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I have installed OpenSuse at work, and my admin fixed some problems with my login. The login worked at work, I also restarted PC and tried it after restart, it was fine too. But then I came home I couldn't login (both GUI and terminal doesn't work), it says "No logon servers". I thought that's only a problem at home, but I tried it at work and I'm getting the same message.
Login as root works, but my login not.
How can I try to fix the "No logon servers" problem?


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Biology A Level (Distance Learning) at National Extension College *Fees Payable*
Course description
This distance learning course in biology takes a close look at more advanced aspects of this branch of science, including genetics, biodiversity and forensic pathology. If you want to work in a profession that incorporates biology, such as health care, environmental conservation or pharmaceuticals, an A level in the subject is an essential starting point. It's also a necessity if you wish to study for a degree in biology, and serves as an excellent subject to either study alongside other sciences or as a complementary choice with more essay-focused subjects.
You should allow for between 250 and 300 hours' study time, plus additional time for completing assignments. You will have tutor support for a period of up to 18 months from the date of enrolment.
Course content
Unit 1: Lifestyle, transport, genes and health
- Topic 1: Lifestyle, health and risk
- What is cardiovascular disease?
- Who is at risk of cardiovascular disease?
- Risk factors for cardiovascular disease
- Reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease
- Topic 2: Genes and health
- The effects of cystic fibrosis on the lungs
- Why is CF mucus so sticky?
- How does CF affect other body systems?
- How is the CFTR protein made?
- What goes wrong with DNA?
- How is cystic fibrosis inherited?
- How is cystic fibrosis treated?
- Testing for CF
Unit 2: Development, plants and the environment
- Topic 3: Voice of the genome
- In the beginning
- From one to many: the cell cycle
- How development is controlled
- Genes and environment
- Topic 4: Biodiversity and natural resources
- Why are there so many different species?
- How did organisms become so well adapted?
- Quantifying biodiversity
- Making use of biodiversity
- On the brink
Unit 3: Practical biology and research skills
- Practical skills
- Visit or issue report
Unit 4: The natural environment and species survival
- Topic 5: On the wild side
- What is an ecosystem?
- Ecosystems rely on energy transfer
- Is the climate changing?
- Why are global temperatures changing?
- Predicting future climates
- Coping with climate change
- Adapt or die
- Getting the balance right
- Topic 6: Infection, immunity and forensics
- Forensic biology
- Cause of death
- The body's response to infection
- The body's response to TB
- The body's response to HIV and AIDS
- Could the infections have been prevented?
- Are there treatments for AIDS and TB?
Unit 5: Energy, exercise and coordination
- Topic 7: Run for your life
- Getting moving
- Energy for action
- Peak performance
- Breaking out in a sweat
- Overdoing it
- Improving on nature
- Topic 8: Grey matter
- The nervous system and nerve impulses
- Reception of stimuli
- The brain
- Visual development
- Making sense of what we see
- Learning and memory
- Problems with the synapses
Unit 6: Practical biology and investigative skills
- Practical skills
Entry requirements
GCSE Science (double award) or GCSE Biology (minimum grade C) or Intermediate GNVQ Science or a BTEC First in Science is advisable.
Please note that due to upcoming changes the final opportunity to sit exams for this course isSummer 2016.
Four exams: 1hr30m (20% of marks), 1hr30m (20% of marks), 1hr30m (20% of marks and 1hr30m (20% of marks)
Six AS assignments, six A2 assignments
Two coursework tasks centred around 20 core practicals (20% of marks)
Financial information
It's your choice: pay in full and discount your course fees, or spread the cost with our finance offer. To pay in instalments, you will need to enrol by telephone.
Representative examples:
Course fee: £545
Deposit: £54.50
Amount of credit: £490.50
Monthly payment: £81.75
Duration of agreement: 6 months
Total repayable: £545
Rate of interest: 0%(fixed)
0% APR representative.
Course fee: £325
Deposit: £32.50
Amount of credit: £292.50
Duration of agreement: 6 months
Total repayable: £325
Rate of interest: 0% (fixed)
0% APR representative.
- EU – £75 for the first course and £40 for second and subsequent courses
- Rest of the world – £130 for the first course and £70 for second and subsequent courses
Further information
Essential textbooks
- University of York Science Education Group, Salters-Nuffield Advanced Biology for Edexcel AS Biology Student Book, Pearson Education, 2008
- University of York Science Education Group, Salters-Nuffield Advanced Biology for Edexcel A2 Biology Student Book, Pearson Education, 2009
You do not need laboratory access for this course, but there is a strong practical element, with two coursework tasks centred around 20 core practicals. However, our bespoke home study A level biology course has been specially designed by experts to be completed at home and all of the practicals can be carried out around the house, using equipment that you should be able to obtain without difficulty from high street shops.
You will need some scientific equipment, including safety goggles, a small pipette and a thermometer, but these – and everything else you will need – are all available from shops selling pharmaceuticals, hardware, toys and kitchenware. You will also need a compound microscope, but you should be able to buy a basic example relatively inexpensively.
You will receive a full list of all the equipment you'll require for this course with your course materials.
How to apply
If you want to apply for this course, you will need to contact National Extension College *Fees Payable* directly.

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|Similar to the Turbo 1.5, but slightly larger, the Turbo 2.0 includes a large main compartment accessible via a 270 degree zipper for easy loading and unloading, and an insulated hydration bladder pocket.
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Benjamin Wallace-Wells, a staff writer at New York magazine, recently wrote an essay so sure to be controversial that he began it with a disclaimer.
"Let me make clear my position up front," he writes in the article, The Case for the End of the Modern Zoo. "I love zoos."
Yet he goes on to argue that while zoos do some good for animals and bring a lot of joy to humans, ultimately there is no justifying a life of captivity for so many wild creatures.
He points to "a long-term 1983 study of animal mortality at the San Diego Zoo [that] found cannibalism and infanticide, widespread malnutrition, and frequent deaths from tranquilizer use." He notes that the territory of a wild polar bear is "one million times" the size of their space in a typical zoo. He reviews the evidence against SeaWorld raised by the documentary "Blackfish," which alleged that their star orca was kept "nearly all the time, alone in a tank that measured twenty feet across."
Wallace-Wells takes as a starting point a profile in The New York Times Magazine by Alex Halberstadt, which details the work of Dr. Vint Virga, a skilled veterinarian "whose full-time job is tending to the psychological welfare of animals in captivity." But while the story is a glowing portrait of Virga, it suggests some dark truths about zoos in general. As Wallace-Wells writes:
Most of the issues are hard to imagine arising in the wild. A brown bear develops a form of obsessive compulsive disorder, repeatedly, almost ritually, smashing his head into a metal door in his enclosure. A harbor seal is uneasy about being treated by the vet. A giraffe develops a compulsive fear of men with large cameras. Halberstadt writes, "Disorders like phobias, depression and OCD, documented at zoos, don't appear to have analogues among animals living in the wild."
Harvard psychologist Irene Pepperberg, renowned for her work with gray parrots, tells Halberstadt that the difference may be because the cushy lives of zoo animals have made them a bit soft. "An animal in the wild can't afford to be depressed," she says in the Times piece. "It will simply be killed or starve, since its environment requires constant vigilance."
Zoos, Wallace-Wells acknowledges, let animals live with much more safety and security than they would in the wild, with devoted caretakers and medical attention. And they certainly have become more progressive over the years and more responsive to the needs of the animals in their care.
But zoos ask us to pretend that we are observing truly wild animals in an acceptable simulacrum of their natural habitat. That illusion may be crumbling.
So much confinement and artifice is bound to drive the animals crazy, Wallace-Wells argues, even if they've never known anything else.
