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Is Twitter channeling users toward President Barack Obama?
Here's a snapshot from recent visits to the Twitter accounts of Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney. The president's page, @BarackObama, had amassed 19.2 million followers versus slightly more than 1 million for @MittRomney. The difference: 18.2 million.
While Obama has been in the Oval Office for almost four years, it wasn't surprising to see so many followers displayed on his bio.
What was surprising, though, was how few followers Mitt Romney was gaining compared to Obama. For those unfamiliar with Twitter, a social networking site launched in 2006, users have the option to follow the accounts and short messages posted by those they care about. Think of it as the Internet's text messaging service.
2012Twit.com, which tracks the social presence of those involved in the election, found that in the previous 24 hours, Obama gained more than 41,000 followers or more than four times as many as Romney's 9,000. (Read More: Smartphone Owners Like Obama: Survey)
On average,@BarackObama has been adding about 9,600 Twitter followers per day since its inception in March 2007 and is the sixth most-followed account on Twitter. @MittRomney has been getting an average of 876 every 24 hours since starting in June 2009 and ranks as 1,329th. These numbers would equate to the president gaining more than 10 times as many followers each day.
Why is @MittRomney gaining Twitter followers at a slower pace? According to Twitter, the reason stems from its algorithms.
But three weeks ago, I decided to check. I created a new email account and then signed onto Twitter.com as a new user, an act done by thousands of people around the world each day.
After creating an account, clicking through a tutorial and confirming that I did not want Twitter to view my recent history so it can better recommend suggested follows, I was given a list of accounts to follow. Twitter does this to allow its new users to immediately experience the platforms' usefulness by filling up their page with tweets. Obama placed eighth. First lady Michelle Obama was fourth. Others in the top 10 included singers Katy Perry and Missy Elliott, comedians Kevin Hart and Louis C.K. and a couple of news-related accounts, but no sign of Romney.
Twitter displayed 73 recommended accounts for my new user profile, including athletes, musicians and comedians. It was clear that Twitter had updated its standard recommended "follow list" because U.S. Olympics gold medal swimmer Ryan Lochte made the new one, at 40th.
I figured that refreshing the list would display a new batch of suggestions. I was wrong. It was the same 73 accounts, albeit in a different order. I logged in and out three more times, only to find similar results. (It's worth noting that in the months before conducting this experiment, I hadn't seen @MittRomney in the standard recommended section of a new Twitter user.)
In May, Twitter's director of growth and international addressed this issue. "When new users come to Twitter, we show them all almost the same suggestions for what or who to follow," Othman Laraki wrote in a blog post. "That isn't ideal. Since you have individual interests, you should get individual suggestions. After all, even though millions of people love Justin Bieber, FC Barcelona or Kim Kardashian, not everyone using Twitter may want to follow them." That's when Twitter began offering tailored suggestions.
But what about those who opt out of Twitter's tailored suggestions? It appears Twitter is showing them almost the same 73 suggestions.
When reaching out to the Romney campaign on whether there have been discussions between Twitter and Romney's camp on better handle placement, a spokeswoman suggested I speak to Twitter and offered no additional comment. (Read More: Sweeney: Are Democrats Losing the Social Media War?)
Elaine Filadelfo, a Twitter spokeswoman,told CNBC.com by email that the "list — for folks who don't get personalized suggestions — is algorithmically determined. That is, it's determined by the engagement around the account." Twitter pointed out that "Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan both appear on our Government Suggested User List." This list, though, is seen alongside 31 other categories a few pages later in the signup process, where users are less likely to see specific accounts.
In terms of engagement, in the 24 hours ending Wednesday morning, Obama received about 25,000 retweets (when Twitter users broadcast statements they have received) and 36,000 mentions, compared with Romney's 2,000 retweets and 16,000 mentions, according to 2012twit. (Read More:Twitter's Legal Battle: Who Owns Your Tweets?)
I then created a new email address and another Twitter account to opt-in on a tailored Twitter experience (which tracks sites with Twitter-widgets visited within the previous 10 days). The recommended follows were Barack Obama (in the fourth slot), the White House (35th) and Michelle Obama (73rd). Many of the accounts were the same as the ones I found when opting out of the feature, which meant it, too, didn't include Romney's profile.
Less than three weeks after the initial experiment and CNBC.com's email exchanges with Twitter, new users were able to see Romney running mate Paul Ryan's Twitter accounts, as well as New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's, in the standard recommended follow section. But there was still no sign of @MittRomney, which sees more engagement than the accounts of his two fellow Republicans.
In a social world where sites charge users to have their accounts prominently displayed alongside streams and where brands pay heavily to feature their advertisements under and atop posts, placement is critical. Those accounts fortunate enough to be featured in a recommended follow section at no cost have hit the jackpot. And in a close presidential election where every set of eyeballs count, having the social edge may mean a difference of 36.4 million eyeballs.
— Written by CNBC's Eli Langer. Follow him on Twitter at @EliLanger.

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A Sandwich A Day: Bistec Sandwich at 90 Miles Cuban Cafe
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Chicagoans love their beef sandwiches, but there isn't enough love given to the humble steak sandwich. Hoping to fill that void in my life, I chose the Bistec Sandwich ($7) at a recent visit to 90 Miles Cuban Cafe. This Cuban oasis on Armitage is all about authentic, flavorful food in a casual environment that's hard not to fall for immediately while you're swaying to the Cuban music on a cold, snowy day.
The downfall of a steak sandwich is usually the steak itself; it's easy to overcook a thin slice of steak like the one that so many Latin restaurants use for their sandwiches. This steak was anything but that—it was tender, juicy, and seasoned simply to allow the taste of the meat to be the star. The meat sits atop crusty, pressed french bread, with a soft inside dressed lightly in chimichurri. 90 Miles definitely has their own version of the Argentine sauce, but what it lacked in spice, it made up for with its own combination of vibrant herbs and olive oil.
The grilled onions retain some of their crunch and accompany a leaf of romaine and a few thin tomato slices. Despite the sandwich arriving completely covered in shoestring potatoes, the actual amount between the bread is sparse, lending just a hint of needed saltiness. You know it's good when you're sad you don't have leftovers to take home.
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Record-high temperatures swept most of Europe this summer, but in Moscow the weather, much like the political climate, was chilly. I spent three months in the capital at the invitation of the Russian Union of Journalists, and witnessed how Vladimir Putin's third term in office kicked off with the passage of restrictive laws, harassment and prosecution of dissent, the jailing of an irreverent punk-rock band, and death threats by a top-ranking official against a prominent editor.
On Sunday, May 6, the day before Putin's inauguration, an estimated 20,000 gathered in downtown Moscow for a march toward Bolotnaya Ploshchad, a square within walking distance of the Kremlin, to protest what they saw as Putin's illegitimate claim on Russia's top office.
That day, authorities limited access to Moscow's downtown, closing adjacent metro stations and streets. The explanation?--a scheduled rehearsal of the May 9 Victory Day parade, an annual demonstration of Russia's military might. In the preceding days, opposition activists from Russia's regions reported being prevented from traveling to Moscow to attend the protest. The websites of several independent and pro-opposition media outlets, including the prominent business daily Kommersant, the radio station Ekho Moskvy, and the online television channel Dozhd, all experienced distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks that disabled them on May 6.
When protesters tried to break through a cordon of geared-up riot police to head toward the Kremlin, tensions rose and a confrontation ensued. Some protesters threw bottles and stones at the police, who pushed and clubbed them. Amid frustration and adrenaline, the clash resulted in reports of about 30 injuries, all of police officers. It was unclear how many protesters were hurt, but more than 400, including the rally organizers, were arrested.
The Kremlin's reaction to the clashes was instantaneous. Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Dozhd he thought police had acted softly towards demonstrators, whom he referred to as provocateurs. "I'd rather they [police] behave more harshly." His comment signaled what was to come: an unapologetic crackdown on dissent, critical media, and civil society.
