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GILLAN, Cheryl (Chesham and Amersham)
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The Rotary Club of Chesham, Chartridge Golf Club, Chartridge Lane, Chesham CHP5 2TF donated £500 to charity in return for a speech by me in October 2012. Hours: 20 mins plus preparation. (Registered 14 November 2012)
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I was there twice, for six-month stints. Nobody really "lives" there, as in, there are no families or stores or what-have-you there. It's just a big work-location, with dorms and a cafeteria-style kitchen, with fresh food flown in once a week or so, and two major re-supplies of non-perishables and fuel flown in each year. Since my first tour was mid-November to mid-May, and my second was end-December to end-June, I never really did see a "summer"... It got above freezing now and then, but it was very interesting how quickly you aclimatized - for example, it was consistently
-35C for weeks, and then we had a freak warm spell that lasted all of maybe an hour one time... the temperature warmed up to -14C, and when I went from the main building to the one I was bunking in, I had to take off my parka because I was sweltering......

Television also takes satellite, or an awful lot of communications bandwidth, so the first time, no, no "real" television. We were sent video tapes of some TV shows (including the news and some sports), which tended to arrive about 3 weeks in arrears... and we had a 3-channel closed-circuit cable TV system where we showed 24-hour movies, when we weren't showing stale news....... The next time I was up there, digital video was being experimented with, so a single channel "CBC North" was transmitted up. This wasn't the choice of most people up there, but it was the only channel that got as far as the satellite terminal closest to us, I believe, which meant that it was "the" choice..... I'm not sure what's there now, as I last left in 1995, and I know that a lot of the technology is being remoted out so that you don't have to send people up there to run it. I think the station population is down to under 100 now.

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I just happen to have a world atlas here, wow, Alert is way up there! Now I know where it is, and what a great trivia question that would make. Must have been pretty cold up there, even in summer I would guess. How long did you live there? And did you even have the luxury of television?


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Highlights from the 2012 DC Design House
There is a stubborn debate over the purpose of a design house: is it to showcase cutting edge ideas, or inspire beautiful real life living? Opposing sides write each other off as either too bland or too impractical. Thankfully, this year's DC Design house, which opened April 14, has plenty to please both camps.
There is a lot to notice and to love about this year's design house, so much, in fact, that I will have to break down the inspiration into several posts. There were plenty of practical ideas to steal for renters, and equally as many ideas to take away for those wishing to ramp up the wow factor at home. But today, let me share some of my favorite details, big and small.
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Gov. Rick Scott on Tuesday reappointed Anne "Sandy" Batchelor-Robjohns, 59, of Miami Beach, to the South Florida Water Management District. She had previously been appointed by former Gov. Charlie Crist to the post in 2010.
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Batchelor-Robjohns has been chairman and co-CEO of The Batchelor Foundation Inc. since 2007 and previously served as an officer and director of the organization since its inception in 1990. She was also an officer and member of the board of directors of Aerospace Finance L.T.D. from 1999 to 2005. She has been the personal representative of the George E. Batchelor estate since 2002. Her community involvement includes serving on boards for Audubon of Florida, the University of Miami Rosenstiel School Marine and Atmospheric Science and the Florida International University Medical School.
Batchelor-Robjohns received a bachelor's degree from the University of Arizona, a master's degree rom the University of Florida, a law degree from the St. Thomas University School of Law and a Master of Laws from the University of Miami. She is reappointed for a term beginning August 21, 2012, and ending March 1, 2016.
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Kim Bixler was on lifeguard duty when a crowd of architecture students from Cornell University, where she would be an incoming freshman that fall, converged on the community pool. They were visiting significant architecture in her hometown of Rochester, N.Y. She asked, "Did you see the Frank Lloyd Wright house?"
They had.
She asked, "Did they know you were supposed to be there?"
Bixler, then Kim Brown, lived in the 1908 prairie-stye house that Wright had designed for the widower Edward E. Boynton and his 20-year-old daughter, Beluah. The Manhattan Beach author recounts her experience of "Growing Up in a Frank Lloyd Wright House" in a free, one-hour multimedia presentation based on her book by the same name at Kaplan Gehring McCarroll Architectural Lighting in El Segundo on Thursday.
When her parents moved their family of four in on June 29, 1977, the Browns became the seventh owner of the house and all 17 pieces of original Wright-designed furniture in it. Her mom often opened the house to charity groups or schools for private tours, but once in a while one fell through the cracks as it had the day she wound up racing home from the pool.
It was just as she feared — bras and panties littered the bathroom floor.
"I was mortified," says the mother of two teenagers, 14 and 15, chuckling. "I was like, 'Everyone at Cornell has seen my dirty underwear!' "
Bixler began compiling stories like these 20 years ago. Marriage, kids and relocating from one place to another put the project on hold. And then several years later, while she was recovering from knee surgery one October, she got an email from a friend telling her that her childhood home was on the market.
"Oh my gosh, that's a sign," she remembers saying to herself. "I've got to write that book."
Bixler dug out her notes and plunged headlong into the book project. By Christmas 2009, she gave family and friends each a copy with instructions to be merciless in their editing of it.
A copy landed in the hands of a filmmaker who was doing a PBS documentary on the Boynton home as the new owners — the 10th to take on the house — embarked on a massive restoration and rehabilitation, from 2009 to 2012. Bixler and her mother were invited to take part in the recently released PBS documentary "Frank Lloyd Wright's Boynton House: The Next Hundred Years" by retracing their footsteps.
But memory lane had its puddles. The biggest? The roof.
Wright had installed clerestory windows — glass panes in a series of flat stepped-up roofs — over the living room.
"This is Rochester where we have 2 feet of snow on a regular basis," Bixler says. "If you don't go out and shovel those flat roofs right away, the snow up against these windows heated by the house melts and the water seeps into the house. Our ceiling fell in; we had water leaking all the time. The other thing about that house: it was really cold."
A pressure test in 2009 revealed that the windows were allowing wind and cold to seep in.
Before the Browns, the previous owners had invested in a series of cosmetic upgrades. The repairs left them broke and so they decided to sell the house as is.
"When my parents moved in, they finished stripping all of the wood in the house," she says, explaining that much of the wood had been painted in the 1950s and '60s.
Her room had plush, turquoise carpeting, wallpaper and trim.
The Browns put a protective covenant on the house, forbidding anyone from painting the wood or removing any of the original furniture. In addition, all future owners must stay within the original color scheme. They also replaced the roof, which cost her parents — her dad, Burt, worked for Xerox, her mother, Karen, made art jewelry — as much as the house cost.
They purchased the house for $110,000.
"We didn't have a lot of money, but what we had went into the house," she says.
Although it was high maintenance, Bixler says her parents never complained because they loved the house. They loved showing it off any chance they'd get during their time there, until 1994.