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Lost Planet 2
Version and / or Patch Used: Benchmark Demo
Timedemo or Level Used: Built in Benchmark - Test A Scene 1
Developer Homepage: http://www.capcom.com/
Product Homepage: http://www.lostplanet2game.com/
Lost Planet 2 is a third-person shooter video game developed and published by Capcom. The game is the sequel to Lost Planet: Extreme Condition which is also made by Capcom, taking place ten years after the events of the first game, on the same fictional planet. The story takes place back on E.D.N. III 10 years after the events of the first game. The snow has melted to reveal jungles and more tropical areas that have taken the place of more frozen regions. The plot begins with Mercenaries fighting against Jungle Pirates. After destroying a mine, the Mercenaries continue on to evacuate the area, in which a Category-G Akrid appears and attacks them. After being rescued, they find out their evacuation point (Where the Category-G appeared) was a set-up and no pick up team awaited them. The last words imply possible DLC additions to the game, "There's nothing to be gained by wiping out snow pirates... unless you had some kind of grudge."
Across the board you can see that Lost Planet 2 numbers are almost identical with every setup. The reason for this is that we're limited by only the GPU power we've got on offer.
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IUCN's Regional Programme for Oceania is partnering with the Secretariat for the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) and the University of the South Pacific (USP) to host the second annual Pacific Future Environment Leaders Forum in Suva this week.
The Pacific Future Environment Leaders Forum brings together 40 young professionals from around the Pacific to examine the role of leadership in the fight to combat climate change. Participants will examine what it means to be a good leader in the Pacific and how good leadership is vital to the process of countering the effects of climate change, a pressing issue for Pacific island countries and their communities.
"The development and nurturing of good leadership amongst the youth of today will serve the Pacific well into the future," says Director of IUCN's Oceania Programme, Taholo Kami.
"We want to see a cadre of motivated, caring and inspired individuals working together with their communities towards real and lasting changes in our region's conservation, natural resource management and overall development practices," says Mr Kami. "This Forum offers aspiring leaders a chance to reflect critically on their own leadership qualities."
The forum aims to provide participants with the skills and support that will empower these 'future leaders' to build partnerships and momentum within their communities to foster adaptation to climate change.
Participants will explore areas such as Leadership for the Future, Adapting to Climate Change and Engaging People in Community Based Projects throughout the three day forum. The Forum participants will also develop their Vision for Leadership on Climate Change, to be presented at the IUCN World Conservation Congress in Barcelona later this year.
IUCN staff member, Luisa Tagicakibau, will be attending the Forum on behalf of the recently formed Young Professionals in Conservation Network in Fiji.
The Forum, which is being held at Suva's Southern Cross Hotel from 12-14 March 2008, is a joint initiative between SPREP, USP and IUCN with funding from the British High Commission, Suva.


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�Nootsie,� Dory Hines to lead teams tonight in Wilson
Curtis �Nootsie� Hines and Dory Hines have come a long way to get where they are tonight: facing off against each other in the first game of the 2013-14 college basketball season.
That�ll happen tonight in Wilson as the brothers from Kinston lead their respective squads � Nootsie�s Shaw University Bears and Dory�s Mount Olive College Trojans � in the Barton College Classic.
Their game begins at 6 p.m. � and there will be a large contingent of Kinstonians on hand for the game to see the brothers face off.
Their biggest fan is their mother, Shonda Hines.
�I want both guys to have a great successful game,� she said. �I want them both to leave everything on the court and to have a good time. But the biggest concern is that Nootsie can�t allow Dory to get in his head; they�re brothers, they play on teams together in the summer and they know each other�s strengths and weaknesses. No one knows them better than those two.
�Dory knows the way he can beat Nootsie is to do it mentally. But the Nootsie I�ve watched will not let that be the case.�
They are seniors for their respective teams. Nootsie, (6-foot, 4-inches, 195 pounds) and Dory (6-foot, 2-inches, 184 pounds) are both former Kinston High School basketball stars. Nootsie, 23, graduated from KHS in 2007, while Dory, 21, is a 2010 graduate.
And although there�ll be hundreds of folks from Kinston in attendance, one of their good friends won�t be able to make it.
�They�re my two best friends and I know it�s going to be a great game,� said Reggie Bullock, a rookie guard for the L.A. Clippers of the NBA. �I know they�re going to compete hard against each other. I really wish I could be there.�
Nootsie�s journey
Nootsie�s mother said he wanted to play basketball from the time he started to walk.
�From the minute he knew what a basketball was, he had to have one,� Shonda said. �He wouldn�t even get on the school bus without having a basketball in his hands.�
His first basketball was a multi-colored ball that had ACC team logos on it, she said.
�That ball stayed with him until he was 10 or 11,� she said with a laugh.
Nootsie�s journey to tonight�s game didn�t take the traditional route. He signed with Louisburg College out of high school, but never played a minute for the Hurricanes. He ended up at Lenoir Community College, where he played two seasons while earning NJCAA All-America honors.
However, he struggled with his academics at times � but eventually improved his grades to earn a scholarship to Shaw University.
�It�s been a blessing,� Nootsie said. �A lot of people would�ve given up, but I love basketball so much. I had to do whatever I had to do to get to the situation I�m in now. I thank God every day for everything He�s done to bless me. He�s taught me patience and given me a good family who would never let me give up.�
Dory said he�s proud of how hard his big brother has worked.
�I admire him a lot,� Dory said. �He�s been through a lot, going from Louisburg to LCC to Shaw. He�s put in a lot of time and a lot of work through the years, but especially this past summer. He never quit, he�s never given up and he�s earned everything he has.�
Their mother agreed.
�It would�ve been easy for him to quit,� Shonda said of Nootsie. �But his desire to play basketball, to make his community and family proud, has driven him.�
Dory and Nootsie�s high school coach, Wells Gulledge, said he�s proud of both the brothers.
�It�s been a crazy way of getting to the same place Dory is at for Nootsie,� Gulledge said. �But he�s found a way to grind it out, to do what he needs to do to get where he is today. It took some humility, some scolding and a whole lot of hard work and he�s here now.�
Nootsie�s college coach described his star guard as a �fun-loving guy and a prankster.� But Cleo Hill Jr. said Nootsie has a strong competitive drive and has improved markedly from last year to this season.
�He has grown in maturity, and not just in basketball,� Hill said. �He�s improved in his schoolwork and his approach to his teammates, especially to the freshmen. On the court, he�s able to do more because of his improved conditioning.�
Three years behind Nootsie, Dory said he looked up to and admired his big brother. As a freshman, when Dory�s junior varsity basketball practice would end every day, he said he�d hang around and watch Nootsie � then a senior � practice with Reggie Bullock, Bo Ingram, Miguel Starkey and the rest of the Vikings varsity squad.
�I really looked up to (Nootsie) because he was my big brother and he�d tell me things I really needed to hear and needed to know,� Dory said.
Bullock, who was a freshman when Nootsie was a senior, said he enjoys Nootsie�s game.
�Nootsie can shoot the heck out of the ball,� Bullock said. �He can also put it on the floor and get to the rim. He never takes bad shots and knows how to come off screens.�
Dory�s journey
Dory comes into tonight�s game as one of Mount Olive College�s top point guards in the past couple of decades. After helping lead Kinston to two state titles alongside Bullock, he signed with MOC and made an immediate impact for the Trojans.
Over the past three seasons, Dory has blossomed into one of the top point guards in the country � even leading NCAA Division II in assist-to-turnover ratio last season.
�Dory Hines is the type of player that will do whatever it takes to win,� MOC head coach Joey Higginbotham said. �He�s been an unbelievable human being to coach and to be around. He�s a leader on and off the court. I lean on Dory tremendously � not only as a player, but as another staff member, too. If we had to put a model of what our program wants to be about, it would be Dory Hines.�
Gulledge is friends with former UNC head coach Matt Doherty, who said Dory�s game reminds him of former Tar Heel great and NBA player Raymond Felton.
�There�s not many kids built like Dory Hines,� Gulledge said. �I�m not taking anything away from any of the kids who came through our program, but he�s special. At the end of the day, in my whole coaching career, if the Russians are coming, I want him on my team.�
Shonda Hines really didn�t think he�d play basketball, because he didn�t have the same level of love for the game that Nootsie did. She recalled a Lenoir Community College youth basketball camp where she paid for both to participate.
She received a call from a camp counselor on the first day, though, that Dory wanted to come home.
