovery. "Not only did we see extensive tube worm communities of differing sizes and shapes across the length and breadth of a large hydrothermal vent field, but we observed for the first time anywhere, chemosynthetic shrimp and tubeworms inhabiting the same hydrothermal site," he said.
"The significance of these observations is that the iconic symbol of Pacific vents is the tubeworm, while the iconic symbol of Atlantic vents is the vent shrimp," added Tyler. "To find both together has important implications for the evolution of vent communities in the Caribbean as the Atlantic became separated from the Pacific some five million years ago."
Chemosynthetic tubeworms and shrimp are unlike most other life on Earth that are photosynthetic -- relying on energy from the sun. These new hydrothermal animals, by contrast, exist on the deep and dark ocean floor where no sunlight penetrates. They derive energy instead, from chemicals that rise in the hot water of hydrothermal vents making them chemosynthetic.
Tubeworms rising six feet from the seafloor were first discovered in 1977 next to hydrothermal vents in Pacific waters at the Galapagos near where the underwater tectonic plates spread. Since then, smaller tubeworms have been found at seafloor cold seeps in the Gulf of Mexico, but until this discovery, have not been observed at vents in the Atlantic..."
Bats Adjust Their 'Field-of-View'
|8:08:32 AM, Saturday, September 17, 2011
"A new study reveals that the way fruit bats use biosonar to 'see' their surroundings is significantly more advanced than first thought. The study, published September 13 in the online, open access journal PLoS Biology, examines Egyptian fruit bats (Rousettus aegyptiacus), which use echolocation to orient inside their caves and to find fruit hidden in the branches of trees. Their high-frequency clicks form a sonar beam that spreads across a fan-shaped area, and the returning echoes allow them to locate and identify objects in that region. As these bats were considered to have little control over their vocalizations, scientists have puzzled over how they are able to navigate through complex environments.
The research team, led by Nachum Ulanovsky of the Weizmann Institute in Israel and Cynthia Moss of the University of Maryland, reports that these bats adapt to environmental complexity using two tactics. First, they alter the width of their sonar beam, similar to the way humans can adjust their spotlight of attention in order to spot, for example, a friend in a crowded room. Second, they modify the intensity of their emissions. "The work presented here reveals a new parameter under adaptive control in bat echolocation", says Ulanovsky.
Ulanovsky and his team trained five Egyptian fruit bats to locate and land on a mango-sized plastic sphere placed in various locations in a large, dark room equipped with an array of 20 microphones that recorded vocalizations. In one set of experiments, the researchers simulated an obstacle-filled forest by surrounding the sphere with two nets spread between four poles. To reach the target, the bats flew through a narrow corridor whose width and orientation varied from trial to trial.
In the obstacle-filled environment, the bats covered three times as much area with each pair of clicks as they did when the obstacles weren't there. The angle separating each two beams was also wider and the volume of the clicks louder, and these differences became more pronounced as they drew further into the corridor and therefore closer to their obstacles. This larger 'field of view' allowed the bats to track the sphere and the poles simultaneously, and avoid collisions while landing.
"This is the first report, in any sensory system, of an active increase in field-of-view in response to changes in environmental complexity," says Ulanovsky. Although these new findings may be unique to Egyptian fruit bats because of their rapid tongue movements, Ulanovsky explains that their results "suggest that active sensing of space by animals can be much more sophisticated than previously thought – and they call for a re-examination of current theories of spatial orientation and perception.""
Paris Ban on Muslim Street Prayers Comes Into Effect
|4:08:33 AM, Saturday, September 17, 2011
"A ban on saying prayers in the street, a practice by French Muslims unable to find space in mosques, has come into effect in the capital, Paris.
Interior Minister Claude Gueant has offered believers the use of a disused fire brigade barracks instead.
The phenomenon of street prayers, which see Muslims spreading mats on footpaths, became a political issue after far right protests.
France is home to the biggest Muslim minority in Western Europe.
By some estimates, as many as six million French people, or just under 10% of the population, are Muslims, with origins in France's former North African colonies.
Their integration has been a source of political debate in recent years, and earlier this year France became the first EU state to ban the wearing of the Islamic veil in public.
'Mosques co-operating'
The new ban came into force at midnight (22:00 GMT) on Thursday, in time for traditional Muslim Friday prayers.
