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DPD Customer Service Number UK 0843 816 6251
Need to call DPD?
Give the customer service team over at DPD a call on the helpline number of 0843 816 6251. All calls to this number will divert to the official DPD UK Phone Number.
DPD are one of the largest logistics companies in the UK, the DPD contact number is responsible for answering queries for the thousands of customers who use the company each and every day, contact them today on 0843 816 6251. The list of different problems experienced by customers is long and varied, the call centre staff are well trained and can help with any problems you have regarding your parcel delivery.
The expertly trained DPD call centre staff address a whole host of matters that their customers commonly experience. The majority of calls that the customer service staff deal with are simply straightforward questions or queries regarding tracking or delivery. However, their helpline team are also able to deal with deeper issues that may require further investigation.
DPD Customer Service Number UK:
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|DPD local sorting office contact number
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|DPD lost or damaged parcel complaints line
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Why Do Customers Call DPD?
DPD will be able to assist you in a variety of ways such as:
Collecting your package at the near depot.
Upgrading a delivery.
Finding a local DPD depot, changing your scheduled delivery.
Having your package delivered to a neighbor or family member.
Rearranging you collection arrangements.
Whatever the reasons give DPD a call on the helpline number of 0843 816 6251, all calls will divert to the official DPD UK contact number.
Founded in 1977, DPD rapidly grew as a private courier by offering fast, efficient service which outstripped competition from state-owned equivalents. From its inception the company met with warm approval: in its first year of trading alone it delivered over 1.5 million parcels. Much of the firm's present-day trade originates from business customers across the globe.
Nowadays, DPD deals with more than 1.8 million items daily, having established a reputation for a top quality service.
If you are searching for a job DPD then you can dial this DPD jobs contact number 0121 525 4065. If you meet all the criteria and qualification for the jobs available you can get the process and time as well.
This number let you know the job openings for DPD, the number of candidates required, the qualification required and test (if any).
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The DPD jobs contact number opens from Monday to Friday, 8 am to 6 pm.
DPD Customer Service Number UK – 0843 816 6251
DPD complaints
DPD always aims to handle the consignments with the best possible care. However, it might occur that you have a complaint about a delivery. In that case, they have well trained and dedicated staff to handle the issues efficiently and to maximise customer satisfaction. DPD customers have various options like phone, email or post to make their respective complaints. DPD customer complaints can be made by dialing the DPD contact number on 0843 816 6251.
If your issue with DPD cannot be resolved on the phone you may write to the address below.
PO Box 6979, Roebuck Lane, Smethwick, West Midlands, B66 1BN
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- To report a late or even a missing parcel.
- To make a complaint about DPD failing to collect a parcel.
- To report a parcel arriving damaged or broken.
- To make a complaint about a DPD employee or van driver.
- DPD Customer Service Number UK
Late or even a lost parcel? Got a complaint about the service you received from DPD? Call 0843 816 6251 and talk to the helpful customer service team.
DPD Customer Service Number UK 0843 816 6251
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The Tampa Trail Stop board of directors hosted an appreciation luncheon April 21 for store volunteers and their families. Those recognized were Gene Barney, Michele Berens, Janet Bielefeld, Phyllis Branson, Rita Brunner, Kathy Davis, Tom and Dee Duggan, Carla Hajek, Amy Hajek, Linda Ihde, Sherry Kohman, Russ and Julie Kerbs, Connie McMahan, David Mueller, Francie Mueller, Kathy Oborny, Amber Peterson, Gary and Carole Spohn, Kris Srajer, Melissa Stuchlik, Monica Svoboda, Danny Williamson, and Leo and Sue Yanda.
The Lutheran Women's Missionary League met April 17 at St. John Lutheran Church with Edna Backhus as hostess. Joyce Medley had opening and closing devotions and Kathy Davis presented the topic. Others in attendance were Janet Bielefeld, Adeline Bernhardt, Leona Kleiber, and Phyllis Mueller.
Tampa Senior Citizens hosted the monthly meeting of the Marion County Senior Citizens board April 19.
Georgia Spohn met Lenore Graham and Paulette Zook of Florence on April 19 at the Lifelong Learning program at Tabor College in Hillsboro. They had lunch together afterward.
Adeline Bernhardt spent April 19 to 22 at the home of her daughter and husband, Kathy and Carl Hubbard of Wellington.
Lucille Kerbs had dinner out April 20 in Abilene with her daughter, Connie Thompson.
Larry and Peggy Jay of Goessel, Bev Reid of Marion, Paul and Edna Backhus, Brad Backhus, and Alisha Barney gathered at the home of Mike and Jennifer Jay in rural Hillsboro on April 20 to celebrate their son Cody's fifth birthday. Barney baked and decorated a John Deere cake for the occasion. Paul and Edna hosted a family dinner in Cody's honor the next day. Some family members also attended the Kids Connection Night of Performing Arts April 18 at the Hillsboro Mennonite Brethren Church to watch Cody perform.
Francis and Rita Steiner and Ron Steiner were April 23 visitors of Tom and Dee Duggan. Tom Duggan attended an appreciation coffee for volunteers April 24 at Marion Senior Center.
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Nancy J. Cameros, arts patron and collector, died on September 24, 2010. With her husband, Alan (a member of the Gallery's Board of Managers), she was a longtime supporter of Gallery and of the cultural and educational life of this city.
Below are some words from the curator of the Rockwell Museum in Corning, taken from the recent catalog of Nancy and Alan's superb collection of Southwestern pottery.
For a curator, it is touching to hear collectors speak of their treasures as people; perhaps even more so to see an influential businessman cradle an old piece of clay as if it were a baby bird fallen from its nest. Collectors are always motivated by personal interest, and many by passion…. It is always exciting to come upon those who share such an enormous respect for art that the dollar value someone else has placed on a work becomes merely a factor of acquisition, not the reason for it.
Nancy and Alan Cameros are just such collectors. In a quarter century, these lifelong Rochester residents have amassed a collection of more than 200 pieces of Southwestern pottery—not just any pieces, but museum-quality examples of some of the finest Native American potters of the past 125 years. And while this catalog and the Rockwell Museum of Western Art exhibition, Crafted to Perfection: The Nancy and Alan Cameros Collection of Southwestern Pottery, pay homage to the intrinsic value of this collection, the Cameroses never collected with the intent of boasting in such a grandiose manner. Instead, they have always collected from a place of interest-turned-passion; along the way, they have developed a keen eye for it.
— Sheila K. Hoffman, Curator of Collections, Rockwell Museum of Western Art


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One of the most difficult aspects of migrating existing IT applications to the cloud is setting up appropriate storage for those applications. In fact, one of the questions I am frequently asked by our customers is how to set up Rackspace Private Cloud Software to enable their business take advantage of enterprise storage. This dilemma historically has not been easy to solve, since current cloud storage solutions require either re-writing applications to use object storage or using new technologies like NoSQL databases.
In most cases, existing enterprise applications cannot be easily modified to take advantage of these new cloud technologies. The OpenStack Cinder project can expose storage volumes to instances; however the default open source implementation limits your data's resiliency to the RAID protection of a single server.
To provide more resilient storage options, Rackspace has certified private clouds running on EMC and NetApp storage platforms in order to capitalize on your existing enterprise storage investment. We have written implementation guides for each certified storage platform in our Private Cloud Knowledge Center. Those articles detail setting up a Rackspace Private Cloud on top of those storage platforms and cover the architectures and the ideas behind them.
As we certify more platforms and solutions, look out for additional implementation guides about more plugin providers as well as emerging storage technologies in the cloud.
You can read the implementation details in the following documents, and can view all our tech resources at the Private Cloud Tech Center.
Implementing OpenStack Cinder with EMC Storage on the Rackspace Private Cloud Software
An implementation guide for configuring Rackspace Private Cloud Software to utilize EMC VNX or VMAX enclosures as a storage target for Cinder volumes.
Implementing OpenStack Cinder with NetApp Storage on the Rackspace Private Cloud Software
An implementation guide to configuring Rackspace Private Cloud Software to utilize NetApp Enclosures running OnTap 8.1 as a target for Cinder volumes.
Building a Rackspace Private Cloud with Linux iSCSI Volumes
An implementation guide to building a Rackspace Private Cloud with external storage that targets Enterprise IT applications. Volumes are provided via the Cinder volume service running on Linux server head units.


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PTI | January 16, 2010
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday said modern technology and professional management practices should be introduced to preserve the country's vast historical and archaeological treasures and cultural heritage.
He was speaking after dedicating the new campus of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies and laying the foundation of the second phase of Science City in Kolkata.
The topmost priority of the Culture Ministry is to ensure professionalism in the management of cultural resources and institutions, he said asserting that funds would not be a constraint in this regard.
