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Ed Murray, Mayor
SUBJECT: Mayor details new goal in Seattle's stormwater management
Mayor details new goal in Seattle's stormwater management
McGinn sets goal of 1,000 "green gallons" per resident by 2025
SEATTLE-Mayor McGinn today announced a new goal for managing Seattle's stormwater runoff by detailing a new effort where polluted runoff will be increasingly managed using natural drainage systems rather than traditional pipe and tank systems.
The Mayor's executive order-among the first of its kind in the nation- directs City departments to develop a coordinated approach to significantly increase the use of natural drainage systems to slow and clean polluted waters by filtering the water through vegetation and soil, much like a forest ecosystem does.
"Whenever possible, we should be looking for ways to better manage our stormwater with natural processes and leveraging our drainage investments," the Mayor said today, announcing a new goal to manage 700 million gallons of stormwater annually with green stormwater infrastructure, by the year 2025. "Seattle residents and businesses care about the environment. And that's why we are inviting the whole community to join us in this effort."
City Councilmembers have expressed support for citywide green stormwater goal and the Mayor's directive. Council will consider the goal in a resolution later this month.
"I am confident this initiative will be another success in the City's groundbreaking environmental history" said Councilmember Jean Godden, "From implementing the first recycling program in the country to negotiating the first of its kind Consent Decree with the EPA to clean up our waterways once and for all, we've always been leaders in protecting our environment through smart choices and innovative solutions. I know our residents will be behind this effort."
Councilmember Mike O'Brien added that relying on a distributed, green approach also builds flexibility and resilience into urban drainage systems to prepare for the uncertainties of climate change and is also well-aligned with other sustainability goals. "We can't just focus on doing less harm," he said. "It's really time to leverage our stormwater investments to help us with other future-looking goals like tree canopy recovery, energy savings, and improving the pedestrian environment of our city. This is a big step in the right direction."
"Green stormwater projects are high-value infrastructure investments that make our city more sustainable, and lay a strong foundation for meeting the city's comprehensive planning goals," said Councilmember Richard Conlin. "It's absolutely critical that we are making sound investments that will continue to benefit our residents and our urban ecology for generations."
"Seattle has long been a leader in the deployment of green infrastructure," said Karen Hobbs, Senior Policy Analyst for the Natural Resources Defense Council. "The Mayor's announcement not only lays a strong foundation for the city's ongoing infrastructure planning efforts, but also will be a valuable example for other cities."
The green stormwater goal will be achieved through a combination of City-led projects on public land, code-triggered private sector investments, and voluntary actions on private property. Given current population growth projections for Seattle, the goal works out to approximately 1,000 "green gallons" of green stormwater infrastructure-managed runoff per resident, per year, and represents about a six-fold increase over the amount of stormwater Seattle currently manages with green infrastructure.
Hundreds of millions of gallons of polluted stormwater runoff flow into Seattle's creeks, lakes, and Puget Sound every year-runoff that contains bacteria from sewage overflows and toxins like petro-chemicals, pesticides, and heavy metals from our yards and cars. Green stormwater infrastructure helps prevent this pollution by slowing the runoff and using natural systems to filter and clean the water close to where it falls as rain.
Green stormwater infrastructure approaches include bioretention swales, raingardens, stormwater cisterns, pervious pavement, and green roofs. Seattle has been a national leader in the development and application of these technologies for over a decade, and these approaches are now considered best management practices by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Washington State Department of Ecology.
For more information on the city's green stormwater infrastructure policy and goals, please contact Pam Emerson with the Seattle Office of Sustainability & Environment, email@example.com, 206.386.4145.
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Pennsylvania DEP Ignores Stringent Testing for Water Contamination from Fracking
Natural Resources Defense Council
Last week, a news report by the Timesonline revealed that the Pennsylvania Department of Environment (DEP) has been avoiding using its most stringent water testing method for determining if local drinking water has been polluted by fracking. The report serves as yet one more chapter in the continuing saga regarding DEP's water testing practices that turn a blind eye to fracking contaminants.
The whole issue revolves around how the Pennsylvania DEP tests and reports results for water supplies reportedly contaminated by fracking. Over the years, DEP has developed a number of specific tests—each with its own numbered code—designed to measure contaminants of concern related to fracking. If the Pennsylvania DEP field agents send a water sample to the lab labeled with the code "942," for example, that tells the lab to measure for 24 types of water contaminants1—including heavy metals.
Late last year, however, it came to light that—at least in some cases—lab reports to field agents and homeowners contained results for only 8 of the 24 tested-for contaminants. In other words, in making its determination whether local well water was or was not contaminated by fracking, the Pennsylvania DEP ignored portions of its own drinking water lab results that could have shown toxic contaminants linked with fracking. As Natural Resources Defense Council's President, Frances Beinecke, blogged, this would be like "having a doctor say you are healthy because a test for diabetes came back clean, but refusing to tell you the tests for high blood pressure, heart disease and stroke risk didn't look so good."
As if that weren't bad enough, this latest news report reveals that the Pennsylvania DEP has an additional code, "944," specifically for contamination associated with Marcellus drilling, which it told no one about and has avoided using. The code was developed in 2008 and requires the Pennsylvania DEP labs to look at 45 harmful contaminants—nearly twice as many as any other test.2 Despite the obvious usefulness of such a test, the Pennsylvania DEP hasn't used it at all in the last two years, nor has it offered any explanation as to why harmful contaminants it worried about previously would no longer be of concern.
All of this goes to show that when it comes to water near frack wells, the Pennsylvania DEP is doing everything it can to put on the blinders. It's no wonder that the new Pennsylvania Auditor Eugene DePasquale has decided to investigate DEP's practices related to fracking. We hope Auditor DePasquale will conduct a full and fair audit as expeditiously as possible, and that in the meantime, any withheld water quality information be immediately released. Regardless of whether or not DEP thinks certain contaminants are linked to fracking, no Pennsylvania resident should be denied readily available information regarding the safety of the water that they and their families drink.
Visit EcoWatch's FRACKING page for more related news on this topic.
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1This information is based on the deposition of Taru Upadhyay, the technical director of DEP's Bureau of Laboratories. Because of DEP's lack of transparency on this issue, however, it is not entirely clear how many contaminants are normally tested for.
2The additional contaminants tested for with the 944 code are ammonia, Kjeldahl nitrogen, nitrate and nitrite, phosphorus, carbon, cyanide (distilled and weak acid dissociable), sulfide, beryllium, boron, fluoride, cadmium, chromium, cobalt, copper, lead, thallium, molybdenum, silver, antimony, tin, titanium, phenols and mercury.
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COVID-19 Is Laying Waste to Many U.S. Recycling Programs
By Brian J. Love and Julie Rieland
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the U.S. recycling industry. Waste sources, quantities and destinations are all in flux, and shutdowns have devastated an industry that was already struggling.
Goodwill's Canton, Mich. site looks overwhelmed on June 16, with an oversupply of donations and little immediate chance for resale. Brian Love / CC BY-ND
Recyclers Under Pressure
Since March 2020, when most shelter-in-place orders began, sanitation workers have noted massive increases in municipal garbage and recyclables. For example, in cities like Chicago, workers have seen up to 50% more waste.

According to the Solid Waste Association of North America, U.S. cities saw a 20% average increase in municipal solid waste and recycling collection from March into April 2020. Increased trash can be attributed partly to spring cleaning, but most of it is due to people spending greater time at home. Restaurants struggling to survive under COVID-19 restrictions are contributing to the rise in plastic and paper waste with takeout packaging.

Although higher volumes of recyclables are being set on the curb, budget deficits are squeezing recycling programs. Many municipalities are struggling with multimillion-dollar shortfalls. Some communities, such as Rock Springs, Wyoming, and East Peoria, Illinois, have cut recycling programs.

And these stresses are testing a business already faced uncertainty.