A month after stepping into office, Putin signed into law a bill levying steep fines on protest organizers and participants, and restricting their rights to peaceful assembly. The penalty imposed on individual participants in rallies "unsanctioned" by the government is 300,000 rubles (more than US$9,000); the penalty is double for rally organizers. The figures are exorbitant in a country where the average monthly salary is less than 24,000 rubles (around US$740). By mid-June, 15 activists were criminally charged with separate counts of incitement to, organizing of, or participation in mass disorder, as well as violence toward law enforcement, in connection with the May 6 events. Police also raided the homes of several opposition leaders, most notably 36-year-old anti-corruption activist Aleksei Navalny, who has emerged as the boldest, most charismatic figure of the fledgling protest movement. Navalny would later be charged with "embezzlement" --a crime that carries up to 10 years in prison--after Russia's Investigative Committee resurrected a case against him that previously had been closed for lack of evidence.
The Kremlin did not wince at the group exodus, post May 6, of human rights defenders, NGO leaders, and civil activists from the presidential human rights council--a liaison office between Russia's top leaders and civil society. (Among the prominent figures who departed were human rights defender and former Nobel Peace Prize nominee Svetlana Gannushkina, veteran media rights advocate Aleksei Simonov, and legendary founder of the Moscow Helsinki Group Lyudmila Alekseyeva.) On the contrary, Putin proceeded to sign a bill that de-facto outlawed civil society. The legislation, which came into effect on July 21, obligates all NGOs that receive international funding and are involved in "political activity"--without a clear definition of that term--to register as foreign agents with Russia's Justice Ministry. Needless to say, having to register as a foreign agent in Russia is like being forced to wear the proverbial scarlet letter. The Kremlin has long sought to vilify activists who receive grants from abroad as being bought by the West to create unrest and undermine Russia's stability. Most recently, in early spring, a series of so-called documentaries aired repeatedly in prime time on the state-controlled NTV national television channel, portraying civil society leaders as traitors paid by the U.S. State Department to stage and participate in anti-government rallies.
The registration process for NGOs in Russia is already a cumbersome, costly, and time-consuming endeavor set by a restrictive law. But the new "foreign agents" legislation adds extra reporting-to-the-government requirements. Colleagues at the Russian Union of Journalists told me the law would create extra work for the already-stretched accounting department and make the group more vulnerable to bureaucratic harassment.
Nine days after signing the restrictive NGO bill, Putin signed two other laws that directly harm independent media. The first one recriminalizes defamation in the country--a rollback of then-President Dmitry Medvedev's decriminalization of libel and insult last November. In returning defamation to the criminal books, Putin approved a maximum fine of 5 million rubles (US$150,000) for those convicted--a significant jump from the previously provisioned 3,000 rubles (US$100). Such a sum would be prohibitive for independent and pro-opposition media in Russia, and makes them extra vulnerable to politically motivated prosecution. A staffer with the independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta told me that after Putin signed the law, editors convened a meeting with legal advisers in anticipation of politically motivated defamation claims.
The second bill Putin signed into law on July 30 allowed for websites carrying "unlawful content" to be blacklisted in Russia. Though ostensibly created to curb child pornography, the law's vague definitions of unlawful content--including such stretchy concepts of "making war propaganda" and "inciting inter-ethnic hatred"--allows for broad interpretation. Observers worry that the law could be selectively used to silence critical online content. In recent years, the Internet has emerged as a home for independent, alternative news and views, as well as civil and political activism. The new law allows authorities to close down websites without a court order.
The beginning of Putin's third term in office was marred by politically motivated prosecutions and harassment.
In one prominent example, Aleksandr Lebedev, a banker and key shareholder in Novaya Gazeta, reported being harassed by police, who told him they had "some order from above" to investigate his business, The New York Times said in early August. "The special services steamrolled my business into the pavement," Lebedev told the news agency Interfax. "I give up." It is unclear what that could mean for Novaya Gazeta, which is one of a handful of publications in Russia that investigates top-level wrongdoing and publishes searing commentary on the country's power structures.
Exactly such commentary apparently pushed Aleksandr Bastrykin, the head of the federal Investigative Committee--the body tasked with investigating severe crimes in Russia--to threaten the life of Novaya Gazeta deputy editor Sergey Sokolov in early June. In a self-described "emotional breakdown" Bastrykin ordered his guards to put the journalist in a car and drive him to a forest outside of Moscow, where he asked his guards to leave them alone and proceeded to make graphic death threats against Sokolov. Sokolov left the country, fearing for his life. Bastrykin later apologized for his conduct at a press conference with Novaya Gazeta's editor-in-chief Dmitry Muratov, who said he considered the matter to be settled. But many asked whether offering an apology is enough redemption for a top-ranking official in charge of investigating severe crimes--including murders of journalists.
An apology was not enough, meanwhile, to keep three members of the feminist punk-rock band Pussy Riot out of prison for singing in a church. In perhaps the most emblematic case yet of how far Putin 2.0 is determined to go to crush dissent, the performers were tried and jailed for staging a flash mob in Moscow's main Orthodox Church in February. During the irreverent stunt, the band, wearing colorful balaclavas, "prayed" to the Virgin Mother to "banish Putin." Even though Pussy Riot's stunt, upon the band's own admission, was a purely political statement, authorities insisted it was an act of religious hatred. Patriarch Kirill, head of the Russian Orthodox Church and a staunch Putin supporter, publicly condemned it as "blasphemous."
Despite an international outcry, including from international megastars such as Sting, Madonna, and Paul McCartney, a Moscow court pronounced 22-year-old Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 24-year-old Maria Alyokhina, and 30-year-old Yekaterina Samutsevich, guilty of "hooliganism motivated by religious hatred," and slammed them with two-year prison sentences. Defending the court's decision, Putin told the Kremlin-sponsored English-language television channel Russia Today, that the "state is obligated to protect the feelings of the faithful."
The band's supporters disagree. "If they had sung 'Virgin Mother, save Putin,' there would have been no trial at all," Yevgeniya Albats, editor-in-chief of the independent newsweekly The New Times, told Ekho Moskvy.


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Every day for a year, Katie Quinn Davies got up, went on a grocery run to the supermarket and confined herself to the kitchen with the goods.
Her aim: to learn the art of food photography and styling by cooking and shooting her own dishes for her blog What Katie Ate.
"For the first six months, I would get up every day and the kitchen would go from being spotless to a complete bomb site by 4pm," Quinn Davies says. "I would be there on my own trying to cook burgers and sandwiches and style ice-cream, and I'd be shooting it as I'm going."
With a blossoming career as a food photographer and a newly published book, her hard work has paid off.
"The whole thing is really practice, practice, practice," says the former graphic designer from Dublin, who styled, photographed and wrote the recipes for her book, also called What Katie Ate.
"It's about experimenting and finding your own style."
The basics
Food stylist and recipe writer Caroline Velik says a good start is to photograph food in the daytime.
"The problem with food photography sharing on the web is that a lot of people are photographing food at night when they are eating it, and that really doesn't work," Velik says.
"They could have the nicest props in the world, but if they shoot it at 8pm at night it would still look terrible."
Food photographer Marina Oliphant agrees natural light is the key.
"Direct flash is food's enemy," she says.
Oliphant, a regular contributor to Fairfax publications, says food bloggers and amateur photographers would get better results by going to a restaurant during the day and booking a table by a window.
Using window light as the main light source and having it come from either behind or beside the dish will be most flattering, she says.
"The glossy highlights will reflect into the lens, accentuating the food's texture. Then you can hold a large piece of white card to bounce back some fill-light."
Fairfax staff photographer Eddie Jim has had to get creative in his quest for the perfect food shot. He has perfected a technique of using the table napkins or serviettes as reflectors, propping them up with a couple of wine glasses. Jim gives detailed food photography tips, including advice on lenses, in the attached video.