Big department stores staged catalog shoots in the house. Visiting celebrities sometimes stayed with the Browns, including New York Times restaurant critic and food writer Craig Claiborne accompanied by French chef Pierre Franey.
They even cooked for the family.
"I remember asking (Claiborne), 'Are you famous?' "
The reporter indulged her with his résumé.
She asked, "Can I write my fourth grade report on you?"
People who visited the house were amazed by the architecture, with its stained glass windows, built-ins and custom furniture because "he didn't want people to ruin his lines." Bixler realized its worth when her class took a field trip to the house, with her acting as the tour guide.
"I knew it was spectacular," she says. "But when you become a teenager, you become self-conscious. Living in that house I went from this sense of pride to mortification, and then eventually back to this feeling that I was so fortunate and so lucky to have lived there."


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CHICAGO (AP) - Lance Armstrong confessed to using performance-enhancing drugs to win the Tour de France during an interview with Oprah Winfrey, reversing more than a decade of denial.
"Yes," Armstrong said when Winfrey asked if he used a series of drugs to help his record run.
Said Armstrong: "I made my decisions. They are my mistake."
Sitting in a chair across from Winfrey, Armstrong said he could not have won the race seven times without the drugs and gave a small smile.
Armstrong was stripped of all his titles in the wake of a U.S. Anti-Doping Agency report last October and banned for life from competing in triathlons and other sanctioned events. He also lost nearly all his sponsors and left the Livestrong cancer charity he founded in 1997.
The interview was taped Monday.
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The following is a sampling of calls received by the Town of Niagara Police between Dec. 18 and 20. During that time period, 63 calls were answered.
Tuesday, Dec. 18
•3400 block of Woodland Avenue, fraud. Complainant reported his bank notified him that an unknown male named David Mark purchased $4,820.88 in audio equipment from a store in Ohio.
•Witmer Road, aid assist. Patrol assisted State Police with a three-car accident in front of Reservoir Park.
•1900 block of Military Road, shoplifting. A woman with a tour group from China was accused of shoplifting a pair of sunglasses valued at $124.95. The business decided not to prosecute and allowed the 40-year-old woman to pay for the merchandise instead.
•600 block of B Street, removal. Resident reported he came home and found an unknown male inside who was passed out, sitting in a chair with his pants pulled down to his ankles. Patrol found that the man was highly intoxicated and lives one street over.
•1000 block of West Creek Drive, vandalism. Resident reported someone threw a rock through his bedroom window.
Wednesday, Dec. 19
•5900 block of Grauer Road, vandalism. Resident reported someone broke the passenger side window of his vehicle overnight.
•Military Road, traffic ticket. Driver ticketed for talking on a cell phone while driving; asked: "Please don't tell my parents." In a separate incident, a driver who was ticketed for driving with an expired inspection sticker said: "Yeah, I just got the check engine light to stay off." In a third incident, a driver who was ticketed for inadequate headlights and no proof of insurance said: "You stopped me last week, and I haven't had a chance to fix the light." In another incident, a driver who was ticketed for driving 48 mph in a 30 mph zone, having no proof of insurance and not wearing a seatbelt, said: "I had dropped by cigarette in my lap and didn't realize my speed."
•2500 block of Military Road, larceny. A loss prevention employee reported that two men in their 20s stole an estimated 40 Nintendo DS games and left in a white F-250 Ford pickup, headed toward Niagara Falls.
•700 block of A Street, assist citizen. Complainant reported a suspicious package at her residence. Patrol determined the package was from a dental clinic and had been dropped off by UPS.
Thursday, Dec. 20
•1900 block of Military Road, EMS. Patrol responded to a store in the mall where a male subject, who apparently was walking and texting, walked through a glass door, causing it to shatter. Subject was evaluated by EMS and stated he would go to the hospital on his own for stitches in his left thumb.
•1900 block of Military Road, larceny. Patrol responded to a mall store on an incident that occurred at 7 p.m. Dec. 19, when a male took several suit coats valued at $800 from the store and left the parking lot in a blue Yukon.


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While it started off rough, he ended up throwing a gem (by spring training standards).
Ryu gave up a run on three hits in the first inning, with little help from his defense. Luckily for Ryu, Adrian Gonzalez hit a 3-run home run in the first inning, and the Dodgers were off.
Ryu ended up throwing 5 2/3 innings, allowed three hits, one run, two walks and struck out six Brewers. He retired the last 11 hitters he faced on St. Patrick's Day (hence the ridiculous green jerseys).
- Scouting reports have varied on Ryu and what I saw in spring training is just that -- spring training. But he showed at least one plus offering, an average offering, an offering that could be average soon and a below-average offering.
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- The scouting reports about Ryu have not been consistent. Some said he throws in the 87-92 MPH range, others said 92-94 MPH. On this day, Ryu was in the 88-90 MPH range with his fastball. He had just a little arm-side run (as all lefties do) and was able to locate it well enough. Hopefully for him and the Dodgers, he can increase his velocity going forward. Average
- This is absolutely his best pitch. The pitch dives away from right-handers, prompting a lot of swings and misses. He can change speeds on it. He threw it in the 78-81 MPH range, which is about right for his fastball velocity. The changeup will be the pitch he will be known for in his career -- and that necessarily isn't a bad thing. Plus
- Ryu worked with Sandy Koufax early in camp on the pitch and it might be developing into his third-best offering. He can throw it at different speeds -- anywhere from 71-78 MPH. It still needs work, but it could be a nice weapon against left-handed hitters if he can be consistent with it. Average soon
- His slider, like most lefties, can be effective against both types of hitters. As of now, it's not a pitch he can go to with the utmost confidence. It's a pitch that sits in the upper-70s and can touch the low-80s. But the fact he throws four pitches at this point in his career is encouraging. The slider doesn't have the greatest tilt and depth to it, but he shouldn't ditch it just yet. Below-average
His delivery isn't picturesque, but it works for him and shouldn't lead to many injury issues down the road. His frame is such that he should be able to handle a heavy (I swear, no pun intended) workload, but we'll see how he handles his first season in the majors.
When Ryu hit the market, everyone knew he wasn't an ace. People knew he wasn't a No. 2 starter. But with work and his potentially good four-pitch mix, he could be a No. 3 starter at his peak. If not, he'll likely be an inning-eating (again, no pun intended) back-of-the-rotation starter -- a pitcher who has value in baseball.
With Chad Billingsley not certain to make it through the season, Chris Capuano, Aaron Harang, and Ted Lilly's spring struggles and Zack Greinke's elbow (though, he should be OK), Ryu might be the most durable Dodger pitcher this side of Clayton Kershaw.


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I'm a big fan of highly graphic, woodblock print-stylized tattoos for their bold effect and staying power. One artist who employs this style beautifully -- blending it with his fascination with the occult, symbolism, and dark aesthetics -- is Daniel Meyer of Kassel, Germany.