While bottle deposit stations remain closed, recyclables pile up in basements and garages. David Rieland / CC BY-ND
Turmoil in Scrap Markets
The global recycling economy has suffered since 2018 as first China and then other Asian nations banned imports of low-quality scrap — often meaning improperly cleaned food packaging and poorly sorted recyclable materials. As in any business, the value of raw recyclables is linked to supply and demand. Without demand from nations like China, which formerly took up to 700,000 tons of U.S. scrap annually, recyclers have scrambled to stay in business.

The pandemic has boosted prices for some materials. One industry leader told us that between February and May 2020, prices doubled for recycled paper and tripled for recycled cardboard. These shifts reflect higher demand for tissue products and shipping packaging under shelter-in-place orders.

However, he also reported that prices for the most-recycled categories of reclaimed plastics — PET (#1) and PE (#2 and #4) – were at 10-year lows. An influx of cheap oil has driven the raw material cost of oil-derived virgin plastics to their lowest levels in decades, outcompeting recycled feedstocks.

Difficult Economics
Ideally, revenues from recycling offset municipalities' costs for collecting and disposing of solid wastes. However, given worker safety concerns, low market prices for scrap materials, a slowed economy and cheaper alternatives for disposal, many communities and businesses across the U.S. have temporarily suspended collection of recyclables and bottle deposits.

Meanwhile, as the commercial sector slowed, the distribution of waste generation changed. As people have spent more time producing waste at home, waste collectors implemented new procedures to protect their employees from infection.

Recycling is a very hands-on process that requires workers to manually sort out items from the collection stream that are unsuitable for mechanical processing. Workers and waste collection companies have raised many safety questions about recycling during the pandemic.

Precautions like social distancing and use of personal protective equipment have become commonplace among waste collectors and sorters, though concerns remain. Sorters are increasingly relying on automation, but implementation can be costly and takes time.

Collections on Pause
Based on monitoring since 2017 by the trade publication Waste Dive, nearly 90 curbside recycling programs had experienced or continue to experience a prolonged suspension over the past several years. About 30 of these suspensions have occurred since January 2020.

Like many bottle deposit programs, Kroger's Ann Arbor, Mich. drop-off center shut down on March 23. Michigan bottle deposits across the state resumed on June 15, 2020 with new safety protocols. Brian Love / CC BY-ND
On a broader scale, it's not clear how much more waste Americans are currently producing during shutdowns. Commercial and residential waste aren't directly comparable. For example, a granola bar wrapper thrown away at the office is tallied differently than if discarded at home.

It is also challenging to quantify the effects of the pandemic while it is still unfolding. Historically, waste output from the commercial and industrial sectors has far outweighed the municipal stream. With many offices and business closed or operating at low levels, total U.S. waste production could actually be at a record low during this time. However, data on commercial and industrial wastes are not readily available.

At the California-based Peninsula Sanitary Service, which serves the Stanford University community, total tonnage was down 60% in March. The company attributes this drop to reduced commercial waste, particularly from construction. Similarly, the city of Vancouver, British Columbia, noted a 10% decrease year over year of waste collection levels for April.

Expected sectors of plastic waste increase due to COVID-19, based on 2018 plastic usage distribution data from PlasticsEurope and Klemes et al., 2020. Brian Love and Julie Rieland / CC BY-ND
More Plastic Trash
As cities and industries reopen in the coming months, new data will show the pandemic's effects on consumer habits and waste generation. But regardless of total volume, the mix of materials in household wastes has shifted given the new ubiquity of single-use plastic containers, online shopping packaging and disposable gloves, wipes and face masks. Many of these new staples of pandemic life are made from plastics that are simply not worth recycling if there are any other disposal options.

Today Americans are trying to balance their physical well-being against ever-mounting piles of plastic waste. At a time when reducing and reusing could be dangerous, and recycling economics are unfavorable, we see a need for better options, such as more compostable packaging that is both safer and more sustainable.

Unhealthy foods play a primary role in many people gaining weight and developing chronic health conditions, more now than ever before.
1. Processed 'Low-Fat' and 'Fat-Free' Foods
The "war" on saturated fat could be considered one of the most misguided decisions in the history of nutrition.

It was based on weak evidence, which has now been completely debunked.

When this discussion started, processed food manufacturers jumped on the bandwagon and started removing the fat from foods.

But there's a huge problem. Food doesn't taste well when the fat has been removed. That's why they added a lot of sugar to compensate.

Saturated fat is harmless, but added sugar is incredibly harmful when consumed in excess.

The words "low fat" or "fat free" on packaging usually means that it's a highly processed product that's loaded with sugar.

2. Most Commercial Salad Dressings
Vegetables are incredibly healthy.

The problem is that they often don't taste very good on their own.

That's why many people use dressings to add flavor to their salads, turning these bland meals into delicious treats.

But many salad dressings are actually loaded with unhealthy ingredients like sugar, vegetable oils, and trans fats, along with various artificial chemicals.

Although vegetables are good for you, eating them with a dressing high in harmful ingredients negates any health benefit you get from the salad.

Check the ingredients list before you use a salad dressing or make your own using healthy ingredients.

3. Fruit Juices … Which Are Basically Just Liquid Sugar
A lot of people believe fruit juices are healthy.

They must be because they come from fruit, right?

But most fruit juice you find in the grocery store isn't really fruit juice.

Sometimes they don't have any actual fruit in them, just chemicals that taste like fruit. What you're drinking is basically fruit-flavored sugar water.

That being said, even if you're drinking 100% quality fruit juice, it's still not the best choice.

Fruit juice is like fruit, except with all the good stuff (like the fiber) taken out. The main thing left of the actual fruit is the sugar.

Fruit juice actually contains a similar amount of sugar as a sugar-sweetened beverage.

4. 'Heart-Healthy' Whole Wheat
Most "whole wheat" products aren't really made from whole wheat.

The grains have been pulverized into very fine flour, which causes them to raise blood sugar just as fast as their refined counterparts.

In fact, whole wheat bread can have a similar glycemic index as white bread.

But even true whole wheat may be a bad idea because modern wheat is unhealthy compared to the wheat our grandparents ate.

Around 1960, scientists modified the genes in wheat to increase the yield. Modern wheat is less nutritious and has some properties that make it much worse for people who have a gluten intolerance.

There are also studies showing that modern wheat may cause inflammation and increased cholesterol levels, at least when compared to the older varieties.

Wheat may have been a relatively healthy grain back in the day, but the stuff most people are eating today should be consumed with caution.

5. Cholesterol-Lowering Phytosterols
Phytosterols are nutrients that are basically like plant versions of cholesterol.

Some studies have shown that they can lower blood cholesterol in humans.

For this reason, they're often added to processed foods that are then marketed as "cholesterol lowering" and claimed to help prevent heart disease.

However, studies have shown that despite lowering cholesterol levels, phytosterols have negative effects on the cardiovascular system and may even increase the risk of heart disease and death.

People with phytosterolaemia (a genetic condition that raises plant sterol level in blood) are more susceptible to the negative effects of phytosterols.

6. Margarine
Butter was labeled a bad food choice in the past because of its high saturated fat content.

Various health experts started promoting margarine instead.

Back in the day, margarine used to be high in trans fats. These days, it has fewer trans fats than before, but it's still loaded with refined vegetable oils.

Not surprisingly, the Framingham Heart Study showed that people who replace butter with margarine are actually more likely to die from heart disease.

If you want to improve your health, try to eat real butter (preferably grass fed), and avoid margarine with trans fat. Trans-fat-free margarine has become more available in recent years.

Always read nutrition facts carefully and limit products that contain trans fat.

Recommending trans fat-laden margarine instead of natural butter may be considered some of the worst nutrition advice in history.

7. Sports Drinks
Sports drinks were designed with athletes in mind.

They contain electrolytes (salts) and sugar, which can be useful for athletes in many cases.

However, most people don't need additional salt or liquid sugar in their diet.

Although often considered "less bad" than sugary soft drinks, there's really no fundamental difference in the two, except the sugar content in sports drinks is sometimes slightly lower.