Speaking earlier this week to Le Figaro, Mr Gueant said about 1,000 people were using two streets in the capital's multi-ethnic Goutte d'Or district for prayers.
He said an agreement had been reached with two local mosques for the state to rent out the disused barracks on Boulevard Ney with floorspace of 2,000 sq m (yds) for three years..."
Skull Points to a More Complex Human Evolution in Africa
|4:01:06 AM, Saturday, September 17, 2011
"Scientists have collected more evidence to suggest that ancient and modern humans interbred in Africa.
Reanalysis of the 13,000-year-old skull from a cave in West Africa reveals a skull more primitive-looking than its age suggests.
The result suggests that the ancestors of early humans did not die out quickly in Africa, but instead lived alongside their descendents and bred with them until comparatively recently.
The results are published in PLoS ONE.
The skull, found in the Iwo Eleru cave in Nigeria in 1965, does not look like a modern human.
It is longer and flatter with a strong brow ridge; features closer to a much older skull from Tanzania, thought to be around 140,000 years old.
Prof Katerina Harvati from the University of Tuebingen in Germany used new digitising techniques to capture the surface of the skull in detail.
The new technique improved upon the original measurements done with callipers by letting researchers see subtler details about the skull's surface.
"[The skull] has got a much more primitive appearance, even though it is only 13,000 years old," said Chris Stringer, from London's Natural History Museum, who was part of the team of researchers.
"This suggests that human evolution in Africa was more complex... the transition to modern humans was not a straight transition and then a cut off."
Prof Stringer thinks that ancient humans did not die away once they had given rise to modern humans..."
New Dolphin Species Discovered in Big City Harbor
|3:56:42 AM, Saturday, September 17, 2011
"An entirely new species of dolphin has been discovered in Australia, and not in some isolated lagoon but in the shadows of skyscrapers, scientists say.
One of only three new dolphin species found since the 1800s, the Burrunan dolphin—naed after an Aboriginal phrase that means "large sea fish of the porpoise kind"—is known from only two populations so far, both in the state of Victoria.
About a hundred Burrunan dolphins have been found in Port Phillip Bay near Melbourne, Australia's second most populous city. Another 50 are known to frequent the saltwater coastal lakes of the Gippsland region, a couple hundred miles or so away.
Dolphin DNA Surprise
It's longbeen known that distinct dolphin populations roam off southeastern Australia. But now DNA tests have shown that the creatures dolphins are genetically very different from the two recognized bottlenose dolphin species, the common bottlenose dolphin and the Indo-Pacific bottlenose.
The results were so surprising that the team initially thought there was a mistake and reran the tests, said study leader Kate Charlton-Robb, a marine biologist at Australia's Monash University.
"The main focus of the research was to figure out which of the two [known] bottlenose species these guys were," she said.
"But from the [DNA] sequences that we got, it turned out that they were very different from either of the two known species."
The team also examined dolphin skulls, collected and maintained by Australian museums over the last century, and determined that Burrunan dolphins have slight cranial differences that set the species apart..."
NASA Unveils New Rocket Design
|10:54:53 PM, Friday, September 16, 2011
"NASA revealed on Wednesday a design for its next colossal rocket that is to serve as the backbone for exploration of the solar system for the coming decades.
The rocket would be the most powerful since the Saturn V that took Americans to the moon four decades ago. NASA expects that it could lift astronauts on deep-space missions farther than anyone has ever traveled.
"We're investing in technologies to live and work in space, and it sets the stage for visiting asteroids and Mars," the NASA administrator, Major General Charles F. Bolden Jr., said at a news conference.
In an effort to speed development and control costs, the design is based on pieces from the just-retired space shuttles. The first stage would essentially be an elongated shuttle fuel tank, and it would use the same rocket engines. For the initial test flights, solid rocket boosters — stretched versions of the shuttle boosters — would be strapped on to provide additional thrust.
The first unmanned test flight of the first iteration of the rocket, able to lift 70 metric tons to low-Earth orbit, could fly as early as 2017. Future versions are to be more powerful, capable of lifting up to 130 metric tons.
The cost of developing the rocket is estimated at $10 billion over the next five years. The crew capsule where the astronauts would ride would cost $6 billion and the launching pad and other ground facilities would add another $2 billion, for a total of $18 billion.