Daniel, whose background is in media design, quit his job on impulse one day and decided to devote his time to following his life-long passion of creating tattoos. Self-taught, he began by learning on his own skin. Daniel credits his friend David Rinklin for offering "hints" when he began to learn to tattoo, but says that he's a natural autodidact, and just put all his energy into this one goal: to achieve perfection in tattooing.
In 2013, Daniel started to work under the pseudonym "LEITBILD", which can be roughly translated as "guiding principle", but it can also be spelled in German with a double meaning (leit = guiding, bild = picture).
When I asked Daniel where he finds reference and ideas for his work, he said:
I find reference everywhere. If I see something in a book, I keep the page. If I see something in the nature, I do a picture. If I see something in the Internet, I do a screenshot. Most of my ideas are just happening during a process. When I'm making the design, it's like every element tells me where it should be placed and how it should be combined, that's why I require much flexibility from my customers.Daniel is currently moving his workspace and is looking to do more guest spots in 2014.
To see more of Daniel's work, check the LEITBILD site, Facebook page, and Instagram.
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From the very beginning, Matt Clauss took an interest in law.
�The first case I ever tried was at the Cleveland County Courthouse when I was in eighth grade,� said Clauss, �My English class read a novel that involved a crime and, as a class project, we had a mock trial at the courthouse.�
Clauss defended the character who committed the crime and the case was his first win. It was also the only time he has ever defended anyone.
Now, Clauss, a Shelby High School graduate, works as a top felony prosecutor in the Jefferson Parish of New Orleans, La.
�I�m an assistant DA and I work in felony jury trials,� said Clauss. �In Jefferson Parish, there are different divisions of court. There is division A, all the way through division T. In each division, their prosecutor handles the cases.�
As the felony prosecutor for his division, Clauss handles felonies such as drug possession, DWI, sexual violence, murder cases and others involving physical forms of violence, as well as some misdemeanors. His work differs from week to week, depending on whether the courts are handling criminal or civil cases.
The process of trials, preparing witnesses
�It�s a really interesting practice,� Clauss said. �On a criminal week, I go in Monday and we�ll talk to the judge and figure out which case will go to trial on which day. Trials typically start on a Tuesday with jury selection. We have either six-person or 12-person juries.�
By Wednesday or Thursday, the trial will begin. On non-trial weeks, Clauss said he works on getting ready for future trials by talking to witnesses, reviewing police reports, issuing subpoenas for documents, or preparing witnesses for testifying in a trial.
�Most people haven�t testified before so it�s tough,� he said, �I think my job is to make people comfortable with the system and the process.�
Clauss said a person can be victimized twice -- once when the crime happens and second when they have to testify at the trial.
�It�s frightening getting ready for that,� said Clauss, �I spend a lot of time making it as familiar and not scary as possible.�
Finding a resolution
His job involves a great deal of communication with victims, letting them know how the case is progressing. It also involves plea bargaining.
�The majority of cases don�t go to trial," he said, "They get resolved in a plea bargain, which is just an agreement between the state and the defense to resolve in a particular way. A lot of times, there�s a good resolution to the case that makes everybody happy so the victim doesn�t have to testify.�
Clauss said it is important to reach a fair agreement that punishes the criminal, but doesn�t over-punish, while also giving the victims or family members of the victims a sense of closure.
�It�s something that�s hard to do well,� said Clauss, �But it�s important to do well.�
'Being able to help people'
Clauss said he never thought he would be a district attorney. His original plans were to work for a large law firm. But that all changed when he interned at the DA�s office in Jefferson Parish while attending Tulane Law School.
�I worked at the DA�s office in Jefferson in the felony division and just absolutely fell in love with it,� said Clauss, �I fell in love with the idea of being able to help people. At the worst time of somebody�s life, I get to be there and help them.�
His advice for anyone going to law school is to become a district attorney, because you get to help people while also being a lawyer.
�It does so much good,� he said. �If you do your job right, you get to be a part of something that is 100 percent good and valuable.�
He said he loves standing up for people and being around others who feel the same way. When a case ends, �you get to look that person in the eye and tell them that experience is over,� he said.
'I love what I do'
Clauss has covered murders that resulted from two feuding families, as well as a murder in which a victim was shot multiple times in the back with an AK-47.
�Being able to get justice for him was an amazing experience,� said Clauss.
And just a few weeks ago, he prosecuted a teenager who shot a homeless man multiple times.
Clauss said it was rewarding �being able to stand up and be a voice for somebody who his whole life didn�t have a person to stand up and be a voice for him.�
As a prosecutor, he said his job is emotionally difficult.
�If you want a jury to listen to what you have to say, you have to believe what you�re saying, too. You have to experience those feelings,� he said.
But despite being difficult, his job is worth it.
�I love what I do and I love where I work,� he said, �It�s just an amazing opportunity to do good for people. It�s like I said, very rewarding.�
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Interesting facts about Matt Clauss:
-He loves going to hear live music in New Orleans.
-He was born in Oxford, England, when his parents, both Americans, were living there.
-He was the foreman of a criminal jury in Cleveland County the summer before his first year of law school. It was his first interaction with the criminal justice system and one of the reasons he decided to be a prosecutor.
-He lives in the Treme neighborhood in New Orleans, which is the area of the city that the HBO show "Treme" is named after.
-One week into his first year at Tulane, Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans. Clauss spent several months trying to find out if friends made it out safely, where they were, and how he could help. He didn�t lose anything, but many people were not as lucky.
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On Monday, the Supreme Court held hearings on an overreach of executive power in a fight between the branches of government over presidential appointments. Today they tackle a thornier issue between public safety, the First Amendment, and preferential treatment of speech. Massachusetts passed a law (as did several other states) requiring a buffer zone between abortion clinics and protesters that pushed the latter at least 35 feet away from the facility in order to demonstrate and conduct "sidewalk counseling" to prevent abortions. The protesters claim that the buffer zone violates their First Amendment rights because it privileges their opponents in relation to the positioning of the protests.
At issue is not just the state law, but also an earlier Supreme Court decision that upheld a similar law in a different context:
Anti-abortion protesters challenged the law, saying it violated their freedom of speech rights under the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution by preventing them from standing on the sidewalk and speaking to those entering clinics. The protesters say their main aim is to counsel women in an effort to deter them from having abortions.
The 2007 law, which amended an existing statute, restricted conduct outside abortion clinics by introducing a 35-foot (11-meter) no-entry zone that allowed only patients, staff, passersby and emergency services to enter.
The Reuters write-up misses an important argument in this case, which Politico noted on Monday and I linked previously (emphasis mine):
The Massachusetts law set up the 35-foot zone around abortion clinics. The only people who can enter are those going to and from the clinic, passersby and employees of the clinic and their "agents" conducting official business.