�They told us Dory didn�t want to participate,� Shonda said. �I was like, �We paid our $75,� but we went out and picked him up. He took a little break from basketball but after watching Curtis play all the time at games, he ended up getting back into it.�
Nootsie�s voice swelled with pride when he spoke of Dory.
�I�m very proud of my brother,� Nootsie said. �He�s gone down the right path and made all the right choices.�
Bullock said he thoroughly enjoyed playing with Dory.
�Dory is always willing to step up to the challenge and guard anybody,� Bullock said. �He�s a pass-first point guard who is always ready to get his teammates involved. He�s a team leader, on and off the floor.�
Tonight�s game
The coaches have already decided that on the game�s tipoff, Nootsie and Dory will be matched up against each other. The brothers said they have already thought about what they�re going to do at the tipoff.
�I�m not going to let him get a wide-open 3,� Dory said.
Nootsie said, �I�m just going to let him shoot a jumpshot. I�m going to lay off him a bit. If he can hit a jumpshot, we�ll live with it.�
Although the game wasn�t set up intentionally for the brothers to play against other on opening day, Higginbotham said he�s excited for the Hines family.
�I think it�s special, not just for Dory and Nootsie but for Miss Shonda, who has been a great influence in both of their lives,� he said. �But Dory is so unselfish, I bet he�d rather just get the game behind him; he�s not the kind of person who wants all the attention and limelight. He�s just a down-to-earth, good Kinston kid who I love to death.�
Everywhere she�s gone, Shonda said she�s been asked about the game, so she has organized buses to go to tonight�s game in Wilson. To ride the bus, it�s only $5 � and all proceeds will go to the Rochelle Middle School girls� basketball team, which she coaches. A ticket to the game, which is available at the Barton College box office, is $5.
She�s had so much demand, one bus is already full � and she�s taking reservations for a second one.
Shonda has also had T-shirts made for the momentous occasion, which are available for $10 or $12. For more information on either the bus or T-shirts, call her at 252-268-2746.
Game predictions
So who win�s tonight�s game?
�Nootsie and Dory will both win the game, in my eyes,� Shonda said with a laugh. �I told somebody that one team would end up with more points than the other, and I�ll just leave it at that!�
Their stepfather, Reggie Clark, said he anticipates a good game tonight.
�Both of them are very competitive and love to win,� Clark said. �But they really love each other, and they�re always rooting for the other.�
Gulledge, who is in Mount Olive College�s Athletic Hall of Fame, said his prediction is easy.
�I don�t even have to hesitate: Mount Olive,� Gulledge said of his pick. �I hope Nootsie has a great game and I�ll pull for him on every shot he takes. But at the end of the day, Dory and the Trojans are the ones I�ll be rooting for.�
Guess who Nootsie picked?
�There�s no doubt Shaw University wins the game,� Nootsie said. �There�s a new nucleus of players, but if we can keep Dory out of the paint and make him become a scorer, we�ll win the game.�
And Dory?
�The main thing is that I want us to come out with the win and for (Shaw) to come out with the �L�,� he said.
Regardless of the final score, Gulledge knows one certainty.
�At the end of the night, both guys will be about their teams and not about themselves,� Gulledge said. �And that�s awfully rare these days.�
Bryan C. Hanks can be reached at 252-559-1074 or at email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter at @BCHanks.
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Need a ride to the game?
If you�d like to avoid having to drive to tonight�s game, you can ride a bus. It departs from Rochelle Middle School at 4 p.m. for the 6 p.m. game start.
Cost to ride the bus: $5
Game ticket: $5
Commemorative T-shirt: $10 or $12
For more information: Call 252-268-2746
Note: all proceeds from the bus ride will go to the Rochelle Middle School girls� basketball team


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Restaurant Shows Us All How To Deal With Negative, Trolling Online Review
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We've seen a wide range of methods businesses have devised for dealing with less than praising online reviews of their operations. Some choose to threaten libel. Others promise fines. Still others invoke a sort of holy legal wrath, with the weight of the Almighty tipping the scales of justice. Mind you, none of these methods does much to ingratiate the business to the public and often backfires completely by bringing attention to the negative reviews that otherwise would have been completely absent. A new method is clearly needed.
That's where the Atomic Grill in Morgantown, WV, comes in. They too were faced with an online review that was not only not entirely positive, but also incorporated the caveman-ish request that employees of the eatery "show more skin", because food without near-nipple just doesn't taste as good, apparently. The owner of the grill, Daniel McCawley, was understandably less than pleased.
"It was brutish. I was upset. I'm a father of a 12-year-old girl and I've got five sisters," McCawley said. "The way that women are treated is pretty personal as far as I'm concerned."Agreed. But what to do about it? Lawsuits don't seem to work, as shown above, and anger on its own isn't all that effective. Plus, there's that probably-not-correct platitude that "the customer is always right." So McCawley decided to marry his revulsion to that concept and concede defeat to the review in the best way possible. He decided to "show more skin."
From now through Memorial Day, Atomic Grill will be offering a potato skin special for $7, and 100% of the proceeds will go directly to the West Virginia Foundation for Rape Information Services. He said the restaurant has so far received a "tremendous" amount of support. "My Facebook blew up overnight," he said. "I really hope this will be a positive thing."So, he provided "more skin" in the form of potato skins, avoided any legal nonsense, showed himself to be an admirably level-headed business owner while still retaining a moral compass, and subsequently generated a ton of goodwill and publicity for his business. That's how it's done, overly legal business owners. A little humor mixed with social shaming does the job so much better than profit-milking lawyers.
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Author Charles Stross has given the world many a flight of futuristic fancy — post-human worlds where androids carry on our legacy, bank robberies committed inside online games, and god-like meddlers — but what does he think the world will really be like in the next 20 years?
On his blog, Stross has been posting some amazingly comprehensive predictions for what the years 2032 and 2092 will look like. In the first post, "World building 301," he looks largely at the technological advances he thinks are likely to occur in climate sciences, energy, transport, medicine, and space travel, and also makes his predictions for the state of the population and our food supply. So, will we be on Mars by 2032? Stross says maybe, but probably not:
Space: Is a red herring in the short term. China will have a space station and maybe a flag on the moon. The USA will continue to send out increasingly sophisticated robot probes and might still be operating a space station. They might even have planted a flag on the moon (again) and have plans to go to Mars. (On the down side: a major political or fiscal crisis might be enough to do unto NASA what the collapse of the USSR did to the Soviet space infrastructure.) There will probably be continued commercial development in low earth orbit, including an orbiting hotel (for the plutocrats to play bunga-bunga games). And Elon Musk might still be in business and going balls-out for Mars. But by 2032 I don't expect there to be any major breakthroughs.
And if his dissertation on life in 2032 weren't enough, Stross extends his predictions all the way out to 2092, and what he envisions isn't pretty: a screwed up environment and mass extinction of animal species, with large chunks of the earth uninhabitable to humans.
In "World building 302," Stross gets into more of the social aspects of his eventually crumbling future, putting particular emphasis on the effect of life-extension and regenerative treatments of human culture. There's a really fascinating bit where he speculates on the possibility that improved understand of our brains and subsequent medical advantages might lead to more cognitively flexible middle-aged and older adults, resulting in less bigotry even as our population grows older. Good stuff.
And, although he doesn't have as firm predictions for the future of our sexual lives, he does consider the subject:
Speaking of supernormal sexual stimuli, Peter Watts has speculated that just as Photoshop retouching has corrupted our idea of beauty sufficiently good VR or teledildonics may offer us sexual experiences via machine that are so much better than person-to-person real world sex that, well, nobody wants to make the nasty any more. I'm not sure it's going to go that far, any more than pervasive access to porn on the internet has debauched and depraved our entire society in the past decade or so, but some subcultures/sexualities are unlikely to be mainstreamed because they are frankly harmful to third parties. It is interesting to speculate that teledildonics or VR may not only offer a distracting supernormal sexual stimulus to us, but be tailored to channel individuals with paedophile, necrophile, or other societally unacceptable desires into a non-harmful direction. Or at least in a direction that doesn't harm human beings.