It's important to stay hydrated, especially when working out, but most people will be better off sticking to plain water.

8. Low-Carb Junk Foods
Low carb diets have been incredibly popular for many decades.

In the past 12 years, studies have confirmed that these diets are an effective way to lose weight and improve health.

However, food manufacturers have caught up on the trend and brought various low carb "friendly" processed foods to the market.

This includes highly processed foods like the Atkins bars. If you take a look at the ingredients list, you see that there's no real food in them, just chemicals and highly refined ingredients.

These products can be consumed occasionally without compromising the metabolic adaptation that comes with low carb eating.

However, they don't really nourish your body. Even though they're technically low carb, they're still unhealthy.

9. Agave Nectar
Given the known harmful effects of sugar, people have been looking for alternatives.

One of the more popular "natural" sweeteners is agave nectar, which is also called agave syrup.

You'll find this sweetener in all sorts of "healthy foods," often with attractive claims on the packaging.

The problem with agave is that it's no better than regular sugar. In fact, it's much worse.

One of the main problems with sugar is that it has excessive amounts of fructose, which can cause severe metabolic problems when consumed in excess.

Sugar is about 50% fructose and 55% high fructose corn syrup, but agave contains even more — up to 70-90%.

Therefore, gram for gram, agave is even worse than regular sugar.

"Natural" doesn't always equal healthy. Whether agave should even be considered natural is debatable.

10. Vegan Junk Foods
Vegan diets are very popular these days, often due to ethical and environmental reasons.

However, many people promote vegan diets for the purpose of improving health.

There are many processed vegan foods on the market, often sold as convenient replacements for non-vegan foods.

Vegan bacon is one example.

But it's important to keep in mind that these are usually highly processed, factory made products that are bad for almost anyone, including people who are vegan.

11. Brown Rice Syrup

Brown rice syrup, also known as rice malt syrup, is a sweetener that's mistakenly assumed to be healthy.

It's made by exposing cooked rice to enzymes that break down the starch into simple sugars.

Brown rice syrup contains no refined fructose, just glucose.

The absence of refined fructose is good, but rice syrup has a glycemic index of 98, which means that the glucose in it will spike blood sugar extremely fast.

Rice syrup is also highly refined and contains almost no essential nutrients. In other words, it's considered "empty" calories.

Some concerns have been raised about arsenic contamination in this syrup, which is another reason to be extra careful with this sweetener.

There are other sweeteners out there, including low calorie sweeteners like:

stevia

erythritol

xylitol

In general, try to use all sweeteners wisely and follow recommended serving sizes.

12. Processed Organic Foods
Unfortunately, the word "organic" has become a typical marketing buzzword in many instances.

Food manufacturers have found all sorts of ways to make the same products, except with ingredients that happen to be organic.

This includes ingredients like organic raw cane sugar, which is basically 100% identical to regular sugar. It's still just glucose and fructose with little to no nutrients.

In many cases, the difference between an ingredient and its organic counterpart is next to none.

Processed foods that happen to be labeled organic aren't necessarily healthy. Always check the label to see what's inside.

13. Vegetable Oils
We're often advised to eat seed and vegetable oils, which includes soybean oil, canola oil, grapeseed oil, and numerous others.

This recommendation is based on the fact that these oils have been shown to lower blood cholesterol levels, at least in the short term.

However, it's important to keep in mind that blood cholesterol is a risk factor. It's not a disease in itself.

Even though vegetable oils can help improve a risk factor, there's no guarantee that they'll help prevent actual health outcomes like heart attacks or death, which is what really counts.

In fact, several controlled trials have shown that despite lowering cholesterol, these oils can increase the risk of developing heart disease and memory impairment.

It's important to eat healthy, natural fats like butter, coconut oil and olive oil in moderation.

Also, follow the recommended serving size, but limit processed vegetable oils as if your health depended on it, which it does.

14. Gluten-Free Junk Foods
According to a 2013 survey, about a third of people in the United States are actively trying to limit or avoid gluten.

Many experts believe this is unnecessary, but the truth is, gluten, especially from modern wheat, can be problematic for a lot of people.

Not surprisingly, the food manufacturers have brought all sorts of gluten-free foods to the market.

The problem with these foods is that they usually have the same negative effects on your body as their gluten-containing counterparts, if not worse.

These are highly processed foods containing few nutrients and often made with refined starches that can lead to very rapid spikes in blood sugar.

Try to choose foods that are naturally gluten free, like plants and animals, not gluten-free processed foods.

Gluten-free junk food is still junk food.

15. Most Processed Breakfast Cereals
The way some breakfast cereals are marketed can be deceiving.

Many of them, including those that are marketed toward children, have various health claims listed on the box.

This includes claims like "whole grain" or "low fat" that may be misleading.

This is especially true when you look at the ingredients list and see that these products mostly contain:

refined grains

sugar

artificial chemicals

It's important to always review product packaging to confirm what you're actually putting in your body and whether it's healthy for you.

Truly healthy foods are whole, single-ingredient foods. Their health benefits speak for them.

Real food doesn't even need an ingredients list, because real food is the ingredient.

U.S. Breaks World Record With More Than 55,000 New Coronavirus Cases in a Day
The U.S. reported more than 55,000 new coronavirus cases on Thursday, in a sign that the outbreak is not letting up as the Fourth of July weekend kicks off.
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Researchers Are Creating a Drone to Study Wild Dolphins With Help From Trained Dolphins
By Jason Bruck
Human actions have taken a steep toll on whales and dolphins. Some studies estimate that small whale abundance, which includes dolphins, has fallen 87% since 1980 and thousands of whales die from rope entanglement annually. But humans also cause less obvious harm. Researchers have found changes in the stress levels, reproductive health and respiratory health of these animals, but this valuable data is extremely hard to collect.
Researchers work with trained dolphins to learn more about their sensory abilities, seen here testing a dolphin's hearing. Jason Bruck / CC BY-ND
A Lot to Learn From Hormones
When sampling the blow, we are looking for hormones in mucus as these can be used to gauge psychological and physiological health. We are specifically interested in hormones like cortisol and progesterone, which indicate stress levels and reproductive ability respectively, but can also help determine overall health.

Additionally, blow samples can detect respiratory pathogens in the lungs or nasal passages - blowholes evolved from noses after all.

This health analysis is especially important in areas with oil spills as the chemicals can cause hormonal problems that harm development, metabolism and reproduction in dolphins.

Hormone samples can provide scientists with valuable data, but collecting them from intelligent and unpredictable animals is challenging.

Cetacean Collaborators
To build a drone that can stealthily collect spray from moving dolphins, we needed more data on their eyesight and hearing, and this is data that couldn't be collected in the wild nor simulated in a lab.

We worked with dolphins at facilities like Dolphin Quest in Bermuda, which provides guests opportunities to learn about dolphins while allowing scientists access to animals for noninvasive research. Here the dolphins can swim away if they choose not to work with us, so we had to design the study like a game; the way a kindergarten teacher entertains a class. If the dolphins aren't interested, we don't get to do the science.

Over the course of hundreds of sessions, we sought to answer two questions: What can dolphins hear and what can they see around their heads?

To test dolphin hearing, we set up microphones and cameras to record dolphin behavior as we played drone noise in the air. We analyzed the responses to each noise – such as how many dolphins looked at the speaker – and used these as a proxy for their ability to hear the sounds.

Robodolphin doesn't look like a real dolphin, but it doesn't need to in order to train our drone pilots. C.J. Barton / Oklahoma State University / CC BY-ND
To build robodolphin, we worked with dolphins trained to "chuff" or sneeze on command to measure spray characteristics. We used high-speed photography to see the dolphins' breath as it moved through the air. Then we conducted high resolution CT scans of a dolphin head and 3D-printed a replica of a nasal passage.