That last exemption, McCullen's lawyers say, allows Planned Parenthood employees and escorts to operate within the buffer zone but denies access to the protesters. That unequal prohibition on speech, they say, is unconstitutional.
"Massachusetts's statute allows only employees and agents of abortion clinics to speak, and it isn't hard to guess what their viewpoint on abortion is," wrote 11 attorneys general, led by Michigan's Bill Shuette, who support McCullen's case. "When the government draws distinctions based on viewpoint, it has gone too far."
The decision will come down to whether the law essentially privileges one side and whether it is a rational response to serve the state's pressing interest in preventing violence. The violence was rare in the first place and became more rare over the last twenty years, and the amount of distance in this law may have the court inclined to consider whether the state intended to handicap the pro-life message.
Still, don't expect miracles in this case. The precedent from 14 years ago, Hill vs Colorado, will weigh heavily in the court's collective mind, but there are a couple of differences. The Colorado law upheld by the court restricted demonstrations to a zone 100 feet outside the clinic, but only prevented individuals from coming within eight feet of those entering or exiting the clinics — well within hearing range. The decision relied heavily on that point to find Colorado's statute "content neutral," which allowed the court to uphold the statute. If the Massachusetts statute forbids any protesters from approaching at all past the 35-foot line, that could be a big issue for content neutrality. Second, the passage of time without regular eruptions of violence could erode the case for a pressing state interest in barring political speech from public property around abortion clinics in particular, which could also have the court considering whether these restrictions are actually "content neutral" at all.
The safest bet in this case is that the court will split on it — it went 6-3 for Colorado in Hill — which means we won't see a decision until May or June. The questions from the Court today will be interesting to see what they're actually considering, but don't take skepticism itself as an indicator of which direction the Court will move.
Update: Apparently the session did not go well for Massachusetts' attorneys:
The Supreme Court seems likely to strike down a Massachusetts law setting a 35-foot protest-free zone outside abortion clinics.
Liberal and conservative justices alike expressed misgivings about the law during arguments at the high court Wednesday. They questioned the size of the zone and whether the state could find less restrictive ways of ensuring patient access and safety.
Again, don't read too much into this, as the questions from the justices would have to take the form of skepticism over the law in order for Massachusetts to answer the complaint. But these are the grounds on which this case differs from Hill, and that's probably going to be where this case gets decided.


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Another week ends another Carnival of Space begins! A lot of great writers bringing great articles to the table, so let's get started. (My unrelated fun photo offering: X-15 pilots enjoy a lighter moment during the program – I guess you can only clown around so much when dealing with this level of technology. Mid-late 1960s.)
Urban Astronomer tells us that the orbiting X-Ray observatory, Chandra, has recently collected detailed images of gas falling into a black hole. This confirms current models of what exactly causes the powerful radiation observed coming from black holes.
And speaking of things way out in space, Weird Warp tells is that there is a problem with our current way of looking for alien civilizations. SETI looks for signals that are sent by the electromagnetic spectrum and their are a lot of frequencies to search. If you pair this with the size of the universe you can see how SETI is really looking for a needle in a haystack. But it's still a good idea; one needle in one haystack is all that is needed.
From being in deep space to beings that study deep space, Cheap Astronomy interviews a retired philosopher on the subject of curved space-time.
Chandra Blog brings a thinker into the mix this week as well. Back by popular demand is the video blog series Meet An Astronomer, this week featuring Harvard associate professor in the astronomy department Julia Lee.
Discovery News looks at a monster of a quasar – a reminder that we don't know the early universe as well as we think we do.
And speaking of the early universe, The Next Big Future relays the possibility that it could have had intense magnetic fields that could have been a hyperbolic metmaterial in the vacuum if a recent arxiv paper is correct. This could be detected by analyzing the cosmic background radiation.
For those of us looking for things a little closer to home in both space and time – and specifically those of us that speak Spanish – Vega 0.0 presents the way to report the comet observations.
Other (relatively) near Earth objects, asteroids, get a shout out this week as well. The Next Big Future tell us that Europe plans to move one.
Astroblog brings comets to this week's carnival. Comet C/2010 X1 Elenin entered the field of view of the STEREO H1B cameras, images, animations and spotters maps for the comet this past week.
On to the manned side of things, Discovery News reports on the 14th International Mars Society Convention in Dallas, Texas. The message was clear: it is imperative that we send a manned mission to Mars.
The European Space Agency and the Russia Federal Space Agency, it seems, are already taking steps towards that Mars goal. Cosmic Log tells us that the two agency are planning to follow up on their simulated 520-day mission to Mars with a real flight to Mars and back — although there's not yet any time frame set for the mission.
Finally, not quite manned spaceflight but space technology built by men, The Next Big Future take a look at the recent work to develop computer chips that can propel spacecraft using the lorentz force. Such chips could eventually be launched near to 1% of the speed of light from the magnetic field of Jupiter.
That's it for this week's carnival. Enjoy your weekend reading!


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The British colonists of mainland North America had great hopes for the future in 1763, when the Peace of Paris formally ended the Seven Years' War. Since the late seventeenth century, their lives had been disrupted by a series of wars between Britain and the "Catholic Powers," France and Spain. Now, however, a triumphant Britain took title to Spanish Florida, French Canada, and all of Louisiana east of the Mississippi. With the British flag flying over so much of the North American continent, the colonists looked forward to a time of uninterrupted peace, expansion, and prosperity. Deeply proud of the British victory and their own identity as "free Britons," they neither wanted nor foresaw what the next two decades would bring—independence, revolution, and yet another war.More »
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Global Experience Should Improve Domestic Performance
EUC with HCI: Why It Matters
Okay, so you're an executive at a large corporation with operations around the world. How "developed" are you, really? To what extent are you learning from the integration of technology in everyday experiences around the globe? Have you looked recently at how your colleagues in other parts of the world are applying technologies effectively?
And have you attempted to integrate those approaches into how you do business at home? Why does it seem so hard for many U.S. companies to really "see" and integrate those experiences.
I travel more than most people, which I see as a wonderful privilege. And I continue to be amazed by how few companies take advantage of the experience and expertise of their people around the world as input into their technology strategies.
I don't mean "IT strategy" in a narrow sense, but rather how these companies innovate and improve their customer offerings by drawing on the rich experiences of employees in the countries in which they operate.
I sometimes find myself suggesting to the executives of companies for which I consult that they should look at what their Italian or Brazilian or Canadian staff is doing, because it might really help boost their competitiveness, their productivity, or their responsiveness to customers.
The various opportunities and different ways of deploying technologies are often occurring right before our eyes. Too often, however, we can't see the trees for the forest.