"They are really good as they are pure white," he says of napkins. "They're always there, but not everyone uses them as tools."
Styling tips
But it's not just the lighting and photography that make a good food shot. An interesting prop is a good start says Velik, who works as a stylist on both editorial and commercial shoots.
This contributes to the photograph visually while giving the dish context.
"A lot of the shots I see people blogging are just [taken] on the plate they ate their dinner on," she says.
She says the surface they put the plate on is also important.
"The glaring problem for me is [bloggers] all seem to have this orange wooden table," she says.
"Whatever this table is – throw it away. I think old wood is good, pale or dark, but definitely not orange.
"Think about the colour of the food that's on your dish. You can either provide a complementary colour or go simple white, grey or black. If it's a busy dish, don't put it on a patterned nanna plate."
Quinn Davies suggests a trip to a fabric shop to buy natural cloths that can be dyed in buckets.
"You can wash them over and over again so the edges fray and you get a bit of character in them. That is the kind of thing that I do," she says.
"I tend to go to little antique stores – generally out of the city because props can get very expensive – and potter around markets and op-shops picking up old little bits of vintage crockery and cutlery."
And if at first you don't succeed, remember Quinn Davies' motto: "practice, practice, practice".
Leave a comment below and share your food photography tips.


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Most voters believe David Cameron is running a "Government of chums", according to a new poll.
Nearly two thirds of adults think members of the Prime Minister's inner circle are there because of who, rather than what, they know, research for the Mail on Sunday found.
The accusation Mr Cameron packs his Government with "chums", a claim backed by Conservative former Cabinet minister Norman Tebbit earlier this week, has also struck a chord with the public, according to polling firm Survation.
It found six out of 10 people believed it to be an accurate description.
Mr Cameron's privileged upbringing also remains steadfast in the minds of voters.
When asked to pick from two photographs - one showing the PM in his Oxford University Bullingdon Club days and another of him dressed in jeans drinking a pint of beer in a pub - which identified the "real David Cameron" the student picture was selected by 63% of those surveyed. Four out of 10 believe Mr Cameron is a "snob" while nearly three quarters of adults believe the Conservative Party is out of touch.
Three times as many voters would rather have dinner with Mayor of London Boris Johnson than Mr Cameron.
More than a quarter of voters backed shadow chancellor Ed Balls as the man who would get the best bargain at a car boot sale while just 13% backed Chancellor George Osborne.
But the results are also disappointing for Labour, which sees it on 35, reducing its eight-point margin over the Tories from two weeks ago.
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A city that combines the traditional with the modern, Braunschweig is blessed with a wealth of monuments from its rich history as well as beautiful quarters that have retained their charm over the centuries. But its appeal also extends to modern architecture such as the Happy Rizzi House, together with a lively arts scene and extensive parkland.
Braunschweig's history is closely associated with that of the Guelph dynasty. Henry the Lion made the city his ducal residence in the 12th century and transformed it into a Hanseatic city and trading power. The memory of this great Braunschweig figure lives on at Dankwarderode Castle, St. Blasius Cathedral and through the bronze lion statue on Burgplatz square. During the reign of Otto IV, another Guelph ruler, Braunschweig became a centre of imperial power and one of Europe's most important political hubs. The House of Guelph continued to shape the development of the city until the early 20th century, promoting architecture, science and the arts. This is part of the reason why Braunschweig has attracted so many great minds, who made it the hotbed of innovation it is today. A vast amount of research and development takes place here, and the city is home to numerous international institutes. Indeed in 2007 it became an official 'city of science'.
Braunschweig has always appealed to art lovers as well. The Duke Anton Ulrich Museum, for instance, is considered Lower Saxony's foremost art museum and boasts one of the most comprehensive collections of old masters anywhere in Germany. Culture of a more modern variety is offered by the State Theatre, as well as by the many independent theatres and performance groups that offer high-calibre entertainment across a range of genres – all part of Braunschweig's thriving arts scene. Braunschweig is equally impressive when it comes to retail therapy. A stroll through the attractive city centre, for example, reveals world-class shopping opportunities. And for world-class architecture look no further than Ackerhof square in the Magni quarter, where you can marvel at the outrageously colourful Happy Rizzi House – the work of American artist James Rizzi. And just around the corner lies what is believed to be the oldest timber-framed house in Germany. A contrast typical of Braunschweig, where the old and the new come together in perfect harmony. And somewhere in the middle is you.
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You can reserve bottle service at Abolengo here. You'll be able to find event details, floor plans, bottle menus, and table minimums here or click on an event to the right to browse our webapp.
Abolengo Bottle Service Minimums
The cheapest table available for Abolengo would be the Silver Table which can seat 6 for a MX$3,600.00 minimum. The table would come with standard mixers, VIP expedited entry, and a host or hostess to make sure you're taken care of. You can find pricing for other table options here.
Abolengo VIP Host / Promoter
Looking for a promoter or VIP host for Abolengo? We can help. Book your table here and someone will be in touch, or feel free to contact us at firstname.lastname@example.com or call/text us at at 415-735-6716.
Abolengo Bottle Menu
We don't currently have a bottle menu for Abolengo.
Abolengo Table / Cabana Floor Plan
We don't currently have a floor plan for Abolengo.
Abolengo Bottle Service Prices
Bottle service minimums at Abolengo start at MX$3,600.00 for the Silver Table and go up to MX$17,200.00 for the VIP Table. Table pricing can fluctuate depending on the night, the talent, and whether it's a holiday. Click on an event that you're interested in to see pricing for that particular night. Keep in mind the minimum spend does not include tax and tip – you'll want to add about 30% on top of your minimum to get accurate total.
Abolengo Bottles Per Person
On average, you'll probably want to get 1 bottle for every 5-6 people, depending on how much you drink. Keep in mind – you'll probably need more if you plan on inviting girls to your table!
Abolengo Bottle Service Per Person Cost
Depending on the size and price of your table, average minimums for Abolengo table service per person range from MX$600.00-MX$2,150.00. You can view pricing here – or contact us for pricing for large parties! Keep in mind the minimum spend does not include tax and tip – you'll want to add about 30% on top of your minimum to get the final spend amount.
Abolengo Champagne Brands
For those of you looking to pop a little bubbly – don't worry Abolengo has an extensive champagne list available! You'll find everything from Perrier-Jouet, Krug Grand, Veuve, and Moet, to Dom Perignon and Cristal Rosé.
Abolengo Bottle Service Alcohol Brands
Abolengo has many types of Alcohol Vodka (Grey Goose), Whiskey, (Jameson) Tequila (Patron), Gin, Rum, as well as various types of champagne. You can see bottle pricing here!
Abolengo Free Mixers
Bottle service at Abolengo includes free standard mixers, including orange juice, cranberry juice, soda water, various sodas, as well as garnishes.
Abolengo Extra Mixers
Redbulls and other energy drinks / premium mixers can be purchased as well.


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EPA Honors Work of Exceptional New York Environmental Leaders
Release Date: 04/23/2014
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- (New York, N.Y.) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today honored 17 individuals and organizations from across New York with Environmental Quality Awards for their achievements in protecting public health and the environment. EPA Regional Administrator Judith A. Enck presented the awards at a ceremony at EPA's offices in Manhattan. Michelle DePass, former Assistant Administrator of the EPA Office of International and Tribal Affairs and currently Dean of the Milano School of International Affairs, Management and Urban Policy at the New School for Public Engagement in New York City, delivered the keynote address.
"Today we celebrate the exemplary work of people who work tirelessly to protect the environment and give their time and energy to create a cleaner and healthier future for us all," said EPA Regional Administrator Judith A. Enck. "Their extraordinary contributions serve as an inspiration to all who strive for a more sustainable environmental future."
