text: Unplugged In Ny - Nirvana sur Guitariff.netI compiled the songs as has been posted before. I added or altered the lyrics and corrected the songs and the lay-out a little bit. Credits for the original TABs go to; Jesse Scott, Christopher Mosher, Robert Wolsey, Dan Herold, Mark van 't Zet, Wouter Janssen and Guez Ofer. Thanks for all who posted me lyrics and suggestions as well. MTV Unplugged In New York - NIRVANA ----------------------------------- All guitars are tuned down a Half-Step (Eb Ab Db Gb Bb Eb). On 'On A Plain', 'Something in the way' and 'All Apologies' Kurt plays with Dropped-D tuning (Db Ab Db Gb Bb Eb). On 'Plateau', 'Oh me' and 'Lake Of Fire' he lets the Meat Puppets play the guitar. The positions of the chords, as played by Kurt, are given for each song. These are the so called voicings. From left to right are the positions on the respective strings. The chords are either notated above the lyrics the first time or above the songs. Notes within parentheses are single notes played on the lowest string (either Eb or Db), these are notated as if the guitar was tuned normally. In the TAB parts, however, parentheses mean the notes are softly played. All the other notations are as usual (hammer=h, pick=p, slide up=/, slide down=\, rake=x, bend=b, release bend=r and trill=~). The TAB parts are only solos or riffs; all the other stuff can easily be derived by ear from the chords given. Kurt either strums the chords or picks random notes from them. Most of the time the picked notes are from the three lowest strings. Allthough most songs are played by two guitars, only one guitar has been transcribed. The other plays either the same or plays the chords as mentioned. About A Girl Come As You Are Jesus Don't Want Me For A Sunbeam Man Who Sold The World Pennyroyal Tea Dumb Polly On A Plain Something In The Way Plateau Oh Me Lake Of Fire All Apologies Where Did You Sleep Last Night --- About A Girl (Kurt Cobain) - Bleach Voicings: E5 - 022x00 G - 320033 or 320003 C#5 - x466xx G#5 - 466xxx F#5 - 244xxx A5 - x022xx C5 - x355xx E5 G E5 G I need an easy friend E5 G E5 G I do with a hand to lend E5 G E5 G I do think you fit this shoe E5 G E5 G I do what you have a clue C# G# F# I'll take advantage while C# G# F# You hang me out to dry E5 A5 C5 E5 G E5 G But I can't see you every night free E5 G E5 G I do I'm standing in your light I do hope you have the time I do pick up number two I do keep a date with you [Repeat chorus] Solo: Repeat 3x E-------------------------|- B-------------------------|- G----------------7--7/9-9-|- D-----5-7-7/9--9----------|- A-7-7---------------------|- E-------------------------|- [Repeat first verse and chorus] E5 A5 C5 E5 G E5 G I can't see you every night free E5 G E5 G E5 G E5 G E5 G E5 G I do, I do, I do --- Come As You Are (Kurt Cobain) - Nevermind Voicings: F# - 244322 A - x0222x B - 22444x D - x0023x Main Riff (with chorus-effect pedal) E---------------------------------------------|- B---------------------------------------------|- G---------------------------------------------|- D---------------------------------------------|- A---------------0-----0--------------2--------|- E--0--0--1--2------2-----2--2--1--0-----0--0--|- [The 'memoria' part: F# A ] [The 'And I swear that I don't...' part: B D ] Intro; Repeat main riff 3x Come as you are, as you were As I want you to be As a friend, as a friend As an old enemy Take your time, hurry up The choice is your Don't be late, take a rest As a friend As an old memoria memoria, memoria, memoria Come dowsed in mud, soaked in bleach As I want you to be As a trend, as a friend As an old memoria memoria, memoria, memoria And I swear that I don't have a gun No I don't have a gun No I don't have a gun Solo: Repeat 4x E---------------------|------------------------|- B--6-9-11-11\6-6-9\11-|-6-9-11-11-13-11-11-9\6-|- G---------------------|------------------------|- D---------------------|------------------------|- A---------------------|------------------------|- E---------------------|------------------------|- memoria, memoria, memoria, memoria And I swear that I don't have a gun No I don't have a gun [Repeat 5x] memoria --- Jesus Wants Me For A Sunbeam (Eugene Kelly/Francis McKee) Voicings: E5 - 022x00 D - xx0232 A - x02220 Asus4 - x02230 Intro: E5 D A Asus4 A [Repeat 2x] E5 D A Asus4 A Jesus don't want me for a sunbeam E5 D A Asus4 A 'Cause sunbeams are never made like me E5 D A Asus4 A Don't expect me to cry, for all the reasons you had to die E5 D A Asus4 A Don't ever ask your love of me E5 D Don't expect me to cry E5 D Don't expect me to lie E5 D A Asus4 A Don't expect me to die for thee [Repeat Verse and Chorus] [Repeat Intro] [Repeat Chorus] [Repeat Verse and Chorus] [Repeat Chorus] [Repeat Intro] --- Man Who Sold The World (David Bowie) Voicings: A - x0222x D5 - xx023x F - 133211 C - x3555x G - 355433 Bb - x1333x Intro (with distortion); Repeat 6x E--------------------|- -|-----|- B--------------------|- -|-----|- G--2-2-2-0--2h3p2-0--|- -|--2~-|- D--------------------|- -|-----|- A--------------------|- -|-----|- E--------------------|- -|-----|- A We passed upon the stairs, D We spoke of was and when A Although I wasn't there F He said I was his friend C Which came as a surprise A D I spoke into his eyes -- I thought you died alone C A long long time ago C - Riff F - Riff E-----------------|- -|-----------------|- B-----------------|- -|-----------------|- G-----------2-4-5-|- -|-----------------|- D-----2-3-5-------|- -|-----------0-2-3-|- A-3-5-------------|- -|-----0-1-3-------|- E-----------------|- -|-1-3-------------|- F Oh no, not me, Bb F We never lost control, C F You're face to face, Bb A With the man who sold the world [Repeat Intro] A I laughed and shook his hand, D I made my way back home, A I searched for form and land, F Years and years I roamed, C I gazed a gazely stare, A D We walked a million hills -- I must have died alone, C A long long time ago. F Who knows, not me, Bb F I never lost control, C F You're face, to face, Bb A With the man who sold the world. [Repeat Intro] [Repeat second chorus] [Repeat Intro] Outro: (Not very accurate, but at least the right notes) E-------------------------------------------------------- B-------------------------------------------------------- G--2-2-2-0--2h3p2-0--2-2-2-0--2h3p2-0--/9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-- D-------------------------------------------------------- A-------------------------------------------------------- E-------------------------------------------------------- E------------------------------------------------------- B------------------------------------------------------- G--\2-2-2-0--2h3p2-0--2-2-2-0--2h3p2-0-/10-10-10-10-10-- D------------------------------------------------------- A------------------------------------------------------- E------------------------------------------------------- E------------------------------------------------------- B------------------------------------------------------- G-\9-\7-7-7-7-7-7-/9-9-9-9-9-\2-2-2-0-2h3p2-0-/10-10-10- D------------------------------------------------------- A------------------------------------------------------- E------------------------------------------------------- E------------------------------------------------------- B------------------------------------------------------- G-10-10-\9-\7-7-7-7-7-7-/9-9-9-9-9-\2-2-2-0-2h3p2-0--2-- D------------------------------------------------------- A------------------------------------------------------- E------------------------------------------------------- --- Pennyroyal Tea (Kurt Cobain) - In Utero Voicings: Am - x02210 G - 320033 or 320003 C - x3555x D - x5777x Bb - 688xxx Intro; Repeat 2x Am G (E) (G) (E) Am G I'm on my time with everyone Am G I have very bad posture C D Bb Sit and drink Pennyroyal Tea C D Bb Distill the life that's inside of me C D Bb Sit and drink Pennyroyal Tea C D Bb I'm anemic royalty Give me a Leonard Cohen afterworld G I can sigh eternally I'm so tired I can't sleep I'm anemic royalty I'm a liar and a thief I'm anemic royalty I'm on warm milk and laxatives Cherry-flavored antacids Sit and drink Pennyroyal Tea Distill the life that's inside of me I'm anemic royalty I'm anemic royalty Outro: Am --- Dumb (Kurt Cobain) - In Utero Voicings: E5 - 022x00 G(i) - 355433 G(ii) - 320033 or 320003 B - x2444x C - x3555x [During Verse strum : E5 G(i)] [During Chorus strum: E5 G(ii)] [In bridge switch to: B C] I'm not like them But I can pretend The sun is gone But I have a light The day is done But I'm having fun I think I'm dumb Or maybe just happy Think I'm just happy [Repeat 3x] My heart is broke But I have some glue Help me inhale And mend it with you We'll float around And hang out on clouds Then we'll come down And I have a hangover Have a hangover [Repeat 3x] Skin the sun Fall asleep Wish away The soul is cheap Lesson learned Wish me luck Soothe the burn Wake me up [Repeat first verse and chorus] I think I'm dumb [Repeat 12x] --- Polly (Kurt Cobain) - Nevermind Voicings: E5 - 022x00 G - 320033 or 320003 D - x0023x C - x3555x Bb - x1333x [During verse strum each line : E G D C] [During chorus strum each line: D C G Bb] Polly Wants a Cracker I think I should get off her first I think she wants some water To put out the blow torch It isn't me, we have some seed Let me clip your dirty wings Let me take a ride, don't hurt yourself I want some help to help myself I've got some rope, you have been told I promise you, I've been true Let me take a ride, don't hurt yourself I want some help to help myself Polly wants a cracker Maybe she would