As children are consuming more and more fast foods and sweetened beverages are becoming, leading to obesity and related non-communicable diseases (NCDs), the Indian Academy of Pediatrics (IAP) has come out with guidelines on such substances. The dietary guidelines under its nutrition chapter
Contrast prime minister Narendra Modi's first Independence Day speech in 2014 with his latest, the first in the second term, and you know the difference. His first speech was less about future and much about the basic needs like Swachch Bharat (clean India). His speech on Thursday, on the other hand,
With Mumbai city battling myriad civic issues and annual flooding year after year, stakeholders and experts came together to discuss ways of dealing with these issues as community work. The discussion was held at the TEDxVersova Salon- Vibrant Civic Participation, an independent TED event organized by the
Addressing the nation from the ramparts of the Red Fort for the first in his second term, prime minister Narendra Modi highlighted the new beginnings his government has made in recent days, and underlined the hopes of a new India in the making. "Things that could not happen in the past
India has told China that the legislation changing the status of Jammu and Kashmir was "an internal matter. External affairs minister S Jaishankar, visiting China Monday, told foreign minister Wang Yi that the legislative measures were aimed at promoting better governance and socio-ec
When considering climate change, one of the greatest threats before the humanity, discussions usually focus on air and water, but land too is affected by and in turn affects global warming as much as those two elements. A new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), out early Augus


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In about five hours, the next version of the Internet will be switched on forever.
Companies like Akamai, AT&T, Facebook, Google, and a long list of others will participate.
This new Internet is known as Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6). If all goes well (and it should) you won't notice anything different right away. But over the next five years and beyond, IPv6 will have a profound effect on our lives.
It is also a pretty big business opportunity for companies that sell network equipment like Cisco, Infoblox, and lots of others.
We needed a new Internet because the old Internet was running out of IP addresses. No new addresses meant no new smartphones, or data centers or Web sites or home offices could come online. There are still billions of people in the world and tens of billions of gadgets, that need to join the Internet.
The new Internet is "trillions upon trillions of times larger" than the old one, says the grandfather of the Internet Vint Cerf, Chief Internet Evangelist at Google.
But IPv6 doesn't work with the old Internet, IPv4. (And yes, there was an IPv5, but it got scrapped for IPv6.) The two Internets can't talk to each other. Right now, everything still has an IPv4 address, often by sharing it (because there aren't enough of them). Too many shared IPv4 addresses will really mess things up, particularly high-speed realtime multiplayer games and streaming video.
Soon, websites and devices will ONLY be on the new Internet. You won't be able to connect to them unless your computer, network/home router, and ISP are on IPv6, too. But you probably won't have to change anything, because technologies like carrier-grade network-address translation, or CGN, are helping bridge old and new.
Now here's the cool part. All of these new addresses mean that there is virtually no limit on the kinds of things that we can add directly to the Internet. Experts like Cerf predict this will create the "Internet of things" where virtually everything we own has its own Internet address and can can be controlled remotely with an app. This includes your home appliances, keys, wine cellar, the dog's collar—everything.
And it all begins at midnight, Greenwich Mean Time, June 6.
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It's common knowledge that some people just aren't "huggers," but a new study shows that number might be much higher than you think.
Oxford University, in conjunction with Finland's Aalto University, produced the largest study ever on physical contact by interviewing over 1300 men and women in five different countries (Britain, Finland, France, Italy and Russia).
The results were shocking.
Well, not really. They basically found that humans really, really dislike having strangers touch them anywhere except their hands.
A couple interesting findings were that women are overall more comfortable with physical touch, and everyone is more comfortable with physical contact with their mothers than their fathers.
Next time you meet a stranger, maybe think twice before going in for the hug.


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Mintel Reveals 2014 Foodservice Trends
The food and beverage industry trend experts at Mintel recentlyl revealed their top five food service trends for 2014.12/18/2013
Editor's Plate: My Second Visit to ConAgra
Twenty years after I first visited, this is a very different company.12/13/2013
Infographic: Chocolate and Almonds Continue Love Affair
Do consumers still go nuts for sweet covered almonds? You bet your infographic they do.12/12/2013
Understanding the Complex Relationship Between Nutrition, Immunity and Obesity
The relationship between diet and the immune system is highly complex. Yet there is solid science behind eating the right foods to help support immune function.12/12/2013
Assessing Motors' Optimized Power Packages
Premium motors are just one of the upgrades food processors should consider when analyzing their power transmission systems.12/11/2013
Dry Lubricants Changing The Way Bottlers Maintain Conveyor Functionality
Gears and drives aren't the only friction points in a beverage plant; new dry lubricants are helping bottling manufacturers maintain conveyor functionality.12/11/2013
New Food and Beverage Rollout: December 2013
'Tis the season for holiday fare in our December line-up of new food and beverage products.12/11/2013
2013 Processor of the Year: For ConAgra Foods, Manufacturing Is a Core Competency
Despite a dizzying variety of products, ConAgra Foods always has prided itself on manufacturing great food.12/04/2013
2013 Processor of the Year: ConAgra R&D Does It All
Retail, commercial, some ingredients, and now private label, the product development team is busy and varied.12/04/2013
2013 Processor of the Year: ConAgra Foods
The former grain miller turned branded marketer evolves into what it considers the ideal balance with the acquisition of Ralcorp.12/04/2013
Heart Health Becoming a Major Concern for Aging Baby Boomers
Food and beverage manufacturers look to grains and soy to help boost formulations.12/03/2013
Oats Gain Momentum in Food Formulations
Oats have drawn considerable attention for their content of the soluble fiber beta-glucan and its ability to trap bile and prevent its reabsorption.12/02/2013
Courts Ask FDA to Clean Their Plates
Finding food labeling cases unappetizing, courts are asking the agency to take a stand on 'natural,' GMOs, more.12/02/2013
Private Label Is Talking to Customers
Store brands no longer are just about price; label claims are closing the deal at the point of purchase.12/02/2013
Food Funnies: You Write the Cartoon Caption - December 2013
Add your own twist of humor to our new chapter in this holiday carol by writing a light-hearted caption for our December cartoon.12/02/2013
November 2013 New Food and Beverage Rollout
Convenience and health are center stage for our November new product rollout.11/22/2013
How Food Manufacturers Can Prepare for a Trans-Formation
What to do about FDA's tentative determination that partially hydrogenated oils are not safe.11/20/2013
Genes Manage How People Taste Sweeteners
Penn State research looks at different consumer taste perceptions of ace-K and stevia.11/20/2013
How Does 2014 Look for Food and Beverage Manufacturing?
Food Processing is asking your help for our 13th Annual Manufacturing Trends Survey.11/15/2013
Editor's Plate: I Need an Incentive to Stay Put
The whole country needs to rethink the practice of competing for business by giving away taxpayer money, especially for existing jobs.11/14/2013


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Stall Mats
Rubber Stall mats can be used for almost anything. They are offered in a variety of types to accommodate your needs. These include, Interlocking horse stall mats, custom stall flooring, 4x6 foot straight-edge horse stall mats, portable horse mats and many more. Horsetackonline.com offers a complete line of rubber stall mats for horse barns and horse stalls. Horse stall mats can be used in outdoor areas, trailers, wash bays, and aisle ways. We have been providing excellent customer service since 1997 and have very competitive pricing and fast shipping times on all of our horse stall mats. Please contact our customer service department if you need custom pricing, free samples or help on deciding which one is best for you.
Stall Mats and Rubber Flooring Information
Protector Stall Mats... The Mat That Started It All
The industry standard for stall matting. The one that started it all. The one used in over 3/4's of America's veterinary hospitals. The one used for the Olympic Games and many of the World's most prestigious shows. Accept no substitute. Now with improved traction.
Until Summit brought Protector rubber stall mats to the market over 20 years ago, horse owners had to buy a cow mattress, or a conveyor belt, or a lower quality urethane bound mat, or mats with shards of metal or tire cord. Protector was the first mat that met Summit's exacting standards for a contaminant free, flat laying mat with just the right amount of cushion for equine comfort and safety. Since then over 1 million Protector Stall Mats, many in service 15 or more years, are the hallmark for the industry, the mat to which all others are compared.
Protectors now have an improved traction pattern for the surface giving your horse more security. The roto etched top is more resistant to liquids pooling or freezing in cold weather. The benefits of owning Protector rubber stall mats are many:
- Cut stall cleaning time
- Guaranteed not to curl or tear
- Reduce airborne dust
- Provide excellent cushioning for animal comfort
- Reduce the risk of thrush by eliminating bacteria-laden wet spots
- Save on bedding expenditures
- Protectors often pay for themselves in the first year
- Easy to install, and once in place won't move or shift
ProtectorLok Mats
Nearly 7 in 10 Summit customers are making the move to interlocking stall mats. Now have a virtually one piece floor. With Summit's finishing kit you can go wall-to-wall in a 12' x 12, 10' x 12' or 10' x 10' stall. Nobody else gives you such coverage at such an affordable price.