Now, we have a complete robodolphin and are tweaking its sprays to be nearly identical to the real thing. This will allow us to determine how close we need to get to collect the samples, and therefore, how quiet our drone needs to be.

The replica dolphin blowhole was designed from a scan of a real blowhole passage, and the spray it produces closely matches the real thing. Alvin Ngo, Mitch Ford and CJ Barton / Oklahoma State University / CC BY-ND
A Bit of Practice, Then Into the Wild
In the next few months, we will test flights over robodolphin with existing drones to determine the timing and strategy for collection. From there, we will fabricate a low-noise drone that can fly fast enough and with sufficient maneuverability to capture samples from wild dolphins. Like a video game, we will use the visual field data to develop approach trajectories to stay in the visual blindspots.

We plan to test our drones on a truck-mounted robodolphin moving down a runway, then using a boat to simulate realistic conditions. The next steps will involve ocean testing with dolphins trained for open ocean swimming. These tests will determine if our devices can catch and hold the hormones as the drone flies back to a researcher's boat.

Finally, we will deploy the system to collect data on wild dolphins. Our first goal is to test resident dolphins – animals that live on the coasts and deal directly with boat and oil industry noise – which will allow us to learn more about stress resulting from human impacts.

Those samples are a way off, but if all goes well we will have a specially built drone capable of flying long distances and capturing samples undetected in a few years. The samples collected will allow researchers to do better science with impact on the animals they study.

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Florida Gov. DeSantis Prohibits Cities From Banning Sunscreens, Even Ones That Harm Coral
Sunscreen pollution is accelerating the demise of coral reefs globally by causing permanent DNA damage to coral. gonzalo martinez / iStock / Getty Images Plus
On July 29, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed into law a controversial bill prohibiting local governments from banning certain types of sunscreens.
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By Kelli McGrane
Oat milk is popping up at coffee shops and grocery stores alike, quickly becoming one of the trendiest plant-based milks.
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Popular Fireworks Emit High Levels of Lead and Toxins
"Emissions from pyrotechnic displays are composed of numerous organic compounds as well as metals," a new study reports. Nodar Chernishev / EyeEm / Getty Images
Fireworks have taken a lot of heat recently. In South Dakota, fire experts have said President Trump's plan to hold a fireworks show is dangerous and public health experts have criticized the lack of plans to enforce mask wearing or social distancing. Now, a new study shows that shooting off fireworks at home may expose you and your family to dangerous levels of lead, copper and other toxins.
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California has public records laws of mixed quality.
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Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Natalie Kruse puts the finishing touches on "Santa's Workshop," the winning design at the 2010 Gingerbread House Decorating Contest.
Photographer: Kevin Riddell
"Sugar Shak," a creation of the Masters of Public Administration team, earned second place.
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The Office of Education Abroad's rendition of the Taj Mahal earned third place.
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By Monica Chapman
A dash of sugar, a pinch of creativity and some good old-fashioned competition turned West 82 into a baker's paradise this past Thursday at Ohio University's annual Gingerbread House Decorating Contest.
Thirteen teams representing departments across the University competed in the event, which is organized every year by Ohio University Culinary & Dining Operations. But in the end, Environmental Studies successfully defended its title from last year.
The winning design depicted Santa's workshop on Christmas morning. The 360-degree display featured a large tree house and train, adorned with lively fondant elf figurines.
The winning six-member team included representation from MSES students, faculty and staff, as well as program alumni and supporting family members. The design depended on the architectural expertise of alumnus Greg Seymour and the baking expertise of Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Natalie Kruse.
But according to team member Cheryl Hanzel, manager of the Voinovich School Office of Student Academic Services, the real credit goes to the students.
"We really depend on our students. They become partners in the program … and (the Gingerbread House Decorating Contest) is a fun way to reward them for all their hard work," Hanzel said. "It's a fun day, and they really get into it. I think it's one of the best things that Baker Center has done."
As for how the winning design relates to environmental studies, Hanzel joked, "Well, we ate as we went, so there was no waste."
Other honors in the 2010 Gingerbread House Decorating Contest went to the Masters of Public Administration program's "Sugar Shak" (2nd place), the Office of Education Abroad's "Taj Mahal" (3rd place and People's Choice award), and the Office of Sustainability's "Global Warming-themed Igloo" (4th place).