Congressional backers of NASA hailed the announcement as resolving a standoff between Congress and the White House over the future of the space agency.
"This is a day we've been looking forward to for a long time," said Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas. "We wish it had been sooner, of course."
Last year, Congress passed a blueprint for the space agency calling for a rocket like the one announced Wednesday, and President Obama signed it into law. But NASA missed deadlines for announcing how it would implement the plan. In frustration, the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, where Senator Hutchison serves as ranking member, even issued a subpoena to NASA demanding information.
NASA has yet to work out the details of how it could use the new rocket, and the launching schedule beyond the first test flight will depend highly on future budgets. Internal NASA documents suggest that if the space agency's budget remains flat, providing about $41 billion between now and 2025, then the first manned flight would not occur until 2021, and the rocket would fly only once every two years, and NASA would not finish the 130 metric ton version until after 2030..."
Frankfurt: Lamborghini Sesto Elemento To Go Into Production
|10:49:46 PM, Friday, September 16, 2011
"Lamborghini has made an official announcement at the Frankfurt Motor Show in regards to the Sesto Elemento concept which was unveiled at last year's Paris Motor Show. President and CEO of Automobili Lamborghini, Stephan Winkelmann has confirmed that the concept will go into production. We are also expecting the production version to be identical to the Paris concept.
The production Sesto Elemento will be limited to a 20-unit production run and is planned for a launch in early 2013. This track-only 999 kg model will use a 570hp V10 powerhouse linked to an all wheel drive system. With those figures, the vehicle's power-to-weight ratio is set at 1.75 kg per hp, allowing the monster to hit 100km/h in just 2.5 seconds from a standstill.
It uses a carbon fiber monocoque made of forged composite and there is also extensive use of carbon fiber throughout the vehicle. Stephan Winkelmann said, "The excellent feedback and the numerous requests we've had from our customers have really convinced us to embark on the challenge of producing a vehicle with unique characteristics".
"We are proud that what a year ago was just a 'technology demonstrator' of future super sports cars, even though in working order, will become a small series reality," he added..."
FBI Teaches Agents: 'Mainstream' Muslims Are 'Violent, Radical'
|10:45:21 PM, Friday, September 16, 2011
"The FBI is teaching its counterterrorism agents that "main stream" [sic] American Muslims are likely to be terrorist sympathizers; that the Prophet Mohammed was a "cult leader"; and that the Islamic practice of giving charity is no more than a "funding mechanism for combat."
At the Bureau's training ground in Quantico, Virginia, agents are shown a chart contending that the more "devout" a Muslim, the more likely he is to be "violent." Those destructive tendencies cannot be reversed, an FBI instructional presentation adds: "Any war against non-believers is justified" under Muslim law; a "moderating process cannot happen if the Koran continues to be regarded as the unalterable word of Allah."
These are excerpts from dozens of pages of recent FBI training material on Islam that Danger Room has acquired. In them, the Constitutionally protected religious faith of millions of Americans is portrayed as an indicator of terrorist activity.
"There may not be a 'radical' threat as much as it is simply a normal assertion of the orthodox ideology," one FBI presentation notes. "The strategic themes animating these Islamic values are not fringe; they are main stream."
The FBI isn't just treading on thin legal ice by portraying ordinary, observant Americans as terrorists-in-waiting, former counterterrorism agents say. It's also playing into al-Qaida's hands.
Focusing on the religious behavior of American citizens instead of proven indicators of criminal activity like stockpiling guns or using shady financing makes it more likely that the FBI will miss the real warning signs of terrorism. And depicting Islam as inseparable from political violence is exactly the narrative al-Qaida spins — as is the related idea that America and Islam are necessarily in conflict. That's why FBI whistleblowers provided Danger Room with these materials.
Over the past few years, American Muslim civil rights groups have raised alarm about increased FBI and police presence in Islamic community centers and mosques, fearing that their lawful behavior is being targeted under the broad brush of counterterrorism. The documents may help explain the heavy scrutiny.
They certainly aren't the first time the FBI has portrayed Muslims in a negative light during Bureau training sessions. As Danger Room reported in July, the FBI's Training Division has included anti-Islam books, and materials that claim Islam "transforms [a] country's culture into 7th-century Arabian ways." When Danger Room confronted the FBI with that material, an official statement issued to us claimed, "The presentation in question was a rudimentary version used for a limited time that has since been replaced."