Since 1985, Protector Mats have been the recognized leader in heavy duty matting for large and small animals alike. Ten years later we brought the interlocking Mighty Lite Mat to market for those people wanting the convenience and portability of light weight mats. Indeed, the market was ripe for "lightweight" mats, but as the response from the public clearly showed, "interlocking capability" was a smash hit, too.
ProtectorLoks were brought to market in early 1997, and their popularity is growing by leaps and bounds. The reasons are clear. Because the interlocks fit very tightly (a hammer is usually required to knock them together), the amount of water or urine that can seep through a seam is absolutely minimized. While interlocks provide a "virtual one-piece" stall floor, the individual mats, weighing 100 pounds each, can be adequately handled by one or two people, where larger pieces or rolls of rubber can be extremely difficult to handle. Interlocked mats can be laid well within the walls of a stall and do not have to be trimmed to fit wall-to-wall, as may be needed with straight-edged mats. Interlocked mats don't shift or separate, and horses can't get them up. Their ease of assembly and use appeals to many people who don't trust their "handyman skills." Use ProtectorLoks to build a complete aisle floor. Flip them over and use them as a pad around a phantom mare. They won't shift, and the grooves will give the stallion greater traction.
Use ProtectorLoks in shoeing areas, grooming areas, wash racks, run-in sheds or you name it. They hold themselves in place and don't need surrounding walls to contain them. Take a closer look at ProtectorLoks. They might be exactly what you're looking for. Size: 47" x 71" x .725 "
Mighty Lite Mats
Only Summit has a 12 pound stall mat! That's right. The amazing Mighty Lite is the easiest mat on the market. Choose from Black, Hunter Green or Terra Cotta. All Mighty Lites have interlocking edges that snap together in minutes. Space age polymers for the best value in portability and comfort for your champion.
Space age technology has made these polymer mats the fastest growing floor in the industry. At only 12 pounds each you can snap a floor together in minutes. Use them at show grounds, grooming areas, in trailers and in most cases right in your stalls. They're as tough as they are light. Reversible too.
9 piece pre-cut wall-to-wall kits for 12' x 12' and 10' x 10' stalls! (black only)
Mighty Lites, at just 36" x 48", can be delivered to your door by UPS
Winner's Circle Mats
When you need the ultimate in slip prevention, get a Winner's Circle. No wash rack should be without. Perfect in muddy entry ways or wherever you have turf loss. Safest way to ramp a trailer.
Made from a blend of recycled and virgin rubber, Winner's Circle flooring is a premium quality product through-and-through. It is the most resilient item in Summit's line of rubber flooring materials, and as such, it has our highest rating for comfort. When spending long hours in a grooming area this feature is as valuable for you as for the animal, perhaps more so.
Winner's Circle flooring is built to permit fast drainage of surface liquids while maximizing safe footing, particularly in washracks, grooming areas and cross-ties. To this end, Winner's Circle's bottom side is held off the subsurface by hundreds of small rubber pegs. Liquids drain quickly off the surface of the flooring and then proceed to the drain in the subfloor. It is the natural flexibility of these rubber pegs which gives the Winner's Circle its excellent resilience and comfort.
In an uncommon use of its design features, you may choose to use Winner's Circle as a pathway covering over dirt or grass. During rainy spells, Winner's Circle will keep you out of the mud, and it will protect the roots of grass so that bald spots will not develop in the path. The healthy root system of the grass will maintain soil integrity. In many instances, you will be able to mow over the grass that grows through the matting and scarcely be able to tell that Winner's Circle is present.
Size 1 meter (39.3") x 1.5 meters (59") x 7/8"
Humane Mfg. LokTuff Interlocking Mats
Humane Rubber Stall mats are guaranteed for 12 years. Humane rubber mats do not curl up and cause you to hit the edge every time you muck out your stalls. When the rubber mats are installed correctly there are no gaps for debris to get in and to start the unraveling process many other mats have. Why buy inferior products? Humane has been around for decades. You will love our Humane mats for longer. When safety and contentment of your valuable pets or livestock are high on your list of priorities and you desire an easy method to keep stalls clean, you can't afford to be without the benefits of Humane stall mats. Humane mats keep the dust down in your barn or holding area. Mats interlock for a longer lasting and uniform fit.
Key Benefits:
- Provides more animal comfort
- Resilient, cushion comfort
- Textured surface provides traction
- Totally non-absorbent
- Reduces bedding cost
- Reduces pet or herd injuries
- Reduces daily bedding manure volume
- Easy to clean
- Easy to install
- Insulates against cold and damp
- Flat bottom finish (no grooves to promote bacteria growth)


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Hydroponics: Gardening Without Soil
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AbstractHave you ever planted a garden? It is a real pleasure to see a garden where all of the plants lie in neat rows and are healthy and thriving. Plants need sunlight and nutritious soil to grow and be healthy, right? Not always! Hydroponics is the science of growing plants in nutrient-rich water. Does it work? Try this project and see for yourself!
ObjectiveCompare the rate of growth and plant vigor of hydroponically-grown plants to plants grown conventionally, in soil.
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You probably know that just as we get our nutrients from food, generally plants get their nutrients from the soil. To thrive, plants need both macronutrients (like carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus) and micronutrients (like iron, sodium, and zinc). Soil can contain all of these.
Plants also need water and use it in many ways. First, water acts as a solvent and helps to transport nutrients from the soil throughout the plant. Second, water-filled cells help support various biochemical reactions in the plant. A biochemical reaction is a reaction that occurs between chemicals inside the plants' cells to keep it alive. A plant biochemical reaction that you may have heard of is photosynthesis. Photosynthesis, a reaction involving sunlight, the chlorophyll in plant cells, water, and carbon dioxide, produces sugar for the plant to use as food. When a plant doesn't receive water, photosynthesis and other biochemical reactions stop, the plant begins to turn yellow, dries up, and then dies.
So is soil really necessary for a plant to survive, or can plants survive in just water? What if the water had all of the nutrients in it that soil does? The answer to this question is yes. Plants can survive without being planted in soil. The science of growing plants in nutrient-rich water is hydroponics. The word hydroponics means "working water" and comes from the Latin words hydro, meaning "water," and ponos, meaning "work." In hydroponics, the nutrients are available at the plant's roots. So, without any work, the plant gets its food and nutrition. A plant with roots in soil has to work hard to extract its nutrition from the soil, and it can waste a lot of energy doing that. But a plant in nutrient-rich water can spend its energy growing bigger leaves, fruits, and flowers in a shorter amount of time. One benefit of growing plants hydroponically is that the nutrients in the water can be completely controlled, and the plant can receive exactly the right amount of nutrients at exactly the right time. Another benefit of hydroponics is that it works in areas where the soils are not arable (not suitable for farming) and in areas where there is no soil. Figure 1 shows a NASA scientist examining hydroponically-grown plants.
Figure 1. A NASA plant physiologist at Kennedy Space Center examining his hydroponically-grown plants. (NASA, 2004.)
There are six basic types of hydroponic systems: wick system, water culture system, ebb-and-flow system, drip system, nutrient-film technique, and the aeroponics system. Each system has its advantages and disadvantages. In this plant biology science project, you will experiment with the water culture system and perform your own hydroponics experiment. You will compare the growth rate of lettuce seeds grown in potting soil with those grown hydroponically. Which method will produce seedlings the fastest? Will there be a difference in root growth between the two methods? At the end of this science project, instead of having a "green thumb," you might have a "blue thumb"!
Terms and Concepts
- Macronutrient
- Micronutrient
- Solvent
- Cell
- Biochemical reaction
- Photosynthesis
- Chlorophyll
- Hydroponics
- Arable
- Physiologist
- Water culture system
- Aerate
- Area
- Ellipse
- What are the differences between a macronutrient and a micronutrient?
- You might think that hydroponics is a new way of growing plants, but it isn't. What ancient cultures reportedly used or mentioned hydroponics? How old is the science of hydroponics?
- Why is NASA interested in hydroponics? What kinds of hydroponics experiments do NASA scientists perform?
- What are the differences between the six basic types of hydroponic systems? What are the advantages and disadvantages of each?
- Helney, A. (2007, November 27). Farming for the Future. Retrieved June 15, 2010, from www.nasa.gov/missions/science/biofarming.html
- Information. Green Coast Hydroponics. (2006). Retrieved June 15, 2010, from www.gchydro.com/information_introhydro.asp#History
- Simply Hydro. (2008). Simply Hydroponics and Organics. Retrieved June 10, 2010, from www.simplyhydro.com/whatis.htm
The following website shows how to calculate the area of common shapes. You can learn some interesting information about the shapes by clicking on the name.