like more food She asks me to untie her A chase would be nice for a few [Repeat chorus] Bass bridge: Repeat 2x G-------------------------|- D----------0-0-0----------|- A----------------3-3-3-3--|- E--0-3-3-3----------------|- Polly said Polly says her back hurts And she's just as bored as me She caught me off my guard It amazes me, the will of instinct [Repeat chorus] --- On A Plain (Kurt Cobain) - Nevermind Voicings: (dropped-D tuning!) D - x 5 7 7 7 x D/G - 5 5 7 7 7 x A - x 0 2 2 2 x F/Bb - 8 8101010 x F5 - 3 3 3 x x x E5 - 2 2 2 x x x G5 - 5 5 5 x x x [Main Riff: D D/G A (F#) (G) (F#) (E)] [Chorus : D D/G F/Bb] [Bridge : F5 E5 A G5] I'll start this off Without any words I got so high that I scratched 'til I bled Love myself Better than you I know it's wrong G what should I do? The finest day That I ever had Was when I learned To cry on command [Repeat "Love myself..." part] I'm on a plain I can't complain I'm on a plain My mother died Every night It's safe to say Don't quote me on that [Repeat "Love myself..." part] The black sheep got Blackmailed again Forgot to put On the zip code [Repeat "Love myself..." part] [Repeat chorus] Somewhere I have heard this before In a dream my memory has stored As defense I'm neutered and spayed What the hell am I trying to say? It is now time To make it unclear To write off lines That don't make a sense [Repeat "Love myself..." part] One more special Message to go And then I'm done And I can go home [Repeat "Love myself..." part] [Repeat chorus] --- Something in the Way (Kurt Cobain) - Nevermind Voicings: (Dropped-D tuning!) F#5 - 444xxx D5(i) - 000xxx D5(ii) - x0023x [Pick during verse : F#5 D5(i)] [Strum during chorus: F#5 D5(ii)] Underneath the bridge The tarp has sprung a leak And the animals I've trapped Have all become my pets And I'm living off of grass And the drippings from the ceiling But it's ok to eat fish Cause they don't have any feelings Something in the way, Mmmm... Something in the way, yeah, Mmmm... Something in the way, Mmmm... Something in the way, yeah, Mmmm... [Repeat verse] [Repeat chorus 2x] --- Plateau (Curt Kirkwoord) Voicings: G - 320x33 Bb - 650x66 Fsus2 - 1xx011 G# - 4xx044 Main Riff E--3-------6-------3-------6-------3-------6-------1-----|- B------------------------------------------------------1-|- G----------------------------------------------------0---|- D-----(0)-----(0)-----(0)-----(0)-----(0)-----(0)--------|- A---(2)-----(5)-----(2)-----(5)-----(2)-----(5)----------|- E--3-------6-------3-------6-------3-------6-------1-----|- Pre-chorus Chorus E--4------|- -|--1/3------------------------3--------|- B------4--|- -|--1/3-------------3-----3----3-----6--|- G----0----|- -|------------------3-----3----------7--|- D---------|- -|---------5--x-----3-----3----------8--|- A---------|- -|---------5--x--1-----------5----------|- E--4------|- -|-------3-------------1-----3---/6-----|- Many a hand has scaled the grand old face of the plateau Some belong to strangers and some to folks you know Holy ghosts and talk show hosts are planted in the sand To beautify the foothills and shake the many hands There's nothing on the top but a bucket and a mop And an illustrated book about birds You see a lot up there but don't be scared Who needs action when you got words When you're finished with the mop then you can stop And look at what you've done The plateau's clean, no dirt to be seen And the work it took was fun [Repeat Chorus] Well the many hands began to scan around for the next plateau Some said it was in greenland and some in mexico Others decided it was nowhere except for where they stood But those were all just guesses, wouldn't help you if they could Pre-outro E--4----------------4---6-----------------6--|- B---------4-------4------------6--------6----|- G--------------------------------------------|- D------0-------0------------0-------0--------|- A----3-------3------------5-------5----------|- E--4--------------------6--------------------|- Outro E-(0)--------------------------0-----|---------------------------------|- B--------------0-------2---------1p0-|-----2-------0-------0-------1p0-|- G------2-----2---2---2-------2-------|---2-------2---2---2-------2-----|- D----2-----2-------0-------0---------|-2-------2-------3-------0-------|- A--0-----0---------------3-----------|-------0---------------3---------|- E------------------------------------|---------------------------------|- --- Oh Me (Curt Kirkwood) Voicings: E - x22100 D - x0023x C - x32010 G - 320003 C5 - x3555x D5 - x5777x E5 - x7999x Main Riff (NC) E (NC) D (NC) D C E E-------------0--|---------------|-------------------|------0--------0--|- B-------------0--|-------------3-|------------3------|------1-0-0----0--|- G-------------1--|-------------2-|------------2--0-0-|------0-0-0----1--|- D-------2-2-2----|------2--0-0-0-|------2-0-0-0--0-0-|--2-2--------2----|- A---0-2---2-2----|--0-2----0-0---|--0-2---0-0--------|--3-3--------2----|- E-4--------------|-4-------------|-4-----------------|-------------0----|- Chorus [Repeat 4x] End Of Chorus G E C D E E-3--3-3-3-----0-|- -|-------------0-----|---------------0--|- B-0--0-0-0-----0-|- -|-------------1-----|-----3---------0--|- G-0--0-0-0-----1-|- -|---------0-0-0-0-0-|-2-2-2-2-2-----1--|- D-----------2-2--|- -|------2--2-2---2-2-|-0-0-0-2-2-0-0----|- A-----------2-2--|- -|--0-2----3-3---3-3-|-0-0---0-0-0-0----|- E-----------0-0--|- -|-4-----------------|------------------|- If I had to lose a mile If I had to touch feelings I would lose my soul The way I do I don't have to think I only have to do it The results are always perfect And that's old news Would you like to hear my voice Sweetened with emotion Invented at your birth? I can't see the end of me My whole expanse I cannot see I formulate infinity And store it deep inside of me Solo E---------------------------3/2-----------2/5-5-5-3-2---------------------|- B-------------------3-3^5~------5--(3-5)-5-------------5/3-----------3-5~-|- G------------2-4~------------------------------------------4-2-2-2/4------|- D------2-2h4--------------------------------------------------------------|- A--0-2--------------------------------------------------------------------|- E-4-----------------------------------------------------------------------|- [Repeat verses and chorus] Outro: C5 D5 E5 --- Lake Of Fire (Curt Kirkwood) Voicings: Gm - 3553xx G5 - 355xxx F5 - 133xxx Bb5 - x133xx Bb - x13331 C5 - x355xx Dm - xx0231 Dsus2 - xx0230 A - x02220 Main Riff Gm G5\F5 Bb5 Gm C5 Bb5 E------------------------------------------------------- B-----------------------------------5b6r5b6r5-3--------- G-----------------------------------5b6r5b6r5-3--------- D------------------------------------------------------- A------------------------------------------------------- E------------------------------------------------------- Gm G5\F5 Bb5 C5 F5 G5 E------------------------------------------------------- B------------------------------------------------------- G---------------------------------5--5-----5------------ D---------------------------------5--5-----5--3--3--5--- A---------------------------------3--3-----3--3--3--5--- E---------------------------------------------1--1--3--- Gm F5 G5 Gm F5 G5 E------------------------------|----------------------------------------- B------------------------------|----11~-11~-11~-11~-11~-11~\--6~--6~/8~-- G------------------------------|-/10--10~-10~-10~-10~-10~--\5~--5~--/7~-- D---------------------3--------|----------------------------------------- A-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-3---1---5----|----------------------------------------- E-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-1-------3----|----------------------------------------- Gm F Bb Where do bad folks go when they die? Gm C5 Bb They don't go to heaven where the angels fly Gm F Bb They go down to the lake of fire and fry C F Gm Gm F G F G5 Won't see 'em again till the fourth of july Dm Bb I knew a lady who came from duluth Dm A She got bit by a dog with a rabid tooth Dm Bb She went to her grave just a little too soon C Dm Dsus2 And she flew away howling on the yellow moon [Repeat Chorus] Now the people cry and the people moan And they look for a dry place to call their home And try to find some place to rest their bones While the angels and the devils Fight to claim them for their own [Repeat Chorus] Gm F G5 Gm F G5 SOLO E------3---------3--------------------------------------- B--2-3---3--6b7------6----------------------------------- G----------------------5-3------------------------------- D--------------------------5-3----------------------3-5-- A------------------------------5-4-3----------3-4-5------ E------------------------------------6-3----6------------ E-------------------------------------------------------- B--3b4---------------6~----6~---------------------------- G--3b4-------(0)-5/7----7~----7\5--3--------------------- D-------5----------------------------5-------0-3---3----- A-----------------------------------------/5-----5---5--- E-------------------------------------------------------- E-------------------------------3------------------------ B--------------------6~------/3---3-7-3------------------ G----------------5/7----7\--------------3-5-------------- D-------------------------------------------3---5-------- A--3----------------------------------------------------- E----6-3-3-3----------------------------------3---------- E-------------------------------------------------------- B--3b4------3b4-----3b4---------------------------------- G--3b4------3b4-----3b4---------------------------------- D------5-5------5-------5-3------------------------3----- A---------------------------5-4-3------------3-4-5------- E---------------------------------6-3----3-6------------- E---------------------- B---------------------- G------(3)-----(4)----- D--3h5-----(3)-----5--- A---------------------- E---------------------- --- All