But these documents aren't relics from an earlier era. One of these briefings, titled "Strategic Themes and Drivers in Islamic Law," took place on March 21..."
911 by Bike - the Lost Tape (Never Seen Before 911 Footage)
|4:05:18 PM, Friday, September 16, 2011
-- Saved the link a few days ago, but only got a chance to give a look now. It's worth sharing.
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|11:45:27 PM, Thursday, September 15, 2011
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Toxic shock syndrome is a rare, life-threatening complication of certain types of bacterial infections. Often toxic shock syndrome results from toxins produced by Staphylococcus aureus (staph) bacteria, but the condition may also be caused by toxins produced by group A streptococcus (strep) bacteria.
Toxic shock syndrome historically has been associated primarily with the use of superabsorbent tampons. However, since manufacturers pulled certain types of tampons off the market, the incidence of toxic shock syndrome in menstruating women has declined.
Toxic shock syndrome can affect men, children and postmenopausal women. Risk factors for toxic shock syndrome include skin wounds and surgery.
Possible signs and symptoms of toxic shock syndrome include:
Call your doctor immediately if you have signs or symptoms of toxic shock syndrome. This is especially important if you've recently used tampons or if you have a skin or wound infection.
Bacteria, most commonly Staphylococcus aureus (staph), causes toxic shock syndrome. It can also be caused by group A streptococcus (strep) bacteria.
Toxic shock syndrome can affect anyone. About half the cases of toxic shock syndrome occur in menstruating women; the rest occur in older women, men and children.
Toxic shock syndrome has been associated with:
Toxic shock syndrome can progress rapidly. Complications may include:
You're likely to start by seeing your family doctor or a general practitioner. Here's some information to help you prepare for your appointment.
Preparing a list of questions for your doctor will help you make the most of your time together. For toxic shock syndrome, some basic questions to ask your doctor include:
Don't hesitate to ask other questions, as well.
Your doctor is likely to ask you a number of questions, including:
There's no one test for toxic shock syndrome. You may need to provide blood and urine samples to test for the presence of a staph or strep infection. Your vagina, cervix and throat may be swabbed for samples for laboratory analysis.
Because toxic shock syndrome can affect multiple organs, your doctor may order other tests, such as a CT scan, lumbar puncture or chest X-ray, to assess the extent of your illness.
If you develop toxic shock syndrome, you'll likely be hospitalized. In the hospital, you'll
The toxins produced by the staph or strep bacteria and accompanying hypotension may result in kidney failure. If your kidneys fail, you may need dialysis.
Surgery may be necessary to remove nonliving tissue (debridement) from the site of infection or to drain the infection.
Manufacturers of tampons sold in the United States no longer use the materials or designs that were associated with toxic shock syndrome. Also, the Food and Drug Administration requires manufacturers to use standard measurement and labeling for absorbency and to print guidelines on the boxes.
If you use tampons, read the labels and use the lowest absorbency tampon you can. Change tampons frequently, at least every four to eight hours. Alternate using tampons and sanitary napkins, and use minipads when your flow is light.
Toxic shock syndrome can recur. People who've had it once can get it again. If you've had toxic shock syndrome or a prior serious staph or strep infection, don't use tampons.
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| They conquer the runway, design fashion lines, host television shows, advocate for humanitarian efforts, and even find time to Tweet regularly. We're talking about supermodel moguls--extraordinarily impressive women whose beauty shot them to stardom and whose intelligence propelled them to worldwide acclaim. Instead of admiring from afar, we wanted know one thing--how do they do it? We caught up with Cindy Crawford, Kimora Lee, and Niki Taylor to find out the secrets behind supermodel success. Read their 15 tips for career and life--and see more models who mastered success--in the gallery!
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| "Listen to your inner voice and tell yourself you can do it and tell other people they can do it. Put out all the energy you want to come back to you." --Simmons
Example: Kimora Lee
In 2009, Forbes placed Kimora Lee as #9 on its list of Hollywood's Hardest Working Mothers, and we can certainly see why. At 13, she began to model under the guidance of Karl Lagerfeld, but soon took her work beyond the catwalk. Now the author, philanthropist, producer, Tony Award winner, fragrance creator, businesswoman, fashion designer, and reality TV personality always strives to be an inspiration with her "Fabulosity" mantra. Not only that, but she never forgets her followers despite her hectic lifestyle. She updates her Twitter daily and keeps a blog for her fans.