The EPA presents Environmental Quality Awards annually during Earth Week to individuals, businesses, government agencies, environmental and community-based organizations and members of the media in EPA Region 2, which covers New Jersey, New York, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and eight federally-recognized Indian Nations. The awards recognize significant contributions to improving the environment and public health in the previous calendar year. For information about the Environmental Quality Awards in EPA Region 2, visit https://www.epa.gov/region02/eqa/.
The Environmental Quality Award winners from New York are (in alphabetical order):
Chris Bowser
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
Hudson River Estuary Program and National Estuarine Research Reserve
Chris Bowser has made "glass eels" (young American eels migrating from the Atlantic Ocean into freshwater streams) the focus of a unique environmental education project that goes from building knowledge about eels to promoting stewardship of this fish and habitats essential to its life cycle. He has engaged hundreds of K-12 students, youth group members, college students and community volunteers in studying glass eel migration into Hudson estuary tributaries. His work ensures that students learn about ecological links between the sea and freshwater rivers and watersheds.
Mayor Byron Brown
City of Buffalo, New York
Under Mayor Brown, the city of Buffalo has emerged as a national environmental leader. The Buffalo Public Schools energy program will save $71 million dollars over 20 years. The city's "Complete Streets" program has 60 miles of bike facilities. The Buffalo Sewer Authority has reduced natural gas use by 60% and is implementing a $430 million combined sewer overflow plan including nearly $100 million in urban stormwater retrofits. The Buffalo River Restoration Partnership is removing almost one million cubic yards of contaminated river sediment.
Buffalo Niagara Riverkeeper
For over 25 years, Buffalo Niagara Riverkeeper has brought together multiple partners to solve complex environmental problems. The Buffalo Niagara Riverkeeper has successfully leveraged water-based investments with millions of dollars of private investments for the region and is leading initiatives for impaired waterways like the Scajaquada Creek and implementing green infrastructure projects. The Buffalo River Restoration Partnership is one of the largest cleanups in the country. In addition, the Buffalo Niagara Riverkeeper is helping to restore 2,800 feet of Buffalo River shoreline with 2,000 plants.
Catherine Bullwinkle
Cathe Bullwinkle is the lead poison prevention coordinator for the Oneida County Health Department and is an active community member working to transform "brownfields" to "greenfields" in some of the most economically depressed areas of the county. Cathe's hard work, vision and unique ability to inspire others makes her a stand-out among those she serves and those who work side-by-side with her. Cathe's work is helping to create a healthy environment through lead free housing, access to healthy foods and providing safe places for people to recreate.
Bart Chezar
Since retiring from the New York Power Authority in 2002, Bart Chezar has made it his mission to protect the environment. He has been involved in the hybridization of taxi and livery car fleets, helped reduce school bus emissions and developed a program to help New York State reduce vehicle greenhouse gas emissions. He is chairman of his local Sierra Club, on the Board of the Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club and a member of the NY-NJ Harbor & Estuary Program Citizens Advisory Committee.
Maureen Dolan Murphy
Citizens Campaign for the Environment
Maureen Dolan Murphy is an executive program manager for Citizens Campaign for the Environment. She is also chair of the South Shore Estuary Reserve Citizens Advisory Committee, chair of the Communications Committee for Long Island Sound Citizens Advisory Committee and an active member and co-founder of the Western Bays Coalition. In these capacities, her goal is to educate the general public on the benefits of preserving the environment in all of its parts, focusing on the Northeast.
Green Living Technologies
Green Living Technologies International, headquartered in Rochester, New York, is a national leader in developing and providing intelligent green technologies like green walls and green roofs and vertical farming. The company's unique technologies have helped conserve energy, reduce storm water runoff and filter pollutants and carbon dioxide out of the air, while encouraging environmentally sustainable farming. In 2013, the company completed a green wall 8 feet wide and 40 feet tall containing 1,776 green plants to improve air quality at the Rochester Institute for Technology's Sustainability Institute halls.
IceStone began with a simple concept; transform waste glass into something beautiful. The company has manufactured sustainable recycled countertop materials in Brooklyn since 2003. Each countertop slab contains 70% recycled content and production of these slabs has diverted over 13 million pounds of glass from landfills. IceStone's recycled glass and cement compositions deliver unparalleled style that brings design to life. More importantly, this local business is a "triple bottom line" business, concerned about economic and environmental accountability and social responsibility.
Jackie James-Creedon
Jackie James-Creedon was one of the founding members and first executive director of the Clean Air Coalition of Western New York. From 2008-2009, she led the group in its campaign against Tonawanda Coke, resulting in the facility reducing its benzene emissions by 86%. She has made it her personal mission to find out why she and so many people in the Tonawanda area have chronic illnesses. She continues her environmental justice and scientific investigation work in her community by conducting soil testing and mentoring high school students.
Keith Kerman
City of New York
Department of Citywide Administrative Services
As New York City's first Chief Fleet Management Officer, Keith Kerman has led the city's green fleet program to greater heights. The city has increased the use of hybrid electric vehicles, with 5,848 hybrids or battery electric vehicles, including 48 hybrid diesel-electric trucks. The city operates over 600 electric vehicles, including 60 all electric sedans and 164 charging stations. Keith also led a citywide light duty fleet reduction plan that reduced the size of the fleet by 500 vehicles, which will also reduce fuel consumption.
Lake George Association
Floating Classroom
Each year, approximately 1,500 students board the Rosalia Anna Asby, the Lake George Association's floating classroom, to learn more about maintaining the quality of one of New York State's largest lakes. The goal of the floating classroom is to broaden students' knowledge of the lake, its watershed and environmental challenges. The students measure water depth and clarity, use nets to collect plankton and learn about ways in which they can help protect the lake.
David Majewski
Urban Habitat Project
David Majewski has been the guiding force for the Urban Habitat Project at the Buffalo Central Terminal. The project serves as an outdoor classroom for local youth, an opportunity for urban ecology research and a demonstration of green infrastructure to manage stormwater. The site absorbs approximately 320,000 gallons of stormwater runoff from adjacent streets and redirects it to the site via adjoining bioretention cells. The three acre project includes native plant species selected to promote soil remediation and enhance biodiversity of birds, insects and mammals.
Painted Apron Water Committee
When a water system in Orange County, New York was abandoned by its owner after years of mismanagement and neglect, volunteers stepped in to protect public health and provide safe drinking water. A few residents of Port Jervis assumed responsibility for themselves and for everyone served by the public water supply. Due to their efforts and persistence, the system has been taken off a boil water notice and customers now have confidence that their drinking water is properly monitored and treated.
Eva Radke
Film Biz Recycling
Eva Radke founded Film Biz Recycling in 2008. She describes it as a "creative reuse center." At its Gowanus warehouse in Brooklyn, New York, donations from film, TV, theater, commercial and other media productions are collected and sorted. Nearly half of the items become inventory for sale or rent at the prop shop everything else goes to charity. The organization currently partners with eight charities that collect donated materials. Since its founding, Film Biz has collected and repurposed more than 450 tons of donated production items.
Eva Sanjurjo
Eva Sanjurjo is a founder of the Hunts Point Awareness Committee, a group of civic activists that helped foster the environmental justice movement in the South Bronx. The committee formed to fight a stench from a New York Organic Fertilizer Company facility, where sludge from sewage plants was converted into fertilizer pellets. In response to concerns about air pollution and high levels of asthma among children in Hunts Point, Eva helped start an educational program called "Greening for Breathing," which planted hundreds of trees in the neighborhood.
Scott Acres Water Users Association
After more than a decade of neglect, the Scott Acres Water Company abandoned its water system in Orange County, New York. A concerned group of citizens banded together to acquire responsibility for the system and, in the process, revitalized the plant, made significant repairs to its housing, replaced a defective pump, installed climate control features and hired a certified operator to operate the system. Today, customers of the Scott Acres Water system are drinking properly treated water.