At the risk of annoying a significant number of readers, I would like to share some experiences from outside the U.S. that involve the integration of technology into everyday life. The technologies underlying these examples are usually relatively stable and applied to standard processesor what my Gartner colleague Mark McDonald refers to as "persistent business needs."
Let's start with Australia, my home country. When I call a cab from my house, the dispatcher knows where I am calling from, provided that I have called from there at least once before. The booking is completed through a simple voice-recognition process.
I answer a series of questions"How many passengers?" "Are you ready now?"and the cab is dispatched. The cab driver has received no verbal instructions; instead, global positioning systems are used to dispatch the nearest cab.
It is always a jolt when taking a cab in the U.S. to remember that you usually need cash. Even on some parts of the West Coast, where you can pay by credit card, the drivers still use old-fashioned paper forms. All cabs in Australia take credit cards, and this is done using a point-of-sale machine like those used in supermarkets. It's been this way for at least seven years.
Bank payment systems are another fascinating area. A few months ago, a business colleague received payments from two U.S. clients in the form of a paper check. This meant someone had to actually visit a bank to cash it.
How very tedious. He had to explain to his U.S. clients how to do direct transfers to the bank accountinstructions which were printed on the invoice but which had been ignored. In fact, the whole use of checks in the U.S. continues to baffle me. Few other developed countries generate the amount of paper in payments as the U.S. does.
And let's not leave out mobile phones. Advertisements in the U.S. for mobile phones offering one phone number in a variety of countries are a real source of amusement for visitors from most parts of Europe and Asia. I, for one, could not have done my job over the past eight years if I hadn't had a single worldwide number.
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At 40-feet-tall, the splintered beast towered over the five-foot-five, 24-year-old Wilmington woman
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The knobbed trunk of the gnarled, bent oak curved from the ground, the points of its branches jutting into the mist that clung to the banks of the Black River off Pender County's Canetuck Road when sculptor Katrina Johnson approached the vine-covered arboreal shortly after dawn one day this past spring.
At 40-feet-tall, the splintered beast towered over the five-foot-five, 24-year-old Wilmington woman as she bent to coil another strand of vines gathered from the nearby forest around the tree's vast frame.
Johnson isn't some sort of tree herder or arborist in her spare time. But it was her responsibility to make sure the giant's bark looked "just so" for its upcoming appearance on the silver screen in "The Conjuring," which opens Friday.
"It took on its own character with its vines and branches even as we were building it," said Johnson, lead sculptor for the locally filmed Warner Bros. production directed by James Wan. "It was almost like a hand coming out of the Earth – it fit into the natural environment. It sort of made itself almost."
Well, not exactly.
Johnson and other local crew members spent dozens of hours building the nearly four-ton prop tree at the direction of "The Conjuring's" production designer, Julie Berghoff, who envisioned the twisted old oak for the haunted-house horror show. The eerie tree and a century-old Canetuck Township home that was inspiration for the movie's haunted house are characters in their own right in the supposedly true thriller. They've also been key to the film's marketing campaign and are featured in its poster, which shows the farmhouse and the shadow of a body hanging from a noose under a bent branch of the oak.
"Julie is a really textual person, so her vision was great. The tree was definitely really gnarly," Johnson said. "I'd get out to the house early in the morning, and the mist would come up from the river – it was spooky. When I saw the movie, it was still spooky. But I'm really proud and excited about it all."
A 'frightening' story
"The Conjuring," which filmed in the region in early 2012, is based on the real-life experiences of couple Ed and Lorraine Warren (played by Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga), who worked as psychic investigators during the 1970s. It's a precursor to 1979's "The Amityville Horror," a case that made the Warrens famous.
The movie filmed at various locations in the Cape Fear region last year, including the Carolina Apartments, the Carolinian Inn and the University of North Carolina Wilmington.
Written by Chad and Carey Hayes ("House of Wax"), the New Line supernatural thriller, follows the Perron family (led by parents played by Lili Taylor and Ron Livingston), whose farmhouse is haunted by a witch's spirit.
Finding the perfect spot for filming proved to be a unique challenge for veteran movie location scout Bass Hampton, of Charleston.
"It's a frightening story ... the script alone had me freaking out for weeks," he said. "When scouting for it, I photographed at least 12 abandoned farmhouses. Most of the farmers gave me a key and said, 'knock yourself out' and sent me in alone. Inevitably, as images from the script were still fresh in my mind, something would happen inside the houses that would send me flying out of the house screaming like a little girl."
Hampton's effort wasn't for naught when filmmakers settled on the Canetuck Road home, which has been featured in productions since the 1980s, homeowner Tom Keith said.
"When you're thinking of an old house on a river around here, it usually comes to mind," Keith said.
The two-story, 5,000-square-foot house sits at the end of a dirt rutted drive about 300 yards past the river's bridge, its white paint peeling from its hundred-year-old frame. With narrow stairways and low ceilings, peeling plaster and all sorts of hidden nooks and crannies, the aging house looks as if it could play host to a spirit or two.
"At first, I thought the film crews would spend a month there, but with more than 100 people and young actors moving back and forth every day to Wilmington, it just wasn't possible," Keith said.
Instead, for convenience sake, production designers decided to build almost an exact replica of the house at EUE/Screen Gems Studios in Wilmington, right down to the uneven wooden porch slats, Keith said.
"I went down to see it at the studio and my jaw dropped," he said. "It was such an exact copy. They even copied it down to all the repairs that have been made on the porch over the years."
'Plenty of crucifixes'
Although audiences won't have a clue, they'll see a basement in the movie version of the home that doesn't exist in real life and a slew of other special effects and movie tricks staged by the film's actors and stunt crews.
"Julie (Berghoff) came in late 2011 and started looking at the house in Pender County. She talked producers into building the house at the sound stages, so then we could do our own thing," said "Conjuring" set-decorator buyer Tim Pope. "It was a very typical farmhouse, but we needed that basement and to be able to drag people across the floor or around the room."
Filmmakers did just that.
Deep into the second act, one of the Perron's five daughters is dragged through the house form her hair by the witch's spirit.
"We built some tracks on the floor and in the ceiling, and she was attached with cable and climbing wire," special effects supervisor Dave Beavis said. "It was simple stuff, but it had to be built in conjunction with the construction, art, stunt and set decorating department."
The film's sets, including the Warren's home – a house on Forest Hills Drive – feature interiors that are heavy on the retro without being too distinctive because of copyright laws, Pope said.
"Anytime you have a horror film or a haunting scene, you have to make things look generic because it's basically insinuating that everything in the house is demon possessed," he said. "There couldn't be patterns on the china plates or a little bird figurine in the Warren's artifact room, for example, so it was difficult getting some common household items that were interesting enough for the film. There's no copyrights on crucifixes, though, so we had plenty of those."