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| "It's important that human beings help other human beings. I've been given a second chance at life. I don't take anything for granted. Every day is a gift." --Taylor
Example: Niki Taylor
Taylor has modeled for L'Oreal, CoverGirl, Gap, Pantene, and a host of other brands, but all of that flashed before her eyes when she was critically injured in a car accident in 2001 and needed 100 units of blood. Since then, the model has bounced back and focused on projects that mattered to promoting her cause--she founded Begin Foundation for the Advancement of Women in Business, and serves as an ambassador to the American Red Cross. She also co-hosted Bravo's "Make Me a Supermodel" show, starred on "The Celebrity Apprentice," and launched a fragrance aptly titled "Begin."
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| "At a very young age I gave myself permission to take care of myself. So, if I wanted a facial, I could say, 'Oh, it's for work.' I knew it was important to take care of myself, physically, my body. I've been doing it for 25 years and now I don't even think about it." --Crawford
Example: Cindy Crawford
Crawford has commanded attention since she was discovered at 16. (That mole! That skin!) Outside of modeling, Crawford hosted the original "House of Style" on MTV, created workout videos, designed a line of home furnishings, launched her own line of skincare products, and serves on no less than three charity boards. Most recently, she became the face of Propel Zero, helping to raise awareness about the benefits of an active lifestyle. The working mother of two (with husband Rande Gerber) also makes time for herself.
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| "You can't get so caught up with something being perfect that you never make decisions. Don't let perfect be the opposite of good." --Crawford
Example: Kate Moss
Despite being shorter than model peers, five-foot-seven Moss rose to international superstardom for her "heroin chic" look. She also proved her strength when she survived through a tough drug scandal in 2005, and has since went on to create a collection with Topshop, pose for a variety of new campaigns, walk on catwalks like Louis Vuitton (shown), and support cancer research charities like Breakthrough Breast Cancer.
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| "I'm more choosy now because I always have something better to do, which is time with my family. With any new endeavor, I make sure it's something I'm passionate about so it's worth the time away." --Crawford
Example: Christie Brinkley
The longtime CoverGirl spokesmodel and Sports Illustrated Swimsuit favorite has also been an actress, host, author, illustrator, and animal rights advocate. Still a recognizable name at 57-years-old, Christie Brinkley proves that staying power means picking the right projects, and she most recently tore up the Great White Way starring as Roxie Hart in "Chicago" on Broadway.
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| "When I was young, did I think I could do it? Well, yes! So I did. Every day I meet people like that who are doing it and who want to do it." --Simmons
Example: Tyra Banks
She can smile with her eyes 100 different ways, but Tyra Banks knows more than just modeling. The longtime "America's Next Top Model" host and acclaimed talk show personality has already taken television by storm. This year, she studied at Harvard Business School and launched her new typeF website. And does she let anyone get in her way? No!
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| "I've learned to pick and choose what I support. And I can't feel bad if I have to turn something down, because sometimes I need a night at home with my family, a night where I'm not Cindy Crawford." --Crawford
Example: Claudia Schiffer
Schiffer's career included magazine covers (over 500!), multiple campaign and runway modeling contracts, film acting gigs, workout videos, and even a restaurant venture with other models. But in 2010, the soon-to-be mother of three explained that being a wife and mom helped her recognize the importance of taking time off for herself and her family.
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| "I should get the Oscar, the Oscar for multi-tasking! Being in business means being diverse. It's not a singularly driven thing." --Simmons
Example: Iman
Somali-born model Iman has her fingers in a little bit of everything. Now 55, she started modeling in her twenties, launched her own cosmetics, clothing, home, and jewelry lines, works with HSN, hosts Bravo's The Fashion Show, starred in movies, and is a spokesperson for Keep a Child Alive. On top of all that--she also speaks five languages, is a mom of two (stepmom of one more)and is married to David Bowie. Whew!