Apologies (Kurt Cobain) - In Utero Voicings: (Dropped-D tuning!) G5 - 555xxx D5 - 000xxx A5 - 777xxx or x022xx Main Riff E----------------------|----------------------|- B----------------------|----------------------|- G----------------------|----------------------|- D----------------------|----------12-12-9-10--|- A---9-10-9-12-12-9-10--|---9-10-9-------------|- D-0--------------------|-0--------------------|- E----------------------|----------------------|- B----------------------|----------------------|- G----------------------|----------11-11-9-----|- D----------------------|------------------12--|- A---9-10-9-12-12-9-10--|---9-10-9-------------|- D-0--------------------|-0--------------------|- Chorus G5 D5 G5 D5 G5 D5 G5 D5 A5 D5 A5 E---------------------------------------------|- B---------------------------------------------|- G---------------------------------------------|- D-5-5-5--0-5-5-5--0-5-5-5--0-5-5-5--0-7--0-7--|- A-5-5-5--0-5-5-5--0-5-5-5--0-5-5-5--0-7--0-7--|- D-5-5-5--0-5-5-5--0-5-5-5--0-5-5-5--0-7--0-7--|- What else should I be All apologies What else should I say Everyone is gay What else could I write I don't have the right What else should I be All apologies In the sun In the sun I feel as one In the sun In the sun I'm married Buried I wish I was like you Easily amused Find my nest of salt Everything is my fault I'll take all the blame Aqur scafoam shame Sunburn with freezeburn Choking on the ashes of her enemy [Repeat Chorus] I'm married Buried, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah All in all we all are [Repeat 13x] --- Where Did You Sleep Last Night (Huddie Ledbetter) Voicings: E5 - 022x0x or 022x00 A - x0222x G - 320033 or 320003 B - x2444x B/F# - 22444x Intro: E5 (E) (F#) (G) (E) A G B B/F# E5 [Repeat 2x] E5 A G My girl, my girl, don't lie to me B B/F# E5 Tell me where did you sleep last night E5 In the pines, in the pines A G Where the sun don't ever shine B B/F# E5 I would shiver the whole night through My girl, my girl, where will you go I'm going where the cold wind blows In the pines, in the pines Where the sun don't ever shine I would shiver the whole night through Her husband, was a hard working man Just about a mile from here His head was found in a driving wheel But his body never was found [Repeat first verse] Interlude: play verse progression [Repeat second verse gently] [Repeat first verse loudly] My girl, my girl, where will ya go I'm going where the cold wind blows In the pines, the pines The sun, the shine I'll shiver the whole night through [Repeat Interlude] ---


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For several decades, astronomers and cosmologists have been piling up data that indicates most of the matter in the Universe is dark, interacting only via gravity. As modified theories of gravity failed to account for observation, candidates for dark mater were winnowed down until one remained in favor: the weakly interactive massive particle, or WIMP. Over the past several years, potential signals of WIMPs have appeared in space and on Earth; that, combined with the startup of the LHC, has given the research community the sense that it's close to pinning down the identity of the WIMPs. But a review in this week's Nature considers what might happen if we fail.
The behavior of dark matter pretty clearly suggests that it will come in the form of particles, instead of alternatives like large, nonradiating objects in galactic halos. There are several classes of hypothetical particles that could have the right properties to produce dark matter effects, including axions and sterile neutrinos. WIMPs, however, have become quite popular because they naturally fall out of one of the systems favored to replace the Standard Model, supersymmetry.
Supersymmetry posits an entirely new set of particles that parallel our familiar ones, with a squark for each quark and so on. In most versions of supersymmetry, only the lightest particle, the neutralino, is stable, and it is likely to have a mass that is in keeping with predictions for dark matter. Unfortunately, the minimal supersymmetric model has about 120 free parameters, and it's possible to fill these in with parameters that give the neutralino a broad range of properties. Most specific models of supersymmetry have fewer degrees of freedom, but there's still a fair bit of flexibility possible.
And that creates a bit of a problem when it comes to some of the promising astronomic data, according to Gianfranco Bertone, the review's author. WIMPs may not interact much with regular matter, but they can annihilate through collisions. The rate of annihilation had declined steadily with the Universe's expansion, but there's expected to be a continued background rate of collisions any place with a concentration of dark matter, like a galaxy. And, in fact, the PAMELA satellite has detected an unusual surplus of positrons that could be created by dark matter collisions.
Unfortunately, the most promising versions of supersymmetry don't place a WIMP in the right mass range to produce a signal of the energy that PAMELA actually sees. There are a bunch of ways to tweak supersymmetry to get something that works, but Bertone calls these solutions "ad hoc," and certainly not enough to cause anyone to favor WIMP annihilation over an unidentified astronomical source for the positrons.
Earthbound dark matter detectors face similar problems. The DAMA/LIBRA and CoGeNT experiments have both provided hints of weak dark matter interactions with regular matter, but the apparent mass of the WIMP is relatively low compared to most models. Meanwhile, a different project, XENON100, isn't seeing any of these signals. Despite the confusion over what has been seen, the detectors at least seem to agree on what hasn't. There are at least some masses and collision probabilities that have now been excluded, which provides some constraints on the versions of supersymmetry that we should be considering.
The good news is that there may be help on the way. Several new observatories and detectors are in the works, and many of the current ones are continuing to gather data, so at least some of the confusion might be resolved. The big hope on the horizon is the LHC. Bertone cites estimates that indicate most dark matter candidates should be apparent within five to 10 years of running the collider. But he also cautions that spotting something might not be as definitive as we would like. All we'd know is that the WIMP didn't decay before it left the collider, which is less than a microsecond. Dark matter has been stable for the life of the Universe.
But if the LHC fails to spot anything, the remaining supersymmetric models would require extensive fine tuning to remain compatible with both WIMPs and the LHC's results. And we'd be very unlikely to build another accelerator that could help exclude those possibilities anytime soon. That would leave it up to direct detection or astronomical results to clarify the situation, and they haven't yet. Bertone can foresee a time a decade from now where we'd simply run out of obvious options for finding a WIMP.
With no certain way of studying them, Bertone thinks that physicists would gradually start focusing on some of the alternative hypothetical particles. Which, in a lot of ways, is perfectly reasonable; the simple forms of WIMPs would have been ruled out, and in purely practical terms, it's hard to pursue a research program without an obvious way of doing an experiment. But this shift would occur despite the fact that all the reasons that WIMPs seemed appealing in the first place would still apply.
Perhaps for that reason, Bertone ends with a bit of optimism. We've got plenty of options for spotting a WIMP, and as much of a decade to go before we reach this level of disappointment.
Nature, 2010. DOI: 10.1038/nature09509 (About DOIs).

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If only we could have seen this coming.
Last week, a mostly peaceful demonstration by the citizens of Egypt removed from power a political system that had strangled real democratic rule in the country for 30 years.
Without troops on the ground and with minimal violence – supporters of ousted President Hosni Mubarak did enter Tahir Square to physically intimidate demonstrators – democratic regime change was set in motion. And it is spreading now to other countries. Last weekend, protestors again began anti-government demonstrations in Tehran.
Liberation did not come to Egypt after a deployment of foreign troops or cruise missiles launched at presidential palaces. A despotic government was overthrown without an international war.
In the press, coverage of the demonstrations made repeated reference to the roles played by the Web and, in particular, to Facebook and to Twitter. As important as those social tools clearly are, credit or blame (depending on how you look at it) belongs with the deepening effects of the economic crisis and its resulting food shortages and wage reductions.
As pointed out here last week by Dr. James Zogby, who discussed his excellent book "Arab Voices," at the Woodmere Art Museum, Egyptians and other people in the Arab world want only what we want: a good quality of life, a role in government and a future for their children.