- MathIsFun.com. (2010). Area Calculation Tool. Retrieved March 15, 2011, from www.mathsisfun.com/area-calculation-tool.html
For help creating graphs, try this website:
- National Center for Education Statistics. (n.d.). Create a Graph. Retrieved June 2, 2009, from https://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/CreateAGraph/default.aspx
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Materials and Equipment
- Student hydroponics kit, available from Carolina Biological
- Filtered water. You can use a water filter pitcher to make filtered water, or you can purchase bottled water.
- Measuring cup, 2-cup
- Microwave or stove top with pot
- Disposable gloves (1 pair). Available at your local drug store or pharmacy
- Potting mix (1 pound)
- Planting pots, 3-inch (4)
- Hand trowel or scoop
- Lettuce seeds (1 package)
- Lab notebook
- Ruler with millimeter markings
- Digital scale, such as this one available on Amazon
- Paper towels (1 roll)
- Optional: grow lamp. This is only needed if you live in a place with very few hours of natural light.
- Optional: watering can. The measuring cup can be used for watering instead.
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Experimental Procedure
Setting Up the Hydroponic Experiment
- Read the entire instruction booklet that comes with the hydroponics terrarium.
- Break the rock wool carefully into four equal pieces (cubes). Notice that each cube has an indent in it.
- Soak all four rock wool cubes in filtered water in the bottom of the terrarium for 24-36 hours. Put enough water in the terrarium to completely cover the rock wool cubes.
- After the time has elapsed, place each rock wool cube into a net pot. Do not wring the rock wool dry. Make sure that the indent in each rock wool cube is facing up. Drain the terrarium.
- Place three lettuce seeds in the indent in each of the rock wool cubes.
- Snap the rack into the bottom part of the terrarium. Then, place a net pot into each of the openings in the rack. Shut the terrarium with the clear dome so that the tabs on the dome and the bottom are side by side.
- Put the terrarium in front of a south-facing or west-facing window that gets plenty of light. If natural sunlight is unavailable, use a grow lamp to provide light for the seeds. Figure 2 shows the completed hydroponic terrarium.
Figure 2. The completed hydroponic terrarium with lid off (left) and on (right).
- Record the date that you set up the hydroponic terrarium in your lab notebook.
Setting Up the Soil Experiment
Now plant the lettuce seeds in the four pots. Using a hand trowel or scoop, place some seedling mix into each of the pots. Place three lettuce seeds into each of the pots, and lightly cover them with a thin layer of soil.
- To avoid introducing unwanted variables use the same package of lettuce seeds in both the hydroponics terrarium and the pots of soil.
- Over a sink, water each pot carefully so that a little bit of water comes through the hole at the bottom of the pot. Do not over water the seeds.
- Place the four pots at the same location as the hydroponic terrarium. Numerically label each pot and note the labels in your lab notebook.
- In your lab notebook, record when you started growing the lettuce seeds in the pot, the depth at which the seeds were planted, and the brand of seedling mix that you used.
Growing and Feeding Instructions
- Monitor the hydroponics terrarium to see when the seeds start to sprout. Once they do, wait one more day to make sure that as many seeds sprout as possible.
- Once all of the seeds have sprouted, remove the rack of net pots, follow the instructions, and mix the nutrient solution in the bottom of the hydroponics terrarium. You will need to warm four to five cups of water to make the nutrient solution. You can warm the water in the microwave or on a cooktop in a pot. The water should be lukewarm, or cool enough for you to put your hand in comfortably.
- Place the rack of net pots back into the terrarium, and re-cover it with the clear dome. Put it back in the window.
- Check the soil of the lettuce seeds in the pots every day. Do not let it get dry, but it should not be too wet either. If the soil is dry, use the watering can or measuring cup and water the pot(s). Water each pot until a few drops of water come out from the bottom.
- Check both the sprouts in the hydroponics terrarium and the pots every day at about the same time. Check to see how the sprouts look in the hydroponics terrarium. Note the date each seed in the terrarium and the pots sprouted. Every seventh day after each individual seed in the terrarium and the pots sprouts, count how many leaves it has. Use the ruler to measure the length and width, in millimeters (mm), of the largest leaf on each sprout.
|Start Date of Hydroponics Terrarium: ________________
|Net Pot 1
|Net Pot 2
|Net Pot 3
|Net Pot 4
Start Date of Potting: ________________
Seedling Mix: ______________
Seed depth: _____________
|Pot 1
|Pot 2
|Pot 3
|Pot 4
- At the same time that you check the sprouts in the hydroponics dome and pots, make sure to aerate the nutrient solution in the terrarium. A plant's roots need oxygen in order to grow. Follow the instructions to learn how to use the manual hydro-pump to do this. You should aerate the solution twice a day.
- Replace the nutrient solution in the hydroponics terrarium every week. Once you can see the roots stick out from the rock wool, strengthen the nutrient solution as directed in the instructions.
- Keep monitoring, measuring, feeding, and watering your plants for a month.
Analyzing Your Data
- After six weeks, gently uproot the plants from each group and carefully remove and wash the soil from the roots. Carefully dry the plants with paper towels. Keep the hydroponically-grown plants separate from the soil-grown plants.
Using the digital scale, weigh the uprooted plants, and record the data in your lab notebook.
- Observe the color of the roots for the plants in each group. Are they white, yellow, or brown?
- Record the number of hairs that you see on the roots for each plant. Root hairs enable a plant to take in nutrients.
- Compare the growth of the hydroponically-grown plants and the plants grown in soil. Review the data that you collected. Calculate the area of the largest leaf for each plant in both groups on each day that you made measurements. You may have to make an estimation about the shape of the leaf. Separate the shape of the leaf into two shapes, like an ellipse, or oval, and a triangle, as shown in Figure 3. You can estimate the area of the leaf by calculating the area of the oval and adding the value to the area of the triangle. If you would like some additional information on calculating the area of common shapes, refer to the Bibliography. Record your data in a table (like Table 3 and Table 4) in your lab notebook.
Figure 3. This image gives an idea of how to estimate the area of a leaf using an ellipse (oval) and a triangle.
|Largest Leaf Area
|Net Pot 1
|Net Pot 2
|Net Pot 3
|Net Pot 4
|Largest Leaf Area
|Pot 1
|Pot 2
|Pot 3
|Pot 4
- Average the area data by group and day. First, separate all the hydroponic plant data from the soil-grown plant data. Then, for each group, average the data for each day (day 7, day 14, day 21, etc.). Record the data in a table (like Table 5) in your lab notebook. Average the number of leaves on the plants by group and by day.
|Avg. Leaf Area of Hydroponically-Grown Plants
|Avg. Leaf Area of Soil-Grown Plants
|Avg. Number of Leaves of Hydroponically-Grown Plants
|Avg. Number of Leaves of Soil-Grown Plants
- Average the number of root hairs for each group of plants. Record the data in a table (Table 6) in your lab notebook.
|Average Number of Root Hairs
|Hydroponically-Grown Plants
|Soil-Grown Plants
- Plot the average area data. Label the x-axis Day and the y-axis Average Area. Use different colors for hydroponic data and soil-grown data in order to show the difference between them. Make your plots by hand or online. For help creating plots online, try the CreateAGraph website.
- Plot the leaf area data points for both groups by day. Again, use one color for all of the hydroponically-grown plants and another color for all of the soil-grown plants. This graph will show you the range of the data.
- Plot the average number of leaves for both groups by day. Label the x-axis Day and the y-axis Average Number of Leaves. Use different colors on the plot for hydroponically-grown plants and soil-grown plants.
- Is there a difference in the average growth between the plants grown hydroponically and the plants grown in soil? Is there a difference in the weight and in the number of root hairs between the two groups? Does the range of the data between the two groups vary? Does the average number of leaves by group vary? Do you think that growing plants hydroponically is a good choice? Is it better than using soil?
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- Grow different varieties of lettuce hydroponically. Do all varieties grow better hydroponically, or does growth depend on the variety?
- Instead of growing lettuce, try growing different seeds hydroponically. Grow tomatoes, both hydroponically and in soil. Is there a difference between the hydroponically-grown tomatoes and soil-grown tomatoes? Do all plants grow equally well using both methods, or do some seeds grow better in either soil or a hydroponic system?
- What happens if you don't have a balanced nutrient-water solution to grow plants hydroponically? Follow the directions given in the instruction booklet, and vary the amounts of nutrients in the nutrient solution to see how it affects the growth of the plants.
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What was the most important thing you learned?
That things will not turn out perfectly :)
What problems did you encounter?
One of my soil pots did not sprout at all. But that might of happened because of a dead seed.
Can you suggest any improvements or ideas?
no. Overall it was a very good project and I think it makes an awesome(and interesting) science project
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We've seen quite a few of the "big players" in Twitter apps for Windows Phone get their respective Windows Phone 8 bump in the last few weeks, so it's great to see reader favorite Mehdoh get its due.
Mehdoh for Windows Phone 8 get quite a few new additions with the latest update, which is of course, free if you previously purchased the app (or locked it in when it was free). From lockscreen notifications to fast-resume, the Twitter app certainly gets the performance boost from Windows Phone 8's new APIs and beefier hardware.