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| "Through business I try to speak to a certain woman that I represent." --Simmons
Example: Heidi Klum
With her bubbly personality and irresistible charm, Heidi Klum makes being a successful model, businesswoman, mother, and wife look easy, and that's how she connects to her fans. At 38, she's already covered magazines, inspired women with her post-baby body, hosted and produced "Project Runway," and launched affordable clothing lines (HKNB Heidi Klum for New Balance), jewelry (Wildlife by Heidi Klum for QVC) and a lifestyle website with tips for the everyday woman (HeidiKlum.AOL.com).
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| "Sometimes things don't need to be perfect. If I sign up to make something for a bake sale, I don't need it to be the most labor intensive thing. There are places where you can delegate and not get obsessed." --Crawford
Example: Elle Macpherson
Australian model Elle "The Body" Macpherson has so much on her plate that it's a wonder how she does it all! As the head of Elle Macpherson, Inc.--which includes a line of intimates, a skin care line, and a series of workout videos--she has to delegate. The 48-year-old also parlayed her time in front of the camera into television, starring on The Beautiful Life, hosting "Britain's Next Top Model" and NBC's upcoming "Fashion Star" show (shown filming above).
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| "One of the things I get from work is this sense of a job well done, and the self-esteem that goes with that. When people have that in their lives from outside, it takes the pressure off their relationship with their significant other." --Crawford
Example: Naomi Campbell
Campbell first started modeling at 15. Now 41, the British beauty is still at it, appearing on runways for Louis Vuitton, Issa, Hermes, and more. In 2005, she founded two charities--We Love Brazil to fight poverty in the South American country and Fashion for Relief, in which she organizes fashion shows to raise money for victims of global charities like Hurricane Katrina, the India terrorist attacks, and most recently, the Japan earthquake. She has been honored multiple times for her dedication to charity.
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| "Hopefully, we push one another to do great things. It's about the sisterhood. I think that idea of fabulosity will go on forever, and the ones who don't want it, we just call them the haters." --Simmons
Example: Christy Turlington
Turlington, 42, rose to fame as the face of Calvin Klein for two decades and starred in Maybelline's "Maybe She's Born With It" campaigns. Now, she's so much more than a pretty face--she produces documentaries (on topics spanning fashion and global maternal health), works with international humanitarian organization CARE, and is a (RED) ambassador. The mom of two (with husband Ed Burns) also pursued a master's degree in public health from Columbia University.
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| "Every day I want to be fabulous. It's not about how much money you have or how much free time you have. It's about things that are inside." --Simmons
Example: Gisele Bundchen
Bundchen topped off Forbes' list of the World's Top-Earning Models for the seventh year in a row in 2011, but she knows how to use her power for good. The Brazilian beauty serves as an environmental ambassador for the United Nations, lent her face to American Express's (RED) card to raise money for Africa's HIV/AIDS victims and was honored with Harvard's 2011 Global Environmental Citizen Award. The wife of Tom Brady and new mom is always working on new projects--her goals are infinite!
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| "I can be my own worst enemy, but it's important to have positive, strong people around you. I get good feedback and encouragement all the time from my team and my husband." --Taylor
Example: Milla Jovovich
Jovovich is one of the most successful models-turned-actresses. After modeling for years, she landed her breakthrough role in "The Fifth Element" alongside Bruce Willis, and went on to star in the successful "Resident Evil" franchise. More than modeling and acting, she also started a fashion line, released music albums, owns her own production company Creature Entertainment, and supports charity work in her native country Ukraine and around the world.
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| "Sleep is very important. It's important for your body to recover and I think sleep keeps me feeling energized." --Taylor
Example: Linda Evangelista
Who needs her sleep more than Canadian model Linda Evangelista, who was famously quoted saying: "We don't wake up for less than $10,000 a day." In her career, she's been on the cover of hundreds of magazines, and starred in campaigns for L'Oreal, Prada, and even Talbots. She is often spotted supporting of AIDS research fundraisers, dinners, galas, and more. And, as one of the world's top supermodels--still, to this day--she needed her beauty sleep!
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Noted filmmaker here for screenings, March 1-2
Posted February 24, 2005; 05:01 p.m.
Noted filmmaker William Greaves will attend screenings of two of his works and participate in discussions Tuesday and Wednesday, March 1-2. Both will begin at 4:30 p.m. in the Stewart Film Theater, 185 Nassau St .