The work paid off for Pope, who spent thousand of dollars at antique markets from Selma to Tabor City for "The Conjuring's" props.
"It got pretty intense at the end of filming," he said. "There's always those last minute specific things that we need, like a last-minute orchid prop in a certain shade of purple that needs to be tilted just this way. But I'm impressed with how it all came back."
Beavis agreed, citing Wan's directorial style as key to a successful shoot.
"James wanted to do as much physical stuff as possible, so we can say we went to a lot of trouble to do these effects for the audience," Beavis said. "It was a classic case of a good director knowing exactly what he wanted – we weren't sure exactly how to achieve it, but he trusted and relied on us to do it."
Wan, 36, says he wanted to make a physical horror film that started out small and built in intensity. The director was inspired by classic studio horror flicks of the 1960s and '70s such as "Let's Scare Jessica to Death."
Local cast and crew made that a breeze.
"It doesn't matter how big or small stunts are – I'm a big fan of action – so I was very comfortable doing those kind of set pieces and I had great people surrounding me, so it was very easy," he said. "Everyone in Wilmington made it smooth in terms of what I needed done."
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First Baptist Church, 411 Market St., Wilmington: Exteriors of the church were filmed in April 2012.
Carolina Apartments, 420 Market St., Wilmington: Interiors doubled for a haunted apartment and an exterior scenes involving a trash can was filmed here as well.
St. James Episcopal Church, 25 S. Third St., Wilmington: Office and attic scenes were filmed here.
The Carolinian Inn, 2916 Market St., Wilmington: Scenes were filmed outside and inside this motel.
EUE/Screen Gems Studios, 1223 N. 23rd St. Wilmington: Most of the movie was shot here, where a large house set was built.
The Keith House, 405 Canetuck Road, Canetuck: The exterior of this private residence on the banks of the Black River in Pender County served as the haunted house owned by the Perrons in the movie. Most interiors were filmed at Screen Gems Studios.
University of North Carolina Wilmington, 601 S. College Road, Wilmington: Classroom scenes filmed here.


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This department offers a Bachelor of Science degree in recreation administration as well as an option in therapeutic recreation and a minor in recreation administration.
Recreation administration is the process that mobilizes an organization's resources "human and material" to accomplish goals to benefit the leisure time of the community served. Students considering this multidisciplinary field will receive a broad-based educational experience.
Responsibilities of a recreation administrator often include:
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- Personnel and Facility Management
- Programming
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Additionally, public recreation administrators can have involvement with city councils and planning boards, advocating programs related to community recreation as well as open space and facilities.
Organized recreation services carry the stigma of being only fun-and-games operations, concerned chiefly with providing programs of sports, games and hobbies. In reality, administrators are often responsible for much more. They oversee the operations of entire departments and agencies within private, non-profit and public recreation sectors.
As a professional in recreation administration, the driving force of a successful career is focusing on making a difference in the lives of the people, customers and clients you will serve as a leisure service educator. Within this discipline, you will be part of a profession promoting life satisfaction, fitness, health and wellness, psychological well being, quality of life, creativity and cultural heritage. If you like working with people of all ages, promoting healthy lifestyles and possess a burning desire to serve others a career in recreation administration is for you.
Our students develop appropriate professional capabilities and attitudes required for work in a variety of settings. They learn to advise customers as well as organize, plan, budget and manage both leisure services and recreation/park resources. Another emerging characterizing of our graduates is the ability to use technology to enhance the provision of leisure services.
Field work is offered to our students in various recreation and resource settings, and students serve full-time internships with public recreation agencies, private/commercial recreation businesses, hotels/resorts, therapeutic programs or parks/natural resource-related agencies.
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Full-time, professional positions exist in the TR field, in long-term care settings, rehabilitation facilities, children's hospitals, substance abuse centers, psychiatric facilities, and other clinical settings, as well as many community settings.
Click here for the most recent job outlook in therapeutic recreation. You can click here for information on the necessary coursework for eligibility to take the certified therapeutic recreation specialist (CTRS) exam.
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Tim Dimke (Executive Director Rockford Park District), Mike Rylko (Executive Director Buffalo Grove Park District), Susan Friend (Executive Director SEASPAR), R. Scott Smtih (City Manager Charleston), Ron Gbur (Executive Director Palatine Park District), Diane Ratliff (Recreation Supervisor Charleston), Jamie Gower (Manager DISC Decatur), John Schmeink (Recreation Therapist VAMC), Corky Emberson (Superintendent of Recreation Urbana), Kelly LaMore (Superintendent of Recreation Bourbonnnais).


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KNOXVILLE, — A strong inside-outside game led byJarnell Stokes and Antonio Barton guided the Vols to a 67-48 victory over Georgia on Tuesday night at Thompson-Boling Arena.
KNOXVILLE, — A strong inside-outside game led byJarnell Stokes and Antonio Barton guided the Vols to a 67-48 victory over Georgia on Tuesday night at Thompson-Boling Arena.
Stokes dominated in the post on both ends of the floor as he had 20 points, 11 rebounds and three blocks along with three assists and a steal. The junior notched his SEC-leading 15 double-double and shot 9-of-13 from the floor.
Barton caught fire from long distance to give the Vols a weapon from beyond the arc. He made 4-of-7 from 3-point range to finish with 12 points. Barton had made just 5-of-38 over his last 11 games. He had made a total of two 3-pointers in his last seven contests.
The Vols moved to 16-10 overall and 7-6 in the SEC while Georgia saw its four-game winning streak come to an end. The Bulldogs are now 14-11 and 8-5 in the league.
Barton's big night made up for a off night from the Vols' leading scorer Jordan McRae who had 11 points on just 2-of-5 from the floor. The Georgia native came into the averaging 20.4 points per game in SEC action.
Josh Richardson added 10 for Tennessee, his sixth time in double-figures in seven contests.
Tennessee held Georgia scoreless over the final 3:34 as the Bulldogs had a season-low 48 points. The 48 points were the fewest allowed by UT in a game this season and fewest since Vanderbilt was held to 46 on Feb. 13, 2013.
Kenny Gaines led Georgia with 13 points while J.J. Frazier set a career-high with 12 points, including 10 in the first half.
The Vols expanded on a six-point halftime lead early in the second half thanks to 7-0 run keyed by a rare 3-point field goal by Derek Reese. That put Tennessee ahead by 10 points, the first double-figure lead of the game, 45-35, with 14 minutes left in regulation.
After Barton canned his third 3-pointer of the game, Stokes dropped in a nifty lay-up to put the Vols ahead, 50-38 with 10 minutes left.
A trey by Richardson moved the margin to 14 at 57-43 with eight minutes to go and the Vols cruised from there.
Tennessee shot 55 percent on 11-of-20 from the floor in the second half, making 4-of-7 from 3-point range over the final 20 minutes.