The full changelog was posted on the Mehdoh site, which we'll share below:
- lock screen notifications (icon + text, WP8 only features)
- voice commands (WP8 only feature) - UK only at present
- twitter profile banner images
- twitter api 1.1
- changed menu options around
- fast app resume (WP8 only feature)
- lots of small bug fixes
- removed several retweet homescreen options (due to 1.1 API)
- temporarily removed custom themes (WP8 only)
- unfortunately removed tile options in order to provide lock screen info (WP8 only)
So why get Mehdoh over some of the other choices out there? First and foremost there is always preference: Mehdoh has always been a clean, minimalist Twitter client and a lot of folks just like the "look" of it.
Another big pro that is unique to Mehdoh is the image/URL preview ability. Lots of times when you someone Tweets a weblink, in order to read it you need to click it and have it handed off to IE on the phone. Sure, you to see the site but you were also just pulled out of the "Twitter experience". Mehdoh allows you to view webpages within the app just by sliding over—it's super convenient and faster than opening up the browser. Same with image preview.
If you're a fan of Mehdoh, head to the Store now to get the update and if you're looking to try something different, make sure you give Mehdoh a spin. Windows Phone 8 only. Thanks, Michael O., for the tip!


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With the nation's corn and soybean crops thirsting for moisture, June's long-awaited Acreage and Grain Stocks reports fell flat compared with concerns over drought conditions and scorching temperatures across the Corn Belt.
"The market is reacting in an extreme way to what I view as mostly neutral reports," says Jack Scoville, vice president for the Price Futures Group, Chicago. Scoville was the commentator an MGEX press briefing following the release of the reports. "People had been fearing a bearish Acreage report," he says, which in itself could help support markets, but the real issue moving forward will be weather.
USDA's Acreage report put planted acreage for corn at 96.4 million acres, up 5% from last year and up 0.5% from the 95.86 million acres projected in USDA's Prospective Plantings report released in March. USDA's latest estimate, if realized, would be the highest U.S. acreage since 1937 when an estimated 97.2 million acres were planted. Of the estimated 96.4 million acres, producers expect to harvest 88.9 million acres for grain, a 6-percent increase from last year.
In the Acreage report, USDA put soybean planted acreage at 76.1 million acres, up 1% from last year and 3% higher than its March estimate of 73.9 million acres. The estimate makes this year's bean crop the third highest on record. Of those acres, producers are expected to harvest 75.3 million, 2% more than last year. Planted soybean acreage in New York, North Dakota, and Pennsylvania is estimated at record highs, while South Dakota's acreage ties its previous record.
Scoville called the initial bullish market reaction to the reports the combination of a weather rally and a relief rally. "This remains a weather market," he says. "We need a drink from Chicago to the South."
Stocks Remain Tight, Getting Tighter
Stocks of corn and soybeans are also helping to support markets. According to USDA's quarterly Grain Stocks report, corn stocks as of June 1 totaled 3.15 billion bushels, down 14% from a year earlier. Of those stocks, 1.48 billion bushels were stored on farms, down 12% from a year ago. Second-quarter disappearance of corn at 2.87 billion bushels was stronger than use for the comparable period a year ago of 2.85 billion bushels.
Soybeans stocks as of June 1 totaled 667 million bushels, up 8% from last year. On-farm stocks of 179 million bushels were 18% smaller than a year ago. Second quarter disappearance of 707 million bushels was 12% higher than second quarter use last year.
"We knew bean stocks were building," says Chad Hart, Iowa State University economist. "But we saw more disappearance this last quarter. Demand has been pushing up." Last year at this time, soybean exports began to slide, moving lower into the fall. Since then, exports have been coming back.
"I view soybeans in particular as very bullish through the end of this year into next," says Scoville. South American growers are expected to plant a huge soybean crop later this year, which would loosen supply when they harvest next spring.
"Keep an eye on the weather, which is very bullish for corn as well. Both the bean and corn markets could get very interesting as we look forward. Corn is trying to pollinate in the Ohio River Valley and it is not getting very far," Scoville says. "We really, really need to get rain or we will lose yield. We are already losing yield on corn."
With timely rains, though, harvest pressure could send prices significantly lower, and rains were expected to fall across most of Iowa, Illinois, and Indiana over the weekend. "If the corn gets moisture, it could still do incredibly well," says Hart. "But it's on the edge."
Scoville is advising his customers to be cautious about being long. "You might not be able to get out," he says. He suggests using put options to protect end user or speculative long positions and as a hedging tool.
"Weather will dominate but there will be days, wet get panicky about demand and the general economy," says Hart. On days when neutral reports send markets substantially higher, it becomes obvious just how much uncertainty—thus price volatility—the 2012 corn and soybean crops face.


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What is RSS/XML/Atom/Syndication?
The little orange buttons that are starting to litter the web have no doubt caused mass confusion. What are they good for? Why are they there? And why don't they work? While I and others are starting to look into suggestions for developers to alleviate this design flaw, I thought I'd take a minute to talk about what this technology potentially means to you, the user. (If you already know what RSS stands for, this article won't tell you anything new, but feel free to reference when you need to explain syndication.)
RSS/XML/Atom are technologies, but syndication is a process. RSS and Atom are two flavours of what is more or less the same thing: a 'feed' which is a wrapper for pieces of regularly and sequentially-updated content, be they news articles, weblog posts, a series of photographs, and more. For the purposes of this article, consider the terms interchangable. XML is the base technology both are built on, but that's almost totally irrelevant; the orange buttons are mislabelled, and should read 'RSS' or 'Atom' instead. Strange, but true.
Syndication is the process of using RSS/Atom for automated updates, another way of getting the information you want. You no doubt have a list of web sites you browse daily for updates, whether they're stored in your bookmarks or your head. If you find yourself loading 20 or 30 sites a day, and you notice if a few stop updating as frequently, you'll inevitably stop checking them.
What if there were instead some way to have your list of bookmarks notify you when the sites you read have been updated? You wouldn't waste time checking those that haven't. Instead of loading 30 sites a day, you might only need to load 13. Cutting your time in half would enable you to start monitoring more sites, so for the same amount of time you originally invested in checking each site manually, you may just end up end up following twice as many.
Syndication provides the tools to do this. A news reader, or aggregator as they're also known, is a program or a web site that automatically checks your list of bookmarks (which you only have to set up once) and lets you know what's new on each site in your list.
It goes beyond simple updates though — the news reader works by pulling in the feeds of your various bookmarks. As we covered above, a feed is a wrapper for content items, so on top of notification, a feed delivers the content that has been updated itself. You may choose to read the new content in the news reader, or you may choose to leave the reader and visit the site. Some authors will only provide summaries of the content, forcing you to visit anyway.
As an analogy, the news reader acts like a customizable newspaper. You can pull a variety of content from a growing number of sources into one place, to be read however you choose. Sources like major news media outlets (BBC, Reuters, Washington Post) to non-news content providers (Apple's iTunes Music Store, the Government of Canada, USGS' World Earthquake updates) to smaller independent voices (BoingBoing, VanEats, Sidesh0w). The only stipulation is that the source must provide a feed; many are.
Beyond day to day use, a particularly nice feature is that you're able to take your news with you on the go. Have your newsreader grab the latest feeds before you rush to the airport, then check out of the in-flight movie to catch up on the most recent goings-on. Of course the author has to be providing full content for this to work, and some only provide summaries — it's about 50/50. Leave the summaries unread, and you can come back to them later when you're connected again. In this regard, news readers also function like temporary bookmarks. Unread items will stay flagged until you're near a connection or have more time to read them. No more forgetting what it was you wanted to check up on your lunch break, it'll be there waiting for you.
If this introduction has whet your appetite, the next step is to grab a news reader and start playing. Popular at the moment are FeedDemon for Windows, NetNewsWire for Mac OS X, and Bloglines which is a platform-neutral, web-based news reader.
If you're interested in more information about the mechanics of it, much more technical overviews are available, complete with RSS/Atom specs to help you implement them in your own work if you so choose. And of course, as syndication spreads across the net, more and more choices of content are available. Soon you'll have a whole new problem on your hands: how many feeds are too many?


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Justin Bieber has spoken out about his birthday fiasco in London on Friday, blaming "overly aggressive dummies" for ruining his big night.
The 19-year-old singer took to Twitter.com over the weekend to call the celebration his "worst birthday" after he and his entourage were kicked out of the Cirque du Soir nightclub.
Tabloid reports suggested Bieber was thrown out of the venue because he showed up with underage pals, including his rumored new girlfriend, British singer Ella-Paige Roberts Clarke, 17, and actor Will Smith's son Jaden, 14.
However, in a post on his Instagram.com blog on Sunday, Bieber denied breaking club rules, writing, "The funny moment when people believe I brought underage people to a club… You think Will (Smith) is letting his 14 year old in a club, I don't think so.