It's worth buckling down and reading both pieces in their entirety, even if Stross's ultimate view of the future is incredibly frightening.
World building 301 and World building 302 [Charlie's Diary via Metafilter]


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The Global Climate Change Initiative (GCCI): Budget Authority and Request, FY2010-FY2015
Description: This report discusses financial assistance for global climate change initiatives in developing countries. The Global Climate Change Initiative (GCCI) -- one of the three main pillars to the 2010 directive -- aims to integrate climate change considerations into relevant foreign assistance, from FY2008 enacted funding request for FY2010 through the FY2014.
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Our purpose at the Ohio Northern University Child Development Center is to provide the university students, the community of Ada, and the surrounding areas a model of exceptional childcare and education for children. The child development center will create collaboration amongst the care and education that is facilitated at the center and the opportunity for students to observe and participate in the child's learning experiences. The center takes pride in our highly educated teachers and thoroughly trained staff. The child development center also strives for a safe and positive environment that captures a child's optimal learning capabilities and interests through exploratory opportunities.
The CDC is licensed by the State of Ohio and enrollment is open to any 3 to 5 year old children from Ada and the surrounding communities.
Our philosophy includes the following :
- Each child is a unique individual with specific gifts and talents.
- The needs of the whole child must be considered and nurtured when planning any activity or environment for young children.
- Parents are the primary educators of their children and we serve to support the family in its child-rearing role.
- Children must be nurtured and respected as they go about their everyday role of work through play.
- We acknowledge that growth during the early years is uneven and that each child learns at his/her own pace. As such, developmentally appropriate curriculum is planned to meet the needs of each child.
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Our house is "pet-sitting central" for a number of friends in and around Smithfield Township. My four boys love caring for animals and it's been a great way for them to learn responsibility and earn a little spending money.
Our house is "pet-sitting central" for a number of friends in and around Smithfield Township. My four boys love caring for animals and it's been a great way for them to learn responsibility and earn a little spending money.
Recently, our friend called to ask if Shaun, who's 14, could walk the dogs while they went away for a weekend wedding. Then he asked if we knew about the rabbits. Hmmm "� did this have something to do with the half dozen, somewhat oversized domesticated bunnies that were cavorting in our yards?
"You've seen the rabbits then?"
"Uh, maybe"�"
"There are 27. I'm busy building hutches."
Our friends' daughter had cared for rabbits in outdoor hutches before she went to college. Turns out, two years ago, they'd given three to her grandmother mother, who had a large enclosure outside her home in New Jersey and, despite cautions to keep them separated, 'Mom' let them cohabitate and, well, bunnies are very social creatures.
So here was a gift that had multiplied and kept on giving: There were now 27, and that was with a high attrition rate. Fast forward and, following a recent fall, his mom was having walking difficulty, so Brad had temporarily brought her to stay at their home and with her, the 27 bunnies. Watership Down! Our friend was rapidly becoming an expert at constructing hutches his wife and a few neighbors (including a veterinarian who confirmed that it is nearly impossible to tell a rabbit's sex visually) got a kick out of watching the rabbits frolic along the pathways in their enclosed garden.
By the time our friends were leaving on their four-day trip, all but 10 had been rounded up into hutches for their temporary stay, and the ones romping freely had naturally found holes under the fence to venture through the woods to places well beyond, such as our yard. One large black hare would sit guard-like in that classic chocolate rabbit pose, in front of our next door neighbor's house until periodically startled by their dog, prompting it to race around their house once, then return to sitting. A pair of smaller — but still larger than your garden variety cottontail — gray rabbits gamboled about together, rustling in the myrtle and leaves of our side garden. A big white, skanky rabbit agitated others and had evidently been in a few tiffs.
My two older teens, who were up some brotherly bonding, good-naturedly took it upon themselves to catch these remaining bunnies-on-the-lam. (Okay, if they were writing this, they were performing a civic duty, saving the world from rampant Leporids, and perhaps in the case of Skanky, employing a holy hand grenade per Monty Python.) They were quite successful, capturing nine with surprising ease. Late that afternoon, they presented me with one English Spots (a white bunny with black ears and markings) and a dilemma: They couldn't simply put him in one of our friend's hutches with his long-eared friends, as apparently not all rabbits get along. Yet, a white rabbit running free would be easy prey for hawks. So they brought up the large wire dog crate and bunny can be our temporary guest. (Besides, I was taken by his crooked Charlie Chaplin moustache.) The kids were delighted and not about to give me a moment to reconsider having Hoss.
Rabbits are relatively low-maintenance. My husband would occasionally pass by the crate and call out, "Clean up in Aisle 1." Without complaint, one of the boys would appear and roll up layers of newspaper while another let out Hoss for a chance to explore on the hardwood floor. We saw Hoss was happy to munch on carrot peels and tops, apple peel and even a piece of bread, in addition to commercial rabbit food. When cabbage was abundant the week of St. Patrick's Day, the produce manager at ShopRite let us scoop discarded outer leaves from a trash bin and fill a sizeable bag for free. My young son — Luc, 10 — eagerly offered a leafy treat and the bunny contentedly nibbled it, but seemed to prefer parsley. Besides being cute and soft, the bunny kept itself clean, often grooming and washing its face, catlike, and using its front paws to fold a long black ear across its face (go ahead and say it: "Awww!").
When our friends returned from their trip that Monday night, son Kyle let them know we had one of the loose bunnies. I'm not sure we've ever seen them happier as they sent the boys home with a bagful of rabbit pellets and loaf of bread; the next day he made us a cheesecake embellished with a jam bunny face.
A few days later, Hoss was found to be a "she": After a day of shredding newspaper with her teeth and nesting, bunny delivered two stillborn kits. (This happened to be an extremely educational event and fodder for a "bird-and-bees-and-bunnies" talk with our youngest.)
Thus, Hoss was renamed 'Pfeffer' and the boys are in the process of picking a mate for her, which they will dub 'Hoss' so that together they will be — in name only — 'Hoss-n-Pfeffer.' At least until it's time for the rabbits to return to their farm.


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News@Cisco Week in Review and Look Ahead: March 7-11
Miss anything this week? No worries! Check out the top stories from Cisco and see what to look out for next week!
1.) Talk2Cisco: Work Life Redesign – What You Need to Know
Talk2Cisco will be broadcasting live on Tuesday, March 15 at 10 am PT! Join Cisco executives Carlos Dominguez and Lance Perry as they share the benefits of incorporating web 2.0 technologies into work and life! Follow @Talk2Cisco on Twitter for updates on the broadcast and see you live on Tuesday!
2.) The Future of Television: What Can You Expect?
Cisco's Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG) offers predictions on the future of television, basing its research on interviews and the examination of three industry drivers — technology, consumer behavior, and business models.
3.) Book Publishing: A Faster, More Social Approach
The book publishing industry is stuck in a rut and desperately needs new ideas. The Domino Project, a publishing platform that uses the power of social media to help writers spread their ideas and connect to readers could be the answer according to writers Marc Gunther and Seth Godin! Read more about how the book publishing business is becoming more social!
4.) Top Tech Tips: Building the Ideal Home Entertainment System
Does it take you awhile to adopt new technology? If so, then this is the article for you! Check out this fun, tipped-filled article aimed at those who don't fall into the early adopter or fanatical enthusiast set.
Here is some stuff to look out for next week…
- The Dawn of the Networked Remote Control Feature: After half a century, the familiar clicker is being replaced by smart phones and tablets. Find out more about the new remote control on Monday!
- Machine-to-machine mobile communications emerges as new growth area: M2M mobile communication is any situation where one machine communicates with another over the mobile network, without human intervention. Learn more about this new development next week!
- South by Southwest Music + Film + Interactive Festival kicks off today in Austin, Texas and the Cisco Media Solutions Group is participating in force this year! Check out this video about what to look forward to at SXSW and stay up-to-date with the festival and what Cisco is up to by following the Digital Media blog!
Have you followed our new Cisco News Twitter handle yet? If not, be sure to follow @CiscoNews for up-to-date news and information from Cisco!