People in Egypt, where some 20 percent of people even have Internet access according to the New York Times, weren't suddenly inspired by Facebook posts and tweets to take to the street. They saw their quality of life finally squeezed to the point at which they couldn't take it anymore. It's not that far off from what English colonists here felt in 1774. Social media tools were certainly a big help, but they were just that: tools. They were not the means or cause of revolt.
There are certainly many challenges ahead in Egypt. The path to real representative democracy is not clear and much depends on the Egyptian military, which has essentially taken over security and governance for now. Such arrange- ments have not worked out well in other countries.
Still there is a lot to be hopeful for in Egypt.
Egypt is just such a phenomenon. It's a sign that people really do hold a remarkable amount of power when they organize to wield it. Let's hope that phenomenon continues to spread.
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A pedestrian bridge that will connect two apartment buildings in downtown Los Angeles was approved Friday by the L.A. City Council over the objections of planning officials who said the bridge will not fit in with the neighborhood.
The bridge will connect the two buildings known as Da Vinci, located on Temple Street in the elbow created by the Harbor (110) and Hollywood (101) freeways. In documents submitted to the city, attorneys for the project's developer argued the bridge was a matter of safety.
RELATED: Downtown LA developer wants pedestrian bridge to avoid homeless
"The area surrounding the project site (and the tunnel under the 110 freeway) are often congregating places for homeless persons," wrote attorney Duncan Joseph Moore for Latham & Watkins. "In addition, within a one-mile radius of the project site crimes are occurring at an average of three to four crimes per day."
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But the council's approval of the bridge came over the objections of city planners and the Central Area Planning Commission.
"Pedestrian bridges just don't facilitate the kind of activity that we're hoping to bring downtown," City Planner Patricia Diefrenderfer told KPCC's AirTalk.
"Creating an active street environment really requires careful design of buildings. A lot of consideration has to be given to the orientation of the building to the street so we certainly don't want to see this become a regular occurrence."
Ultimately the councilman for the area, Jose Huizar, and his colleagues sided with the developer.
"It's not really a homeless issue in terms of why this pedestrian bridge is being built," Huizar said. "It's simply for internal circulation amongst this development."


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This series comprise paintings inspired from Masri's travel in Norway. Subtle hues and neutral colours which denotes a different tone and emotion
Mixed media on paper 40cm x 30cm (15 1/2" x 12") Signed.
The Wallington Gallery is delighted to welcome the Florence based, award winning and internationally renowned artist, Masri Hayssam to our portfolio of Contemporary Artists.
Born in Lebanon, this Lebanese painter studied architecture and Art of Calligraphy (Ottoman and Persian method) in Tripoli. He travelled to Florence to pursue studies in graphic design, photography and art history. Florence is where he has resided for 24 years and where his studio is located. He has held exhibitions Italy, Norway, England, Germany, Switzerland, Lebanon, United States of America amongst others.
Masri is a painter with a capable and comprehensive palette equally at home with landscapes and portraits conceived in an abstract expressionist style. He is recognised for having different styles, he says: "I attempt to master each technique I apply and I put a lot of love in my paints. I control the technique rather than the other way round. An actor can be comic or tragic, on stage and on screen. Why can't the same apply to a painter? I find it strange that artists spend 40 years painting the same topics".
Masri was born 1965 in Tripoli-Lebanon. He moved to Italy in 1990. He grew up during a bloody civil war which ended when he was 15. His life was put at risk more than once during those troubled times. His work can be divided into different periods and different series of works. .. "I am always on the move discovering something artistically new and impressive; something significant with an eye-opening impact on the human psyche; something that does not let monotony and rote repetition take hold of my soul and the flow of my thoughts. This insatiable and agonizing feeling of unexpressed great potential inside of me is not fulfilled by the versatility in my work.
The key to understanding Masri's art, and his most innovative works, are his self-portraits, which number around 100, "If you want to understand my art, look at my self-portraits. If you focus at any of my self portraits, you'll see yourself in myself in different forms and different expressions".
Work by the artist MASRI, has been selected from over 1,300 entries to appear alongside paintings by some of Britain's leading portrait artists. It will hang alongside portraits of Her Majesty the Queen, Patron of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, celebrities and major public figures as well as outstanding work painted by members of the Society, and by artists who selected through the open submission on the merit of their work.
Member of
Portrait society of America
NEUTRAL-ISM Group-Italy
Art Nations-Germany
Lebanese Artist Association
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2013: Beirut Arab University- Beirut-Lebanon
2010: Galerie Espace d Arte-Tripoli-Lebanon
2010: Selected in Art Kudos international Art competition
2009: Nes Kulturhus Norway-(Anatomy of Nature Series)
2010: NDU Lebanese Diaspora International competition Notre Dame University-Beirut
2004 & 2005: American Art Carmel , California
2009: Selected in Art Kudos International Art competitions from series ( Anatomy of Nature)
2003: La chimera ( Metropolitan International Art) Lecce, Italy
2008: Selected in Art Kudos International Art competitions from series ( Anatomy of Nature)
2002: Galleria Modigliani , Milan Italy
2007: 2 Premio International Arte Laguna Museo Santa Caterina) Treviso Italy
1999: Teatro Guglielmi, Massa Carrara Italy
2003: 1 Premio international (Art e Societa) Caltaniseta Sicilia
1998: Stamperia della Bezuga,Florence Italy
2003: Premio Italia 2003 Florence Certosa
1997: Gegenuber Badischer Bahnhof, Basel, Switzerland 1994: Centro Internazionale Giorgio la pira, Florence Italy


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Southfield-based Mars Advertising Inc. has named William Rozek, former CFO at Highland Park-based Budco Inc., as its new CFO.
In addition to filling the new position at Mars, Rozek will be a member of the agency's executive leadership team, according to a news release.
Other new hires and promotions Mars announced are:
• Scott Reid will join Mars Detroit as its new executive creative director and a member of its creative leadership team. He previously led the Mars Toronto office and oversaw creative product for clients.
• Theresa Lyons will be the senior VP of Mars retail consultancy. She previously served as VP of strategic planning.
Mars has 11 offices across North America and London, with more than 300 employees.


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Harbor Point protest flies above city
STAMFORD -- After years of traditional on-the-ground protests, a labor union has taken its war against Harbor Point developer Building and Land Technology to the skies.
On Thursday, a small yellow plane was spotted flying over the South End and downtown with a banner reading: "BLT BAD FOR CT. CALL CONGRESSMAN HIMES."
The Connecticut Laborers' District Council took responsibility for the attention-grabbing fly-over lasting two hours.
The union, said to represent about 8,000 workers in construction and other building and trade fields across the state, has waged a long and expensive campaign against the South End developer for hiring non-union, out-of-state contractors and committing state labor violations,
Charles LeConche, the union's business manager, said the banner, which is slated to fly over Stamford over the next six days, cost roughly $3,000. All told, he said the council has spent $30,000 attacking BLT through leaflets, rallies, and two billboards along Interstate 95.
"We're spending a lot of money to expose a problem and nobody is doing anything about it," he said.
But in a shift, the union's latest protest also takes aim at U.S. Rep. Jim Himes, D-Conn.
LeConche, who has vigorously lobbied Himes to put pressure on the developer, said he intended the banner "to hit a nerve" with the congressman.
Himes has met with LeConche several times.
In April, he lent the union his support by sending a representative to participate in a protest organized by the Laborer's District Council. In a statement released prior to the event, he said, "By hiring more qualified, local workers at good wages, BLT can demonstrate it wants to invest in local business and the people of Connecticut."
But on Thursday, LeConche, who had a meeting with Himes only 10 days ago, expressed frustration with the lack of any further action.
"What has he done to move the ball forward?" he said.
In response, Elizabeth Kerr, a spokesman for Himes, wrote in an email: "The Congressman has been very clear that BLT should hire more of the very qualified local workers who are ready to help build Harbor Point. With no federal funding involved in the project, the federal government has no legal authority over this matter. But, the Congressman has made this a priority and taken every opportunity to make his opinion known."
Kerr said in addition to his statement in April, Himes secured a commitment from Carl Kuehner, the president and CEO of BLT, to meet with LeConche. She claimed that LeConche had not taken advantage of the opportunity.
She then added: "The Congressman has been in Washington for votes most of the last two weeks, and we have yet to receive any invitations from Mr. LeConche to attend any future public events."
LeConche said he has made several attempts to meet with Kuehner, all of which had been unsuccessful.
Among elected officials, Mayor Michael Pavia has also been a frequent target of organized labor. In May, LeConche organized a large rally with other union groups in front of the Government Center. Afterward, Pavia said he had spoken with union representatives and was trying to broker a compromise. But, he added, "I can only go so far when it comes to private development."