"I love how the club wanted to give the press another reason to why we didn't stay at their weak a** club so they wouldn't look bad for me walking in and right back out."
He adds, "I said 'worst bday' (on Twitter) but that was due to dummies pushing over my fans and being overly aggressive… it wasn't the worst bday cuz all my friends from back home flew in… I was just mad in the moment."
In a series of posts on his Twitter page, he then explained, "Sometimes you just wanna vent and not be quiet. I love my fans though. Just gonna chill with friends. London shows this week. It ain't always easy but is what it is. Gonna stay focused."


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James Boyle On: Strategies For The Digital Age: Beyond Mocking the Clueless
from the fun-though-it-is deptWith our CwF + RtB experiment in full swing, we've asked some of the participants involved to provide some guest posts. The post here is from James Boyle, whose book, The Public Domain is a part of our Techdirt Book Club (signed by Boyle). If you order both the Techdirt Book Club and the Techdirt Music Club before midnight PT, August 3rd, we'll throw in a free Techdirt hoodie, or a free lunch with Mike. We asked Boyle to give his thoughts on new media business models from his perspective, and he came back with this incredibly thought-provoking post that ought to create quite a bit of conversation:
The Associated Press recently released the details of their plan to develop a new metadata/Digital Rights Management format for news stories. (It wasn't described as DRM, but I agree with Techdirt that it certainly sounds that way.) Particularly ominous was this phrase "The system will register key identifying information about each piece of content that AP distributes as well as the terms of use of that content, and employ a built-in beacon to notify AP about how the content is used." (My italics) Even those without a strong dose of civil libertarian paranoia might bridle at the thought of having their practices of reading and sharing newspaper articles tracked by a central repository (other than Google, that is.) "He sure is reading a lot of articles about gay rights!" Pamela Samuelson calls DRM'd articles "texts that rat on you." Somehow it doesn't sound like a good slogan for a sales campaign. (AP says it has no interest in tracking on the individual user level.)
The response of the tech-savvy was, predictably, pretty savage. Techdirt ("it's difficult to think of anything quite this useless") at least offered some principles on which sustainable web businesses might be built. Others were not as kind. Someone even created an extremely profane and sometimes juvenile, but nevertheless quite funny anonymous graphical translation of the AP's diagram to explain the new plan. The criticisms of the plan (clueless graphics aside) centered around two tenets that are familiar to Techdirt readers.
- an argument that DRM is a.) doomed to fail technologically and b.) has in fact already failed in social and economic practice. The general line here is that the arc of history bends towards technologies that are copy-friendly and anything that tries to turn that feature into a bug will soon fail if it hasn't already.
- an assertion that "old media" (other names include "the clueless" "dinosaurs" "non digital natives" "the walking dead" etc.) are demonstrably incapable of understanding the potential upside of the sharing economy, or copy-friendly technologies, still less the business models that can be built on top of them. This tenet is so sweeping that it would be much harder to defend if history didn't give us such fabulous anecdata to back it up. My own favourite quote was about the technology that lowered the cost of copying in a prior technological era, "The VCR is to the movie industry what the Boston strangler is to the woman alone." That was Jack Valenti, the late head of the MPAA. Actually, unless the answer to that puzzle is "What is a savior?" Mr. Valenti would turn out to be wrong. Movie rentals to fill the -- cheap -- VCR's that the movie industry had failed to criminalize, tax or enjoin soon provided more that 50% of the industry's revenue.
Personally, I am at best agnostic about tenet #1. I am not a technological determinist. I think that DRM has failed spectacularly in some areas (root kits on CD's), provoked mild irritation and a pressure towards more open alternatives in others (the move towards selling open MP3's rather than protected streams or DRM'd iTunes tracks) and become standard (even if not loved) in others. Most of you are still being forced to watch the FBI warnings on your DVD's and fuss with region control. Sure you could get around it. But how many people bother to? Life is too short. I do think news is a particularly bad candidate for DRM or even "beacons," but that is a specific judgement not a general one.
On tenet #2, I think we are thinking too narrowly. Behavioral economists have identified specific deviations from economic rationality in human psychology-- we tend to value potential losses asymmetrically from potential gains, to use simple heuristics even when they are shown to be false and so on. In my new book, The Public Domain (freely available online, of course) I argue that we have a measurable cognitive bias against "openness" -- I call it cultural agoraphobia, and I argue that it impedes us in understanding the creative potential, productive processes and forms of social organization that the web makes possible. The source of that bias (by which I mean a demonstrated tendency to ignore certain kinds of possibilities in a way that the data does not support) probably lies in the fact that most of our experiences with property come from physical goods -- sandwiches that 1000 people cannot share, absent divine intervention, fields that might be overgrazed or underused if not subject to single entity control. Even digital natives still spend most of the hours of their day in a world in which goods are both "rival" and "excludable." Reflexes picked up in that world tend to lead us astray when we are dealing with the kind of property that lives on networks. "Like astronauts brought up in gravity, our reflexes are poorly suited for free fall." I would even argue that this cognitive bias, even more than industry capture of regulators, is one reason why our current intellectual property policy is so profoundly and utterly misguided. But its implications are wider still.
So far, this sounds similar to the standard technophilic critique of existing institutions -- albeit with a behavioral psychology chaser. But it isn't. Just because it's a bias doesn't mean it's always wrong. It may be that, even once one discards the bias, there may be no immediately obvious way of carrying important social functions into the world of the Net. I don't care where on the techno-optimist spectrum you are (It ranges from "get their eyeballs and their wallets will surely follow" to "the only alternative you seem to be proposing is Google ads, cover charges and lots of T-shirts.") Unless you believe that markets spontaneously self-correct for everything (hint, check your IRA balance before you answer this question) you have to acknowledge that the problem that the AP is responding to may be our problem (how to pay for the kind of expensive investigative journalism that is a real boon to democracy and liberty) as well as their problem (how not to die in the immediate future.)
Don't get me wrong. The world of the future will clearly have media that in some respects are far better than what we have today, even when measured against the most rigorous standards. I am pretty sure, in the world of 2020, pollution levels in Silicon Valley and school performance in Palo Alto will be covered with a wealth of data, expert systems, and interactive mapping in a way that would have seemed a dream in 1990. That will be true for most areas that have wealth, a wealth of data, and a highly educated citizenry with lots of personal liberty and strong personal and ethical reasons to be focused on a particular subject. It will be much less true for areas where those conditions do not hold true, particularly if you have a powerful in-group with strong reasons to want to keep the eyes of the world away. Twitter and the camera phone can do a lot. But they can provide neither the culture of professional journalism, nor the sustained effort and resources to develop a story over years. And there is an oft unnoticed corollary to the claim that the dinosaurs are clueless. It means they are unlikely to solve the problems themselves. Unless you think that markets and technologies spontaneously self-correct for everything, that leaves the rest of us.
In Robert Putnam's fascinating book Bowling Alone he describes the way in which the threads of civil society and of trust frayed during the 20th century -- and offered a convincing social science case that the implications were profoundly negative for our culture. But the book was not a depressive one. Putnam pointed back to the turn of the 20th century. Then, as now, people noticed their society changing around them -- industrialization, the acceleration of migration to cities, urban isolation. But Putnam points out that this prompted an extraordinary entrepreneurialism in civil society. Groups were founded that today seem quaint to us -- the Kiwanis. the Rotarians and so on -- all aimed specifically and solving this failure of civil society. The message was not, in other words, that these problems would self correct through markets and technology. It was that we would need an entrepreneurialism outside the market -- one that experimented with institutions and communities to solve the problems of the day. For me, a glance at AP's DRM business plan prompts the same thought. Some of the functions that newspapers now perform are going to be located elsewhere in society -- in universities, in foundations, in government, in blogs. Some of that will happen spontaneously -- but a lot of it will not unless we innovate in social organization the same way the citizens of the early 20th century did to meet the problems of urbanization.
I was lucky enough to be involved with Creative Commons from its inception and to help found Science Commons and ccLearn. Those organizations were designed to solve a particular problem for which there was a market and legal gap -- the problem of failed sharing. Jesse Dylan's brilliant video on the subject explains it better than I could. Are there equivalent institutional innovations that could help in the area of news gathering? I don't know. Journalism isn't my field. But without the kind of institutional innovation and experimentation in civil society that Creative Commons (or the Kiwani's) represented, I think that we are unlikely to solve its problems. Web 2.0 business methods alone, even with a Techdirt crystal ball, will not be enough. If I am right, mocking the clueless will be a poor consolation.
James Boyle is William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law at Duke and the author of The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind. He writes a regular column for the Financial Times and tweets sporadically as thepublicdomain.
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10 reasons to wake up in a city centre hotel over the Holidays
There's no doubt about it, the festive holidays is party time, when most of us get together with family and friends, eat, drink and make merry.