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An investigation is underway after a doll with its face painted black was left hanging from a post at Kaiser Hospital in Riverside, Calif., where several African American employees work.
Kaiser Hospital Riverside in Southern California is investigating what appears to be a racist display directed at several African-American employees who work in the hospital's IT Department.
The staffers said they work in an area that is restricted to employees only, so when Xavier Fields arrived for work, he was shocked to find a doll with a racial slur across its chest hanging from a post near his work station.
This story originally appeared on NBCLosAngeles.com.
"It's somebody who works within. It's a locked area. You don't go back there," Fields said.
The doll had its face painted black and was dangling from a rope around its neck.
"You're not sure what to think. I got a supervisor and I let them know what's going on," said colleague Tyree Hale.
The employees said they did not see signs that their complaint launched an immediate investigation.
They gave the doll to a manager and said they were so stunned — even scared — that they didn't file a police report, but left it to the hospital to handle.
Kaiser issued a statement which read: "We are moving to investigate the matter and will take appropriate action. We do not tolerate any form of discrimination in our workplace and will take all appropriate measures to address the full scope of this situation."
Officials at a hospital in Riverside, Calif., maintain that they are investigating the display of racist effigy near a black employees desk, despite not filing a police report. KNBC's Craig Fiegener reports.
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Still, the workers say they're not wholly confident in the investigation.
"I'm not for sure," said Hale. "I went to the boss and let them know what was going on."
Hale said he believes the doll was aimed at him since he is the first of his co-workers to arrive at work in the morning.
Asked why he didn't file a police report, he said, "Sometimes we just shine it off because we're just trying to stay working and pay our bills."
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Deciding whether or not to use sunscreen, or which sunscreen to use, is a hot topic among the health conscious community these days. After all, most varieties are full of toxic chemicals, so why would you want to use sunscreen liberally on your skin? To address this, many "all-natural" alternatives have sprung up on the market. Consumers can still use sunscreen without feeling guilty!
Or can they?
Should You Use Sunscreen?
It's been drilled into us from childhood: "You better use sunscreen or you'll get a terrible burn, get skin cancer, and die!" With such a significant push to use sunscreen coming from doctors, parents, teachers, and even peers, it's truly amazing that anyone would question whether or not it's safe to use sunscreen, particularly the "all-natural" products.
But I do.
Why? First and foremost, it has to do with Vitamin D. Vitamin D is synthesized in your skin when the skin is exposed sunlight, and the vast majority of us are deficient in Vitamin D. What does that matter? Well, insufficient levels of vitamin D can result in all kinds of maladies, including osteoporosis, autoimmune diseases, rheumatoid arthritis, birth complications, depression, low libido, and (shockingly!) even cancer!
What's that? Vitamin D helps prevent cancer? Yet, when you use sunscreen, you block your skin's ability to synthesize Vitamin D. So, does it follow that if you use sunscreen, you're increasing your risk of cancer?
It has been known for several years that sun exposure might have a beneficial effect on certain cancers. A 1999 publication of the National Institute of Health (NIH) entitled Atlas of Cancer Mortality in the United States revealed that among caucasians in the United States, cancer mortality for several prominent cancers, including cancer of the breast, prostate and colon, shows a striking latitudinal gradient. Specifically, people living in northern states have much higher rates of these cancers than those residing in the southern states.
The reason for this? Northern states get a whole lot less sunshine than southern states.
As early as 1990 it was proposed that vitamin D, which is synthesized in the skin upon exposure to UV light, might be the agent that accounts for these geographical patterns. (Garland et al. 1990) Less exposure to sunshine means less production of vitamin D. It is known that calcitriol, the active form of vitamin D3, has multiple cellular affects that could confer protection against cancer. The ability to convert the precursor to vitamin D to the active form of D3 (calcitriol) is greatly reduced at northern latitudes, and populations living far from the equator are at increased risk of vitamin D deficiency during the winter months. (Tangpricha et al. 2002)
Even more significant may be the observation that patients with malignant melanoma exhibit low levels of vitamin D3 in their blood, and that others have a problem with the receptor for vitamin D. (Hutchinson et al. 2000; Green et al. 1983) The incidence of melanoma of the skin on sites of the body intermittently exposed to sunlight is reduced among outdoor workers compared with indoor workers. (Elwood et al. 1985)
All of this points to a protective role for vitamin D against cancer in general, and melanoma in particular. But the final nail in the coffin of the "sunlight causes melanoma" hypothesis is this:
A comprehensive review of research studies from 1966 through 2003 failed to show any association between melanoma and sunscreen use! (Dennis et al. 2003)
Say what? Sunscreen doesn't prevent skin cancer, that's what.
(For more on this, read: Does Sunscreen Prevent Skin Cancer?)
But, you ask, can't you get Vitamin D from your food? Is it really necessary to expose your skin to the sun's harmful UV rays to get sufficient levels of Vitamin D?
Well, let's think about that for a moment. Vitamin D is only present in large amounts in certain kinds of seafood, and the highest sources for Vitamin D in food are anglerfish liver, cow's blood, and fermented cod liver oil. I don't know about you, but I haven't been eating large amounts of anglerfish liver or cow's blood recently.
Next, I would like to question whether the sun's UV rays are actually all that "harmful." UVB, for example, is responsible for interacting with the cholesterol in our skin to produce Vitamin D. Sounds super beneficial to me! And while it's true that excessive exposure to UVA rays can cause sunburns or premature "aging," even those effects can be mitigated by a proper diet.
Let me tell you a story.
It's my own story. I am fair-skinned, and I grew up knowing that a sunburn was just a half hour away if I didn't use sunscreen. It has always been true. True, at least, until I changed my diet to Real Foods: only eating wild/pastured/grass-fed animals, drinking raw milk from grass-fed cows, and switching to healthier, more traditional fats. I even started taking daily doses of fermented cod liver oil.
Then I noticed a change. I'd go out in the sun, get flushed pink, and be certain that a bad burn would soon follow. It never did. Instead, the pink flush would calmly turn into a light tan.
How can food do this? How can it help prevent sunburns?
Well, remember how UVB interacts with the cholesterol and fats in your skin's cells to help create Vitamin D? I'm no scientist, but this seems like a worthy hypothesis to test: If that balance of fats in your skin is off, then does it follow that the sun's UV rays will interact differently with your skin's cells?
One of the primary benefits of switching to a diet of Real Foods is that you also return to a much more traditional balance of Omega-6 to Omega-3 fats. In traditional cultures, that ratio was anywhere between 1:1 and 3:1, and studies have shown that when it goes above 4:1 we start to experience negative consequences to our health. Thanks to corn-based industrialized agriculture and food products (corn has an Omega 6:3 ratio of 46:1), the average American is eating a ratio between 17:1 and 30:1!
And, according to a study published in The American Health Foundation Journal:
Epidemiological, experimental, and mechanistic data implicate omega-6 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) as stimulator's and long-chain omega-3 PUFAs as inhibitors of development and progression of a range of human cancers, including melanoma.
In other words, a diet based on Real Food (a diet rich in Omega-3s and with considerably less Omega-6s) can help prevent a range of human cancers, including deadly skin cancers like melanoma.
To Use Sunscreen Or Not To Use Sunscreen
For myself and my family, we haven't used sunscreen in years. We prevent sunburns by getting a diet rich in the proper fats and supplementing with extra fermented cod liver oil (FCLO) when we know we're going to have prolonged sun exposure. (We also take extra FCLO during the winter months, when we know our sun exposure will be limited and that we need an extra good source of Vitamin D to make up for the lack of sunshine.) If we know we'll be spending all day in the sun, we're sure to wear hats. But that's about it.
If we do ever start "turning pink" as we call it, we use this trick to heal the sunburn in fewer than 24 hours.
If you're interested in starting to take fermented cod liver oil, check out the listings on my Resources page for some smokin' good deals. FLCO comes in a variety of flavors and forms, including capsules for those who don't think they could just swallow straight oil.
What about you? Do you use sunscreen? Have you experimented with taking extra fermented cod liver oil, or having a more traditional balance of fats in your diet? How's that working out for you?
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Once in a while the ink, pen, paper matching game produces an instant success. Such is the case with Noodler's 54th Massachusetts ink, a Lamy Vista with a 1.1mm calligraphy nib, and an Apica A610 notebook, my daily journal. The slightly gray paper is a perfect backdrop for the dark blue-black ink. It is slightly soft and makes a comfortable surface for the italic nib. The ink flow is good but not copious so writing is smooth with good coverage. Plus the whole combination is very pleasing to the eye.
I thought there were no holes in my regular rotation. It appears I was mistaken.
Caveat: The Apica notebook is a favorite of mine but the paper isn't consistent enough to recommend without reservation. I've just started my tenth so certainly I like them. However, about half of the journals had at least a few pages that resisted ink to a slight extent. Not a deterrent for me but it can be annoying.


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There is a craven disconnect between the eagerness of leading editors to exploit the important news revealed by WikiLeaks and their efforts to distance themselves from both the courageous website and Bradley Manning, the alleged source of documents posted there. Alleged is required when referring to the Army private so as not to repeat the egregious error of a constitutional-law-professor-turned-president who has already presumed Manning guilty of crimes for which he is not even formally charged.
"He broke the law," President Barack Obama said of Manning by way of countering his own supporters at a San Francisco fundraiser who dared question the conditions of Manning's imprisonment. Conditions that Human Rights Watch challenged as "extremely restrictive and possibly punitive and degrading." Manning was transferred last week to a Kansas prison from Quantico, Va., where for months he had been subjected to shackling, forced nudity, isolation and other harsh treatment -- all of which was justified by the government as necessary to prevent him from committing suicide. Clearly the feds were trying to break the man.
Why indeed is Manning the one behind bars and not the government officials who kept hidden unpleasant truths about this nation's policies that the public has a right to know? And why do leaders of our constitutionally protected free press now seek to distance themselves from news sources that have performed a great public service? A service documented by the fact, as tallied by The Atlantic magazine, that more than half of the issues of The New York Times this year have carried stories that relied on WikiLeaks' disclosures.
That is the case with the latest batch of releases. A New York Times editorial on Tuesday titled "The Guantanamo Papers" states that the newly leaked documents are "a chilling reminder of the legal and moral disaster that President George W. Bush created" at the U.S. prison in Cuba but does not credit Manning or WikiLeaks as the source. Instead the editorial refers to a Sunday New York Times front-page news story headed "Classified Files Offer New Insights Into Detainees." While conceding that WikiLeaks originally obtained the documents, the paper insists they were "provided to The Times by another source." But shouldn't we then conclude that WikiLeaks and its alleged source deserve immense credit for revelations about the Guantanamo operation that, as the Times news story put it, resulted in "laying bare the patchwork and contradictory evidence that in many cases would never have stood up in criminal court or a military tribunal"?
To date there has been no evidence that the leaks seriously compromised U.S. national security, and the information involved was of the lowest level of classification. Here, too, Obama was wrong when he insisted that there is something indelibly clear and sacrosanct about the classification of government secrets, when in fact the rules are ill-defined and routinely violated by government officials interested in using secret data to buttress their policy arguments. It was nonsense for the president to state "I have to abide by certain rules of classified information" when he doesn't. Rules of classification derive from presidential executive orders, and the president has the authority to declassify on the fly, as is convenient to his purpose. Obama misspoke when he said: "If I was to release stuff, information that I'm not authorized to release, I'm breaking the law. ... We're a nation of laws. We don't individually make our own decisions about how the laws operate. ... He [Manning] broke the law."
But that is often what whistle-blowers do in breaking the procedural rules of their organization, private or government-affiliated, to expose a more serious infraction on the part of the organization. That is what Daniel Ellsberg did in releasing the Pentagon Papers documents detailing an official but secret history exposing the justification of the Vietnam War as a blatant lie. The Pentagon Papers carried a far higher security classification than the material Manning allegedly released.
The WikiLeaks material has been far more useful than even the Pentagon Papers in revealing government impropriety involving regimes throughout the world, and the result has been a more aroused public and greater accountability, be it from officials in Egypt or the United States. If this constitutes a crime, it has to date not been shown to be anything but a victimless one, and the net effect of the publication of this material has been to let the public in on information it has every right to know. It is obvious that Manning is being punished because government officials don't like to be shown to be so deeply in the wrong.
That was the view of former State Department spokesman Philip J. Crowley, who resigned after daring to speak the truth about the mistreatment of Manning, labeling his detention "ridiculous and counterproductive and stupid." It is all that, and it is high time that the media that confirmed the value of the WikiLeaks information defended the rights of the whistle-blowers who by challenging the code of official secrecy let the public in on the real story.