Also, we are launching a new corporate news site soon! Check out the video below to learn a little more. Have a great weekend!
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Statement on the 2012 Washington U.S. Senate race
On Friday, the NW Daily Marker's Bryan Myrick sparked some attention to the idea that I might consider running against U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell when he penned this story about me being mentioned as a potential candidate by Washington State Republicans. Since Bryan's story posted, I've received calls and messages from friends around Washington, former White House colleagues and quite a few reporters wanting to know about the speculation.
As I've told everyone who's contacted me, my focus is on marrying and starting a life with my beautiful fiance, Priscilla Jones (slideshow of the proposal here!). I'm very excited for that journey to begin. I also want to say that I appreciate all of the kind words I've received from folks all over the country. They've meant a great deal to me. Below is the full statement that I've shared with reporters, as well as a few links to some of the stories about the topic.
"My immediate focus is on marrying the woman of my dreams on September 10.
I have spoken with leaders in this state and my former White House colleagues about the idea of running for the United States Senate. I'm flattered that individuals I worked with to defeat the disastrous state income tax proposal last year believe that I could provide a positive voice for Washington in the U.S. Senate.
Washington, DC, is broken. Voters of this state are hungry for principled leadership which addresses the serious fiscal crisis that politicians like Sen. Cantwell have caused. Sen. Cantwell and her allies in our nation's capital are busy burying our children and grandchildren in a blizzard of debt. This has got to stop. Rather than tackle the big issues of getting Americans back to work and putting our economic house in order, it seems the only jobs program in Congress is the one where they try to preserve their own. We deserve better.
In the coming weeks, I'm going to continue to plan my wedding with my lovely fiancé, Priscilla Jones. After September, I'll work to grow my business and will consider this opportunity to be a constructive voice for Washington."
NW Daily Marker – Former WH Dep. Press Sec. Stanzel Mentioned As Possible Challenger to Cantwell
The Daily Caller – Dana Perino confident about chances of former deputy against Sen. Cantwell
CNN – Former Bush aide mulls Senate bid
National Journal – Can Republicans take on Cantwell?
Associated Press – Former presidential spokesman considering challenge to Sen. Cantwell
Reuters – Former Bush aide Stanzel considering Senate run
NW Daily Marker – Dana Perino Warns Democrats to Beware Taking Stanzel Lightly Against Cantwell
The Seattle Times – Cantwell raises nearly $1.4 million in the second quarter
Red County – Scott Stanzel for US Senate?
Seattle Weekly – Matt Baretto on Scott Stanzel/Maria Cantwell Matchup
Roll Call – Stanzel Confirms Interest in Cantwell Senate Challenge
National Review Online – Stanzel vs. Cantwell in Washington State in 2012?
Yahoo News – Former WH official Stanzel mulls Senate bid
O'Dwyers (PR trade publication) – Former Bush, Microsoft PR hand mulls Senate bid


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Some people confuse 'climate' with 'weather' - but if 'climate' and 'weather' are the same, why would there be two words?
Other people say "We call climate change 'winter' and 'summer'...."
What does the word 'climate' mean?
It normally means the average of conditions over 30 years.
Climate normally means 'an average over 3 conventional decades'.
A conventional decade is, for example, 2001-2010, or 1961-1970.
So ..... 3 full, conventional decades......such as 1981 to 2010.
For example .... rainfall in Ireland.
And another example - 'Average temperature 1951-1980'
The definition of 'climate' goes back at least 100 years.
So if we are discussing climate change, that is what 'climate' means.
But in recent times, there has been a lot of variation in global temperatures.
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NICHOLSON - Brenda Lynne Hill, 61, died Monday, July 1, 2013 at Northridge Medical Center.
She was born in Commerce, the daughter of the late Langford and Evelyn Ray Wilburn. She was a member of Webbs Creek Baptist Church and was a homemaker. Mrs. Hill was preceded in death by her husband, Ernest Hill; and son, Clay Wilburn.
Survivors include daughters, Laura Bray, Homer, and Lee Hill, Loganville; son, Ernie Hill, Jefferson; brother, Wayne Wilburn, Winder; and two grandchildren.
A memorial service will be held at 1 p.m., Saturday, July 6, at the home of Mrs. Hill's daughter, Laura Bray, 270 Garrison St., Homer. The family will receive friends at any time at the home of her daughter, Laura Bray.
Little-Ward Funeral Home, Commerce, is in charge of arrangements.
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New Monsignors January 23, 2013 at Sacred Heart Major Seminary
Vespers service at Sacred Heart Major Seminary on January 23, 2013, for eight new monsignors named by Pope Benedict XVI: Msgr. Ronald T. Browne, Msgr. John F. Hall, Msgr. Timothy D. Hogan, Msgr. Michael G. Hrydziuszko, Msgr. H. Thomas Johnson, Msgr. Russell E. Kohler, Msgr. Gary T. Smetanka and Msgr. Daniel J. Trapp. Photos by Larry A. Peplin. Rights owned by Archdiocese of Detroit.Read More


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Pasta e fagioli, or pasta bazoo as Chris's father called it when he was growing up.
The beans are borlottis from Rancho Gordo. Recipe was a combination of this austere New York Times rendition with a baroque version from the Dean & Deluca cookbook. The latter differs mainly in starting with a mirepoix and using a rind of Reggiano (which fortunately I'd had sitting in my fridge for over two years) in the sauce.
The dish is a strange combination of a pasta, a soup and a stew, and is deeply rich and satisfying.


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Sunshine Week, which begins with today's start of daylight saving time, is when we assess the degree of openness of our government's policymaking and operations through its Sunshine Laws. An important part of understanding the operations of the government is having knowledge about how the government works.
Are you ready to test your knowledge of the federal government? Take this 10 question quiz and find out how much you really know.
We'll release the aggregated results next week, so don't forget to share it with your friends.


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Beyonce Writes Letter to Michelle Obama + President Still Thinks Kanye Is a 'Jacka—'
Undoubtedly, Beyonce loves being a mom to Blue Ivy. So it's only right that she salutes fellow mom Michelle Obama for her exceptional job at juggling motherhood and managing duties at the White House.
On her newly-revamped website, Bey posted a heartfelt message to Michelle calling her "an ultimate example of a truly strong African-American woman."
She writes:
"No matter the pressure and the stress of being under the microscope — she's humble, loving and sincere. She builds and nurtures her family, while also looking out for so many millions in so many ways.
Michelle, thank you so much for every single thing that you do for us — I am proud to have my daughter grow up in a world where she has people like you to look up to."
While Beyonce was penning an appreciation letter to FLOTUS, President Obama decided to give Kanye West a backhanded compliment. In a profile about Kanye for the Atlantic, writer David Samuels asked Obama about his rap preference between Jay-Z and his 'Watch the Throne' partner.
"Jay-Z," he said, adding, "Although I like Kanye. He's a Chicago guy. Smart. He's very talented."
When Samuels reminded Obama of previously calling Kanye a "jackass" for crashing Taylor Swift's acceptance speech at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, he still stood by his statement. "He is a jackass," he said. "But he's talented."
Despite POTUS' backhanded compliment, Yeezy is probably not fazed by his comments. Like our man from the U.K. said in his viral video, Kanye is probably just projecting his "I Don't Care" swag like a missile.


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08 Feb, 2012, 09:00 GMT
ROTTERDAM, The Netherlands and GHENT, Belgium, February 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --
arGEN-X, a biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and development of human monoclonal antibodies from its proprietary SIMPLE Antibody™ platform, announces that it has progressed ARGX-111, its third therapeutic candidate, into formal preclinical development.
ARGX-111 is a novel, fully human antibody specific for c-Met, a receptor tyrosine kinase involved in cell proliferation, angiogenesis and metastasis. c-Met is widely implicated in multiple cancers, including non small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), gastric, prostate and brain tumors. ARGX-111 has been shown in several preclinical models to outperform clinical-stage anti-c-Met antibodies in terms of potency and efficacy.