The Vols' defense was stout in the second half, limiting Georgia to 25 percent in the period as the Bulldogs finished 34 in the game.
Thanks to a big first half from Stokes, the Vols led 34-28 at halftime. Stokes led all scorers with 13 points while Frazier had 10 for Georgia — to set a new career-high, in his eight minutes of action.
Stokes scored seven of the Vols' fine nine points as the Vols took the 6-point lead into intermission.
The Vols head to Texas A&M to play the Aggies for the second time this season on Saturday at 3 p.m. Texas A&M pulled off a stunning 57-56 win over Tennessee on Jan. 11 in Knoxville. That game will air on ESPNU and can be heard on the Vol Network.


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Saturday's Griz game may not have had the outcome we had all hoped for. However, for those that attended the Town Pump Outdoor Griz Viewing Party in Caras Park with KGVO and its sister stations from Townsquare Media, there was a lot of fun! The festivities included giveaways, a dance-off, food and beverages, cheering and jeering!
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After all you should have a working ruby installation with KDE 4 bindings.
So lets try the a very minimalistic Qt 4 application to get a first impression. We don't start with KDE, because it would require some extra lines, that are not necessary when using Qt.
Open a shell and type in irb to start the interactive ruby shell. Now copy the short code example into the irb session.
require 'Qt4'
a = Qt::Application.new ARGV
w = Qt::PushButton.new "Hello Ruby"
Qt::Object.connect( w, SIGNAL( :clicked ), a, SLOT( :quit ) )
Before you starting you start programming your Graphical User Interface (GUI), you have to <require the libraries, in this case Qt4, but korundum4 would also do the job, because the KDE libs automatically also requires the Qt libs for you.
In the second line we create a new Qt Object a of Qt::Application. Qt is the Ruby module (namespace) and Application the name of the class in the module. In C++, the native language of Qt, you would write QApplication. Remember this as you will need it, if you want to take a look in the Qt documentation.
Another object w of Qt::PushButton is created in the third line. "Hello Ruby" is the first (and only) argument of the Constructor. If you check the Qt documentation, you would find out, that this is the caption of the button. Ruby would also allow you to write it with brackets.
w = Qt::PushButton.new( "Hello Ruby" )
The small w means widget. All graphical elements in Qt are called widgets.
The fourth line is probably the most complicated one. The ruby class method connect of the object Object of the module Qt is used to bind the user action button-clicked with the action application-close. The signals and slots is a special concept of Qt. You can get a short overview and other ressources on Wikipedia.
The C++ equivalent you will find in the Qt documentation to :clicked would be "clicked()", a signal without an argument. In the case of no arguments you can always use a ruby symbol.
The fifth line let the created widget show. Don't forget this line. Maybe you want to think of a starting point of your application.
At last the application gets started by a.exec. Now the GUI takes over and manages the control flow. Any other command after this line will be applied after the GUI was closed.
In the next example we want our GUI to do something interactively. Because it is more complex you may want to save it in a file "sayHello.rb".
If you are on a linux-based system, you can add on the top of the file a so called Shebang line. After giving the file execution rights with chmod +x sayHello.rb by using the shell, you can execute your program with a click on the icon in the file browser or in the command line with ./sayRuby.rb.
require 'Qt4'
class CustomApplication < Qt::Application
slots :sayHello
def sayHello msgBox = Qt::MessageBox.new msgBox.text = "Hello World" msgBox.icon = Qt::MessageBox::Information msgBox.standardButtons = Qt::MessageBox::Ok val = msgBox.exec() Qt::Application.instance.quit end
a = CustomApplication.new ARGV w = Qt::PushButton.new( "Say Hello, Ruby" ) Qt::Object.connect( w, SIGNAL( :clicked ), a, SLOT( :sayHello ) ) w.show a.exec
In the last example we connected the button with the existing slot :close. Now we want to create our own slot. We create a new class CustomApplication by inheriting from Qt::Application and add a slot :sayHello. It doesn't have any arguments. So we can use the shortcut instead of "sayHello()". After that we define a method with the same name and number of arguments. In the method a message box is prepared which get shown to the user with exec(). To define the properties of the message box, the binding specific syntax is used, which allows you to replace setText( "Hello World" ) with text = "Hello World". Remember this as you need it to find the class method in the C++ documentation of Qt.
With Qt::Application.instance.quit the program gets closed.
The last lines are nearly the same as in the last example. We have to replace Qt::Application with our own class CustomApplication and change the slot to :sayHello.
require 'Qt4'
a = Qt::Application.new ARGV w = Qt::PushButton.new( "Hello Ruby" ) w.connect( SIGNAL :clicked ) do
puts "Do something else" Qt::Application.instance.quit
end w.show a.exec
require 'Qt4'
a = Qt::Application.new ARGV w = Qt::PushButton.new( "Hello Ruby" ) do
connect( SIGNAL :clicked ) do puts "Do something else" Qt::Application.instance.quit end
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This story appears in the December 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine.
On ice floes and rocky beaches in the far North Atlantic, cinnamon brown blobs pile up in living heaps. Some weigh more than a ton. Some are longer than ten feet. Each is a rumpled portrait of buckteeth and whiskers, deep scars and bloodshot eyes. They nap, burp, squabble, and bark—"something between the mooing of a cow and the deepest baying of a mastiff," noted a 19th-century explorer.
Walruses may seem familiar from Beatles lyrics and Lewis Carroll verses, but most of us will never see a herd in the wild. And few photographers have documented this dangerous, musical, and socially sophisticated pinniped, a fin-footed kin to seals, sea lions, and sea elephants.
"I used myself as bait," says Paul Nicklen, who spent three weeks aiming his lens at Atlantic walruses with the help of Swedish diver Göran Ehlmé. "I sat on the shore, and the walruses would come along. They'd get curious. But they have to hit you with their tusks to figure out what you are. And for a walrus to hit one of us can be lethal."
Indeed, their ivory tusks can be nearly two feet long. Hooked into ice like an ax, they help a walrus clamber from the sea. They also jab rivals and fend off predators. Punctured polar bears have been found floating dead in the ocean.
The mustache is the other iconic feature. Hundreds of stiff, straw-colored whiskers bristle over walrus lips, thick as quills and sensitive as fingers. Using those vibrissae, walruses can tell the difference between objects half the size of an M&M. More practically, they can locate buried clams on the seafloor. To remove the meat, they use their mouths' vacuum-force suction—strong enough to pull the skin off a seal.
These powerful creatures are tuneful too. During the January to April mating season "adult males erupt with singing and all kinds of strange sounds, like castanets and bells and strums of guitars and tapping on drums," says Erik W. Born, senior scientist at the Greenland Institute of Natural Resources. "The best singer is hoping his song attracts a beautiful lady walrus."