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Mondia Triumph Bullhead Chronograph.
Used but mint condition Mondia Triumph, quartz powered bullhead chronograph. Comes complete with boxes and paperwork originally bought from us two years ago. It is a large and substantial watch. It is a heavy and chunky build and highly legible. It has the unique combination of looking like a modern watch yet retro at the same time. This kind of unique design is a testament to the designers encompassing skills. The bullhead style chronograph has been around since the 1960's and looks as fresh and contemporary today as it did back then. This is indeed a very unique and stylish looking sports watch. The case is brushed 316 L stainless steel. It has got a large case with the pushers and crown at the 12 position. It has got hardened mineral crystal. The watch is water resistant to 10 ATM which is approximately 100 metres. It has got a rotating bezel giving it a sporty, racing look to it. It has got a mat white dial with large orange hands and numbers with super luminova luminous coating. Handsome and sporty looking dial combination with white dial and black sub seconds dial and white and orange chronograph sub dials. There is a date at the 5 position. It has a chronograph with unusual sub dial layout. The 10th second elapsed timer is at the 11 position, the thirty minute elapsed timer is at the 7 position, the sixty second elapsed timer is the central orange hand and the sub seconds are at the 3 positions. The movement is a Swiss made ETA 251.272, which is commonly used in Swiss made quartz chronograph watches. The movement is durable, accurate and reliable. It comes with a black leather and a white rubber strap. Width is 45 mm, lug to lug is 48 mm and thickness is 11 mm. Ref. NWW 1236. Price is £345


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Practice makes chocolates!
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My new job may have similarities from the previous one but also differs in a lot of ways. If I deal with customers or members before, this time I deal with the employees.
It has been 10 weeks since I started with the new company and I've been on training for 2 months now. I have been certified for classroom and mock calls training already but is still not in the "nesting period" as we call it. Yes, I am already taking in calls but is still waiting for my co-trainees to be certified as well so we can go on nesting all at once. I am but thankful that for sometime now, I've been taking live calls. I get to practice. They say that practice makes perfect. For me, practice makes chocolates. Haha! There was a lady employee who asked for my supervisor and commended my assistance!
It was great to have helped her. My pleasure Madame.
With that my trainer who received that commendation call gave me Cadbury Dairy milk choco for a job well done. Thanks Ms. Bessie!


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Ex-Secret Stars and Karate member Geoff Farina might be a recent transplant to Chicago, but he's no stranger to the city's music scene, having played here for years—though presumably at a volume level much louder than the one he's rocking out at now. His new record, The Wishes Of The Dead, reflects the renaissance man's turn toward even quieter, more introspective tunes, as well as his recent academic excursions into other musical eras and styles. The A.V. Club talked to Farina about that dive into new tunes, as well as his role as a DePaul professor and ex-road dog.
The A.V. Club: How long have you lived in Chicago?
Geoff Farina: About a year and a half, or two years.
AVC: And you moved here to work at DePaul?
GF: My wife is a more serious professor than I am. She got a good, tenure-track job there, and so we ended up here.
I'm happy to be here, though. I have to say, of any place outside Boston, this couldn't be any better. We have friends here, and I was on a couple of labels here for many years. I've been coming here for 20 years to play, and it felt like home right away. There's a big Chicago-Boston connection. I have Boston friends here, and I love it. It's been a really fun time. There are lots of people to make music with.
AVC: What are your impressions of the Chicago music scene from actually living here?
GF: There are so many great players around that it's very easy to go and play with people. I find myself doing that a lot more now than I did in 20 years in Boston. I'm playing a show, rehearsing, recording, or doing something else five nights a week. It's really nice.
I'm actually involved in a lot of nascent projects here that haven't really come to fruition, like one with Nate McBride. We're both just super busy, so we've been practicing for like six months, but we haven't played a gig yet.
I don't mind, though. I had a crazy couple of years, so this last year and a half has been a lot more relaxed. I mean, in one year recently, I would do five or six different tours, so it's such a different feeling getting things started.
AVC: You do play at The Whistler, though.
GF: I'm off right now, but at The Whistler I get to do two hours every Friday of whatever I want.
It's actually like I'm in a fantasy land—like everything I do is a mile from my house. The year before we moved here, I was in Maine, and I had to drive three hours to find anyone to play music with just by virtue of numbers.
AVC: How do Chicago and Boston's scenes compare?
GF: Chicago and Boston are opposites. Boston is my favorite place in the world, but it's also very grumpy and backwards. The problem with Boston is that for a small city, there are too many musicians and great music schools. When I moved to Boston, in the '80s, I didn't psychologically recover from the move for two years. There were always 10 people on my block that I could hear practicing, and I knew how amazing they were. Also, in Boston nobody goes to shows. There's no big constituency to go and see people play, so it's just this storing house of bands and musicians with no audience.
In Chicago, though, everyone goes out. People get psyched for summer, and it's so friendly, and there are so many festivals. It's a gigantic small-town atmosphere, but with more venues. It feels so much more open and friendly than Boston or New York. I don't really fit in, though, because I'm the grumpiest, most antisocial person, but it's cool. It feels good to be here. Every time I play The Whistler, I end up getting in some conversation with someone who's never heard of me and has been listening and just wants to talk about music. It feels like a lot of music fans here are seriously listening to the music.
AVC: One of the reasons you ended Karate was because of your hearing problems. Are you still dealing with those?
GF: I have tinnitus pretty heavy duty, but it's something you get used to over the years. You try to teach people to avoid it. It's my biggest regret that I didn't wear earplugs when I should have. I mean, what do you say? It sucks.
AVC: Is that why your new album is mostly acoustic?
GF: I guess. I sort of left Karate in 2005, and then I don't know what happened, really. I got into not being in a band and wanted to learn to play acoustic guitar as a guitar, not just as a vehicle for indie rock, so I spent a lot of time thinking about how I want to make it sound and learning a lot of old steel-string guitar music. I just got really into it, and that snowballed.
I mean, before I left Karate, for two or three years I'd come home from tours and stay home and just do that. Glorytellers, the project I did after that, is all acoustic. It's just basically that most of the music I play now is steel-string guitar. This year I started playing electric again and enjoying it, but I'm seeking out different things to do with an electric guitar. I'm having fun with other projects. I don't think there's room in my life to be good at both acoustic and electric. I feel like I'm an acoustic musician now, and I'll be doing that for a while. I collect old guitars and old, traditional guitar music.
AVC: Has technology changed how you make music?
GF: The things that have changed have been super geeky. I practice a lot every day, and I usually slow stuff down on the computer so I can stare at YouTube videos. I'm so into practicing with my iPhone, too. I slow things down to half speed so I can figure out what people are playing.
I guess with recording, I've always started in my bedroom, but now I have a studio. Growing up I always made cassette four-tracks, and really I still do that to some extent. It's easier, and the quality is better. Everybody's got a studio and it's easy to make a record, at least for the kind of music that I make. My recording style is to capture what I'm playing and what the band is playing. I'm not a big record-making guy who sits and makes remixes. Producers can do that.
I think technology is great because it makes things convenient and you can work with people that are far away. I just try not to stare at the computer too often because it just kind of gets… I mean, that's what I love about playing music, that it has nothing to do with technology. You're either doing it or not doing it, and you can't stare at the computer at the same time.
AVC: Has your recent interest in older music changed how you write songs? Has it changed what you're into in your own music?
GF: It certainly has in a very literal way. I've always done that, though. The very first Karate single has this ripping Chicago blues guitar solo. I've always been into older guitar players, pre-rock 'n' roll. Karate was a rock band, so that was a little different, but every year I'm into something new or get obsessed with some style of guitar player. On this new record, there's a lot of traditional guitar instrumentals from the Piedmont region of the United States, like the Carolinas and Georgia. There's a right-hand technique in that that's most of what my right hand is doing on the record. My left hand is much more modern, though.
I think it's a direct influence on what I do—but at the same time, it's not. I love playing that old music, but I try to write my music and let it be what it is. It's a balancing act.
AVC: Do your students ever come to see you play?
GF: Sometimes, yeah. Those two lives, I try to keep separate. I was teaching at the University Of Maine and Colby College, and there, it's a very small world. In Maine everyone knows who you are and where you come from.
College kids are so… I mean, it blows my mind. I'm 42 years old, so everyone looks very young to me now. They weren't around when Karate was playing, so they're into something else.
AVC: So no one recognizes you from the ol' days?
GF: It does happen. When I first started at DePaul, I taught this blues history course that I'm teaching again in the spring this year, and it was packed with 40 students. The first question I got in front of everyone was, "Are you Geoff Farina from Karate? I can't forget to tell my roommates."
That kind of stuff destroys your authority, though, so I do my best to keep it separate. You have to have your relationship with students be very calculated, especially now. A lot can go wrong, so you have to be really careful and keep a distance.
I'm usually very excited about the music that I'm teaching, and it's my job to convey that and inspire them. I try to tell them what excites me about it while analyzing it and everything. I went to a music school, though, and had professors who were well-known and successful try to get up there and put on a show, to be a cool professor. I think five kids in a room are enamored with that, and the other 15 are like, "Who is this goofball? I'm paying good money to learn something." I wouldn't want to pay for a class and just have some personality to put on a show. You want someone to inspire you—at least, that's how I interpret my job.
I'm currently teaching a bluegrass history course, and we have lots of guests come in because there are a few kind of old folky and bluegrass people around Chicago. They're amazing people who are nice and willing to share experiences. Greg Cahill's one who's been doing it since 1975, and he's so amazing. He came in and had the whole class singing along with him as he played Bill Monroe songs. I try to leave all that fanfare to people like that.