On Tuesday, "Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey" will be shown and followed by a discussion with Cornel West, the Class of 1943 University Professor of Religion. On Wednesday, "Symbiopsychotaxiplasm, Take 2-1/2" will be screened and discussed by Su Friedrich, professor in the Council of the Humanities and visual arts.
A former actor, Greaves has been making films since the 1950s. He has won more than 70 international film festival awards, including an Emmy and four Emmy nominations. His honors include the first award for lifelong achievement in film and for contributions to black theater from the National Black Theater and Film Festival. This past December, he received a career achievement award from the International Documentary Association.
His 2001 documentary on Nobel laureate and United Nations diplomat Bunche, narrated by Sidney Poitier, aired on PBS and at the Sundance Film Festival.
"Symbiopsychotaxiplasm, Take 2-1/2" is a sequel to Greaves' 1968 film, "Symbiopsychotaxiplasm, Take 1," that was never released theatrically but has become legendary. The sequel, for which Steven Soderbergh and Steve Buscemi served as executive producers, was screened this year at Sundance.The March 1-2 events are designated as the Faber Lecture and the John Sacret Young Lecture and are presented by the Program in Visual Arts in conjunction with the Program in African-American Studies and the Film Studies Committee.


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IDW to produce 50th Anniversary Doctor Who Maxi-Series
IDW has produced some pretty cool Doctor Who comics, not to mention the Doctor Who/Star Trek the Next Generation crossover they are currently putting out (Issue 6 (of 8) will be out this week!), and have recently relaunched the ongoing title with Andy Diggle writing and art by Mark Buckingham. Now they are joining in to the Doctor's 50th Anniversary (the program debuted on the BBC on November 23, 1963) with a new 12 issue Maxi-series called Doctor Who: Prisoners of Time. Each of the first 11 issues will feature a different Doctor, (beginning with the original, William Hartnell) The … Continue reading


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CORINTH — The annual Heritage Festival is set for Friday and Saturday at the Crossroads Museum in Corinth.
The Daily Corinthian reports there will be arts and crafts displays, historical re-enactments, music and other activities focused on the history of Corinth.
Demonstrations will include broom making, candle and soap making and pottery crafting.
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K-1 World MAX Final Four This Sunday
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This Sunday, February 23rd, K-1 will host the K-1 World MAX Final Four in Azerbaijan event. This event will feature the Final Four for the 2013 K-1 World MAX tournament, with the winners moving onto the Finals in May. The event will be streamed for free, live on http://www.k-1.tv on Sunday starting at 16:00 GMT time (we'll let you guys do your own time conversion, we usually mess it up). In the top two fights we'll see two-time K-1 World MAX Champion Buakaw Banchamek vie for a spot in the Finals against tough-as-nails Korean Lee Sung-Hyun and two up-and-comers in Enriko Kehl and Shane Campbell battle for the other spot.
On top of that there are a bunch of tremendous bouts between some of the top future stars in the sport.
- Amil Shakhmarzade vs. Zakaria Zougarry
- Ruslan Kobzev vs. Dennis Ippema
- Ziya Bayramov vs. Omar el Amrani
- Ismat Agazade vs. Cedric Manhoef
- George Colin vs. Agalar Sadikhzade
- Alim Nabiev vs. Chad Sugden
- Miodrag Olar vs. Babek Rustamov
- Marco Groh vs. Tural Bayramov
- Fabio Kwasi vs. Moises Ruibal Martinez
- Moises Baute vs. Fabian Gondorf
- K-1 World MAX Final Four: Buakaw Banchamek vs. Lee Sung-Hyun
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Sharon also said it well "In the beginning, competitions were used to find the best dogs of a breed. Today, dogs are bred for specific competitions rather than for the breed standard first and then competitions, and I don't see that changing, sadly. "
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The understanding I have is a person can buy extra tags, as many as you want until there gone. IM gonna have to read it again.
10 new Hunters wont Hunt the 2nd year when the 1st year they couldnt have a quality Hunt because of Hunter pressure.
I think anyone for this is thinking of the convenience to Hunt anytime over preserving the resource and safety and a quality Hunt.
I guarantee you April will be crazy with Hunters.