It's great fun but preparing a Christmas dinner, zipping from festive bash to family shindig, and eating lots of naughty treats can be exhausting and leave your batteries in need of a recharge.
Fitting in a budget city centre hotel break over the festive period can be just the tonic for holiday hangovers and bulging waist lines.
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- You can go to bed at 9pm and turn off your mobile phone and catch up on all the sleep you lost this year
- You can lie in for as long as you want
- You can be first to the post-Christmas sales if you stay in the centre of Newcastle or Cardiff
- There's no washing up – at all
- A great big cooked breakfast with sausages, bacon and eggs is one of the best cures for a hangover
- You don't have to miss out on a festive tipple, city centre breaks mean you can walk everywhere
- You can hole up in your room and catch up with TV programs you've missed.
- You only have to watch re-runs of James Bond and Wallace and Grommit if you really want to
- There's no getting caught by your next door neighbour and dragged in for a sherry and a mince pie
- You can switch off and have quiet time without having to play Trivial Pursuit, Charades or Give us a clue
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Satellite data yields major results in Greenland glaciers study
ESA's satellite radar imagery has played a central role in scientists' findings on changes in the velocity structure of the Greenland Ice Sheet.
Using satellite data collected between 1996 and 2005 by ESA's European Remote Sensing satellites ERS-1 and ERS-2, ESA's Envisat Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR) and Canada's Radarsat-1, scientists learned Greenland glaciers are melting into the sea twice as fast as previously believed.
Eric Rignot of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California and University of Kansas scientist Pannir Kanagaratnam measured glacier velocities using Radarsat-1's radar interferometry data collected in fall 2000 and spring and summer 2005, ERS-1 and ERS-2 data collected in winter 1996 and Envisat data from summer 2004.
The study, published in Science on 17 February 2006, found Greenland's southern glaciers are now dumping twice as much ice yearly into the Atlantic as they did in 1996, accounting for nearly 17 percent of the estimated 2.54 millimetre annual rise in global sea levels.
"The importance of the ERS archive to this work is enormous. ERS-1 and ERS-2 1992 and 1996 data is our reference survey for decades to come. It is quite important to maintain this reference. As good wine, it will gain value with age. None of our work would have been possible without it," Rignot said.
It is important to carry on long-term monitoring over Greenland as well as Antarctica because the long-term observations by satellites such as Envisat and ERS provide authoritative evidence of trends and enable estimation of the consequences should such melting continue into the future.
Greenland's ice sheet has an area of
Radar interferometry, known as InSAR, is used to measure the vast thickness of ice sheets by determining the height of the surface accurately enough to detect small changes. ESA has been at the forefront of its development because the Agency has been operating Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellites for the last 15 years, first with ERS-1, then ERS-2 and latterly Envisat.
To measure glacier velocities, Rignot explained he and Kanagaratnam use a combination of techniques based on the comparison of images. Comparing data taken over shorter times – such as images retrieved one day apart by ERS-1 and ERS-2 – is a process known as interferometric phase, while data compared with a longer time separation – such as images taken every 35 days by Envisat and those taken every 24 days by Radarsat-1 – is called speckle tracking.
"Speckle tracking procures vector information with two images; interferometric phase requires two images in two crossing tracks (ascending and descending) to produce vector information. On some glaciers, we combined interferometric phase in range with speckle tracking in azimuth," Rignot said.
Rignot and Kanagaratnam's study is the latest in recent months to use data from ESA's ERS satellites to focus on changes in the Greenland Ice Sheet. A Norwegian-led team utilised more than a decade's worth of data from radar altimeters on ERS satellites to measure elevation changes in the Greenland Ice Sheet from 1992 to 2003. The results of their study were published in Science in November 2005.


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HOUSTON (AP) — Kevin Durant texted Kevin Martin after his terrible performance in Game 5 to send words of encouragement, and tell him he knew Martin would bounce back on Friday night.
Durant couldn't have been more right, and the Oklahoma City Thunder are advancing in the NBA playoffs.
Durant scored 27 points and Martin added 25 to lead the Thunder to a 103-94 victory over the Houston Rockets, sending them to the second round for the third straight season.
The Thunder will host Memphis on Sunday afternoon.
Martin, who joined the Thunder in the trade for James Harden, rebounded from a tough Game 5. He missed his first nine shots Wednesday and finished with three points. Things were much difference in Game 6, when he had 21 points by halftime.
PREVIEW: Who wins Thunder-Grizzlies?
BOX SCORE: Thunder 103, Rockets 94
SCHEDULE: What we know for second round
"I had faith that he was going to come out and be aggressive and have a really good game," Durant said of Martin. "He's a big-time scorer. He carried us in that first half when I was struggling."
The Rockets were looking to become just the fourth team in NBA history to force a Game 7 after trailing 3-0.
But the Thunder opened the fourth quarter with a big run to take the lead and cruise to the victory.
Martin finally gave the Thunder someone to take scoring pressure off Durant for the first time since All-Star guard Russell Westbrook had season-ending knee surgery. He had 21 points by halftime and Westbrook's replacement, Reggie Jackson, helped out by scoring 17.
"It was just coming in there, trying to set a tone," Martin said. "The last 48 hours after Game 5, I couldn't even look my teammates in the eye because I felt so bad. It was going in there and playing like I have been in my career and jump-starting us to a victory."
Jackson also had seven rebounds, eight assists and just two turnovers.
"That was one of our best Thunder team wins that we've had all season," Oklahoma City coach Scott Brooks said. "The guys really laid everything on the line, and that's what playoff basketball is all about. That's what team basketball is all about, and I liked the guys' commitment to helping each other out."
Durant, who also had eight rebounds and six assists, likes the way the team has grown in the four games since Westbrook was injured.
"It's making us stronger," he said of dealing with adversity. "We definitely had to come together. We struggled at times, but that's all part of the journey."
Harden, who the Rockets said had strep throat on Thursday, led Houston with 26 points.
Oklahoma City used a 14-4 run at the beginning of the fourth quarter to take a 92-81 lead. Derek Fisher and Durant both hit 3-pointers in that stretch. Houston missed six shots, including two layups, and had two turnovers as the Thunder built the lead.
Harden made a 3-pointer after that, but Fisher stole the ball from him on the next possession and Durant finished with an exclamation-point dunk, and Houston didn't threaten after that.
"We were just stagnant and from there on out we couldn't get any movement and really couldn't get any shots off," Harden said.
Brooks said the importance of Fisher to his team couldn't be overstated.
"He has made our team better," Brooks said. "His spirit of doing it every day is something all teams should strive for. What I saw tonight was some of the most inspired play I've ever seen as a player and as a coach."
Fisher finished with 11 points, four rebounds and two steals.
The Rockets' plan of double- and triple-teaming Durant and daring someone else to beat them worked in the previous two games as they cut the deficit to 3-2. On Friday, Martin knocked down shot after shot and had outscored Durant by 12 points by halftime.
Houston got 25 points from Chandler Parsons, while Omer Asik had 13 points and 13 rebounds.
"I'm at a loss for words right now," Houston's Patrick Beverley said. "My mind is set to play Game 7. It's frustrating right now."
Houston opened the third quarter with a barrage of 3-pointers. Francisco Garcia sank one to start the period and Parsons hit three more to help the Rockets build a 68-62 lead with about 7 1/2 minutes left in the quarter.
The Rockets pushed the lead to 10 points a couple of minutes later before Jackson scored five quick points to get Oklahoma City within 72-67.
That was the beginning of a 10-2 spurt for the Thunder that helped them tie it at 74 on a putback by Durant with about three minutes remaining in the quarter. Oklahoma City led 78-77 entering the fourth quarter.
Oklahoma City limited Houston to 23 points in the third period Friday after allowing the Rockets to score 38 and 37 points, respectively, in the third quarters of the last two games.
Houston was playing without key reserve Carlos Delfino, who has a bone fracture in his right foot that will require surgery.
Jeremy Lin didn't start, but played for the first time since Game 3. He entered with about 2 1/2 minutes left in the first quarter. He had missed the last two games with a bruised chest muscle.
He had just three points.
Houston led by five points late in the first quarter before Oklahoma City used a 12-2 run to take a 36-31 lead about nine minutes before halftime. Fisher and Martin made consecutive 3s to cap that run.
Martin made a pair of free throws to finish his big first half before Harden swished a 3-pointer to cut Oklahoma City's lead to 58-54 at halftime.
Things got testy early, with Garcia and Kendrick Perkins pushing each other after a foul by Garcia and each getting technical fouls in the first quarter. Garcia simmered down pretty quickly, but Perkins had to be pulled away by teammates.
After things settled down, Perkins inexplicably dropped to the court and did several push-ups.
Another scuffle just before halftime resulted in technicals on both Asik and Durant.