ARGX-111 was selected from a panel of more than 60 antagonistic anti-c-Met antibodies generated from the SIMPLE Antibody™ platform, several of which have specificity for previously unknown epitopes on c-Met. ARGX-111 exhibits the unique ability to block both ligand-dependent and independent receptor activation, while avoiding agonistic activity. In addition, the antibody demonstrates potent cytotoxic effects against c-Met over-expressing tumor cells.
Next to its ultra-high potency, ARGX-111 has other important characteristics that make it a very attractive development candidate. ARGX-111 has a fully human sequence and structure, and expression and stability studies indicate that it can be manufactured at consistently high quality and yield.
arGEN-X anticipates filing an IND application for ARGX-111 in 2013.
ARGX-111 is one of five therapeutic antibody programs under development at arGEN-X for the treatment of autoimmune disorders, inflammation and cancer. The initiation of formal preclinical development for ARGX-111 marks the third program to progress to this stage in only 26 months since the start of the Company's operations.
arGEN-X' most advanced preclinical program is ARGX-110, a fully human antibody with unprecedented neutralization potency for a novel T- and B-cell receptor involved in haematological malignancies, solid tumors and autoimmune indications. An IND application for ARGX-110 is anticipated in early 2013.
Commenting further on the Company's progress, Tim Van Hauwermeiren, CEO of arGEN-X, said: "To have identified an antibody with such potency, specificity and excellent development potential for a target as important as c-Met is a major step in the validation of our unique SIMPLE Antibody™ platform. The highly attractive profile of ARGX-111 was recognized as an exciting investment proposition in our EUR27.5 million fundraising in December 2011. Our progress in successfully applying our transformational technology and rapidly building a best-in-class product pipeline puts arGEN-X in pole position to deliver its business plan in the coming years."
About arGEN-X- http://www.arGEN-X.com
arGEN-X is a preclinical stage biopharmaceutical company with a broadly applicable, proprietary SIMPLE Antibody™ platform, a world-class source of fully human antibodies with differentiated qualities and outstanding therapeutic potential. The platform excels in delivering large panels of ultra-high potency, functionally diverse antibodies against complex disease targets, especially cell surface receptors and highly conserved proteins. Antibody leads generated from the SIMPLE Antibody™ platform have outstanding physicochemical properties and consistent manufacturability, thus enabling a seamless transition from discovery into development. Superior choice in discovery enables arGEN-X to prioritise leads with best-in-class therapeutic properties and thereby increase the probability of success later in development. The Company has validated its technology on almost a dozen diverse classes of target to date.
arGEN-X' SIMPLE Antibody™ platform is based on the active immunisation of Camelids with target antigens to deliver antibody variable regions that are essentially identical to those of human antibodies. The combination of those variable domains with human constant domains generates full size, human therapeutic antibodies.
The SIMPLE Antibody™ platform is covered by broad patent claims, enjoys an independent, unencumbered patent position and is free of target gatekeeping restrictions.
arGEN-X™ and SIMPLE Antibody™ are deposited trademarks of arGEN-X BV.
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The Webelos Scout Program prepares boys who have completed third grade or are age 10 but have not yet completed fifth grade or reached age 11 1/2 to bridge into a troop. Pronounced "WEE-buh-los", the word "Webelos" means WE'll BE LOyal Scouts. After earning the Bobcat badge, a boy may earn the Webelos Badge and Arrow of Light Award. Shorter Webelos Scout Programs are available for Webelos who start in fifth grade to earn their Arrow of Light in as little as six months.
The Webelos Program is more challenging than Lion, Tiger, Wolf, and Bear programs for younger Cub Scouts. Webelos Scouts take part in Cub Scout pack meetings and activities as well as Webelos den meetings, activities, and outdoor fun. Webelos Scouts can earn Webelos & Arrow of Light Adventure Pins at any time. The Webelos uniform has eight parts (seven required, one optional).
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I often make the group shot part of the actual workshop as opposed to it just being an add-on. This way the group can see the photo from inception to completion and be part of the process rather than just having their picture taken. The theme was urban, so we decided to use a parking garage as our set.
This time we've ended up with a behind-the-scenes iPhone shot taken by Sean Galbraith:
and the actual group shot from the front:
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US Supreme Court hears historic same-sex marriage case
WASHINGTON – In the opening day of oral arguments for two historic gay marriage cases, Supreme Court justices wrestled with the questions of whether marriage itself is an institution defined by a couple's sex and tied to producing children, and whether redefining it could lead to societal harm.
The nation's highest court Tuesday also questioned whether nine justices should weigh in on an issue on which public opinion is shifting rapidly, even as they heard a challenge to California's voter-approved 2008 ban of same-sex marriages.
The closely watched arguments could prompt the court to establish the constitutional right for gays to marry in all states.
Or the court could do nothing at all. As a legal matter, striking down the California ban would take the Supreme Court into "uncharted waters,'' said Justice Anthony Kennedy, raising the question whether the court may find itself uncomforable inserting itself into the volatile social issue.
Charles Cooper, the attorney arguing on behalf of gay marriage opponents, said marriage between a man and a woman is in the best interest of society because only such a union could lead to "responsible procreation.'' Since gay couples do not have the biological capacity to produce children together, the equal protection clause under the constitution does not apply to them, he argued.
In a spirited debate over the purpose of marriage, Justice Elena Kagan compared denying gays and lesbians the right to marry with denying couples over age 55 a marriage license simply because of their slim chances of bearing children.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg asked why a prisoner, locked behind bars with no possibility of procreating, should then have a right to marry.
Voters in California banned gay marriage six months after the state Supreme Court endorsed such unions. Proposition 8 amended the state's constitution to only recognize marriages between a man and a woman. Lower courts had declared the gay marriage ban to be unconstitutional.
Theodore Olson, the attorney for the two California couples challenging the ban, said the amendment unfairly discriminates against gays and lesbians by walling them off from the institution of marriage, which he argues is an individual right. Procreation is not a fundamental part of marriage, he said.
Heterosexual couples have always been allowed to marry whether or not they intend to have children. And gay couples have become parents through adoption, surrogacy and artificial insemination.
Olson tangled with Justice Antonin Scalia who challenged him repeatedly to answer his question of when it became unconstitutional to prohibit homosexuals from marrying. Scalia asked him whether the case would still stand if the California amendment known as Proposition 8 were enacted before the court allowed gay marriage.
Solicitor General Donald Verrilli, Jr. also urged that the California ban be struck down because the state has already extended all substantive rights and responsibilities of marriage to gay and lesbian domestic partners. That reasoning also results in the Constitution requiring marriage equality in seven other states that recognize domestic partner rights.
The significance of the case will ultimately depend on how the court rules. The court could reverse the lower-court decision and let the state ban stand, or it could uphold the decision and end the ban in California. It could also declare all state bans against gay marriage to be unconstitutional.
Massachusetts became the first state to legalize gay marriage in 2003. Eight other states, plus the District of Columbia, have followed suit. But 31 states have bans against it.
Public support for gay marriage has grown to an all-time high of 58 percent, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll published last week. That is a dramatic flip from 2010 when more people opposed same-sex marriage than supported it.
Gay marriage supporters and others intent on witnessing history slept in line outside the Supreme Court for five days, through rain and snow. This morning they gathered their folding chairs and sleeping bags, and the first 50 were ushered inside the court room.
Others spent the night with no hopes of claiming a coveted public seat. Instead, they secured prominent posts in front of the courthouse steps, holding signs promoting marriage equality along with rainbow flags and American flags.
"There is no where else I'd rather be,'' said J. Mary Sorrell, who says she became Massachusetts' first openly lesbian justice of the peace in 2004 and has officiated the weddings of numerous gay couples from around the world. "This is the civil rights issue of our day, and I don't take it for granted.''
Sorrell, of Haydenville, Massachusetts, said that when gay marriage was allowed in Massachusetts, "I could feel there would be reverberations way beyond our little Commonwealth. But I didn't think that just nine years later we'd be here at the Supreme Court oral arguments.''