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Police: Dumbbells, knife killed elderly Pikesville couple
Grandson Matthew Long held in Oklahoma on murder charges
Baltimore County police said the man accused of killing his grandparents at their Pikesville home did so with 20-pound dumbbells and a knife.
Matthew Long, 31, is currently being held at a detention center in Oklahoma on a warrant charging him with two counts of first-degree murder.
Baltimore County homicide detectives have interviewed Long, who they said willingly provided a statement. Extradition proceedings have not yet begun.
Police said Long killed his grandparents, 87-year-old Vaughn Pepper and 85-year-old Marjorie Pepper, who were found dead Sept. 10 in their home in Pikesville. Police said the victims suffered from blunt force trauma that was caused by dumbbells and a knife. The knife has not yet been found.
Long was found at an Oklahoma hotel on Sept. 11 after officials said he overdosed on an undisclosed drug. Police said he had tried to commit suicide and had left a note in his room that said, "I'm sorry."


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Man falls, suffers serious brain injury
A 22-year-old construction worker who suffered serious brain injuries in Tama County after falling off of a ladder is now recovering at home. The man hit a six-foot piece of rebar when he fell, which went through his head and into his brain.
A University of Iowa's AirCare helicopter transported him to a hospital where he underwent emergency surgery to remove the bar. Several months have passed since the accident and, besides some reading and speech difficulties, he is quickly recovering.
His parents believe the AirCare program saved their son's life. Since its creation more than 30 years ago, it has transported more than 20,000 patients to hospitals.
If you have been injured in a workplace fall, contact the workers' compensation attorneys of LaMarca Law Group, P.C., at 877-327-2600.