Fifteen months after he does, a hundred-plus-pound calf is born. Over the next two years that pup will be cradled like a football by its doting mother, given piggyback rides, fattened with rich milk. If all goes well, it might live 40 years.
That used to be less likely. Ninth-century Vikings slaughtered herds for blubber and hides. Medieval Europeans carved chess sets from tusks. From the 16th century to the 20th, commercial whalers exploited walruses, reducing a range that once reached to Nova Scotia.
Today hunting is mostly restricted to Inuits, who rely on walruses for food, clothing, tools, ivory crafts, and fuel oil. But it's impossible to say how many once swam in the Atlantic—perhaps hundreds of thousands. These days there might be 20,000 to 25,000. Yet even with aerial surveys and satellite monitoring, figures are elusive.
"Walruses are not easy to weigh, and they're very not easy to count," says Canadian research scientist Robert Stewart. "They're found over a big area and in clumps. We don't have data from 50 years ago either, so there's no evidence to say whether numbers are up or down."
The loss of sea ice would seem to be a major challenge. Walruses favor ice floes for feeding, birthing, and hauling out. Forced ashore, they're vulnerable to polar bears. Anecdotal evidence suggests some populations are already affected.
Born agrees there's cause for concern but also offers a sunnier prospect. The areas where Atlantic walruses eat clams "used to be covered with ice," he says, "and walruses couldn't gain access until the ice broke up. Now they can feed longer. So the retreat of sea ice could be beneficial."
The time may come when more troubles roil the walrus's world: Poaching, overhunting, large-scale shipping, and oil exploration top the list. But for the moment at least, the Atlantic walrus can enjoy its briny clams and splendid isolation.


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When hitting the beach or the hottest pool party, you always want to look your best. You throw on your designer swimwear and look smokin' hot, but you may want to add a little something else. A flirty body chain, a fierce pair of sunnies, or a diva-status sun hat will do just the trick! Nothing makes you feel more confident than adding a personal touch to any outfit, and summer is the perfect time to test the waters with the latest trends! We have turned to the ultimate accessory queens, Vanessa Hudgens, Katy Perry and Rihanna for the hottest ways to accessorize your swimwear!
The first Hollywood hottie that would know how to accessorize a hot luxury swimwear look is Vanessa Hudgens. Vanessa is not afraid to express her own personal style with every outfit she wears. One of the latest trends that has been popping up is flower crowns. While these crowns are usually spotted around music festivals, they are too cute to not bring into our daily lives! A simple crown will add the personal touch while being practical at a beach or pool! We think Vanessa would pair a cute flower crown with the Déjà Vu monokini. This sexy turquoise piece would compliment Vanessa's dark features and fit into her effortless, hippie style.
Katy Perry is another pro with accessorizing her outfits. While some of her styles may be too outrageous for an average person to wear, her precious heart shaped glasses are to die for and still do the job of protecting your eyes! Since Katy is the ultimate sweet heart, we thought she would pair her heart shaped sunnies with the Sweet Cheeks bikini. This sexy, flirty style practically screams Katy Perry! You will be the sweetest girl at the beach with this ruffled bikini and some cute heart shaped glasses!
Finally, we turn to Rihanna for some inspiration with accessories. Rihanna is no stranger to sporting some of the most daring looks the world has ever seen! One item that she has been wearing that is absolutely amazing is her body chain! From red carpets to the beach, these chains are summer's hottest trend. Rihanna would look flawless in the Moroccan Candy bikini with a thin gold body chain. The vibrant hues would compliment not only her amazing skin, but also a sexy little body chain!


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The Only Plug-and-Print Solution for iOS Devices Takes the Top Honor From MacObserver
The Only Plug-and-Print Solution for iOS Devices Takes the Top Honor From MacObserver
IRVINE, CA--(Marketwire - Feb 7, 2013) - Lantronix, Inc. (NASDAQ: LTRX), a leading global provider of smart M2M connectivity solutions, today announced that the Lantronix xPrintServer™ - Office Edition won the Editors Choice Award from MacObserver during Macworld | iWorld 2013. The xPrintServer - Office Edition is designed specifically for office use by business and IT professionals wishing to print from their iPad®, iPhone® or iPod® Touch to virtually any printer. Last year, the Lantronix xPrintServer - Network Edition was honored with an Editors Choice Award from MacObserver during Macworld | iWorld 2012.
"From ease-of-use to active directory, to the USB port and enhanced security and accounting features, the xPrintServer Office Edition makes printing throughout the enterprise a snap," said Mark D. Tullio, vice president of worldwide marketing for Lantronix. "The xPrintServer represents Lantronix's continuing commitment to delivering high quality, innovative, secure and easy-to-deploy solutions. We could not be more pleased to have the newest edition to the xPrintServer family recognized among so many innovative products at Macworld."
The xPrintServer: Open it. Plug it in. Print!
The xPrintServer family is an easy-to-use hardware solution that utilizes the iOS native print menu. As the industry's first and only plug-and-print hardware solution for printing from iPads, iPhones and virtually any iOS device, the xPrintServer is also offered in a Home Edition, which is intended for the consumer. With automatic printer discovery and no configuration, printing is hassle-free. Simply open the box, plug in power and Ethernet, and print -- from any iOS device running iOS version 4.2 or later, to virtually any USB or network-connected printer, whether wired or wireless.
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The xPrintServer - Office Edition retails for $199.95 MSRP, while the xPrintServer - Home Edition retails for $99.95 MSRP. Both editions are also available from Lantronix.com, as well as a variety of e-tailers including Amazon, Best Buy Online, Buy.com, CDW, DataVision, Ebyte.com, Insight Enterprises, MacMall, Mavtechonline.com, NeutronUSA, Newegg.com, NextDayPC.com, NextWarehouse.com, PCMall, PowerMax.com, Provantage, SemiconductorStore.com, SoftwareForLess, and more.
The xPrintServer currently supports thousands of networked printer models from leading printer families including HP, Brother, Epson, Canon, Dell, Lexmark, and Xerox. As new printer brands and printer models become available, Lantronix will post updates on www.Lantronix.com.
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Lantronix, Inc. (NASDAQ: LTRX) is a global leader of secure M2M (machine-to-machine) communication technologies that simplify access and communication with and between virtually any electronic device. Our smart connectivity solutions enable sharing data between devices and applications to empower businesses to make better decisions based on real-time information, and gain a competitive advantage by generating new revenue streams, improving productivity and increasing efficiency and profitability. Easy to integrate and deploy, Lantronix products remotely and securely connect electronic equipment via networks and the Internet. Founded in 1989, Lantronix serves some of the largest medical, security, industrial and building automation, transportation, retail/POS, financial, government, consumer electronics/appliances, IT/data center and pro-AV/signage entities in the world. The company's headquarters are located in Irvine, Calif.
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