Sara Conklin, a 23-year-old from Jacksonville, Fla. who works for the Human Rights Campaign in Washington, spent the night in front of the court with 50 others from her coalition to claim a broad swath of space for a rally that is expected to draw 10,000 people today.
"We need a lot of bodies here showing support,'' Conklin said. "The fact that Proposition 8 happened is an embarrassment to the state of California.''
Linda Sanderson, 44, of Rockville, Maryland, came alone, holding a banner emblazoned with a pair of wedding rings and a rainbow.
"I just hope the Supreme Court decides on the right side of justice,'' said Sanderson, who hails from Michigan but fled the state with her partner, a teacher, after voters decided against benefits for domestic partners. "I think they need to mind their own business, with all due respect.''
Opponents of gay marriage were not visible in front of the Supreme Court on Tuesday morning.
On Wednesday the court will hear a challenge to the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, which bars married gay couples from receiving federal marriage benefits such as spousal disability, Social Security and family medical leave. The federal law defines marriage as a union between one man and one woman. President Clinton, who signed the law, recently recommended that it be overturned.
A Gallup poll two weeks ago found that the majority of Americans – 54 percent – would vote for a law conferring marriage benefits such as those for insurance, taxes or Social Security to spouses of federal employees in same-sex marriages. Only 39 percent said they would vote against such a law.
President Obama, who last May became the first president to announce his support for gay marriage, has said he think the law is unconstitutional and his administration has declined to defend it. He again championed the right of gays to marry in his inaugural address in January.
The court is expected to hand down decisions in both cases in June.
"The court has a really important role here and its job is to protect minorities,'' said Ara Gershengorn, partner with the Boston-based law firm Foley Hoag and the co-author of an amicus brief filed on behalf of former cabinet secretaries and other senior administration officials who are against the Defense of Marriage Act.
"It may be that the political process will get there,'' Gershengorn said, referring to growing popular support for gay marriage. "But the job of the court is to determine if this is violating the constitutional rights of these individuals today.''


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Adult starlet believes 'we have a social responsibility to keep adult entertainment restricted to adults.'
By: Justin Bourne, www.avn.com
Posted: 08/18/2008
LOS ANGELES - The Association of Sites Advocating Child Protection has released a new public service announcement featuring Teravision President and multi-award winning adult actress Tera Patrick along with her husband, musician and actor Evan Seinfeld, for the Restricted to Adults website label.
The RTA public service announcement, available for viewing on YouTube, features Patrick and Seinfeld discussing the RTA website label and encouraging parents to use parental filtering software in order to protect children from viewing age-inappropriate content.
"Internet service providers, browsers, filtering software, and even computer operating systems such as Microsoft's Vista offer parental control options," ASACP CEO Joan Irvine said. "For those systems to work, websites intended for 'adults only' need to be labeled as such. RTA makes that possible."
The video is the third in an ongoing series of public service announcements produced by the ASACP featuring different adult entertainment stars. Previous announcements featured Wicked Pictures contract performer, writer and director Stormy Daniels.
"Evan and I believe in making the Web a safer place for children and we are doing our part as industry professionals," Patrick said. "We truly believe our message in the public service announcement. It is not for appearances, but we take it to heart. Certain sects of our society and our government have the adult industry under a microscope using it as a scapegoat for all things unholy. We have a social responsibility to keep adult entertainment 'restricted to adults.' We are so honored to have been approached by ASACP, and to be included in such an important message. Stormy Daniels is not only one of my peers, but a friend and I am proud to stand alongside her, in the name of something as important as the RTA label. If we don't police ourselves, someone else will."
Plans are being made to make ASACP's public service announcement series available in formats that can be used on cable networks and on DVDs.
The adult entertainment industry is doing their part Irvine explained. "We are thrilled that Tera and Evan have volunteered their time in order to remind other parents to do their part by utilizing parental filtering options."
RTA has been honored by the American Society of Association Executives and The Center for Association Leadership, Washington, DC. Additionally ASACP has received Certificates of Recognition from Congresswoman Jane Harmon and the Mayors of Los Angeles, San Diego, Redondo Beach, and West Hollywood acknowledging ASACP's efforts to help parents prevent their children from viewing age-inappropriate content with the RTA website label.
RTA is the adult entertainment industry's initiative to protect children from viewing content that is age-inappropriate. It was developed by ASACP out of a need for an easy to use and internationally recognized label that designates content for adults only. Parental filtering software recognizes the tag and prevents children from viewing adult content. The RTA label is free and universally available. ASACP launched RTA in November 2006 and it now has nearly 5 million page link-ins.


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BUFFALO, N.Y. – University at Buffalo researchers are preparing to conduct a major study that analyzes how Tonawanda Coke plant emissions have affected the health of area residents and employees.
A federal judge ordered Tonawanda Coke to fund the $11 million Tonawanda Health Study after the company was convicted of violating the Clean Air Act and Resource Conservation and Recovery Act.
The verdict was appealed, but the UB research team is moving forward with early planning of the multi-year project. The scientists will work with the court to finalize the scope of the study, and are working to convene an external and independent advisory committee to ensure transparency and scientific excellence for all research activities that may be conducted.
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"Area residents have been coping with environmental concerns for many years, and we want to listen to them and engage them as partners in our work," says Jim Olson, UB Distinguished Professor of pharmacology and toxicology and director of the Division of Environmental Health within the Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health. "What are their concerns? We want to know."
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He threw me ball #1 near the beginning of batting practice, and then went on a generous binge of tossing balls to virtually every fan in attendance during the Pirates STH only time. I believe every ball he shagged was flipped into the bleachers. As a side note, Hanrahan's toss to me was my 100th thrown ball of 2010.
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Game: 7 balls ( 3 hit, 2 thrown, 1 device, 1 found )
Season: 465 balls (234 hit, 101 thrown, 62 device, 62 found)
Balls in the month of August: 114
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Efforts by the Tuscaloosa County Preservation Society to find a new home for the century-old Searcy House in downtown Tuscaloosa have so far been unsuccessful.
Efforts by the Tuscaloosa County Preservation Society to find a new home for the century-old Searcy House in downtown Tuscaloosa have so far been unsuccessful.
Now, officials are making a public plea for help and asking anyone with property in or near downtown to lend a hand.
"What we're trying to do now is reach out to the community and see what options are available in the private sector," said Katherine Richter, executive director of the Tuscaloosa County Preservation Society.
Specifically, the society is seeking a benevolent landowner to donate space to be used for the new site of the Searcy House, which was sold in July at auction to a lone bidder and eventually wound up the property of the First Baptist Church.
Church officials have said the lot at the intersection of Eighth Street and Greensboro Avenue, where the Searcy House has stood since 1904, is planned for a parking lot, but they have agreed to let the Preservation Society have the structure at no cost if it can find a place to put it.
Richter said the society was given 90 days starting Sept. 1 to locate a site.
With downtown public lands no longer an option — federal grants for both Annette Shelby and Capitol parks prevent the erection of new structures, Richter said — she is now turning to the private sector.
"We've done our best to look around and see what lots are open and possibly available and try to reach out to those property owners," Richter said. "We're doing absolutely everything we can as soon as we can."
Preferably, the landowner would have space near the existing Searcy House site. Richter said that would cut the moving expenses.
An Alabama-based company has examined the house and determined it is safe for moving, but going just a few blocks is expected to cost $150,000 to $200,000.
"And the further away from the original location we go, the more it's going to cost," Richter said.
Local historic preservationists attach a great deal of significance to the Searcy House, one of the last remaining residential structures of several that lined Greensboro Avenue in the early 20th century.
The late Marvin Harper, a Tuscaloosa-area historian, said it was one of the first large houses built at a time when Tuscaloosa was more socially and financially active.
The house was constructed in the neo-Revival style of architecture by George Searcy, a prominent Tuscaloosa businessman. It once featured six white, fluted Ionic columns that are now missing in the front. It contains a cylindrical spiral staircase constructed in 1840 that was salvaged from the E.N.C. Snow House, which once sat on the site of the present Tuscaloosa County Courthouse.