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Logging in from a hotel computer while on vacation? Checking your email from an Internet cafe? Need to briefly use LastPass on a library or university computer? Then you should generate some One Time Passwords and carry them with you!
If you need to access your LastPass data while away from a trusted device, but are hesitant to do so because of potential keyloggers, LastPass provides One Time Passwords (OTPs) as one option for securely logging in to your account.
One Time Passwords are temporary passwords that grant one-time access to your LastPass vault. Once an OTP is used, it can never be used again. The OTP also prevents your master password from being stolen by keylogging software because you don't need to enter it when logging in with an OTP.
While you still have access to a trusted computer, go to the OTP management page: https://lastpass.com/otp.php to generate and print your OTPs. You must also be logged into the LastPass browser addon to manage your OTPs. From this page, you will see links to Add a New One Time Password, Clear All OTPs, or Print your OTPs:
To add OTPs to your list, click the "Add" link. Once you've generated a few OTPs, you can click the "Print" link to carry your OTPs in your wallet, or a copy of them can be carried with you on a portable USB thumb drive.
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55 New Full-Time Faculty Join the University
The University at Albany will commence its 2013-14 academic year by welcoming an academically accomplished incoming freshman class of 2,550. (Photo by Mark Schmidt)
Students within the Class of 2017 boast an average high school grade of 90.1, against an admission rate of 55.7 percent. Some 200 freshmen are enrolled as Presidential Scholars, including Frederick Douglass Scholars, while the University's Honors College becomes home to 133 new students. UAlbany's freshman class is one of the more diverse to enter the University, with 41.9 percent students of color among its ranks.
Overall during the 2013-14 academic year, UAlbany will help pave a path of success for 17,740 students - 13,145 undergraduates and 4,595 graduate students.
Providing Students the Best Experience Possible
Continuing its mission to provide students with the best possible higher education experience, University living-learning communities (LLCs) have grown this year. LLCs provide students a unique opportunity to connect classroom learning with residential life by pairing on-campus housing with students who share similar academic goals and interests. New living-learning residence communities include biology, chemistry, East Asian studies and history, joining already thriving LLCs in accounting, writing, art, computing and information, fitness and recreation, and Jewish life and culture.
New in 2013 is the Writing and Critical Inquiry (WCI) Program which introduces new students to intellectual inquiry with a focus on academic writing. Associate Professor Robert Yagelski will direct the new writing program, and along with 16 new instructors to facilitate the program. The course is required for students matriculating in fall 2013 and thereafter. The new course emphasizes the essential role of writing in students' lives as citizens, workers and productive members of their communities.
UAlbany will also introduce a new Digital Forensics Program in its School of Business, as well as a new undergraduate minor in Sustainability and an undergraduate major in Biomedical Instrumentation. The graduate curriculum will offer a new Environmental Health track in the doctoral degree program at the School of Public Health on UAlbany's East Campus.
UAlbany will also be offering its first course based on a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC).
"Literacies for Lifelong Learning," a joint offering of the University Libraries and Empire State College, will blend elements of online learning with scholars across the world, with live webinars, class sessions, and in-person class meetings.
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Some 55 new full-time faculty members will join UAlbany in 2013, including researchers and tenure-track appointments in every school and college, many hired through Governor Cuomo's NYSUNY 2020 challenge grant. The NYSUNY 2020 grant program is an initiative designed to make UAlbany a leading catalyst for job growth in New York State while strengthening the University's academic and research programs.
Welcoming new faculty are the departments of Atmospheric & Environmental Sciences; Biological Sciences; Biomedical Sciences; Chemistry; Computer Science; Communication; Criminal Justice; Economics; Educational & Counseling Psychology; English; Geography & Planning; Health Policy, Management & Behavior; History; Information Technology Management; Languages, Literatures & Cultures; Physics; Political Science; Psychology; Public Administration & Policy; Reading; Social Welfare; Sociology; and Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies.
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The University at Albany, built in the mid-1960s, has seen its campus swell from 10,000 students to as many as 18,000, with commensurate changes and expansion in structure and facilities. The 2013-14 academic year will see the completion of many new facility enhancements designed to make UAlbany a 21st century campus.
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UAlbany's new School of Business building, next to the Grand Entry Plaza, opened its doors in August. The 96,000 square-foot, state-of-the-art learning and teaching center features technologically advanced classrooms and meeting spaces, breakout rooms for team projects, expanded space for career services, student reception areas, collaborative research centers in technological and social entrepreneurship, cyber-security, and institutional investment management, and additional graduate assistant work space. The building boasts a first floor trading room equipped with Bloomberg terminals.
The central water tower and main fountain area's rehabilitation will also be completed in fall 2013. The 248-foot iconic water tower, which hosts the University's Carillon, includes a 311,000 gallon water tank that provides both water volume and pressure for the domestic, sprinkler, and standpipe systems for all uptown buildings, most notably the campus's 24-story residence towers. The rehabilitation will replace the campus's main fountain, creating an energy-efficient, four-season area with new seating, landscaping, and lighting to enhance the experience of the fountain for students, faculty, staff, and visitors. Also included in the rehab will be major renovations to the adjacent lecture center corridors, including complete window replacement.
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If you want to get your license in Korea, as long as you have your license from your own country, it's quite easy, as long as your country as approval of the Korea government (Click here for a list). You just need to exchnage your foreign license for a Korean license. The Korean government will hold on to your foreign license while you have the Korean license. If you want your foreign license back, you can just go to the office, with your plane ticket as proof that you will leave the country and you can get your license back.
First of all, you must go to your embassy and get some proof that your license is real. For US citizens like myself, that requires obtaining an affidavit which is $50.00 USD. Just as a tip, they don't accept most Korean debit cards so I had a rather hard time paying the bill. Either bring lots of cash with you, or a US credit card.
You will need to bring
1. 3 passport sized photos (3cm x 4cm) (Can be obtained on the second floor in the Gangnam Branch for 6,000 won)
2. Your passport, showing your latest entry dates to Korea.
3. Your license and affidavit/proof of validity.
4. Your ARC (Alien Registration Card).
5. 10,000 won for processing
I was a little worried about knowing what I had to do when I arrived, but fortunately, it was quite straight forward. As soon as I entered, the "Changing Foreign License" desk was directly to my right. I had to fill out four forms, paste my photos to them and then the woman at the desk sent me off to get an eye exam in the basement.
I thought that I had to take a writing exam, but when I brought my paperwork back to the desk she said that was all I had to do, and put my paperwork through. I talked to several people who got their license last year who had to do a written exam, but I found another person who got their license this year and apparently they didn't take any written exam either. Perhaps something has changed in the past year. But, just in case, I would look over the traffic signs just in case they make you take a test. The cost for the license processing was 6,000 won.
All in all, the process took less than an hour. It probably would have taken less time if I hadn't kept going to the examination desk asking if I needed to take a written exam and if I hadn't had to get my photos taken. It was amazingly fast. For your nearest Driver's License Examination Office, see here.
But, why get a Korean license rather than an international license, you ask? Well, an international license is generally only good for one year and then must be obtained again if you want to keep driving. The Korean license is good for 9 years and is recognized in a long list of countries, including the USA, so even if you go home for a short time, you can drive on your Korean license as well, plus in a long list of other countries if you happen to be traveling.
According to Korea4Expats, the Korean license is valid in the following countries:
Africa: Algeria, Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Cape Verde, Cote d'lvoire, Republic of the Congo, Demoractic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Guinea-Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Morocco, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Republic of South Africa, San Tome and Principle, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Swaziland, Tanzania, Tunisia, Uganda, Zimbabwe
Americas: Barbados, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Nicaragua, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Haiti, Panama, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Uruguay
Asia: Afghanistan, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, East Timor, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Samoa, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Tonga, Vietnam
Europe: Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Moldova, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Romania, San Marino, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovakia, Switzerland, Spain, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, the United Kingdom
Middle East: Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Sudan, the United Arab Emirates, Yemen
If that's not enough reason for you to get your Korean license, I don't know what is.
**Update 12/31/2012**
Just got the following update from the US Embassy newsletter for January 2013:
Please be advised that starting January 1, 2013, the U.S. Embassy will no longer provide notary certifications for U.S. issued driver licenses. Republic of Korea is a member of the Hague Conference on Private International Law and recognizes apostilles issued by foreign authorities. To have your driver's license apostilled, please contact the issuing state's office of authentication for an apostille.
For more information, please visit the Korean Driver's License Agency's website. Please note that you must take a written exam before you can obtain a Korean driver's license except for those who hold driver licenses that were issued by a State that has a reciprocity agreement with Korea; namely Alabama, Florida, Iowa, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Texas, Virginia, Washington, DC., and West Virginia. This written exam can be provided in English.
For more information on how to obtain a Korean driver's license, please visit the Korean Driver's License Agency's Website.
... This explains the fact that I didn't need a test, and also suggests you will now need to obtain an official apositille rather than an affidavit. Check with the embassy website for more details and current information.


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In this series of posts, I have been exploring common concerns among genealogists about both the privacy of the information they gather and the risk of being a victim to identity theft. Although there are real concerns in both areas, the media has hyped these topics to the point of gross exaggeration. What we do in our homes and with our family, are for the most part "private" in the classical sense. But anything we do in the public, buying, selling, traveling, working, etc. is more and more subject to public scrutiny and recorded by computers. Once you go online, you become a public figure. Unless you want to live on a self-sufficient farm, without an automobile, in what is left of the wilderness, without connections to any public utility, almost everything you do will be recorded by some entity somewhere. Even in that level of isolation, you will still have to pay taxes and obtain licenses. So, let's assess the danger of living in the very public world today.
As a genealogist, what is the danger from lack of privacy and identity theft?
Let me assume that I am driving my car across town to a store. In order to do so, I must drive through dozens of intersections, some with stop signs, others with stop lights. In each case, I must rely on other drivers to stop when they are required to do so, and not run into me. Current statistics on traffic related deaths show the U.S. with about 12 to 15 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants. Going back to my post on the incidence of identity theft, you have a greater risk of being killed in a traffic accident than you have of being a victim of computer related identity theft. When you drive, you automatically take certain precautions, like wearing a seat belt or checking your mirrors. Protecting yourself from identity theft should have the same type of automatic precautions, like not answering spam E-mails and making sure to keep a receipt from each credit card transaction.
Then why do we have a huge segment of our population that is terrified of "identity theft" and paranoid about losing their "privacy?" The answer is simple, lack of education and lack of perspective. The real danger isn't posting your genealogy online, the real danger is the server in the restaurant who takes your credit card back to some undisclosed location to run the charge. We all live in a dangerous world. Every day we get up with some kind of risk or danger. Losing your privacy or having your identity stolen are extremely minor problems in our dangerous world. If they happen to you, they can be serious, so can cancer, Alzheimer's, plane crashes and terrorism. But we get on with our lives and usually ignore most of the background kind of risks.
Just as I might get smashed at the next intersection, I might have my credit card or its number stolen today. But I live with that risk and still get up, go to work and write my posts on my blog.
Genealogy is a cooperative effort. Those people that are so afraid of privacy concerns or identity theft, that it interferes in their efforts to find their ancestors need to wake up to the reality of our risky, always changing world and get over it.
Monday, December 28, 2009
Privacy, Identity Theft and Genealogy -- How real is this concern?
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