Dr. Ralph Spezio
Rochester City School District
Dr. Spezio has been a tireless advocate for children in the Rochester, New York area. As principal of School 17, Dr. Spezio noticed serious learning problems among some of his students. When he saw that they had high blood lead levels, he helped found the Coalition to Prevent Lead Poisoning (CPLP), an education and advisory group dedicated to eliminate lead poisoning in Monroe County. Facilitated by CPLP, Rochester has reduced blood lead levels and Dr. Spezio continues to share his success in Rochester with other communities, most recently Newburgh, New York.
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Facebook opened its first Seattle engineering office with two people less than two years ago, and has grown from 17 employees to 90 over the past year. Now, the company has moved into a larger space across town, with room for up to 170 people.
And Facebook's Seattle site director says the company doesn't plan to stop there.
"We will continue to grow as quickly as we can, and we will continue to challenge our facilities team to find room to put all the people that we're going to hire," said Facebook's Ari Steinberg, during an open house today at the company's new offices in Seattle's South Lake Union area.
Engineers in the Facebook Seattle office work on a wide variety of projects and technologies, including the company's mobile apps, its advertising systems, video calling and instant messaging.
The company's culture is on display in the new office, with a cafe serving three meals a day, laundry service for employees, and a literal Facebook wall that visitors are encouraged to sign. (Legislators including U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell and U.S. Rep. Jim McDermott were among those who signed the wall today.)
After noticing that the conference rooms in the new office came in clusters of three, they gave them names such as Rock, Paper, Scissors; the Good, the Bad and the Ugly; Abort, Retry and Fail; and Lady Gaga, Taylor Swift and Katy Perry — the latter trio being the result of an inside joke among the company's engineers.
Also see this archive of our live stream from the event.


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Manpower Survey Results in December 2011
Link to statistical tables
Table 1. Important Indicators Based on Manpower Survey Results
Table 2. Important Results of Manpower Survey in Seasonally Adjusted Series
Table 3. Labor Force Participation Rate by Educational Attainment
Table 4. Labor Force Participation Rate by Age
Table 5. Employed Persons by Industry
Table 6. Employed Persons by Occupation
Table 7. Employed Persons by Class of Worker
Table 8. Unemployed Persons, by Reason Why in Unemployment
Table 9. Unemployment Rate by Educational Attainment
Table10. Unemployment Rate by age
Table11. Persons Not in the Labor Force by Reason Why Not
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ESL Links
I have just cleaned out our links database and if it is anything like a representative sample of the ESL industry on the web, things are looking grim. We had just under 3,000 links when I started and have just under 2,500 now. It's a particularly dull and time-consuming job and I do it about once a year, though I skipped last year as I was on a slowish connection. Even so, it's a lot of dead links and right across the board.
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Money doesn't grow on trees. University recreation centers know this better than anyone. Unlike glitzy college athletic programs with mascots, ticket prices and beaucoup dollars from TV advertising, university rec centers have to be a bit more creative when funding new facilities, renovations or programs.
It has taken years for college rec centers to earn both the attention of their parent schools and the money to step out of their athletic departments' shadows and into their own domains with stand-alone rec centers. Many new centers don't even have to share space with their school's physical education department.
Having complete control over the design of a building, its equipment and its layout has been like a dream for many rec professionals. Across the country, rec centers are used as recruiting tools, and students have come to expect a high-end, health club-like experience when they work out.
And that comes with a price. The cost to build a recreational complex has increased in the past 20 years from $2 million to $49 million. During the next five years, an estimated 400 indoor and 318 outdoor recreational facilities managed by members of the National Intramural-Recreational Sports Association (NIRSA) will be built or renovated for an estimated $4.9 billion, according to the "Kerr & Downs Research Report — Buying Power of Participants of Recreational Sports on College Campuses." Traditional funding has come from student fees, but whether students can and will step up to pay these increased costs is the question.
"We want these facilities to happen, but you can't do that with the overkill of charging so much money," says Mary Ann Chappell, director of the KU Recreation Services, who helped open a new student-funded recreation fitness center at the University of Kansas (KU) in Lawrence, KS, in 2003.
Schools are turning to new — and sometimes old — sources for funding. While some universities are returning to their "roots" once again by sharing space with the athletic and physical education department, others are finding new partners to share funds with or are relying heavily on student recreation fees. The partnerships between university rec centers and other campus departments are like an evolution, says Chappell.
"There were years where we had multipurpose facilities with athletics, recreation, physical education — anything you could get in there," she says. "Then everyone needed their own spaces, but now we're going back."
Branching Out
By consolidating services in a single building, colleges can save money on building and utility costs. Some on-campus partners — namely athletics — come with deep-pocketed donors. Today, few donors give money to rec centers, but Chappell is hopeful that will change in five to seven years when students who used these centers "make it" in their professions and begin to donate money to their schools — and she hopes to the rec centers they enjoyed as students.
Alumni have already played a big part in raising money to build the $14-million Hynes Athletics Center at Iona College in New Rochelle, NY. The college used a partnership with the athletic program and money and momentum from the college-wide campaign Vision into Reality (VIR): The Campaign for Iona College to build the rec center.
Launched in 1997, the campaign's goal was to raise $55 million for several school initiatives and departments. Over the course of four years, the university asked every graduate by letter, phone call or personal visit to participate in the campaign. By the end of January 2005, VIR had raised more than $82 million, $14 million of it going to the Hynes Athletics Center.
"Many of the supporters were former athletes or people who had a connection to the college through athletics," says Matt Glovaski, assistant director of athletics, recreation and intramurals at Iona.
With roughly 3,100 undergraduates in attendance, the small college had previously lacked the resources to accommodate the recreational needs of its students and staff. The new center houses 7,800 square feet of multipurpose courts and a 2,800-square-foot cardiovascular center for students, faculty and staff. The center also shares space with athletics, housing a state-of-the-art rowing tank for crew teams and a wing for athletic department administrators and coaches.
Since the building opened in January, the dynamic on campus has changed significantly as the center has become the social centerpiece of the campus, Glovaski says.
"We are really proud of the changes that have occurred since the opening of the facility, and I have seen firsthand the important role that recreation and fitness play in college life," he says.
It's a similar story at Ohio State University (OSU) where its Recreation and Physical Activity Center (RPAC) shares natatorium space with athletics. Due to the high costs of building and maintaining a pool and wet area, this is a common pairing, says Bob Larrimer, director of architecture for Moody Nolan Inc. and project manager for the RPAC. The rec center shares its 10-lane, 50 — meter competitive pool; diving well; and locker rooms with OSU's swimming, diving and synchronized swimming teams. Athletics contributed $20 million, or roughly 15 percent of the cost, for the shared space, he says.
"There's less tax money going into these universities, and athletics has a great ability to raise money," Larrimer says. "That is the advantage of bringing athletics in [with the rec center]. Another pro is the efficiency of not having to duplicate facilities as much."
The RPAC, which is 75 percent completed, will eventually share space with the School of Physical Activity and Educational Services (PAES). Currently, much of the PAES faculty and staff are scattered around campus in different buildings. By having the academic unit together, faculty, staff and students will reduce their commuting time and have ample opportunity to exchange ideas with RPAC staff and athletics.
"[This building] leads to a sharing of ideas, especially with its common meeting spaces," says Larrimer. "It can lead to some cross-pollinations."
A building with this many components can also help elevate a rec center's image or profile, adding new reasons for alumni and businesses in the community to donate, Larrimer says. However, with so many components and ideas from different departments and entities on campus, it can also make it difficult to agree on building size and amenities.
"It's difficult to get different groups to work together, but you are all in this together and you have to bring people to a consensus," Larrimer says. "I tell them it's just for the common good."