PHOTOS: Thunder beat Rockets 4-2 in first-round series
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NASHVILLE – A gritty, gutsy fight-to the-finish effort by Tennessee Tech made it all the way into overtime, but the Golden Eagles just couldn't find the range in the extra session and eventually dropped an 87-80 decision to UT Martin in the championship game of the 2013 Ohio Valley Conference Women's Basketball Tournament.
Five players scored in double figures for Tech, topped by senior
Jala Harris with 19 along with seven assists. Senior Lashay Davis
added 15 points and six rebounds, sophomore Diamond Henderson added
14 points and four assists, junior Molly Heady contributed 12
points and grabbed seven rebounds and senior Kylie Cook scored 11
with six rebounds and four assists.
Harris (photo below) and Henderson (photo above) were named to the five-player all-tournament team.
UT Martin was led by tournament MVP Jasmine Newsome with 34, while Heather Butler added 24 and Rickiesha Bryant had 20 points and 12 rebounds.
A tight first half rolled through 18 minutes with neither team
getting any kind of advantage. The Skyhawks surged ahead by eight
late in the half, 37-28, before taking a seven-point lead into
The Skyhawks were up by nine early in the second half, and Tech played from behind for most of the period. Tech finally knotted the score at 67-all with 5:10 to play as Harris fired through three consecutive 3-pointers to spark a 9-2 Tech run.
A 3-pointer by Davis put Tech on top by three, 70-67, with 4:04 remaining. Tech led by three once more, 72-69, with 3:01 to go on a layup by Heady.
Tech was still up by one, 72-71, with 12 seconds to play when UTM was forced to foul to put Tech on the free throw line. The problem for the Skyhawks was, UTM had only three fouls in the second half. UT Martin went an impossible 19 minutes and 20 seconds of the game with only one foul called against them.
Four fouls later on inbounds plays and Lashay Davis went to the line, where she made one for a 73-71 lead with 9.2 seconds left. When she missed the second, Newsome took the ball the length of the floor and made a layup with two seconds to go to tie the game and force the overtime.
The Skyhawks controlled the overtime, pulling ahead by as many as eight as Tech went 2-for-8 from the floor.
Tech set a school record by attempting 41 3-pointers in the contest, connecting on 13 for 31.7 percent. The Golden Eagles shot 43.8 percent in the first half and 41.9 percent in the second, and finished the game hitting 40.8 percent overall. Tech owned a 43-35 advantage on the glass, including 19 offensive rebounds.
UTM, which had a huge advantage at the free throw line (18-9), shot 52.9 percent in the first half, 40 percent in the second half and 60 percent in overtime to finish the game with a 48.4 percent mark. UTM was 18-for-19 at the free throw line for 94.7 percent. Tech was 9-for-11 at the line for 81.9 percent.
Tech will now await its post-season fate, which will not be known until Monday, March 18, when the NCAA and NIT fields are announced.


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How does one prove that if a $X$ is a Banach space and $x^*$, a continuous linear functional from $X$ to the underlying field, then $x^*$ attains its norm for some $x$ in $X$ and $\Vert x\Vert = 1$?
My teacher gave us a hint that we should use the statement that if $X$ is a reflexive Banach space, the unit ball is weak sequentially compact, but I am not sure as to how to construct a sequence in this ball which does not converge.
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Phoenix, AZ: Humane Lobby Day 2013 - February 6
Arizona State Capitol
The Humane Society of the United States and the ASPCA (American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) invite our members and supporters to participate in Arizona's Humane Lobby Day in Phoenix, and help make a tremendous difference for animals.
This is an exciting opportunity to meet directly with your elected officials about legislation that will significantly impact the lives of animals. There will be a briefing with tips for citizen lobbying and an overview of pending animal legislation, which will prepare you to advocate for policies that will curb and end egregious acts of cruelty.
Legislators are most motivated when their constituents make time to meet with them face to face. By attending Humane Lobby Day 2013, you can be instrumental in helping to protect animals.
RSVP today to lend your voice for animals and make a difference in Arizona! DEADLINE TO REGISTER IS FEBRUARY 1. Contact Arizona State Director Kari Nienstedt if you have additional questions.
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Time: 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Arizona State Capitol
1700 W. Washington Street, Arizona Capitol Museum - Old Senate Chambers, 2nd Floor
Phoenix, AZ 85007-2856
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|MLBPA/MLB News Release
Earlier today at the Harlem RBI baseball field in New York City, New York Mets players Scott Atchison, John Buck and LaTroy Hawkins were joined by Pittsburgh Pirates players Russell Martin and Mark Melancon when they launched the 2013 City Clinics program by visiting the New York Center for Autism Charter Schools annual baseball extravaganza. Former Mets and Pirates player and current MLBPA special assistant Bobby Bonilla also joined the fun.
The Players Trust's City Clinics program is a grassroots campaign developed by -- and features the active participation of -- Major Leaguers to promote the game of baseball and life skills to underserved children, ages 6-16, in select cities across the United States.
Children participating in these free clinics receive hands-on instruction from current and former big leaguers and others in areas such as baserunning, pitching, hitting, throwing and fielding. During each session, City Clinics attendees also participate in a question and answer session with the players, and receive free T-shirts, autographs and refreshments.
The City Clinics program is generously underwritten by Majestic Athletic, a division of VF Imagewear, Inc.


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HARTSVILLE, S.C. – The Coker baseball team dropped a heartbreaking 11-10 contest to No. 27 Mount Olive College on Friday afternoon in Conference Carolinas baseball action.
The Cobras (14-14, 7-6 Conf. Carolinas) rallied in the bottom of the eighth inning, scoring eight runs on five hits and two Mount Olive (16-6, 7-2 Conf. Carolinas) errors, erasing the Trojans 6-2 lead. However the 10-6 Coker lead would be short lived, as the Trojans plated five runs in the top of the ninth, securing the lead and the eventual win.
Jake Frazier (Indian Harbor Beach, Fla.) was 2-for-4 at the plate with a triple, two RBIs and three runs scored, while Brinley Griffin (Port St. John, Fla.) added some pop to the Cobras line-up going 3-for-4 with an RBI. This was Griffin's first game in over a year. He had been sidelined since the fall of 2010 due to a hip injury.
Chad Nader (Rock Hill, S.C.) and Frank Suarez (Miami, Fla.) each drove in a pair of runs for the Cobras as well.
Russ White (Marion, S.C.) (1-3) was saddled with the loss. He threw a third of an inning in relief allowing two runs on a hit with a strikeout.
The Cobras and the Trojans will complete their three-game league series on Saturday, with a doubleheader starting at noon at Coker's Tom J. New Field.
McDonald's Player of the Game- Jake Frazier
Frazier was 2-for-4 with a triple, two RBIs and three runs scored.
The McDonald's Player of the Game is presented by the Hartsville McDonald's and is given to the most outstanding performer during each Coker College home athletic event.


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Historic UCSC Divestment from Companies Complicit in the Violation of Palestinian Human Rights Challenges UC Regents' Anti-Divestment Policy
Santa Cruz, California—May 28, 2014—At approximately 2:45AM, the University of California, Santa Cruz Student Union Assembly (SUA) passed a resolution calling for divestment from companies that profit from Israeli human rights violations against Palestinians with a majority vote of 22-14. The resolution was authored by members of the Committee for Justice in Palestine, a UCSC registered student organization, and endorsed by the UCSC chapters of Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán, Autonomous Students, and the Muslim Student Association. The resolution was also endorsed by several off-campus organizations such as Boycott from Within, the Santa Cruz Palestine Israel Action Committee, and the University of Cape Town Palestine Solidarity Forum.
While official discussion of the Divestment Bill was scheduled at 11PM, a SUA member motioned at approximately 8:15 to indefinitely table the bill. The motion failed. After addressing the Graduate Student Association's appeals to condemn administrative intimidation efforts towards students in the April strike, as well as the Compassionate University Resolution and SUA budget, the Divestment testimonials were initiated at 11:30 PM.
Following the three hour debate, the first SUA vote on the resolution revealed widespread support for Divestment landing just shy of the necessary two-thirds majority. SUA representatives then voted to suspend the SUA bylaw dictating a two-thirds majority, instead requiring only a simple majority vote to pass the resolution. The resolution passed 22-14, a marked improvement over the previous 2013 UCSC Divestment Resolution, which failed 17-19.
As of Spring 2014, five of the nine UC undergraduate universities have divested from corporations profiting from, and perpetuating, human rights violations committed by the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories. This directly challenges the UC Board of Regents' undemocratic policy of refusing to divest from corporations based on their involvement in Israeli human rights violations.
The Committee for Justice in Palestine recognizes that this success could not have been reached without the support of student organizations such as Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán, the Muslim Student Association, Autonomous Students, the Sikh Student Association, the African/Black Student Alliance, the Student Alliance of North American Indians, the Queer Student Union and members of the broader community.
CJP extends its deepest gratitude to all who made this stunning victory possible.
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