At $3.5 billion, Harbor Point is considered one of the largest developments in the region. From the start, BLT has refused to enter into any collective bargaining or project labor agreements, which typically involve concessions from unions. The developer has said that it hires both union and non-union workers through a competitive bidding process.
Labor groups have said the practice has led to the hiring of unskilled and undocumented workers which has fostered wage abuses. Since the project began in 2008, numerous contractors, most of them out-of-state, have been cited by the state Department of Labor for violations for failing to pay worker's compensation insurance as well as misclassifying employees to avoid having to pay fair wages, taxes, and other required costs.
A spokesman for BLT did not respond to a request for comment.
LeConche said he had used an aerial banner previously in a fight against a union in New York that had encroached on a Connecticut project. That time, he said, the tactic worked. The opponent came to the table.
On Thursday, the veteran labor organizer seemed assured that, at the very least, he had gotten his message across. "Unions started on street corners 100 years ago," he said. "You got to be visible. The squeaky wheel gets the grease."
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You might recognize these 2 as I've shot them several times before. It was amazing to witness this birth of their son and I can't thank Alexis and Andrew enough for having me out.
If you are interested in having me come and document your birth story, drop me a line.


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To pay someone to coerce them into doing something. A noun or pronoun can be used between "buy" and "off." Don't worry, the doorman won't say anything—I bought him off. Her campaign for mayor will be ruined if the public learns how many people she's bought off over the years.
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Pay to get rid of a claim or opposition, or to avoid prosecution, as in He was caught trying to buy off the opposing candidate. [First half of 1600s]
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Opsis Architecture was recently profiled on ARCHITECT Magazine as part of their continuing coverage of the 2012 COTE Top Ten Awards. Opsis partner Alec Holser was recently interviewed by Eco-Structure about our design approach and focus on sustainability.
Profile: Opsis Architecture
By Deane Madsen
To delve deeper into our coverage of the 2012 COTE Top Ten Awards, ECO-STRUCTURE asked the winning firms to detail their experiences with sustainable design. These offices didn't just happen upon a winning scheme—rather, they're all well-versed in making high-performance strategies an integral part of each project. Below we take a closer look at some of the core values that shape each firm's ethos.
Location: Portland, OR
Principals: Alec Holser, Jim Kalvelege, James Meyer
Founded: 1999
Size: 27
Little-known fact: "We thought it would be good to walk the talk, so we went out a bought a 20,000-square-foot, 1910 horse stables that we converted to a LEED Gold–certified studio for Opsis Architecture. Last year honey bees that live on our rooftop made a gallon of honey for us. Recently, we covered the exterior of our building with paint formulated after the chemistry found in the lotus blossom. Our building is now 'self-cleaning' through the use of biomimcry."
What was the biggest lesson you learned from your 2012 COTE Top Ten project, the Music and Science Building at Hood River Middle School?
Alec Holser: Creating a net-zero-energy building required setting a goal early, and keeping it at the forefront of the process. Among the myriad design decisions that an architect makes about aesthetics, function, program, cost, materials, systems, and so on, energy use was not always the most important factor, but it was always something that needed to be considered. This meant that the design team needed to put in a lot of extra effort modeling different design scenarios and energy-efficiency measures so that decisions were based on actual modeled data. For example, numerous configurations of skylights and clerestory windows were run through both the energy model and the daylighting model so that a solution that balanced the needs of both could be found. Not only did the models sometimes yield results that led to decisions that were not intuitive, they also were useful in giving the design team confidence in defending decisions when value-engineering options were considered.
We discovered that user education and commitment is one of the most important performance criteria to attain and maximize high-performance buildings. The project included a personally committed science teacher who integrated performance and curriculum. With everyone on board and understanding the goals, we met and exceeded project aspirations.
What insights from this and other sustainable projects would you share with other professionals?
We learned that everything matters when your aspirations are true net-zero energy. No component is too small to maximize and leverage its value to the project. In addition, all decisions should be thought of holistically, as every part is a piece of the total building performance. As noted above, education should be an integral part of every sustainable project.
While creating sustainable buildings can sometimes involve the use of cutting-edge technologies or systems, a much greater portion of what makes most buildings sustainable is simply good design—traditional systems put to use in a thoughtful way.
The use of an integrated design approach is necessary for a successful sustainable project. Appropriate stakeholders and decision-makers need to become involved at the beginning to set project goals such as LEED certification or energy use. This allows the design team to organize the steps to achieve these goals in an effective manner. An integrated design team is also essential; having architects and engineers at the table in beginning saves time and money along the way. The most sustainable design solutions often involve several systems working together. By having the correct players at the table at the right time solves many problems that would otherwise show themselves later on. If coordinated properly, this type of design doesn't have to mean more meetings and email, just more upfront preparation by the parties involved.
In addition, the design itself needs to be integrated. Operating on a limited budget and with lofty sustainable goals in mind, it is important that building systems work together, and materials are used for more than one purpose. For example, a radiant slab can be a heating and cooling delivery system, a structural floor, and a finish floor all at one time. Finally, the construction team should be integrated and on board with the project goals. Construction details need to be thoroughly thought out, drawn up, and executed. Their role is essential because a building that leaks air and water, despite how good the design is, will ultimately fail in its sustainable goals.
What is your firm's philosophy on sustainable design?
We approach each project with a simple set of beliefs that sustainability is integral to the design process. It is never an additional component. As integrators, we offer projects that seamlessly exceed aspirations. We believe simple solutions are the best, and we seek them first in every project.
What kinds of sustainable solutions are non-negotiable for your firm? What are the baseline standards your firm aims to meet with every project?
We have been resistant to set standards. Each of our projects offers a divergent set of variables unique to its own set of criteria. That being said, we are registered and dedicated to the 2030 Challenge, and integrate the key criteria for building performance into each project. Opsis Architecture finds creative ways to integrate sustainable solutions without additional costs, often finding a balancing point of achieving owners needs and fulfilling our responsibilities to the planet. Because sustainable design is essential to our practice, our enthusiasm inspires others to think beyond the norm. We have multiple LEED Platinum–certified projects, and we currently are certifying a pilot commercial project with the Earth Advantage Small Commercial Efficiency Pilot (SCEP) at a Gold level certification. We also have two projects that have met a net-zero-energy goal, one of which has received Petal Recognition and Net-Zero-Energy Certification under the Living Building Challenge.
How do you think these types of innovative green solutions might become standard?
The implementation of highly sustainable projects is directly linked to a verification of high-performance buildings. Case studies and post-occupancy evaluations are critical to a broad understanding of the successful design of innovative green solutions. I see the solutions becoming standards when metrics for their performance have been confirmed and operations understood to not be overly complex.
View the original article here: 2012 COTE Top Ten Green Project Firm: Opsis Architecture


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Concert goers lost their patience with Guns N'Roses after the band was late starting a show in front of a capacity crowd in Dublin, reports the Irish Times.
Front man Axl Rose walked off stage after frustrated fans threw plastic cups filled with liquids and bottles onto the stage after a delay of over 40 minutes. The band was supposed to be on at 9:45 p.m. but finally appeared around 10:30.
The band was tearing into one of the best-known songs, "Welcome to the Jungle," when a plastic cup with an unknown substance landed on the stage. The incident promoted Rose to address the crowd.
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"Here's the deal, one more bottle, we go home," he said. "We want to stay. If you don't want to have fun just let us know. We'll be on our way."
Shortly after that, another cup was thrown at guitarist Richard Fortus. The band then left the stage to a cascade of boos after the finishing "Mr Brownstone." They'd only performed 22 minutes.
Promoter Denis Desmond tried to call the crowd after Axl and company stormed off.
"We're trying to get Axl to come back on stage," he said. "I'm trying hard to get Axl to come back on stage. I'd ask you please to refrain from throwing items at him. I promise a great show, but you have to calm. I'm sorry about that."
Desmond blamed "technical difficulties" for the rocky start to the show.
The band eventually came back out at 11:20 p.m. and finished their set. By the time they were done near one in the morning, most fans had already left the arena.
Time management has proven to be a big problem for the band as they tour Europe promoting their "Chinese Democracy" album. They had sets cut short at musical festivals in both Reading and Leeds after taking the stage well after their scheduled time.
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WARSAW, Poland, July 31 (UPI) -- Presumptive Republican U.S. presidential nominee Mitt Romney pledged Tuesday U.S.-Polish relations would improve if he were elected president.
Meanwhile Romney campaign officials defended remarks Palestinians blasted as offensive that Romney made while he was in Israel as part of his three-country tour.
"I believe it is critical to stand by those who have stood by America," Romney said Tuesday in Warsaw. "Solidarity was a great movement that freed a nation. And it is with solidarity that America and Poland face the future."
While in Poland Romney visited several memorials, including one honoring the Warsaw uprising, the largest single revolt by the Jews during World War II and the first mass uprising in Nazi-occupied Europe.
"I, and my fellow Americans, are inspired by the path of freedom tread by the people of Poland," Romney said.