High-profile buildings with multiple uses can also become unruly design-wise. For example, RPAC had so many components that it became challenging to fit everything within the building's footprint. Larrimer helped solve those problems architecturally, and engineers built gymnasiums on top of gymnasiums to conserve space. OSU also built a separate facility — the Adventure Recreation Center (ARC) — which houses turf fields, wood courts, fitness space, a 4,000-square-foot climbing center and the Outdoor Adventure Center on West campus. Together, the RPAC and ARC cost $140 million, funded from student fees, state funding from PAES and donations to the athletic program.
Student Demand
Although multipurpose buildings can help secure funding and save money, student fees still play a dominant role in most university rec funding. For example, the KU Rec Center plans to reinstate program fees to help pay for an increase in utility costs, student employment wages, building maintenance fees and necessary equipment upgrades. The center has had a static budget since 1999.
"Back in 2000 everything [offered to students] was free," says Chappell. "We just can't make it anymore. We'll have to go back to fees."
KU isn't alone in balancing its funding woes with its desire to provide the best rec facilities and programs to its students, staff and faculty. At the University of North Dakota (UND), students picked up almost the whole bill for its $20-million Wellness Center. Students each pay $95 per semester for the center, which opens at the end of this month. The center offers a three-court gymnasium, suspended running track, fitness and weight areas, locker rooms, group exercise studios and a climbing wall. Other features include exam and physical assessment rooms, a healthy cooking demo-kitchen, a quiet lounge, a massage room, pro shop and a computer resource area.
"Quite a bargain compared to local fitness centers, and we will have so much more," Laurie Betting, assistant vice president for wellness at the UND Wellness Center, says of the student fees.
Other funding for the 107,000-square-foot center comes from the facility's role in ongoing university research and a student technology fee that will pay for overhead cameras that record cooking and nutrition classes.
Minnesota State University (MSU) in Mankato, MN, also used student technology fees to entirely fund the nicknamed "TechRec" area of the Otto Rec Center. The area features 40 pieces of cardio equipment each fitted with an in-house created, adjustable ergonomic stand that holds a computer, keyboard and mouse. Because each component is sweat-proof, students can e-mail, connect to the university server, watch a DVD or surf the Web while working out.
"[Student technology fees] covered 100 percent of the technology — computers, computer stands, wiring, staffing to do so, etc.," says Todd Pfingsten, director of campus recreation at MSU.
The TechRec area is considered an academic satellite lab, and fitness activity classes are held in the space about 25 percent of the time. That arrangement secured $150,000 for the high-tech area. Student activity fees paid for all of the other equipment, including treadmills, ellipticals, recumbent bikes, steppers and rowing machines.
Despite the costs and fees, students across the country have agreed that fitness and recreation opportunities are important to their college experience, and regardless of budgeting and funding concerns, colleges are finding ways to provide their students with modern rec centers.
"[Rec centers, athletic facilities and other programs] have been away from each other for so long that it's hard to go back together," Chappell says. "There are some nice tradeoffs though."
These tradeoffs are namely notoriety, funding, sharing ideas, decreasing costs and providing the best recreational opportunities to students. Money may not grow on trees, but schools are realizing that by putting more departments and services under one roof, the funding branches can extend further than just students' pocketbooks.
Common Rec Center Building Partners
- Student health/wellness departments
- Library
- Computer labs
- General classrooms
- Athletic training facilities or administrative offices
- Student Unions
- Retail areas/campus bookstores
- Office space
- Physical education departments
- Campus dining halls


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Trailer FrenzyA special place to find the newest trailers for movies and TV shows you're craving.
Not that the first Oblivion trailer looked bad, but this new, second trailer for Tom Cruise's upcoming scififlick is a hell of a lot more exciting. You've got Cruise as Wall-E, a plethora of ruined Earth landmarks, a creepy space government, mysterious humans popping up and Morgan Freeman doing his best Morpheus impression — what's not to love? Probably something, but we won't know until the movie opens on April 23rd.
Update: The video's back... for now.
Update 2: And here it is again. Third time's a charm?


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Brain-mapping increases understanding of alcohol's effects on first-year college students
(Medical Xpress)—A research team that includes several Penn State scientists has completed a first-of-its-kind longitudinal pilot study aimed at better understanding how the neural processes that underlie responses to alcohol-related cues change during students' first year of college.
Anecdotal evidence abounds attesting to the many negative social and physical effects of the dramatic increase in alcohol use that often comes with many students' first year of college. The behavioral changes that accompany those effects indicate underlying changes in the brain. Yet in contrast to alcohol's numerous other effects, its effect on the brain's continuing development from adolescence into early adulthood—which includes the transition from high school to college—is not well known.
Penn State psychology graduate student Adriene Beltz, with a team of additional researchers, investigated the changes that occurred to alcohol-related neural processes in the brains of a small group of first-year students.
Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and a data analysis technique known as effective connectivity mapping, the researchers collected and analyzed data from 11 students, who participated in a series of three fMRI sessions beginning just before the start of classes and concluding part-way through the second semester.
"We wanted to know if and how brain responses to alcohol cues—pictures of alcoholic beverages in this case—changed across the first year of college," said Beltz, "and how these potential changes related to alcohol use. Moreover, we wanted our analysis approach to take advantage of the richness of fMRI data."
Analysis of the data collected from the study participants revealed signs in their brains' emotion processing networks of habituation to alcohol-related stimuli, and noticeable alterations in their cognitive control networks.
Recent studies have indicated that young adults' cognitive development continues through the ages of the mid-20s, particularly in those regions of the brain responsible for decision-making or judgment-related activity—the sort of cognitive "fine tuning" that potentially makes us, in some senses, as much who we are (and will be) as any other stage of our overall development.
Other recent studies suggest that binge drinking during late adolescence may damage the brain in ways that could last into adulthood.
Beltz's study indicates that connections among brain regions involved in emotion processing and cognitive control may change with increased exposure to alcohol and alcohol-related cues. Those connections also may influence other parts of the brain, such as those still-developing regions responsible for students' decision-making and judgment abilities.
"The brain is a complex network," Beltz said. "We know that connections among different brain regions are important for behavior, and we know that many of these connections are still developing into early adulthood. Thus, alcohol could have far-reaching consequences on a maturing brain, directly influencing some brain regions and indirectly influencing others by disrupting neural connectivity."
While in an fMRI scanner at the Penn State Social, Life, and Engineering Sciences Imaging Center, students participating in the study completed a task: responding as quickly as possible, by pressing a button on a grip device, to an image of either an alcoholic beverage or a non-alcoholic beverage when both types of images were displayed consecutively on a screen. From the resulting data, effective connectivity maps were created for each individual and for the group.
Examining the final maps, the researchers found that brain regions involved in emotion-processing showed less connectivity when the students responded to alcohol cues than when they responded to non-alcohol cues, and that brain regions involved in cognitive control showed the most connectivity during the first semester of college. The findings suggest that the students needed to heavily recruit brain regions involved in cognitive control in order to overcome the alcohol-associated stimuli when instructed to respond to the non-alcohol cues.
"Connectivity among brain regions implicated in cognitive control spiked from the summer before college to the first semester of college," said Beltz. "This was particularly interesting because the spike coincided with increases in the participants' alcohol use and increases in their exposure to alcohol cues in the college environment. From the first semester to the second semester, levels of alcohol use and cue exposure remained steady, but connectivity among cognitive control brain regions decreased. From this, we concluded that changes in alcohol use and cue exposure—not absolute levels—were reflected by the underlying neural processes."
Although the immediate implications of the pilot study for first-year students are fairly clear, there are still a number of unanswered questions related to alcohol's longer-term effects on development, for college students after their first year and for those same individuals later in life.
To begin exploring those potential long-term effects, Beltz has planned a follow-up study to track a larger number of participants over a greater length of time.