The Snow staircase was moved during the Searcy House's renovation in 1986 by the Tuscaloosa County Board of Education. In addition to creating office space for the board's needs, the renovation served to restore and protect many of the Searcy House's original features, such as several mantels, a large decorative leaded-glass window on the second floor, additional leaded-glass windows and transoms throughout the house and the three sets of usable pocket doors with the original hardware.
In the basement, the original brick and masonry houses the coal-fired furnace — now unused — that once warmed the home.
Tim Higgins, a co-founder of the recently formed historic awareness group Preserve Tuscaloosa, said he is hopeful the Searcy House can be saved but expressed doubts of that being possible without the assistance of local governments.
While it was once the property of the county school board and, before that, the Tuscaloosa County Commission, no efforts were made to keep the property in the public's hands when the Board of Education decided to sell it and move into the former Federal Courthouse building nearby.
Higgins said he was not pleased at City Hall's reluctance to step in and help protect a series of early 20th-century homes in the 2600 block of University Boulevard, one of which he has been renting since arriving in Tuscaloosa in 2008, once plans were announced to clear these structures for a new extended-stay hotel.
"It seems to me that the City Council ... and Planning Department doesn't have any desire to save any of the historical attributes that we have," Higgins said.
City officials have maintained that they are powerless in historic preservation efforts without cooperative, private property owners, but Higgins points to the historic areas of Oxford, Miss., and Athens, Ga., as examples of what could be saved if local governments and historic preservationists work together.
"It's a charm that lures people in, and the city is missing that point," Higgins said. "People from bigger cities and older cities, they crave the historic integrity of downtown, and we're losing that.
"It's really becoming bland."
Tuscaloosa Mayor Walt Maddox has indicated he is in favor of protecting the Searcy House if it can be economically feasible and not strain the city's finances.
In two meetings with the Preservation Society, the mayor has warned that the city's commitment may not be complete without the assistance of other local governments like the Tuscaloosa County Commission and Board of Education.
"I think we need some clear objectives and understanding of what this is going to cost," Maddox said earlier this month. "The county Board of Education sold this piece of property, walked away free and clear and left this with the city of Tuscaloosa."
Higgins, however, said the immediate responsibility lies with City Hall.
He says the Searcy House should remain where it is and that the city should make efforts to ensure that it does.
"It is the last of the remaining houses that's on Greensboro Avenue when it was once a residential street," Higgins said. "Moving it is sort of stripping it of its importance, really.
"The city really needs to have more of a role in the partnership with the Preservation Society because they've really dropped the ball elsewhere."
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It is so sad Europeans tolerate such disgusting destruction of property (in the form of graffiti) in their once lovely cities.
In any case I agree with you about the disgusting graffiti
I love her shoes
Lovely, lovely blue shoes
yeah but it sure gives an hell of an mix, anonymous!
She looks good, but the graffiti is really bad. I have to agree with anon. 6:21 PM
It's funny it is mentioned about the graffiti. Our french cousins say this is a form of art…of expression…and don't look at as destruction at all. To each his own, I suppose.
i was just thinking before I read the first comment how much I love the graffiti in the background – it somehow seems more real than over-sanitized cities. and i love her look, especially teh bag
I love the basket on the bicycle.
And I'm still surprised at the number of women riding a bicycle in a dress.
For probably the fiftieth time…those are beautiful shoes! And I covet the cycle, it seems to be the top accessory of the season over in Europe.
i love her shoes. and yes i agree about the grafitti. it's such a shame. but they're beautiful style makes it up for it.
I´ m so sorry but graffiti is an identity element in Berlin. Berlin without graffiti will not be Berlin.
And, again, I´m so sorry, but this city, "spangled with dog piles and graffiti all over" it´s one of the most civilized places in the entire world.
Like the lady in the portrait, it´s a matter of relaxed minds.
I've only just come across this photo and I agree 100% with your comment, well phrased & spot on.
we love blue sequin flats.
Being myself a European woman riding bike in a dress or skirt in summertime I feel I must confess here that it is not only an accessory or a way of transport. It is also a refined way of enjoying one´s sexuality without showing a lot of skin or other more vulgar ways. It´s training for a flirt and beginning of a love affair. Especially now when the dresses are shorter and wider againg it is pure pleasure. (When it´s not raining, that is.)
Wow, she looks so good! Love everything about her, specialy the shoes!
That's not graffiti, they're "tags." Still, I barely even noticed them over her velvety dress!
Isn't she great with that lovely, welcoming smile.
I would love to have a chat and coffee with her.
Again, the black hair and fringe, what we realize to be reprsentative of Berlin women.
The bike, the wide velvet dress, so quaint and somehow comforting; lose the horrible, discordant, electric blue shoes.
THe shoes may be meant as irony but frankly, she doesn't need it.
Well done, fraulein.
Yes, apropos of the comment above re. the tingly, sexual feeling of riding a bike in the Summer wearing a dress; the hidden, oft unexpressed, feelings our clothes give us, is a neglected topic.
Brava for noting this as clothing is so much more subtle and powerful than mere adornment.
love the outfit, but then again blue+black is really all i wear lately *smile*. the tags behind her aren't graffiti per say, but street art and graffiti rocks in berlin, there are scads of gorgeous, colorful works of art free for everyone to see. love her outfit!
re: grafitti
right, it would be so much nicer if New York, for example, looked like a nondescript suburb with identically beige walls all around.
i don't believe The Sartorialist is a place for people who feel this way. Perhaps "Anonymous" wondered over from MarthaStuart.com by mistake.


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The permafrost capping the top of the world is irreversibly thawing and within two decades will release more carbon than it now absorbs, scientists calculate in a new study that makes this dire prediction: Up to 60 percent of Earth's permafrost will have thawed out by 2200.
Why care if you don't live in Siberia, Alaska or northern Canada, where thawing permafrost has already buckled roads and swallowed structures?
Because permafrost — which is ground that's been frozen continuously for two or more years — holds enormous amounts of carbon in the form of frozen plant matter, and adding more of that to the atmosphere would raise temperatures even higher, scientists say.
"The amount we expect to be released by permafrost is equivalent to half of the amount of carbon released since the dawn of the Industrial Age," Kevin Schaefer, lead author and a scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center, said in a statement. "That is a lot of carbon."
Here's another way to look at it: The carbon predicted for release through 2200 is about one-fifth of the total amount in the atmosphere today.
Earlier studies have estimated the carbon released from the "active layer" of soil a few inches above the permafrost — soil that freezes and thaws in winter and summer.
But "ours is the first study to estimate how much carbon could be released from thawing permafrost and when," Schaefer told msnbc.com.
If anything, the estimate is very conservative, Schaefer says, because it doesn't include a known "feedback" mechanism: that permafrost carbon release will certainly add to warming, which in turn will accelerate the thawing and then even more carbon emissions.
His team plans to incorporate the feedback estimate into their next modeling attempt, as well as emissions of methane, another greenhouse gas that decaying plant matter emits.
Using computer models, the team estimates that by 2200 between 29 and 59 percent of the permafrost will have disappeared.
So in less than 200 years, permafrost that took thousands of years to form will be gone, Schaefer said.
Anyone who's been to northern Alaska, where wild rides on buckled roads are part of the territory, will appreciate the visible impacts that thaw will cause.
But it's the carbon component that could have broader consequences.
The team predicted that by the mid-2020s the level of permafrost carbon emissions will mean that the Arctic will switch from being an overall "sink" that traps carbon to a "source."
Moreover, the experts wrote, that "source" impact "is strong enough to cancel 42–88 percent of the total global land sink" absorbing carbon.
Having these estimates, Schaefer said, means that policymakers trying to reach set carbon-reduction targets will "have to reduce fossil fuel emissions that much lower than previously calculated to account for this additional carbon from the permafrost. Otherwise we will end up with a warmer Earth than we want."
Schaefer expects the U.N.Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will incorporate his team's estimates in its next climate policy reports. And "we're working with other scientists, they are already putting permafrost carbon in their models," he said.
The study was published online this week in the peer-reviewed journal Tellus. Funding came from NASA, NOAA and the National Science Foundation.