Americans and the world watched in awe as Lech Walesa led a peaceful protest against an oppressive regime that eventually led to democratic Poland, Romney said.
"Unfortunately, there are parts of the world today where the desire to be free is met with brutal oppression," the former Massachusetts governor said.
Romney held Poland as an example of economic success, saying it was a "shining example of the prosperity that economic opportunity can bring."
"Your nation has moved from a state monopoly over the economy, price controls and severe trade restrictions to a culture of entrepreneurship, greater fiscal responsibility, and international trade," he said. "As a result, your economy has experienced positive growth in each of the last 20 years. In that time, you have doubled the size of your economy. The private sector has gone from a mere 15 percent of the economy to 65 percent. And while other nations fell into recession in recent years, you weathered the storm and continued to flourish."
Romney repeatedly praised and expressed admiration for Poland's fight for democracy.
"In a turbulent world, Poland stands as an example, and a defender, of freedom," he said.
"It is for us, in this generation and beyond, to show all the world what free people and free economies can achieve for the good of all," he said.
Walesa invited Romney to Poland and Walesa essentially endorsed Romney's bid for the U.S. presidency. Romney also met with Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk.
Meanwhile, after Palestinians criticized a Romney remark at a Jerusalem fundraiser that he saw the "power" of "culture" at work in the large disparity between Israeli and Palestinian living standards, Romney campaign chief strategist Stuart Stevens told the Los Angeles Times: "This is something he has said repeatedly. It's been covered by every news organization that's written about it."
"This was not in any way an attempt to slight the Palestinians and everyone knows that," Stevens told the newspaper.
Romney told donors about a "dramatically stark difference in economic vitality" between Israel and adjacent "areas managed by the Palestinian Authority," saying Israel's per capita gross domestic product was about $21,000, whereas that of Palestinian areas is "more like $10,000."
Israeli per capita GDP was $31,400 last year while Palestinians' per capita GDP was $1,500 in 2010, an April World Bank report said.
A number of leading Palestinians expressed outrage at Romney's contrast of Israeli and Palestinian standards of living.
"Oh my god, this man needs a lot of education," Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat, who negotiated the Oslo Accords with Israel, told the Times. "What he said about the culture is racism."
The "Israeli occupation" is "the reason" for the income disparity, Erekat said.


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Only someone like me would get totally excited about a pot.
Canadian Tire's Boxing Week sale boasted a Kitchen Aid cast iron dutch oven, bright shiny red and porcelain-coated, for 70% off. This meant the normally $100 pot was $30. After much convincing, I managed to drag my dad to Trail's Canadian Tire location, a store normally mostly empty. I assumed in this area, not renowned for it cuisine, that I'd have my pick of pots and that it wouldn't be necessary to get there early in order to obtain the pot. Not so. A skid in the kitchen wares section was empty...except for one last pot, sitting out on the skid with its box discarded onto the skid next door containing a pile ridiculously cheap Black & Decker toaster ovens. I inspected the pot and it was fine. I put it in the box and proceeded to the checkout (well, actually, I proceeded to also obtain the last high-backed office chair that was on sale for 50% off, but that's another story). The cashier told me I was lucky to get the last one; she said the pots had been flying out of the store at an alarming rate, some people buying two or three of them.
So what do you do with a cast iron dutch oven? Well, I decided to do some braising to break in my new piece of kitchenware. Chicken thighs were on sale at my local overpriced grocery store. I had half a bottle of white wine kicking around.
Braised Chicken Thighs
10 chicken thighs, bone in, skin removed
2 tbsp flour combined with a bit of salt & pepper
2 large onions, sliced
2 large carrots, peeled & sliced
1 28oz can diced tomatoes
2 cups white wine
2 tbsp lemon juice
1/2 cup chopped cilantro
3 large cloves garlic, grated
1. Put the flour, salt & pepper in a plastic bag and add the chicken, in batches, and shake to coat the thighs.
2. Add a bit of oil to the pot and heat to high. Brown the chicken in batches and set aside on a plate.
3. Add onions and carrots and saute in the pan until soft. Add the wine and bring to a boil. Add the tomatoes, lemon juice, and garlic, and bring to a boil. Add the chicken and cilantro and reduce the heat so the liquid just simmers. Cook until the chicken done. Serve over rice.
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By: Lesley Fair | Mar 26, 2012 11:11AM
In a world of smart phones and smart grids, the smart money is on companies that play it smart with consumers' information. Consistent with its 40 years' experience protecting consumer privacy, the FTC's just-released Report — Protecting Consumer Privacy in an Era of Rapid Change: Recommendations for Businesses and Policymakers — underscores that message and outlines a new privacy framework designed for the 21st Century.
The agency issued a preliminary report in December 2010 and received over 450 comments from businesses, privacy advocates, and consumers. The final Report retains the basic principles outlined previously, but with several important refinements:
Privacy by Design. Companies should build privacy protections into their everyday business practices. That includes limiting data collection and retention, securing the information they hold on to, safely disposing of what they no longer need, and implementing reasonable measures to ensure information is accurate.
Simplified Choice. Companies should give consumers a choice at a time and in a context that matters to people. The preliminary report noted that choice shouldn't be necessary for certain "commonly accepted practices." The final Report refines that approach and concludes that choice needn't be provided for data practices that people would expect, given the context of the transaction, the company's relationship with the consumer, or as required or specifically authorized by law. The Report also reaffirms the Commission's strong support for Do Not Track.
Improved transparency. Companies should increase the transparency of their data practices. What does the FTC have in mind? For example, businesses could develop clearer, more standardized privacy disclosures and could give people reasonable access to their information. The final Report also proposes important consumer protections with regard to data brokers. The Report supports targeted legislation that would provide greater transparency about what they're doing and calls on data brokers to explore creating a centralized website where data brokers could identify themselves and describe how they collect and use people's information.
What about small businesses? To minimize the effect on smaller companies, the final framework doesn't apply to them if they collect only non-sensitive data from fewer than 5,000 consumers a year, provided they don't share the data with third parties.
The Report also calls on Congress to consider enacting baseline privacy legislation, while urging industry to speed up the pace of self-regulation.
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I think most of us loathed Michael Gove in his day, for giving away our schools to any bunch of loonies or would-be investors who wanted to capture the minds of our children.
Maybe we were a bit out?
The latest staggering OECD international comparisons claim that English schoolchildren - more or less pre-Gove - were largely hopeless. The Independent cites the report as summarising the position as 1/5 of university students being unable to read the instructions on an aspirin bottle.
Should one conclude that Gove was right after all: he might as well put the next person in the chip shop in charge of education as leave it in the control of the then establishment?
I've felt ill since reading this article:http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/english-teenagers-are-the-most-illiterate-in-the-developed-world-report-reveals-a6841166.html
and this from the opposite side of the political spectrum:http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2016/01/britain-named-worst-in-developed-world-for-literacy-so-yes-school-reform-is-needed/
How can the teachers who taught me and my generation have been so terribly betrayed? Why worry about a few creationist nutters if the children can't read well enough to see them refuted anyway? They'll have far more to worry about than the age of the earth - or would, if they were properly literate.
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text: Windy Phillips' first grade class at Ocean City Elementary School recently planted space-exposed cinnamon basil seeds that flew aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour on mission STS-118. Students are comparing the growth of the space-exposed seeds to seeds that have remained in climate-controlled conditions. Pictured, from left, are Kaela Gilligan, Cali Peters and Summer Vorsteg.


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Shares of regional budget airline AirAsia fell Monday after its chief Tony Fernandes apologized for supporting defeated Prime Minister Najib Razak in last week's historic vote.
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Shares of regional budget airline AirAsia plunged Monday after its chief Tony Fernandes publicly apologized for supporting defeated Prime Minister Najib Razak in a historic election last week.
The vote ended with a victory for a four-party alliance led by Mahathir Mohamad, resulting in Malaysia's first change of government since it gained independence from Britain in 1957.
Fernandes praised Najib's coalition in a video released ahead of the polls. He was also pictured with Najib in an AirAsia plane emblazoned with the coalition's campaign slogan, with the cabin crew's signature red uniforms swapped for ones in the coalition's signature deep blue.
Fernandes apologized Sunday for "buckling" under government pressure. He said he was asked to remove former trade minister Rafidah Aziz, who openly supported Mahathir, as chairman of his long-haul budget unit AirAsia X and also to cancel extra flights at low fares ahead of the polls.
He did neither. But in his comments over the weekend Fernandes said he was part of a highly-regulated industry where nearly everything requires government approval and was foolish to think that his endorsement would appease the government and protect jobs.
"Under the intense pressure, I buckled. It wasn't right; I will forever regret it," Fernandes said in videotaped comments. "It is still the happiest moment of my life that we have a new Malaysia that will give everyone an amazing chance to reach the skies."
AirAsia stocks fell as much as 13 percent from their last traded price last Tuesday before market holidays during and after the May 9 election. They recovered some of that lost ground by midday Monday, trading at 3.55 ringgit, down 4 percent from Tuesday's close.