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Last fall I traveled to my annual caribou-hunting grounds in the central Alaskan Arctic. I took the trip in mid-October, though I usually like to go about six weeks earlier, when air temperatures climb into the fifties and sixties during the day and then drop toward freezing at night. That makes for perfect hunting weather: It's warm enough for biting insects, which annoy the caribou and keep them moving and visible, but cold enough to prevent large quarters of meat from spoiling (so long as they're kept dry beneath a tarp and propped up on a bed of willows for air flow). As I found out, though, mid-October is a whole other story.
A landscape that I generally think of as pleasant and mild had become hostile and ruthless. Rivers I'm accustomed to traveling by canoe were completely frozen over. Ice fogs hung in the air for days on end, making it impossible to see more than 40 or 50 yards. Firewood in the treeless tundra was hard to come by, and every night my two buddies and I lay shivering in our sleeping bags while we waited for sunlight that became more scant every day. A trip that might have lasted just a long weekend—enough time to kill and butcher five or six bulls, under good conditions—stretched into its tenth day. By then our food was about gone. We ate the couple of mouse-gnawed packages of ramen noodles we'd found near an abandoned winter camp, and we were down to a quarter block of cheese and a few ptarmigan—quail-size birds you can eat like popcorn without ever getting full—that we'd shot. When the sky finally cleared one morning and I saw a herd of caribou coming at us over the horizon, it was like that rush you get when your most intimate loved one steps out of the airport terminal after a long, faraway trip. The animals came off a snowy bluff and plunged toward the frozen river, steam rising off their bodies, and I felt with crystalline clarity the answer to a question I often ponder: Why hunt?
I've been pursuing big game for 22 years and small game for four or five years longer than that, and hardly a month has gone by when I haven't asked myself that elusive question. I've come up with a lot of different answers over the years, but at the core of each lies a deep reverence for nature and a simple appreciation for wild foods. Not only do I like knowing where my food comes from, I also like understanding the minute, practical details of how it's transformed from animal life into human sustenance. I like the way my hunting lifestyle has guided me to the wildest places in America, where I have spent weeks and months living by ancient practices that have sustained mankind for tens of thousands of years. I like knowing how to render the fat of a black bear over a fire; how to extract the nourishing marrow from an elk's femur; and how to predict where a pheasant will flush from a patch of wild rose. I like knowing how to call a squirrel out of its hiding place in the upper reaches of a beech tree; how to kill a spruce grouse with a rock; how to preserve meat with smoke; and how to keep a grizzly bear away from a fresh kill. I like the way hunting has guided my two brothers, Matt and Danny, into their professions—not surprisingly, their appreciation for wild game became an appreciation for wilderness, which in turn led to their work as ecologists. Now their job is to scientifically justify and defend the protection of our remaining wild places.
I meditate on these things so often, I suppose, because I don't find much commonality between myself and the folks who all too often represent hunters in the popular mind. In fact, there seems to be a pervasive disconnect. I think of a buddy of mine who recently worked for an outfitter, guiding trophy moose hunters in western Alaska. Explaining that his clients generally aren't interested in eating the animals they kill, the outfitter told my friend to remove the meat from only the upward-facing side of the skinned carcasses to trick game wardens flying overhead into thinking the animal was properly butchered. And then there are other, more public instances of dubious hunting, such as the two famous Hogzilla cases—the first from Georgia, in 2004, and the second from Alabama, in 2006. These alleged thousand-plus-pound, man-killing boars reportedly terrorized the American South until two bold hunters gunned them down in what was spun as self-defense. The hogs and the gunmen became Internet sensations—at least until it was revealed that both Hogzillas were actually corn-fattened pets being masqueraded as wild animals for the sake of a joke and a little notoriety. Far from being funny, though, the spectacles only managed to highlight the brash hucksterism of a handful of wannabe hunters who have unwittingly succeeded in taking the rest of us down a peg or two in the nation's eyes.
Hijacking hunting for politics
I wish I could say that hunting's controversial reputation is the result of just a few dimwitted trophy guides and bloggers who embarrass the majority of legitimate hunters. But in fact, the problem has much more calculated and malicious sources that run deep into American politics. That is, a number of high-profile individuals and organizations have intentionally and systematically hijacked hunting in order to use its ancient moral legitimacy as a shield to protect and justify less honorable practices. The two examples that most readily come to mind are canned hunting and assault rifles.
Basically, canned hunting is the shooting of animals confined within fenced areas. These enclosures, often known as game farms, are sometimes no bigger than a hundred or so acres. There are more than 1,000 such establishments in 28 states; patrons pay hundreds or thousands of dollars to buy the animals from the game farms and then "hunt" them inside the fence. In some cases, the quarry of these hunters is delivered by trailer just a day or two before the hunt, which means the animals go from handled livestock to hunting trophy in a matter of hours. Besides the obvious ethical concerns they present, canned hunting operations routinely cause pathogen outbreaks to spread from domesticated animals into the wild, free-ranging herds that many fair-chase hunters rely on for sport and food. Yet, in almost every instance where canned hunts are threatened by hostile state legislation, lobbyists portray the battle as an attack on "the heritage of hunting" rather than an attack on the dubious, irresponsible actions of people looking for a quick buck (pun intended). This ploy sometimes works, but fortunately, there's a limit to its effectiveness. In 2000, the state of Montana, which has the highest per capita rate of hunters in the country, overwhelmingly passed a state referendum banning the licensing of any new canned-hunting operations.
What kind of person participates in canned hunts? Vice President Dick Cheney is easily the nation's most notorious and recognizable example. In 2003, he and some associates killed 417 out of 500 ring-necked pheasants, in addition to an unknown number of mallard ducks, that had been raised in pens and released from nets on a Pennsylvania game farm. The establishment's gamekeeper estimated that Cheney personally killed 70 birds, or about 35 times as many as the average bag limit for your typical hunter of wild pheasants. Cheney's ventures are usually billed in press releases as hunting trips, so it's hardly surprising that during the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections, many hunters posted Sportsmen for Bush bumper stickers on their trucks. Then, as the Bush Administration worked to dismantle the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts, tried to strip away protections for roadless wilderness areas where wild birds live, and attempted to gut the Endangered Species Act, those same misguided Sportsmen for Bush folks took solace in the idea that Cheney would help them by putting a public face on hunting.
Gun-control issues present another factor of hunter manipulation. Hard-line pro-gun organizations routinely target hunters during fundraising drives. These groups attempt to radicalize any and all gun owners with notions about how the government will turn against hunting guns just as soon as they ban assault weapons or automatic pistols. This type of rhetoric engenders a false impression that the most immediate threat to hunting isn't habitat loss, declining biodiversity, or environmental degradation, but rather a loss of guns. So people who hunt to connect with the natural world or to procure a healthy, sustainable source of food, have been persuaded for decades into financing the legal defense of a type of weapon they'll probably never own. What adds to the irony is that assault weapons are perfectly impractical for most hunting. In fact, they've been effectively banned from use in hunting even in states where their possession is still allowed. (Regulations for hunting weapons are distinct from general gun ownership laws and are set on a state-by-state basis by local wildlife agencies. It should be noted that reverberations from the recent Supreme Court decision that overruled an overarching handgun ban in Washington, DC, will have no impact on the guns allowed for legal hunting. )
I have nothing but respect for critics of hunting who are categorically opposed to the killing of animals. But for anyone who does eat meat, or who accepts the inevitability of animals dying at the hands of humans, it's important to realize that the motivations and spiritual mindframe behind our actions are as important as our methods. Hunting with traditional weapons and pursuing wild, free-range animals does more than just enhance our skill. It also delivers the hunter into intimate communion with wilderness. It's a relationship that requires quiet observation of and concentration on nature, plus an ability to endure moments of intense physical exertion between hours of utter exhaustion and boredom. For those of us who dare to venture in search of our own food, these experiences engender a deep love for the natural world.