The benchmark index also rebounded after opening lower, gaining 0.4 percent, while Malaysia's currency dipped in a knee-jerk reaction to uncertainties over the change in government.
The dollar was trading at 3.95 ringgit ($1) as of midday after climbing as high as 4.05 ringgit ($1.03).
Malaysia's economy grew at a robust, three-year high pace of 5.9 percent last year, but some are concerned over his government's pledges to abolish an unpopular 6 percent goods and services tax, revive fuel subsidies and review big projects linked to China's regional infrastructure initiative.
Mahathir has moved swiftly, naming as finance minister Lim Guan Eng, who headed the small but wealthy state of Penang for a decade. Lim is the first ethnic Chinese in 44 years to be appointed to the powerful post.
Mahathir also set up a special five-member economic council that includes a renowned former central bank governor and Hong Kong-based billionaire tycoon Robert Kuok, Malaysia's richest man.
Those moves should underpin market confidence given that Lim, a trained accountant, has a track record of boosting Penang's economy with investor-friendly policies, Mizuho Bank in Singapore said in a research note. "Crucially, the appointment of the "Council of Elders" comprising pre-eminent policy-makers... lends credence and confidence to economic, financial and investment stewardship."
It said any volatility will likely be short-lived as investors look to progressive policies.
Shares of construction companies and those linked to former politicians tumbled Monday, but consumer stocks were boosted by hopes of an end to consumption tax.


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Government agents must avert their eyes from potential Islamic terrorists
If America survives long enough for historians to write books about this period in her history, surely Eric Holder's recent directive (issued in response to pressure from Democrats), holding that federal agents may not consider Islam as a factor in terrorism or Latinos as the most likely illegal immigrants will surely rank as Exhibit A in the decline of a once great nation:
The Justice Department will significantly expand its definition of racial profiling to prohibit federal agents from considering religion, national origin, gender and sexual orientation in their investigations, a government official said Wednesday.
The move addresses a decade of criticism from civil rights groups that say federal authorities have in particular singled out Muslims in counterterrorism investigations and Latinos for immigration investigations.
The Bush administration banned profiling in 2003, but with two caveats: It did not apply to national security cases, and it covered only race, not religion, ancestry or other factors.
I agree completely that not all Muslims are terrorists, just as only an idiot would claim that the only illegal immigrants are Hispanics. To focus only on those two groups, without reference to any other potential terrorists or illegal immigrants is foolhardy. (Although I'm unclear about the whole illegal immigrant thing anyway, considering that Obama is already violating the law — without Republican push-back — by refusing to enforce immigration laws.) Still, one would have to be equally idiotic to pretend that the vast majority of terrorist attacks don't involve Muslims and that the greatest number of illegal immigrants don't come from South of the Border.


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Five undergraduates from the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences (EMS)—Ethan Lucas, Rachel Passmore, Olivia Price, Kahindo Kamau and Abraham Duplaa—earned top awards in the 2014 Grundy Haven paper competition. The goal of the competition is to foster excellence in communicating science to the public. Students choose a topic related to the programs within the College and write an informative article directed at a non-specialist audience.
First place winner, Ethan Lucas, a material science and engineering major, wrote about preventing nuclear meltdowns, such as the one at the Fukushima power plant in western Japan in 2011. At the Applied Research Laboratory, he participates in research to find improved corrosive resistant coatings for fuel tubes that house nuclear material. The objective of the research is to avert similar disasters.
"I've been participating in this research for close to a year, and I wanted to explain that if this team of scientists is successful, it will help revolutionize the energy industry and make nuclear energy safer and more viable," said Lucas.
Taking a course on global health issues and travelling to Ghana gave second place winner, Rachel Passmore, a geography major, the inspiration to write her paper on malaria prevention methods in endemic African countries.
"It's an extremely complex public health issue. Not everyone has access to insecticide-treated sprays and netting. International aid is also always complicated," said Passmore, "but knowing more about the pros and cons of various options helps us to become better global citizens."
The global public health issue of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in Indian agriculture, specifically with respect to Bt Cotton was the topic geography major Olivia Price explored in her second place entry. (This year, there was a tie for second place.) Price entered the competition "because of the sense of passion" she has for her subject, and because she believes that she should put her "passion to good use and help spread the word by writing from the perspective of a social scientist."
She wrote multiple drafts and met with her faculty sponsor and writing tutors to tweak her paper. In her earlier drafts, she noted that her tone was not sufficiently objective.
"I think the most difficult part of writing this paper was remaining unbiased. I chose a controversial topic that many people get heated over. I wanted to take a side, and in my earlier papers you can definitely observe a bias in my tone. I overcame the challenge by realizing that when communicating science, it's not personal opinion that counts. I had to rely on strong scientific evidence."
Kahindo Kamau and Abraham Duplaa, two petroleum and natural gas engineering majors, won honorable mention for their collaborative entry on the promise of methane hydrates as a viable energy source for the future. As Kamau explains, the primary challenge they faced was adjusting their usual solitary methods for writing and editing to a team approach.
"Because we were two writers working on one paper we initially each took the job of writing half of the essay. When we put it together into one document we had theses that did not quite match, and our word counts were too high. We also had a lot of repetition. As writers, we learned the importance of not only communicating with our audience but also with each other."
Plans for how each of the winners will use the cash prizes that range from $250 to $1,000 are as varied as the topics: to purchase a passport, for a month's rent, to buy soccer cleats—and to go to Chipotle and eat vegetarian burritos!
The William Grundy Haven Awards were established in 1950 in memory of a Penn State geology student who was killed in action during World War II. The Earth and Mineral Science College is grateful for these funds, and proud to recognize the achievements of these fine communicators.
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Shrub, vine, tree, generally erect, often thorny
Leaves simple, generally alternate, often clustered on short-shoots, generally petioled, generally stipuled; blade often 13-ribbed from base
Inflorescence: cyme, panicle, or flowers solitary in axils
Flower generally bisexual, radial; hypanthium subtending, surrounding, or partly fused to ovary; sepals 4 or 5; petals 0, 4, or 5, clawed; stamens 4 or 5, alternate sepals, attached to hypanthium top, each generally fitting into a petal concavity; ovary superior or partly inferior, chambers 25, each 12-ovuled, style lobes or parts 13
Fruit: capsule, drupe
Genera in family: 55 genera, 900 species: especially tropical, subtropical; some cultivated (Ceanothus ; Colletia , anchor-plant; Gouania ; Phylica ; Rhamnus ; Ventilago ; Ziziphus )
Reference: [Brizicky 1965 J Arnold Arbor 45:439463]
Shrub, small tree, prostrate to erect, thorny or not
Stem: branches generally arranged as leaves
Leaves alternate or opposite, deciduous or evergreen, petioled; blade 13-ribbed from base, margin entire or not
Inflorescence: generally panicle-like aggregations of umbel-like, 3-flowered clusters
Flower generally < 5 mm; hypanthium surrounding fleshy disk below ovary base, in fruit thick, not splitting; sepals generally 5, lanceolate-deltate, incurved, colored like petals, persistent; petals generally 5, hooded, white to deep blue; stamens generally 5, opposite petals; ovary superior, 3-lobed, chambers 3, each 1-ovuled, style parts 3
Fruit: capsule, ± spheric, 3-valved
Seeds 3, ± 3 mm, 1 surface convex
Species in genus: 45 species: North America, especially w
Etymology: (Greek: thorny plant)
Reference: [Rensselaer & McMinn 1942 Ceanothus Santa Barbara Bot Gard 1308]
Hybridization common (named hybrids not recognized here);hybrid forms may not key adequately.
Plant prostrate to erect, < 3 m
Stem: twigs round, gray to brown, generally glabrous, becoming gray
Leaves opposite, clustered or not, evergreen, < 3.2 cm, flat; stipules persistent; petiole ± 03 mm; blade oblong, oblanceolate, or obovate to roundish, 1-ribbed from base, firm, tip obtuse to notched, margin entire or with spine-like teeth, upper surface dull to shiny green, ± glabrous, lower surface ± hairy on veins
Inflorescence raceme-like, < 2.5 cm
Flower white, pale blue, blue, or lavender
Fruit 46 mm, generally with horns near top; ridges 0 or minute
Ecology: Dry fans, slopes, ridges
Elevation: < 1800 m.
Bioregional distribution: California Floristic Province (except Great Central Valley)
Distribution outside California: Oregon, n Baja California
Plant erect, 615 dmSee the CNPS Inventory for information about endangerment and rarity.
Stem: twigs brown, becoming dark brown
Leaves clustered, < 2 cm; petiole < 3 mm; blade narrowly oblanceolate, margin entire or few-toothed near tip, upper surface generally dull green, glabrous, lower minutely canescent
Flower blue
Fruit 45 mm; horns generally minute; ridges 0
Ecology: Chaparral, coastal sandy mesas
Elevation: < 400 m.
Bioregional distribution: s Central Coast (Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo cos.).[C. ramulosus (Greene) McMinn var. f. McMinn]
Horticultural information: DRN, DRY, SUN: 7, 8, 9, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24.


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Turbines are about to turn in Cohocton, and projects in Prattsburgh and Italy are not far behind.
Construction has begun on a pair of wind farms in Cohocton, with plans for more in Prattsburgh, Italy and elsewhere in Steuben and Yates counties. Below is a description where each of the projects stands.
Cohocton Wind
• Company: Canandaigua Power Partners I, LLC, a subsidiary of UPC Wind. UPC Wind has wind farms operating in Maui, Hawaii; Mars Hill, Maine; and Lackawanna, near Buffalo, with many other projects under development.
• Project Web site: www.cohoctonwind.com
• Location: 32 turbines will be located on Pine Hill and Lent Hill, northeast of the village of Cohocton; three turbines will be located just southwest of the village on Brown Hill. The entire project site covers about 4,800 acres of land leased from 29 individual landowners. The collection station will be built on Lent Hill; the substation will be built on Brown Hill. A small portion of the transmission line will fall in the town of Avoca.
• Details: The project includes up to 35 Clipper C-96 wind turbines, which each have the capacity to generate 2.5 megawatts (MW), for a total of 87.5 MW. Each turbine tower will be about 262 feet tall. At its highest point, when one of the three 153-foot rotor blades is fully vertical, the entire turbine will reach a height of about 420 feet. Other elements of the project include 8.8 miles of access roads, 15.4 miles of underground electrical lines, a collection station, a construction staging area, two permanent meteorological towers and an operations and maintenance facility.
• Payments: Rather than from taxes, towns will generally earn revenue from wind farms through host agreements and payments in lieu of taxes, known as PILOT programs. Host agreements are negotiated between the wind-farm company and the town; PILOT programs are established by the local industrial development agency, in this case the Steuben County Industrial Development Agency (SCIDA). In PILOT programs, the wind-farm company makes payments to the local school district, county and town.
SCIDA is in the process of adopting a universal PILOT formula, based on the number of megawatts generated, that would apply to all wind-farm projects in the county. Under that formula, between 50 and 60 percent of the payments would go to the school district, and the rest would be split between the county and the town.
For the Cohocton project, both host agreement and projected PILOT agreement payments will be made annually over the course of 20 years. The town of Cohocton has already received an advance payment of $425,000 from UPC Wind as part of the host agreement; about $300,000 more is due by January. Combining the host agreement and projected PILOT payments for both Cohocton Wind and Dutch Hill wind farms, the town of Cohocton will receive about $950,000 after the first year of operation and $870,000 after the second year. Payment amounts decrease each year thereafter. After 20 years, payments to the town are expected to total about $11.5 million; $8.6 million from the host agreement and $2.9 million from the town's share of the PILOT payments.
• Employees: Six to eight maintenance employees will be hired once the turbines are in operation. They will work for both Cohocton and Dutch Hill wind farms.
• Permit status: The project's final findings statement was adopted in July, approving construction under a long list of conditions.
• Construction: Work began in late August, creating access roads and a construction staging area. Workers are currently scraping away topsoil and beginning excavation at the individual turbine sites.
• Lawsuits: Two "Article 78" lawsuits regarding the improper issuance of special-use permits have been filed. Defendants in both cases include UPC Wind, Canandaigua Power Partners I and II, and the Cohocton Planning Board, which was the lead agency for the project. One case addresses the entire Cohocton project; the other focuses on the siting of a few specific turbines close to a former landfill. Plaintiffs in the first case include Cohocton Wind Watch, a citizen organization that is against the siting of the turbines as proposed, and about 20 individuals, many of whom reside on land abutting leased areas where turbines will be installed. Plaintiffs in the second case include four individuals whose property abuts the few turbines in question.
Various motions were heard in court on Oct. 19, including a motion to dismiss the suits. The judge has yet to rule on the motion to dismiss, and the suits are still in progress.
• Interest groups: Cohocton Wind Watch; www.cohoctonwindwatch.org.; www.cohoctonfree.com.
Cohocton Wind also has a local wind support group called Yes! Wind Power for Cohocton; its Web site is www.yeswindcohocton.com. The company also has a community relations office at 28 Maple Ave., Cohocton.
Dutch Hill Wind Farm
• Company: Canandaigua Power Partners II LLC, a subsidiary of UPC Wind.
• Project Web site: www.dutchhillwind.com
• Location: Dutch Hill, north of the village of Cohocton. The project covers about 2,560 acres of land leased from seven landowners.
• Project details: The project includes up to 16 Clipper Liberty C-96 wind turbines, which each have the capacity to generate 2.5 MW, for a total of 40 MW. Other elements of the project include five miles of access roads, 2.6 miles of underground electrical lines, a 3.8-mile above- and below-ground transmission line to a substation on Lent Hill and one permanent meteorological tower. It will share an operations and maintenance building with the Cohocton project.
• Payments: The Dutch Hill and Cohocton projects have separate host agreements, but the town's anticipated revenue for both projects is listed in the description of the Cohocton project.
• Employees: Six to eight maintenance employees will be hired once the turbines are in operation. They will work for both Cohocton and Dutch Hill wind farms.
• Permit status: The project's final findings statement was adopted in July.
• Construction: Work began in late August, and workers are currently clearing topsoil, excavating and pouring cement at individual turbine sites, beginning at site 1A and proceeding numerically to site 15A.
• Lawsuits: An "Article 78" lawsuit alleging the improper issuance of special-use permits is currently in progress. Defendants include UPC Wind, Canandaigua Power Partners I and II and the Cohocton Planning Board. The plaintiff is a landowner who has not leased land for the project, but who lives near a turbine site. Various motions were heard in court on Oct. 19, including a motion to dismiss the suit; the judge has yet to rule on that motion.
• Interest groups: Cohocton Wind Watch; www.cohoctonfree.com; Yes! Wind Power for Cohocton.
Wind Farm Prattsburgh
• Company: WindFarm Prattsburgh LLC, a subsidiary of UPC Wind. Global Winds Harvest, Inc. was also a partner during development phases.
• Project Web site: www.windfarmprattsburgh.com
• Location: Prattsburgh, Steuben County and Italy, Yates County. The project will cover about 2,500 acres of private land leased from about 24 landowners.
• Project details: The project includes up to 44 GE SLE wind turbines, which each have the capacity to generate 1.5 MW, for a total of 66 MW. Other elements of the project include a system of gravel access roads, overhead and underground electrical lines, a substation, two meteorological towers and an operations and maintenance building.
• Payments : A host agreement is in the final stages of being approved; SCIDA is still finalizing a universal PILOT formula for all wind projects in Steuben County.
• Employees: Once in operation, the project is set to employ six to 10 maintenance employees.
• Permit status: The project's draft environmental impact statement (EIS) was adopted in August 2006; its final EIS was adopted in April 2007; and its final findings statement was adopted last May.
• Construction: Work is set to begin in November.
• Lawsuits: None.
• Interest groups: Advocates for Prattsburgh is a community organization that says it is not against wind power in general but that it is against the "inappropriate siting" of the turbines. Its Web site is www.prattsburgh.org.
Ecogen Prattsburgh-Italy Wind Farm
• Company: Ecogen, LLC
• Project Web site: www.ecogeneis.com
• Location: Towns of Prattsburgh, Steuben County and Italy, Yates County. About 24,000 acres were identified within which the individual turbine sites will be located; the boundaries of that area are Twelve Mile Creek Road to the west; McMichael Road to the east; Edison Road, Italy Valley Road and Italy Turnpike Road to the north; and West Creek Road to the south. Project manager Tom Hagner said Ecogen is still in the process of narrowing down the area.
• Project details: The project would include up to 53 1.5 MW turbines and would generate up to 79.5 MW.
• Payments: A host agreement has yet to be finalized. SCIDA is still finalizing a universal PILOT formula for all wind projects in Steuben County.
• Employees: Once in operation, the wind farm would employ six to eight employees for maintenance.
• Permit status: The project's environmental-impact statement was adopted in fall, 2005.
• Construction: Not yet begun.
•Lawsuits: Ecogen has filed a lawsuit against the Town of Italy, citing violation of the equal protection of due process rights. It was brought about because the town allegedly indicated it would provide zoning for a wind farm for Empire Wind, one of Ecogen's competitors, but not for Ecogen. The case is still under litigation, and the next court date is Nov. 7.
• Interest groups: Advocates for Prattsburgh.
Wind-farm projects are also in the works in the Steuben County towns of Hartsville, Hornby and Howard. SCIDA accepted the final EIS for the Howard project on Oct. 25; the next step will be to issue a findings statement, which approves a project as long as the developer meets certain conditions. Developers for the Hartsville and Hornby projects have both finished the scoping process and are working on their draft environmental-impact statements, said James Sherron, executive director of SCIDA.
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