Keeping the debate honest
In any debate among hunters, whether it hinges on guns or ethics, you're bound to hear someone talk about the need to preserve hunting. Many believe that a wide-reaching coalition of all hunters and gun-owners would be the most effective way to do it. That the coalition would be corrupted and abused by unethical practices doesn't seem to concern them that much. They'd simply rather accept hunting's negative reputation as the inevitable cost of preserving the practice. In an op-ed I wrote for The New York Times, I suggested that it's counterproductive for hunters to purposefully antagonize nonhunters by flaunting assault-style weapons, shooting exotic fenced animals, and publicly throwing around Ted Nugent-esque slogans such as "Whack 'em and stack 'em." After it ran, I received a dozen or so e-mails from seriously pissed-off hunters. They informed me that I was aiding and abetting the enemy (antihunters) by suggesting that hunters should modify their behavior in some way to appease the public. There's security in numbers, one guy explained to me, so we should offer carte blanche acceptance to anything that anyone does in the name of guns or hunting. Furthermore, this guy said, he doesn't care if a person hunts with a spear or a bow or a machine gun, he'll stand behind him. He closed by saying that I was a couple orders of magnitude worse than an antihunter. I was so flummoxed by the irony of having my credentials and motivations attacked by a guy who admitted to hunting inside what he described as "high-fence ranches" that I couldn't mount an effective rebuttal.
It's in moments like these that legitimate hunters need to have the necessary courage to reflect on ourselves and our lifestyles with a bit more self-consciousness and honesty. And we need to be vocal. This has the potential to be painful and divisive, for sure, because it demands that hunters be willing to turn their backs on some of those once thought to be allies. But there's a lot to gain from drawing a clearer set of divisions, a set the public can evaluate and make educated decisions about. Just consider the case of farming, a subject that is perhaps even more complex and contentious than hunting. Rather than taking refuge beneath an umbrella that condones any and all agricultural practices, progressive food producers have awakened the food debate by promoting organic, locally produced, and sustainable farming practices over genetic modification, industrial slaughterhouses, and the consolidation of small farms into giant, faceless corporations. By doing so, the localism movement divided the agricultural community and created a clear division between what is right and wrong with our food. Has the push for local food suffered from this division? Of course not. Do the biggest, most egregious agribusiness conglomerates wish that it would go away? Sure they do. Will it? Nope.
In the long run of human history, hunting predates agriculture by umpteen thousand years. Hunters are the original locavores, no doubt about it, so we needn't feel bad about borrowing from the locavore playbook. By coming out more clearly against practices and stances that are bogus and ill-conceived, we can go far beyond simple negativism. We can destroy the public's one-dimensional image of hunters, which too often gets usurped by the wrong people. And we can replace that narrow view with a broader public understanding of what it means to be a true hunter: Hunting opens a direct line of communication between man and nature, it reconnects us with forgotten practices and distinctly local foods, and it offers perhaps our greatest direct incentive to promote the sustainable conservation of our remaining wild places and wild animals. If hunters learn to accentuate those issues and distance themselves from others, we can easily offset the influence of a few Hogzilla scams and some unscrupulous trophy guides. And we'll still have energy to take on the special interests and unsavory practices that cloud our moral clarity in the name of a bogus solidarity. Let those people go find their own history and their own terminologies, and see if they've got legs to stand on. My feeling is that they don't.
Story by Steven Rinella. This article originally appeared in Plenty in October 2008.


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Arsene Wenger remains without a victory over Jose Mourinho's Chelsea after Arsenal were shackled in a goalless London derby at the Emirates Stadium.
The Gunners boss was bidding for a first victory over his Portuguese adversary at the 10th attempt, knowing that was what his side required to return to the top of the Barclays Premier League at Christmas.
But a defensive-minded Chelsea claimed a draw which took them fourth in the standings and Arsenal moved second, behind leaders Liverpool on goal difference.
Wenger has had plenty of shots at masterminding victory over Blues sides managed by Mourinho, who now holds a record of five wins and five draws against the Frenchman.
There were numerous classics in Mourinho's first Stamford Bridge spell, but the latest bout was not in their class.
Chelsea beat Arsenal on enemy territory in the Capital One Cup in October but their approach in the Premier League was less adventurous.
After 30 minutes of sizing each other up, the contest ignited when Frank Lampard hit the bar and the tackles began to fly in.
John Obi Mikel was fortunate to avoid a red card for a studs-up tackle on Mikel Arteta and, in the same move, referee Mike Dean also opted not to award a penalty when Willian tripped Theo Walcott.
Willian passed up a good opportunity on the counter-attack for a Chelsea side which had set up defensively, putting men behind the ball in an effort to limit the space Arsenal's creative players, such as Mesut Ozil, could work in.
Arteta's right ankle took another hefty blow from Ramires, who was booked, as the second half continued in much the same vein as the first.
Olivier Giroud sliced wide with 11 minutes remaining and was denied by Petr Cech at point-blank range with five minutes to go as the honours ended even, with Mourinho the happier of the managers.
Both sides entered the contest on the back of a defeat.
Wenger made four changes following the 6-3 loss at Manchester City, drafting in Kieran Gibbs, Tomas Rosicky, Thomas Vermaelen and Arteta.
Mourinho made six changes following the Capital One Cup loss at Sunderland, with Cech, Branislav Ivanovic, John Terry, Ramires, Eden Hazard and Fernando Torres recalled.
The Blues' former Arsenal left-back Ashley Cole, who attended his former club's Christmas party last week, was named among the substitutes.
With Ramires, Mikel and Lampard deployed in midfield, Mourinho adapted his favoured 4-2-3-1 formation in an effort to nullify Arsenal's Mesut Ozil, Rosicky and Aaron Ramsey.
Despite their defensive approach, it was Chelsea who threatened first when Torres' attempt to burst through was brought to an end by a cynical challenge by Per Mertesacker, who was fortunate not only to avoid conceding a free-kick, but also a yellow card.
In a tight contest, few chances were created and Gary Cahill cut out a Bacary Sagna cross with Giroud lurking, while Ramires headed over after Willian delayed making a cross on the counter attack.
A delightful return pass from Hazard to Lampard nearly broke the deadlock, but the midfielder could not keep his shot low and hit the bar.
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My husband is currently studying permaculture, which means that every aspect of our lives is currently being assessed for how sustainable it is. The term permaculture comes from the words permanent and culture and it is a philosophy and design process that is inspired by natural ecosystems, which are more sustainable than the systems that modern life has been built on. The desired end point being a system that is not dependent on fossil fuels, and works efficiently with the minimum amount of maintenance work necessary.
As a herbalist, I have found it really interesting to think about how sustainable it is to use herbs for healthcare. While modern medicine is completely dependent on fossil fuels for the production and transportation of pharmaceutical drugs, herbal medicines can be wild-harvested, or grown in private or community gardens. However, that doesn't necessarily mean that they are. Many of us herbalists in the West have appropriated particularly useful herbs from the East, and while some can be cultivated here, it is hard or impossible to grow others and these are shipped in from abroad. I'd like to spend more time trying to find local herbs that can fill the shoes (or roots!) of some I depend on from China or India, but can't grow here. It is more rewarding to grow herbs yourself rather than buying them from a wholesale company, it enables you to get to know the plants much better and encourages you out into nature, which is good for the soul.
Another aspect of herbal medicine that contributes to its sustainability and lives up to permaculture principles is its holistic approach to health – permaculture takes in every aspect of a system, and herbalism addresses the person as a whole. All aspects of a person's life and wellbeing are assessed, including emotional wellbeing, lifestyle and diet. As many of these factors can contribute to good or ill health, addressing them is essential to achieving wellness. The herbs help to gently coax the body into better balance, while easing symptoms and supporting people as they work out how to live their life in the best way for them.
Many herbalists are interested in sustainability and permaculture and I can see why, there's a natural connection.